SILAS' POV:
“I don’t know. I never texted her.”Suddenly, my wolf is on high alert and I’m standing on my feet. I can’t remain still. I’m overwhelmed with emotions that rattle me too much.“What do you mean you didn’t text her?” I growl lowly.Something’s not right. My gut speaks louder now. My gut was never wrong.“I haven’t been with my phone all morning. It’s been missing from my bag.” She’s shivering now from the menacing pressure of my Alpha dominance, compelling her to tell me everything she knows.I’ve heard it’s a painful feeling, almost like suffocation. I uncontrollably unleash it, forcing her to bow her head and avoid my eyes while she trembles.Freya…Where the hell is she?Always getting into trouble the moment I look away. I shouldn’t have let her go alone, no matter how insistent she had been on going alone.I should have atleast sent someone with her, knowing she’s a walking trouble magnet.“Fuck!” I slam my fist againsFREYA'S POV:I feel my lungs slowly collapsing.It’s harder to breathe than a few minutes ago. My consciousness goes away from me as my body grows light. I don’t know if it’s due to the lack of oxygen or the silver around me shutting down my entire system forcefully… and then the pain. Pain like fire burns against my flesh as I grow weaker but my light-headedness seems to calm the effect.My vision blurs even more and I wonder, is this how I leave this earth?I think of Xena and I feel guilt and sadness. I had really wanted her to smile at me once more. I really wanted us to get along really well.Adam… Lucas… We could have been really close friends.Silas…His warm smile lingers in my mind. The melodious echo of his sweet laughter resounds in my ear. Had it always sounded so pretty? It had actually. I realize I just never really wanted to admit to myself how much I wanted to hear him laugh over and over again at anything, even at
FREYA'S POV:I don’t have full memory of what exactly had gone down in my near-death dazed state but somehow, I knew that Silas had saved me.It’s weird actually. My whole being just knows that he would never let anything bad happen to me. In a way, even while gripped with fear in those six hours, I knew that he would come for me.When had I begun putting so much faith in him?Seeing him now, I hadn’t realized just how much I cared about him, how much I missed him, how much I needed him next to me and how much it made me so anxious.He wasted no moment walking into the room, closer to me as my heart pulsed faster. It’s like he reads my thoughts and in seconds, he takes me into his arms, gripping me in a tight hug and it's everything I need.I can feel his pounding heart against my chest, pulsing almost as hard as mine. It’s all just so crazy how much I needed this. Tears seek to burst through and I can’t hold them back as they come out in flood
FREYA'S POV: Throbbing swollen lips, pink flushed cheeks, and a rushed breath.I didn’t think he’d look more hypnotic but the mien on his freshly kissed face begs to differ. It’s so tempting that I want to smash my lips to his one more time to feel those maddening sparks.He looks just as flustered as I am. Staring back at me with a burning intensity in his eyes.What have I done?Reality is cruel as it crashes down on me hard. I know what I’ve done, the consequences, and yet I can’t find myself wishing to take it back which makes me feel even worse.“What was…” I can’t find the words.“I mean that was…” He stops midway, battling with his words as well.We needed to talk about the shit we just did, yet my words had chosen this moment to fail me.No.I had to be firm. I don’t understand this feeling blazing within me but that kiss felt anything but normal. I think he knows it too ‘cause he’s looking a little too shocked.I make t
FREYA'S POV:The two days I had remained to recover in the clinic passed excruciatingly slowly, I almost lost my mind. Xena’s presence, however, was the only thing that had made it all bearable, still all that while, my mind fell back to Silas and our kiss. I know it’s stupid for me to ponder long on something that should mean nothing more than an action based on passing feelings, yet I caught myself occasionally touching my lips, imagining the warmth he had given off, how it had spread through my entire being.My wolf is more restless than ever, clawing at the walls of my mind, adding to my torture, brooding on the same reason; why Silas hadn’t dropped by since the kiss.The two days of my recovery passed before I was finally let to return to my dorm with Xena. I didn’t realize just how much I missed this four walls of my plain dorm room till now.I crash onto my more softer bed compared to the literal brick I was forced to lay on for days.“
FREYA'S POV: My heart drops to the bottom of my chest and all that adrenaline pumping through me crashes fast.Of course, he’d be with Elena, his girlfriend. The person he had probably been with the past two days. The worse part is she looks gorgeous in her off-white armless flay dress with a beaded sweetheart neckline.Pain shoots through my chest, stinging harder than ever and I feel stupid with reality crashing hard.Just one kiss and I had already lost all reasoning, looking for him like some love-sick fool. What were we even going to talk about if I brought up the kiss? Compare which was better between hers and mine and the countless other girls he had swapped lips with? Yet despite all that, I can’t help gawking shamelessly at him.Elena leans closer to him, whispering words in his ear. Though he had a poker face on, she giggled, winking at him.I feel the sudden urge to vomit and can’t take the sight anymore, so I walk out the nearest e
