Ella’s POVHe looked exactly the same as the last time I saw him in my old pack. Same cold smile, same disgusted look. The only difference was that he was wearing a suit to blend in with the guests.“You little girl, are so lucky. You keep surviving. You survived alpha Grey and beta Sam back when you were their slave. You survived alpha Klaus after he figured out who your father was. You survived a god damn knife to your chest!” he said in wonder as he approached me slowly.I take small steps back to keep him from initiating a fight.Not yet, I said to myself. I need him to keep talking as much as possible. Because once the fight begins, I won’t last long. I need to keep buying time long enough for Joseph to find Sara.I tried to keep my voice steady as I said to him “Why are you so keen on killing me? I don’t understand. I told you that I don’t know anything other than what I already said. Why go to all th
Klaus’s POV I climb the stairs three at a time, trying to reach the roof before Ella dies. When she told me where she was, I heard the agony in her voice. She was hurt real bad I could almost feel it. I begged her to keep fighting until I reached her. The last time I begged someone, was when I begged Kate to stay with me while I was holding her dead body in my arms. I was terrified out of my mind that history was about to repeat itself with Sara and Ella. At least one of them was safe now, thank goodness. I race towards the roof in blinding speed while the thought of losing Ella almost tears me apart. I can’t handle it. She can’t die, she can’t. I reach the roof and bust the door off its hinges. My eyes find them instantly. She was trying to run away from him but he got a hold of her hair and yanked her back towards him. The second he heard me, he turned around with Ella. She was trapped, his arm around her neck, while his other arm was on the top of her head. He was holding her
Klaus’s POV I burn a hole through the floor as I pace back and forth in front of the room Ella was being treated in. Something was wrong with Sara, but Joseph wouldn’t tell me anything until we were face to face. I was repeating the same prayer over and over again. Please, goddess let her be okay, I cannot bear to lose someone else. “Klaus” Joseph said as he reached for me. “What happened? Tell me that she’s okay. Tell me that she’s alive, please Joseph” I pleaded while holding him tightly. “She’s alive. She’s still in surgery, the doctors didn’t finish yet. But she will live my son. She will be fine. We just have to wait” he said in assurance. “What happened? You told me she was fine” “You needed to save Ella, I didn’t want you to be distracted and waste time on explaining what happened. How is Ella?” he asks in concern. “She’s injured, I don’t know the extent though, they just took her inside. She had a deep wound on the side of her head and probably a broken arm, these were
Ella’s POV I’m stuck on the roof with that man. I was on the ground, bleeding and whimpering in pain, while he looks down on me with disgust and repulsion. “Are you still waiting for someone to come save you, little girl?” he asks in a mocking tone. I look at him in hatred and keep my mouth shut. Someone will come, someone will save me. He crouches and leans closer to my face as he whispers with a smile “No one cares about you Ella. Do you want me to prove it to you? Let’s stay here until the sun comes down. That is a solid thirty minutes. No one will come through those doors. Not even if we stay all night” I grit my teeth and try to grab him, but he stands up and backs away from me. He leans against the cement structure, by the door, with his hands in his pocket as he whistles an annoying tone. I stay huddled on the ground repeating to myself over and over. someone will come, someone will save me. Darkness ascends and nothing happens, no one comes. He laughs an evil loud la
Ella’s POV I gasped as I looked at him in surprise. Did I hear him right? He just asked me to marry him, didn’t he? I stare at him with my mouth open like an idiot, unable to form any response. It was just too damn unexpected. He clears his throat and says “If you haven’t changed your mind about your offer, I’d like to take you up on it. You can totally say no. I will not hold it against you” “What made you change your mind?” I asked before giving him my answer. He lets go of my hand and turns his head from me as if he doesn’t want me to see his expression, and stares at the window for a while. “I realized that you were right, you are the perfect person for this. You understand that I don’t really want to be intimate, that I am only doing this because of my duty to the pack. I will not find anyone willing to do this, to be married to me but not really. Just on paper, and just in front of the pack. You get it, while no one else will” he said firmly. A lump formed in my throat at
