My Lycan Prince.Chapter Forty-Eight.Never In all my life have I ever seen a place like this. The forest I’m walking through has thick fog that hugs the trees and these aren’t normal trees, they're burning purple at the tops and it never spreads but never dies down either. Where the hell am I?Am I dead?“Hello?” I say, walking deeper into the fog. I’m barefoot and for some odd reason I’m in a hospital gown. No one answers me. My head snaps to the left when an owl howls. Its eyes are red. It's bigger than any normal owl I’ve ever seen.I heard the sound of running water. Pushing through some hanging limbs I can hear my feet crunch against the leafs as I step forward. That’s weird, why are only the tops of the trees burning purple and not the rest of it? When I push through the last of the limbs something even weirder happens. It went from being dark to being daylight with clear blue skies and sunny. Tons of different colored flowers laid on the ground surrounding this beautiful w
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Forty-Nine.Six months later.“Lily, are you sure about this?” Clara asks, nodding my head she heaves a sigh.I’ve spent the last six months living with her in a two bedroom apartment. Avery is over a year old and his stuff has taken over the apartment. It’s time I got my own place, for me and Avery. I finally found a decent job working as a secretary at the historical museum. I can honestly say I love my job, not only do I learn more about history but I like everyone I work with. It’s a great place to work.“Fine. But I’m not happy about it,” Clara says, walking into the building. The biltmore is located right by time square and not too far from my job and Avery’s daycare, so it was the most convenient place to be. “Dwayne keeps popping in on you and I can’t risk him seeing me,” I say, after catching up with her.She narrows her eyes. “And what will he say when he doesn’t see Avery?” Clara said.I’ve already come up with an idea for that if it was to come
My Lycan Prince.Chapter. Fifty.Work has been great. I love my new position at the museum. The bump in my pay helps a lot with Avery. He's growing so much that most of clothing doesn’t fit. Clara and I are going clothes shopping since we both have the same day off work and Avery’s at daycare. We’re going to make a day of it. Clara has been seeing a lot of Dwayne, if they don’t see each other they are always talking on the phone and texting. According to Clara it’s not like that but I can see she’s hoping that it is and she’s just preparing for the worst outcome. I think Dwayne is finally starting to see how great Clara is. “We should hit up the toy store too,” Clara say once we pay for the clothes. I shake my head.“I need to get him a couple of different shoes, toys is not what he needs,” I remind her.“We can get shoes. But we’re also going to the toy store.” She said firmly. Avery loves that Clara spoils him rotten. “Fine,” I say, giving up the fight. She wouldn’t stop until
My Lycan Prince. Chapter Fifty-One.Five Years Later……“Avery, don’t forget your lunch,” I Tell him, he runs back into the apartment and grabs his lunch box. Avery looks more like Wyatt today, other days I see Noel. The past five years have been challenging learning everything as a first time mom. But I’ve been managing pretty well. Avery’s turning out great, he’s on the A honor roll at school. “Did you lock the door after you left?” I asked him, once he came back to the elevator.He nods his head and presses the down button.Rose calls me often. She and Riley have been married for three years now and they welcomed a daughter five months ago. They named her Olivia. Clara calls everyday. I still miss her. She’s doing great with her own firm. It's rated second out of ten on the island and Dwayne has finally admitted his feelings for her two years ago, she called me crying with joy. I still can’t believe it’s been over five years since I faked my death. I still think of Archer ever
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Fifty-Two.My body was trembling, I was afraid to turn around. Afraid to face him. Avery tugs on my hand and I Glanced down at him.“Mommy, who’s that man?” He whispers. I close my eyes and turn around.My lips parted, when His blue eyes locked mine. He’s wearing a formal wedding suit black tux with a white button down and yellow tie. His brown hair was still tousled only his face was no longer smooth he has a five o clock shadow which only adds to his handsome face.No. Just stop Lily, you didn’t come here for him. You came for Clara. Don’t get drawn back into his arms he will only hurt you more.Archer's jaw tics when my eyes locked back in his. I knew he wouldn’t be happy about me faking my death but he wasn’t the one hurting…I was. Archer took steps toward me and Avery’s grip on my hand tightened and he hid behind me and Archer glanced down at him then back at me before he disappeared into the door beside the one I was going into too. ……..Clara and Dw
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Fifty-Three.“You left me. How could you do that?” Lunar asked. Because I was young and dumb and I let my emotions get the best of me. I wanted to say but i didn’t say anything. When I don’t answer him, Lunar grabs my throat. Lunar has never been gentle with me but even now I know he would never hurt me. “Tell me now,” He growls low in my ear. His hot breath tickled, causing goosebumps to rise on my skin. “I heard something when I woke up from my coma. Something that shattered my heart and broke me, something that took me two years to get out of my head. I couldn’t take the pain….So I faked my death,” I told him. When Lunar eyes land on the tears that fell from my eyes he let’s go of me and steps back. “I'm sorry Lunar. I never meant to hurt you,” I whispered. He shook his head.“It’s late. You need to sleep, you're staying here. I don’t want you on the roads at this hour,” Lunar said. I said nothing and only nodded my head. It wasn’t Lunars fault what
