Eie's POV I coughed uncontrollably for a few seconds. My body spammed with how much effort I had to put into getting the cough out. Somewhere in my subconscious, I felt something wet on my forehead and I moaned at how it cooled my burning body.I jerked up as I realized how wrong the wetness was against my hot temperature. I remembered I was being punished by Damon. According to the command he gave the guards, even if I was dying, they were not to allow me off where I was tied without his permission. Given how callous the man was, I was sure he didn't give the commandment for me to be released. Which could only mean that the guards had disobeyed their Alpha to take care of me when I fainted. And if that were the case, they might get punished because of me if the Alpha accidentally finds out about what they did. There was no way I would allow anyone to bear the brunt of my action. I was the one who decided to escape on my own. Therefore, I should suffer the punishment of getting cau
Damon's POV My hands remained still on the handle of the door where I had tried to open the door. After Miss Kardashian had left after our good time together, I found my way to the cell and found out that Samuel had gotten the girl out of the cell without any regard for my order. As I made my way to her place, I decided that I was going to ask the man why he kept defiling my order when it came to Evie. And, of course, I was going to ask that she be returned to the cell. But now that I was actually standing by the door, I didn't know what I wanted to ask anymore.I managed to walk in on when the Gamma was asking about Evie's relationship with the guard we caught at the cave. From the way my Gamma was asking the question, I knew he was stylishly trying to see if Evie was truly guilty of charges by the guard. And from the explanation she made, I wasn't sure of what to believe anymore. A part of me wanted to believe that she indeed had everything to do with the coup movements. The rema
Evie's POV The next day, as early as humanly possible, I made my way out of the Gamma's house to get to the mansion where the Alpha lived. Even though the Gamma tried to stop me, I did everything in my power to leave. The man had always countered the Alpha too much because of me. I didn't want him to get into any mess because he wanted to protect me.Of course, he told me he could take care of himself, and I have absolutely no doubt about that, but I didn't want him to be at risk and protecting his life because I placed him in a corner with Alpha Damon.As things stood anyway, I was more than happy that the man had just decided to let the matter die just like that. With the kind of temper I was used to from him, I expected him to double my punishment. Yet, all he just did was ask me to return to the kitchen. For all it was worth, I would rather choose the kitchen than return to that cell that was as cold as ice.I let out a heavy sigh as I rounded the last corner that would take me s
Evie's POV The next thing I knew, a slap was landing on my face. It was so hard that even the two guards holding me recoiled from the effects of it. That part of my head began to ring, and I felt a headache assault me. Damon raised his hand again, and I flinched."How... how dare you, Evie? After I let you go?!" He stormed at me.I would be lying if I said that I understood everything the man was saying. I didn't, but I was not about to start asking questions. I spotted Gamma Samuel pushing through the crowd and relief washed through me. I knew the man would explain what exactly had happened to me. He got to where I was and began to examine my cheek. When he was done, he sighed audibly. His eyes held concern and pity... and a bit of distrust. The implication of the mess I was in drew me. If even Gamma Samuel was not trusting me on whatever prompted this accusation, then I was in a hot mess. One I might not get out of alive."Why did you do it, Evie?" He asked me solemnly."Do what?
Evie's POV The harsh sun beat down on my head and face. I tried to turn sideways to keep my face away from the sun but the rope binding me did not give me the free movement I needed. Knowing that I had no other choice, I bowed my head in a bid to save my face.Not exactly like there was something to save about the face. I was not beautiful, so it was not like I was trying to protect my beauty. But I had a wound on my cheek, probably gotten from Damon's nail when he slapped me. The wound on my chest burned too and I dropped my head even lower to act as a protective shield to the wounds.I coughed for a while. My lips were dry and my throat hurt from not having any water to drink for the past two days. I continually wet my lips with my tongue to keep them from cracking, but even now, it seemed like my tongue needed some water.My stomach grumbled and I was reminded of my lack of nutrition also. With the way I was being starved for food and water, I felt like I was going to remain only
Evie's POV The rain that seemed like it was a blessing this afternoon was slowly turning into a curse for me. It continued to pour down from that afternoon until now. And by now, I meant late into the night. I already drank to my heart's feelings and I was no longer thirsty or even hungry at the moment. But I was cold. No, scratch that. I wasn't just cold, I was freezing. From my hair to the clothes I had on to the ten tows on my feet, everything was drenched with water from the sky.I prayed and prayed for the rain to stop but my appeal wasn't heard by God. My teeth clattered as streams of water continued to pour down my face. I struggled to keep my eyes open too, seeing as I couldn't wipe the excess water away from my face as they kept falling. By the time I was tired of wishing that the rain would stop, I just rested my head on the pier that was the support holding me firmly to a spot. I closed my eyes, willing the pain away from myself.It was today that I knew that Alpha Damon
