"Enough of this talk," Riley said as she pulled out a dagger. Green eyes and Reina held Gwen to keep her in place. Gwen screamed as Riley bent her head backwards to slit her throat.
"If the blade of that knife come in contact with her skin, you will not live to tell the story," Grey's masculine voice rang in their heads and a chilly shiver went down their spines.Reina was horrified as she saw Grey. She quickly let go of Gwen's arm in fear and so did green eyes as he moved away from Gwen.Riley had not expected him to find them. Behind Grey was Athon, Zing and the rest of his men. Riley knew she has been cornered and her husband was nowhere to be found in all of these. She still would not let go, as she felt she could threaten him with Gwen.But, before she knew it, Athon was beside Celine and he had a dagger to her neck too."If you go ahead to kill Gwen, not just your daughter would die, but you and your entire household," Grey said asEverybody was shocked to hear this from Riley. Reina and Celine could hardly believe their ears. They stared at Maya. There was no way she was their half sister. Grey was shocked as he stared at Riley. Was she pulling a stunt? Looking at her, she looked so bittered and angry to be telling a lie."What did you just say?" Maya asked in disbelief as she felt her legs weakened and her knees buckled."You heard me right, Maya Caesar. You're the illegitimate child of Killian. My foolish husband wanted your mother at all cost. I have no idea what he ever saw in her," Riley said bitterly and stared at Maya who was visibly shaken as she continued. "The bastard went ahead to rape her. She never knew he was the one responsible for the rape. He had planned it meticulously. But, I found out. I saw him that night sneaking out of the barn after he had committed the disgraceful act. Then, I had decided to investigate that same night. I went to the barn and immediately I saw your m
Grey walked towards them and stood beside Maya as he stared hard at Riley. "Despite the fact that you're about to face my full wrath, you're still not repentant of your sins," he said to her."I do not need your mercy, Grey Stone. I do not want your forgiveness either. I'll rather die than lower on my knees to beg you," Riley replied in rigidity.Grey snickered. "You'll definitely get what's coming your way," he replied and turned to one of the sentinels in the dungeon. "Bring them out, including Stefan," he said as he called green eyes real name. Green eyes was locked up in a different cell. Celine and Reina trembled in fear as Grey continued. "You're to tie them up and give them forty strokes from the longest spike whip," he ordered and Riley clenched the bars of the cell hard as she clenched her jaw.Lisa and Reina gasped as they fell down on their knees. Reina knew they would not be able to survive it. "Please, I beg of you, forgive us,"
Grey walked out of the pack house and saw the sentinels picking Riley, Celine, Stefan and Reina up from the ground. "Let them be," he said as he walked up to them. The sentinels let go of them and stepped backwards."Please, alpha, have mercy," Reina said in her subconsciousness. Her eyes were half closed and she could barely breathe."It's too late to plead for mercy now," Grey replied as he stared at Riley, who stared back at him."If you think...for one second, that I will...ask for your forgiveness...dream on," Riley said in disdain as she spluttered blood from her mouth."I do not need you to ask me for forgiveness, it is well known that I do not forgive my enemies," he began to say as he stared hard at her. "You keep saying that you'll never worship the ground Maya walks on, but, that's about to change," he said and Riley heaved as her breathing labored.He turned to the sentinel beside her. "Cloth her and take her into th
"Anything else?" Grey asked."Celine really was not involved in all that happened. Though, she stood by her family, but none of the assaults on Maya's life was attempted by her," Zing explained."And?" Grey asked. This was not what he wanted to hear. He wanted to know if they were responsible for those strange messages he got or where responsible for the gunshot that happened to him a month ago."Green eyes mentioned that it was Killian who found Gwen running away and had hit her and brought her back unconscious," Zing replied."But, we did not find Killian anywhere around when we got to where Gwen was kept," Grey said.m, despite the fact that he was disappointed that he was not hearing what he wanted to hear too."Green eyes," Zing began and Maya interrupted him."His name is Stefan. Let's stick to that," she said."Alright," Zing replied and continued. "According to him, after Killian dropped Gwen with Riley,
Grey noticed her stare and the slightly look of fear in her eyes. He looked behind him, the direction Cora's gaze was, but, there was no one there. Vivian had immediately hid away. He looked back at Cora. "It was who?" He asked her, jolting her out of the freight she was in.She lowered her head. "It was Reina, I believe. She must have placed the belladonna plant in my bag," she replied.Grey was not convinced. "When you were taken to the dungeon, you kept saying you could explain about the belladonna," he said.She nodded. "Yes, alpha. I wanted to explain that I had no idea how it got there," she replied."You do know what I do to people who lie to me, right?" He inquired, his tone becoming menacing and Cora quivered as she kept looking down.She nodded. "Yes, alpha," she replied. But, I cannot tell you anything now. Especially since Vivian is watching me, she added in her heart."Good," he said as he stared at her. He could sen
