Lesley came back two days later, I was having my meal before bed when I heard the servants running around to put things in place, I was wondering what was going on when Amelia came to me and informed me that Lesley was back. My heart leapt but for joy and excitement, the long awaited time had finally arrived, I could not deny the fact that I really missed him. I knew I was supposed to be mad at him for leaving without waking me up or even giving me a goodbye kiss, but that moment I forgot everything and had forgiven him. I abandoned my food and rushed outside to meet him, I watched him come down from the horse just like a prince, my prince. My heart started to pound incessantly the moment he looked up at me with those deep blue eyes which I had first fallen in love with. He immediately broke into a smile and started walking towards me. "I'm back" he said putting his arms around me tightly and kissing my forehead. "How was your trip?". He did not answer, he just took
The next morning, I called my doctor to have her checked once again, I really wanted to know my wife's state of health, and off course that of my unborn child. "At this stage it would be very difficult to know the real gender of your child, so I can't determine that for now" the doctor said when I asked if she could tell if the child was a boy or a girl after checking Ralia. "I see, how is her health, and that of the child too. Is there any thing that needs to be done?" "They are both fine for now, I would be coming once in a while to check up on her. And just like I have told her before, call me once you notice something unusual and I would come right away". "Is there anything else we need to do to keep her and the child healthy?" "I have already given her maid a least of things to do, and food to prepare for her always in order to keep her healthy. As long as she follows diligently, there would be no problem". "I would make sure she follows as suite". I thanked t
Three months into my pregnancy and I had started getting extreme symptoms the doctor had talked about, I felt nauseated even more than I had fekt in the beginning, I felt extreme back pains, stomach pains and most importantly I had terrible mood swings. Most times I would even lash out at Lesley, but he understood and stood by me. Of course I had Amelia too, I would lash out at her more often than not yet she never left my side.Last night Lesley had told me that he had a surprise for me today, I sat in my room chewing gingerly on some almond seeds as I awaited his surprise. I had actually had a bad temper the previous night and had chosen to pass the night in my own room no matter how much Lesley pleaded. He finally let me when he saw I was being reluctant, I actually did not know the exact reason I was on edge the whole night, but he however promised me he wod give me a surprise the next morning. I had woken as early as before the cock crows to snack on the almond Amelia had go
I stood up and followed him sheepishly, still looking lost as ever. I did not understand anything that was going on. But I still enjoyed every bit of it even though the suspense was killing me. It was a surprise anyways and a surprise is supposed to be suspense filled, just that surprises should be things and not humans. I let him hold my hand and guided me as we walked down the staircase, one step after another. My heart raced with every step we took. My breathing seized for a moment when we finally got to the foot of the stairs, a woman was seated right there in the sitting room, right on the couch. She had her back turned to me so I could not see her face or make out who she was. Could she be the one who is my visitor? I tried so hard to see her face but it was difficult to see her face from the angle I was standing. I took a step closer. She was dressed in a very casual wears that did not look quite expensive, she had very white skin, and I bet she would have a beaut
RALIA"Wow!" She exclaimed when we got to my room, "your room is beautiful, and comfortable" she looked around and went to sit on the bed. "And it looks less of a prison like your former room". "So tell me" she said dragging me by the hand to sit beside her on the bed. "How has the alpha been treating you?" "Well....." I blushed. "You see Ralia, when your family had handed you over to him, I felt very bad for you, especially since people said he is very ruthless and delights in doing dark deeds, I felt so bad that I started to imagine what you might be going through. I started to wonder what would happen to all of those blissful fantasies we had about handsome princes coming to steal you away from your brothers and taking you away from them". "We were crazy back then though" I said laughing. "We should have known those were fairy stories". "I know, but I still felt bad, that you probably would not meet that handsome prince and have your ideal love life and your happy e
RALIA"Who is it" I asked looking at the door.Amelia slowly pushed the door open and came in with a tray containing to glasses of juicee. "I came to serve you and your guest juice" she said dropping it on the table. "Oh! My" I exclaimed, suddenly remembering how badly behaved I had been. "Forgive my bad manners Chey, I had been so carried away by excitement that I had totally forgotten to entertain you". "That is not a problem at all Ralia" she laughed "I too had been so carried away with the excitement of seeing you once again that I did not even think of anything else". I did a short introduction between Amelia and Cheyenne before she left the room. "You can continue your story now" I teased, "so you were saying you asked him about me?". "Of course not" she threw a pillow at me. "I was to scared to, infact you needed to see how I trembled in front of him, I trembled so much that I thought I was going to melt in his presence". "Then what happened next?" She