SILAS' POV:I watch her retreat as she leaves, not once does she turn back to look at me.Fuck.She’s definitely pissed again.I sigh, running my fingers through my hair, messing hours of styling. But right now, it’s the least important thing on my mind.I hate to admit it but she’s all I’ve been thinking about since the kiss and I can’t deny anymore the seconds, hours and days I had waited to do that again and I only fucked it up more.Things are sort of falling into place, she let me kiss her twice without slapping me in the face… I was winning and yet, why do I feel like a pile of shit right now?I wipe away the sticky lipstick on my lips unintentionally recalling her soft tender lips, the feel of her silky smooth skin, the heat oozing from her body and god, the moans from her lips.Fuck, I’m going crazy. She’s going to ruin me“Did that just happen?” Lucas asks after seconds. I forgot he was still there.“Freya just walked o
FREYA'S POV: I had known this was bound to happen from the moment Silas chose me as his partner and I actually took him up on it. Yet the moment has arrived and I’m nothing but terrified.As I slowly approach the throne with Silas by my side, all I can think about is if I’d be able to pull it off. Of all the risky shit I’d done, this takes the cake honestly.The Alpha King Darius Bloodmoon is known to be one of the most ruthless monarchs in the history of Royalty, gifted with a keen sixth sense. It’s because of this that he was nicknamed the all-knowing blood prince during his younger days. Knowing this, I took further steps into the Lion’s den, basically asking to be caught.At this point, I’m praying to whichever deity that hears me to not be found out because if I am, I am sure to realize that there are things worse than death.As we reach the foot of the throne, I bow instantly. Silas tilts his head a bit — being royalty himself, he didn’
FREYA'S POV: “Sit down, Freya Willows, I want to have a word with you.”My body moves automatically against my will. I sit down robotically on my seat. For a very brief moment, I see the gem necklace around his neck subtly glimmering an ominous red hue before going dull again and the control of my body returns instantly.I pant for air, suddenly able to breathe again. I take as much as possible into my once sealed lungs.“Perfect.” He’s still smiling but I know for sure it doesn’t mean anything well.My mind is already in full panic. He knows my secret I bet, there’s no other explanation. Somehow, the wizard's spell isn’t powerful enough to trick even the Alpha King — I should have known that. I should have stayed within my limits, far away from ever encountering him.My eyes sting, growing wet with tears but I blink them away, wanting to show no weakness even in this situation.He watches my every reaction in full amusement.“I wonder
FREYA’S POV:I’m floating on the softest cloud ever, hovering over everyone else down below.I don’t want it is but there’s no sense of pain or strife within me… only peace.I’m finally at peace with every conflicting thought I’ve ever had about myself and everything around me, my friends… my new family. I regret nothing, and even if I could go back in time, I’d change nothing.It as though I’ve been reborn into my new self with a new dawn and beginning staring back at me.I don’t remember what kind of dream I have when my eyes finally open from this deep slumber but it leaves a sense of complete fulfillment and happiness.Once my eyes are open, I’m staring right up at the ceiling and quickly know that’s I’m in another new environment again.I groggily seat up, groaning once the pain in my lower back hits and suddenly feeling weight on my thigh.The weight being Xena passed off on my lap.This moment reminds me of all the times she’s stuck right by my bedside every single time I pass
FREYA’S POV:Luckily for me he actually shuts up unable to come up with anything else once it’s clear that I’m not going to budge at all.I take both his hands and with enough force smash against the chains with the same stone, continuously; hard with my stored up anger with whatever messed up fate I was born with.Like I don’t even get to rest for a week, or month before something major is pulled over me.Eventually it begins to crack under the pressure and finally breaks apart giving both his arm freedom.Instead of standing up, however, he falls back against the wall groaning in much more pain and clutching at his chest.“Silas!” I reach for him pulling him up again.“Freya… you should know, they gave me another toxic dose of wolfsband before locking me up. I can barely move or get us out of here. This is your last chance to get out of here and save yourself.” He says in a strained voice breaking out in cold sweat.“No way… you’re coming with me one way or another.” I say trying ha
FREYA’S POV:No matter how hard I try to focus on it I can’t seem to connect with Silas anymore adding more to my currently panicking state.I can’t help but think the worse especially with how bad he had sounded before I wasn’t able to hear him again.He’s definitely not safe or okay… I can feel it in the pit of my gut.Something extremely vile is going on.And he expects me to just abandon it all and leave?No fucking way I’m not.I walk up ahead towards the exit seeing a few unconscious bodies in my way as I walk by before I’m just by the doors to freedom where the other three are casually waiting from me.Xena stands up abruptly moving over to me.“How was it? Were you able to link with him?” She asks expectantly and all their eyes look up to me as well, expecting some form of newsGood news.I suck in my trembling breathe before I can speak.“Elena’s gone crazy and started some kind of usurp. Silas and his parents are currently captured… and the wizard I was talking about… someho
