Lance's POV'Mum are you sure you are ready for this?' Dominus asked the Luna after she said I was free to mark Maureen.'I am sure Dominus. I would do anything for my child,' she said to Dom. 'I understand why you are charging into this head first and I appreciate it a lot' I said to the Luna.'If you understand why I am doing this, does that mean you heard everything we were discussing just now?' The Luna asked.'Yes. Not everything but I heard enough to make me realize that my delay in marking my mate was risky,' I said.'I thought I caught your scent in the air but I thought I was just hallucinating because we were discussing you and Maureen.' 'Thank you so much Luna. I appreciate this,' I said appreciatively.'I would do anything for my child. Besides, the next few days after words get out about the fact that I am her birth mother might be tough. Take care of my girl, Lance,' the Luna said looking deep into my eyes as if she wanted to peek into my heart.'Maureen is my mate and
Maureen's POVThe preparation for Lucia's formal introduction to the pack had totally taken my mind off the incident where I nearly killed Lucia.I saw the excitement in Lucia's eyes and also the nervousness. The thought of the fact that she will be introduced as the future Luna must be very overwhelming for a simple girl like Lucia. 'Do you think the pack will accept me?' She had asked the previous night when we were picking the best jewelry for the cloth she was going to wear for the ceremony. 'Why won't they accept you?' I asked looking at her as if I wanted to scold her.'You know I am plained face. I don't think I am beautiful or charismatic enough to be a Luna,' she said sadly.'Are you fishing for compliments?' I asked raising a side of my mouth'What do you mean?' She asked looking confused.'You know you are beautiful Lucia. If you want me to reassure you, just say it,' I answered.'I am just nervous,' she said and I laughed at her. By the time it was morning Lucia was twi
Maureen's POVLance held my hands above my head and looked deep into my eyes.'You know better than to threaten me like that Maureen,' he said. 'You were doing your thing with Cybil, what do you expect me to do, applaud you?' I asked with anger still in my voice.Do you mean you want to allow other people to touch what is mine?' 'You allowed that whore to touch what is mine. Why can't I do the same?' I asked defiantly.Lance didn't say anything anymore. He simply took my lips with his. At first, I felt reluctant to reciprocate his kisses but as it became more intense, I had no option but to yield to him.He kissed me so hard as if he was trying to convey a message. I felt my insides melt. 'I will make love to you then mark you so that the whole pack and every wolf will know you are mine,' Lance said into my ears after he had removed his lips from mine.I shivered as goose pimples spread all over my body at Lance's voice. He gently released my hands and started unzipping my dress.
Lance's POVI was scared out of my mind but I had to keep it together for Maureen's sake. I stood in the mall and took one thing or the order from the shelf, read whatever was on it, and dropped it. I wasn't even reading the labels. I was only stalling for time. Two nights before I had marked Maureen and like Grandma Gina had said, she started having flashes of memories. Some she told me, some she didn't. At a point that night, I wanted us to go and wake Grandma Gina but Maureen insisted that we waited till morning. I could not sleep till daybreak. When I was sure Grandma Gina would be awake, I told Maureen to let's go to her room.I had mind-linked Dominus that night. I told him everything that was happening. So when we were about to go to Grandma Gina's room, I mind-linked him to join us there.Grandma Gina opened the door to us smiling as usual, not minding the fact that it was early in the morning.Grandma Gina offered us a seat on the couch by the bed while she sat down oppos
Lance's POVI watched from the glass window of the mall as the stranger stood up from the bench to walk away. Before I could blink, he had disappeared into thin air.I quickly ran out of the mall towards the park. Lucia too had found her way to Maureen. 'Are you sure you are okay?' Lucia was asking Maureen when I got to them.'I am fine. I told you guys that I would be fine,' Maureen said rolling her eyes at Lucia.'Do you blame us for distrusting a stranger?' I asked as I joined them on the bench. 'I didn't see him walk out of this park. He practically disappeared mid step. I had never thought that was possible,' Lucia said looking from one edge of the park to the other.Dominus and the soldiers stood some steps away. Dominus was addressing them. When he was through, he came to stand in front of us.'What did he say to you?' I asked Maureen. 'This is not the place or time to discuss that Lance. Let's get home first,' Dominus said.I had to mentally give kudos to him for stopping m