Evie's POV The fatigue I felt or thought that I felt, left me immediately as my scream rented the air. The wolf snarled at me as it advanced forward, directly in the direction that I was in. My breath hitched and I couldn't feel the air in my lungs anymore."Our dear Lord Jesus, please save me." I prayed. Feeling like that might just not be enough, I added. "Dear moon goddess, please let me make it alive." The wolf continued to advance toward me. Even though I wanted to close my eyes to keep the wolf and the thought of dying away, u couldn't help it. As the wolf stalked towards me, I felt these tinge in my soul. This tug. I screamed as the white wolf I was seeing turned into a grey wolf in only a blink of an eye. Instead of the golden eyes, the white wolf had, the grey one had red ones. Red eyes that seemed to be burning.I didn't know if I was lost because of the wolf that seemed to change its very appearance in front of me or if it was because this same dangerous wolf was advanci
45.Damon's POV I could smell it. Someone was here before me. And the person had stayed on longer than what could be thought of as a mere visit. Who was it? Who had dared to defile my order as an Alpha? The order that I gave was that no one was allowed around her. My wolf, Leo, sneered at the lingering smell. While I was angry about someone defiling my order, Leo was angry that the smell belonged to someone we knew nothing about. I could tell that he was worried that the person might be a man, and he might be after Claire.I wanted to get angry though.I was at the study, trying to go through the list of the people I already compiled that could be a traitor in my pack when I felt it -her sharp cry for help. Before that, I had forgotten that she was being punished. I shouldn't be blamed since I was more preoccupied with saving my life and the pack I worked so hard to be. So, yeah, my mind wasn't exactly on the girl. It wasn't until I heard her cry for help in my head that I realized
Evie's POV Life was a lot easier now that Alpha Damon and me decides that we were going to talk about everything that had happened in the past and see if there was a way we would live to fix our broken relationship. And that was exactly what we did.Now, we were back to the pack. I smiled as people walked up to me with a smile on their faces, especially Miss Aurora and Grace."Hey, friend. I'm so happy for you." Miss Aurora said, hugging me. I returned her hug and even gave her a smile."Thank you," I responded."Now that you are actually having your mating ceremony with the Alpha and you are going to be the Luna, I don't know if I would still be able to relate with you as I did when you were just our head of servants," Grace said, a sad smile on her face.I held her hand and gave her a light squeeze. "We are friends, Grace. That is what you and Miss Aurora know," I told her. And I meant every word that I said. There was no way I was going to leave the people who were my friends jus
Alpha Damon's POV "How dare you, a reputable private investigator, claim that you cannot track a aingle person?!" I bellowed into the phone.I was now very frustrated. Where could she have gone after running out on me like that? That was the last thing that I thought she would ever do. Or what exactly had gone wrong? The worse part of it all was that not one, not two, not three private investigators had seen her anywhere around. "Damon, I found her!'' Samuel yelled even before he opened the door and showed me his face."Where the fuck is she?!" I yelled instantly, already picking up the car keys even as I asked the questions."Her grandfather's," Samuel told me. He gave me the name of her grandfather and my mouth was left wide open."That is the Alpha King!" I exclaimed."Exactly!" Samuel answered, rolling his eyes. That had to mean just one thing - Evie was not a human as we all assumed."By the moon goddess!" I yelled. I didn't bother to stay around for any more talk. I rushed ou
Miss Kardashian's POV "How the hell did you fail again?!" I yelled at the witch mother for the third time. I watched as she was still on the floor where she fell, panting hard like her life depended on it.She had started whatever spell she was casting in earnest. For some reason, all had looked like it was all going well until a scream tore out from the witch mother, and she stumbled backward. She fell on her ass and never got up since then. I didn't need to be told that she had, once again, failed to remove the obstacle blocking my path."You promised me you will kill her!" I yelled again. Now, I was no longer frustrated. I was tired. Tired and angry that nothing seemed to be working in my favor. I fisted my hands to my sides as I looked at the witch mother in agony.This was all her fault! All she had done was promise me and not fufill that promise over and over again."It seems..." She panted out. "It seems that... she is a werewolf... and I have accidentally unlocked that in her
