ELENA’S POVI hadn’t been feeling well for a few days now and the fact that Lukas was back kind of made me feel worse. I still hadn’t seen him and I couldn’t help wondering why that was so, but Lukas wasn’t the only one who had gone AWOL on me. Damien also hadn’t come to see me and that just made me all the more anxious. I was still a little bitter that Damien and I hadn’t gotten the opportunity to make the most of the last night we had together, but I tried to understand that he was searching for answers. I hoped that he had found the information that he was searching for because I highly doubted that he would ever get that chance again now that Lukas was back.Another odd thing that was happening was the fact that Grace also hadn’t been coming to see me ever since Lukas came back. As a matter of fact, I hadn’t seen her ever since he returned from his trip. I tried hard to ignore this but I just couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off, something was going on and I wanted to
DAMIEN’S POV I hadn't even gotten the chance to pack my things before I left, Lukas hadn't given me enough time to gather my thoughts or even plan what my next move would be. I was however able to speak to Charles briefly and let him know what had happened to me. I honestly didn't know where to go and it wasn't like I had many options. I had no choice but to go back where I had ccome from. I couldn’t go back to Jack’s pack beause I was unsure of how he would feel if he knew that the woman that he had so badly wannted was actually my mate and I was willing to kill anyone who tried to stop me from being with her. I honestly felt like meeting Elena and spending time with her had brought out the alpha in me and i was ready to challenge anyone who tried to tried to seperate us.However, the last thing I wanted was to be hunted by him too. I didn’t believe that Lukas would just allow me to go free after finding out that Elena was my mate and I also knew his secret. I was convinced that he
ELENA’S POVLukas had been acting very strange ever since he and I got here, on the one hand, he was treating me well as a matter of fact he wasn’t allowing me to do anything for myself but on the other hand, he was refusing to let me out of his sight. It was as if he was afraid that I would run away from him or disappear into thin air. Even though that was exactly what I wanted to do I couldn’t do it because I didn’t know where we were, even if I managed to flee from him I wouldn’t probably get lost in the woods and I was too afraid to try that. Lukas would stare at me for no reason and at some point during the night I woke up to find him sitting next to me and just staring at me. We had gone back to sharing the bed but he hadn’t even tried to touch me. I figured that was probably because I told him that I was pregnant and he was afraid that if he tried anything he would hurt me and the baby and I could understand that. However, no matter how many explanations I gave myself concerni
LUKAS’ POVAll my life I had been feeling misunderstood and I felt that I needed to explain myself to Elena for her to understand why I did what I had done. She needed to understand why I had chosen to take her with me and why she had to stay with me even though she had found her mate. She still didn’t know that I knew that Damien was her mate but I was about to tell her. I wanted to explain the monster I had become first before explaining to her why I brought her here. The reason why I felt the need to explain myself was not because I was feeling bad about the things I had done to her, but because I wanted to understand why it was important to me that she stayed with me and that the safety of this baby was my priority.I didn’t owe anyone an explanation for my actions and that included Elena. As far as I was concerned, I had done what I had to do and that was nothing to be ashamed of. If I had the opportunity to do things all over again, I would probably do them the same way and I wo
ELENA’S POVI couldn’t believe the sad life that Lukas had lived, in a way I kind of felt like he was also a victim of his own father as much as Damien and his family were too. I knew that Damien would strongly disagree with this but Lukas had done what he did out of respect and love for his father. That is not to say that he was forced to do something he didn’t want to do because he seemed to be enjoying torturing other people but at the same time I felt like he was never given any other choice. I felt like Lukas embraced the life he had been given by his father maybe because he felt he didn’t have any other choice, I had never met his father, and my assumptions were only based on the short story that Lukas had given me. When I first met Lukas I never asked myself what the story behind his actions was. I always thought that he was motivated by his own guilt but I was shocked to be proven wrong.After the shocking conversation I had with Lukas I went to bed and left him on the couch.
DAMIEN’S POVI was glad that the elders agreed to meet with me even though they had accused me of wasting their time the last time I had seen them. Going into the meeting with them I wasn’t sure of what to expect because the last time I saw them they didn’t believe anything that I said to them. Lukas had managed to convince them that I was a liar and I really hoped that the idea that Charles had would work in my favor. I had no doubts that the wolf's bane would work but that didn’t stop me from worrying about something going wrong.Charles did just as he had promised me and he stayed by my side the whole time. It seemed that the elders actually believed him more than they believed me and that was because of the kind of man his father was. They seemed to be taking everything that I was saying into consideration after Charles confirmed it. I was relieved when they agreed to give me the wolfs bane and an opportunity to prove my identity and when nothing happened to me after drinking it,
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