Elizabeth’s POV.-“What the fuck are you doing down here, Elizabeth?”Great, from the sheer disgruntlement in his gruff deep voice, it’s clear his anger didn’t even diminish in the tiniest at all. Brought on my knees, I want to stand up and answer him directly but my limbs seem to have recalled their initial numb state. This is such an agonizing position.Vyin spares me for a momentary glance at Nova and I notice the mind communication that briefly issues between them. In the next minute, all the wolves seem to be retreating towards the fleet of black cars parked in line with the one I snuck here in. Holding painful gazes like this, we both relish in silence, listening to the igniting engines of cars and doors slamming. Until it’s all pin-drop quiet with just us two.It might just be me and Vyin but, it’s still choking. His rage is so perceivable and toxic that it’s surprising he’s still not launching at me right now.‘Should I just go ahead and apologize now? There’s no w
Elizabeth’s POV.-I quietly spew a sigh of relief when I arrive before Angie’s bedroom door and I pull off the hood over my head. I had almost been seen by aunt busy preparing dinner in the kitchen. It’s a good thing Tori’s not around either. He won’t be coming home tonight, thanks to a gaming marathon a friend of his is hosting.Now, I gently wrap my fingers around the door handle with my back plastering against the door so I can keep looking around in case aunt might come up the stairs. Daintily bringing myself into the bedroom while taking backward steps, I stiffen when I hear a voice behind me.“Oh- Hey, where did you suddenly disappear to? Beth, what’re you doing sneaking in like that, picked a fight with Tori again?” I hear Angie’s snickering voice and my stomach drops.‘Shoots, I didn’t think my plan to this extent’ I gulp tensely, holding onto my position when hands suddenly grip my shoulders and I’m whirling around to see the puzzling faces of Zara and Angie. And gr
Elizabeth’s POV.-Why am I getting uplifted from the good news Ludis told me this morning? Is Vyin going to pick us up after school today? ‘I have to apologize properly and tell him I can wait till whenever he’s willing to let me in’.After the final bell for today, I’m the most eager to get out the school gates as I hasten out of class with Elaine to go get Angie so we can leave. “Ludis said they’ll stop by somewhere shortly and asks if we can wait for 20 minutes” Elaine informs us and I deflate at once.“Tsk, where are they going instead of coming to pick us up?” I grumble out of earshot and hear Angie’s taunting giggles. “Someone’s growing impatient” She sings and I toss her a cold frown which she dodges by hiding behind Elaine as we walk out the school gates amongst others.“Fine then, we can also spend some time walking around a bit as well” Elaine suddenly suggests and we both look at her crouching next to a grey and white cat in front of a coffee shop. We’ve spent th
Elizabeth’s POV. - I look up to see Ludis gripping Akemi’s face with his large palm flattened tightly over her nose and mouth. With a void expression on his blunt face, he continues to intensify his grip, unflinching from Akemi’s manicured nails digging and scrapping over the skin of his palm. Vyin just stands there like a forgotten statue, watching his brother practically suffocate Akemi in his iron grip until Ludis promptly let's go and meets gazes with me. There’s no shift in the void on his face even as he takes in the state his sister is in while he flings Akemi across the floor like a rag. He begins to stroll towards me and comes to crouch next to me. “I’ll take her to the hospital. Elaine, you too” Ludis states in a flat voice and I’m starting to get a creepy vibe from him. Anyone would react in hysteria to find us three in the states we’re in, but this calm ambiance about him is rather foreboding. I want to say something when he effortlessly lifts Angie into his arms, but
Elizabeth’s POV.-Aunt Sue?I blink, taken aback to indeed see her making her way in with two other girls in company. I recognize Emma and her snobbish demeanor right away, and the other girl who looks like a more mature version of her and donning a smile as she goes on talking, to probably be Lian.In stilling shock, my eyes move with their little group as they begin to take the corridor that leads to the shop above. ‘They didn’t even notice me at all’ I keep watching them quietly until a nudge against my arm brings me to turn to see Tori lifting a brow at me. “They people you know?”I shake out of it to fitting a random smile as I shrug nonchalantly, “Not really, I thought they reminded me of someone”. It’s not my intention to deny knowing them, but I haven’t forgotten how I had been practically kicked out of my home. Have I forgiven them?“Don’t show the customers that glum face. Cheer up, we should go see Angie after we’re done.” Tori tells gruffly and I permit a true s
Elizabeth’s POV-As she returns to her seat, I carefully scan the large old album with tiny clusters of dust dotting here and there over its leather cover.With my heart in my throat, I anxiously hold the cover and slowly open the album. Aunt continues to talk, “Believe it or not, your mother was a Fae princess, next in line to rule over the other Fae Folk. After the war many years ago, she lost her people and her home and fled with me to seek refuge from her neighbors who were the werewolves. The heterochromatic sovereign of our kind had offered shelter and protection, and your mother had decisively integrated into our ways and sought a normal life. So she had fallen in love with a mateless wolf warrior and chose to live a simple life in the human settlements and build a family...”My chest constricts with pain, familiarity and longing as the first picture is of my replica and my dad, beaming smiles as my replica carries a wrapped baby in her arms. I trace a trembling hand ov
