[Zeve’s POV] “Hahaha! Who did you call? Your kidnapper? That thief who stole you from me? Tell me, my pet. Did he touch you? Can’t blame him. No man can resist your perfect, beautiful body? But I don’t enjoy sharing what’s mine with anyone else. Ever wondered why your mate never touched you?” He chuckled, and I gulped, panting in horror. “Amor!” My voice cracked. “Amor!” I cried out. It’s scary. I am scared. Please come, Amor. Please! “Ugh!” He sighed annoyingly and rolled his eyes. “Unfortunately, the person you are calling is already dead. Please try again. Never.” “NO, HE IS NOT! HE CAN’T! HE WILL COME, HE ALWAYS DOES! AMOR!” Like he once instructed, I curled myself in the shrimp position, covering my head with my hands. Kaltain gritted his teeth, “let’s see who saves you today…” He reached out for my breeches. I shut my eyes tightly. He grabbed my knees, forcing them apart. There was a strong gush, and I felt his filthy touch disappear. I heard a loud crash followed by s
[Zeve’s POV] I remained in the protective stance for a very long period, fearing that she might attack again, but she was gone. Mayavi and Kaltain were gone. God knows what was happening to me. It was as if something inside me was fluctuating vigorously. Something within my body in my internal system was breaking through its limits. My cheeks stung. They were probably swollen. My stomach was cramping, my feet were bruised, my head was bleeding from one side and I felt like throwing up. “Amor…” I could hear his ceasing of breaths. I slid to my knees beside him and examined his body. His lips had turned blue and so was the condition of every other part of his body. “Amor! Amor!” I touched his cheek from the back of my palm and immediately withdrew my hands. He was cold. In an impulse, I placed my ear over his chest. His heart was still beating, but irregular and faint beats. I felt his faint breaths on my finger under his nose. I looked around the room frantically. What sh
[Zeve’s POV] I opened my eyes in an opulent bed in a lavishly decorated room. The room was in a golden and black aesthetic with light beige and red shades. It looked like a room in the Royal inn. A maid came to me and stood by the bed. “My lady, how are you feeling?” she asked. I touched the bandage wrapped around my head and the pain that hammered into my head, my back, my stomach, and my cheeks. For a few seconds, my mind was completely blank. I couldn’t remember a thing that had happened. I shut my eyes, wincing from my entire face. “Amor! Where is he? How is he?” I asked impatiently. I flung away the blanket from myself and got on my feet just to stumble and fall on the bed again. My head was spinning. The maid held me, “my lady, please do not stress yourself. Lady Lucella has given you medicines that might cause you dizziness. She asked you to rest…” “Where is Amor?” I asked, firmly. The only person I cared about was Amor at that moment. “Alpha has been in another room
[Zeve’s POV] According to Lucella, Amor was fighting the poison from within and that was why he was still alive. His reasons for staying alive were indeed stronger than any poison. I should have been in his place — a person whose only reason to survive is to live. Only if I could switch our places… I walked to Lucella and hugged her. “I know you can because it’s only you who can. If there is anything I can do to help you, please let me know.” Lucella wiped off her tears, nodded with a sniffle, and went back to creating new antidotes. I sat beside Amor on the bed. His breaths were faltering, like my patience and hope. I wanted to do something for him, but what could I do? I was helpless. Seeing him impassive reminded me of myself when I was beaten by the girls of my class and left all alone in the abandoned washroom. Water flooded the floor. My back was completely cold, but my body was too numb to feel anything. I felt like it would be better if I never woke up again and th
[Zeve’s POV] “No, wait! You said it was about Alpha’s condition. Please let me know what you wanted to say...” I held Zahir’s hand. I would take any hope, any cue, any help. I would do anything to help Amor. I held back my tears. It was no time to get overwhelmed and ruin everything. “I will act on my will now and will be completely responsible for all the consequences that come with it. Please excuse us,” I told Morfan and ushered Zahir to my room. “My lady, I can’t allow that.” Morfan said, earning a glared from me. “It is about Amor’s condition. If anything happens to him because of the delay you cause, I will report you to treason. Not as a luna, but as a part of public in the werewolf public council.” I never thought the political knowledge Amor had been feeding into my mind now and then would actually come in handy. Knowing my rights not just as a person with rank also as a commoner was a necessity in this world of complex politics. “That is a huge statement you are mak
