Lyra's POVI stayed still. Unable to fathom what had just been relayed to me. I couldn't believe that Devlin was the one he was intending to go after. He could've gone after Luna herself but he preferred her daughter knowing that of course Luna cared more about Devlin than she did herself. It was a mother's love for her child that Tristan was after. Surely he was a cruel human being. He was very wicked."Why?" I asked, "that's wicked! That's inhumane"."She took my parents from me. The people I loved very much, she took them from me. She took my pack, my family and you think I shouldn't repay? I'm being merciful by letting her pack live, but surely, her daughter will not get that mercy".I shook my head, "so what, are you going to kill her?" He shook his head, "I have other plans for her, she will suffer a terrible fate, she will beg me to kill her"."Tristan,'' I wanted to say something but the sound of a car driving in shut me up. I looked towards the direction and saw a very expe
Lyra's POVI couldn't say exactly how I felt when I heard those words. But I knew that my whole body felt like I was tossed into an ocean with my ankle tied to a boulder and I sank down, my fingers wrapped around my heart as my breath failed, my nostrils packed with water.In other words, I could not breathe.I was feeling my clothes sticking to my body and that was how I knew I was sweating profusely. I wanted to look at Philip, I wanted to turn to him to clarify if that was the truth. For him to tell me that this beautiful woman I was seeing was nothing more than his ex, the ex he had no sort of relationship with any longer. The ex he never told me about. I wanted to know if her story ended there as being an ex because I could feel my sanity slowly slipping from my fingertips."Oh yes,'' I heard Tristan's voice. It sounded so far away but I knew he was merely twenty feet away from me. "I forgot to mention that bit, Lyra. Fiona and Philip have a sexual relationship".My thoughts were
Asher's POVPhilip and I decided to take a walk back to his room. It was a voiceless decision as we just kept walking, I didn't want to go back to the room where I would see Devlin. She has been rather chatty and I certainly wasn't in the mood to chat with her. She was somewhat unable to predict because one time she will allow herself to be distant, keep herself away from drama and then another time she will unleash drama herself.This was a time when she was bringing drama. She had opened her mouth to Tristan about all of us and now our mission was most likely doomed as Tristan might very well know what we are planning."Do you think Devlin will tell Triatan about what we're planning to do?"I scoffed because it was the same thing that had been on my mind. "She is a lot of things and surprisingly, stupid is on that list. I do not know if she will inform Tristan, I cannot bet on it, I can only hope that in all she does, she should apply wisdom"."Do you think that word is in her vocab
Asher's POVI didn't know where they were running to but surely I was going to find out. I ran after them and I saw them enter the courtroom, exactly where I guessed they would be headed.I made sure not to enter, I didn't want Lyra or Philip to think I was being nosy, even though I was. But I didn't want them to think so.I stayed by the door looking through the small space there in order to see the people who were inside the room.I saw two new faces, however, I could only see the side profile of one of them but I didn't need to see her whole face because I knew exactly who she was.Fiona.An alpha.I didn't have any opinion about her, she was strong, she ruled with the flower and the sword. Her pack wasn't great in number but she didn't care. Instead, she focused on turning them all into killing machine. In the matter of skill, her pack was number one.I had seen her around Tristan a number of times. It seemed that they were closer than mere acquaintances. She looked like she also
Lyra's POVAs I vomited those words out of my mouth, I saw Asher retreat, his eyes drifting to the side like he was unable to come up with a word to say. He looked like he was affected by my words but I knew that that was the emotion he wanted me to see. I knew that not only did he not feel the same way for me, he was trying to manipulate me into thinking that I was a bad person for choosing myself.However, I was done with him. I have had enough of men not wanting me. I was tired of chasing something that was running away from me. K wanted to catch my breath, to look at the mirror and appreciate what was going inside of me.Even though I cannot give it what it would need in the future, I still wanted to try. I will work, I will till the soil and I strive to provide my baby whatever they would want.I was tired of making decisions because I was scared of what would become of them. Scared that they would live the life that I did. I didn't want them to suffer, and I will not let them su
Asher's POVI watched the two of them argue, to the extent that Lyra fell on her knees for him. I didn't think he meant so much to her. I never expected the possibility of her being enthralled by him like he was the best thing that had ever happened to her.She begged him, pleaded with him and although he was angry, she was relentless, she didn't want to give up on their relationship.And that realization made me feel a bile rise up in my throat. The cruelty made me realize that I was missing a lot. This was what I wanted from her. These petty fights, these jealousy, these affections, these bickerings, I wanted to live it all with her. I wanted her to be so scared to leave me the way she was scared of Philip leaving her. I wanted her to want me as much as she wanted him.But it wasn't anyone's fault but my own. I had messed up every chance of the two of us being together because of my uncertainty and utter foolishness. These moments that I feel nothing but pure love for her despite kn
Asher's POV"What?" I asked. "Philip cannot be your mate, his mate died".She nodded her head confirming that my words were in fact true, "his mate died but then we were mated to each other. However, he was mated with me during his grief, he wanted nothing to do with me and so he rejected me".I frowned. Philip never mentioned her probably because of this, he was exactly kike me but he had been the one condemning everything, acting like he was a saint when he wasn't. When he was not any different.Although I understood his reason for rejecting her, he should've understood mine.To be honest, I had only arrived at the understanding of my reason for not being with Lyra:It was too much for me. She was amazing but I was terrified of so many things and that fear was what was pulling me away from her. No matter how much she was reaching out to me, I wasn't able to hold her hand back because my hands were not worthy to."So what's the story about being exes?" I asked."I thought you weren't
Lyra's POVI knew those words had been said from a place of hurt. His eyes looked like they were about to release a major stream and watching him cry because of me was definitely heart breaking. It was funny how everything had turned around. It was I who was supposed to be angry, who was supposed to be pleading with but the ghost of my affairs from the past had surely caught up with me.Looking at how he was behaving over the issue of me coming in between his friendship with Tristan made me wonder if I had ever had a friend like that. Philip obviously loved me and I could see it in everything he did. For him to be mad at me over something like this when he had not been angry that I had almost slept with Asher nor was he angry when I left him because I had hoped that Asher was mine, meant that he really cared about this friendship he shared with Tristan.I wondered how he managed to stay friends with someone who was so toxic that he had to.embarrass his best friend in a room full of ot