Lance's POV'Larry please you can't kill her. We need to know the extent of damage she has caused,' the Luna pleaded.'Please Alpha we need to know all she knows. Please let her go,' my mum pleaded with him.The Luna walked up to him and placed a placating hand on his shoulder and just like that, he dropped Martha on the floor and she coughed harshly as she held a hand to her throat. My dad sighed in relief. I was scared for a minute there that the Alpha would kill Martha and then we would not know the extent of damage she had done by the weight of information she had passed to Alpha Amman.'I want you to start talking this minute else I will tear you into tiny pieces,' the Alpha fumed. The Luna was trying her best to calm him down and the Alpha too was trying his best to calm down as he kept breathing in and out. Martha crawled away from the Alpha while coughing non stop.'I am sorry. He has my mate in his custody and said he would kill him if I didn't get him something which he c
Lance's POVThere was anxiety and apprehension in the air as the entire pack waited for the Alpha. Every person looked uneasy. I knew the news of Alpha Amman's challenge must have spread as at that time.My dad and the Alpha had come up with the idea that it was better that the Alpha and the Luna explained to the entire pack why Alpha Amman had challenged him.No one wanted an uncertain future. Our pack was peaceful and a cocoon from the mayhem going on in the other packs. 'I am sorry but addressing the whole pack is the only way to calm them down.' The Alpha addressed us later that day after Martha had been dealt with.We knew the Alpha wasn't talking to us because he was looking at his Luna while talking. Mum wrapped protective hands around her best friend. Ian might be right after all, the whole issue was a big storm that got all of us right in the center of it.'How are we going to put it that it will not seem as if we are trying to use pity to manipulate them?' The Luna had aske
Maureen's POVI entered the training ground alongside Lance, Dominus and Lucia. I had been to the training ground only twice but I knew my way around. The training ground was divided into different segments. There was a plane ground where soldiers train and there was another area of the training ground designed like an arena. They had chosen the early evening for the fight, when the sun would not be too intense for people to sit under.We entered the area that was designed like an arena and found a good spot to sit. I saw the Alpha and dad standing not too far from the area where the fight was to take place. Alpha Amman was also standing on the other side getting prepared for the fight.'I wonder why he can be so confident enough to challenge Alpha to this kind of fight,' I said to Lucia as I was looking in the direction of Alpha Amman.'He is either a fool or he knows the Alpha's weak point,' Lucia said.'How will he know the Alpha's weak point? I doubt that they ever had anything
Maureen's POVWhen an Alpha kills the other in a challenge, he automatically becomes the Alpha of the late Alpha's pack. It was a normal order of the wolf community. I had heard about it several times but I had never seen it or how it worked.When the pack members of Alpha Amman saw that their Alpha was dead, they immediately went on their knees and bowed to Alpha Larry. The soldiers included. 'Isn't it cowardice to bow to another Alpha when their former Alpha's body hasn't even gone cold?' I asked Lance above the noise of cheering.'No. It is not. I will explain to you later,' Lance shouted back as he pulled my hand so that we could join the Alpha and dad where they were. Dominus and Lucia were already far ahead of us. Dominus didn't mind the blood covering his father as he hugged him happily. 'Have you mind linked you mum?' The Alpha asked Dominus after they came apart.'I did it the very second you walked out of that cage. Alpha Amman was such a coward,' Dominus said in annoyan
Lances POVA sound woke me. Getting conscious, I stretched like a contented cat as I came awake. I checked the time on my bedside clock to see it was past seven o'clock am. I couldn't remember the last time I slept that late. But then, it was expected that I would sleep that late. I had reached for Maureen two more times during the night and each time, she had yielded to me without restraint. I looked at the other side of the bed expecting her to be there but the bed was empty. I sat up instantly. 'Relax. I am in the bathroom,' Maureen laughed into the mind link. She must have felt my panic.I sat up properly and stretched my body again. The sound of her opening and closing the bathroom door must have woken me up. I heard my stomach rumble before I felt the pressure on my bladder. Neither Maureen or I had dinner the previous night and I doubted that most occupants of the house had dinner either.I opened the bathroom door to see Maureen brushing her teeth. She looked at me walking
Lance's POVWe couldn't believe what was right in front of us in Alpha Amman's pack. Lot of people were on the streets begging for alms. Several homeless people in one place made my skin crawl. How was it even possible. 'I have followed buyers here a couple of times but I have never seen this scene before in my life,' Dominus said beside me. We were still in the car but our convoy was heading towards their pack's house. 'How was he able to keep this a secret?' I wondered out loud.'I guess dad was right after all. Alpha Amman was a sick man. How on earth could he have reduced his own people to this?' Dominus was obviously angry because his voice sounded so loud in my ears. Dad had mind linked me that one of Amman's soldiers was leading us to the park's house.Houses that looked more like huts littered everywhere. People came out of some of them to stare at the convoy. I didn't see one person that looked okay enough to be called a healthy wolf. They looked starved and their gazes
