ELVA'S POV " What do you mean' suspicious'?" I asked, looking at Mom. She looked really serious. I turned to look at Darian with a questionable look and then turned back to look at my mother. "I have been watching the both of you for a while and I noticed something different, it's like the both of you are hiding something," Mom said looking from Darian to me. I let out a dry laugh " Mom, what are you talking about?" I asked, looking at her. " Something is not right," she said, looking at us. " I mean last night you looked really scared about something," she said facing Darian and then turned to look at me " and you looked lost but had a knowing look on your face last night too, and now this morning you both have burns on opposite sides of your hands," she said still looking at us. " What…what are you talking about Mom?" I asked, looking at her. " You're really terrible at hiding your feelings," Mom said to me. " And throughout this week I noticed someone watching the both of yo
DARIAN'S PVOThe queen and Elva seemed to be having a serious blinking compilation because none of them had blinked for another fifteen minutes now.I was actually impressed with Elva because it seems like she has been detained for not telling the queen anything. " Someone's been learning how to hide her feelings a little I see," I said to her with the mindlink." I don't know why, but I just don't want Mother to know about the cursed necklace, because if she does, I don't know what will happen, and I can't risk that," Elva said to me with the mind-link, because I heard her in my head.After a while Elva suddenly jumped like she had realized something very important, " Hey Mom, can we please do this some other time? I just realized something" Elva said, still looking at the queen before she turned around to face me and took hold of my hand, and dragged me away from there.I turned back to look at the queen before we took a Left turn, she was staring at us with wild eyes and a mixed em
DARIAN'S POV "Ahhhhhhhh" Elva said running to me and jumping on me, "Did you see that, the…the…the…the pair of eyes ju… just bl…bllll…blin…blink…blinked at m… m…me" she said stammering and shoveling her face in my chest. " Yes, I saw it too," I said holding her really tight, rubbing her back, trying to keep her calm. "Normally if this part of the castle wasn't this quiet and empty, people would have been in here on hearing her scream," my wolf said, and I chuckled. " What?, Those pairs of eyes just blinked after about thirty minutes or maybe more, and you tell me to calm down and to top it you chuckled," Elva said more like a statement than a question. " Yes" was all I said. " Okay, but I'm not letting go of you," she said, holding me even tighter this time. " Suit yourself," I said and started walking to where the eyes were. "This is getting really creepy," she said, still holding me. I just checked and said nothing, still moving slowly to the pair of eyes. " Shit, it reall
ELVA'S PVO " So you've Clearfield that they are your maids" Darian asked looking at me. " Yes, kind of," I said, still trying to remember where I saw them. 'I mean I have seen them, right?" I asked myself. " So that means the murderer is still in the castle, because this one over here, I mean the one who died from the stabs or from the scratch because the one on her neck went really deep, deep enough to kill her. Wait, so the murderer is a wolf, but what kind of wolf is he or she, because the person didn't remove their clothes or anything? Just killed them, why? For fun or revenge or warning or…" Darian stopped by my annoyed voice. While Darian was thinking out loud, it got me really annoyed, "Could you please stop that your 'or', it's really annoying just hearing 'or" I said and turned to look at the dead bodies with annoyance. " Sorry, I got a little carried away with it," he said and came to stand beside me. " The questions we should be asking is why did the person kill thes
ELVA'S POV " Yeah, I think I would, when she gets here, that is," I said, still looking at Mom walking slowly. " Why does she do this all the time, is she trying to make an epic entrance or what?" I asked this time not with a mind-link. " I mean what is up with that, you females do that a lot," he said. " Why are you asking me?" I asked, looking at him with a confused look on my face. " You're a female, so you should know," he said, looking at me. " Well I don't know, so don't ask," I said, still looking at him. " Geez, you women," he said and looked away. " Wah" I was speechless. " Mom, could you please walk faster!" I yelled out to her. " Leave me alone, let me have my moment," Mom said, still walking slowly. " Mom, this isn't a fucking prom or a wedding or anything like that, it's a fucking murder scene, so could you please walk fast!" I yelled out to her. Mom looked annoyed" Fine," she said and started walking at a normal pace. In no time she was standing beside me, "
ELVA'S POV After running out of the hall, and a few steps further we finally caught up with Mom. " Why are the both of you so slow? I am older than you guys but I walk faster than the both of you. Hm, pity, '' Mom said, not looking at us. " Mom, have you seen the way you walk sometimes?" I said, more like a statement than a question, and I tried to catch my breath while walking at the same time. "Hm, just try to keep up, would you?" Mom said, still walking. After a while of walking and both Darian and I still trying to catch our breaths, Mom suddenly stopped walking and turned to look at me. " How do I walk sometimes?" She asked me. " Hun?" I asked, looking confused at her. " You asked me if I have seen the way I walk sometimes, so now I'm asking you how I walk sometimes," Mom said, still looking at me. " Hum, okay let me see," I said looking at Mom before I looked up and back at her age, "You sometimes walk like you're about to make an entrance in a wedding and you're the br
