ANNA'S POVI stood waiting for Xavier just where he had instructed me to wait for him. I felt so minuscule under the towering building and the massive clock that hung on it.There was a time when I would not have agreed to be left alone by him, especially at a place I knew nothing about because I would have suspected that he would leave me and go away but there was this amount of trust I had grown towards Xavier.I did not know when it had started growing but I knew it was there.And so I waited for him with the hopes that he would come for me.My mind kept on wandering back to Abigail. I had suspected that there was something between the both of them the time I had first seen her in Alpha Lartes' throne room. but I could not place my finger on what it was. Today, however, my questions as to who she was to Xavier were answered.I had seen the way he looked at her. She had been more than just a friend to Xavier. There had been something between them.I did not want to admit it to mysel
XAVIER'S POVMy heart dropped when I could not see her where I had asked her to stay. It had taken a while for me to make sure that our followers had given up their chase. Even after they left, I walked in circles as I kept my eyes on them to make sure they were not coming back. And when I came back, she was nowhere to be found."Anna?" I called out hoping to hear her annoying voice answer but all I got was silence. I looked around me, maybe she was planning a jump scare because she was full of surprises.I searched every corner of the building where I felt like someone could hide but everywhere was very empty.I was lost for words.I wondered what could have possibly happened. She wouldn't run off because she was excited to come. Or was this just part of her plan?No, I had to push away all my thoughts, maybe something happened. Maybe the goons had taken her away.I was tempted to scream her name but I did not want to draw any attention to myself that would end up reaching my uncle's
ANNA'S POVWe rode in silence till we got to a stop."Come down," Xavier said to me as he alighted from the carriage.We were in front of an inn and I thought of how they had their hideouts in the most weird places like the palace."Try to keep up, we are already late," Xavier said to me as he started to walk away from the inn and onto an isolated path.I followed him without saying anything even when we were going far away from civilization and from any help in case I had to call out for help. But I followed him still. The trust I had in him kept me safe.Some moments later, we came upon a dilapidated building and I watched as Xavier knocked on the door.He knocked in a particular pattern, three consecutive knocks, then silence, then two consecutive knocks then silence, then another three consecutive knocks."Are you a friend or a foe?" A voice called out from within."A foe," Xavier replied, and then the door creaked open. The feeling I had when I was coming and found its way back.
XAVIER'S POVMy blood went cold when I heard the voice speaking.I looked for her with my eyes but I could not see her."The same woman whom you were with when we were being slaughtered like rams is the same woman you have the guts to bring to our midst! You have no respect for the lives that were lost for your pathetic cause!" The voice said again."Mind your tongue, Abigail. Lest you lose it today," Peter warned Abigail.The people started to murmur as they tried to understand what was going on. I watched as they paved the way for Abigail who had been standing at the back of the room to come forward and speak her mind."I shall not be threatened to keep quiet with the truth by men who are too blind to see that they are risking their lives for someone who doesn't care about theirs, neither is he worth the sacrifice," Abigail said in that voice of hers that I had always thought was too much for her little frame.She finally made it to the front of the room and I was blessed to look at
ANNA'S POVI loved the look I saw on Abigail's face. It made me feel some type of joy I had not felt in a while. This was just supposed to be a game for me to save my people but for some reason I became thrilled with the direction this particular scene was taking.She looked like she was looking at the most horrific thing she had ever seen in her life. Her eyes were expanded to the corners of her face and her mouth was wide open in shock.I held Xaviers hands tight in my hand and smiled at Abigail. Taking in the aura like it was milk and my skin needed it more than anything.The only thing that made me happier than the look on Abigail's face was Xavier's hands in mine.I had not expected him to say what he had said when he started to speak. I had thought he was going to apologize to the people but he had left all of us stunned.Abigail's face went from shock to anger till she became red. Her ears looked hot red and her nose flared.As the seconds passed the anger on her face tripled a
XAVIER'S POVI had tried to protect her but I was too late. It had all happened way too fast.Abigail had changed into her wolf form in a split second and had charged at Anna immediately without giving me any time to act.Before I could come in, Abigail had already knocked Anna to the ground and had tore open her chest with her the claws on her sharp paws.I watched Anna tumble to the ground and I had felt the impact of her head in mine. It was as if she and I were connected and I was able to feel her pain.I arrived just in time as Abigail was about to grab Anna in her mouth which was wide open.I pushed Abigail away with my entire strength, knocking her to the ground.I heard her whimper in pain but I paid her no mind and ran to Anna's side.I tried all I could to bring Anna back to consciousness but she was slipping away so fast.I placed my hands beneath her head to cradle it but then I pulled it out as I felt the warm, sticky, liquid.I smelled the blood and knew it was blood lo
XAVIER'S POV "Will she heal?" I asked the healer a millionth time since he had arrived twenty minutes ago."Your Highness, once again I say, it is not up to us! I have done the best I can and all that could happen next depends on her. She will heal if she wills to heal," The grey-haired healer said.I grunted. His reply did not please me but I didn't want to rile him up further."Thank you for your services," I said, dismissing him."You are welcome, Your Highness," He replied with a bow and shuffled out of the room on his old legs.I gazed upon the lifeless body of Anna on the bed. She looked so pale like the blood from her body had completely been drained. The only indication that she was alive and what gave me hope was the rhythmic beating of her heart which I felt in mine. Although her pulse was pale, at least it was there.I sighed. There was no way I was going to let her heal herself. I could not play with such a probability. I needed her to be healed. Then and only then would
XAVIER'S POV Even though what I had heard was not new to me, my chest clutched at the sound of those words.Anna and I were not the best of buddies but the thought that she despised me to the extent that she would not let my blood heal her was troubling. "But it healed her chest wound!" I said explaining to the old woman."She had a huge wound that was bleeding so much and when I mixed my blood with hers, it healed immediately," I explained.It did not make sense that my blood would heal her and then stop healing her next. Did her hate for me grow stronger when our blood got mixed?That would sound weird as it was the opposite for me. The connection I had always felt towards Anna had tripled the moment my blood had mixed with hers."Your blood may have healed her physical wounds but the wounds we are trying to heal now are the ones that have been done to her mind," The healer spoke slowly as if she was trying to explain something to a little child."Her mind? What injury to her mind