Chapter 101Selene POV I knew Lucian was avoiding me due to what happened during our last training. He was provoked by my words. I poked the wrong buttons but it was for a good cause.Well, it was bound to happen either way. If he were honest with me from the beginning, maybe I would have gone easy on him. But he chose the hard path. Just now, he evaded my gaze and paid attention to my little Ella. Seeing him act all sweet towards gave him a softer look.After he left with his group for their hunt, I decided to take a walk down to my healer ward just to get my mind off him for a while.My mind has been filled up with his strange behavior towards me lately. Especially when he avoids my questions.I tried to focus on my healing process, going through some old books and jotting down some healing recipes.While I was taking notes, I began to feel dizzy and hot. I fanned my face with my hand, trying to understand why I felt so sick all of a sudden.I got up to walk around, but fell to t
Selene POV I headed down to meet Lucian. He was in the midst of his group who went hunting with him. They praised him for his expertise. I watched him from a distance as he adorned in their praises.‘What do you think?' I asked my wolf as I stared at Lucian.‘Nothing, I can't feel his wolf. But I think he is in pain. He is suffering inside, badly.'‘what do you mean?'‘I can't explain it to you. I am as confused as you are. Maybe, he is hurt or something. He might have injured himself while hunting.'Estel 's reasoning was quite plausible but knowing Lucian, an injury would be a less problem to him let a lone painful.It is very difficult to understand the ways of him. Today, he would be different, gentle then next time he turns into a prickle on my skin.‘I think it is best if you find out about his pain if you are so curious.'Estel muttered, increasing my curiosity. Why was he in pain? I furrowed my brows at the thought of it.I wish I could and get a good answer from him as well.
Lucian POV After the hunt, I retired to my room. I had a few hours to rest before going out to meet with Alpha pike and the soldiers with him.I sat on my bed and thought about Selene. I had caught a glimpse of her leaving the hunt feast. She didn't seem happy. I tried chasing after her but got cornered by my pack members.Maybe, she was mad at me for giving her a cold shoulder earlier. I always messed up things whenever I was around her. And I hated that it had to be her.While I was thinking of her, I tiredly fell asleep. I took a short nap and woke up to meet a darkened sky.It was finally night time. Rejuvenated from the hunt, I got up and dressed up for my meeting with Alpha pike. If things went well as planned, alpha Julian would be taken down.After putting on my gears, I took out my mask from the drawer I kept it and wore it over my face. Once I was fully prepared, I walked towards my door ready to leave.On my way out, I met Selene. I falteres backwards on seeing her, unexpe
Lucian POV We finally infiltrated the pack, taking out the guards one after the other until we were able to surround the park.They worked according to my plan, successfully getting rid of every obstacle before us."This is easier than I thought. I can't wait to get that bastard on his knees and have his head cut off," Alpha Pike muttered, taking out a guard.We met at a point that led to the main entrance of Julian's house. The idiot was too dumb to make one exit into and out of his house."Keep it down or we will end up getting caught," I warned alpha Pike. He went silent and followed me behind. We were about to pass through the gate when a guard jumped out of nowhere and Alpha Pike swiftly killed him.I closed my eyes knowing that he had messed up by acting out. Right behind him were other guards who were on their heels, raising alarm about our presence."Thanks for being agile," I cynically said, annoyed by his carelessness.He apologized but continued with his attack. I ran aft
Lucian’s POV He disgusted me so much that I wanted to gouge out his eyes and feed it to him, but not today, I had better things to do with my time than loath on this infestation in the wolf realm.I pushed my sword further to his neck, he fell on his back then three his hands to the air, I made sure the tip of the sword pressed on his chubby forehead, if he tried something totally stupid I would shove it into his skull.“You took a little girl from an eclipse pack, you nitwit, where’s she?”“What!” He barked at me like he wasn’t aware of what I was saying, I didn’t have the time for his cluelessness, I moved the sword further into his skull, blood spilled out of his head.“I will tell you! Don’t don’t please!” He begged, I pulled it away but not entirely, the tip of my sword was still in his flesh while I heard the sound of his broken bone healing.“She’s in the room with my wives, please don’t kill me” “Take me there” I pulled the sword out then shoved it back into my shealth, Juli
Lucian’s POVTogether we walked through the long corridors.The mission here was finally completed, I was no longer on the edge. I felt at ease and my task had finally aligned.All that filled my mind were the thoughts of a diverse realm, going to meet the man who held the third moonstone, with the help of the antidote I would be able to stay in my human form, and with silence and observation I would be able to blend in.Nervous about this new task I tried calming my mind. What could possibly go wrong? I asked myself, A lot could go wrong and the chances had been slashed but it wasn't impossible, so I would still have to do it.We finally got outside the pack house, pike had outdone himself by bringing the pack to shambles, fire everywhere, and dead body laying on the floor, war brought tears to families, that was why it was strongly advised that wolves kings come to terms but for people like Julian who deserved death, this was the price to pay, but it was no longer my business.I w
