SIERRAThe knock persisted but no one in the room answered. I pushed Dane off me with panic written in my eyes. "What are we going to do?" I asked in alarm. Dane looked unbothered as he attempted to return to his position but I pushed him back. "We can't, someone is at the door," I whispered in fear.My heart was pounding wildly, as the knocking continued. What if it was my mother? Were we caught? The boys couldn't magically disappear, could they?"Hmm, do Lycans have the power to vanish or something?" I asked, making Zane burst into laughter. My eyes widened in panic as my hands instinctively covered his mouth. "Hush!" I held her finger against my mouth, motioning him to keep quiet. "They might hear you." I strained my ears to listen to the sounds coming from behind the door. "Relax." Dane said laughing, "Lycans don't vanish, we aren't witches." He replied.The way the boys spoke, they weren't in the least bothered, I couldn't help but wonder if they were either careless or unaf
KANEAs I walked out of the room, I couldn't help feeling angry all over again. Something was wrong, I could sense it, it was in the air, and I could breathe it in, it weighed heavily on my head bothering me but I couldn't put a finger on it.She was hiding something really big, I could tell from the way she avoided my gaze to the way her fingers shook nervously when her eyes met mine.There was no way she didn't know him. I had been quick to hear her quick intake of breath when we had walked in on them talking, it felt as though she was scared that he would say something to us.She refused to say what the man had told her, always trying to dodge the topic whenever I raised it.If only Zane had not barged in when he did, I would have been able to break through her fences and take a look at what she was hiding from us.For a weird reason, the man looked so familiar, that I had tried my best to recall where I had first seen him.I recalled that the night we first saw Sierra, she had bee
SIERRAKane moved towards me menacingly, I swallowed hard as I took a step back in fright. "Why is it so hard to believe me?" I asked brokenly trying to ease the hurt in my chest. Even if he didn't believe a word I said, what would it take him to just let it go and respect my privacy?He paused then glared at me with very hard eyes."You make it hard Sierra," he said as his frown deepened, "You shouldn't have lied in the first place.""Believe me, Kane, nothing is going on that I haven't told you yet," I said, still moving back.It was getting late and the evening wind blew eerily into the library through the window, it sent a chill over my skin making me instinctively wrap my arms around my body."The thing is, Sierra, You think I'm easy to push around," he let out humorless laughter but his eyes were hard.I shook my head, "That's not it." Kane raised a brow as he stared at me. He had stopped moving towards me but I kept on moving away, the look in his eyes frightened me."Then te
KANEI stared at Sierra's departing figure as she raced out of the library. She may not have known, but the force that shoved me from off her was so powerful that when I landed back first across the hall, I felt my ribs snap at the impact of the fall. I wiped off the blood from my nostrils, and almost immediately, the wounds began to heal and the bleeding in my nose dried up.This was weird, I had always been able to access anyone's memories, but this was something that had never occurred before. None have I heard any stories from my ancestors about something of this nature happening?There was something about her, something that wanted to protect her from me. I could see the alarmed look in her eyes when I was thrown away from her, the way she shook as she got up before running away, I could tell that something was seriously wrong, something was going on that I couldn't put a finger on. I picked up the books that had fallen and arranged them back into the shelves then hurried out to
SIERRABlindly, I kept running ignoring the fears in my heart and the bruises forming rapidly on my legs caused by the sharp stones on the ground.I had left in such a hurry that I forgot to put on shoes or slippers. Things were not going the way I wanted. Without looking back, I ran not knowing where I was headed, all I wanted was to run away from there.The sky was dark casting an eerie darkness over the forest and strange birds kept hooting, making me scared, but the fear of facing Kane after what had happened was way greater. My leg hit a tree sprout and I fell to the ground on my knees. "Ouch." I felt the sharp end of a tree branch pierce through my flesh, tearing it as it went through. Ignoring the pain, I picked myself up and kept moving as blood trickled down the wound on my knee. I still could not process what had happened back in the library. I had pushed Kane away from me but it wasn't just me, it was as though something was protecting me from him. I heard a snapping so
KANEI clutched my head in pain as my lungs burned from screaming too much. Dane's screams as well as Zane filled my ears, the pain kept intensifying and it became nearly impossible to bear. "What the fuck is happe- Arrgh!!" Zane's words were cut off by a scream as a fresh wave of pain filled my head. I could tell that the pain we felt had something to do with our bond as triplets, the excruciating pain I felt, was shared, both Dane and Zane felt it too. A warm sensation filled my head and I felt warm liquid trickle down my nostrils, my hands instinctively touched it, and my eyes widened as I saw it. It was blood. The ringing in my head still didn't stop.I heard the faint sounds of the door opening downstairs and panicked light footsteps echoed in my ears as someone ran up the stairs. Our door was pushed open almost violently, it revealed my father and Maya by his side. "Boys, what's going on?" He asked in shock, his eyes flickered from one boy to the other. Since we were kids,
