THIRD PERSON POVAlpha Starr clenched his hands tightly, replaying what his gamma just told him. What the fuck does that rogue mean? He kept asking himself thinking it must be one of Alpha Gomez or Giovanni's gimmicks to get back at him.He scoffed as he made his way toward where the secret dungeon where he ordered the rogue to be kept. If there was one thing that rile him up, that was anything about his mate, Arianna.It was already a thing of joy to finally get her after losing her. Why would he want to listen to the nonsense spurted out by the minions of his enemy? As he got closer to the dungeon, his anger rose to a higher degree than it was previously. He promised to teach the rogue a lesson."Alpha, he is locked in the basement and the equipment you required is all ready," His gamma said, taking a step back. The aura his alpha was carrying could burn him alive if he step too close to him. He knew that was going to be the outcome when the rogue insisted on seeing the alpha with
Alpha Starr POVI turned around to see a woman with her face covered with a veil. She looked suspicious because her aura was different from people in my pack. She was not a part of my pack members. How the hell did she get in without my warriors finding out? "It was as easy as peasy. I just need to tell them to ignore me," the woman said nonchalantly."Ignore you and my warriors obeyed you? Who do you think you are?" I asked, getting angry. I don't give a fuck if she was about to tell me something about my Arianna or whoever she called Abby, if that's the case."Watch your tongue, young man. I am not here for you. I am here for my niece," the woman said, her eyes locked on mine.It wasn't just her gaze but I couldn't do anything. And for once in my entire life, I was stuck and felt powerless. It was as if the woman's eyes held the power to destroy everything around me. Who exactly was she? And who was her niece?"My niece is your mate who doesn't know about the fact that you are her
Abby PovI watched in horror as the man whom I thought I had fooled, held me tightly as if my death would be the only thing that gives him solace. What could have happened during the period he left me? He couldn't have overhead my sister, could he? "What do you mean?" I asked, looking at him with teary eyes. He growled loudly once again as he let go of his hands on my neck. He was truly going to strangle me to death. I crumpled to the ground, holding my neck while inhaling the fresh air that I had lacked in no less than ten seconds.I was sure he would have had me killed with just a strangle from him. Why did he want me dead? Is this how he treated Arianna? Was that the reason Giovanni wanted to take Arianna away or was it something I did?Or didn't do, if that was the case? "You are not Arianna! You are not my mate! what did you do to her?" He said, each word laced with anger and hatred.And my heart crumpled into pieces. I have been caught! Those words were coming out certain an
Alpha Starr PovIn anger, I wanted to strangle her and at same time I wanted to believe her. I glanced at those glassy but defiant eyes. Somehow, I felt like they were accusing me of something. I still didn't want to believe otherwise. I wanted to cling to any tiny hope that they were all lying. She was my Arianna and those people were lying. That's what I wanted to believe. Not until I threatened her and watched how she was shivering in fear when she thought I wanted to rape her. That was how the first Arianna believed until we fell in love. Was she thinking I had turn into the beast I was before I fell for her? Why would I do that to the woman I loved?I know I had been very cruel to Arianna but I had never forced her to have sex with me. Perhaps, it was her innocence that made me not to but if she truly was Arianna, her expression wouldn't have been that of confusion.Rather, she would have bravely confronted me. She would have had those eyes I could never resist. Not these that
"My Lord, Lady Arianna had escaped! Something happened at the dungeon!" That was one of my warriors reporting to me.At first, my heart skipped a beat. I felt elated, more than happy to hear or rather believe that my Arianna might probably have escaped the clutches of that bastard.Then again, my mind nudged me toward the fact that no one knows about the different identities of the women who looked alike. Not even the warriors who took her to the dungeon. So, my elation melted and dissolved at that instant of realization.It wasn't my Arianna that escaped, it was that two-faced slut who I had assumed was mine till a few minutes ago. But how did she escape from a heavily guarded dungeon within less than twenty minutes of the arrest?"How did that happen?" I asked, icily. I raised my head to watch the warrior shiver under my cold glance."Your- your highness, she- she just vanished! After we kept her in the dungeon, she was screaming and all of a sudden, she was quiet. I went to check o
ABBY POVHow could I be so foolish as to play along with his answer? I could have just feigned memory loss. He would have bought it, after all, the doctor still hadn't certified me as properly healed. Instead, I danced along and got caught up in his plot. Seeing there was no way out, I embraced my fate and came out clean. I was too angered to think of the implications.It was already too late when I heard his voice calling out the guards to take me to the dungeon. I felt chills all over my body. If there was one place that was infamous in this pack, that was the dungeon.It was known to have catered bloody sentences to traitors and anyone suited for Alpha Starr's wrath. I wasn't going to be part of the bloodied people.I tried to reach out to my sister again but I was dragged out of the chamber even as I screamed aloud. Starr was heartless. That was obvious. I knew he was heartless and finding out I was fooling him all these days would not go down well with him.For a fact, I knew
ARIANNA POVIt's been three days staying with Giovanni. At first, I was adamant and wanted to prove to him that he can never replace Starr. I still do want to prove it to him but I needed new tactics.Giovanni wasn't a person to toy with even if his heart was inclined toward me. He was still sensible and would get to me as soon as I make a wrong move. This wasn't what I planned when I became friends with him.Uncertainties weren't something new to me yet I wanted it to be different when it came to my friend and the man who mated with me. The man who bought me yet had built his world around me. Although it wasn't farfetched that there were going to be issues from making friends with him, I never expected it would escalate to the point of betrayal between two friends. A discrepancy between an Alpha and his beta over a woman wasn't all that worth mentioning.I hated I was the reason for that discrepancy.I was feeling hungry again. I had eaten a few hours back yet I wasn't still full. I
Giovanni POVAfter our argument some days back, I noticed Arianna had become a little bit calm. That's what I feared most. I wanted to know what was going on in that mind of hers and I hated that she wasn't my mate. Starr doesn't deserve her and I was going to prove that fact to her. I wanted to show her that I was the right man for her and not someone who didn't respect or love her from the start.Right from the time I set my eyes on her, the time sgw was accused of stealing a lap of chicken, my heart was already inclined towards her. I lost my senses in those eyes that bore at me even when she was caught with the chicken.I fell in love with the fearful defiance in her eyes and at that moment I wanted her more than anything in the whole world. Even when I knew my obsession would be the end of my pretentious love for Starr.Yes, you heard me right.He might have forgotten the grudges held years ago but I haven't. The pains of losing my parents the same day and the fact that the pers