Reed’s pov
“Promise me you’ll be safe.” She said and her eyes followed Asher as well. He nodded and I walked back to the car not before looking back at my shoulder to answer her. “You too.”
Diana opened the portal in the wood and jumped inside her. I didn’t start the engine until the portal closes. Once I was sure, Diana was gone I stared the engine and drove in the direction of place I was longing to reach as soon as possible.
My mind was not at peace, someone was conspiring among us, one of us. Azra confirmed it before we send him back to the underworld. But who? I know only rogue king won’ be enough for what Ravenna had in mind.
“Asher do you know someone by the name of Azra?” I asked and glanced at him through the corner of my eye.
“No, why? Does it have to do something back at the pack house?” he asked and opened his eyes to look back at me. I know I got h
(Three days before the car crash) Esma’s pov “Still banging your head in the books?” I heard Dumeny's voice from behind and I shut my diary as soon as I heard him coming in my direction. I have been writing everything since last night in this diary. Since I met Moona. Thanks to the evening primrose, my memories were intact but as the time passes, the primrose witters and so did my memories of last night. I have been writing non stop and everything I could remember but as the clock ticks, my mind started playing with me. it all seems like I was in a delusional paranoa. If it was not for the early two pages I wrote, I would have thought of it as a dream shrugged it off. But it wasn’t. I wrote this as the first thing. Everything was real. “You ditched me at the morning breakfast, what you been writing here?” he asked genuinely curi
Esma’s pov “Calm the fuck down all of you.” Dumeny roared for the first time and all of a sudden, the room fell in the absolute silence. Every one of them, stood attentively to bear the command of an alpha, including me. “We are surely outnumbered but we can’t look out from the fact that we are facing mere rogues.” He said and all of them started murmuring among themselves. He was right. Wolf without a pack is just like a blade without its edge. A blunt knife to be more precise. We wolves are powerful in packs but whenever we went rogue, our power started to diminish, the sense of sight and smell, the ability to transform back into human, all started to get lost and in no time, we become monsters without any control or our will. I stepped up to look at the faces of the people who were risking their lives alongside ours. “All of you, every one of you is forged in the fire of intense battles and hard trai
Reed’s pov I make my way through the corpses. One by one, body from body I walked through them. I didn’t look at the faces who dared tried to face me moment ago and eventually enveloped in the arms of death. They were not meant to die here, not by my hands, not for that fucker. “Stop where you are, mutt!” I lifted my head to look at the faces of the guards protecting the main gate of the castle. I have already killed the hundred since I entered inside his pack. The most powerful pack of the world. Blacklaw pack. “Don’t come in my way, run and I will spare your life.” I growled and threw my clock aside to turn in my wolf. I make sure my weapon was secured in my clothes, the one I paid a hefty price for. “Now!” the guard at the front commanded and the sky covered in absolute darkness, it took me a second to register what he was up to. They have surrounded me already.
Reed’s pov“Alpha?” I groaned internally but for some reason I feel too tired to open my eyes. There is only pain. My head, my chest . . . burning pain. My side, my arm. Pain. Pain and hushed words in the gloom. Where am I? Though I try, I cannot open my eyes. The whispered words become clearer . . . a beacon in the darkness.“His left and right ribs are severely bruised and he had a hairline fracture at the right side of the skull but he is healing faster and most of his injuries are already healed.“Then why is he still unconscious?”“He will wake when he is ready. Just give him some time.”“Any news on Miss Rockwood?” the words were anguish, breathless.“I can’t find her. I don’t know where she is, I tried the finding spell but as if she is totally disappeared from the world.” Now, I recognised that voice. it was Diana’s. the f
Esma’s pov Darkness engulfed me. It was the same kind of darkness one would have witnessed during a long slumber, or death. Death? Am I dead? I don’t know. This is oblivion. At least it felt good. It’s peace, in oblivion, in emptiness, without any worry, without any fear. It was just me now. no one to bother me, no one to hurt anyone. I could float in this abyss of nothingness forever. “And what about me? about us?” my breath hitched hearing that familiar voice of a man. I hear it so many times, calling me, pulling me towards it. I can’t put my finger where I heard it. deep down, my heart was earning to hear it again and again. “Kitten.” It calls to my deepest depths of my heart again and this time I tried to move. Who is it? who’s calling me? “It’s time to wake up Esma.” this time he called me by my name and my heart thundered. “REED?” the name automatically left my lips and all the memories gushed back like the thund
