Vanya's POV"It is. And you don't know that ma'am or anything about him. He's a monster and if I hadn't let him in, all of this...." I was already in tears."No, if I hadn't let him in in the first place, this wouldn't have happened. It's my fault.""Call an ambulance Tara. Fast." "I already called them." The sound of the ambulance outside was soon heard. I stayed with both of them, one conscious, the other unconscious and bleeding from the head. Please don't die. Please, I'm begging you. I tried raising him up to stop the bleeding but what if I did and caused more harm. And for the other that was conscious, whatever Cian had broken in him, I didn't know.Tara came running in, with the paramedics who were with their stretchers. They loaded both of them onto it and began leaving the company. I picked up my coat and my purse "I'll go with you." "No Tara. You stay here and take care of the company in my absence.""But...""That's an order." I rushed after the paramedics, the eyes of
Vanya's POVOut in the forest, I could freely shift so I let go of myself, shifting into my wolf. I shook my body, my fur moving and then relaxing. Raising my head up, I listened to the stillness of the night, finding solace in it. I closed my eyes, breathing in the night air, forgetting about the work I had piled up for me. Right now, the night was much more important to me than any work waiting for me at the office or at home.After listening to the stillness for some time, I sprinted into the forest, feeling the wind on my fur and loving every inch of it. I felt like a bird set free after years of captivity.After so long, I finally had this euphoric feeling.A hunger that could never be satisfied except by the freedom of the full moon. I slowed down, howling at the moon when another wolf came to stand in front of me. An alpha wolf at that. I stepped back, staring at it with precaution. Meeting an alpha wolf out on a full moon in a forest was far away from safe. It was dangerous.
Vanya's POVThe light in the room looked like directly gazing into the sun. Trying to blink the brightness away, I heard the sound of a towel being strained, and a cold cloth was placed on my head. Turning in the hand holding the cloth, I came face to face with Emilia."Hey. You've been out almost all morning." I blinked the sleep away from my eyes, trying to sit up. "Here " She took a hold of my shoulder and upper arm, helping me up."What happened?" I asked her checking the time on the bedside clock. 1:45pm. Had I slept this long? Why?"You don't remember?" I turned towards Marco who had been in the room the whole time, but I had failed to notice him."I...." Then it hit me. My ears ringing with such intensity that I had to cover my ears with my hands. Running through the forest with Cian chasing me. Him trying to forcefully mark me, and how I had miraculously overpowers him, ran home, jumped through my window into my room, only to find out that the window had been close by Marco wh
Vanya's POV "You don't seem to understand what happened to you Vanya." Marco said in the calmest voice ever. "That graze in your neck poisoned you. Your body's rejecting it, so it's like poison to you. And what does poison do?""I don't care about your theories. All I care about is my children being safe.""And they are safe." He placed his hands behind him, walking to where Emilia held me on the floor. "Did you think I hadn't thought about all these you are thinking about? You think I hadn't made provisions about it?""Provisions?" What was he talking about. "I had Emily and some others watch the children at school. They made sure to blend in as normal staff, so the children are safe."I heaved a sigh of relief, my heart finally being able to be at peace. "I'm sorry." I said to Emilia. "For yelling at you." "It's fine." She helped me to my feet, laying me back in the bed. "It's just a mother's love for her children." I had the pain in her voice as she said that, and I was annoyed
Vanya's POVFew minutes after he had made a call to his healer, she arrived. She gave me some medication to help with the fever and drowsiness, alongside the pain of the bruises and the tiredness of my bones."Thank you." I said to her, really grateful for her help. She bowed to me. "You shouldn't do that. I should be the one bowing.""It's a norm." Tristan said to me. "When someone thanks you, you bow. It's a way of saying you're welcome.""Oh..." The woman smiles at me, bowing again. I bent my head a little. "Well, thank you again."""Thank you Maureen." Tristan said to her. She also bowed, not speaking a word, and left the room."No offence, but is she dumb?" "No, she's not. She just prefers to do her duties without much talking. Sometimes, no talking at all, except when necessary.""Your pack is quite strange I must say.""We've been called worse than that. Trust me." His eyes travelled again to my neck that I had covered with the sweater. He made to say something again, but stop
TRISTAN'S POV"Vanya!" I ran towards her, past the man that had entered the house. "Are you alright?" I got to her side, raising her crouched body up."I'm fine." I touched her face, noticing a bump beginning to form on her forehead. I looked her in the eye, watching as her focus darted to the man that had just walked in. I turned towards him."Hello Marco." Then he turned to me. "You must be Tristan." I looked at him, hating the guts he had to walk into this house and bump the door of the owner into her face. How dare he? "Ah!" He exclaimed with a look I knew very well to be fake acknowledgment. "She," he pointed at Vanya who stood beside me. "Didn't tell you about me. " He tutted, shaking his head. "What a shame."I turned my gaze to Vanya, and for that second I looked at her, I noticed the tension in her face, her muscles. How she inched just a little bit closer to me and something clicked inside of me, pulling the pieces of the puzzle I had been trying to figure out together.Th
