Lance's POV'We might have to call Grandma Gina to confirm what he said,' Maureen said as we explained everything Alpha Asher has said. 'We need to be sure he is saying the truth. He might be lying for all we know,' Lucia said and Dawn growled at her.'I am sorry. I didn't mean to do that,' Dawn apologized as a slight blush tinted her cheeks.'He is your mate Dawn, it is natural for you to defend him. I should not have called him a liar. I am sorry. I am just confused,' Lucia apologized to Dawn.'I understand you perfectly. There is no need to apologize,' Dawn said calmly.Dominus picked his phone and called Grandma Gina. 'Hello my boy,' Grandma Gina said happily. 'It's so good of you to call this tired old lady after calling everyone and exempting me.' Dominus rolled his eyes but he still couldn't hide the smile that pulled at his lips. 'Dawn called you grandma,' Dominus said.'Of course that is because she is my only grandchild,' Grandma Gina said sarcastically.'I am sorry gran
Lance's POV'Somebody should wake me up. Am I dreaming?' Alpha Asher said as we all sat in his study after Maureen had declared that Alpha Asher was a part of her mission.Dawn covered the light projecting from Alpha Asher's torso with her hands when it became obvious that the light wasn't dulling off anytime soon. Maureen had slumped and I had to catch her before she got the ground. 'You are not dreaming Alpha Asher. She is the golden wolf,' Lucia said. Maureen was still leaning against me as it seemed as if the experience had sapped her of her strength.'You mean the golden wolf is a female?'Alpha Asher asked.'You have a problem with that?' Maureen asked sitting straight.'No. I don't have a problem with it. The thing is we had always thought the golden wolf would be a male. He was a male the last time going by the record,' Alpha Asher answered still looking surprised.'I guess the golden wolf decided to choose the perfect sex. Don't you think Alpha?' Lucia asked.'It sure did,'
Dawn's POVTo say I was nervous would be an understatement. I woke up feeling nervous. I had a mate! It was such a novelty for me. I had hoped for a life that would involve other people while I roamed the forests and bushes of unclaimed lands. But at a point I had given up on that dream.I had brushed my teeth and had my bath rather early. Despite the fact that I didn't sleep early, I still couldn't wake up late. I was looking forward to the discussion I was to have with Asher. I tied the bathrobe and wrapped my wet hair in a towel before stepping out of the bathroom. I had a major scare as the door to my room suddenly burst open. Maureen and Lucia walked in without the courtesy of knocking first. 'What are you two doing here? It is rather too early,' I said looking at them in surprise.'We know, right. We were thinking that just maybe we might find Alpha Asher here,' Lucia said sounding overly dramatic.I rolled my eyes at her. I had noticed that Lucia liked blowing things out of
Maureen's POVI stood still for the second time in five minutes. 'Why do I feel as if we are being followed?' I asked no one in particular. I just wanted to know if anyone else felt what I was feelingWe had set out on the journey for the search very early. As early as six o'clock am. We didn't eat breakfast but we packed sandwiches and juices in our back packs courtesy of Asher's house keeper. 'You might be feeling like that because Ian had implied in your discussion that he was at Amman's pack with you,' Lucia said shrugging,'The feeling is so strong. I felt it two days ago when we went out on Dawn's insistence to have a look at Royal Touch,' I said.'If I tell you something, promise me you wouldn't freak out,' Lance said and we all stopped walking to look at him.'What is it Lance?' I asked looking at him nervously.'I think Ian is actually following us. I have seen him briefly once or twice,' Lance said and we all gaped at him in pure disbelief.'Are you trying to spook us,' Lu
Maureen's POV'Maureen,' Asher shouted my name before he flew at me and we both fell on the ground as an arrow flew over our heads.Lance and Dominus immediately jumped into action as they ran towards the direction the arrow came from. As they ran towards the direction, another arrow flew right towards Lance and he threw it off with his sword. Dominus became invisible at that point and the arrows kept coming for Lance aggressively. I quickly got up from the ground as I gazed after my mate in worry.'Thank you Alpha,' I said to Asher and he simply nodded his acknowledgement.The arrows stopped and Dominus appeared with his hand firmly holding a male wolf by his clothes. We walked towards them quickly as Dominus made the male wolf kiss the ground in front of Lance.'Who are you?' Lance asked in a booming voice that clearly belonged to his wolf.'You are trespassing,' the male wolf answered.'This is an unclaimed land. I believe it should have a free passage,' Dominus said.'It belongs
Maureen's POV'Tell me that all this is unreal and we are just caught up in very bad dream,' Lance said looking as surprised as I was about what was in front of us.There were a lot of torture instruments on the table and some hung on the wall. It had different types of silver chains hanging from the wall. I felt cold from inside out.'These people keep a torture chamber?. I thought I had seen everything at Amman's house,' Dominus said as he peeked at the room above Lance's shoulder.'We will attend to this later. Let us attend to these people first,' Lance said and we stepped back and closed the door. We released the people from chains and made them sit on the floor while Dawn and Asher gave them water and fruits they found in the hut at the back.There was nothing much in the room. Just a giant bed obviously made for the giant and chairs that looked as if they belonged to a dump site. We looked around the house to find two other rooms. One of the rooms was empty while the other ro
Maureen's POV'Why are you all looking at me like that?' Lance asked.We were all staring at him because of what he had said about a house on the hill when we could not see anything anywhere except the hill covered in snow and the plane ground.'Your face didn't have it's usual seriousness when you said it,' Lucia answered. 'I am serious there is a hut on the hill,' Lance insisted.Asher didn't waste time anymore as he began to approach the hill in fast strides. Suddenly the bright and sunny sky changed colour and it began to rain. Before we knew it, we were drenched.'Hold hands,' Lance shouted in order to be heard above the angry wind.He held my hand and we held hands till the last person which was Ian. When Lance was sure that everybody was holding hands, he started moving up the hill.When we were on the hill properly and the wind was blowing powerfully, he shouted again. 'Whatever happens do not remove your hand from the other person.' The wind was loud. If not for our wolf e
Dawn's POV'You seem in love with this friend of yours right?' Asher asked as I went to stand beside him at the window. 'It is not what you think. I ...' I wanted to explain but Asher cut me off.'I understand the fact that you didn't expect to find a mate and I understand the fact that this person was there for you when no one was so it is quite understandable if you fell in love with him,' Asher said without turning his face from the window.'I do not love Diego. No. I love Diego like a brother. I didn't fall in love with him in a romantic way. He was there for me, yes. He was the only one I had, yes but I only saw and still see him as a brother. Nothing more,' I explained.'It doesn't look like it. You even rejected your mate's comfort just because he was mentioned,' Asher said. I could obviously see from his tone that he was not happy with what I did.'I am sorry Asher. Diego was like the only family I had. It is always a sore spot for me when he is mentioned. And the way Rocha w
Dawn's POVI couldn't stop looking at Asher all through the conversation in the sitting room. If he knew it, he didn't show it nor reacted as he paid rapt attention and gave the correct response.I had only hugged him so tightly because I wanted to be in his hands so bad. I had not expected him to kiss me and to do it in front of everyone like that. I was so shocked.'If the Vice President was killed then this sure confirms the fact that there are a lot of people involved in this crime in the council,' Lance said pulling me back to the present. 'It would have definitely taken a lot of those high up to be involved before a crime of that magnitude is committed right under their noses,' Dominus said rubbing his face tiredly.'Has his death been made public?' Maureen asked.'Not yet. A friend called me to inform me. Besides they have a bigger problem on their hands with the early morning gift you presented at the gate. The whole place is swarming with reporters and bloggers. Well done gu
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