Mia's POV"Idiot. She doesn't even know what she just did now," I heard Mabel mumble. I had to clench my palms to prevent myself from retorting. I didn't have hearing as sensitive as that of people with wolves, so if I heard the mumble, then she surely meant me to hear it. She has been mumbling invectives against me ever since she learnt I was the one that persuaded others to come save her, and that had been an hour ago. It was enough to drive anyone crazy, and it was driving me crazy like a persistent fly that has taken a liking to my ears.I clenched my fists and told myself to just ignore her. I was already pissed off as it is, and talking with Mabel was sure to piss me off even more. I bit my lips as she made one more cutting remark and turned my attention to stuff that had happened earlier that day. But her incessant grumbling wouldn't let me, and soon, I was caught up listening to her list all my faults, all of which she made sound like a world ending sort of fault. I hit my
Lycidas POVBy the time we got back to the sanctuary, Mabel was already talking about moving again. Melina had assured us we were not followed, and she herself had concurred with that for a few minutes after she caught up with us. But as we walked home, she had gotten more and more paranoid till she was practically watching her back as she walked. I had thought she was just saying, but when she started packing up supplies right after we got back to the sanctuary, I realised she was serious about it. And that made me mad. I had only been here for three days, but still, it felt like I was not making any progress at all. The first day, I had fought corrupted, and that same night, the normal wolves invaded. I tried talking to Mabel on the second day so she would help me find Mia. That was when I learnt that Melina was supposedly the one in the prophecy. How that was possible, I didn't know. But it wouldn't be the first time the alpha had read the stars wrong. However, I had decided t
Amelia's POV I stood up, groaning. Even after a day, my whole body was still in pains from Garrett's torture. The bastard. I made a mental note to send him to eternal darkness when next I saw him. But at the moment, my concern was Lycidas. My heart physically ached for him. Though we were not mates, he's the closest thing I have ever had to a mate, and his long absence in my life was painful. It was made even more painful by the fact that I am the one that caused it, and the most painful by the fact that he might be in danger even as I lay here. The thought whipped me up and sent strength to my aching limbs. I pushed myself up from the mat and walked to Alpha Gonzalo's room. He was leaning over a piece of crystal that glowed red when I came in, a looking glass to his eyes. "Isn't it strange," he said without looking at me. "that there is this much power in our blood, and all we could use it for is just brute strength?" When he looked up at me, there was a fanatic light I was a
Mia's POV"You're Mia?" Lycidas asked. He didn't look all that shocked, which surprised me. Considering how eager he had been to find his mate, I had expected that he would have some big reaction when he finally learns that I am actually the one, especially as he had been near me all these while. "I am," I replied. "You don't seem shocked at all," I commented. "I guess I had been expecting it, even if I didn't know it." he said. "Now I think about it, ther have been hints throughout these three days that you're the one," I raised a brow. "Really?" He shrugged. "Mason's slip of tongue, the scent on the gloves, you didn't have a wolf, like Mia, you took the introductions from Mabel the first day I was here. And our intense hate for each other. I guess they never really clicked till now," I grinned. So we had even let out that much hint? "Well, you're numbskull for a reason. Not surprised they didn't click," I smirked. "The only reason they didn't click is because I couldn't thin
Mia's POVMy first thought when I woke up was that I seemed to wake with pains a lot more these days, so much that they have all blurred into one another and it now seemed like one long sleep of pains. I rubbed my head while I tried to recollect the particular instance that had led to being on the bed this time. It didn't take me long to remember. It didn't take me long to remember the almighty swing from Lycidas that could have sent me to the moon goddess' bossom.I gritted my teeth in anger and frustration.There was no way he could convince me that he hadn't meant that as a killing blow because how was I meant to survive that? I mean, I obviously did, since I was asking the question, but that must have been my luck forgetting herself for a few moments. Still rubbing my head, I lay back down and of course, somehow knocked the top of my head on the hard wooden bed. It shouldn't have been possible, since the sword had hit me on the top of my head and whoever has the top of their he
Martha's POVI opened my eyes. Everywhere was in almost total darkness. The fire we had made last night had already burned down to embers that glowed in the darkness, making it even thicker and more inky.I wobbled for a few seconds as I stood on my four legs, but I soon got my bearings, shook sleep out of my eyes and started picking my way out of the mass of furry wolves of varying sizes. Most of their ears perked up as I passed, but they remained still otherwise and I passed with relative ease. Though I didn't look, I knew that their noses twitched along with their ears, and they only remained still because they smelled a familiar scent. Had I been a stranger, I would have been besieged by about fifteen feral wolves before I had even gone three steps. That was the main reason Alpha Fenrir had us sleeping in our wolf forms through the night, though it made falling asleep hard and very uncomfortable until you finally accomplished it. I walked out into the bright silvery light of t
Selena's POVI stare around the empty room. I had been back to the castle for a few hours, yet I hadn't seen Hazel since then. I thought he might be in a meeting with Damian and his parents because they had mentioned to me that they wanted to meet him personally. But I knew that there was no way their meeting could last hours. I sighed and closed the door behind me. I had just gotten back from the garden he once stood and proposed to Mia. He went there occasionally and always stayed a long time. But he was not there. I was expecting him to be in the room when I returned, but the empty room proved me wrong. I collapsed on the bed and sighed again. Lately, Hazel had been getting more and more distant. For the first few months after our marriage, everything was fine and I enjoyed the fruit of my troubles. But he went on a mission Damian sent him one month ago and when he returned, he was a different person. That was when his thirst for power and his conquest campaign started. I swa
Selena's POVGently, I traced my fingers over the bloodstains on Hazel's back, my heart pounding with worry. The tension in the room seemed to heighten as I examined the wounds. His breath caught, but he made no move to stop me."Hazel, what happened?" I whispered, my voice barely audible in the silent room.He remained silent, his gaze fixed on some distant point beyond the walls. The air was thick with unspoken turmoil, and I couldn't shake the feeling that something dark loomed over us.Ignoring his lack of response, I took a deep breath and walked to a shelf in the study. I knew he kept a first aid kit somewhere because one time he had pounded me so much during sex that I bleeded and he treated me using a kit he got from a shelf here. Those were the good old days when we used to have sex everywhere in the castle, as far as there was no one around. "Hazel, you need to tell me what happened. Why is there blood on your dress?" I urged, my voice more determined this time.I dropped t