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Sophia’s POVI wasn’t mad at Derek, but like he had said when he was working, he needed to block it all out, and that is what I was doing. I needed Olivia to believe that we were on her side. She was up to something. Bria could sense it. Her Lycan was hiding something, and she was putting up a mental block when we were around. I just hope he would trust us like we had him.The packs were arriving. I knew most of the Alpha’s, Luna’s and Betas from all their visits to my old pack. They would come to the kitchen to visit Jarrod’s wife and because I was always there, they would all talk to me. The rest I knew from Miss Cindy, who helped me study to know all the packs in case I became a rogue like I wanted to. Alpha Titus and his Luna Mira were the next to greet me.“Sophia, my darling, it is so good to see you. How are you? I am glad you finally got away from that no good pack.” Alpha Titus said as he greeted me.“I am very well now. Thank you Alpha Titus. Yes, I finally couldn’t take Cyr
Sophia’s POV Of course, he had to create a scene. Why wouldn’t he? He thought he was better than everyone, but seriously, how dare he touch me? I sensed Derek was about to lose control, Jerek was trying to take control, but we couldn’t afford for that to happen. The most gut wrenching growl I had ever heard came from Derek, making everyone drop to their knees, including me. I tried to not fall, but the power within Derek was even too much for me. “How dare you touch my mate, you pup! She is your future Queen and you dare to insult her, you dare touch her. YOU HAVE TOUCHED HER FOR THE LAST TIME. Do you know what the punishment for hurting your queen is, pup?” He warned Angus. He said nothing, but it wasn’t like he could. All he could do was whimper. The power surge was getting too much for me. “Derek, babe, you need to calm down. I am ok, but look what you are doing. Please let everyone out of the command. You are hurting even us.” I whimpered through the mate bond. I could feel the
Derek’s POV“WAKE UP, YOU IDIOT.” I heard someone screaming at me, but my head was groggy. It was as if the last few days hadn’t even happened, like I was waking up from a dream. There was something nagging at the back of my head, but I couldn’t figure out what it was.“EXPLAIN YOURSELVES NOW.” I hear Mom’s voice finally waking me up, my eyes open, taking in the room. But this wasn’t my room? Where was I? Then the scent hit me. Oh shit.“Your Highness, your son has come to realise he made a mistake by marking Sophia. He was with me last night repeatedly.” I heard the smirk that must have been on her face. But there was no way I would ever touch Olivia. I hated her. It was only a dream. The realization of what I had done hit me like a ton of bricks.“NO NO NO. WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO ME? I WOULD NEVER TOUCH YOU.” Screaming at her. But I could smell her all over me. My scent was mixed with hers. That meant only one thing. “Mom, it's not what it looks like.”"Sophia, she would have f
Sophia’s POVThree months laterNo one was coming for me. How much of an idiot we had been to believe that Derek actually wanted us to be his mate, that he loved us? My soul had broken that night. My heart was empty. We were empty. Bria was trying her best to hold on, but they have silver on me. They cut her off from me, but I can feel she is there trying to fight for us so we can get out.I wanted to die every day. The torture Cyrus and Angus had put me through was nothing compared to what these filthy animals had done to me for weeks. My body was covered in scars some of the wounds were still fresh. The Lycans would slice my skin, giving me hundreds of paper cuts over my entire body so that I would scream in pain for hours. Once I was just about to black out, they raped me. Everyone one of them having their way with me. The more I fought them, the rougher and longer it would be. They beat me near death every day. That was when I gave up. They had broken me beyond repair. There was n
Sophia’s POVLars came over to me, putting a hand on my shoulder. I flinched at his touch.“Soph, you're ok. They won’t hurt you anymore.” He said, trying to comfort me. I know he did nothing to me and that the guys that did are now dead, but I couldn’t help it.“Soph, you need to be stronger. You are stronger than this. Look at what you just survived. We can do this. I have your back.” Bria chimed in my head. I knew what she was saying was right, but we had just got out there and I wasn’t ready to be strong yet.“What did they do to you Soph?” He whispered to me.“I’m not ready yet, Lars. I can’t. Three months. It took you all three months to come and find me. But what I don’t understand is why you came for me?” I was struggling to keep my anger down.“But Soph, we were looking for you this entire time. There were no leads. It was King Asher that came across a rogue who had seen you.” So there was one missing. How could we be so stupid? This asshole needed to die, as well. The faces
Derek’s POVShe was never going to talk to me again. She blocked the mate bond as soon as I saw her. Honestly, I don’t blame her. The things she said they did to her. My blood went cold. I was trying everything I could to not rip through the jet. I had been so close to losing it.My soul was shattered. I would never be able to forgive myself. Her soul and body had been shattered because of what Olivia had done. She would never have gone back to the house by herself. I would have been there to save her. How was I meant to help her with this? The way she looked when she had torn apart the man that hurt her. She was feral, like her beast had completely taken her over. Lars brought her back. I was trying to give her some space, but I was worried about her.She went to the doctor a few hours ago. I have been waiting for her to come back so I could take her to Olivia. Maybe once she understood, she might talk to me. If she could talk about what happened to her, then maybe I could share some