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Fifty-Four.Archer has been hanging around my house for the past couple of weeks. And as much as I hate to admit it, I like seeing him everyday. Usually I’ll make dinner and we eat and watch movies. I’ve been enjoying him staying over every night but I sometimes forget he has a fiancé back at the mansion. “Archer, maybe you shouldn’t stay tonight. Marianna is your fiancé, don't you think she wants to be with you?” Archer looks down at me and shakes his head.“She’ll be fine,” He murmurs.I raise up and glare at him. How can he say that? He’s marrying her yet he doesn’t care about her feelings…..just like he didn’t care for mine.“You don’t get it do you?” I say, shaking my head. “Get what?” He asked.I stand to my feet and walk to the window. The thunderstorm has increased and the rain is pouring beating against the glass.I never thought my heart would ever heal but Archer mended the pieces back together since I’ve been back. Butterflies erupted in my sto
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Fifty-Five.The whole island was talking about the accident that happened two days ago. The deadly crash that took two lives. Why was everyone talking about it? Well you see one of the men that died? Was very well known on the island; his name was released hours after the crash. Archer Martago.My whole world came crashing down when Clara called me with the news. I was in complete shock. I mean there was no way that Archer was dead, it just couldn’t be there had to be some kind of mistake. But there wasn’t. Archer was gone.Avery didn’t take the news well, and he hasn’t stopped crying since. Me? I’ve been back in that dark place. I haven't eaten or talked that much since. Trapped in my own twisted head that has led me back down this darkness this time around I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.How could there be any kind of light for me after this? How can I ever find happiness again? Archer and I were doing great. He kissed me and told me that h
My Lycan PrinceEpilogue two. Ten Years Later…Avery Cole.Coming back to the island was something I told myself I’d never do. Not after Grandpa Dwayne and My father wanted me to go into their business. I didn’t want to make a name for myself and that’s exactly what I did.I had my name legally changed to Avery Cole instead of Martago. That last name carries with it a power that I wanted to possess but I wanted to gain that power on my own with my own name.I left the island at eighteen and went to college in California. I haven’t left the state since. After I finished business school I got my first job and from there I went on to create my own company Cole Enterprise. It only took me six years to do it. Both my parents were proud of me for what I have accomplished but I still dreaded coming back to the island. But my sister Sierra is getting married to some high school sweetheart and begged me to come. There’s a reason I left the island. It wasn’t because of the family business.
Epilogue Five-Years Later……“Lily, don’t forget Whitney is going with Sierra and I to the movies. Avery refuses to go,” Archer tells me.“He’s a teenager with mood swings,” I smile at him.Avery has changed a lot over the years, the things he used to love to do he hates now and he refuses to go anywhere with us as a family unless we force him to go. Since Sierra has Whitney going with her today I won’t make Avery go. “I know. We could have hung out while the girls played games before the movie,” Archer shrugged. Dwayne and Clara took a two day trip to the beach for their wedding anniversary. Archer and I are minding after Whitney.Clara hated to leave Whitney behind but like I told her she needs time to be with her husband and not have the baby around. Archer and I took a couple of days to ourselves last month. It was so nice and we enjoyed the little bed and breakfast.“I can try talking to him,” I tell him, turning to head up the stairs.Archer grabs my arm and pulls me back sh
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Sixty-One.Four Years Later…..“I’m so glad we’re finally having lunch with just the two of us. It’s been a while since we’ve had a girls day out,”ound i Clara said, taking a sip of wine. She’s right. It’s been a while since we’ve had a day for us. With being wives and mothers finding the time to be just us is hard. But I’m glad we found the time.“Me too.” I told her and as my eyes glanced around the room they landed on a familiar face, one I’ve seen from the dream where Archer died. I didn’t think much of it at first but now…it couldn’t be a coincidence could it?“Hold on. I’ll be right back,” I told Clara. She nodded and started looking through the menu. I walked over and stood at the table where the woman sat alone eating her meal. She was just as beautiful as the last time I saw her.Flash back from the dream.“Clara. You can’t be serious? I told you I wasn’t ready to start dating so soon,” Clara shrugs her shoulders. “Too, Late. Your date with Matthew
