Better Days or Perhaps Not~Freya~"Hi, Selena" Ryan stays next to the doorframe. His body covered most of the entrance. "Oh, hi. How have you been? It's been a while. It is three days today. He makes that face he usually makes when he's amused. It's cute though. It makes him look so young, especially when he follows this look with a grin."You have been counting huh." He rests his back on the door frame.I feel my cheeks turn red even though I can't see it. "Yes, I have been counting. Lyra told me you were very busy at the fort." "Yeah. Alpha Kane has had a lot on his plate recently, which means I'll get busy too. He lost his son months ago and still mourns him." "So sorry for his loss." I quickly respond. "Anyways have you had something to eat?" His expression now turns to one of concern. "Yes, I did. The lady you assigned to attend to my needs has been doing well.""That's great. I am glad to know that I left you in capable hands. Do well to take care then." He backs away from
Mild Conversations~Freya~Tiana warned me to stay away from Ryan. But I told her he was only helping me out of kindness. And she says he knows her fiance better than anyone to agree that this was out of just mere kindness. She speaks out of annoyance. She says his frequent visits to my place would have been spent with her instead."You should know your place or I won't think twice to force you out of this town." She hisss before she takes off. I could not fight her or challenge her. When she spoke, I stood there like an idiot. I think only a few words came out of my mouth to defend Ryan that he was not coming to spend time with me as she thought. But I knew that it was a lost battle because she already had this notion engraved in her mind to believe otherwise. So I let it slide. She should think as she likes. I wasn't going to give her the privilege of ruining the little happiness I had now. She should meet Ryan and talk out any suspicions she might have. Just like her brother, L
The Lycan's Twins~Freya~Lyra's mother said my water broke. I don't understand why it would, I still had a few weeks until I could give birth. Lauren and Ryan's mother were scared because they had never witnessed something like this. The midwife was called to attend to me. My body felt like it was set on fire, I was sweating profusely. I haven't been able to push for twelve hours now. If anyone was to ask me my feelings right now. Then I would tell them this feeling felt like death.It wasn't until Ryan came to meet me that I felt a bit of hope. He held his hands out and gripped my palms. "Selena, look at me. You can do it! You hear me."I pushed harder but nothing happened. The midwife said if this continued I could die and the babies too. Based on a routine checkup done for me, it became obvious that I wasn't going to have one baby but two because of the two heartbeat sounds confirmed.Lauren kept on wiping the sweat out of my face and neck. A piece of cloth was put around my mouth
A Fight With Lauren~Freya~After much persuasion from Ryan, Nyx, the witch allowed me to be. She withdrew from the room but not without saying that she was going to have her eyes on me. I didn't like the way she was so adamant about knowing more about my dead mate. Why won't she just let things be? This made me instantly dislike her. Probably she is sure that I am hiding something. "Are you okay? It's fine if you do not want to talk about your mate any more than this. You can withhold all the information you want until the time is right. Although I am curious at how you could give birth to twin lycans without ever shifting in your life.""I am as confused as you are," I confess."Anyway, that aside. I have a surprise for you. Bring them in!" Two maids come in, each holding a wooden baby cot. They looked so small and cute. "You had this made?""I made it myself." He says with a smile. This makes me cry. Ryan is really from out of this world. He is so compassionate. I felt guilty f
Beta Ryan's Secret~Freya~I take a deep breath before I walk into Ryan's chamber. I didn't have much to do. I had little on my hands, so I used the opportunity to go see Ryan to tell him about my heightened senses because I had decided to let Ryan know about my lycanthropic abilities. He has been too keen on knowing how I was able to birth two Lycan babies without any help despite having no werewolf abilities then. I knocked on his door but no one answered. No one was inside. If there was anyone, I would hear the sounds and also hear their thoughts. What I was going to tell Ryan was only about my physical strengths, not my telepathic ability."You won't find him there. He's outside." Ryan's mother appears from behind me. She was taking some grilled meat to the kitchen. I collected it for her to help her with it. I then went outside to find Ryan. He was chopping wood. He loves doing this. He once told me it's the best form of workout for him "It gives you great arms, he says." And
Getting Away From Beta Ryan ~Freya~I hesitated before knocking on the door again. I hope Lauren doesn't turn me away because she was the only one I could run to. Damian was at the door. "What in the Moon goddess's name are you doing here in the middle of the night.""Who is there?" I hear Lauren ask from behind him. I stood rocking both babies in my arms as they cried. The cold was beginning to affect them. Lauren hurriedly took one of the twins "What happened? What are you doing here alone?" "You guys should come in before you wake the whole neighbourhood," Damian whispers into the cold night. Damian and Lauren have been living together since we got to Wolfshade town. I had slipped out of the house in the middle of the night with the twins. The last person I wanted to see was Ryan. How could he lie to me all this while? He hid the truth from me. Lyra knew too. I felt betrayed and also I felt after all Tiana had a reason to be disturbed all this while. Her actions towards me we
