Aubrey’s POVI yawned, feeling tired but I couldn’t leave. I rubbed my eyes and focused on the new potion I tried to mix. I heard a knock on the door and Hayden made his way in. We hadn’t spoken since last night and I didn’t know how bad the argument had been seeing as we both failed to address it. “Can I talk to you for a minute?” Hayden said as he walked towards me. I nodded and turned around, waiting for him to speak. “I wanted to apologize for what happened last night. I guess I was too hard on you and I shouldn’t have been that way.” Hayden said gently. My mouth hung open for a few seconds before I snapped it shut. I hadn’t been expecting him to come in here and apologize not after the tantrum I threw last night. He still didn’t know what had led to my outburst and I wasn’t sure if I was ready to let him in on the secret I’ve been keeping from him since the act happened. “It’s okay, Hayden. I’m sorry for being harsh as well but right now, I need to focus on sorting this pot
Hayden’s POVI felt my heart break into a million pieces as I kept replaying what I had seen as soon as I entered the room. I trusted Aubrey and she had allowed herself to be swept with Aiden’s lies and he had taken advantage of her. “I don’t know how much more of this I can take any longer, Aubrey. You promised me that this wasn’t going to happen and now I can’t wonder how long you’ve been doing this behind my back.” “Hayden, it’s just this once, I swear it. I didn’t know what came over me, I never meant for this to happen.” Aubrey apologized profusely. “This place, this pack, it’s changing us and we’re losing ourselves in all of these.” I ran my hands through my hair. “I’m still the same person you’ve always known, Hayden. You’re trying to accuse me of something that I’m not.” Aubrey said, trying to defend herself but I knew better. “You must be fucking kidding me, Aubrey. Do you think you’re still the same person? You’re not present anymore and I don’t even know who the hell yo
Aubrey’s POVI rubbed my eyes as I let out a groan. I was reaching my breaking point and knew that I wouldn’t be able to do this for a very long time. It was hard keeping up with the appearance, and it was telling me.Damon was a compassionate person and would notice my issues very soon. I took a large sip from the glass of water in front of me, trying to calm my nerves before I completely lost it. My phone rang, forcing me back to reality. I glanced at the caller ID; it was Hayden. Immediately, fear consumed me, and I began to panic. He would have figured everything out if he heard my voice, and I didn’t want that to happen. I watched the phone as it rang and entered voicemail. I was hoping that Hayden wouldn’t come to look for me. Because all I wanted right now was to be alone and figure out what was wrong with me. I covered my face with my hands, leaning into the couch I was seated on. I didn’t need a medical report because I knew I was slowly looking at everything happening.
Aubrey’s POVI slowly forced my eyes open as I rubbed them gently. The rays of sunlight falling across my face made the few seconds quite difficult, but I eventually got used to the light. I opened my eyes wider to see Hayden, Aiden, and Damon standing over me with worry on their faces as they waited for me to look relaxed before they besieged me with a barrage of questions. Hayden: "Aubrey, what's going on? Why did you faint?"“You were talking to me for one minute, and the next, you passed out on the floor right in front of me. Do you want to tell me what is going on with you, Aubrey? What’d you faint?” I opened my mouth but it was quite difficult for me to speak at first. “I don’t know why I passed out in that manner, Hayden. I know I’m fine, it’s just that I’ve been feeling weak of late and I guess that’s why.” “You’ve been looking bright to me for the past few days,” Hayden frowned. “Is there something going on that I don’t know about yet?” I hesitated but now that Aiden and
Aubrey’s POVI was pretty surprised after I had gotten Ellie’s message to meet in one of the common rooms. It was the biggest shock I had gotten since I returned and I was skeptical about the whole thing. Ellie and I had never seen eye to eye on anything before the fact that she wanted to meet now meant something wasn’t right but I accepted her invitation nonetheless. There was only one way to know what she truly wanted and that was by meeting up with her. I knocked twice on the door before making my way in to see Ellie seated upright on the red velvet chair opposite me. “You said you want to see me,” I began as I took the empty chair adjacent to hers. “Yes, I want to. I’m quite happy that you accepted my offer given everything that’s happened between us.” Ellie began. I shrugged. “What do you want, Ellie? I don’t mean to be rude but I’m quite busy.” I replied. “I wanted to thank you for everything you’ve been doing for the pack despite how you must feel about us regardless and
Aubrey’s POVAiden had been right when he said Ellie had never apologized to anyone. It took until I was humiliated in front of everyone in the mall before I understood why he had said that. It came as a shock when I learned that Ellie had planned everything, even before she came to the mall. I guess I was fortunate to have found out because when it happened, I fled to the bathroom to cry my eyes out, and that was when I heard Ellie and her friends come in. It was mostly out of fear of the unknown, but I had remained as quiet as a mouse, and that was when everything began to unfold in front of my face. “I didn’t know you had it in you to pull off quite the show like you did back there, Maria. You shouldn’t be wasting this talent by lazying around, don’t you know?” Ellie said, clearly delighted with everything that had happened. “It happens once in a blue moon. When you told us you needed our help, I knew I had to bring my A-game and I did.” Maria said, feeling proud of herself. “
