Lance's POVI woke up as I felt Dominus pressing into my mind link. I gently removed Maureen from me to avoid waking her up. I checked the time to see it was already six o'clock in the morning. I had barely slept for three hours.I opened the link and grumbled a not so gentle, 'What?' into the mind link.'Lisa is awake,' Dominus said.'What do you mean by she is awake?' 'That is what the doctors said. You need to come down,' Dominus said and cut the link.I looked at Maureen on the bed with her golden hair spread all over the pillow and wondered if her touch had actually healed Lisa. Lucia had said she didn't see the ball of light but I did. I was very sure that I had not imagined it. It actually happened. I stood up to change from my pyjamas so that I could go downstairs and see what was happening for myself but then I stopped Maureen would want to be there too. Despite the fact that I didn't want to wake her up when she had just had little sleep, I gently shook her awake by her
Maureen's POVLucia and I listened to the noise coming from outside with trepidation. It sounded like the sound of war. My heart was beating so fast that it seemed like it wanted to just jump out and beat me on the floor freely.I tried mind-linking Lance to no avail. Lucia also tried Dominus and there was no response.'I can't continue to just stay here Lucia we have to see what's going on,' I said as I started pacing as worry consumed every of my being.'We can't defy their orders Maureen. Let us wait here,' Lucia said and I looked at her in surprise.'Since when did you start following orders Lucia,' I asked in amazement. Lucia was one person that was very daring.'Since I got mated to Dominus. He is a very dominant male, he liked to be listened to and obeyed,' Lucia answered.'So also is Lance. But this new you is quite surprising,' I said. Lucia didn't give me any more reply. Then I noticed something different in her that I haven't noticed before. Lucia was twisting her finger
Lance's POVEveryone gaped in surprise at Mara. She was physically shaking and breathing hard. She looked so angry for the mild tempered woman we had met the day before.She wasn't satisfied with cutting the Gamma's throat obviously as she started stabbing him all over with the tip of the sword.'Mara you need to stop. He is dead already,' dad said as it seemed everyone one of us was too surprised to say anything.Mara didn't stop. She kept stabbing him non stop. 'Mara,' the Alpha called her name but she didn't answer. She just kept on with it until the Alpha stepped forward and got hold of her by the shoulder.'No. He has to die. Let me kill him,' Mara said lifting her face up. There were blood stains that came from the Gamma's body on her face and clothes. There was also a crazed look on her face.'He is dead already,' the Alpha said gently as he noticed the look on her face.'Then he must burn. He must burn right now,' Mara said as she started dashing around looking for something.
Maureen's POVEvery word that came out of Mara's mouth cut into my soul like a sword. I never believed in my life that anybody anywhere could be that cruel and mean. Mara held on to mum like a drowning person as she cried bitterly. I saw that Lucia was crying too but I couldn't. I was angry. I felt so embittered by what innocent Mara had gone through.Mara's tears gradually faded into hiccups. She must be feeling broken. She was strong, no doubt. For her to have held so much pain in and helped us with the girls, she was indeed strong. 'Mara.' A voice called from behind us and that immediately made Mara lift her head from mum's chest and looked at her new comer.The girl was held between the doctors. She looked pale but that didn't hide her beauty. She had long beautiful lashes that hid her eyes behind them.'Lisa,' Mara shouted in excitement and ran to hug the fragile looking girl. Lisa? We all gaped at her. I couldn't help but wonder if it was the same disfigured Lisa that was lyi
Maureen's POV'Is there something I need to know?' Lucia asked from behind me. Her voice startled me.'You startled me,' I said and turned to face her. We were in one of the store rooms in Alpha Amman's house. Our duty was to make sure that the soldiers divided the grains to the people accordingly. 'Of course you will be startled since your mind has been obviously wandering since we got here,' Lucia said.'What do you mean?' I asked feigning ignorance.'Your gaze has been on Dawn all morning Maureen, is there something going on?' Lucia asked. 'Yes am no. Nothing is going on,' I said and turned back to examine a bag of grain to make sure it was still good for consumption. When the Alpha had gone out with dad, mum, Dominus and Lance the previous day, they had worked with some of the elders who Amman had relieved of their eldership because they refused to cooperate with his wicked administration. They had successfully divided the people into different groups so that they could get re
Maureen's POVThe days after the revelation of the fact that Dawn and I are sisters had been very hectic so I had not been able to talk to her about anything. She was being herself and I was being myself around her. Although I had not felt any sort of connection ever since we met, I saw her like one of us always especially since she was part of the prophecy. Since the Alpha said the five of us would be leaving soon, I decided against calling Grandma Gina on the phone. Amman had really created a big mess. A mess of people's lives and a mess of his pack now ours. But after a day of rigorous work, things were beginning to take shape. I walked to a group of women that were taking down the number of kids whose parents were dead or who they didn't just see anymore to give them helping hand. I saw Dawn talking to some teenagers and telling them exactly what to do. As silent as Dawn could be, I was surprised to see her that she was really good with people.She looked up at the moment I w