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Sixty.As I stand in front of the full length mirror in my old room in the palace. The plain white mermaid cut wedding dress fits my body like a glove. This dress suited me better than the ones in my dream when I was Marrying Mattie. The dress may be plain with just lace but it’s beautiful. Archer has never asked me to change who I am. He doesn’t demand I wear makeup to make me look more attractive or tells me not to eat so much because I’m getting too fat. Archer loves me for who and what I am.Lily Monroe.I’m far from perfect but who’s perfect these days anyway? I helped Clara plan the wedding with Archer. We've spent the last six months doing nothing but wedding things. My hair is curled and falls down my back. Archer doesn’t care about my hair, he cares about what makes me happy. Clara applied a thin layer of eye shadow and mascara and a touch of red for my lips. I don’t like makeup but I made an exception for today. Clara and I decided to go with a w
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Fifty-Nine.I stood from the couch and walked to the kitchen and grabbed a glass and held it under the faucet. I gulped the water down, my throat was so dry.I heard the front door open and close and I sighed.“I’m in the kitchen Mattie,” I said loud enough he would hear me but wouldn’t wake Avery. I rinsed out the glass and sat back on the drainer.“Who’s Mattie?”I froze. I closed my eyes tightly and shook my head.No. It’s not him, don't let your mind play tricks on you. If you keep this up you're going straight to the psych ward.His finger wrapped around my hips and he squeezed. His hot breath tickled my ear.“Answer the fucking Question Lily. Who the fuck is Mattie?” Archer asked again.I shook my head.“This isn’t real. You’re dead.” I said aloud, it was more for myself than him.Archer flips me around but my eyes stay closed to be afraid of what I’d see if I opened them.“What?” He said.Tears had already begun to run down my cheeks. I know this isn’
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Fifty-Eight.It’s been three weeks since Dwayne gave me Archer's ring. Three weeks I’ve thought about nothing but Archer's death. I’m not sure why Archer felt the need to ask me to marry him. I never once mentioned marriage. I was just happy that he loved me.Mattie saw Archers ring the night Dwayne gave it to me. He asked me where I got it and I told him Dwayne gave it to me he only nodded his head, never said anything further. I asked Mattie why he wanted to marry me when he cheats every chance he gets it. His answer? Oh you’ll love this one.“I’m marrying you because I love you. But what you don’t give me they do, so it’s a win win for the both us,” I just rolled my eyes at him. For as long as we’ve been together I haven’t once slept with him. I don’t plan to either.With only a week to the wedding I’ve been spending time with Avery. He seems happy that Mattie will be in his life and he will have someone to look up to.Avery doesn’t know about Mattie’s c
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Fifty-Seven.“She’s having a mental breakdown?” The voice I heard was not familiar and sounded like he smoked two packs of cigarettes a day. When no one spoke his raspy voice hummed.“They won’t tell you the truth. She’s family, they don’t want her locked up. But yeah I believe she’s having a breakdown,” I knew that voice. It was Mattie’s. How could he do this to me?I still can’t speak. I can’t even lift my arms or try to defend myself. I’m a helpless sitting duck.“I wouldn't say she’s having a mental breakdown. She just can’t seem to get out of the grieving process. It’s been years since he died,” Clara said.“Ah, I see. It’s not that she can’t get out of the grieving process. It’s that she has yet to grieve, she probably hasn’t let it sink in that he was gone. We can start her on some depression medication and I would suggest seeing a psychiatrist. This will be a long and painful process for her.” “Thanks Doctor,” It was Dwayne who spoke this time.“Th
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Fifty-Six.It’s been three months since I accepted Mattie’s proposal and I have hated myself ever since. Clara was excited and started planning the wedding the next day. The date is set for only four months from now. I’m not sure what I’m feeling at this point. I’m too numb to let it all sink in.Avery was happy with the news as well; he thinks of Mattie as a father. I don’t know why that breaks my heart like it does ... .but does my heart ache watching them throw a football back and forth. Clara wanted me to meet her for wedding dress shopping today. I didn’t wanna go but you know Clara she would have just dragged me here whether I like it or not. “Wow. Lily, this is the one,” Clara nods.“I agree,” Rose smiles with tears in her eyes.Jenny couldn’t make it today. I wish she could have been here.The dress is beautiful. Ball Gown strapless heart shaped neckline, with lots of crystals. This wouldn’t have been my choice of dress but I don’t care I just want
My Lycan Prince.Chapter Fifty-Five.The whole island was talking about the accident that happened two days ago. The deadly crash that took two lives. Why was everyone talking about it? Well you see one of the men that died? Was very well known on the island; his name was released hours after the crash. Archer Martago.My whole world came crashing down when Clara called me with the news. I was in complete shock. I mean there was no way that Archer was dead, it just couldn’t be there had to be some kind of mistake. But there wasn’t. Archer was gone.Avery didn’t take the news well, and he hasn’t stopped crying since. Me? I’ve been back in that dark place. I haven't eaten or talked that much since. Trapped in my own twisted head that has led me back down this darkness this time around I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.How could there be any kind of light for me after this? How can I ever find happiness again? Archer and I were doing great. He kissed me and told me that h