Ryker’s POVMy heart was bleeding, and my wolf was utterly broken. I felt doom coming. I sensed it in every cell in my body that something wasn’t right, yet I had failed to stop it. But not anymore. Now, I was going to get to the very bottom of this matter. I would get all the answers I needed to help Ella because she deserved much more than that after everything, we put her through. Her story couldn’t end like this.I marched out of the tree lines as soon as the sound of the Crystal Family SUV disappeared from the environment. My steps were as brisk as the beat of my heart. I was scared. I was worried. And my wolf was bleeding concerning what I would find but I didn’t stop. I continued walking till I got to her body, her pale skin and lifeless face broke my heart. A sharp pain filled my insides, and I felt my legs weaken. I wanted to fight it and keep standing but the more time passed, the stronger it became. In a matter of seconds, I was overwhelmed with pain.It felt as if my s
Ryker’s POVThe ringing in my head resumed and the world turned dark. I could hear the healers explaining what this solution implied, but I couldn’t bring myself to respond. It felt like my body was divided into two. A part was frozen with shock while another part was present and acting without rationality, and a huge part of motor senses went to the part that was frozen.“…taking the poison out is very risky. There are a lot of conditions that might make it fail. If she doesn’t want you, if her wolf is rejecting you, and if you were responsible for the injury, the solution will not work…” the first healer listed out and my eyes followed the movements of his fingers as he explained.If there was anything I got from that, then it was the fact that this method was going to work. I didn’t harm her. Her wolf wouldn’t reject me because this was the very room where I had claimed her, and it had accepted.“…And most importantly, this method will not work because you are the Alpha,” the sec
Ryker’s POV“It is calling to you Alpha… do not let it get to you. Do not taste it. Keep fighting it.” I heard the healer say but his voice was growing distant.My vision was long gone, and panic started seeping into me as I realized that I was beginning to lose my hearing too. I was falling into a coma, yet I was conscious of it. I would become like Ella and then there would be no one to save us.I had to regain control.“Its cold clutches are on you, but you are stronger. You are a king and as important as your life is, your mate’s life is also important. You must complete all three processes before she stands even the two percent chance of survival…”Again, the healer’s voice sounded even further. I tried to open my mouth and speak but no sound left my lips, yet they moved. It was like we were in different worlds and nothing, I said, could get to him.“The more time you spend within the poison, the more her chances of not making it… you need to fight!” a different voice seeped thro
Ryker’s POVMy heart tightened as anger clutched every part of it, but I kept it all inside as I marched out of the room and went straight to the gates where Patrick said Anna was waiting.She had some guts to come all the way here. What did she think she would achieve by doing this?The dark side of me rose to my throat. I began to regret sparing her. The day I gutted out her mother’s tongue, I should have taken something from her as well. Maybe then she would have learned to respect her boundaries.“Where is she?” I growled as we stepped out of the mansion.Patrick pointed his hand in the direction of the gates in response. “I asked her to wait outside till I could get your opinion. She is by the gate,” he said.My eyes searched the area with the ferocity of an angered beast. Somehow, all the emotions I felt since the trauma of finding out about Selena and David’s intentions began, pushed and focused on my anger towards Anna.“My lord,” she cried the moment she saw me. She dropped t
Ryker’s POV“David had switched her with his own daughter hoping that the power could easily trickle down to his blood instead… He hoped that my mother would have killed Ella, but mother thought in her twisted mind… that Ella was a curse and the reason for her bad luck, so she didn’t kill her. She let her live so she could be our slave…” Anna continued narrating.Tears were trickling down her cheeks as she spoke, but she didn’t stop, rather she went down on her knees and joined her hands together with remorse mixing with her sobs.“I know that my mother was evil but please do not hand me over to David… he would have me killed in the worst way possible… please,” she whimpered. “I will do anything. I will even be a slave to clean your path… anything at all but please don’t send me away…”Her story was plausible enough and there wasn’t a reason for me to send her away but there was something I was more concerned with.“What does Alpha Andrew know about this story?” I asked her.She quick
Ella’s POVMy heart was trembling, and my tears refused to stop. I couldn’t believe it. “How can the goddess do this to me? how could she let my baby die after everything we went through?” I whimpered unable to control myself.I knew that I had a lot of things to cry about but the pain of losing was stronger than the pain of betrayal I felt stabbing my chest continuously.David said he was my father, yet it turned out it had all been lies. And now I discovered that my real father was actually Alpha Andrew. Maybe I wasn’t surprised because the connection had always been there…Maybe this was why I hated myself for letting it hit me so strongly that I fell off that floor and caused my baby to die.“I am so sorry… I am so sorry…” I wailed stronger as I held my stomach tight. I didn’t even have anything to hold on to other than the stomach that had carried my little child through all these ordeals.We survived so much together and now, I went and lost it.“Oh goddess… I want to die too. Wh
Ella’s POVMy heart was determined and as Esther cleaned my tears off my face, I made up my mind. I would avenge my baby and my mother. I would let their pain be in vain. I would cause the same pain they caused me to them.Esther managed to control my emotions and I even lessened my anger. “I should call Alpha Ryker and Anna; they are very worried about you…” she whispered but I turned away from her face and preferred to keep my gaze at the window.Esther let out a sigh and sat on my bed. “Ella, I know you have been hurt. I have seen it happen.” She took hold of my hand and squeezed it gently.“I don’t want to talk to them…” I whispered. They had brought this pain upon me. They contributed one way or the other.They had purposely abandoned me. Ryker had even refused to believe the child was his and he dared to claim he felt my pain. “They should go away; I don’t want to see them…” I whispered curling myself into a ball.Esther tried a few more times but, in the end, she let me be. I
Michael’s POVA few days went by and the tension in the royal house kept increasing. I was loving it.Every direction it took was going to favor me. When David killed Ella, I thought he had ruined the other option I had but he created a new option altogether and he didn’t even know this.With Andrew requesting that I play a double agent and discover what I already knew, it meant he had his doubts, and I was on his good side —leaving David and Selena on the dangerous side, but still with me.In a clearer picture, it simply meant that whoever won this sick family battle, I was going to be on their side.The smile on my face came to a pause as a knock resonated on my door. “It’s opened,” I growled, glaring at the door as it opened.David stepped in and glared back at me with a stern look. “Michael, we need to talk.”A grin appeared on my face as I straightened up on my bed and shrugged my shoulders, signaling for him to speak his mind. “I am listening. What do you want to talk about?”“Y