Damon’s POV“Stars are hugely celestial bodies made mostly of hydrogen and helium that produce light and heat from the churning nuclear forges inside their cores. They are the building blocks of the galaxies, of which there are billions in the universe.""As stars approach the end of their lives, much of their hydrogen gets converted to helium, the stars then undergo various changes to become a red giant; it then sheds its outer layer becoming a white dwarf before eventually going dark. Massive stars eschew these processes and go out with a big bang.”"You didn't listen to a word I said, right?" Aubrey finally paused after a long pause. Her eyes narrowed in feigned annoyance."I was distracted, Aubrey," I said, my eyes traveling down her body slowly.It was the truth, all along my eyes were fixed on her instead of the words she was speaking and I found myself smiling each time she blinked or each time a new word came out of her mouth. “So tell me what happened, were you thinking abou
Aubrey’s POVMy desires were on overdrive. I needed to have sex so badly and it was all I could think about. My eyes were glowing and I knew it was pointless to try and work in the laboratory today. If it continues this way, I am going to drive myself crazy. I hurriedly dropped everything I was doing and made my way towards the house. I was hoping to see Hayden inside and I sent up a prayer of gratitude as I saw him lying down on the bed. I pounced on him and kissed him hard and he responded with the same vigor, his hands gripping me as he held me against his chest. I could feel my skin burning, I wanted his hands all over my body and most importantly, I wanted him inside him. “Take off your clothes, Hayden,” I said impatiently, kissing him at the same time. “Aubrey?” Hayden paused. “You heard me, Hayden. I need you to have sex with me right now.” I pleaded, pulling at his shirt and urging him to take it off. “You need to calm down, Aubrey. Where’s all your excitement coming
Aubrey’s POVI stay silent after Ellie’s actions not wanting to get into a fight with her or anyone else for that matter. I’d done a lot of that and all I wanted right now was to be with my family and spend the night with them after being away for a while. “I’ll take it that you’re drunk and you have no control over your emotions right now,” I said, wiping my face as I stared at her. “Fuck you, bitch. How dare you—“ “You need to stop, Ellie. I’m not your enemy and I’ve never been. If you say Aiden is slowly drifting away from you then you ought to check yourself and figure out what the problem is because you can’t say I’m unworthy of being put in the same sentence with you and then turn around to say I’m taking your husband away from you. It makes no fucking sense and you know it.” My words magically seem to shut her up and all she did was scowl at me. I felt sorry for her but she was at the bottom of the things I needed to worry about. “Get a grip on yourself and go to bed,” I a
Aubrey’s POVI stay silent after Ellie’s actions not wanting to get into a fight with her or anyone else for that matter. I’d done a lot of that and all I wanted right now was to be with my family and spend the night with them after being away for a while. “I’ll take it that you’re drunk and you have no control over your emotions right now,” I said, wiping my face as I stared at her. “Fuck you, bitch. How dare you—“ “You need to stop, Ellie. I’m not your enemy and I’ve never been. If you say Aiden is slowly drifting away from you then you ought to check yourself and figure out what the problem is because you can’t say I’m unworthy of being put in the same sentence with you and then turn around to say I’m taking your husband away from you. It makes no fucking sense and you know it.” My words magically seem to shut her up and all she did was scowl at me. I felt sorry for her but she was at the bottom of the things I needed to worry about. “Get a grip on yourself and go to bed,” I a
Aubrey’s POVI frankly didn’t know what to make of it after the old man introduced himself with a frightened smile, his words were mumbled so it was difficult to make out what his name was. I thought about engaging him in a small conversation but I decided not to. There were a lot of things going on in my life right now and I didn’t want to add any extra luggage on top of the whole mess. Whatever was going on with him, I could always take care of it later. Hayden had left immediately after the man left and I was all alone which meant it was the perfect time to see my sons and catch up on old times. Most importantly, I needed to run tests on them, especially Lucien. I had to know if the vaccine had failed or if it still kept its effectiveness like the results said it would. I made my way past the living room and I was visibly surprised to see Ellie sitting next to the kitchen counter, her arms crossed on her chest, a bottle of red wine and a glass cup sat next to it. She was an ea
