A tear trickled down my cheek as I admitted it. Never would I have thought that a situation would ever arise that I would have to betray my sister but she had done it first by trying to kill me. “Will you testify at court against her?” asked Cyrus. I mulled this question over for a while. Having mentioned her name to Cyrus already I had little choice on the matter. “I will.” “You have chosen rightly,” said Cyrus and with that he left. Only Theo remained and I wondered if there was anything more that he wanted from me. “What are your plans after here?” he asked me. “I do not know. Without my father's support I find that I can achieve very little,” I returned. Strangely enough, I felt a lot better. I was no longer in as much pain as I had been when they had entered. The question Theo had asked me had crossed my mind while I had lain here but I had no clear answer to it yet. I was not sure what I wanted to do after my stay here. Looking back, I realised that ordinary living was
“And what would that be?” I asked. “Why are you here and not helping Moana plan the wedding? I can sense there is trouble in paradise already seeing as you are trying to get drunk,” her voice had become low and teasing. What she was really trying to tell me was that I could take her to my bed if I wished. I appraised her. There was no doubt she was a beautiful woman. Once upon a time, I had a crush on Ava. It had been when we were much younger. Then I thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world but today? I wanted Moana. I tried to drown the thought of Moana by taking another gulp of my beer but I found that I had emptied my pitcher already. “I can make you forget what is on your mind. You can trust my discretion and I assure you my skills are from experience,” she winked at me seductively and I swallowed. It was a tempting offer but I was about to get married and I felt a responsibility towards my bride. “I shall pay for our drinks,” I said to the bartender, dropping
“Thank you very much, Eunice. I shall take it up from here,” I heard Cyrus' voice as clear as day. I had been disappointed when I had woken up to see Eunice but now that he was here I was hoping he was not. I had not figured out what I wanted to do with him yet. I was not certain if in this lifetime I wanted to continue my relationship with him. To be honest there were still so many gaps in my memory about my previous life and in this lifetime, Cyrus had not been too kind to me as at first.Besides, I could not get over the fact that our relationship had started out on uneven terms in this lifetime. Somehow, I felt that things were different now. “Eunice was just telling me the most extraordinary things; I would be sorry to see her go,” I said, hoping to delay the inevitable. “So you now have an ear for gossip? That is new,” he said. Eunice bowed deeply to Cyrus and left at once. “There are so many new things about me. I am not the same woman you knew; Agatha is dead and will re
The wedding rituals were over and I was happy to see the corpse taken out of the ceremony. However, judging from the reaction of the people present I could tell that the wedding will be forever ingrained in their minds. Well, it was time now to dance with my bride. We had gone through the wedding rituals but we had yet to speak since I had missed her. Seeing her today however, reminded me of why she had remained on my mind. She was beautiful, _ethereal_. I had not missed the jealous eyes that had bored holes into me as the priest finalised our union. “You are beautiful,” I whispered into her ear. “I know,” came her conceited response. “It was a compliment, you should have said thank you,” I responded. “You stated a fact, I have been told those words so many times,” I did not doubt her; it was hard to see her and not register that she was a beautiful woman. “I see; what about ethereal?” “I do not need your compliment, you do not love me,” she said. “You refuse me your heart.
Theophilus' POVSomething was wrong here. Something had been wrong all this while and I berated myself for not having noticed all this while. Lord Marshall did not care about his daughter. It all started to make sense now. That was why he had not cared if she had a corpse at her wedding or if she had to marry someone she cared nothing for. But why had he done so? My mind went back to the shapeshifters. Was someone impersonating Lord Marshall? And if so why? And more importantly, why was Moana hiding it? All I knew was that I was not allowing Moana to return to such a place. “Lord Marshall, as the Alpha I will have to intervene. Lady Moana is to leave your home and move into her husband's house,” Cyrus said. I could tell Lord Marshall was not pleased with this development but I could not care less. Audrey's POV “What was that about?” I asked in fury as I confronted King Ares. I had been shocked to find out that the wedding hall had been attacked. It had not been part of the
Theo's POVThe wedding had come and gone and the couple were now living in wedded bliss of disaster. The pack was also out of mourning for Lord Salmon. Life continued in the palace as usual. “Your Majesty, that idea is preposterous! There are noble Lords that look after the affairs of their coffers not to mention the fact that we assign governors to every region,” a man named Donovan spoke up.Cyrus had finally presented the plan to make the locals choose their own representatives and the noble ministers were not open to the idea. I had known they would not like it anyway. What Cyrus aimed to do was going to reduce the power they had at the grassroots level. “In my opinion, it is a good idea; the common people do not have to wear it with every little request they have. Whoever they have chosen will bear the burden of that and will only come to us when big issues arrive,” returned Cyrus. I could see that he was in a good mood today. On a normal day, anyone who labeled his idea as p
Theophilus' POVI was getting frustrated with my new bride. I had prevailed the other day and she had come home with me but as we reached my home she had made it very clear that we would be staying in different rooms. “Why? Are you embarrassed that you might snore?” I had been teasing her but her face had remained stoic. “We just got married, Moana. We may not like each other but I know there is chemistry between us,” I remembered that even though she had bitten me the other day she had responded well to my kiss initially. “I will only be intimate with you when it is necessary to birth your heir,” came her response. “And if I want to start making my heir now?”“I am not ready. I shall be ready in a year,” came her stubborn response. I had given in to her because I did not have the strength to argue with her. She had her own room and I had mine but what I did not expect from her was she avoiding me. She avoided me like I was a plague. I could not understand her and to be frank
“He deserves to be locked up for what he did to you,” I could see his veins pulsating due to his rage but I had to find a way to calm him down. “You will only complicate matters by confronting him about this,” I said to him but I doubted he was listening to what I was saying. “Complicate what? You are not to return to your father anymore,” he said. “That is why there is no need to complicate this further. Whatever he did to me does not matter anymore.” He wanted to say something more but I stopped him with a kiss. “My father…” I started to say but my words were lost in his mouth as he captured my lips in a deep kiss. He stopped kissing and stared into my eyes to ask, “Are you sure?” I answered him with a kiss and standing in the middle of the long corridor, we made love. Theophilus' POV I had to be the happiest man in Ghysem.I had married the most beautiful woman in the world and now that there were no secrets among us I was enjoying marital bliss. As I walked into Lord Rob