OLIVIA'S POVNATHAN child growing in my womb seemed to take everything out of me.First it had been my period, then it disrupted my eating habits and now I had to deal with my driven emotions.The baby was ripping every bit of emotions out of me and I could very much go crazy.I stared at my swollen foot as I rested it on a soft cushion.To say it is an eyesore would be an understatement, cause it was more than that and the fact that all these things had to come naturally.At times it bothered me. I had to carry the burden alone, I had to admit that the child craved the presence of his father on my occasions but there was nothing I could do about it.It was just like my brain was refusing to listen to the cravings I was having budding up inside, my heart was whispering this craving yet my stubborn mind was adamant on going through all this alone."Who Needs A Man."I said aloud reading out the title from a chapter I had been skimming through over the last couple of days.I had picked
NATHANIEL'S POV.IF we got a penny each for the whole time we stayed quiet we would most certainly be richer men.We were driven by a hired driver, so it was only Alexis and I, two long time friend's engulfed in a plague of thoughtful silence.I was desperate to know what he was thinking. As I could see the way his face was puzzled looking all gloomy and very unhappy at wherever he was thinking about.What could it be ?Was he having trouble with Jane? . I thought to myself looking out the window to the other side.The driver had one hand on the wheel, with the sun glinting off his dark shades blocking off the rays from the sun glittering far ahead of us.The only words Alexis said all through the trip has been when he joked to mw about the driver being blind behind those glasses he had been wearing.It was a good thing the driver had taken it off once when he wanted to refill the fuel. Only when we were able to comfirm that he had not actually been blind.The car soon starts sl
NATHANIEL POVMy heart wouldn't stop beating fast and he knew exactly why.There was every reason for my heart beating so fast but the more I tried looking for a reasonable term to describe this state of my mind the harder it was for me to come in terms with reality.I tried looking for any bit of emotions to start up my heart that appeared to be in an almost hibernated state but I couldn't.Anger, shock …anything that would make me feel aligned with the pace of my heart.I could still hear my heart beating faster, faster than I can even count…It seemed to me almost like madness the more I thought about It, of course it might Alexis had called it a mere assumption but I had known him over the years he had never been wrong about the same thing twice.If anyone would know if she was pregnant or not it most definitely had to be Alexis with his knowledge about this type of things.Oliva getting pregnant had been the last thing I my mind but now that I could string one and two together
OLIVIA'S POV"WHAT!" I tried to wrap my mind around what Jane just said .She just got back from Alexis and you know the person at the hotel and she was gisting me about something that had gone down there while we smoked.I had been craving a stick off late and when I had bumped into Jane reading a magazine and having a pack to herself I had reached for the box myself pulling out a stick and lighting it up watching the musky smoke rising as I puffed it out to the air.It was unhealthy for the child so they said and it was funny. Jane didn't try stopping me when I reached for the box or even when I reached for the Zippo lighter.It was a cold evening with the temperature of the room lower than it usually was.I could feel my pulse racing as the clock ticked, my heart kept faster at the bit of information just dropped.As much as I had tried telling myself I wasn't so committed to whatever we both shared, the thought of him still flickered in my mind and this time it did with intense jea
NATHANIEL POVImagine Dragons "Radioactive" played from the radio of the black tinted Rover where I was hidden, perfectly camouflaged not just from the world but from her as well.It had been an hour and a half and there was still no sign that they were at the mall as Jane had told Alexis.I wasted no time getting into comfortable clothes before heading to the mall after copying the location of the mall from Alexis' phone after he slipped into the shower.Without much regret I knew prying into Alexis' phone was a bad thing to do but I did it anyway, he would be mad at me of course but I was certain he wouldn't mind me doing this as well.He had called me immediately after he got out of the shower and I told a white lie that I was down the road trying to get us lunch.Literally, I wasn't lying to him …right there on the chair was a lunch of Taco's I had planned to give to him as an offering for my sins when I got back.Three hours was encroaching when I heard a knock on the window s
OLIVIA'S POVTHE Mall was filled with the noise from people and running children, soft music played over the speakers as we took the escalator.For the next half an hour that passed we went around the groceries section filling our trolley with edibles as we talked and chatted away minutes out of our life.Jane's phone rang again the third time that afternoon, by then we were getting a few perishables and some other baby things I would be needing in the future month.She muttered a word under breath I couldn't hear as she picked the call. I couldn't make out what they were talking about but apparently the two love -birds were involved in quite a long conversation I didn't want to be involved in so I walked away to another part of the wall.I saw two pregnant women walking into a room holding a gym mat. I got curious and walked towards the door that was left open.Walking toward the door, I stopped by the large glass wall and stared at myself for a while. My other self looked sick an
NATHANIEL'S POV"You should have just let me approach her ." I grimaced as we drove fast a few trees laying on a straight on both sides of the road.I was still mad at the fact that she was pregnant and seemed it fit not to tell me about the existence of the child, our child.What if I had not come down to Mexico for this break or decided it upon myself to go somewhere else. I thought to myself.Alexis had remained quiet all through too, he knew too well that speaking would definitely ignite the whole issue and so he stayed mute and listened to the reporter over the radio.I was mad at everything including myself, mad at the fact that she had done this and the truth actually when I thought about it deeply would be that she had no choice.Was that a good excuse the good side of my heart was trying to give her?I scoffed at the thought…"You are driving too fast, man." Alexis said.It was the first words he had said since about One hour, twenty- five minutes and ten seconds. I knew t
NATHANIEL POV"YEAH, We' d be expecting you." Alexis said as he dropped the call he stared at his phone for a minute before looking at Nathaniel."They would soon be here mate Alexis said ."l sat looking at him, the fact remained that I didn't remember anything at least nothing that had happened beyond the twenty minutes we've spent in the wood.It took a lot of words and a picture to convince me that we were friends and even with the picture clutched in my hand."Can you tell me what happened." I askedAlexis spent the last few minutes trying to explain what had happened, when he was done in had few idea of what had happened and also a few about who I was."I was an Alpha."My body stilled for a split second. A tight sensation wrapped around my lungs—a mixture offear and vulnerability—but I didn't want to him to know how scared I was.The truth was, at that moment I didn't feel the need to trust anyone or anything, it was because of a reason I couldn’t even fathom, I couldn’
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