EDEN As she left the room, she turned back for a moment. “But remember, you must not see Belle until after the ritual. The whole point is for her to feel powerful, if you see her, it will defeat the entire purpose of everything.”I nodded and closed the door behind her. I picked up my phone and dialed Alicia's number immediately. She didn't pick even after the third ring and I figured that she could be busy. All I had to do was get the kids to Alicia's for now and then somehow, I would get Roman out of the house .Getting him out of the house was going to be the hard part because he was going to ask questions about what was going on and why I needed him to take Roman with him. After what happened, I doubt he would feel free with letting me be alone. But I would have to find a way to get him to leave me. My phone rang and I put it to my ear, knowing that it was Alicia calling back. “Hey sorry I missed your call. I was putting the twins to sleep. What's going on? Do you need any
EVELYN “Excuse me?”“You never cared about the important things. Always had your head in the clouds, it was sickening. I wanted you to take the throne but you didn't want it. Why didn't you want it? Your younger sister was going to take everything that belonged to you and you were fine with it like a fool.”Now, this was the River I knew. “You should have fought. You should have fought her so hard and even killed her if you could but you didn't. Instead, you stood there like a fool and begged for help from people to come save you from the abuse. It was them I knew that you were never going to be a good Alpha. You were worthless, and sorry.”He started taking steps towards me and I moved back. I moved back because I didn't want him to touch me and hold my hand. He had a very strong grip and there was a high chance that he would hit me if I let him get too close. “It’s your fault I left you! You wanted me to save you from thier abuse?! What happened to your hands?! What happened to y
EVELYN When I woke up, I was hungry as hell. It was as if I had not even eaten for days. I didn't know how long I had been knocked out so maybe that would be the reason. I was really pressed and there was no one here. My leg felt like it was being splitted into two so I just sat there with my bladder about to burst. ”Hello?! Is anyone there?!” Maybe even the guards could call for some help, that would be good. The door opened and a gaurd entered. “My Queen, do you need anything?”“Yes, get me a maid right this instant before I piss myself and get my husband.”He ran out, leaving me there and I wanted to look at my leg but with the way I was feeling, I would just get more irritated. A maid entered and helped me off the end. I sughed in relief when I sat on the toilet and let the liquid flow out of me. I almost died. Now, I could look at my leg and imagine the way- as I stood up from the toilet seat, I felt the vomit at the back of my throat about to come out. Before I could pu
EVELYN I left the room just then and returned to study. I had to act like nothing happened or else, I would be the one at risk here. He didn't know I had overheard the conversation and I wanted it to stay that way. He was standing in a spot, with his hand on his chin, looking at the ground when I entered. “Hello.” I said and stood in front of him. “Do you need anything?” Yes, I need you to tell me why the hell you are doing this? What will he get in return? There's no reward for marrying me, as far as I know. At first, I thought it was because of our history that he wanted me back and wanted to marry me but after hearing the conversation earlier today, I wasn't so sure. It was like there was much more that was attached to it. “Yes. I need to ask you a question.”He led me to the sofa and sat down across from me. “Let me hear you.”“Why do you love me? Why me?”He smiled a bit when I asked that question and for a moment, just a split second, I saw the River that I fell for.“B
EVELYN I watched her as she walked away, not knowing what exactly to say. My head cleared and I just stood there, replaying her words in my head. Had I heard right? She was behind the attack. Tears gathered in my eyes and I wondered if I should go after her and ask her to explain herself. Why did she have to go that far just to get back at me? Why did she have to do that? If she wanted to kill me, she could have just come up to me and done it without having to put Nathan's life at risk. What if something had happened to him? What if Lucian hadn't come there in time and I had no place to go? Tears fell from my eyes and I slowly made my way upstairs to my room. I wanted to be alone for now, training could wait. If anyone should ask me why I was crying, I wouldn't know what to tell them so it was best that I just went to my room. As I climbed the stairs, I bumped into someone again. What the hell was with me and bumping into people today?Since my head was bent down as I didn't
LUCIAN Mark had returned. He returned early in the morning and I'd asked the guards to let me know when he made his way into the kingdom. That morning, as soon as the sun came up, there was a knock on my door. “My King, The Chief Guard has returned.”I grabbed my robe and darted out of my room, going right into the throne room. “Mark, what do you have for me?”“Alpha, I must apologize for rising you from your sleep. I just returned to the kingdom.”I waved him off..“That’s fine. Tell me, what happened.”“Well, as I arrived, I was greeted with scorn which is no surprise but I got to meet the King's aide who told me that the King could not see me as he was attending to something important.”The reason they were hiding their king was not I could not understand. “He left to speak to the King and then returned to tell me that the King says he doesn't want to strike any deal and that he would soon get the thing he wants so he had nothing to say to me. I tried to pester him to say more