SILAS’ POV:“Magic?” I turn to Father, staring at him in disbelief but he doesn’t bother looking my way, probably because he doesn’t believe I deserve an explanation.“Oh… you didn’t know?” Elena says, focusing on me. “This family heirloom you see here is a magic artifact that was stolen by your great grandmother from a small group of wizards and used against them to force their submission.”She explains, dangling it right in my face.“You knew this?” I ask him again but he doesn’t bother looking my way.“She took the artifact from the magic users because they were abusing the power and using it to terrorize the people. Taking it was for our protection.” He explains instead.“Liars!” Elena yells out suddenly loud but her voice is different from before.It sounds merged with a male’s deeper voice, echoing her words immediately she says them.“You took the power for yourselves and used it selfishly.” She adds as her purple eyes begin glowing.I’m caught between thinking this is just an
SILAS’ POV:“What is this about now?” He snaps once we’re alone on the balcony.It’s just weird how he hasn’t noticed it, the hint of animosity oozing out of Elena and her father, after how it seems to be that they’re closely keeping an eye on every single thing we’ve been doing since they’ve walked in.“This isn’t the time to be a bastard of a father, so just listen to me.” I snap, easily provoked.“If this is your plan to ruin years of hard work I’ve put into this agreement, I’ll have to remind you whose life is at stake.” He points out cruelly without batting an eyelash.Again, he doesn’t bother to hear a single thing I have to say, which irks me even more. How can someone be so prideful that they can’t see what’s in front of them?“How loyal do you think Crescent moon pack is to the throne?” I ask.“Of course, no one can ever be loyal enough. We have more than a handful of wolf packs looking for a chance to overthrow us and take the mantle of power for themselves, and that’s why w
SILAS’ POV:It took what feels like an extra day since Father’s visit before I’m finally let out of my cell to change into a tux, of course for the dinner that’s scheduled tonight.My full strength hasn’t returned, so I don’t bother escaping and searching for Freya. I need to wait for the perfect time, when my strength is at its peak again.Once I’m dressed in the suit, however, two metal cuffs linked together by chains and most definitely laced with silver are clasped onto both my arms, restricting my movement.“Alpha’s orders; so you don’t go wolfing out when we least expect It.” The guard explains, tossing the key into his pocket.My old man had really considered everything. Keeping me in chains during said dinner to also to show the in-laws that he has me under his thumb this time and I won’t pull any funny business again.Interesting.Once secured, I’m escorted into a limo just outside, waiting to take me back home and farther from the place he has Freya locked up.I’m skeptical
FREYA’S POV:More than a few hours, and possibly a whole day have gone by since I gained consciousness, and I still can’t feel Silas.My wolf grows even more panicked as I feel bare and stripped for some reason. It’s weird how I’ve lived without it for years but days after receiving the bond and strengthening it, it almost feels like I just can’t live without it.The silence and white walls around aren’t helping at all.“Hey guys, wanna play a game to pass time?” Lucas yells out so I can hear what he’s saying.“Really, even now, you want to be goofy?” Xena admonishes him, probably with her eyes.“What? There’s nothing else to do.” He points out and he’s not wrong at all.But it won’t be easy focusing my mind on being calm… not when Silas is missing.“How long do you think it’s going to take before King Darius holds the mating ceremony?” I ask out loud, not really expecting an answer.“He’s going to want to get things sooner, so maybe we’re looking at five days, if not sooner.” Lucas
FREYA’S POV:“Freya… Freya…”The voice that seems a distance away summons my conscious mind back into my body and my groggy eyes slowly lift open.It takes a moment for my blurry vision to take shape and I can finally make out exactly where I am again, and where the voice is coming from.First off, I realize I’m in a cell room.How do I know?Same white walls just like before, resembling an asylum… probably designed to ensure that prisoners lose their grasp on reality and lose their minds.Man, I had never thought I’d somehow find myself back here, but here I am, trapped in prison again.Only difference with this room is the very tiny window high up on the wall to the other room; the hole that the voice seeps in.Second thing I realize is just how familiar the voice is.“Freya…” It calls out again like a harsh whisper.“Xena?” I croak, still having a dry throat.“Oh my god!” Her voice goes octaves higher and suddenly sounds extremely ecstatic. “Oh my God, Freya… You’re awake!”Yes I a
SILAS’ POV:The force of cold and chilling water splashing across my face forces my consciousness to come crashing back into my body.I immediately go on defense, remembering the last thing I had witnessed while gasping for air but I’m far from where I had been the last time, my eyes were open.Instead of the wet and muddy earth of the forest and sturdy trees around, I’m kneeling in a plain room with white walls and both my arms are heavily chained away from my body.And right in front of me is my father, sitting calmly.My rage returns only in seconds as I lurch forward after him, tugging at the chains to break them, but I’m pulled back by the unbreakable metal once my strength is unable to do so much.“Laced with Silver.” He points out just how much of my efforts are being wasted with my struggling.Even with that, I continue my struggle like a rabid dog thirsty for blood for a few more minutes before the fatigue actually begins to settle in.“Don’t try to fight too much and waste y