(Ashley’s POV).I walked around the room feeling a little restless. Nikolai assured me it was going to be fine in the woods where he was taking my son. Seeing how excited my son was to go for an adventure in the woods made me feel a little guilty for not allowing him to do so.Teddy’s cute little round eyes hypnotized me to allow him to go. I surely did hope that it was not one of his powers to influence others to do his bidding.Seated on the chair, I stared at the table with samples of my new designs to enter another competition which was more exclusive than the one held in Averna. A competition held in Paris where I would compete with well known designers around the world.It was my dream to get the invitation to attend such competition. It was Philip who had encouraged me to work hard to be accepted to design school. He was once my pillar of support.That was of course before he dumped me for my former best friend and evil b*tch, Helen.I wondered what my life would have been if
(Philip’s POV).I sat on the couch in the hospital suite room. Exhaling my breath heavily, I then sat back with my eyes closed. How did it all happened? I could not believe I was under a spell for five years.“Hey brother, how are you feeling?” it was my sister’s voice I heard. She sat next to me and held my hand gently.Blinking my eyes open slowly, I looked at her sweet and concerned face. If it was not for her helping me to break the spell, I would have go on with the charade that Helen had played me.I smiled at my sister and held her hand tightly, “You need to get some rest. You too, Alister. If it was not for both of you, I would be in the dark for longer than I could imagine. I hope it will be over soon and I could get back to the life that I had lost for five years”I looked at Alister who frowned. There seemed to be something that was bothering him. “What’s the matter, Alister?”Alister was Ashley’s brother, who was dating my sister, Paulina. They got closer after I had ende
(Author’s POV).“Ashley, you are here” Philip took steps towards her and wanted to give her a kiss on her cheeks, just like old times. But, to his disappointment, she pushed him back with her hand on his chest.“What are you doing, Philip? I’m not here for you. Where is my father?” Ashley said firmly and swallowed her saliva while pushing back any feelings she had left for him. He was her past and what Philip had done to her five years ago was unforgivable.Nodding in defeat, Philip gestured for her to enter another room where her father was. But before he let her in, he turned around and faced her, “Ashley, I was under a spell. Helen’s spell. It was just like yesterday that Alister and Paulina managed to clear my head”Seeing Ashley froze with her eyes locked in his, Philip raised his hand and tucked a strand of her hair behind her ears, “It may have been five years that kept us apart, but it felt as if it was just yesterday that we were planning for our wedding and our future toget
(Author’s POV).“Stop this! We are not here to fight. Ashley is here to help dad. Please, back off” Aaron spoke and gestured for the rest of his family to take steps back for his sister to start her ways to heal his father. “Please, the longer we delay, the harder it would be to pull dad back to life”Ashley smiled weakly to her brother who she thought had grown up to be a wise man. She wondered what had happened to her baby brother who loved to cry on her shoulders when he got hurt.Seeing her father looking pale and weak on the bed, Ashley felt sad. He was a strong man who was feared by many for his dominant traits. No one would dare to question his decisions as he would firmly ensure it was the best options. But that night, he was looking quite the opposite.Seated on the bed next to him, Ashley placed one hand on her father’s hands. Her right hand was placed on his forehead. Closing her eyes, she whispered a spell that took her where she thought her father was.“Spirits of the Wi
(Nikolai’s POV).I drove my car with Ivan by my side. We were heading to a site where our shipments were said to be raided by a group of Rogue Wolves. Fortunately, my Beta Ivan had trained our guards well and we managed to defeat those scumbags for trying to steal my precious property.I spoke with Ivan in our native Xevia language as what he preferred. I was getting rusty with it the longer I stayed in Averna. “Did we secure the object?”Ivan scoffed and nodded, “Of course. They raided the wrong ship container. Hold on, did you hear that?”I shook my head not knowing what noise he heard in the car. “How many were there? I need to make it quick. Need to pick up Ashley from whatever danger she had walked into”“Danger? She is a Witch. I’m sure she could handle herself. She is much stronger than she looks” Ivan chuckled and asked me with his cheeky face, “Have you two.. made love.. make babies? You marked her yet? Better be quick. You not getting younger. At your age, I already have tw
(Ashley’s POV).I blinked my eyes opened with a blurry vision of the Hospital seen. I was back in the room where my father was still lying on the bed. My left hand was still holding his hands with my other hand on his forehead. “Dad?” I whispered calling him weakly.“Ashley, you are awake” my mother came to me and embraced my weak body with tears seen wetting her cheeks, “I was so worried. I thought I was going to lose both of you. I can’t bare that”“Mom, I’m fine. Is Dad awake?” I slowly sat up and wiped those tears on my mother’s cheeks gently. She shook her head and looked sad at my father who was still unconscious.I was still angry at her but she was still my mother. The anger would soon subside and I knew no matter how much I hated my parents, I still also love them very much.I just wished they could understand me better. I was different and they knew that. But, they had lost hope in me and that was when things got a little crazy between my parents and I.If only they could t
