The awkward moment between Luciano and Keirah is a comedy show for James and his mother. That leads Keirah and Luciano to take off. Walking away from the mother and son who laughing their eyes out. Embarrassed, Luciano walks out first, and Keirah follows in pursuit. “These two are crazy...” Keirah speaks as she looks back at them to see them still laughing. “ I am so sorry. It was insensitive of me. You could have died.” “Well, don't let it worry you. I already accepted your apology. You were mean to me, but it was also a good reminder that I can also die soon. “ I saw my past life flash before my eyes at that moment in the river. It was a revelation of what I do not want to be anymore. I now know what I want. I want you, Keirah. “Regrets that break me that are haunting me in my sleep all came at once. I do not want to regret missing my chance with you too. “Every mistake made me fail to be better. Every promise I broke as I let down my late mother, James, and Zia. “I will make
Luciano’s POV It's the second time I am sitting with Keirah on the bed holding her hand while she is deep in sleep. The best feeling about this is the progress I have made with her. Not because she stopped thinking I kidnapped her and forced her here, but because she put her trust in me and made love to me through the whole night. She wanted to be close to me too, just as much as I wanted to be close to her. I am deeply in love with Keirah, not just because she is incredibly beautiful, which she is, but because she is the one for me. I am daydreaming about having kids of mine with her. I see kids run around this cottage with Zia as their grandmother chasing them around to keep them out of trouble. I want to wake her up so that we can run downstairs and dance as we did in Casablanca. I will go to school in a new name and provide for her when I have graduated in whatever place that will be as safe as it has been here for the last week. I never thought I would be here. She is the
“You would not have caught me, and I would be safe at home. Keep those doors closed. I PROMISE YOU I WILL ESCAPE AGAIN.” She shouts, still sobbing. I am petrified by the turn of events and angry at her lack of trust in me. “I am doing all this for you. I will never hand the codes to him. I need him off your back for him to keep his focus on me. “You should trust my words more. Just give me the codes and I need to move. How long do you want me to repeat myself to make you believe that I did not kidnap you? And I do not work for my uncle. “He has your sister, and I am trying to save her.” I find myself agitated and angry, out of control, and shouting at her. “My sister!? Do you honestly think you can trick me again? Forget it.” “Stop thinking bad of me. Things out there are getting out of hand. We need those codes. You are getting under my skin. All I am doing is trying to hold it together. “What is the code, Keirah? What is the number you locked those biochips with? Tell me and t
THIRD PERSON'S POV Keirah rests her head on the sofa, still in a towel. “Why are you doing this to me? It's a lie. I know you do not mean to say you're feeling nothing for me. You do not mean that. You just want to hurt me. “You never loved him enough to sleep with him. If you loved him that much, why did you not sleep with him? And if you loved him that much, why were you out on dating apps searching for men to fuck with? I am sure you were a virgin when we slept together. “Why did you not let him have you before I did if you loved him?” “Why do you care?” “I can't stop myself from caring about you, Keirah…” Tears flow down Luciano's eyes. “This is hurting me, but I need you to confirm this for me again. “Have you felt nothing for me? Nothing… no feeling at all!” “I cannot love you the way you want me to.” “Do you regret sleeping with me yesterday?” “No.” “Then why? ...... But you kissed me… you made love to me.” Luciano cries out. He cries in pain. “Grow up… You will get o
The door opens with a bang. Anger radiates from every step Luciano takes. Luciano stares across at Keirah. His eyes are red and scary. He looks murderous in every way. “Are you still in love with Erede?!” He shouts at her, and she looks down, tucking her hair back as Luciano's expression turns deadly. “Please clarify this for me Keirah. Are you still in love with him when you know he is a married man?” She bites her lower lips, nods, and turns to him before raising her eyes stubbornly again. “Why is it bad for me to love him? I loved him first before her.” His gaze turns more deadly as he shouts at her. “EREDE IS A MARRIED MAN. HE MARRIED YOUR SISTER. HE IS YOUR BROTHER-IN-LAW!” “I loved him first before she did. He was with me longer. He was my first love.” “Then what?” Keirah looks him in the eyes and drops her gaze after she sees his disappointment in her. “Anita is your only sister. And she needs your help now. Is he the reason you are not giving the codes to save her?”Her
THIRD PERSON'S POVThe helicopter lands a couple of miles away from Don Mauro's warehouse. James and Luciano run out to nest the helicopter in bushes in the dark, desolate it from anyone's visibility.The faint sound of footsteps echoes through the thick forest as Luciano makes his way to the entrance of the place he detests most. His uncle's warehouse.Luciano moves through the forest with precision, his weapons surrounding all parts of his body, ready to go in and save the life of Keirah's only sister, Anita.“Are you in?” James speaks through his radio earpiece to Luciano. And Luciano replies on the radio.“All most in. I am at the entrance.” Luciano jumps the fence wire and sets emergency bombs on his way to prepare for his assault.He positions them strategically, believing by the end of this he will make sure that nothing is left in this warehouse except ashes.He also strategically positions himself in hidden places as he walks deeper into the compound.Taking cover behind aband
“I have nothing to offer. I came here in need of your help,” Luciano tried to keep his real intentions hidden. “I am the last person on earth you should ask for help. You betrayed me. All favors for you ended when you took away what was mine.” “I am here asking for her life, Zio. You owe me that much after what you did to me and your brother.” “Stop it! It is enough! You have been hiding Keirah from me for two weeks now. That is more than enough courtesy on my part.” “She is an innocent person. A person not from our world. So, innocent. She does not deserve this.” “Stop beating around the bush. You would not be here if you did not have the codes. Give me the codes, then maybe I will think about letting you go.” “I swear I do not have the codes. And Keirah does not have the codes either. I tried to squeeze them out of her in all the ways possible, but she does not have them.” “You think of me, stupid? That I do not know what I am doing. That I would spend my resources and time on
“I saw the person who tried to kill us that day. At my penthouse in Casablanca. I want us to find her. Even though we have internal wars going on inside our family. “I want us to make sure she understands and everyone around that thinks can take us down understands. That no one tries to kill the Solanas and walks this earth.” This was the offer Luciano was sure was tempting to his uncle. Don Mauro would forgive no one who tried to kill him. And with that, he was sure he had something his uncle could not resist. Just like Don Mauro, they both searched for her and could both find no trace of her after the bombing. “Who are you talking about? It was Keirah who tried to kill us.” “Zio stop it. We both know she was with us. I know the woman personally.” His uncle's complete attention to him gave Luciano hope he was getting somewhere through to him. “I met her before. She was the woman who shut down the CCTV cameras in my elevator at Casablanca that day. “She also told me she left me
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