POV: HeatherIt wasn’t that bad, you know. I felt it was a bit strange that visitors as important as the lycans are not allowed into the school premises. I wonder if Xander is aware of this, I’m not even sure that this order came from the Alpha. I saw him last night, he is too scared of Xander to try something so stupid.“Get in quickly, Heather Snow. You can’t be seen loitering around the entrance, it could affect your final results. Don’t you know that you are late already?” An admin scolded me as she walked past us to resume her duties. She is so right, I’ll get in trouble if I'm seen out here when lectures are going on in my class.“Did you hear that, Heather Snow?” Vinnie asked, repeating my name with a disgusting look, acting as if my name was making her want to gag.“So are you going to go on like a good girl, or do you plan to ruin your perfect record by ditching classes and loitering around when others are learning.Come on, girl. I dare you to leave. Be a chicken and run alo
POV: HeatherIt seems weird. I was holding this phone just a few minutes ago, I just received two emails from the school board and I recall vividly that I’d put it in my bag. How did I lose it, how could I have misplaced my phone when I never even stepped out of this classroom?I turned around, searching frantically for it around me, but I couldn’t find it. The worst part of this situation is that I couldn’t do anything about it right now. I could not leave the class to inform security about my missing phone, and I could not ask any questions now because the judges were still working. Disrupting their work because of my phone would be considered disrespectful, and that would earn me a bad report.No one seems to notice that something is wrong with me, it seems everyone is too concerned about their review. Even the girls were too busy to bother with me, and that made them look innocent because they did not sit close to me, and they weren’t even paying attention to me. I decided not to
POV: XanderI felt guilty for locking her in like a fucking slave. I would never treat a slave that way, let alone a woman I claim to love so much. I was supposed to spend the day with her, but I’m too upset to be near her now. Hearing her thoughts and finding out that she was thinking about that little boy made me so upset with her. If only she could tell me how she managed to get entangled with that guy, maybe I can offer some suggestions on how she can get away from him without causing problems for her foster mom, Marietta.But she is so damn stubborn. She won’t trust me with her secrets, even if her life depended on it. I’ve done everything I could to make her trust me. Like, how difficult is that?I just left the room before I got angrier than I already am. But I started feeling guilty when Perseus kept nagging at me, complaining about the way I treated our mate. He wanted me to go back to her and listen to her explanation. But I just can’t go back and listen to her as she keeps
POV: Xander“You idiot!I warned you not to lock her in. How could you hurt our mate, why didn’t you just listen to me?” Perseus yells in my head, growling angrily at me. I was pacing the room anxiously, waiting for Alexia to return my calls or send me a message. It seems she is daring me or something. It’s been almost thirty minutes and there is no response from her, not even a miss call.I truer calling again, I mind linked her, I even mind linked Heather as well. Not one of them was responding to me, even Heather’s number was not reachable. I would not have been this pissed if I wasn’t feeling so strangely about their silence. Apart from the fact that Perseus is nagging at me for making her leave, I still have this weird feeling in my heart that something is just not right.Alexia would never ignore me this way, except she is hiding something from me. And the worst part of this is that I can feel what Heather is feeling, so I know in my heart that everything is not okay with her. S
POV: Xander“Put your son on a very tight leash, Alpha. The next time he dares to defy my orders, I’ll fucking kill him. And I’ll make sure you are punished as an accomplice because these idiots are obviously following your footsteps. You have zero regard for the throne. That is why you have refused the king's order to assist me in my investigations.Now, I have no issues with you, trust me, I’m cool. I can do my job with or without your assistance. But I need you to keep your spies away from my path and stay the fuck away from me. I’m done playing nice with you all. Next time I won’t hesitate, I’ll kill your son and anyone else that stands in my way or dares to challenge me.” I threatened angrily, hanging up on the stupid Alpha.Can you believe this guy?To think that I held back from killing his son for this very reason, and here he is, trying to use my actions against me. I got a call from the bastard as I drove home, when I saw his name on the caller ID, I knew he had been informe
POV: HeatherHe’s pissed!I can feel it in my heart. His aura is so sinister, making me shiver in fear whenever our eyes meet. He is ignoring me on purpose, giving me the silent treatment. I don’t know why he doesn’t want me to explain how I got in that situation. I wanted to talk to him and cry my eyes out in his arms, but he wasn’t talking to me. He’s giving me the silent treatment, making me feel even worse than I did before. I want to get angry and yell at him to listen to me for a change, but I’m still dumbstruck by his performance earlier. And even if he is so fucking pissed, I couldn’t stop staring at his gorgeous face, smiling to myself.He had come in like lightning, taking them down as if they were nothing. I’ve heard of the speed of Lycans and their strength, but seeing him in action was like a turn-on to me. He moved like the wind, all I could see was a blur as he flung them in the air, hurting them. Watching him hurt Brian was supposed to make me sad, I mean, I did love h
