Gwen’s POVBack and forth across my room, I paced, a jumbled mess of thoughts in my head. I had been desperately awaiting Alpha Blake's return, knowing that his visit to the seer could hold the key to understanding strange happenings within the pack. When one of the guards finally relayed that Alpha Blake had returned, I wasted no time. She rushed to Alpha Blake’s room, my heart was racing with hope and fear.The night was quiet with the moon shining brightly above, its rays a silver, glamour cast across the lands. I moved swiftly down corridors with my steps quick and determined. I needed to see Alpha Blake and hear what the seer had revealed. At his door, I did hesitate before knocking softly."Alpha Blake, it's Gwen. Can I come in?" I said, my voice barely audible.There was a slight pause before I heard Alpha Blake's tired voice from the other side. "Come in, Gwen."By the time I entered the room, Alpha Blake was undressing. His jacket was already off, and he was unbuttoning h
Gwen's POV I sat up and looked around, the night was quiet and still, save for the faintest rustling that was going on outside the window which is from the leaves. I looked to my side where Blake lay looking tired and stressed even though his breathing was deep and steady. I slowly took his hand off my body and then waved in his face to ensure he was fast asleep. Satisfied, I carefully slid out of the bed with my heart in my mouth as it pounded so hard and fast. I moved away slowly while straining my eyes to avoid making any sort of noise that might walk him up. He slightly stirred in his sleep as I held my breath and watched him for any sign of consciousness. After a while of watching, he was still motionless, I carefully dropped my legs then quietly padded across the room, grabbed a coat gently with slow movement opened the door, and turned to look at Blake who hadn't moved and l released his breath I had been holding. I peered out of the door into the corridor to see that it wa
Gwen's POV I looked around as I was surrounded by darkness, I quickly crouched behind the large couch that was in the corner of the room as darkness enveloped me. The fabric used on the couch brushed against my skin as I pressed myself further into the shadows without a noise and shallow and silent breathing. I squeezed my chest as the pounding of my heart echoed so loud, I could hear it in my ears and feared it might give me away. I brought my knees to my chest and hugged them, I could feel every muscle tense with the possibility of the ability to spring if necessary. Through the soft glow of the moonlight that crept through the thin curtains, I could see some areas as they cast faint patterns everywhere. I placed my head on my knees as I strained my ears for any sound or movements of someone or something or just even a sign of someone walking into the room. After a while, I looked up and I saw something with the help of the faint silver rays of light which came through from the w
Blake's POV I stirred in my sleep as I turned and stretched my hand towards Gwen but she wasn't there, I opened my eyes to see her empty space beside me. I felt it and it was cold, it looked undisturbed except for the slight indentation that showed she had been on the bed before. For the sheet to be cold that meant she had been gone for long. I sat up as I looked around the room but there was no sign of her. “Baby! Gwen, are you in there?" I called aloud towards the bathroom but there was no response. A frown creased my forehead as I wondered where she could have possibly gone to and when. I don't even remember her leaving my side or her mentioning that she was leaving, there was no memory of that in my head. Why didn't she inform me that she wasn't going to stay the night in my bed? Angrily I pushed the sheet away as I got out of bed and stormed to the bathroom. I stretched as I got to the door before pushing it open and I walked in to freshen up before the search for Gwen began.
