EMILY'S POV A hand tapped my shoulder and I turned, stopping my pacing about for a moment. It was the stealth team chief and he was looking concerned. “My Luna, I know you are worried but you need to stop pacing about and you need to show a little or less concern about this wolf. He is a rogue, remember? He is supposed to be dead. And he is supposed to have had an affair with you. The concern you are showing will give off the wrong information. I know he saved your life and you are naturally grateful to him but… “ he looked behind him at the wolf general's discussing in whispers about what was happening. "Their opinion matters a lot too.” I frowned a little but it didn't show on my face. From the palace to the battlefield, these old wolves are always trying to dictate the activities of the young. Well, at least in this case their actions were sensible because Tristan was still the enemy, no one knows if he is the good guy here.“I see thank you for the heads up. Are you hurt?".
LUCIEN'S POV The dark dungeon was blazing with lights when the meeting started, courtesy of my men who knew how to make fire and find Flintstones. Now I was seated alone by the left and the three main generals of that kingdom were in front of me.The first general stepped forward and spoke to everyone including me.“Most of you may not know him because he is not in his attire and glory today but this is the Alpha of the most feared pack in all our regions, Alpha Lucien.”There were murmurs in the audience."He came here looking for reinforcements to fight the war that is going on between him and the mad wolf that took over our land.Currently, the mad wolf is out there and he has taken all his men, he never guessed that the alpha would risk crossing the cold mountains just to be here and avoid being seen by his army.”I saw their faces filled with respect. Things are going smoothly it seems."He is asking for our help to fight this mad enemy. To strike him from behind and we the gene
LUCIEN'S POV“Malcolm!!!" I yelled his name“Lucien! You should have just died." He yelled back, turning to leave. I tried to pursue him but then I heard my name.“Lucien!!!!" I looked. Emily was being dragged away by three wolves.My blood boiled, that selfish asshole had given his soldier as a sacrifice for me to butcher so he could escape.I turned, I will get him another day. I rushed to Emily Immediately, grabbing and tearing off the wolves that held her, pulling her to me the instant they all fell off.She held me tightly, still so scared she shivered on me.“Emily it's ok, the fight is over. It's alright, just open your eyes, okay." She opened it a little and looked at me.“Oh, you're finally here, I missed you so much, what took you so long? I was… I thought I could not hold on anymore…” I held her tighter." Let's get you somewhere safe first. '' I said as I carried her out of the field to a safer place.I found a place secluded and left her under the care of Theo of the sold
LUCIEN’S POVThey chorused “We are.”“Alright, listen Malcolm has been around for a while but he has been in the shadows so none of the kingdoms bothered to find and fight him, not until he took up the desire of invasion a couple of months back. And because of this, I know Malcolm too well, I understand that as long as you're not close to him, you won't know what is on his mind, or his next line of action, and there's no way his plan can leak, so I sent a spy.” There was a brief pause, waiting for the first words to sink in before I continued.“I sent my beta. First I condemned him to a common criminal and made it look like he had many reasons to have my head and so Malcolm embraced him. Malcolm loves people who are filled with hate. He feeds this hatred in them, manipulating their hearts with what will make them hate the person in question forever and loyal to him, and make them think, he is out to give justice for them or fight their battle.”There were murmurs as I was explain
EMILY'S POV He turned his head to look at Lucien again and attempted another chuckle but ended up coughing instead.“Talk buddy!" Maiz kicked him not minding his frail and haggard look.I gulped, I was still getting used to all this ruthlessness.“Your Alpha is not the heir of the throne. He is a fraud. His father was born out of a union between the Luna and a Lycan. My entire family was killed because of these lies and here he lives enjoying luxury without trying even a little to compensate the true family by leaving the throne for them.”Maiz looked at Lucien who had no expression on his face.“Why else would he want me dead if not that he knows I speak the truth and he cannot let this truth go out to the public."“Then how does this concern me?" Maiz asked him coldly.“See I don't freaking care if you are a fucked up king, your family die or not, blah blah and blah. My wolves are dying because of the wounds they sustained during the battle with Malcolm and his men.That is my con
EMILY'S POV I climbed into his arms and he gave me a tight snuggle kissing my hair.“Oh my, since when did you get tired of my lips." I teased him but he was not smiling much, he only give me a faint grin.It was depressing to see him in such a way and pretend nothing was wrong. I wish all this could end already.“You are not worried I’ll be leaving tomorrow after just seeing you tonight? It's long we’ve been close together like this and I'll be leaving again tomorrow morning." He was breathing slowly asking with pensiveness in his voice.“I will be fine and cope very well but if you are not careful you can not cope with the way you put the whole burden on yourself in deep thinking. My concern is how’d that you stay safe in this journey and that you stop thinking too much, just enjoy this moment." My voice was low almost like a whisper.“I will try but I… may not be able to do anything. I am so tired.”"Me too. I don't want to do anything either. I just want to sleep in your arms."
