Mia had a very bright smile on her face as she stared at the parchment. She had actually made progress and it was all thanks to Aaron. He had visited about three nights ago.She jumped when she heard the door to the workshop open, "Aaron, you startled me." He didn't say anything. He just walked up to her."You still haven't done anything." He said in a low rumble.She sighed, "I am sorry but maybe in the end the war will happen." She said, feeling very downhearted.He held her face in his palm, "don't say that. They have given me more than enough reason to make sure that this works out." "Who's they?" She asked him as her eyes searched his face."This week is almost over Mia. I need you to think hard. What's the most beautiful thing that you've ever had or that you've ever imagined having?" He asked."Is that going to help me create something?" She asked.He placed his hands on her shoulder and he tightly rubbed it, "look, once you're able to design something on this parchment then
"Are you serious? Is that why you came here? Because they summoned me?" She asked, shocked.She didn't want to show that she already knew that she would be summoned. Aaron was very clear when he said that she must keep everything discreet. That was why she thought to act very shocked when the news would get to her about the summoning."Unfortunately, we have to leave now. That way you'll be there even before they are seated. It'll help you prepare to have them." He said."Why are they summoning me?" She asked."They want to know how much you've progressed. It will help them to make a decision for you to either quit now that there's still some time or for you to go on, seeing that you haven't really gone far, " he pursed his lips together."Let's just go." He said.She picked up the parchments and put it in a bag she had seen hanging by the wall. Justice eyes didn't leave the bag. She looked up at him, "We can get going now." He tilted his head a little to the side with a questioning
Mia was very scared as she had said all what she did. She heaved a sigh of relief when they all started to applaud her. She smiled as her eyes landed on Aaron. Her smile turned to a frown when she saw Justice leave the room. She also saw that Miram's coy smile had morphed to become a very ugly frown. Mia could not understand exactly why Miram was so angry with her. She just discovered something that will change the power trajectory of the Nyx pack."We are certainly impressed with what you have just shown us." The oldest council member stated."Indeed we are. Truly, Alpha Aaron , you made the right choice to side with this little, what's your name again?" Another asked."Mia." Mia replied."Well Mia, for as long as you're able to keep coming up with this idea of yours, your stay won't be very bad here at the Nyx pack." Miram's father remarked.Mia could tell that they were related because of their striking resemblance. He had a soft smile on his face but Mia wasn't so convinced that
Aaron held her hand and walked back to the craftsman workshop. He closed the door behind him once they were in.She freed her hand from his grip once they were inside and then walked over to her table where she worked in the alchemist's workshop.Mia sighed, picked up a wooden cup that was filled with water that was sitting on the table close to where she was standing, drank the content in the cup and then used her hand to run down her hair, causing loose strands to fall over her face, as she tried to reduce the stress she was feeling on the inside,"Mia." Aaron said and tried the move close to her but she stepped away and raised her index finger up at him,"Don't." She said and inhaled deeply, Aaron knew that when she became like this, it was because she was creating a barrier around herself, an invisible one, to try to shield and protect herself because she was soon going to cry a river of tears.She was fighting very hard to hold it in."Mia." He tried to say something again,"Jus
Aaron walked angrily towards Miram's room. The force of his heels as it collided with the hard ground, reverberating through the hall as he marched towards Miram with a deep scowl on his face."Miram," he barked as he barged through her door and walked into her room.She had been staring at her reflection in the huge standing mirror which sat on her dresser and then turned with a shock-ridden expression to look at him.He marched up to her and wrapped up his palm around her slender neck.Her eyes grew wide with shock and dread as soon as that happened. He picked her up and then moved her away from behind the huge mirror which sat on her dresser and hit her back against the wall of her room.Her hands flew to his as she struggled to get his hands off. He was just so strong."What is the meaning of this?" She asked, anger, laced in her tone."I should be asking you that question. What did you do to Mia?" He asked her through gritted teeth, his own anger too was very evident on his face.
