RavenThe minute I realized the warmth beside me was gone, I stirred awake. The sheet was more rumpled and messier, and without thinking anything else I knew who had slept on the bed with me.I hardly had nightmares, but what was more strange was the fact that I felt more relaxed and refreshed than before. My eyes landed on the new shirt on me, and I held my breath for a while. I raised the blanket above me, and I sighed in relief that I wasn’t naked, but I was on another pair of pants. It seemed his special forte was to undress me whenever I was out. My face flushed red, as thought of him seeing me naked came to my mind. I was supposed to be mad at him, but I wasn’t, and it made me feel angry at myself. My eyes went to the bathroom door. He wasn’t there, and it seemed like he had left for quite some time. A knock on the door, and my heart leapt out in panic. I felt my heart sink as the person walked into the room. “Hope I didn’t wake you up”. Jade said, her eyes guilty, as she po
He wouldn’t have killed him, right? He would not kill him, he did nothing wrong for him to want him dead. Riev did nothing to him, he was…“Raven! Are you okay?”. Jade rushed to my side, disrupting my hazy thoughts. I stared at her, lost for a few seconds unable to comprehend her question. “What happened to her?”. My eyes focused on the other person. His face was familiar. I had seen him before. “Come on get up. I will examine you immediately”. She helped me up. “No no…I’m…I’m fine”. I pushed my hair out of my face, as I felt cold sweat on my body. “You don’t look that good to me are you sure?”. She was still worried. “I just lost my balance, I’m good”. I forced out a smile, as she peered anxiously at me. They must not know that I heard their conversation. “Come in, let’s have some tea…ohhh…you haven’t seen him, have you?”. She gestured towards the guy beside her. I shook my head as my eyes met his.“I’m Hank, omega to your mate”. There it was. He had visited DarkValley with A
VaughanThe fading sounds of her footsteps were enough to make me realize she had left the office. Immediately I unclenched my tight fist, and pushed all the contents that were on the table to the floor. It scattered noisily across the floor, but it wasn’t enough for my chaotic head. Everything I did seemed not to work for some vague reason. I wished the bastard was found so I could have dangled his head in her face. I had thought things were going in the right direction, after last night, but it was nothing!What a vain attempt at an impossible feat! It was the fucking matebond. I wished Zane hadn’t marked her that fateful day. It had been a nightmare ever since then, to control myself whenever I was around her, but she seemed unfazed by whatever that was happening between us.My eyes settled on the date on the small calendar, and laughter erupted from my throat, as it echoed through the room. She reminded me of the shitty family I was brought into. She was awfully right. We can
Raven’s Pov Two days and I haven’t seen him or felt his presence even when I’m asleep. I knew he was purposely avoiding me. I felt free to do some things, but at the same time I felt bereft. I spent most of my day with Jade, who was more than happy to see me finally adapting to living in RedMoon, but a part of me wished that he was at least coming to the room. Visiting his office was out of the question. I just finished having my breakfast even though it was already past twelve, and I headed to the training field where I was to meet with Jade today. The field seemed more crowded and busy unlike the previous days of training. Scanning the faces of everyone I was on the lookout for someone with shoulder length hair. I had never seen him here before, and I wondered if he trained daily like the way his men did. I sighted Jade at the far end of the field talking to someone, but she stopped and began to walk up to me, when she saw me. “Come sit here”. She gestured to an empty bench
Raven’s PovShe began pacing in front of me.“What is it?”. I asked calmly. “He thought he was your lover!”. She yelled, but placed her palm on her mouth, when she realized she was too loud. “What?!”. I tried to wrap my head around what she had just told me.“If he knew he was your brother, he would never have tried to kill him”. Then my mind started to recall all his crazy reactions, when I talked about Riev. I had never for once indicated that Riev was my brother, and he had foolishly thought he was my lover. I didn’t know how to feel about this new revelation. Should I be grateful that he was jealous of another man close to me? He was such a big darn fool! “I can only imagine how you must have felt. He acted out of jealousy”. “Even if he truly was my lover, that wasn’t enough reason, why he should want him dead”. I seethed. That was just a silly excuse to feed his prideful self!. “Killing someone was something one shouldn’t do on impulse, no matter the circumstances”. I said
Raven’s PovWhen I heard the shrill scream again, I began walking in the direction of the sound, my heart kept pounding insistently. The voice came from the training ground.Just as I walked into the open field, I saw the fading shadow of a person as it escaped into the darkness, where the rays of the moonlight didn’t shine. My eyes went to the direction where the person had disappeared to. I ran trying to catch a glimpse of who the person was, even though I was dead scared, but a light grip on my pants stopped me in my tracks. It was a little boy. “He…help my…my sister”. The voice rasped out, and he coughed out blood. I turned around, my eyes widening as I took in another small body on the ground. Another child! I rushed to the child who was unmoving and stiff. Blood seeped through every hole on her face. I held my breath as I checked for a pulse on her wrist. I felt nothing. I checked for any visible injuries on her body, but there were none. She seemed dead to me. I was lost at
