[HOLLY’s Point-of-View]I groaned.I smelled rusting metal and the fresh scent of the forest around me. I smelled wet concrete and heard the splattering of the rain on the musky earth.My eyelid flutter. Every inch of me was aching and when I moved, my ears were filled with the clanging noise of the chains I felt around my wounded wrists. The searing pain the metal was inflicting on me made my head panic. It was a silver chain! I had to remove it before the metal ate my flesh deep into my bones!I squinted and found myself in the middle of a vast, abandoned building. The walls were filthy and covered with moss. The roof has huge holes and the rainwater entered the building, creating puddles of mud around the area.My chest was heaving. I had to get rid of the silver chain as fast as I could but I was too weak to destroy it. The thing that they injected me stopped me from using my werewolf strength. I was slowly dying and I couldn’t do anything but scream.“HELP ME!” I screamed at the
[ALEC’s Point-of-View]Alpha Alec, someone urgently needs to talk to you,” Robert, my Beta, handed me the wireless telephone. I looked at his face stoically, annoyed and not wanting to answer anybody’s phone call. Not today when I was in my worst mood because of Irina’s outrageous behavior in the bar.“I don’t want to talk to anyone. And if it’s Irina, tell her I am out of town. Or out of the country. I don’t have any energy to deal with her right now.”“I’m afraid it isn’t Lady Irina, Alpha Alec. It’s Alpha Evander Edgerton of the Blackwood Pack waiting for you to answer it.”I froze. I never expected a call from a man who nearly destroyed everything I worked hard for after the crazy thing I did when I confessed all my feelings to Holly. I was in my weakest moment that day and all my plans were destroyed because of the Alpha of the Blackwood Pack.I never thought a she-wolf could be mated with someone just a few days after she survived rejection. I couldn’t understand why the Moon Go
[EVANDER’s Point-of-View]My hand trembled as I put the phone down on my desk.Kian’s face was etched with worry when he stared at me, “What did he say? Is Lady Holly back in Ivory pack?”“She’s not there,” I exhaled, fear crawling up my neck. So many bad scenarios played in my head but I shook them away. There was something wrong happening and I felt it. I felt she was in danger and needed to find her before it was too late.I stood from my table and Kian’s back straightened. He had already anticipated the orders I would give him, “Expand the search area! Send more patrol men all over the pack and alert all the ones who are guarding the border! Close the gates and don’t let anyone get in or out of the gates!”Kian bowed his head, “I’ll do everything I can to find Lady Holly,” he gave me a nod of reassurance and I nodded back at him, giving him my trust one hundred percent.I held the necklace I gave Holly on her last birthday. It was indeed from my mother who passed away a few years
[HOLLY’s Pint-of-View]My vision was too blurry I couldn’t see Irina’s face anymore.It was like seeing through the bottom of the glass and using it as a monocular. The pain was everywhere. Physically, mentally, and the most painful of all was seeing the sister taking pleasure in watching me while I die in front of her.The poison was spreading fast and I felt it as my heart started to beat so slowly that I was scared it would stop any time soon. My breaths were shallow and fast and my lungs felt leathery, too stiff to expand and make room for more oxygen to sustain my dying body.I was dying. I could feel the poison slowly spreading throughout my body, killing my organs one by one.“I-Irina…” I murmured and reached for her, begging her for help but she only stood in front of me, watching me like my suffering was a very amusing thing for her. I wondered if she had completely lost her mind. It was as if she never cared about whatever the consequences she did. All she wanted was for me
[EVANDER’s Point-of-View][Follow the car.] Leo, my inner wolf told me.[It stopped. I can’t go near it without the driver noticing my presence. I have to shift back to my human form.] I told Leo and he agreed with it.Here is my territory, I made a system where I stored clean dry clothes in random places so that whenever we shapeshift back to human form, we have clothes to wear. Our clothes explode and rip into ribbons whenever we transform. And to make sure no one would walk naked in the streets of this city, I provided my men clothes that were hidden in places where we could use them.After changing into a plain white shirt, jeans, and comfortable shoes, I followed the guy cautiously into the woods. I squinted because he looked so familiar even with his back on me.And that’s when I saw his face when he glanced a little bit and recognized it was Alec! Alec Aoki!My teeth pulled back to my teeth as I snarled in anger, wanting to lunge myself on his back and break his neck open. But
[EVANDER’s Point-of-View][GO AWAY, ALEC!] I couldn’t waste any more time! I could hear Holly’s breath going weaker and weaker as the seconds passed. [DO YOU F*CKING WANT HER TO DIE!?]I couldn’t believe Alec’s selfishness. Maybe that was why Holly never trusted him with her heart. [If you won’t move away, then I have no choice but to rip that f*cking head of yours away from your shoulders!] I growled and ran towards him giving all my strength to this one last attack and prayed to the Moon Goddess to give me more strength to save Holly.Alec blocked my claws but I jumped again and aimed on his neck. It was too fast he had no time to block my attack again. His eyes widened in horror, knowing that he was about to die. But I froze when I heard Holly cough and when I glanced at her, I thought my heart stopped after seeing that she was already coughing blood.Alec was too petrified to stop me from running towards my mate. He fell to the ground, trembling as his head dropped in defeat. That
[EVANDER’s Point-of-View]The Operation was successful.But Holly has been unconscious since then. The doctors did everything they could and Holly was finally safe from the poison and the fatal injuries she got after the incident. But it was up to the Moon Goddess if Holly would open her eyes again or remain in a coma for weeks, months… or worse, years, like what the doctor said.I was so devastated I couldn’t think straight.It’s been six days and she hasn’t woken up yet.Kian was kind enough to give me rest regarding my duties as the Alpha. He was the one communicating with the elder councils about the whereabouts of my people and had been working hard to fix my schedules and meetings with the other leaders of the Alliance.The news about what happened had spread like wildfire.On day seven, Kian returned to the hospital to report and check on both of us. I could see on the dark circle under his eyes that he hadn’t had a good rest since the incident.“You have to stop and get some r
[HOLLY’s Point of View]I felt like the whole world was resting on my chest. It was so hard to breathe.Everything was black but I heard muffled noises. Voices of two people talking, not too far from me. I couldn’t comprehend what they were saying. They sounded like they were mumbling over something serious and my wolf could feel the tension in the air while I was trapped in something dark and empty inside of me.I was floating in a void. I wanted to reach for the light shining dimly above me but whenever I tried to stretch my arms for it, something somewhere in my body burned. It was excruciating and I couldn’t exactly tell where the pain was because it was all over me. It was in every joint of my bones, in my stomach, in my head—it was in my bloodstream.Fighting hard not to succumb to darkness, I swam and kicked my legs to the surface. I needed air. I needed to reach for that small light even though I knew what was waiting for me on the other side was pain and I had no idea if I