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“Leila, seriously wait,” Kelvin rushes to the side of Leila’s car window as she revs up the car.She doesn’t listen, doesn’t even take a glance at him as she slams her foot down and takes off into the night, her vision blur with tears, her heart full of sorrow and pain.Maybe love isn’t meant for her. Maybe she isn’t meant to be happy with a man in her life.The man she loved with all of her heart and soul betrayed her and spat on her love and the one person who has been there for her, who she has been trying to see if things can work between them because she may have feelings for him keeps pushing her away.What else does she have to do? How else can she show him that she desires to be with him? She has said it in between words, used body language, everything.Kelvin is not clueless, she sees the look in his eyes, how he looks at her, the sensuality hidden in his gaze, the passion behind it, he has feelings for her too but why does he refuse to act on it, why does he turn down her ad
Tatum’s lips quiver, unable to utter a word as they both stare at each other. Leila’s eyes full of pain and rage, Tatum’s eyes full of pain and regret. “The guilt of my choice has been my companion for a long time and I reckon it will be for the rest of my life, I don’t deserve your forgiveness, I know, but back then, there was nothing I could do, I didn’t know how to weave my way around the law.” Rage boils inside of Leila. Even now he doesn’t see any wrong with his actions, standing behind the law, manipulating and using it to his cruel end. Has he always been this vile? What sort of a cruel monster tries to kill his own innocent child and labels it justice? He is never going near Amara again, ever. “Damn you and damn your fucking law,” she spits out with venom. “I want to see how you protect Carmela with it when I come for her because I’m going to hit her so bad, slowly peel back every layer of deceit that she has wrapped around your eyes and that of your pack members and ju
Kelvin tenses, his mouth parting in shock, unintentionally giving Leila more room to suck on his lower lip. His entire body shoots with pleasure from the softness of her lips, the tenderness of her kiss, goosebumps rent his entire skin and a million fireworks go off in his heart and he shuts his eyes, relishing it.Maybe he can have her, maybe he can have this. Now that she has kissed him, he cannot dodge the topic anymore, he will either have to claim her or clearly reject her.He finds his hands slowly running down her back, all the way to her waist and he pulls her close hesitantly, wondering if he should break or deepen the kiss when he hears a soft growl behind them and he opens his eyes to see Tatum staring right at him.But it is not anger he sees in those grey eyes, it is sadness and pain, a dreary and gloomy look.It is a look he knows all too well, a look he had in his eyes for years whenever he saw Leila and Tatum together. The pain of seeing someone you love with someone e
Why did she kiss him? She shouldn’t have kissed him. She just thought that would be enough to convince him but he still rejected her. Now things are going to be awkward between them, she might even lose him as a friend. “Goodnight,” She says to Kelvin as she shuts the car door and Kelvin nods gently, a wry look in his eyes as he drives away. She insisted he carry on with the work he wanted to do. She turns to go inside but decides to go for a walk in the woods instead, maybe let her wolf run a little. Her head is a mess of thoughts, her heart compounded with so many emotions. The road ahead of her is long and arduous and Kelvin is the only one she knows will have her back no matter what but after tonight, she doesn’t know if she can face him again. But he promised to talk about it after everything so maybe she should calm down, try to act normal around him and see what happens. They might get through this and even come out better. “Now what’s a little stray like you doing roami
“Fuck–” Before the rogue can say the words, his head rolls to Leila’s feet, his bodiless eyes mirroring the shock Leila has in her own eyes as her heart leaps.How did the mysterious man move so fast? How is he moving so fast without shifting, she cannot even see him, only the blur of his white attire as he tears through the remaining three.She hears their screams being cut short before their bodies drop to the ground, headless and lifeless.“Fuck, fucking bastards!” The mysterious man yells.“Shit, I can’t believe they got fucking blood on my sleeve, not on the fucking sleeves, you idiots,” he kicks one of the men on the ground before suddenly turning to Leila as if just becoming aware of her presence.“Oh…fuck, I’m doing it again aren’t I? You see, I can’t stand the blood, not on me,” he says, sneering at the dead bodies.“Who are you?” Leila asks in a cautious tone.She should be running away from a man who just easily decapitated four men without shifting into his wolf and then
It’s been a week but Leila cannot stop thinking about the man in the woods, it is not the fact that he claims to be her second chance mate that ails her thoughts, it is the man himself. There is something about him that is different, he is calm yet dangerous, deadly yet alluring, two opposite ends so perfectly blended into one person. “Gran Gran, who is the lycan king?” Amara asks, bringing Leila’s attention back to the dining table where they are having breakfast. “Where did you hear that name?” Liana replies, rapt curiosity in her eyes as she looks at her granddaughter. The lineage of the lycans are a myth, they rule from the shadows, hidden from the rest of the werewolf world but rule they do, their authority is unquestionable, their power absolute and the current Lycan king is the best of his breed. An empty throne was crowned in his stead. No one has ever seen him, no one knows what he looks like. “Yesterday at the mall when I went shopping with Papa Kev, everyone was talkin