Selene’s POV The chilly weather had its way with me, my night was just blissful. I didn't want to wake up, I snuggled on my sheets a little bit longer, while fidgeting with one of my legs outside. I had been awake for the past thirty minutes yet I stayed in bed, choosing through my day dreams. I thought about being snuggled in such weather, but Ella was a morning person, she was almost alway the first to wake up. She would kick me and berate me with so many stories if I had told her to stay with me on the bed just to snuggle with me.So I chose to enjoy my time here, alone, and in peace.“Donald, let me go! Don’t touch me!” I heard a word of distress from the outside, my eyes popped wide open.“Who said that?” I waited for quite a while In hopes that it was my intrusive thought that was just so loud, but then a scream broke the wall between my imagination and reality, I stood from my bed immediately.Something was going on, like a fight, I walked out of the room, and I saw a crowd
Selene’s POV “Baby, what’s wrong?” I carried her from the floor then unto my body, her temperature was a little bit higher. She wrapped her arms around my neck.“I don’t know, I am very tired” she said as she snuggled in my arms, she must have come down with the flu, or so I thought but I rocked her in my arms and I placed a kiss on her chubby cheeks.“Don’t worry, I will check you out, but you can’t say no to drugs and I won’t use my healing abilities on you” “Why! Mom is faster!” She whined.“I know, but I won’t always be there to heal you, so you need to learn how to use drugs and how it works for the body, go to the ward and I will meet you there, you need to be resting when I come, don’t play around, don’t destroy anything,”“Even a little” “Yes baby, I don’t want you climbing shelves you will break your legs and I won’t heal you for three days” She giggled then kissed me.“Okay bye bye” I dropped her down then I bid her farewell before walking further into the pack, the chie
Selenes POVIt was yet another day without any news from Lucian, no words across the borders concerning his whereabouts. But as I had earlier stated in the last meeting, if Lucian doesn’t come back tomorrow, then that confirms my suspicions about his whereabouts; then he must have been wounded or captured and he was in grave need of assistance.Presently, while I tried to run the pack affairs and put everything in order, I met the likes of Alice in the little confinement built for her by Lucian before he left and I slid a plate under the bars. I hated to see her in that position.“How are you doing?”Her skin was pale with scars all over,as much as I wanted to relate to what she was feeling, I simply couldn't.“It’s for the best, trust me, going back to Alex is the same as dying. You don’t want that, and your niece is here, she wants to talk to you, its been over a week now, and she hasn’t seen you, she has also had traumatic experiences as you have.” I started and watched her body ea
Lucian’s POV I was offered a robe and my mask on my way out by one of the ladies who were commanded to wash me earlier, I wore it before I came out of the pack house where the rest of the pack was. When we finally got to the front, I made her kneel before her people.“People of Fae Pack, I did not come to take your queen away from you all, but I believe we all know we are way past our natural agreements, your ruler killed a king and a friend of mine out of greed. And I came before you to make it known to everyone that from today onward your pack will undergo a new recruiting process for leaders, because your queen will be joining your late king soon.” Like one would expect, the pack cheered and only a few grumbled to this message. This was the same fate Alex was heading to if he didn’t treat his people right, you tend to lose respect.“All of you will suffer! Every one of—“ I pulled out a sword from one of the guards who stood close to me and I slit her throat before she could say a
Lucian’s POV Her back was pressed against mine, and I held a dagger to her neck close enough to leave a mark but not close enough to cut through unless she made a stupid move. She knew she had a low probability of walking out of here alive because she had committed way too many crimes.“What are you waiting for? Shoot him!” I held her neck tight, my eyes shot at the guards who dared to move forward.They wouldn’t pull that trigger, not because they liked me, but simply because their hate for her superseded her command. I noticed when the girls were commanded to clean my body and when the guard ran out of the pack room after I killed the beta.“You fools! Kill him!” She shouted again.I narrowed my eyes to them, they lowered their guns immediately, placing them beside them. I stood up from the bed, making sure to hold her in place. Her legs kicked my crotch in anger, the pain was mind-blowing, but rather than reacting to the pain, I held the dagger closer to her neck, making sure it p
