Allyssa's POV.To say that I am startled is the understatement of the year. The Alpha's words have shocked me to no end. I don't even know what to make of it at this point, on one hand, I am overjoyed that he has finally realized his feelings, and on the other hand, I can't help but think that the Alpha is trying to switch up on me again, and I will not entertain that.'Just accept him, he is trying to make you his Luna, do you even know what that means?' My wolf shouts in my head.'I would love to think that I know what a Luna means, given that accepting the Alpha's proposal would make me one' I snidely reply.'Them why?! Why did you shut him down, he's planning to accept us as his mate, why did you have to go and do that, this is everything you've been dreaming of and now that it fell into your lao you're just going to ignore it?!' My wolf is enraged, but I stay calm.'What if he's just playing with us? What would we do then? We would be stuck in an alliance of hate and I definitel
Belinda's POV.Nothing is working out for me and it makes me so frustrated. Adrian on one hand is not doing his job, his task was simple, get rid of Allyssa, and that is proving hard for him, for whatever reason and I am running out of patience.I could claw out that bitch's face with my bare hands if I could. The Alpha is not making things easier for me either. I spotted him 'carrying' Allyssa on his shoulder, his hands propping her butt, keeping her in place. I want to drag her hair till she is bald.I am currently trailing them from afar and I realize that he is carrying her to his room. Rage burns through me with a vengeance and I try to hold back the anger but the way she is wiggling on his shoulder while he holds her firmly makes me want to kill someone or something, preferably the little wench on my Alpha's shoulders.They enter the room, the door slamming shut and a thousand things that they could be doing in there flash in my mind, I walk nearer, attempting to open the door,
Belinda's POV."What have you been doing?" I yell at him, "Did I pay you to dilly dally and do everything leisurely, you could have literally ended her in three different ways today, there were multiple opportunities, but she is still alive and well, breathing down my neck" I rant." Belinda… " He starts but I cut him off, snapping." Don't say my name, how dare you, you could not even get a simple job done, what do you want to tell me, what is your excuse?" I ask, adding, " Right, you don't have one, so why should I listen to whatever the fuck you have to say, huh?"" I'm telling you Adrian if you do not do what I asked you to do, you will regret it. Badly, just make sure that Allyssa is dead and gone. Don't let me call you again like this" I snap at him and stalk off.I barely get to my room before I come undone, slashing at the pillows and bedsheets with my claws that had come back out, I have murderous intent right now.And the person at the top of the list is Allyssa, seconded
Allyssa's POV.I don't even understand what is going on. The moon goddess decided to make this the worst day of my life, I cannot even comprehend why all these things are happening to me all of a sudden.Belinda made my life hell in the room, subtly pushing me, always putting dirt on the places where I already arranged and then telling me to redo it, over and over again, I don't know what her issue is, she wants the Alpha, what has that got to do with me.As far as I'm concerned, I couldn't care less what she does with her time with the Alpha, but she is transferring a lot of aggression towards me and it is a lot to handle.My back and waist aches, and my knees and hands are peeled and bleeding from kneeling and scrubbing the floors and furniture.I just need a good rest, and maybe this pains would go away, some pack members are looking at me with disgusted expressions, they always look at me with a sneer and disgust clearly written on their faces but not that I think about it, this i
Lance's POV.I'm very scared, Allyssa is asleep from whatever medicine the healer gave her, she is sleeping, unmoving and it's making me scared. I start pacing the room."She is going to be okay, this is a common side effect of the medicine, while she is asleep, her wounds will heal from the inside" the Healer affirms.I just nod to him and continue pacing the room. I can't help thinking that I am completely and utterly useless. I couldn't even protect someone I like. My mate, for that matter.I am just good for nothing. Which kind of Alpha can't even protect his own? The useless kind that's who. I have failed her. Not only has this mystery man been escaping from my fingertips, but he has been continuously attacking her under my very nose.I breathe in from my nose and exhale from my mouth, trying to calm myself,but it's useless, I feel so dejected and angry.I need to know who this person is and what business he wants with Allyssa, I feel like whoever this person my be, he is a rogue
Allyssa's POV.I open my eyes, my body is weak, tears stream down my face, I could hear everything the Alpha was saying to me, and I don't even know how to react to that. If he was saying that to someone that was only half conscious, that would mean that he is sincere, right?The Alpha had gone out, I couldn't bring myself to open my eyes in his presence, but I had been so touched, my wounds are gone, thankfully, but I am very weak, I can't even move my hands. I try to stand up, but the Healer sends me a chilly look that tells me to lay still, and not tempt him in any way. I like my life, so I lie back down.The door opens and the Alpha steps in, our eyes meet and I smile at him, his lips quivering unsure of what to do.He quickly walks and stands beside me, "How are you feeling, can you move your arms?" He asks."Just a little pain in my back, and I'm very weak, not that it should be a burden to you" I reply.His face falls, " Don't be like that, I care about you very much, don't pu
