Kevin's POV"Charge!" Zeke shouted at the top of his lungs and blew a whistle by putting few folded fingers between his lips.I think I was going to die now. I didn't think I could do this. I didn't think I could watch this. I loved watching battles and dueling among my men, both in wolf and human forms. I couldn't believe I was shivering at the moment because it was Ella in the ring right now.I understood what Zeke had said and planned to do. Ella needed to do more than training with him if she wanted to fight in the war. She wouldn't listen if she was asked to not fight but this wasn't what I was prepared to watch. Heck, I didn't think Ella was ready as well and that was what I had told Zeke when he had told me of his plans for today's training.Did he have to do that so soon? I asked myself even though I knew the answer to the question and knew that he should have done that way before now.I knew he was right but he didn't have to pick Damien and Loki to be her opponents. There we
Ella's POVGosh, this was hard, harder than I thought. Who was I kidding? I knew this was going to be hard before I signed up for it. The real war was probably going to be harder than this. They were rogues I would be fighting against. They were strong, brutal and violent. I couldn't afford to be weak.I was getting tired already from all the cuts and blows I had endured and the energy my body had lost from trying to repair it all. I was grateful I wasn't getting dizzy yet.I stole a glance at Kevin and winced, hating how wrecked he looked. I was the one getting beaten up by his men but he was the one suffering the pain. I needed to win this to put his heart at rest and put a smile on his face.I tuned in to the battle again, focusing on my two opponents who seemed to be enjoying this than they should be. Maybe I was tired and didn't seem right. They were probably too far gone in their characters and acting like they were having fun from this when they weren't. I was probably reading
Kevin's POV"My lord," Damien and Loki greeted with bows as they passed by where I was, figuring out how to calm my nerves down after watching the most frightening fight of my life.Gosh, I really needed to stop being dramatic.I turned to them, the residual anger I had felt from watching them fight bursting out into the open."You are greeting me now when you almost turned me into a widower?" I questioned them.They looked confused for a moment, wondering what I meant by being a widower when I wasn't married. I doubted they knew what I meant with the way they looked at me. The confusion didn't last long though as they smiled at me, their expression clearing up as they understood what I meant."My lord," Damien began. "We couldn't have done that to you."Loki chuckled and nodded. "He is right. How could we have done that to your mate?"I pouted. "It seemed like that to me. It seemed like you were going to kill her with the way you kept slashing at her face and throwing blows at her."
Kenneth's POVI sat in my office, rolling on the chair as I stared at the birds on my desk. Only four of them were back out of the countless birds I had sent out. I was worried, wondering if the birds had landed safely and the men had gotten my message.It had been four days since I had sent the letters and expected the men to be trooping into the palace but they weren't here yet. I hadn't even gotten a response to my letters and couldn't stop worrying about what the delay was all about.I feared the worst. I feared that the letters had fallen into the wrong hands. I feared that someone totally unrelated to who the letters were meant for had seen the birds flying in the air, shot at them with a catapult and eaten them.My heart squeezed at the thought of my precious birds being turned to meat and ending up in someone's belly. I didn't put precious time in raising them for them to have such a bland ending."Damn it," I cursed, banging my fist hard upon the desk and holding in my wince
Kenneth's POVThey were coming. Today. It was today they were coming and I was so excited. The men had sent other letters and had attached the date of their arrival to it.I was elated that they had all decided to do that. They must have known what a worrying mess I was even without anyone telling them. Good. I smiled, reminding myself why they were worthy of being my soldiers.I checked the calendar again for the umpteenth time, confirming to myself that it was truly today that they were here. They had told me that they had resolved their issues and would be around today. Though they hadn't used the birds that I had sent and theirs that they had groomed and I didn't recognize, I couldn't fail to recognize the handwriting and style of writing of my soldiers. I hadn't painstakingly trained them for years to not know information as little as that about them.I checked the sun, hating that it was soon going down and no longer as bright as it had been hours ago. I sighed, feeling worried
Kevin's POV"Put it on that side." I yelled commands at the men, digging up the grounds with them as well."Yes." They echoed and continued with what they were doing.We had been busy since morning laying traps in the ground. I had learned something while I stayed in the utopia town trying to find a way to rescue Ella and admitted to myself that we needed an edge to beat the rogues, considering how small our number was as compared to the troops that I knew the bastard Kenneth would come with.He was too predictable that I would have said this upcoming war wasn't fun if the lives of those who I cared about weren't involved in it. He thought he was a dangerous wolf but he was not in reality. He was a bully who took delight in attacking the helpless and a coward who wouldn't fight a battle he didn't know if he would win.I had learned of explosives while I was in the utopia town and knew that was our only hope of beating the black wolves with our numbers."Have you filled this side?" I a
Kenneth's POVI stood before the men, looking at them with pride swelling my head. I had already won the battle. I smiled as I looked at the seven hundred men with me, decked in their uniforms and looking as fierce as I felt.I didn't see any way that the men who were not up to twenty could escape alive after the battle.They had already eaten and freshened up and now we were about to have our first meeting. I was glad that they were all here when I had thought that I wouldn't get to see them."What took you so long?" I asked, trying not to groan and show them how much affected I was by their tardiness."We had to wait for the others so we could all come together." Vian, the leader of group five answered.I didn't even know that they had also communicated with one another. It was nice that they had unity and had still kept on to it even though they were apart on duty.I scanned the troops standing before me and scowled when I noticed the absence of group three and group seven. Those w
Kenneth's POV"Onward we march, onward we march to ruin our enemies."I smiled at the lyrics of the song my men were chanting as we moved forward towards the region of the blue river pack where Kevin and his men were hiding like the rats that they were.I never wanted to destroy any part of the Blue River pack. They weren't my enemies and I didn't intend to have them as one but they shouldn't have betrayed me by becoming friends with my friends and hiding them.In the search for rats in a house, some of the precious tumblers might get broken during the chase. For now, this was what I was doing. The territory of the Blue River pack I was going to destroy to kill off the men of the Blood Moon pack was the precious but useless tumblers that had to go in this fight. At the least, the pack wasn't my target and I wasn't planning on killing them all off. I believed they should be grateful for that.I continued chanting with my men, my excitement building up as theirs. I was finally going to