(Author’s POV).Wednesday arrived and it was the day that Ashley had to attend for a hearing with the committee of judges for the competition. The hearing was held to decide on whether she could keep her award or otherwise.Seated behind in the car next to Nikolai, Ashley was looking out the window and thought about what she had discussed with Finley and his boyfriend Dave. Dave found a way to help her deal with the DNA test to prove Teddy was Nikolai’s son. But, it proved to be a difficult favour to be done with.Nikolai was on the phone talking to his men on business matters. As usual, he spoke in his native language thinking that Ashley would not understand about the business he was running.And one of the conversations was on how to deal with the matter Ashley had caused with Antonio’s son. Ashley had caused Antonio’s son to be permanently unable to walk again. A cost that Nikolai had to pay for the damage Ashley had caused few nights ago at the highway.“Everything alright, hone
(Ashley’s POV).I almost had sex in the moving car. If it was not for the hearing scheduled that morning, I would most likely given myself to him. Willingly.Nikolai was being very patient with me. I knew he longed to have me submitting myself to him. I could sense him controlling his desire to bed me again.It was not as if we never had sex before. It was just him playing with my mind making me want him more. And I felt, I was losing this game of his.Nikolai was all I could think at night and staying at the room next to his was difficult for both of us. At times, I had wished I could jump on his bed and finished what he had started all day. Flirting, touching me and saying love words were his mind games to make me want him.He truly made me desire on having him inside of me.I looked at him as he fixed his shirt and went on to fix my dress with his fingers brushing my skin slowly and intimately. His eyes were on me as he gave me the sexiest smile that made my heart flutters like a
(Author’s POV).“Miss Winters, I am sure you are well acquainted with the panel of judges and committee members that are present tonight. My name is Jennifer Belfire, representing my brother Julian today. He can’t make it to chair this meeting today. So, let’s keep this matter short as we are all busy people” Jessica was known as sharp and attentive to details. She found the matter trivial and thought it was just an act of jealousy between designers.But, her duty was to conduct a fair hearing before deciding on a decision.Waving her hand, she requested for her assistant to flash images of evidence on the large screen facing the judges. Images of the submitted files with condoms were one of the pieces of evidence seen.Another image that was flashed was an intimate picture caught between Ashley and Nikolai at the entrance of a hotel. It was the night that Ashley had asked Nikolai to help her get invitation for the Masquerade party to get evidence that Helen was behind the pack of co
(Ashley’s POV).I was trying hard not to flood my cheeks with my own tears. I swiped my eyes with my fingers and those damn tears came down anyways. My father never said those kinds of words to me before.It was lovely. Touched my heart, definitely.My eyes were then staring at Nikolai who was smiling at me. My focus was no longer on the judges but on what should I do next after I get back home in Amberose City.Would he follow me back home? Would our relationship work being so far apart living in different countries? I sighed not knowing what sort of future would be for us. I had hope we would find a way that would make my son happy.For the past few days living with Nikolai, I had never seen Teddy so happy. Nikolai was good to us and I knew it would be hard to tell my son we were going home soon. We would need to find a way to make this work. I wanted it to work. I hoped Nikolai would do the same.With the support from Ashton Knight, my father, I knew the hearing would be in my fav
(Nikolai’s POV).Outside Waiting Room 3, I was pacing around and looked at the time on my watch. It has been five minutes which felt like an hour to me. I wondered what was going on with them inside the room. I hoped it was not them trying to convince Ashley to leave me.I would fight them to death!I would strangle Philip’s neck with my own bare hands!A call came in to my handphone from Drake. He said it was urgent. I walked to a corner of the hall and answered the call in an impatient way, “I’m busy. Make it quick”“I got the DNA results from one of the Hospital but it differs from the result from another Hospital which Ivan had sent to check. Strange” Drake said while what sounded like he was driving.Different DNA results to prove Teddy was my son. How could that be?“Did one of you made a stupid mistake? How can it be different?” I asked and rubbed my face with my hand.In the first place, I wondered why Drake and Ivan had seen the results without my consent. I would deal with
(Ashley’s POV).I walked out the room feeling quite the opposite as compared to when I first went in. Earlier, I was confident that I wanted to end any ties to my family and move on with my new life as Tiana Winters.But. seeing my father showing nothing but love to me, I was moved by it. He showed me a side that I have loved and respect before. Also, it felt as if he understood me better than before.I was not sure what changed him. Did Erique, my grandfather do something to make my father changed his mind? Something seemed not right.Whatever it was, I loved the new version of my father who listened to me and tried to fix our relationship. It was all that I wished for to happen in the past.As for Philip, he begged for my forgiveness and wanted us to start again. I could not do that, obviously. The memory of him on bed with Helen was still fresh in my mind even though it has been five years ago. It was not easy to come out from it.It was not easy to accept the fact that I had lost
(Nikolai’s POV).We reached my penthouse and she had wasted no time to pack her things to get on the next flight back to her home in Amberose City. That was all we talked about in the car ride to my penthouse.I did not want her to mention Philip’s name at all. I had made that clear, twice.I could see how excited she was to finally be able to go back home with Teddy. She was seen very happy after I told her I would take her there.I honestly did not know what came to me when I told her that.I had a lot of unfinished business to deal with in Averna but I also did not want to be separated from her. Not even a minute. Losing her would be the death of me.“Aren’t you going to pack your things? A change of heart, Nikolai?” Ashley bit her lips and looked a little disappointed seeing I was just standing at the door watching her packing her things, all the time.Smiling at her, I got closer and pulled her body closer to me by her waist, “I pack light. Will do it later. We can leave tomorro
(Ashley’s POV).I was worried that Nikolai would not be in favour of living in my modest looking two-bedroom apartment. My whole house was probably as big as how his kitchen was back at his luxurious penthouse at Averna. Getting a house in Amberose City did not come cheap especially when I had chosen to stay in the high-end district.It was a strategically located apartment situated near my small boutique of dresses and most importantly it was at a walking distance to Teddy’s new pre-school of gifted Witches and Wizards. An exclusive school only to children who could pass a very difficult examination and could demonstrate how powerful they are.My son was of course, very powerful for his age.The school was also where my mother had attended before, then me and now I was a proud mother to have my son joining our little legacy. Dave had helped me to get Teddy ready for the school last year. He had also forged some documents to show that Teddy’s father was a Wizard, not a Werewolf.The
(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