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
Selene's POV My hands were busy with the tiny leaves in my tray as I gave it my undivided attention while separating the dried leaves from the fresh leaves . I was practicing an herb seen in a book. It would be used to stop diarrhea, which was good for a startup. I had sorted the leaves out myself, and I had found them at the borders of the pack just as Emily had written in her handbook. "Hey,” Joans tender voice interrupted my thought What the hell is she doing here? "Hello, Joan, good day, how are you doing?" I didn't raise my head up to see her, I could only acknowledge that she was in the room with me. I wondered if she came to apologize for how she had treated me just like those ladies had done earlier today, suddenly everyone feels sorry. I didn’t need it. She took a seat beside me with a tray on her thighs, then she took a portion of the leaves. “You want to try the herbs for diarrhea; that's good for a start.” “Yes, how did you know?” She smiled softly at me, “Emily
Selene’s POV After listening to what Joan recorded, I didn’t know how to react to the feeling in my heart. It was beautiful, it was painful and as I listened to it over again I could tell she was holding tears from falling and it made the moment even more beautiful.Joan’s as everything.The record lasted for about seven hours,till she finished an entire book. I stayed up all night deranged in tears as I wrote the full sentence down.By noon I could finally say something, and I could understand some of the things the doctor had said throughout the day. And as embarrassing as it sounded I might as well have been stupid all this while because most of the things he wrote on the board I could finally pick them up.He did so much to talk to me, and I had used my literacy to stress him out, so today I wanted to love around town, I would visit the mall where I will be getting my clothes and I would visit the hospital where he treated people.At least I knew his name. Jude carpenter.I took
Joan’s POVI panicked, what if someone has taken Lucian, what if he got attacked where is everyone in the pack they were all supposed to be here where are they?“Chief!” Ella noticed my work and she came up to me, “uncle Lucian.” She called out. After so much screaming and shouting we noticed we were viewed as odd in the pack and everyone was looking at us weirdly.I walked up to one of the pack members. “Where’s the chief? Did anything happen to him?” She waved her head. “The chief went to drop some of the pack members at the crescent pack, where the new female Alpha just took one be from her father, we are all going to stay there for three weeks.”Pike…Relief coursed through me, like a calm breeze it soothed my flaming skin. I staggered backward, Ella held me down, she stretched her hands for me to carry her which I did.I didn’t know if I should go to lilacs or just stay here and wait for him, it would be hectic going back to lilac pack mostly that I wasn’t going alone. So I de
Joan’s POV It was a poster of Lucian being shared among everyone in the pack, well more like a drawing of him in his mask, I was awestruck by all that was going on in the pack.A wolf who I knew to be a part of the eclipse pack came sharing the flyer with everyone, Alex, he was looking for Lucian.Selene told me about Lucian killing the fair queen and then the Fae queen but she didn’t tell me about a bounty, or maybe she didn’t know, I wanted to get the flyer for myself till I realized that Ella wasn’t just a a nobody she was the next in line for eclipse pack.Not only should she not be here now, she was supposed to be dead, I turn back so that her back was facing the guard who was hearing the flyer and then I began to walk away, as fast as I could through the crowd yet trying to sync in like a common passerby that intended to be before all this happened.As all this happens the guard had made sure he had share the flier to everyone willing to see for themselves and he left.I walked
Joan’s POVIt was the night before Selene left and I had a panic attack, I had tried to be strong all along, but it was already catching up to me. She went to bed but I knew fully well that she wasn’t sleeping.No one in their right mind would have a good night's sleep in our current condition. Except for her daughter who had confessed to me earlier that it was all a game, her mother told her they were playing a game and they got to travel.Her smile was infectious and even thinking about how silly she was only made my night a little less suffocating.When I left the pack, I never thought there would be a time when I would be the one to sponsor this heist Selene wanted to embark on, nor did I for once think I would feel bad that she was going to be in trouble.She wanted to go on this mission which in my option was the best thing to do, but then again, it was dangerous and she needed more time to prepare.But it’s delusion to think I will everything in one day but there is a lot that
Selene POVI had tucked the box of cash into the closet, the healer was still in the room, and didn’t say much. We just sat there and I kept on looking for a way to tell him that we could go eat now and I also needed clothes.But first things first. It was food.I gestured while eating and he nodded. I walked over to the closet and I took took a wad of cash which I stuff into my purse, then I gestured to the door.He was now a friend I never thought I needed and he smiled back.We took the elevator down to the restaurant which was located in the hotel. It was fancy and trust me if I make it out alive I would make my pack as alluring as this, rather than bricks, I would make more glass buildings, it would be called the city of glass.He offered me a menu, which I scanned through. I didn’t understand the written words and there weren't any images, I was having a hard time searching through names that I could pronounce.That was the goal.Any food I could add the alphabets together, I w
Lucian’s POV They might be fifty of them, I could tell it was a small pack because of the size of their Alpha and how he stood, his wolf looked familiar too, the strip of white over the eye. I have seen it somewhere but I had no idea where exactly I saw it.“Do you know who I am? Go back to your pack now before I loose my temper.” I didn’t want it to get messy, but the pack leader had been so persistent he moved closer urging for a war.I could see the fear in his eyes. And it only comfirmed he didn’t want to fall short before his pack members. I turned fo the rest of the packs“I am not here to fight. Let me pass!” My pack members were already on edge and they were waiting on my command to fight, all my drivers were trained fighters I would trust them to take out the alpha.“If you don’t leave in two minute there would be a blood bath and you won’t leave to tell the tale.” I said again Escarno pushed he wanted to come out by all means and I roofed my legs on the ground trying to st
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