Scarlet POV"No more," I begged Katherine and she looked at Tiana before she laughed. "Please I don't want to see any more. These three are enough for me to choose from." I complain."Well, I would have loved to leave you alone, but Master Ravet had instructed that we show you every single one and let you go through them and make a choice on your own," she tells me and I go silent." We are only allowed to tell you our opinions in a way that they will not influence your choice. We are not to tell you what to pick or even 'help' you," she tells me and puts air quotes on the word help. I nod, wondering what Ravet is like to them. Will they mind if they ask? Will they report me? What will they say? Will they answer me?I keep quiet. I do not want to push my luck. A lot has happened in one day and I am only lucky to be completely sane at this point. I do not want to do anything that will put me in trouble in this place. They may seem friendly, but there is a limit to how friendly a peopl
Scarlet POVI sit at the windowsill and stare out the window down at the green lawn. It is a beautiful sight, but I am exhausted of seeing it. I have been seeing it for the last five days and I fear that at one point, it will be the only thing I see when I close my eyes."Fuck..." I whisper. I am filled with pain. It is not just my pain, it is the pain of someone else. Someone I love dearly. It is flowing through the connection of our mate bond and even though it is only a fraction, it is intense and the pain I am feeling shows me just how much he must be suffering.Damn, I'm suffering too.I miss him so much. I miss him so much that I am sure I will break apart if I have to endure one more day without him. I miss my family too. The last time I saw everyone I loved was five days ago and it is hurting me so much that my heart is breaking.Seeing them the time I saw them has made not seeing them for the past five days excruciating in a way that I cannot explain. I bury my face in my pal
Scarlet POVAs soon as I enter my room in the mansion, I shut the door and lock it behind me. I lean my back against the door, panting heavily and trying to hold my sobs back. I am terrified, angry and sad. No... No, there was no way this is about to happen to me. There is no way I am going to do this. Not with Ravet, not with any fucking person. I can not even open my mouth to say it. The mere thought fills me with dread, horror and disgust. I begin to pace around the room and the more I think about how hopeless the situation is, the more terrified I get.I start to cry again, burying my face in my hands and kneeling on the floor. The sadness I have been managing to keep at bay floods through me and I cry harder, sobbing out loud.The guards standing outside my door knock on the door. "Mistress Scarlet, are you alright?" One of them asks with a concerned tone in his voice. I don't care. I don't care if he is really concerned or he is pretending. What can his concern do for me? How
Scarlet's POVI shut the door behind me and instantly race into the built-in bathroom. I stand in front of the mirror and I almost gasp at how much of a mess I look like. It is probably why the guards were horrified on seeing me.There are black mascara lines running down my face from how much I have been crying and my hair is a mess from all my pulling while I was crying.At this moment, I do not care if I look presentable or not. All I want is to get out of here now that I have the chance. I reach behind me and pull at the laces that hold the bodice of my dress together. The laces loosen and I tug at them frantically. I am in a great hurry.Once they are loose enough, I pull the dress off and then struggle with the corset. My chest is constricted in the corset and it made it extremely difficult to cry freely. The laces finally loosen and I throw off the stupid cage to the side.I rush out of the bathroom and into the closet. My clothes from when I first came here we're confiscated b
Scarlet POVI fall through the air for two seconds. In those two seconds, I nearly get a heart attack. I am still confused and scared as I fall through the air and land on the floor with a loud thud. "Ugh!" I cry out as soon as my body hits the floor and I lie still for a few seconds, groaning at the pain that shoots through my head and back from hitting the floor.I bite my lip and roll over, on my side. The moment I move, the room lights up and I look around with surprise. The lights are coming from hundred of candles that are sitting in intricate, beautiful candle stands. The candle stands are in various spots around the room and they light up the place completely. There is also a chandelier hanging from the center of the gorgeous carved wooden ceiling. The light from the chandelier was coming from candles too.I attempt to stand up because I am filled with wonder at the place I have found myself. I am reminded of the shards of ceramic in my feet as sharp pain shoots up my legs. I
Scarlet's POVI run my hands through my hair with devastation as I read through the sentence over and over. Realization of what it means hits me so hard and I can not bring myself to breathe for almost thirty seconds.I am trapped here. I am stuck in this place. There is not going to be any way out for me. "No," I whisper. "No no no!" Tears of frustration and pain fill my eyes and fall over as I gasp and bury my face in my hands.This can not be happening. This seriously can not be happening to me. All my hopes of seeing Noah, Michelle, Mom, Jane Ryle and Aunt Annabel are crushed before my very eyes. The perfect image in my mind of us reuniting is shattered to a million pieces.It is so painful that my heart and brain refuse to accept it. There is no way I am going to be stuck here for the rest of my life. There is no way I am going to be stuck with Ravet and a group of sorcerers in a coven for the rest of my life. Will I have to play the told of his wife for the rest of my life? Will