POV: Heather“I need a sexy outfit that Xander would love,” I blurted out without thinking, causing the girls to laugh out loudly.“See who is falling in love with the prince,” Marietta lets out teasingly, making them laugh out loudly as they both teased me continuously.“Come on, Marie, I’m not playing around. He’s obviously so pissed off at me. I’ve tried apologizing, but he just wouldn’t listen to anything I say. Maybe if I offer myself on a platter of gold, then he will take me seriously again.” I responded sadly, thinking of the silent treatment he has been giving me since he saved me.“Offering yourself on a platter will not be the best idea, Heath. I think he needs some time to get over it. You gave him quite a scare, you know. He was so scared and worried about you, did you know he killed two guards at the gate just to get to you?He broke his promise to his father and offended the Alphas that are supposed to help him crack this case. I know he doesn’t blame you for his mistak
POV: Heather“Do you like that, Butterfly?” He muttered hoarsely. As we kissed, I focused on the present, lost in the moment. Nothing else matters but Xander and I. He aroused feelings in me that felt so alien. I became more aware of my emotions and physical sensations, and all my worries and anxieties just disappeared into thin air.He lifted me up, forcing me to wrap my legs around his hips, kissing me so passionately. I could feel his dick poking my ass, and I bucked my hips to meet his, moaning out loudly at the immense pleasure I got from that little act. Gosh, it felt so fucking good. I feel at ease in his arms, and I cherish this moment because I will never forget about. It will forever be embedded in my memory.Do you know those fluttering butterflies in your stomach that are a sign that you care deeply for a person?Yeah, I felt it. It seems like a thousand butterflies were doing summersaults in my stomach. I felt goosebumps all over my body. My skin burned wherever his hands
POV: Heather“I’ll be your sister, Alexis. I’ll love you like Alexia did and I will always look out for you, just like she did. I have no family and neither do you, so we can both look out for each other and protect each other.” I told him, smiling up at him hoping he would accept my offer. Taking care of her brother and always looking out for him is the only way I can honor her memory and prove to her that she is still my best friend, even in death. Doing this would ease my conscience and make me forgive myself a little for all the terrible things I’ve done.“That would be perfect, Heath. I’ll be a good big brother, I promise.” He responded excitedly, pulling me in for a hug. I sobbed in his arms and I felt my heart getting lighter as I unburdened the load weighing on my chest. After a few minutes in his arms, he helped me wipe off my tears like Richard used to do for me when we were kids. I smiled at the gesture, loving him like a brother already.“And lest I forget, my first duty a
POV: Heather“Please, Xan, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to defy your orders, I just wanted to help my mom, I thought she had changed. I honestly thought she would realize that I love her and accept me as her family. I wanted her to be the mom I used to know, I wanted the Marie who stood by me and protected me from bullies in the pack house. I never knew she hated me that much, I never thought she would try to kill me.” I sobbed, trying to get him to at least look at my face. But he wouldn’t spare me a glance because he is still pissed off at me.He was so scared when he heard the gunshot, and felt the pain in his heart. He thought he’d lost me and that really scared him. The truth is, if he had come in one minute later, I’m not sure I would have survived it. I had already passed out when they arrived, and Alexia was lying in a pool of blood, unable to help me because Leon shot her right after he shot me. This time he did not use the poison that was used before because I just administered
POV: XanderI started suspecting Leon after Lewis was killed by the rogues. Of all my friends, he is the only one who has not done anything suspicious since all this started. He is always quick to support me and as far as I’m concerned, he has been loyal to me from the beginning. He is my beta, and yes, I expect him to be loyal, but not this loyal. Not to the point where he never questions my decision or even challenges my wrong choices. He just lets me do whatever I please, whether good or bad, he just doesn’t care.When I first accused Alexis of being a traitor, he did everything he could to convince me that he was not working with my enemies. He was so agitated and he wouldn’t stop trying to prove his innocence to me, not even when I was branded a trait by my own father. Alexis stayed close by and he offered to help me find the trait if I would let him. He claimed he was framed by someone in this house and he wanted to find out who had tried to frame him.I didn’t really trust him
