Ronan’s POVMartha placed book after book in front of me till it created a small pile. “I have booked marked all the pages that have some significance to this.”I nodded, taking another book as soon as I was done with the one in front of me. Thankfully, I was a fast reader and I was able to pore through the various amount of information that Martha needed me to understand.“Martha, we have read enough,” at least, enough to know what was wrong.Whatever it was, Lady Alicia had released a mind-consuming spell on Zira. The longer we dragged our foot, the more it was going to consume my mate’s soul.“I don’t know, I don’t think I’m strong enough to help her fight it,” Martha confessed and slumped down into the chair opposite me.Miles had been silent the whole time, just boring through the pages to see if there was any solution there that could help us.He looked up, his gaze fixed on Martha and I could tell that he was trying to be certain that her emotions were real.“Do we need to get
Ronan’s POVZira’s hand clenched around mine tightly, as though communicating her fear with me. Jamie and Miles were standing right outside the door leaving just the three of us in the room. There were many shadow guards around the Bell Tower, guarding the entire place. But the ritual was such a private and sensitive thing and it was only the two of them I could allow to be that close. I watched Martha as the light from the moon fell on her through the open window, her arms wide open as she chanted some spells. I recognized some words from the nights I had pored over books of spells for witches. After what felt like a minute, she opened her eyes, her originally brown pupils were now a bright blue. A change I imagined was a result of the power from the moon.“We can start now,” Martha said and without waiting for my approval walked to Zira and held her other hand. I felt my mate’s body stiffen at her touch and my whole body stood on high alert from that single action. However, it
Zira’s POVI was trying so hard. The darkness was overwhelming, and the warmth seeping into my body from one of my arms gradually weakened.I could feel the cold and dark abyss hanging over my mind threatening to take over. To take me over to the other side. But I wasn’t going anywhere without my Ronan. How could I dare? And so when I heard his voice for the first time in hours, I felt my nerves jump in excitement, and I was even more determined to fight. I missed him so much. And there was no way I was going to let my mate, my King, kill himself because of me. One more time. I told myself as I pushed against the overwhelming barrier blocking me from my mind. I pushed with every damn willpower that was left in me. But no way had I expected that it would work, that I would have been able to do it. A strangled sigh slipped from my lips as my eyes took in the bright light again. One sigh and Ronan’s warm body were wrapped around me. “Martha! She’s opened her eyes!” Ronan exclaim
Zira’s POVRonan had briefed me on everything that had happened when I had been out of it, and a part of me ached at how worried he must have been.I was also grateful to Jamie and Miles for how much support they had given him. As for Martha, she was still recuperating, and I was losing my mind just from thinking about how to reward her.“I’m sorry,” I managed to say as a sob fell from my lips.Ronan wrapped his arms around me. The comfort it brought was a feeling that I had missed without even knowing.“I should be saying sorry for not protecting you properly and making you go through all of that,” Ronan argued. I rolled my eyes and snuggled even further into his embrace.Like I wanted to be inside of him. If we didn’t have an important meeting that we were already late for, I was certain that I would have pulled off his robe and all of the clothes that were underneath him.And then send him to the nine heavens of pleasure. It felt like it had been a century since we were together in
Zira’s POV After what we had just gone through, I understood exactly why a lot of things didn’t matter as much as they once did. To me, nothing was more important than being whole and being with Ronan. And I felt like he felt the same way because he only turned with a calm face to look at Antoine. “It’s nice to know that you are safe and fine,” Antoine said, and I was stumped by how sincere he looked. His eyes stayed on mine for a while, like he was hoping I could find something in them. When he finally turned to look at Ronan, I sighed in relief, glad that I didn’t have to keep meeting his gaze. “I heard you had a meeting with the intruder’s family, I’m here to support you, I happen to have visited their land once or twice in the last two years.” I was about to argue, but Ronan’s voice in my head was faster. “Let him come along. He would deal with the witches they brought,” he said. I looked at Antoine and then nodded. The three of us turned the corner where their room
Zira’s POV Somehow, I don’t know how, but I see the light of magic as it bursts out from one of the women and rush towards Antoine. My body acted before my thoughts, and I lunged forward and push Antoine to the floor. I wondered if everyone else in the room saw as the spell bounced on the wall instead while Antoine and I fell to the floor. “I have always known that we were meant to be,” Antoine said as his hands around me tightened. Somehow, before we had landed on the floor, he had twisted us in the air so that he landed on the floor while I landed on him. While I was grateful that he didn’t let my body crush under his weight, I felt just as uncomfortable with his arms around me. My mind caught up with my brain and I pushed my body upwards. Antoine tried to pull me down but Ronan was even faster. “Thank you, brother,” he drawled out, and I didn’t miss the emphasis he had placed on the brother. “You brought witches into Eliza. Along with your tainted daughter.” “Fred, d
Zira's POV Alpha Fred had given up the two witches in exchange for his daughter. I wasn’t surprised. Anyone in power would have done the same. “Valden has several people and races. While those two might not belong to any large witch clan, Fred is still going to have to clean up the mess. After all, he had been the one to take them with him,” Ronan explained as we walked back to our quarters. This meant that after forking out everything that Ronan had requested for, he was going to still face the witches back in Valden. I couldn’t help but feel a chill in my spine at how thorough Ronan was. As soon as we got back to our quarters, Antoine that had been walking behind us the whole time finally spoke up. “Alicia is not hybrid, she only has someone cast a soul-invading spell on her. The whole time that she was here, her soul was being controlled by the soul of a witch while her will was the only thing left,” Ronan and I turned back at the same time. “And how do you know this?”
