Ella’s POVMy heart sliced into two halves as David's question settled into my head. I opened my mouth to speak but I felt my throat immediately become dry and producing words was a task too difficult to produce.Only one question kept going through in my head and I could only hope that she didn’t go there to find out about me. or the skeletons she had promised to find.“Why did she go there of all places?” Michael suddenly said, filling the silence with his charismatic voice.I felt his hands on my knee and my eyes immediately went to his face. He gave me a curt nod and a small assuring smile lined his face. Somehow, I understood that this was his way of helping me contain an awkward situation.David’s piercing eyes left mine and he moved them to Michael’s; “I heard there is an amazing portion of the Everest Forest that cuts through the land. She probably wants to free her wolf and enjoy herself,” he said.My heart skipped again at his words. This time it wasn’t because I was worried
Ryker’s POV“Where did you go yesterday, I noticed you came home very late,” Willow’s voice rang out in my head causing me to snap out of my thoughts.My wolf shifted within me, and I had to take a moment to calm down before raising my head to meet her icy blue orbs. “My love,” I whispered, hoping to get to her. But she frowned, pushed the door wide open, and invited herself inside my office.“You left in a hurry, I was worried. I thought there was a problem, where did you go babe?” she insisted as she got in front of me.Her eyes trapped me in them, and a better feeling swept through me, leaving shards of shame within me. I couldn’t lie to her, no matter how hard I tried.“I went to Greenwood,” I said with a sigh, expecting her to burst out in anger.Her eyes seemed to widen in shock but before I could fully grasp the expression on her face, she smiled and all I saw was the angel I fell in love with. She closed the distance between us and came to position herself on my desk. She rea
Ryker’s POVMy vision turned dark and my patience broke. Before I could stop myself, I grabbed Helen by her windpipe and slapped her body to the wall like she was an ordinary piece of paper.“Is that what made you call me to come here?” I hissed to her face, my claws emerging from their dormant beds. “How dare you?” My wolf was close to tearing through my body as I bared my teeth at her.She opened her mouth to try and make an excuse, but I didn’t give her the chance to open her lips. I clamped down on it with my free hand, even harder. I enjoyed the feel of my claws as they broke through her skin.“Do I look like a fool to you?” A bead of red blood formed around the side of her mouth where my claws were getting buried. She tried shaking her head, but no sound even managed to escape her cracked lips. I watched her fear-filled eyes and the thrill of the damage I was causing her, eased my frustration.“Alpha Ryker please, stop!” Anna, her daughter screamed from the door.She ran to wher
Ryker’s POVAs Willow stared at me, waiting for my response, strangely I found my heart already drawing up an answer.Before now, it would have been difficult for me to just let her leave -even if it was only for a few days- she was my love and the only woman I cared about. I didn’t want her to stay two minutes away from me but right now, I didn’t want her to be here.I wanted to continue searching for Ella and I most certainly didn’t want her to lurk around asking me questions when that happened. This option in front of me was the best I could have hoped for.“Of course, you may go have fun,” I said and just for good measure, I added, “Just make sure you call me every day once I drop you off-”“Oh, that won’t be necessary,” Selena rushed out.My eyes dimmed and I turned my attention to her once again, but before I could speak, she clarified her sentence.“I mean, I brought a whole patrol of guards with me, I don’t think it will be necessary for you to stress yourself all over when we
Ella’s POVIt had been days since the pharmacist had exposed my secret to the whole class and nothing bad had happened. I knew this was partly because Selena wasn’t back yet. I was hoping my classmates wouldn’t spread the news and this way, Selena’s pawns wouldn’t get to know about it either.My already low profile grew even lower both in college and in the royal house because the last thing I wanted was for someone to call home and tell them about my condition.My heart was constantly beating, and panic was my new companion. It was like I was carrying a ticking time bomb that could go off at any second.“Hey…”My thoughts abruptly stopped, and I turned to stare at my partner who seemed to have been nudging me for a while now.“Are you okay?” she asked as she picked up her bag and got off the chair to pack her books.My eyes followed her movements from her hands and back to her face, completely ignorant of what she meant. “Yeah, I am fine. Where are you going?”She paused and stared a
Ella’s POVIt felt like I was seeing my worse nightmare come into reality. My heart had dropped to my knees and my head became dizzy.“Aren’t you going to say hello to me, Ella?” Willow repeated and every doubt that my mind was conjuring drained down my body as I realized that she was really here in flesh and blood. It wasn’t in my head.I wasn’t making this up. It was really happening. The same person I had run from was standing right here in front of me.My heart was beating so fast that for a second, it felt like it would explode. My vision became blurry, and my legs turned into jelly as the lightheadedness increased.The world started shaking. Everything was moving too fast, and my consciousness was starting to fail me. Even my wolf went silent, and my hands searched for something to hold other than my chest but there was nothing.The ground started elevating in position and it felt like it was coming to me at a slow but steady rate. Just when it was about to reach me, I felt stro
Ella’s POVI wished the ground could open and it would just swallow me whole. My heart was ramming so hard in my chest it was only a matter of time very it exploded.My eyes turned to Selena. I was silently begging her to stop whatever she had planned. I was going to be homeless and not just that Willow was going to kill me, and I wasn’t ready to die.Selena caught my stares and an evil smile played on her lips as she already anticipated the joy of the pain she was going to bring to me. This was probably all a game to her. A point she had to make to make me realize that she was going to win this battle she started.But adding Willow to the game meant death to me.“What do you mean by that?” David asked her. “Can’t you see the way she looks? We need to call the doctors to check what is wrong.” He insisted.Tears of panic where already running down my face and I saw my end looking over at me. “Selena…” I whispered, as a desperate act to make her to change her mind and stop this train wre
Ella’s POVMy body froze as I turned to look at Michael. I wanted to ask him what he was talking about, but I couldn’t move a single muscle within me. I watched helplessly as he left his position by Aunt Emily’s side, and came to stand by me.He passed my hands over my shoulders and pulled me closer to him.“I should have owned up to it the moment I brought her back, but I was scared-” The words didn’t finish leaving his mouth when David threw a punch across his face and all hell broke loose.It was like I was thrown into a bubble and all I heard were the distant sounds of what was happening around me. David started beating Michael while Selena screamed that Michael was lying, encouraging David to continue. I on the other end just stood there, watching lifelessly.The momentum from their fight had dropped me to the bed and my tears continued dropping as I looked at Michael. He was getting beaten up for something he knew nothing about.Suddenly, I felt strong arms pull me off the bed.