EMILY'S POV I almost gasped but quickly held it back. It was the old woman. She was awake and trying to sit up.“Are you okay? You should not be moving too hard, you are not strong enough yet." I said, aiding her to sit up.“You… you are a good Luna" I heard her voice for the first time, hoarse, shaky like a stutter but simply sweet.“Thank you but you are still too weak to move about. Are you hungry?”“You did not have enough food for your wolves and medicine and yet you wasted it on a stranger like myself not minding if I ended up dying. Without even knowing who I am. You are a blessing to all who are with you." I smiled broadly, thanking her for all she had said to me. Then I let the atmosphere around us get friendlier before I asked her….“Please if you don't mind or think that I’m intruding, who are you and why were you lying on the road in that state we met you." My voice sounded firm and warm.She looked at me and waved her head.“If you know who I am, will you still accommod
EMILY'S POVThe general came to me. “My Luna, why are we stopping? The city is just a few more steps away. There is no need to stop."He was beginning to worry about my usual attitude and I knew it.“Calm your spirit. I am aware that you find this odd but I think we need to check the kingdom first before we move in. Something in me tells me there is a problem.”"My Luna I doubt if there is any such thing. You are only overreacting, that is what I think, maybe because you left for some time.” I looked at him. He was making sense to a point but the anxiety did not leave me, so I decided to just go and check." The stealth team chief, one other general, and I will go and check it out. Keep the rest safe while we check things out.” He bowed and left. The stealth team Chief joined me immediately.I told him my suspicions, he did not doubt me nor did he agree either but he did not object to tagging along with me to check things. We took the down path and we were hurrying so that by dawn
EMILY'S POV They disengaged and then I led the way, we walked together into our room. Where Lucien lay.His eyes were half closed but he could recognize us all. He stretched out his hand to Liam. Liam took it.“What is happening? It's been a long time since the family was completely like this. It's been a while since I saw Liam.”He breathed. "We are going to try something. We hope and pray it works.”“What?” "Just watch and see. Be calm.”I stepped aside, Liam let go of his hand and we moved away from him. Lucas closed his eyes and held his father's hand.His essence began to glow in his heart and split in half. We watched with groped hearts and pensive spirits as Lucas shared his essence with Lucien. Immediately it was complete, Lucas slumped on the ground, his skin paled out a little, and his hair turned grey.I ran to him, touching him to see if he was still warm. He was and I breathed in great relief.Liam touched me.“Attend to father. I can handle him.” I nodded and stood u
EMILY'S POV There I'd nothing to say you need not disturb yourself self my Luna”He looked a little my way and then continued driving.“You saw me. At the trance you had in the cave, didn't you? And you didn't fail “ He looked at me and immediately our eyes crossed he couldn't lie anymore.“I didn't, I instantly knew it was not you. But I was carried away for a moment and I almost failed.”"Oh, I see. It's very understandable. He played with our minds to know the secrets we harbor that will lead us to evil if given the chance” “I thought so too. It was a very funny plan though and it works well if you do not know who you are with very well.” Dion Wright said."When we get back, you are granted a two-year leave. Go marry and have a what young man do. That will automatically fix this problem”" Thank you my Luna. I hope that I can find a woman like you” he said lightly.Our conversation ended we did not speak again even when he wheeled the car into the palace. I stepped out and looke
EMILY'S POV The old she-wolf looked back at me. She smiled as she saw the relief on my face. “You have come a long way."I nodded my head laughing.“Well, it all ends here. Remember this before you meet the creature you must not harbor any secret in your heart.”She looked at the bag of weapons Dion was carrying.“You should know that you are not supposed to take that in with you.”Dion smiled and spoke for the first time in hours.“We can't take chances. If there is no need to use it then we will not use it.”“If you say so. Be careful though. I will wait here.”I looked at her. “You are not coming in with us?”“Yes. I will hand you my staff so that it will serve as a symbol to the creature that I brought you but I cannot go in with you. You will have to answer for yourself by yourself.”I huffed ‘This is just great ‘“My Luna let's get going. The earlier the better.” Dion whispered into my ear“Of course” I took the staff from the lady and we began to make our way into the mounta
EMILY'S POVHeartbroken I pulled out of Dion's arm and yelled out into the forest.“How dare you ask me to come here without having the solution to my problem. I believed you existed like you have said and I followed the map. I came here. How can you tell me what isn't true? Does it amuse you to play with the heart of the wounded? Guess you deserve all that has happened to you and your people then ”My tears wet my clothes and My head ached because of anger. Amid my yelling, I heard a chuckle of an old voice.“So you came? I am impressed, Luna. I have never seen someone as desperate as you are. You must love this husband of yours so much."I looked toward the voice, and Dion looked too. An old Woman emerged from the burnt forest. “I am the One who sent you the letter. Honestly, I simply replicated the letter indeed to those I told that I had the cure to the problem. No one had ever honored my invite before and then the city was still in full bloom. I certainly did not expect that t
