Killian's POVAfter I came back from the office, I realized that I haven't seen Esmeralda since the morning. It was the weekend so there was no way she would be going to school.Initially I had no plans to leave the house but if Fowler hadn't called I would've stayed in with Esmeralda.Esmeralda's question this morning had been on my mind throughout and even when the police came looking for proof against Mikel, the thought came back.She had brought up Paula, my marriage with Paula and that made me think of a lot of things. The same way I was supposed to be married to Paula, Mikel was meant to mark Esmeralda.I didn't want that, I don't even want to marry Paula. Mikel wanted to use Esmeralda before anyone even found out that she was a pure blood wolf. I wonder what he would do if he ever were to find out.I could imagine, he would make sure he did everything possible so that she would become his, so that he would be the one to benefit from her powers.Mikel waa a psychopath and Esmera
Esmeralda's POV.I opened the door, waiting for him to say those same words to my face. I opened the door, opened my ears and opened my heart waiting for him to give me a faint idea of what he waa feeling. I knew he liked to kiss me and to sneak into my room at night to sleep beside me, these are hints that I purposefully ignored because we're not children that cannot express our emotions through our words.Being man enough to tell the other what was in our hearts.However, it seemed like I was the only one who thought this way. I had expected that a grown man like Killian would be able to think the same thing.But as he stared at me with soft eyes, he stared at me with hesitant eyes, with eyes that looked so deep and so emotional, I knew he was too scared to admit to his feelings, I knew it.But then he opened his mouth and said, "Esmy," he said, "I don't want you to go".Maybe all I wanted wasn't plain and simple, maybe what I wanted was just a tiny bit of affirmation that in fact
Esmeralda's POVI didn't know what was happening or if the scream I heard came from the room or my own mouth, but I found myself on the ground.I had fallen down from the tree.It wasn't a good feeling. The collision of my back and the ground left a very painful throbbing on my back.My head was also feeling very light and I must've lost ky for a second there. I remained on the ground trying to remember little details about myself.I'm a girl.My name's Esmeralda.I'm a high school student.Killian.Fuck.Why him?Everything about this day was going sideways. I didn't understand what Killian was doing in the little details about myself?That fucking piece of shit.I continued to lay down on the grass with the sun on my face because at that moment, it all seemed so peaceful, except the pain in my back that was slowly fading away.Maybe what I waa doing on the ground was getting mentally prepared for the sharp pain I was going to get when I finally decided to stand up.Lying there I gaz
Killian's POVThe police left the office leaving advice behind. I had known beforehand that detective Wesley was not a fan of mine and for him to suddenly take up this case actually kind of made me edgy.What I didn't understand waa how he believed me without me having to give him a full detail of what had happened. He was understanding and even made me believe we could turn out to be friends.There was no proof of the claim that Mikel had killed those people and set my warehouse on fire but he was willing to believe me. Maybe it was his gut sense or maybe it was the realization that of course I wouldn't kill people who worked for me or even blow up my own warehouse.However, I tried to believe that it was just his gut sense.He had even advised that I catch the snitch as soon as possible without even hearing from me whether there was a snitch or not.Fowler joined me in the office after they left. He was sure to close the door behind him."What are we going to do?" He asked me.I sat
Killian's POV.I was flabbergasted. I couldn't move. My palms were sweating and my heart was racing. I couldn't say anything or even do anything. My heart was racing fast and my head felt light.Paula was pregnant.How the hell did this even happen?She was too cruel, she could've at least let me settle before telling me something like that, opening her mouth and spilling such from it.I had nothing to do and i felt kike I was trapped in a dark small room and everything was moving in the room other than me. They were moving against me but I was pinned to the ground, I couldn't move, I couldn't breathe, I could only stare and watch how the objects inside the room all penetrated me one by one.It was suffocating.I was suffocated. I didn't know how or when or why but my hand moved to my tie and loosened it.Okay, i knew why, i was too suffocated.I couldn't breathe and I felt like curling up in a corner and thinking about all the mistakes I've ever made.No matter how cruel this would s
Killian's POVI left Paula. I had left Paula.I ran away from the hospital even though Paula needed me. I left her because I needed to get to Esmeralda. I was a jerk. A bastard. An idiot. Stupid.There was nothing in the dictionary that I could find that would describe how insane and humane I was to Paula. I stood there speechless after she told me she was pregnant with my child but I couldn't say anything. I was such a coward.Paula needed me around, Paula needed me to say something, to tell her that I wasn't going to abandon her but I didn't say anything. I left her there to take care of herself, I left her there abandoning her and our unborn child.I was saying these words, scolding myself but I was still in my car, driving like a maniac to my house to see Susan, to get told to my face that Esmeralda was missing.I can't even weigh the importance of those two things. Paula announced to me a new child and Esmeralda was missing, probably in danger or something.No, the only reaso
Killian's POVI was worried. Beyond worrying.I couldn't figure out what was going on. Pauka had left standing there with the notion that Mikel was no different from Frederick.Would it be weird if I said that I didn't care?I didn't care if Mikel was leading them all to their deaths, I didn't care if Frederick came here and started a war. As long as it had nothing to do with me, as long nobody came to my doorstep, as long as they didn't come for Esmeralda and anyone else I cared about. I had no problem.I didn't care about the war, I didn't care whether Mikel was a good leader or not and I gave zero shits about Frederick.What I cared about was Esmeralda.I was only worried about her well-being. Mayne paula was right when she had said that if I cared about the city I should worry about Mikel becoming an alpha.Did I care about the city?Yes.However, not the way Paula wanted me to. I cared about the city, not to the point where I'd wield a sword or climb on a horse to defend it. Hu
Esmeralda's POVKillian did not say anything about helping me but I didn't need him to spell it out before I knew he would help with it.At first I had no.intention of allowing him find out about what happened, I thought i could do it myself, I could find out what was wrong with Izan and help him out on my own but from what i saw back at the house, with my mom, i knew i was helpless without Killian and I knew I would always be helpless without him when i broke down and cried, begging him to help me.I didn't want to always go to Killian for help but I had no.other choice, I had no other person in my life who would be willing to help me.I had no home.And I was holding on to the one I grew uo in. I was holding on to people who don't think twice before dropping me.Was that foolish, could that be regarded as me being extremely stupid or was that love?I didn't know, I only knew that I loved them with a pure heart, one that could go beyond everything else and do something for them.I lo