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 I had just gotten my wolf senses back, which meant my sense of smell was beyond the capability, if not more, I contemplated if that was the reason why he suddenly smelled like he had been dented with something in close relation to acid. His natural scent was intense, this little part left a mark that could not be left unnoticed. There was an odd silence between us, needless to say. Lucian and I being alone together was nothing short of a disaster, he had problems having me around him, and I could tell with every nonchalant response that what happened six years ago still bugged his mind. He was just too pompous to admit that he messed up and he betrayed me so he decided to go through every corner to make me go on my knees and beg for his favor. I wasn’t going to do it, I deserved his apology, not the other way around, and I would not fail this mental battle he started. His presence in the room was long overdue, and I was finding his silence suspicious. Lucian never enga
Lucian’s POV Damn, she was good. Six years of practice, she had mastered her act of manipulation. She had mastered the act of lying with a genuine eye and a straight face and it displeases me so much that it rattles my insides. I had chosen to judge her act with a clear eye but it was so hard when all she ever did was trigger me. I was composed before she came to settle with me in the same pack, now I was considering keeping her far away just to get a clear sense of things, but my pack had limits, and unlike a true pack like my home town, I could not confine her to a region. It was small and she was of great help to me, if she wasn’t so important and indispensable, I would have sent her away. It was easier dealing with her when she was miles away from me, rather than being so close, everything smelt like her, my bed had her scent, my clothes, the pack. Her voice, her looks—it all bothered me so much. I was filled with rage and to make it worse, she had managed to confuse my wolf
Selene’s POV It was late in the evening when Lucian called a board meeting. I contemplated going to the meeting because it was like continuously going for a memorial. The first time I was in that meeting, Emily held my hands and she led me into the room. My seat was beside her, and this time it was going to be empty. I could not believe it—that death could take someone so unaware. One moment she was here teasing me for being insufferable and the next I was placed in a position to permanently see her in my mind. The horn was blown again and a sigh escaped my lips. I walked out of the healers quarters and headed straight to the chambers where the meeting was to be held. When I entered, an air of sadness loomed over me, all eyes were on me, and I had only realized I was the only one missing in the meeting. My eyes locked with Lucian, he held a frown, as always but Joan on the other hand, waved at me. Normally, I would take the vacant seat closer to Lucian and Joan because it was where
Selene’s POV It was impossible, it had to be, there was no way I could feel the mate bond in this pack, my mate doesn’t exist, he’s dead… My curious eyes darted around the pack for someone who must have felt what I felt but everyone seemed busy with each other no one stopped or acted differently. ‘Estel, who is my mate in this pack?’ I asked, my hands trembling beside me. I was placed in a state of frenzy. ‘I can’t tell but I felt it, I felt it Selene , he's here.’ ‘What’s his wolf like?’ I have seen so many wolves in the pack. I might be able to tell who it was if she could tell me what the wolves looked and seemed like. ‘I can't because my vision is cloudy, I don’t have it in me anymore.’ Her voice grew weaker as she said those words, and I felt her wither away and my heart dropped as tears pricked my eyes, I thought my mate died… Alex told me my mate died, the seer confirmed it… What’s going on? “Selene?Are you okay?" Joan snapped her fingers at me, pulling me out of the dile
Selene’s POV I went back to my hotel after everything. I and the doctor had lunch that day it was two days in a row, and we had lunch together. He had tried to ask me about my family, which I told him about.Joan properly educated me on my supposed origin, and I did the rest myself. Now that was over, it was time to get my life ready. Casper would be at his home now, probably accepting visitors.Joan told me the celebration wasn’t like ours, it was an overnight thing, where they celebrate on the given day to the next year, and it meant I wasn’t going to have a good sleep either tonight.Now I was standing before the mirror with a bag on my shoulder that could barely hold anything in it, it had barely anything but some ward of cash, but very little to nothing. Not even enough space for a lip gloss against the cold. It was almost useless, but I was recommended it in the store when I went to get clothes, and Joan had recommended these kinds of dresses to.Now I stood there knowing if I
Joan’s POV With the man on the bed and my legs crossed, I watched him get treated, if Selene was here, he would be walking like nothing happened in less than thirty minutes.It was suffocating not being able to reach out to her, and to make it worse, she had to come back today or tomorrow else Lucian would lose his mind. It kept on coming back to me, it was the first time I lied to Lucian about her wellbeing, and I had dragged this little girl sleeping in my arms. I stood up from the bed and walked out of the room. I needed to clear my mind before I combusted.“Mate.” My heart sprang with delight as I turned to the merely empty corridors of the ward, and that was when I saw a man standing there, he had his hands in his pocket. His hands waved at me.The bond shimmered in our eyes again, and my grip on Ella’s body tightened. I feared I would drop her if I wasn’t careful enough."Hi,” he said."Hello,” I responded, barely able to hold a proper smile.He wasn’t just any man, he was the
Joan’s POV Lucian had left and I was in the pack alone with little Ella, she was on my lap as we watched the rest of the pack build their houses, I wasn’t going to lift a finger why?Lilac demanded that I stay in the pack house with Lucian and Ella since we were special guests, which was also good because right now I will lose my mind if I had to lift a finger to do anything.Secondly I know a lady who likes a man she can’t have and she was keeping me solely because she wanted to ask me questions about Lucian. She wanted to ask me if I was the one that Lucian loved. I wasn't but I was willing to harness the privilege.While I sat there thinking about Lucian and all he was going through, Ella played with my hair.“Joan I wanted to tell uncle Lucian that mummy wasn’t around, that she wasn’t back in the truck but I didn’t.” I patted her head.“You are a really smart girl, don’t worry your mom will be back in two days.”“Uncle Lucian would be back in two days too,” she chirped in, I nodd
Lucian’s POV I wanted to go to Joan’s reserve and take Selene, but Joan volunteered to go. I didn’t know how to feel today. I was excited and I was optimistic.Selene was found and fine. Same with Ella who was nope resting on my chest, she refused to let me sleep alone, and after sharing the same room with her at night. I didn’t know what peace felt like till I woke up after last night.I didn’t have a nightmare. The pain that came with my existence didn’t seem so bad after all and this early just crawled on my chest and just laid there.“Uncle Lucian, are you sick?” She asked.“Yes.” I said.“Mom told Joan that you are sick and you don’t want her to heal you.” Yes Selene would say that, but how does she think she could save me, if she does she would take my position and she would die, somehow she didn’t think about that.“Mom would be sick if she heals me, so I have to keep her safe.” I said in the plain way possible, Ella went quiet for a while, I looked at the wall clock, lilac w
Selene’s POV I surveyed the surroundings, the guards stood at the gates watching me with a curious eye. Like it was some kind of thief.They look pretty normal, but then again I would ask who is a known thief being glorified like this, can he be apprehended? Or ch asked out of the state if he can’t be apprehended by rehab rulers of the city, everyone knew he was a thief he was a thief and they still let him leave.I checked the sides. People were moving freely along the side of the street but I was the only one who had remained stagnant, and one of the guards had proceeded to walk toward me.I didn’t move, I let him walk to me and stand before me.“What are you doing here young lady?” He asked if he grabbed my hands, no one touched me like that, I felt violated. But in a space of things this man was bigger than me, he could apprehend me if he wanted.“I am new to town, saw this place and it looks beautiful.” I said and they shoved me backward, I stood my ground if step was here and
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