Betrayal~Orion~It's not like I believe what Kane has said. But for some reason, I felt something dark about how he said it. He meant every word of it. He was serious when he said killing me now would only be a waste. He wanted to enjoy every bit of my suffering. Whoever that Nyx Witch is… How was I supposed to know a witch lost her son in the mines too? This brought me back to something he had said, he said his son didn't die in the explosion; he was stabbed in the heart. Not like I believe what he said but what if it's true? What if my man actually killed his son and told me it was an accident in the mine? But why would they lie to me?My craving for the search for answers was more than ever. The reason for going to Wolfshade town was to ease the confusion looming around; not to get more confused. But I ended up hearing all sorts of crap about curses and vengeance laid upon me. When I got back home. I was expecting to see Sofia in bed taking a rest. But no, she wasn't resting. She
Hidden Enemies~Orion~"Well, I have known for some time now. They seemed too close. I didn't want to say anything before I'll be labelled a liar and you know Tristan is the Beta. It's a crime to lie against one of the pack leaders." Gabriel revealed he knew something was going on between Tristan and Sophie. "But you never said anything!" I exclaimed."What should I have said?" He shrugged his shoulders. "Probably you would have warned me! That's why you are my friend.""Would you have believed me?""Why wouldn't I? I would have been more observant. What do you think the people of Moonstone Haven will say when they hear this?""Well, I am not a heartless son of a bitch who would not consider your feelings before breaking such bad news. I knew that if those two continued, eventually one day they would be caught. And you did catch them. Didn't you?" I was silent for a while. " Gabriel this isn't why I called you here. If Sofia was Freya, and I caught her cheating on me. Then I have th
Madam's Demise ~Freya~I miss home. Lauren sometimes reminds me of my only friend, Emelda. I wonder how she must be. Over these past few months, I and Lauren have become so close. We literally do everything together. From making jewelry, tending to the garden and going on errands. Our dislike for Gina had only grown worse. I envy Lauren because of her relationship with Damian. He watches out for her as much as he can. She never told me of her relationship with him. Interestingly she's human and Damian is a werewolf. The day I discovered it, I confronted her about it. She denied but I told her whatever she did, she wasn't so good at lying or hiding it. I see the way they look at each other. The sign they made to each other so they could meet behind the bushes. Lauren was extra careful to not let Gina catch her. She revealed a secret to me, she said whenever she was sought after by a customer, Damian threatened the customer to make another choice or get away. I can imagine how p
Who is the new mistress?~Freya~Madam looked so pale. She just laid there lifeless. we just knew what had happened. It was one of the guards who alerted Madam Hubby. The household had encircled her corpse. Her husband was on his knees in tears. "How could this be? Please wake up. Don't leave me." He cried out hugging her lifeless body. Something didn't feel right. We were told she slipped into the well when she was about to supervise the faulty pulley. It was to be fixed this evening.The lady who witnessed the incident confirmed that a part of the well was cracked and unfortunately this was where Madam rested her weight before she fell. Surprisingly Gina was wailing loudly too and also hovering over Madam's lifeless body. one would wonder if she was her sister."I don't think those tears are real." Lauren leaned towards me to talk about Gina's hypocritic tears."I think so too. Well, I don't know about everyone. But I know Gina doesn't like Madam. She should be the happiest per
Evil plans~Freya~It's only been three weeks since Gina was made the new mistress. She has made things worse than the late Madam ever would.Gina with her low tolerance and temper has made this place a living hell for all of us in the past few weeks. If there is anything I should thank her for, then it is for stopping Gary's massage. She had probably found a way to put an end to the nonsense. But still, I need to watch my back for fear that she might strike anytime. So much has happened within this short period. Damian isn't here anymore. Gina made Gary send him away. She had since suspected that Lauren and Damian were together and he was giving her preferential treatment. Some of the girls sometimes gossip about it. Gina made it so that the first thing among other things she would do was to end their relationship. It wasn't allowed that any of the guards was to fancy any girl here. That was why they have tried to be discreet but alas, their love never made it to the light. Lauren ha
The red-haired girl ~Freya~Gary had two new girls with him on arrival. But one caught my attention. The one with the red hair. She was a very beautiful girl, unlike the other girl who had black hair, she looked young and looked like she had been through a lot. She reminded me of myself when I was brought here too. She didn't look like a girl who would come from a poor home though. She looked like nobility. It was evident that Gary was so happy with his investment. Well as for Gina. Not so well. Lauren once said that it seemed more attractive girls than Gina were a big problem. They were automatically a threat to her and she will do all in her power to see that the master doesn't fancy you. Perhaps that's why she hates me so much. Although we have been hearing a rumour for a while now. That Gina might have been the one who killed Madam. One of the girls said the last person she saw with Madam was Gina. And that the girl who had come up to report seeing Madam falling into the well wa
The Good Samaritan~Freya~Rose was narrating to us how she and Lyra met. "We were never acquainted." She said with sorrow in her voice. "We only met at the slave harbor and we became fast friends. We depended on each other." Rose told us Lyra never showed any sign of being a werewolf. I told them "It was the full moon." "How do you know it was because of that?" Laura eyes me. I lied about how I knew "My dad used to tell me about them. He visits their town once in a while. They are everywhere you know, even in human settlements. It's just because they blend with humans so well so you can't tell us apart." Rose agreed. "You are right. So it's true what they say about them. That some of them shift involuntarily during a full moon. They can't control their shifting especially when they are emotionally threatened."It is surprising that our master, Gary, is a werewolf. I couldn't tell Lauren that I had somehow known all along. "What will he do to her?" Lauren was worried.Rose turn
A promise made~Freya~Ryan sat at the edge of the bed watching me walk in. " You must be surprised that I picked you."I nodded "But why me? Do you have a thing for pregnant women? Do you prefer them for your hanky panky?""Ooh no. Stop. I am not like that. I can't deny that you are a beautiful woman. A very attractive one at that. But no thanks, I don't have a thing for pregnant women." I blush when he complimented me as being attractive. I never saw myself like that. All my life I have lived hating who I am. I wasn't special like the others. I have no friends. I never met any guy or had a suitor before. That is why when Alpha Orion came to claim me. I thought I was living in a world of tales. A world that wasn't real. "Then I have nothing to worry about. Huh," I said in a quirky tone. I wanted to ease the mood. sadly, life turned me into this depressed person. I once used to be so lively, especially when I was with my friend Emelda. He laughed "Of course, you have nothing to wor
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.