Selene POV Lucian stood before me with a plate of food. His face was less grumpy and soft. I didn't know if he was acting or just being good to me for goodness sake."Here, eat this. You missed your lunch which shouldn't have been." He dropped the plate in front of me, his tone strict."I thought you promised to eat properly from now on? You shouldn't go back on your words, Selene. It is not good for your health to skip meals," he scolded."Did you come here to give me food or argue with me because I feel you came for the latter.""Don't turn this into a fight, Selene. You did wrong by skipping your meal. I have every right to be angry at you for neglecting what's important to you.""I didn't do it on purpose. It's not like I had a choice..." I defended myself but he cut me off with a slam on the table."You had a choice, Selene. We agreed that no matter what, you will stick to your eating routine for efficient training. Don't give me that excuse of not having a choice," he muttered
Lucian’s POV My eyes popped wide open, as I felt a sudden pang in my chest. Panting hurriedly, my eyes darted around curiously, as I placed my hands on my chest, I felt a painful zit in my wrist, which I had concluded was the reason for the sudden heart palpitation.Every limb in my body felt weak, and the room took a slow spin as perspiration trickled down my body, this was just a sign that it was time for me to get theirs and the final stone.For every day that I delay, I get a step closer to going rogue, and as much of the knowledge of my pitfall was laid down I could not leave without setting up a proper place for the pack.These and many more were my exact thoughts as I tried to stand up from the bed. My day was already planned and as I prepared to partake in it, something random crossed my mind. I had to bring carrots for Ella’s bunnies today, I mentally added it to my to-do list before leaving.A refreshing wave of air blew over me followed by the looks of a busy pack. There w
Selene’s POVI stared at myself in the mirror. The view of my belly protruding almost gave me a heart attack, it was almost two months, and I could already feel the bump.Gradually I rubbed my belly, as I stared at my reflection in the mirror, I glanced at my side view and how well it had grown in the past few days. I knew it was nothing more than pregnancy bloating, but it was something.I wouldn't be able to hide it after this month and after so much pondering, I have finally decided. He could do whatever he wanted after today but I wasn't going to keep it to myself anymore.So as I wore my garment, I took my plan that I had drawn for the farming project, and a little herb to help with the bloating and nausea before I walked outside, the view was as breathtaking as always.“Good morning healer?” “Good day Donald.” I responded to a pack member who had volunteered to assist with the weight I had on my shoulders, I gave it to him, and I searched eagerly for Lucian, it was already mid
Lucian’s POV I watched as she came out of her room, then headed toward the exit of the pack, still confused about her retaliation. I tried to call her back but she ignored me.Confusion settled in my heart as I tried to make sense out of it, but everything was out of place, why would she be angry if I knew she was pregnant? I never said anything about living her alone. I might hate my brother but his offspring had nothing to do with the hatred for him.I flexed my jaw again, her fingers on my face caused a whole new level of pain. Everything about her just had to be complicated each time, she was impossible.Or maybe these were just those little issues that came with pregnancy? How would I know? I leaned on the wall of my chambers, as I watched communicate with the people in the pack, totally disregarding my presence.The chef had mentioned that she woke up feeling sick, maybe she was having mood swings. She couldn't comprehend anything and must have expected me to be shocked, it was
Selene’s POVThe task carried out by the pack was impeccable, the farmers had outdone themselves, soon this pack would be a functioning pack, like the rest, it might have not been official marked as a true pack with a real territory but I wanted to make this people gain a familiar sense of belonging and it was only going to work when we have finally have a stable food source, and resources to provide shelter.The greenhouses were built, and the soil had been tilled. Tomorrow we must plant the seeds now that the soil hasn't been exposed to harmful effects of the weather change, I could already feel the success, the sensation of seeing my mutated crops grow sent chills down my spine.This was my guilty pleasure. “Selene… are you in there?” Alice called out from outside, I closed the sketch then gathered the seeds in my table before reaching out to her.“Alice, how can I help you?” It was dark outside, and from the looks of it, people were already retiring to their huts, she should be
Lucian’s POV After six years of being a rogue, I have learned a lot, from the betrayal of a sibling to that of commoners. I knew people who could betray me just by looking at them, and after my last conversation with Alice, I knew she was going to do something.For a wolf like her, suffering from detachment from her mate, it was going to take her more than the death of her mother to make her see that not every mate bond could be rejected passively.After I hinted that Alex wasn’t the reason for the drought and the fire outbursts I suspected I had given her enough reasons to forgive him. And waking up to the news that the borders of the pack were intruded at night was my confirmation.She was smart, I would give her that, but not smart enough to know no one leaves the pack, not under my watch.Earlier today, the guards noticed a sneaky move at the borders. Alice tried to run away with her little niece as an accomplice, which happened to be futile in the process because I was also info
Selene’s POVI had lost count of my bad mornings. If I was given a pebble each time I woke up to a disheartening news, I would have built a tower by now, and it sucked so much because it was so random.I sat outside my hut, looking at the scattered fertilizers, it took two days of hard labour to fermit the natural chemicals used for it and Alice had the audacity to destroy it to spite me.It was going to be hard to get another resource for a new fertilizer. We can’t afford to wait and gather them again, the sessions were changing, this was all we had to make it grow a little bit faster than the usual process.I sighed then placed my head on my thighs, it was so hard having to start something from scratch again, and it killed my hopes. Now it seemed like my effort was going to waste, my enthusiasm and the work the pack members put into making the greenhouse and planting the seeds.I exhaled a breath of relief as I tried to calm my mind down, if Alice had succeeded to escape she would h
Selene’s POV I slept, for a while but half heartedly this time, after the last encounter with Lucian, I couldn’t get myself to stop thinking about what he said. And the little feeling in my heart that still remained warm.I couldn’t comprehend why, but somehow I chose to repel whatever it was that I felt, I only needed his permission to build a greenhouse, and he had done enough, I could do the rest myself, with time.We might not be able to grow the crops as fast as we wanted to, but I could still grow them. Within a month, I didn’t want to owe him any more favors than I already did, I didn’t want to feel obligated to him or attached.So as I stood up from my bed, I reached out for a sheet of paper at the corner of the bed, he stated that he needed the list for the fertilizers, I planned on giving it to him, but mostly in a manner he had no option than to reject it.I was planning on making it hard to achieve, so I stated some plan based fertilizers which I had back in eclipse pack,
Selene’s POVIt was finally confirmed that Lucian was sick, no more lying and pretending, and with that out of the way, I also had to keep the guard who he sent to me, his daughter and Sophie had a hut to themselves.And while he had to stay with a cohabitant who was staying alone, as usual the rogues here were accommodating and he came on the day stories were told in the pack, Ella had offered a new friend some of her toys and while everyone was gathered two nights after their arrival a truck drove into the pack.It had everyone on alert, it was Lucian. The thought of it flooded my mind with such surreal calmness, and for the first time in days I actually smiled, I felt relieved and excited. I stood up from where I sat and I walked over to the spot where the continuous revving engines resounded.Lucian stepped out of the car but I could barely see him with the multitude of wolves howling and cheering with excitement.After what seemed like forever people finally made way, that was wh
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