Gwen’s POVBy the time I had just managed to get back to my room, I was hit with exhaustion like a tidal wave. I was treading very carefully, and my heart raced to each creak of the floorboards beneath my feet. I had seen something she should not have, that creature emerging into Nora and such a sight, was enough to shake me to my core. The urge to share my discovery with Alpha Blake had taken me that far, but now, alone in my room, the full weight of what I had seen crashed down on me.I locked the door behind me and leaned against it, fighting to regulate my breathing, as I kept taking deep breaths. My mind replayed the scene from that nightmare, the creature's grotesqueness taking form into Nora's figure. It was vivid, detailed, and haunting. I shivered and wrapped my arms around myself, a futile attempt to ward off the chill that seemed to seep into the very marrow of my bones.I stood there for some moments, trying to get a clear head about everything. The betrayal, the dark
Blake’s POVI felt that Gwen was hiding something from me. She had been acting really weird all day, and I just couldn't shake off the nagging feeling that everything was okay. Normally she was an open book, but Gwen was easy to read, her emotions transparent, and her actions predictable. But today, she was like a vault, closed and tight, with erratic behavior and sharp mood swings.It all started that morning. Gwen had woken up earlier than usual, slipping out of bed with this fidgeting, nervous energy that I hadn't ever really seen in her.She was usually the one dragging herself out of bed, groggy and reluctant to face the day. But she moved with a strange urgency today, almost as if she were trying to outrun her thoughts.I lay in bed, watching her from beneath the covers. With quick, efficient moves, she whirled around the room, gathering her clothes and disappearing into the bathroom without a word. I could hear the water running and imagined her standing underneath the hot s
Author's POV After breakfast, Gwen has spent the rest of the day in a deep thick cloud of moodiness that could be cut with a knife. She was enveloped and wrapped in it, replacing her usual cheerful self with an unsettling, deep eerie silence and feelings that left everyone in the house on edge. She was so unusual as she moved around the pack house like a ghost whose eyes were distant, unfocused, and lost. Her attitude was noticed by all, her maids worried for her sake, exchanging glances behind her back. The once reachable Lady who would engage with them in her usual chattering attitude with a warm smile and kind words was the one they couldn't reach out to as they couldn't get to her. She seemed to have locked them away and left herself in her own troubled thoughts. They had tried approaching her and conversing like they normally do, they had questions and suggestions but what did Gwen do? She snapped at them in an uncharacteristic sharp tone. “Can't you read the room? Leave me
Author's POV “Ouch!" She cried as she tripped and hit the ground. She wasn't supposed to be hitting the ground in her current state, so she got up and dusted her dress before continuing on her wall. She just needed to perfect everything she needed and needed to be done. She continued wandering around the pack house in deep thought as her mind raced around on how to go about exposing Nora. She needed to because that was when Blahe would be able to believe her. She needed concrete proof that pointed fingers at Nora vividly. So Blake could see in the eyes what sort of person his ‘best friend' really was. She has seen Nora's betrayal, now Blake needs to see it. She thought of different methods in her head that could help her in uncovering the truth. She tried some in her head and refused the outcome and some she couldn't just come up with a scenario for it. She thought about confronting Nora directly but she remembered the confrontation that took place when she crossed Nora's door in s
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“Gwen? Why are you here?”Leaning on the closed door behind me, I folded my arms and looked at her while raising my eyebrows up.“What kind of question is that? This is my husband’s room. Do I have to take permission from you before going in here?”She glared at me and didn’t say a word as she stuck her nose up in the air while looking at me like I was not worth more than the dirt stuck on the bottom of her shoes.“I’m here to see Blake. Is he in?”She was being so annoying and whenever I mentioned to Blake how disrespectful she was, he never believed me and just made it out to seem like I was jealous of their close friendship or some other stupid nonsense that he thought was right. I wish he was there to hear her address both of us by our names instead of our titles but I was sure that if he were really there, she wasn’t going to do that. She would have called me all the titles in the world if it meant that she could make me seem like the crazy person who was going to get
GWEN’S POVAs I watched his chest rise and fall with every breath he took, all I could remember was the look on his face earlier in the night when he finally saw the surprise that I had for him. While I was not exactly the one who had prepared it for him, I was the best person to offer it to him. He had stared at me for so long that I thought he was going to snap but he had instead, grabbed me in his arms and placed a sweet kiss on my lips.When I had tried to separate myself from him, he had deepened the kiss, muddling my mind up to the point where I forgot that we were not the only ones in the room. When we finally got away from each other, I blushed a crimson red from the scalp on my head to the soles of my feet. My cheeks were so hot that I could have cooked an egg on them.Staring at him, I felt so much love in my heart for him. As a matter of fact, I knew that if anything came between the both of us, I was going to be utterly devastated. It had taken me a while to realize just
