Selene’s POV Perspiration 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 and 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 running 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 and I began to hyperventilate. I didn’t want to stand up from
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 her room, kept under the intense watch of four guard wolves. Joan had also volunteered to keep watch on Selene just to get a report of the 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 perspective. I 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 non stop till the moon goddess deemed me worthy of her listening ears, and when the wind sta
Selene’s POV I felt an alien weight on my body, pushing me to the bed, it was still , hard and warm. My eyes fluttered open in a slow and steady pace as I tried to comprehend the situation of things, there was a division before me refracting the peaks of light in the room. I had only realised it was someone's fingers on my face when I noticed a body sitting closely on my face. I moved it, letting it fall. It was no surprise that I finally had the ability to move my body, because I knew Estel was done with whatever she was pursuing. I moved my body, and I pushed the weight off me, heaving a sigh of relief I sagged back on my bed. Too tired and extremely thirsty, it felt like I was left in a dessert with an inability to die. The thought of death was nostalgic it sparked something inside me. ‘Kyle!’ I thought. I jerked from the bed in a hurry, just to meet two lifeless bodies on the floor, it was Emily and Joan, lying in a pool of their blood, my heart skipped a beat, I rushed to th
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 which was a gesture I wasn’t really familiar with. She made me believe I could have other friends. In the pack, she was there to always make me smile even my sister wouldn’t treat me the way Emily treated me. She was a gift to me. She was the reason why living in the pack was bearable. Now she is 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 could 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 thin
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 considered moving with the undertaker but do I really want to see her being burnt and sailed off? No. I didn’t want to plague my last memory of her, so while everyone proceeded forward I stood back, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned, and I saw Joan beside me. On impulse I hugged her, letting my weight on her body as we wrapped our hands around each other. We witnessed her death together, no one else did, and it was more heartbreaking because I knew we would do anything to bring her back. But being vulnerable in such a situation made the pain worse. Being this close to her filled my nose with the metallic scent of blood and herbs, I noticed a band on her neck
Selene’s POV I let the anger swelling in my heart subside as I stared at the clouds above me, I was bigger than this, more matured and collected. I refused to let an old flame which should be dead if life hadn't tossed me like trash cause me to start a fight over something I should have forgotten. “How was it?’’ He asked. I took a glance at him and I saw him staring at the sky a well, his shirt was ripped and I saw a mark on his forearm, like a deep cut, I had an urge to heal but knowing Lucian wouldn’t let me I kept it to myself and I stared back at the sky. “What?” I asked. “Six years as Luna,taking care of everyone, being in power.” Of all the things he meant to ask, it was that I felt disappointed for the hundredth time since I saw his face again. He should have asked how I felt waiting under the oak tree, or maybe how I felt after six years! Was it too much to ask, I thought he was different from the rest. That his chivalry and politeness made him any different from the pe
Lucian’s POV She smelled so good. ‘Tell her we are mated. Please I can’t take it anymore Lucian I can’t’ Escarno whined and I felt it in my heart, it ached so badly that I feared my heart was going to implode anytime soon, I just needed some air and space. I could not afford being close to her anymore,she was too intoxicating for my liking, I mean whose skin could be so flawless, I have had so much urge to do a lot of things but I have never experienced an urge as strong as wanting to kiss her thighs. She smelt so good that it hurt to stay away. I knew it was the mate bond working, but it was now stressing me so much, it has taken so much away from me already, only the goddess knew what next I would place on the line just for her. Each time I saw her, it always ended up in a compromise, how does she do it? How does she make me take the fall of a sudden? I sighed and I rested my back on the rocky sand. After the previous ritual I did to wake her up I was expecting some sort of chan
Selene’s pov I blinked owlishly as the crease of my window let in a few rays of sunlight, and almost without warning, they made me feel even colder inside. It was today. It was the first real day, the first of many without her. It was pretty new to me, and I could only wonder how I would live the day and other days without her. Just that notion made the muscles in my throat constrict painfully, and my lungs felt like I had iron balls lodging in my chest. My chest heaved up and down. If she was here I would have been optimistic to wake up because I knew I would meet her at the healers ward, and we would chat away like we weren’t bothered by anything happening around us, and suddenly a flicker of her dead body showed in my mind. That bottle of antidote she poured in my mouth was the main reason why I was alive in the first place, else I would be dead, but things happen. Right? It was early, and Ella was outside, but I decided to stay a little bit longer than I should, and as pred
Lucian’s POV I had sectioned the pack members into a a group of fifty people each which meant I would be going back and forth four times, I made sure all the trucks were ready and for each truck we would have ten pack members in it.The pregnant ladies and the lactating mothers, then followed by teenagers, the road was bad so I needed to make sure they arrived at safety first, I had an inkling that the movement would raise curious brows but at the end of the day I would do anything to protect them.“You.” I pointed to the former guard at the Far pack, he walked over to me, his daughter wouldn’t leave without him.“Yes chief.” “You and your daughter will drive with me at the front,” I said. It was dnagerous to have a child at the front of the pack but she won’t let her father go and secondly she reminded me off Ella, they were about the same age and they had the same color of eyes.I met Alice who was also preparing her niece for the trip, she looked sane.“How are you doing?” I aske
Selene’s POV It was my second time conquering some of these human challenges, and I felt fulfilled by it. I might not be so far after all. At this point in time. I felt I could get anything I wanted if I put my mind to it, and also with the help of this man because somehow he had made everything easy and was easily the person who had made an attempt to talk to me.I bowed before him, and he did the same too he smiled at me, I would tell Joan about him.“Carpenter” I whispered, he nodded.“Selene Taylor.” We had a basic understanding of things, and it was really good. I didn’t want to let him go now, maybe for today. He was a healer just like me, just different realms. If he doesn’t have a wife then I would like to have dinner with him.I looked around for an object that could represent food but everything around here was sparkling and metallic.I felt uneasy, but the goldsmith walked out with a briefcase.“Cash?” I asked.He nodded, then opened the case, I saw their currencies bein
