Devon's POV
My head hurts so much, even my heart ached. Seeing her cry the way she did, it made me feel so guilty. But then, how could she do such a thing to me? I thought that Olivia was the most innocent of them? How come she even dared to drug me? How did she even do it?
Was this why, despite my growing feelings for her, I just didn't feel comfortable enough to allow her serve me a meal without tasting it? Moon goddess, what have I ever done to deserve this hateful life from you? First, you delay the meeting of my mate for a long time, until I'm 28 years of age, then you brought a mute person for me?
As if it's not bad enough, you allowed her poison me. Gosh, what can I do? When she had said she wanted to tell me something and she seemed so scared, I couldn't guess
Candice's POVHow can he embarrass me in such manner? Oh, he must just be well afraid of trusting any other women. Olivia, you witch, this is all your fault! How dare you do such wicked thing to Alpha Devon? Now you have ruined my chances? Never! I will never allow him slip out of my hands. I will do any and everything in my power to gain him, even if it means serving him myself."Listen miss, Alpha Devon isn't in the best of moods now. His company, his pack, his life, there is so much going on now and you are the least problem he wants to add to the list.""I'm not a problem!" I scoffed. "I care about him, I want to help him get through this heartbreak.""Well, he thinks otherwise. He doesn't want you, he doe
Candice's POVThe way Susan stared at me after Devon left made me feel even worse. I wanted to glare at her but I failed miserably. Why? Why was she staring at me? It almost felt like she was gloating."Don't get mad at me, I'm not the one who caused this." She said, chuckling a little.Oh, she found something funny? She had the nerve to laugh at such a critical moment like this? What was so funny?"You could have signaled for me to leave since you had a guest, at least I would have-""You would have still gone ahead and said whatever it is you had wanted to say, and you wouldn't regard my guest because you don't believe that anyone else has the
Beta Brent's POVI was pacing the sitting room. My wife was very mad. My son also watched us display our anxiety and he was less concerned."I mean, it's Olivia. What were you guys really expecting? For me you and Alpha Rodrigo took so much time. A few days or two weeks after she had locked his wolf and poisoned him, you should have gone ahead with the war.""But, nope. You refuse to advise Alpha Rodrigo, and he refuses to be advised. Ha. I have no words."I felt mad at the way he spoke but I still couldn't bring myself to say anything."Olivia spoke." I whispered. "She actually said something. Darling, you don't think she has been pretending all the
Olivia's POVMy chest hurts a lot. I can't believe that I'm all alone now. I have no family, no friends, and most especially, no Devon. Nothing hurts me more than that. Oh, how I so wish that somehow, Devon would just show up and come to take me.The sun is so hot, it's blinding my vision, I can't see properly, and yet, I don't seem to bother since I just didn't have any purpose for life anymore. I just want to die now. The one person that dared to show me affection, the one person that dared to care about me, I betrayed him in the worst way possible.Olivia, you're so cursed! You were cursed to never be loved. Because what else can be the explanation for this?The harsh sun felt like it was burning my skin as
Devon's POVI heard the loud sound of the thunder and I suddenly thought of Olivia. I had sent Damian to see if she was at her parents place because I just wanted to know that she was safe and well treated. I don't want her to keep suffering whether I was going to accept her or not.But deep down, I knew it was because I couldn't do without her presence. I wanted her around me, I wanted her in my castle. Her presence changed everything. And maybe I could understand a little of her motive. She must have felt like there was a chance she could finally feel fatherly love and she was going to do anything, also it didn't help that I had been very rude to her.It had already begun to rain when Damian returned. He was drenched and I met him. I didn't care about how he lo
Olivia's POVI was surprised that dad didn't recognize me, but I was elated by the fact. I continued my walk down the street to no where exactly. Once I reached the end of the street, I turned and started walking back. I saw a shed that seemed to be abandoned and I went under to stay from the rain.After standing for a while, I got tired and sat on the ground there. After sitting for a while, my bones began to get stiff so I had to stretch them and I lay down on the wet ground.I felt so weakened to my bones and I managed to shut my eyes. After an hour or so, I heard loud voices, yelling at me. Someone even went ahead to kick my in the leg and unfortunately hit my ankle. Oh god, the pain.I groaned as I opened
