EMILIA POV“I have never heard a more ridiculous condition in my life,” Daemon scoffed. “Even Emilia knows how to strike better deals in her moments of desperation.”Seth crossed his arms to show us that he was doing everything but making a joke, and he would always stand by his words. He was not going to let me get out of there with my heart still beating.“Do you have anything else that you want? Anything that we can agree to? She has no use as a corpse right now, Seth, and you have to understand that,” Katarina tried to reason with him, but I knew it from the way he looked at me that he had made up his mind and not even Katarina could change his mind.“There is nothing I want more than to see my brother’s murderer put to death by my own hands. You either strike the deal, or I don’t tell you what I have to tell you about that day.”It was now made clear to us that Seth had seen something that he was willing to share with us at such a huge price. It was up to Katarina and Daemon to f
EMILIA POVI screamed in pain and horror as Seth’s teeth were buried deep inside my stomach before Katarina and Daemon could even think to stop him.“NO!” Katarina shouted, wrapping her arms around Seth’s neck and pulling him back to get him away from me as she barked an order at Daemon, “Get her out of here!”Daemon pulled me up and carried me in his arms, taking me out of the house, where a small crowd of people started to gather.“He wanted to kill the baby! He’s killed the baby,” I muttered in shock and panic, looking around and silently begging someone to help me. I was not so sure of myself anymore; I couldn’t tell if I wanted the child to survive the attack or not, and I hated that I was having that debate at a time like that.“Breathe, Emilia,” Daemon told me calmly, taking his shirt off and placing it against my wound, pressing hard on it. “I don’t think he got to the baby, but your emotions might. If you stress too much, the baby might not survive this.”As I took deep breat
EMILIA POVMy feet failed me as I stood, all frozen as I stared at Katarina.“What do you mean by that? The baby can’t be dead.” I shook my head in denial, but Katarina looked like she had just been hit with the news as well. There was a frown on her face as she grabbed me by the arm and encouraged me to keep walking.“I already told you, Emilia. You have been difficult this whole time, and your stress levels have spiked beyond what is considered normal, so if we think about this, you’re the one who killed the baby,” she accused, causing me to immediately get my hand out of her grip.“Are you kidding me right now?” I questioned. “Who put me in the stressful position, Katarina? I know you have the answer to that.”She sighed, rolling her eyes at me, but I didn’t have the time to argue with her about the topic. I sidestepped her and took the lead, quickening my pace and hurrying back to Lucas’s pack.I would have to find someone who was not on her side and expose her. As I thought about
EMILIA POVI was going to kill Daemon.Ever since the day I was transferred out of Katarina’s hold and into his, after she had told me that the death of the child I was carrying was a lie, I started to think of how to get out of the situation I was now in, and the only solution I could think of was killing Daemon.“Get off of me!” he roared, pushing me with all of his might as I got him on the ground and bit him on the neck.I had underestimated his strength, but that didn’t make what the textbook said about the bite of a werewolf to a vampire any less true.“You…” He wobbled on his feet as he managed to get up, pressing a hand against his neck to cover the wound. I could tell from how profusely it was bleeding that his wound was not healing as fast as it would have.I growled at him, poising as if getting ready to lunge at him again.“GUARDS!” he called out instead of fighting back, as I had miscalculated him to.I had not thought of the possibility of him having people around that c
EMILIA POVSeth was staring at me with a murderous glint in his eyes, and I knew that I was next.“You killed him,” I spat as I took steps backwards. “You killed Alpha James.”“Now, Emilia,” he spoke slowly, his tone like a bitter song. He left Alpha James’s body on the floor and headed towards me.I flinched as my back hit the door, and I placed my hands against the knobs, ready to run for my life if he got too close for comfort.The one thing I was not expecting was him running as fast as possible and standing in front of me that I couldn’t even register him before he reached me, but he was not raising his hands to kill me like I thought he would.“Get away from me!” I screamed as he used his bloodied hands to swipe all across my body.I pushed him off and finally opened the doors, running out and attempting to shout for help when Seth beat me to it with a scream that shocked me.“She has killed the Alpha! Catch her!” he screamed, and I heard soldiers stomping their feet as they ran
EMILIA POVI stared at my leg in disbelief for a moment. It had healed in only a matter of minutes, and I couldn’t help but believe that it had something to do with the child that was growing inside of me.“Did you do this?” I asked, smiling as I patted my stomach softly.As if giving me a response, there was another kick, much heavier this time.I stood up, still finding little strength in myself to keep going, no matter how hard it would prove to be. I didn’t know how long I walked, but I could feel the soles of my feet hurting with each passing minute.“Oh,” I gasped as I saw light emanating from somewhere in the forests.I bent behind a bush to hide, just in case it was one of the soldiers looking for me with a torch, but I soon realized that the light was unmoving. I moved closer with as much stealth as I could, only to find that the light was coming from a small cottage.There was a group of four man sitting in front of the cottage, talking to each other. They looked like soldie
EMILIA POV“We need to leave,” I said as I grabbed Lucas by his arm and looked around for an exit that didn’t consist of going through the front door. “Is there any other way to get out?”“What if we’re running for nothing? Let’s go check out what’s happening first,” he suggested, but I had a feeling that whatever was happening was not great, and we were in great danger.“She has to be here, somewhere! Go inside and bring her out!”I gasped at the voice of the person who had made the loud command – Seth. And there was only one person that he was desperate to catch; me.“Quick, get out through that door. I’ll hold them off for you,” Lucas said, pushing me towards a door in the kitchen that led into the darkness of the night and the dark forests.“What about you? What if they attack you?”I heard the front door burst open, and Lucas took no time to wait and explain one thing. He broke the door open with all his might and pushed me out just as two soldiers ran into the kitchen.“RUN!” he
EMILIA POV“What is going on here, Beta Seth?” Lucas demanded, pulling me to stand behind him.“Alpha Lucas,” Seth acknowledged with a slight bow of his head. “As much as I would like to chat with you and catch up, there’s a lot for me to settle with Emilia here. I refuse to have any business with you, even after you attacked me last night and left me for dead.”“You forget that Emilia is a member of my pack now,” Lucas reminded him. “If you have business with her that requires you to take her away from me or my pack, you need my permission.”Seth chuckled, not feeling threatened in the least.“You also seem to have forgotten where you just ran away from. The pack is no longer in your hands, Lucas. Your sister’s permission is what I need, not yours.”“Not just yet,” Lucas countered. “We will solve this in the presence of the Council members. I heard that you already told them what’s going on.”Seth frowned in annoyance, then he huffed as he looked up to the sky.“Lucas, the former Alp