(Ashley’s POV).“What are you doing here? This is not a place for your kind to enter” Philip said in anger and stood blocking my way towards Nikolai. They were looking at each other and I knew any time now someone would land his fist to the other man’s face.“Nikolai, I can explain” I looked at Nikolai’s face with his eyes turning shades of yellow and I know soon it would be reddish as a sign he was going to turn to his Wolf side.It was a Hospital, I could not let that happen, especially when my parents were in the next room.Nikolai offered his hand for me to take. He did not have to say it but I knew he wanted me to choose. I wanted to go to him as I wanted so much for tonight to end. It was exhausting and I was already missing my son. I was tired.“Ashley, don’t. Your family needs you. I need you. Why are you wasting your time with his kind? He is beneath us” Philip’s words made me look at him. I could not believe he said such things.I knew Philip hated Werewolves. They were ind
(Nikolai’s POV).“As you can see she already made her choice. She would not go to an animal like you. A killer. Your hands are full of blood killing innocent lives out there for a war you and your father had started” Philip said with a wicked smile which he thought he was winning.“Shut the f*ck up! Do not mention my father, you weak Human” I said with gritted teeth and took a deep breath to calm my anger.I was not convinced that Ashley rejected me. She was just confused and I did not want to force her to choose me in such a situation. No doubt I was heart broken but I knew she still loves me.She just needed time and I would give her that.“Just go, Nikolai. Clearly, my grand daughter has made her choice” the Queen said calmly with her victory smile. I hated her. If it was not for Ashley, I would very much like to bite her neck off.“Fine. But, it does not mean I would give up on you, Ashley. I promised I would wait for you to accept me and I would do that even if I have to wait fo
(Ashley’s POV).A month later, I had another wedding.To be exact, it was indeed a dream wedding planned for me. Beautiful was an understatement. It was gorgeous and unbelievably fairy-tale like. I could not believe Nikolai would do all that for me. A dream wedding it was.The wedding was held at the Palace of Averna, as what my parents wanted. I was introduced back to the society as Princess Ashley. The name Tiana Winters was only used for business, no longer my name.A garden themed wedding with live music sounded simple but turned out magical. Sparkles, so many of them. Teddy had some involvement in making it colourful. His obsession with shining objects and sparkles were an influence to the wedding theme.I loved every inch of it. In fact, my little boy had even helped me to design my white wedding dress in such short notice. Crystal had helped us too. A Princess like dress that matched with my little crown.I was indeed over the moon and at some point of time, I thought I was dr
(Nikolai’s POV).The day of the final stage of the competition has arrived. I sat next to my son, Teddy, as we watched one by one of the contestants presented their design with their models on stage. Not bad looking I would say.In the past, I would have totally slept with those sexy looking models. They were some who would bed me after I shower them with money. No strings attached. Simple.Those days of my one-night stand sex with random women were totally gone. I had turned into a monogamist. My eyes and heart were only for my Ashley, my Luna, my wife.We got married through a Werewolf ceremony almost a month ago and my life had never been better. Having her by my side when I woke up every morning was all I had wished for since the first day I laid eyes on her pretty blue eyes. I loved her with all my heart and soul.Our marriage was done with full Werewolf tradition. My mother had spent time teaching Ashley the ways of the Werewolf, preparing on what was coming soon in our life, w
(Ashley’s POV).Fast forward three weeks later, I sat on a table as I looked at the dress that Cindy and I had worked on for days in preparing for the final stage of the most anticipated design competition in Paris. I sighed of relief seeing the masterpiece placed on the life size mannequin.“What do you think, Teddy?” I asked my son who sat on my executive work chair with his legs folded in a seating position. Holding his teddy bear Kiko, he looked up and smiled at me.“More sparkles, Mommy” he smiled showing his cute little teeth. Then, he placed his little chubby hands on his chin as he studied the dress again, “Are you going to wear that? I don’t think Daddy would like it, Mommy”I chuckled and pinched his cheeks, “Mommy will wear whatever she wants and Daddy will have no say in it”“Daddy will burn the dress to the ground if Mommy dares to go out parading that piece of cloth” I looked at the door seeing Nikolai walked in the studio, frowning while looking at the dress. He gave m