Devon's POV I was scared shitless, but there was no one I could reveal it to. It's been days, several days since I'd sent Olivia out of my house, and since then I hadn't seen sight nor sound of her. My heart lurched again as I thought of how much danger she would be in on the streets alone, and her reputation as a Stealer Wolf would not help matters. I had willingly pushed her into the hungry mouth of danger, and I was almost driving myself crazy with worry about her. I was sitting on a chair with a sheaf of papers in front of me, reading using the glowing lamp beside my seat. Someone knocked on the door, and I glanced up. I wasn't in the mood for visitors, but it could be the guards I sent in search of Olivia. Perhaps they were back with news of her. The knock came again, and I called out. "Come in," The door opened, and the knocker walked in. It was Candice. Oh, Goddess! "Is there a problem?" I asked, the coldness evident in my tone. Candice put up her best seductive smile ye
Immediately Candice walked out, I sighed with relief and shut my eyes again, feeling the weight of gut and sadness bear down on me. For several hours, I stumbled around the room, trying to remember the person I was before Olivia. Trying to pull out the emotionless, uncaring Alpha that I was before she came into my life. That was the only thing I thought could save me from this feeling of guilt and self pity—to not care anymore. Our life together, Olivia and I, had happened to me, I would not have been able to imagine it even if I had tried, and so, surely, I could return to what was before. But before was a vague, gaping void and I no longer knew who I had been then, what I had enjoyed, disliked, wanted. I was slowly losing my mind.Finally I shuffled over to the chair I'd been sitting on before Candice had disturbed my moping, and collapsed on it with a large sigh. I felt tears beginning to well up in my eyes and, startled at myself, I opened my eyes. The tears did fall; great drop
Olivia's POVDawn took extremely too long to come and I guessed it was due to my over excitement for today. Noon did the same thing and when evening slowly approached, I was seated in front of the vanity mirror with Gabi, Susan and a couple other ladies beside me.Right now, I was surrounded by ladies I see in the pack, but do not know them and that I had barely associated with.It was all going to change when I finally become the Lady of the house. The Luna of the silvermoon pack. Fuss was made over my nails of what nail polish color would fit perfectly on it. I let them make the fuss cause I did not care much about it. I just wanted to be linked arm in arm with my groom and tell him ' I do'. They finally decided on a chic blue nail polish coupled with a glitter lacquer polish for design. It did turn out great and my toe nails were given a nude nail polish color after minutes of a nice pedicure. Same fuss was made over my hair of which style would fit the Lady of the house. I had
Devon's POVThe training lasted till midnight before Damian everyone to retire to their rooms for the battle ahead.The morning came more quickly than expected but the pack warriors did not look like they lacked sleep. For this has done this before.I addressed the pack concerning the battle with the tyrant, Rodrigo. A few warriors were assigned to guard the palace with all their strength.We were ready, dressed, swords in our hands and guns too for the battle that was about to take place.Just then sounds of hooves on the ground and approaching cars could be heard from a distance."It's now or never," Damian said to me. He was indeed ready.Hell let loose as bullets and arrows flew around. It came out so sudden. I almost pushed Damian out of the way as an arrow was fired towards him, he fell down to the ground as I went off to grab who had fired the arrow.Rodrigo's men were advancing towards us, a battalion of them. My warriors charged towards them. Heads were ripped off, hearts we
Devon's POVThe sudden appearance of the red moon was quite baffling. It arrival before it said date took us off guard. The pack guards went in search of the sage in the caves but as usual there was nothing. Perhaps, this was just a facade of the red moon? I pondered.I got back to the palace and Olivia was not in her room. I asked about her from Gabi and she told me Olivia was in the garden.I got there and saw her staring at a plant. "Hey, love. What are you looking at?" I asked her."Hi, um, it's this green plant, it shines but it won't let me uproot it," she replied."Let me see," I said as I drew nearer to the plant. It was the sage! "My, it's the sage," I said in excitement.She grinned. "Well, uproot it!" She said to me. I tried to uproot it but it wouldn't. This was just a plant and not a tree, yet it was hard to uproot. I tried severally but it would not come out of the ground. "How about we do it together?" She suggested. I agreed and when we did, the sage came off so easily
Devon's POVThe more she lied the more she infuriated me. "You don't know what I'm talking about?" I asked her again and she stared at me. "Fine," I added as I dialled Damian's number. "Bring the girl in," I said into the phone and then hung up.A few minutes later, Damian walked into the house with Trisha who was frightened. Candice could not hide the horror on her face."Will you claim not to know this woman?" I asked her."I don't know her," Candice replied with confidence."Stop lying!" Trisha yelled at her. "Look at what you've gotten me into. These guys came to the club and dragged me out like a loser. I warned you about this but you still indulged me into it by tempting me with what I love the most," Trisha said to Candice in anger."Liar! I don't know you!" Candice yelled at her."Trisha, repeat everything you told me about Candice in the car," I said to her.Trisha swallowed. "Candice and I are co-workers at the strip club," she began to say and Olivia was shocked. "She came
