As Alexander moved closer to the convocation hall, he could hear arguments going on in the convocation hall. Every step he took reverberated through the walls of the hallway. The clattering of his shoe against the well-tiled floor was signaling his approach to the convocation hall. Once he was close enough, the ruckus calmed down as the statesmen already sensed his presence.As the doors creaked open, the statesmen stood up at once to offer Alexander a respectful welcome.Alexander walked to his seat, and gestured to the statesmen to take their seat. Everybody had a different expression on their face as they sat down in unison, and the meeting began.Statesman Cameron was the first to talk. "I am really disappointed, Alpha Alexander," he began, his voice laced with overstated grief."You didn't state to us that the war against the Blackwood pack was triggered by you and their Luna, Miss Vanessa's actions," Cameron dropped.Small ruckus ensued among the other statesmen before Cameron c
Alexander's heart sank upon the realization of the dangerous situation Vanessa was in. He took Vanessa's flappy hand in his, his fingers trembling against her cold skin."There has to be a solution somehow, a way to save them both," he pleaded, his voice filled with emotion.The doctor nodded, sympathy etching across her face. "I am doing everything I can, Alpha Alexander. I have already started carrying out the necessary research to find an alternative treatment apart from vitamins," she replied.Alexander clenched his fists in frustration. "So what now? Do you expect me to be looking on while she slowly turned to a shadow of herself, all because of a pregnancy? I can't just stand by and look, there has to be something that should be done as soon as possible to save them," Alexander said in frustration.The doctor's expression softened, and she placed a comforting hand on Alexander's shoulder. "I understand your frustration, Alpha Alexander, I won't give up on them," the doctor assur
Alexander's heart shattered as he witnessed Vanessa in pain. He could understand that as an expectant mother, she would develop a strong connection to her baby and anticipate his arrival, but he never expected that she would develop such a deep connection in such a short period of time.However, he couldn't bear the thought of losing her either. He wanted to calm her down and make her understand that the decision is for the sake of her well-being."Vanessa, please listen to me," Alexander pleaded, his voice filled with a mix of melancholy and concern. "I don't wish for anything bad to happen to our baby either. But, we have to consider your well-being."Vanessa sobbed uncontrollably, her body trembling in emotional chaos. "I can't bear the thought of losing my baby, Alexander, this is our future. Please, try to understand."Alexander moved closer to her, wrapping his hands around her trembling body. "Vanessa, nobody is taking our baby away, I promise. We will find a way to save you an
Fear consumed Vanessa, and she started to move frantically about in the water to save herself. Finally, she reached the surface, but she found it hard to move out of the water. She gasped for air as she struggled to stay afloat, her limbs growing weaker with each passing moment. Dread consumed her whole body as she realized that she was alone in the vast ocean. There was no one to offer help, no rescuer around.Just when she thought all hope had been lost, she looked up through the foggy depths and saw a figure. It was the little child, his hands stretching towards Vanessa. Hope surged within her, and she swarm towards him with all the strength she had left within her. "Hold on little one, I'm coming," Vanessa shouted, her voice reverberating through the water.However, as she reached out to grab the little boy's hands. She witnessed the most dreadful sight she had ever seen in her life; the little boy's body twisted and he transformed into a distorted blob of blood and flesh. Frigh
"Alpha Alexander, we can't wait any longer," Elliott said urgently."The Blackwood pack is now growing stronger, and their confidence is increasing day by day. We need to strike as soon as possible to destroy their confidence," Elliott said, his voice filled with urgency."Shhh…" Alexander shushed him, pointing towards Vanessa, and Elliott immediately got his point.Elliott's concerned gaze lingered on Vanessa's pale and tear-stained face, and he couldn't help but direct questions to Alexander."What is happening to her? She looks kind of different, and I can see paleness all over her face," Elliott inquired.Alexander took a deep breath, his mind racing with the heaviness of the revelation he was about to share to Elliott."Elliott, the baby in Vanessa's womb is no ordinary child," Alexander began, his voice low and soft. But I will explain more about it tomorrow, right now you need to treat yourself and freshen up. We will discuss more tomorrow," Alexander said.Elliott nodded, clea
Alexander wasn't done processing his thoughts when his mind suddenly revisited the meeting with his late mother when he was unconscious, and she talked about the activation of paranormal abilities after the birth of his child.He never planned to tell Elliott about it. In fact, he didn't want to tell anyone about it. He wanted it to be exclusively between him and his mother. He then suddenly stood up, feeling dazed by his thoughts. "Elliott, I need to think more about this; there is so much going on in my head, and I am trying to put pieces together," Alexander said, his voice low but audible."Let me go and see Vanessa," he said.Without saying anything, Elliott nodded, comprehending what he meant. Alexander walked out of the meeting room, and moved straight to his chamber, fret and confusion obviously visible on his face.On entering the chamber, It was evident on Vanessa's face that she had been waiting for him. As he walked in, Vanessa looked up at him with a concerned face."Al