Scarlet POVI stared at the wall intently. I do not even know where I fell from when I fell through the damn picture. I run my hands across the wall, and then look up at the ceiling. I fell. I fell through the ceiling or something. I fell. There is no way there will be a passage through the wall.I am surprised that as I am running my hand against the wall and looking up at the ceiling, my finger touches something and there is a quiet clicking sound before the wall slides open before my eyes."What the heck..." I whisper. This place is full of wonders and I can not help falling in love with it a little more despite it being a part of this coven I hate so much.I carefully walk into the dark passageway that the wall opens up to. I can not help being a little wary of this place. Sorcerers are cunning and tricky. If they did not set a trap in the library, there is a high chance that they set a trap on the way out.As soon as I step out of the library and into the passageway, the candle l
Scarlet POVI look to the door with high speed, hoping on the moon goddess that he has not caught wind of what happened with me. I am surprised to see Katherine and Tiana rushing in and shutting the door behind them."Scarlet, the color!" Katherine exclaims with tears in her eyes and Tiana silently rushes in for a hug. They compete for who will get to me first and I can only stare in shock. I am still recovering from the terror that I felt when I thought it was Ravet comic through the door.They slam into me and I collapse to the bed. I gasp for air as they squeeze the life out of me. "Katherine... Tiana... You guys are going to kill me," I tell them, gasping for air and pushing them away from me."We have missed you! Did you not miss us?" Tiana asks with a betrayed, and almost annoyed frown on her face as she pulls away from the hug.Katherine still holds herself cozy to me like nothing is going on. "Of course I missed you," I tell them honestly with a smile and Katherine holds me ev
Scarlet POVI don’t believe that Noah is so skilled with these spells. As soon as he locked Ravet up so he wouldn’t wake up and get his freedom again, Noah set the whole place ablaze with magic."How did you know about that?” My eyes widen, and my mouth falls open."I read a lot, baby.” He comes closer as he glues his lips to mine, kissing me unexpectedly.“ Gosh. I miss your lips so much.” He smiles as he throws me into his arms, and then he summons up a passage for us to return to the pack. Just the same way we got here."And I miss everything about you, Noah.” I whisper as I rub his chest, staring so long at his face as though I haven’t seen him for a decade."We have a lot to catch up on. Let’s go back home first.” He plants a kiss on my forehead as he steps into the passage, while I cling to him by wrapping my hands around his neck tightly."I'm glad we were fine in the end.” I say this as we appear back in our bedroom, at the exact spot where we stayed."You need to rest; you lo
Scarlet POVI’m back in this place again, but this time to fight and defeat Ravet, who is a fucking dick for not being able to take his eyes off someone’s woman.I walk through the aisle, embedded in silence. I think this trap isn’t going to work this time because I have already attained a realm here, and that will keep me from falling into the trap.Noah walks through behind me, and I quickly give him the signal that someone is coming to attack him from behind.He catches the sign as soon as possible and is able to rebuke the spells that were about to be cast on him.I smirk, knowing that Noah isn’t going to accept defeats this time. He takes full control of the fight, and his spells seem to be stronger than theirs as the guy gets trapped in Noah's spell."Be trapped.” He shoves his hands at another one, running all the way from the next door beside the entrance of the hallway.I break into a run as I sense something strange. Ravet is doing something that will lead to a massive break
Scarlet POVI hold Michelle beside me as I approach the staircase. I look around the mansion and rub my hands on the furniture. I miss my home so much.I don’t believe I was back in my pack. It still feels like a dream. My eyes are still so heavy with tears as I stare at Noah and my best friend. It feels so great, and I didn’t think Noah would ever find a way back to me."Come with me to the room; you need to rest, Scarlet.” He trails his eyes around my body, then a deep frown settles on his face when he realizes the scar on my wrist. It isn’t a big deal; it was just the way Ravet held me so tight when he was taking me to the dark room."Did he hurt you?” his voice deeper as his eyes get fiercer."No, it’s nothing, Noah. It was just a minor scar.” I explain, but the anger remains in his eyes."I would fucking break him.” He says under his breath while he puts his hand around my waist so he could lead me to the room that we both shared.I couldn’t say a word. And the way he held me rem
