EMJLIA POV“What?!” I snapped, taking two steps away from Seth to make sure that I was staring at him well. “I’m very sorry, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t hear what you just said a few seconds ago. If you would be so kind to repeat it and bring me to an understanding, I would really appreciate it.”“I want you to mate with me, Emilia. I know you heard it the first time and it’s hard for you to believe, but trust me, it was harder for me to finalize this decision on my own as well. It’s the only way I know that we can be joined at the hip and more so it’ll be even harder for you to run away.”“I don’t know, Seth. It doesn’t make that much sense to me. We’re not each other’s original mates, and the last thing I want to do is mate with you right now. How are you so casual about this?”I couldn’t even imagine how union would be. Would we spend the entire day arguing over whether I was guilty of his brother’s death or not? Would he still want me to maintain the fake confession that I had ki

EMILIA POVBoth Lucas and I stared at Seth in disbelief, trying to figure out if we had both heard him right.“What do you mean? I can just leave with him?” As I asked the question, I understood how much that could possibly sabotage my opportunity to leave because it would give Seth enough time to rethink and probably tell me not to leave with Lucas anymore.“I said you can leave. You raised a good idea, and I have decided to follow it. I’ll have some of my soldiers go with you to Moonclaw Pack, where they will keep their eyes on you and bring me information every week. Instead of just two of them, though, about five of them will go with you. How’s that?” He raised a brow, and it was perfectly fine with me.“That’s not bad,” Lucas answered before I could, but I could tell that he was still suspicious of Seth, and rightfully so. I wouldn’t put it past him to stab us in the back if we decided to turn around and leave.Seth picked out five of his soldiers right in front of us.“You will

EMILIA POV“Bring the elder in,” Lucas did not hesitate to command the soldier who had just announced to us that a member of the Council of Elders was standing outside and in need for a meeting with us.Lucas and I stared at each other in confusion when the soldier rushed out of the place.“I thought they were all dead,” I expressed what he probably already had in mind as well, and he nodded in silent agreement with me.“Elder Dennis of the Werewolf Council,” was announced by the soldier as the door opened, introducing Dennis to us.Lucas and I stood up at the same time, and I couldn’t tell if it was because we were both shocked by what we were seeing or we just wanted to pay our respect to Elder Dennis, who was supposed to be dead.“No need to stand up, I wouldn’t like anything to be too formal between us all. I have something important to tell you all that I found out throughout my time in the vampire territory,” he rambled, sitting at the other head of the table with his fingers in

EMILIA POVI froze as the soldier acknowledged Lucas and the fact that he was standing behind me and the five soldiers that I had brought along with me.“What are you doing here, Emilia?” Lucas asked me, forcing me to turn around with a sigh of exhaustion at being caught without even walking out of the pack already.“We were about to go hunting,” I stood by my lie, crossing my arms as if silently daring him to say something that showed he had doubts about it and would not let me go.“All six of you are going hunting?” He raised a questioning brow, almost scoffing in the process of it. When I nodded, he went ahead to ask, “And why didn’t you tell me about it? You’re in my pack, so I have the right to know when you leave and when you enter.”“I didn’t know I was a prisoner,” I argued, causing him to harden his stare.“Get back to the house, Emilia. You are not going to hunt right now, especially with the baby. If anything, the men you have with you can go out to hunt for you if you want

EMILIA POV“What do you think you’re doing here?!” the person who had caught me in a chokehold yelled to call to the attention of the soldiers around me.The soldiers drew their weapons and aimed them at the person who was holding me by my neck.“Let her go, and we will let you go,” Simon threatened, but I could see the look of worry in his eyes as he stepped forward with a glare, but the person pulled me back and away from them.From the hiss that he let out, I could tell it was a vampire.“You don’t want me to call for backup,” he threatened the soldiers. “Put down your weapons. There are people around that have their eyes on you. Don’t do something stupid that could risk the life of a child who hasn’t even been born.”They all looked at me for a command and to see if I agreed with what the vampire had just told them to do.“Put down your weapons,” I told them with a low voice, silently urging them to trust and listen to me.They bent low, putting their weapons on the floor but stil