ASHERThe anxiety was getting the better part of me, but I knew that there was no way I would let myself sway. The safety of my pack was fully in my hands and I knew this was the only chance I had to save it.I stepped into the battlefield trying to push my fears behind me, at this time I was immediately swarmed by several werewolves whom I was certain were rogues, working under Serafina's powers.They were werewolves who didn't possess any special powers, so it was easy for me to fight them off, not unscathed though I did come out with some significant claw wounds which would eventually heal in no time.I tried to follow the source of the power, which I was certain was emanating from Serafina. I was sure it would eventually lead me to her.At the same time, while I tried to trace the power, I could not help but wonder what game Serafina was playing with me because it was obvious she wanted me to meet her at a particular spot.I didn't have time to think about it because my anger supe
ASHER'S POVIt happened at the speed of lightning, all I could remember was that I was talking to Finnegan. It was really working and he was starting to soften, but before I could realize what was going on, Serafina who was originally hiding behind the tree crept out.I was going to warm Finnegan, but it was too late because Serafina was too fast.She immediately hit him with her powers before I could send a word of warning and began sucking out his life force."Serafina? Stop." I ordered even though I knew my command held no water.She scoffed and didn't stopBefore my eyes, I saw Finnegan slowly turning into dust and it pained that I could do nothing to save him.Even when I tried, it was a waste of effort.Before I could aim my sword at Serafina and fight her to let go of him, she directed some of her magic at me and rendered me immobile."Serafina!" I shouted amidst gritted teeth.The veins in my neck and forehead all popped up out of anger, the anger of seeing Serafina show so mu
ELYSIA'S POV"Asher?"It had all felt like a very bad dream seeing everything crumbling down in front of my eyes.Now, seeing Asher being taken down to the ground was the worst of it all.I couldn't hold myself back, and before I could realize the harm I could be exposing myself to, I ran out of hiding and rushed towards Asher.Serafina turned to me the moment I ran out of hiding since my scream could have served as a source of distraction for her so she stopped her onslaught on Asher.From the way she looked at me so casually, I knew she didn't recognize me and I thought that could serve as an edge. But I didn't have any plans of fighting Serafina, at least not yet. All my thoughts and concerns were directed at Asher who was writhing in pain on the ground.She let out a loud laugh when she saw me running to Asher."Even your master and his right-hand man could not defeat me, what could possibly make you think that a lowly servant girl like you can do anything about it? I will win eve
ELYSIA'S POVI was equally shocked because I was yet to recover from the trauma of almost getting hit by one of Serafina's ghouls but I quickly got a fold of myself, especially after hearing Serafina scream.The look on her face showed that of amazement as if that was not supposed to happen.I immediately knew that she was distracted and it was time for me to strike. Serafina was clearly in shock, and as that, her attention had been taken to somewhere else.The first thing which crossed my mind was the fact that I had a knife and a gun, and Asher had taken time to train me extensively on how to use them.I quickly pulled out the gun from underneath my dress and aimed it at Serafina, I took time to get the perfect angle and when I thought I had aimed correctly at her, I pulled the trigger with my eyes tightly shut.I knew I had tried pulling the trigger several times during the training, but having to shoot it at an actual person now made me more nervous than I could have imagined that
ELYSIA'S POVThe moment that followed after the explosion of the white light was total stillness and calmness, but it was the kind of calmness that happened whenever a disaster was about to erupt.Even Serafina who seemed to be in charge of the moment was not left out in the astonishment of the recent and surprising occurrence. She paused what she was busy doing and directed her surprised gaze at me.She stared at me in shock for the next few minutes before she tried to direct her powers at me.Her powers were paused halfway since the white light was stronger and prevented her powers from getting to me.Not only did I notice that the light made me feel lighter by lifting the tension that had dwelled in me all through the chaos, it made me feel stronger, invincible and untouchable.Serafina looked disappointed when her powers seemed to bounce back instead of actually reaching me and knocking me out.She tried again, but this time around I redirected her powers back at her with full for
ELYSIA'S POVWith utmost satisfaction, I watched the once powerful Serafina who had haunted my dreams for the past few days crumble and turn into complete dust. The look in her eyes when she looked up at me as her body finally gave way was satisfying, I had been longing to see that look in her eyes for a very long time, all the times she had haunted me and I had looked up at her so powerlessly, I had wished that one day, I would get the chance to feel this satisfaction of seeing her crumble.I raised my hand after she turned into complete dust and life began to return to the pack. Everything Serafina had destroyed within her short stay in the palace was gradually restored and began to return to normal. It was as if a total transformation was going on in the pack and because the entity that brought about this reformation resided in me, I could not help but feel like I was in the centre of it all.Even Finnegan who had earlier turned to dust came back to life and returned to being norma