"Where are you taking me?” Panic fills my voice as Ravet wraps his fist tightly around my wrist."To a safe place.” His tone is a bit stern, as if he is upset or something."What is happening? Why is the whole castle rowdy?” I shout on top of my voice because of how noisy it is, as if people were getting ready for some battles."We received a threat, and we might be attacked anytime soon.” He shouts at the top of his lungs."I don’t get it. By who? Ain’t you a sorcerer?” I’m a bit confused by his whole composure. The Ravet, I know, shouldn’t be shaken by any threat."The threat is from the most powerful coven, and I don’t know what it is about yet. I just need to protect you first before I focus on dealing with the issue." He says this and still takes me forward as he walks fast."Can't I protect myself? Didn’t you say I have attained some realms in the coven?” I argue, still not getting the point."You don’t know how to use it yet. So it is the same as being futile because you can’t
Scarlet POV“ Give me your hand, Scarlet. Do not be scared.” He whispers in his deep voice. I stretch out my shaking hands to him and he brings out a knife from his pocket.“ You might not want to see this, you can close your eyes.” He instructed, I nod as I take my eyes to the other side while I feel the knife cutting through my flesh.“ Arghh!” I growl for a while as my wolf tried to reduce the pain and make me heal faster.He pour my blood into a bowl and he finally let go of my wrist. I hold my wrist as I feel the pain, it begin to close up suddenly as the pain reduces.I watch Ravet shut his eyes closed as he begin to mutter some words that I couldn’t understand. Then he lift the bowl containing my blood up as though he is doing some witchcraft that I still do not know yet.Once he is done, he throws the bowl to the ground as the blood splashes all over the floor.“ What are you doing?” my eyes widen as I didn’t expect that. And suddenly I begin to feel strange heat from the insi
Scarlet POVI heard his voice all the way from my dream as though I was having a nightmare, causing me to snap my eyes open.I suddenly wake up to see that he is reading while he sits on the table close to the window.My hair is quite a mess, as it’s all over my body. I narrow my eyes as I try to adjust to the morning sunlight.When my eyes are completely open, I see that I’m totally naked in bed, and the only thing giving me coverage was the thick white blanket.Damnit. I grit my teeth as I feel so much hatred for myself. My stomach churned from so much sick feeling and the fact that I woke up naked in his damn bed.This is the biggest mistake of my life, and I better think of a way to get out of the mess. How do I even want to do that because I’m fucking clueless and feel like I’m trapped here forever?Or how the fuck do I explain everything to Noah? How would he believe me after I had allowed another man to touch me? Gosh, he would look at me with disgust and hate me like shit."S
Scarlet POV I think I shouldn’t have asked Ravet to teach me about spells yesterday, and now I don’t know what to do because he expects us to consummate our marriage, and I do not want any of that. I grab my white towel as I step out of the bathtub and wrap it around my body. I slide into a light red night gown and wear some fragrances while I sit in front of the mirror. I’m going out to spend some time with Tiana and Katherine; it wouldn’t be bad if I asked them some questions about the leader of the coven. Was there any benefit to their wives? They must be. Just as you are the wife of an Alpha, when he marks you, you possess some powers that he does. I turn off the light in my bedroom and step out. I walk slowly in the hall as it is a bit dark and it is just past 7 p.m. I know Ravet wouldn’t be in his room by now. He has business to attend to, and he still needs to entertain most of the visitors that came for the party. As I walk, I hear some noises coming from my right, and t
Scarlet POVI begin to walk inside the library between the library shelves as the light comes up.I’ve been trying to figure out how to start learning the spell or Latin, and I just have to do it real quick because I’m sick and tired of this place. I fucking can’t wait to leave!I stomp my feet hard on the floor as I complain in my head. Shit, the sharp pain in my head increases after what I just did. How can I forget so soon that my head has been in a worse condition?I pack my gown into one side; it’s quite long and thick, and it makes me so uncomfortable. Especially when I have to walk a little fast and smart.I’m sure Ravet is still sleeping in the bedroom after last night’s party, and if he should be awake anytime soon, then I will be doomed, and that means that I might not be able to read voluminously today.Whatever way I need to get started, I climb through one of the chairs that I spotted beside a table, since I do not have the patience to find a ladder around. I go up on the
Scarlet POVI wake up with the worst headache ever. My head is pounding heavily and I open my eyes. The bright sun shines into it and I groan, looking away from the bright beams. I stand up and get out of my bed.I head to the bathroom. I am still in the black dress that Katherine and Tiana prepared and helped me wear the previous night.I look at my face in the mirror and even though my makeup is intact, I still somehow look like crap. I run my hands through my hair and wonder what the heck is going on with me.I brush my teeth, take a cold bath, do my daily routine and head out into the room again. My headache somehow gets better but it is still there and my head is still throbbing. I walk into the closet and pick the simplest of all the elegant dresses that are hanging up in the closet.I stuff my body into a corset and all the whole I am doing it, I am complaining bitterly under my breath. I know I am going to have to endure this shit for a long while more. It irritates me but the