SIERRAMy eyes opened slowly, my vision was blurred as the lights shone almost blinding me. The surroundings looked and smelt very familiar, I rubbed my hands over my face in a bid to clear my vision.My hands instinctively grabbed my head as I released a muffled groan. It felt as though a blacksmith was living in my head, hitting metals to his heart's content."She's awake!" A voice called out sounding very relieved.Footsteps hurried towards me. I struggled to keep my eyes open. "Sierra, are you okay?" The voice sounded muffled.A sharp shrill sound kept resounding in my ears, while my head kept banging nonstop."Sierra!" A warm hand grabbed mine, squeezing it tightly."It's okay now, we are here." Another voice said it was reassuring, "You don't have to worry, we are here now." He added.My eyes fluttered open, and the faces of three young men hovered around my view."How are you feeling?" One of them asked.I grunted as I tried to stand. "Zane?" I called out to the boy holding my
CLAIRE"Where is this damn rogue?" I whined, swatting at another fly that perched on my arm.I got tired of waiting and was about to head back when I saw his hulky figure approaching. "About damn time," I said to him when he got close.He was putting on a mask that had the symbol of a skull and my hands itched to take it off and see the face behind the mask but I restrained myself."Your plans failed, you could have alerted us that the bitch was dangerous, a heads up would have been good. You sent my men out there to die." He sounded mad."Wait, hold up…what do you mean dangerous? That bitch can't even hurt a fly, you could have been mistaken or just looking for an excuse as to why you fucked up the mission." I snapped back at him. I couldn't believe that yet again, he managed to fail at another mission, "What's so hard about killing Sierra?”"Fucking hell!" He swore and grabbed my neck. "My men, wiped out and you can't even acknowledge your mistake."I tried to free my neck from his
KANE"Calm down Kane, let's trust Dad," Dane said trying to calm me down, I couldn't stop pacing about the room."Calm down?" I scoffed in disbelief, "how can you be calm when everything is in chaos?" I asked staring at him."But what can we do other than trust Dad and let him do what he thinks is best," Dane said trying to act reasonably."Yes, there's nothing we can do, but we could have prevented this from happening." I snapped, I knew this wasn't his fault but I couldn't contain my anger, our decision had caused this."How?" He asked, "Just pack up let's leave.""We could have rejected Sierra and none of this could have happened!" I shouted."Look Kane, we decided to accept her and bear the consequences in case you have forgotten." Dane's words stung but I was past caring."I wouldn't have done so if I knew that the consequences were this dire." I covered my face with my hands.I felt Dane's hand on my shoulder, "Relax Kane, everything will be fine.""No," I shook my head, "Everyt
THANE"King Erin! King Erin!! King Erin!!!" The chants were getting louder as the army drew closer.Maya turned to me with wide eyes, "Isn't this treason? What are we going to do?" She was glancing over her shoulders in fear."Relax Maya." That was the only words I could say. This was purely treason, they had already crowned another person as their king and they were chanting his name.For the look of things, Erin had taken time to carefully plan this. He had reached out to numerous people and had successfully poisoned their minds against me."I will take care of it," I said walking towards the inner rooms with Maya in my arms. "First, we need to get you to somewhere safe.""What about Zane?" She asked."That's where we are going, you'll stay with him while I try to reason with them, hopefully, they will calm down." As soon as the words left my mouth, I regretted saying it, a loud crashing sound filled my ears, and one of the rebels had driven straight into my mansion creating a crack
KANEI closed my eyes as a sharp pain ran up from my thigh and reverberated all through my body making me want to pull my hair out and cry. The pain I felt was not mine, I could tell that it was Sierra's, she was going through a series of pains that it was probably too much for her to handle."Sierra, She's in trouble." I was panting as I managed to walk, and my legs shook as I hurried away from where I stood, we were on our way back home, but I couldn't walk properly because of the pain I was feeling.I turned to Dane, "Can you track her?" I asked groaning. If I was in this much pain, I could only imagine what Sierra could be going through."N… no." He stammered holding his head, "There's this sharp pain in my head." He groaned. "I can't concentrate."I tried to breathe it out, I tried to close my eyes and concentrate on the mate bond trying to locate her but it was impossible, all I could think of was trying to ease the pain that I was feeling.My legs gave way, I flopped down on th