Esma’s pov“Now.” she reverted her gaze to the window, i peeked through my lashes to see it was now evening. “I suppose we should talk. I am very curious from the first time I had laid my eyes on you.”Long hair, strong smell of old shampoo, a lame beige cardiogram across her neck, natural style and almost impossible to notice makeup. She truly is beautiful, almost perfect and perfectly evil.I am not getting a good feeling about this. She reverted her gaze to my hands as I placed them on my lap cautiously. They were finally free but my legs were still tied. I can tell a lot is going in her mind at the same time too. Just like me.I have hundreds, no at least thousand questions for her to answer and by the look in her eyes I can tell she feels the same. but why? What does she want? I heard the footsteps chafing on the ground and my ears peeked up, is this her next move or something? She bough
Reed’s pov “Again.” I growled. Asher looked light of breath but still managed to stood on his feet. Asher was somehow saved from the accident as the truck directly hit my side, I took all the damage. The impact was so brutal, he ended up falling out from the window, I am glad he was alive, he was out for a day before his injuries started to get heal. I was out for a week. What Diana told me, it was a human who hit us. And he didn’t know at the first place why or what he was doing there at the first place. I snapped back from my senses as I got punched square on my face. dammit I was careless again to let my guard down. Asher go for another punch and I dodged it this time by an inch. I backed down a little to catch him off guard and before he could emphasise my next move I pulled his arm and rotates it in a lock. “Again.” I growled again as I pushed him on the ground. me and him are practice non stop from 4 in
Esma’s pov My mother taught me long ago how to interact with others as an alpha, how to read the room in worse case scenarios and hopefully coming with a good strategy to turn back the odds in our favour. It is not some complex trial and error method, just a trick. One simple trick to know about someone. Simply, if you want to know about someone just piss them off. “Emmy the best way to know about someone is what get them angry on the first place.” My mother’s words resonate in my numb ears. I guess her words of wisdom have done the trick here as well. I have to thank her for sure later, If I made it alive from here. I hit the nail right on the spot. I can tell Ravenna is pissed when I mentioned Reed but she tried her best to conceal the truth that she is trying her best not to snap my neck. The single thought is terrifying yet exciting. I am all in to push my luck. “Tiring, isn’t it? After all of your hard work and still someone bossed you around?” she cracked her neck tiredly
Esma’s povHis head rolled of the ground and blood splattered on the walls, the ground, everywhere. The other two cried in horror not believing their eyes.“Talk nonsense if you want to die.”The head of the person rolled off his neck and blood splatters wherever his head rolled on the ground leaving a path of blood for others to see.The other two brothers gasped in horror as they saw their brother’s life fading from his eyes. They now knew the severity of the situation.The look on their face tells me they will cooperate now.This is the problem with the mobs nowadays. They have to see the blood spill first before they could cooperate.“Tell me where your base is?” I asked standing straight in front of the second brother. He looked kind of older than the other one, so I assume he is.“Our base?”He looked lost in thought as if thinking hard about all the possibilities. If betraying was any good enough for him. I know the look on his face, I have seen it all my life to know what was
Esma’s povThe three yellow river beasts. That’s what they call themselves.They were famous as the notorious bandits or thugs of the slab city. Rumour has it that they don’t just attack people, rather they kills all men, kidnap women and rape them as well. They are really evil. So much so that the local authorities put bounties on their heads yet they roamed the city fearlessly and freely.One of them called himself Baal. The eldest son of the three beasts. Famous for his volatile and short temper but care a lot about his siblings and family.A ship where his family was on board was previously attacked. He got so furious after the news reached his ears. He found the culprits and exterminated them all as well everyone they knew, even the elderly.“They support and protect us against disruption of information. they planted spies among us. That’s why I am done if they get the information they want from me.” Harris and Morris plead and kneeled down.“The information you want cannot be so
Esma’s pov“Do you happen to recognize it? hohoho, you have pretty sharp eyes for a warrior.” He said.He looked at us, eyeing our reactions, he doesn’t know our identities yet.“Well, but it doesn’t mean that we won’t sell information so there’s no need to be disappointed.” I raised my eyebrows.“if you promise me that you have no ulterior motives in trying to figure out the location of the head of the enlightened one and pay for that information, I will tell you.” he said And smiled evilly.As if proving his words right we heard many footsteps outside the room.“We are surrounded, judging from their sounds, there seems to be thirty of them.” August said. Mr. M walked towards Dumeny.“Dumeny Ross. I heard you returned recently to the lawless city of slab. You were the hired assassin worked as a lone wolf (It’s a metaphor for someone who works alone). I heard you left your past life behind and joined your family business.”“And…” the guy named Mr. M walked towards me and August.“I am
