I juddered, spinning to face him. "Er, hi," I simpered, waving awkwardly at him as I tried to stand properly. "No, what? No. I was..." I trailed off, racking my head for the perfect excuse to give him. "...I wasn't–I am not learning how to fight again. You know I haven't gotten much of my mobility back since I was in a coma for a month." Vyn crossed his arms against his chest, narrowing his eyes into slivers of scrutiny. His jaw grew taut, and the expression in his eyes showed that he wasn't buying what I was saying... yet. "I also thought it'd be fun to learn again. You know the excitement that comes with learning something you love," I explained, turning back to my reflection. I took the stance of a fighter in a battlefield, waiting to lunge at his or her opponent. After a moment's silence, he spoke. "It will be an honour for me to teach you then. Hopefully, I can help you regain your mobility back." I eyed him through the mirror, nodding enthusiastically. With his
My body shook, and I could feel nothing but blind terror. I swallowed her in a bid to push down the lump that had grown in my throat. "What–what do you mean by who I am?" I struggled to speak because his fingers gripped my neck tight, almost restricting my inflow of oxygen. "Answer me," he snapped, his teeth still jammed together. Vyn's face was flushed with anger, glowing a bright shade of red. Fat veins throbbed in his temples, conveying just how agitated he was. Furiously, I tapped on his hand, tears brimming in my eyes as he gripped my neck tighter. I was going to grow unconscious if he didn't let go. "P–please," I stammered, gasping for air. "I can't breathe. I'm going to die–die if you keep doing this." "Then speak up before you die," he said with a low growl. I tapped furiously with ragged breathings. Vyn eased his grip around my neck, but his fingers still clutched my neck like a bracelet. "I can't b–breathe," I gasped, and he completely let go of my neck. "Now, spea
"What's going in?" I asked, and Vyn released his hold on me. "Some kind of dispute," Slade answered with a grim expression. He shifted his weight to one of his feet and rubbed the back of his neck. "Majority of the pack members are outside, chanting." "Chanting?" I repeated, trying to wrap my head around what he was saying. Vyn and I shared a concerned look, both of our brows knitted into a deep frown. Vyn picked up the television remote, turning down the volume. Their muffled voices filtered into the room, prompting Vyn to turn off the television. "Do you have an idea of what this is about?" I asked Slade, and he shook his head with a hint of apprehension in his eyes. "But they seem really displeased," Slade revealed. "Tia, do you have an idea of what is going on?" I inquired, and she replied with nothing but silence, which reflected the uncertainty she felt. I headed towards the door with a gnawing feeling in my stomach. Slade stepped aside, holding the door open for me.Once
Once I stepped into my room, it enveloped me in a comfortable and warm silence. A sigh of relief mixed with weariness slipped out of my lips, and I kicked off my training shoes. Trailing my eyes to the bed, it invited me, and I accepted its offer, plopping down on it. The tension that had intertwined my muscles dissipated, and the pain from today's practice seeped into my joints. I groaned, burying my face in my pillow. Today was one hell of a roller coaster. I still hadn't recovered from Vyn's attack after he figured it wasn't me. "That was really a close one," Tia sighed, and I agreed with her. "We have to be more careful from now on. We might not be so lucky next time." "You still haven't told me the things I should know about you to avoid such clumsy mistakes," I said, thinking of how to get off this bed and head to the restroom. I needed to shower. "Yeah, that's true. We can do that under the shower," she responded, finally giving me the motivation to rise from my bed. I ho
He sat beside me, butt naked, and I resisted the urge to steal a glimpse at his dick. I grabbed the duvet off the bed and wrapped it around my body, still feeling flushed. I couldn't comfortably stand naked in front of him yet. "Is something wrong?" I asked, feeling a faint lump in my throat. What did he want to talk about? Had he found out I wasn't Tia and wanted to calmly talk it out with me?The look in his eyes grew dark when he angled his head, staring intensely at me. What had I done this time? "Did I say something bad?" I asked him, and then sadness filtered into his eyes. Was this man bipolar? How could he switch between different emotions in less than a minute? I felt a dull ache in my chest when a thought crossed my mind. "Did something happen to Sa–mom?" I inquired. "What? No." He shook his head. "Then what is it?" I probed. "Your silence is killing me.""Sorry, I acted that way. The thought of it made me angry, and then sadness breezed through me at the memory of ho
I bit back a wince, feeling a burning sensation in my chest as I quickly stood up and gave the duo some distance, eager to avoid getting hurt. Seeing this side of Vyn reminded me of how he attacked me in the gym when he thought I was an imposter. Technically, I was, but I was forced to be one. "How dare you?" Vyn seethed, gripping the man's collar. The man laughed, and I could tell it irked Vyn because his ears twitched, and the mate bond made me feel the anger boiling in the pit of his stomach."Go on, coward," the man taunted, and I could tell he was having fun with what he was doing. "Hit me. You should be walked down the road of shame. You couldn't save your mate from dying. You were like a lost puppy, and now that I'm confined by your miserable chains, you're here barking empty threats and acting like an acid eruption." Vyn growled, connecting his fist with the man's jaw. The force snapped the man's head to the right. Slowly, he angled his head to face us with a pallid look