Keith’s POV “You are back early,” Lucan said slouched on Antoine's seat. Oftentimes, it was easy to forget that he was indeed older than the three of us. Especially since his mind and methods were indeed slower than the three of us. But I knew from the death glare that Antoine was shooting at him that he wanted him out of his seat. “Is it supposed to take a century?” He snapped at him and I held back the urge to laugh out. “Chill out man, I thought it was going to be a lot of bargaining for who….” “What happened,” I interrupted, knowing fully well that listening to Lucan was making Antoine even angrier. Not like he didn’t seem angry when he entered already. “Nothing much, he brought two witches and one guard with him…” Antoine gave a brief summary of what had gone down and I furrowed my brows. “I thought the plan was you going there to be the intermediary and let Alpha Fred think well of you?” As the largest pack in Valden, we didn’t have anything to lose by having him
RONAN’s POV"Zira ...I have said this before but I am so madly in love with you that sometimes, I just don't know what to do at all. I don't want to lose you. I want...I want to spend the rest of my life with you!" I told her. Zira smiled. She teared up a little but then laughed and shook her head. "I. I love you too, Ronan, more than you can ever imagine. I love you so much."My heart swelled. I had never felt this happy in my entire life. "You've just made me the happiest man in this life."Zira laughed, then leaned closer to me, staring at me straight in the eye and then at my lips. "Do you want a kid?" She asked with a sensual whisper.I smiled, but I was stunned by her words. "What?""A boy or a girl?" Zira whispered, biting down her lower lips as I tightened my grip on her waist."Both?" I asked, raising a brow."You sure?" Zira asked."Four?" I asked with wide eyes, and Zira burst into laughter."Are you being serious right now?" She asked."Well, you asked first, so yes," I
RONAN’s POVI ignored him and turned to Keith. "As for you, Keith, you are banished to Alva. You are never to leave there for the rest of your life, and if you do, I will kill you!". I said to Keith. Keith sneered at me. "Don't think that you won because you are the strongest Ronan! You only won because you hated our father and didn't let him affect your life!"Keith sneered at me."Yes! It's only because you stayed away from him! Otherwise, you would have ended up like this! You are no different from us!" Lucan told me. I shook my head at their reasoning. "You are right. I hated our father. And wanted nothing to do with him. But you see, I am not here just because I stayed away from me. I am here because I strived hard not to be like him. I hated that man and wanted nothing to do with him, and I made sure to make changes in my life. The rest of you just decided to take the wrong path! You deserve this!" I said.....It took me the entire day to deal with all of the remaining issues
RONAN’s POVI walked over to Miles, preparing to fight with him. I hated it when he said that I was not fit to be the Alpha and I wanted to prove to him and everyone else that it was a lie. "You don't have to do this, Ronan! He is just trying to rile you up on purpose! Don't fall for his trap! Miles already lost, but he doesn't want to admit that he has lost!" Zira called out to me. I knew that this could be a trap, but I am past the stage of caring at this point. I need to put him in his place. It was a long and hard fight between the both of us, and at some point, I thought that I was going to lose, but then I managed to knock Miles out. He tried to get him, but I pinned him to the ground, breaking one of his legs and then ending the fight with me as the winner. Miles glared hatefully at me, probably because he knew that he had lost. I am now the winner, and there is just nothing that he can do about that. I leaned in closer to him and whispered, "Do you now believe that I am
ZIRA’s POVMiles glared at Ronan, and I could tell that he was shocked and upset to see that Ronan was back. I was feeling a whole lot of emotions watching Ronan. I wanted to jump into his arms and hug him, I wanted to yell to everyone that doubted me that I wasn't wrong. I said that he was alive, and he really did come back alive. But I did not have the time to do any of this. Right now, there's a war in front of us. A war that we were starting to lose.A guard tried to attack me from behind, but I immediately turned and kicked him away from me. There were tears in my eyes as I fought out with the guard. I was happy and sad at the same time, and the tears just kept flowing. "Ronan, you should have just died! Everything was going perfectly fine! We had a good thing going on! Why did you have to come back?!" Miles yelled at Ronan. Ronan smirked as he approached him. "A good thing? Miles, you are just a thief who wants what doesn't belong to you. You were never supposed to sit on th