“I brought you something,” Carmela stretches the envelope forward the moment Leila opens the door.Leila folds her hands against her chest, her eyes cold and vengeful. Whenever she sees Carmela, all she feels is rage, she just wants to rip her throat out but she knows she has to restrain herself for now.Only till her mom is out of the woods from this false accusation and then she’ll go after Carmela with everything that she has, every tear that she has ever shed because of Carmela, Carmela will shed it in a hundred fold.“Take whatever it is you brought and get the hell out of my house.”“It’s from Tatum, his divorce papers, he already signed them,” Carmela replies with a straight face but Leila can smell her deceit from a mile away.“Really? Well go back and tell him that if he wants to divorce me, he can do it himself.”She may not care but Tatum hasn’t been moving like someone who wants to divorce her, he is trying his possible best to be nice to her and Amara and whenever they cr
Leila stands outside the door to Kelvin’s condo with a million bees buzzing inside her stomach, her heart racing hard like a doped horse. It’s the first time she will be seeing him since she kissed him. She has been avoiding him because she feels things will be too awkward between them but it is imperative that they meet today, her mother’s first hearing is in a few days and they must conclude on a plan of action. She cannot wait for all of this to be over so she can reject Tatum and just be with him and then there’s that mysterious man who claims to be her second chance mate. If he is right, she will have to do something about him too. Something about that guy gives her chills, neither bad nor good, it’s just the feeling she had when she was with him that night, something about his aura. She knows she is prepared to reject two mates for Kelvin but Kelvin has not even found his own mate, what if she suddenly shows up like the mysterious man did, will Kelvin reject his mate? It’s
Later that evening, after deciding on the date and time to execute Trent, Leila goes to visit her mother and is surprised to see an even larger crowd than the one that gathered at the packhouse outside her mother’s house.She steps out of her car and immediately she is approached by a group.“What’s going on?” She asks, scanning the crowd and seeing her mother in the middle with tears falling from her eyes. Leila’s heart immediately races, fearing the worst. She dashes towards the crowd, not waiting for a reply to her initial question, ignoring the greetings of people until she gets to her mother.“Mom, what’s wrong? What’s going on?”Her mom sweeps her into a tight hug, sobbing hard, “thank you Leila, thank you.”The tension in Leila’s heart deflates but the confusion in it lingers even though she hugs her mom back.“We are so happy that the truth came out Luna. For so long, many believed the lies of that traitor Trent that your mother killed your father, we can’t imagine how hard it
Leila’s men drag Trent out of the house, two of them holding him tight. Another one immediately lodges two syringes full of wolfsbane into his neck, both to weaken him and to stop him from mindlinking anyone. The fourth one opens the car door but one of them holding Trent frowns, “we should parade him round the pack before throwing his ass in jail.” “Sounds like a good idea to me,” the other replies, slamming handcuffs on Trent’s hand behind his back before he kicks him down. “You imbeciles, you’ll pay for this,” Trent says, groaning in pain, the wolfsbane having immediate effect on him. “Shut up,” one of the men throws a hard fist at Trent's face and splits his lip open and blood gushes. Another one yanks Trent up by his collar and gives him a cold stare, “if anyone is going to pay for anything, it’s you who will pay for your crimes,” he drives his fist into Trent’s torso making Trent squirm in pain before pushing him forward, leading away from the old Alpha house. A crowd start
“How is this possible?” Trent asks in shock, unwilling to believe what his eyes just witnessed. Adaline has been laying in a pool of her own blood with wounds all over. How is she fucking healed? And Darren has him pinned to the floor. Did he suddenly recover from his illness? He looks sharply at Leila, getting a thought as the blue aura emanating from her slowly starts to dim. Is she the one behind this? Does she have some kind of healing power? “Are you okay, Father?” Leila asks Darren, slowly walking towards him, her heart full of relief and gratitude. She has no idea what happened or why that powerful aura burst forth from her but something tells her that it has something to do with Trent’s recovery. “Never been better,” Darren applies more pressure to keeping Trent in place, “I think whatever happened with you just now healed me, I feel so young and strong.” Leila blinks and tears roll down the corner of her eyes. She immediately mindlinks some of her trusted warriors and fo
