Selene’s POV The ride back to the pack was silent, no one talked, not even Ella, it was as though we had an elephant in the truck with us. Lucian didn't say a word, he glanced back at me every now and then but didn’t say anything. I, on the other hand, was pissed and mostly fulfilled because for the first time in a really long time I was able to do something as a comeback. All along I had only been the one that was on the receiving end of people’s cruelty but after today I just felt relieved. I wanted to see how they would grow those crops now that winter was approaching, Alex would have so many responsibilities, the people would question his competence and that of Natasha too, and I knew they wouldn’t be able to meet up. Hours passed, we finally got to the pack, everyone hopped down, and I kindly told Joan to take the maid and my baby back to my room, as Lucian had summoned me to his chambers. I stood there, arms crossed. “You shouldn’t have brought her, she’s at high risk.” “I
Selene’s POV She nodded in agreement, then wiped the tears away from her eyes. I was still shocked and incapable of saying anything at that moment. Alex and I weren’t mates, which was also understandable, we got married regardless of the fact that we were not mates, for obvious reasons. Now looking at her, the lady who was supposed to be in my position, I didn’t know how to feel about it, it gave me a whole new perspective of things. “We were mated the year I took over my mom, one look at me, and we got the mate bond, he said if I told you or anyone he would kill me.” My legs shook, I had to sit down because it was way too much to handle. “Does your mom know?” She waved her head. My world spinned slowly around me. “Tell the people, we need to tell the people that you were the one the goddess chose, they will rebel and they will support you.” “No one wants an omega for a Luna, you are a beta you wouldn’t understand, I am an embarrassment to the throne, that’s why he felt cursed
Lucian’s POV Three days after the meeting with Selene and the rest of the pack members, I felt a surge in my heart, the mate bond intensified, Escarno grumbled furiously, he felt her wolf, and it disturbed me. I lost my mind from the intensity of the emotions. Now I found myself staring at her in awe. What was she doing with her wolf? I only knew of a disability, but nobody could silence their wolf even from a mate bond but she could do it, and I knew she felt it because every part of my being sensed it too. It was a brief moment of intense ecstasy. How could she hold a straight face after feeling what I felt? Not only had this new discovery weakened me, I had also discovered a weird-looking vein trailing upward from the cut in my hands, the poison in my blood stream was now visible, and the pain was intense, it was like larva and it pulsated from time to time. My level of self-control was decreasing rapidly, and I could not contain the pain anymore. I stood up from the chair and w
Lucian’s POV My cheeks flushed red, the reaction was totally unexpected, but I didn’t want it to stop. She fondled my cheeks again, then urged me to drop her down, which I did, when she ran towards her toys which she brought to me afterwards. “Here, this is Lady Agatha, she’s a warrior wolf, I want to be like her” her little doll had a sword attached to it. That was her great great grandmother, I pinched her cheeks then I squared before her. “Why do you want to be like her?” I asked. She giggled, then rolled her eyes, “because she is so strong uncle Lucian!Mom said she won plenty of battles!” She continued, those were the tales told to little children, not only was agartha a warrior Luna, she killed many of her kind too. “Well, I hope the goddess grants you strength my dear, you might be greater than her” she blushed again, my eyes narrowed towards the lady approaching the tent that was meant to be for Selene. Her eyes were swollen, she must have cried even more while being kep
Selene’s POV The guilt I felt within me would never let me allow that lady to suffer, but a split second I felt a sense of sadness, not because she was mated to Alex, but because I might never get to witness what it felt like to be really mated to someone.It was a thing most wolves looked forward to, the goddess had promised to give everyone a partner who would be our greatest strength. But after what had happened with Alex and his mate and me on the other hand not being able to identify a mate because my wolf would rather sleep than talk .I felt my body shudder with dissatisfaction, but I had other things to do, I raised my eyes back to Lucian, and the looks in his eyes had me at a standstill. His eyes softened.“Selene,” he called out in a mere whisper .Just like I was compelled, I gawked at the man, everything around us went quiet, I felt his hands on my cheeks, and his thumb caressed my cheeks slightly.“Lucian I am leaving” a voice interrupted us from beside. I moved backward
Lucian’s POV My fist punched the trunk of the tree, it broke my skin and my blood stained the tree, but I didn’t stop, over and over again I punched it till my fist gave in, but my anger was still prominent.My wolf was insufferable, and it wanted release. But I knew the desires of my wolf, it would walk back to the pack and it would walk back to her, everything around me smelt like her.My clothes, the trees, I saw her everywhere, and maybe it was the poison that had manifested in me and spiked my emotions but I could not turn it down, I wanted to ask her why? Why didn't she wait for me when I told her to, now Alex had found his mate, she was not mated to him, why can’t she feel that we are mated?I didn’t know what to feel, at some point I would be pissed because she betrayed me, but how could I fight myself when every cell of my being wanted to be with her, her skin on my palm was an inferno to the soul.I could not hold it anymore. I shifted to my wolf form, the clutch around my
Lucian’s POV I could smell blood from a distance, the people were shouting, I heard petrified noises, my first instance was an attack, and I was right.I ran into the pack, just to foreign wolves in my pack, about twenty wolves, they terrorised the rogues. Their scent was familiar and the realisation of it made me furious.Alex…He made a mistake tracking me, as I made my presence known to the intruders, a family sense of fear overwhelmed them, it was the size of my wolf.I saw their wolf shrink and they visibly retreated, my wolf had rounded them, but they could easily be overpowered knowing that the number of good hunters compared to the damaged wolves were few, and my presence gave them hope.One of the intruders whom I had earlier assumed to be the leading wolf stepped forward, his teeth grinding against each other, I didn’t scare me. I wasn’t prepared for a fight, I simply wanted them to leave the same way they came, they were not my enemies.“Move”‘I said through a mindlink to
Lucian’s POV“Alpha Lucian, I have come to speak with you,” I heard her voice from the outside, my mind calmed dramatically, I took a robe from the counter close to the shower, then I wrapped it around me.The moment I stepped out, she let out a slight gasp, then turned to face the other way around.“Why have you come?” I asked.Her hands were fidgeting and so were her legs, she must have thought me to be some monster, a sigh escaped my lips. Even in the absence of my brother a lot of menace still occurred and I had to be the bearer of consequence and judgement.I took a towel then I dried my hair, before slipping in some clothes.“You can turn now, I am dressed” I said, she was hesitant but eventually she turned. Her eyes to her feet she held her hands together in a tight knot.“Alpha Lucian, I would like to thank you for saving me back there,” ‘She must be kidding me’ Escarno said in exasperation, I didn’t need to be thanked, at the very least all I wanted to be was alone, not tha
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