Jasper’s POVI stared at Hazel and suddenly, Logan charged at me. In a split second, he had his hands on my throat and he began to strangle me.“You bastard! Was this your sick plan all along!”I pryed his fingers off me and kicked him in the stomach. He reeled backwards into the wall and I promptly stood up and took a fighting stance. What on earth was wrong with him? He stood up and charged at me again but this time, Hazel stood between the both of us.“Will you two just stop! Must you both fight all the time?”I looked over Hazel’s head and saw Logan snarling and growling angrily.“Logan, listen. This was not his choice and it wasn’t mine either. The ritual worked and it chose him. You are just going to have to deal with it.”I stared at him angrily and every muscle in my body tensed up, waiting for him to push past Hazel and attack me again, but he never did.He relaxed and stared acidly at me.“This is stupid. I’m out of here.”He turned and marched upstairs but before he disappe
Jasper’s POVI opened my eyes as soon as I heard the sound of lightning crack in the distance.I sat up and rubbed my eyes and felt a warm and soft body beside me.The lights were out but the light from the lightning filled the room with a blue light and I saw Cassie sleeping peacefully beside me. I turned on the faint night light and watched as her chest rose and fell and as she stirred in her sleep.My eyes feasted on her bare body and memories about the sublime night we had swam into my head.Her scent hung in the air and the room smelled of sweat and steamy sex. It made me want to pounce on her and begin all over again.I stroked her face and she smiled faintly in her sleep. She looked beautiful and I was happy to have her. I understand that she was a little jealous about me and Hazel and I didn’t mind at all. She had a right to be a bit concerned.The rain soon began to fall and hammer on the roof. The moon’s faint red glow was still visible and every now and then, when the light
Hazel’s POVI sat in my chair and was shaken thoroughly. What was he saying? The whole event flashed before my eyes and filled me with new fear. If he wasn’t there, I could’ve have died. My breathing was fast and unsteady and my heart was beating wildly.“Hazel, are you okay? Hazel?”Jasper’s voice sounded like it was from another dimension. It was eerie and faint and seemed to float on the wind. I felt myself falling into an abyss when suddenly, I felt something grab me by my waist. I felt myself being hoisted up and carried away to an unknown location and then I felt something soft beneath me.“Hazel? Hazel? Can you hear me?”It was Jasper’s voice again. I opened my eyes and saw a blurry figure standing above me.“Hazel, open your eyes. It’s me.”My eyes opened a little wider and my breath returned to my body.“Jasper?”I heard him sigh in relief.I felt a pressure beside me and a soothing hand ran through my hair.“You nearly passed out. You really should rest,” said Jasper faintly
The Lady in White’s POVI stood there watching him bleed and watching Hazel cry over his body. I felt nothing for him. I was dead but he deserved what he got.His anger was a compromise to the entire plan. In my ghost form, my fingers weren’t doused in blood when I slit his throat.They passed through his feeble human flesh so easily but each cut was more than 20 blades sharp.I had carried out the King’s orders; it was time to go.I stepped outside and found the sun rising. It was beautiful even now that I no longer had flesh. Its rays passed through me like a clear glass and I casted no shadow. I walked, my feet barely touching the ground. I couldn’t feel its warmth and was always feeling death’s cold hands, long after it had taken my soul.But even in death, my soul wasn’t free. I was a slave, working against my own will for the King of the Dead.I turned into the forest and walked through the trees. The animals that saw me were undisturbed by my presence. They never feared the dea
Hazel’s POVWe rushed Logan to the hospital. Jasper was driving like a manic. I had a cloth to his neck, trying my best to stop the bleeding. The car seats were stained scarlet and I was crying my eyes out.Logan had turned pale and was losing a whole lot of blood.“Logan, please stay with me. I’m begging you. Please stay with me.”His pulse had become very weak and his breath was faint. I couldn’t lose my mate. I just couldn’t.Jasper took a sharp turn and nearly swerved into another vehicle.“Manic! Are you insane?!” shouted the driver, but Jasper didn’t care. He sped forward and soon we could see the hospital in sight.I looked at Logan again. I gasped. He wasn’t breathing!“Jasper, hurry up!”He swerved again and parked in the parking lot.He ran out and rushed into the hospital. It didn’t take long for him to come back with a hoard of doctors and nurses along with a stretcher.They rushed to the car and pulled the door open.“Good job putting pressure on the wound, Miss. Don’t wo
Lorena’s POVI was woken up in the morning by Cassie’s screams. I jumped from the bed and I rushed downstairs and saw Cassie, frozen in place and looking as pale as a ghost.I walked up cautiously to her and soon stopped in my tracks. I saw the blood on the floor and some had squirted on the sofa.“What happened?”Cassie said nothing to me and began to cry again.I heard feet run down the stairs.“Miss Lorena?”I was stunned and ran towards Kaya. There was no way I was going to her see this gory sight.“Kaya! Wait! You shouldn’t be here.”“But Miss Lorena…”“No, Kaya. Go to your room. Just stay there. You can come down later.”She pouted and headed back upstairs. I saw her enter her room with a frown on her face.I walked up to Cassie and put a hand on her shoulder.“You should really sit down. You should call Jasper and make sure he’s okay.”“I already tried that! He’s not answering his phone!”I pulled her away from the pool of blood on the floor and made her sit down on a chair.Sh
