POV: XanderI thought I would finally take a breath of fresh air after the death of the rogues. I thought we would finally move past all this and I would get a chance to live a happy life. But those are just mere wishes that may never come true because the forces fighting against me are way stronger than I ever imagined. While I was busy trying to end this damn war with the rogues, risking my life to bring an end to their madness, Vinnie was busy giving fake reports to my father, telling him that a rogue princess has got me hypnotized.I was wondering why she suddenly stopped talking to me, I was wondering why she wouldn’t say anything about our relationship after I threatened her to stay the fuck away from Heather. I knew she was tough to deal with, and I wasn’t expecting her to listen to me so easily. But she did, and she stayed away from me, or so I thought anyway. I thought she listened to me and decided to keep her distance, Who would have thought that she was cooking up a plan t
POV: HeatherIt’s funny how I’m treated like a low-life pauper in this room. Everyone is talking about me, saying hurtful lies about me. I know they are lying and I have some things in my heart that I would love to say to the king in my defense. But I can’t dare to speak in front of the king because I am considered as a despicable rogue. If I dared say a word in my defense, I would be considered a traitor immediately for speaking out of turn and I could be killed for that.They say I am a rogue, They told the king that I am a rogue spy who was planted in the demon wolf pack by my brother, the rogue leader. Vinnie sat beside the king with her shoulder high, showing her superiority. Who would think that she is the devil in human form, who would ever believe that she is behind her sister's death and also a rogue spy. She sits there like a princess, gazing at me with a smirk on her face.Her face looks daring a bold, it’s as if she knows that I have been told the truth about her. I know t
POV: HeatherLeon told us all that transpired while we were away. It turns out that the Alphas are not even trying to deny their increments with the rogues because the truth is out in the open. If they tried to deny it, then there would be many questions about the mines and they will not be able to answer those. So they decided to go with the lies that Vinnie had already told the king about me in her secret reports that she had been sending to him for a while now.I think she started sending reports back home the moment they got here and she has been telling the king about Xander and I, making me look like a bitch. No, she made me look worse than a bitch because she told everyone that I hypnotized him and made him fall in love with me. The King believed her because he believed that was the only way I could get his son to fall in love with me. I have no idea how she met with the Alphas and decided to cook up this plan against me,Wait,Hold on a minute…You know, now that I think about
POV: Heather“How long have you known Xander, have you all been friends for long, did you get to meet his first wife when she was alive?” I asked Alexia, earning a weird look from her. I spoke out of the blue and I kind of took her by surprise. I guess she expected me to be thinking of a way out of this situation I find myself instead of thinking about a dead woman.“If you are think of more ways to get into Xanders heart and make him love you more, I assure you, this is a terrible time to be thinking about that. I knows that having Vinnie as a rival will make you think you have to go the extra mile to make Xander love you. But I don’t think you should be worrying about winning Xanders heart when you both need to convince the king that you are not traitors.Trust me, this is bigger than you think it is. I understand that you have never been in this situation before and you have never been near the king before. But trust me when I tell you that this is as serious as it gets, the king w
POV: XanderI was walking around town like a freaking lunatic, threatening people and even promising some a reward if only they could speak the truth and save Heather and I from this humiliation. But they wouldn’t budge, I couldn’t find anyone that is willing to speak up for her, not even one person agreed to go against the Alpha. I’m forced to think that maybe he is not just paying them to keep shut, maybe he is threatening them with something more precious than wealth, maybe he is threatening their families and forcing them to keep shut.I found a few students and I promised to get them into the lycan college to finish schooling in case they are not treated fairly after exposing their Alpha. But they wouldn’t say a word to me, the Alpha's influence on them was just too intense. He intimidates and threatens them, forcing them to keep mute.I drove back to the mines to gather some evidence that the rogues were mining right under the Alpha's nose and he didn’t say or do anything about
POV: Heather“Why are there guards outside her room when she isn’t home?” Alexia asked me as we rounded the corner and saw three guards standing in front of Vinnie's room. It’s weird because she is not home now and yet she stationed some guards right outside her room door. I’m sure everyone is seeing this weird behavior of hers, Why are they not saying anything about it, Why don’t they think that this is weird?We did a little groundwork before coming here. First, I told Alexia everything I knew, keeping no details from her. I could tell that she didn’t believe anything I just said to her about Celia and Vinnie, but she decided to give it the benefit of the doubt, deciding to just check it out. She made it clear to me that she was only doing this to prove to me that in crazy and not because she wanted to find out anything about a dead woman.“Celia was an angel, there is no way in hell that she could have had such evil thoughts against Xander because she adored him. You could see the
POV: Heather“What do you need to tell me, why do you need me?” Xander asked us, staring at me fixedly and waiting for the response. I turned to Alexia and she looked as pale as a ghost, wondering what I was going to say to Xander.“Your heart is beating so fast, Butterfly, what is wrong?” He asked through our mind link. He followed my gaze and glared at Alexia, making her go paler, if that was even possible.“What are you two up to?” He asked fiercely this time, glaring at Alexia, ignoring me. I could tell that she would not be able to hold back anymore, his stern gaze was too intimidating for her to resist for much longer. I had to act fast before she ruined it for me, I can’t afford to mess this up, not now. If Xander hadn’t walked in on us, I was going to tell her how I planned to tell him some part of the truth just to make him believe me. If I told him everything, he would freak out on me and probably call me a liar. I have already come up with a plan and a perfect story to back
POV: Heather“Come on, Butterfly, I already apologized, didn’t I?I’m sorry I yelled at you in front of everyone, I just got pissed at everyone and everything. I didn’t mean to snap at you, I’m sorry.” He told me calmly, pulling me into his arms. I was not ready to let him off so easily. He had stopped me from calling my Foster mom or even going over to check on her. When I tried to argue about it, he snapped at me in front of everyone, making Leon so furious that he walked out of the room angrily. Alexia and her brother left as well because they couldn’t stand his anger anymore. I was left with a furious lover who wouldn’t even let me take care of him and make him feel better.The room was suddenly so stuffy that I couldn’t breathe anymore. I had to leave the room because I was getting upset too. He watched me leave and didn’t try to stop me. I felt so sad because I was losing him slowly. I kept thinking of his attitude towards everyone, and I imagined what I would do if he decided t
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