"Cora?" Maya called her name in puzzlement and all of a sudden, Cora fell on her knees. Maya and Gwen became more surprised. "Cora, what are you doing? Stand up please," Maya said to her, puzzled by Cora's strange behavior."Let me stay this way, Luna, please. I'm so sorry for all I have done. I'm sorry for the hate I bore towards you. You have never done me wrong, yet I decided to be against you and it saddens me that it took me weeks spending in the dungeon to finally realize that I have been stupid to have hated you and teamed up with Vivian to be against you," she said, placing her head on the ground and sobbing."Cora, please," Maya pleaded for her to get up as she tried to lift her up, but Cora would not budge."Please, just let me be this way. I have realized my mistakes and i seek for your forgiveness, Luna. I know I am undeserving of your forgiveness, but I hope someday that you will," she apologized sincerely.Maya sighed and gestured t
The sentinel carrying Reina over his shoulder stopped and Reina was relieved to see Maya. "Put her down," Maya said to the sentinel.The sentinel looked over at Grey and Grey gave him a slight nod and he put Reina down. Maya turned to Grey. "What are you doing? You want to end her life?" She inquired"I have decided to put her out of her misery, that if the term I would prefer to be used," he replied, staring at her."You cannot do this, Grey. You cannot take a life because of mine," she said to him, emotions swirling round her."They tried to take yours," he replied, a little bit more forcefully than he had intended to."But here I am, alive and well," she said, emphasizing on the alive."Yes, you are. But, they will try again if they get the opportunity. What better way to end this than to put them out of their misery?" He inquired."No, there shall be no killing. You'll set them free, including Riley and.." she began
Maya sighed. "It will not. We should not be thinking about this. We should be thinking about the apocalypse, Grey," she replied."With this sorted out, I have all the time to find out more about it and how to stop it," he replied.She sighed again. "Alright," she replied."Everything will be fine," he said as he exhaled, assuring himself more than her.•Grey walked down the stairs and he saw Eli sitting in the living room discussing with Vivian. He has not even seen Vivian for some days now. Eli looked at him and their eyes met. There was some sort of feeling Grey felt when Eli looked at him in that way.As Grey got closer, Eli gave a brittle smile. "Alpha," Eli said to him."Elder Eli," Grey responded. "It has been a while since I saw you here," he added. "What do we owe this.. should I call it a pleasant visit?" He inquired with a little smile."I came to see my daughter, alpha and from my discussion wit
Maya was rushed over to the salutary who attended to her while the rest of the pack house were in a frenzy. ** Five days later ***Grey held Maya's hand, his eyes not leaving her face as he hoped and prayed that she would open her eyes soon. Gwen was sitting at the opposite side of the bed, with her hands clasped in prayers. She has already told Grey all about Vivian. She had been the instigator of the lie that spread out in the heavens, just to get rid of Maya.It's been five days since Maya was in coma and she feared for her life. Grey had never left Maya's side since she was brought into the salutary's cabin. He was disoriented and too worried about her to worry about himself.He prayed fervently, every now and then for her to open her eyes. He prayed to whoever he hoped would answer. The Salutary had no idea if Maya would ever wake up, but yet, Grey did not lose hope.His heart, body and soul was wrenched in pain and the pain of losing Maya and the baby, hurt him the more.All of
"I didn't tell you who I am. How did you know?" Grey asked the witch."Who doesn't know the legendary Dark emperor who has now reincarnated into an alpha? I know you too well and I know what brought you here," she said. She had white streaks in her raven hair.Grey stared at her and waited for her to continue. "You're here concerning the apocalypse and the possible solution to it," she said and Grey nodded. "The ancestors have told me of your coming already," she added."You have been told all your life that light and darkness do not go hand in hand. It is an unbalanced force of nature, but you've been told lies all along," she said and they all stared at her in amazement except from Grey who was shocked."Light and darkness go together, alpha. That's why the mystical lake was placed in the demon world to prove that even the purest streak of light can be found in darkness. The child said to be born to initiate the apocalypse, is the wrong prophecy. The child is being born to unite the
"All these, are the reasons why I was hostile to Maya. I could not tell her about it and that was why I was being subtle in our separation until maybe I get a solution to it all," Grey said."Have you found anything?" Zing asked.Grey shook his head. "I went to meet the heavenly emperor. Someone stole the ancient book about the mystical lake in the demon world. The book holds invisible writings on how to merge the three worlds together using the lake as a connection. What this person is not aware of is that, this could destroy everything," he explained further."Who is this person?" Zing asked."I do not know. The heavenly emperor is pretending not to know. He only told me that the Heavenly mirror and the staff of light are tools in causing this destruction and these two properties of heaven are missing," Grey said.Zing narrowed his eyes. "They're with Maya," he replied."Not anymore. They were taken away from her," Grey said.
