Lily’s POVI looked at Luna Nora one more time and she had a very, very angry look on her face as she and Darius’ fiance walked away. I placed my head gently on Alpha Derek's shoulder as I thought of everything Luna Nora had said today. None of the things hurt me more than the fact that she had to bring Darius’ fiance. I am more than sure that Darius does not know that his fiance is here and if he is to find out his mom brought her just to make this difficult for me. He would definitely cause problems and be angry with his mother. But that's none of my business. At least now I know that I have to stay away from Darius or else there will be a battle and fight between me and this woman and I don't want that. I don't want a situation whereby I will be seen as somebody fighting for two brothers. I am more than enough with my position right now. I continued to think about everything I did not know when Alpha Derek had already got into my room as he opened the door and slowly walked toward
Alpha Derek’s POVWhat exactly is going on? I cannot just understand what exactly is going on. What is even happening? Why can't I seem to stop Luna Nora from every nonsense tricky act? She is acting in this palace. She's acting like she owns everything. She has forgotten that she's no longer the queen of this pack anymore. I think I need to make that clear to her. How dare she try to hurt Lily. Not because I always act like I don't care about Lily means that she could just act this way. I would never accept it no matter what. I would not just accept that she acts this way too. Lily, I have to do something. There is something I need to do. I will not just let her go scot free. I thought to myself as I paced back and forth in my room. Just then, Madam Betty rushed in in a panic. “You called for me, Alpha Derek?” she said.I looked at her angrily and the wine glass in my hand. I slammed it on the ground as it shattered into pieces. Madam Betty screamed in fright. I walked slowly towar
Lily’s POVI woke up the next morning feeling a bit tired and so much pain in my feet as I looked down only to see that it was already wrapped all around with bandages and I still was not able to move it. I'm not really sure I broke an ankle. I think I actually broke my leg entirely because it was so painful. Just then I had a quick flashback of everything that happened last night and how Maya had taken care of me. Despite the fact that I kept pushing her away and shouting, she still made sure to do everything for me. I felt a little bit of pity and thought about the fact that maybe she was not actually pretending. She wanted to be my friend, but that was not enough reason for me to allow her to do whatever she wanted. I slowly dragged myself to sit on the bed as I ran my hands through my face to make my sleepy mood clear off. I have a lot of work to do today. I even have to clean Alpha Derek's room, which is like the most difficult work for me to do right now, but anyways I need to
Luna Nora’s POVAs I slowly found my way back into the room, I could not help but believe what was actually going on. Did I hear Alpha Derek correctly? Did I hear the maids correctly? Because I don't think this is possible. He can't possibly say that “Lily is no longer a slave.” This palace, the minute he annuls her position as a slave, it weakens my position as the lunar. And I don't think I'm ever stepping down for him. I am trying my very best to make Darius the Alpha, and I can't step down for Alpha Derek, no matter what.As I staggered my way through the hallway and towards my bedroom, I couldn't help but think about so many things. How can I possibly navigate this issue? How can I make sure that I come out of it without any problem? I opened my bedroom door and slowly shut it down. As I sat on the bed thinking about everything I heard, I was clearly hearing very well when I heard Alpha Derek yell at Madam Betty, telling her that “nothing must happen to Lily,” giving them an auth
Luna Nora’s POVI don’t know why he keeps acting this way. I don’t know why he sees it in him to act like he cannot take away this position from his brother. Why are you acting like this, Darius? I think you want us to end things this way, right? You want it to be this way. You want us to be forgotten in this palace. Let nobody even remember our name. Let nobody recall us anymore.” I think that is what you want, right? That is what you would like right now. “And I know it will make you so happy when you get to see it that we are pushed out of this palace. Lily takes over. I never even expected you to behave this way. I never even expected you to act this calm when Alpha Derek played with your mind, made you think that Lily was a nobody so you could fall in love with her.” “All those things, you already forgive him for it, like it is nothing.” I said to Darius, hoping he would listen to me. But he continued to shake his head sideways. “Mom, you can never force me to change. You ca
Darius’s POVI know that I am not supposed to listen to any words my mother says. And I've already vowed to myself that I would not listen to anything she said. Instead, I would do what my mind sets me to do. But something about the way she sounded last night made me a bit worried. It felt like she could see it, that we were going to lose our position as a royal family. But I know that can never happen because we are actually going to be a royal family for as long as possible after I have left the position as the Alpha to Alpha Derek. “So why else would he want to dethrone my mother from being Luna? Why can’t he just marry Lily and make her Luna?” What is so special about that position that he wants to take it away from my mom? But thinking about it on and on, I couldn't help but be worried. Thinking and wondering what could possibly happen to my mom's position. “What would happen to all her dreams? I know how much she loved being in the royal family. How much she had worked just
