Rayne I step back from the door as my heart cracks into tiny pieces. I don’t know what I came to do here. I should have never come. Then again, I’m glad I came. I’m glad because now I know that Max was lying to me all along. He never cared about me. He was…using me. Lying to me. This whole time. He told me last night that he had ended things with Alaska yet I just saw through the open door of his office that he kissed her. He told her that he loved her. I can’t do this. I can’t. I rush down the corridor and then descend the stairs. All the while, my heart is racing like I’m going to have a heart attack of some kind. It’s too much pain and disappointment injected inside of it all at once. There is only so much that a person can take before snapping in half and giving in to the pain. The worst part is that I have always guessed that something was wrong and that he wasn’t being completely genuine with me. I always knew that there was something about his sudden change in feelings f
RayneFor some reason, I don’t believe that I’m being taken back to the House. We’re not going in the same direction and also that’s stupid to assume because everything looks the same and I’m not all familiar with this area, I can help it feel like something is going on that I’m not aware about.For starters, this man knows my name. That’s why it was so easy for me to assume that he worked for Max and that he was taking me back to that hell hole. But things are getting weirder with each passing hour. I haven’t been running all that long, so I think it’s safe to assume that we should’ve been there by now.But we’re not. I look at his face. He’s not looking at me, he’s looking straight ahead. I don’t have the stomach to ask him who he is, and where he’s taking me, because I should’ve asked that when he first captured me. The sun is dipping in the sky, although it’s still afternoon. There is still light in the sky, but how long are we supposed to stay here? When do we get back? This is
RayneThe rest of our hike through the forest goes by in a blur. I don’t pay attention to anything going on around me, and I will certainly don’t listen to what the man is telling me. It’s not like he talks to me all the time. He’s mostly quiet and I’m thankful for it. I don’t think I have it in me to maintain a conversation with anyone, not when my mind is in this chaotic state.Max knew. I can get over that. He still there and acted like he was in love with me. Oh man all along he knew that I was never meant to be a slave. I was the daughter of an Alpha. My mother had been taken away from her home to be used as leverage by his father, and she was never returned. It was pure cowardice. And he knew this, and he didn’t try to make things right. No, he killed the messenger and decided to keep me there in the palace.He could’ve sent me home if he wanted to. But his selfish reasons prevented him from doing so. How could I leave when I had to be there for his entertainment. At this poin
RayneReaching the Iron pack and making my way through the pack that was my father’s all happened too quickly. It was late at night so not many people were around, but the few who were looked at me with surprise on their faces. They looked at me like they knew me personally, which wasn’t possible because I had never seen them before.“Your father is eager to see you,” I was told as we walked through the camp. My mind was spinning and I felt very nervous. I was going to meet my father, a man I spent so many years hating. We entered the main house. The whole camp constituted of smaller houses all around the bigger house. This is not at all what I was expecting, so I’m quite impressed. I don’t have time tomorrow anything though. I have to focus on meeting my father for the first time.Right down the corridor, there was a wooden door. We are walking right toward it. This is it. I can hardly breathe. “Your father will lose his mind,” the man beside me comments. We finally stopped in fro
RayneI wake up in a foreign place. It leaves me confused for a few minutes before I recall everything that happened. I'm at Iron. I sit up in bed and massage my neck for a few minutes before rolling out of bed. This room is one he had organized just for me, and it's perfectly comfortable. There are times when I'm overwhelmed with gratitude. I never had anything to expect or look forward to when I was working at MoonWater. I would scrub endlessly and wonder if anything good would ever happen to me. And something did. At least I met my father. I now know my history. I know what truly happened for me to end up where I was. A sort of closure, is what this is for me. Yet even as I say this, I know I'm a liar. I haven't quite forgotten Max and despite everything I've heard, I'm eager to know his side of the story. Why didn't he send me back? Why would he keep such a thing from me?When I shake my head to clear my thoughts, I realize that I've spent many minutes just staring at the wal
RayneDenise and I come to an understanding. I won’t tell my father that she’s Max’s mother. She has a plan to help him see things differently and I won’t intervene. If I have to be completely hoe at with myself, I’m actually glad that she’s trying to convince him to not kill Max. And anyway, it wouldn’t be possible for him to make a move against him now because milling Max would kill me automatically as our bond is still fresh. Fresher than ever, actually. It got quite strong when we slept together and so it’s going to take a bit longer to wear off. Until then, a lot could happen. I’m not sure I’ll ever one hundred percent understand why she didn’t tell me the truth before but since it’s in the past, I’ll let sleeping dogs lie. Being angry isn’t going to take anything back. It won’t change the past. So instead of being at war for something neither of us were fully in control of, I’ll just let things be. It’s good to have her back on my side. I’d forgotten how it felt like to be t
MaxIt has been two days since Rayne went missing.I don’t know what to do with this confusion and guilt. I can’t explain what happened. Why did she leave? Things were fine and then all of a sudden, I went to her bedroom and found it empty. It didn’t take long for me to find out that she left, that the guards posted at the gate let her leave because she threatened to have them whipped and punished. And that they were. I made sure that they paid for their careless mistake. I have all my warriors looking for her. Everyone else around thinks that it’s the bond I’m worried about. Losing track of her means that I can’t truly mate with Alaska. The starvation will happen a lot quicker but for this to work successfully, one of us has to die. And since they all think I planned on killing Rayne, they didn’t at all find my orders suspicious. But the reason why I sent everyone looking for her isn’t because I have any intention of killing her. It’s because I love her and I want her back. I can’
RayneThe brunch went better than expected and there wasn't a lot of attention on me, which was the part I liked the most. Victor sat at the end of the table with my father and his family, and I was sitting at the other end with Denise. They talked about MoonWater a lot and I felt uncomfortable when I heard them mention Max a few times. My father is really angry and sometimes when I look at Denise, I notice that she looks worried. I know she wants to convince him to spare Max, but it seems like he doesn't want to do that.He wants to bring down the whole of MoonWater. Reynold seems to share his sentiments. There seems to be some bad blood between his pack and Max’s. I wonder if his pack was also affect doing that Great War that ruined everything. It seems everyone hates Max and his pack. Well, it’s his father who did everything. He just inherited the role and is working with what he found. But is that me making excuses for him? It’s hard to say. Maybe you could’ve changed things if