Lucian’s POV I carried her in my arms till we got to the pack. My appearance in the pack had everyone staring and eager to know what happened; they gathered around me.“Move away!” Kyle yelled as he pushed the pack members away from my path. I took Selene to the healers' ward, then I placed her on a bed. Emily was nowhere to be found, even though the pack was already in turmoil.“Emily! Where are you? Emily” My mind was running wild; it felt as though the world was coming to an end, and my heart was just seconds away from an explosion.'Lucian, don’t let her die. Lucian, don’t let her die. Selene can’t die.’ Those were the words going repeatedly through my mind.‘Emily!’ I yelled again as I ran through the pack in search of her. Where in the goddess name did she go now that I needed her the most? Fuck!“Fuck! You over there, the one holding that stick, where’s Emily? Where’s she!” The little lady stared at me in horror; her lips began to tremble, and she ran inside. I was agitated an
Lucian’s POV I walked back into the hut Emily and Joan were sitting in, and I took my seat just before them. My face fell on my palm as I tried to regulate the amount of things in my mind right now.‘We promised Ella that her mother would come back to her. How sure are you that she would come back, That little girl would hate you; she would be sad all her life Are you aware of that?’ Said EscarnoI ignored him; he was telling me something I already knew: I didn’t want her to die, not because I would be drowned in pain but because Ella would never recover from the shock of suddenly losing a mother who showed no sign of any sickness; she would constantly live in pain and anxiety. I had to do everything to make sure she survived.“What’s the stats? How is she doing?” I asked Joan, who was now sitting down and flipping through the book on her thighs.“She’s in a coma, Alpha, that’s all I can say. Her vitals are good, but I don’t think her brain is giving any signal to wake up; it’s simply
Selene’s POVPerspiration ran down my body. I had run so fast and so much that I had no control over my legs; all I did was run. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me; on my third sprint, I could hear the simultaneous thud of my heart.I was breathless, and my legs were giving out in sheer distress. Lucian was merely looking at me run back and forth, and since he hadn’t commanded me to stop, I suspected he was watching me go back and forth to check my resistance level; my legs were growing weaker and mildly stiff, but one more second wouldn't hurt.One more sprint and I was certain I would fall to the floor and probably lose my life in the process. I touched the tree, and as I turned to run back to where I had started running from, Lucian blew the whistle, and just like I had been compelled, my legs gave in, and I fell to the floor immediately.The world spun around me; my heart threatened to explode in my chest; I began to hyperventilate; I didn’t want to stand up from where I lay,
Lucian’s POV I was on my knees in my room, and I had the spell book before me; my eyes were focused on the page containing the words I was to recite. I had told everyone to stay away from the room for at least seven hours, and the only person allowed to enter afterward was Joan.And she was only able to enter after seven hours, which was first thing in the morning. Ella was secured in Emily’s room, and Joan suggested that she spend the night watching Selene to see if there was any progress; she knew what I wanted to do, and for the first time she didn’t protest or make me see things from a different perspectiveI placed my head on the pages of the book just as it was directed, and then I began to mutter the words I was supposed to recite. I was supposed to mutter it till I felt something out of the ordinary.I had recited it more than twenty times nonstop till the moon goddess deemed me worthy of her listening ears, and when the wind started blowing furiously in my room, I felt flames
Selene’s POV All of a sudden, my eyes bolted open.It was still very dark around me, but I knew I was awake because I could finally feel my hands. It was weird to finally gain control of myself; I had woken up earlier, but Joan told me to rest some more.Now I was awake again, still weak but more active than I was when I first woke up, but unlike before, the room reeked with an odd scent; it was pojant, and wet it smelt like metal at first. Then the scent became a little bit clearer, and I could finally decipher what it truly meant. ‘Blood?’ I jerked from the bed immediately before me, laid two bodies bloodied and bruised on the floor, and it was none other than the bodies of Emily and Joan. Someone had slit their throats, and now they are seated in a pool of their blood.“Oh goodness, what’s this?” I ran to Emily, and I shook her vigorously, but she didn’t move. I tapped her, and then I checked her eye, but her pupils were already rolled up. Fear engulfed me; she couldn’t just di
Selene’s pov It was a dream, but I saw Emily walk into the room.She was the first lady I saw when I woke up; she had a tray of drugs in her hands, and even though I had just healed and displayed something absurd, she sat beside me and talked to me.She never asked me about my wolf or treated me any differently.She made me believe I could have other friends. In the pack, she was there to always make me smile; she was the first lady to ever treat me like a living being; even my sister wouldn’t treat me the way Emily would treat me; she was a gift to me; she was the reason why living in the pack was bearable.Now she was dead.When she entered the room again, I held her and I cried in her arms. I knew it was a dream, and my mind had only created this scene, so I bid her farewell."Emily, I am sorry I couldn’t save you; I tried,” I said. She wrapped her hands around me, and she kissed my hair; she didn’t say anything, till I couldn’t feel her in between my hands anymore.I was hugging t
Selene’s POV Lucian moved over to the corpse, and he said prayer to the goddess to grant her soul a safe journey to the realm of the goddess, after he was done, he moved away, and the undertakers took the boat on their shoulders.The rest of the pack members carried her to the waterside, where we were to burn her body.I could not move my legs; it was a thing of pain and denial; I could not hold it anymore. As warm tears strolled down my eyes, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned, and I saw Joan beside me.I hugged her, she wrapped her hands around me, she exhaled with full force behind me, “Words can’t explain how much I want to thank you, Selene; I would have been carried on that boat if you hadn’t healed me. Thank you,” she cried on my shoulders.We stood there for a while till we pulled ourselves away from each other's embrace. Her eyes were red from crying, and the scar left on her neck as a result of Kyle's betrayals was still present and barely healed; she had a bandage over
Selene’s POV“Please”“Everyone in the pack thinks I would be the one to save them, and I would give them a safe life, far from critics of other packs, a life away from their past. But I can't, at least not without the moonstone.”I was instantly hooked. “What do you mean, you already saved them; they do not need saving?”“Winter is coming; do you know that? The kids will die, and only the adults with wolves will survive. I need more store spaces and more farming lands to be able to cultivate more crops and more supplies to feed everybody during the winter and build an aspiring nation. A pack is formed from generations of leaders, most times a family, but we are rogues. I would be going out to bring in more rogues who can’t survive in the winter, which means the pack would be crowded.”“So the moonstone would help? Is it like a currency?” I asked, and it still made no sense.“No, it’s the only thing that can take me back to the pack; I can’t have a say in my pack anymore because litera
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
Lucian’s POV Tomorrow, we will be at the Fae Queens pack. Pike finally agreed and while he was away from the pack, on his way to the Eclipse pack to make a deal with Alex, Selene crossed my mind again, it had been a week, I should send a message.Her needs would have to be suspended for the meantime, simply because I can’t afford to enter the pack anymore, my people were in pain and it would be silly to take more from them than we already did.Besides, she started the drought out of anger, not like I blamed her for this act. She was angry, I understand, but I was indirectly the ruler of the pack. My people are my interest. She should understand, at least she ruled once.I sighed in disbelief as I weighed everything that was happening around me at the moment. I never planned to be here this sick and tired.My chest burnt with an unquenchable fire. In a month I might sleep and not wake up. If I don’t usurp Alex in that time, I might never do it again, I might not be awake to see Ella g