KRISTINA'S POV"If a female werewolf gets pregnant, she tends to get knocked up and turn into a wolf. At least, that's how most of the myths went. There were quite a few who swore there were werewolves with human characteristics. It sounds ridiculous, but I've heard a lot of stories from old people who have lost a child or witnessed one themselves.""Wow. That sounds horrible, Kristina. So it's like when one person becomes depressed after losing their family member. Does that happen to every werewolf? How come people have never heard of any incidents before?" "Well… the research I've done suggests it's not possible for humans to lose a loved one to something like that. You couldn't lose one of your closest friends by simply being bitten by a dog. If they become infected, they die fairly quickly, and their death is painful, if not fatal."After a few months... I am back with Nathan and my children. Until I heard news about my father. While I was busy with what I was doing, my eldest
KRISTINA'S POVDid someone try to kill this innocent animal? It didn't matter. What really mattered was whether or not I had been hallucinating before or not. As far as I knew, nothing bad ever happened here. At least, nothing harmful. I tried to ignore the fact that I'm still clutching my cell phone tightly in my palm while approaching the carcass. Even though the smell hadn't gotten any stronger. And even if it did get worse, I can handle a dead deer. So much easier than a human. This thought made me pause. But what if there are no humans here after all? I don't know how this world works. I didn't study it much, to begin with. What am I supposed to do now? I looked around again. The woods were unusually quiet and dark. The sounds of crickets and other insects echoed through them, along with birds singing their hearts out in the distance, accompanied by small animals running past me. I heard a twig snapping close to me, followed by a series of sharp grunts. It sounded like it came
KRISTINA'S POVI tensed in anticipation for whatever crazy thing he would do next, but instead he held out a small white box. It had silver trimming and was sealed with a purple bow. I blinked, confused. This is definitely not Nathan's usual way to give presents to women. Then again, Nathan has always been really good at giving gifts that are unexpected, so maybe this gift is just another one of his surprises. I shrugged, and he opened the lid. A soft gasp escaped me as an array of expensive jewelry spilled onto my lap. I picked up a pendant made of diamonds. It was gorgeous, a simple yet elegant diamond encrusted band that was set into a large emerald. Nathan smiled. "It means 'beloved'." Oh. Well... That's kind of sweet. I couldn't help smiling too. "Thank you!" I said sincerely. He laughed and put his arms around me. "Of course," he murmured against my lips. We stayed like that for a minute before we realized how close our bodies were. I blushed furiously and tried to back aw
KRISTINA'S POVThen his face brightened with a smile. "That's all I remember too." "You're smiling," I pointed out. "Do you feel okay?" He shook his head. "No, it wasn't like that. It was more like... well I don't really know how to explain it. More like, it was like when the sun rises over the sea, only brighter, like there's nothing else in my world but the sky, and the world has no reason to exist except for that moment." Nathan smiled as if he had just seen some wondrous miracle. "But when you kiss me, my whole body feels as if I'm floating on air and I can see everything." He looked at his hands and smiled wistfully again. "It's like that every time." "I didn't think you felt that way about anything anymore," I commented curiously. The question itself had been rhetorical, since his mood seemed so different from the last few days and weeks. "After all, you were engaged before, you said." Nathan smiled softly as if remembering fond memories. He cleared his throat awkwardly. "Y
KRISTINA'S POV When I got home, I found a visitor in the house who came from the Crimson Snow Pack. This is one of Laurence's men. "What are you doing here?" "Alpha Laurence was losing his patience with you." "What are you trying to say?" "Because of your consistent refusal to help his father, he thought of the cruelest way to make you agree." "I don't understand..." "He wanted to torture Nathan in Crimson without your consent." When I heard this, I couldn't help but to take out my claws. What are you saying? I said out loud. "That… That's not true!" "He wants to give you three days to decide whether or not you want to be there when he tortures him," the man replied with his usual monotone voice. "Three days?" I couldn't believe my ears. "Laurence would never hurt me like that. He doesn't know me, and I'm his mate. No, he can't do it." "Yes, he can. If you won't go, he'll just torture you instead or your children." When I realized what the man said, I started shaking. No,
KRISTINA'S POVAlpha Laurence reached towards me and undid the ropes holding my hands behind my back. Once they were finally gone, I immediately rubbed my wrists vigorously. I jumped from the ground and quickly sat down, avoiding Laurence's gaze. I didn't dare to even look in his direction. My whole body trembled and I felt hot tears roll down my cheeks. "Please forgive me," he said softly. I didn't answer. "Did you really think that I wouldn't notice?" "What do you mean?" "Do you really believe that I wouldn't have been able to sense what's going on between you and Nathan? After everything that we've been through together, why would I miss it? You are my mate, Kristina. You are not meant for him. I don't think you're ready for marriage, and besides–" That was the moment where I realized that I shouldn't have trusted him. "How can I trust you, if you are such a bad person? Why did you lie to me? And why were you so adamant to keep Nathan locked up here? What were you doing with
