Rune.“We’re finally growing!” Soph squealed, rubbing my bare stomach with a wide smile on her face. “I can’t even believe it.” Marian smiled lovingly at me. “I want to poke it.” Kimi declared, and everyone laughed. “You can’t poke her, Kimi!” Soph pursed her lips. “Technically she can. She’s still at a stage where it won’t be any problem.” Marian interjected, earning her a wide smile from Kimi and a frown from Soph. I laughed. “It took so long though, didn’t it?” Soph sighed.“I think it’s because she’s so thin.” Marian responded in the same tone, “No one will see you and believe you’ve been pregnant for over a month.” “I’m not that thin… and you’re only saying this because I haven’t had much of an appetite lately.”“And I wonder why. I doubt it’s the pregnancy.”At Marian’s words, my head fell and my smile faltered a bit. I had tried my best to keep a jolly face, pretending everything was alright with me without any hitch, but the more I tried, the more difficult it seemed as
Rune. Throughout the night, I had to constantly fight the smile that threatened to overtake my face with how tightly Kane cuddled me in his arms.I had given up on him coming to our bedroom because it was past the time I expected him to arrive, and it only got later. I was just about to lock the bedroom door from the inside out when the door flew open and he arrived. Neither of us exchanged words but it seemed he could tell I was in a better mood now he’d arrived. Kane went on to clean himself and afterwards, he lay beside me, still in silence. We stayed like that—not talking to each other for a short while before I felt his arms around my waist, pulling me to him. I surrendered to the pull, instantly feeling my body relax into his embrace. “I’ve missed you,” he whispered into my hair and held me tighter, his palms settling on my bump, and that was how we slept. **For the first time, I woke up before Kane. I had the privilege of seeing what
Rune. “I’ve been having dreams. Horrible gory dreams.”I sat cross-legged with my hands gripping my thighs lightly as I spoke.“Can you tell me about these dreams?” Fay asked, inching closer to me with her fingers intertwined with the other. With a deep breath, I narrated my dream to her, telling her how it was reoccurring with the little details in between. For a few seconds Fay said nothing, she only stared at the floor taking deep breaths and I was convinced there was nothing she could do to help me, which dulled my spirits in turn because if the priestess who claimed to have a close relationship with the goddess couldn’t help me, it meant I’d have to go another week with the torment and would have to open up about it to Kane so he’d let me see the seer priestess, but Fay cleared her throat, catching my attention. “You know, you should think about becoming a priestess yourself,” Fay finally said, and I couldn’t tell if she was joking or being serious. Like if she was trying to
Kane. I opened my eyes to an empty room and an instant frown appeared on my face. Sliding my hand to her side of the bed, I noticed it was cold, which meant she had woken up a while ago.“She should be downstairs with her people,” Ky suggested, but it only annoyed me even more. Did she feel empty like this whenever she woke up and I wasn’t in the room?I doubted she did. For whatever reason, my annoyance flared into thick anger, and I couldn’t tell if I was more angry that she wasn’t in our bedroom or that she didn’t feel the same emptiness that I felt sitting half naked on the bed. With a groan, I cleaned myself quickly got dressed in a pair of dark jeans and the same colored shirt, and headed downstairs, only to be met with Soph, Marian, and Kimi, with no trace of my mate. “Good morning, Alpha,” the three chroused.“Morning,” I replied in a lazy tone, strutting to the kitchen, which was also void of Rune. The anger that had someone settled out of my stomach when I thought my
Rune. I took Fay’s advice and made the quick decision to renounce my vow, which was rather harder than I thought it would be as I could barely go anywhere myself. I had originally planned to go to the waterfall to do it, cause I thought it would be more effective, but in the end, I did it in my room, the only place in the pack I had some privacy. But it had been two days since I renounced my vow and I was yet to hear from the goddess. If it wasn’t for the nightmare that ceased, I would’ve doubted the renouncing of my vow worked.I was tempted to return to Fay to ask why the goddess hadn’t said anything, but I decided against it. Not because I couldn’t go alone, but because I wanted to give it some time.By the third day, I had enough of waiting, and I couldn’t sit still without doing anything, so after Kimi’s training, I called her for a little meeting. “You want to do what?” Kimi’s widened eyes stared at me like I’d lost my mind.“I’m sure you heard me,”“I’m not sure I did. Did
Rune. When I decided to go after the anonymous sender and overall news about my family, I knew it would be a hard task to pull off, but I never expected it to be as hard as it turned out to be. The numbering system didn’t go without an eyebrow raise from everyone, Kane included, but I was surprised when he pushed his lips, tapped the dining table, and said,“I’ll only agree to it if you oversee it yourself.”His green eyes had bored into my soul, challenging me, because he thought I was still in my “nothing about the pack concerns me” phase. I was more than excited to take up the challenge, which earned me a sexy smile and a lip bite before he kissed my forehead and went his way. Now, I sat in the living room, staring back at all the faces of the omegas tasked with cleaning the pack house, staring at me, while ignoring Soph’s hard eyes that bored into the side of my face. She was annoyed that I didn't run my plan by her and only told Kimi. She complained she felt left out but want
Rune. It had now been two days, but I had yet to catch the wolf in charge of delivering the letters or receive a message from the goddess.And a part of me doubted if I would get ahead with either of them, until midday, when the sun was at its hottest and brightest, and I suddenly felt exhausted and in and of some rest. I’d been out and about, not doing anything in particular, just looking around the pack, and so when the exhaustion came, it felt like a do-or-die affair. Kimi who was with me when I started to feel tired, held my arm, asking if she could carry me back to the pack house, but I quickly rejected her. Though she had been receiving training to strengthen her core, she was still very much smaller than me and I couldn’t imagine putting all of my pregnant weight on her. “I could take you to the medical house if you’d like. It’s close by.” Kimi urged but I knew a closer place. “I’d prefer to go to the priestess,” I said, pointing in the direction of Fay’s house.Kimi looke
Rune. “Talk to me,” Kane inched closer, staring intently at me. “I don’t know how accurate I am, or if this will mean anything to you, but I had a bad dream that the pack was set on fire, and a lot of wolves died.”My words were met with silence and Kane’s head hung low.“Did you hear me?” I tilted my head to search his face. “Fire you say?”I nodded. “I’m sure Soph has told you about the charms we found in the pack?” I nodded, patiently waiting for him to explain to me the relationship between the two things. “I’m forced to believe there’s a new pack targeting us, and they work closely with witches.”The seriousness of his words settled in and I found myself sitting up straight, my hands in his.“But what do you believe?”“I believe Pearlcrest is behind it. I mean it makes no sense that it’s a new pack because all the leads are somehow connected to Pearlcrest but yet, I’m being told something entirely different.”“Soph told me they are the ones with sightings of more charms?”H