Evelyn's pov “Does the alpha know that you are leaving?” This was one of the first questions I was brushed with when I got to the garage and the chauffeur was making some regular checkups on the car.I was taken aback by his question, and before I could even get a chance to answer it, he was already shooting another one at me. “If he does, did he write you a note of permission?”At this point I wasn't sure if I was supposed to get angry or chuckle.“I don't believe that I'm a child that needs permission to write one just to go out. Besides, it's not like I'm running away. I'm just going to grab some lunch. Maybe you can even recommend some places for me…”The Chauffeur gave me a long hard look before he finally spoke again, stuffing his hands into his pockets.“So, from what you have been saying you don't have written permission? Or anything to prove that he has permitted you to leave?”After the disrespect that I got from that meeting, having a chauffeur looking down on me and even
Evelyn's pov Hearing his voice made me calm down a bit and so did the crowd. They immediately dispersed running. I was looking at them when the back seat door was flung open, he entered and began to check me like a doctor. When he was sure that I was fine, he turned sternly to the chauffeur and told him to drive back into the mansion again. He didn't say another word even as we returned back to the mansion and he grabbed my wrist, of course, not enough to hurt me but enough to jolt me a little bit.Both of us went to the living room and the large luxurious space was completely void of any servants including the guards who were immediately dismissed only to stand at the front door and to keep their ears to themselves. When we entered the sitting room, he let go of my wrist and I sheepishly found the couch to sit on. He went to sit on the opposite one and he was looking across to me with a look I clearly recognized as disappointment mixed up with a fair dose of annoyance.“Evelyn, wh
Evelyn's pov Kian had promised me that he would protect me from the dangers of the outside world, that was the physical dangers. But this was something beyond what our eyes could see and what we could touch. Even as I was in this gigantic Mansion surrounded by guards, the fact that this person was desperately after my life, so I decided that instead of sitting like a waiting dog I was going to try and find this person. “Do you have any plans for this evening?” My husband asked me and I smiled at him as cordially as I could, denying anything of the sort, but why I could lie with my lips, I could not hide the troubled look on my face and he quickly picked up on it as he usually did with everything about me. He usually read me like a book and so whenever he never pointed out something being wrong when it was, I knew that it was because he didn't want to acknowledge it. “Evelyn, I don't want you to worry at all. Trust me, I have every qualified person working around the clock to make
Evelyn's Pov I couldn't believe it when we stepped into the club, for me it was like a dream come true after several days of living like a caged bird inside of the mansion. It was as comfortable as it could be with servants attending to me and everything being placed on my lap at a single wave of my hand but I also wanted to live. I didn't want to just be pushed around like a doll. I was so happy that my husband understood this, we had left the mansion through a back secret exit, making sure that only those who my husband trusted the most would know about our departure and the time of it. He said that he was suspecting that somebody inside the mansion might be giving in outsiders information which would explain how they knew I was leaving at that time.I was obviously troubled by that information but he told me that I shouldn't have to worry too much because it was just a suspicion in his mind and it was completely possible that at the end of it all, he was just being worried for not
Evelyn's Pov My eyes moved from one person to another, there were 5 men all of them looking rather rugged and it wasn't hard to smell the rogue on them. All of them were looking at me as if I was just a piece of flesh and I remember this feeling…it was a cold and dark and bitter place for my heart to go down to but I remembered it. I closed my eyes and told myself that I was not as weak as I had been back then because I had gotten stronger with training but I was still out of their number from the looks of things and I couldn't call for help before I would be able to grab my phone, someone would probably attack me. My heart was pounding with a realization that these people were probably watching me the entire night and it was only now that they decided that they were going to come and get me as I was no longer surrounded by guards and my husband was also not around. So this had been clearly planned but how did they know that I was even going to be at this club in the first place?
