NATHANIEL'S POV
NOTHING BETTER THAN a sound mind, and off late it was something I so much cherished, the last few days had come with it and ups and downs. There had been this fear of losing Olivia that had triggered a deeper one in, could it be from the fact that she had stayed longer than any of my relationships– One thing was that this woman had a hold on me and though I don't like showing that part of myself she made me vulnerable.It got me wondering what happens when this gets out, in a way I knew what that would mean having an Alpha with one vulnerability—I stared at her as she snored lightly in the bed, still naked…still carrying the scent of our live making and sexual romp, till this moment love had been a fantasy.Definitely, I had the feeling I loved her or perhaps I thought I loved her but right to this past few days when I had almost lost her, when I had almost watched her soul slip away from my grasp into the dying wind didOLIVIA'S POV NOTHING WAS MORE Sane than my heart, the soothing systolic sounds it made, the way it had been tamed only to beat for one man— Nathaniel Gray. He gave sanity to everything that had to do with life and he does it without thinking of getting anything back In return. I saw him leave the bed and walk to the window, a sudden thought came to my mind that he was going off again as I watched his long blonde hair being cradled in the wind but then he came back to the bed taking back the spot he had left. It was barely seconds but already I could count a whole lot of minutes, and eternity … I didn't want him to leave my side, not for anything, not even for the sake of me living. Without thinking much about it I had cradled myself listening to him as his heart pounded, apparently he was deep in thought and it was worrisome because I didn't know what he was thinking about. There was a need to know what he was thinki
OLIVIA'S POV THE ONLY thing that had been constant in my life over the last few day was the uncertainty of not knowing what would happen in the next hour, all I thought about through the the night was seeing the war lock I had come across at the party and doing it more discreetly by not letting Nate know anything about it Already, he promised himself not to let me practice anything dangerous after what happened, that almost made me lose my life and put me in the mess I was at the moment. Just as Jane had advised after drinking ourselves till we passed out, I was ignoring my problem till I had the solution. That had proved itself to be harder than I had expected as the thought kept flickering in my mind, now that I had a solution it made controlling these few constants a bit easy. Reaching Marcus was a very hard task as he was a very hard man to reach, after calling him on several occasions and having my calls go into voice mails he fi
NATHANIEL'S POV "HOW CERTAIN Are you that they are up to something?" Alexis questioned again and couldn't count the number of times I had heard him count, I had since told him what I felt about everything and the fact that I was suspecting them. That had been after Jane went up to meet her after she stormed away. Whoever had said women were complicated and couldn't be understood was definitely telling the truth as no matter how I tried I could not understand what could possibly be going on. The whole thought of it left my heart in the array of confusion that I felt my mind would have exploded if I didn't tell anyone about and who else could I share it with that would have a better understanding than Alexis. I watched him now for a minute, thinking of the right way to answer the question that was pending– I thought of a better way to explain to him that they are not really going shopping as they had said. "Just believ
OLIVIA'S POV LIKE A Piece of puzzle he fitted right into my soul leaving no spaces behind for any other thing else, I wouldn't dare call him greedy. The fact that he consumed it or the fact that he claimed full ownership. Nathaniel Gray was a man I would rather spend my forever with and that was if he finally asked of course. It had been a serious mind issue for me in the past, the fact he was yet to commit himself totally just as Alexis and done, but I had come to understand that things worked differently in the rank of wolves. Yet, that tiny bit of hope didn't flicker again yesterday when he asked those questions, for a while as he spoke my heart skipped many beats as I kept waiting for that moment when he would go down on his knees and pop out the question. As much as I had mattered to what it was, a part of me had this feeling of doubt that I would be able handle the whole situation all by myself with a sane mind. Loving a
NATHANIEL'S POV.I could tell everything she wanted, I could tell every bit of it and I didn't need to eavesdrop to listen to whatever they were talking about. I just had to read the room.It was a week after and she was doing the same thing she had done, walking away when the topic drifted away to anything about marriage or mating whatever wolf term we used for our distant Werewolves pack.Olivia was not the best at expressing emotions, she was like an open book for all to see and it had been the reason why I could easily guess if she had something up in her mind or not , like this moment.I sat back in my chair and cracked my knuckles as I watched her going back inside with Jane walking in behind her.Those two women…There was nothing I could do about the fact that she preferred talking to her than myself, ajne had literally been her friend for a long time and she was most probably naturally open to talking with her friend.I was certain Alexis could sense it as well, cause he had
OLIVIA'S POVONE would look at me like I was one form of sadist, but the truth was I wasn't . I was happy for my friend, happy at the fact that she is going to have a child, though it still pointed out something in my life that was still missing. I could not ignore that fact.Term it a tiny bit of Jealousy, then maybe that would be the right words to classify the state of mind I was in, but generally she was my best friend, and when I hugged her a few seconds later it came from the depth of my heart.Perhaps, that was the reason she had failed to mention it. She had thought I would probably take the news badly and start counting off the things I didn't have and mapping it out from the things I had.Regardless of it all, Nate didn't look at me this way. His facial expression was one I couldn't explain leaving a tenacious part of me wanting to know what the whole look was about.If I didn't know myself too well , I would say I was Curious, I was always a bit too curious about almost
NATHANIEL'S POVTRY understanding a woman and she flips another page, whoever made that saying must have had a fair taste of women but definitely not one as Olivia.To me there was no one as this woman, she seemed by many ways different from the rest and most times I found it hard understanding her.One would point out at the type of home she came from, it was in a way surprising that she had taken it within herself to trust me.Soon as I got back to the seat that had Jane say now, he looked at me arching a brow."What?" I was a bit curious about the way his eyes were all over me.His gaze narrowed. “Why are you back so quickly?”In Spite of the mood I had been in over the last couple of minutes I burst into laughter.I could tell what he was talking about and in a way he made it look like I was a sort of one minute man.“What gives you that feeling that we would be fucking?” I countered.He ran a hand down on his shirt, watching me in a calculated way, like he was weighing the pros
OLIVIA'S POV MY HEART cleft for just one man, and that man happened to be sitting not too far away from where I was. I wanted him in ways I never deemed fit in, in ways I had never wanted anything in my entire life. The fear of losing him had made me seek something even deeper. It had made me be in pursuit of more commitment and with the way things went it looked like something I couldn't stop nor Control, it seemed definite and at the same time absolute. I don't blame the softer side of me that chose to love shamelessly, but the part that came with doubt and all manner of uncertainty and reproach. Desiring him what I wanted but like my past had so much charm on my heart, so much that my future had been stained by it. I was the type of girl that grew up with uncertainty, and had lacked anyone to trust over my years of living; it has in a way affected the way I viewed life and my general Outlook of it. I was
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