Kenneth's POVFuck.That was the only word ringing in my head at the moment. Let me rephrase what I said. It wasn't just this moment. It had been ringing in my head for the past thirty minutes.Why did I start echoing the word in my head for the past thirty minutes? That was when I was captured.Captured. The word still sounded strange to me. I didn't believe that had happened. I couldn't believe that had happened. I felt embarrassed.I couldn't believe Kevin had dared played a manipulating game on me. I had entered deep into their land before I turned back and realized that more than half of the soldiers I had gone there with didn't run with me to fight because of the general's absence. Kevin had raised suspicion in their minds about his whereabouts and had forced them to realize that I had killed him since he wasn't at the battlefield.I sighed again, not counting how many times I have done that even in the last ten minutes. If I had known, I wouldn't have killed the general so easi
Kenneth's POVObsession.I hated that my general was right and his words still kept haunting me, even after his death. I couldn't believe that Ella's father had said the same thing. I was the only one obsessed and Ella's father was also right about another thing.My men would have assumed that I was dead and would have told everyone at home. The elders would have been mad that I had gone on a war that they didn't know of but they would have eventually moved on, making plans on how to enthrone another person as the alpha for the betterment of the pack.I growled at that. Someone else was going to get my throne. Someone else was going to get my title and be addressed as I had been addressed. Someone else was going to sleep on my bed and live in my house. I wondered if the servants, maids and guards would be relieved to serve another alpha since I wasn't exactly a model master.I couldn't believe I had lost the position that had always been in my lineage. My ancestors must be ashamed of
Ella's POV"How is he?" I asked as the men came back inside from going to visit Kenneth in the dungeon.That seemed to be the new greeting we give anytime someone comes inside ever since Kenneth had been captured during the war. I would have laughed at how bizarre our new line of greeting was if I hadn't seen the looks on the men's faces. They looked partly gloomy and relieved. Kevin looked like he had just lost ten pounds within the minutes he stepped out of the house earlier till now."What is the problem?" Caleb asked. "You all look like someone is dead but you are all complete. Three of you left and three of you came back so I don't see what the problem is."I sighed at Caleb's question, glad that someone had noticed what I had. I couldn't help wondering what the problem was but I wasn't left to imagine for long.The three of them sighed, a heavy sigh that made me worry more but it was Damien that finally spoke and broke the silence."Kenneth is dead.""What?" We all perked up and
Zalen's POVThe alpha would probably be dead now. I cried as I ran off towards... I didn't even know where I was going but I knew I had to go somewhere far away from where I was, far away from where the alpha had been captured and I had betrayed him by running away from his enemies.I had always prided myself on being his most loyal subject if not one of his most loyal subjects but I couldn't believe that I had just ran away from him to save myself. I had just—hours ago to be exact—picked my survival over my loyalty.I was a traitor. A real disappointment to my master and I hated myself for what I had done. I couldn't stop hating myself."Master!" I cried, falling down on my knees and sobbing hard.I thought of making it up to the master. I wondered what it was that I could do. What if I go back to save him?I hissed at the thought as it came into my mind. That was a foolish idea and a suicide mission. They would have killed the master by now and I would only end up getting killed if
Luke's POVI was mad. I hissed as I stormed out of father's chambers. This was the fourth time in a week that he would get me mad. Why couldn't he stop worrying about Caleb and asking me about him? He wasn't my responsibility and why did I need to care about him?I had far many other things to worry about. Caleb was a weirdo. He didn't like staying for too long within the pack. He was an adventurer and would be back when he wanted to. When he was tired of traveling all around the fields. Father knew that and yet wouldn't stop asking me about him. I swore that one of these days, that boy would get himself in trouble and I would be happy to scorn dad for giving him that much freedom to begin with.I was going to snap if father called me to ask Caleb again."My lord," a guard called from behind me."What?" I snapped at him as I stopped in my tracks, wishing that it was father I was snapping at.The guard swallowed, seeming to think over his reason for calling me."What?" I snapped again
Kevin's POV"Are you done packing?" Zeke asked in what felt like the millionth time.I couldn't count how many times I had heard that question today. He had been hovering around the room, doing nothing except frustrating me and getting in the way.I sighed instead of responding to him and felt Ella's hand on my wrist just as I was about to give him a piece of my mind and tell him to leave our room, the room I shared with Ella.At first I understood him but I no longer wanted to do that again. Ella could continue to understand her father but I wanted him out of my room this instant. What was there in packing that we hadn't been able to do for the past two hours? All and no thanks to Zeke.I didn't have up to ten outfits and it wasn't like Ella came with a wardrobe of outfits either. The only reason we haven't been able to do anything was because Zeke was being an annoying pest. I wasn't sorry to use that word for someone who was about to be my father-in-law. That was how much my patien
Kevin's POVLuke's eyes sparked and lit up the moment he saw me walk in. His brother was already beside him but he was pretending not to see him. From what my men signalled to me, he had been pretending not to see anyone until he saw me.His lips curled at the sides in a taunt when he saw me and they turned into a scowl few minutes later. I guessed that must be when he saw Ella beside me. This moment reminded me of when I met him trying to take what was mine and we had become enemies because of that.From the way his jaws hardened and his eyes narrowed into slits at the sight of Ella beside me, I knew he still wanted her but I was going to let him kill me before I let him have her.I suspected that whatever he came here for just became harder. Jealousy was one of the greatest bitches that I knew.I sighed as I sat down on a chair opposite him in Zeke's living room and tried not to react as my men flanked me on all sides as Luke's soldiers did."Why are you here?" I asked, breaking the
Ella's POVThis was like a dream to me; a dream I wasn't expecting. To be more exact, this was like a nightmarish dream. I had been thinking of going back to the land of the blue river pack but not like this. Not like a captive. Not like a traitor. Not like someone going with others as a pack of traitors instead of the entrance I had dreamed of in my head.I had thought so many times of coming back here to see mad granny and not my friends and this wasn't how I envisioned it. I had dreamed of getting a big entrance and welcomed by everyone. I hoped that those who knew me and we're familiar with me wouldn't be around when I get to town.I hoped but I didn't doubt that was going to be the case. I knew the schedule of the blue river wolves by memory and what they did at every moment.If we didn't get to town in the next one hour, it was possible that everyone would see us as we enter. It wasn't everyday that the soldiers of the pack walk the streets of the town so everyone would be curio