Lily’s POV“How can they just come to me and expect me to believe whatever they say?” Yes, it has been hours now and I have not been doing any single work. They’ve changed my room from the usual slave quarters to now one of the concubines quarters, I guess, because I could not understand why I was taken to a better and higher grade. That was actually none of my business because I don’t really care much. I just want to be out of this place as soon as possible, because I don’t want to be forcing anything. And I know that Madam Betty is aiming at something for saying that I am now privileged and in a higher position. “It makes no sense to me.” I don't even care now. I am not allowed to eat in the kitchen with the meat anymore. They seemed to be acting so awkward, and they had given me a special place to eat, even though it was not part of the royal family. I had my dinner in silence, thinking about how everything was going. I have not seen Alpha Derek for some days now, and that made m
Alpha Derek’s POVI don't know why, but no matter what I do, Lily does always find a way to annoy me. She always looks for a way to piss me off. She always does things that would make me want to yell at her, angrily." And now I don't know what to do. I feel so frustrated. I can't believe I am clearly giving her a higher position and she's dragging with me that she does not want to take that position and wants to go back to the slave quarters. I know I wasn't supposed to yell at her the way I did, but I don't have a choice. She just makes me so angry and so frustrated these few days that I don't know what to do. I watched her being harassed by Luna Nora, unable to control myself. Now I am taking away Luna Nora's position and giving it to her, yet she is pissing me off this way. I know how many ladies would die for that position I am giving to her that she keeps rejecting. I know how many ladies would want everything I am giving to her, but yet she's still doing this to me. Yet she's s
Author's POVOn the verge of giving his judgment on Derek's case, the elders immediately stopped Tobias and said, “You can't judge his case. You have to be crowned as the king first before you judge the case.” And Tobias immediately agreed with them and said, “Okay, I'll judge this case after my coronation.”“So have you picked the dates for the coronation?” he asked the council members, but they replied, “We can't coronate you without you having a Luna yet. We don't want you to be a cause of trouble like them,” the council members said to Tobias. Tobias immediately stood up and walked straight to Lily. He held her hand and said, “She will be my Luna.” The council members looked at each other in surprise and said, “How far? She can't be your mate.”Tobias was shocked and asked, “Why? Why can't she be my mate?” Cassie stood up immediately and said, “Because you have a mate already. I'm your first mate, and as long as I'm alive and I'm not dead, Lily can't be your mate. I am your first
Author's POVSitting on the throne was Tobias, as his face displayed a mix of emotions. The elder members were discussing how to crown Tobias as the new king of the pack. But Tobias said to them, “You don't necessarily have to crown me as the king. Derek can also be the king, and besides he has been the one there since all these years. I don't really know about the affairs of being a king in a pack.” He said to the elders but the elders did not agree to what he said. “No. Derek has been acting crazy these past few months. He has been acting mad on the throne. The power given to him has been misused. He has not been serving the people well,” the elder member said. “We were even planning to dethrone him not quite long before you showed up, Tobias,” they added. Tobias looked at them in shock and was surprised that the council members were planning to dethrone Derek. It was shocking as to why they would do that. They explained that he was acting paranoid and crazy. Derek was shocked tha
Author's POVOut of happiness, Cassie hugged him tighter than before. And before she knew it, Tobias pushed her away. But Lily did not see Tobias pushing her away. Cassie was shocked as to why Tobias would push her away. But she composed herself. She didn't want others to notice that she was pushed away by Tobias. Lily started walking. “I’m going to Tobias. I want to go to him like I missed. I have missed him. Now to go and hug him very tight and never let go,” she said to Alpha Derek. But Alpha Derek was shocked and said, “How could you, Lily? I thought we saved our relationship already. Do you want to betray me? Do you want to betray me with Tobias just like you did with Darius? Isn’t it enough? I thought you said our relationship was important. I thought you loved me now. I thought you promised me that you would love only me and nobody else.” He said to Lily, but Lily was not buying any of it. “No, Alpha Derek, I was sold to you. You forced me to love you. You forced me to be in
Author's POV“You are welcome, Tobias. We've been expecting you. Okay, I'll be back shortly. I need to sort some things out inside.” Alpha Derek stormed inside the house angrily and went into his room immediately. He took his phone and dialed Alpha Ethan's number right away. He dialed Alpha Ethan's number, and he picked up the call after two rings.“Alpha Ethan!” “What? How dare you? You told me Tobias was dead. You told me you punished him to a place of no return. You told me that there was no way he's going to survive there? Where you punished him to. How come he's alive? How come he's standing before me? You confirmed he was dead to me. You…. You confirmed that there is no way he's going to come back to life. You said there was no way he's going to come out of that place alive. How come he's alive? Standing ill and healthy right here in front of me? What did you do? You said he was not going to come back alive. Now how come he's alive and healthy? He did not just come back alive.