(Nikolai’s POV).“Ashley, please don’t do this. I’m sorry” I kneeled down by her side while placing a hand on one of her hands. I then palmed her cheeks gently as I whispered my words to calm her sadness, “Honey, I’m sorry. I did not mean to say those words. I just could not lose you again and again. I can’t. I would rather die than living in this life without you. Please look at me”She opened her eyes and stared at me. I pecked her lips and pulled her body closer to mine, “I love you, Ashley. Please, this is enough. You need to rest. Loraine is finding a cure for our son. You must not use all the energy you have left in you. Save it for the babies”Loraine had accidentally slipped from her mouth that Ashley would be carrying twins. I was overjoyed with the news. But, after knowing how difficult her pregnancy would be with twins, I did not know how to react.I was not going to lose her. I needed to find a way to save her and our babies.But first, we needed to save my son.“I’m so s
(Author’s POV).Red. Bodies. Death.It was everywhere around the warehouse, except for two little souls.One was standing in the middle of a puddle of blood, while the other blindfolded and tied to a pole. She heard noises. The kind of noise that was sending shivers down her spine.Not being able to see what was happening was making her anxious, “T-teddy.. w-where are you? What happened?”She whispered with her trembling voice. The sound she heard earlier was frightening to her.There were the sound of Wolves howling in pain. Cracking of bones in a painful and excruciating ways. Cries for help was heard followed by the sound of the doors and windows locked.“T-teddy, are you.. are you still there?” Crystal whispered her words being afraid on what was there around her.She could not see or move much. Despite trying to get free and hurt her hands more, it proved to be useless as the rope was far tighter around her wrist, “Help me. Someone please, help us”It was then Crystal heard the
(Nikolai’s POV).“Oh, look. Your Wolf is here, Ashley. And he thinks he could save you” I saw this b*th named Helen turned to face me with that stupid smile plastered on her ugly face. I wanted so much to punch her but then she spoke something I did not quite understand the meaning of it, “You can’t stop what I’m doing next. Oh, you can kill me. I have nothing left in this world to live for. But, I will come back. Stronger and I will find you”“What are you?” I growled and was surprise Helen could understand my language. She smiled and suddenly revealed herself on what she was. A Demon.Her eyes turned pitch black, and I could see it hollow. The sound of the cries of pain was heard as I stared into her blacken eyeballs. It was probably those souls she had destroyed to make her stronger.Evil being she was. And I needed to be careful on what she would do next. Not fearing her, just careful.“You sold your soul to evil. Let Ashley go. Or suffer the consequences” I said as I moved close
(Ashley’s POV).In the fast-moving car, I asked Frankie to turn the car to the left as what was shown on the locator map. “Hurry! Why are you driving so slow!”I took a glance at Frankie who had his eyes only on the road. His hands on the steering wheels were shaking. Was he afraid of me? He did not even look at me after I forced him to drive me to the point shown in the map.“Someone took my son, Frankie. Does Nikolai know about this?” I asked him as we entered what looked like a road going up the hill. “I was asked to come here alone. You can stay in the car. I’ll get there by foot from here”“No, Miss Winters. It is not safe there for you. I’ll watch over you from far. Whoever you are meeting would not notice my presence” he said as he parked the car at the signage stating, “Private property”“This is a dead end. Walking up there would only lead you to a cliff. This does not look good, Miss Winters. We better call Alpha Nikolai” he turned to look at me with a look full of concern.
(Ashley’s POV).I woke up on Nikolai’s ever so comfortable bed. Soft and feather like feeling of the white sheets. It smelled pleasant too. I smiled and moved to my side thinking he would still be there next to me.But the bed was empty on the other side I sighed and pulled the warm and soft duvet to cover my body completely like being in a protective cocoon.I missed him already. Wished he would come back to me soon as he promised me earlier. Closing my eyes again, I rested my head on the pillow that still have his scent that I came to love.Love. Never thought I would fall in love again with another man, after what Philip did to me five years ago. But, Nikolai was different. Being with him was exciting and he made me feel special.As I drifted back to sleep, there was the sound of knocking on the window. It was disturbing my rest. Definitely annoying and had forced me to get up from my sleep.Nikolai had helped me to rest after our shower together. It was a quick one. It seemed tha
(Author’s POV).In a room with only a small window allowing the dim light from the moon to shine its brightness, two children were heard sniffling their tears of fear and regret. Their small little hands were tied on their back with a tight rope as they rested their back on the wall. Eyes were blindfolded.. mouth taped.. it was terrifying to both of the little children.“Teddy, w-where are you?” little Crystal whispered as she managed to free her hands from the rope tied around her hand. Her brothers once taught her that skill. She sniffled a tear seeing the cut and graze around her wrist. It had hurt her a little too much.At that time of despair, she recalled her elder brothers told her to be strong. Being the only girl among her siblings of three strong boys, had set certain expectation for her to toughened up like them. Despite her age of eight years old, Crystal was stronger than her peers at the same age.She was also smarter than average kids in her school. And that was what l