BLAKE’S POVI blinked at her as she laughed and laughed like she was crazy. I didn’t understand what I was seeing. How was she laughing when only a moment ago, her head had been lolling forward and she couldn’t even answer the call of her name?As I looked at her, she took off the ropes that were holding her hostage on the chair or so I thought. She got to her feet, still laughing like a banshee. She was laughing so much that she had to double down and almost squat.“Gwen, what’s all this? What’s happening?”With how much she was laughing, it was obvious that she couldn’t answer my questions so I turned to the other two people who were in the room with us.“Aurelia? You? Care to explain?”I was still pretty annoyed at my beta that I didn’t even want to mention his name. The bizarre thing was that the idiot I thought was almost choking was laughing as well. The two of them were laughing. I looked at Gwen and then back at Aurelia and my beta.“Can someone tell me what the hell is going
BLAKE’S POVI blinked at her as she laughed and laughed like she was crazy. I didn’t understand what I was seeing. How was she laughing when only a moment ago, her head had been lolling forward and she couldn’t even answer the call of her name?As I looked at her, she took off the ropes that were holding her hostage on the chair or so I thought. She got to her feet, still laughing like a banshee. She was laughing so much that she had to double down and almost squat.“Gwen, what’s all this? What’s happening?”With how much she was laughing, it was obvious that she couldn’t answer my questions so I turned to the other two people who were in the room with us.“Aurelia? You? Care to explain?”I was still pretty annoyed at my beta that I didn’t even want to mention his name. The bizarre thing was that the idiot I thought was almost choking was laughing as well. The two of them were laughing. I looked at Gwen and then back at Aurelia and my beta.“Can someone tell me what the hell is going
BLAKE’S POVAt those words, I looked up at the person who had spoken. It was Aurelia standing in the doorway. I sent her a venomous glare that I was sure if there were lasers in it, she would have become burning cinders.Like she knew that I didn’t have patience for whatever she had said, she immediately followed up her words.“Please, look behind you, Alpha Blake”I didn’t have to look behind me to see my Luna because I knew what I was going to see. No one or thing had passed by me since I had got there so I knew that there wasn’t going to be a change in what was there. If I turned around, I was going to see Gwen seated in a lone chair with a rope tied around her body anchoring her to the chair while illuminated by the single light source I had been seeing when I was outside.I had made a mistake of not squeezing the life out of her when I was still outside which was why she had the effrontery to come to me and start asking me to do something so stupid. I paid her no mind and focused
BLAKE’S POV“Alpha Blake, please calm down”He stretched his hands out towards me as if to hold me off from getting close to him but that was not going to do anything to take me back. He should have known better than to do that. Without even saying a word, I covered the space that existed between the both of us and grabbed his outstretched hands. Pulling them behind him, I applied so much pressure that they were just a hair's breadth away from popping out of their sockets. I saw him as he kissed his teeth and breathed in deeply, trying to hold back the groan that I was sure was about to be released based on the pain that was radiating through his body.“Whatever you think it is, I can explain”Hearing him speak was even annoying me more. I yanked his hands even further as if to prove the point that I needed him to shut up.“Where is Luna Gwen?”His gaze darted up and down, not answering my question. It was a strange sight to see my beta of all people lost for words which made the hair
BLAKE’S POVJust a few meters remained between myself and the shed that I was very suspicious of. I was walking towards it when all of a sudden, something stepped into my periphery and made me stop in my tracks. Turning to the side, I looked at what made me stop all of a sudden.“Aurelia?”The sight of one of Gwen’s maids there all of a sudden made my eyebrows wrinkle as I wondered what she was doing there. She bowed to me as a sign of respect but didn’t lift her eyes up even close to mine. While I knew it was disrespectful for any wolf lower than my rank to look me in the eye, there was something strange about the way Aurelia was avoiding my gaze.“What are you doing here?”I watched her meticulously and noticed that she got a bit startled when i asked the question. I saw her bite her lip as she wondered what to say. If I were to take a guess, I would have guessed that she was nervous or something which made things all the more suspicious.“Where is Luna Gwen?”If Gwen was out and ab
BLAKE’S POVSince Gwen left the room obviously bothered, I hadn’t been able to calm down or even eat. The meal that I had her maid, Aurelia get for her was still the way I left it when she unceremoniously walked out of the room with the excuse that she needed fresh air. I didn’t understand the kind of air she was getting outside that she couldn’t get in such a properly ventilated room that we had been in together.I was getting annoyed because it was getting late and she wasn’t back yet. The security of the pack wasn’t as top-notch as it used to be and I honestly, didn’t want a situation where Gwen’s safety was put in jeopardy because then it meant that my child’s safety was also put in jeopardy. Nothing could happen to either of them.“Do I go look for her?”I was contemplating going looking for her because I didn’t want an issue to arise from it at the end of the day. I didn’t know if it was because of her pregnancy or something else but Gwen had been really prickly as of late. Anyt