Schuyler's P. O. V.In my eyes, the reflection of myself in the mirror looks like a different person. So different that I can't even bring myself to know who I am. A lot of things have happened to me since I met Ezekiel and married him. I've been thinking a lot, but I still can't figure out if my decision to leave this place would be the best for me and my child.Unconsciously, my hands started to caress my own small baby bump. I took a deep breath and tried to relax myself even more. Later, I’ll be meeting with Kyla to know more about my baby's condition after all the stress we’d been through lately. None of it was good for me and in addition to that, the worst thing happened! I nearly died at the hands of that man if it hadn't been for Zehan and Archie.I wore my bed robe again before I started to walk out of my bedroom to go to the balcony. Unlike the fear I felt a few nights ago, I don't feel scared to be here anymore. In fact, something strange has managed to calm me.A dream…I
Schuyler's P. O. V.“What the hell is that?!” I shouted before walking to the door, but before I could even approach it with Honey holding on my arm, it already opened, revealing Archie to me. “Archie?! Don't you fucking know how to knock properly? The alarm you set was also threatened because of what you did!”He looked at me through an emotionless eyes, “You need to hurry.”I glared at him for saying that after the disturbance he just made! How dare he?!“Damn it, Schuyler!” He looked frustrated at me. “Now! Dad's waiting for you! So, just damn listen to me!”“W-What?” I asked in a confused voice.Archie narrowed his eyes on me and with a clenched jaw, he stepped aside to allow me to see the view from behind him. I heard Honey screaming while I was rooted to where I'm standing as my eyes glued at the man, lying on the ground—unmoving and dead!“Schuyler, you have to listen!” Archie pulled me hurriedly on my shoulders and tried to shake me to wake me up from my own thoughts. “They wer
Schuyler's P. O. V.“Ready yourselves,” Archie suddenly said after a moment of another silence. “The lycans are here.”It seems that his companions weren't able to kill the lycans they were supposed to face. I looked outside of the car’s window and at first, I wasn't able to notice anything myself, but when I paid more attention, I saw the tree branches moving—not because of wind, but because of the lycans running faster than our car.“They’ll block us, for sure.” Honey commented and when I glanced at her, I saw her glancing outside of the window too and watching the lycans. “They're too many and stronger, we can't defeat them.”I looked at Archie in agreement to what Honey said. No matter how strong Archie may think of himself or the people around him, he still can be outnumbered by his enemies—causing his downfall.“Archie, if we surrender—”“We're not surrendering!” He immediately cut me off with a clenched jaw. “I would never.”“They're too many for you to fight alone!” I yelled a
Schuyler's P. O. V.Slowly, I tried to reach for the other door’s handle before I pushed it open and quickly went out. I run as fast as I can to get away from them, not caring to look back or check if anyone is even behind me when I hear someone laughing loudly, as if mocking me for trying to get away from them.I'm not dumb. I know too well that my speed is nothing from what they can do, but I don't want to end up dying and not being able to do anything…I was about to make a turn when I saw another lycan, running towards me with the killing look in his eyes. Quickly, I ran into another path until I heard something smashing. And when I took a quick glance, I saw Archie… holding that woman to his left hand and pinning her against the car’s door while the other lycan was dead and laying on the car’s hood.“Ms. Savannah!” I heard Honey's voice on the other side. “Run! We will be right behind you!”I didn't answer her nor nod my head to her. I just did what she instructed me to do. I kep
Schuyler's P. O. V.For a moment, I thought that finally, Archie is looking at me as his family. And although I haven't done the same, I just thought that somehow… we can have a good bond, but I was wrong. Archie is one of those evils my great-grandfather was pertaining to. He is, and he would always be—just in a different way.Silence filled the car on our way to our final destination. Attorney Tim was the one driving and I can sense that even he is having a hard time to guess what just happened to us and we're so quiet.“We're almost there,” Attorney Tim said, trying to break the silence between us, but none responded to him. I heard him sighing before he spoke again. “Archie, what happened to your friends?”I leaned back in the car and just silently listened to them while sitting beside Archie at the backseat. For a strange reason, I can't understand why Attorney Tim forces us to let us sit together, as if we're kids and need to be protected!“They faced dozens of lycans on the way
Schuyler's P. O. V.Five years later…“What should we get for grandpa’s birthday, mommy?” I heard a soft little voice asking from behind me as I tried to finish cooking the pancakes she had been requesting.With a gentle smile in my face, I turned around to face her. I found her walking towards me, holding a small blanket she loves to keep every morning after she wake up from a good night sleep.Her sleepy eyes bored onto me and I couldn't help, but notice the similarities of her look to her father. How unfair. I carried her in my womb, but she got her father's eyes instead of mine. Though other than that, most people says that I look exactly like her. Or it could only be because they have never seen her father at all.“Mommy?” I blinked for a couple of times before snapping out of my own thoughts. I looked down to my daughter and saw her confused eyes darted at me.“Y-Yes, baby?” I leaned a bit before spreading my arms and encircling it around her small waist as I carefully carried
Schuyler's P. O. V.“R-Really?!” I couldn't hold myself from smiling excitedly after hearing the good news.“Mommy, who’s that?” I heard Stormi asking from the dining hall.I glanced at her and offered her a loving smile before I bid my goodbye to my manager with the information I needed about the celebration later. I bit my bottom lip in excitement as I made my way back to the table.“Guess what good news I received, baby?” I held her two hands and she only looked at me with those innocent eyes of hers.Suddenly, it made me feel like looking into his father's eyes… again. But I shrugged off that feeling in an instant to not spoil the moment.“Did you get a bonus, mommy?” Her index finger flew to her bottom lip, as if she's really trying to think harder. I laughed at that before shaking my head and she pouted her lips at me. “Then, why are you so happy?”I'm glad that at her young age, my daughter can speak sharply
Schuyler's P. O. V.“Good that you agree to come here,” Archie said with a grim look on his face.By the years that have passed, Archie and I started to grow a little closer to each other. ‘Yes, just a little, because it took us years to gain each other's trust.’ And just by looking at him right now, I can immediately tell that Archie is not in a good mood, but he's trying to not show it in front of my daughter earlier.I glanced at Stormi and found her having a great time with her grandpa. They're really the closest one to each other. Probably because Stormi is more affectionate to him than Archie. Even Honey was forced to join them along even though she's missing out on their topic.“Had to. I promise Stormi to let her see her grandpa, at least, before his birthday.” I shrugged my shoulders at him as I sat on the counter table. “What's up? You look down and pissed today.”He frowned at what I said, “The old man is demanding me to marry before he dies. Guess who he made a deal with?”