Liam's POVMy alarm sings loud as I lay on the bed, covered in my thick duvet. The sun is out early today, flooding golden rays into my room from the window I left open last night.Also, the morning breeze is cool and has constantly tried to seduce me back to sleep.It's Thursday morning and, last night, we had a meeting with the master, talking about the arrangements for the party.I get a call from the master and he scolds me for not sleeping in the park last night. Every other member of the pillar is there. I'm the only one who went back to the city.The arrangements for the party have already begun and I should be there to help organize things.But I came back to the city to discuss something important. I talked with Nathan's family about postponing his funeral. His only family are his elder sister who's married and his younger brother who's upkeep is my responsibility now. They agreed on postponing Nathan's funeral to next week since I'm the one funding it. I'm pretty sure my sc
Liam's POV“What the hell are you doing up here?” I fire at Anna. “The hall is down there and that's where guests should be!”Her legs are frozen where she stands, shock glued on her face and she doesn't say a word.I turn to the princess. “Please, go into your room, princess. This weirdo could do anything . I'll be right back after I deal with her.”The princess takes my words and goes inside her room.With her gone, I drag Anna by the hand and storm downstairs. I drag her further to the back of one of the pack houses. It's quite there since the occupants are still at the party.“What the hell is wrong with you?” I ask Anna. “I made it clear in that note that you should stay away from me.”“Liam…” her voice cracks, “we're… mates.”“I'm fucking away of that,” I roar, clenching my fists. “But I have a fucking life.”“I do, too!”“You don't understand me. I'm not interested in letting you alter my own life, Anna. I was okay until the moon goddess sent you!” I voice out.Tears trickle do
Naya's POVThe final stage of the Krishna Fashion Design Contest has finally arrived. The finals is being hosted at the Krishna Fashion school and will last for three days.It's 4am when I wake up in the morning and I quickly to the bathroom to have my bath. Henry promised he'd be up to drive me to the venue by 5am.I have just an hour to prepare and start going.Recalling the instructions, I dress up in a teal tight fit gown, patterned with golden flowers on the thighs and a sleeve that stops right at the elbow.Henry helped me yesterday to select the design from a bunch I saw online, and I tasked myself to reproduce it and style it in my own fashion.I pick up a teal handbag and black heel that matches the dress, and I'm ready to leave.I leave, making sure that my ID cards are all stuffed in my handbag. I can't screw myself and forget one of them.The other dresses I made have been folded, packed and kept aside since yesterday. I want to advertise them when the finals are concluded
Naya's POV The next morning begins with us drawing lots. Tension grips everyone when the tall receptionist walks in with a tray of papers that have been carefully folded.“You just need to stand beside your bed and the tray will go round,” she says with a modest smile which stills my attention from the tray in her hands.She's courteous and beautiful.She starts going round with the tray like she said, passing it from one person to the other. “Choose wisely,” she teases.The papers are all the same colour; white. You can't tell which team you belong to without opening it up and reading what's written inside of it.I watch as Sharon picks her paper eargely. Excitement lights up her face with a smile when the tray is moved over to her sister whose bunk is right beside hers.Her eyes are popping with curiosity to see what her sister chooses.The tray gets to me and I choose after concluding a prayer that has been in my mouth since the receptionist walked in. She moves the tray to the
Liam's POVI open my eyes to Sophie seated on a chair beside my bed. But it's not my own bed, it's not my own room.A groan leaves my mouth as I try to turn around and a sharp pain strikes my back.She rushes up from her seat, setting her phone down on it.“Easy, babe,” she says, touching my hand. “Easy, the doctor will be here soon.”“The doctor?” I ask.“Yes. I contacted him some minutes ago,” she replies.“Fuck,” I mumble.Looking around, it dawns on me that I'm in a hospital ward. But how? Since when?I return my gaze to Sophie, grunting as I attempt to sit up. “What happened to me?”“Take it easy, Liam. You can't move until the doctor is here. The cops will be around, too, for some interrogation,” she says.My eyes darken with seriousness even though they feel weak. “What business do I have with the cops?” I ask.“They said that the daughter of a rich man rammed her truck into you. And from the looks of it, she did on purpose. They'd like to know from you what could have caused
Chapter 44Naya's POVThe results of the first stage are out.We're gathered at the event hall and Mr Davis is on stage to announce the team to be eliminated.Everyone's heart is their stomach as he intentionally takes the time of his life before he can say those simple words.“From what the judges have calculated,” Mr Davis begins. “Both teams did well. But there's a huge gap in professionalism between the end products. Team pink…! I'm sorry, your journey ends here.”Sharon breaks into tears immediately when she hears that her sister has to leave.“Marie is way better than these arseholes in my team,” she cries. “This is so unfair.”“Wipe your tears, coward. You can't insult my team with me there. Until you prove you're better than me, you don't have any right to decide what's fair and unfair.”The second phase of the contest starts the next morning. This time, it's the five of us against each other.Mr Davis reads out the instructions for the day's task. And just like the other day,
