“You are way more delusional than I thought. And whose fault is it? Who exposed me and Keirah out of our hideout? I would have gotten rid of my uncle that day and we would not be in this mess right now.” “ No, you would still be in the mess right now. There is no way you are getting out of it when you are at the center of it all. All I wanted was to get Keirah and my Lana as far away as possible from you. They were not supposed to be trapped in your mess. It is not fair,” Erede cries out loud from the other side of the phone. “It was not supposed to be like that. That world you care so much for could burn in hell for all I care. These two people mean the world to me. They are my world. All I care about is for Keirah's safety. I am gonna take the next flight there. I am coming to take them back home.” “Do not dare...show your face here. Unless you have my uncle beside you and he has the help I need from him. Otherwise, I will forget you are Lana's biological father.” “I am on my
James, Maria, and Luciano exchange worried glances, all their faces filled with concern. And at the same time, the rain starts to pour down heavily. They all rush towards the hospital entrance and Luciano leaves them behind. By running up to the ICU and quickly bursting into it. Scanning the room in every corner for any signs of Keirah and she is nowhere to be found. Then Dr. Fred, Maria, and James join him. “You were supposed to take care of her!” Luciano shouts angrily as he continues to search every corner. “We'll find her, I promise. But we need to act quickly before she gets herself into more trouble. Where could she have gone? She is not strong enough to get far.” “Where is the CCTV camera room? I need access to it now.” “This way.” Dr. Fred signals Luciano for direction, directing him outside the ICU, and he walks beside him to the CCTV station. The display in front of Luciano, Maria, James, and Dr. Fred shows Keirah leaving the hospital via the nurse’s chambers through
“From now on. Let it be just me and you. I want to take this journey with you, to build a family together and give this child the love and support it deserves. I want to marry you, Keirah. If you let me. I am going to protect you and the baby with every breath I will take from now on.” Keirah breaks into tears. She weeps nonstop and her tears are washed away with the rain on her face. “Is that a, yes?” “No....it’s a no. I am a married woman, Luciano. Although it was just a marriage on paper, I knew what I was getting myself into. I feel so sad that I left. I feel so sad that I thought running away from you was a solution. “I now know what I missed out on and what I will miss out on…I wanted to protect my baby from all this. I should have stayed with you to help you get us out. Instead, I left. I ran away. “There is no one out there. That will protect our baby, who I would trust with this task other than you. Please promise to take care of yourself and that baby.. promise me, Lucia
LUCIANO’S POV “I was holding onto the inevitable. I thought I had the upper hand with your uncle, but now I see it. I should have listened to Erede. “He told me I was being delusional, and I thought I could be of help, but now I see it. I am going to die Luciano. I am running out of time. “Without the drugs, I will not make it tomorrow. What am I going to do now? I cannot die with my baby still in my womb like this?” There are no words that can explain the amount of pain I feel every time Keirah speaks or moves or does anything. The amount of helplessness I feel is not just breaking me. It is killing me. “I can feel it in every inch of my body. There is no way out for me to live without Don Mauro's help.” My mind is racing with all the solutions to help. And one that is ringing on my forehead right now is taking her to the Blood Moon pack's doctors. The Blood Moon's pack doctors did miracles and brought back to life James and Maria, who were almost dying. They can do this too. Th
“WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” “I am talking about this …this…” She touches the dead werewolf’s body, which is in its human form and takes a step back with fear. “This is a human being, right? I am not hallucinating. He is a human being.” I nod to assure her he is real. “I thought these…. these were not humans. He bled…. He had a heart. He is a human. There is no metal in him. He is human.” “Keirah ... speak clearly. I don’t understand you.” “This human is among the many humans that your uncle has developed as his weapons… his army. He is among the thousands of the same-colored type of human that your uncle used as test subjects for the side effects of my biochips. “I swear. I thought they were robots that he had manufactured by how alike they all looked.” It registers in my head that my uncle did not just make friends out of the ground clan. What Keirah is just telling me is that he made an army out of the Ground clan! “Did you also meet people who looked like him but with diffe
I lay her down on the car seat. And when she sits up and begins to put on the hoodie. Her scare about my uncle’s army piques my interest. I need to find out everything about my uncle’s werewolf army. What better way than to use the dead werewolf as my first piece of the puzzle? Without saying a word to her. I rush back to the cliff and carry the dead body to my car trunk. When I get to the front of the car to check on Keirah, she has lost consciousness. “KEIRAH…KEIRAH WAKE UP! FUCK…” I shout out loud, trying to wake her up, but she is not moving. I quickly search for my phone in the front seat. I call James on the emergency dial after I find it. Before sitting back on the steering wheel. And I start the car. Driving so fast. James is quick to pick up, and he doesn’t give me a second to say anything to him. Before he starts speaking to me. “The CCTV camera shows that she went to Casablanca. I’m trying to pull more camera footage to search on which part of Casablanca she went in thro