ZIRA’s POVMartha shook her head. "I didn't see it myself because I was too scared of going in," she said. "I think that we should give it a try, Kyle. We can never know," Peter said. Kyle sighed. "Fine. We are going to check. I just hope that it's there" Kyle said and the both of them left together."I just hope that they find it. We will be able to defeat Miles then," I said. Mom glared at me. "Can't you just leave this alone? Do you have to go this far?" She asked me. I nodded my head. "I have to go this far, Mom. I just can't ignore it. I can't ignore what he's done! He's controlling the Entire Kingdom! Everything in this Kingdom will be destroyed in just two years if we don't stop Miles now!" I said. I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself. "Mom, I trust that Kyle and Peter are going to find the spell. The spell is going to be broken soon, and there's going to be a war. I am not going to walk away from it. I just need to know if the both of you are going to help me!" I
ZIRA’s POVA spell that made it impossible for everyone to either shift or use their abilities! I laughed to myself. If Miles thought that this was going to stop me, then he had better think again. The good thing was, I knew this spell, and I knew how to break it. But first, I have to find my cousins and tell them about it. They need to know what is going on! .....I entered Maria's room and saw my mom pacing around the room. She glared at me as soon as I walked in. "I almost thought that you weren't going to come back! Why can't you just listen to me? No matter what I tell you, you have already told yourself that you're not going to listen no matter what! What is wrong with you?" She asked me. I wasn't in the mood to listen to her scoldings. "Do you know where Kyle and Peter are right now? I need to tell them something!" I said. I haven't seen him since they said they were going to take care of Antoine on their own. "Are you even listening to me? Miles could find you, and then
ZIRA’s POV"I am tired of falling about this Maria. I am not going to leave, and that's it!" I said. I was upset listening to her talk, so I walked out of the room. "Where do you think you're going, Zira? What did I tell you about staying away from Miles? Don't you listen to anything that I say at all?" She asked me. I pretended not to hear anything that she said and walked out. I know that I will have to see Miles and confront him myself at some point. I just can't keep running away from it. I have to face it. .....I was standing facing the palace's garden when I felt someone walking up to me. My heart was beating fast against my chest. I already knew who it was without turning back. It was as if I was waiting for this moment. "Who are you?" He asked. I turned to face Miles with a big smile on my face. "Are you surprised to see me?" I asked him. If my mom or Maria could see me right now, they are going to say that I am looking for death, but I know that I just can't ignore
ZIRA’s POVI turned to face my mom and frowned. No matter what they tell me, I am not going to believe that Ronan is dead. I know that he's not dead because I can still feel the mate bond between us. If I could not feel the pull, then I'd accept that he is indeed dead, but as for now, I can still feel as if he's alive, so there's no way that I am going to accept what they are telling me. "Are you even listening to me right now?! Zira! You have to leave! Miles is the one in charge now! He's not going to let you leave if he finds out that you are still alive! Are you sure that you want to take that chance?" My mother asked me. "Mom, I already told you. I am not going to leave. I have to at least wait for the full moon festival," I said. "Why do you have to wait for the full moon festival....don't tell me that you think he is still alive?! Zira! You need to stop being delusional! He's no longer alive! They killed him! Ronan is not coming back! I know that this is a lot for you to tak
ZIRA’s POVWe walked back into the city to realise that everything had changed. Antoine and his guards were still in my cousin's custody. My mother and I decided to go back to the palace to find out what had happened while we were away. Immediately we entered the palace, we went to look for Martha. She huffed me immediately when she saw me. "Zira! I thought I had lost you! I thought that I would never see you again! Thank you so much for coming back! Thank you!" She said to me, I hugged her back because I was happy to see her. "I thought that Antoine had won, but my mother and cousins showed up. I am just happy to be back!" I said excitedly. "I am just happy that you came back! The Kingdom...the Kingdom is not what it was when Ronan was alive. Everything.... everything has changed!" Martha said. "What has changed? I could feel as if the Kingdom was in trouble when I walked in. Everything was just quiet!" I said. Martha nodded her head. "Yes.. that is because it has changed. M