Jayven Orlov's Turmoil I sat by the window sill, glancing ahead of the packhouse, staring into a distance, noting the rolling black hills that surrounded the pack. The sun was blazing hot, and my anger boiled over, but I tried to suppress the feeling by tightening the bottle cap of my emotions. "Bastard," I muttered, blinking my gaze back to reality, now staring at the tall trees, dancing in the wind as if making mockery of my situation. The attacker had tried to get under my skin, and I knew that. I just couldn't help it after he reminded me of how incompetent I was that day. I was unable to save my mate, letting them brutally leave her unconscious. I hissed, watching the birds flutter their wings around. My heart grew heavy, hurting my chest. I had promised Tia to work on my temper, but after I almost lost her, I developed an even worser one. I bit my tongue, punishing myself for not being able to control my emotions. I glanced down at the pack yard. It had maids
Zanna/Tia's PoV. We rose to our feet, and Vyn took my hand, leading me out of the room. We halted in front of a door, and my heart pounded violently against the walls of my chest. "Do I have a horrible stench?" Vyn asked, and I looked up at him, fusing my brows together in confusion. "What?" I asked, expressing that I was lost."My mouth... the attacker had made mention of my brushing off the horrible stench from my tongue," Vyn said, rubbing the back of his neck. "Oh, hell no. He was just saying that to get on your nerves. Pay no attention to him," I assured Vyn, and his face brightened up before it regained its cold demeanour. My mind raced back to the impending confrontation, and I could feel my legs rattling underneath my dress. My palms grew sweaty, and I hoped Vyn wouldn't notice it. I had never done something like this before. Saliva gathered in my mouth, and my stomach twisted into knots. What if I couldn't solve the situation on the ground?"You have me, don't you?" Ti
Jayven's povI got back and Tia was nowhere to be found, so I headed to my study. However, what I saw there made me sigh. I hadn't expected a note from Lara, and as soon as my eyes darted over the content, I frowned. “You just don't know what you have been losing. You're never going to have peace until things start going my way. Do you think I'm going to let myself be the victim? You got me pregnant, and now you have to deal with it!” Silence reigned, and there were no words. So many things were involved, and I didn't even know how to handle it anymore. How was I ever going to recover from this?Every passing day, I find myself being engulfed in threat, and my heart ached. I wished I could tell Tia but the fear of losing her got a hold of my wheel power. I just wanted to be free. I wanted to know how else I was going to do things in order to make them make sense. Everything else seemed off, and I wanted to be able to make things work out, but it seemed like it wasn't going how I ex
Zanna's povI was worried about the way things were. My heart drummed, and I decided to catch whoever it was that was there. It didn't matter, but I was going to make sure I was freed from the hands of the person.My eyes darkened. Just thinking about me being blackmailed was enough to make me sick. I was trying to protect my relationship, by it wasn't working anymore.I tried to breath, but it wasn't really as easy as I expected it to be. So many things were involved at this point. My chest ached, and I wanted to know what else to do.I watched with anticipation, my heart drumming. I had already sent the guard away, and I was the only one who was finally going to catch whoever it was.However as I tried my best to look, I noticed someone coming. The black cloak made my eyes widened, but I was happy because I knew I was going to see whoever it was. The cloak wasn't going to make it be hidden. "Yes. We're finally going to see whoever is there. We are going to see who's blackmailing is
Zanna's povI didn't know what else to do about it anymore.my heart drummed, and I got extremely confused if only there was a way to make things better than usual, I would have done it. I needed time to actually think this deeply.It wasn't as easy as expected. I wanted to also make sure myind was in the right place. All I wanted was simple. I wanted things to fall in the right place. It was crazy, but at the same times I felt like this was also a way to investigate wat was going on, and who was truly behind all this. I needed to know the truth no matter what happened.“So what's the plan?” I asked, and there was no reply.” My wolf was tired of talking maybe because she felt that I wasn't listening to her anymore. I needed time to understand the way things were.It was only a matter of time before I finally allowed things to go the right way. It was all in my head, but I really wanted everything to go well. It wasn't so easy.I had to do things without Jayven knowing. That was the har