Blackwood pack…Lynx slammed his fist on the table in fury. "How did he escape? How is that possible?" Lynx fumed.Lynx became extremely furious, his eyes glistening with rage. "The entire white phoenix pack will be eliminated from the surface of the earth. I, Alpha Lynx, will hit them where it hurts most till they breathe their last," Lynx said, his voice dropping like a toxin, and the council members knew he wasn't joking. Once he sets his eyes on something, he will do everything and anything to achieve it, and he has never failed.His mind raced as he wondered who could have helped Elliott escape. He trusted his soldiers, they have been loyal to him, and are not corrupt. However, he knew that someone clearly helped Elliott."Someone is betraying me. I know that someone helped Elliott to escape. Whoever the person is, I will find out and the person will pay for it. Nobody betrays me and goes scot-free," Lynx said to his council as he concluded the meeting and disbanded everybody.A
White Phoenix pack…One of the guards hurried to hand over a letter to Elliott. "A letter from the Blackwood pack sir," the guard said as he bowed and handed over the letter to Elliott.Elliott collected the letter, and opened it quickly. He was dumbfounded as he saw the letter written in blood. As he read through the letter, his heart raced.The message was clear and straight to the point. It was clear from the letter that Lynx was in fury. He swore to destroy the entire white phoenix pack in his one last attack. Elliott swallowed hard, his mind racing. He hurried down the hallway, his footsteps echoing as he took large strides to Alexander's chamber.He got to Alexander's chamber, and he met his guard standing in front of his chamber. "I need to speak with the Alpha right now," Elliott said, urgency visible in his voice. The guard stepped aside, and Elliott quickly knocked on the door.A few seconds later, the door squeaked open. "Elliott, what happened?" Alexander asked, looking c
Lynx immediately tore the weak rope that had been used to tie him, and headed for the nearest soldier to him. He instantly grabbed his throat and pulled out his windpipe from his neck, causing blood to fly all around him. He then went for the next soldier, slicing his head clean off with a clean sweep of his claws.He was about to turn to kill another of Uncle Toni's men when he looked and saw that Uncle Toni and Elliott were sorting themselves. He wanted to continue with his killing, but the anger that he had felt within him the moment his eyes landed on his uncle took hold of him.“UNCLE TONI!!!” He screamed loudly as he rushed towards him. Uncle Toni looked over, and after seeing that Lynx was coming, he hit Elliott hard on the chest. The hit was so strong that it sent Elliott flying across the place.“Come here,” Uncle Toni mumbled with his crooked smile as he stood in a fighting stance.Lynx growled loudly and launched himself into the air towards Uncle Toni. It was halfway that
“Does he have to come with you?” Lynx overheard Vanessa ask Alexander as she stared at him. “I don't think you should trust him.”“He has a score to settle with his uncle,” Alexander replied to Vanessa. “This war is happening because of him, so I think it's reasonable that he goes with us.”“But what if–”“No what ifs Vanessa,” Alexander said softly as he placed his hands under Vanessa's chin. He lifted her face to meet his, and planted a kiss on her lips. “We will go and come back victorious.”Vanessa nodded, “I trust you, love.”After Alexander was done talking with Vanessa, he turned and began leading Lynx and the army out of the pack's barrack which was just beside the pack house mansion.They headed towards the battlefield where Uncle Toni had gathered with his warriors. Lynx had caught sight of Zoey on the way out, but he turned his face away just when she was about to meet his eyes.As they drove towards the battlefield, Lynx noticed Elliott kept on moving his car closer to his
Lynx expected Elliott to show up in the cell, but he didn't. He thought Elliott was probably busy with Zoey, too busy to come take his share of payback. He couldn't decide if he could take that as a good or bad thing.He brought his head in between his legs and sighed slowly. Some of his wounds had healed, but his face still hurt. The parts of his face that were swollen had still not gone down, and his head pounded hard. He leaned to one side and closed his eyes, trying his best to summon sleep so that he could take a temporary escape from the pain that he was feeling.Just as his eyes were about to close, he heard the loud creaking sound of the gate of the dungeon. He shot his eyes open and groaned loudly. He thought Elliott had finally come to take his share.With a grunt, he placed his hands on the ground and slowly lifted himself up to a sitting position. He then remained that way as the door swung open. He looked up with his one good eye and was a bit surprised to see that it was
