Okay, I think this is the longest chapter I’ve ever written. Pardon me for the length. I had to cover a lot of things… ‘cause it’s about to go down! {Evil laugh!!!} It’s been long I did that. Lol… See yA!
{Cayden’s POV}I’m stuck and I’m alone with my predicament.I had decided to risk my life to save Isla’s because she deserved it. She deserves to live and well, I don’t deserve to breathe.The more time I spent around her during the Lycan mission, the more I realized how evil I was. I watched her talk to people. I watched her talk about people. I watched her character towards people and realized that I was cruel in ways I didn’t know of.I treated the world with brutality and angst but Isla saw the beauty in things, no matter how little they were.When I got to know about Lily’s absence— the little girl. I had immediately rushed to return to the Lycan Hold, knowing that if Isla heard of it, she would want to return too. I journeyed as fast as I could only for me to crash into her along the way. I left before her but she met me along the way. It didn’t mean she was necessarily faster than me. It only meant that she was more strong-willed than I was and ever will be. Her empathy and
{isla’s POV}There was a sound.And it wasn’t a familiar one— making it an odd sound.Everyone grew alert at once as we stared into the silence, waiting for a confirmation now.We hadn’t seen anything yet so none of us could conclude on anything yet. The night was reigning with its darkness with our only source of light being the crescent moon above.Until we saw torches.We saw one wooded force and then two and then many.The Lycans were here.Our Shacks were built at a point that was a good distance away from the Palace so we could see the Lycans attempt to sneak up on the Palace.They purposefully chose the night to attack.We watched them put off their torches as they crept closer towards the Palace. They wanted their attack to be unseen and sudden, not knowing that they were already seen.For the first time ever, I was a hundred percent confident in my plan. It gave us an edge over them and what was left for us was to properly make use of this advantage.I would make sure of that
{Isla’s POV}My face crashed into a glare and I threw my claws out.Standing before me was the man— well, half man, I hated the most, and beside him was the woman I loved the most. “Let her go!” I voiced, feeling myself growing angrier. The Dwarf Commander was standing in his short height and he made my mum kneel beside him to match that height. Her hands were chained behind her. All around the Shacks and the surrounding forest areas, Lycans stood, seizing our maids and warriors— a sign that someone had snitched on us. Someone had informed the Lycans of our plan in the dying minutes of our victory as there was no way they could have found this place on their own.“Your Highness.” The Dwarf Commander bowed his head at me with a smile I had seen a thousand times before. “We haven’t met.” He said.“I mean, we have, but not under an official circumstance such as this.” He smiled again.“I said, let go of my mother!” I voiced, creeping closer with two steps.The Dwarf Commander ignored
{Isla’s POV}Delphic twists.This was a time for peace and rejoicing. We had just defeated the Lycans and my mum personally killed the Dwarf commander of the Lycans. But in this momentous moment, two crazy he-wolves decided to bear chaos. They knew they were amongst the strongest Werewolf males in the Reigns and they saw it fit to flaunt their power and might for everyone to see and praise them.I could send both of them to the bottom of the ladder with the snap of a finger.Okay, maybe not with the snap of a finger. But you get my point.I paced after Andrea as she led the way to the sight of the happening. We were headed for the Arena fields and I could already see the crowd that marked the precise area they were.“They are fighting?” I asked Andrea.“I told you to put General Ralph in his place.”“So he’s the cause of this dispute and not Cayden?” I said.Wow!I was honestly shocked. Knowing Cayden’s hostile and brutal nature, I had expected him to make a sudden comeback with wh
{Isla's POV} “You make love to me so close just to throw me so far away,” I muttered in tears as I staggered through the shaggy forest path with my bruised heart and my wounded hope— I was literally drunk on my grief. Almost immediately, I realized I was being followed. I wasn’t quite sure who these creeping bunch were, but I knew they weren’t coming to have a chat. And I clearly understood why. It’s not every day you see the eminent Luna of GreyStone Pack wandering through the eerie Woodlands-- alone! I tried to creep faster now but the swollen weight of the grief in my chest hampered my already shaky legs from making any new advances. To be honest, there was no point in trying to escape from these prowlers. For all I know, nothing they could do to me would equally match my present agony. Nothing mattered anymore, not even my dear ‘esteemed’ life. So death was the least of my worries, and the stream of doleful tears still trailing from my eyes was an extra validation of this f
{Isla's POV} “Cayden!” I yelled, drawing all the glares at the table to my person. Cayden’s expression still remained straight as he didn’t bother sparing me a look, but in that instance, I wasn’t intimidated by it. I was there to pour out my heart and get answers, and that was what I did. “Who is she?” I started with a solid tone, aiming my finger at the crafty lady on his side. “For the past few days, this woman has been staying in this house and nobody has bothered saying anything? She and Cayden are suddenly so close, and everyone is chill about it? Don’t any of you think I deserve, at least, an explanation for all this muddle!” I was doing so well until my tears betrayed me and began trailing down my cheeks. However, I couldn’t blame the tears because, with the heat in my chest, even my heart was threatening to leap out. “You don’t get to talk to us that way!” Cayden’s mother, Sassaba, voiced as she shot to her feet. “Who do you think you are!” Who am I? Who is she! I motion
{Cayden’s POV}“Did she just…” I knowingly stopped my attempt at continuing that sentence as I already completed it in my head. It was the plan all along— for her to take the compensation and quietly leave my life, but I didn’t expect her to reject me so suddenly and seriously.I was to do that! In fact, the whole episode was still very shocking to me as I had never known Isla to be so… so wild. She had shown me her confidence and a feisty spirit that I had never seen before in all our years as mates.I had been really provoked with how she talked to me but at the same time I had been too puzzled to react, and she had walked off leaving me that way.I could still hear my mum cursing and protesting in the background, and for some odd reason, I wasn’t really comfortable with her volume anymore.“She has no right to reject my son! A low-born Omega like her rejecting an Alpha? She should be killed!” She bewailed while Ivanka supported her claim.“Mum!” I bawled as I spindled myself to f
{Isla’s POV}“Be cautious. They say she’s almost as strong as him.” I heard one of the cronies still trailing behind me chatter and I couldn’t stop the smirk that threatened to grow on my lips even though it was very insignificant in that instance. I wasn’t going to fight them and I wished I could just tell them— maybe turn around, throw my hands in the air, and plead for them to capture me. But that would be too dramatic, even for me.In any case, I knew it was only a matter of seconds before they attacked and seized me, and for all I knew, I was already a prisoner. But who knows, it might serve as a very good distraction from my harrowing misery.I suddenly stopped cold in my tracks to make things easier for them and almost immediately, I felt the aggressive weight of three hefty bodies collapse on me, sending me forcefully to the icky dirt of the forest floor. My face dug into the dust as my body jounced vigorously from their wrestle. One of the trio’s claws dug into my sides and