Brynlee's POV"I want to protect you and my baby...""You are my life, buttercup. I can't live without you""I want you to be safe, always!" Those words of Maverick came rushing through me as I closed my eyes to embrace whatever it was that was to happen.If ever there was a moment where you start regretting a decision you made out of spite, then this very moment was the perfect example. I was as scared as I could be and my only thought was on the stomach.My baby... I needed to protect.My life? Yes... So Maverick could keep living. I can't afford to die, either. My eyes were shut tight, and my body froze in the same position I fell. My hands were placed right before me, intending to shied my face from what was going to drop on me while I turn my stomach away from possible hit.It's been two to three seconds yet the pain I had envisioned was not forthcoming instead, only my butt hurt a little from the impact of the fall earlier. Instead if anguish pain, there was a quiet, a very d
Cassy's POVI still laid on my bed with the tears rolling down my eyes, staring at the ceiling as I basked in the shame caused by the disappointment of loosing the first attempt of my recovery plan.At some point, the eyes which had tears rolling down were becoming weakened, and slowly closing as I laid on the bed. Soon, all I saw was just darkness and another world, which even though was my imagination and my mind, didn't still exempt me from the shame and torture which I faced in the real world.It was as though the reminisce of what had occured had continued in the dreaming, and haunting as well, as I continued to cry and wish that what had occured never had occurred.But a knock on the door saved me from this trauma. I could overhear it from the distant world I was in, and I turned round in my dream to trace the source of the sound, with a compelling force on me to awake and address the banging door.I jerked off the bed and walked with sleepy eyes and feet towards the door, and p
Cassy's POVBlood gushing out as she laid on the floor of the library while I watch her life draining slowly without any one coming to her aid....at least, that was what I envisioned as I pushed the shelf quietly.Yes. I was the cause of the shelf falling.I was sitting alone at the farthest end of the library, wishing that she could come in. I had tried several means to get in touch with her all to no avail.She was too guarded. Maverick made sure of it. Brynlee was damn impenetrable since the beginning of her pregnancy. Was he suspecting danger or was it just because of the rogues?Nevertheless, I was lucky the moon goddess granted my wish but as I envisioned her bloody state, I heard her scream and I jolted out of my wish.Then I saved her. That felt more than weird. On a regular day, I would have watched her lay down there and watch the shelf fall and smash her entire body to blood and bones. But there I was, risking my strength and dignity just because I had something I sought
Maverick's POVI wanted to end the meeting. They were becoming useless since none of these elders have anything new to say. It's always the old story of the rogues being different.Damnit! I know better than any of them. I was stabbed by their fucking blood! I need some other news and if we can't find a solution to get rid of them, it's not going to be safe for my people.I was starting to have an headache and I crave for Brynlee's touch. I looked around the gloomy conference room as the elders wore worn out expression on their faces.My eyes caught one of the elders, Elder Holster, casting contemplating glances at me. I knew he wanted to say something and if he was hesitating, it would only mean the issue wasn't related to the rogues.Or was it?"You got something to spill, Elder Holster?" I asked, giving him a piercing glare. He swallowed hard before nodding his head in answer."You want me to make you speechless? Or would you rather start talking and stop wasting my time by nodding
Maverick's POVI looked at Ellen questioningly but Brynlee squeezed my hands tightly. As much as I wanted to respect her wishes, this wasn't one of them. "Tell me what happened, Brynlee" I asked, looking at her sternly for the first time.I saw her looking scared and my heart broke but that was the only way to get her talking. She was one hell of a stubborn person if pampered. I steered my heart into stone so she could come open."I... She... She saved me, truly. She did save me" she stuttered, incoherently.I sighed helplessly at her shaky emotions as Ellen sent me a mindlink to stop. She was going to explain everything to me and that Brynlee was in a sensitive state due to the pregnancy."She saved you? Won't you tell me how she saved you?" I asked, letting go of my stern face. I put on a smile just to tell her I wasn't angry.Then slowly she told me how she almost got crushed by the shelf but was save luckily by Cassy."Although I doubt her sincerity but she indeed saved me and I
Maverick's POVSorcery? "How could you be so sure, doctor? Sorcery can only be done by specific people. Are you trying to lay blame?" Uncle Berth asked, looking at the doctor."I wouldn't dare. I observed the blood I had extracted from His Majesty and our beta's mate. They looked the same and the composition is weird. All my life as a scientist, I have never seen such a composition...""You still haven't answered the question. A weird combination does make it a sorcery. It's impossible for just anyone.." Uncle Berth said, defensively.I furrowed my brows at his words. Even if he was being logical, he should know that the royal physician wasn't just any doctor. Everyone knows Evey royal physician must have a special ability to detect poison in the bloodstream.Besides, he was highly trained by both scientist and a powerful sorcerer. His mentor was the last sorcerer in the kingdom before his death."Uncle Berth, you of all people shouldn't be questioning him about his observations," I
Third POVA certain man walked under the full moon light, dressed in dark Cardigan which had a hoody that covered his head. He walked out of the large gate, walking towards the bushes, having his leg kick through the green grasses while he looked backwards as he moved forward.There was none who kept watch at that period of the night, and so he walked with the confidence and the comfort which the night gave him. He walked until he looked backwards and could tell within himself that the path was clear for him to transform.He took off the hoody slowly away from his head, and the moonlight shone on him so bright that it was evident who it was. Berth! The same man who was a close relative to the Alpha of the pack, and the same man who had called on Cassy to start up his own redemption plan.Slowly, he unzipped what he wore covering his torso, and then slowly, he threw his hands open, breathing in heavy air as he tried absorbing the light from the moon.And then his transformation began.
Brynlee's POVMy mind had not still drifted away from the good things which Cassy displayed as the time went on. It was as though she had other motives, yet, my hands could not place them.Since the event at the library, where I tripped and almost got crushed by a huge shelf, and how she had ran out of the shadows into grabbing the shelf from crushing me, there was something different about her..It was as though she has repented of what she was usually known for. It was as though she was different at that point, and though my mind didn't feel pleased with what she showed off, the evidences of her changed lifestyle was not easy to deny.Ellen and all that knew her perfectly before I had even arrived in the werewolf world had warned me countless times about her, and how sneaky, terrible and manipulative she was.Well, that had to be true seeing what had happened that led to the good news which I still enjoyed today. How she had tried with all of her strength and her assets to lure my m