LUKAS’ POV
I could tell by the look that grace was giving me that whatever she was about to tell me was big news. I was nervous. Not a lot of things made me nervous, but Grace always did and this time it had nothing to do with the decisions that she had made for herself or a man that she had been with, but it had everything to do with me. This was about my life and quite possibly the future of this pack. I tried to convince myself that whatever she told me couldn’t be that bad and that if it was, I was just going to take it like a man and not allow it to bring me down. I couldn’t allow Grace to bring me down. As a matter of fact, I doubted she had anything to tell me at all. That’s right, she was probably nervous because she had nothing to tell me and this was yet another task that she had failed. I took a deep breath
DAMIEN’S POVAfter finding that letter in Lukas’ office, I was very positive about my future with Elena. When I first came here, I never thought that I would end up finding my mate and my home. Not only had I found my home, but I had also discovered that this home had been stolen from me. Now that I was putting Chalres’ story and what had happened to me together, I realized that Lukas was the one who was responsible for everything. He must have been the one who caused the accident that robbed me of my memory. This was the only explanation that made sense to me. He had managed to get away with his crimes long enough and now that I was here I was going to make sure that everyone knew what he was.I still didn’t remember everything about my past life, but I was slowly remembering some things. One thing that I could definitely remember was the fact that I had received Charles’ message in form of a letter just like he had said. I didn’t know what made him send me that message. I mean he ha
LUKAS’ POVI had been going crazy going over what Grace had just told me about Elena and Damien. How could I have been so stupid? How did I not see that this was happening when all the signs were there? I wanted to confront Elenabut at the same time I was afraid to. I was afraid that a confrontation would probably end with me attacking her and I didn’t want to hurt her. I didn’t want to hurt her, but lately, she had just been pushing me to do that. For now, I was going to have to settle for dealing with Damien. He was the one who had come here and turned my entire life upside down. Elena was very afraid of me and I didn’t believe that she would ever think of doing this to me if it wasn’t for Damien. I was going to get rid of them before this got out of hand and before something worse happened.I hadn't told Mike about what was happening and I wasn’t planning to, Mike was very impulsive and a little too trigger-happy for my liking. I didn’t want him to kill Damien. If he was to die, th
ELENA’S POVI hadn’t been feeling well for a few days now and the fact that Lukas was back kind of made me feel worse. I still hadn’t seen him and I couldn’t help wondering why that was so, but Lukas wasn’t the only one who had gone AWOL on me. Damien also hadn’t come to see me and that just made me all the more anxious. I was still a little bitter that Damien and I hadn’t gotten the opportunity to make the most of the last night we had together, but I tried to understand that he was searching for answers. I hoped that he had found the information that he was searching for because I highly doubted that he would ever get that chance again now that Lukas was back.Another odd thing that was happening was the fact that Grace also hadn’t been coming to see me ever since Lukas came back. As a matter of fact, I hadn’t seen her ever since he returned from his trip. I tried hard to ignore this but I just couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off, something was going on and I wanted to
DAMIEN’S POV I hadn't even gotten the chance to pack my things before I left, Lukas hadn't given me enough time to gather my thoughts or even plan what my next move would be. I was however able to speak to Charles briefly and let him know what had happened to me. I honestly didn't know where to go and it wasn't like I had many options. I had no choice but to go back where I had ccome from. I couldn’t go back to Jack’s pack beause I was unsure of how he would feel if he knew that the woman that he had so badly wannted was actually my mate and I was willing to kill anyone who tried to stop me from being with her. I honestly felt like meeting Elena and spending time with her had brought out the alpha in me and i was ready to challenge anyone who tried to tried to seperate us.However, the last thing I wanted was to be hunted by him too. I didn’t believe that Lukas would just allow me to go free after finding out that Elena was my mate and I also knew his secret. I was convinced that he w
LUKAS’ POVAll my life I had been feeling misunderstood and I felt that I needed to explain myself to Elena for her to understand why I did what I had done. She needed to understand why I had chosen to take her with me and why she had to stay with me even though she had found her mate. She still didn’t know that I knew that Damien was her mate but I was about to tell her. I wanted to explain the monster I had become first before explaining to her why I brought her here. The reason why I felt the need to explain myself was not because I was feeling bad about the things I had done to her, but because I wanted to understand why it was important to me that she stayed with me and that the safety of this baby was my priority.I didn’t owe anyone an explanation for my actions and that included Elena. As far as I was concerned, I had done what I had to do and that was nothing to be ashamed of. If I had the opportunity to do things all over again, I would probably do them the same way and I wo
ELENA’S POVI couldn’t believe the sad life that Lukas had lived, in a way I kind of felt like he was also a victim of his own father as much as Damien and his family were too. I knew that Damien would strongly disagree with this but Lukas had done what he did out of respect and love for his father. That is not to say that he was forced to do something he didn’t want to do because he seemed to be enjoying torturing other people but at the same time I felt like he was never given any other choice. I felt like Lukas embraced the life he had been given by his father maybe because he felt he didn’t have any other choice, I had never met his father, and my assumptions were only based on the short story that Lukas had given me. When I first met Lukas I never asked myself what the story behind his actions was. I always thought that he was motivated by his own guilt but I was shocked to be proven wrong.After the shocking conversation I had with Lukas I went to bed and left him on the couch.