SIERRA"Get me the hot coals!" Alpha Elvis shouted he was fuming in anger.I trembled at the mention of coals, I knew he would do anything to hurt me, his eyes screamed anger. I knew he wasn't going to hesitate to hurt me with anything he wanted.My eyes flickered to the surroundings, it was empty save from Beta Orion who stood with a large grin on his face, I didn't need a soothsayer to tell me that he was enjoying the scene before him."Now look at that," Alpha Elvis turned to Beta Orion with a smile on his face, "She's scared of me." He looked excited as he pointed to me with his index finger.I shook, I wanted nothing more than to enter into the ground and die but Alpha was taking his time, he was careful enough to know that he didn't hit any vital part that would take my life while he was sure enough to hit me so hard that I wanted to die.We were in a room with no door and window safe for a few boxes that lay on the other end of the room. After taking me away from my so-called f
KANEPure shock was written over Maya's face and My Dad's, they couldn't believe their eyes. Maya's scream pierced through my ears."That's not my child, this was edited." She was panting as she spoke. She turned towards my father holding his face in her palms, "Videos like this can be edited, isn't that right Thane?" She asked with tears pooling her eyes.My Dad nodded, "There's no way Sierra would do such a vile act." He agreed.Alpha Erin laughed, "I know you're in shock that's why you're denying the evidence right before your eyes.""There's no way the video is fake, you can verify its authenticity if you like," Claire said with a grin on her face. I could tell that she was enjoying this as much as her father."This is not true.." Maya shaking her head in denial, "Sierra would never hurt Zane.""Something is wrong somewhere." My Dad agreed nodding his head. My dad's wrinkles deepened as he frowned, the past hour had been so stressful on him that he appeared to have aged more than
MAYAI watched the two boys as they exchanged nervous gazes, I prayed I heard wrong, They kept exchanging gazes as though they were wondering what to say."What do you mean by mate bond?" I asked again trying to clear the confusion I felt."Oh that, It's a bracelet that we made for us." Dane began turning to Kane who nodded."Yes, every one of us has it, Zane, Dane, and I." Kane opined."So we thought it wise that Sierra too should have one," Dane said and I nodded.It made perfect sense, they had bonded with Sierra in their way and at their own pace. Giving her something precious to them must have made her feel welcome. If the situation wasn't so dire, I would have appreciated them for taking good care of Sierra and making her feel at home."We are thinking about searching for her, we are hoping the bond might help," Kane explained."Alright, if you say so," I said nodding, I was too stressed to think of any other thing.I could only imagine how my child was feeling, she was sufferin
SIERRASlowly, my eyes opened to the noises in the surroundings, My head felt foggy and I wanted nothing but to sink into the comfort of my bed in Thane's mansion. My whole body felt exhausted from running too much. I tried to stretch my legs only to end up with a stinging pain that reverberated through my brain cells.I took in my surroundings slowly, I was in a cage so small that I couldn't risk standing up, I could only sit and I had to do so by bending my neck."You have to pay me better, I can't take a dog share for capturing someone your man took years to capture." The hair on my skin stood tall.I knew that voice, I could recognize it even in my sleep. What was he doing here? My heart sped up in panic, I didn't want to see him, I wanted to crawl into a hole and hide."You should be happy that I'm paying you." Alpha Elvis said in his calm yet chilling voice."She's worth a few more bucks, just give me then I'll be on my way." He replied.I knew they were talking about me, what k
KANEDane and I exchanged a look as we took to our heels in search of Sierra. I couldn't shake off the feeling that something bad must have happened to her. We sniffed the surroundings, but there was no sign of her neither could we perceive her scent. We got to a T-junction."Do you think they must have gotten far?" Dane asked."I don't think so, it hasn't been long since she ran off," I replied."Yes, calculating the time frame, she should still be very close," Dane said wiping off a sweat that trickled down his face."You go that way, I'll take here," I said. Dane nodded then we took off.The trail was empty, there was no single soul in sight neither were there footprints or lingering scents of any kind. I got to the end of the trail, and there was a thick layer of bushes, that humans and werewolves couldn't pass through without making a dent where they passed. I checked around carefully before turning back.I met Dane in the spot where we first separated. He was panting."Did you f
KANE"Don't you dare close your eyes on me?" I muttered as Zane coughed for the third time.He attempted to release a chuckle but he was interrupted by the sudden pain that ran through his body, I knew how it felt, we could feel it too all thanks to our bond but Zane was feeling the pain even more."Si.. Sierra's leaving." Zane muttered as tried to get up but I pinned him down. "At least go with her." He pleaded."I'm not leaving your side," I replied not batting an eyelid."The blood isn't stopping," Dane said looking very panicked."Apply more pressure," I ordered looking at Zane, I would do anything to save my brother, but I couldn't let him go, not under my watch. My eyes were fixed on him monitoring his expressions."I did, but it isn't stopping," Dane said. I moved over to observe the wound, it was opened, but I could tell that it was quite deep. Blood seeped out of the wound not bothered about how much pressure we had applied."Move over," I ordered and Dane moved out of the wa