KRISTINA'S POVShe looked out of the window behind her chair and then back at us. "Do you guys want anything?" "I'll take some water. Kristina can have whatever she wants, right?" Jack asked me with a grin. Lea nodded. "Yeah. Go ahead. I'm going to finish up here." She glanced at me one last time before focusing on her laptop again. I watched as she logged off from her account, stood up slowly, stretched her arms over her head, then headed back towards the kitchen. I turned back to face Jack, who was watching me carefully. I tried to avoid his gaze by looking around the room instead, but he caught my chin in his fingers and made me look at him. He had a strange expression on his face, like he was trying to read something from my expression. After a while though, he dropped his hands. "I just wanted to make sure you know. We're all ready whenever you say the word, no matter what." The smile on his face was so sincere that I couldn't help but grin back at him. It reminded me of ho
KRISTINA'S POV She hesitated again. "We were going to leave together… We wanted to go somewhere safe. We didn't want anyone to know where we were. It just happened so fast." She glanced over her shoulder at the man behind her who had been following them, gun raised. Then she turned back to us. "Now the plan needs some change. But everything that happens next, I need you to believe it's my decision, okay?" Jack stepped forward, his face serious. "Who are you?" he asked. His tone matched his expression; he wasn't shouting, but his tone was definitely not friendly either. Lea still gripped the rifle as if ready to fire at any moment. Neither of them relaxed their attention. Jack was obviously uncomfortable, but I couldn't tell what he thought about the woman before us. He stared at her for what felt like a long time without saying anything. The woman seemed frozen in place and stared straight ahead. I could practically hear my own heart pounding. I kept waiting for the gunshot, but
KRISTINA'S POVThe next morning, Laurence came up with an idea to make this transition easier, and said it would be much better if we had someone take over some of the responsibility. I agreed right away. The others thought I was being unreasonable. I wasn't. As long as they were safe, I cared less where our lives took us. I am willing to sacrifice everything for them. Even though I didn't tell them how much of a hard time I'd had when we decided to have another child, I could see in their faces that they already knew, even though I hadn't said anything. Laurence made them understand that it wasn't about what we wanted, it was about what was best for everyone. Now, after the war against the Black Fangs Pack ended, I was finally able to relax. Even though we had lost most of our land during the war, the pack remained. We built a new settlement in the far northern region of the land, which is very near my old territory. A lot of people are happy to rebuild their homes. In fact, they
KRISTINA'S POVMonths later, I returned to the Crimson Snow Pack. Laurence discovered that I was actually his second chance mate through the moon goddess' intel. Laurence and I finally accepted each other, but our joyous moments together didn't last as I never got healed even after Nathan desperately tried to save me. His healing process wasn't enough, or so they thought.Alliyah was the main cause why I never felt better, she poisoned me after she figured out that Laurence was the one responsible for trapping her father. She sought for vengeance, and the only thing she could think of that would make Laurence suffer was to harm me.Laurence had no other choice left, he couldn't be mad at Nathan as he did his best, which he witnessed. He could only provide me and my triplets the happiness that they deserve for the remaining lifespan that I had, like fulfilling their wishes.They finally got blessed by the moon goddess. Laurence accepted my tainted body and chose to make love with me, r
KRISTINA'S POVNathan didn't notice the wounds on my body, maybe I got them from running hard while I was in wolf form. After a while I felt delirious. I was constantly moaning and writhing in extreme pain. With the strength of my growl I got Nathan's attention. When Nathan saw my wound, he immediately cleaned it and bandaged it. I just calmed down when I felt Nathan's firm grip on my hands. I was unconscious until the next day and night. Nathan changed my bandage again until he saw that my wound was slowly healing. On the second day, I woke up a little, but still seemed out of my mind. Nathan forced me to eat. Even though I didn't want to eat at first and kept moaning and whining in extreme pain, I eventually had to give in. He also gave me some medicine so I could get better and I did, but my appetite was still gone. After two days in bed I felt better and finally started eating again. On the third day I managed to eat some food. After that Nathan left for work and I was alone in
