Audrey’s POV:I heard Kaden tell Elora that he was listening to what she had to say to him, I and Shantel had tried to do so too even though we were several meters away from his office door, hiding away but after some time, Kaden led Elora out of the throne room and to the guest house where she could spend the night before sending her away in the morning.I knew Kaden would have to show her the room where she could rest and thinking about it then, I became uncomfortable about the fact that Elora would be alone in a room with Kaden. I was probably just being paranoid but I knew Elora too well. She had been my best friend for years, I knew the sort of things she was capable of and even when she turned on me, I should not have been too surprised as I have always known her to be the snake she was.She had arrived here in quite a suspicious hour to deliver a message but whatever the purpose of her mysterious visit was, I just knew deep within me that she was off to no good, it just cou
Audrey’s POV:The silence in the room was deafening and this was surprising because it was almost impossible for Kaden and I to stay alone in a place without saying a word.He looked lost in thoughts and I could swear that he was like this because he was thinking that he had in a way contributed to the death of his cousin. Kaden was that kind of person.“Baby…” I said softly, holding his hands in mine and as soon as I did, he jerked away seemingly surprised.“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…I’m really sorry!” He rushed out and I couldn’t help but shake my head at how disoriented he was. It tore at my heart because I had never seen him like this before.“Hey, it’s fine.” I replied. He didn’t even nod or blink at me, instead he stared straight ahead, once again lost in the foggy world he was putting himself in.I stood up and slowly walked up to him and when I got to his chair, I draped an arm around him and sat down quietly on his arm rest.“I don’t know whatever it is that you’re thinking about
Audrey’s POV:In great shock, I stared at the corpse wondering just how Elora could have died. Everything about it did not feel right in any way. Elora, who just a few hours before, had arrived all fierce and arrogant, talking back at me like a spitfire laid dead without any evidence of what the cause of her death was. I had wished that I could get my hands on Elora so I could rip her apart especially as she kept being arrogant and hateful, not showing any form of remorse for her betrayal to me but looking at her lifeless body then struck me hard as I could not fathom how it could have happened.‘What could have happened within a few hours that eventually led to her death?’ I asked myself.I began to imagine different possibilities of what could have occurred with Elora but none made any sense to me, at least not without confirmation. I looked at Kaden who was just as surprised as I was to see Elora dead. I recalled that he was the last person to have been with Elora after she had as
Audrey’s POV:Still in shock, I walked up to Shantel’s room thinking she had to have some sort of explanation for Elora’s mysterious demise. When I got to her door, surprisingly I saw the door left wide open and I wondered why. I walked in and met Shantel seated on the floor with her back turned away from the door. Immediately I stepped into the room, Shantel called my name and that surprised me. I wondered how she knew that I was the person at her door. I brushed off the feeling and moved closer to her so we could talk. Seeing that she was not performing any sort of spell like I had thought when I saw her seated there, I then sat down close to her.“Hey Shantel, I need to tell you something and I really need to know if you know anything about it okay?” I said to Shantel, reaching out for her hand.“Alright go ahead, you know you can tell me anything right?” she asked me.“Of course I do.” I replied, eager to know what she knew. “So, you know after you left me yesterday and we went t
Kaden’s POVSitting at my desk inside my office going through files and numerous papers, my mind wandered carelessly without direction as I occupied it with hundreds of thoughts. A lot of things were going wrong in my pack and all lingered heavily in my mind, causing me to lose the focus I required to handle it all. For the first time since taking over as the king I had felt helpless, not knowing what to do and how to handle the increasing number of difficult choices around me. I was left with the responsibility of making virtually all the decisions of the pack and as its problems kept piling, it weighed on my shoulder. Without any concentration, I flipped through files and flung papers about in utter frustration. Somewhere among my pattern-less thoughts, I remembered that it was Erik’s funeral that day. Erik was dead but the thought of attending his funeral still haunted me, giving me the chills every time I recalled how he had fallen because it hurt me to see him die even though
Audrey’s POVI sat inside my room in the company of my newly found best friend Shantel, we talked about the obvious threat of war on the pack and wondered about Jacob’s ultimate plan and the role he played in all of it. We had been talking all day about many things like the current situation of the pack which had started out with the death of Elora and proceeded with the unrest that followed it. I tried my best to stay clear of Kaden who was so busy trying to figure it out and with things made worse, the news of war threats from another pack. We both had agreed to not let the news about Jacob’s threats out knowing the magnitude of unrest it would cause. If the people began to hear rumors of war it could create another problem so we kept the news between only a few of us. Questions were even already asked about Elora’s mysterious death which we could not provide the right answers to.The unsolved death of Elora and the hovering threat over my life were some of the reasons I had kept
Audrey’s POVStill in bed and deeply lost in thoughts, I stared at my ceiling unconsciously as imaginary images began to appear on the background of the wooden brown surface that stared back at me from above. I was still very much worried about Kaden and his current situation with Jacob. I was more worried now that Jacob was threatening to go to war with Kaden simply because of Elora’s death having accused Kaden of killing her than anything else. What bothered me the most was the fact that I still had a strong feeling that this was all Jacob’s plan all along and if it were so, then he had somehow sacrificed an unsuspecting Elora in order to gain a step ahead of all of us in his dirty schemes. Until her death, I had not forgiven Elora and she had been unrepentant and hateful towards me still, but because of the fond memory of the friendship I shared with her, I felt a thread of anger towards Jacob for using Elora in his evil schemes which had caused her to lose her life, even thoug
Jacob’s POVThe long dining table I sat in was quite huge and empty, the room was as silent as a graveyard too but that was how I loved to eat; alone and in total silence. The only noise that could be heard was the clicking of my cutleries together and the sound of wine pouring into a glass by the maid that stood beside me. She set the bottle down after almost filling the glass to the brim and tried to shift it closer to me but accidentally spilled some drops on the shiny table made of cedar. I snapped.I was irritated by the meek manner in which she carried out her duties and in sudden anger I picked the glass up and poured out the entire contents of the wineglass on her dress. “Sir..!” The maid shrieked and moved backwards as the crimson red liquid stained her clothes but I paid no attention to the pathetic face she was pulling at me. Instead I focused more on how annoying she was and just how she had made me lose my appetite.. I stood up, pushing my seat backwards forcefully and