Vaughan povI dashed forwards, catching her in my arms, before she slipped onto the floor. My eyes met her dazy ones. Her soft body pressed into my body. Every damn time I’m out something must go wrong!“What happened to her?!”. I shot daggers at everyone in the room, but I was more angry at myself for leaving her alone. I had ordered my men to make sure she was kept safe, but it seemed danger always found its way to her. “Don’t close your eyes”. I whispered, when I saw her eyes closing. Her face was twisted up in pain. I placed my palm on her cheeks, trying to get her attention, but she gently snuggled closer to my side. “You are here”. She smiled through her pain, and something moved within me. This was the first time she smiled at me. I wondered if she was in her right senses, but I was elated, even though she wasn’t in her right mind.“Get Minka here!”. I yelled, not tearing my eyes away from hers for even a second. “Raven, open your eyes”. I shook her body, but it was futile,
Vaughan Pov“Hybrid?”. I repeated after her, as my eyes landed on Raven. How is that true? Hybrids weren’t even common amongst our kind. Mating with another kind was something that had been against wolves for as long as I could remember.“She can’t be…I mean she would know if she was one”. “You don’t get it. Look at her, and tell me you don’t find her odd about her”. I hate the way she used the word ‘odd’ for my mate. If there’s anything my mate was, she was never odd in my eyes. “There is nothing wrong with her”. “No, I did not mean something was wrong with her, but take a good look at her hair, her skin”. Minka argued.I stared at Raven. Her hair color had always looked beautiful to me, it was gray at the root, but it was beautiful. Her skin was just the perfect tone, although more fairer than normal.“No matter how hard you try to insist that she isn’t different, deep down inside you know the truth”. “So…I agree that she is perfectly different, but everyone can’t be the same
Vaughan PovI stood at the door hesitating. I had only been here once due to Raven’s influence, but I could still remember where her room was located. I didn't know how long I stood there, until Raven’s shocked face showed up.“You…what are you doing here?”. She mouthed slowly, her gray hues amused. Her eyebrows shot up as she waited for my response, when I didn’t utter a word. I’m sure she was enjoying this uncomfortable moment of my life. “I…i wanted to talk to her”. I stuttered, and her cheeks splinted into a bright smile, as she opened the door wide for me to walk in. Immediately she noticed my presence, the mug she held in her hands dropped from her hand, spilling the tea. I rushed to her, just as Raven handed me a towel. “Are you okay?”. I asked worriedly, she nodded her head frantically, her eyes everywhere but mine. I tried to help clean up the mess on the counter, but she grabbed the towel for my hands, and keeping her distance from me.“I’ll do it, thank you”. She muttered
Vaughan povIt felt like I was hallucinating, Sierra had been alive all these years? She was considered dead by my father, when we couldn’t find her body for weeks. I mean no one would believe she was alive, after seeing her bloody clothes in the woods. The assumption would be that a wild animal had attacked, and killed her. It took me years for me to fully accept her death in the past. “…my baby girl…”. My mother wailed, as Raven tried to calm her down. “I can't believe she is alive”. I could remember her hate filled eyes when she had spoken to me. Her eyes weren't the ones I was used to, that was why I wasn’t able to recognize she was the one. In fact her hair looked different. She had changed a lot, and the person who had caused all this was the same male witch which was after Raven. “If what Raven said is the truth then you have to go confirm from her”. Riev said beside me, jolting me out from my thoughts. I nodded my head in agreement, and my mother stood up all of a sudden
Vaughan povPRESENT DAY“Why the hell isn’t she waking up, if she is perfectly okay?”. I asked Minka, as she stood up from where she sat close to Raven laying on the bed. “She’s probably taking her time”. She said dryly. “Since she’s obviously fine I will have to be on my way”. She slung her old leather bag on her shoulder, heading to the door. “She should be awake”. I sighed in frustration, tugging my hair. “We should probably get someone else to come check on her if she is indisposed to”. Riev muttered from where he sat close to Raven. Minka halted at the door, and turned around her eyes on Riev. “Yeah, I think you guys should, since this old lady standing here seems like a joke to you”. She said sarcastically, and sent him a glare. “I’m glad you also know that”. He said, not batting an eye at her. “That grit you seem to possess might be the reason you have held on for so long, but trust me it might also be the reason of your ruination”. Minka spat, and left the room. He chuc