Sophia’s POVOlivia had nearly succeeded in killing me, almost making me lose my Derek. When I nearly died it was like I was in limbo, replaying the worst moments of my life, but also the happiest moments. The funny thing was, the happiest I had ever felt was when I was with Derek. I saw the future we could have had with our babies. It was Olivia who was the poison. Every word they whispered to me, I heard them. It took me a long time to break away from the limbo because my baby that had been killed was with me. He stayed the entire time with me, never leaving my side. We had watched our life and what it would have been. He was like his father, but we both knew when it was his time to go and be with the Goddess. I was forever broken, never to be fixed again. The things in this world had made me suffer. I would never be the same, but I made a promise I would love his father with everything in me.“Derek, come on, I want to go home and eat something. I think we need to talk, but I don’t
Sophia’s POV“Lets go for a ran. Let our Lycans get acquainted with each other. We will take today to rest but I know your Mom is sick, your workload must be insane at the moment babe. You need to fill me in on what has been happening.” Derek looked at me like he just wanted to stay here and forget about everything else, but that is not what we signed up for. I would make sure that we would put every piece of shit that hurt anyone or planned on hurting anyone to death.Standing up from Derek, he whined, which made me smile. He was still in there, and I was determined to bring him back.“Ready Bria. You and Jerek have fun. You deserve it.” I said to her as she pushed forward, taking control. She shifted into her form, standing as tall as Jerek. She was fluffier than a Lycan, which was the wolf coming out in her. Her face was softer, more like a wolf. She was unique. She wanted to test herself to let her new form loose. Jerek’s form was magnificent. They ran around for hours, letting th
The darkness had consumed me, but I felt a hand grab mine, causing my eyes to open. I had been to this place before, but I couldn’t remember how. Looking at the hand touching mine, I saw her for how she really was, a goddess truly touched by the moon.“Do you remember how you got here, my sweet Sophia?” Her voice rung regal.“I am having some trouble, Selene. It seems that my mind is trying to stop me from remembering.” I was confused as to why. She stopped in front of me, still holding my hand, her other hand touching my cheek.“Will you allow me to show you?” She asked me. Nodding my head yes, I knew there were people waiting for me somewhere. Light shone from her hand and every memory that I ever had from when I was a baby right till my death flashed before my eyes. I saw all the love, all the hate. I gasped as the last memory stopped.“Will they be ok Selene?” I asked her.“Sophia, my child, would you like me to show you the future they have, or would you like to stand over all my
Why did he always assume that it was me? No matter what I did, he always thought it was me and I was tired of it. Here I was, accepting my fate to die so that they could live. Asher felt the pain he had just caused me. He was about to say something when I stopped him.“How dare you assume it was me? You always do this to me, Derek. I am sick of it. You ridicule me even though I accepted my fate so that you could live. I Sophia reject you, Derek, as my fated mate.” I said, and the bond snapped from me. The warriors gasped behind me.“You want to know where my mate is? I don’t know because I just rejected him. Even in death, he still chooses to believe the worst in me. As for my mate, you already know, Asher.” I told Zakari it wiped the grin off his face.“But you can’t have them both as your mates? It’s not meant to work like that.” He scolded me. The mate bond with Derek was broken by my side, but it wasn’t for him. That’s why I hadn’t said the rejection correctly, because I didn’t ne
Jarrod’s wolf was killing him slowly. His paw was on his head so that he couldn’t shift. Angus wasn’t even squirming. It was like he was welcoming death.“DO IT JUST KILL ME.” He screamed at us. He really wanted to die, but why should he? After all the pain he had caused me and countless others, death was the easy way out.“Jarrod, stop, don’t kill him. That would be doing him a favour. Chain him in silver.” Jarrod’s wolf cocked his head sideways. Asher disappeared and was back a few seconds later. Angus was now chained in silver and chained to the tree. Jarrod had shifted back.“What the fuck Sophia.” He said, coming straight at me. Asher stepped him in front of me and Jarrod stopped where he was.“If you touch her, Jarrod, I will rip you to pieces.” Asher’s voice was calm, and that’s what the scariest thing was.“I wasn’t going to touch her Asher, relax, but I want to know why she won’t let us kill him?” He questioned.“He wants to die Jarrod, we would be doing him a favour. See, we