When the doctors start to move. Maria shouts at them. “NO ONE IS GOING ANYWHERE!” Shouting at the top of her lungs. Halting everyone’s movements.Then she forcefully pulls me out of the room and shouts angrily at me. “YOU CAN’T TAKE HER THERE RIGHT NOW. IT IS NOT SAFE. “FIRST BECAUSE AS OF RIGHT NOW EVERYONE KNOWS HER CONDITION AND TWO BECAUSE WE HAVE A FEW HOURS UNTIL THE CRESCENT FULL MOON APPEARS. “WHAT WILL HAPPEN THEN WHEN YOU ARE STRIPPED OF YOUR POWERS TODAY ON THE FULL MOON…. WHEN YOU BECOME COMPLETELY POWERLESS… “YOU WILL BE ALL ALONE WITH NO ONE BESIDE YOU AND VULNERABLE WITH HER IN HER CURRENT CONDITION INSIDE THE PACK…I AM SCARED… WHAT IF THEY SUCCEED AT AN ATTEMPT ON YOUR LIFE? “YOU ARE PUTTING BOTH OF YOU IN DANGER. I WOULD RATHER WE TERMINATE THE PREGNANCY IF IT COMES TO THAT… THAN SEE YOU GO TO THE PACK TODAY.” James walks out, brings Maria into a hug, and comforts her as he speaks in a very low voice to me. “Although I don’t like this for you from the bottom of my
“You have just given me more reasons to save our baby. Keirah did everything to save our baby. I won't disappoint her. I am saving them both.“No one is dying on my watch. I am going to do everything in my power to save this baby and Keirah. They deserve better.”I don’t have time for him. I take steps toward Keirah’s emergency room, and he quickly blocks me, almost falling on the floor. “Are you so blinded by love that you don’t see this too? Do you have to save it and lose everything?”I shake my head in disappointment. How did Keirah end up falling for a loser like him? “I am not losing anything or anyone. I am glad Keirah saw through your pathetic life and chose to lose you among the things she lost.“As she should have. It was long overdue she should have done that way earlier when you left her on the altar. Do you know why she left you? She left you because-”He interrupts me, shaking his head and speaking to me, looking deep into my eyes to show me how deadly serious he is with
James quickly stands up. And his eyes travel to the doorway hoping to see his brother and there is no one there.Then his eyes travel to Maria, but Maria has not moved an inch she is lying down in the same place that she was in, and she is still hissing in pain.He runs over to help her off the ground onto a sofa beside Baby Lana’s crib. As he helps her off the floor, she is looking at him with questioning eyes wondering. ”It was not me!”“Then who is it?”“It’s me!” A weak voice from behind them makes them turn around to see Keirah holding Don Mauro’s tablet in her hands.She raises the tablet in the air for Don Mauro to see it. And she is wearing an angry weak smile but a savage one. “I made the biochips. I know a way or two to undo them. A few codes and I have sent enough shock to shut their minds out. Did you think me stupid to show you everything?”She tries to get out of bed, but it becomes hard, and Maria motions for James to help her. James puts down Maria dashing to her side
Don Mauro’s whole body is shaking with fear. That he can’t even hold the tablet in his hand anymore. And the tablet drops off his hands falling back on Keirah’s bed.He quickly takes the baby out of Dr. Patel’s hand. Readying himself to run. “You are coming with me.” He threatens Dr. Patel.As soon as Don Mauro and Dr. Patel start moving. Dr. Fred, who has been for a while standing too close to the monitor, senses something.There is a flicker of movement that appears on the monitor. A faint but unmistakable rhythm emerges on the monitor.And just like Dr. Fred, everyone, including Don Mauro, James , Erede and Dr. Patel turn their concentration and are all looking at the monitor.It then becomes so loud something that everyone, including Maria who had lost consciousness, opens her eyes wide to the monitor.The room is in silent as their eyes widen in disbelief. Keirah’s heart begins to beat once more, and her vital signs start stabilizing.Tears of joy are on Dr. Fred, but they are al
The happy celebratory noise erupts through the tablet from the werewolves at the pack and from Erede beside James. This makes James quickly to bring back his eyes to Don Mauro’s tablet screen and he joins Erede in making the happy noise after observing how happy everyone is from Luciano’s win. To James’s surprises Don Mauro is smiling too. From the look on his face, he wanted Luciano to win. As if remembering something. His face changes into a serious murderous one. As he quickly gulps in his remaining whiskey on his bottle and throws the remaining piece of cigar on the floor putting himself together as he announces to his goons. “Time to go. We are done here. Kill everyone in here....everyone including that sleeping baby in her crib. And that unconscious woman Maria too. “I don’t want anyone in here to walk out alive. And lock the room after you are done. We need to move fast. Our job here is done. “ I need to prepare myself for my coronation speech. I don’t want to have it broa
The sound of Dr. Fred stumbling backward makes Don Mauro turn his full attention to him and by the look on Dr. Fred’s face, everyone in the room can tell.That whatever Dr. Fred is going to say is not going to be good news. There is so much panic surrounding him, and his fingers still holding Keirah’s hand that he just used to check for her pulse and any sign of breathing on her nose are trembling slightly.He swallows hard with fear written all over his face as he tries to speak, “She is dead,” he whispers, his voice barely above a hoarse murmur. “Keirah is dead.”There are painful tears on everyone all over the room except Don Mauro and his goons who all look unbothered. “That is bad. You ....” Don Mauro speaks as he motions for Dr. Patel. “Get Luciano’s dead bastard out. I want to see what the fuck that thing looks like.“It had a fight in it. What a disappointment. I thought we had a future together, I thought it had the Solana genes dominating it. And giving up was not an option.
