When Kaide left the dungeon, he felt like an accomplished man who had finally gotten his revenge; now his only problem left was how he was going to bring Taz to his side. And if Taz didn’t join and accept him as the new king, he would have to kill him. He took each stride with pride and a wicked smile on his face, recalling the look of despair on their faces and how distraught they were about their son. Revenge was so sweet it was almost too perfect. But he didn’t need to worry about them anymore, now that they'd be dead by sunrise. "Well, if it isn’t the man of the hour,” Newman's drunk voice called as he rushed his drink to cheer the minute Kaide entered the door. He tried his best not to squirm or squint his nose away from the intrusion of different scents around the table. Now it was filled with women and the smell of sex; they all lounged on the sofas, drunk and lavished on the expensive wine that Newman had to offer. Who knew that the human hunt guild boss was so shall
Rygan and Elise make their way stealthily out of the prison cell. With their strength back and a quest for vengeance, they get to work with their first obstacle. Elise first maneuvers past the guards; she lands a direct hit to a human head as he slams it against the wall. Rygan is close behind, snapping the neck of another guard, which they quickly and quietly dispose of. Elise had mastered shadow techniques from Hayden, using them to her advantage as adrenaline coursed through her veins with each kill. She stealthily reached behind another guard, snapping his neck before they took his body and placed him in the bushes with the rest. “Here!” Elise whispers, passing him a gun; she could see the grimace on his face as he held it. He wasn’t a big fan of these weapons that inflicted so much pain on the people he cared about. “Such a small thing but a dangerous beast,” he says, placing the gun in a criss-cross motion on his chest. “You might hate it, but we still need
The battle had begun the moment Rygan and Elise rushed past the once heavily guarded hallway of the east wing, which had fallen eerily silent with no guard in sight. But Elise could detect her father's ashy scent from a mile away. Rygan gave her one last look. "Be careful," he noted before he raced down the hallway to his target while Elise headed in the opposite direction. She should have known it was far from peaceful when she saw two suited men run up with guns and begin shooting at her. She reached both males at lightning speed, but they could barely react as she clawed at their arms, with them both screaming in agony as they heard a crack, their arms crushed on impact. A cold queen with no mercy, only a quest to destroy anyone who tried to stop her fire from reaching her goal, she pushed the large white doors, staining them with blood on her hands as she walked into the room. It was eerily silent, but from the pheromones of her ex-father's potent scents, she knew the mo
Elise watched with eyes blown wide in shock at the brawl below her, how both wolves were ready to charge at each other for a moment her eyes locked with Kaide's wolf, she says no words to him, he didn't deserve any, she sees the hate in his gaze before she hears Rygan's promise one last time , she knew the bloodshed that was about to begin. Rygan had told Elise to go and look for Ethan and not to worry about him, she knew their main goal was their son, so she raced to the end of the hallway. She pushed in the large doors of an open suite, and she was met with multiple doors, already making it a difficult place to search for her son in many rooms, but she tried to track with her sense of smell, taking in different pheromones scattered in the space. Her eyes were alert the moment she heard a noise. As she pushed open the doors to the main room to see Kayla, who began screaming when she saw the blood on Elise's clothes, "Agh, stay away from me, scary lady!” She cried as
Elise watched from a distance as Newman's estate went up in flames, and as much as she’d like to kill Alvira there and then, what difference would she be from her monstrous ex-father if she took that small girl's mother away? No one deserved that trauma. “Mom? You ok?” Ethan says in her hands as he tugs on her shirt; she responds by holding him tightly in her arm and nodding to assure him; she then takes them to the garage of the large house, stealing one of the cars that was easily accessible because of the chaos. She steeled herself, nodding her head and assuring her son as she took Ethan to the back seat, covering him up with a clean cloth before she got into the front seat, turning on the ignition of the car, and watching the engine roar to life. The only reason she knew how to drive was that Hayden had helped her learn how; she could still recall how she drove into a ditch the first time she tried and how much he laughed; every memory of him hurts. “I’m ok, baby... I will
“You...you’re the one that planned everything, how could I have been so blind?” she mutters under her breath in realization. “Stop everything right this instant!” Elise muttered with a fiery focus as she climbed down the steps of the courtyard. Whispers fill the whole crowd when they peer at the voice and see it’s their Luna. The whole pack erupts in shock, like they have just seen a ghost. She walks into the crowd, her clothes battered with blood and torn, showing the struggles she's been through while she keeps her son Ethan tucked by her side. Holden’s eyes widened in horror when he saw Elise gaze dead set on him as she took fast strides up the altar. “You? How? You are supposed to be dead,” Holden muttered in terror as he swallowed a gulp of nervousness. He had immediately ordered guards to block her from coming close to him as Elise was about to lunge for him. “What you wished never came true, you monster!” She snarled at him, but Holden scoffed out in fake disbelief, h
Holden had made sure to keep his distance, and she was sure the bastard was plotting behind the scenes. Elise pushed herself to be patient, and no matter how much she wanted to snap his neck off, she needed to wait for the trial. So Elise immersed herself in Hayden’s mourning; even though she was the Luna and leader of the pack, she was his wife, and in Calhan tradition, the wife must wear black for those 20 days of mourning. But for her, it was a countdown to taking Holden down. And right now Elise's soul felt as black as the clothes donned on her, but instead of the dark colors dampening Elise's shine, she reveled in it, her aura strong and deadly when she dressed in the mourning attire. She wore a slim black dress lined to her curved bodice, and she had a dark veil over her head when in public to show she was mourning, but that didn’t stop her from helping the pack and attending to her duties where needed. It was a welcomed distraction. She could tell there was a change i
“Let them in, quickly,” she orders the guard. They bow in response, surprised to see that this was the first time their Luna's eyes had lit up since the weeks she’d been cooped up in the palace. They quickly nod as they head out. Elise couldn’t contain her excitement over seeing her best friend she hadn’t seen in over three years. Yet she couldn’t help feeling her nerves had begun to eat her, wondering if Vienna hated her for not ever reaching out to her in three years; she wondered if their relationship wouldn’t be the same as it was. She swallows a breath when they are announced. She bites her lips and layers a hand over her skirt, nervously straightening it like she wasn’t the Luna of a powerful pack but a young, naive child. She thought she could stay strong, but the moment she saw that familiar brunette, tears ran down her cheeks. Vienna did the same as tears rolled from the healer's eyes: “El!” She muttered with a whimper, her eyes raking over Elise, as she could barely