Candice's POVI returned back to the house and I saw Susan with a blanket wrapped her shoulder as she sipped a cup containing coffee I believe. "Why are you all wrapped up when it's barely chilling outside?" I asked her."I'm just thinking," she replied.I snickered as I sat down on the chair. "That's why you're all covered up," I said. "Well, how's Olivia?" I asked her.She shrugged. "Not so good. She's still inside," she replied."What must have happened? Why is she so shaken?" I asked."Well, Devon came by today. Turns out that the reason why Olivia is upset and quiet is because of him," she said with a sigh."Oh my, what happened?" I asked as I pretended as if I did not know what was going on."It turns out Olivia has a video of Devon cheating on her with some girl and some pictures too," she replied."What?" I exclaimed, pretending to be shocked. She nodded, buying all my pretentious act. Damn, I was a good actress!"It's so strange. Devon is so in love with Olivia. I can't belie
Devon's POVI got to Susan's place and she immediately opened the door. "Where is she?" I asked as I got in."She's in my room. She won't come out and I have been hearing crying sounds coming from there," she said as she led me to her room.We got to her room and there was Olivia laying face down on the bed in a red dress. "Olivia," I called her name and her body immediately stiffened before she turned around and got off from the bed. "What are you doing here?" She demanded with so much anger in her voice as she stared hard at me with puffy eyes."You're crying," I said going close to her."Don't you dare come close to me. Don't you dare!" She yelled out at me."Olivia, I'm sorry," I was burdened by her behavior as I apologized. I had no idea that the dinner date meant so much to her."Get out," she replied without looking at me."Olivia, I..." I began to say but she did not let me finish when she interrupted me."I said get out!" She yelled in anger."I'm sorry!" I yelled back, not
Damian's POVThe security personnel went through the CCTV footage but unfortunately, there was no sign of Devon leaving the hotel. He was only seen going into the men's room. I almost missed the next person that went in when I suddenly saw her and asked him to pause. "Zoom in," I said to him and he did. A woman was going into the men's room too. She had black hair, but her face could not be seen. "Hell, what is a woman going to do at the men's room," I pondered out aloud.The security personnel shrugged. "Is there no footage of the woman or Devon coming out of the men's room?" I asked him."No, sir. You can see from the footage that nothing like that happened and there doesn't seem to be any glitch anywhere in the system," he replied.I groaned inwardly. "Thank you very much," I said as I patted his shoulder."You're welcome," he replied as I walked out of the room. Where was Devon and who was that woman? I pondered deeply.I got back to the hotel hallway and spoke to the guards we ca
Olivia's POVI stumbled back in shock unable to believe my eyes. I held the chair to stable myself from falling.It was as if my eyes were deceiving me. I paused as the phone slipped down from my hand. Was this the launch Devon claimed to be at?Perhaps, images might be deceiving, but I had no idea what pushed me to leave the palace and get to the hotel.On getting there, another message came in, directing me to the room Devon was in. I walked up the stairs, used the elevators and I could feel my heart in my throat as I got out of the elevator.What would I see? I knew it would be something that I would not be able hold in. I got to the room and opened the door and lo and behold, before my very eyes, there was that same woman I saw yesterday humping over Devon.I closed my mouth in shock and pain as tears cascaded down my eyes. I left the door slightly ajar as I ran out of the hallway. I kept running till I was out of the hotel.I could not scream even when I possibly wanted to. My ha
Candice's POV"What?!" Trisha exclaimed, almost spitting her cappuccino in my face."Hush, calm down Trish," I said to her as I looked around the strip club, ensuring that no one was eavesdropping on us."What do you mean by calm down, Candice? That I should frame Devon up? Are you kidding me right now?" She literally yelled at me."You're not really framing him up, Trish," I replied."What do you call drugging a man in an hotel room, and taking pictures with him?" She demanded."Stop sounding like this is the first time you're doing such a thing," I frowned at her."And so? At least I know the kind of men I do such with. Not men like Devon and especially not Devon. Please, Candice!" She flared up.I slapped my forehead. "So, you're not going to do this?" I asked her."No amount of money will make me mess with someone like Devon. Count me out," she said as she stopped her cappuccino and turned away."Not even for half a million bucks?" I asked her and she paused and turned around."Ha