SONIA"Dad!" I yelled as I quickly came out of where I was hiding and rushed towards where I heard the echo of his voice. My eyes went wide open as I looked around in search of him. Eli looked at me with pity and worry at the same time and as soon as I was about to yell out my father's name again, when his voice filled the whole place, forcing me to turn and look at the direction his voice was coming from. I waved at him the moment my eyes fell on him, rushing towards where he was standing. He had a frown on his face the moment I walked toward him to hold him in a tight embrace. "What in the goddess's name are you doing here? What are you doing out here?" He asked me in a low tone but a sharp tone. He gave me a fierce look and I immediately knew he was not having it with me. I took a few steps backward to see the expression on his face properly. I heaved a sigh to get my heart at peace but it was not coming down. He looked me in the eyes with a stern face and then I knew he was not
ELARA"I don't think that I need to apologize to you at all. I just want you to stick to the plan and let us get these men. They are definitely up to something." I didn't know what he was trying to do. "Was he trying to run away from what he was supposed to do or it was all just about his ego?" I asked myself as I looked away from his direction, lowering my head slightly. Many thoughts rushed through my mind and the only one that stayed on the surface was the tingling sensation that I had all over my body when he touched me earlier. I could not come to terms with the fact that his touches had so much effect on me. "What could that mean by the way?" I asked myself as I tried to relive the whole moment in my head again. It was something I wanted to feel again but didn't want to be the one to ask for it. "Are you lost or something? You don't seem to have been following me since I was talking. Is there anything that is going through your mind that you would like to share as well?" He ask
SONIAI walked back to my room immediately and as soon as I walked inside and locked the door, I leaned on the door and burst into tears. I have never felt humiliated in my entire life before. "How could he speak to me in such a manner that he did? I thought I was his daughter. He didn't even mind the fact that we were outside, he spoke to me like I was a two-year-old child who was getting scolded for doing something bad. The whole incident played in my head again and the more that I tried to forget it, the more I kept thinking about it. I heaved a sigh as I came off the door and walked to the bed, jumping on straight to it as I just wanted to stay there and not wake up at all until when I was okay. Tears flowed down freely from my eyes as I lay there, face down on the bed and in no time, that part of the pillow became wet.I suddenly heard the clicking sound of the door. "Who could it be that couldn't even knock on the door? Why did I not even lock my door?" I asked myself as I lay t
ALLANFor some reason, I became extremely angry. "Why would she muffle any words if at all? Was she trying to take advantage of the fact that we had something we wanted to do together to disrespect me?" I asked myself as I maintained a straight face while looking her in the eyes. She remained mute and then after a while, she began to nod her head. "Perhaps she thought I heard what she said from the expression on her face but I didn't hear a thing at all. I was just pissed at the fact that she decided to muffle some words at me." My thoughts were all over the place and then suddenly we were interrupted by some rapid approaching steps. I tilted my head behind immediately to see who was coming and my gaze fell on another maid. She lowered her pace as soon as she noticed my presence and then I turned back to look at Elara to meet a disappointed look on her face. "What was she disappointed about?" I asked myself and I turned back around to see her face again, she was already close to me,
ALLANI walked back to the room to meet my father and the look on his face didn't change at all. He still gave me the eyes that showed that he was angry at me and I didn't mind at all. I walked back to the bed and sat by the edge waiting for him to talk first but the only sound he made was the loud breathing that came along with heavy sighs. I didn't know what to do so I just lay there and hoped that he would talk to me. I heaved a sigh for a moment as I looked away from him and then my thoughts took another dimension."Why do I constantly have that shock each time I touch her? Was she having such feelings too? What could it be about her that I still don't know yet?" I asked myself several questions but could not get a reply to myself as I smiled my way through my mind. "Whatever it was that was making me feel that way, I just hoped it wouldn't stop. Now I have to find a way to hold her hands every chance I get." I said to myself and suddenly, my father's voice echoed and I looked in
ELARAMy heart was still racing as I stood there in front of him. A big part of me believed that he heard what I said but somewhere small inside of me, believe he did hear me at all. "Whichever it was, I just hope he doesn't change his mind about the plan." I thought for a moment. The silence grew louder and I became extremely uncomfortable about it. I lowered my head at intervals and moved my hands and body, just to let him know that I was not comfortable with the silence but he seemed to be extremely comfortable about the silence. I tilted my head to look at his face to be sure that I wasn't overthinking things but his face remained the same. It was as hard as a nut. I managed to swallow the lump that grew in my throat and then looked away from him. I didn't know what to do at that moment and suddenly, the silence in space was interrupted by the approaching footsteps of someone. I tilted slightly to the right to see who it was and then my gaze fell on Lia as she walked towards us w