Evelyn's pov I had screamed so loudly by the time I opened my eyes, I saw that all the men were flying in the air as if they had been struck by powerful wind and all of them were only stopped when they hit the walls with great force that knocked them out.My eyes were glued to them as I was trying to wrap my head around what just happened. That was when I noticed that the nick on my elbow was not as small as I had initially taken it to be and I wrapped my fingers around it to stop the blood from flowing. Now it was in this awkward position that I had to somehow fish out my phone from my purse and call my husband, he immediately picked it up before the phone could ring for more than 2 seconds and he was pleading for me to come back to the dance floor. I quickly explained the situation to him and because of my injured elbow, I was not able to hold on to the phone for very long before it fell from my hand. I was worried that he did not understand everything. I said but turns out I had
Evelyn's pov It was already late and I was exhausted. I tried waiting up for my husband, swaying from side to side as the slumber battled with me and eventually it won, knocking me down to my bed as I slept off without another thought in my head. The next morning, I was gently woken up to the sight of breakfast in bed. My husband also had a very deep frown on his face as his forehead wrinkled and he sat on the side of the bed looking contemplatively from side to side. I greeted him a good morning and he seemed to have been startled out of his thoughts. He reached out and placed back a strand of my already messy hair, he smiled for a moment and then he let out an extremely exhausted sigh.“What happened last night? I tried waiting for you and everything but you took so long and eventually, I ended up falling asleep without realizing it…”He turned to give me his full attention and he told me that I should not apologize for falling asleep, he had not expected me to be awake anyway an
Evelyn's pov “Evelyn you have to stop right now, you have to stop or else you'll do something you're going to regret. You have to stop…”I felt like I was floating and drowning at the same time, but piercing through all of that was this voice, it was familiar…but for some reason, I couldn't remember who, and yet I felt like I had to do what the voice said then all of a sudden, it was like I was being pulled out of a pond and I was gasping for fresh air.There was something wet and yet slightly thick that seemed to run across my cheek. I brushed it with my fingers as I tried to get my bearings, just then I could feel somebody wrapping their hands around my shoulder and when I looked up, the face of my husband cleared and I was able to see properly. I was just able to see the blood that stained my fingers and while I wanted to ask how it happened, I was trembling so much that my lips just shook and nothing came out. What was even worse was when I saw what could have been the answer. H
Evelyn's pov I couldn't believe that he actually recognized me and I wondered if he was just messing with me but when he said my name, I knew that he wasn't and I wasn't sure how to act around him. I had been holding myself together for when I would eventually leave the hospital then I could process my feelings but now after being separated for 5 years we had collided again, our lives in tangling even though I had done everything possible even traveling across the world to avoid it. “You look very well. I guess the choice that you made to leave wasn't a bad one since you appear to be doing very good for yourself,” the bitterness in his voice was clear and evident then I remembered that he didn't have any right to be angry or at least not at me. I planted my hands on my hips and told him that I couldn't stay with him anymore if he would never tell me the truth. All I asked well was some honesty, for him to respect me enough to tell me what was really going on in his mind and that
Evelyn's pov Even though I knew that the park was just close by and we wouldn't have to go there, there was still a dreadful feeling in my chest, of running into Kian after so long. I never really gave him any explanation as to why I left, he must have returned back to the mansion confused and conflicted I don't know if the letter that I wrote for him would have been enough to satisfy his curiosity but I knew I couldn't stay and say those words, if not I would have never had the courage to leave at all. A tap on my shoulder brought me back to the present and I allowed a small smile on my face as I looked at my stepbrother, Kelvin, I had never imagined that he would become such a pillar in my life, somebody who was once a spineless puppets for his mother had matured into a responsible man and he had girls chasing him left and right but he told me that he was interested in only one person and one day he will confess his feelings to her. I had begged him to tell me who this per
Evelyn's pov The day I made a decision to leave the pack, to leave him, I knew that I could never return back or at least I never intended to and now 5 months had passed it felt like 5 years. Everyday my heart was aching for me to return back but I knew that he would have some kind of convenient explanation or he would deny being part of the council at all but it made so much sense that I was not going to allow him to deceive me anymore. It was not an easy decision to come to and I had no idea where I would even go, all I knew was that I had to leave, now was when I got an unexpected call from my stepbrother Kelvin. He had never reached out to me before, so I was surprised to get his call that night. I contemplated answering it or not, then I decided not to because whatever he had to say, I doubted that I had the Patience to even listen to him but just as I was about to cut the call, my fingers slid in the wrong direction and I answered it by accident.His concerned voice came thro
