Lucius's POVWe marched out with Keith till we got to the throne room where a very battered soldier sat wincing on the floor."Why the hell isn't he in the fucking clinic?" I yelled at Keith.He opened his mouth to speak but closed it as if he was thinking of the right words to say and then he bowed."I am sorry my King, I thought you would want to talk to him first before we take him to the clinic..." He replied.My wolf twisted and all I wanted to do at that moment was to claw a good portion of his skin off and then let him sit there on a floor for a while before allowing him to get treatment so he could understand how it felt. But he was an alpha, the least I could do was accord him some forgiveness.So, I turned to Lucas;"Get some guards outside to call the doctor and the nurses. Make sure they bring first aid, we can discuss with him after that has been given," I growled.Lucas knew better than to argue, he nodded his head and quickly stepped out of the throne room to get the or
Diane's POVMy heart did a double flip and it felt like a part of me broke off as fear and hope mixed within me. I knew that it was too much to wish for but what if...What if Owen was my son?The date was the same. The hospital was the same. And in all cases, there was no information about his birth mother.I had to leave this place. I had to get to the City Hospital. I had to speak to the doctors there. I needed to know if Owen was my son...Adrenaline was coursing through my veins and all I wanted to do at that very moment was to take Owen and leave. I had to take him to the hospital.But I had to calm myself. The last time I tried escaping, it ended badly. I didn't even make it far enough before Lucius caught me.This time, I had to think every step through, so I wouldn't get betrayed again.Sophie was coming for me but I didn't know how long she would take to get here. And then again, what if Lucius's men didn't let them take me?Then he would know that I was still trying to run
Diane's POVMy heart was literally in the pit of my stomach as I ran down the parking lot with Owen in my arms. A part of me wanted to run back to Lucius and probably talk this out with him, maybe he would take me to that hospital. Maybe we would come to the bottom of this faster. Maybe I didn't have to do this.An image of him smiling at me this morning caught in my throat and I was almost starting to rethink my decision but I shook my head and pushed forward.Lucius was a monster. He made me marry me forcefully by kidnapping my family.I would rather find out about Owen on my own because if it truly turned out that he was my child, then I had to take him as far away from Lucius and his men as possible.I continued down the corridors and kept praying that the guards would not notice my presence there.But so far so good, Keith had been right. The guards seemed to be busy about something and they barely paid me any attention.By the time I finally got to the parking lot, I started let
Lucius's POV"Thank you very much, my king. This is wonderful news," he said bowing gently.I waved my hand in the air and pulled him up quickly; "Please, we are family. You don't have to bow to me, especially when we are alone," I said to him with a small smile."No, I need to give you the right amount of respect. You are a good man. Thank you once again," he added.I nodded at him, "So, when do you plan to leave?"His brows rose above their normal line as if what I had said was a surprise to him."The thing is, I plan on taking Diane to the city for a few days just for her to relax a bit... So if you aren't in a hurry we can plan the trip together," I further explained to avoid any confusion.But the look on his face didn't change."You want to take Diane to the city? Is that safe?" He asked and it was my turn to raise my brows.We haven't told anyone about Jolynn's incident as we were still trying to put together the circumstances surrounding it and what could have been the cause.
Lucius's POVAnger so thick it filled up my entire body. I couldn't think of anything else but how angry I was.How could I have been so stupid?Diane had played me. I had stupidly thought she was finally starting to understand; that she could feel the bond between us. I thought she felt the butterflies that sizzled through our bodies when I touched her.I thought she wanted as much as I wanted her. I gave her everything. I allowed her to do whatever she wanted.And in the end, she chose to pay me back by making a fool of me.Here I was making plans on how I was going to take her to the city she so much wanted. I was making silly plans on how to make her happy but all that went on in her head was how she could leave me.My heart clenched with such an ache, I didn't even know what to feel. At one point I was disappointed. In another way, I felt betrayed. And deep in my soul, I was angry.I was angry that she could still think of leaving me after everything I tried to do to make her hap
Lucius's POVHer words felt like a knife had gone through my heart and the resulting pain pushed me over the edge as a blinding rage came over me.I grabbed her roughly and shook her as I glared into her face."What do you mean by they took him?! Who took him? What did you do to him?!" I roared, my voice echoing in the surrounding bushes.Tears filled her eyes as she helplessly look around like Owen was supposed to be there. Her movements only increased my anger because it was now very clear that she had no idea where he was."I don't know... I don't know where he is," she cried out, confirming my suspicions.My wolf was hurting and I could feel the pain within her as well but I refused to give in to our bond. She had overdone it and there was no coming back from it.The anger and pain within me blended and created a blinding force that pushed me close to losing my sanity."You fucking took him from me and now you have lost him! How dare you Diane?" I roared.My hands fisted and I was