ASHER'S POVI was furious when one of the guards suggested that I take the car because I wanted to get Elysia to the hospital as soon as possible before she went completely cold.But I realized that taking her there on food would be detrimental to her and probably wear her out more so I immediately agreed and let the guard drive us.I carefully made Elysia's head on my thigh so I could look into her face all through the drive to the hospital. She didn't look to be in a good state, the bleeding was not stopping and her body was getting colder. It was more frustrating to me that I could not do anything to save her.To say I was overwhelmed with everything that was you on would have been an understatement, my mind was absolutely in total chaos. Especially when Elysia's eyes started to flutter close despite everything I did to keep her awake."Elysia," I called aggressively and started to shake her violently but nothing was working.It looked like the more I tried to shake her awake, the
ASHER'S POVMy heart pumped out of curiosity and I rushed towards the doctor who came out of the operating room. I tried to guess what the situation was like by evaluating the looks on the faces of the doctors but they all had blank looks on their faces. They always had that blank look on their faces whenever they delivered even bad news or good news. I began to wonder if they were trained specially to keep their faces like that when talking to patients."How was it?" I asked desperately, "Was it successful? How is she?""Cut the suspense and just tell me how Elysia is," I screamed when I didn't get any response from them immediately."Calm down," the doctor tried to assure me. "Everything is under control, the operation was successful.""What could be the cause of the breakdown?" I asked the doctor curiously."I think her display of power earlier kind of took a toll on her health since it did much to strain her body and overwork her organs. But we were able to stabilize her, we were
ELYSIA'S POVBoth I and Asher were over the moon that night after we returned home with our set of twins.We were welcomed home by all the excited pack members and and the servants in the palace when we returned home with our children.They must have been waiting outside the palace as soon as they heard about my delivery.Neither I nor Asher could get any sleep that night because we were too excited. Even the food we were served for rejected because we could not eat it.Instead, we both sat awake watching the faces of the two children."Miraculous isn't it?" Asher asked me as we sat over the babies' cot watching the sleep."We expected just one child, but the goddess ended up giving us two." He told me.I had a bright smile on my face because I had other things in mind.It was difficult for he to believe the drastic turn around in my life within the past year. I remembered that I had come here as I breeder, but here I was, as the Luna and with a set of twins for the Alpha.I began to
ELYSIAI let out a soft gasp and took in a deep breath when I felt the sharp pain in my stomach for the second time that day. Apart from the cramp in my stomach, it was more difficult trying to keep a straight face and pretending to be fine even when I felt that much pain. I tried to ignore the pain, hoping that it would go away soon. After all that wasn't the first time and the doctor had told me several times that the pain was normal.It was already nine months into my pregnancy but I was not yet close to the delivery date the doctor had given me.I was helping out at work in the pack. I had been doing that ever since because Asher had refused to assign another beta after what happened with Nikolai so I had been doing most of the beta work.And I must confess that it had been an interesting one for me all this while since it gave me a sense of belonging and I no longer felt left out.Soon, Asher came in with dinner for me. My eyes lit up the moment I saw him."You look stressed." He
ELYSIA'S POVThe tension which was starting to rise in me since I woke up and found myself in shackles under Nikolai quickly began to clear as soon as my eyes met with Asher's. I sucked in a breath and tried not to let the relief show on my face and instead, keep distracting Nikolai so that Asher could get all the time to do whatever he had to do."Why are you doing this, Nikolai? I thought you and Asher were friends, he trusted you with his life and you chose to do this to him."I was actually really surprised that Nikolai was doing this, despite all the trust Asher had in him."Why am I doing this?" Nikolai scoffed."It's because I'm pained, you moron." He fired at me."I hate the fact that Asher has always been the one to get all the good things. He is the Alpha while I was just his side dog who followed him around like a faithful servant." He fumed."And among all, he is cruel and wicked, while I clean up his messes. Do you know how tiring it is having to be the one to clean up th