Aubrey’s POVI groaned as I opened my eyes slowly. The walls around me were white and there was a distinctive smell in the air that told me I was in a hospital and suddenly, the memories came rushing back. I remembered seeing Damon ripping a man’s head off his shoulders in one clean swoop and I remember the way I screamed while passing out. It kind of felt embarrassing remembering the whole thing now but seeing as I’d been in a rather critical situation, it had been bound to happen. The room was empty but I noticed that there were plates of food kept at my bedside and the couches in the room looked like they’d been slept on. They've all been worried about me when I passed out and if they brought me to the hospital, it meant that it’d have been something critical that needed the best treatment. I hadn’t seen my kids in a while and I knew they’d be worried about my whereabouts. They were extremely sensitive and if anything, they’d know I’d been in grave danger. I tried to push mysel
Mark’s POV“Utter woke nonsense! I will not support this foolishness and I want to warn all of you here to desist from raising this issue with our Alpha!” I slammed my fist on the table, making the men sitting around it flinch.They were making no sense with this idea of theirs and I wasn’t going to let it stand. I’d been quite silent on pack matters because I’d been busy with several things but after clearing my schedule to be present here today, everything felt foreign, much to my disgust.“You’re overreacting, Mark. There’s nothing foolish about this decision and you know it.” Elder John said, wagging his finger in my face. “Humor me, John. Tell me why you think this decision that you’ve all decided to go with isn’t a stupid one. I’ll wait for you to give me one credible reason.” I said, leaning into my chair and waiting for him to speak. “The only reason you’re against this idea is because of the rift your daughter has with the person in question. If it were to be anyone else, y
Aiden’s POVI may not like Hayden but at that point, we needed every available wolf or man, in his case. I shared a nod with Damon and he backed down from being aggressive with Hayden. “You’ll listen to me at all times. Do not do anything without my permission, do you understand me, Hayden?” I asked. “Yes,” Hayden nodded. That was all I needed as we all hurried out of the room and rushed downstairs. “Is everyone ready to leave?” I asked Damon as I made my way into the car, held open by one of the guards. “Yes, our best fighters are ready and waiting for your command, Aiden,” Damon answered as he joined me in the car. Hayden decided to join a couple of my wolves at the back of the truck and I urged them to keep an eye on him. I hit the roof of the car twice and the engine roared to life, the driver stepped on the accelerator and the car raced out of the parking lot. My fears hadn’t toned down yet but for the first time, I was optimistic about finding Aubrey and bringing her ho
Aiden’s POV I got into my car and stepped on the accelerator as hard as I could. My ears weren’t deceiving me and I knew I heard Aubrey call out my name but I had to be certain that I wasn’t hallucinating and if there was one person who could prove that I’d heard correctly, it was Damon.I tried calling him earlier but it went straight to voicemail. He often put his phone on airplane mode wherever he was busy or engaged in something serious. As soon as I parked in front of the mansion, I jumped out of the car and scaled the stairs, two at a time, yelling and pushing everyone out of my way as they all shot me a bemused look but I didn’t.Aubrey’s life hung in the balance and that was all that mattered to me at this point. I pushed the door to our study open and found Damon staring intently at the screen in front of him. He shot me a look that demanded an explanation. I closed the door behind me and sat on the empty seat opposite him. “I heard her calling my name, Damon,” I said. “It
Aiden’s POV I got into my car and stepped on the accelerator as hard as I could. My ears weren’t deceiving me and I knew I heard Aubrey call out my name but I had to be certain that I wasn’t hallucinating and if there was one person who could prove that I’d heard correctly, it was Damon.I tried calling him earlier but it went straight to voicemail. He often put his phone on airplane mode wherever he was busy or engaged in something serious. As soon as I parked in front of the mansion, I jumped out of the car and scaled the stairs, two at a time, yelling and pushing everyone out of my way as they all shot me a bemused look but I didn’t.Aubrey’s life hung in the balance and that was all that mattered to me at this point. I pushed the door to our study open and found Damon staring intently at the screen in front of him. He shot me a look that demanded an explanation. I closed the door behind me and sat on the empty seat opposite him. “I heard her calling my name, Damon,” I said. “It
Aiden’s POVIt had been confirmed. Aubrey was officially declared missing and the news threw the pack into disarray as everyone wondered who could be behind this kidnapping.I’d been asking questions on how this could’ve happened and I finally had a lead. I sat behind the screen, waiting for the suspect as he walked across the street without any care in the world. I wondered how he had gotten past the security at the front door. Sam's Kitchen was one of the best food restaurants in the pack and it was exclusively for the rich and successful. A meal here cost more than what some people earned in a month and I had dinner here anytime I needed to put in a night shift at the office. From my observation, men like him weren't welcomed here, it was bad for business. And knowing how strict the employees were, there was no way he would have gotten past the security guards. Except, if he had gotten in through the back door.Someone had tipped him off about where I would be. There was no need t