SOME MONTHS AFTER.EMILY'S POV I carried the baby down and Lucas took him from my hand. He cuddled the little pup and he giggled loudly.“At this rate, we will all be heard," someone spoke behind me, it was Liam, dressed in the robe of his father.Lucas stuck his tongue out at him, “Stop whining about your brother mini-Alpha Liam.”Liam glared at him. And Lucas laughed his ass off as usual." Asshole come along you know we have a patrol this evening and I cannot do it alone.” Liam beckoned on his brother. Lucas excused himself to keep the child inside.Liam looked at me. Who was silently watching them?“Are you going out again?" He asked his voice sober."Yes apparently... I have news that a man in one of the kingdoms in the east has some information that might help me.”He heaved. “Another assumption.”I gave him an accusing look."Mother please get me right, am trying to say I want my father to be healed too, it's just that… it's been roughly a year and a half since he got t
EMILY'S POV" Am what… " I let go of him. And pulled myself up On the bed.“Am with what( am pregnant? How?… I mean how come? I.. I didn't see any sign, there was no sign at all.” Shock is written all over me.Lucien kissed my cheek. “My warrior wife was too busy to notice."Seriously I could not comprehend how I was with child the whole time. And still did not know despite all the stress I went through. So many thoughts were going through my head at the same time. Lucien's came to my rescue.“Stop thinking. You just woke up, nothing is going to make sense for now but by tomorrow morning, you will be more fine. Okay? “I breathed, my nerves still not calm maybe it was because I was very confused or maybe it was because I was sitting in between Lucien's legs and he was staring at me with his cold ecstatic eyes filled with passion.“I missed you so much.” He muttered and my heart fluttered. He kissed me, going deeper. I missed him more and I got carried away, pressing him on the bed for
EMILY'S POV . “Lucien” his name escaped from my mouth the moment I realized he was the one behind me. He smiled heartily. Holding me firmly so I would not fall. “When did you get here? How come you are here?".I asked weakly. 'Let's finish things first we will talk about this later.” He said to me. His voice reassuring. I decided to follow his decision. We both went to find the boys.The forbidden rooms were extra large., We could not get through all of it by ourselves, soldiers were disbursed to search all areas. I tried connecting to them through the mind link but they were not linking back with me.Lucien's tried to sniff them out but nothing was working. I began to doubt that they were in that room at all. The thought left my heart beating fast on my chest. I tried to calm myself but the feeling persisted. Not wavering at all.Lucien noticed my distress, and he connected to me through a mind link and spoke.“Emily the boys will be fine. They are stronger than anything we know of
(SIDE STORY)AUTHOR'S POV The trio bought tickets and went inside. They sat in front. Kalife sitting between them. The movie began and ran for four hours. The three slept through the entire film.When the movie was over they picked up their tired selves and left the Cinema.“Did You get to watch some part of the movie?” Lucas asked Kalife who was stretching herself outside."Nope. The movie was boring as hell."Lucas chuckled nervously. This plan was a waste. What else can he do now?“Whose hungry? I know a place."“Well I think we should head back," she answered.“Come on, Kalife don't you want to explore the city? Let's take a small road trip and then stop to eat at the restaurant owned by a beta called Max Meyers” Lucas nudged her shoulder a little. “Well, I do like a good adventure ” she smiled a little."Alright, let's go" Lucas slipped his hand into Kalife's finger, interlocking them. He pulled her forward. They were running through the streets the next moment. Liam tightened
(SIDE STORY)LIAM'S POV I looked away. Kalife was the traveling type but I honestly did not know she had never been to the cinema. If I did, I would have taken her there one of these days now. Lucas was now the one asking her to go with him.‘Well, it's good, it's not a big deal.’ I tried convincing myself, although I had mixed feelings about the whole thing. As much as I tried to distract myself with the trainers and the games that they were preparing for, I could not help but keep thinking about the idea of Lucas and Kalife going to the cinema together, so I wasn't paying attention to what they were saying again.I remember Kalife turned down Lucas’ request because he told her I wouldn't need to be there.Before they left I took a side glance at them. My eyes spotted their hands interlocking and Lucas pulling her away.I looked sharply at them but they were already running out of the training ground before I could do anything.'Liam calm down. He just wanted to drag her out, it's