Maureen's POVI was missing Lance. It was barely four hours since he left but it felt like a whole year. They left around mid day and it was not yet three o'clock but it felt like he had been gone the whole day.Lucia and I sat down, not saying much to each other. We both missed our mates.'I didn't expect that there would be a day that my happiness would depend on the presence of someone else,' Lucia said sadly.'Neither do I. But then the mate bond can be really though,' I said smiling sadly at her. A knock came at the door and I said an absent minded 'come in.' Dawn peeped in before coming in.'The Luna said you both should meet her in the sitting room immediately,' Dawn said.Lucia and I exchanged confused glances. What could the Luna possibly want? We quickly got up and headed for the sitting room in quick steps. When we got there, we met two pack doctors, a male and a female. My heart started beating at one thousand times per second. Had something bad happened to Lance and Do
Maureen's POVBy the time I had spoken to two of the girls, I almost broke down. They had gone through a lot that I found so unbelievable.There were fifteen girls that we could talk to except for Lisa who the doctors deemed irredeemable. The atmosphere was so tensed as we questioned the girls. At a point after the pack doctor had told them that Lisa might soon succumb to her pains, they had huddled together and cried. The doctor had said it was hard for Lisa's body to fight the wolf's bane since she hadn't gotten her wolf yet. Mara was assigned to encourage the girls to talk to us and give us information that we needed so that we could help them.I was assigned three girls while Lucia also had three girls to talk to. Dawn was assisting mum with the rest of the girls.We were to ask them for their names and the original packs they belonged to and made sure everything was documented.'What is your name?' I had asked the first girl that I was to question. She was silent for sometime b
Maureen's POV'I am beginning to think one other gift I don't know I have is getting worried,' Dawn mumbled as she paced the sitting room of the Beta house. 'What do you mean?' I asked looking up at her from the magazine I was pretending to be reading. We have been waiting in the Beta house for two hours. I had picked the magazine in the bid to find something to do. Every other person including Rocha was sitting but Dawn had been busy pacing up and down as if she had an itch on her feet. At a point, Dawn had gone outside then came back in looking frustrated.'I am the only one who seemed worried here. You all look so calm as if nothing is wrong,' Dawn's reply brought me back to the present. 'Can't one of you just mind link them and ask what is going on?' Dawn asked as her voice rose a pitch higher than usual.'We don't want to distract them in case they need to concentrate,' I answered.'What if they are keeping a tight lead on the bond to make sure nothing passes through it to yo
Maureen's POV'I am so restless right now,' Dawn said as we sat and waited in the house. We got to where Dominus heard Elder Mattias saying the girls were to be picked from well before night fall and I opened the compass so that we could comfortably wait in the house for them.Once in a while we looked out of the window. The place was a plain field big enough to contain three big houses, we picked the extreme end to wait. We have waited for hours with no sign of them and I was beginning to think we had the wrong location. Dawn had been able to show Asher the map from Dominus' mind and he had done it beautifully. I was not surprised that the location was right outside Amman's territory. He was a pervert like them so allowing them do business near his pack territory wouldn't be an ado. The Alpha and dad didn't come with us. I smiled when I remembered our conversation the previous night when we had gone to them about Cybil's issue.'We will take care of Cybil, you take care of your du
Maureen's POV'Maureen, can I come in?' I heard Mara call from outside the door without knocking. I smiled wondering why she was doing that. I just came back from the Beta house after talking with the soldiers and I was feeling low. Lance had excused himself to join the others in working on the house. The one controlled by the compass. I wanted to go with him but he said they wanted to surprise the girls so I decided to stay back and wait for either Dawn or Lucia to come back from the Beta house. I walked to the door and opened it for Mara to come in. She looked nervous and I had to look at her keenly to see if I could see what was wrong in her eyes.'Mara, you look nervous. What is the matter? Is Katrina okay?' I asked when I couldn't place my hands on what could be the matter with her.'Katrina is okay. She will be fine. I guess. I came to see you about something important,' Mara said and I pulled at her hand to make her sit so that we could talk.'Hope all is well with you and A