Maureen's POV'What and where is your proof?' The Alpha asked Alpha Amman.'My proof is standing right there,' Alpha Amman said pointing at me. I was shocked to realise that he knew the details of everything. I wondered if Emilia was the one who told him but then we had just met Emilia at the mall. It was not yet an hour. For Alpha Amman to travel from his pack to ours would take him nothing less than two and a half hours by car. But if he decided to get to our pack in his wolf form, he would spend at least one hour fifty minutes.And from his naked form, I knew exactly the form of transportation he decided to take. The distance Alpha Amman had covered had surely written off Emilia as the one who informed him of what was going on. Besides, the Alpha and Luna had not been able to talk to Emilia yet. 'You can't challenge me on mere suspicion Amman. I think you should go back to your pack and mind your own business,' Alpha said. He was angry and it showed in his posture and the way
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 walked into the garden behind the citadel with a smile on my face. It was dark outside but the moon was so bright. It would have been mistaken for early morning if not for the dark clouds and the bright shining stars. I discovered the garden three days after I got to the citadel. It was almost as beautiful as the garden in my dreams. I had made inquiries about who had been taking care of the garden. An elderly woman about the age of Grandma Gina had been brought to me. She did a wonderful job taking care of the garden.As I walked in the garden, touching one delicate flower after another, I couldn't help but reminisce on the events of the past week and the event of that day in particular. I had finally reinstalled the president to his rightful place. It had been a big occasion with wolves from every part of the kingdom there to witness the occasion. I was not one hundred percent sure of all the elders in the council, but I was sure I had over ninety-five percent of t
Ian's POVI couldn't sit and watch Shanty's conviction. A girl I have loved for the longest time. She was the only one I allowed into my space for the very first time. I was on a mission that I didn't want to be distracted from so I had no friends, no confidant, nothing until I met Shanty. Shanty betrayed me in the worst way ever, but my heart was still reluctant to let go of every memory we shared. I left the panel in the middle of a hearing. No one stopped me and I didn't look back either. I was in the bush all alone for two days eating whatever I could get. I was used to that anyway. I stopped being a loner after I met Maureen and the whole team. I shook my head to dispel the thought that I would never be invisible again. It was painful, but at the same time, it was a relief. I sought Grandma Gina and the leader of the waiters out the very minute I got to the council from High Moon. I wanted to know why I could no longer be invisible. I discovered that I lost my ability after
Maureen's POV 'Everything is all set in your pack. You and your children can go back to Eagle Moon now,' I said to Talon. We were in the pack main hall. It had not been easy to get Eagles pack up again but I had to. Talon needed his home, and the children, too, needed a balance. One of those that were used as his breeders said she couldn't stay with him, she wanted to go back to her pack. I didn't stop her. She needed her people to heal. The other female decided to stay, she said she couldn't leave her children in the care of another. 'Thank you, Your Majesty,' Talon said. 'I have told you to call me Maureen. You are my biological father, there is no way of writing that off,' I said.'I know what you said, and I understand, but I can't call you by name. I was just a vessel used to bring you to life. You and your wolf are far above me. So I will accord you the due respect,' Talon insisted. Dawn, Lance, Asher, and Leila were with me in the council's main hall while I addressed Tal
Maureen's POV'Asher you need to let the doctors examine her,' I said for the umpteenth time as the doctor tried to get to Dawn to no avail.We were at the council hospital. After so much shouting and noise, we got the Luna and Dawn to the clinic on time. The Luna was taken into the labor room while Dawn was placed in a ward, and a doctor was immediately allocated to her, but Asher wouldn't let the doctor access her. 'You need to let go of her Asher. You might be choking her as it is,' Lance said, making Asher let go of Dawn instantly.I had thought that we might have to bring Lucia in to make him sleep so that the doctor could attend to Dawn without his interference. When Asher lifted his face to us, I saw that his wolf was in control because his eyes were completely those of his wolf. 'Mate will be okay right?' Asher asked looking at me pitifully.'Yes. Your mate will be fine, but you need to step away from her,' I said, looking at him in the eyes.He eventually agreed to step b
