AUTHOR'S POVAlexis and Nathaniel walked out of the penthouse, Alexis noticed that Nathaniel seemed lost in thought."What's on your mind Nate?" Alexis asked, concerned.Nathaniel shrugged. "Nothing really, just thinking about work."Alexis nodded, not entirely convinced, but didn't press further. They made their way down to the main road.Meanwhile, back in the penthouse, the ladies were working hard in the kitchen. They were understaffed for dinner, and everyone was working their hands off to make sure everything was perfect. Yeila, the newly hired maid, had finished cutting the vegetables and had just put the duck in the oven when she heard the cries of a baby.She quickly removed her mittens and made her way to the living room. There she found Neil, the youngest member of the family, crying in his playpen. Yeila picked him up and tried to soothe him, but he just wouldn't stop crying.Not wanting to disrupt the kitchen staff, Yeila took Neil into the hallway and found a stroller. S
"Do we have to go, really?" Olivia said, pausing midway through brushing her hair a bit. Her hair, the color of sunset was what thousands of people admire when they set their eyes on it but only she knew the efforts put into making it presentable.Having full and long hair was a curse but only to the owner.During times like this, she wished that she could cut her hair and just be. Her brush snagged on another knot yet again and she groaned and turned to Nathaniel who was checking himself out in front of the dressing room mirror."Do we really have to go?" She asked again."Sixty two times." Nathaniel's deep voiceresonated through the large expanse of the room as he spoke. He looked with a satisfied expression at how the suit fitted his wide shoulders and did not give unnecessary space when it narrowed around his waist.He liked how the silver texture of the suit made it seem that his blond hair was glistening."Good job, Peter," he mumbled, making a mental note to give his young tai
JANE'S POVAlexis discussed the chosen date of the wedding celebration with me. Even though it felt fast to me, there's nothing sweeter than being with Alexis"What do you think about this dress? Don't you think it's pretty?" I asked Alexis. We were currently in the sitting room. I was scrolling through a shopping website to choose my wedding clothes but there were so many beautiful designs that caught my eye which made me unable to choose.The first dress was a lace embroidered off-shoulder dress with a plunging back coupled with long sleeves and flare while the other one was a strapless princess gown."I think anything will be good for you, princess," Aiden said to me without looking at the screen, he then kissed my lips. "After all, mine is just to take it off." He muttered in a deep flirty voice."Cheesy." I snorted at him. "This is one-in-a-lifetime wear, so I have to make sure I choose the best," I replied to him, but he replied with a shrug.I have yet to inform Olivia about th
OLIVIA'S POVEver since we came back from Jane's wedding, I've been feeling down. I have been feeling like that even before we went to the wedding party but I managed to put a smile on my face so that I wouldn't ruin the happy atmosphere.I hated the fact that even though I was the first person to meet Nathaniel, Alexis got married to Jane first. It made me wonder why Nathaniel was yet to propose to me."Babe, what are you thinking about? You have a scowl on your face." I heard Nathaniel's voice and I got snapped out of my train of thoughts."Nothing!" I quickly replied, not wanting him to know that I was thinking of the fact that we were yet to get married."I'm not feeling so well, can we go home now?" I asked him, looking around at the happy people who had smiles on their faces. My eyes drifted towards the center of attention, Jane and Alexis. They looked good together. They were perfect for each other. Why am I yet to have that?"You have tat scowl on your face again, are you sure
OLIVIA’S POVFOR the first time in a long time, I feel at peace.I have everyone I love around me and beside me.When we first moved here, I remember being scared, terrified that my father would turn out at any moment and take everything from me.He would take my son.He would take my husband.He would take my friends and I’ll be left alone here, screaming and crying and begging him to return what he took from me.But I’ve not had any bad dreams in a long time now.I feel safe now.And it does help that today is Nathaniel’s birthday.Me, Alexis and Jane are playing it cool, we are acting like we forgot his birthday but here’s the twist - We didn’t.We planned to throw a little surprise party for him, when he comes back.The only annoying part about today is how easy Nate is making this. Throwing a surprise party is supposed to be hard, you know, because the celebrant is suspicious that something is going on and you’re trying to convince them that nothing is going on - that’s the whole
NATHANIEL'S POVI GLANCED at the room that was in a total mess except the wall that was still hanging on the wall that stucked four pm.Alexis ae myself had been in as serious meeting with some clients and when the ladies had called us, we had thought they were exaggerating till we reached the pent house.I was furious at the gut they had, the more I tried to control myself the angrier I became .Alexis who had always been the calmer one was furious as well, they broke his i fucking wedding picture and I could say—They over did it in that Instant– and it had happened after they had accidentally almost murdered me with wolfbane.He won't mind his business when it came to this as a matter of fact it was both of us business.This was certainly going to end in one way it had r do with the fact that it would most definitely leave a red stain on our shirt.I looked around the room again and as the two maid that were beating and assaulted, theybahd over done this time and there was not a wa