EDEN It was another day in this hell. I had no idea what to do. All I did was wake up, walk around their damn house with no doors and windows and then go back to sleep. The woman barely said two words to me. All she did was stare at me like she wanted to remove my soul. ”You know that's how you will continue to stay here for the rest of your life until you decide to stop being greedy.”What the hell.“Greedy? Am I being greedy? Who was the person who asked that bitch to enter me? Not me? So how am I the one being greedy? I'm not the one who gave up everything to summon her so why is she after me?!”“How dare you speak about her like that?!”My blood was boiling. I was sick and tired of this whole thing and this witch woman acting like it was my fault that all this happened.“What will happen ? You'll kill me? Go ahead, death is better than living this kind of life anyways.”She dropped what she was holding and walked closer to me. “Be careful what you wish for.”This was the clos
LUCIANI couldn't help the way my mind kept going to check on Eve. I knew she was extremely mad at me and I knew she didn't want to speak to me but I couldn't help the way I felt. I'd not seen her around in a while and since I was so busy with other things in the kingdom, I didn't exactly have the time to check on her. My mind kept drifting back to her though.So I went to see her. I knocked on the door but there was no response and I pushed my way in. The room was empty and after checking the bathroom to see that there was no one there, I left. I called for a guard. “Look for Martine and send her to me.” Maybe she also had been caught up with something that was taking her time. I was sure that it had to do with the case that we were all dealing with. Maybe she was speaking to the parents of the kids that were taken. “Alpha, I've been told she's not on palace grounds.”“Where is she then?””According to the matron, she hasn't been present for a week.”What? Did Eve fire her and
THIRD PERSON POVHe left Alpha Dimitri's house in anger, storming back to the car and getting in. He wasn't exactly angry that the Alpha didn't take his daughter as a wife. He had been hoping for it too because he knew the Alpha had a wife already and no responsible man would marry two women just months apart. So he was grateful for that at least. But he was still mad about the fact that his daughter was pregnant. Nothing could change that. But another thing that wouldn't change was the fact that his daughter was going to be the other woman and that child would never be the heir. That was something he couldn't allow. He had a reputation to uphold and he wouldn't let this situation mess that up. Since Alpha Dimitri couldn't marry his daughter, then he had to do something he didn't want to. He didn't believe in abortion and he didn't ever think that he would ask his princess to do a thing like this but right now, he didn't have a choice. He couldn't let such a thing happen and me
EDEN I knew from the moment she came from the stairs that something was wrong. From the way she walked to the way she spoke to Roman, I could tell that something was different. Off. Then she looked at me as Roman walked away. Then I confirmed. “Why are you here?”She looked shocked that I had recognised her because her eyes widened.But she knew that there was no need to deny it. “Is it you or is it her?"“It’s me, she's having problems coming out. What are you doing here?" She seemed to relax when she figured out that it was me and she chuckled and fell back on the chair behind her. “So it's you. It's about time we had a discussion. Have a seat."“Don't act like we're friends all of a sudden. What are you doing in my house? And what are you doing in Quinn's body? Where is she?!” What the hell did she do with Quinn?“You might want to reduce your voice. We don't want any of the maids or guards hearing anything about this. Have a seat and then we can talk.” I let out a heavy
LUCIAN At this point, I was being forced what I originally didn't want to. Find out who the mole is. There was no way I would know who told Golden Blade King that we were coming because basically everyone was there that night. All the guards, all the maid and the elders knew so how would I be able to single one person out? “A test.” I looked at Kira as she stood over me while I thought. “What did you say?”“A test, Lucian. You can spread some silly rumor and then watch who leaves the pack. Before, we didn't know that there was a spy but now that we do, we'll be on the look out.”That seemed like it would make sense. I should definitely try that. “What should I say?”“Let's do something outrageous. Let's say the prince has returned with some other kids and they're going to tell us what happened and even take us back to where they were being held.”That made sense and sounded like it would work. “Fine then, you can get on that. I don't know how you want to make it seem natural th