Lorena’s POVI listened to Hazel’s heavy breathing over the phone. The silence was tense. I didn’t even know if she was still conscious.“Hazel? Are you still there?”Still nothing. I then heard Jasper’s voice in the background.“Hazel are you okay?”Finally I heard a voice. Hazel sounded fearful and the timbre of her voice was full of melancholy.“You…you need to… to go and see the seer. I can’t explain but something in me feels that you should go and see him.”I could hear her voice getting hoarse and croaky. She was holding back tears.“Hazel, I…”“Drive through the forest and take a right on a path. You should see his cottage there.”I tried to say something to her but the line went dead.I dropped the phone and turned around anxiously. Kaya looked at me puzzled.“Miss Lorena, are you okay? What’s the matter?”I swallowed hard and caught myself before I made my fear too evident to her.“Nothing sweetie. I have to just run a quick errand. How about you go to your room.”“Okay.”She
Lorena’s POVI looked at Ryder and he stared back at me.“We are not seriously going to enter his house,” he said angrily. “For all we know, he is probably a hoax. He might be blind for all we know. He keeps saying the ‘three of us’.”I looked at Ryder and there stared into the cottage. It looked cozy and inviting and besides, Hazel and Logan had been here and they were alright. I had to go in.I took a step forward but Ryder’s grabbed my arm violently.“Were you even listening to me?!”I scowled and pulled my hand away.“I chose to come so you should let me do what I want. I did ask you to give me the car to go alone but you refused.”I went inside and soon enough, I could hear Ryder’s heavy footsteps, defensively behind me.We looked around the circular room and my breath was taken away. It was a little shabby and in the walls hung intricate talismans and charms. He was the seer.I turned and saw him at a table with a three cups of what I thought was tea.“I’m glad you three finally
Hazel’s POVI looked around and all was silent. I walked towards my friends and saw The exhaustion on their faces. Kaya was a badly injured but she was all right and Lorena had numerous scratches on her body and face while Ryder was limping badly on one leg. We looked around at the sea of bodies of the fallen warriors that littered the forest floor, the ones that were not engulfed by the rift that swallowed Ragnar and the King of the Underworld. So many lives wasted and all for what? The wolves that were left alive walked towards us and Ragnar’s wolves stayed away. They stared at us and I could tell that they were contemplating their next move. Their Alpha was dead and they had nowhere to go.Alpha Draco had defeated his brother and could now lay claim to the territory that he gave to him.Suddenly, the black wolf walked forward and bowed low to the ground to Alpha Draco. As he did so, his comrades followed and they all swore their alliance to the alpha.We all shifted into a
Hazel’s POVWe turned and we started to run back to the battlefield field. My eyes were brimming with tears each time I remembered Jasper’s sacrifice. It was too much to bare. How was I going to tell Cassie that her mate what was dead?We both dashed through the forest and soon, we reached the battlefield and the sight that met us was awful. Half of our wolves had been slaughtered by Ragnar and the other monster. I fell silent as soon as I saw the carnage. There were dead bodies everywhere.In one corner, Kaya was fighting beside Lorena and Ryder was covering Cassie. Alpha Draco was going toe to toe with this brother, and as soon as I set my eyes on him, I felt myself gill with rage.Without thinking, I dashed over to Alpha Draco, who was laying weakly on the floor and was about to take a fatal blood from Ragnar.I was able to make it there just in time and I clawed at him with my paw and I did it again and again and again until he started to retreat and move back, away from Dra
Hazel’s POVI dragged Logan’s body away to safety as soon as the rift began to open. The battlefield had become quiet as we all looked at the split in the world of the living and the underworld.Draco and I stared at each other. Was this really the end? Had all our hard work come down to this? The shadows had settled on the ground around the rift and they bowed their heads low to the ground. I looked around the battlefield: Lorena was limping into distance, Jasper had been surrounded by wolves, Kaya had been flung into a tree and she had barely moved, Ryder was at her side and Cassie was laying down on the ground bloodied and bruised. We are all on the ground, defeated, and now, something greater than what we could imagine was emerging from the underworld. I felt so weak and hopeless. What was I going to do? How are we going to stop Ragnar?I turned to look at him and he was laughing manically. As the menacing dark figure rose from the ground. I felt my heart leap into my thr
