Ezio:“Please listen to me, Iris” I said, taking her hand in mine, stopping her from getting in bed while being upset. Iris didn’t answer me, her eyes avoiding my own before she pulled her hand away. Her heart raced against her ribcage as she looked down at her feet. Her hands shook as she clenched and unclenched her fists. “Need I ask, what do you want to tell me? Would there be another ‘warning’?” Iris asked. I stayed quiet as her words played in my head. The way she looked at me told me that I had hurt her more than I intended to. She turned to walk to the bathroom but me wrapping my arms around her from the back, and hugging her tightly stopped her before she could. I kissed her cheek, holding her to my chest as my heart raced and it broke me that it took her a few seconds to give in to my touch. A sob broke from her lips before I could say anything, and turning her around, I wrapped my arms around her, hugging her tightly “I was scared you’d leave me”Her voice was above a whi
Iris:“You need to be calm before you start climbing, love” I said, looking at the girl who held onto the rope for dear life.“I’m going to fall”“Not if you focus” I said gently. I put my hand on her back, helping her down from the rope. She stood in front of me, looking down at her feet as she feared my reaction. I cupped her cheeks, making her look at me “what are you afraid of?”“You’re not angry with me?”“I am teaching you, love. I am not here to be angry with you” I said, running my finger over her cheekbone. She wrapped her arms around herself, running her hand up and down her arm. The other kids seemed to tense and I turned to look at all of them and frowned when I saw how worried most of them seemed.“Can I ask what all of you are afraid of? I don’t think that I have done anything to scare any of you and I’m sure that Beta Ezio hasn’t” I asked, crossing my arms over my chest. I nodded at the girl to go and sit.“We are usually not allowed to make mistakes…” one of the parent
Ezio:I ran my fingers through my beauty’s hair as she laid on my chest, telling me what happened between her and Nina.“She says that I want the Alpha position to myself…” I simply hummed in response, knowing that it wasn’t true. If anything, Iris wanted to end the WHOLE pack, starting a new fresh life between the two of us, it was never about being an Alpha for any of us.“And you let her get in your head, didn’t you?”“No, it’s not that”“I think it is, baby girl” I said, pushing my beauty away to look me in the eye “if anything, the two of us know that it is not about being Alpha in this place, and it is not about a ‘position’. The two of us haven’t fought through this whole time to just end up being merciful or to take charge of a pack that has damaged us more than we could even mention”“Her words just annoyed me, that’s all. I haven’t seen her being as rude in a while and I guess that I forgot how heartless she could be when she wants to be, but then again, I am no longer her t
Iris:I watched as Ariana did her homework, making sure that she didn’t give her teachers a fuss considering that she hasn’t seen her father.“Ariana, you need to finish these before I leave. You have to submit them tomorrow” the tutor said, looking at the child. Her previous private teachers all stopped tutoring her when she entered school, and the one tutoring her now was a nun who was trained to teach children, be patient with them, and treat them well.“But, I wanted to see daddy today” Ariana said, pouting her lips. I looked at her tutor who smiled, getting down on her knees beside Ariana.“Your father must be too busy to come, but we both know that he will once he is done. However, I am very sure that he wouldn’t like seeing that his daughter was not doing her homework” she said gently. I couldn’t help but respect the woman’s patience, this was the fifth time Ariana stopped doing her homework; however, not once did the woman raise her voice at her “how about, we finish this whil
Ezio:“Get out” Alpha Ryker said, not bothering to look at the nurses as he sat on the edge of his sister’s bed. The nurses looked at me, shaking their heads in question as they didn’t know what to do; however, nodding at them to leave had them walking out.“Alpha, is there anything that you need?” I asked, looking at the girl whose eyes were fixed on her brother, tears brimmed her eyes, and I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the two.“Leave us alone, Ezio” he said. I nodded, walking out and standing by the door. My eyes caught sight of Nina and I couldn’t help but shake my head at the woman who rolled her eyes before walking away. My plan with Iris was still fresh in my mind, though how we were going to make sure it worked would risk my and Iris’s life, both if she spoke, or if she didn’t. “I was never fair with you” I heard Ryker tell his sister inside the room, his voice has never been as broken as it was now, but I knew for fact that whatever he was going to tell her now was goin
Iris:I watched as the Alpha entered his sister’s bedroom before standing outside the door, waiting patiently for him to walk out of the room before our plan initiated.“Ryker” I heard her say when she saw her brother. I could hear the man sitting on her bed, and I could imagine him taking her hand in his “I want to ask you for something…”“Anything, baby girl” he said gently, his voice soft and loving. “Why doesn’t Ariana see her mum?” She asked “I know that you two…”“Miley” he warned, his voice dark and cold as he spoke, and my heart dropped to my stomach when I heard that the child’s mum was still alive.“Please, Ryker” Miley said, her voice pleading “I know that you miss her more than anything, and Ariana deserves to have her mother around her. The two of you have lost so much, but you can still build what you’ve lost. She would forgive you for…”“Miley, if you want to live through the night, I suggest that you fucking shut up” Alpha Ryker snarled. His sister went quiet, her hea
Ezio:I walked out of the room, heading toward the beta’s bedroom.Ryker’s voice could be heard as he yelled at the doctors, maids, and slaves that should have been in front of her room, inside it, or by her side.I entered the bedroom, frowning when I saw that most of it had been broken down as the Alpha threw things around in both pain and anger. His eyes met mine and I could swear he growled “what the fuck are you doing out of bed? Do you want to end up like my sister?”He pointed at her, his eyes breaking as he avoided looking at her lifeless body “she is asleep, and is refusing to wake up. These idiots are saying that she is dead, but I know that my sister is going to wake up. She just needs to rest…”“Alpha…”“What? Are you going to be as dumb as they are? My sister is alive, she is just asleep…”I wrapped my arms around the man, hugging him tightly as he broke down. I may have been in charge of her death, and I would be killing him, but the pain that he was in right now was a l
Iris:Her screams filled the air as her body burned. Her cries, pleas, and begs would be stuck in my head for a while, and I was thankful that I wasn’t forced to see her, had that been the case; I would have never been able to get over it.I knew that it would take her a while before she was dead, and I prayed that she didn’t say anything that would endanger Ezio and I until she died. However, judging by what I could hear; the woman was yet to say anything, and was barely begging for mercy or to be set free.Ariana sat beside me, watching a movie on her tablet as she had her headsets on, ensuring that she didn’t listen to the crying woman out in the field. It would be traumatic for her to listen to, and I wasn’t stupid as to want to trigger a child’s curiosity over questions that I knew I wouldn’t have answers to.It was a while before her cries died down and cheers started in the pack despite the smell of burning flesh. My chest ached at the memories that played in my head about her.