GWEN’S POVIt was early evening and we were taking a stroll down the road. Alpha Blake and I were having a nice time as we greeted the wolves who stopped to bow down to us and smile as we passed by them. I felt so loved with how close Blake was holding me to his chest.Absolutely nothing could go wrong when one was loved fiercely the way Blake loved me. Nora had been quiet since our last encounter few days prior and all I could feel was gratitude and relief that she had finally accepted the reality that Blake was really and truly mine and was never going to be hers no matter how much she wanted it.“Eat the grapes, stop pushing them aside”Hitting him on the chest softly, I scolded him because from the bowl that I was cradling and taking cut up fruits from, he kept moving the grapes aside.“I don’t like them. They taste nasty”I rolled my eyes at his scrunched-up face and how serious he sounded over something as simple as grapes. What person in their right senses didn’t like grapes? G
GWEN’S POV“Why are you here?”She threw her head back and laughed loudly like I had just cracked the funniest joke she had ever heard in all her years of living. As she did that, I looked around me trying to see if there was anything that I could use to defend myself if push eventually came to shove and she tried to attack me or do something crazy. I wasn’t going to put it past her to do something and I needed to be ready for that eventuality if it later came to pass.“You still have a mouth on you, I see. Let’s see whether you’ll still have that when I’m done.”A trickle of trepidation went down my spine and I felt it ricochet through my body like I touched a live wire which made an electric current pass through me. I didn’t know what she was going to do, but I was watching her keenly. She raised her hand and folded her fingers into a fist. As she did that, I could see her lips moving rapidly, like she was speaking a language that enabled her to talk a million miles a minute. At fir
GWEN’S POVHolding unto my stomach tightly as I screamed my throat raw with my eyes screwed so shut that I saw stars behind my eyelids. I prayed and wished for death to claim me. I didn’t know how, but Nora had somehow found out that I was with a child and was doing something to my cub. That was the only explanation as to why she was targeting my stomach when she could inflict pain anywhere else. I wanted to stop her in any way that I could, but the pain I was feeling was so blinding that even I knew it was going to be impossible unless something happened to stop her from harming me.I doubted that Blake was going to be much help as I was sure that he was still on the floor from when Nora had unvaryingly slammed him down like he was a bag of foodstuff and not someone with breath in his lungs and blood in his veins. Last I saw him, he was yet to move which meant that the likelihood of him being unconscious or even lifeless was in the balance. I didn’t have an idea what I was going to d
GWEN’S POVThe skies were clear blue overhead and as I sat on the log, the sounds of birds chittering all around gave me the solace and reprieve that my mind wanted to take away. When I felt the tears brimming behind my eyelids and the burn at the back of my throat, I raised my head up to the sky and prayed to the moon goddess or any other deity watching over me to be of some help.“Please…”My voice sounded broken even to my ears. I was in a dire state of despair as I didn’t know what to do. Everywhere I looked, there was a reminder of the pain both emotional and physical that I endured. I felt like a monster when I wished that I could develop some level of amnesia so I didn’t have a recollection of the events that marred the once peaceful life that I used to have but that seemed like the best thing to ask for, not like it came to pass anyway.“I… I’m sorry”A sob broke through my throat as I rendered the apology to nature surrounding me since there was no way I could get it to the p
GWEN’S POVBolting up in bed so sharply that I heard the grinding of a bone in my back due to my sudden movement, I sprang up straighter than a limp noodle with my hand over my mouth as I tried to control the nausea that was racking through my body. Already dry heaving, I pushed the covers that someone must have draped over my body while I was sleeping and rushed to the nearest door I could find not knowing where it led but hoping that I was going to find myself either in a bathroom or somewhere outside where I could expel the contents of my stomach that were so painfully letting me know that they needed to be released whether I liked it or not.Luckily for me, the door led to a toilet. I didn’t have enough time to be grateful for that before another wave of nausea came over me reminding me of the reason why I was there in the first place. I didn’t waste any time in making a beeline for what I was more interested in there. Bending over at the knees, I forced my head into the toilet bo
BLAKE’S POVThe breeze flitted in through the window, carrying the scent of wildflowers with it. The ambiance reminded me of a time when I was alive with so much vigor, a time where my youthful exuberance was so much at play, a time where responsibilities didn’t weigh my shoulders down far more than bags of stones heaped on them, a time that I took for granted and knew was never going to come back.The white garment I was putting on shone as it reflected the light from the moon, I took a deep breath and turned to look at the bed. She lay there, so peaceful and serene like she had no idea what it meant to hurt a fly. I raised my hand and stretched it towards her.Before I could touch her, I stopped myself just in time as I remembered what had happened the last time I made contact with her skin. She had broken out in a cold sweat, thrashing all over the bed so much that she feared she was going to hurt herself. Then as if suddenly struck by lightning, she bolted up and practically ran d