ELARA"I guess you are right then. We will see later at dinner. And I will let you know if I am going to pass the night here or you will just have to go on with the plan without me." He said in a low tone and I smiled, turning around to leave. Deep down, I wanted him to hold my hand so I could feel what I felt earlier. As I took a step forward, I suddenly felt his hand holding mine, the shock wave that rapidly washed through my body was so large that I stood there at a standstill. He held her hands and I gasped as I turned to look at him in the eyes. I felt the movement of shock waves through my whole body as I looked him in the eyes. Many thoughts rushed through my mind and it was then that I knew there was something about him that was still not clear to me yet. "But what could it be?" I asked myself."Sorry...." His voice suddenly echoed and I lowered my head slightly, shaking it as he let go of my hands. I inhaled deeply as I didn't know what to do. I heaved a sigh as I looked away
SONIA"I laid there with a made-up mind that I was not going to talk to her, regardless of the words that came out of her mouth. She inhaled deeply as she stood up from the bed and walked away from me as if she was thinking of what to say but nothing was coming to her head. There was a moment of silence in the room before Lia cleared her throat slightly and started to talk."Young Luna, I think I will just leave right now. I will come back when the Luna is gone." She said and I could feel her voice hovering as if she were bowing her head. At that moment, I quickly tilted my head to look at her, turning around to leave. I immediately cleared my throat to grab her attention and she halted her steps immediately, turning back around to look at me. For a moment, I had to rethink what I had wanted to tell her."You can stay. My mother is done with what she came here to do." I heard my mother gasp in shock as she halted her steps immediately. Perhaps she wasn't expecting me to talk about her
Elara's POV As I stood there in front of him, I couldn't bring down the pace of my heartbeat. He spoke like he knew what was going on. As if he knew that I knew what was going on with him and the head maid. I didn't know what else to do so I just kept mute and waited for him to talk but he also kept mute. I heaved a sigh as I didn't know what to do. My heart was beating fast and I couldn't do anything about it. I exhaled rapidly and just then, he stood up from the bed and walked towards the center of the room before he talked."You think you can just stay quiet while I talk? What a nerve you have developed. I don't know what it is but I have made up my mind to find out exactly who you are and if I found you wanting, I would not hesitate to kill you. You know some months ago, you suddenly went missing in the pack and then you came back, giving me a flimsy excuse. You didn't even think for once that I might punish you and out of the goodness of my heart, I accepted you back into the pa
Allan's POV My life in this pack had been so dry and full of traumatic experiences since the call off of the wedding. I tried to get on the good side of my parents but they both made me understand that the only time they would ever be happy with me was when I went back to marry Sonia. I had already made up my mind never to marry her, especially after knowing the reason behind them trying to arrange the whole marriage stuff. I tried to make excuses for them but I could not make any excuses for them at all. I wanted them to be themselves while I was myself. "You know what. I don't care if they accept me again or not. I don't care if they talk to me or not forever. They can choose to give birth to another son and fix a marriage for him or her but as for me, I cannot allow myself to be used as a bounty for some selfish goal. How can you call me your son and do all this to me? It's not done that way at all." I said to myself loudly like I was having a real conversation with myself. I hea
Sonia's POV "You know you are a cursed child right? You don't deserve me as your father. You are an illegitimate child. I don't know what it is that you are thinking but from today, I never want you to greet me or do anything that is going to concern me. Since you think that you are old enough to pull this off, you should be old enough to cater to all your needs as of today." His exact words when he found out that I was baking out of the marriage with Allan. He had since not talked to me. I didn't know how best to make him understand that I was not cut out for that kind of marriage. I didn't know what to do so I have since tried to take my mind off everything he said to me. I didn't even know why it all came to my mind this morning and I had to even sit outside my room, lost in thoughts.I suddenly felt a touch on my shoulder and I quickly looked to see who had the effrontery to touch me in such a manner. As I looked up to see who it was, my gaze fell on Eli as she stood there with a