Selene’s POV If I had known that humans had a way of communicating, I might have not worried so much about language barriers, but then again, it was a nice experience.I walked out of the ward with him beside me, the moment I stepped out eveyones eyes met mine, they questioned me with their eyes, and trust me I would have been worried if I listened to Joan.If I had worn the cloth she wanted me to wear the napkin that our believer target loved seeing on ladies, if people were looking at me suspiciously I would have suspected it was the reason.Now I was fully clothed and elegant as at that too, and if they wanted some sewing advice I would give them.With my chest held high, I walked out of the ward trying to avoid gaze with anyone who tend to stare for too long and when I was done, I was out and the healer who had offered to take me to the goldsmith opened his car for me.I entered and the interiors were classy, I knew most of our vehicles were fashioned from theirs, and seeing the
Selene’s POV Silence prevailed in our midst, just watching each other, and someone walked into the little room and told them to go back, which they did. I already had my dagger in my bag. If they were planning to put me here for any reason, I will not go down without a fight.My daughter was on the other end of the realm and I only came here to make a harmless exchange. And they were making a fuss out of it. It was so annoying and they were making me sick with all this drama.I imagined Lucian in this situation, what would he has be done if he was here, first he would have not entered the car, and secondly it would be bloody already and the thought of him only made me smile.I wanted to go back home, home to Joan, Ella and Lucian.I wanted to go back to where I wasn’t misunderstood, and maybe didn’t have to explain myself.The man before me walked over to the board which I had already damaged, if he wrote one more word on it, I would be convinced that he was slow.Yes that’s it, he w
Selene’s POV Why do humans bear the name of their profession, I am Selene healer, or I am Selene farmer. What else? Hi I am Selene inventor?If this ain’t the most silly thing I have heard all day.My outburst had the man staring at me like I had done something way out of line which in my defense, I did, I just laughed my ass out because his name sounded ridiculous, just like when Joan had said it for the first time.I still had my back against the bed and laughing had removed the max that filled my nose with the calming air.He took the board and he wrote something on it, *what is funny, did I say anything wrong* I didn’t know but with the look of concern on his eyes, I could tell he wasn’t entirely comfortable with me smiling the way I did.I didn’t know how to tell him, but since we were trying to understand each other in any way possible and he was doing a bad job having to write it on the board, I decided to ease the pain for both of us.I sat upright and I placed the mask on th
Selene’s POV I expected them to know right away that something was wrong but they started laughing, I had made a mockery of myself, like it wasn’t already bad enough.I prayed to the goddess to open the floor so I can jump in but she didn’t and they didn’t stop laughing, he took a naked and he wrote on it.*Are you okay? Don’t you have insurance to cover it up. 3ahat you said was sipped awkward.*I don’t know what it meant, and I saw that they were looking at me curiously for answers I melted into the car which was still on the road, “yes.” I said then closed my eyes, hoping that my answer somehow aligns with them dropping me off. I just wanted to find a hotel and then listen to the recording of Joan. Maybe I can learn more than just yea and no.The human sat close to me, he held my hands tight and I glanced back to me, I repelled his attention and closeness, I pulled my hands away.He said something which I didn’t understand, I just kept looking, soon the car came to a stop and the
Selene’s POV They started to gather me, I soon became claustrophobic and it only made my situation worse because they started deafening closer I had never felt this perplexed in my entire life.Confused and worried that I might just hurt someone in panic made it worse but as Joan had said, we were not so different from this people, we were the same beings, we had the same form, two hands two legs one had clear skin.Intellect, if they had anything I had it too, and if there wa anyone who should be at an advantage it’s us, our wolves isn’t a liability but an ability, I thought to myself as I felt someone hands touch me, I flinched but the. I succumbed to it.I saw a box car, it beeped continuously and then people gave way and some people came down from it. They packed a metal things on the floor and the assured me to get on it, as much as I wanted to tell them owns fine and what was happening was natural I couldn’t convey it.So I let them carry me on the thing and they placed me insi
Selene’s POV The next day wa she same thing, the usual loop of having to learn languages, how to say I need this and I need that, places I needed to visit, like malls to get more clothes, observation that is needed to to be made. And thing to do, and then it wa sight time and I was supposed to leave first thing in the morning because in three days the humans would be crossing into a new year in their calendar and I would need to be there in the party to Casper this criminal.Yes, that was his new name.And while Joan and I sat outside with Ella inside we had a heated day and now we were already exhausted from all the things we did all day.She held my knuckles and she kissed it when she noticed I wasn’t talking and she had been doing the talking.“I believe you.” She said, it was her first calm thing she had said all day and it meant a lot to me, I only nodded, and I stared down at my feet.“If I don’t come back on time, find Lucian, and give Ella to him.” “Hey don’t be negative, i
Lucian’s POVI just sat there in disbelief, my hands rested on my chest that was threatening to explode with fright and disappointment, I should have come her instead.If I was just a day esker than now I would have her here, I was pirated with myself, and as I much as I hated to admit this. I blamed the fact that my body was too weak and I needed more rat than I normally did.“Is everything alright?” The Alpha asked.I don’t respond. I needed to set out for Joan, I never thought we would see each other again after the least encounter; but now I was looking for her, if I saw her, I would see Ella and Selene.Or maybe she had returned them to the pack.I didn’t know I was just confused and I needed some sense of liberation. I walked out of the pack and I walked back to the pack, without hesitation I drove out. Was driving back to my pack for two reasons, I was going back home in hopes that if I got back there I would see Selene and Ella.The dues of that little trouble maker running