GWEN’S POVMy head was muddled up. It felt like I was submerged in water and trying to break through the surface in order to take a breath. I couldn’t tell left from right and it was way too uncomfortable a feeling. I felt like I had just been taken on a fast ride. It made me remember back when I was really, really young and I would turn around in circles so fast that when I stopped, I couldn’t stand in one spot and just kept on swaying because of how dizzy I felt.“Gwen?”I felt someone shaking me as I lowered myself to sit on the nearest thing I could find. Bracing my hands on the surface to ground myself back to whatever reality was, I opened my eyes and rested them on the person before me.“Blake?”I didn’t know when I said his name out loud. Blinking repeatedly, I tried to make sense of what seemed to be reality. I couldn’t even differentiate between things anymore. How was he there?“Are you real?”I poked him and when I saw that my hand hadn’t gotten through his body, I brought
GWEN’S POVThe man finally cleared his throat to speak. As he spoke, the hair on my eyebrows kept rising until I was sure there was no difference between my eyebrows and my actual hairline. When he was done, I looked at him skeptically and told him straight up to stop feeding Blake with lies just because he wanted to remain in his favor and, instead, tell him the blatant truth. He kept insisting that he was saying the truth and that was when I lost the lid on my annoyance and snapped at him.I recounted the pain I felt as I lost my cub and how dejected I felt for so long because of the huge loss I suffered. He was gobsmacked for a moment, his eyes wide like a deer caught in headlights. In all the interaction, Blake remained quiet, merely watching us as we conversed heatedly, or rather, as I conversed, I was in a heated manner. After the healer got off the initial shock, he apologized for reminding me of what I had been through.“Alpha Blake, it seems like we may have a bigger problem
BLAKE'S POVThe fear in the eyes of the midwife made me want to rush to the delivery room and bring out my wife. At this point, I did not mind not having to have our baby for now. All I wanted was to have my wife back in one piece.“What…what's the problem? " What's going on?” I yelled at her, losing the last ounce of self-control I had left in me. The midwife instantly transformed with fear and my heart started beating fast. “She…uhm, Luna is having issues breathing, and she keeps crying even after the baby.” She said and my heart dropped. I instantly returned Nathan to her and ran into the delivery room when Gwen was screaming her head off.“Don't let her take me, Blake. " Don't let her take me, please.” She was crying and writhing in pain. So much that our mate bond began to hurt me as well. I rushed to her and held her hands, Then I noticed the midwife returning to the room with our baby in her hands and I got an idea.“Give me the baby,” I instructed the midwife and she passed h
GWEN’S POVAs the days got closer to my due date, my body felt the stress of carrying another life apart from the one that it was used to carrying. My back hurt, my knees hurt, my feet ached, and even my stomach wasn’t left out as the sensations in there felt very uncomfortable. My baby was kicking so hard that I was convinced he wanted to become a footballer or an athlete and was ready to get straight into the field once he was out in the world.Every night before I went to bed, I had to get a massage of my waist and my swollen legs because they just ached so badly. Even Blake had gotten to apologizing for making me go through all that I was going through because of his big-headed baby. I knew that pregnancy was supposed to be a glorious time and mine used to be but it was fast losing its sparkle and becoming a trying time.As if all of that wasn’t enough, the heartburn I was suffering had me staying away from foods I craved so much all because they set the heartburn off so much. So
GWEN’S POV“Bring the other box for me”I had been buying a lot of things in preparation for the baby’s arrival and I just knew that I was going too crazy with my purchases. The baby wasn’t here yet but if I didn’t want to buy any clothes for the next year, we were still going fo be alright.The box was brought to me and opened to reveal a blue jumper that looked like the best thing ever created in the world. We awwwed and ahhed at it before setting it aside to look at the contents of the next box.“Woah, I wasn’t informed that we were opening a supermarket in our room”I flew off the bed I was sitting on and into the arms of Blake, who was at the door as he had only just come in. It was lunchtime, so I wasn’t surprised to see him. We shared a kiss and then, I dragged him to bed with me to look through my purchases with me.“You got all these in blue? Why not pink?”Blake was adamant that we were going to be having a girl but I was still stuck on the hill that it was going to be a boy
