“Get out of my way! You can’t stop me from seeing my sister!” Nicole screamed, loud enough for Corinne to hear her clearly on the other side of the door, even though the sounds of the commotion outside were rivaling her words “Get out! Now!"
“Please, Princess Nicole, step aside!” the tiger guards practically begged “She already tried to kill Prince Declan. If he dies, she will definitely do the same to you, to have a clear path to the title of Alpha. Even Diego has had his security increased, as the council seems satisfied with the stance he took in standing against Alpha...”
"Shut up! Never say again my brother is going to die!” Nicole demanded, her voice breaking, “And never say again that my sister was responsible for what happened! You guys should be looking for the culprit, not stopping me from ge
“There are no footprints on the window of the room where Corinne and Declan were, nor in the garden below or in that part of the woods, which is the most likely place the culprit could have run.” Isabelle reflected, thoughtfully “That… It’s very strange.”“They managed to enter our territory without being noticed before. They probably did it again.” Hunter growled, doing his best to hide the tension in his tone. “But no one can do what they did without leaving a trace and we will find them, no matter how deep we have to go into the forest.”“Don’t you think we should go back to calling for backup?” his cousin asked “It might be dangerous to go alone. Besides, everyone's so busy keeping an eye on the tigers and preparing for this damn trial... They'll probably only realize you'r
That almost silver wolf reminded Hunter of something, but he didn't have time to let his mind work on it, as soon his beast was free too, leaping into the air to meet the attack of that bastard who had gotten his paws on Declan Valiant and blame Corinne for that. Just like that day when they had had a quick fight, Hunter was sure that defeating that bastard wouldn't be easy. The vassals who called him Alpha always seemed desperate to protect the man, but the truth was that he had been just as well trained in fighting as Hunter. To the point that, whenever the leader of the invaders managed to dodge one of his attacks, claws or bites, Hunter wondered how he was able to do this. His uncle Daniel had taught him all of that when Hunter was just a boy and, even though he was only 7 years old at the time, it had still been some of the best and most useful lessons he had received, before his father became the Al
“That's... That's madness...” Felix growled exactly what was on Hunter's mind, as both Isabelle and Aiden looked towards the man tied up in the center of the underground cellar they used to keep the prisoners away from the pack, although everyone who had been captured had found a way to kill themselves and now there was only...William. The cousin he thought he lost 23 years ago.“That must be a lie.” Aiden shook his head in disbelief. “They have a wizard with them, don't they? He or she must surely have found a way to copy your uncle's face and try to manipulate us with it..."“Is this the lie you’re going to tell the pack when they find out about me?” William sneered, “You guys are disgusting.”“Is&helli
“What did you say?” Hunter tried to maintain his cool, even though those words left his wolf in a state of alert like just a few times in his life.“You fucking bastard!” Felix snapped “Do you think you can dirty my family’s name like that?! My brothers would never hurt each other...!”“Are you talking about your dear brother Owen? The same one who once left my father injured and alone in a hunting competition when you were children, but managed to get away with it because he said he went to get help and got lost?” William growled, causing a deep silence to fall on the entire room “It was always very clear that he always wanted to get rid of his older brother and become Alpha, but you were never able to look beyond the beloved Owen to see that!”&ldqu
With hands shaking and his chest feeling like it was being torn apart, Hunter unfolded the pages that Isabelle's faint had put together again, noting how it was actually his mother's paper, with the same flower symbols on the edges and the pastel color, even though time had corroded the edges, yellowed everything and even whitened the words that were written there in black ink in a handwriting that, he couldn't deny, was Ellen's, without a doubt.With his breath caught in his throat, he hesitated for a moment, his mind spinning as if that seven-year-old boy, the same one who had moved into that house hand in hand with his mother, scared to know that now he would have to learn to be a leader, wanted Hunter to stop. That child begged him to just consider that everything William had said was a lie and that his mother, the woman whose teachings motivated him to be the Alpha he was until now, was not a heartles
“What?” William growled in Hunter's direction, at the same time that Felix approached to steal the letter from his hands, starting to read that nonsense "Are you really going to look like shit and pretend you didn't know any of this, even after she makes it very clear she would tell you everything, so you could kill me if I showed up?”“William…” Hunter tried to find words to express what he was feeling, but he couldn’t “I… I didn’t know any of this…”“Do you think I’m still capable of believing any lie that comes from you?!” his cousin once again made the chains around him suffer, making it clear that he would kill Hunter at that very moment, if he were free to do so “You are the puppet they used to continue to dominate this place and I know that very well!&rdquo
“I could have killed you much more easily when that woman showed up, offering power in exchange for us using our strength to help her overpower Valiant. But, my father raised me to know what magic users were capable of. She tried to prove me wrong, promising to bring the wives of all the allied Alphas as hostages to lure you to me, but after she failed, I moved my pack far away from that viper!” he said "I always knew I could defeat you alone, without needing the help of the magic that killed hundreds of shifters in the past..."“What did this sorceress look like?” Hunter asked, unable to pay attention to anything else.“And how will I know? She was always wearing a hood and a mask.”“So…” Aiden exchanged a look with Hunter in disbelief “Were you just atta
Even though it was in the middle of a work day, the whole pack froze at the same moment that Hunter's words reverberated in the air, leaving a deep silence all around, as they turned to watch Hunter continue to stare at Jennifer harshly, unable to even feel the minimal remorse for revealing it like that.Ellen Calibur didn't deserve him to keep all the promises he had made to her, after all.“Did that woman finally manage to drive you crazy?” Jennifer gasped “You’re talking like a lunatic.”“No, Jennifer. I don't think I've ever been so lucid in my entire life and now I realize how I fucked up everything.” He growled, furious with himself. “I had the chance to undo all the shit my parents did, but instead I chose to tell new lies to hide theirs, like an idiot. But not