Xavier Damon held his breath as he felt the sharp blade nick against his neck. He tried to turn around but he felt the blade dig sharper into the nape of his neck.“Don’t move Xavier,” the familiar voice breathed down his neck. “If you love your life, stay the way you are now.”Xavier maintained the position he was. He knew who was behind him. It was no other than the bastard he had left in charge of his home and his people. He could not for anything forget how Elder Obada sounded, the shrill voice shrilled with deception.“You’ve come very far already,” Xavier smiled looking straight ahead. “Why are you doing all this?”“Why do you think?” Elder Obada laughed. “To get what I want of course.”“And what do you want?” Xavier asked.“I think that should be pretty obvious already,” the Elder sighed. “I want the pack, I want the title of the Alpha King. I want everything you have to be mine. Your family has ruled this pack for too long. It is time for someone else to be in control. The Dam
Xavier watched as Layla skipped away happily and he turned to face Jimin.“Seems she had a lot of fun today,” he said. “I’ve not seen Layla this happy in a very long time.”Jimin sighed. “If I know Layla very well, then I think your definition of fun is killing a lot of people. That right Rhea?”Rhea nodded. “She killed almost thirty percent of the warriors that set out against us. Most of them joined us when they saw her, but the ones that refused, she happily bested them.”“She allowed them to pledge their allegiance?” Xavier stared at Rhea.“Your sister has been learning a lot about ruling,” Rhea smiled. “And she has a good elder brother to teach her. She was very willing to cut her losses.”“That’s amazing,” Jimin chipped in. “The kind of Layla I would want to see.”“Ahem,” Jaime coughed, feeling left out already.Xavier turned to Jaime and patted him on the back. “Rhea, meet my lieutenant, the new commander of my Northern army, Jaime.”Jaime smiled at her and stretched out his ha
“Jimin!”Jimin did not even turn back to look at them. In the blink of an eye, he was gone.“Where’s he headed?” Jaime asked.“Calistè,” Xavier replied. “We’ve got to get to him before he gets to her. Jimin is no match for Calistè all by himself.”“He’s gone too far,” Layla said squinting to see if she could still see him. “And I can’t pick his scent. No one of us here can pick his scent. He always hides it.”Xavier stared at Layla. He was as confused as the rest of them there.“What are we going to do?”“I think this would be a good time for Steve to show us what he’s capable of,” Rhea said.Xavier spun around immediately and faced Rhea. “You think it would work?”“I’m a hundred percent sure it would,” Rhea replied. She brought her fingers to her mouth and whistled out loud, so loud that it resonated over the hills far away.And then, they heard the noise. They all turned back to see what it was and from the distance, Xavier could sight the beast barreling towards them, faster than
“I have a very bad feeling about this, Xavier,” Rhea muttered.“Oh come on,” Layla grunted and pushed the door to the cottage open. “We’re not Ice wolves like you and Megan. You’ve lived in the North your whole life and you can decide to sleep outside in the cold. Nothing will happen to you. We would freeze to death if we even thought of it.”Rhea frowned. “It’s not about the cold guys. That cottage wasn’t there when we passed earlier.”“And it is now,” Layla sighed. “Guess Selene is actually keeping to her promise of making the final days of this battle worth it for me isn’t she.”“We can’t keep taking risks like this,” Rhea raised her voice. “Risks like this would eventually cost us our chance of success in the end. We have to think carefully about all the decisions that we’re going to be making rather than rushing into them.”“What are you implying?” Xavier stared at her. “That I’m rushing into a decision.”“Because you actually are, Alpha,” Rhea muttered. “You’re putting your life
The sound of something moving in the snow caught Rhea’s attention.“Who’s there?” she asked, her eyes wavering around to see if she could catch any movement.Rhea spun around quickly to check on the gang. There was no noise coming from the cottage and she guessed that everything was fine inside.“It’s just me and you then, ghoul,” she sighed and started off deeper into the snow. She knew that the lives of her stubborn friends depended on her now and she was not particular about seeing things hi South after how far they had gone. If only Xavier decided to listen to her and stay away from that cottage.Rhea sighed as she trudged along the snow. The cold was never a problem to her. She was already used to it. She stopped when she heard the noise again and she turned around quickly and at alert, her sword firm in her hand.“Come out now,” Rhea grunted. “Don’t be a scaredy cat.She grunted at the sight of Steve, snoring loudly at a corner. Was it his snore that she had heard. She stared at
Rhea stared into space as Calistè disappeared. She was not sure she had heard the witch correctly. Did she just say that Jimin was dead? Rhea’s heart skipped a beat as she considered the possibility of it all. Calistè had known that Jimin came for her and she had caught him first and killed him?“Oh no,” Rhea muttered as she ran all the way down to the cottage. “This can’t be possible. Jimin can’t be dead.”Rhea burst into the room without even bothering to knock and immediately, Layla disentangled herself from Jaime and looked up to see who it was.“Where are your manners Princess?” Layla murmured. “Can’t you knock before entering? And what do you want with us anyways? You said you would stay out and watch so do just that.”“Jimin…” Rhea replied, her face pale. “He’s gone.”Layla rolled her eyes. “That’s the reason we’re all here isn’t it? Of course we know he’s gone. Don’t worry we’re going to find him.”“I mean he’s dead!” Rhea cried. “Calistè killed him.”Xavier who had been sleep
Xavier watched as Rhea made her way out of the cabin and he heaved a deep sigh. He knew Rhea very well and he knew that once she made a decision, she was not going back on it. She was going to follow it up to the end.Xavier turned to face Jaime and grunted. “Don’t allow my sister get out of here. Keep her busy…”“I would keep her busy,” Jaime grinned.“And by busy I don’t mean whatever rubbish you are thinking of right now,” Xavier frowned. “Just make sure she’s good okay?” “I would,” Jaime said. “You can have my word on that.”“Don’t give him your word on me,” Layla hissed. “I am uneasy like the tides. I would make you lose your head.”“You can’t leave here without me getting to know,” Jaime smiled. “You might be sneaky but I’m a very observant person. You can’t elude me.”“If you’re very observant you should have noticed that your wallet was missing already,” Layla smiled.Jaime frowned and spun around quickly. True to her words, his wallet was not with him. He saw it on the floor
“Hail doesn’t really mean anything,” Xavier frowned in a bid to shrug it away.“You really think that hail falling in the North doesn’t mean anything?” Rhea frowned, her eyes fixed on Xavier. “We’ve seen hail a couple times back in the West,” Xavier shrugged. “I can assure you that it doesn’t mean a thing.”“Calistè is up to something evil,” Rhea grunted. “And the faster we get to her the better for our Beta.”“The better for our Beta,” Xavier murmured and chuckled to himself.Rhea hissed and walked faster up to a snow mountain a good distance away.“Wait,” Xavier laughed as he ran up to meet Rhea. “The way you said it was a little bit funny you’ve got to admit that.”Rhea spun around immediately and Xavier could see the anger in her eyes.“You are taking this thing as a joke,” Rhea frowned. “It’s funny to think that I, who was the enemy before am now even more serious about the issues that concern your own pack more than you who is the Alpha.”“Relax,” Xavier grunted. “I know what I