Xavier has followed the two of them from the shadows as he did not want Sam to alarm Stella that he was nearby. But when Sebastian’s sister told her about their legend of how Paphos came to be what it was, he could not help but growl at Sam.In their mind link, of course. It would be dreadful if Stella can hear him.‘What the fuck do you think you’re doing? Explaining all about our ancestry to a foreigner?’ Xavier said as Sam just went away from Stella, leaving her alone in the town square. He will be going back to her as soon as he deals with this insufferable woman first.‘It just seems right at the moment. And do not give me that crap either. I don’t think you want to protect the legend from her just because you valued our secrecy. No, you’re afraid that she would not lik

Xavier was looking at his mother, waiting for her to tell her the news that he wanted to hear. He did not know much about his father after he married his mother. They said that it was an arranged match and they have not complied with it.Must have taken a lot of strength for her to endure her husband, Xavier thought before his mother was showing him a piece of paper. It was rather old looking really and he was taking it to read the content in it. It was written in English.“An agreement?” Xavier asked her before his mother nodded. Then, he read. And blinked. Then reread it again.“Is this even legit, mother?” he asked her before she sighed. His mother has been weary and he knew that he cannot force her to tell him everything. But this agreement…it changed everything that he stood for t

Stella was following Xavier to a neighborhood that she did not know about. She was staring at the dark streets that were away from the festival as they were walking in the dark. Stella stuck close to her man as she was clutching his hand.“Do not worry. There was nothing to be afraid of in here. It is safe for us,” her man mumbled Stella was nodding slowly at him. They were walking a bit by bit before Xavier stopped in front of a house. It was like a cottage but bigger.Stella gulped when she realized that they were not in the dark streets anymore but in the forest. How come she did not notice that they have entered the forest before?“Who lives here?” she asked before she was looking around. The forest was murky and dark but Xavier just chuckled when she was gripping his hand even more.

Xavier was looking at Stella as she was walking into the house as she was gaping at everything. His mother was arching her eyebrow before she was brushing her mind link with him.‘Is this what you want, my son? It doesn’t have to be the person that was meant for you in the agreement that your father struck up within Italy,’ his mother said before Xavier was pointing her at Stella’s neck.‘Why don’t you check it out for yourself? But I am sure that you already know that,’ he joked before her expression told him otherwise. Xavier remembered that his mother was arranged to marry his father and they never had been the true mates of one another.That was just a sad story for her, Xavier thought before he was telling his mother what happened last night.

Diana Marchand has always known that her fate was at the end of her father's hands. She had always remembered the time when he announced that she will be married to her brother's best friend, the future Alpha of the Shadow Pack, her fate has been sealed. Well, that was always the worst part of her life. Diana had been 21 when her father announced that she was engaged to Caleb Andino. Being the girl that she was, naïve and doesn't go against her father's wishes, Diana obeyed like a good daughter. She would smile and nodded as her father was telling her the good news. But, was it really good news? Diana has always known that her father wanted to overthrow the current Alpha, Caleb's father, and make the pact for himself. But thankfully, those ideals were not being fulfilled as her father was dead when he threatened to kill Caleb's true mate. M