Maureen's POV'Are you saying they want to leave?' I asked Asher the following morning after he called that he wanted to discuss somethings with me about the soldiers. 'They need to. Except for Alan, there are three others that are mated amongst them. They yearn for their mates. Besides, staying at the Beta house is no longer convenient,' Asher explained. Lance and I were in the room he shared with Dawn. Dawn had excused us when Lance and I got there. I asked her to stay but she said she had something to attend to and left.'Those that are mated can bring their mates down and we have already decided to build them a place to stay,' Lance said.'That won't do Lance. The best thing to do is to let them go back to Royal Touch. They can resume their normal lives there and whenever you need them, you can summon them. It won't even take a second,' Asher reasoned.'I think I understand what you are trying to say. Back at Royal Touch, they are just like every other pack member but here they
Lance's POVI decided to go downstairs and drink water after Maureen went into the bathroom. I had not drunk any after dinner because I was in a hurry to follow her. I entered the kitchen and switched on the light. No staff member was in sight as everyone had retired for the night. I went to open the refrigerator to get water and a bottle of wine caught my eyes. After I drank the water. I decided to to sit down with a cup of wine and allow Maureen calm down before I go back into the room. I had been sitting for more than fifteen minutes nursing my wine when I felt someone pressing into the mind link. I excitedly opened thinking it was Maureen. I was disappointed when Dominus' voice asked me if we could talk.'I am in the kitchen. Come,' I said and closed the link sighing in disappointment. 'What are you doing in the kitchen at this time. Trouble in paradise?' Dominus asked from the door way some minutes later.'What are you doing here at this time wanting to talk to me? Are you ma
Maureen's POVMy anger was boiling over by the time Lance and I got to the room back at home. I refused to talk to him all through the drive back home. It was late by the time we got back home so the Luna insisted that we eat dinner before going to our separate rooms. We agreed and had our hands watched in the kitchen before settling down for our meals. The Luna looked distracted and nervous. She and the Alpha kept stealing glances at each other and sometimes looking at Dominus in a way I couldn't understand. I took my mind off my own anger for a moment to observe everyone. Mum was smiling secretly. Sometimes she looked at dad and they would both look at Dominus and smile as if they knew a secret he didn't. 'Mum, is everything okay?' I asked and to everyone's amusement both mum and the Luna answered together that there was no problem.'I guess we need to work out something about you calling the both of them mum. This kind of confusion is inevitable,' the Alpha said smiling at me.
Maureen's POV'What can you tell this sitting about all you did?' The judge for the Vice President's hearing asked him after all evidence brought against him was presented.'If you are asking me to apologise for what I did then you must be crazy,' The Vice President growled.There was a buzz in the hall as everyone was surprised that he didn't even feel any remorse of guilt for what he had done.'Silence please.' A man sitting to the judge's right stood up and said. When there was silence again he sat down.'Do you realize how many lives you have ruined? A lot of your creations had to be given mercy killing to put them out of their mystery,' the judge said to the Vice President calmly but I could see that he was angry.'The entire wolf world should be praising me and giving me kudos for doing researches they didn't have the balls to do. I wanted to experiment on the few to better the lots of the majority'. I have done nothing wrong,' the Vice President said stubbornly.'You deprived w
Lance's POV'It was really not the best approach but it was the best thing I could come up with at that moment. But judging from the way they were this morning, I guess Alan and Mara finally settled on something,' Maureen said to Lucia. They had gone on and on about Mara and Alan since we left the house. They could stop saying how romantic the moment of their reconciliation would have been. I rolled my eyes mentally because I dared not do it so they could see.We had set off for the council very early as the Alpha had said. We had to take our breakfast along. We took two vehicles. Dad and the Alpha were in one while we took the other. Dad and the Alpha were chauffered while I drove our car.Maureen and Lucia insisted on sitting at the back together while Dominus sat beside me in the passenger seat.The girls soon fell into silence as we approached the gate that led into the council lands. The car conveying Dad and the Alpha was leading the way while we followed.None of the four of u
Lance's POV'Are you sure this is not some kind of coma?' I asked Asher in irritation. Maureen slept through the night after the soul binding with the soldiers and was still sleeping early in the morning when Asher and Dawn came to check up on her.'She is just sleeping, Lance. Relax,' Asher said smiling sheepishly.'You sound annoying right now, you know that. How come you are not sleeping and she is the one doing that?' I asked.'To simply answer your question: my soul was bound to one person's- hers but she had many souls bound to hers. She is strong believe me,' Asher said seriously.'You know she is strong because?' I asked Asher raising a brow.'I know because the golden wolf chose her and not somebody else,' Asher answered.'I think you should just wake her up Lance. She is intentionally not waking up,' Dawn said smiling and shaking her head.'Did you just walk into her dream? I thought that hurts your head,' I said touching my nose to indicate the fact that her nose might blee