Leah POV
Lucia was different. She tried her best in getting close to me, I could see her efforts and even when I tried to push her away, she refused to leave. I glanced at the blacksmith's shop to see Damian and Thomas speaking.
Evelyn brought the files of the factory to me. I had not gone through them for a while and needed to take note of every gem.
“I wish I could do something like this in my pack,” Lucia said while I went through the documents. The amount of gems produced yesterday had already been recorded, making everything easier for me.
Tessa was beside me, waiting for me to ask her whatever I couldn't understand. She still had the mindset that I was still very new to all these.
“You should leave with Tessa. Tessa, why don't you show her around?” I asked her. Tessa looked at Lucia with uncertainty written all over her face.
No one wanted to be with the visitors. I was sure Thomas must have be
Damian POVAnne dropped the arrow and I picked it up and looked at it. When did the attack turn to using archers? I must be dreaming. Glancing around the woods, and yet seeing no one was really annoying. Thomas stood by my side, waiting for my order but I couldn't say anything. I stood still. Whoever had shot the arrow was still in the woods and closer than we thought. With a little bit of patience, I would be able to find out. Suddenly I heard a little rustling of leaves by my right side and I took off, running towards the sound. Thomas followed me. I had not seen anyone yet but I trusted my instincts. A wolf suddenly jumped out of the tree and started running. I caught the scent of her and frowned. It seemed familiar like she was a member of my pack. It motivated me and I increased my pace. Did that mean that there were moles in my pack? She kept running, jumping all the fallen branches and moving south. It was indeed a member of the pack. No one knew all these parts of the word
Damian POV“I would like to see the girl,” Anne said later into the night. We were on the bed. I was supposed to go and check up on her but since Stephanie had given me her word, I decided to wait.She was the Beta and despite her hatred for Anne, I wanted to give her the opportunity to act like one. Besides, Marcus was there too.“Why? Is there any need?” I asked her. She shrugged like she knew something I didn't. I moved over, so we were looking at each other properly.“There is something on your mind and I know it. What is it?”“I think she might speak more to less violence. Stephanie might be too hard on her. She is still a little girl,” she explained, making me frown.This was the person that wanted to kill her a few hours ago. How could she be compassionate at this moment? Unless she had an idea on how to make her speak.“So, you want to go to he
Leah POVThe little girl had something to say, it was obvious and I had a hunch on who it was that might have shot the arrow at me. It was a near hit so that person had to be good in weaponry.“Anne,” Stephanie raised her voice.I heard Damian growl at her immediately.Then he moved to me and picked me up by my arm, “Let’s leave it to Stephanie, I believe that she knows how to handle this,” He said.I sighed in frustration and allowed him to take me out of the dungeon.When we got back to the room, I could not contain my anger.“I was almost there, she was about to say something,” I muttered to myself as I kept pacing about.Damian sighed and came to hold me by my shoulders. He used his index finger to move the strands of my hair that had covered a part of my face, his gaze, affectionate and soothing.“It’s alright Anne, you don’t n
Stephanie POVThat small brat would have said something to Anne. I thought angrily and ran my hands through my hair. Pacing around, I decided I had to tell Damian first before she did and so I went to find him. I was walking through the corridor when I heard someone say something from Anne’s room. I placed my ear to listen more carefully because I thought that I was starting to hear things. She was muttering some incoherent words. “Spells?” I asked myself. Something was wrong and I was going to find out. I walked past her door and met him just coming back. “Damian,” I called him. He turned to look at me. He was still mine, and I would make sure I got rid of her for trying to take what was mine.“The girl, she died,” I said. His eyes went wide in shock. “Yes, she tried to escape and ended up killing herself in the woods because I was after her,” “Why would she do such a thing? She was just a child,” He said a bit sorrowfully. “Anne, she witnessed her die,” I said to him. I
Leah POV“Have we been able to meet up the number of the stolen gems?” I asked Evelyn.I was very exhausted. I had been working my butt off but there was more to it than just being dedicated. I needed to get my mind off a lot of things that were bothering me, among which was the way my wolf was awakening.“Princess...” Evelyn called out my name.I blinked a few times before looking at her.“I lost you there for some minutes. Are you sure that you don’t want to rest?” She asked.I sighed, “No, we have to get this done,”She nodded, turned back to resume her work then looked back at me, “The gems are still a little far behind but we hope to get it completed as soon as possible. With how much work we are putting in, of course, it will work out.” She piped in.“And one more thing,”I looked at her wit
Thomas POVI knocked over all the containers and bottles on my bedside table.“How dare she? Who does she think that she is?” I asked no one in particular.“There is nothing so special about her. She just wants to ruin all that I have worked for. It’s not like Damian is a recognized Alpha. He is just the Alpha of rebels, to be more profoundly stated, outlaws,” I ranted.My chest heaved up and down as I spoke. That Anne was really riling me up. She was getting on my nerves.“What is the matter?” Lucia asked.“It’s Anne or whatever she calls herself,”“What has she done?” Lucia asked further.Lucia was the only one I could lean on to some extent.“She has done quite a lot. She wants to make sure that the Alliance doesn’t hold. I heard her say that to Damian and I don't like it at all. She is s
Leah POV I got to my room, feeling very angry at myself. I trashed everything that was placed on my table. That bastard! He hasn’t changed at all. All he cared about was power. He looked down on us and talked down about Damian but he was still here trying to land a deal with him. I sincerely hoped Damian had finally come to a conclusion about what he wanted to do about Thomas. It was really a bad idea leaving him to roam freely about in the territory and the mansion. I didn’t need a priest to tell me what he actually wanted from us. It was the mined lead and Damian’s ideas for the weapons. I closed my eyes and took deep breaths to try to calm my nerves. My room door opened and Evelyn walked in. “Princess, you seem to be very angry at Alpha Thomas,” She stated. “I have every reason to be, Evelyn,” “But you speak to him like you have known him for a very long time and I find that rather intriguing,” She commented. That’s because I do. I wanted to say but then I held myself.“Y
Stephanie POVI could not get what I heard out of my head the day I walked past Anne’s room. It sounded very incoherent but then it also sounded ancient. I was no fool. I’ve been taking my classes very seriously as a child before I became a rogue and I knew when a witch was casting a spell, what it sounded like.I also could not get the look of her eyes the day I just barged into her room after her little table squabble with Thomas out of my mind either.It looked so clear to me that it seemed like the two of them knew each other but what really baffled me was the confusion on Thomas’ whenever she talked.He might not know her but he recognized something significantly familiar in her especially in how she spoke to him. Her constant squabble with him also didn't go unnoticed by me. They were so glaring.I had walked by the factory today too and I heard her get into an argument with him. There was something h