RALIAI woke up that fateful morning with a slight head ache, which the doctor had told me earlier on that as long as it was mild, it was not an issue. But apart from the head ache, I still could not shake off the uneasy feelings I had within me, like something really bad was about to happy But I could not place my hand on what it was, and it scared me to the bone. It had been few weeks since Cheyenne had visited, and more than ever I looked forward to her next visitation. I hoped it would not be long. I lay alone on the bed, staring at the ceiling. Lesley had traveled out of town for what he called a business trip for over a week, and I had no idea when he was coming back. I slowly rubbed my stomach, I had been experiencing a lot of discomfort there for sometime, and I had sent for the doctor who was supposed to arrive later in the day to check up on me. I lazily stood up from the bed and went to look through the window, the house had been extremely boring without Lesley
RALIAFor a moment I was confused, where did he want me to go with him to? "You have no choice" he said pulling me by the arm, and pulling me up. Causing my arm to hurt. "Who are you and why do I have to come with you? Is my husband aware that you had snuck into his mansion?" He did not give me any listening ear, rather he pulled my arm even more, forcing me to finally stand up, his claws still wrapped firmly around my neck. "You would find out soon". He started pulling me by the arm, leading me away towards the back of the house. "Where are you taking me?" I finally cried out, that earned me a slap on the face, and then he pushed me roughly till I fell roughly to the ground, causing my stomach to come in contact with the hard ground. I finally screamed out in agony, I hoped vehemently that someone would hear my scream and come to my rescue. I tried standing up, but it seems I was growing weaker with every passing second, I managed to force out another scream again w
LESLEYI was well aware of what Ralia was trying to warn me about, u had earlier gotten the information about the plans they had for me. I laughed it off because it was funny, it was funny because I was prepared for them. After my last experience I had been walking on a technology, although I was not sure initially if it was going to work. But after putting much effort into it I was able to discover that my efforts payed anyways. They had just wanted their time by putting those silver there because I had made weapons to protect me from them. I had weapons that would kill them easier. It did not take long for me and my men to locate their cave, my blood boiled even more when I saw the kind of scary place they had subjected my wife to staying in for days. I would not forgive them for putting her through all of that. I tore away the things that were used as cover in front of the cave with my claws and I and my men matched in. On getting in there I met them punishing one of the
RALIA"Ralia is it that your pregnancy has so affected your brain that you do not know the meaning of climb out?" I turned sharply to look at her. "How did you know my name?" I whispered. "Do you want to start wasting my time right now by asking unnecessary questions? What part of climb out do you no understand? It looks like you really want to be cut open, maybe I would start with your stomach" I obeyed her and started climbing out till I was outside in the open. She climbed out also and tool my hand and started pulling me by the arm. "Where are you taking me?" I asked again but this time I did not get any answers from her. Instead she kept dragging me along till we got to a particular part of the woods, far from the cave. She stopped and turned to face me. "Run" she slowly said. "What?" I asked not believing her words. "Is run also a hard word for you to understand now Ralia?" I turned to look at her again, why was she calling my name as if she knew me? And
RALIAI believed that days would have passed since I was here, even though I could not see the time. I rejected alm the food that they had given me to eat, I even spat on the face of one of them who had come to threaten me. They released me from the chains occasionally to stretch my body out. I heard gentle footsteps approaching me in the room where I was tied, I was blindfolded so I could not see who it was. The footsteps got closer and for some reasons I could feel a familiar presence around me, I was sure it was not that of Lesley. The blindfold was slowly pulled down from my face and I looked up to see who it was. Someone was standing right in front of me with a plate of food. But I could not ascertain who it was since they had a blindfold on, but I was sure it was a woman. "For how long do you intend to starve yourself?" She asked with a deep feminine voice. I kept quiet and maintained a straight face. "Do you plan on answering me" she grabbed my jaw and raised m