“No…” Trent’s voice is filled with terror upon seeing Leila, “you shouldn’t be here, you should be dead.” Leila sneers at him, “you think you’re one step ahead of me with your plotting and scheming to have me sent to the palace so you could get rid of me but the problem with being a step ahead is that you leave steps behind and you never know what’s going on behind you.” “Bullshit!” Trent growls, his eyes red and full of murderous intent as he stares at Leila. “You made a very foolish decision coming back here, your plan should have included you running for your dear life just like your cowardly husband because now I’m going to kill you myself, then I’ll kill this old fool and his wife. Nothing will stop me from my destiny.” Leila grinds her teeth, feeling so much anger inside of her from Trent’s words but she manages to keep the anger away from her eyes and her voice becomes sullen like someone riddled with fear from Trent’s threat. “Why? Why are you doing all of this?” She backs
Trent quickly tries to move out of the way but he’s not fast enough and her claws tear into his cheek, making him yell in pain. She’s been behind the door the whole time listening to the conversation between him and her husband and the more Trent revealed the depth and treachery of his schemes, the more she hated herself. She was Carmela’s number one supporter. All those things she did to Leila, all the many times that she made the poor girl’s life hell, it was because of this man and his evil deeds. “You bastard,” Adaline growls, charging at him again, taking another swipe at his face but this time, Trent blocks her attack and shoves her back. He wipes the speck of blood on his already healing face and rubs it on his finger. “I’d ask your husband to put you under control but seeing as he is not fit to carry out his manly duties, I’ll do it myself.” He throws a punch at Adaline but she ducks underneath it and kicks the back of his leg, making him stagger forward. “You don’t dese
Darren already knows this so it does not come as much of a surprise to him but he never thought Trent would openly admit his atrocity, which makes him gaze at Trent with a bit of surprise in his eyes. Trent scoffs, reading the look on Darren’s face and he smirks. “I’ll admit that I had a little bit of luck with the drunk old witch, finding out what the phoenix mark was going to look like from the prophecy before anyone else. After consulting with my own witch, it wasn’t hard to discover who was most likely to be the real phoenix Luna. Imagine my anger when I found out it could be Henry’s daughter. I was livid. “I wanted to wipe out the entire family that day when I killed him but he wounded my wolf before I could take his life. Leila wasn’t even there and I was too weak to take out his wife but I figured I’d spare them and let his family watch as I stole their destiny, just like he stole mine. All I had to do was put the beautiful mark on my daughter and present her to you all. Oh,
Trent watches from a distance as Leila’s car drives out of the pack and he picks up his phone and dials a number. “She’s enroute, make it look like an accident.” He ends the call and licks his lips, still staring as the car becomes as tiny as a dot in the distance and an evil smirk adorns his lips. It’s time to take what should have belonged to him all these years. “Take me to the old Alpha’s house,” he instructs his driver, cracking his knuckles and his neck like a fighter getting ready for some action. “How art the mighty fallen,” Trent mocks Darren who is lying in bed, shivering and covered with two thick blankets, his eyes pale and as red as blood and he can even barely keep them open. “The once great Alpha Darren the ruthless,” he shakes his head pitifully, “look at how pathetic you have become. This is what you get from deciding to surround yourself with weaklings!” He yanks the top blanket of Darren’s body. “No Trent, stop…” Darren weakly reaches out to grab the blanket b
“Darren told me the king summoned you?” Adaline sobs, wiping her face with the back of her hand. Leila squints at her, confused at why she’s crying. “Yes,I’ll be leaving at dawn. Is everything okay?” “Yeah…” Adaline sniffs, “I just wanted to thank you Leila, for everything. Since you became Luna, even if it’s only been a short while, the pack has prospered.” Leila keeps the look on her face blank. She’s always put her best into being Luna no matter what and made sure things progressed. She can even say she did more back then when everyone treated her terribly than she is doing right now. It only seems like a lot because she is wrestling with an opposing tyrannical power and this time, instead of seeing her as an usurper, the people are seeing her as a Saviour. “We all have duties we have to carry out, you don’t have to thank me for doing what I have to do,” Leila replies, glancing through the mess of things she has scattered on her bed. Her mind is continually hassled by what th
Leila’s newfound revelation of Tatum’s long lasting love for her somehow just happened to be the boost that her mind and spirit needed. Rather than spend time wallowing in worry and fear, she now catches herself fantasizing about her future with him. Knowing that he has always loved her and seeing how they have been through so much together, she believes their love can only grow stronger. She takes a day off from her Luna duties for the first time in a while to have a spa date with Amanda and some other women that were pivotal in helping her stabilize the pack. Things are running more smoothly now, Trent has been quiet, not stirring up much trouble with more and more people offering her their support over him. She doesn’t worry but she also cannot wait to be reunited with her family. Whatever Tatum is planning, she hopes it works out soon because she is sure that his plan includes them being together, she just has to be patient and make sure that he returns back to the pack better