Naya's POVLiam's friend, Mike, visits the hospital two days after my arrival. While they talk, I notice how he gazes at me from time to time.When I suddenly catch him gazing at me, his lips draw a smirk.“You've got one hell of a sexy creature as your fiancée,” he says to Liam who cautions him immediately.“If you make one more silly comment, I'll break you bones here,” Liam threatens.I smirk at the idiot. If he thinks I'm going to find what he said funny, then he's telling himself a blatant lie.Nathan is the only friend of Liam's whom I ever got to close with. A very funny guy, but respectful as well and knew not to cross people's boundaries.Some minutes later, Reilly calls my phone.“There’s a special delivery for you, sis,” she says.“Help me get it,” I say to her.A mail from the bank makes my phone vibrate. It's a credit of five hundred thousand dollars in my bank account.My breath hangs in my chest, my eyes totally shocked.I check the descriptions and I realize that the c
Naya’s POVLiam's recovery takes two more days before the doctors decide he's fit to be discharged. His legs still wobble a bit when he walks, but with help from Mike and another guy who visited, he gets to the rear seat of Mike’s car, and I join him there.Mike takes the steering, the other dude seated in the front passenger seat and nodding to a 90’s hip hop track that is playing.“Can’t you take us to something contemporary?” Liam asks Mike when he notices how detached I looked.Mike turns the volume down. “Say what?”“The fucking music, man. Can't you change it to something more modern?” Liam grumbles.“Oh. Wish I got any of that,” Mike chuckles. “All my life, my playlist’s been this way.”I let out a sigh at the same time with Liam. Mike turns the volume back up, and for twenty-five more minutes, we have to put up with the old songs that come after each other.Liam's house is a mess when we arrive. There's a pile of dirty clothes in his room which he should have washed before th
ROWAN Jessica handed the phone over to me with shaking hands. "I....I called him. He told me that he's going to be here soon. Are you happy now?" Jessica asked me. I nodded my head. "Yes. I am very happy. You know ...you really didn't need to do all of this. You should have just left Naya alone!" I told Jessica. "You....you have no idea how much I love you! Despite how many times you trample on the feelings that I have for you, I refuse to care about it. I just want to be with you. And yet you treat me like this! You even dared to kidnap me! Let me just make it clear to you, Rowan. You are never going to get Naya back. You are going to find out that you're making a big mistake. The King will never let you take the only person who can save the life of his daughter!" Jessica told me.I rolled my eyes at her. "Do you really think that I care about whoever you are working for? It's none of my busines, and it would have been great as long as you had left my wife out of it. You only h
NAYA I lay on the bed weakly as I watched my blood being made into an antidote for the so called princess. She had looked weak when she first walked in, but now that she had taken the antidote, she looked a whole lot better. The princess smiled at Liam. "Thank you so much for saving my life, Liam. I really don't know what I would have done without you. If it wasn't for your efforts all of these years, I am sure that I would have died a long time ago. I am really really happy that I have you in my life!" She said.I wanted to throw up when I heard this. I had never felt this disgusted in my life before. Liam had a sweet smile on his face, and he looked like he was happy to be doing this. I was shaking in anger as I watched him. How dare this person?! He was using my blood to appease someone else! I noticed that Liam had never looked at me the way that he was looking at the princess. He had never been nice to me. I was sure that he did not treat even Sophie in this way. Was this
ROWAN"Are you sure that she is in here?" I turned to ask Sophie. We were standing in front of a house that was in the middle of nowhere. It was an old neighborhood and I was sure that they were less than ten people who lived here. The people who lived here were also probably extremely old and so even if anything had been going on, I was sure that they won't have been able to notice. Sophie nodded her head"Yes. Do you think that I am lying? I did what you asked me to do. I followed him and this was where he came to," Sophie said. I glanced at Henry and he walked with me into the house. I was about to walk in when Sophie grabbed my arm. "Hey where do you think you are going? We aren't done talking here. You said that you are going to pay me a hundred thousand dollars as long as I got the information on where she lived for you. I did that. When are you paying me?" Sophie asked me. "We haven't found Naya yet. As soon as we find her, I am going to give you your money!" I told her f