Nyx, The Witch~Freya~They may think I am being too over dramatic because I finally discovered why Beta Ryan had kept me close to him all this while. To many, it might sound logical that a widow like me would be happy that Beta Ryan wants me as his mate. A happy ending for a widow. Ha! Only if they knew the truth."A pregnant woman catches the fancy of the wolfshade pack Beta, he waits for her to give birth and then claims her as his" That will be our typical love story gossip on the lips of thee gossipmongers. Hum. Hum. I think again.Only if they knew the truth! That I was no widow, that I ran away from home, left my mate who is an Alpha to the Bloodmoon pack to survive. This got me thinking for days. Why would the Moon goddess fate me to someone else when Alpha Orion has already claimed me as his? Or was he dead? The possibility of him being dead made me shudder.Damian came back later to tell me he had found a suitable place for me. I was in such haste that I told him to show me
Can't Hide Forever ~Freya~I was brought before Alpha Kane. He was alone, sitting in a room that had a long table that could be occupied by thirty persons. His long legs were crossed on each other and lifted onto the table. He appeared to be resting. This room looked dark and eerie. It felt like one of those rooms where the screams of those tormented will never escape from. It was sealed. Windows closed and doors closed. It was day but here it seemed the opposite was the case. I refused to let anyone touch Alex and Xandra. A man who tried a while ago didn't receive a cool response, I almost ripped his hands off. He was so rude to me and he provoked me more than once. He kept handling me roughly, pushing me towards the main entrance recklessly. I was shocked at myself too after I attacked him. His friends knew better now unless Alpha Kane wanted half of the men he sent to lose their arms. It was Nyx who finally told them to be cautious when they were with me. "I heard you delivered
Epilogue OrionAfter I answered, Kane walked away silently. He ruffled his hair in the process. What was he nervous about?I thought he had gone until he returned with Nyx. "Do it!" Kane ordered her. "Are you sure? What if he isn't the one?" She muttered, looking worried. "Just do it!"I decided to ask rather than stay quiet and wonder what this was all about. "Do what?" "Trust us," Nyx replied. Nyx says a spell. She takes a knife and cuts Kane's palm first. Then mine. As blood pooled on our hands. She placed my palms on top of Kane's, clasping them together.Nyx began to explain. "If you are his lost brother. Both cuts will heal. If you aren't related. The cuts will not. This spell will work on you if you are long lost brothers because your mother is a witch-Luna." This was crazy. Kane, my brother? She said the spell, then ordered us to look at our hands. When we withdrew our hands. There was no blood, no cut and no scar…Without a word. Although surprised as well, Kane embr
The lost childOrionTo my surprise, I realized the man who had Freya in his arms was Ryan. Wasn't he supposed to be dead? I felt jealous when Freya hugged him. I didn't want to view Ryan as an enemy but the fact remained that he was a potential rival. No matter how many times I try to make Freya and Ryan's relationship look normal or harmless. There's this fear I have that Ryan is almost the perfect man for her. He will always be my rival. At last right now with him, she is safe. I focused on Kane. As Kane inhaled the substance unaware of Damian's attack, he struggled. Damian began slicing Kane's skin, tormenting him by creating injuries on him. I and Gabriel kept fighting Damian's men as they continued to come hard on us. Damian uses the opportunity of Kane's weakness to strike him on his chest with a sword. Kane was too weak to dodge or stop it. Damian began to search for the remainder of the Lycan stramonium in his pocket. I wasted no time swinging my sword and cutting Damian
Hidden AffectionFreyaI must be dreaming. How was he here? He carried me in his arms after warding off Damian's men. "Hi, Selena," He said, calling me by the name he first knew me with. It was nice to hear someone call me by that name again. "Or do you prefer Freya?""Ryan! They said you were dead." I continued to stare at him like he was a ghost. He gently puts me down. "I can't die so easily.""Weren't you poisoned?""I and Alpha Kane planned everything. He knew I was going to be poisoned, so he told me to fake my death. We already knew what Damian was up to. Alpha Kane listened to my warning and soon realized Lomy and Damian were plotting something behind his back."I hugged him. "I am glad you are alive. I hated myself after hearing of your demise. I would have treated you better, Ryan." "You being okay, is fine by me."I turned to look in the direction Alex and Xandra were held hostage by Damian. But they weren't there. "Where are you going?" Ryan called out to me. "I can