POV: XanderHe felt it the moment it happened, he felt his sister's pain the moment she was shot and he screamed in pain, holding his heart as if he were the victim. We were in my dad's office, going through the videos one after the other and compiling the names of the different parts that betrayed the kingdom. At first, Dad didn’t want to believe it, he nearly kicked me out of his office and he called me a bloody liar and a traitor. We argued, and fought, and then argued some more before he finally agreed to see the evidence that I claim to have against his precious lycan royals that he considers family.It took a few minutes to sort out the videos because they were all jumbled up on my system. While I sorted out the videos, Dad called a few lycans from each family to his office, and he called in the committee he had put together to judge Heather and I. He wanted them to see that he was not a part of this baseless accusation, and he wanted them to get more points to use against me in
POV: Heather“What the hell are you doing?” I asked her furiously, jerking her so hard to get her to snap out of it. Her eyes came back to normal and she glared furiously at me, turning with her lycan speed to threaten me with her look.“Are you fucking insane, Heather?Do you have a death wish?Can’t you smell the danger lurking in the dark, can’t you see that we are not supposed to be here?You should have let me speak with Xander, we need his help to get out of here?” She yelled at my face. More like crying out in frustration because she doesn’t want to be here and I’m forcing her to stay with me.“I won’t let you ruin this for me because I warned you to stay back but you wouldn’t listen to me. Now I’m here already, and there is no going back. I don’t know if our enemies are close by, but ill be damn if I let you keep me away from my mom for one more minute. You stood up for your brother when he needed you, now it’s time for me to save my mom.” I yelled in her face, glaring angrily
POV: Heather“How is she, why won’t she come along with you?” I asked him the moment he picked up my call. Alexia was busy checking around the house, searching for explosives or something. She did not see me going through my phone, but when she heard my voice she looked up immediately and she came running towards me, looking so shocked.“What the hell are you doing?” She yelled at me, trying to snatch my phone from me, but I put out my hand, stopping her from reaching for my phone. I gave her a look that said,“Calm down, I know what I’m doing.” She seemed to get the point, and she stood still, folding her hands on her chest. She did not try to take my phone again, but I could tell that she was still not comfortable with my decision. I ignored her and kept talking to Leon, telling him how grateful I was that he chose to look out for me. He was never this nice to me, I wonder what I did to make him like me this much. I guess he just wanted to take his time and get to know the real me b
POV: HeatherI marveled at her courage to pick up her phone, call Xander, and say all this trash to him. If I were her, I would be catching the next flight out of the country already. To think that she even tried to bargain with him, telling him to cl it even and let her and her family go after many years of betrayal and plotting evil against the prince. Then she threatened him with war, she threatened his life and mine, claiming she wouldn’t go down without a fight. If this is a trick to stall Xander while she escapes, then she is doing a good job. But if it’s not, then she had made a terrible mistake by threatening an already furious Lycan prince.I don’t know what he is planning, but I’m pretty sure that she would not make it out alive. The death she wished for me is coming right back to her, and just the way she plotted with my brother and the rogues and killed my entire family, that is the same way her entire family would go down. I would love to see that happening, but first, I
POV: HeatherHe read my thoughts and discovered that I’d known about his ex-wife and Vinnie, and yet I didn’t say anything about it. That made him so pissed and he walked away from me, calling me a freaking liar. I felt a sharp pain in my heart as he swore never to forgive me for lying to him. It felt as if my whole world was crumbling before my very eyes. I’ve felt his anger before, but it was never this much, and he never looked this disappointed before.Everyone in the room looked so confused as he walked out on me, leaving me to either follow him out or remain in there with the remains of my family. Only Alexia understood what was going on between us. She came to me before I could fall down and cry my eyes out. She held me so right, holding me in her arms as the tears flowed freely down my cheeks.“What did I do?” I thought to myself as Alexia led me to the car. I’m sure if we didn’t come out on time, Xander would have left us behind. He looks so angry that it scares me to even lo
POV: XanderWhen I first saw that app that is very similar to the app Celia likes using to store information she wants to keep secret, believe me, I thought it was just a huge coincidence. I mean it’s just an app that can be installed if you know the right people to go to, so I wasn’t expecting anything else. I just assumed that maybe he got the app the same way Celia got hers, that was just the thought in my head before I started viewing the damn files.Yes, I know Vinnie is a damn whore, and when she started aligning herself with the Alphas, I knew she has a mean trick up her sleeve. I assumed she was taking advantage of the Alpha's mistake to make them do her bidding, and I suspected she was dealing with the rogues as well, but I wasn’t too sure about that until I saw her meeting with Richard, making out with him even in the presence of other guys. From their interactions, you could tell that they go way back. They were more like close friends and not just acquaintances.There are