Lance's POV.I smile, staring at her beautiful and delicate face. She looks like a flower, but more beautiful, she shines like a light wherever she is. I cannot stop staring at her face, the way her hair fans out around her as she sleeps, the delicate rise and fall of her chest.I'm addicted to her, and her scent is aromatic and captivating like flowers and candy and it makes me more angry that that man is putting her life in danger, threatening her and making her fret.When I do catch him, he is going to wish that he was not alive, he's going to wish he never knew who Allyssa was, that he never crossed paths with her.I need to gather my guards and regroup so that we can catch this man, he is endangering the lives of the pack members, has attacked Talia and keeps attacking Allyssa.Allyssa is sleeping soundly, we need to get preparations in place, so I stand up, brushing a few strands of hair away from her face, and move outside.I bring out my phone and call Dylan, he picks up immed
Allyssa's POV.A hand holds my wrist as I try to stand and clean the furniture, I have already made the bed and swept the room, the furniture is the next step.I look to find the Alpha, looking down at me, a scowl on his face."Why are you cleaning?" He asks, definitely not happy to see me doing household chores, from the scowl on his face and his tone of voice."I'm just doing it out of habit, I just wanted to clean the room, out of gratitude for the Healer, for taking out time in his schedule to take care of me, that's all." I murmur.He yanks me up, though not forcefully, and holds my shoulders, "You do know that taking time out of his schedule to take care of injured or sick Pack members is his job right?, he did not do anything special for you, he just did his job, so you absolutely do not have to clean his room for him" I guess he is right, "But, cleaning is my job too, and I am a slave, I don't think a lot of people regard me as a pack member" "You just recovered, you couldn
Allyssa's Pov. I wake up in my bed, the bed I and the Alpha share, I don't even remember dozing off, I just remember the Beta dropping me off here and me going inside, worried sick about my mate. Who is currently leaning over the bed, looking at me, his breath fanning my face and a smile grazing his lips."You are beautiful" He murmurs and nuzzles my neck. I smile and then when my eyes trail to his arms my breath catches in my throat." And you're hurt" I whisper, alarmed, he straightens and I jump up, getting the first aid box." You're adorable, it's okay though, I don't need that, I'm going to heal on my own anyway" He mutters and I glare at him. Applying some antiseptic cream to my thumb and forefinger, then opening my palms, I mutter, " Bring it here" He looks at me and sighs, " It's really okay"" Those cuts are so fucking deep, please let me treat your wounds, please " my voice cracks at the end, buy I try very hard to keep my composure, and fail miserably. There scratch
Allyssa's POV. Belinda leaves my jaw, examining her nails to see if any damage was done to the new manicure, then she orders Adrian to untie my hands, and he does so, keeping his hands on my shoulders to keep my from escaping, I almost roll my eyes, there's no way in hell that I'd be able to escape, I don't even know there the hell I am. I am so angry and also, so scared at the same time. Belinda, this bitch, came in and started gloating about my predicament, and considering the fact that she is the one that put me in it, I think my murderous thoughts are justified. "How does it feel huh, answer me" She screams at my face and I look up at her, then spit on her feet. "How dare you?" She shrieks, "hold her" she commands Adrian and he does just that.He yanks my head back so that my throat is bare, Allyssa's sharp pointed nails trail in my neck, and I hold my breath. If she sinks her nails in my flesh, she might hit a vein or major artery and I may die from blood loss. Pak. The sla
Lance's POV. I'm on a searching spree, my wolf is beyond angry at this point, there is no word in the vocabulary that can describe the intense feeling of fury and rage that I am feeling at this point, it's red hot and blinding, searing me from the inside out. I'm still waiting for Dylan and pacing the clearing, clutching her hair to my chest and trying to use the mate bond to lead her to me, I call out to her using the mate bond, but it's either the mate bond has been weakened or the distance between she and I, is too far for the mating pull to reach. I still feel like it's all my fault that all these happened, I am the one that got angry and left while she was still in her feelings, had I behaved like a sensible person and tried to calm her down, we would not be in this position, she would be in my arms now and not missing. Had I taken the time to explain everything to her then maybe things would be different right now, but I had let my emotions cloud my judgment, I had acted base