DARIAN'S POVI was walking when Elva came beside me, She looked like she was about to say something, but I wanted to play hard to get so I moved forward and went to walk behind the queen, as if I was her guard and I smiled to myself.After a few minutes she walked up to me and pulled my left hand a little to get my attention, I turned my head to the left and looked down at her with a questionable look on my face." Darian, I am sorry about what I said earlier, I didn't mean it, I just didn't know what to say at that time," she said looking up at me with a pleading face and voice.I decided to look at her with an expressionless face, so she wouldn't read my face and know what was in my mind. I wanted to ask her if we were going to tell her mother about the person who has been watching us for a while, and also ask her about the important thing she said she wanted to tell me before the whole dead not dead thing. But I'll keep playing hard to get until she makes me stop." Why are you sta
ELVA'S POVThere's something that I had tried avoiding all my life and that was the day that I would have to say goodbye to Ruya. I discovered that even after I was able to figure out that He wasn't my wolf, I didn't want to let him go at all.The thoughts ran across my mind but this was needed for the pack and this was needed for me. I needed to be able to bond with Darian and then he would finally mark me as his. Then we can move on to the coronation rather than all this drama going on.I hadn't even come out of my room the entire day but rather I intentionally stayed indoors because I wanted to have one final conversation with Ruya. We've come such a long way together and it was finally time to say goodbye.I didn't know why my heart felt as though it was going to rip out just by hearing that. Ruya didn't say a word rather we both just kept quiet reminiscing on the silence that enveloped us both." I guess this is it," Ruya finally spoke up.I unknowingly heaved a sigh of relief t
ELVA'S POVI was feeling very weak but surprised that the wolfsbane didn't affect me much. Almost as if I was going to die, I longed for Darian to come save me. I couldn't believe that I had been such a big fool who believed Nolan. I let him take such a big advantage on me.I heard noises like someone was fighting outside. I couldn't move, just sat there completely glued to the chair. My heart was pounding in my chest right now.The door suddenly burst open revealing Nolan. " You? What do you want?" I yelled at him.He didn't answer my question but just ran over to my side and untied me. " Let go of me, let go!"He gripped my hand tight. " We don't have much time and your stupid lover boy isn't here yet so I had to hurry back to get my men and save you," he explained.I didn't even have much strength. "Why isn't the wolfsbane affecting you?" He inquired." Because I'm a silver wolf," I answered him." Ohh," he trailed, nodding his head. " We better get going, I heard Haelstrom is unde
DARIAN'S POVElva hasn't come down and it's been quite some time now but yet I haven't even seen a glimpse of her. It was driving me insane because the palace was getting all filled up with Elva nowhere to be seen.I couldn't take it anymore and ran up to her room hoping that she would be there. I arrived and didn't even see Elva there. Her dress was still on top of the bed so that means she didn't go far.I checked the bathroom and closet but she was nowhere to be seen. My heart was pounding wondering where the hell she could have gone. I knew that she was so nervous but I never expected her to run away just like that.I should have tried harder. I didn't comfort her well and now she's gone, it's entirely my fault that she's gone. It's all my fault.I tried not to jump to any conclusions thinking that she probably wouldn't have gone far. I wanted to tell my beta but decided to just make sure that I could find her before jumping to conclusions.I called her phone multiple times but sh
ELVA's POVToday was D-day. I didn't feel any different rather I felt like nothing. I looked at my dress with different thoughts running through my mind, I didn't even know what to do or if I would ever be able to be a good Luna.I was sure that Darian didn't worry whether or not I was still with but it still troubled me daily and it's been very hard not to think about it. My body was somehow trying to correspond with my current situation.My face was filled with lots of unwritten expressions. I should have gotten ready but I couldn't bring myself to. I tried so hard not to give in to my thoughts but rather it was more disturbing to my mind, making my headache.I heard a knock on my door. I turned to go answer it. I opened it and saw Darian standing there looking charming as ever with such a handsome look. He was dressed in a normal black tuxedo and his head tied perfectly." You look charming," I complimented.He chuckled a bit and made a move to enter but I just blocked him. " This
