STEVE'S POVThe forces followed behind me as I made my way into the palace's large entrance. As much as I wanted to, I knew I couldn't stay away from him forever. It was either I report back to him or he came looking for him himself and with the experience I had after living with him for ages, The latter would not be a pretty encounter so I better report myself back to him.He wasn't going to fancy what was going to come out of my mouth. He wasn't going to be pleased in any way but do I have any other way of handling this? No. This was just it and he will have to deal with it. I couldn't forsake my mate and brought her to him and neither could I do any other thing to avoid facing his wreck. I got myself into this, I will have to struggle to find a way out of it alone."Do you need any help reporting to the Alpha? A backup speaker of some sort. I have a feeling he isn't going to be pleased with our finding or rather I should say the lack of it" The guard walking beside me spoke in a no
JAMES'S POVI have been taking my time to observe every bit of activity going on within the palace. The newly found home was indeed a home to stay but there are a series of things that needed to be corrected here and there. My brother himself needed some amendments to the way he operates. He has to understand that it doesn't work that way. It's okay to lose your shit once in a while but losing your shit in front of servants, guards, and especially elders, is not something that I would want him to be doing. It portrays weakness. A lot of it. And instead of things to be solved, he might end up subjecting himself to disrespect from them. As it is now, they are not necessarily respecting him because they want to, but this is something they have to do, and have no other way about it. I would say they are leaning more toward being scared of him than actually seeing him as an Alpha, a leader.Now that is in no way a bad thing. At least it isn't for now. But the vision I have is for him to
JAMES'S POV I have a goal and I have set to get it done no matter the circumstance. I have no problem with the heir and Micheal wasn't taking my advice if not he wouldn't have been this worried about some heir that is yet to be born when the grown fathers are still breathing and lurking in the corners. It might take them years to return but I had an idling feeling that was refusing to go away no matter how much I tried that they were going to return someday. And the main thing we should focus on should be that by the time they return, we have already gained the favor of most if not all of the elders and the pack members, such that they are going to be given little to no regard in case they returned. But no matter how much I was trying to make my brother see this, he was failing to see the wisdom in my thinking so I decided to help him find the heir, and maybe only then would his mind open up to other kinds of suggestions. In other to find said heir, I will need to discover where h
STEVE'S POVI knew James. A lot of people might see Micheal as the more devilish one but James is the mastermind behind most if not all of their operations. While Micheal was always all bark no bite, James was the entire opposite. He doesn't bark and would move silently while having all the attention focused on Micheal.There is this pleasure he finds in taking people by surprise. He stirs in stillness and just when you are expecting no form of trouble whatsoever from them, he strikes and you will be left with no plan to work with. That was how exactly they were able to deal with every single person they had an interest in. In other words, I would say, if not for James, nothing would have been possible.James is dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.Where I was able to fathom how Micheal would react to news, and know what he would say before he could even say them, I couldn't do that with James. He was one heck of a complex ball that rolled in the direction that pleased him an
NATALIA'S POVSince my return from the palace the other day after I met up with Beth, my heart hasn't been at rest till now. I tried to engage myself in different activities just so I could get my head to focus on other parts of my life other than that but no matter what I did, no matter how engrossed I got in a particular, my heart just never stop to think about that and the fact that it has been feeding off my curiosity slowly was maddening.I want to go back there and discover what on earth was going on, I want to figure out the whole new change system, and above all I want to know why and how James managed to find himself a spot and not just any mere spot but that of a beta. Something was going on and the reality that I was sitting here clueless of whatever it may be was irking me to no end.I have done everything. Everything I could engage in just to keep myself occupied before it was the right time for my return but nothing did work and in the end, I was forced by my instinct to
NATALIA'S POVThat again gave me a tough time thinking through it and at the end, I realized there was no way I could get Beth to step out of the kitchen. As I lurked by the door, I could hear the clattering sounds of cutleries and other kitchen equipment which indicated that there were a bit of workers still left in the kitchen and as far as I was concerned, Beth might not even be there. With that newly found possibility, I decided to check her room. Navigating my way through the maid's quarters was pretty easy and in no time, I located her room. After a few series of knocks with no response, I made the bold move of turning the door handle to get the door opened but it was locked, which confirmed a single fact, she was still in the kitchen.And so I headed back and ducked behind a large flower pot placed at the opposite side of the kitchen door and waited for hours or perhaps minutes on end, I really couldn't tell as I had lost track of time. I watched as the familiar faces stepped
NATALIA'S POVBeth was nowhere to be found.I showed up three days later and I couldn't find her or anything that could prove her existence. Her room was exactly how I remembered it to be the last time I checked in on her. The bed was neatly made, everything placed in its rightful place and the blinds were closed. This only indicated a single thing, for the past two to three days, she had not set foot in her room. That single fact called for immediate panicking. Beth doesn't engage in any activity that would require her to leave the palace for this long amount of time. That was so unlike her. I did not give up the search nonetheless, I couldn't even do that if I tried to. The fact that she is out there, somewhere, and as long as I was concerned, might be in danger doesn't sit well with me. I wanted to know what was happening, I wanted to find her and help her in any way that I could. With that thought, fuelled by determination, I set to check every possible go-to area in the whole
NATALIA'S POVI stopped, dead in my tracks, and closed my eyes tightly as if that would help take me back in time and guide me out of this place before I could reach such a situation. I took a few minutes to register what just happened in my head, my hand had been held by someone from behind me. In a more simpler terms, I have been caught.I swallowed loudly at that fact and let my eyes open slowly in other to finally face my reality. I couldn't allow myself to get captured and taken to the Alpha. My gaze instinctive fell to my bulging belly and I knew instantly that I had to escape, I had to find a way out. I have no idea how I would do that but I have to leave.Looking around for any convenient way out, I spotted an open chamber door that leads to the stairs, if I could make a run for the door, I might be able to outrun him and narrowly escape dead. The key word there is "narrowly" as there might be a bunch of guards down the stairs that I can't flee from. But I couldn't just sit he