DAMIEN’S POVI was glad that the elders agreed to meet with me even though they had accused me of wasting their time the last time I had seen them. Going into the meeting with them I wasn’t sure of what to expect because the last time I saw them they didn’t believe anything that I said to them. Lukas had managed to convince them that I was a liar and I really hoped that the idea that Charles had would work in my favor. I had no doubts that the wolf's bane would work but that didn’t stop me from worrying about something going wrong.Charles did just as he had promised me and he stayed by my side the whole time. It seemed that the elders actually believed him more than they believed me and that was because of the kind of man his father was. They seemed to be taking everything that I was saying into consideration after Charles confirmed it. I was relieved when they agreed to give me the wolfs bane and an opportunity to prove my identity and when nothing happened to me after drinking it,
LUKAS POV After sitting outside the oracle’s heart for almost an hour, I finally decided that it was best if I just went to check on the pack. I convinced myself that Elena was fine because I had checked on her before I left. Elena didn’t have a phone and had never been given one because of my trust issues. I had always been afraid that if I gave her a phone, it would make it easy for her to conspire with her family and come up with a plan to leave me. This was a decision that I was somewhat regretting now because if I had given her a phone I would be able to ask her if she was okay right now. If it wasn’t for the oracle I wouldn’t even be worried about her well-being because she was fine when I left her. The oracle had said some troubling things to me and I couldn’t help feeling a sense of doom.As I was driving to the pack something came to my mind. I knew that there was no way that Damien would have just given up on getting the throne and walked away so I was almost certain that h
DAMIEN’S POVI really hoped that seeing her little sister would make Elena reconsider her feelings for her parents. She needed to forgive them not only for her sake but also for the pups that we were going to have in the future. It was as if I only existed to make this woman happy because the look on her face when she laid her eyes on her sister was enough to get me smiling all throughout the day. When Tasha and Elena were done with their meeting, I asked Charles to take Tasha back home because I wanted to go and hear from Elena how their meeting had gone. I already knew how the meeting had gone because I could hear them laughing as Elena walked her little sister out of the bedroom. Even without seeing her, I already knew that she was very happy.I was glad that seeing her little sister made Elena realise that she needed her family as much as they needed her. I had no family and I wished I had one. I didn’t want her to wait until it was too late before she made amends. Admittedly, her
ELENA’S POVI couldn’t believe what Damien was asking of me. He didn’t see what my father has put me through and he hadn't witnessed how everyone turned against me and practically sold me off to Lukas. After all I had been through because of them, I had no intention of going back there for any reason. The only person that I wanted to sew was my sister. She was the only person that deserved to see me. My mother had failed to stand up for me as a mother should when my father was throwing my rings out. I remembered how they has just handed me back to Lukas when I ran away. What kind of love was that? As far as I was concerned that was just selfishness because they gave me away to him all because they wanted to save their skin. I was the sacrificial lamb for my family and I literally almost died because of what they had done.I was even certain that my father wasn’t going to apologise to me for any reason. As far as they were concerned, they hadn’t done anything to me. As far as he was co
DAMIEN’S POV I was happy to finally be able to take Elena home with me. We had been apart for too long and it was also time for me to help ease her pain. She had already been through a lot and I just wanted her to get a break. I missed sewing her all happy and I missed seeing her smiling. Ever since Lukas had found out what was happening between me and Elena, things hadn't been smooth for us. First he had kicked me out of the pack and soon after that he ran away with Elena. However, that was now all after under the bridge and everything in order now, well everything except Elana’s health.I had chosen to move me and Elena to a different room because I decided she wouldn’t want to stay in the same room that she shared with Lukas. I didn’t even want to imagine the kind of memories she had in there but I didn’t want her to relive anything. I wanted the old bedroom to be turned into my new office and I wanted Elena’s bedroom to be joined with another room so that we could make it into ou