Maureen's POV'I guess your presence means you are back,' Ian said as he sat down beside me on the bench in the pack.'Yes. Obviously,' I said without looking at him.'How was the journey? Enjoyable?' Ian asked and I had to turn to look at him.'Are you being sarcastic? Enjoyable? No, it wasn't in anyway enjoyable,' I said in annoyance. I dropped the rest of the sandwich I was munching on before he arrived on the floor.'Good to know that you are angry. You will need that anger to propel you henceforth,' Ian said with all seriousness.'Why will I need anger to propel me? Besides, who will I be getting angry with?' I asked frowning.'You will find out,' he said before bringing out what looked like a folded paper. He placed it on the space between us and held it down with a finger.'What is this?' I asked looking from his face to the paper he held between us.'This is the map that will lead you to Rocha.' 'Who is Rocha?' I asked looking confused.'The one I told you that you need on yo
Maureen's POV'Ian must have known that I already met Lisa,' I fumed.'Why are you angry?' Grandma Gina asked.'He could have just given this to me when we were at Amman's pack and we could have simply headed off to Lisa's pack from there,' I said pacing Grandma Gina's room.'You need to calm yourself down child. Things are not done that way. If what you told me about Lisa is true then heading off to her pack immediately might not be the best. Her pack would need time to come to terms with the fact that their child was back before you barge in on them,' Grandma Gina reasoned.I sat down and thought about asking Grandma Gina about Ian. Maybe a part of the prophecy we didn't know talked about him.'Grandma Gina, was Ian mentioned at all in the prophecy?' I asked.'The bane keeper was not mentioned at all. The golden wolf kept him a secret that was probably why he had remained safe for this long,' Grandma Gina answered before asking me why I asked the question. 'Something in what Ian sa
Maureen's POV'The buzz is all over the internet. People are asking questions. They are even calling for the Council to search the former president's house,' Lance said as I sat in front of the mirror combing my hair.It was night already, two days after Ian gave the go ahead to put our plans in motion and we were about to go to sleep. Earlier that day, Asher had released edited pictures and videos of the orgy in the former president's house.He also released the unedited pictures of the former president's mate. The only thing we left out was the secret underground passage because that is where they will use when they want to move the girls.We were depending on the strength of the voice of every wolf in the kingdom. They could easily say the matter was a set up. In fact, the way they were defending the matter actually made me realize that attacking the former president's house would have been a very wrong move.'The voices of the people are our strongest point right now but some are
Maureen's POV'I wish we could just go back to the former president's house and raid the place,' Lucia said hissing as she scrolled through the pictures Ian had taken at the former president's house.'I wish we could too but if we dare to do that we will ruin everything. We are dealing with corrupt high ups here. They will label the attack as a rogue invasion or say they had rescued the girls the previous day and those they took them from came back to attack the nice and courageous former president. Did you see the way he twisted Sandy's story around?' I said to Lucia.'That man is an evil genius. No one could have thought he was lying through his teeth. He is a perfect actor, believe me,' Lucia said.'I was so impressed with you guys when Lance was saying how impeccable you were with your actings at the former president's house. It is a good thing that I didn't go along, I doubt if I would have been able to pull it off,' Dawn said.'Believe me, you would have when you knew exactly wh
Maureen's POV'You girls should hurry up and pick what you want. My mate will get worried if we over stay,' the Luna said again for the umpteenth time and, as we had been doing all day, we laughed.The Luna and mum had dragged us out of the house to allow them have fresh air. Dawn, Lucia and I had no option but go with them. The Alpha had said we were allowed to go for just three hours which we accepted and that we should take guards with us because he couldn't risk his pregnant mate's safety.Dominus, Lucia and I had gone to the Luna's chamber after breakfast to spend some quality time with her. We met mum there and we had breakfast with them. We talked at length about everything and anything until Dominus had to excuse himself. After Dominus had left, the Luna had said she needed fresh air and before we knew it, Dawn was drawn into the plan and it became an all girls outing. 'We should go like seriously. He has been pressing into the mind link for like fifteen minutes now. It wil
