Dolly was back in her room, carefully tucked into her bed by Terry who had not left her side since he found her lying in a pool of blood. Alpha Knight had already returned with the others, and they brought back Shem and two captives. But he wouldn't join them in the interrogation, not when Dolly still hadn't woken up.“What if she sleeps until tomorrow, Terry?” Vanessa asked as she walked to him with two cups of coffee. She handed him one and he received it calmly.“I guess you'll have to find me an extra blanket then,” he answered and gulped the coffee down, feeling instantly energized as the bittersweet flavour spread into his system.“Oh wow, you're serious.”Vanessa sat on the sofa across from the bed.Terry tucked Dolly's stray strands behind her ear and clutched her warm hand in his. His heart was still beating rapidly. He was hopeful she'd be fine since her wound was healed. But, what if the damage had already been done before Olive healed her? What if she didn't recover from i
The entire underground hall became eerily quiet as everyone gazed at the empty chair in surprise. Then Olive spoke up.“What just happened?” Alpha Knight grabbed her hand and pulled her towards him protectively.“Well, I'm guessing the one who sent her has rescued her from your clutches. It takes a lot of power to get her away from this place. Can you guess how powerful her master is now? Do you know what is after you, Big Bad Alpha?” Lord Lina jested and smirked.“Secure the pack borders now! Every single border whether in use or not should be sealed and tally the Anti—” Alpha Knight began to bark out an order to his men but Lord Lina cut him short.“Oh please, chill, Alpha Knight. That lady is already outside this pack. Surely, her master will be drained now but whisking her is worth it.”Alpha Knight growled at Lord Lina for interrupting him. But Olive patted his arm to calm him.“Why should we believe anything you say? You're an enemy. Why should we accept your words that I have n
Cynthia's breath caught in her lungs as she felt herself being sucked into a tight tube, squeezing and draining the life out of her. She tried to breathe, tried to shout, tried to even more but her body failed.Then air rushed back into her lungs as she was pulled out of the pipe. She fell to the floor, heaving heavily and panting like she was pursued by death.What had happened all of a sudden? Did the Big Bad Alpha do that to her?She turned on the floor, her entire body in pain. But as she tried to stand, a cold, pointed edge of a metal was placed directly on her head. She froze immediately.“Once again, you fail,” The Baron's pipe-like voice spoke. Cynthia shivered, definitely not from cold that accompanied The Baron's presence.“Master...p-please...I—”The cold tip of the sword pierced the layer of skin, and she gave a pained shout.“Shut up!”She whimpered but sealed her mouth. Gently, the sword was lifted and The Baron retreated a few feet from her.Fresh blood streaked down he
Mufasa stared at Wayne like he was a child. Wayne frowned deeply.“I know you're trying to say something that'll make me look like I was a fool for not learning diligently about the prophecy,” he said.Mufasa moved to a nearby shelf and pulled out a book.“I remember you outrightly threatening to electrify me when I made this book for you. You said you didn't give two damns about a stupid story with a woman you didn't care about.”Wayne eyed the small, black leather bound book in Mufasa's hands. He remembered it vividly.“Well, clearly I care about this woman now so give me the book.” He stretched forth his hand but Mufasa didn't stretch it out. Instead, he was looking at him with an unreadable expression.“How do you feel about this whole thing?” he asked after seconds.“I and going mad and I feel like destroying everything. I want to destroy the prophecy and all the fools who are using it as an excuse to trouble my life. My mate has not had one day of rest since she met me. In fact,
Olive's insides turned to a puddle as Wayne said those words while looking her in the eye like only she mattered. She flushed and walked over to him.“Babe, come on. You don't have to. There's stuff we gotta tackle and—”Wayne shut her up with a sudden kiss. He lingered and when he finally pulled away, he gazed into her eyes.“You deserve every good my love. I want to give you everything good. I want to love you the way you deserve. Please, let me.”Olive kissed him back and laced her fingers in his hair that seemed to have grown longer.“All right. Except I'm also going to love you the way you deserve. You can't take all the credits for the best lover.”Wayne laughed and moved away from Olive.“Come on, let's have breakfast. We're leaving immediately after.”Olive wanted to ask where they were going but refrained. She trusted him. Let him wow her.They had breakfast hurriedly and Wayne took the bag.“What did you pack? Are they enough clothes for how long we're spending?”“Calm down.