Elizabeth’s POV-I had met Aunt Sue for a brief moment at the shop once more after we had visited her two days ago. We were able to draft a schedule for me, and so, I’ll be starting my first training tomorrow. We’ll be using an hour after my shift on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. And for the weekend, an hour of Saturday afternoons. It’s just between me and Tori who had bombarded my ears after we had left that day. Ugh, he was so close to worshipping my feet even.Waiting outside Vyin’s condominium, I’m tensed with anxiety. Aunt had harkened on consummating the mate bond, saying it would help unseal the rest of my powers before our session will start, but- This is outrageous! How am I to just walk up to Vyin and demand he deflowers me? Like, right to that cold and obnoxious face of his? I’ll rather fade to dust.Yet, I ring the buzzer and wait in despondence. I haven’t seen him in a while and our conversations over the phone had been curt with clipped responses. Sigh,
Elizabeth’s POV.-“Elizabeth, are you sure about this?”Vyin stares at me, with eyes so weighty that I shiver despite the warmth in the room. His eyes remain on mine, seeking assurance from me as he waits on the last thread of patience he’s enforcing on his muscles. My head swirls around for a moment as if bouncing around walls to come to a still point. The alarming pound of my chest is lost as I enter a lulling trance, discarding all distracting sensibility. What’s there to think about at this moment? If I start to process things now, logic and reasoning will begin to mess with my mind and thwart what we’ve stirred.No. I clench my brows, firming my heart for this. What’s the need to think over anything when we’re both on the edge of getting what we want and desire? A rustle of fabric and I’m sitting up, having Vyin recede a bit as I begin to take my sweater off. Holding his eyes steadily as I do this before him, it’s faint, so dull in the background of his dimming orbs,
Danika’s POV. - Three Years Later. ~ “Ludis did what?” I gasp, pulling a chair to sit while Kashira grins deeply to affirm what he just said. I settle down and look between him and Mao before lowly asking again, “He fought with them?” “It’s not uncommon among us, you know,” Mao starts to say in a rather calm tone. “Especially among Alpha families. If there are sons and daughters, or even just a son, it’s a test the son has to carry out to determine if his sister’s mate is worthy of her.” I bite down my protest and frown. “Ludis isn’t just any wolf, he’s an Alpha male and of the heterochromatic bloodline,” I argue defensively and Kashira shrugs, “I admit all four of them were powerful and Ludis didn’t make it out without a few bruises.” “But the kid won, and the princess is his,” He cheers, munching his dish of Chow Mein. Doing well to quell my argument as I growl stubbornly and Mao smiles at me. “This is great! I haven’t been to a Chinese restaurant in ages.” “Eat up and leave,
Danika’s POV.-I’m nervous. This is the most I’ve been in years. I can’t even breathe properly. Clutching my mate’s arm, I lean against him, trembling as I try to stabilize my breath. The Faeries who’ve helped me into my bedazzling nature-enchanted gown stare at me with confidence, trying to restore my timid brave spirit as I shut my eyes for a moment.I feel his soothing palm brush over mine and his tender voice speaks to me, “Do you want to sit down for a minute and pull yourself together?” Then he takes on a sarcastic edge, “Or I can just go out there and let them know you’re not up for it.”I growl and snap my eyes open to glare at him who smirks at me, poking between my brows as he says, “Yeah, that’s it. We can start from there.”Thanks to his tease, I’m a bit annoyed and I use that emotion to shake myself out of it. Ridding the unwanted anxiety and uncertainties that latch onto my frame and heart. Grabbing the bodice of my shimmering gown, I step forward.“I’ve kept
Danika’s POV.-Taren and Emma? Wow, will you look at that? Although it might seem as if Emma’s so smitten as she fusses endlessly, running her trembling lips, blinking her eyes, nervously fiddling with her hair, and unable to tone down the heat resplendent on her face...Taren is keeping cool about it but, it’s evident that he enjoys the reaction he’s eliciting from her.I don’t want to be privy to what they’re talking about. I muster a small smile, watching them a little longer as I feel a familiar presence close in on me. When her trembling fingers try to touch her hair, Taren beats her to it, sleekly sliding his fingers against hers to tuck it behind her steaming ear. At that stunning action, their gazes meet and hold for a moment before Taren averts his to smirk a little while Emma palms her face.“She’d never let Lian hear the end of it. But here she is, acting so silly like a girl experiencing her first love.”I raise a brow at Elaine who grins at me, only to have me deb