Author's POVAlpha Derek was sitting on his throne inside the throne room and he was very perplexed. He was wondering, ‘Who could these people be? Who could this wealthy billionaire be that came into my park without me knowing? How could they come into this park without my knowledge?’” He wondered. He immediately called his Beta and said, “Get me Lily right now. I want her by my side when I'm receiving these visitors,” he said to them. He said to his Beta, but he told him, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Alpha, but Lily is not. Lily is not around right now. She's not in the palace.” He said to him, and Alpha Derek stood up in anger. “What? What do you mean Lily is not in the palace? Where could she have gone? Why didn't she tell me where she was going?” Alpha Derek shouted in anger, but his Beta told him that he didn’t know where Lily went, but she was not in the palace right now. Alpha Derek started pacing up and down inside his throne room and he was wondering, ‘Where could Lily be?’ He
Author's POV“Why the hell are you? Why the hell do you care about me now? I thought you were acting indifferent before. I thought you didn’t like me and you didn’t want me to be your mate. Why now? Why do you have to claim me now?” Tobias shouted at Cassie, frustration evident in his tone.Cassie immediately interrupted him. “I did not leave you! It was because we weren’t in our pack back then. Now that we are back here, in the palace, I have to claim you now, and I can’t leave you for Lily. You can never be with Lily Blackthorn,” she insisted.Tobias, visibly angry, looked at her with annoyance. “You don’t have to claim me. I can never love you. I can only love Lily and Lily alone. Lily is the one I love, not you. Even if you try to claim me, I am not going to fall in love with you,” he muttered angrily.Cassie was equally annoyed. She stood up in frustration and declared, “Whatever you do, Tobias, you will never leave me alone. I am your true mate, and there is nothing you can do a
Author's POV“Are you sure that you are ready to do this?” Catherine asked Tobias, and Tobias looked in that direction.“Yes, I’m very ready to do this, and I’m sure of what I’m doing right now,” he replied.Catherine looked in Cassie's direction and saw her putting on headphones. She turned back to Tobias and said, “You don’t have to worry about her. I know that very soon she’s going to come around, and she’s going to like you just like she liked you before.”Tobias responded, “I don’t really care about her. It doesn’t really matter if she comes around. I like Lily. As long as I have Lily there waiting for me, I am fine. I am okay with Lily alone. I don’t really care if she comes around and likes me again. Sincerely, I don’t want her to like me because I already like Lily, and I would like only Lily as my mate.”Meanwhile, Cassie was not really listening to her headphones. She thought to herself, ‘I don’t really have to say anything or act like I heard what they are saying. I have a
Maya’s POVI decided that even though I had already gotten to realize Darius's actual plan, I would still try my best to divert it and make him quit his plan. So I thought of the perfect words to use, and it finally came to me."Why do you want to kidnap her when you know that she still shares a very strong mate-bond with Alpha Derek? Her inner wolf can easily connect to him and tell him exactly where she is or where she thinks she is, or he could actually even sniff her out. It might take a while, but he would definitely find her. That's just the thing about meatballs that you know nothing about," I said to him as he laughed and began to knock his hand on the wheel like he was being frustrated and thinking of a way out. He turned to me swiftly and smacked at me before looking away."Who said I did not prepare for this? I have already prepared for all this in advance. I knew that something like this might cause a problem and he would be able to find out, but I am going to stop it, an
Maya’s POVI stood beside the door, eavesdropping on everything Luna Nora, and Alpha Darius were talking about. I was in total shock. Darius had gotten to the very edge, and I knew that he was going to start pouring all his punishment on everybody as quickly as possible. I didn't even think Lily would be able to last as long as I predicted. She might not even reach that extent. From the way I was seeing everything, it was just going to get worse and worse. I covered my mouth because it felt like I was about to scream in utter shock. So I made sure to stay hidden so that even if a maid or any guard passed, they would not easily notice me. And luckily for me, her door was inside in a way that it still had boulders blocking it so that anybody who passed would not easily notice someone was actually standing there. That was just one thing I was gaining from as I stood there listening to everything. After I had heard everything and was about to leave, I suddenly heard her telling Darius to