Diane's POV"Come on, Diane. Let's get you home." Lucas's voice sounded distant yet I felt him hold me gently and move me towards a car.My head turned and I caught sight of the vehicle I had stolen from Lucius and the memories of what had happened crashed back into my head.The truck had run into us and I was hurt but it wasn't that much. It was almost as if the hit had been to shake us up and not kill us.I moved quickly to the back seat to pull Owen despite the ringing in my ears."Mummy, Owen is scared," he had said in that sweet little voice of his.I wiped away his tears and held him close as I kicked the side door of the car; "do not worry baby, mummy is here. I won't let anything happen to you," I told him.As the memories moved through my head, tears started streaming down my eyes as I realised I had failed him.I couldn't protect him. Lucius was right, I had lost Owen. I had lost my baby again.My heart dropped to my stomach and I felt it shatter within me.My shoulders star
Diane's POVThe indifference in the tone of his voice was another sign that he was hiding his emotions from me.But rather than point it out as I would have done, I slowly nodded and let the doctor before me do his job.The very idea that Lucius had gotten a doctor specifically for me told me a different story from the one I had foolishly created for myself and I started asking myself, why did I try to run from him? Why didn't I ever trust him?Yes, he had married me without love and it had been a contract plus I had signed it with a clear head. But I couldn't deny the fact that I had begun falling for him. I had begun accepting the life he offered me and if I hadn't been kidnapped by Jolynn, I might have never known what was happening.And though it was true that Lucius was some night creature, he had never harmed me, ever. All he had done was shower me with love and affection even though I constantly pushed him away.After being kidnapped by Jolynn, something went loose in my head.
Diane’s POVI felt something within me shift and before I could stop myself, I threw myself against Scarred-face, screaming my lungs out.“Let my baby go!” I screamed.In my mind, I was so sure that I would manage to create enough distractions to take Owen from them and run as far as I could, but all those moves were only in my head. I didn’t even get far before Liam grabbed me roughly by the arm.“Where do you think you are going? The party is just starting…” he growled and threw me hard towards the bed. My head hit the bedframe and I felt my consciousness dwindle before my eyes.I blinked, panicking even stronger. If anything happened to me now, I wouldn’t be able to protect Owen anymore. I would fail once again in protecting my baby.“Mummy!” Owen screamed and I tried to raise myself from the ground despite the dizziness in my head.I refused to give up. My body was groaning in defeat, but I would rather die. Adrenaline pumped through my bloodstreams, and I dragged myself back to m
Diane’s POVAs soon as Liam stepped out of the room, I saw it as my opportunity to escape from his room. I returned my shirt to their position and moved out at once. I still remembered the route we had taken while coming, so I traced it back to my room.I was about to take the final bend when I heard a deafening growl from a room on my right. The blood within my body froze and panic started drumming through my skin.They said anyone who knew could be rescued, so I let my curiosity lead me to the side of the wall where I could get a good angle to see what was happening in that room.“No!” the roar echoed out of the room once again. “Keith can’t die like that!” he screamed again, and I watched as Liam held his head and dropped to the ground with tears in his eyes.“My lord, I saw the body with my two eyes. Lucius had made sure there would be no regeneration for him. He is dead-” a man covered in a hood was saying.I covered my mouth as the realization of what this meant flooded through
Lucius’s POV“Are you sure we are heading in the right direction?” I asked Monique for the third time since we have been on the road. I noticed that we had been going around the same places for close to two hours now and she just sat there with a smug look on her face, watching me as I drove as if I was a new show in a cinema.“Monique? Didn’t you hear me?” I asked, throwing a glance in her direction. She was now sitting with her legs spread apart and the skirt barely visible anymore.“Hmmm, yeah… yes, of course… just keep going…” she said, waving her hand to the screen while her eyes remained on me.My wolf twisted with disgust at her position. If she couldn’t sit properly, she shouldn’t have worn such an absurd outfit. I wanted to reprimand her to adjust herself, but I decided to ignore it. She was not my responsibility.“I don’t know if you have noticed but we have been going round the same place for hours now. Can you look at the road and tell me where we are supposed to go?” I a