NOLAN'S POVThe thought of having to lose my position weakened me. I couldn't visualize myself not being the alpha, I had to find a way to get Elva back at least to trick the people even if it's just for a little while.I thought that maybe I could try to get to them by using the nice guy stuff on them. I even tried making a great deal with Darian but that annoying asshole didn't even give a shit or cared about it.I thought that he would succumb to it once I promised to break the bond but it didn't help one bit. Instead, it made him more adamant and brutal and bluntly refused right to my face.I had to think of something and I had to get on with a plan fast otherwise all this would be gone. I noticed someone present in the room, I looked up at him only to find out that it was just a guard. The last thing I needed right now was bad news." What do you want?"" Good afternoon alpha," he greeted. " You have a guest," he told me.I raised my head, wondering who the guest could be. I knew
DARIAN'S POVI knew that the guy could never be nice. I knew that he was up to something which was definitely for his benefit. It was easy to grasp that this was just all of his plan and a way to make him let go of Elva so he could finally get what he's been longing for.I didn't know whether or not to tell Elva about it trying not to get her stressed out. We've only been back at his pack for a week now but a lot had been going on, I didn't want to stress her much, especially with the fact that her coronation was coming up.I shrugged off the thought and decided to go for a swim. I changed into just my boxers and jumped into the pool at once. It was just some kind of way for me to relax my body and let out all of my inner stress.Nolan could come ahead and fool anyone but he's most definitely not going to fool me because I could easily see right through his plan. It was more than clear that this was all of his motive and plan.I decided in my mind that I would try my best to make sure
DARIAN'S POVThe dead weight of what I had gotten myself into was mortifying. I didn't mean to lash out at Fabian just like that in front of everyone but I had just had more than enough from him and wanted nothing more but to just put him back in his place.I heard a knock on my door. I immediately composed myself and had to clear my throat before attending to the person at the door."It's me, Logan," I heard him say.I heaved a big sigh and drastically opened the door with different emotions popping up in me. " What do you want?" I asked, not really in the mood to see him" I came here to see you," he replied.I further opened the door, giving him more access to my room. He entered my room. " Sit," I offered him a chair not far from the couch.He sat down on the chair looming around the room. I could easily tell that he was hesitant to talk probably because of how intimidating I was sometimes and now he's debating in his mind." Are you going to speak or should I chase you out?" I thr
DARIAN'S POV" Are you kidding me? So you're telling me that he wants the throne instead?" Elva asked after I narrated the entire incident to her.I nodded in response and my eyes widened with shock. She tried eating something but right at the same time, no words came out of her mouth. She just kept quiet for a minute." So, what are your plans now?" She finally spoke up.I didn't even know whether or not I had a plan but something was for sure and it was making things more and more intense for me. My head was stuck with lots of mess." He just thinks that I'm not capable enough but I'll make sure to prove to him that it's beyond what he thinks," I said.She looked at me with a warm smile on her face as my beta came in with some sort of worried look on his face. I prayed and hoped that it wasn't any sort of trouble because I had to deal with more than enough." Good evening alpha Darian," he greeted, with a slight bow.I immediately ushered him back up, trying not to stress him much s
ELVA'S POV I seldom sat at the window side, counting all the days it's been without Ruya. He was finally gone and that empty feeling was back there in me once again, it was a feeling of pain and pure relief.My new wolf — Stephano wasn't a pain in the ass like Ruya and that was exactly what I liked about her. She may seem rude but rather she was lively and we got along well in such a way that even I couldn't describe it.I got off my feet and left the room deciding to go for a walk round the garden. I've been indoors for quite some time now and now I've subdued the fact that all I needed was just a little outing to get me going.I decided to let off the guards but they weren't too far off from me either. I just had to have them with me in case of anything and speaking of trouble, that was when I noticed Nolan not too far away.I made sure to stay at a safe distance where it would be easy to alarm the guards in case anything happened. I thought of walking over to him to try to get to
FABIAN’S POV"What do you mean she's a silver wolf?" I yelled out loud.I couldn't have been more furious with this discovery that had just been made. I can't believe that the more I thought that I was closer to achieving my goal, the more it was becoming useless for me.The girl whose name was Celia shrieked as I thundered loudly at her. My heart was totally pierced right now with this new maud discovery wishing I had known earlier which was why I made her go as a spy to the palace.She told me that some maids got a clue of what she was doing and just what she was up to. I couldn't let anyone discover what we've been up to so I made sure that she found a way to get rid of them.I had always kept a good reputation and couldn't risk having Darian suspecting me otherwise that would just ruin my entire plan and she would be the cause of it. I couldn't go back now so if she was planning anything she had better back down otherwise I would kill her with my own bare hands.She didn't even re