Michael’s POV“We should celebrate and drink now, the enemy is finally gone!” David exclaimed raising a glass above his head.“Finally!” Selena chorused after him but for some reason, I didn’t do it.I felt indifferent. If he could fail at one time, what was there to prove that he would fail again? What if we had missed something? What if Ella had escaped while we were not paying attention?“Babe, why aren’t you drinking?” Selena sneered. “Are you missing your little whore?”“I wish that was the case, but it isn’t,” I breathed, and I felt David’s eyes burn over my skin.“What makes you say that?” He growled.I considered telling him my worries but as I thought about it carefully, I shook my head and pulled up a fake smile. “It’s nothing. I was just worried about something stupid. She is dead now.”“Yes, dead and gone.” He got off the edge of our bed and gulped down the content of his wine before dumping the glass on the vanity table. “You youngsters should have fun. Tomorrow will be a
Michael’s POVDavid and I rushed out of the room to check who had been there, but there was no one. I tried using my nose to pick the scent of whoever had been there but aside from my scent, the only other scent in the corridor was the rose-like scent associated with the royal family —which could have come from David or even my body since I had been with Selena before now.“Maybe it was just the wind,” David said behind me, but my wolf was on edge.There was someone in the corridors. I could feel them, I just couldn’t see them, yet nut I knew they were there.“It couldn’t have been the wind. Someone was here.” I started walking further down the corridor, turning on the light to be sure there was no one lurking in the shadows. But the hallway was still empty.“It’s a waste of time, Michael. Pull yourself together. Get back inside and get some rest. First thing tomorrow morning we shall go to Dark Fur pack. We will end this once and for all. If we must bury her so she can stay dead, th
Ella’s POVI knew that Willow was going to get revenge for what had happened, and I was prepared for it. I made up my mind to stand up for myself and not let anyone trample on me. She didn’t know what she was dealing with. She might have thought that I was still the same Ella, the one she had maltreated so much, but she was wrong.That Ella was dead, and this Ella was a master at this game now.After the attack, I made sure to always lock my door securely every night before going to bed.Willow didn’t return after that night, and during the day, she spent it avoiding me, but I could care less about that. I was going to expose her whether she hid in her room forever or not.That morning, I took a quick shower and slipped on some workout clothes. I went for a run around the mansion, then I decided to pay Ryker a visit to his office.As I got to the door, I met Patrick, who was just stepping out as well. “Good morning, Patrick. How is Anna?” I asked.We had decided that I would stay with
Michael’s POVTrying to drop off Andrew from our trail was close to impossible. I even tried taking a different turn or maybe cancelling the whole thing, but it didn’t work. “Maybe we should tell him that there is no baby shower. It was a lie, and we made it all up…” Selena said in the car with her eyes fixed on Andrew’s car trailing behind us.I stole a glance at her, wondering how she could be so dumb yet beautiful. “So, what? I just park, and we tell him it was all a lie, and you think he will believe us?” I hissed, tightening my hold on the steering wheel. Telling Andrew that the baby shower was a lie was going to make it worse.I became certain that he was the shadow in the dark last night. He heard my conversation with David, and now all our efforts were going to be ruined if we didn’t act smarter than him. He wasn’t going to stop even if we told him that it was a prank or anything. He planned to get to Dark Fur, and nothing we said or did could stop him at this point.The las
Ella’s POVMy heart was bleeding as I stared into their faces, and the myriads of emotions that swam within them tore me further. Selena had a long look that made clear that she was only waiting for an opportunity to switch positions.Michael, on the other hand, dared to carry sagged eyes with wobbly lips as if he was broken. I knew they were all liars even before the incident with David. I found out that Michael was only trying to help me because he wanted money and the power that came with it.But Andrew. I never thought in a million years that he would betray me like this. He was always so kind when everyone had agendas. I never knew that he was the mastermind.My eyes moved over their faces once more to people who didn’t know what was happening, they looked innocent. They looked like the perfect family that couldn’t wait to have their child back. But it was all fake, yet they did it so perfectly, especially Andrew…Ryker had told me to ignore them and let him handle them, but I co
Ryker’s POVI broke into a deep chuckle as my foolishness came into my face to mock me. Willow was one of them.Ella had warned me, but I refused to listen to her. I didn’t want to believe that the one I wanted to keep loving was the enemy I was searching for. I didn’t want to believe that I had been protecting the wrong person.I thought Ella was just being childish when she made those accusations. I thought she was maybe trying to get back at Willow for the way Willow treated her the first time, but as Willow stood in front of making those silly comments, it became clear.The dark veil in my eyes fell off, and I saw her for who she truly was.She wasn’t the angel I had painted her to be. She wasn’t the perfect Luna, my heart needed. She was a fraud and a liar. She was cruel and cold-hearted.“You are their accomplice in all this,” I whispered in a tone that might have sounded like a question, but it was nowhere near a question. She was the knight who went around making the moves to
Michael’s POVMy brain was working at an impossible speed. I was trying hard to think of a quick way out of this.We couldn’t kill Ella. It meant she was going to return to lay claim on her inheritance, and then there was Andrew —it was a good thing that Ella thought he worked with us. But this couldn’t last for long.It was only a matter of time before she realized that her father was never her enemy. And when this happened, I was going to go down the drain with David and Selena. I couldn’t let this happen.As I drove across the roads back to Crystal Pack, I ignored the two women in the car with me. Their conversation was baseless. They were worried about Ella’s new attitude when they should have been thinking of ways to vindicate themselves.For Willow, it was a lot easier for her to just beg for forgiveness and get it. All she had to do was pretend to be remorseful, and Ryker might even take her back, for I could see it in his eyes that he still cared about her wellbeing at least.
Michael’s POVThe look of shock and defeat in Andrew’s eyes fueled my insides as I sat on the throne and spread my arms comfortably like the king I was born to be.For a second, I couldn’t believe it. It was like living a dream that you had fantasized about for so long. Ever since the Crystal Pack rejected my father and left my mother to live with crumbs as if she was way beneath any of them, I made a promise that the throne was going to be mine.I fought hard. I planned harder and today; it was finally happening. I couldn’t wait to see the look on my mother’s face when she saw me on the throne of her father's.My fingers sizzled with excitement as I moved my eyes slowly around the room, watching the guards as they diligently dragged their supposed Alpha. The silly man who had sent my mother into exile.He was lucky I wasn’t given him the same punishment.“Michael!” David’s gruff voice cut through my moment of victory, and I turned my eyes lazily to him. His eyes flashed as he realiz