KATARINA POVThe next morning, word got out from the soldiers of the pack that the investigators had started to go missing as well, and two of their bodies had been found in the woods. I had never been prouder of my plan. It was all falling into place.“I think we should tell the Council about this before they pay us a visit and have to find out for themselves,” I suggested to my brother that morning as we got back from the woods, where I had instructed the soldiers to dump the bodies of the two investigators.“Not yet. Go gather the rest of the investigators,” he commanded. “I am going to conduct a thorough search within the pack. Whoever is doing this needs to be stopped.”“I still think the Elders need to know, even if you want to have things under control. Things are only going to get worse for you if you—”“For the Moon Goddess’s sake, Katarina, can you follow my instructions without having something to suggest when I don’t want it?!” he snapped at me, his eyes holding enough fru

EMILIA POV“What…what does that mean?” I questioned with a look of confusion settling on my face.“You heard me,” he confirmed with a nod of surety. “We have unfinished business with your Beta now. We need to talk to him about what he saw on that day that makes him believe that you killed his brother. It might have something to do with your powers.”I thought about it for a moment, but I shook the thoughts off my head. He couldn’t be right.“Who knows? Maybe when they discovered how powerful you were, they felt threatened by you, and they locked your powers away to make themselves feel better and safer. Perhaps that’s why you don’t remember a thing,” he guessed with a shrug.I didn’t know whether it was a far reach or not. Everything that had been happening so far, I had not thought they were possible, so who was to say that he wasn’t telling me the half truth, if not the complete truth?“Do you really think you can walk into that pack as free as a bird without getting attacked the mo

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 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 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