Derek was going to be back in a few minutes. I could feel his aura getting closer through the mate bond.“As much as I want to stay here in your arms forever, we have to clean up. Derek will be back in a few minutes.” I whispered into his ear. Luckily, I wasn’t going to be alive long enough to worry about upsetting both of my mates. After we had a shower, which turned out to be a little longer than we thought because we couldn’t keep our hands off each other, we went downstairs. Derek walked through the door, instantly coming to the both of us and pulling us into a hug.“I am glad that the both of you were able to have that time together, but now I must talk nothing but seriousness.” He was hiding something in his voice that I couldn’t decipher what it was. He moved away, looking at the both of us. “Marcus and I have been talking, and we have come up with a plan. I am sorry, but I must leave both of you. I can’t stay here and watch you die, Sophia. It is selfish of me I know but on
Asher’s POV“The cost of this is your life, isn’t it?” I was choking on the words as I tried to get them out. “You both know this has to happen. I don’t know when it is going to happen, but I know it will be soon. It is the only way to keep our babies alive.” She told me her voice was not her own, she sounded other worldly. I knew this was coming, but I didn’t expect it to be so soon. I needed time. I could fix this. My heart was being ripped from my chest, falling to my knees. I was struggling to breathe. Her touch on my shoulder warmed my body, but it still didn’t take away the fact that she was going sooner than we thought. I had only just got her.“There is a cabin in the woods on the other side of the kingdom. You both should go and spend the night together there, please. I beg the both of you. We all need this. Sophia, baby, I love you, but you need to love Asher as well. Asher, you need her. Spend the night with her, make it worth it.” Derek said. He had sat down on the other
Asher’s POVKnowing what Derek was asking me to do was taking me away from our plans to stop this. But I couldn’t bring myself to leave. Sophia had suffered some much pain in her life times. And I couldn’t be the cause of more pain to her.“We need to stay with our mates and babies, Asher. If our mate has to die and all we can do is to be there for her, spending the time that she has left to make her happy, then that is what we will do.” Ivar ordered me.“I know, but the pain is too much, Ivar. How are we meant to keep going with knowing what is going to happen? And we know that Derek will do whatever he can to die as well after she does. I can feel it Ivar, he is not going to stay here on this earth if she isn’t here. This is why I am scared to finish forming the mate bond with her. We can’t afford to do that. We have to be the strong ones here for the sake of the twins. They are going to need us. We are their family.” Ivar was right, he always was, but I couldn’t help but feel I was
Derek’s POVWhen Asher told me to get Tim because the babies needed to get out, I don’t think I have ever moved faster in my life. Within minutes, we were back in my office carrying all the equipment that Tim required. She was in pain. I could feel it, but again she was blocking it through the mate bond, trying to save us from pain.“Soph, baby, let the pain through. We can help you take it.” I tried to explain to her, but she screamed, the pain in her voice causing me to fall to my knees. She was going to die and I wouldn’t be far behind her. The babies would have Asher. I just can’t be in a world which she isn’t part of. Jerek had heard Soph and Bria talking about what has happened in their other lives and there is no way that I was going to let her go through this shit by herself. We had to keep it to ourselves because I know she would make us swear to stay with the kids, but I wouldn’t leave her again.Asher backed away to let me in to take her hand. He had every right to be here
Sophias POV“You already know about this, don’t you?” There was no point beating around the bush.“Know about what, child?” He looked at me, confused.“He doesn’t know Soph, I am the only one that does. Although I suspect that Asher’s beast knows about it, but he hasn’t told Asher yet.” Bria confirmed with me.“Sorry Alaric, seems you don’t know, but I think you need to know because I need you to look out for my babies.” My voice sounded firm even to me. My strength was building, and I had a feeling that my babies were going to be here soon, so I needed to start putting plans into place.“What are you talking about, Sophia? Something is changing in you. I can sense it. What is happening?” He sounded concerned, which in all honesty he should be, because I had just accepted my fate that I have to die.“Alaric, I have to die.” I stated to him.“No, you don’t. We are putting plans in place so that nothing will happen to you.” “No, Alaric, that is not what I mean. My fate has been set, a
Sophia's POV“Soph, did you just feel that?” Bria was on high alert.“I did, but what was it?” I asked her.“Someone wants to hurt us, but they need us alive. We need to always be at arm’s length to these guys, just like Asher told us.” She was right. There was no way that we were going to be out of their sight. Automatically placing my hands on my stomach, I felt one of my baby's move towards my hand. “They love us all so much already Soph, but they are growing at a rate of three times quicker than a normal pup would. I would honestly guess we have less than a month before they will be here, so we must do everything they tell us tonight.” Bria commanded me this time. The way she was worried had me worrying, too. Both Derek and Asher were watching me with concerned looks on their faces.“Soph, what is it?” Derek asked me. He really was in tune with us ever since he had woken up from the despair that he had been in.“Let’s just say it is a feeling, but someone wants to hurt me, but th