Cassie's POVWe drove back to Jasper's place and the entire time, he had one hand on the wheel and was holding my other hand.I had never blushed so much before. Logan was never like this with me. He would take me out but he was never romantic or sweet. If anything, he only did all those things to make Hazel mad.I glanced over at Jasper and we locked eyes briefly before he turned to the road. Jasper was nothing like Logan. Now I knew why Hazel was around him so much. He was sweet and kind.I still remembered the first time that I went to see him. I didn't understand how I felt that time. The mate pull was so strong and I could barely resist it. I expected him to be like Logan, arrogant and proud but he was none of that. I remembered the first kiss that we shared that day. It was nothing like Logan's and was steamy and I could still taste his lips.Things escalated very quickly and soon, we were all over each other. I wanted him to mark me as his immediately but Jasper refused to slee
Hazel's POVThe next day came faster than I expected it to. I was in bed late and Lorena had gone down to get Kaya ready for school. The whole night we talked about our various experiences the day before. She was stunned when I told her about the shaodws but I was more shocked after she told me that little Kaya had unlocked her wolf at such an early age and that she tried to bite her dad. That explained why he was spending more time with her.I had barely slept the entire night though. I had a chain of thoughts about the shadows and Dr. Luisa Isabell Wright. Now that I had thought of it, each letter of her name spelt the initals L.I.W and it also meant Lady in White. It took me a whole night to comprehend it all.She was the reason why we were all able to live after the shadow incident. If it wasn't for her, we all would have died. I also reckoned that she was the one that whispered to me the day we were to be discharged and asked me to invite Cassie and Jaspe over. She probably wante
Hazel's POVI gasped and I nearly fell over in fright. Logan grabbed my arm and quickly pulled me away to safety. The others had already stood up and Logan, Jasper and Ryder were already snarling in anger.I finally regained my composure and got a good look at the face. The eyes were the same and so was the smile."Logan! Jasper! Wait! Just stop!"I held then back but they didn't calm down."You were the doctor, weren't you? Who are you? How did you get in here?"Logan yelled at her but she didn't say anything and continued to look at all of us with a thin smile in her face."Logan, stop. She is the Lady in White. I have met her before but just once. She was standing next to Chelsea the day I saw those shadows again."Logan stopped snarling but he was still on edge, staring at the lady who stared back wordlessly."Please sit down, Logan."He was the only person that was standing now. Everyone else was seated and in shock, even Ryder.Logan looked at me and then at everyone else. He tu
Lorena's POVI hurried down stairs after Ryder and saw him in the living room with Kaya who was squealing happily."Daddy guess what? I got an A on all my tests today and the teacher said I'm the best student of the year in her class!"I couldn't help the smile that crept over my face. I stole a glance at Ryder but his face was expressionless. Wasn't he happy for her? He was such a mood killer."Good job," he said plainly, giving her a light pat on her head. It wasn't the best congratulations but it was worth something to Kaya.Kaya hugged him tight and run up to her room. As soon as her door jammed shut, Ryder turned to me."You don't have to trail me, you know?"I scowled and folded my arms."I still don't trust you. You could still have a reason to want to hurt her."I watched as a smirk crept on Ryder's face."Really? You still don't trust me, Lorena?"He walked up to me and stroked my cheek gently with his finger. I shuddered in delight and I saw the pleasure spread on his face.
Hazel's POVWe were still searching when suddenly, the room door bursted open. We all turned in alarm and saw Ryder standing there, huffing and puffing in anger.He stormed up angrily to me but Logan stopped him and stood in front of him, growling menacingly."Where do you think you're going?"Ryder faced Logan and snarled."Get out of the way. I need to talk to Hazel."Logan scoffed."You need to get through me first."I watched as they stared each other down. I saw hesitation flicker in Ryder's eyes as he remembered the last time that he got into a tussle with Logan over me."Suddenly, Ryder looked over Logan's shoulder."Whatever that is happening, I don't want my daughter getting involved in this!" he yelled, pointing angrily at me.I was puzzled. I hadn't dragged Kaya into anything. The last thing I needed is a child get involved and getting hurt. These things were already things beyond our understanding."Don't you dare yell at her!" said Logan angrily, walking towards a snarlin
Hazel's POVWe all headed downstairs with an arm load of books and scrolls and every valuable piece of paper we could carry.As we reached the living room, I heard Lorena gasp in surprise."What's all this?" she asked.We put the books on the center table and arranged them the best we could."We found them in a hole in Chelsea's floor."I grabbed one of the books and opened it but I couldn't read a single thing. It was all like a foreign language to me. As I tried to decode it, I heard a sigh and a loud thud on the table as a book dropped forcefully on it, messing up the whole pile."This is stupid," said Logan angrily. "It's all the same in all the books. It's written in this dumb language.""I've checked every language on Google Translate and it's in none of them," said Cassie, looking up from her phone. "This language either doesn't exist anymore or it's a mnemonic unique to Chelsea. And you can't see her right now, can you?"I looked around the room, hoping that Chelsea would show
Hazel's POVI gasped and almost immediately, everyone gathered around me. I saw as they squinted their eyes and darted from each page of the book."Is this some kind of joke?" said Ryder, angrily, stepping away from me.He glared at me with hate and in the corner of my eyes, I saw Kaya move closer to Lorena."It's no joke Ryder. I can read this stuff. This was why Kaya was able to read it. She still has her wolf eyes. Our regular human eyes can't decipher the writing."He snarled and closed his eyes. Soon, as he opened them, they were a beautiful golden colour.He snatched the book from me and stared at the pages. He was silent for a while and suddenly looked up from the book."She is right."Almost instantly, everyone began to activate their wolf eyes. All around the room, the human blue and brown eyes were replaced by an array of glowing green, red and blue.They each picked up a book and gasps rippled round. I smiled at Kaya and she smiled back. She sat next to Lorena and the both
Hazel’s POVI stared at the sky and suddenly dashed inside. It didn’t take long and I rushed back out with the book that Logan had showed me.“What are you doing?” asked Logan, grabbing my arm.“Hey! Let go of me! We have to do this right.”I tried to struggle with him but his grip on my arm was strong.Suddenly he let go of me and I reeled backwards but Lorena caught me just before I lost my footing.“We aren’t talking about this anymore, Hazel. I am your protector and mate and that is final!”Jasper walked up to him and they snarled at each other.“If she wants to do the ritual, then we should let her. This is her quest and not yours.”Logan snarled even louder.“Back off and focus on your mate! This doesn’t concern you. What if this kills her? I thought she was your friend or was that all just a hoax?”I felt a shiver run down my spine. I couldn’t have the both of them fighting again.“Will you two cut it out? I will do the ritual regardless. Just let me do this.”I pushed past the