GWEN’S POV“Trances are only a gateway between the past and the future. There is but a thin line which separates both time parts and the wielder of gifts should be careful to recognize that. Sometimes, the present may even get interwoven at certain points because of the emotional attachment of the wielded powers to events happening around. Trances may come as flashes in the eye of the mind and may be triggered by the five senses. The sense of touch and smell are the strongest triggers of this. Hence why a wielder should be careful what is touched because then the curtain may be shifted and what lays beyond glimpsed”I was so invested in the book I was reading that I didn’t even realize that the sun was now setting. I had picked up the book I took from Nora’s room which I had been unable to glance through for so long after lunch ane had been reading voraciously.From what I had read so far, I was coming to understand that the moon goddess had blessed me with a gift so rare that many eo
BLAKE’S POV“Could it be true?”Seated in my office alone, I pondered on the events of the previous day. I was over the moon that Gwen was now speaking to me after I explained that all the times Nora and I had met up had been for the baby we were expecting. She had been extremely skeptical and withdrew her belief in my explanations, not until my personal guards confirmed what I said.Embarrassed didn’t cut how I felt that Gwen couldn’t take my word for it but instead, had to rely on the words of my staff who served me. I understood why she wasn’t giving me her trust freely but that still didn’t take away the sting. When that case was resolved and I apologized for once again, making her feel like she was coming second in my life, I brought up the drawing.She had tried to deflect by apologizing about intending to move out but I quickly redirected her attention back to it because I knew I hadn’t hallucinated the slight sense of alarm in her voice when she asked me what I was doing with
BLAKE’S POV“So what do we do about it now?”The table broke out in murmurs as people spoke with themselves, trying to come up with a solution to the matter at hand. Things were spiraling out of control so fast that I worried if we didn’t do anything quickly, we were going to be at the mercy of our enemies.I knew that I wasn’t the only one who recognized that there was a bigger issue, far bigger than the one we were being faced with because it was clear that everyone at the table with me was worried. The meeting didn’t seem to be yielding any progress and we had been at it for a few hours already.“I’m not hearing any suggestions”When there were still no profitable suggestions more than 30 minutes later, I adjourned the meeting to two days later so that everyone had enough time to come up with something tangible that we could use to protect ourselves while we tried to understand what was going on with the strange breaking-ins we had been having around the pack.“How is she doing tod
GWEN’S POVMoving back and forth in the room, I slammed my clothes in the open suitcase on the bed, all the while muttering angrily to myself. He hadn’t even bothered to come after me, which just meant that he was okay with me leaving. He didn’t mind that I was about to walk away from our marriage and his life with our baby. Perhaps this was something I should have done a long time ago.So annoyed was I that I didn’t even bother to get everything that was mine in the drawers, deciding instead to come back for it when I was a bit more settled in where I was going to be staying till I finally left the pack as a whole. No, I had a change of mind. If I stayed, he was still going to have access to me. It was best I just left, so I could put everything behind me and start a new life altogether somewhere else.My suitcase beside me and a small messenger bag slung over my shoulder, I started making my way towards the door. I didn’t look at anyone as I walked out with the intention of leaving.
GWEN’S POVThe longer I stayed there holding my bleeding toe, the angrier I became. At a point, I turned around and started marching back toward the pack house, one destination in mind. Without thinking twice, I went straight to Blake’s room to wait for him.The fight I had been putting up to give him as much distance as I could was the last thing on my mind. I didn’t even remember that I was supposed to give him a hard time in having my attention. I just wanted to get to the bottom of the matter at hand once and for all so we all knew what was going on for goodness' sakeWhen I got there, as expected, he wasn’t there because he was too busy gallivanting the whole arena with Nora at his side. I slumped onto the chair there, full of restless energy. My foot tapping on the floor and my eyes trained on the door, I planned what I was going to say to him in my head.After what felt like centuries of waiting, the door finally opened and Blake walked in. When he did so, he stopped startled a
GWEN’S POV“Luna Gwen, can I ask a question?”I stopped sipping from the glass that held chilled orange juice that one of the maids had brought to me. I was seated outside on the patio, enjoying the afternoon as much as I could because being cooped up in my room was starting to take a toll on my mental health and making me feel cranky all the time. Snapping at others wasn’t my forte so I thought it best to have some fresh air.“You’ve already asked one but go ahead”Aurelia blushed and adjusted in her seat opposite me which I practically forced her into. She was adamant about remaining standing, as if she were some soldier on guard duty or something like that.“Why didn’t you confront Alpha Blake and Healer Nora when you saw them yesterday?”Her question brought back the annoying memory of the day before when I saw Blake and Nora sharing a moment or several moments together. I didn’t care to know what they were up to so I didn’t ask.“What good would have come of that?”My tone sounde