ELARAIt was a sunny day and I could not help but wonder why all of a sudden I found myself in the past. "What really happened?" I asked myself. It was as if the witch gave us that concoction to take, it affected us and took us back in time. I saw myself in the warrior place again and then I had to go through it again. I didn't know how to go about it so I tried to forget it and focus on the pressing issues that were on the ground. I heaved a sigh as my thoughts wandered off to the fact that Levi and Sonia agreed to call off their wedding. "How did this even happen? They were supposed to get better wedded by tomorrow. What is going on with them? I never knew it would get to this point in their marriage." I said to myself. I sat there in the middle of the room as I thought about how the mating ceremony was going to be. "I just hope that I find someone who is going to love me for who I am. Not judge me for any reason and I also hope I get my wolf too." I said to myself as I sat there o
ELARA"I was thinking of that too. I have a lot of things to talk to you about. The past few weeks and perhaps months, have been tedious in terms of events. Many things unfolding and your acting strangely is enough to talk about. But I don't think you are in the right state to talk right now." He talked slowly like he was trying to carefully select his words, or perhaps he was trying to count his words as they left his mouth."I am okay. I need to talk to you about something very very important. It cannot wait. I think I have dragged this for too long and it is starting to affect me, you, and the entire castle." I said, trying to sit up on the bed and he aided me. He arranged the pillow to support my back and I smiled slightly."I think I have an idea about what you are about to talk about. See, I have been having these dreams. Very disturbing and alarming. There were many people there but you weren't there. Your brother, Allan is there and also the daughter of alpha Gunther is there
KING GREGOR "Your majesty. We found your wife." The head of the guards broke the news to me moments after I gave him an order to find her wherever she went. I sat there in the room, facing the window. I reflected on the past few days, weeks, and months. Many things have happened within the past few weeks. Things that I really can't explain and I don't have the explanation of. First, it was the sudden changes that Arianna started to show. She acted so differently and I just had to ignore all of it. Then followed, was her sudden claim of memory loss. I don't know but I seemed to believe her.As if all these weren't enough to mess with my mental health, the dreams started to come up. Unexplainable dreams that could raise my doubt in ten folds. It would have been better if the witch were able to translate the dreams but she was of little or no help at all. Above all, the most surprising thing was my sudden likeness for Arianna. I never liked her before. The only reason I was involved wit
ELARAI opened my eyes suddenly and the first thing I saw was this magnificent creature. It looked like someone that I had seen before. No! I cannot be here. This was not how I planned this to go. I kept trying to make myself believe that I was sleeping and then the voice came at me."Elara! I suppose you know where you are presently. What happened to you? Why were you stirred off what you wanted to go and do? You begged for a chance and you got the chance but what did you choose to do?" I felt a sting in my heart as I recalled the day that I was begging the moon goddess for a second chance. A chance to go and avenge my death and that of my unborn child. "I don't know where to start. Perhaps it was as easy as I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be easy to carry out the whole plan I had in mind but it was tougher than I thought. There were a lot of constraints. The person whose body I woke up in had a life of her own and it just mixed up with the whole thing. At so
SONIA"No, you didn't do anything. As a matter of fact, we had just finished what we wanted to iron out. We were just about to step out of the room and come downstairs to join them for breakfast. How are you?" He ended his statement with an awkward question. His facial expression said it all. If only he could take back his words, he would not hesitate. "How had he always perceived Eli?" That was something that I had never asked him. I didn't want to sound awkward so I just kept mute and waited for her to talk. Many thoughts rushed through my mind and just when she wanted to talk, I could not afford her to tell him what happened the previous day, I cleared my throat slightly to talk and then their attention turned towards me."You know you don't have to be so formal right? We could go back to the way that we have been doing. The small plays and everything. Things might not be as you think they are. Right, Allan." I could not deny the fact that it felt extremely awkward saying all that
SONIAI knew for sure that it was Eli who was standing in front of the door. "What could she be looking for? Did the alpha send it to us? Many thoughts rushed through my mind as I looked at the doorknob and also the face of Allan as he also looked at the doorknob. I thought of ignoring the knock but not long after, the knock came on the door again and I had to heave a sigh. "Even if I needed this interruption, it was too quickly. She should have waited for us to finish all this before she came to knock on the door." I thought for a while.I walked towards the door slowly but hastened my steps as the knock came again and stayed frequent. I could not take my mind off what had happened earlier. I didn't know what to do or how to go about it. "Perhaps he might be feeling awkward and timid after the show or perhaps he enjoyed it as much as I did. Whichever way it is or however it is, I am not fazed by anything." I said to myself as I reached for the doorknob and quickly pulled it to see wh