As soon as she was gone and out of his sight. Grey mounted the stairs. He got into the study room and in a fierce anger, he threw away every thing laying idly on the table over to the floor.He groaned in pain and hurt as he flung the desk in disarray. With that done, he crumbled to the floor, finding it hard to breathe as short gasped of painful tears gathered in his eyes and threatened to surface.•"Maya, you don't have to go. This can be settled," Gwen said to Maya in a pleading voice, outside the pack gate.Maya shook her head. "This cannot be settled, Gwen. I believe in Grey a lot and I do love him, but, this is the last straw that I can take. I do not know what has gotten into him, but, I cannot handle it any longer," she replied in a tear filled voice."Maya," Gwen began to say pitifully so she could stay, but Maya stood her ground, declining to stay back in the pack house.Just then, Zing showed up. "What'
Vivian is taken to the salutary by Grey while Maya still stood speechless for what has just happened. She could hardly believe her eyes. Can a push cause a miscarriage? She pondered. But, if she had not done that, she would have been the one on the ground with blood flowing down her legs.Grey got to the salutary's cabin and instructed the salutary to take attend to Vivian urgently. "Grey," Vivian called him through gasps as he turned to leave.He turned to her. "The salutary will attend to you. I'll be back," he said and with that, he walked out of the cabin and headed back to the pack house.Gwen walked down the stairs and saw Maya frozen in a spot. She was puzzled. "Maya?" She called her attention and Maya turned to look at her with an horrified look on her face.Gwen was shocked by this until she noticed the small stain of blood on the floor. She became confused as she approached her friend. "What happened?" She asked her.M
"Who is this person?" Grey asked him.Heavenly emperor stared at him. "It's for you to find out," he replied."Do not give me that, emperor. You're the heavenly emperor, right? You should know about this person that's about to cause a massive destruction in our worlds," Grey said, getting angry all over again.The heavenly emperor stared at him. "The emperor is all seeing, Verne. But, some things are hidden and without the heavenly mirror, it cannot be seen," he replied.Grey stared at him and exhaled. "How do we stop this?" He asked."Firstly, we cannot pair with each other because you're a demon emperor," the heavenly emperor replied."Enough of that nonsense, emperor. If we do not pair together to save our world, we'll all perish, irrespective of who's a demon or a god," Grey said, making a point and the heavenly emperor stared at him."Fine. Just for the sake of the worlds, I'm willing to put aside our differences an
"The both of you can go to hell for all I care," Vivian scoffed and without waiting to eat breakfast on the dining table, she picked up her plate and walked away in anger.She was walking towards the stairs when Grey was coming down the stairs. He wanted to ignore her, but he saw Maya walking down the stairs from the corner of his eyes."Where are you going with your breakfast?" He asked her."Is it not Zing and Gwen? They were speaking rude to me and warning me to stay away from you. That's why I'm heading to my room to eat my breakfast," she replied with a pitiful look on her face."What impertinence," Grey ranted as he walked away from Vivian and headed over to Zing.Maya was surprised by his sudden demeanor over Zing and she walked down the stairs, heading over to the dining table."Zing, what right do you have to talk to the mother of my child in such a manner?" Grey demanded in anger.Zing rose up as he scoffed. "A
It bothered him a lot. He turned to Athon. "Let him be buried immediately," Grey said and Athon nodded. "Do you perhaps know the reason on his death?" He inquired."I think I do, my Lord," Athon said as he walked over to the shelf. "One of the books on the shelf is missing, my Lord. It is the only book concerning the mysterious ancient lake," he replied.Grey was puzzled. "What has a book got to do with the death of the Mountain demon?" He asked him.Athon explained further. "The book withholds the secrets of the lake, my Lord. It is an ancestral powerful book that was discovered by the first demons," he said.Grey was still not getting what he was saying.Athon took in deep breaths. "Alpha, this book is said to consist of secret and invisible writings that no man can read. These writings when exposed, leads whoever is in control or possession of the book to the merging of all three worlds. The heavens, the earth and the demon world. I be
"I heard about your debts, Alfred," Grey began as he leaned back in his seat. "But, I must inform you before helping you out on this," he continued and Alfred was keened to what he was saying. "Your wife is responsible for your huge debts," he dropped the bombshell.Alfred was shocked. "What?" He exclaimed softly, puzzled and confused.Grey nodded. "I am not aware of how she does it, Alfred. But, to my best of knowledge, she collects money in your name because of her mother and I do not know what she uses them for. You should speak to her," he said."I'm quite shocked by this," Alfred said and his expression said it all. "So, Lisa has been doing this without my knowledge?" He asked himself, still stunned."Do not quarrel with the naive woman, Alfred. She has been doing all That because of her mother. But, that's by the way," Grey said as he tapped his index finger on the desk. "Get those payments from your wife, settle those people she g