Gwen’s POVWith evening beckoning, Blake approached me, the smile on his face made my heart skip a few beats. “Gwen," he said in a low voice, "would you like to go out on a date tonight?"My eyes were bright with excitement. "I would love that, Alpha Blake."He grinned, obviously pleased with what I had said. "Great. Get ready Gwen, and I'll be waiting."I rushed to my room. My heart was racing with the anticipation of being on a date with Alpha Blake. Her two maids, Aurelia and Elgiva, always attentive, watched her in excitement and set to work to help her prepare. They picked out a beautiful dress that shimmered and glittered with every move, it was very elegant, a soft shade of blue, which brought out my eyes to make me feel like a princess.They both helped me into the dress, and I couldn't help but stare at myself in the mirror. "Do I look good?" I asked again, with a thread of nervousness in my voice.Elgiva smiled reassuringly and said"You look stunning, lady Gwen. Alpha
Gwen’s POVThey immediately called a doctor from the neighboring pack to come and attend to Nora. Alpha Blake never left her side while she lay there, extremely worried about her condition. He caught me in the hallway, my eyes were filled with questions."Gwen, I am sorry," he said, full of remorse. "We will have to cancel our date for tonight. Nora needs immediate medical attention."I forced a smile, though inside an insurmountable well of disappointment roared. "I understand, Alpha Blake. She needs you right now. We can always do it some other time.""Thank you for understanding. I promise we will have that night."I nodded, my eyes on Blake as he quickened his pace back to Nora. I was feeling annoyed, frustrated, and deeply disappointed. I had been looking forward to this evening all along, and now everything just seemed to be falling apart.I returned to my room and tried to rid myself of the negative thoughts. My maids, noticing my mood, hurriedly surrounded me with their
Gwen’s POVI tried my best to keep it cool while watching Nora so close to Alpha Blake. I took a deep breath and tried to remain cool and calm while I stepped closer to Alpha Blake, meaning to get some answers."Alpha Blake," I finally called out, my tone tight and dripping with emotion. "Can we talk for a minute?"Alpha Blake was surprised by my tone as he looked up. "Of course, Gwen. What is it?"I motioned towards Nora, still lying with her head on Alpha Blake's lap. "Do you really think she was poisoned? Or do you think she might be faking it?" I whispered.Alpha Blake carefully shifted Nora's head to the pillow and got to his feet. He looked at me and said. "Gwen, why should she lie about a thing like this? I've known Nora for a long while, and she wouldn't be lying about this."I tightened my fists and struggled to keep my cool. "But how can you be so sure? People can be deceitful, even those we think we trust and know pretty well."Alpha Blake's brow furrowed as he stepped
Blake’s POVNora lay motionless with her eyes closed as if she were still asleep. I sat beside her, my brow furrowed in worry in worry. "Nora, are you okay? You scared all of us," I said softly, my voice laced with genuine worry.With a mix of exhaustion and relief in her eyes, Nora finally opened them and met my gaze. "I… I think so," she could only reply, her voice barely above a whisper.I crouched at the side of her bed, my hand out to gently touch her arm. My concern deepened as I asked, "What happened to you, Nora?"Nora stirred uncomfortably and avoided my eyes for a second before she looked at me again. "I. I don't know. I just started feeling all dizzy and weak," she replied, her voice quivering.I nodded, my expression thoughtful. "You scared us, Nora. We thought…." My voice trailed off. I just couldn't say how scared I felt.Are you pretending just to get my attention Nora, I asked.No Alpha Blake, I can’t do that. Nora said.If you say so Nora, I replied. You’re scared
Gwen's POV I managed to slip out of Nora's room without being caught as my heart pounded in my chest with fear. The journal I had seen in her room, which might have answered all my questions about her, lay in the room where I had dropped it for fear of being caught. It weighed heavily on my mind as I wished I could have risked being caught just to have a glimpse of the book. But the footsteps of the maid I heard turned my inside upside down and I could only think of one thing, escaping. I hailed myself for being smart as where I hid, the closet was a close call! Even though the place was small and a dim space which was cramped up and even smelled faintly of cedar, I ensured I pressed myself against the back wall and barely breathed to avoid stories that touch the heart. I heard the maid first before bracing up and peering through the slats of the door to see the maid who had interrupted my mission, moving around the room gathering things for ‘poisoned’ Nora. She dumped everything
Gwen's POV I slowly opened my eyes to see the moon cast its pale light into the room through the curtains, I tried adjusting to the soft glow it produced in the night when my eyes caught Blake staring at me, and my heart skipped a beat. I closed my eyes suddenly like I was still sleeping, I wasn't in the mood to have any sort of confrontation with him whatsoever. I was pissed with him and I don't want to see him. “Don't do that! I know you are awake, Gwen!” I heard him say to me firmly yet gently. “Open those pretty eyes of yours and sit up!” He demanded when there was no response from me. I stirred in my sleep and turned to the other side with a smirk on my face. “Come on, Gwen! Don't be childish!” He retorted. What? I almost caught myself getting up to lash out at him but I controlled myself and he was going to see a lot of childishness now! I started lightly before going into full-blown snoring.He gasped beside me and I almost laughed my ass out! “I'm dead serious! You need
Gwen’s POVThe following morning, I paced tirelessly in my room, eagerly awaiting Alpha Blake's return. I had barely slept during the night. My mind was jammed with questions and feelings that barely let me sleep. My frustration and confusion from the night before lingered, making me restless. I needed a word with Alpha Blake to see where we stood.My two maids, Aurelia and Elgiva looked at me with concern. The older and more experienced of the two, Aurelia, cautiously approached me. "Lady Gwen, would you like some tea to calm your nerves?" she asked gently.I shook my head, barely acknowledging Aurelia at all. "No, thank you, Aurelia. I just need to see and talk to Alpha Blake.".The younger maid, Elgiva, tried to smile reassuringly. "I'm sure Alpha Blake will be back soon. He has to be dealing with some important pack business or something."I sighed, continuing my pacing. "I know, Elgiva. It's just. I need to understand what's going on. Everything feels so confusing and overwhel
Gwen’s POVAs soon as Alpha Blake's gaze landed on me, he immediately broke his hug with Nora and walked towards me, his whole face lighting up with relief. He was about to open his arms to embrace me when I took a step back, my expression a mix of hurt and anger.The smile faltered on Alpha Blake's lips, confusion doled in his eyes. "Gwen, what is wrong?"I folded my arms across my chest, the weight of my concern and suspicion pressing down. "What is wrong, you are seriously asking me that? All day I was here waiting for you, Alpha Blake. I was so worried, I was so anxious, I could not eat, I could not think straight. And there you are hugging Nora, instead of coming to find me."His eyes widened, feeling the guilt and surprise. "Gwen, I …..”I cut him off, my voice trembling with emotion. "Do you know what that's like? To be so desperate to see someone, to talk to them, only to find them in someone else's arms?"Alpha Blake flinched as if I had struck him across the face, his ha
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