Willa's POV"What do we do now?" I mumbled, realizing I just messed up big time."Now we find Taran and get him to mark you." Kirsch said with a determined look, "It's our only option.""But Nox--""You need to persuade her while I'm gone, okay?" Kirsch left a peck on my hair."Wait, where are you going?!" I grabbed his arm while he moved against the door and listened closely."I have to go and check around, see if I can find out where they keep Taran." Kirsch sighed before he pulled me into his arm, "I know it can be a bit scary to stay here alone, but--""I'm okay, but..." I took a deep breath, "But Nox won't talk to me anymore. I couldn't find her.""You couldn't find her?!" Kirsch rose an eyebrow in shock, "She must be hiding deep if she's not in deep sleep. But you know what? It's your mind, little kitten. You can reach her if you want to.""Okay."I managed a smile before Kirsch left in a haste.[Nox?] I slid down by the wall as I asked her, [I'm sorry about what I said to you,
Willa's POVThe plan went extraordinarily well.We didn't see too many guards, and it was easy to sneak around the few on the way. Maybe they never expected someone would try to mess up with ALL the packs by a prison break from the Treaty.[Keep your voice low no matter what you see in there.] Kirsch warned me as he opened the lock on the door as soft as he could. I gulped nervously as I slid through the crack."How dare--!" I gasped as Nox growled out loud. Kirsch covered my mouth quickly as he closed the door behind us. I bit his finger as tears burst out beyond my control.I knew they put Taran under wolfsbane, and I thought that was bad enough, but it wasn't like that. He was chained to an iron chair naked with cuts of all sizes covering his body. There were some claw marks on his body, clearly left from a battle with wolves, but also wounds clean and fresh.[They tortured him!] Nox growled loud in the mindlink because I wouldn't allow h
Willa's POVAll three of us froze where we were, Taran included this time.[What?!] Nox frowned and looked away, [I don't want it, but it's not like I can get rid of her anyway...I allowed you to have sex with her, didn't I?!]Taran let out a surprised chuckle when Kirsch and I just stared at Nox like we had seen a ghost.[You are just like Cerberus.] Taran grinned brightly at us, [Just like to sneak love, huh?][I won't do that if it's not for you!] Nox snorted with a flat face but I could feel happiness sparkling in Nox at Taran's words.[I don't know how you could love her like this.] I mumbled as I watched in awe, [I'm really getting jealous...][Well, just mimicking you when you first met Cerberus.] Taran shrugged with a grin, [Wasn't that hard, was it?]I sat on his lap as gently as I could, sticking my nose under his chin as I sniffed his smell. He let out a soft groan as he embraced me, sniffing with his eyes closed.
Kirsch's POV[Kirsch?] Willa tried to mindlink me soon after I dashed out of the cell, but I couldn't put it through.I didn't know how to face them anymore.[Kirsch, please,] Willa said in a gentle tone, [I need to talk to you, please?]Even hearing her voice ached my heart.Not just because it was hard to say no to her, but also because -- I could feel the hidden anger crawling through the mindlink.No doubt, the anger belongded to Nox.To be frank, Willa should be angry with me as well, after what I did. But I knew she was too kind to do that, which made it even harder.I would rather she shout at me, or just claw my heart out to prove Taran wrong by breaking the curse magically.[Rudy...] I sighed as I hid in a randomn room along the hallway, [What do we do...?]Rudy wouldn't talk. He groveled in my mind with his ear drooped. How could I blame him? It was harder on him than on me. I knew he felt bad about the
Kirsch's POV"We have to go back!" Willa dragged me in the direction of the dungeon the moment Stone disappeared with his annoying smirk around the corner."Wait, we need to think--""What to think about?! They are going to kill him tonight!" Willa shouted, her voice echoing through the empty hallway. I covered her mouth and dragged her into a random room."We don't know that." I had the bad feeling of being forced to make the only choice available while it was exactly what the enemies wanted."Who else?!" Willa put her palm on her forehead to prevent herself from shouting again, "How many mad rogues do you run into?! It has to be Taran!""Exactly. I'm sure it's him, but why? Why now?" I hissed under my breath, "They don't have the right to execute a previous Alpha without notifying his pack. This is the rule. They kept him alive exactly for that when they have been failing to prove that Taran is a mad rogue. So why this sudden change of hea
Kirsch's POVUnder the dim light of dusk, the bonfire was lit in the center of the squire. But what took our attention, was the huge X-shaped wooden stand right beside the flame, and the man tied to it.Taran."How dare you!" Nox bellowed the second she saw Taran, and it took both me AND Willa to contain her before she could shift and dash out.[Remember why we are here!] I urged, but I was worried as well--Taran didn't look good.There were several new cuts on his body, fresh and bleeding. Apparently from another visit right after ours. He didn't rise his head when Nox made the fuss, and I could feel pain, right through our mate mark.I thought I could trust him with the rest if I get Nox out of here, but now I wasn't so sure he had everything under control anymore."He is the mad rogue who butchered half of my pack in cold blood." Stone came forward and stood in front of Taran, facing the crowd, "I'm here to demand justice f
Kirsch's POVI took the human way and got Willa and me back to the pack with a plane, in case Stone sat some ambush for us.Natasha never came, not even after we made it back to the pack safely. The pack didn't even notice our absence and the only mess stirred up with them was the rumor about Taran's capture.Of course, no one really believed Taran to be a mad rogue.Mad rogues are usually hard to contain and is constantly a threat to others AND themselves. Taran appears in front of them all the time, and he was calm as it comes.I soon submitted all the evidence I could manage to prove that Stone provoked us by entering our pack and trying to hurt Willa, but the evidence met no response from the Treaty's end. Though I kept on pushing them for a result, I wasn't really relying on that to make any progress.Willa had been sullen for days ever since we came back. Though she'd try to hide that in front of me, she was bad at it. I didn't need to
Kirsch's POV"You are not Nox!" I gasped at the sudden realization. She was NOT the simple cute little wolf I had been talking to. Though a bit mad and capricious, Nox was never evil and cruel."Ohh I AM," She nodded, still with that evil smirk, "I'm the REAL Nox, the one and only, actually.""You got your memory back?! How?" I blurted.My blood ran cold."Come on, you know why." Nox rolled her eyes before she grabbed my collar. I took ahold of her wrist and pulled her away. To my surprise, she didn't fight me, but just let me pulled her wrist off."It's the new moon!" I jerked my head up at the sudden realization. The sky was shining in the light of the stars.No moon."You met Taran on the last new moon!" I shouted, rising her arm over her head, "YOU are his secret resources of all the information and the reason of his weird actions!""We are playing a game." Nox grinned as she leaned into me. There was a shade of sexy