Asher's POV.After I ensured for the nth time that everything needed for the marking ceremony on my part was perfectly arranged and in order just like Devlin's mother had asked for, I decided to go on a search to find Devlin.I hated how we stopped talking, we would have cleared the air and stopped the stupid fight, but her mother had interrupted us and it would've been quite rude if I had taken Devlin away by myself.Her mother had nothing against me, it pleased her that I was the aloha of my pack and she obviously wouldn't want her daughter to grow up into a woman that married a man of lesser I status than she was, if anything, she was supposed to go higher.I was lucky, other than the fact that she was my mate, I was also the alpha of my pack and I had won the contest for Devlin's heart. I knew her mother would obviously approve of me from day one but I couldn't abuse it. I still needed to know my place.I walked around the silver moon pack for a while hoping to find Devlin so I co
Asher's POVI looked at her, I was beyond stunned by her words. It was a grievous assumption she was making. After deceiving me into sleeping with her, I could hardly believe she would go ahead and call herself my mate.I was furious. I couldn't believe that this was someone I had felt pity for a few minutes ago, it was shocking that she could say something like that.I never thought of the possibility of her harboring such ideas in her head. But as I began to think further, I finally understood her only goal for deceiving me. She wanted power.Power she thought I could offer her when it was next to impossible, my mate was Devlin and this girl wanted more than she was getting. She was probably envious of Devlin and so wanted to have Devlin's life. She wanted everything that Devlin owned and that included me.I couldn't even look at her. I was honestly disgusted at how someone could possibly be thinking this way. What could she probably be thinking?She must've thought she had every
Lyra's POVAsher looked completely shocked as I said those words. To be honest, I wasn't planning on dropping itnon him like this, I wamted more proof because if I didn't bring something solid he would think of me as a crazy person whonwas obsessed with him.I was obsessed with him but it wasn't up to me. I wasn't the one who weaved our destinies. He became my mate all of a sudden and it was too much for me to bare. Everything was too much for me to bear but I had nothing else to do but toncarry the weight of having a mate who was mated to someone else.As those words left my mouth I was instantly filled with regret. I wantedngo take it all back but unfortunately, it was out there now. I only knew he waa my mate but I had no idea if i was his mate, there was nothing tl orove my claim and of course he woukd think i was delirious and very stupid.He woukd be right if he thought so. I was ashamrd at how desperate I seemed. I should've just dropped jt. I knew he would never accept me as
Lyra's POVWhen my butt collided with the earth, I was suddenly pushed into reality. It dawned on me like never before that Asher would never believe my words, Asher would never see me as a human, much less his mate. He was disgusted at the sight of me and everything about me irks him.I saw it in his eyes as he looked at me, he didn't even try to help me up, instead he just stared at me like falling down was my fault. Like I was the one who had brought it all on my head.Maybe I really was at fault. I had done something so stupid, I had opened my mouth and poured out the truth I was keeping to myself, to Asher who didn't care about me. Asher who blamed me for everything.I was truthfully stupid.It was my fault. I had kept to myself, if i had walked away from him, or even kept my mouth shut and just took the rare pity he was offering me, maybe none of this could've happened.Maybe my life wouldn't be the shitshow it was now.Asher was standing before me, and he looked at me with a w
Lyra's POVSuddenly a hand slapped me across the face, the impact almost made me fall to the ground if Kaden hadn't been holding me.I could hardly begin to understand anything, to process anything. All that I felt was the stinging pain on my cheek and in less than three seconds, my hair was being pulled and I was suddenly tossed to the ground.I was shocked, I had been treated horribly before but never had I been so rough handled in my life. From one stinging pain to another.I was tossed to the ground and I immediately scurried to my feet and looked around.The person who had treated me so badly was Kaden's mother.I saw it coming, I knew what she could do, there were rumors flowing around the whole place that she was a bitter person, that she hated Asher so much and that hatred had consumed her and turned her into the monster she was.And not just that, she loved her son to a fault. She couldn't see anything wrong with her son, he was never at fault to her and she would stand with
Just like everyone else who was watching the whole interaction between Kaden's mother and Asher, I was equally stunned by what Asher was saying. He had said he wanted to punish Kaden's mother and it was something that had never been done before. Asher was the alpha but Kaden's mother was his stepmother before he became the alpha and he owed her that respect but looking at the two of them and how they spoke to one another, there didn't seem to exist any form of respect or even the slightest acknowledgement.Asher was frowning at Kaden's mother. He was way taller than she was and from how they stood facing each other, Asher waa kike a tower hovering above her.I panicked, I feared that something bad was going to happen and I couldn't help but blame myself. Maybe if I had told Kaden that I wasn't comfortable talking to him, he could've backed away, but I didn't.I could've been more plain and outright to him but I wasn't and that is why he would grab my hand and harass me. It was nobody
Lyra's POVWas it weird to say that my heart was shivering?I could feel my body shudder as Asher's eyes met mine. He released an adrenaline rush within and I could feel my spine grow cold. Asher had never been so scary to me before, he had even yelled at his stepmother and who was I that he wouldn't yell too.I was scared really, the dogs weren't as scary as Asher was, I knew that this threat of his wasn't empty, he blamed me for ruining his relationship with Devlin even though it wasn't completely ruined yet but the guilt burning within was enough to already pronounce his relationship ruined.And it was nobody's fault but my own.And Asher wasn't even understanding enough to spare me some slacks, no, instead he made sure that I was well aware that the tears he cried, the heartache he felt, the guilt and the regret was all because of me and I was going to live with that on my conscience.Asher was unforgiving but what was I really expecting? That he would forgive me? Was I even deser
Lyra's POVI felt a sense of dread and fear wash over me. They had claimed that they were taking me to a special dungeon but as much as I could remember, I knew no such thing existed. I didn't know what to do about that nor how to go about asking them where we were going.I was a prisoner, it was not my place to ask questions but to sit still and allow them.lead me to wherever they wanted to. All i was now was no one's fault but mine.I knew I had this weird obsession with blaming myself for every little thing that happened but it truthfully was my fault. Though I couldn't keep on blaming myself for every little thing, every action someone made against me but I felt if i hadn't behaved in a certain way, said some particular words then maybe they wouldn't have acted in such a way to me.Everything in life was a causal effect, one thing had to happen for something else to happen and in this case, I had to open my mouth and say some fucked uo things to Asher, things that Kaden eventually