OLIVIA'S POVONE thing about staying alive was the hope it promises and the life it promises, as the days tickled by like a stream escaping the brook of life I was losing focus on my father's threat gradually again and made more attention into raising Neil.Neil was growing fast as he should, different from the way any normal child would.It has been seven months and counting since we fled the gulf not in fear but rather as a precaution and I would likely say it as the best decision we've made as I could not imagine him raising a child in such an hostile environment with the fear of my father and other vices.Here felt more like it, save the time the house was ransacked but ever since then one would fall in love with the peace Hawaii emitted.It was perfect for my sanity as a witch, and helped with the peaceful flow of energy round my chakras.In everything I did I was careful though, one thing about such energy was it could be read from even far away.I was aware of this so I made su
NATHANIEL POVI knew I had messed up. I could feel it deep to my bones. Olivia had been giving me the cold shoulder for a while now, and I was worried that we were drifting apart. I had tried everything to make things right between us. I had apologized to her, pleaded with her, but nothing seemed to work.As I walked through the pack house, I saw Alexis sitting on the couch, her eyes glued to her phone. Maybe she could help me. After all, she was a girl, and maybe she would know what to do to get Olivia's attention."Hey, Alexis," I said, sitting down next to her. "Can I talk to you for a second?""Sure, what's up?" she replied, looking up from her phone."It's Olivia," I said, feeling guilty. "She's been giving me the cold shoulder since we had an argument, and I don't know what to do to make things right between us."Alexis thought for a moment before speaking. "Why don't you get her something? Like a gift?""A gift?" I repeated, unsure of what she meant."Yeah, like a necklace or
NATHANIEL POV.It was written in the stars that all of this would happen, meeting Olivia falling in love, running …but at times in life, there is always a twist .That twist—that moment when the unexpected happens and this was just that point in life.When Jane had told us everything, it was shocking to everyone that had listened.I could never have been more proud about this period in time, this time when for once in the race we had an upper hand.Her father was never going to see one coming—Wizard, Warlock or whatever he is—this was beyond what would ever happen.The moon glowed upon us full in all its glory overhead from where we stood. It was the moment we had been waiting for all this while as we trooped out.Two vans drove behind the SUV that was driven by the only one among us that had a sound mind —Alexis.To Her father her was leading me to right where he wanted, but that plan had been turned in my favor and was coming right after him."Take the right turn." Jane leaned in o
OLIVIA'S POVI reopened my eyes again, realizing I was still in this place. What exactly do they want from me? They took my son, now they are doing the same thing to me.I was tied against a chair and I tried hard to fight against the ropes used to tie me tightly. I didn't even have an inch to move my hands from the position it has been tied, the way the rope was tied so tightly.I looked around and realized the room was still the same way, dark with someone sitting at the corner. I gritted my teeth as I saw him sitting there, looking at me with an evil smirk on."So you're finally awake again." He said and I acted like I didn't even see him there. It was obvious he wasn't the one behind this. I can't believe the oh so mighty him was working for someone.It would be believable if I didn't know the kind of man he was. He must have something to gain in return. I heard the creaking sound of the door and I looked at the door.A feminine figure stepped into the room and for once I didn't w
NATHANIEL'S POVThe Good thing about everything was that it touched me in a way that I had never been touched and changed me.It changed my mindset and everything that came with it and left me with this insane mind.I paced around the room, my footsteps hard across the floor. My mind was not in the right frame to think straight. I paced back and forth the parameters of the room, Olivia had always talked about auras and I had taken it as a joke on those few occasions.But not this time…The whole aura was telling me Something was not right, I could feel it.I had taken my wolf on a run twice, pacing the wood in my half animal state but all that had done for me was to increase incessantly the pace at which my heart was going at.How could I deal with all of this?How could I deal with the madness that was roaming through my mind?I had gotten this feeling twice in my entire life: The night my father died and the night we trailed Olivia and Jane.Staring out at the vastness of the univer