Maureen's POVIt was dark outside by the time we were through meeting at the Alpha's study. My mind was made up that I was going to talk to Ian, whether he liked it or not. As we were about to leave the office, I discovered that Ian had already disappeared but I refused to be discouraged. When we got to the room, Lance had expected me to just freshen up, and he asked for our dinner to be brought to us, but I changed into black trousers and Lance's round-neck shirt. 'I was expecting you to have your bath. Why did you change clothes?' Lance asked as I stepped out of the walk-in closet.'I want to talk to Ian. I want to know who that girl is to him. He defended her so greatly,' I said.Lance sighed and stopped from the chair to stand in front of me and rubbed his hands up and down my arm.'Ok, mama. I know you want to desperately talk to one of your children; I am not going to stop you, but let me come with you. It would be irresponsible of me to allow you to go out alone at this time
Maureen's POVNone of us not even the Alpha or dad recognized the two people in the other pictures. There was one female and a male. I was so disappointed that a female was also involved in the whole thing. It angered me. How could she be indifferent to the suffering of young females? She should be empathetic towards them!'What I am very sure of is that when we smoke out the former president, these other two will surface,' I said confidently.'I have never met them anywhere,' the Alpha said frowning.'One of them actually looks familiar but I am not sure,' Asher said frowning deeply as if he was trying to figure out where he had met him. 'Which of them?' I asked.'The female,' Asher answered.'The female?' Dad asked.'Yes but I am not so sure. After I did the drawing was the first time it occurred to me that she looked familiar but my mind was occupied with something else so I didn't dwell on it. But looking at the picture again just now, the feeling that I know her came back,' Ashe
Dawn's POVI woke up with the feeling of someone's hands against my scalp. It was so soothing that I snuggled deeper into the warmth that encompassed me. I opened my eyes and the vision of Asher's strong abs came to view. I smiled remembering what hours ago had been like. He reached for me one more time before we finally fell asleep. 'Tell me you didn't drop that towel on purpose Dawn?' Asher said and I bit down on my lips pretending I was still sleeping.He couldn't see my face since my head was on his chest so I closed my eyes and tried my best to imitate the way my breath would be when I sleep.'I know you are awake Dawn. Stop pretending,' Asher said applying pressure to his touch on my scalp. The pressure was not enough to cause pain but it was enough to make me stop pretending.I raised my head to look him in the eyes. His lashes were lowered so I wasn't able to read the look in his eyes. 'I might have dropped it intentionally,' I said closing my eyes but not totally closing th
Dawn's POVA day after those heading for the former president's house had left, we had breakfast with everyone present at the dining except Grandma Gina.At the table we had discussed Maureen and the others' movement. The Alpha had said that the former president's call that Maureen and the others can't spend the night at his house sounded suspicious. I could just only hope they would be fine.After breakfast, Asher said he wanted to teach Rocha something on the laptop so I had to excuse them since I wasn't interested in whatever they had to do.When I followed Asher and the soldiers to his pack, he wanted to teach me one or two things on how to use a laptop but I just wasn't interested. He had teased me relentlessly about it and eventually let go of the topic when he discovered that I was truly not interested and he couldn't talk me into becoming interested.I headed for Grandma Gina's room knowing she would be more than happy for the company. Besides, she didn't come down for breakf
Lance's POV'To think I was beginning to feel guilty about deceiving him,' Dominus said as we entered into Grandma Gina's cottage. We didn't discuss much in the vehicle on our way back to Grandma Gina's pack. Ian had simply said the former president was guilty and kept quiet. We all realised that he was battling some kind of emotions so we let him at least sort through them before we got to Grandma Gina's cottage.'What happened at the former president's house, Ian?' I asked as we all sat in her siting room. 'Can you guys give me a second to grab something to eat, you had lunch but I didn't,' Ian said as he got up. 'I put bread on the kitchen table and there is butter there as well. You can manage that till we make dinner,' Maureen shouted after him. 'Maureen I saw your reaction when that man came in to whisper inti the ears of the former president and the saccharine smile you gave Lance after showed that something was wrong,' Lucia said to Maureen.I thought I was the only one wh
Lance's POV'I was thinking I would be privileged to meet your mate. A female that deserved such worshipping love is someone I want as a mentor,' Lucia said to the former president when we settled down in his sitting room.'I wish you met her but she waited all day for you guys yesterday because she thought you would be here early. She had to leave very early this morning. She is visiting a friend's daughter that just gave birth to a baby. We have delayed the visit for too long,' the former president said smiling sadly.'I can see that you are missing her already,' I said. 'Oh, how do you know that?' The former president seemed genuinely surprised by my insight.'Your smile just now said it all,' I replied.The former president sighed loudly as he rang a bell on the table. 'Each time she has to go somewhere, I feel like a part of me is taken away,' he said still retaining his sad smile.A girl of not more than sixteen years who looked terrified as she came into the sitting room came