[Zeve’s POV] Thoughts seemed to have vanished, my heart became impassive, my body was trying to comprehend what my mind couldn’t. I was suddenly feverish, and a strange heat accumulated between my legs. Amor’s bare chest flashed in my memories. Him grabbing my shoulders in pain, his placing his forehead on my neck. His breaths brushing my skin. My body sensitively reacting to his every touch, my heart screaming unholy thoughts to my mind while my mind pondering all over his body, his biceps, his muscular arms, his veiny hands, his chest, his neck… I turned around, hiding my flushed face from Zahir and Morfan. My face was burning to the point I was almost sweating. Digging my teeth into my lower lips, I tensed every muscle in my body. I clenched my hands, placing them on my cleavage. My chest was rising and falling briskly as the only person, the only body in my mind was — Amor’s. The feel of his broad palm when he seized my wrist, his abs tightening when I touched him, his eye
[Zeve’s POV] It was funny how I wanted to hear his voice. A wish. It was just a simple wish to hear a ‘yes’ from him. On one hand, it hurt my soul to see him in that condition and on the other hand, the situation I was put into with him elated me for no reason. Was it because of my hatred for him? Did it satisfy my scar, smoothen my wounds, seeing him helpless and dying? Maybe somewhere deep in my heart, I wanted to see the invincible and proud Alpha Amor Blaze shatter into pieces. I wanted to see his pride dwindle, see him being humiliated. Revenge was still alive, somewhere deep within me. So why was I so eager to help him? Why did just the thought of him dying shook me to my core? I could have rejected to help him. I said that I wouldn’t do it, but then why did I agree to it even when I had to go through this awkwardness of being naked with him in a pool? I have seen all sides of him on this journey so far. He had brought some unforgivable disasters into my life, but t
[Zeve’s POV] I licked my lips and partially opened my eyelids. Peeping from behind the gaps of my fingers covering my face, I walked to where Amor was lying. I shut my eyes and sat beside him. I knew I had to look up at his face, but I couldn’t help but glance between his legs and feel an unfathomable heat building in my groin. “I will never let you know about all this.” I placed my hand on his chest and teleported into the pool with him. The pool was deep, and we teleported exactly in the middle. But my thought before teleporting was where he could be treated most effectively. Through my bracelet, the blue light started diffusing in the pool. In the chaotic mind, I forgot Amor couldn’t swim on his own in that condition. He was about to drown when I reflexively hugged him. I widened my eyes. I felt goosebumps run all over my body. I hated the way electric currents ran through me when our naked bodies touched. The way my nipples hardened pressed against his chest. Blushing
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[Zeve’s POV] As I plunged into the magma, I had no thoughts in my head. My body was being consumed by the flames, while my heart almost stopped. It was cold inside the volcano. My clothes and armour melted away, but neither the flames nor the magma touched my skin. They flowed inches away from my skin. I held my breath. The bright red glowing magma flowed magnificently inside the volcano. It was scary how I could feel its heat yet not get burned. It was like one of those dreams came to reality, except this time the one to be burnt in flames was me and not Amor. The magma behind me started taking some kind of form. I felt Amor’s presence and my heart skipped a beat. I felt hands warped under my waist and knees. I shut my eyes with a shudder. The next thing I remember was I was sitting far away on the ground and watching the magma, ashes and rocks explode out of the volcano like fireworks. There was a dazzling figure hovering above the volcano, suppressing it back into the ground
[Zahir’s POV]Why don’t you smile?Why don’t you cry?Why don’t you fight?Why don’t you get angry?Why don’t you get scared?What the hell is wrong with you?You are my son, and you cannot be the monster they say you are.Feel!Feel something!Feel anything!Feel everything!‘If nothing, then feel the pain!’That face of a person I was supposed to call my mother.Those glowing eyes floating in sheer darkness.Those words were like pure acid, pouring in my ears.Those snarls of pure hatred and screams and cries, those slaps and whips.The dark bathroom flooded with water everywhere and blood dissolved in it through my veins.I remember.Maybe I felt nothing but cold. It was unbearably cold.That time, that’s all I felt. A cold that made my spine shiver.I wanted to feel, but how?Everything I locked up within me and in the magic and key core came back.It all came back, but I think it never left in the first place.Even after hundreds of years, I could still feel her presence by the s
[Zeve’s POV]“Mother, stop!” Killian yelled.“Venus, calm down… we can make things right, ok? Trust me. Put down the blade…” Zahir coaxed Venus into his manipulative tone.Venus distanced the blade from her throat as if Zahir’s words were controlling her on a mental level. Her hands were shaking as she held the blade to her throat.Her eyes were frozen, as if she was in Zahir’s control. She shook her head with a gasp, “no, not anymore. You can’t control me anymore…” her voice came out hoarse and shaky.And she put the blade against her neck again, this time cutting her skin and bleeding.“NO! NO! Stop!” Zahir panicked and stepped back from Venus, raising his hands.“What the hell is going on here? Venus!” I called out and was about to go to her when Hikari held my hand.I looked at him and frowned. Hikari shook his head.I looked at Venus again and the blade was Hikari’s katana.“Your katana?” I felt a strange fear take over me as I stared at Hikari for an answer.“I must have dropped