206Evie's POV I remembered everything now.The fact that I was not alone as I thought and I had a grandfather who was still alive somewhere. I remembered the road to his place as well. Even if I didn't, the man was the Alpha King, so it would be easier to find my way to him. With nowhere else left to go, I decided to visit the man.It wasn't as if I had much of a choice anyway. I didn't know anyone else that I should go over to tell them the kind of burden I was carrying in my heart. Even as I made my way to his place, I wasn't sure if I should go. A whole lot of years had passed by, and I was no longer sure if the man was still alive. Still, I had to make sure."Stop right there!" The guards at the gate yelled at me the moment they spotted me. Their bows and arrows and swords were ready to spring into action if they considered me as a threat to them in any way. I raised my hands up to show them that I was not in any way a threat to them or the others."What is going on?" I heard a
Alpha Damon's POVStorming out of the restaurant and into the parking lot, I moved my wild eyes frantically searching for any trace or clue of my date, Evie, but couldn't find any. I could have gone after her immediately, but a couple of waiters had seen her violent reaction and held me back.Fucking lucky them I had enough self control to not throw them all across the room. Now that I was going after her, I couldn't find her."Why did she fucking leave all of a sudden?" I muttered to myself. "Was she in some kind of pain?"I tried to imagine what might have gone wrong but I couldn't think of a thing that might have made her leave."Fuck." I snapped, landing my already clenched fist on a random wall, leaving a dent but I'm too carried away to notice a thing. It was so sudden, because she fucking went from smiling to screaming. I brushed my hair back and closed my eyes and reminiscing the warmth I felt from her smiles, how beautiful and delicate she looked as she tried to stop herself
Evie's POV I had no idea how long I must have kept running through the night, because my entire body was screaming at me, yelling and begging to be allowed to take a break. But my mind was racing with pain, torment and torture.Nothing had broken me as bad as the truth.I endee up back at the mansion, and stagger up it's stairs. The guards stationed for security all flicked towards me, worried and scared of losing their heads if anything happened to me. Unknown to them, my injuries were internal."Miss!""Are you alright?!""Call the nurse—!""No!" I yelled, "Stay away from me and stay back in your posts!" They were startled and unsure, but I didn't wait to look at more of their reactions. Shivering, I wiped my tears which kept pouring down my face, pushed the heavy doors open and stormed in. In my blind flurry, I did not see Grace coming from the other direction, and I bumped into her, causing whatever she was carrying to crash to the floor deafeningly."Miss Evie!" She gasped, han
Evie's POV Despite the warm and cosy environment of the restaurant where I was having my date with Alpha Damon, there was still a certain tension charging the air between us. His dark eyes was watching me with intensity, and mine kept bouncing back and forth between the both of us.A waiter appeared by our table, holding a smoking cold bottle of wine. "Your wine, please." She smiled, wrapping a white towel around the bottle before tipping the rich, scarlet liquid into both of our tall glasses. "Enjoy." She gave a bow and left us alone in tense silence. Although, the tension only seemed to be coming from me. Alpha Damon's domineering and confident aura was unshakable, indestructible and everything in between. In his dark dress shirt which had the top bottons undone and tousled brown hair, he looked every inch like the powerful Alpha of the Night wolves pack that everyone dared not defy."Have a taste of the wine, it's the best." He said, raising his glass towards me.I did not reall
Miss Kardashian's POV "We are sorry, Miss Kardashian, but we would like to let you know that we have no desire to oppose Miss Evie as the future Luna." One of the Elders, the one who was chosen to share the news with me, said to me.My eyes flashed anger at the man. So, they had all chosen to defile me at the end of the day?"You don't care if I tell the Alpha your wrongdoings?!" I screeched at him."Even if you threaten us, we still won't stand with you. Alpha Damon is changing into a more humane person, and we all know it is because of Miss Evie. And you want us to chase her away? Why? So we can resume the reign of terror you pushed the Alpha to do when you were still his favorite?" He countered back.I raised my hand to slap him but his words stopped me."If you slap me, I won't hesitate to do the same. You can't report to the Alpha as you are no longer in favor with him." He said with a knowing smile. "Delusional woman like you should get something else to do and not rely on a ma
Alpha Damon's POV The Elders had all called for an emergency meeting the second day after I announced Evie as my mate. I didn't know what the motive of the meeting was, but I was at peace because I knew that we were not under any attack.Still, I knew that whatever it was that they wanted to discuss so urgently that they had to summon me had to be something that was very important or they wouldn't have done that. I would know once I got to the meeting hall."Let's hurry up," I told Samuel. Stephan was not with us as he went to check out a trail about the former managing director that I fired from my company, who went awol on the people I sent to capture him."Yes, Alpha." My Gamma responded.We got to the meeting hall and saw that all the Elders were already present. However, when they saw me, most of them became uncomfortable. It was so bad that I spotted sweat on the foreheads of two of them, while another one seemed to be sweating all over. Somehow, I felt that whatever it was tha