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 *Three days later* “Selene, you will come with me, is that clear? Joan, go up north, through the opening, the guards are heavily sedated, they won’t see you even if they are awake.” Joan nodded, then she and the rest of her crew went north. We were split into three groups, six people were going to stay at the exit with two trucks. Ella was in the front of the first car and had a camera and a phone with her in case she needed anything since she could not follow us into the pack. On hearing I would be leaving the pack for an indefinite period, Ella threw tantrums, and Lucian had permitted that she came along on a condition. Joan and the other team were to raid Alex's chambers through the back opening and I and Lucian alone were to go into the treasury of the pack to retrieve the moonstone. He told me he didn’t trust me enough and had to see for himself. “Are you ready?” He asked, I nodded gently. I would say I was optimistic about this particular heist, but my heart fe
Selene’s POV I felt the nerves around my heart clench just seeing him from afar. He stood at the podium, dressed in a fur coat and adorned by jewels, he had a glass of wine in his hands. “To the people of the eclipse pack, I would like you all to welcome the official Luna of the pack, we all know a great tragedy had befell our pack and my wife and lovely daughter," he paused, and his face contorted in a frown. He was trying to act sympathetic, which made me angry because he was a monster. “The death of our last Luna had brought so much damage to our pack, I wouldn’t know what to do if her sister, Natasha, hadn't stepped up to take the position as Luna." I clenched my fist. I was pissed, he was selling the people a lie, and they believed it. “But today isn’t a day to cry over what has already happened. The goddess gives and the goddess takes, we are only disciples and children of her words, but I would like to tell all of you that your Alpha has not only given you a new Luna, but he
Selene’s POV The whimpering sound of a lady continued as he slammed her body against the door of the treasury. Of all the places she chose to make a scene he chose this particular place. Even while behind closed doors, I had a graphic image of everything that was happening just outside the door. I imagined Alex in his fur coat, and the rattling sound came from the jewels that adorned his neck. I heard the clicking sound of lips and forced kisses, the slightly compressed moans. I knew too well that it wasn’t Natasha who he was with, and to top it up, I knew who this particular lady was. It was a maid, a personal maid to Luna, she had only been assigned to me a year ago, after the retirement of her mother. She was such an innocent girl. And somehow Alex had to ruin her innocence. ‘Dirty dog,’ I whispered beneath my breath. He forcefully pushed her against the door, then raised her clothes up, his tone was rushed, and from her choice of words, I could already tell she was being forc
Selene’s POV We were onto the next mission. It was time to call Joan, and the rest of the team, Lucian, came back to me, he helped place the box back on the floor, then we covered it. “Give me the bag, it looks heavy,” Lucian said. I handed him the bag containing my jewellery. “Joan already has the toys, we won’t go back the same way we came, there’s an opening at the back now, the team outside has made a pathway underground” He opened the door, then he walked out. My heart was still very heavy. I could not bring myself to leave, I needed to escape, maybe cause a distraction and tell Lucian to leave without me while I exercised what was in my mind. While I searched around me for a viable distraction for myself, then my hands touched the emerald pendant that belonged to Emily. I unhooked it from my neck, then I placed it in my pocket. “Lucian, uhm, I think we are forgetting something, I can’t move further, you can go on without me.” I said frantically, he didn’t seem pleased with
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
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