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 After Seth’s surprising announcement, Lucas and I glanced at each other, silently communicating. I gave him an apologetic look, and he blinked slowly at me to assure me that it would be fine. “You will let me speak to my sister, won’t you?” Lucas asked Seth as he turned towards us and made to lead us towards the dungeon. “Only if I feel like it, you traitor,” Seth replied, using his hands to signal for his soldiers to take us to the dungeon. “They must be kept in the same cell,” he instructed the soldier. “Find the smallest one of them all and put them both in it. It’ll give them enough time to think about why they shouldn’t have done what they did, especially the one who once called himself an Alpha.” Seth took one last look at Lucas and shook his head in disappointment as he said, “This was never worth it in the first place, and I hope you see that now. You have singlehandedly ruined your name for an Omega. I won’t fault you for getting angry in the dungeon and killin

EMILIA POV“You can’t do that, Seth!” Katarina protested, getting off her seat and walking towards me and Lucas, pulling me out of my seat and ordering me to stand behind her for protection.I stood there in shame, wondering if standing behind someone who had stabbed me in the back one too many times was truly something I wanted to do.“You have to fight for your brother, too. If you let him die like this, your guilt is going to prick at you forever,” I said lowly behind her as Seth walked slowly towards us.“Trust me, Emilia. The last thing you should be worried about is Lucas. He can hold his ground, not you.” She turned back to Seth and raised her hands in surrender as she told him, “It doesn’t have to be this way.”“You cannot defy my orders in my pack,” he replied.As if his words woke something in Katarina, she put her hands down and chuckled darkly.“By the way, Seth, how come you’re suddenly in command?” she questioned, causing him to stop in his tracks and look at her with cu

EMILIA POV“If ever you seek the Council of Elders from Fangsbane Pack,” an instructor once told us in the pack school when we were younger, “all you have to do is go north-east.”We had been taught to learn of everything we would encounter and were to be prepared for if we ever decided to go to the Council of Elders for help and if we were in danger.Now, I was heading in their direction without preparation and the sparse memories of what I had been taught by the instructor.“Wisteria path, wisteria path,” I mumbled to myself, looking around to search for a path filled with wisteria trees as we had been informed that there would be. I kept stalking forward, stopping once in a while to catch my breath and whenever I got pain in my stomach.It suddenly felt like my stomach had gotten heavier, but I was sure that it was that way because I was exhausted.“Oh, goddess!” I exclaimed as I found one wisteria tree a few feet away, using the last bit of my strength to trudge forward until I go

EMILIA POV“No!” I screamed out, guarding my stomach with my hand and running away, but I didn’t get far when I fell to the ground and looked back to see Heath approaching me with the knife in his hand.“You can’t do this!” I yelled out at the Council of Elders, seeing that at least two of them had concern on their faces and trying to win them over to take a vote against it before Heath could go ahead with it. “It’s going to kill me as well! Don’t you want answers from me as well?”“Stop, Heath!” Vittoria commanded loudly, and Heath stopped in his tracks as soon as possible.“We need to take a vote on this,” Marcus suggested. “I don’t think it’s fair to have the child killed so soon without a valid reason.”“Is the fact that the child is half vampire not enough for you?” Dennis argued. “You also heard what was said about the child—”“And it hasn’t been confirmed just yet. For all we know, the vampire might just be playing one big game to get us to surrender Emilia and the child she’s