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
Diane’s POVThe unsuspecting doctor took me into the ward, and they started preparing my arm to take out my blood. So, they could check if it was compatible with Owen.My eyes moved to Owen’s sleeping form on the bed, and I felt my heart ache. Tears started moving in my eyes and if it wasn’t for the doctor and nurse in the ward with us, I would have cried my heart out.My innocent baby was going through a lot of pain, and it was all my fault. If only I had been less stubborn. If only I had waited for Sophie.Mu eyes moved to the device in my hand, and I thought to call her. But as I raised the phone to dial her number, I thought against it. What right did I have to keep pulling her into my problems?I had already called her while I was at my grandmother’s place, and I explained the situation to her. She was also surprised that Keith had ended up double crossing me and as usual she had offered her help, but I couldn’t accept it.It was time I took responsibility for my problems just li
Lucius’s POVA large frown immediately covered my features as I stared at the vegetative man in front of me. It was indeed the Patrick I knew but his physical condition wasn’t something I anticipated. I never even imagined it.“What the hell happened to you?” The edge in my voice gave off the shock within me.Patrick struggled to seat himself up and when he did, he started laughing at his predicament in an awkward way.“I don’t know why you are here, but I can assure you that it was a waste of time,” he said through his laughter.His laughter felt like tiny ants crawling against my skin and this angered me. I moved towards him in a speed that he could not pick up. I grabbed him by the collar and lifted him a few inches off the bed.“I am not here to listen to you laugh. I am taking you to Keith and you are going to make sure he gets the fuck off my castle!” I growled to his face.Rather than shake in fear as I expected him to, he broke into another laughter. This one was so strong that
Diane’s POVLouis took us in his car, and we drove around for a while before he brought the car to a stop in a very huge mansion. As we pulled through the driveway, I wondered if this was also one of Lucius’s properties, but I kept it to myself. I would try and call Lucius once we got in the reception here ought to be better.I tightened my hold on Owen as Louis maneuvered the car around and came to a stop at the main entrance. Then he stepped out and came to my side. He opened the door for me and offered me his hands. I figured he wanted to help me down from the car but there was no comfortable way of doing that except he wanted to take Owen and there was no way I was letting anyone else hold him not even a trusted person like Louis. After almost losing him, I didn’t want to ever risk his life again. He was safer in my arms.“Thank you, Louis, I can manage,” I said politely, as I stepped out of the car with Owen now sleeping in my arms.He gave me a nod in understanding, but he re
Lucius’s POVLucas words repeated in my head like the clash of a thunder. My heart shattered and rather than feel pain, I felt my hands clench with anger.“What do you mean by you can’t find her? Where is Owen and where the fuck is Louis?” I growled on the phone.“I don’t know… I am going to Bucks right now and see if there is a way, he and his team can search through the hospital security cameras and find the direction they went,” he said.I wanted to believe that she had ran away with Owen once again like she was used to doing but something at the back of my mind told me that this wasn’t the case, but I refused to believe it. It was even better that she ran off with him than for Keith and his brother to get their hands on her.“Have you been to her grandmother’s? Have you seen my son?” I hissed.“I am sorry Lucius, but they are both gone. Owen is not here either…”“Fuck!” I cursed, wishing to crush the phone into dust but my attention was suddenly pulled back to the current situatio
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
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
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