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
Olive stood by the terrace and watched the castle's premises from up there. A gentle breeze was blowing and her hair was being tossed around slowly. At certain intervals, she would take deep breaths and gulp down. She had no idea that Wayne had been watching her for up to ten minutes already. After deciphering what exactly was going on with his mate, he gently walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her waist then placed his chin on her shoulder. She flinched at his sudden contact with her.“Wayne,” she called and breathed in.“What's going on with you?” he asked in a deep whisper. She exhaled and relaxed into his embrace.“It's nothing,” she lied and smiled as she held his hands that were wrapped around her. She felt secure in his arms.“You know I know you're lying, right?” Wayne asked rhetorically and Olive laughed. Yes, she knew he knew.“I wanted to ask you something. How do you detect lies?”“It's a secret. One which I'm not going to tell you until you tell me what is going
But why would he say such a thing in the first place? Thank God she slapped him, he came back to his damn senses already. So he wanted to let Olive live the life she wanted...and with another man? Heck! No one was permitted to make her happy except him. Just him. He would be the one to make her fantasies come true.Before he could try to calm her down, he saw her break down and go on her knees—crying.“Olive,” he called in surprise and ran to her.“Baby,” he called again as he held her arms.“Don't let me go. Don't leave me,” she cried and hugged him tight. Wayne's heart melted into hot wax. He held her hand against his chest and kissed her hair.“I'm sorry, I tried to make such a decision,” he mumbled deeply.“Why would you say something like that? I am sad about not having a normal life doesn't mean I don't't want the life with you. I want you, which is why I'm willing to live in
Olive's eyes widened.“You fought against hundreds of men yourself? All at once?” she asked, eyes as wide as saucers. He chuckled darkly and sipped his wine. Then he bit on his lips while smirking and looking into space with a dangerous look. Something about him immediately seeped out danger and Olive got goosebumps. This man was something.“How? If I may ask?” she managed to say, despite her survival instincts screaming at her to run from this man.“By turning feral. I won't shift, but I would turn feral in this state,” he answered and looked at her. She had been the one looking at him ever since he began his story.“When does that happen? Do you control it?”“Happens whenever I get an overwhelming emotion of anger and hate. Mind you, I was very quick tempered back then. So I could snap anytime. Because of that, I hardly had people around me.”“You are using past tense. Does that mean you're no longer quick tempered?”“I am. I just k
Olive gulped down in fright. That simple river that looked so beautiful? It turned Wayne into what he was? How in the world?“I...can't believe this,” she muttered under her breath.“Mufasa had said that the river didn't make me what I turned out to be. It only opened the door to it,” Wayne stated as he looked into space.“How did you manage to even go to that side? At what age?”“When I was five, I followed my father to watch some trees being cut down for timber at the Lochill Woods. He had no idea I had wandered off and gotten lost. I saw the river and entered. I was just a kid,” he answered and shrugged.Olive exhaled and looked at his eyes. So dark and cold. To her, he didn't deserve to live the life he lived. If only he could have a little light in him. To be a little like a normal person.“Why didn't the river have any effect on me? The only thing I felt was that it was ice cold which you later warmed. Or, was it because you warmed it? That was why it didn't affect me?”“No. To
Wayne raked his fingers through his hair.“What are we going to do now?” he asked frustratingly.“I think you would have to let Lord Lina go. To break all connections with you,” Olive answered and Wayne's eyes darkened.“Let Lord Lina go?” he laughed darkly.“Never. Not after what she's done to my people. She created havoc, Olive. She toiled with people's minds using my powers. Tried to kill me numerous times using people around me. If not for my natural instincts and skills, I would have died by the hands of people in this very castle. Do you know how many times she controlled the cooks into poisoning my food with the worst poisons in the world? How did she even get them? Do you know how many times Dolly has been controlled into jumping down her window to die? This is just a little of her manipulations back then. I cannot let that witch roam free again. No, no,” Wayne ranted and Olive was totally shocked. No wonder he hated that woman. She was like his only rival.“But, how could she
Olive got out of the shower and wrapped a light blue towel around her body. She stepped out of the bathroom and walked towards her vanity. Wayne had gone back to Mufasa's dungeon after an urgent call. He said he was also going to tell him about the connection between him and Lord Lina and how to severe it completely.Olive had waited for him to come but he was taking so long and she suspected they were tackling whatever it was on their table. She decided to just patiently wait for her mate to come.As she got ready, she felt hungry and decided to just eat the noodles Dolly had given her. That was what made her remember that Dolly had walked out on them earlier in Mufasa's dungeon. She froze and stood still for a few seconds before exhaling deeply. She had to go and see Dolly and clarify whatever it was she was saying earlier.Wayne had seemed really annoyed with her. But she had looked broken. Who was it that The Vrek Cult murdered? And why?Olive hastily wore a dress and didn't even
Olive tried as hard as she could to think back into time but the name Jonathan did not ring a bell in her mind. She didn't remember all the names of the people she was sent to harm but, at least something should be able to ring a bell.“Was he from Balendin Pack?” she asked after about two minutes of racking her brain. Next, she heard the lock of the door turning so she stood upright and faced it. The door swung open slowly to reveal a swollen, red eyed Dolly. Her face was wet but still red despite her just washing it in the bathroom.“Dolly,” Olive called in both relief and sympathy as she ran and embraced her. Dolly didn't hug her back but leaned onto her for support. She was really weak. Olive patted her back for several seconds until Dolly stood upright.“Come, let's sit,” Olive whispered and held her hand. She pulled her along gently and they sat on the sofa opposite the television. Dolly's room was really big and was the combination of a living room and a bedroom. Her queen size
“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