Kian's pov “It's been a pleasure doing business with you,” I said with a confident smile as my fingers gripped that of my newest associate. The contract that I had just closed down would end both of us millions and that satisfaction was almost enough to make up for the 3 days that I had spent away from my mate.Well almost…I had already booked a flight and I would be pulling her into my arms once again in less than 3 hours or so, so with an expectant smile on my face, I checked out of the hotel that I had been staying for the past 3 days and made my way to the airport, my eyes were glued shut throughout the entire flight and everything seem to blur until finally, I was driving into my mansion through the gates. A maid came to take my briefcase and I easily handed it to her asking her if she knew where my mate was. Her face suddenly paled up, and then she started shaking a little bit, her lips obviously trembling as she visibly battled to get out her words saying that she had no ide
Evelyn's pov The search for my father's killer went on for months, it started with days and then it dragged out into weeks until months passed and yet there was nothing. It was almost as though they appeared out of thin air and after committing that heinous act disappeared like dust in the wind. I mourned for my father until my heart wanted to bleed right out of my chest. My only consolation was my husband who was there for me during this difficult time, promising me with all of his heart that he would find my father's killer but despite all of his efforts, nothing came out of it. One dead end was just followed up by another one. Eventually, after catching him looking through the little evidence that could be found at night barely allowing himself to sleep I had to call it quits but he was stubborn about letting go insisting that if he just kept looking he would find the killers. On one of such night, I caught him in his office after waking up in bed and finding that his ow
Evelyn's POV When I woke up the next morning, the first thing I got was an urgent text from my father's personal investigator urging me to reach out to him as soon as possible. My heart quickly found its way to my throat. I had a nightmare and it involved my father and now this? Calming my racing heart, I took a few breaths and then made the call and on the second ring, he picked up and his voice was low. It was always sort of monotone but now there was something beneath it that made a pit my stomach grow even deeper. “Is something wrong?” I couldn't help asking and his voice was a few decibels as he dropped the bombshell that left the room spinning around for several seconds until I spoke again in a response. “You must be joking…” I said, my voice coated in denial. “You can't be serious, please tell me that you are joking right now…” “I'm sorry you have my condolences…” I wasn't able to listen to his next words because the phone fell from my trembling hands, and if I h
John's pov “This has to be a joke…” I said for the millionth time throwing a folder back to my desk. My personal private investigator looked at me with a source of resignation on his face and he told me that he was confident of his findings.I looked at the folder again like a bomb that was about to explode cautiously touching it and I opened it up. The first thing I saw randomly was a picture of a boy and standing next to him was the familiar feminine face that made me close the folder once again, my chest burning up. It couldn't be, it just couldn't be… “Alpha John…” My private investigator was about to speak but I held up my hand. I needed a moment to digest this so I dismissed him, leaving me alone with all the evidence that brings back memories from the past, memories that I thought I had long buried. And along with it came intense guilt, just as I was battling with this, Quinn appeared in my office with a cheap smile on her face but right now I needed to be alone. When she g
Evelyn's POV I looked down at my wristwatch for the millions of times and a heavy breath left me as I tilted my head up and groaned afterwards. I was hoping that this flight would make me get to my father faster but instead it ended up getting delayed because of an incoming storm.So I was left with no other choice, I had to Lodge into a hotel for the night, I would be coming back the next day to quickly catch my flight it was already too late to consider going on the road anymore and I would still end up wasting the same amount of time anyways, so I might as well just get on a flight. At least, I wouldn't have to worry about traffic or anything. When I was settled with my baggage I lay down on the bed with my shoes. I feel like a bigger traitor than those two shameless people for not telling him this. How was he even going to react when he knew that I had been keeping these secrets for so long now? I squeezed my fingers together until it pulled into a fist and I was agitated just
John's pov My wife stayed in the basement longer than I expected. I thought that after a couple of hours, she would come out but it was only the next morning that I was able to convince her. I brought some food for her, an omelet and some bacon because she had also refused to eat anything from the previous day. Then, standing at the entrance of the basement, I knocked to get her attention. “Quinn, don't you think that this is unnecessary?” I asked her “Both of us are adults so we can discuss this as adults..” “I don't want to discuss anything…” she cried out. “Just tell me that I can go, that you don't need me anymore, and have my bags packed for me so that I can leave immediately. I have dedicated so many years of my precious life to you and you won't even trust me I don't want to talk about it,” I looked down at the plate of food. “You haven't had anything to eat since last night. Are you really planning to starve yourself to death?” There was silence for a while before sh