Wayne and Olive could only stay for two days at the Kindlenest Forest, but it was the best two days of their lives. They had put all fears aside and just lived like normal lovers, though time was short.They had just returned to the castle and Wayne took off to meet Jake and the others for a report. Olive decided to see Dolly and also Shem. When she went to Dolly's room, she wasn't there. She decided to check the Circular Cabinet and was glad to find them there.“If it isn't our very own Luna,” Vanessa spoke up immediately she entered.“Hi guys,” she said with a smile. Shem was seated on a bar stool, with his back and hands leaning over the counter.He looked fine, though his eyes looked dark and devoid of his usual light. Olive's mind raced a little. What had they really done to Shem?“Olive,” Dolly called and ran to hug her. It was just the three of them in the room.“How are you now, Dolly?” Olive asked.“I'm totally fine. How was your getaway?”“Well, she smells exactly like Wayne
After the meeting with Jonas which did not go well, Dolly had insisted Terry either moved in with her or she with him. It was too fast in their relationship to move in with the other. But Dolly used the excuse that she was having nightmares about the attack to get Terry to allow her into his room.Olive had not known Terry and Dolly were lovers after they saw their video. But she was so glad they were. She tried to talk Dolly into forgetting about Jonas' threats because he was never leaving that dungeon, but Dolly was still traumatized by the visit.Wayne had been extremely busy, holding meetings with the army, the Parliament, his friends and sometimes with Mufasa too. Prince Dakar had left in a hurry though he wanted to stay a week to help them tackle some matters. He said a certain woman of his was reported to have joined a deadly contest and he had to go to her. Olive wondered who this woman was and why she joining a contest made the whole of Prince Dakar so agitated he had to leav
The temperature in the apartment dropped suddenly, thin sheets of ice began crawling around the corners on the walls and floor. Walter looked around in alarm then took a step back. What the hell was happening?“What was her name?” the mysterious man asked, staring hard at Walter.Walter hesitated for a few seconds.“Lissa. Melissa Lance,” he answered. That was his mother's name before she died, the name she took after she married his father.“I need her name before she met your arsehole of a father,” the man spat out venomously. Walter frowned even deeper. He hated today. He had been so happy to see Lois after awhile but he had only been frowning nonstop since the evening.“Answer me!” the man barked. Ice swooped into action, covering his floor and walls. He was beginning to freeze. He who never felt cold despite the winter.The mysterious man's hair began to swirl slightly, as if its own tiny wind was hovering over it. Terrified was an understatement to what Walter felt.“Wayne,” the
“I half expected you'd not give me back my dagger,” King Xandros joked as soon as he stepped out of the forest, the way he had done two days before. Only Wayne and Olive were standing there to meet him. The others had mostly returned to Balendin Pack earlier. “I just finished one war with a vampire, I'm not quite ready to start another,” Alpha Knight joked in the same light.The vampire king laughed. It was so soft and innocent a stranger could fall for it. If he didn't see the fangs that is.“Wise of you. Very wise. Well, thank you for bringing it back.”He lifted his hand and the dagger lying on the soil rose to meet it. King Xandros looked it over, examining every crystal on it and the way the moon's glow bounced off the sharp blade.“It's not a fake. It's the very same knife,” Olive declared. King Xandros smirked.“If it wasn't the same knife, I'd have known the moment I stepped foot on the ground. I'm just... wondering how it felt like to have plunged into Prince Valerik's hea
Olive woke up abruptly after a nightmare. She saw The Baron touching her again and her Firewolf hadn't damned the bloody dampeners this time. She exhaled and rubbed her neck, right over her physically hidden mark. She looked around her and realized she was in a very cosy tent. The walls were icy. Literally icey and as she looked around with compression, she realized her mate had iced the entire tent.Why?“Burning hot you were. So hot you could have barbecued us all from fifty metres away.”Olive looked up to see Mufasa threading carefully towards her on the ice ground. She smiled brightly but couldn't bring herself to hug him. She had no strength.“Beautiful to see you back with us, my dear. Believe me, life without you is not worth living. Especially as your mate took it upon himself to personally see to our premature deaths.”Olive laughed at this. “Here. Drink this all up. It's the Ethe Orbs but for a different purpose for you. You need strength.”Olive gulped it all down but ma
The Baron smirked and Olive would have given anything in the world to just smack it off his face. “That one is very dear to me. He came in two days ago, two days after you came. You both are very dear,” he drawled. “Let him go. Don't you dare hurt him. Or any one of them!”“Sssh now. I said I wouldn't keep them if you complied. I'll free them if you strip.”“Never.”He shrugged.“Well then. I'm very sure this suit doesn't stop them from getting a brain rush. They can stay upside down for as long as it takes for them to choke on their own blood.”Olive exhaled and shut her eyes. She tried to summon something, anyone, anything. But she was blank on the inside. She looked at the manacles around her ankle and gritted her teeth. She knew what they were. Special Vrek Cult punishing tools. “I see you recognize the dampeners. Good. You will remain helpless for as long as it would take to get you to cooperate.”With this, The Baron flicked his hand and darkness clothed the cave again. His c
