Lucius's POVI moved around the table, trying to calm my nerves as the men worked tirelessly on the keyboard trying to connect the call through.My legs stopped moving beside Bucks and I placed my right hand on his shoulders."Bucks, what exactly is going on?" I asked him.He raised Diane's device and turned it over to me; "I think it has been tampered with. Nothing we do is working. It is like a major blockage somewhere..."My heart stopped beating in my chest as my fingers closed around the device."Isn't there something you can do to stop this blockage? Are you saying I should just give up?""No, sir, we can—"His words ended halfway as the door to the conference room flew open and a very agitated Lucas ran in."Lucius!" He breathed like a bull about to charge.I straightened up and stared at him. "What is it?""We are checking the wrong thing. We need to find Keith. He is with Owen," he said through clenched teeth.My eyes narrowed and I turned to Bucks to be certain this wasn't j
Lucius's POVA ringing filled my ears and I felt my rage increase as Owen's innocent voice filled the corridor. My son was somewhere here, I thought to myself as I began to march through it with determination.With my wolf's vision, I could clearly see all the doors lined along the corridor. I started opening it one after the other searching for the right one."Owen?" I called, no longer concerned with the hooded guy realizing I had trailed him.If he was any good at his job, he should have sensed me long before now because I hadn't been trying hard enough to hide my track."Owen!" I called again as I continued kicking through the doors.My heart was racing so much I could not even think straight. My insides were squeezing in on themselves and I felt like I would pass out with rage plus panic.I was beginning to think I had imagined his voice when I heard a window crashing at the end of the corridor. I abandoned the room I about inspected and ran toward it.I had just two doors left t
Diane's POVAs Lucius drove away from the hospital, I felt my heart crack. I couldn't how bad we had fallen apart.He had abandoned me in the hospital parking lot after totally refusing to let me touch Owen.I felt my tears trickle down my face and all of my energy dwindled. My legs started shaking as it could no longer hold my wait.It started feeling like the sadness that consumed my soul was slowly starting to weight down on my legs and it was only a matter of time before I collapsed.The ground started becoming closer and I felt my lungs begin to constrict. I never thought of what my actions could become for Lucius when I took Owen away but now that it was happening to me, I realized how cruel I was. I could not even hate him for his decision, he had every right. How could I waltz into their lives and think I could take his son away? Now look at the situation I had placed the innocent boy in...Just as the ground was becoming closer, I felt strong hands hold me, steadying me back
Lucius's POV"What do you mean the castle is under siege?" I growled, turning to give Lucas my full attention.He ran his hands through his hair and looked at me."Keith has instated himself as the Alpha King and anyone against him is being thrown in the dungeon. I got the information from some of our men. He is threatening that it will get bloody," he explained."What? Does he have a death sentence over his head?" I growled, my wolf growing with anger with each second that passed."After everything I did for that fool, he is the one who wants to take over my kingdom?" I yelled.A nurse passing by gave us a strange look but I paid her no attention. A lot of people were going to die if I allowed him on the thrown."We need to get back there and stop him!" Lucas pointed out."I know that," I said but my voice had gone weaker because I remembered why I was in the hospital in the first place.I turned and my eyes landed on the innocent boy the doctors were working on —Owen."I can't leave
Diane's POVAs I slipped into the hospital, I started searching for their document center. It was difficult given the fact that I wasn't a worker there plus I had no idea where I was going.But in large sophisticated places, there was always something that could help in situations like mine, a map.Quickly, I walked towards the center of the reception area where the map was mounted on a vertical display board.It showed the direction to various departments and ward direction but none was what I needed.I was already growing impatient when my eyes landed on the administrative floor. If the document center was going to be anywhere, then it had to be there.So, quickly, I turned around and headed to the elevator. "Hello ma'am," the security beside the elevator greeted.I felt my heart jump in my throat as I feared he might have smelled foul on me but seeing the smile on his face I calmed myself as I realized that he was just being friendly. "Hello," I replied with a warmer smile and th
Lucius's POVAs we left the hospital, I couldn't get my thoughts off the fact that Diane was hiding something. She wasn't coming from the restroom like she had said. She was coming from somewhere else, and it caused a itch in me not to know where it was coupled with the fact that I didn't have more time to find out what it was about.I had to sort out the castle situation first before coming back for her.I turned my eyes to Lucas and saw that he was still on his phone."Have you found anything yet?" I asked him."Well, the council members were a bit reluctant and it seems does who resisted have been thrown in the dungeon..." He said and my brows furrowed in irritation.I wasn't concerned about them entirely. Most of them were cowards who thought the world was a bed of roses and they deserved to be living on floating beds.It was good that they were going through this sort of situation. I was more concerned with the throne."Have you been able to get a dialogue with Keith to find out
Lucius’s POVI could not believe what Fred was telling me. I had always thought that Patrick had no family we could trace, yet suddenly, he had a son…“Lucius what’s going on? Who is on the phone?” Lucas asked me but I couldn’t even bring myself to look at him.I turned to Lucas and shook my head still in shock, “Patrick apparently has a son, and it happens to be Keith…” I managed to tell him, but I didn’t even get to finish that when Fred cut in.“That isn’t all. Keith has a brother, and he is in the human world. If anything happens to Keith, his brother will attack Diane and Owen,” Fred said, and I felt my blood drain out of my system.I placed the phone on loudspeaker, and I asked Fred to repeat himself so that Lucas could hear what he had just said, and he did.Lucas got the same look I had in seconds. He turned to me with widened eyes, and I could see the questions flowing through them, but I had no answer for him because I had the same questions moving through my head.“What?” L
Lucius’s POVThe strategy we utilized worked perfectly… too perfect even. The guards outside were easily subdued as their forces never saw the attack coming. They most definitely put their best soldiers with Keith thinking that I was going to attack from there, but the goddess was on my side, and she had used Fred to give me the intel I needed. At this point, I could only hope that the information was the right one and Fred hadn’t sent us to our deaths.“You,” I called to one of the captains that was nearest to me. When he turned to me, I pointed two of my fingers to my eyes and then back at him, signaling to him to follow me.“Bring some good men,” I said.He nodded and went on to signaled to his juniors to come with us while the rest remained to round up the soldiers and the pack members that were too stubborn to surrender. Most of them were innocent as they genuinely knew nothing about the coup d’état their alpha was setting up in my castle, but others, knew and just like some o