Aaron sighed, "is there no hope that she would wake up." There was a fire lit torch which sat on a wooden table beside where she lay. It's soft light reflected on her face giving her a sort of calm look that seemed to look as though she was alive and healthy, and asleep. But in actual fact, her skin had turned very white and pale. Her lips had become very chapped and the skin on her lips had become broken, in all a matter of a few minutes. It felt like with each passing second, her life was slowly slipping away. She looked like she was almost dead.Numerous sweat beads had formed on her face as she lay there, her body unmoving and her breath, uneven. Aaron just stood there looking at the only hope he had now to retain the throne."Was I stupid, Almac?" Aaron asked the alchemist, absentmindedly.Aaron felt his piercing gaze on the side of my cheek and it lingered for a few seconds.He walked over to where she may holding a bowl in his hand as he did,"What do you mean, Alpha?" He aske
Mia found herself walking endlessly in a forest with no end in sight. She was getting very weak and tired. Her knees had already become wobbly and there seemed to be friction against her joints and her legs suddenly felt very heavy. It was getting hard to walk anymore. She lowered her back and placed her hands on her knees to try to steady her breathing. She let out a very heavy breath and then stood up to scan the area."Where am I?" She asked no one in particular, as she was the only one there anyway, "there's no fu*king end to this damn forest and how did I get here in the first place?" She asked herself as confusion washed over her.She turned back to see if there was a path that led back to the pack and that's when she realized, "when did I leave the pack in the first place?"Her brows furrowed and a crease appeared on the top of her head as she suddenly felt like the strength in her body was sapped from her entire system.Her hands flew to her head as she tried to keep herself
Mia headed back to the craftsman's workshop with a deep scowl on her face. She pushed open the door and stomped inside."How's your health now?" She heard a voice ask her from behind her.She sighed and lowered her head, a bit tired of the way they invaded her privacy."I'm not sure any of you from this pack understands what privacy means." She said dryly and headed to her stool where she would sit to work."Hmm, I'm taking it that you have gotten used to it already then." Justice said and walked out from the shadows where he was resting his back against the wall at a corner in the workshop."I wish I had." Mia said and lowered herself to the wooden stool."You don't look so happy for someone who has just woken up from the dead." He remarked and came to stand beside her, leaning against the table in front of her."Can you really blame me? To think that I came to this pack in search of a cure to my curse, only to be met with-" she paused as an exhausted sigh escaped her lips.She used
Mia's eyes fluttered open and then closed shut again. Each time her eyes opened up, she could see only snippets of what played out in front of her. The silhouettes in front of her were blurry and looked funny in her eyes.Her head ached badly and it felt like her stomach was on fire with the way it burned her. It felt tight as well and it felt as though floods of vomit were making their way from her throat to her mouth.She sat up abruptly and bent her head over what seemed to be a high bed frame as she wretched her bowels out. Floods of yellow poured from her mouth in the most disgusting manner, falling into whatever was placed underneath her mouth or perhaps it fell on the ground.But the splashing sound it made as all those horrible contents forced down her throat by Miriam hit the ground was a splurt sound, meaning that there were more of those horrible contents and she was probably releasing all that content into a bucket.She felt hands rub her back as she wretched further, her
"Are you sure of what you just told me?" Aaron asked Doraine.Justice was standing beside her. Beads of sweat had broken under his hair but he still stood still and continued to look calm and unfazed but feel down, a storm had taken its place within himShe groaned as she placed her hand over a seat that was placed in front of Aaron's table. His brows furrowed as he watched her with keen eyes like that of a predator keeping an eye on a prey.The Alchemist had told him she would have some strength to talk but die a few days and it had only been a few hours. Was he wrong about what he prescribed or perhaps it was going to kill her faster than they both expected? Doraine could die but certainly not in front of Aaron. That would only raise his suspicions. What was making the interrogation take so long for goddess' sake? He was growing impatient and time was running out."Yes, Alpha Aaron, I am sure. I had seen her use the tunnels as she tried to flee—" she paused and her breathing quicke
"What happened to her?" Aaron asked Justice, his voice was dangerously low, Justice had to thread carefully."Apparently, she's very sick at the moment to the point where she can't speak." He replied, his head bowed down in reverence. Aaron slammed his fist on the table in anger."That's not my problem. If you have to force the words from her lips then you'd better do just that." His eyes were red with fury and his mind was far from reasoning. All he wanted was for Justice to bring back Mia. Justice bowed his head in reverence, "I'll make sure to bring back good news about Mia's whereabouts." "I can feel it. She's alive and she's not very far away. Do all you can to bring her back." He ordered.Justice nodded in response and walked out of Aaron's study and headed for the infirmary where he had kept her so that she could recover.As soon as he opened the door, his eyes locked on Miram's. She was sitting very close to the bed where Doraine lay motionless."You tried to kill her, did