Tristan's POV "Do I look like I give a fuck?" I cocked my head to the side,dragging him and pushing him towards the door. "You won't leave politely, so let's get you out like the unwanted guest you are." Opening the door with a hand, to his surprise, I pushed him out of the house, no trace of a smile on my face."You don't stand a chance against me Tristan. You're a mere wolf, and I'm the strongest alpha...""In Europe. You said that the last time.." I nodded at him, taking a quick peek at Vanya and Marco who seemed like was it impressed, or surprised. He looked at Vanya, anger cursing through his nostrils. "Even if I don't succeed in marking you Vanya, I will..." "You will do nothing. Stay away from her and everything that concerns her." I slammed the door in his face, the same time with Vanya heaving a sigh of relief and Marco taking her in his arms. I watched the both of them, and seeing Vanya at peace made my heart leap with joy. If Cian was the reason for her unhappiness, then
Vanya's POVIf anything, I was glad that Tristan was with Marco and I when Cian showed up. I knew I couldn't take him, neither could Marco. And knowing Cian, he didn't show up to check up on me. He wanted to finish what he had started in the forest that night. I sat in my bed silently, watching the healer check my pulse. Whatever she was doing or going to do with my pulse, I had no idea. But thinking back on that day, Cian rather let Tristan push him out of the house so easily. Cian would never tolerate such humiliation, unless he had a plan B. My heart skipped a bit at the thought of Cian having a plan B about how Tristan had treated him, and I began to wish otherwise. It might have been better, had Tristan not been around during Cian's visit. These thoughts for the past few days had taken a huge hold on me, sipping deep into my subconscious, evening creeping into my dreams. I had had scary dreams where Cian came back for Tristan. The detail of the dreams were far beyond imaginat
Vanya's POV "You look even better." "Don't think of blasphemy Tristan. The goddess is the best of all bests. Another headline just popped up. It says... " I paused. "A new world order, a new religion, the Blackwoods." "Indeed. A new religion. " He chuckled before he paused. "I'll get the kids from school today. You'll just have to get off from work and go home." "The last time you got the children back from school Tristan, all of you wrecked the house!" "And we apologized and promised we'd never do it again." "Whatever. Thank you for getting them in... Advance " I said to him. "At your service my queen." I smiled, grinning from ear to ear. "I love you." I said to him. "I love you more." He replied. "We'll talk later, gotta go." He mused, before blowing a kiss into the phone's speaker and then hanging up. I sat down on my seat, thinking back in all that had happened in my life. All that had happened to bring me to this day. To this moment of true happiness. I had never kn
FOUR YEARS LATER. Vanya's POV "Is this what you really want to do? Still be a chef?" My love asked. "CEO of a good company honey. And yes. That's what I want to do. What I still want to do. " I opened the door to leave, turned, and pulled him towards me with his tie, kissing him full on the lips. He edged forward, closing the door and winding the glass up. His hand trailed to my waist, pulling me closer to him, before they made to unbutton my blouse. "What are you doing?" I giggled, throwing my head back. "I told you " He grumbled. "That the next time you do this on a work day, we might end up having sex in the car. " "And I said?" "Mm... You said nothing." I opened the car door. "And silence in court means...." But I had jumped out of the car, blowing him a kiss as I shut the door. He looked like a pouting child that would soon begin to bawl. "Just go." I mouthed, shooting him away with a wave of my hand. "You're in for tonight." He mouthed back before blowing me a kiss
Vanya's POV "Wait..." Tristan paused them. "You knew he came after Vanya." He questioned his father. Which he nodded to. "Does that mean you've been in London all this while?" He nodded again. Tristan stared at him in disbelief while I listened to their story. Waiting earnestly for them to finish so I could throw everything I wanted at them. "When we heard he came after you..." My father had become serious. "I told Marco and Vladimir that it was finally time for me to come out of hiding." They both nodded. "And worst of all, when Marco told me about your outburst." They nodded again. But he continued. "They weren't really buying the idea, and Vladimir promised to take care of you and Marco but I had been hiding long enough." "So we finally decided to come out of hiding," Vladimir said. "And deal with Magnus." Marco added. The sitting room now went quiet as I weighed everything they had said. I had missed my father since I was thirteen, thinking he was dead, but he had been aliv
