Kellan walks towards us now that everyone has left. The other contestants have gone inside, except for Sage."Okay, I'm going to speak to Maze. Maybe she has a plan to figure this out. Tomorrow is Sage's event, so..." He stops and looks at us. "I'm not sure the plan for that, keep you like this, or let you shift, I'm not sure. So, Kellan stay with her, let her shift, and see it helps her focus more after." He walks off, and Sage smiles.She hugs me and steps back. "I shall leave you two to it.""Okay, so maybe Darius is right, maybe shifting will focus your mind. Maybe it won't. Maybe it will make things worse. For now, though, shift and let your wolf have a bit of time in control. Not full control.""I don't know how." I can't remember ever doing it. How do I shift?"Close your eyes, focus on Winter, feel her." I turn to look at him."You know her name?""Zeus, my wolf, said it. Stop getting distracted, focus."Nodding, I close my eyes and focus on my wolf, my body shifts and I stand
I hear Kellan whispering at me and slowly wake up."Now, before you let your mind run away with stuff, you need to eat. So breakfast."I won't even argue. I'm actually starving."You're not having breakfast with the others. Not until we talk and figure this out.""Figure what out?""Just get ready. Yori is outside and will bring you down." Smiling at me, he walks out. Getting up and ready, I walked out. Yori stood smiling at me."I'm to escort you to breakfast." He begins to walk, and I follow."What needs figuring out, Yori?" He will know."Just some things. I'm sure you can wait like thirty seconds." I laugh and nod. He's right. I can.Walking into the room, I sit down. Darius looks at me. "Are you okay?""Yes, I just need to wake up fully." I slept in. Normally, I have at least half an hour to get ready, but not today."Okay, well, everyone is going to know you have your wolf. Yesterday, you didn't get close, and everyone was too focused on their own family and packs to realise." K
As I step into the room, Sage runs to me."Are you okay?" She looks over me."Yes, why?" What happened? I look around, confused."You disappeared." I laugh at her words. "I mean it, Elara. Darius was on the warpath. He assumed you had come back and came searching all the rooms for you and Kellan. He was freaking out.""I'm fine, we weren't gone long.""Elara, you were gone for eight hours!" I stare at her. We can't have been. At the most two, it didn't feel long at all."It honestly felt like nothing.""It does when you're in your wolf form; it's easy not to realise that time passes. Just be careful. Darius was ready to kill Kellan.""I didn't know." I hadn't. They were fine today and didn't look like they had fallen out. She pulls me over, and I sit with her and the other and eat. Again, because somehow I'm starving.Everyone is staring at me. Can I sense I have my wolf?"You and Kellan ran away with each other. How cute." Callista laughs, and I don't reply because we didn't, but I g
I am considering ways to taunt Darius while breaking out of his hold. My mind isn't focused on one topic; it's all over, and Winter isn't helping with her obsessing about Hades."Is your wolf Hades?" It has to be."Focus Elara. Okay, focus on your wolf, feel Winter's strength, pull it through you, to part of your body to get free."Closing my eyes, I try and focus, and I can feel it. It's so different. I move suddenly without even realising. He groans as I throw him down and straddle him."How the hell?" He stares at me in shock. "Elara, that's not possible."I smile at him. "What isn't? You told me to break free.""Yes, break free, not throw me to the ground." He's staring at me like Kellan does before he calls me an alien."I'm not an alien!"He chuckles. "No, but you're something. You're stronger than me. Anyone else wouldn't have been able to do that. Break free, yes, but throw me down?""You said I would be stronger because my wolf isn't controlled yet." They all said it."We mea
DariusNothing. There are no signs of the person. We have Aurora, so it isn't her, but she's reluctant to tell us who it is. We need to find them. Who knows what will happen if they run into Elara and find out she has her wolf?"Close off the tunnels?" Kellan looks at me."Not even I know all the tunnels, and I can't find them without the blueprints." They have to be somewhere. They are somewhere. I glance towards William."You want me to get some men to go check your father's body for papers?""Yes, he had his connections. We didn't bury anything with him, but his most loyal men may have slipped things in with him." I need answers. I need to find all the places where the tunnels are."Okay, so when are you thinking?""Not tonight." I don't know. Why would he bury blueprints on him?"We searched every bathroom, all the pipes. There was nothing else," William speaks, and I nod. Of course, there is no more hidden in the pipes. My father wasn't a fool. 'Never hide things in the same plac
After spending an hour with Sage, I was exhausted and went to my room to sleep. It was necessary, however, as I will need to be up until after midnight for Sage's event. I seem to lose energy quickly these days now that I have my wolf back.Being alone is good. The quiet and inability to see anyone stops my mind from working and always being switched on. I feel like they were right, when my wolf was taken, I somehow lost part of me. I've never felt emotions before, not really, and that means now I'm acting like a crazy person when I do feel something."Elara." I hear him and groan, trying to go back to sleep. "You need to eat. You can't be skipping meals so close to getting your wolf back."Sitting up, I look at Darius."Don't glare at me like you're about to kill me, as you highly likely could. You're exhausted because you're not used to having the wolf in you. That also means you need to eat.""Fine, no killing you.""Can we talk?" He sits down and waits."Like I would say no, you'r
My mind begins to go crazy again. No longer able to focus on one thing. It's drifting between things, the person acting like me. If Ethan will be here, what tonight even is.Then, of course, Winter gets involved with her obsession with Darius and Hades. As if I didn't have enough things trying to drown me from the inside out, she is also partially focused on wherever Kellan is to ensure he's close.I try to focus on something or rather anything, that isn't Darius and the closeness between us, but I fail. My mind slowly becomes obsessed with him."Kellan and I will join you to eat, then we..." I block out his words; they seem to become quieter and quieter. My hands move and pull him to me."Elara, did you hear me?" My head shakes at his words. I didn't. I was too focused on feeling him touch me. His lips move down my neck, slowly biting and sucking. My moans are quiet as I begin to strip myself.He doesn't stop me. His hands begin moving quickly and helping me until we're both naked. M
I watch as Darius walks down with Sage. Winter isn't phased by either Kellan or Darius being with Sage. I guess because she can feel the bond between Sage and Tony?"How are you feeling?" I turn and smile at Kellan."Right now, I'm feeling fine. Ask again in thirty seconds." We both laugh as he guides me down to the garden. I watch as Darius welcomes people with Sage."Your jealousy is weird." I smile at Kellan."Not weird, just Winter knows Sage isn't a threat.""And Callista, and Lyra are?" He tilts his head."I don't understand how either, so let's forget about it." I thought it was just Darius, seeing him with Lyra or Callista. Yet today proved it is Kellan as well. Which is interesting."Remember what we said?"I groan. "Yes, I remember. You have both repeated it over and over—constantly, like a record on replay."He laughs. "Remember that you won't feel a connection with everyone. You can talk to their wolves and such, though. I also know Sage wanted you to run with her and some