LOGINThe fear kept spreading. Whenever I went into the pack to do some checkup and visit Belle in the process, what I saw scared me. Hope was fading from the pack members eyes, and it was being replaced by terror. I hated it. I hated it so much. But no matter how many renaissance trips I made, nothing changed. It was almost as though the pack was falling apart. I sighed, reaching up to pinch the bridge of my nose. I had to do something to quell the building fear, but what was I supposed to do?How was I...My thoughts were interrupted with the sound of the door opening, and I sat up in the darkness as Elias's scent filled the room. "Elias?" I called, when he didn't immediately switch on the lights. When the light eventually turned on, my hands flew to my mouth as I tried to surpress a gasp. He was covered in blood from head to toe, dripping where he stood just behind the door. I stood up immediately, my heart hammering so hard against my chest as I made my way towards him. "Wh
I trusted Elias. I did, I really truly did. But a part of me could not stop thinking about the fact that right now, he might not know that. I had to let him know. I had to show him the the fact that I wanted him to call off the investigation didn't mean that I didn't trust him. I was just worried about the pack members, and the fear that was rapidly spreading among them. So when I went back to the meeting room, I was prepared to tell him all of that. But he wasn't there. And the meeting room was destroyed beyond recognition. My stomach bottomed out, and my heart squeezed so hard in my chest as I took in the aftermath of my mate's rage. This was Elias's doing. And I could not stop the feeling that this was because of me. Because of what I said. Guilt sat in my stomach like a hot stone, hot and uncomfortable. I sat on the only good chair left in the otherwise wrecked room and waited for him. He had probably gone on a run. Knowing him, the run could last for hours. I could have g
I grabbed a chair and hurled it against the wall. The wood was too fragile, too brittle to withstand the force of my anger, the force of the hit. The chair shattered. But my anger wasn't abated. It rose still, taking over my entire body, mind and soul. Isadora was wrong. She was utterly wrong. I wasn't putting my pack members at risk. And I was most definitely not picking Terrence over them. It was ridiculous for her to have even thought about it. I mean, I was the King. The Alpha. I was the most powerful Lycan in our world. It was my duty and my job to protect my people from everything. I would protect them with my life if I could, and yet Isadora had the guts to tell me that I was using them as fodder?Another chair hit the wall. And another. And another. Before long, the meeting room was in ruins around me. Someone cleared their throat behind me, and I turned around to face Carlos. Erina and Patrick lingered behind him, and I could see the stark fear on Patrick's face. I had
If I dropped a pin on the floor, every single person in the room would hear it land. That was how still the room became. It was almost as though everyone in here was holding their breath, and nobody was really breathing.Except me though. My heart slammed so hard against my chest and the rattling was so loud that it drowned all other sounds. It was all I could hear as I waited for someone to speak, to break this utterly suffocating silence. "Everybody out," Elias ordered eventually, and his voice broke across the fog that seemed to have surrounded everyone else. The guards filed out without a word, and Belle and her mother was next. When she got to the door, the woman turned to face me. There was tears in her eyes, and her gaze was for me alone. "I...I agree with you. What if those evil men take more children? What... what if they don't return the kids after? I... everyone is scared. My daughter is back, but I am scared still. Who knows what they're going to do next?" Then she
If my heart fell right out of my chest right now, I would not be surprised. It was slamming down so hard against my ribcage, but I ignored it, along with the rattling in my chest, as I ran. And when I said I ran, I actually, really did. When I got the text from Erina that the girl had been found, the relief that slammed into me had almost knocked me off my feet. And I didn't care that I had a banging headache that had been plaguing me for months. I didn't give a shit about that, or anything else. All I wanted was to see Belle with my own eyes, to see her alive and well and safe. Untouched by those bastards. Without giving a damn about how I would appear or who else might be in the meeting room alongside Elias, Carlos and Erina, I threw the door wide open. For the fraction of a second, I took in everyone that was in here. The council members, which was surprising but not really unexpected. Belle's mother, who was holding on to her child for dear life — unsurprising and totally e
The search parties found nothing. I even hired more guards in order to cover more territories, but no matter how hard they looked, no matter how long they searched, no one was able to find even the tiniest trace of their Terrence or the girl. And it was driving me crazy so fucking bad. I was so close to losing my mind.It was as though Terrence had been erased from the surface of earth. He had disappeared completely and without even the tiniest clue. And now that Patrick's cover had been blown, we had no information that could help, nothing at our disposal except cold trails. "The people are starting to panic, Elias. I heard some, hell, majority of them have self imposed a curfew on themselves. The atmosphere is..." Carlos had trailed off earlier this morning, not finishing his train of thought.But he didn't need to. I already understood what he was trying to say. The pack was in disarray, and this time, even the increasing panic was doing nothing to stop the rumours. The whisper
I awoke with a gasp.Every part of my body hurt: my sides, my lungs and my limbs. I couldn’t lift my arms. I suppose it made sense, seeing as I’d fallen off a cliff. Memories of last night came rushing back to me and I cursed. I wish I’d died.I couldn’t bring myself to open my eyes. A part of me
Growing up, I never liked my birthday.My father was always too drunk to deal with me because it brought along reminders of my mother’s death. He never failed to tell me how he wished that I’d died instead of he, and it didn’t help that I looked like her.I’d heard stories of my mother even before
There was a loud ringing in my ears. It drowned all other sounds until it was all I could hear.My Beta had been hurt, and he had lied to me when I asked if he was okay. I had been too exhausted to see that he was not okay, that all the blood that coated his body didn't belong to the people we fou
My heart stopped beating in my chest. My eyes grew as wide as saucers as Erina's words settled around me, and there was a sudden weight on my chest that prevented me from breathing.Elias had gone really still, and his expression was unreadable as he stared at his cousin. "He is hurt?" he asked.







