Asher's POVPhilip only shrugged as my question reached him, "I mean, she actually does know you quite well. Well enough to know that you would reject her''.I chuckled unbelievably, "if she knew that i was going to reject her, then why did she still try to convince me?"Philip raised an eyebrow at me, "a few minutes ago, she was in your sheets and for some reason the act wasn't seen through, so pardon her for thinking that there may be a chance between the two of you from that alone".I was well aware of what I was doing wrong, of how badly I was hurting the woman that only loved me, I didn't know if there was an easy way to do this and even if there was, Devlin was not going to let me have it. She wanted Lyra completely crushed and she had successfully achieved it. If Lyra had come knowing that i would still reject her but willing to try given the fact that we had been in bed a few hours ago,
Lyra's POVI have known Asher to be a lot of things but not possessive. He had never been that way about Devlin before, he had always been calm and collected. I used to think it was because he was so sure that devlin was his own but maybe it was different.His words were different now, the way he was looking at me was different, the way he was heaving was different. This was the first time I was seeing Asher so disorganized, he never allowed this part of himself to show, he always used to keep a front, making people see him for something he wasn't, it could be as a result of the fact that he was the ruler.His nose was flaring up and I could see that his fists were tightened at his side. His eyebrows were fighting to get a feel of each other like they were distant lovers. He was glaring at me and from his glare I knew that he hadn't realized what it is that he had just said. He looked so lost in his emotions that his rationality was far from him.Or maybe it wasn't that."You do not g
Asher's POVPhilip looked at me like I was out of my mind, "you want to be selfish?" He asked, "you are forgetting that right now you're being selfish".I shook my head, "what are you saying?""You choose your pack over Lyra, you choose your power, your seat, the fact that you are revered over the woman you claim to love..""I don't claim to love her, I actually do love her". He said."But you know nothing about her '' he replied, "you cannot say you love her when you know nothing about her, you don't even know who the father of the baby is. Do you really want to be with a woman who carries the baby of another man?"My heart skipped a beat."That baby will forever be proof that another man had been with her, that baby will exist to translate that a seed of another man had grown within her and had become a child. Are you ready to live with that?"He was simply trying to convince me against spending the rest of my life with Lyra. I could feel that he was threatened, seeing that if I rea
Lyra's POVI had no idea if I was really going to do what I was telling Asher. All I had said were just words to spite him if I actually believed him. His words, his deceit, his stories were all very common to me and I had gotten too used to it. I felt there was nothing he could say or do that I wouldn't be able to predict his next moves. What he had said in there a less than an hour ago was what had propelled me to look back and think about my life. I surely didn't want to stay in the dungeon forever, somehow, I had gotten used to living the high life with Philip. Of course I recalled that this environment was where I had been brought up, the environment where I had learned all the things I learnt and and though there were some merits, but the demerits were towering.I certainly didn't want my baby to experience life the way that I had. Maybe if I wasn't pregnant, I would not have even thought of leaving with Philip to his place, but I was pregnant and although I didn't want to make
Asher's POVAs I made my way over to the dungeon, I contemplated what I was going to say to her. Yes, I do realize that what I had done to her monitors who had been nothing but inhumane and even walking to her made it a whole lot worse. I was inconsistent with her and unpredictable. I had done things I was not proud of and if I could turn back the hands of time, I would.I would choose her. From when I first saw her as a slave, to when she constantly stood in my peripheral vision, I would've chosen her. She had done nothing wrong but love me, she had chosen me before I even knew she existed.I didn't feel this way just for reciprocal sake, just because I felt grateful. Since Devlin really stoke her scent and led me astray to believe that she was my mate, k couldn't really blame myself for that. It was impossible to do. I had had no idea how Lyra smelt like, if I had realized it then maybe proper investigations would have
Lyra's POVAsher stood there looking at me, I knew there were a lot of questions running through his mind, he was probably focused on the reason why would suddenly want to cut off anything that had to do with him.Though I also was really angry and wanted this conversation to end, I also wanted to hear what he had to say. He sounded so convincing like he was actually telling the truth that this was beyond him. I knew I couldn't believe him but I was still curious about what he bad to sat. I wanted to hear the story, I wanted to see exactly how desperate he was to have me in his bed. J never thought that Asher would be so sexually attracted to me. And honestly, I didn't know how to feel about that.This was because he was seeing only my body and ignoring the rest of me that was actually intriguing, the rest of me that was funny and lively, the rest of me that was abstract, the rest of me that was available to be experienced, the rest of me that made up the whole design.It was also qui
Asher's POVI froze from those words he had just said.I had never thought a day would come where I would see Tristan say such a thing about Lyra. They hated each other, it was a fact known to everyone who knew the two of them and for him to suddenly say that, it could mean that underneath that anger he had towards Lyra, there was some sort of feelings?I didn't want to assume, it could be that he was only trying to pull my legs and so I chuckled, "that's not true, just like you said, you cannot stand Lyra ''.He nodded his head, "she can be very annoying and all shades of stupid, but I do like it when she argues with me. She doesn't look at me as if I'm the alpha of a pack, she doesn't seem fazed about a lot of things most people concern themselves with and it feels really weird".I nodded my head, "do not confuse weird for feelings, it feels good to see something different, doesn't mean you should put a ring on it."He laughed, "I do not think she would make a bad partner, she surel
Lyra's POVThe question made my heart beat faster. Maybe it was better to go back to Philip. He loved me and I cares about him. He didn't bother to demand that I love him as much as I loved Asher. He was content with what I was offering, I was giving him half of me and he wasn't questioning it. He was the perfect man for me.Asher had made it clear that he and I would never be together, he had told me that he didn't love me, and expressed his desires for Devlin. There was no two way about it. For me to stand here still begging for his love was just stupid . It was better for everyone and for myself if I just go back to Philip.I would have preferred to stay in the dungeon but that was me being selfish. J was going to have a baby soon, when my water broke, and I'm here in the dungeon, I believe that Tristan would not be too amazed to decide to send me to a hospital. He would rather have me deliver the baby here, where I may very well lose the child.And then what happens after the chil