Their voices were hushed and only a single fire lit candle was the source of light in the dark room. "You have to stop." "Never!""Aaron will tear this entire pack to shreds trying to find her and we can't have him tracing it back to us." Justice was worried that Miram's rage was going to ruin everything they had both worked hard to build separately and in whatever ways they had worked to build it.Miram on the other hand was not going to back down. She had made up her mind and there was no going back from it.She looked at him squarely with unflinching intensity, her eyes wide and filled with rage and a determination that didn't want to be quenched by words of any sort. The coldness in her eyes, that glint that suggested that her heart had become hardened. He had seen it once before and when he did, somebody had to pay the price—in blood.That look was in her eyes as her eyes were locked on his in an unnerving way. A scowl had adorned her face and she was unyielding, "He can go a
"MIRAM!" Aaron barked as he barged into her room with a lot of force that threatened to force the door out of its hinges.His eyes flashed red with anger, his alpha instincts on high alert and his hand outstretched and reaching out to Miram's delicate neck as he circled his hand around it. He pushed her back and pinned her to the wall."Where. Is. She?" He yelled at her.Her hands clasped down on his which held her neck in place and was applying more force to it. Her face was slowly becoming as a result of the pressure he applied, and he didn't need to apply so much pressure. She was struggling so much and all the air in her lungs was being sucked out of her because of his actions."Let me. . . go," she strained. A vein had appeared in the middle of her forehead. "Where did you hide her? I know it was you. There's no one else who would have such a motive to do something to Mia." Aaron was static in his accusations.She hit his hand with so much force and was throwing a lot of tant
Chapter 35.Mia's eye fluttered open slowly. Her head ached so much that it felt like it was going to roll off her head. She didn't think she was even going to be alive after that blow to her head. It felt as though her skull had cracked open.She felt as blood trickled down the side of her face and her vision was blurred. Her hand slowly crept up the left side of her head and when she brought it back down to her face, she could see the stains of blood on her fingers but her fingers weren't so clear.She shook her head to try to snap herself out of the dizziness that threatened to swallow her but it only made more blood pour out of her head and it only made a severe ache pass through her head.She shut her eyes to try to bear the pain in her head that was slowly spreading to other parts of her body. She felt the ground, Hard, cold, damp.It felt like she was in a dungeon. The fact that it was dark only made it hard for her to figure out where exactly she was.She groaned as she tried
Mia was pacing back and forth in her room unable to erase that horrid scene of Miram throwing a tantrum from her mind. The horror of it all was beginning to sink in her mind at that very moment.What was Aaron possibly thinking when he decided to tell Miram to her face that he was going to make her his Luna? Even when he knew fully well that Miram would never allow it. Hell! She must be coming up with loads of ways to get rid of her. Mia's mind was a mess. She walked over to her bed and lowered herself into it but it suddenly felt like the lining was much too hard on her butt. She shifted her weight countlessly but with each movement, it only made her more uncomfortable.Would it be better to just try to leave the palace? There was no harm in trying.Yes! That was exactly what she was going to do. She wasn't going to sit around and allow all this chaos to crash in on her. It was already clear to her that Aaron was not going to keep his word about helping her to get a cure to her cu
She slammed into her table with such a force that it shook harshly, the contents rattling along with the shaky table.Just then the door to her room opened up and Justice walked in."What's the matter with you Miram?" He asked her.She screamed violently—wailed and moved to throw more items off her table but then he held her hand, stopping her movements."Let me go." She protested as she tried to yank her hand free from his firm grip."Calm down, Miram. All these won't help." He yelled at her."Don't you see? She's trying to take my pack, my territory and even my position from me." She said, a cynical tone lacing her voice."That's not the case. I think it's Aaron who's making her stay here. I have seen that she wishes to leave." He said to her, trying to placate her.She scoffed, a pained expression crossing her face, "do you really believe that?" He shrugged, "as a matter of fact I do and do you know why?" He quickly interjected, "because I know Aaron and I know that there's someth
The door to the study flung open and Miram barged in,"What did you say?" She asked with an edgy tone to her voice.She turned to Aaron and slammed her fist into the table. Mia jumped in her skin with fright.Miram scoffed and closed her eyes as she tried to understand and process what she had just heard, "Aaron, you're lying right?" She asked him."Yes Aaron, tell her that you're lying." Mia chipped in, her voice and entire disposition racked with desperation.She wanted Aaron to admit it openly to Miram and to her that he was only lying and making things up. It wasn't true that he wanted to make her his Luna, he was only lying about it and trying to pull her legs, or perhaps, all he wanted to do was frustrate her. Those were the words Mia hoped to hear at that moment, slip from Aaron's sexy mouth.Where did that come from, Mia? She chided herself and willed her mind to focus on the matter at hand and not on Aaron's enticing lips."Miram, I'm sorry but you shouldn't have heard this