ROMANHow stupid was I?How could I have fallen for his stupid tricks that easily. The fact that I couldn't even see the ground in front of me wasn't helping issues.”Belle? Baby, if you can hear me, say something.”He had put his hand over her mouth because I could hear her muffled screams but I still couldn't pinpoint her location because the room was echoing .“Maximus, stop this madness. Give me my daughter.”“No Roman, how can I? We have only started this game and we must see it to the end.”I felt very stupid doing this.“Fine but leave her out of this, let her go. She's a child.”“She will bring me a lot of money. Imagine how much I will get when I tell them that she's your daughter and she's untouched..”Untouched? Did he just say untouched?“I swear, I swear on my life. If anything , anyone should touch my daughter in any inappropriate way, I will have you to feast on and that is not a threat."She was six years old and he was talking about her virginity?“Daddy!”Her voice w
EDENMy body hurt when I woke up.Her name passed through my head as soon as I opened my eyes.“Herschel!”“Eden! You're awake."“Alicia, what happened? Where is she?””Calm down, just take a deep breath. You just woke up. Relax."Her telling me to relax wasn't making me relaxed. It just made me more worried. But I took a deep breath.“Are you okay? Do you need water or anything?”I shook my head.“No, I just need to know what happened to Herschel? Is she okay."“When you asked us to leave the room, we did. At first it was silent and I was beginning to wonder if I should come in and check on you and then we heard a loud widm, gushing in through the window. I was surprised because it was very sunny outside. I even sent one of the maids to check."I wasn't surprised. That was the way she came.“What happened next? I lost conciousness after a while.”“I pressed my ear against the door and I could hear you speaking in a foreign language. I couldn't t understand what you were saying and th
EDENI was dazed.That slap was so hard that I had fallen back on the bed. Maybe it was the pregnancy hormones. Maybe it was the fact that I was already in a bad mood. But I slapped her back and she fell to the floor.She couldn't believe it.”I don't know what madness this is but you will not come into my room in my house and lay your hands on me, do you understand?!”“You murderer! I should have known that you didn't want us here. I told you guys that it was a bad idea to come here. They will kill us off one by one and they have started with Herschel!”I looked at the fool that was laying on the floor.“Herschel.” Ethan repeated.“Alicia, take Ethan out of the room."I was too pregnant, too pregnant for this rubbish that they had brought to me this afternoon.I was already in the wrongest of moods and they brought it to the wrong person.”No, Ethan belongs to us. Give him here.”She got up quickly and tried to lunge at Alicia but I grabbed her hair and pushed her to the ground.“Don
ROMANI woke up with a jolt.Belle was by my side, passed out.“Belle! Baby!”I carried her and got to my feet and ran out of the basement.As I ran out, I suddenly remembered that I had been stabbed so I looked at my chest.It was gone. The knife was gone.What happened?My mind flashed back to the conversation I had with Eden where she told me that she suspected that Belle was just like her. I didn't want to believe her because I didn't want my six year old daughter getting involved in all this.But she saved my life.“Roman!” Eden's Mindlink came through and I almost tripped. “Roman, can you hear me?"I was running towards the door so I could find Quinn and hand Belle over to her. Maximus had run away and I needed to find him.“Yes, I'm okay. Are you okay? Is everything good at home?”“Yes, everything is fine. You don't have to worry. Is Belle okay?"”You asked her to do this, didn't you?”I heard her sigh.“Yes, I'm sorry. I had no other option. I wasn't there with you and she was
EDENRoman didn't want us to stay here. After he returned from the war and found out what happened, he was very mad, very very mad at himself and the guards.But the deed had already been done.We held a funeral for Herschel and cremated her body.Roman had also discussed with the wives of that psychopath and he had agreed to grant them their freedom. He had no plans of keeping them here.Some of them decided to stay here while some said they wanted to go to other packs. Roman didn't mind it.He had brought back Maximus as he said he would. When I looked at the man that had caused my daughter so much pain and then I remembered the chunk of her hair that he had cut out and the blood that he sent, I wanted to have his head.I had seen the deep cash on her thigh and I almost cried. I just held my baby close because I couldn't stomach what she had been through.“What do you want me to do with him?” Roman asked me again.“I don't know.. I wanted to kill him but now that he is right in fron
EDENWe'd been silent for only a minute.I was finally starting to enjoy the silence because we'd been screaming since he came into the room.He wasn't looking at me, which meant something. It meant that he wasn't happy and neither was I.“Listen, Roman. I'm not trying to fight with you-””Oh, and I'm the one trying to fight? Maybe if you'd just listen to me-”“Why can't you listen to me?!"“Because you're telling! “I was yelling. I knew it but so was he. I was tired, sleepy actually. This baby was draining the energy out of me and I should probably rest but this conversation had been avoided for too long and I wanted to get it over and done with so we could move on.“Okay, I'm sorry. But I'm tired of talking about the same thing over and over again. It's like you're not even listening to me.”I saw his jaw clench.“I am listening to you, Eden. Thats the thing but you're not hearing me out. In saying I can't leave you to go back to New York all by yourself. I just can't.”“Why?" I wal
ROMAN“How long do you intend to keep her here?”My eyes were beginning to hurt from how long I was staring hardly at one spot.Today wasn't my best day, that was for sure but I was showing to handle it the best way I could.“Does that really matter? What matters is that she's not leaving and there's no two ways about it. So drop it.”I didn't want her to drop it because I didn't want to talk about it, it was because I knew she wasn't on my side.“Alpha, this isn't right. You're just causing a rift between the both of your a rift that isn't supposed to be there."“Well, what do you want me to do? I can't let her go back to the city without me. She's carrying my baby and I want to be there for her. I would be out of my mind with worry if I made the mistake of letting her go.”Why wasn't anyone seeing it my way? Eden wasn't listening to me, that's for sure. I'd gone on and on about how it was dangerous for her to go back without me and how I wanted to be there to make sure that she was s
ROMANI pondered over Matilda's words most of my time.She said a White Wolf meant a war on the horizon right?So since we had death with Maximus, that meant that issue had been solved right?I mean, this new unknown villain couldn't possibly pose that much of a threat to me that would constitute a war.But then at the same time, something told me it was all wishful thinking.I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, I couldn't think about anything else asides this particular issue. And then, as if I didn't have more than enough things to deal with, Eden wasn't speaking to me.She was still mad about me not letting her leave and I truly felt bad not letting her go and holding her back from what she wanted to do.But I had a bad feeling about her going back alone. Everything bad that had happened to us always happened in the city so it's best we stay here for now.I was running out of things to tell her so it was best if I just stopped talking. She was already in a very bad mood and bringing i