NAYA The door was pushed open and my eyes flew open immediately. "Who is there? Jessica? You are back? Let me out of here. Let me go as soon as possible. You are not going to get away with doing this. You are going to regret ever don't this to me. Let me go if you know what's good for you!" I snapped at her. When she didn't reply me, I continued. "Rowan is going to find you, and he is going to make sure that you pay for doing this to me. Don't think that you can get away with this. Even if you keep me here for the rest of my life or even kill me, he's never going to look at you. He doesn't love you. Why is it so hard for you to understand that? I am the one that he loves! Only me!" I stated. "Oh really? You are the only one that Rowan loves? Are you sure about that? Are you really so confident about his feelings for you?" I heard a familiar voice ask me just then. I would recognize that voice even if I was dead. The voice that had haunted me in both lifetimes..Liam! Liam was he
LIAM"What? You went out to meet with him? Are you stupid?!" I yelled at Jessica over the phone. "Well, Rowan called me and he told me that he wanted to see me. He even booked a table at a restaurant. I thought that he had come back to his senses and he had seen that I was the better choice for him. But when I got there, all he did was talk about Naya. I think he knows that I am the one who kidnapped her, but he doesn't have any proof at all. He even knows that I met with yon. What am I going to do?" Jessica asked me. She sounded like she was panicking. .I just rolled my eyes. I had no idea why I was surrounded by all of these dumb women. I thought that Sophie was the worst that I would have to deal with and that since Jessica worked for the King, she would be smart at least. But once it involved the man that she was interested in, she had no brains. She was just so fucking stupid! "Do you really think that he'd come running back to your arms a day after Naya went missing? You
ROWAN "Are you sure that Jessica is working for the Alpha? If she's the one working for him then...it means that she's the one who has been spying on us. When she came here and said that she wanted to take care of you that time ..it was because she wanted to spy on you," Henry said to me. Sophie was gone now. It didn't take much for me to persuade her to find out where Liam had taken Naya. "Yes. I am sure of it. She's definitely working for that person. She has been working for him for a really long time, I am sure. If Liam is talking to her about him then it means that they both know him," I said."Then what are you going to do now? Are you sure that it's a good idea to meet with her? I don't think that she's going to give anything away if she's really working for him," Henry said. I shook my head. "I have to try. I know that she won't tell me the truth but I have to meet her and ask her and see if she's going to let anything slip. I asked Sophie to find out from Liam where Naya
ROWAN"I don't deny that she was good to me while we were best friends, but how am I supposed to make a living if I don't have any money? I can't take chances, Rowan. I need to survive. You will never know how hard it is for me to survive. I don't want to beat around the bush with you. So are you going to give me the money or not?" She asked me. "Fine. I will give it to you. And don't think about playing tricks with me, Sophie. Because there are many ways I can get this money back from you. And I don't think that you are going to survive what I do to get the money back if you play me," I warned her. "Don't worry about it, Rowan. I may be a terrible person but I am very honest when it comes to doing business. Besides, I don't want to die. I need to be alive to spend the money," she stated. I brought out my bank book and I wrote her a cheque. Sophie snatched it away from me. She gasped when she saw the price that was written on it. They were literally dollar signs falling out of h
ROWANI turned to Henry. "What do you mean you still can't find her? It's not as if she disappeared off the face of the Earth? Why can't you find her?" I yelled at him. A whole day had passed since Naya had not returned home. At first, Henry had said that she was going out to meet a friend, but then she didn't come back yesterday and we still can't find her today. I was really worried now. Had Liam gotten to her? Did he kidnap her all because of her blood? "Did you find out what Liam did yesterday?" I asked Henry. He nodded his head. "Yes. The person that we had watching him said that he didn't leave his house much yesterday. He went out to meet with the Alpha of the Crescent Moon Pack but that was just it. He didn't go anywhere else and he came back home immediately. I don't think he has anything to do with this," Henry said. I sneered at him. "Are you stupid?! Even if he didn't do anything, then he must have had someone do it for him! He must have told someone to kidnap her!
SOPHIEI gasped when I heard this. Was Liam saying that they had kidnapped Naya? I had no idea who that Jessica person was but from Liam's words, they had worked together to kidnap Naya. Liam ended the call and he burst out laughing. I quickly shut the door and started to pace around the bedroom, thinking of what to do. I did not want Liam to know that I had heard what he was talking about. I knew that he was an extremely cold man and if he taught that I knew a secret then he was going to do something to hurt me. I didn't want to die in Liam's hands. I just wanted to be able to survive. Just then the door was pushed open and Liam walked in. I turned to face him and we came face to face with each other. There was a menacing look on his face when he saw me and he looked like he wanted to just triangle it to death and be done with it "What the heck are you doing here Sophie? I thought I have told you that I don't want to see you in my house? and how were you even able to get in