Vanya's POV "Is this some kind of joke to appease me?" I turned to Marco. "Joke? No. No it's... Not." "I'm not buying this shit. None of it." "And where did you learn how do speak like that little crow?" "Don't you dare call me that!" I spat at the man. "And where did you even hear that from?" "I didn't hear it from anywhere. We made it up, together. At the spring fall close to your school when you wouldn't stop crying about how boring school was and how you wanted to be a doctor but not go to school for it..." I bit my lower lip. This couldn't be happening. I was dreaming. It's all a dream. "And what did I say?" I asked him for confirmation. "If I can make it as a doctor without books, I want the world in return..." "No..." I exhaled, forcing myself to stay calm and tearless. "And I said to you..." I remembered clearly what he said to me that day. Even if you want heaven... "Even if you want heaven..." Daddy wouldn't hesitate a second... "Daddy wouldn't hesitate a
Vanya's POV I walked out of Tristan's office, and when I was out of earshot, I ran to our room, shutting the door behind me as I wailed my eyes out. I shook as the sobs took over me, fully in control. How could he? How could Marco? He was my father's best friend. He was supposed to stand by my father, was supposed to protect him. Was supposed to be a true friend. I hate him! I hate him!! I sniffled, still sitting down on the floor. How long I sat there, I couldn't recall but I knew it was well past afternoon. Tristan had come to knock on the door during lunch, asking me to eat. I had told him I wanted to be alone and wasn't in the mood to eat. "In case you change your mind." He said as I heard a rattle of plates in front of the door. "I'll leave your lunch here." Then he had left. After some time, he had come to the door again, knocking to check up on me. "I'm fine," I replied. "Vanya..." He started. "I know it's tough. I wish I could help... Or... Or do something." He sig
Tristan's POV I was in my study with Vanya that morning when Adam and some of my men brought Magnus into my office. Hands bound as he knelt him down before us. I was sitting on the arm of the seat while Vanya sat on it. From where he knelt, Magnus glared at us. His face filled with venom. Like the fuck I cared. He had gone after Vanya for whatever crooked reason it was. Had killed her father, my father's very good friend. He had ruined her chance of having a father and a mother too, potentially making her an orphan. The reason my Luna had no parents as shoulders to lean on, was because of this man. And heaven knew, I wanted to rip out his throat. There was a tremble on his venomous face even though he tried to hide it. He only glared as a defense mechanism. "Such a flimsy defense you have there Magnus." No need putting the Alpha's honorific anyway. He didn't deserve that respect. He blinked that I called him by his name but covered the shock on his face by glaring harder. "Oh!"
Tristan's POV "I'm fine talking while standing." Her voice came out wobbling. And she folded her arms, warily watching us. I nodded, going straight to the point. "What did you say to Vanya that made her stomp off?" Her eyes softened. "She didn't tell you. So why should I?" Angel snorted behind me. I rubbed my temples, realizing I too was standing. "So much drama in a day." She whispered behind me. The woman shot her a glare which Angel returned with a bare of her wolf canines. "You claim to be her mother..." "I am her mother." She cut me off, her voice almost a screech. Two of my men moved to get a hold of her as she strolled towards me, but I motioned them to remain put. "I carried her for nine months and almost died giving birth to her." "So why disappear all these years and appear now to try and talk to her?" She squinted angrily at me. "Yeah." I continued before she could speak. "Vanya has never mentioned you to me before. Never." "Who knows, that may be because you are
Tristan's POV "You should have found out!" I yelled a her. "What?! You expected me to eavesdrop on their conversation?!" Before I could reply, she added. "What is wrong with you?! You've barely been married a month and you're already acting like a big bad dog!" I took some steps towards her. "You don't get to speak to me like that! And after all that happened, she shouldn't be out there alone!" "When has she never been able to handle herself?" She threw at me, contempt in her voice. "When you weren't officially mated, it was eight bodyguards, now the whole world knows, you might actually keep tabs on her every movement. In case you don't know brother, it's spying and a sign that your suffocating, over protective nature that cost our mother her life, is resurfacing again! " The room stilled, I stilled and so did she when she realized what she has just said. I took steps backwards, watching her as I shook my head in utter disbelief. "Wow Angel. Just wow!" "Tristan I'm sorry." "N
Tristan's POV I killed the ignition of my car, sitting there and thinking about nothing in particular but everything at once. Vanya had only met Selena once and they had not gotten along. Not as if any one could ever get along with Selena. But why would Magnus go after Vanya? What did he want from her? ***Flashback*** Vanya was speaking to the strange woman who claimed to be her mother, so I decided to go back to my house which was now Angel's house to wait for Adam after I had sent him to figure out who the rogues were and why they wanted Vanya when Angel came to me. "There was one thing I noticed about the rogues. I didn't want to let you know about it because Vanya was there." I sat back down, placing my coat on the seat I had been seating on. "What was it?" "All the men had a wolf tattoo on their right shoulders." "Werewolves have tattoos all the time Angel." "I know." She countered. "But it was split in half." She looked at me, going still for a moment before that still