Diane’s POVI planned on convincing Louis to help us escape but after hearing that Liam and Keith had his family, I couldn’t bring myself to say anymore. I would do anything to save my family, so I understood exactly where he stood in all of these.In the next couple of hours, I tried to remain positive as I studied every inch of the room, we were kept in, hoping that a miraculous door would appear from nowhere and I could step out of it.I even took my time to think about my decisions, wondering if things could have been different if I had acted in another way. I was stuck on a roller coaster of emotions till sleep managed to steal me.But even the sleep didn’t give me the rest of mind I needed. I kept seeing horrible endings to our situation that soon turned into a nightmare. The worst of them was when I saw Liam kill Owen. I was going to die first before I let anything happen to Owen.By the time my eyes opened, they went straight to Owen and I only relaxed after I saw that he was
Lucius’s POVIt was already in the early hours of the morning when I got to Macy’s house. As usual, as soon as I parked the vehicle in their driveway, I noticed the move of the curtain and I was suddenly reminded of Fred’s death.At some point after all of this was over, I would have to inform her of what had happened to her brave husband.My heart was heavy with sadness, but I swallowed it back. If I slacked now, her husband wouldn’t be the only bad news I would be giving her.I got out of the vehicle and this time Lucas stepped down with me. Together we went to her front door and just a few feet before we got to it, the door opened, and it wasn’t who I was expecting.“Where is Diane?” Sophie’s firm voice rang out around the area like she had a microphone buried in her throat.“Something came up and she… can I come in, there is a lot I have to explain to you,” I said. My voice was heavy with emotions, and I hoped she didn’t aggravate things.She studied me for a second before her sha
Lucius’s POVWith Keith dead, I left the captain of my soldiers and Kasper in charge, and I took one of the cars back to the human city to get the answers I needed.There was still a lot to be done, but I knew that I could trust my men to do a very good job of clearing everything and sorting what needed to be sorted.As I drove, my eyes were fixed on the road, but my heart ached for Diane. She was going to be broken when she found out about her grandfather but more than that, I needed to get her before Liam decided to do something crazy.Each moment I spent in that vehicle increased the number of questions rolling through my head and by the time I got to Bucks quarters, I practically jumped out of the moving vehicle.Lucas who had already been notified was standing at the entrance waiting for me and the moment he saw me, he ran towards me and hugged me. A rare moment where we shared our bond as brothers and as much as I wanted to just push him away and proceed inside, I could understa
Lucius’s POVThe sound of clashing bodies and screams filled the area in seconds. Just like I had thought, this was more intense than what we had done at Keith’s pack. The ninja wolves were far more trained than the guards’ Keith’s pack.My men were starting to struggle. Each time one of theirs fell, two of mine fell. If things continued at this pace, we were going to lose.I tore through the bodies of soldiers and tried to make my way into the castle where I knew that Keith would be waiting. He had planned this very well; he knew that it was going to take a lot more to bring him down with the ninja wolves on his side, but I refused to give up.I tapped into my alpha abilities and skillfully cut through them, but they were like ants. If two fell another four appeared and I knew that I had to strategize again if I was going to beat them, or they would change the narrative of the fields. We had come to capture their ruler but if we weren’t careful, they were going to end up capturing me
Lucius’s POVI marched toward the tent where Fred was being kept with a boiling heart filled with rage.I felt so stupid. The signs had always been there from the very beginning, and I failed to recognize them or maybe I was just too blinded to see them.From the very first day I met him, I recognized the strange scent of him. When he gave me that cock and bull story about his pack, I knew there was something about it that didn’t entirely add up, but I chose to believe it.And then it didn’t stop there, when the council had arrested him suspecting him to be Patrick, I had the feeling that they were on to something. My council might have been cowards, but they were not entirely stupid. Something must have led them to Fred’s doorstep, and I had closed my eyes to that possibility.Fast forward to the day I went to tell him about his freedom, he had been on the phone speaking about something strange. Yet again, I let it slide. He even had the guts to call me and give me intel like he was
Diane’s POV“You have lost your mind, Liam!” I hissed shaking my head in disgust and disbelief. If he really thought that after everything, he did to me I would belittle myself to the point of sleeping with him then he must have truly lost his mind.He threw his head back and let out an irritating laughter before stopping to look deeply into my eyes. “Do not worry. We have all the time in the world. Lucius is Keith’s reward, while you are mine. No one is going to stop me,” he said and got on his feet.I felt the blood in my body scatter and my heart started beating at a dangerously fast pace, but I kept my cool. Owen was also staring with a glint of fear in his eyes, and I held him tight. I was ready to protect him with my entire life.“Louis please, take them inside. Let her freshen up,” he said to the traitor who had sold me out and then his evil eyes turned to me, “When I need her, I will call for her. I hope you are smart enough to take this moment to relax that beautiful body of