Allyssa's POV. I open my eyes, my head hurts, and I sway to the side, my head lolling, I'm tied up, that's the first thing I notice, and I'm alone in a very nondescript room. I turn my head around, my head feels heavy on my shoulder and I feel like it is going to fall off and roll down but my hands are tied and there is nothing I can do. I look around the room, there is a single light bulb that produces smoky illumination which hurts my eyes, the chair I'm chained to is made of iron, there is an iron table with all sorts of torture items sprawled on top of it. The room is bleak, and my heart jumps in my throat as I realize that this may be the end for me. I am going to die without even seeing Lance, I am going to die with the image of my aunt's dead body crawling through my mind. I squeeze my eyes shut, hoping this is just an hallucination, a dream, but when I open my eyes, the rope is still fighting into my wrist, the table with the torture instruments still looks as menacing a
Lance's POV. The sweat drips down my back as I head back to the room, I needed to clear my head and figure out exactly what is going on around me, and what better way to do it than to pour all my rage on the punching bag, which now lays in pieces on the gym floor by the way. Now that I have had some time to think about my actions and cool off, I find that I actually have done some things wrong, first and foremost my approach. That slap was well deserved because when Allyssa had talked about her aunt, no, Elaine, I had laughed in her face, with Elaine's dead body a few meters from me and her blood on my hands. That had been a completely unacceptable approach to the issue, in my defense, I didn't want to laugh, it just bubbled out of me without control, but it was still wrong. And I also get the reason she would have to doubt me, she witnessed me crouching over Elaine's body, her blood on my hands, face and clothes, telling her immediately that I was not wrong would have been like
Allyssa's POV. My emotions are all over the place, I can't believe anything that happened in the last twenty four hours, I cannot believe that my aunt that talked to me some hours ago is no more, and that my mate killed her. I moved into a blank room, with only a bed and a chair, the room seems empty, and lacks life, just like my life at this moment. I wanted to move to Elaine's old room, but that would hurt too much, it's like I am relieving my mother's death over again, I cannot even believe that I am back to square one. The Alpha had been so enraged when we had our last conversation, but he had no right to be, I saw it very well with my own eyes, the blood splattered on his hands, his face, his clothes. He could not convince me that someone else had killed her and splattered the blood on his hands, his face and his clothes. I just need space, I need a place to retreat to and cool my head, a place to nurse my wounded heart. I also cannot believe that Belinda had come immediate
Belinda's POV.HappinessHow long does it last? Because mine suddenly seems to last forever.When last did I smile and treat myself to a bottle of wine and a pedicure? I think I'll do that right now, I'm so happy I feel like I'm going to combust, I am so happy that I persevered, I am finally getting very close to my goal.This is the happiest I have been in ages, I'm not even lying.The look on the Alpha's face when Allyssa told him that she did not want to be his mate anymore, and the broken look on Allyssa's face as she flung baseless accusations at the Alpha.Their relationship is at rock bottom and I am so very happy about it, I cannot believe that idiot Allyssa.I'm convinced at this point that her brain is only for decoration and she does not use it to think at all, it's all for fancy.I laugh out loud and pick a bottle of champagne that I iced in a bucket, pouring the sparkling white wine in a glass, the paper brownish-gold color excites me.I lift it to my lips and taste the b
Lance's POV.I'm angry and frustrated, Allyssa has succeeded in making me utterly enraged, she is not even giving me the chance to speak for myself, she just up and assumed that I was at fault, and I guess in a way I am, but I wasn't the one that killed the woman and she is not allowing me to clear myself.And I am even more angry when she just threatens to end our relationship, like it's some superficial bond, like the mating bond means nothing to her, it makes me so angry that my wolf growls. I'm so angry, rage fills my head, my vision turning red and dangerous.I look at as she speaks, barely registering her words, my head feels like it's about to burst, she is shaking, from whatever emotions are rocking her body, her eyes are red and bloodshot, the tears still falling in torrents like it's not going to end.When she says that she wants to end our relationship, I laugh in her face, the laughter just erupts from the pit of my stomach, bubbling it's way out of my mouth with an intens
Allyssa's POV.The shock on my face must show because he is taken aback, I feel a lot of emotions at this point, disgust, rage, anger, sadness, I feel betrayed.I think I'm going to vomit, I look at him like he is sick, deranged, unstable, and honestly, he is.She warned me, she came to me and begged me to save her from him, but I denied, maybe if I had not denied all the facts she told me, if I had not brushed all of it off as hysterics, she would still be alive.When I look at her again, her body mangled on the floor, I bend over and vomit in one of the shrubs.When I turn back to look at the Alpha, the blood on his hands, on his face and his clothes tells me everything I need to know, tells me who exactly is responsible for this crime.I watch his face closely, wondering why the hell he had to do this, a tear gleams on his face and I am taken aback, I feel the urge to laugh at him.Why is he crying? The almighty Alpha? Why is he showing this emotion? He fucking killed my aunt! My o