ELENA’S POVI had passed out sometime in the car as we made our way back to the pack. I felt like I could rest easy knowing that I was now back in the arms that I was supposed to be in. I still felt bad for the way things had ended with Lukas but there was nothing that I could do to handle that situation. I still felt that he had changed and that he regretted his actions but it seemed that I was the only one who believed that. I was saddened by the way Damien had turned into a monster just get get revenge on Lukas, but at the same time, I could understand his pain and who was to say that if he hadn't killed Lukas he wouldn’t come after me after I was well. I had to be honest with myself and the truth was that I knew that I would never have felt safe if I knew that Lukas was out there roaming free. I would have lived my life looking over my shoulder and afraid that he would come after me.When I woke up I was in the back clinic and although I was still in pain from the heat, I felt a l
DAMIEN’S POVNow that Lukas was dead, Elena and I could finally move on with our lives in peace. We left his body lying there in his yard and figured that some stray animal would get rid of it for us. I decided to believe Mike when he said that he hadn't told Lukas that we were coming but at the same time I made a mental note to keep a very close eye on him. Mike was not to be trusted and there was no way that I was going to give him a position that was going to make him close to me. I wanted to keep him as far away from me as possible for the sake of my peace of mind.As we made our way back to the mansion, Charles was the one that took over the well because I wanted to sit at the back with Elena. She looked horrible and instead of the sweet scent that I could recognise her by, she smelled like death was hovering above her. Even if she was in heat, how the hell was I going to help her and where the fuck was I even going to start? Lukas had really fucked things up for us and I wished
LUKAS’S POVI was struggling to understand why Mike had done this and why he had betrayed me in the way that he had. Had I ever done anything to him that made him think angry? Had I ever treated him unfairly? I couldn’t think of anything that I had ever done to him that could ever justify all that he had done to me. I had treated him like a brother that I had never had, but I guess he never appreciated that. Here was Mike, a guy that I had treated like my second in command standing over me with Damiena and Charles, the men that wanted me dead. I could understand why Charles hated me, especially after what happened to his father, but how could Mike do that?Charles and Damien kept interrupting my conversation with someone I had considered a brother for such a long time I chose to ignore them. I wanted Mike to answer me before I died so that I would die knowing exactly why he had chosen to betray me like this.“why Mike?” I asked him again.“I didn’t have a choice, Lukas” he finally sai
DAMIEN’S POVAlthough I was very happy that we had finally arrived where Lukas was keeping Elena, I was very disturbed when I saw him walking out with her in his arms. My wolf immediately went crazy and I clenched the gun that I was holding. Why the hell was he carrying her and what had he done to her? The fact that he was carrying her drove me crazy, but when my eyes met with hers I realised that something was seriously wrong with her. I couldn’t help feeling like she was trying to communicate something with me but just couldn’t figure out what it was. She kept looking at me and then at Lukas. At some point, whenever looked at Lukas it seemed that he said something to her and I wished I was a fly so that I could hear what, he was telling her. He had better not have been threatening her because there was no way that he was going to escape this today. This had been something that was long time coming0 and he now had to face the consequences of the decisions that he had made. I hoped t
ELENA’S POVI was slowly fading and when I opened my eyes I met Lukas' own eyes filled with sorrow. He seemed to have been crying and even though I was the one knocking very loudly on death's door, I couldn’t help feeling sorry for him. I wanted to tell him that he didn’t have to do this, but I was too weak to even open my mouth. For a minute I couldn’t remember what was happening and I couldn’t even recognise where I was. It was upon seeing Lukas's face that I remembered that he had kidnapped me yet again after finding out that Damien was my mate. When was this ever going to end?“Water...” I whispered and he gently touched my lips and then got up and got a glass of water with a straw. I didn’t realise how weak I was until I tried getting up to take the glass of water.“You are weak” he said as he got closer to my lips with the glass of water. I took a sip and then rested on the pillow. Lukas stared at me before he finally started speaking.“I am so sorry for putting you through this.
DAMIEN’S POVThe trackers had been searching for Lukas’s trail for days now, but they still hadn’t found anything. They couldn’t pick Elena’s or Lukas’s scent and it was as if they had both just disappeared from the face of the earth. A part of me felt like they were not doing enough, but I tried to remain calm. I wasn’t going on the search with them because I didn’t think that there was much help that I could offer them. I wasn’t a tracker and if I did go out I would have most likely gotten in the way of what they were doing. However, I had reached the point of feeling utterly useless. What good was I to Elena if I couldn’t even get off my butt to search for her? The angry mob that had gone in search for Mike also hadn't found him and I felt like all hope was lost. If the trackers that Charles had been so confident in couldn’t find the trail and if the angry mob couldn’t find Mike, then we were all out of options. Elena was going to die and I was starting to feel like a failure. Mike