Lucian’s POV Everything before me seemed to blur, it zoomed in and out, I held in it, I needed to stand my ground with all that was going on, it was only just the beginning and the queen had made it clear that she was going to exert her revenge,she obviously couldn’t take what she dished out.She had killed so many people who were undeserving of her cruelty but the death of a brother had turned her into a container for pain.Silly.I was dragged to her room, and was dumped on the floor, a wave of cold air blew over my face. It relaxed my nerves but the pain still lingered, causing me to rock back and forth, shriveled and tormented by the pain and the wolf’s bane.But something ticked in my mind I wasn’t confined to anything.“Escarno. Come out.” I said in hopes that I would gain some sort of fighting ability while I healed from the insides, but he didn’t respond.“I know you can hear me, we need to leave.” “Oh wow, so you no longer fear that I would kill someone, the last time I trie
Lucian’s POV “I want to have a nation with your offspring. You know that right?” The queen said as she washed my skin with a warm towel, I flinched, her finger ran through a healing wound and I felt my blood slipping down my body.“I remembered welcoming you to my bed, and you turned it down, well guess what, you don’t have much of a choice now, because you are at my mercy…” she purred as she shoved her finger deeper into my skin, I gritted my teeth and the pain seethed through me.“I knew there was something about you when you walked into the pack looking pale but who would have thought you poisoned yourself? Let me guess, for your child? A woman?” She shoved her fingers again, my insides swelled.“That savior spell kills and you did it, now look at you Lucian, the veins around your body is black, your body is poisoned and fighting against itself, and you still have the energy to fight and go on raids, how do you do it?” I clenched my hands into a hard fist as I attempted pulling
Selene’s POVIt's been two days since I saw that rumpled note in his room. I haven’t slept in the last two days and my patience was running thin. It sucked so much because somehow I found it exhausting to constantly worry about a strong wolf who would win me in a fight anytime, any day but somehow he had my mind in a haze because I could stop thinking about ways to ensure he wasn’t bruised or injured. Now the pack members had started asking questions, everyone looked up to me for some answers but how do I tell them that I am worried as well, he just left in the middle of the night without giving a formal information, the chief has never taken this long on a heist, not just that how do I tell them that Lucian had done something like this once. Running when he had responsibilities. Somehow I saw being in charge of the pack as a disadvantage rather than an advantage at this point, because no matter how I tried to avoid it, the pack needed to know the state of their safety.I had told
Lucian’s POV I watched her digest her reality in shock, she narrowed her eyes to Pike who was still stuck in the phase of the aftermath.“You just killed my brother.” She whispered bitterly as tears trickled down her eyes.“Replace him.” I responded, this was her reaction to a complaint I noticed the first time I came to see her. A message came through that a messenger she had left to starve had died, it was nice finally taking it out on her. I loved the look on her face as I said that.“How dare you !” “You have three minutes, bring out the land documents, give it to pike, I need it in three minutes. Or wait, two.” I smirked.She snorted, then commanded a wolf to check the cabinets in her chambers where she brought out a file, hurriedly wrote on it, and stamped it with her fingerprint, now no ruler was above a written agreement, it was a thing familiar with all packs.I assessed the document to make sure it was authentic, at least she was smart enough to understand I could tell a f
Lucian’s POVSeated in the chambers of the Fae queen, I watched how she regarded me with a fiery gaze. Pike doesn’t know everything about our enmity, he only heard she killed some of my pack members and I did the same with hers.But this day had dented the integrity of my pack, and she killed my healer and she tried to kill Selene too through her puppet, we were never going to be acquainted, and if I wasn’t a man of my words, I would stand up and leave.“So you brought a thief to my pack Pike, I knew you too be pathetic but I never took you to be a pussy.” The queen slurred as she twisted her braids around one of her fingers.The queen was dread haired, long dark bread fell down her body, at the sight of my flag I knew she changed, now she wore something more revealing. Her cleavages were out in the open, gold dropping down her neck and her scent intensified.Her feet were hurriedly manicured, and I could tell from the way she moved on her seat that she was extremely aroused by my pre
Lucian’s POV I held the necklace a little bit tighter. I thought about Ella. Alex truly lost everything when he left that little girl to die, but that has passed now.“Is she your daughter?”“I wish.” I responded. Ella was conceived the year I left the pack. If her mother hadn’t run back to the pack and wedded her father, she would be mine, but nothing changes, I would still care for her like she was mine, and so would the little child close to being born.“Oh I see. Then she must admire you then, with all the work you have done for rogues, you might be seen as a messiah.” She said,Ella was different, she said she loved me, my cheeks burnt a little bit more, most of my loyalty came from fear and expectation, Ella never had fear, she would pull my cheeks and tug my legs even when her mother wouldn’t. She was something else.“Well, I just wanted to say thanks for coming to the pack and bringing my father along. I miss home, it has been so long, I have been here, where I grew up and w