“Yes…ME! I am going to rule over everyone from now on. Not just humans, but werewolves, too. Imagine being me.” Don Mauro laughs so hard that happy tears threaten his eyes. “See….take a look.” He raises his tablet in his hands and takes it around, showing what he is watching to everyone in the room. He is smiling happily. “I have eyes in the pack. Although I can’t get in physically. I can now see everything and use my army inside the pack. One word and I can flash out the whole pack in a blink.” On the screen of the tablet, that Don Mauro is taking around. There is a live feed of Luciano fighting with another man in a combat fight. Luciano is no longer in his white porcelain skin, and he is back to the human Luciano he has always been. Covered in his original tattoos as he fights another man. Luciano is fighting with all his might and so is the other man. When Don Mauro gets closer to his son, Erede. Erede questions him. “Who is Luciano fighting? Is that the famous Water?” “No...
James struggles to see the horror unfolding in front of him. As the pack leading doctor crumples to the ground, lifeless and betrayed. And the very loud beeping noise continues to make it to all his ears. This was not his plan. The plan was to save her. James’s fight crumbles like a fragile wall battered by an unstoppable storm. He stops moving. He stops fighting. He stops everything and stands like a statue in the goon hold. As the monitors continue beeping urgently. Informing everyone that this is the end road for Keirah. Erede, on the other hand, grips his chest, tears falling out of his eyes. “NO.. KEIRAH …NO.” He watches in disbelief, his mind struggling to comprehend the nightmare before his eyes. The scene puts him in more shock, and he is frozen in place, his senses overwhelming him. But this does not affect his father. With a cold, calculating gaze, Don Mauro surveys the room, scanning one person after the other. As if daring anyone to try him again. In his eyes, everyone
Maria’s mind is already racing. As she steps out of the room, she is in an alert mood and ready for anything coming her way. Her fight instincts from her experiences in the attacks that happened in the pack are full on. By looking at the dead bodies, she has just realized that things have taken a wrong turn and that the fate that awaits her and everyone she loves is not promising. The man that shows up in front of her ready to attack her tells Maria who the culprit behind this is. This person she is fighting is not a new face to her. She knows who he is. She knows him too well. He was once a person she called her people. And his way of fighting is primitive to what she can do. She tries to go easy on him. With full knowledge, he has no control over himself, but it looks like her good heart cannot be applied now. This man and the one now already holding her mate captive. They are not going easy like her. That makes her realize it is war. Kill or get killed. Especially because sh
“I am so sorry Maria...I don't think my father will be of any help in our situation. His obsession with winning is beyond what any of us can do to make him turn a blind eye and be of help. “And he also thinks Luciano is the biggest threat there is to him. And to protect himself from Luciano. He has been doing the impossible to assure himself of that. “And I believe he has succeeded that through Keirah. He knew just like Salvatore and Luciano’s mother, there was no way Luciano would harm him if he had Keirah. “He knows Luciano would put his life online to save her. That’s how he has control. It is not only Luciano, even with me. And I see it is all of you, too. You would all do anything for her. “ By having her in this like this. He has control over us. Keirah is the key to it all. She was also the reason I fell out with him. And the reason he had a better way to control me. “His jealous son was not ready to let Keirah go. After I found out about her relationship with Luciano. I co
“What did Doom want? ”“When Doom reached out to him for the first time, he asked my father if he could help him locate Luciano. My father did not trust Doom. And he refused to help. “He did not refuse only because he did not trust Doom, but because my father also did not know where Luciano was.” “When was that?” “That was when Luciano and all of you had successfully escaped my father from Casablanca.” “That is weird. Doom lied. Everyone in the pack knew where Luciano was. Everyone in the pack had seen through my mind link about his whereabouts because I had followed him. To the forest house. Doom’s only task was to bring Luciano to the pack.” “My father thought he was lying back then, too. He had trust issues with anyone from the pack. You had disappointed him. He thought you were working for Aero. And he thought just like you, Doom was also working for Aero, too.” “Me? ....Working for Aero?” “He thought you were working for Aero because you had bombarded Casablanca. He thought