ABEL'S POV I paced up and down in my room, really angry. All that I could think about was what Andrei had done to Anya. What right does he have to treat her like he treated her? I knew he had had to deal with the brunt of our parent's death, and he had to grow up at a young age to take over the pack, but that doesn't excuse how he treated her. He should have been kind to her...she is his mate, after all! But he treated her as if he could not stand the thought of her! He was just so mean to her. He treated her like a toy to play with whenever he was mad! I thought about Anya's attitude when we confronted her about why she let Andrei treat her like that. It was clear from the look on her face that she felt helpless and that there was nothing she could do to stop the situation. I felt sorry for her. How horrible was it for her that she felt as if there was no one she could talk to and there was nothing she could do about how Andrei treated her? Andrei had such a good mate, yet he
ANYA'S POVI looked at Abel blankly, wondering what he wanted to tell me. The words they said to me and how much of an idiot I was kept ringing in my head. I could have done something...I could have stopped Andrei from treating me like he did, but I just let it happen. "I just wanted to apologise for the way I talked to you. I could have done better!" Abel said to me. I was genuinely shocked to hear this. I never thought that he'd apologise to me. "What?" I asked him. "I said that I am sorry. I should have been nicer...I was just angry. You've been going through so much from Andrei, even when he is your mate...I got mad," he said to me. I shook my head. "I have thought about it, and I was foolish too. I could have done something, yet I....j just let it happen," I said."No, you didn't just let it happen. You did not have a choice. I understand that you must have felt helpless... like there was no one you could count on," He said. I was shocked that he considered apologising,
ANYA'S POVAbel scoffed at this. "Who knows if Anya will become the Queen? She may be his mate, but he doesn't want her. She can always reject him!" Abel said.Andrei glared at Abel when he said this. For a second, I thought he would counter what Abel said. But then he just changed the topic."If you guys are not ready to train today, just tell me so I can leave. I have other things that I want to take care of. I don't have all day to spend arguing with you," Andrei said.Of course, it wasn't as if I was expecting him to say anything good about me. Anyway, I don't care. I will be gone from here very soon, and I won't have to listen to him or watch him display his disgust for him every second. Kern cleared his throat; forever the peacemaker, he tried to smooth out our tensions. "Let's not talk about who will become the Queen now. We should focus on Anya's training and ensure she becomes strong enough to defend herself if anything happens!" Kern said. "Talking about being strong enou
ANYA'S POVI was in my room thinking about all of the things that I was going to do once I got my freedom in the next three days. The first thing I would do was get as far as possible from this pack. I won't make the mistake of staying anywhere close. I will have to disguise my appearance for a while. Andrei is going to try to find me if I am gone, and I don't want him to find me. My life will be much worse if he does bring me back. He won't try to find me because he cares about me but because he doesn't want his pride to be hurt. I was still thinking about all of these when someone knocked on my door. I looked up at the time. It was almost time for dinner. I walked over to the door and opened it. Kern was standing outside my room. He smiled at me. That sweet smile that I was going to miss. I hope that Kern will live a happy life after I am gone. He is a lovely person, and he deserves everything good in his life. "It's time for dinner, Anya. I was asked to come call you!" He s
ABEL'S POVAndrei slammed his spoon on the table angrily. "I said no!" he yelled. I glared at him, but I knew that nothing would change his mind at this point. Since he had already decided, I couldn't get him to change his mind. I don't understand why he insists on treating Anya like this. She didn't do anything to him! She is his mate, for crying out loud! "I will ask some of the female wolves to spar with her. If she can defeat them, we will continue from there," Andrei said with a sneer. I looked over at Anya, and she had a hurt look on her face. She, too, could tell that Andrei was looking down on her. But then, she was back to looking indifferent. It was as if she didn't care at all. I sighed in my mind. I had a feeling that Andrei would regret treating Anya like this very soon. .....Anya and I were training the next day when Andrei walked in with two girls following behind him. I stopped the training and watched Andrei. What is he planning to do? "What are you doing, A
ANDREI'S POV"Why would you do that?" Someone yelled from behind us. I turned to see Kern. I didn't even know when he got here. I had no idea that he was watching too. I could not help with gaps when I saw this. The rule was to compete as if they were in a real fight but not to use dangerous tricks against each other because I didn't want them to get hurt. Sandra had not adhered to that rule because she had been choking Anya just a second agoBecause Anya was thrown against the wall and her wolf hit the wall with a lot of force, she was forced to change back into her human form. She wasn't wearing any clothes, though, and all of us could see her nakedness. My throat went dry when I saw her naked body. I knew I should not be thinking about those things, but I could not help myself. No matter how many times I saw her naked, I never got tired of her body. She covered her breasts with her hands as she looked pitifully over to Abel. I was angry. Angry at Abel and angry at Anya.Anyt
