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’
OLIVIA'S POVI COULDN'T believe my ears no matter how I tried to believe what I was hearing wasn't real, the phone rang as soon as we got home and when Jane stared at the caller ID it was Alexis calling again.She rolled her eyes looking at me before picking it."What?" She sounded shocked, her hands trembling.I wondered what the matter could be as I pressed my ears to the back of the phone hoping I could hear what they were talking about but I clearly couldn't.She placed a hand on her chest as I could feel it beating faintly."What could the matter be ?" I thought to myself.When she dropped the call I could see the look of shock on her face."They just got involved in an accident."I felt something grabbed my heart, pulling it completely loose from my chest as it dangles half way still connected by nothing than a few vein and capillaries it was one thing for my child to have a father to that wasn't aware of his existence but to have one that was dead that came with a whole differ
NATHANIEL'S POVI took the phone from his hands, my fingers trembling, to be honest I didn't know what to expect and the amnesia was eating at me deeply in my chest."Hello?" The voice came from over the phone and it came with Uncertainty,as if it like I was it was also confused.It was feminine and rang a bell in my heart, as a matter of fact I felt my heart being clefted to the voice in two ways – Both good and bad."Hello." I replied.Immediately I heard nothing but the buzzing sound of the phone repeatedly, as it appeared as though the call was being left unattended to.I kept on saying the word "hello" repeatedly hoping that somehow the caller would come back to the call and perhaps have a more meaningful conversation than just saying hello.Who was she? I thought to myself wondering how it took just one voice to get me unraveled.Why was she not speaking?A lot of questions flashed across my mind as I tried so hard to get the answer behind the greatest mystery I had gotten ye
OLIVIA'S POVDOES Chaos best describe the situation of my heart, I felt it racing deep in my chest as my heart beats came out heavy and loud i fear he might hear it over the phone.As his deep voice touched my ears from over the phone, I shivered from the sound.I could feel my hands trembling to hold the phone to my ear. It had been a long time since I heard his voice. As a matter of fact I had heard his voice just once in my life but it felt like something I was used to hearing every time.My mind creeped down to the lowest point and took me to the lowest point with it. A point where all I felt was darkness and nothing else.My breasts tightened as fear ran a languid path down my nerves, I tried swallowing the lump in my throat and pushed the breathlessnessaway.It was the first time I was hearing his voice in months yet it did a lot to rip every single guard I built around myself and tore it down in shreds."Hello?" His voice came again this time deeper with uncertainty…"Hello,
NATHANIEL POVIT was just Amy and myself and the sweet scent from.her cologne enveloping the air with a perfect bliss masking the imperfection, uncertainty, awkward silence that had prior enveloped the room.I was drawn to this woman in a way I couldn't even describe, it was mere words and adverbial description.Alexis talked about me having a love interest though he didn't say too much about it, he had mentioned it to me I had fallen in love once but when I asked who it was and how it had happened he gave no sensible description to it.There was the air in the room and there she both acted like they were meant for the same thing, and I inhaled both in."Nathaniel." She said her voice trembling a bit with Uncertainty, unsure if she wanted to do this .My lips were barely touching but I could feel the warmth from hers already."Nathaniel." She said again this time in whispers as if to warn me off."Should I stop?" I asked even if in a funny way I didn't want to.I guess Amy was trying
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