KRISTINA'S POVI was not comfortable with the ride so I called Nathan and talked to him. I took off my clothes and retreated into a corner. "Kristina, what are you doing?" Nathan shouted. "We need to run fast using my wolf form. I don't want my clothes to get ruined when I transform into a wolf. I can now run fast without my clothes getting caught on the trees."I quickly made Nathan follow what I said. He was startled when I grabbed him and pulled him up. Then, he wrapped his arms around my neck and closed his eyes tightly. "Kristina–"But the wind swallowed his voice as I shot off to the forest. Nathan gasped and clung to me very tightly. He wanted to say that their run was romantic. But the f*ck it wasn't. There was nothing romantic about the frigid and harsh wind slapping his face, nothing sweet about his ears popping from pressure. And especially not romantic about how fast we were running in his state of mind. So, there was no romance between us and neither was there any pa
KRISTINA'S POVThen, without warning, he leaned down to pull something up from behind me and wrapped a blanket around me. "Don't worry about that." He smiled gently, wrapping his hand around mine before leading me to sit by the edge of the ledge. I glanced down at our intertwined fingers briefly before turning my gaze back towards the view. "We'll have a nice picnic when we make it to the mainland. I'm sure we'll find a nice spot for that as well." "I don't suppose you happen to know where we are right now?" "No." I said, looking at the horizon again, watching as the sun slowly set behind it, "But I do know that it's almost sunrise, so that means it should be safe to leave soon." Nathan nodded and turned back to look at the sky. The sun finally broke free above the water and started its journey towards the west, leaving trails of golden light in its wake, lighting the way to our destination. We sat together quietly, enjoying the view, but Nathan seemed much more at ease than ear
KRISTINA'S POVMy voice cracked as another sob escaped me. "All three of us…" It felt good to admit how much I had missed him. The silence was deafening this time. A cold hand clasped itself around my arm. "That's not happening, Kristina," he said firmly. "There's no way we can escape. And besides, you have no chance of getting past that thing."He sighed and shook his head. "This is all my fault." "Nathan–" "You don't understand!" He exclaimed, suddenly enraged, "We're locked up in the damn prison for our entire lives. You can't blame me for this. I did nothing wrong! You did everything wrong!" His voice rose into hysteria. "You're supposed to care about me! Why are you acting so stupid? You're never going to forgive yourself, aren't you?" "N–Nathan…" "Stop acting like an idiot! How many times do I have to tell you that this is my fault! Don't give me that crap about how you tried to help me! All you did was drive the wolves away! Just like you always do!" I winced as he screa
KRISTINA'S POVMy eyes frantically scanned the area surrounding us in search of an escape route. But all I found were empty hallways. No windows, no doors. Just a plain white door that I had just walked into. It was locked from the outside. I spun around to face Nick's direction and screamed out his name once more. Nothing. I tried to break the door down, even though I knew there would be no point. It didn't budge. So I did the only thing that came to mind and grabbed hold of the handle. The door wouldn't budge either, so I threw it against the wall as hard as I could and stepped back. There, I saw what I had been looking for. A thin sliver of light peeking out from underneath the door. I pushed the door open slightly, revealing a small stairwell that led down to the first floor. I quickly ran down, stopping on the ground floor where an old-fashioned elevator sat at the end of the corridor. A single button illuminated the small display board beside the buttons. 'Lunar Control'. I p
KRISTINA'S POVI could see him trying not to grin, but failing miserably. "Well… yes," I admitted. Nathan gave me a pointed look, and continued in an unimpressed tone of voice. "But if I didn't get to spend time with you now and then, I'd be all alone. So… you do want to do it?" He smirked. I rolled my eyes, "It isn't like we have much else to do anyway–" "Oooh, I'm sure you'll have lots of fun. The way they talk so sweetly. Like, 'Hello, how may I help you?' and stuff." "I'm not planning on doing any more dating than a friend, okay? Just hanging out and stuff." I scowled. Nathan just laughed. Then he suddenly froze, looking over at me. His mouth formed a wide O as he looked back at the book that he had been studying. A few seconds passed before his expression changed completely. A small smile spread across his face as he started laughing loudly. I stared blankly at him. Nathan finally took notice of me again, and his expression switched from one of hilarity to one of concern.
KRISTINA'S POV"And what makes you think I was ever in love with that idiot?" This time he turned to look directly into my eyes. There was such hurt and confusion in his face that I couldn't help myself. I wrapped my arms around him, pulling him into an embrace. "You don't have to be jealous or upset if you love me, Nathan." He held me tight for a few seconds, then pulled away and walked off down the sidewalk, not making eye contact with me once. Once he got to the end of the block, he glanced over his shoulder. I didn't dare follow after him to make sure he got home safe. Instead, I watched him leave. His blond curls bouncing around behind him. The light breeze ruffled through them. Nathan was so cute. I wished I was more like him and not like… well, me. The sound of someone knocking on my bedroom door snapped me out of my reverie. "Who is it?" "It's me, Jasmin." "Come in." My daughter, Jasmin, entered my room. I sat up in bed, propping myself up with a pillow. My bedhead was