[Zeve’s POV]‘I see him burning and these nightmares just don’t stop. Day after day, it’s always the same thing. I try to save him, but the flames always find their way to him. His body… it’s like it’s melting. I couldn’t get these nightmares out of my head and it’s disturbing. A lot. So, I came to you for guidance. Do these nightmares mean something?’‘Dreams are often a window for the future. We just need to interpret them rightly,’ priestess Melantha said when I met her in my third year in Phantoria. ‘For a seed to turn into a sapling and then into a huge tree, the seed coat needs to break. He’ll burn for you and this world.’‘No, he won’t. I won’t let death touch him, not because of me — especially not because of this world.’ This was what I told her, and then she replied with a subtle smile.‘What is the definition of death for you, luna?’ She asked.‘I don’t know. Death for me is what it’s for everyone else. Bad, painful and gloomy and… end.’‘When the right time comes, you will
[Zeve’s POV]There were two souls active inside Killian. One was of Derek and another of Polaris. Killian decided based on the soul that dominated him at a time.That was the only sane explanation I could give to why he was using Celeste as a hostage when Killian saved her, risking his own life.“Fine,” I said, calmly. “Let them go. But I don’t know how to get the core out of my body. Extract it yourself.”Killian frowned. “No hidden tricks, Zeve. I don’t have time for that.”I raised my hand to my shoulders as if I was surrendering myself. “I am telling you the truth. I was born with this core and never took it out. I am not playing any tricks.”Killian thought for some time and then stretched his palm towards me. Four black magic circles appeared around me. One above my head, one below my feet, one in front of my chest, and one behind it.“I am already stuck here. I can’t escape. Please let them go now,” I said. The hellhounds backed off from Lucella and Celeste.The suction from
[Zeve’s POV]The sound of gunshots, along with screams of the knights getting attacked, mashed up with the howls of the hellhounds dominating the road. Killian coughed vigorously and threw out the broken pieces of rock with his teeth and blood from his mouth. “Oh, I know what devilishness it takes to create a utopia. But you really piss me off whenever I see you…” Killian snarled at Amor.Killian created a dark energy ball between himself and Amor, who was pressing him against the ground. The energy ball exploded, flinging Amor far away from Killian.Amor jumped back to his feet and drew out his sword. The armour worked. Amor wasn’t hurt badly. But I could just stand and wait for him to be hurt.I looked at the sky with my apprehension increasing with every second.On the training grounds, the screeches of shadow eaters were tackling the fire wall, keeping them locked within the magic circle. It was as if their screams were summoning the rain because heavy clouds had started looming
[Killian’s POV]Dark clouds stirred over the ruins of the Aura palace and its training grounds. The land had prepared to devour the souls and vomit a curse in the darkest shade of black to open the portal to the dark world from where the creatures of hell would flood the land, turning it into their grazing field. They would feed on souls and lock them in timeless gloom — in a world of nothingness and doom. Their minds were under my control and their souls on my command would set themselves ablaze on the magical ground.I was prepared and so was the enemy.Heavy military and army of hundreds guarded the boundaries around the precinct of the Aura palace and its land. The knights were armoured and ready with their swords, defending the boundaries of the palace from outside.Warriors were ironclad in their wolf forms. The wolves of darker colours were standing on the front lines and surrounded the training grounds.The soldiers created a wall of shields on either side of the criminals’ p
[Zeve’s POV]“Should I take off this gown now?” Celeste asked, walking to me and then standing beside me as we peered at the air where Killian stood seconds ago.I looked at Celeste and caressed her cheek. “I know it’s uncomfortable, sweetie, but wait a little, hmm?”Celeste looked into my eyes and nodded once.“You did a good job. I am proud of you,” I said.A week without the key core and Celeste already looked so fragile. I had to get back the key core from Killian after the plan played out the way I wanted it to.I looked at the sky. The chess board was laid out, the only thing left was the game to begin.“Zeve, I don’t like this at all. You are pregnant and even if everything goes according to your plan, it’s still dangerous because we don’t know what might happen when things actually start happening,” Amor said.I looked at Amor and smiled.“I have heard kids take after their parents. I want my child to be brave, and for that, I have to be braver today. I am going to be a mother