ARIANNA I sat there on the couch next to the alpha. Many thoughts ran through my mind and I barely paid attention to what they were saying. My whole attention was on the woman who sat beside me as her gaze was on me the whole time. I did not know why she was staring at me, but I knew there was something that was causing her to look at me with such a puzzled look. The fact that she said something about what had happened to me earlier gave me the hint that something was up her sleeves.“Look, we have all heard everything. You, wanting to kill everybody here who is highly impossible if I may say. And you also, man up to your own act and take responsibility for your actions. It just shows how mature you have grown to be. I don't know about all of you here, but I am sure that there are other amicable ways to solve this issue. No one had to die. Everyone has expressed their feelings inside of them, and I am glad, but violence is not the way to solve any of that.” Jake stood up to say, and
ARIANNA It's already been a week since the tragic incident happened. It left many scars and holes that can never be filled in the hearts of many especially alpha Maxwell and his siblings. They had been trying to come to terms with the fact that they had lost their father and eldest brother. A lot of things have changed in the pack since the incident. Zoey and Jasper were now staying in the pack with us. I had been able to unlock my powers as a red wolf and helped Jasper take out the curse on him. It was such a pity that his father was not around to see him live freely.Elizabeth begged to stay in the pack with us after narrating her ordeal and how her father married her off to the alpha Gabriel. She said she didn't want to go back there so she pleaded with the alpha and for some reason, he accepted and registered with the clinic for antenatal care. So we now attend antenatal care together, although her stomach was taking shape already but mine was still in the early phase. Brielle wa
BRIELLE “Did I just hear him right, or I was just hallucinating?” I asked myself as I stared directly at him, looking shocked. It felt like time came to a pause and everything seemed to stop. “They will take me home?” I asked myself again and just then, lady Arianna's voice sounded from the background, bringing me back to reality.“What is wrong? You don't like the idea of following you to your pack? Because I don't understand the way you look.” She said, and I shook my head immediately, finding my word to talk, but I felt my words choked up in my throat. Jasper quickly cleared his throat, and they all looked at him before he talked.“I think she is just overexcited about it. An honor it would be if you, Alpha Maxwell followed her to her parent's house. That's why she was dumbfounded and couldn't utter any word.” He said, and I immediately nodded my head slightly as I pointed at him. At this point, I found my voice already and could talk. I heaved a sigh as I looked at the alpha befo
ARIANNA We all ate our food in silence after the awkward conversation between Jasper and Brielle. I looked at Jake who was busy with his food and seemed uninterested in what was going on. Elizabeth was watching but didn't quite say anything as well. Zoey chipped in a little, but I could understand her withdrawal from the conversation. I was starting to get uncomfortable with the silence at the dining table. For a moment, I thought Alpha Maxwell was going to talk, but he also kept mute and then I knew if anyone were to break the silence, then it had to be me, so I cleared my throat slightly to talk.“What time are you going tomorrow? Morning, afternoon, or evening?” I asked her and as if she were expecting me to ask her the question, she started to hum. This went on for a while, and she finally heaved a sigh to talk.“I think the afternoon should be good. What do you think Zoey?” I immediately tilted my head to look at Zoey and I wondered why she was trying to bring Zoey into the conv
PETE "Mom, are you sure this is going to work? I don't want this to fail at all. Allan and I have worked so hard to make this come alive. I don't know what would happen to him if this doesn't work out." I expressed my fear in front of my mother and all she did was just laugh about it like nothing I was saying was serious."Mom, how could you be laughing in this dire situation? You are in no position to laugh at all. You seem not to know what we have gotten ourselves into. I am a male who is attracted and mated to another male, what are you expecting other people to say about us?" I asked in fear, not quite obvious but still there. She finally gave me a slight sharp look before she inhaled deeply to talk. "You worry too much. Why can't you just be as calm as me? Is it too much to ask?" Her voice was low as if she were trying to whisper her words. I lowered my head slightly. "She doesn't seem to understand what I am talking about." I thought for a while before I raised my head back t
ARIANNA Waking up to the buzzing sound of my ringing phone, I could not help but look at my phone to see who it was that was calling. "Allan!" I whispered, checking the whole room to ensure that no one was around to listen to me speak to him on the phone. "Hello..." I said and he didn't even attempt to exchange pleasantries with me before he started to throw shades at me."Don't tell me you are still in bed by this time. Why are you still sleeping, your crazy alpha husband was dicking you all night?" He asked and I could not help but wonder how Allan could comfortably talk to his sister about King Gregor like that. For a moment I didn't know how to reply to him to sound exactly like his sister."He wished he had the opportunity to dick me throughout the night. I was up through the night for something else. What's up, why did you call me this early?" I asked, trying to let everything flow so naturally. He inhaled deeply for a while as if he were arranging the thoughts in his head bef
ARIANNA I walked out of the room, heading towards the room of King Gregor. I had many thoughts in mind as I walked to his room. "What if he sends me away from him? What if he decided that he wanted me to go for the MRI scan to see if something actually happened to my brain? How would I explain to him all that has been going on for the past weeks?" Just when I was in the middle of all these thoughts, a loud voice suddenly echoed and I was jolted back to reality, forcing me to halt my steps immediately to look."My queen!" I read Amber's lips before her voice replayed her words in my head. I shook my head slightly and looked around to see where I actually was. I then noticed that I was in an entirely strange place in the castle. Somewhere I have never been since I arrived at the castle. For a moment, I asked myself how I managed to walk to that place without knowing. She walked closer to me and judging from the way she looked at me, I could tell that she was a bit worried. I only inhal
ALPHA DALE ********“Good morning, alpha Dale. I hope you had a great night?” Marie tried to get on the good side of me as she walked up to me, but the kind of fierce stare that I gave her, made her retract from what she was about to do. I heaved a sigh as I halted my steps and tilted my head to look at her.“Wait! What are you still doing here in the pack? You ought to have left by now. Why are you still here? It's confirmed that you have no business to do with her disappearance, and besides you were already leaving that day before I stopped you.” My voice was stern and coarse as I spoke to her. She inhaled deeply, lowering her head, but I was not moved by all that she was doing. I only waited patiently for her to do all she was doing so that she could start talking.“I just thought that leaving you in your trying times like this would be a wicked and callous thing to do, and I don't want that at all.” I could not help but chuckle as I looked her in the eyes sternly before I cleared
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