Mia's eyes slowly fluttered open once more and this time she was met with Aaron's very stern face. His facial features were so hard that if looks could kill in that moment, then she'd be dead.His brows were very furrowed and stress lines had appeared around his face and under his eyes.She groaned as her entire body ached with every single movement she made. She felt so weightless, as though she could be swept away by even the slightest torrent of an ocean.Her head felt very heavy, weighed by the thought of everything negative that had defined her life in recent times."What— what am I—""You're in the alchemist's room. You fainted." He wanted to say more but held himself back. Mia turned around where she lay on the bed, ignoring the ache that shot up to her head and threatened to split her skull open."But how?" She asked with a low voice that was empty and completely weak.Her stomach grumbled loudly and she instinctively wrapped her hands around it, as embarrassment crawled up he
Mia swiped her dirty forehead with her dirty and sweaty palms. It had become black from working with fire for the last few days without any stops. She was exhausted at this point but she continued with hopes that it would all soon be over."Well, don't be lazy. Get the steel and start shaping it." Donald yelled from where he sat, a couple feets away from the fire.She sighed exhaustively and moved to do as he asked. The Pan was very hot. It was hard enough that she had to carry the pan over to where she needed to work and then moulding it to shape was an even harder process for Mia.Not once in all that process did Aaron come by. That thought left a hollow feeling in Mia's already battered heart. He was the one who claimed that he was going to help her through it all and now, he was missing in action.She shook the thought out of her head and she continued to work. "Come on now, the last day is tomorrow. We don't want to be laid back." He complained.Mia's ears twitched with anger. H
Mia swallowed hard as she thought deeply about what to do to save herself from this dire situation. Her eyes darted to Aaron but he didn't seem to care anymore and that made pain slice through her chest but she knew something else other than pain, something sharp and more painful than any pain she felt right now was going to definitely slice through her chest."You're taking so much time. Are you going to prove yourself or not?" Miram asked with a slyness in her tone as she spoke.Mia's brows drew together in a frown as Miram's voice cut through her chain of thoughts. "Your time is ticking, darling. Come up with something now or else." Miram shouted."Please, I'm thinking." Mia said, not intending to be rude.After thinking for a few more minutes, "Ugh, fu*k this." Mia heard Miram say and in that moment, a thought came to her head."The prisoner." Mia yelled.The sound of the elders whispering among themselves filled the air around Mia. It was clear to her that they didn't understa
Mia sighed as she stepped out of the council room. Justice was the first to receive her in the hallway."I can't believe you actually pulled it off with that little act." He said with a small smile plastered on his face.Mia was beginning to really start seeing Justice as a friend at this point."Well, I can't believe it myself."She really couldn't and it was evident in the subtle shock that sat in her voice.Justice chuckled lightly beside her. "I can see how shaken you are about the entire event." He said, "why don't I take you out for a bit. Get your mind off all that had happened." He suggested.A smile tugged at her lips but she lowered her head so he wouldn't see it. By the time she looked back at him, her face was straight."Alright, where to?" She asked him with an excited eagerness."Right this way." He said and they both laughed at the way he gestured like a gentleman.The moon was already raised high up in the sky, in its rightful place. The sound of old wooden instrument
"Alright, is there anything else that I need to know pertaining to the settlements beyond the grasslands?" He asked one of his enforcers posted to that part of the pack land."Well, for now there's nothing, Alpha." He answered and lowered his head in reverence."Then that would be all for now. As for the rest of you, make sure you keep a close watch on the territory. We will be going out to the Silver Claw pack very soon and I don't want any surprises. It will first be them and then the Shadow pack will be next." Then he relaxed back into his seat and stretched his legs."We will see just how well the Nyx coin works in all this." He added, "You are all dismissed." He announced.All the troupes start to file out of his office one after the other, leaving Justice behind.Aaron sighed, "and why aren't you leaving?" He asked Justice who remained seated at the office with his hands folded against his chest in the mist lackadaisical manner."Well, I didn't think you'd buy her act back at t
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
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
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
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