OLIVIA'S POVFar away from home, in the gutter and slumps of the underworld I could feel my shoulder retracting back into my body, slowly I gained consciousness again looking round at the now empty room.One would hear my heart beat even from a mile away.I felt a sharp pain from somewhere in my head and as I reached instinctively to where I felt the pain was coming from, I noticed I was restrained.Fuck…I had done everything without thinking venturing into this place that was enough to be called a den of death, it was frustrating for me as well as other things that were roaming through my mind.Naive…that was what I felt like, a part of me wished I had told him before leaving but I knew what he would have said, he most probably would have said something about us waiting and acting later.I didn't have that much patient in me, and in a way it had resulted in this.I tried to get away from the chair but saw that my father or perhaps one of his guards had done a good job with the rope
OLIVIA'S POVI felt like dying at this point, knowing that my son was out there in the hands of a monster.Who knows what they're doing to him? Is he being tortured? What do they want? Why haven't they asked for ransom yet?This is getting scarier than ever and it's so unfortunate that I can't do anything to salvage this matter."Hey, you have to calm yourself down, take it easy on yourself, our son would return safely into our hands" Nathaniel uttered as he placed his hands on my shoulders."You seem so sure about it, heads up first we don't know who took our son, secondly we don't know where he is, thirdly the police we called haven't found him yet? And lastly we don't know what the poor lad is going through in the hands of those monsters...." I stood up, red hot in my anger and I cared less about who I was venting it out on."You have to be calm" Nathaniel was getting me pissed with his solicitous behavior and it was getting on my last nerves."Don't you make mention of that word a
NATHANIEL'S POVI had just spoken to the detectives and came down to only one conclusion: men do feel pain.A very intense pain.Whoever said real men don't feel pain needed to be rechecked cause I could feel every bit of it at this moment.It was a more devastating period for me as a father as much as it was for my mother as the term manhood doesn't signify my inability to feel this much painI never hated in my life but at that moment I felt a kind of hatred for anyone that caused me this much pain.They said hate changed the whole outlook of someone’s, it made them ruthless, it made them bitter, It made them reckless.Hate killed its host but by bit slowly consuming it's soul till nothing was left of the person but in spite of all this I couldn't bring myself to come to terms with not hating the culprit.It could consume my soul for all I know, but I didn't care, I had never let myself hate because I loved to live but when it came down to deciding if I was to lay down my life fo
NATHANIEL'S POVI don't know who it was that took Neil but he must have had something to do with someone on the inside, if not, the culprit wouldn't be able to get in.Neil's room was one of the most secured in the whole building and the fact that someone was able to come in and kidnap my son without any of those foolish guards noticing?They should all rot in the pit of torture …there was a chance I would give them a chance to speak but definitely not now.The rules were I was going to give them a chance to explain themselves on how this ever happened in front of the council and if found guilty then their mates would never hear from them again."Alpha…" Alexis was about to call out to me but I shut him up with a death glare and he gulped gently before continuing his speech. "The guards on duty are already tied up."I looked back at Olivia who was now sitting with Jane s next to her and consoling her.I wanted to assure her that Neil was fine but she wouldn't believe till she saw
OLIVIA'S POVA cold sweat drifted through me. Disaster loomed in the distance and there was nothing I could have done to avert it and now it was here, settling right here and leaving me with the most complicated feeling.It was an hour counting and despite sweating and feeling the whole heat, we had not still been able to reverse the spell.More blood trickled down the nose of another young boy. Young, lifeless eyes. As he laid in the ground dead.It wasn’t going to happen again…I pulled myself out of the seat where I had been sitting criss-crossed and headed toward the frontof the house, ignoring the itch to go in the opposite direction.I felt the need to get closer to him before I could try the magic one more time, my body buzzed with a cool sensation showing that I had more energy.My bare feet paused at the end of the walkway.I stood there for a while soaking in the pressurewhile my heart beat a mile a minute.Jane walked toward where I was in the middle of the room, When my
OLIVIA'S POVFear.I had always asked myself what my biggest fear in life would be and most of the times, I had gotten no answers to my questions.Maybe it was a way of life trying to redirect my thoughts, or perhaps I was scared of the actual truth.It was all down to fear—Fear to admit the truth that of all things I feared most in this life, making the top of the list was losing a loved one..I could take every single form of pain but definitely not that, there was no way I could deal with it and so at that moment.The moment I had opened the door to my baby room and found it empty I was consumed by a murderous type of fear.One that came nibbling right at my soul leaving nothing behind.A piercing shriek filled the room and I wondered whose was it, I was dumbfounded so I guess the scream was not from me.I stood there unable to move or say a word as it looked to me like it was all a type of dreak and I was right in the middle of it all.The sound of my voice kepr playing back iny h