Ragnar’s POVThe arrival of Draco's army made me grit my teeth and anger. This was not what I had planned. How did Kaya get her powers back? Why was Lorena here? Did my spell not work? Did her unborn child not die?In the midst of all the grey, brown and black fur, I saw a blur of white running towards me.“Hazel!” I said gritting my teeth and anger. I couldn't stop the spell else I would have to start all over but that little brat was getting on my nerves.She pounced towards me and grabbed the Amulet out of midair, But before she could get away, I grabbed her tail and slammed her to the ground.“Did you really think that a weak Omega like you could stop me. You have big dreams. Very big dreams.” I stepped on her hind leg and the bones cracked under the force. She yelped him pain, dropping the Amulet on the ground and trying desperately to get away.“And where do you think you're going?” I grabbed her neck and was about to strangle her when I was grabbed by my shoulder an
Hazel’s POV“Well, that was not as entertaining as I expected,” said Ragnar unenthusiastically. “Well it is over and now it's time for me to take over this world.” I got up and glared at him.“You killed him. You killed Logan. You monster!”“Hazel, I believe you have eyes. I didn't kill your mate. Your friend did.” I watched him place the pieces of the Amulet on the ground and he began to assemble them. “It has been fun brother but now, it is time to end you and take what is rightfully mine.” My fists continued to shake as a stared at him with hate. Suddenly a loud howl erupted from my mouth and pierced the evening sky. I looked up at the moon and its red beam filled my eyes. “You killed Logan and now, you are going to pay!” Ragnar laughed but he didn't seem scared one little bit.“Look here darling, you are no match for me. Take one wrong step and I'll send you to join your beloved mate.” He dropped the pieces on the ground and began to assemble them. And at that i
Hazel’s POVI stared at him in fear and he grinned back wickedly.I grabbed my bag ans the box and took several steps backwards while Jasper jumped in front of me and tried to protect me. Ragnar began to laugh and it sent chills down my spine.“Do you really think that you can protect her?”We soon heard snarling sounds fill the air and when we looked up, shadows were camped in the trees glaring down at us and baring their fangs.“Look here Hazel, I will make this easy. Give me the amulets or she dies.”I soon heard struggling noises and out of the mist, a tall muscular man was dragging Kaya with him.“Kaya!”“Miss Hazel! Tell him to let go of me!”I looked from Kaya to Ragnar and back to Kaya. Ragnar smiled and lick his bottom lip.“So tell me Hazel, what is it going to be? Kaya or the Amulet?”Before I could give my answer, I heard the sound of feet running behind me. I turned back and saw three wolves sprinting towards us.“Ah. My brother finally decided to join the party. I was wo
Hazel’s POVAfter the meal, I had been in my tent, trying my best to reconnect with my wolf but all my efforts turned out the same: futile and unyielding.Every time I tried to concentrate, I could only hear a voice that told me that I needed to find the Amulet.I had tried to shake it out of my mind but it persisted and continued to pull me in deeper. It was so persistent and sincere. Maybe I was going about this all wrong. Maybe it was my wolf telling me to find the Amulet. It had probably been telling me this the whole time except that I chose not to listen.I stood up and made my decision. Alpha Draco was making the big mistake. We were supposed to be finding the Amulet. If you found it, we could harness its powers and bring an end to this war. We had to stop Ragnar at all costs and this probably was our only chance.I poked my head out of the tent and saw Alpha Draco and the others sitting around the campfire. The sun was beginning to go down and in the far off distance, I could
Lorena’s POVI ended the call with Hazel and I sat outside the incubation room. I was nervous about her. I felt that I had left her alone.I had been in Zoe’s room all day and the doctors even had to find a way to get me out earlier. I just wanted to be with her. I loved the way it seemed that she was able to understand everything that I said and she was just 2 months old.I felt torn all of a sudden. I needed to be with Hazel, my mate and my friends, but I also wanted to be with my daughter.As I sat, lost in thought, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I jerked in fright and turned around to see who it was.“Hello Miss Lorena, I am sorry to startle you.”My doctor smiled kindly at me and I smiled back.“It’s alright. I was just on a call and I had to leave the room. I want to go back to Zoe now.”“Maybe you should take a break Miss Lorena. You have been in that room for hours. You could take a stroll maybe, stretch your legs and get something to eat. I just finished my shift. Maybe we coul
Hazel’s POVI had been in my tent all day. Logan had tried to come in a few times but I simply gave him the cold shoulder and turned away.The forest was quiet as the day was moving forward. The bird’s chirping became louder and louder and when I listened hard enough, I could hear the rushing of a stream nearby.My stomach growled; I just remembered that I hadn’t eaten anything all day. I hoped Alpha Draco remembered to pack some food.“Hazel.”I turned away to face the back of the tent. It was Logan again; I wondered what he wanted.“Hazel, I am not here to try to get you to talk. I understand that you are angry with me; I just came to tell you that’s my father wants us all outside.”“I’m coming,” I said coldly.He lingered at the entrance of the tents for a while and then disappeared. I sighed and stood up, leaving the cozy warmth of the tent.As soon as I got outside, I saw Cassie Jasper, Ryder and Logan all standing in a line in front of Alpha Draco like it was a military exercise