ANYA'S POVI was lying on my bed in my room. I stared at the ceiling blankly. I had really thought that I was strong enough to leave this place on my own, but what happened proved to me that I was still not strong enough. Kern had said that she played dirty, but what she said was the truth. In the real world, if someone did attack me, they wouldn't be playing fair. They would be trying to kill me in whatever ways that they can. I needed to get stronger in the shortest time possible. I wanted to keep training so that I could make myself better, but Abel and Andrei said that I could not train and that I had to rest. So I was in my room with nothing to do except think about how I was going to escape from this place. I really can't stand living here for one month. And I don't think I can stand Andrei for one more hour. I have been doing everything that I can to avoid Andrei in the palace. And since he had not come to look for me on his own, it was working. I was still thinking random
ANYA'S POVI nodded my head, not knowing if I should believe this or not. "Hey....there is somewhere else that we need to first," Abel said to me. I could not help but be curious about this."Where is it?" I asked. He gave me a secretive smile. "Come with me!" He said. ....He took me to a seamstress shop. I looked at Abel as we walked in. I had an idea of what he was trying to do, and I could not help but be worried. What is wrong with him? "Abel...you ...".Abel ignored me and walked over to one of the women in the shops. "Hello. We need some dresses—ready-made ones," he said to her. Her face lit up with a beautiful smile. She looked all too happy to make some sales. "I think we have some that will be great for her. Come with me!" She said. She led the both of us to an inner part of the store and brought out some dresses. "Take a look at this one. It just came out today. And this one, too....I am sure that it will go great with your skin colour," she said as she handed c
"Young lady....I just want you to know that you are one of the most powerful healers that I have met in my life. You are definitely the most powerful. And those powers have recently been activated in you. This happens usually when you mate with your mate. Tell me, did you recently mate wiry your mate?" She asked me. I nodded my head shyly when she asked me this. "Actually....we are all her mates. This is something that we are confused about. Is it possible for someone to have more than one mates?" Abel asked. The moon goddess took my palm and started to read it. She had a worried look on her face but then the look relaxed after a few seconds. "Yes. Although it is rare, some healers do have more than one mates. In fact, I have only met one other healer and she only had two mates you have three mates. Since you have mated with all of them, the powers that were sealed inside of you have been activated now. You really need to be careful with what you use your powers for. You have the
ANYAI sat in the living room as Kern handed me a cup of hot tea. Andrei and Abel were both sitting by my side. I had just gone through a traumatic experience and I was still trying to recover from it."Do you want to talk about what happened?" Abel asked me. I nodded my head. I was still scared but I knew that they were worried about me. I had to talk to them so that they at least won't be so worried. "You don't have to tell us if you aren't fit do do it Anya. You have been through something that was clearly very traumatic. You dont have to say anything that you don't want to" Kern comforted me. I shook my head. I wanted to tell them. "I can talk about it. I want to talk about it. Actually, yesterday, after we had sex, I woke up feeling this heat all over my body. I couldn't understand what was going on. Lydia called me just then and I told her what was going on. She told me to come meet her and that she'd be able to help me. She is a healer so I trusted her and went with her. T
ANDREI"Have you found out where she is yet?" I asked Abel as I paced my study. Abel shook his head. "The men I had asked to tail Callum yesterday are still trying to find out where he is. I am sure they are going to have information for me soon!" Abel said. "Am I supposed to just wait here for them to tell us where she is?! What if something happens to her before then? Are you going to take responsibility for it Abel?" I asked him. "You really need to calm down Andrei. You are not the only one who is worried about her. I am also very worried about her wellbeing but we are not going to find her just because you are behaving like this! Are you done looking at the CCTV cameras Kern?" Abel asked. I looked over Kern who was seated in front of a computer looking at security footages. "Yes. I got something. Last night, she had left the house. Someone was actually waiting to pick her up at the front gate yesterday. She seemed to know this person!" Kern said. "Why would Anya leave the h
