LUKAS POV After sitting outside the oracle’s heart for almost an hour, I finally decided that it was best if I just went to check on the pack. I convinced myself that Elena was fine because I had checked on her before I left. Elena didn’t have a phone and had never been given one because of my trust issues. I had always been afraid that if I gave her a phone, it would make it easy for her to conspire with her family and come up with a plan to leave me. This was a decision that I was somewhat regretting now because if I had given her a phone I would be able to ask her if she was okay right now. If it wasn’t for the oracle I wouldn’t even be worried about her well-being because she was fine when I left her. The oracle had said some troubling things to me and I couldn’t help feeling a sense of doom.As I was driving to the pack something came to my mind. I knew that there was no way that Damien would have just given up on getting the throne and walked away so I was almost certain that h
LUKAS’ POVAs I drove back to the house I couldn’t help thinking back to the events of my day. none of the things that I had set outlook had turned out the way I had intended or even wanted them to go. The oracle hadn’t said or done anything that was going to help me keep my throne. She had spoken to me in parables and left me very confused. I couldn’t even believe that I had gone to her in confidence and believing that she would be able to help me. I felt like she had really wasted my time and I wished that she had told me straight up that she couldn’t help me. However, I also felt like there was no point in me to even complaining about the way she handled my consultation.Right now my main concern was getting back home and checking on Elena, I had been gone for the whole day and I knew that leaving a pregnant female wolf all on her own was very dangerous. I couldn’t even imagine what would happen if some rogue wolves had picked her scent and found her. I tried not to think negativel
ELENA’S POV I knew that I was dying, I knew something was wrong and the fact that I had even started bleeding showed me that I was right. I had to find a way to get through to Lukas and make him see that I was in too much pain and I needed help. It felt like I ws talking to a brick wall because everything I said to him didn’t seem to resonate with him. It was as if it was going in one ear and going out the other one. I couldn't understand why he was acting like he didn’t care about me. He simply refused to listen to me despite the countless times that I had begged him to let me go, I wasn’t asking him to return me back to the pack but I was simply asking him to allow me to breathe and maybe heal on my own. When I finally gave up fighting Lukas he stood up and closed the tap. My temperature had gone down but I was still feeling some excruciating pain. He put me on top of the bed as he changed his clothes and I watched him as he did so. I wondered when he would realize that this had g
DAMIEN’S POVI could feel that something was wrong, Elena might have been far away from me but I just knew that something wasn’t right. I wasn’t particularly feeling sick but my heart wasn’t settled, I was scared out of my mind just thinking of what Lukas could have been doing to her. I still didn’t know how deep his obsession with my mate and I didn’t know how far he planned to take it, all I knew was that Elena was in danger and I had to find a way to help her. We had managed to call the pack meeting and all that was left for us to do was to address them and let them know what was going on. Charles was certain that by now they had all heard of what was happening and they were probably expecting me to call a meeting and explain why I was suddenly their alpha. I hoped that they would receive me better than Mike had, I admired the loyalty Mike was showing Lukas. I felt like deep in his heart he knew that everything that we were saying about Lukas was true and yet he was just strugglin
LUKAS’ POV2I could see that I was losing Elena and there was nothing I could do to help her, the only thing that I could think of at this point that would help Elena was to go back to the oracle to try and ask her to help her. The last time I had seen her she told me that I had to make a decision and until now I didn’t know what decision that was going to be. I didn't even have time to try and figure out what she meant by that because the most pressing matter right now was getting Elena feeling better. The oracle was the only one that could heal her and the other person that could help her was Damien and I was obviously not going to go for that option. The man had already taken my place in the pack and I would be damned if he did the same in Elena’s life. Elena was my mate and there was nothing that anyone could do to separate me from her. I wasn't even going to allow death to separate us.I woke up in the morning and headed to the oracle’s shrine leaving Elena, sleeping. I hoped tha
DAMIEN’S POVThe trackers had been searching for Lukas’s trail for days now, but they still hadn’t found anything. They couldn’t pick Elena’s or Lukas’s scent and it was as if they had both just disappeared from the face of the earth. A part of me felt like they were not doing enough, but I tried to remain calm. I wasn’t going on the search with them because I didn’t think that there was much help that I could offer them. I wasn’t a tracker and if I did go out I would have most likely gotten in the way of what they were doing. However, I had reached the point of feeling utterly useless. What good was I to Elena if I couldn’t even get off my butt to search for her? The angry mob that had gone in search for Mike also hadn't found him and I felt like all hope was lost. If the trackers that Charles had been so confident in couldn’t find the trail and if the angry mob couldn’t find Mike, then we were all out of options. Elena was going to die and I was starting to feel like a failure. Mike
LUKAS’ POVGoing to the oracle proved to be another useless and fruitless attempt for me, even though she had given me the little bottle that had medicine in it. At this point, I was really doubting her and everything that she was giving me. She didn’t seem like she even wanted to help me and she was behaving like she was being forced to do all the things that she was doing. I wasn’t forcing her to do anything, I was simply expecting her to do what she had said was her job. I regretted not killing her, but I didn't want to regret killing her one day, I didn't want to need her one day after I had killed her. The fact that she hadn't helped me today didn't mean that she would never be able to help me. Aside from the little bottle that had what she called a pain killer, she hadn't really been of much use to me lately. She had been giving me a lot of advice lately and it was advice that I hadn't asked for or even wanted in the first place. Why would a witch think that I would go to her f
ELENA’S POVI was slowly fading and when I opened my eyes I met Lukas' own eyes filled with sorrow. He seemed to have been crying and even though I was the one knocking very loudly on death's door, I couldn’t help feeling sorry for him. I wanted to tell him that he didn’t have to do this, but I was too weak to even open my mouth. For a minute I couldn’t remember what was happening and I couldn’t even recognise where I was. It was upon seeing Lukas's face that I remembered that he had kidnapped me yet again after finding out that Damien was my mate. When was this ever going to end?“Water...” I whispered and he gently touched my lips and then got up and got a glass of water with a straw. I didn’t realise how weak I was until I tried getting up to take the glass of water.“You are weak” he said as he got closer to my lips with the glass of water. I took a sip and then rested on the pillow. Lukas stared at me before he finally started speaking.“I am so sorry for putting you through this