XAVIER'S POVI swallowed hard as my brain tried to think of the perfect lie to give while I calculated when he saw me. Did he see me step out of the secret door? Did he suspect something?"I am sure that wherever you are coming from isn't so hard to remember is it?" His voice growled behind me, causing my eyes to squeeze tight as frustration started getting into me.I tightened my hands into fists and turned to face him."It's nothing like that Uncle... I am just stressed out from the battle." My fingers went to my forehead for good measure. "I have a terrible migraine...""Shouldn't your pain come from your neck?" He growled with eyes that told me one thing.He knew more than he was letting out.My fingers instinctively left my head and went to my neck as if I had just suddenly remembered that I had been attacked there."Yeah... I mean, not exactly. It was just a minor scratch. What is important is that he didn't get to you..." I said as my lies finally started coming together.My e
ANNA’S POVThe moment I told Xavier what was happening he looked like he would pass out. He turned pale and though he tried to appear as if he could handle it, I saw it in his eyes. He was loosening control.He couldn’t handle it. The poor thing.At this point, I knew I would have to do something, or he would be in great trouble with his uncle. He needed me but his ego wouldn’t let him say it.I couldn’t have folded my arms and just ignored his predicament, but my people’s lives depended on this. My father needed me. if I let Xavier go down, then my plan was going to go down with him.I released a sigh dropped the ball of cotton wool I was holding and grabbed his arm.“What are you doing?” he asked and the panic in his voice caused my eyes to roll in irritation.Men. They would always be arrogant even when they were about to pass out from fear.“Anna, where the hell are you—” he started to say but I cut him off at once.“Shut up and just come with me!” I hissed firmly. My hand tighte
ANNA’S POVLartes eyes seemed to narrow as he stared back at me. The rhythmic tap he was making on the handle of his throne stopped and I could feel the tension increase in the room.The truth was, I had no idea what to say to him, but I trusted my instinct. I knew I would come up with something when the need came.And the need was now…“What about those fools do you have to say?” Lartes growled softly, his ever-calculative eyes never leaving my face.There was no room to falter, and I knew that it was now or never. So, I squared my shoulders and took in a deep breath. “I had a dream and I saw the goddess… she told me that this is her desire, and you should not meddle with it or she would strike.”The words sounded stupid to my ears, but I didn’t let my uncertainties affect the forged confidence in my voice. My eyes continued watching the hardened Lycan in front of me, waiting for his reaction.Silence lingered on in the room for minutes, but I stood my ground. I knew that Lartes was
XAVIER’S POVAs soon as I left the locker room, I went directly to the dungeon where the men were being kept. The easiest part was getting here and now I had to do the hardest part which was for me to get the guards at the door to leave so I could take the men out.But as I reached there, I found the door unguarded. A frown covered my face as I wondered if Anna had a hand in this. That little body of hers sometimes did things that were too much for me to comprehend —as much as I wanted to investigate it. I knew there was no time for me to do that.So quickly, I rushed into the dungeon and all the men were on their feet, staring back at me as strongly as they could muster. I admired their strength and courage but if I had truly walked in there intending to cause them harm, there was just a handful of them that could fight back.“I am here to take you all back to Nico,” I said to them. “If you can move, then please help the others who can’t. There is not much time,” I added and started
ANNA’S POVIt was painful to watch but it was what had to be done for a hundred more people to survive.“Argh!” Lartes screamed as he brutally tore through the chests of the already dead guards. “Pathetic little fools!” he yelled like a madman.They were already dead, but he couldn’t stop. His anger was overrun and though I tried to leave, he forced me to stand there and watch him carve out their hearts like a psychopathic artist.The entire dungeon was coated in blood. The smell of the metallic substance was everywhere, and I was beginning to taste it at the back of my throat, but I didn’t flinch.I stood there, watching till he satisfied his thirst was satisfied.His burning eyes landed on me when he was done, and I felt a strange aura cloud my mind. He was trying to feast on my fear but there was just none in me.“Anna,” he whispered, his voice edgy like a soldier high on a mission, “get the maids to cut out a portion from each of them. I will have it for dinner…” He slapped a han
ANNA'S POV"Hey, sister. Miss me?" Kira said in that voice of hers that had a way of making me want to commit murder.I stood numb trying to figure out what was going on. How did she get here?"Anna? Is anything wrong?" I heard Xavier ask from behind me.I did not answer him, instead I was staring at my half-sister."Come on! Is that how a family should greet each other when they have missed themselves?" Lartes commented.My eyes shifted to him and I could see the gleam in his eyes, the same gleam which had tainted his voice as he had spoken to me.He was enjoying the show.He was playing his own game and I was a pawn in it.What made me angry was that I had no incline on what game it was we were playing.I felt warmth as Xavier took hold of my hand and pulled me along with him to the dining table where my sister and Alpha Lartes sat.I did not take my eyes off Kira even for a second.She had a smile on her face –a smile I had grown to know. A smile that meant there was trouble. The
XAVIER'S POVA lot was happening at once and it was happening so fast that I was not able to digest it all, the first being the beautiful woman who was having dinner with us.She said she was Anna's sister but there seemed to be more to the story than that.Especially the fact that the new lady looked nothing like Anna.When we had walked in and saw her, I had felt Anna's body tense up and it was still tense as she sat next to me.I had kept glancing at her hoping she would look at me and perhaps I would have an incline on what was happening but the only person she seemed interested in looking at was her sister.That was until her sister revealed that she had insulted me before sneaking over to our pack to marry me. I found it hard to believe that Anna had not only come to marry me willingly but that she had conned her sister out of marrying me. But I had to believe when she looked at me after hearing her sister's words. What was Anna really up to? It was at that moment it registere
ANNA'S POVI wiped the single tear that was making its way down my eyes, catching it before it could even reach my cheeks.The tear had threatened to flow when I was talking to Xavier but I had held it back and when I knew that I could not hold it back any longer, I walked away.The tear had been caused by the wedge of pain in my chest. A pain so much that I could not breathe. A pain I did not want to feel.It felt like I was losing Xavier but that was weird since I could not lose what I never had.He was never mine. And technically it shouldn't bother me that he was going away to someone else —but it did and I couldn't breathe.My wolf couldn't take it and this irritated me.Why did I care that Xavier liked Kira? Why did I give two fucks about who they coward liked?Why did it hurt that it wasn't me?Irritated with myself, I squeezed my hands into fists and stomped to the room I shared with Xavier. Thankfully, It was empty and I plopped down on the bed with a heavy sigh and a broke