Maureen's POV A Month and One Week Later 'Go ahead and explain yourself,' I said, then sat back on the chair to listen to what the Luna of Rolling Hills had to say. I had set up a panel that consisted of different people to look into evidence against those who wanted to seize the power of the golden wolf soldiers so that they could control the entire wolf kingdom. The panel consisted of faithful elders who had gone through a rigorous search into their minds by Dawn, the entire golden wolf team, and Alpha representatives from different packs, including the Alpha of High Moon and the waiters. I also made sure that the proceedings were adequately covered by the press. We were charging them with felony but not without allowing every one of them to say one or two things for themselves. There was a lot of evidence against them already, but that didn't stop me from asking them to say one or two things. It was the standard procedure. 'I have nothing to say. You have already found me
Maureen's POVLance and I walked hand in hand back to the citadel alongside Dad. My mind was on Asher but it was also with Dawn. She would be going crazy with worry. Mum met us at the door when we got to the citadel. She hugged me passionately. I wondered how many times while growing up why she never treated me like a mother would treat her only daughter but now that I knew why she was like that, I didn't blame her at all. 'How are you doing Your Majesty?' Mum asked holding my hand.'Not you too, mum, please,' I said, stepping away from her.'You are who you are now Maureen. We all must accept that,' Mum said smiling at me.'How is Asher?' I asked, intentionally changing the topic.'He is asleep,' Mum said.'He slept all through the journey back to the council. I am worried,' I said frowning lightly.'Let us go and see him,' Lance said putting his hand on my shoulder to turn me towards the stairs to the room Dawn and Asher share. 'How is the Luna mum?' I asked as we walked to Asher
Maureen's POVIt was quite easy to flood the pods with water. The fake soldiers melted into nothing as the water entered their pods. I knew that there must have been a place where the soldiers were made in large numbers. I just didn't expect it to be that close to the council.After we were sure the room was rid of all the soldiers, Asher advised that we rig the room so that it would blow up and destroy the pods in the process.'I think we should free Talon's breeders first before we do that. This whole place might blow up,' the doctor said as soon as Lance suggested it. I asked three soldiers and Dominus to follow the doctor while the rest of us stayed in the room to await them. Asher started working on the electricity connection in the room. Dominus and the soldiers returned shortly after with Talon's breeders. They were both holding their babies in their hands.'I knew you would come for us,' one of Talon's breeders said immediately she set her eyes on me. I remembered that she w
Maureen's POVFour Days Later'I wish to see your birth mother so that I can apologize for what I did to her,' Talon said to me. It was four days after I entered the citadel and I was crowned. It had been the four most hectic days of my life. It had been crazy sorting through a lot of things. The mess the power-drunk and hungry few had created was so huge. I had sent some of the golden wolf soldiers after girls who were kept at the council's border. One of the girls kept in the citadel had told us how she was brought in from the border. I was so busy that the last time I saw Talon after he came out of the hidden wall at the citadel was the following morning after the crowning when I had tried to heal him. It had worked but the doctor said he was malnourished and he needed a lot of rest. I had insisted on seeing Talon at that moment because I didn't know when next I would see him. He was at the council's main hospital, a stone's throw from the citadel. Dominus and Asher had been in
Maureen's POV'We will go to the citadel after I am sure that Lance is okay,' I said, looking from one waiter to the other. 'I am fine Reen. Asher dug the bullet out already,' Lance said before he stepped into the circle the waiters had made around me. 'Are you sure?' I asked looking into his face.'Yes. I am sure. It will heal soon once the blood coming out of it washes away the silver contamination,' Lance said looking down at the hand he was clutching with the other hand.'No pains?' I asked worriedly.'No serious pain. Let's proceed, I will tie it up when I am sure it is ready to be tied so that it can heal,' Lance said shrugging as if he wasn't in pain.'I can just heal you,' I protested.'Yes, you can but not now. Let's go,' Lance said. The waiters led the way to the citadel. They knew the way there and I didn't know how. I glanced sideways several times at Lance to be sure he was really not in pain. We stopped at some point while walking to the citadel as some females ran t