Her hands trembled as she exchanged glances between her father and the glass in her hand. Everyone focused on them and they had no choice but to down the glass or else they would have to confess to their crimes. I watched them swallow the drinks in fear, their brows quivering to show their nervousness. She gagged along the way but managed to force the drink down till she was done with the last drop. She turned to face me and gave an awkward smile. “Thank you for your favor, my Luna”, she greeted, her teeth clenched against each other tightly. Her gesture only made me release a snort before I managed to compose myself and reply “You are always welcome”. The continuation of my words made her legs pause as she turned to return to her position. “You have been diligent in your work as reported to me by the chief butler. This is an example that you need to set in the palace and I am glad that you are doing that. Your punishment will be over soon, so I hope you stay strong”, I added, and
HELENA’S POV The coldness of his voice seeped through my bare skin as he held onto me and stared at me fondly. My chest was beating fast again as the tension rose between us and I knew where this was going, so I had to up my game and guard up my control so I wouldn’t just be crumbling every time at his touch. I mean we still have a long way to go, we have several knots to untangle and many situations to straighten out. If I let my emotions get the best of me right now, I might not be able to find the answers I had fought for so hard till that moment. “How about you stay with me tonight?” he asked, staring deep into my eyes. My lips trembled to find the right one, but nothing was coming to it so I closed my eyes to take a deep breath before removing my hand from his. “Draco, we still have a long way to go. We have many riddles to solve, so let’s not do this yet”, I answered strongly before patting his shoulder and walking out of his room after bidding him a good night. I didn’t sl
I discussed the issue with Alpha Draco, who wondered how we could rescue Vincent from Elder Damon’s residence if it was true that he was there. “The goods for the palace will be coming in soon. You can use that as a form of disguise to confirm if he’s there or not”, I advised, and he clapped at my suggestion. “That is very true. We will have to see how it turns out when we get there. Since it’s a hostage case, then we will have to search properly because he will be hidden in a place where no one will have access to him except the elder himself”, he added, and I reasoned with him. We would need to be smart with it if we want our rescue mission to be successful. One thing that kept bothering me was the fact that he might not be alive anymore. “I hope I don’t find you too late” I kept muttering to myself as I went back to my quarters to strategize and prepare with Han, who would be the one to check for the place where Vincent could be. I sat with his line from the letter “Who knows?
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO I was on a date with Draco on the wide bridge in the pack when Gray ran to us panicking. He was covered in sweats and his breathing was shallow due to the excessive running he had done. The field where we were busy having our picnic was actually very far from the palace, so it took him a while to reach us by foot. “There you are” he called out to us, stopping to catch his breath. With a broad smile, Draco waved at him “Oh Gray, why are you suddenly here?” Gray managed to stagger to our side so he could close up the distance while we wondered what could be so urgent and important for him to run all the way here without taking the car. “Ah, that’s true. I should have taken the car” he muttered before raising his red eyes. His eyes were red like hot coal, they were not normal at all and that was the first thing that hinted to us that something was wrong. I rushed to his side to hold him and asked whatever the issue was, only for him to drop the bomb. “You both n
I waited for so long in the cell and it felt as if no one would come. Hunger almost gouged out my eyes, but I was suppressing it with the thought that I shouldn’t be hungry in this kind of absurd situation. “I wonder if I have been forgotten here. Who knows what has happened to my parents? I want to see them so badly” I kept talking to myself until the huge metal scrapped the concrete floor to signal the presence of someone. “Finally” I gasped, trying to rush to the cell’s door, but I was pulled back by the shackles I had forgotten was there. I shrieked in pain as the cold metal dug its teeth into my already sore flesh. The speed at which I had fallen back to my seat was so hard that my butt stung in pain. “Fck” I cursed subtly under my breath, waiting for whoever it was that opened the door. A ray of light finally appeared in front of my cell and a small part of the cell was thrown open forcefully. I was still hoping to see the person’s face when a plate board penetrated through
I was thrown back into the cold and dark cell where I had been left for close to two days. The coldness of the bare floor helped a lot to cool my burning wounds and I was able to sleep well on the floor because my hands were not tied this time around. Everything I had passed through played in my head. From the moment I was laughing in Draco’s arms on the field to the place he commanded me to be thrown back in the cell. I couldn’t stop wondering where the trust he said he had in me was, the love he had always confessed he had for me and those assuring words he had always told me. “Everything was a lie, a blatant lie” I kept repeating to myself over and over, and I lied down crying silently. The more I thought about them, the more my tears flowed. When I remembered how I lied on myself and my poor parents, I bawled my eyes out till the point I had no more tears to shed anymore. It was then I knew I had to give up on tears and just let anything that would happen take place. All my fea
Streams of light greeted my eyes as I opened them to an unfamiliar place. The huge chandelier hanging down from the high ceiling sending tons of light to my eyes that had been closed for days I couldn’t say. “Where am I?” was the first question that came to my mind before I turned to look left and right but no one was there to give me the answer to my question. I tried sitting up but all my effort to do that was in vain. A tremendous wave of pain swept through my body, I couldn’t lift my hands or legs, they were stiff. “If you move too much, you might end up crying” I heard a feminine voice say from the other end and I turned to see a tall woman on a full makeup approaching me in a white pleated skirt and a black polka dot armless top. She was grinning with every footstep as she closed in on me. I couldn’t see her face properly until she was right in front of me and her scent filled my nostrils. “You must be awake but don’t dare to get up honey, it will only hurt like hell” she ad
I treated him as promised and he was transported to one of the private rooms where guards were assigned to protect him. “What was wrong with him? We didn’t serve him anything unusual” Madam Jean asked me, her fingers were shaking because she was yet to recover from the panic. I only smiled and moved closer to her to give her a hug in order to calm down. “You don’t have to panic, I will make sure he’s alright” I assured her and instructed one of the ladies to make a cup of chamomile tea which will calm her tense body down in no time. She was led to the room where she was attended to while I waited by Mr. Black’s side for him to wake up. He finally woke up after three hours and he seeing me by his side made him jump a bit “How are you feeling right now? Do you feel better?” I asked, a broad smile on my face He tried speaking but couldn’t say anything well, his throat was still a bit swollen and the redness of his skin were still visible. “You cannot afford to speak now or force an