Danika’s POV.-“You’ll sell the property?”“We’ve thought about it and that’s the conclusion we came down with.”Those voices sound familiar. I groan in my sleep, rousing sluggishly along my slow turn over. On my back with my hand rustling the sheets in search of my mate, I frown and open my eyes. I jump out of bed, pick up a random shirt from the floor, and pull into it along my exit.“Now, don’t look gloomy. It was never a home for you.”“Still, it’s where we grew up. Have a rethink, Christian. You’re making a hasty decision.”Found him. Wearing a gummy smile, I embrace him from behind, pressing against his bare back and snaking my arms around his waist as I drag my forehead up to his shoulder. He probably sensed me coming, that’s why I don’t elicit much of a reaction from him. I want to place my head on his shoulder but find Liam staring at me with heavy drowsy eyes.“Why you this little...” I whisper at him and his hazy eyes clear to revive a grin. Liam pecks my nose
Danika’s POV.-Why’s she with the Elf? How did she get here so fast? Puzzled, I walk towards them. Aunt Sue raises the Elf’s head onto her thighs and stares at him with a form of sadness I don’t understand. I watch them with scrutiny, how the Elf barely moves with his breath fading fast while Aunt Sue takes his numb hand in hers.“Sue...” He rasps, his voice almost just air. But she hears him, and so do I as I keep away. “...I’m sorry I couldn’t...go back to you...properly...”The little life force inside of him disappears after he says that. Aunt Sue hugs his head to her chest, trembling softly as she mutters in a shaky voice, “The times you did...they reached me.”‘Seems like they had something going on in the past,’ Violate ponders while I just stare at her as she slides her palm over his eyes to shut his eyelids. She gently guides his head off her thighs to settle on the floor as if he’s only sleeping.“Every sinner deserves even one person to mourn them.”I push forw
Danika’s POV.-“It’s a pity that her daughters inherited everything about her.”The splitting sound of a gunshot suddenly rings out. In a flash, Elizabeth and Chestnut fall over the handrail and Grandma Bo breathes her last. Shock stuns me in place, with eyes spreading wider each slowly ticking second as I remain numb and unperceptive for a moment.“Watch them die.”It all rushes back into me in an instant. The ravenous and black rage that consumed me before, sets my being ablaze in a breath. I leap over the handrail, going after them. I don’t see Chestnut. Elizabeth is still in her bind and I catch her when she’s just an inch from the floor.“Your Highness! This is the worst to have happened.” I hold my sister close, barely succeeding at holding my rage to force a turn around so I can see Tara and my mate. I see Chestnut is with my mate and I hand over Elizabeth to them.“You all should leave...help Yi Wen...and get the Tuyens out of here,” I manage to growl, the last r
Danika’s POV.-Poof! The head my maw should’ve crushed to pieces explodes into ashen fairy dust. I fall back swiftly and shake my head to rid of the cloud. Only to growl ever nefariously at the face of my grinning enemy standing across from me – with the stolen Grimoire in hand.“Heh, think you’d get me so easy?” He grins diabolically, intentionally hinting at the large black voluminous book in his hand. “I commend your prowess for making it this far, but this is as far as you-”Cut to the chase already. I ain’t got time for pointless blabbering!I’m onto him with a breath, working my maw aggressively, pounding my hefty paws here and there, breaking the floor and sending tremors through the walls- it’s now it comes to me. This is no longer the haunted maze. We’re inside the Tuyen’s mansion. What a sneaky game indeed.I snag him with a swing of my left paw, smacking the side of his head to send him smashing through a wall. The result isn’t gratifying, it only burns my fury
Danika’s POV.-“Danika, hey, slow down. You’re not thinking of rushing off, are you?” Taren questions behind me as we sprint back to the car. “Persuading me won’t work, Taren,” I cut him off coldly. “You heard that thing as clearly as I did.”We get to the car and I briefly turn to face him as I drop rustily, barely keeping my tumultuous rage in check so I don’t snap at him, “I don’t need your help to go save them.”I grab the handle and yank the driver’s door open, zeroing my smoldering orbs on my mate as I give the command, “Move over to the passenger seat.”They all regard me with surprise, Charles blinking at me like I’m someone else. He frowns and attempts to challenge me, only to flinch at the realization of something and lean worriedly towards me. “Is something wrong? Why do you look so angry?”“We’re only wasting valuable time,” I swat his concern aside and use my ability to make the shift happen. I snatch control of the steering wheel, startling my sister to prote
Danika’s POV. - My muscles still hurt from the intensive training I just concluded. I’m so sweaty, it’s making my clothes feel uncomfortable. I cringe at the reek of heat oozing from my body as I enter the Pack House with my mate behind me. It’s hard not to inhale the stench, and it’s driving me crazy. “Sparing with Alpha Vyin and Ludis for over three hours sure is taking its toll,” I grumble with a crumpled face. I toss my face aside as if I can detach my soul from my body, inadvertently robbing myself of sensing where I’m heading. That’s when my right foot bumps into something and my body lurches forward with a yelp. “If you were going to become this grumpy, you shouldn’t have chosen to spar in both wolf and human forms.” I cringe pathetically at the flat tone of my mate who’s saved me with an arm around my waist. “We don’t have much time,” He begins to say after helping me straighten up. “You go freshen up, in the meantime, I’ll go get the kids.” It’s day four already, and to