Everything still felt like a dream to me, I could not believe all of these were actually happening. But in everything, I prayed that Lesley would not come here. Coming here would be really bad for him and I would not ba able to take it if he got hurt. Since it was dark inside the cave, it was difficult to tell what time it was or how the day went by. I just sat there in pains with the chains that has been used to bind mw to the chair. I looked up when I heard footsteps, it was the same betrayal who had helped the enemies take me. "Why would you this?" I asked in tears. "I thought you were loyal to Lesley". "Loyal?" He spat. "Do you know how long I had mapped out my plans to be able to penetrate Lesley's household and gain his trust? So you know how fulfilled I am to see all my plans playing out right in front of me?" "What do you mean?" "You would never understand when your life is like that of a Disney princess. But I would give you an insight. Do you know the amount
LESLEYIt was almost like I was running mad, I could not believe my ears. My Ralia was gone? I punched the wall severally, all my anger had been directed back at myself, why did I not go with her? Ho could I have been that careless to send her out alone? My heart beat increased with every passing second, I wanted to leave immediately, to go after the bastards that had taken my woman. But my right hand man had insisted we stayed and made some proper planning before going after them to avoid making a grave mistake that could cost someone's like. I was even more agitated because I was told they had help from inside, I could not believe that the same person I had put in charge of her safety was the same person that was used to take her away from me. How could I have been so careless? Why did I let her go alone when I knew that I had a traitor among my men? "It's all my fault" I screamed as I punched the wall once again, causing a burning sensation in my knuckles. "I was not c
LESLEYI rushed to the door and opened it only to find one of the men that I had sent out with Ralia, he had a kind of look on his face that I could not explain, but the look only meant one thing, that something had happened. And it was not whatever it was that had happened was not a nice thing at all. "Where is Ralia?" I asked immediately. I knew at once that something was wrong when he did not answer immediately, had she put to birth in the woods? But I knew that was not the the case with the look on his face. "Where is Ralia?" I asked again, this time with more urgency. "Ralia has been kidnapped!" The voice echoed over and over again in my head even though I did not want to believe it at all. "What do you mean by Ralia has been kidnapped?" I asked in a more mean manner. "She was taken in the woods by a group of armed werewolves, we tried to fight them, but they had help from inside". "What do you mean?" I asked raising an eyebrow. By this time, I was already
RALIA"What do you think?" Amelia asked showing me a beautiful flower growing somewhere in the woods. "It's beautiful" I said absent mindedly. "You see not be enjoying yourself" you said looking closely at me. "We can go home if you like". "I don't want to go home till I am done with my walk" I said with a straight face. I remembered some months back I had equally come out to take a walk without Lesley. Only that this time around, other than missing him I had other feelings, like the pit feelings I had in my stomach, and the pit kept increasing with every step I too. "Then you should be even more active and responsive, stop acting like you are missing your husband already" "I do miss him though" I tried to smile. "But I'm here" she took my hand, and tried her best to make me more alive and I really appreciated her effort, but it was just no working.y mood kept going from bad to worst with every step. We got to a point in the woods, and I stopped to take a look at
RALIAI was awoken by the rays of sunlight that shine into my room that morning, probably one of those mornings that I always woke up late. I stretched my hand and reached out to Lesley's side of the bed but it was completely empty. I opened my eyes fully only to find myself alone in the room. I guessed he must have gone out for his numerous business meetings. A few more months had passed and there had not been any cause of unrest, I was probably really the one overthinking things are that time. Even though I was yet to get over that feeling of being in danger, I was convinced that there was no danger after all. And we had been living our normal lives as usual. It was just few weeks to my delivery date and I was feeling even more uncomfortable with the pregnancy, I could not just wait to put to bed, I could not wait to see what my child would look, I could not wait to carry my child in my arms. It would be one of the best feelings I had ever encountered. The doctor had advi
LESLEYI had no idea why I felt so worried as I saw my wife in that mood, I did not know if to regret letting her handle the sword. But in a way she was right, she needed to learn how to fight and defend herself against any external force. Because even though I had assured that there was no need to be worried, I still felt like something was about to happen. Battle was looming and it was even more confusing because I did not have any lead as to where the battle was coming from or how it would even happen. But one thing was sure, I had vowed to protect my Ralia with my life. I was going to tighten the security around the house for now because I did not for once believe the rogue werewolf was working alone. He must have had other accomplices who probably still be lurking around and waiting for the right time to strike. But what was even more bothersome to me was that I might have an eternal force against me in my own house. And it was even more difficult fishing out the particular per