Blackwood Pack…Uncle Toni sat in his chamber wondering what to do next. He had seen the decayed corpse, and it wasn't Lynx's. He could tell because the body structure didn't match that of Lynx, and did not have the aura of an Alpha.He sat there in deep thought when a guard knocked at his door. “What is it?” Uncle Toni asked blankly. “One of the commanders under the former Alpha's rule says he has information on Lynx's whereabouts,” the guard announced from the outside.Uncle Toni immediately got up to his feet upon hearing that. He rushed to the door and pushed it open. “Where is he?” He asked immediately.“He is currently in the receiving room with Beta George,” the guard reported.Uncle Toni hurried through the hallway as he headed to the grand meeting room.The two guards standing on each side of the grand meeting room doors opened it as Uncle Toni approached. Uncle Toni walked in to find one of the former commanders standing there, hopefully looking at him. When Uncle Toni got
Alexander collected the rag from one of the dungeon guards and cleaned his bloody hands. After cleaning every single trail of blood off, he handed the rag back to the guard and headed for his chamber.He knew Vanessa would have still been waiting for him. The thought of that caused a smile to form on his lips– there would be some good for today.When he finally arrived at his chamber, he paused at the door after hearing some sounds coming from within. He placed his ears on the door and smiled softly after hearing that it was Vanessa crying.He pushed open the door and walked in, he met Vanessa on the bed, her face filled with tears. Alexander walked over to her and knelt down beside her as she cried harder.“Why are you crying, darling?” Alexander asked as he ran his fingers through her soft, silky hair. “What is the matter?”“Zoey,” Vanessa replied with a small sniff. “I heard Lynx has got her, he's killed her, hasn't he?”“No, my love,” Alexander said as he wrapped his hands around
Upon getting back to the white phoenix pack house mansion, Alexander immediately got down from the car and went inside the mansion. Lynx's eyes fluttered open as the sounds of footsteps shuffling around reached his ears. He turned to his side with a growl but stopped sharply after he felt a sharp pain at his side. He paused for a few seconds before laying back.“Where in the hell am I?” He asked no one in particular as he coughed loudly. He moved to his side to try standing up again, ignoring the pain that was stabbing at him, and after many trials and errors, he was finally able to sit up straight. He placed his back against the wall behind him and hissed loudly as his aching side came into contact with the moist wall. Closing his eyes, he let out a loud sigh.Slowly, he opened his eyes again, and steadily this time. He turned his head to take a look at his new and strange environment.The only door in the room stood a few feet away from him, but he knew that it would be a real str
Scholes moved Zoey away and looked at Lynx as though scrutinizing every feature of his body. Lynx tightened his fist into a ball, ready to attack Scholes, so that when he was distracted, Zoey could escape.“Next!” Scholes voiced out. Lynx looked up, confused as Scholes stared at him a little longer before quickly moving forward.Lynx and Zoey moved along, and just when they were a bit far from the checkpoint, a few guards hurried towards them. “Alpha Lynx, commander Scholes has ordered us to escort you through a shortcut so you wouldn't get caught by your uncle's men.”Lynx looked up at the one who spoke and searched his gaze in curiosity. “You have to trust us, Alpha Lynx. Since your disappearance, we've been treated nothing less than wrong by the new vicious Alpha. We are ready to help you return to your position,” one of the guards explained.Lynx saw a million and one questions in Zoey's eyes, but the guard gave her a reassuring smile. Lynx could understand why they chose to he
It's been two weeks since Lynx disappeared into the world, and Uncle Toni declared him wanted and ordered the Blackwood force to kill him on sight.Zoey hadn't been a quiet one for the past week where Lynx abducted Zoey to. She had been yelling, and trying to convince Lynx to go and apologize to Sophia's parents for his atrocity.Lynx thought Zoey was only doing all of that so she could get out of there and be with Elliott. He got so mad at her last night when she began yelling at him again that it took all of him not to slap her right across the face.He instead got up in anger and impaled her against a chair inside the hut. He found a few things he could use as a rope and binders, and even a seal tape. He used the binder to cage her hands and legs to the chair, then he went back to her mouth with the tape. Zoey was trying her best to move away and even caught the tape in her hair a few times.Lynx grabbed her head, holding her still, and placed the tape over her talkative mouth. He
Zoey sat down on the small stony bench next to Lynx as Lynx told her about his first love, Sophia. “Why did you kill her if you truly love her then?” Zoey asked.“I felt betrayed, she once professed so much love to me. We didn't start out as lovers, we were just friends. Finally, I agreed to be with her to make her happy because I genuinely cared for her,” Lynx replied.This was the first time Zoey could actually see that much genuineness and care in Lynx's eyes. She could see the sadness and regret, but there was also pain.“After she found that guy, she let go of me; I was no longer a lover or friend. And that's only because that mate of hers told her how insecure he is that we are still friends. One day, I heard they were mated, and I got mad and violent. That might have been the first time Aunt Genevieve and Uncle Toni had seen me so mad and fierce,” Lynx said and his eyes turned darker as he spoke of his uncle.“Well, I got to their shared home with a gun loaded with silver bulle