I waited but Evander didn’t come to my room, just as he said.I couldn’t remember how many times I peeked between the curtains of the window but the three of them weren’t there anymore, and my heart sank, realizing that I hadn’t even had the chance to kiss my husband goodbye before he left. Was dad’s scolding so bad that he got too furious to go back inside the palace to see me? Or was it because of another urgent matter that he urgently had to attend and he didn’t have enough time to see me before he left?Whatever the reason, I had to endure my husband’s absence and make myself useful in any way I could.But how?There were too many sentinels guarding this palace in every corner. Four were assigned outside my room and I had no idea how many more were appointed all over this massive place.I tried to tether him through our bond and sense his presence but he was gone and out of my reach.“Goddess, I hate it here.” I grumbled and slumped on the edge of the bed, my eyes still looking ou
“You are not serious, right?”I gazed into my husband’s darkened eyes. His face hardened like steel as he gave me that contemplative look. But I could tell he was considering it. There was hesitation flashing in his emerald-green eyes.He knew that whatever memories Randalf asked Melinda to erase, they could be important.But then my heart sank when he said flatly. “No.”We were in my room. I had to wait three lonely days until Evander was able to get some rest from those endless meetings and had time to see me again. Sheiyan, on the other hand, pleaded that I shouldn’t bring that topic to my husband, expecting that Evander would only get furious about it. But I had to try. I had to convince my husband. He was the only person who understood my desperation to know about my lost memories.“You know how dangerous it is, Holly.” He sighed heavily, and I felt bad after I saw that exhausted look on his face. I could tell that the situation in the Blackwood pack worsened after a week of the
A day after that fight with Sheiyan, Evander found me staring blankly out the window of my room, overlooking the lush and vibrant colors of the garden. The sun was setting and the purple-pinkish sky made the whole scenery on my window look like a painting of a masterpiece that could easily draw someone’s attention to it.I turned to look at him. The rim of my eyes was red and swollen. My face was taut with utter agony, suffering from the fact that the only best friend I had hated me to the bone.“Holly…” Evander’s eyes were wide with fret as he made five large steps towards me from the door, where he was shocked after seeing the horrible look on my face.“Did something happen?" He gazed into my face; his instinct to protect me flashed in his eyes and then he pulled me into a tight embrace.Sheiyan didn’t tell him. She didn’t tell him about that awful argument we had.I shook my head before I pulled myself a little away from him to stare into his troubled eyes. “No. It’s okay, Evan. Ma
Evander had to think of a way for the sentinels to leave my door and as the Alpha King’s son-in-law, no one doubted when he told them a new shift schedule was released and it was their time for their rotation to be stationed at the gates of the garden.My heart was rioting in my chest when he told me that all the lights in the palace would be out in five minutes.“How is that possible?” I asked him when he came back to my room with a grin on his face. I couldn’t think of anything about how Evander could pull that off. But I knew him. There was no stopping him when he had to do or needed something.Dad was out of the country attending an economic meeting with the Alphas of the Southern Packs. Evander told me he got into Dad’s schedule where the old man would be away for days so we never had to worry about him running after us and beating the sh*t out of him.But cutting off the power of this massive place?“‘Kian knows someone who is working at the main power source of this palace and
My hips and legs were a bit stiff after I mounted Evander’s back in his wolf form. I was still in awe whenever I watched him shift in front of me. It was as if it were a very natural thing for him to do and I wondered if he still felt pain during that morphing process.Because every time I shifted, it felt as if I would collapse from pain and only had little enough energy to spare for the fight, which was a very dangerous thing if I was alone. I would be an easy target and it was hard that I couldn’t practice shifting when I was still pregnant with our firstborn.We left the car at the east border of the land that used to be the territory of the Ivory Pack.Carefully, I slid down my husband’s dark, shiny fur and felt it on my cheek before he stood on his four feet and scanned the whole area. I hooked the straps of a small backpack to my shoulders, where I secured my husband’s clothes so he could wear them when he shifted back to his human form.[How do you do it?] I asked him, full of
A snarl rumbled in my husband’s throat and I stroked his fur to calm him.[Let us wait, Evan. I have a feeling he personally knew Melinda. Hence, he won’t be able to get into that hole that easily.][I always know he is up to something.] Evander growled low in my head as we hid behind the thick bushes, far enough for Alec not to sense our presence. I kept stroking my husband’s fur until his breathing slowed and the massive, powerful muscle underneath that black coat relaxed.[We have to know what his connection is with her.] I breathed.Two minutes and Alec hasn’t climbed out of the hole. I started to feel worried. What if I was wrong and he didn’t really know Melinda? What if she kills him inside that dark, scary pit?[We have to go. We have to see if Alec is still alive in there.] I said to my husband with alarm and gave the bag of his clothes to him as he shifted back to his human form. I glanced in his direction and my heart skipped when my eyes scanned with hunger at that ripped
“Holly!”I heard Evander’s soft voice but all my mind was in a haze of pure anger—not for the scarred woman who was pressing herself against the hard, cold wall of her small hiding place but for the man who pretended he cared for me my whole life! The man who made me believe that he was my father and almost ruined my life if it wasn’t my mate who saved me from the darkest pit Randalf Ambrose dug for me.I tilted my head as I heard my husband whisper to me but my eyes were fixed on Melinda’s terrified face. Pale as moonlight. As if she had never seen the sun for a very long time. Scared that people might see her and report her to the man who made that horrible mark on her face. Her long, thin fingers went to her throat as if she were choking out of fear. No. It wasn’t fear. Those round, copper eyes were so wide that her eyes balls looked as if they were going to roll out of their sockets.“Holly! You are killing her!” Evander’s voice turned into a snarl as his body tensed. He was behin
I sharply turned to look at my husband from my shoulder.Even my mate went still as he gazed at Melinda’s copper eyes. “You want to join my pack?” He asked, his jaw tight and his brows meeting in a deep frown. He knew it was a huge risk to take a person like Melinda into his pack. A hybrid with a strange ability and the one who had been hunted by Randalf’s men—A smirk tugged on Evander’s lips and my brows raised as he continued speaking to the lady. “Fine. I can arrange it.”I turned around to look at my husband’s face. I knew what I was thinking might upset Melinda so I whispered it through our matebond. [You can’t be serious! The council—I don’t think they would agree with taking Melinda into our pack. They barely accepted me!]Evander’s eyes didn’t leave Melinda’s nervous face as he answered me. [We have no choice, love. I am still the Alpha of the pack. They shouldn’t question my authority.]The tension on my shoulders was released as soon as Evander’s emerald eyes went to gaze a