ANYA"Hey Lucy" I said as I picked up the phone. "How are you doing?" She asked me in a cheerful voice.."I.....I am not okay at all. I feel....I feel a itching on my body. It just gets worse!" I said. I had no idea why I told her..I just had a feeling that she'd be able to help me since the was a healer. "Hmmm....that's strange. Do you think that you can come out? I'll take a look at you and see if I can help you" Lucy said. "Oh. Let me just wake Andrei and the rest....""Andrei? Is that your mate?! You can't tell him that you're coming to see me! Remember that I am running away from most Alphas! I can't let any of them see me!" She said to me. "Oh....okay! I am going to come alone. I feel so terrible!" I said. "I'll wait for you" Lucy said and ended the call. I quickly picked up a coat and left the house. As I left, I could not help but wonder how she knew that Andrei was an Alpha. I never told her this..Did Callum tell her?!.....I woke up feeling a lot better than I had f
ANYA"I am not talking about Callum. I am going to deal with him myself. I am talking about you and Kern. What exactly is going on between you both?" Andrei asked me as he gave me and Kern a suspicious look. My heart sank to my chest when I heard this. Did he figure out something? Or did Kern tell him himself? I knew that we were going to have to come clean to both of them at some point but I was not ready for it yet at all. I had wanted to avoid it for as much as possible. "I don't know what you are talking about. What do you think is going on?" I asked him back, trying to deflate the question but Andrei looked like he was not going to believe me. "Do you think that I am going to fall for that? I can see that there's something going on between both of you. All three of you are keeping something from me. Are you going to tell me the truth or do you want me to find out myself?" He asked me. I looked over at Kern, wanting to know if he had told Andrei anything but he just shook hi
ANDREI"Nothing is going on between us!! Why are you lying?!" Anya asked Callum. He just flashed her a smile. "Don't tell me you have forgotten how we met? Or if you have forgotten, don't tell me that you've forgotten how I got you flowers yesterday. You were holding them so tight yesterday!" He said to her. Anya blushed. But I could tell that she was just embarrassed by him. Callum knew how to be shameless! "You forced me to take them! I did not want anything to do with you or your flowers! You are the one who forced me to take them even though I did not want to! Also, I already threw them away! Stop trying to cause a misunderstanding here!" Anya said. "What? Are you worried that your mate will reject you because of me? You know, this is why I said you are not a good match for him. It would be best if you came to me. He's so cold, and he doesn't know how to treat women right. Why should you be with him? It would be best if you came to me. I'll make sure that you'll never lack any
ANYAI stood still as I glared at Callum. All through the night, I had been haunted by him coming to see me out of nowhere, and I had hoped that he would lose interest in me and not bother me again. But it seemed that my prayers were not answered yesterday because he was the first person I met outside of school immediately as I got out of glasses today. It appeared he had been waiting for me for a long time. He smiled at me as I glared at him even more hatefully. "What do you think you are doing here? What do you hope to gain from all of this?" I asked him. "I think I already told you yesterday, Anya. I like you and want us to explore what is going on between us. I feel like we could make a good mash as long as you can stop being biased against me and give me a fair chance," he said"I think that you have gone completely crazy because that is the only explanation for what is going on here. There is nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing going on between us. Anything you think is
ANDREII sat in the car as Abel drove me to Anya's school. I looked forward to singing, especially since I had not seen her in a long time. I hoped that she would be ready to accept me and our relationship when I saw her. I had done a lot of thinking when she was away, and I realised that I could not let go of her even if it meant I had to share with my brother. She was my mate first, and I did not want to give up on her at all. "So besides that bastard, Callum, who else did Kern say was bothering Anya?" I asked Abel. "He said that a classmate of hers had been picking on her. It had been going on for a long time, even before she got to know us, and it just got worse in the past few weeks because of a guy she likes to be interested in, Anya. A few days ago, a classmate of ours and our friend kidnapped Anya and tried to kill her. However, Kern had stepped in on time, and both girls are already in police custody and awaiting jail now. Their fathers are mighty men in the town, and Kern
ANYA"Why are you laughing? Do you not want to let her go? She doesn't deserve this, you know!" I yelled at Callum. "Is that what she told you?" He asked me. "Yes. That is what she told me! You need to give her some space. She's a good person who was forced to do bad things for you. I know you feel like no one can stop what you want to do and that you are invincible, but you need to let her go, or else there will be consequences!" I said to him. "You know....you are so cute that it's funny!" He said and burst out laughing again."Why are you laughing?! I am being serious here!" I said. Suddenly, Callum stopped laughing as he looked at me seriously. "You really should stop believing people so blindly. You have no idea what you're getting yourself into. And you'll get hurt if you aren't smart about the people you trust!" He said to me. "What are you talking about?" I asked. Something told me that he was earnest this time. But I didn't think that I trusted people unquestioningly.