Ella’s POV“Good morning Ella, are you awake?”I open my eyes to the sound of alpha Klaus in my head.I check my phone and find it 9:07 a.m.I over slept again. It wasn’t really a big deal since today was Sunday, my only day off from studying and training.After alpha Klaus left last night, I tossed and turned for a long time, but sleep wouldn’t come again.Although my body and my mind were both exhausted, but my mind refused to shut up and stop thinking.I stayed awake until dawn trying to wrap my head around my decision. It wasn’t an easy one. In fact, it was the hardest most unpredictable decision I have ever made so far.There was no guarantee that I will not end up regretting it deeply.Alpha Klaus promised that he will do everything he can to make this work for both of us. When the hell did I become so trusting? Why should I believe that he will keep his promise?The old E
Ella’s POV I was frozen at first. My arms still wrapped around myself. He was a lot taller than me, I barely reached his chest. A few minutes ago he was angry, speaking coldly to me, and now he is hugging me fiercely. Goddess, his personality is so complicated! Despite the fact that I was furious with him, I couldn’t deny that the hug made my whole body tingle. It was the first time I felt something like this when being hugged. I felt my sobs disappear and my body relax, as I leaned my head to his chest and listened to his steady strong heart beat. He didn’t say anything, he just kept embracing me tightly. I loosened my hold around myself, and slowly, uncertainly, started to wrap my arms around his huge body. It almost made me feel like I was hugging an untamed animal that will turn on me any second. I was still doubting him, doubting his true intentions, even doubting my own feelings for him. The hug confused and comforted me at the same time. We stayed like this for a few minu
Ella’s POV I barely manage to get out of the door leading to the basement, before I supported my weight on the door, unable to move any more. I felt like I was struggling to breathe. Alpha Klaus’s hands touch my shoulders as he stands in front of me. “Just breathe, you’re ok, Ella. Just breathe” he says softly. I look at him and whisper breathlessly “What the hell did he mean by that?” He shook his head “I don’t know. But whatever he said was only meant to make you panic. He’s playing with you, don’t let him” Something told me; probably his cold voice, that he really wasn’t playing at all. He was telling the truth. The truth will make me wish I was dead. I take a deep breath and try to compose myself. “Are you okay?” asks alpha Klaus in concern. “Yeah. Let’s just get out of here and check on Sara” I say in a strained voice. As we begin walking towards Joseph and Sara’s place, a question comes to my mind. “Where was Sara shot?” I ask alpha Klaus tensely. “She was shot twice
Klaus’s POV “Waffles, nana, please” We were all gathered for breakfast like we do everyday. Me, Ella, Joseph, Sara, and our precious twins, MJ and Melanie. MJ was pointing at the plate of waffles, cutely asking his grandmother for the last piece left. There would have been war between me and Sara over who would get the last piece, a few years ago. But, because it was her little spoiled grandson asking for it now, she happily obliged. The twins had a special place in all of our hearts. MJ looked like Ella with his golden bouncy curls and big brown eyes, while Melanie had my hazel eye color and my ash blond hair. As Sara handed him the last piece with a kiss on his chubby cheek, we all noticed at the same time a yellow note left on the waffles plate. It was hidden by the last piece that Sara gave to MJ. It said “Save The Last Piece For Me Please!! -Baby #3” My heart fluttered excitedly as I reread the note again and again. I looked up at Ella and saw her staring at me lovingly w
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6 years Later It’s been six years since my life actually began. Six wonderful years full of love, happiness, safety, and bliss with the closest people to my heart sharing it with me. Six years where neither me, or anyone of my family was harmed or put in danger. My life was perfect in every way. The day dreams I used to have back at my old pack, on my thin cots, trying desperately to distract myself from my throbbing and aching body, finally came true. I had the best parents in this whole world. Even I didn’t envision them to be as perfect as they actually are. I was the luckiest girl to marry this man that I am sleeping next to right now. He was perfect in my eyes. It’s ironic, considering that our first few encounters always filled me with a mix of fear and hatred towards him. If someone back then could possibly see the future and informed me that I will end up marrying alpha Klaus and become so happy with him, I would’ve hi
Ella’s POV He was so shocked by my unexpected condition, it almost felt like I asked him to kill someone for me. I stifled a chuckle from escaping me at his reaction, and repeated myself in case he doubted what he heard me say. “Kiss me Klaus… here” I put my index finger on my lips. “I want to taste the feel of your lips on mine again. I keep thinking about how our kiss at the wedding ceremony made my insides melt, and I want more than just a brief, short kiss, I want the whole…” He cut me off as his lips came crashing down on mine, silencing me in the best way anyone could silence another person. And it was no brief short kiss at all. He kissed me with a hunger that coursed through my whole body, with a passion that made me explode; literally, with desire. The kiss made me realize that I was missing out on a very important, life sustaining, supplement, his lips. I couldn’t contain my moan from escaping as the emotions I felt were too much to suppress inside me. That one kiss w