Zanna's povEver since the picture incident had happened, I didn't know how else to contain myself. My life seemed to be sleeping away, and I felt very strange about everything. My hands were shaking, and I tried too hard to breathe whenever I thought about recent happenings.If it only had to do with the pictures, I didn't think I would be so afraid. But right now, the person who sent me the pictures is the same person sending me letters demanding for items. “You're going to do as I've said because if you don't, I'm going to send these pictures to Jayven…” The worst part of it all is that no one knew it later was coming from. I tried to investigate low-key without grabbing attention from Jayven, but the person seemed to want to be unknown. “What are you going to do now?” I asked my wolf who was very concerned about the matter as well. She didn't want to lose our mate, and neither did I, but the way situations return in, we didn't have any choice than to do whatever the person aske
Jayven's povI walked out of the room, leaving Lyra's desperate words hanging in the air.“Jayven, Jayven come back here!!!” She screamed, but I didn't want to listen to her. After all, I was already tired. I needed her to understand that there was a lot of things involved. I wasn't always going to do her biddings.I needed to clear my head, to think things through. I made my way to the waterfall, the same place where Tia and I had first met.As I sat down on the floor, resting my back on the tree, the sound of the rushing water calmed my mind. I began to ponder on everything that had happened, asking myself why I had slept with Lyra in the first place.“I will forever regret everything I did. I didn't expect everything to turn over like this. No later will forever be on my neck, and will never love me anymore.”I still didn't know what made me drunk that night, What had driven me to betray Tia's trust? Had I been weak, or had I just been seeking comfort in the wrong places? The ques
Jayvens povI gazed at Tia, confusion etched on my face. "Is it because of your secret admirer that you're talking to me like this?" I asked, my voice laced with a hint of hurt. "Why are you using harsh words on me?" This was the first time she was lashing out like Tia It seemed she instantly realized because she immediately started to do as I had said. Tia's expression changed instantly. She looked calm, and it seemed she had been humbled, her eyes pleading for forgiveness. "I'm so sorry," she said, her voice barely above a whisper. "I didn't mean to use that tone on you. You weren't listening to me, and I was forced to raise my voice."She took a deep breath before continuing. "I've told my secret admirer countless times to stop. I've asked him to leave me alone." She sighed. “If I had my way, I was going to make sure they stopped for good. I watched her, my eyes searching for any sign of deception. Tia beat her tongue lightly, a nervous habit, and pressed her lips together.“Wh
Zanna/Tia's pov Just as Alexander was about to sign the forged document, the police burst out of their hiding spots, yelling "Freeze!" Alexander's eyes widened in surprise, and he swiftly pulled out a gun. But before he could even aim it, the police opened fire, hitting him in the leg. “Exactly what he deserves,” i commented. I didn't know what else to do about the whole thing. The bad guy was finally caught. I guess I was happy. Alexander cried out in agony, clutching his wounded leg as he dropped the gun to the floor. The sound of sirens filled the air, and the police rushed towards him, surrounding him with their guns drawn. I watched the scene unfold, feeling a mix of relief and satisfaction. We had finally caught the person responsible for the attacks on our company. As soon as Alexander fell to the ground, the police rushed towards him and handcuffed him. I watched with relief as Javin stood by my side. Immediately after Alexander was captured, I turned to Jayven and
Zanna/Tia's pov Since we wanted to catch the perpetrator today, I turned to Javin and said, "I'm ready." I was ready to do absolutely everything it takes to catch whoever the person wants. We quickly drafted the fake document, and then turned to the tax collector, who handed us his phone. His hand was shaking as he prepared to make the call. I glared at him, making sure to prepare him for everything that was going on. I gave him a stern look. "Brace yourself. You need to sound natural, like this isn't a setup. You have no choice but to do what I'm asking you to do." I explained, reminding him that his life was in my hands, and I could kill him before Alexander did. The tax collector took a deep breath, nodded, and then dialed the number. We watched as he waited for Alexander to answer, his eyes fixed on us with a mixture of fear and determination. For some reason I how they feeling that you wanted to help us. Still sniffling, the tax collector managed to compose himself en
Jayvens povJavin's expression darkened, and he suddenly turned to face the tax collector, his voice low and menacing. "Who are you? What are you doing here? Who are you working for?" He asked so many questions, but there was no way to answer them. The tax collector cowered, clearly intimidated by Jayven's aggressive tone. But then, Jayven’s demeanor shifted, and he began to taunt the tax collector instead."Are you associated with the people trying to kill Tia? Answer me!" He sneered. He was convinced that the people also tried to vandalize the company. We were among those who were trying to take my life..The tax collector trembled, his eyes wide with fear. "I-I don't know what's going on," he stammered. "No, I'm not part of any plan to eliminate Alpha Tia. I'm just...I'm not here to do anything. Please, have mercy on me.” he cried for forgiveness. I didn't even know what to believe. Sometimes the one who cries most saying they are innocent is the one who ends up being hurt, who en