Esma’s pov There are seven continents in the world. separated by sea, ocean and mountains. Among them, there are countless factions and small packs.However, there are four heavenly packs who guides and governs them and are literally called themselves the powerhouses.The blue moon pack governed by us in the south. My father and his ancestors were the one who settled themselves hundreds of years ago and established themselves as one of the powerhouses.Then there’s Black claw pack in the north, the most ancient and the most powerful pack, rich in diversity and resources from the very start.To the west, the unorthodox faction of Rogues which are not governed by the laws of the packs and are referred as barbarians. They long lost their sanity and ability to change themselves back to humans.And lastly, there is the Mountain keepers in the east. It is the pack of Dumeny.The world of werewolves have been divided among these four great forces for hundreds of years and the border are
Esma’s povMe and August soon leave the house. we have been working nonstop since we have come together to maintain the stability within our pack. if it was not for the alpha blood and both of us the wolves in our pack would have gone rogue.It was pure luck that we both were present in the pack at the same time, if not, I couldn’t dare to think what would happen to my people.I mind linked Asher when I was done with organising my pack. Asher appeared before me in no time.“You called?” he said no beating around the bush with him.I sighed and told him everything we discussed with Dumeny.He listened to everything in silence.“I have heard about this city. If Diana is there, it won’t be easy to get her out.” he said and I hummed. I already know about it. To rescue a witch from the city of the witch hunters.“We will think of something.” I said although I was assuring myself.“What are your orders for me?” he said. “I will follow to hell although we just came back from there.” he said a
Esma’s pov“You are certain they will be there.” I nodded and look him into the eyes.“Then, let’s get those bastards for what they have to done to us.” Dumeny growled.I clutched August’s hand in mine as I said yes too.“I have a plan.” Dumeny said in the end.“What kind of plan?” I asked looking at his face. now that I notice him, he have grown a quite in the few days since I saw him. his eyes, they were no longer belong to a carefree man whom I once used to know.They have a serious sense of duty and responsibility. Plus, I don’t know I have a ere feeling coming from his side, I don’t know how to put it in words, but he has changed a lot.In terms of power, he was already in par with an alpha. He might be powerful than his father.I rarely find myself getting out unscathed if fought against him. he has grown rapidly since last time I saw him.“We have to attack them simultaneously. Just like they did. We have to make them think and divert their attention on someone or something and
Esma’s pov“Hey Dumeny. Long time no see.” I said as I saw him standing in the middle of the hall in my house.Last time I saw him, it was the alpha’s meeting and after that I was kidnapped by Ravenna and the witches.I never heard from him after that. Hell, I didn’t saw him after that.“Same for me.” he said and out of sudden he rushed towards me and pulled me in his arms.“I am sorry you have to go through this all by your own.” he said and hugged me tightly. I can tell he was genuinely concerned for me and I hugged him back. I really missed a friend.We ended the hug and he sit in the other side of the table.August soon returns with the beer cans and I rolled my eyes.My brother knows me best. He reads my mind. He passed me the can which I took happily. He sat beside me and we just enjoyed our beers for a while.“Look Emmy. I know this is not the right time for me to ask, but you can please tell me about the day you were kidnapped?” Dumeny breaks the silence and I looked at August
Reed’s povI just stand there as Andrew was in hurry to look after Ravenna. I have never seen this man caring about anyone except for his mate and of course his children. But I was also his son. the son whom he sent assassins to take care of.The son who lost his mother, and for what reason? Because his mate come to know about the existence of his affair?“Call the doctor, will you?” he shouted at me and I sighed.“We are in the abandoned land of mine, in the middle of nowhere, the city is three hours from here and I have already called for the doctor. But he won’t be here before the morning.” I said and he just look disdain.The weather is fucked up and all the roads are closed. How much one could try, the doctor would only come by morning.“That fucking bastard. I swear I will kill him with my own hands.” he cursed out aloud and suddenly my chest hurts.This man right here, was concern for someone totally stranger to him, he was concerned for the witch and was cursing out a god? Th
Reed’s povI stared at the moon. I was the wolf who was chasing the moon. I was nothing but a shadow casted by the moon. A shadow only able to come in presence of the source of light.To me the moon has always been the light I was chasing.“Lost in thoughts?” I didn’t want to look back to know whose voice it was. I clenched my jaw tightly as I keep on staring in front of me.Andrew walked inside the room and I heard his footsteps coming closer to me. my whole body tensed up. My heart started to beat faster. Out of fear? Out of surprise? Out of idea of fighting?I don’t know the reason. Maybe all three of them. Never in my life I have ever been able to win against Andrew, my father. Yes, I killed him. I killed him with my own hands and if granted the same opportunity twice, I will not waste a single breath before killing him again.I know he hates me. I hate him too.Suddenly, the sound of the chafing of his shoes stopped and I sighed and finally turned back to look at him.The face of