Raven pov“Can’t we stay for another night. I kind of like it here more than Dark Valley”. Riev grumbled as he packed our bags. “Something urgent came up. We have to leave immediately”. She said, and opened up a small wooden box in her hands.“Raven come here”. She said gently to me. I got to her front and she brought out the locket chain, and placed it round my neck. “Don’t take it off”. She said sternly. I peered at the locket and realized it wasn’t broken, and the missing part of the locket was there. “What of mine?”. Riev asked, as he touched the locket. “You always treat Raven better than me”. He pouted his lips. “That’s because she is always of good behavior while you are the complete opposite”. She said and pulled his cheeks. “But you are still my favorite grandson”. I continued to stare at the locket, knowing that when the part had gotten missing would definitely be on our way back to Dark Valley. “I wish you guys wouldn’t do”. Alice stood in front of her house, a worried
Raven Pov “Grandma, do you want the syrup?”. Riev asked cheerfully, as he munched on the toast we were having for breakfast, without any traces of yesterday’s brewing anger and stubbornness. I wasn’t too surprised by his calm demeanor. It meant grandma’s spell had worked on him. “Thank you son, Raven you’re barely eating, don’t you like it?”. Her warm eyes met mine, and I shook my head gently.“No I love it”. I smiled at her, and Riev nudged me gently.“Are you okay? You are too quiet today”. He whispered, raising his eyebrow in a questioning gaze. I wanted to tell him that he was the one that acted more differently in contrast to what I was used to, but I bit my lips instead.“I’m just a bit tired”. I muttered, but his eyes lingered for a while before he continued eating. Grandma might have erased a part of his memory but he was still the same brother I knew, always caring. “She is beautiful and so calm”. Alice said from where she sat on the other end of the dining table. “Who did
Raven Pov”You can’t just lock them inside, they are little children!”. Alice yelled from outside the room.“Why are you doing this? They won’t cause any trouble for you. In a few days we will leave”. My grandma pleaded her voice louder and frantic.“I did what I should have done years ago, before you ran off with that crazy wolf, endangering our entire family”. Otto screamed, followed by a rattle of things falling around. “Take out your anger on me, not them, they are innocent in this, don’t involve them in things they know nothing of, please unlock the door”. “You shouldn’t have bothered coming back at all, because I had already considered you dead a long time ago”. After his words there was a long stretch of silence. “Otto! You will surely regret this. It's already in the past”. I heard his wife say, followed by a series of other brutal words by Otto. I moved away from the door as I locked my eyes with Riev as the harsh words continued to fill the air. While our grandma and his
Raven PovFLASHBACKI opened my eyes expecting to see the scenery that was there before I had lost my consciousness, but I discovered it was totally different. Without a doubt I knew I was in another old memory of my younger self, as my eyes took in my grandma who was packing things into a small bag.Alpha Vaughan’s mother had been talking about the locket, that meant I was here because of the locket. I touched my neck and discovered it wasn’t on me. I knew anything that was happening here was before she had given me the locket. A young boy walked into the room and I realized it was Riev’s younger self. He was nothing less than twelve years old. “Grandma, where are we going?”. He asked, and sat close to me on the old creaky bed. He glanced at me and then focused his attention on our grandma, who was more focused on packing whatever could fit into the leather bag. “Help me with that box, we have a long journey ahead of us”. She said, ignoring his question. Riev stood up grudgingly
Raven pov“Do you know if Kyle is around?”. I asked Fia as she munched on the grapes on the dining table.“Don’t tell me you are up to something again?”. She narrowed her eyes, expecting more explanation from me. Nothing ever gets past her. I sighed tiredly.“I need to see the girl in the dungeon”. I muttered, avoiding her curious eyes. It was a miracle Alpha Vaughan hadn’t sensed I was up to this, when It had been disturbing my mind for quite a while now. “Why? You know what she did, and besides I heard from Gale sooner or later she would be killed. Your mate will be a fool to let her off the hook after the chaos she caused the pack”. “That’s more reason why I want to see her”. She might have an inkling about the missing locket, and killing her might lead us to a dead end. I doubt anyone would agree with me on that, but it was a feeling that didn’t just want to go away. “Raven, you can’t trust her. She works for the witch, being a wolf, makes it more spiteful for anyone to let her
Riev pov“Why don’t you stay back today? You have been doing this for days now”. Raven said, moving to stand in front of me. I was preparing to leave for my hunting trip. It was my act of escapism all this while. It was better than anything I could ever do to keep my mind from Clay’s dead body which had been clouding my mind for days now. “I will get tired of it soon”. It was a fact. “But your visits are getting too much”. I said and she pursed her lips at me.I knew she visited me, because she was scared I would do something stupid, but I couldn’t blame her, not after what I did that day with Hank. I had put her on edge, making her worry about me. “You are my brother, and even if it were someone else, I would still act the same”. She smiled faintly, and it didn’t quite reach her eyes. “I’m good. Like hell! I didn’t even lose my mind, or acted rashly!”. I huffed, throwing my hands up in exasperation. “That alone is enough to make me more worried. I know you Riev, you shut everyone