The safety edge was drawn up again for the third time in two weeks of nonstop fighting. This time, however, the Unbidden Army seemed to be dwindling in their numbers. Hopefully, they would soon run out of all unbidden warriors and The Baron would show himself for the final battle.Alpha Knight's hair was chin length now and he had it tied to the back of his head in a small ponytail. The effect of using his powers was shown in the growth rate of his hair.He was now standing in one of the tents, receiving reports of the war and how the people enclosed in their safety facilities were faring. A huge frown was on his face as he listened to a new report.Some of his soldiers were missing and they had last been sighted while fighting.“It's extremely strange. Even their mind links have been silenced. Nothing from them, as if they are dead,” one of the commanders revealed.Alpha Knight shut his eyes and traced them. He felt their auras and followed the trail. It kept going and going and goin
The suits were ready in two days. They were this full-body, extremely fitting like-a-second-skin, midnight blue, superhero-like suits. They clung to the bodies of the soldiers like wet polyester and were as tough as metal when struck from the outside. However, they weren't heavy neither did the soldiers feel like they were wearing the toughest and strongest uniform on earth. Impenetrable. After training with the new uniforms and suits for a whole day, Alpha Knight called the next day a day of partial rest then the following day they would move out to war. A pathway had been created from their park to the hideout location of The Baron by the joint work of Ami, Lutz and more Alchemists. All they had to do was march through the massive pathway only the Alpha family could control and they would wage war on the side out of the blue. The partial rest day had already begun, soldiers were milling around fully dressed, weapons strapped in and ready for war. But they were laughing and jesting
The hustle and bustle in the pack was evident even to a napping baby. The entire pack had more tension than the electrical tension wires around the pack. Pack members were growing nervous and fearful, with all the rumours of war and vampires flying around. Some were trying to leave the pack but Alpha Knight ordered that no one left. At first, it seemed like a tyrant command. But it soon became clear to them that if they had left the pack and were attacked, what would they do? None of the packs had the security that Balendin Pack had, and surely they wouldn't even accept them in. The human world was out of the question for those who had never left their realm. If they fled Balendin Pack at the moment, they would just be rogues—not accepted in any pack and not able to return to their own pack. There was also that fear surrounding the rumours of disappearing rogues. It could be anything. Alpha Knight had summoned his generals and commanders, ordering them to get troops ready to be depl
“Gia's head!” Olive gasped, a chill running down her spine at the revelation.Wayne nodded, his jaw locked tight.“That's what it looks like,” he affirmed. “What's the order, Alpha,?” Jake inquired, his face just as rigid as his Alpha's. “Send orders to get her detained at the border. She shouldn't step foot on our land. Send word to General Kalif to meet me at the board room in five minutes.”Jake nodded and bounded off immediately. Olive crossed her arms.“What are you thinking?” she asked. His thoughts were quite jumbled up she couldn't understand a thing.“Wondering why he went this extra length just to send a message,” he answered and began to walk. They followed after him. “Wayne, what if it's a trap?” Shem asked.“That is also crossing my mind,” his brother answered.Olive exhaled as they got into the elevator. Her heart was racing. If that was truly Gia's head, then The Baron had just used her and now disposed her off. Typical villain behaviour. She never liked Gia but she
The camp was empty safe for a massive building that was like a stone tower. There was a huge field surrounding it, cleared clean of trees, shrubs and plants. Calor could smell it.“Damn, it that's foul!” Olive sneered and gagged. “The Unbidden Army. They smell dead,” Astra explained. “But where are they?” Wayne asked, looking at the camp through Astra's vision too.“Underground, in that building. Laying low,” she replied. A few men with thick leather hoods were stationed outside, and there was an occasional movement of other people to and from the tower. A few tents were pitched on the field and they contained a few people.“How can we attack and besiege this place? It doesn't look impossible but...I kinda feel like there's more to this place than any we see,” Olive noted.“You shouldn't even be seeing this place in the first place,” Calor communicated. “Why?”“Because it's warded. Heavily warded to be simply invisible. No one should see or access it. But we can. And by that, I me
The van parked in front of the castle and they alighted. The fresh air hit their faces and Olive took in a deep breath. She was home. Oh, she missed home so much. She couldn't wait to see the guys. Alpha Knight came around her and sneaked his arm around her waist.“How does it feel?” she asked, looking up into his face as he gazed at his magnificent castle. The sun was setting already and the glow illuminated the building.“Feels like peace,” he answered and looked down at her.“I thought you felt at peace wherever I was?” Wayne chuckled.“I feel at home wherever you are. But I feel at peace when you're home with me.”Olive rolled her eyes.“You're just good with words,” she muttered and he laughed. “Are we heading in or gazing at the castle like it's a new building?” Jake asked as he made his way towards the entrance. Olive chuckled and followed after Jake, with Wayne right beside her. Her Guard followed behind them and they entered the castle together. Guards nodded pleasantly at