(OLIVE'S VISION FINAL PART)Walter had his face shielded with a face mask and was also wearing a face cap. He was sitting on one of the benches in the reception hall and had his arms crossed. A few minutes later and the door by the right opened, revealing Lois in a sling.“Hi,” she said with a smile as she walked out, accompanied by a nurse.“Hey,” he said and got up.“That hurt I guess. I kept hearing you wincing and all that,” he added then pointed to her arm. Lois furrowed her brows.“You heard that? But they had rubbed a numbing cream on it so I didn't feel too much pain while wearing the sling. Plus, my winces were pretty low. How did you hear me from here or were you standing by the door?”Walter smiled and scratched the back of his neck.“I might have...eavesdropped a little. I wanted to make sure you were okay,” he answered and she flushed.“Really? Thank you so much,” Lois said sweetly and hugged him, much to his surprise. She was acting so familiar with him when they had just
Wayne didn't allow Olive do anything on her own after she woke up, even when she was obviously looking fine. He said her body needed rest because of her ‘too fast of a healing’.“Dude! I was sleeping for three days!” she would nag but he wouldn't listen.“Yes. But your blood didn't flow well. So, you have to mellow down or you'll get a stroke. Just let your body get used to you being awake first. Move around but don't you go to the Circular Cabinet or the kitchen. If you want coffee, let me know,” he had said.Olive glared at him and he glared back. Finally, she gave up and slumped on the bed. She had been sitting there and watching a movie on his tablet ever since. He went to meet up with a few officials and warned her not to leave the quarters.Olive had thought he was just being too sensitive regarding her health, but it was because he was scared. They had not realized who planned the attack on her yet.The strange doctors they finally arrested died after entering their custody. It
Wayne could feel how Olive was just standing and looking back at him.“What is it?” he asked with his eyes closed.“You...you look like him,” she stated.“Like who? Shem?” he asked with a bored tone.“Walter. The guy from my vision. He was so strikingly handsome and now I see that you both look so alike,” she explained but Wayne only heard the strikingly handsome part. He flung his eyes opened and glared daggers at her. She was surprised by that.“Hey, what's with the daggers in your eyes? Stop it!” she protested.“He was so strikingly handsome? Have you ever used that word on me? Now you're using it on a stranger you haven't even met in person?” he asked. Olive's mouth fell open.“Jeez, Wayne... I was just trying to explain something to you,” she answered.“You just got on my nerves. Calling another man what you should be calling me. Heck! You've never complimented me that way when you know fully well that I'm the most good looking man in your life!” he pounded his already curled fis
Wayne was getting very crazy about Olive but was putting on a very fake layer of sanity. He was acting sane, hiding the raging monster inside of him. He was scared he would hurt her, hurt his mate. He had his tiny fears, which was why he had been holding back from ‘touching’ her ever since. But Mufasa said it was fine. That he could control it no matter what because he loved his mate.‘Love,’ the word rang in his head. He loved Olive.All of a sudden, he sprang away from her and stood feets away.“Wayne?” Olive called, totally startled by what he just did.“What happened?” she asked. He staggered back and his eyes began to flash between red and gold uncontrollably, the blue pushed back completely.“Wayne!” Olive shouted because he had fallen to the floor, his veins popping out. Wayne was gasping for air as he struggled on the ground.“Baby! Someone help!” Olive shouted louder as she knelt beside him and tried to hold him down. The next second, she was flung away into the air and lande
“I'm sorry. But I already did.”Every eye in that room widened at Olive's words. They were shocked even though they knew the graveness of the matter. If not for Ami, Olive would have been long dead by Wayne's hands. And this wasn't the first time it had happened.“Olive,” Dolly called gently, begging her with her eyes to please reconsider her decision. She had never seen her brother care so much for anybody. She had hope for her brother because of Olive. But if she leaves...Wayne would even become worse.“Please, don't... don't do this to him,” Shem pleaded too. Vanessa was not there because she had gone back while Olive was in that vision.“Olive,” came Jericho's voice. In all this, Wayne just stood like a dry tree. Unmoving and lifeless. His eyes welled up with liquid which didn't fall. But one could tell that what she said had broken him totally. Mufasa was the only one not looking surprised or shocked. He just kept peering at Olive as if he could see her soul and would then glance
Olive tiptoed and held him tight over his shoulders as she savoured the sweet flavor of their mouths entwined. They were kissing so slowly, tasting every corner of each other's mouth. Wayne would slip his tongue in and play with hers and she would in turn moan and grab onto him even tighter.His hands moved along her body slowly, trailing every corner and edge of her. He was so glad he confessed his true feelings for her and that she felt the same way about him. Now, he could be free to feel everything he was feeling before.All those strange lovey actions of his that showed up because of her effect on him. The way he treated her like a princess. He was free to do that now without questioning himself about how weird it was. All because he had fallen in love with her. He loved his mate.“Wayne,” Olive rasped as they stopped kissing to catch their breaths but didn't move an inch away from each other. Their noses were touching and their lips rubbing sli
Mufasa got on his feet and began to walk towards the fireplace which was ten feet away. He put his hand in the pocket of his robe and withdrew it with his fist clenched.“It was seen long back at the time of his birth that he would be mated to a powerful woman who would unlock his greatest potentials and make him utterly invincible,” he stated and threw his hand towards the fire. Seed-like objects were strewn into it and it blazed up more, as if the seeds were fuel.Olive gaped at what Mufasa had said. She looked at Wayne and he looked totally bored. He had heard that countless times since it was first prophecied at his birth. So, he was pretty much accustomed to it. But she...she was hearing this for the very first time. Mated to a powerful woman? Unlock his greatest potentials and make him invincible? Heck! How could that be her?“No one knows what would happen if Wayne becomes invincible or even what sort of strength he would wield. But we a
“What?” came Dolly's voice, broken and crestfallen. Everyone looked at her surprised at the sudden change of mood. She stood on her feet with teary eyes.“You are from The Vrek Cult?” she asked and Olive blinked.“Was from The Vrek Cult,” Wayne corrected with a firm tone, showing her she didn't have the right to judge his mate because of her past. Dolly's eyes turned to Wayne and they glared angrily at him. Her eyes were moist and red by now.“Wayne, you know what they did. You know what her people did,” she pointed at Olive who sat down looking so confused. What did The Vrek Cult do this time? Because they did a lot of things.“Dolly, calm down,” Jake said calmly but she glared dangerously at him and he sat still.“Olive, were you among them?” she asked.“Among whom?”“Were you part of the people who murdered him in cold blood?!”Wayne stood up and faced his sister, his eyes having a ring of gold in them.“Dolly, enough!” he thundered and Dolly shuddered. She hugged her arms and bega
“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