The Reinforcement OrionIn no time, some of Damian's men came in troops to restrain me. It took a lot of them to hold me down. I fought them until I couldn't anymore. "Now watch your family suffer for your stupidity. Seize them right now!" Damian ordered. His men huddled them up as Damian had instructed. I could see it for myself. He did have an army and they were ready to do his bidding. The men I saw were unfamiliar, they weren't the men who served me when I was Alpha. I wondered where he got these men from. He must have brainwashed them to have them form an army for him. "Lock them up. He would watch them die, one by one. Starting with his half-witch mate." Damian pointed at Freya. "Fetch the twins too."He told his men to line Tristan and Freya up to be executed. Damian forced me to inhale the Lycan Stramonium. I could do nothing but watch. He forced the others to watch how the execution was going to go. The twins were brought. I could hear Alex's and Xandra's whimper. I s
In The Enemy's Liar Orion"Good job Biloza." Damian commended, his smile spread from one end of his face to the other."I told you to leave it to me. I could handle them," Biloza said proudly. "I must say. You predicted well. You said they would be here soon. I didn't think it was going to be this soon. And how stupid of them to travel together, right.""Uhmm," Biloza responded. Damian crossed his left leg over his right leg as he sat on a chair that was brought outside not too long ago. "Where are my children?" I growled. "They will be dead if you keep acting like a hero." Damian Snarled. "I am tired of seeing that. I despise your kind. Why do you think you Lycans are better than the rest of us?" "Despicable wolves like you are not meant to lead. You don't even have the wit." I replied. This gets Damian very angry. "Oh. It's about wit now, huh." He turned to Biloza. "Bring Tristan here."Biloza does as he is told. Damian squats before Freya. "Freya. Do you know your mate is th
The trap: Battle for Control Freya"No! I am going with you," I argued. Orion was adamant. He wanted me to stay back while he faced Damian alone. He promised to bring Alex and Xandra back home. Orion lifts my chin to face him. "Please Freya coming with me will be a distraction. I need you to be where I can find you. Damian has proven to be cunning, dangerous and —." "You need all the help you can get. There are rumours that he is forming an Army to force every town to bend to his will." Nyx said, interrupting Orion. Lauren stepped forward. "That power-hungry bastard! I am so stupid to have fallen for such a man. I was blind. Indeed sometimes I hear him speak of an army.""Where do you think this army of his would be? I very well know they can't be in Wolfshade town," Orion said. I gave my own opinion. "I think it will be Moonstone Haven. That will be the base of his army. Tristan is his ally. It only makes sense because that's where Biloza is taking the twins." I kept a straight
BilozaFreyaEveryone in the room was smiling and having little talks, like nothing between me, my father and Nyx ever happened. I couldn't take part in all the talk, pretending as if nothing happened.I continued to breastfeed Alex and Xandra. I am still hurt from finding out the truth about who my mother really is. My father looked happy though. He should because I could guess that since I was a baby and my mother left, he has yearned for love. He married Sofia's mother, Mira, because he wanted someone who would care for me as a mother. He didn't marry her because he loved her. Unfortunately, she turned out to be a tormentor. We weren't expecting to hear a knock. No one was supposed to find the house, talk more of knocking. The spell was to be active for three days. We all stilled. The knock came again. Klaus stepped forward to check who it was but Orion stopped him. Gabriel motioned him to get back. The knock came for the third time. Orion walked to the door and slowly opened
ForgivenessOrionNathan called Nyx by another name. Lily. The surprise was a shock for Nyx. She gets to meet her husband and daughter on the same day."Where have you been all this while Lily?" Nathan glared at her. She said nothing. Her head bent, looking at her feet. Nathan continued. "I thought something bad had happened to you when you never returned after the purge. I waited for you. We both waited for you. I and Freya. You left our baby without a word to me. Did you think that stupid letter you wrote would suffice or explain better about where you were leaving to?"Nyx cleaned her tear-filled eyes with the back of her hand. "I came…back—" she said. Her voice was barely audible. "And you want me to believe that because you say so.""Believe me I did but I couldn't find you and our baby, Freya, in our house?" She stepped forward toward Nathan. He holds his hands up to stop her. "I thought something bad had happened to you two. I heard rumours that those related to witches we
Twist of Fate OrionI stood watching the most complicated relationship ever. Nyx is Freya's mother! Fate has funny ways of making our life pretty good at one moment and then messed up at the next. Freya was speechless. She already knew the truth before Nyx revealed it to the rest of us in the room. We were surprised Nyx went to the book after it had fallen just to go to the middle page to confirm something like she had seen this particular book before. We later discovered her name, Nyx was inscribed at the left bottom of the right page. No wonder she wanted to know Freya's father's name so badly.Freya didn't resist Nyx's hug but she didn't hug her back. When Nyx released her. Freya gradually stepped away from Nyx and left the room without words. I understood she was hurting and didn't know how to react to this revelation. I immediately went after her. "Freya," I called, but she kept on walking. "Freya stop! Wait. Where are you going?" I increased my steps.She didn't answer me.