(Nikolai’s POV).“Block all flights out from Amberose City that Ashley is booked for. I need you to find her and bring her back. You got that!” I called Drake while I walked to my car to find Ashley. I knew she was not going to get that far away from me.I would f*cking take her to Paris myself, if that was where she was planning to go. I had lost Ashley once and I vowed not to lose her again. I would find a way to get her back in my arms.“Niko, there you are. We have been trying to call you. Something came up” Ivan came to me before I got into my car to find Ashley. I did ignore his calls as I had a more urgent thing to do.Ashley froze my body for an hour. I could not believe she would do such thing to me. But, perhaps I did deserve that from her.I did not know what came to my mind when I hurt her friends. Drake would kill me if he found out I had hurt his woman. I wondered what he sees in Cindy. A Human, weak and fragile. There must be something special about Cindy that made him
(Nikolai’s POV).I went to the airport as soon as I got the message from Drake that Ashley was refused to board a flight to Paris. I heard Cindy was blocked too. That must have been Drake’s doing about Cindy.From what Drake had updated me earlier, it looked like Ashley was planning her little trip to Paris with Cindy, Teddy, Finley and some guy with the name Dave Winters.I wondered who that Dave was. Maybe, one of her newly recruited assistants.“Winters.. a Wizard?” that family name was known to be carried by Witches and Wizards. But I also knew some of the Winters family had become Werewolves through cross marriages, approved by the Queen. Werewolves from the Winters family lineage were not that strong and known to be unstable breed.Something was bothering me and I felt the urge to go find Ashley. It was like a hunch that she was not safe out there.But, my men and I were already preparing to board my private jet. We needed to get back to Xevia to guard my home. They knew it was
(Ashley’s POV).We almost arrived in Paris. It was already the next morning. I must have fallen asleep all the way since we boarded Philip’s private jet. I blinked my eyes open and saw Teddy sleeping next to Dave. We had told him to pretend that he was Dave’s son.My son obediently listened to me and never had he questioned why I had often asked him to pretend to be either Finley or Dave’s son. It was as if he liked the idea of having a father figure from both Dave and Finley.Well, I did name both Dave and Finley as my son’s next of kin anyways, in case something unfortunate was to happen to me. Teddy’s godfathers were both amazing people.“Are you alright, honey?” I heard Philip asked me a question while holding my hand. I pulled my hand away and fake a smile. He was seated a little to close next to me.“I’m fine. Philip, please don’t call me that” I did not like him calling me honey as it reminded me of Nikolai.I recalled the horrible incident of Nikolai punching Dave’s face that
(Author’s POV).Ashley felt dizzy and sat down on the nearest bench where she had a view of the exclusive Hospital suite room. It was where Antonio’s son was said to be in critical condition. She looked around and saw several nurses walking in and out from the room with a face of sadness and disappointment.Thinking it was all her fault that had put Antonio’s son in a critical condition, Ashley was in tears. Tears of guilt. “Oh, what have I done?” she whispered to herself and wiped the tears that had wet her cheeks.Wondering what was happening inside the room, Ashley wanted to take a peek. But, it was not easy to do so when there were two largely built bodyguards guarding the door to that room, “Excuse me. I’m a friend of the patient. Can I visit him?”She was trying her luck to get in without using her abilities. Due to her health condition, it seemed her abilities was not working as well as how she wanted it to be. Her mind was also clouded with questions and disappointment on wha
(Author’s POV).Ashley had spent three days to find a cure for Antonio Junior. She went shop to shop to get the ingredients in making a potion to give strength to Antonio’s son. In desperate needs, Ashley had to contact Loraine Winters, her Godmother, for guidance.Of course, Ashley could already guess that Loraine had known she would have called for help. To her surprise, Loraine never mentioned about Ashley’s pregnancy. She wondered if Loraine knew about it and pretended not to know.Despite her own health condition from her pregnancy, Ashley had endured the pain and focused on trying to find a way to help, in return, she hoped Antonio would fulfill his end of the deal to help her find Nikolai.Antonio was by her side most of the time and had listened to her every demand to getting specific ingredients in creating a strong potion. The spell was a difficult one to complete.No matter what it had cost. Antonio obeyed her. No questions asked.An ancient spell was used that Ashley beli
(Nikolai’s POV).“I don’t f*cking care, Gloria. Get out of my sight. You caused me nothing but pain” I then pointed a gun at her and let out a loud growl of frustration. She had no idea how angry I was. She took away my happiness and I wanted so much to kill her.“Nikolai, I’m on your side. Please, let me explain” Gloria raised both hands on her side as a gesture of surrendering. She looked at me with teary eyes. But, I was not going to fall for her deceiving tricks, “I can help. I know what is going on with you. Your Wolf is weak. Nikolai, you need a Mate. Take me, please”I scoffed at her and shook my head. I spat on the ground and gripped my hand into a fist. I could not believe she was trying to offer herself to be my Mate. Over my dead body! I rather die.“And why would I want to have a lying f*cking b*tch to be my Mate? You are despicable, untrustworthy and crazy” I then pointed the gun and placed it hard on her forehead, “Last chance or I’ll blow your brains out. Get lost!”“N
(Author’s POV)In the thick woods of Xevia, the sound of growling and howling of the Werewolves were heard as they were sending signals of attack to commence a war between Wolf packs.It was a scene of red coming from the blood spurted from wailing men and women. The once lush green grass was covered in molten red blood mixed with thick snow of winter. The cold weather did not bother them at all.Under the darkness of the early morning, they could not see but could hear threats coming from all angles as they fought for survival. It was a war that took years of failed negotiations and despair. A war that could be avoided but greed and arrogance had clouded their mind.A war that they all knew was coming.. for one would sit on the throne as King of all Werewolves.“Attack!” the leader of the Regalia Wolf pack jumped from the hill as he shifted into his Wolf form and landed on the ground. “NIKOLAI!”He shouted Nikolai’s name several times, not believing the news of his enemy’s death. It
(Philip’s POV).About a week had passed since I last broke the news to Ashley about Nikolai’s death. I was at first, felt relieved that he was no longer the one that would take her away from me. The threat was finally gone.But, I might be wrong about it. I might be wrong about everything that I have done to her.Ashley was devastated. She had no will to live.It broke my heart to see in that state of mind. Oh, what have I done?I sat next to her hospital bed and caressed her hand gently, “Ashley, would you like something to eat?”Like how she was in the past few days, she did not answer. It was as if she had lost her soul and all I could see was her frail body not fighting much to live.She was looking at the window on her side with her eyes dried of tears. I caressed her cheeks and planted a brief kiss on her forehead.“Ashley, honey. You need to eat something. It’s.. at least do it for your baby”, I guessed life was punishing me on what I had done to separate her with Nikolai. Was
(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