EVELYN I watched her as she walked away, not knowing what exactly to say. My head cleared and I just stood there, replaying her words in my head. Had I heard right? She was behind the attack. Tears gathered in my eyes and I wondered if I should go after her and ask her to explain herself. Why did she have to go that far just to get back at me? Why did she have to do that? If she wanted to kill me, she could have just come up to me and done it without having to put Nathan's life at risk. What if something had happened to him? What if Lucian hadn't come there in time and I had no place to go? Tears fell from my eyes and I slowly made my way upstairs to my room. I wanted to be alone for now, training could wait. If anyone should ask me why I was crying, I wouldn't know what to tell them so it was best that I just went to my room. As I climbed the stairs, I bumped into someone again. What the hell was with me and bumping into people today?Since my head was bent down as I didn't
The sun was coming down when Wayne came out of the building. He'd had a long day and he couldn't wait to get home and lie in his bed. He just wanted to rest after the events of the past week. “Mr Wayne!”“Mr Wayne! Look here! Do you have anything to say concerning the rumors?!” “Are you truly married?"“What is your wife like?” There was a swarm of reporters outside his building and any sleep that Wayne was feeling before was long gone. They were bombarding him with questions and his bodyguards had to come to his aid by pushing them away from him so they wouldn't hurt him. “One question at a time. Calm down.” He finally managed to calm them down and listen to them. “Mr Wayne, what do you have to say about the rumors that you're married?” Wayne sighed. He knew it was going to come out sooner or later. He just wished it would have happened on a day when he wasn't so tired. “I’m happy to assure you that they're all rumors. I'm still a bachelor and I haven't ever been married in
LUCIANKira started working immediately on the information we had. Now, I knew that the only reason why River took Nathan was because he wanted his delusion of a family to be complete. Beneath the picture of River, Nathan had began drawing the picture of someone. The face wasn't complete, probably because he ran out of time but he wrote the word “spy” in very small letters. Kira was she knew who noticed it and showed it to me. I have such a smart boy. So now I know that he spy motion wasn't a goose chase. Nathan knows who the person is or else, he wont have written that. “The pictures have been circulated around the pack. Soon, we'll have news about their girl and who's child she is. In the mean time, more gifts arrived.”I'd spent the last few days, visiting all the kids that had been returned to their parents. Since I wasn't there for them when they were taken, the least I could do was to see them when they were returned. I knew if Eve was here, that's what she'd do. “Lucian,
ROMANI didn't go anywhere today. I wanted to spend the day with my kids, just being with them and playing with them. School was back in session and it felt good that they came back home to me. Since it was just me for now, I didn't have a choice but to look after every aspect of their life even down to little details. Quinn says I should let the maids handle it but I can't. I can't leave my kids to other people to take care of them. I felt the responsibility to be there for them when they needed me. I didn't have anyone to take care of me. My father didn't exactly give two shits when it came to me and I didn't want a life like that for my kids. I wanted them to know that their father thought about them and loved them. My kids were the only reason I did everything I did, they were the reason I worked hard to be a better man.. I wanted to show them just how much I cared about them. As for Eden, I don't even know what to do about it. I didn't know what to say about her and I didn't
ALPHA DIMITRIShe had fallen asleep at some point during the night. After I'd pulled her closer to me, I could feel her body temsedd and even though I told her to relax, I could still hear her rapid breathing.I'd quietly gotten out of bed so as not to wake her up and to disappear before she did. Just as I was done dressing up, there was a knock on the door and I cursed underneath my breath, wondering who the hell that could be and what they could want. Luckily, Ally didn't wake up and I rushed to the door to stop the person from knocking again. “What?!” I spat. It was a maid and she moved back a bit at my tone. “Good morning, Alpha. My apologies for the disturbance but there's someone here to see you."“At this time?” It wasn't even eight in the morning “Who the hell could it be?" “It’s Princess Violet.”What? Violet? After the warning I'd given her yesterday? She still had the guts to ahoe her face here? That woman had some guys. “Tell her that I'm busy. I can't see her righ
EVELYN I watched her as she walked away, not knowing what exactly to say. My head cleared and I just stood there, replaying her words in my head. Had I heard right? She was behind the attack. Tears gathered in my eyes and I wondered if I should go after her and ask her to explain herself. Why did she have to go that far just to get back at me? Why did she have to do that? If she wanted to kill me, she could have just come up to me and done it without having to put Nathan's life at risk. What if something had happened to him? What if Lucian hadn't come there in time and I had no place to go? Tears fell from my eyes and I slowly made my way upstairs to my room. I wanted to be alone for now, training could wait. If anyone should ask me why I was crying, I wouldn't know what to tell them so it was best that I just went to my room. As I climbed the stairs, I bumped into someone again. What the hell was with me and bumping into people today?Since my head was bent down as I didn't