Klaus’s POV “If I doze off behind the wheel and hit a tree, I will haunt your ass for eternity Klaus. Why couldn’t we just spend the night and travel back to the head pack first thing in the morning?” asked Joseph while stifling a yawn. We were on our way back home from visiting our last pack. It was almost midnight and the path we were driving through was barely visible in the poorly lit, uncemented dirt road. “It’s just an hour and a half drive Joseph, I’ll keep you awake don’t worry” I said firmly. “That still doesn’t answer my question. What’s the rush?” he asked curiously. I sighed heavily. The rush was because of Ella. If I thought the three days before our wedding were torturous, I was so wrong. I wasn’t as attached to her then as I was now. I wanted to return back to the head pack since the first night. Hell, I wanted to return the second we drove past the border. I have no idea how I’m going to do this again next time. She was an addiction I never wanted to sober up fr
Ella’s POV “I thought you were in a meeting with Joseph” I said in wonder. “I found myself unable to stop thinking about you the whole day, I couldn’t wait for the damn meeting to end so I could come spend the rest of my day with you. I missed you even though we were apart for a few hours only” he said fondly. I grinned at his lovely words as I replied “I missed you too so much. You never left my thoughts all day” I came over to him and hugged him, placing my head on my new favorite place, his chest. He tightened his embrace around me passionately. After a minute, we pulled away as he turned his expression into a professional one and said “Ok, let’s see what you’ve got” We trained together for an hour and a half, and I was always on the defensive side. He was simply a magnificent fighter. Graceful, fast, and strong. I found myself constantly getting distracted by his beauty and skillful movements during our fights, that I fail to block his attacks and end up falling down or get
Ella’s POV Klaus and Joseph head for their offices and I hang back with Sara before she heads to work too. I had ten minutes before my studying session with Jake, so I decided to open the subject with Sara. “What’s on your mind Ella?” asks Sara curiously. She could always read me like an open book. I wondered if I was the only one she could read so easily, or she had a special gift of reading people. “I don’t know if Klaus talked to you about this, but he and I have real feelings for each other. We’ve had them well before we got married, but we were both scared of our own feelings” I said awkwardly. She speaks tenderly “I know, not just because Klaus confirmed it last night, but because Joseph and I suspected it from the beginning” I suppress my snort as I wonder to myself. How come everyone but us, was so sure that we had feelings for each other? She laughs under her breath as she says “We probably figured it out before you two even admitted it to yourselves. We didn’t say any
Ella’s POV We end up having a super late dinner. As the four of us already skipped lunch and the usual dinner time, we were all starving at that point. We kept our conversation light and short, without diving into anymore drama. We were exposed to enough drama to last us for a year. As soon as dinner was over, I couldn’t keep myself from yawning constantly. I was super tired and exhausted from all the emotional turmoil that I put my body through today. Sara notices my yawns and speaks softly to me “It’s getting late, you should go lay down and rest. It was a very rough day on all of us” I nod my head in agreement as we all get up from the table. Klaus comes over to my side and holds my hand instinctively. We say good night to them and head back towards our home, hand in hand. I couldn’t get enough of his touch, it had a magical calming effect on me, I will probably never get enough of it. When we walk into the bedroom, I notice that everything was put back in its place, and al
Klaus’s POV After Ella fled from the house, Joseph and Sara started sobbing so hard. My heart was aching for all of them. “She was right about everything. We can never make it up to her or erase what happened” said Joseph in a broken tone. He was still kneeling on the ground where Ella was sitting. “She hates us” he said sadly. Sara shook her head as she spoke for the first time since we came here. “She doesn’t hate us, she was just too hurt, too angry, she had to let it all out. The trauma and the truth that was revealed were overwhelming her so much, she had to speak everything trapped inside of her to be able to tolerate and stand the realization that everything she had lost was supposed to be her right from birth. Even if we ended up being blamed for forgetting her and for everything she was deprived from. I just hope she doesn’t end up hurting herself” She came over and sat next to me as she held my face tenderly with both of her hands. “Klaus, please don’t leave her alone