ASHER'S POVWhen I got back from the errand I had to run, I went straight into the room to find Elysia. All through my drive back home, my mind had been on Elysia, I could not just wait for the evening so that we would go back to our pack and enjoy the peace which we had missed for the past few months.There was a smile on my face when I pushed the door open because I had gotten Elysia one of her favourite snacks and I was anticipating the look on her face when I handed it over to her.The smile on my face immediately faded when I pushed the door open and noticed that Elysia was not in the room, and from the look of things, it looked like she had been gone for a long.I got a little apprehensive but didn't think much of it. I brushed it off because I had left her under the care of Nikolai. If anything had gone wrong, he would have called immediately to inform me.I thought they had probably gone out for a walk and would be back soon, so I decided to take that chance and pack up our st
ELYSIA'S POVI woke up after a while to see Asher hovering over me and looking into my face.He had a knot on his forehead which immediately began to fade as soon as he noticed that I was awake. He let out a deep breath and leaned in to hug me.I was lying on the bed while Asher was sitting down and hovering over me. I had no idea for how long we had been like that."Thank God you are awake." He whispered to me."For how long have I been asleep?" I asked him and sat up on the bed."For as long as possible," he teased and felt my temperature with the back of his palm. "We are leaving this evening, and I just want to be sure that I have everything right."I nodded, it was about time we went back home after all."What happened at the meeting? How did it end?" I asked him because I could not remember anything that had happened after I made to storm out of the meeting.He explained to me everything that happened after the goddess took over my body the previous day and how she had warned th
ELYSIA'S POVThe Alphas insisted that I should showcase my powers in front of them in order for them to determine if I would remain as Luna or not.A scoff escaped my lips as I watched him spit out the words with so much authority like they were in their rights.I was infuriated with the audacity of the Alphas to make such a request of me. I considered it a direct insult to both I and Asher.Who gave them the right to make such a request of me? Did they think I was some sort of show dog or something that they could push around the way they liked and use for their entertainment?My jaw tightened and my fists clenched with every single word that left the lips of the Alpha who was addressing us.I burst out when I couldn't take it anymore because they were trying to treat me like a show dog instead of a Luna."What exactly do you take me for?" I lashed out at them. "A puppet? That you can order around the way you like? "Stay away from me, all of you and stop trying to control me." I bark
ASHER'S POVI woke up before Elysia the next morning and I lay beside her till she woke up.She stretched herself and her eyes fluttered open to see me leaning over her and looking at her with a smile on my face.She looked around the room in confusion at first, and it took a while before I realized that she was confused as to where she was. It was equally soothing to note that despite her confusion, Elysia was calm seeing my face there.She blinked rapidly for a while and sat up before she finally recalled where we were."For how long have you been awake?" She asked me."I woke up not long ago," I told her even while knowing that I actually didn't get much sleep because I was worried that the Alphas were going to try something while we were asleep."The meeting is scheduled to be held later today," I told her. "After that, we would go back home where it's peaceful, okay," I assured her.She snuggled closer to me and I put my arms around her protectively and rubbed her back. I heard h
ASHER'S POVWe got ready and packed up that night, and the next morning, we set off for the place where the meeting was to be held.We went with two cars because we needed to take along with us the other people who were in the field the other day and some of my men.I kept having a hitch in my breath all through the morning even while we packed up the things we would be needing for the duration of the meeting into the car."Are you ready?" Elysia turned to me once we were done and I swallowed hard."Yes,"I did not seem to be able to get my heart to be at peace all through the drive there because I was worried. I could not just shake off the feelings that something was going to go wrong.I felt the strong urge to suddenly turn the car around and return to my pack, but I knew I could not do that because whether I liked it or not, I would eventually have to answer to the call of the other Alphas and I realized that the earlier I did that, the better for both I and Elysia.I knew Elysia
ELYSIA'S POVAt first, it felt like I was floating in a cluster of clouds since I could no longer feel my body touching the ground, instead, I felt strong arms around me and holding me closely to a soft body.My eyes fluttered open to see Asher carrying me securely in his arms.I blinked my eyes open and looked into his face."Asher," I mumbled.He looked a little bit upset and didn't even spare me even the slightest smile."What were you doing falling asleep in the nursery where you could have gone to bed?" He asked me crossly.I wrapped my arms tightly around his neck and hugged him."I was trying to put it in order since you were out with Nikolai, you didn't come back on time so I thought I should do something to pass the time," I said, pouting."But, you shouldn't have fallen asleep there, you know sleeping like that on the ground could be dangerous for our child." He said and used one of his hands to push the room door open.I had considered that earlier, but I didn't realize whe