Reed’s pov
“I hope your soul found peace now and may you rest among side your family.” I put the final sand on the ground with the shovel and make it even until, I was sure. I had to put the tombstone here to mark it as a proper grave.
Derek and his wife’s body have been already buried alongside Liam. My heart felt heavy for the loss. I offered Derek a part of my land and what did he got in return, his whole family doomed to death, including his whole pack.
Not a single survivor left to tell what actually happened to them. countless lives, men, women, children, not a single live spared.
“You are quite good at this now. aren’t you?” I heard the sound of the person I don’t want to talk right now. Not at this moment. My heart screeched beneath my chest just to her voice.
“First Selene, then Andrew, his wife, his son. How many can die i
Reed’s povI put my foot on the gas peddle and drive ahead, my gaze soon find the smoke coming from the direction of the pack house and I know Diana did the job. She light the whole place to fire to erase everything.As much as I hate to see it. I have to do it. I can’t trust Ravenna. she is a epitome of evil. I can ask Diana to find out by incantation but that will only ask for more time. time I don’t have a luxury to waste anymore.Ravenna is nifty, she might have cursed someone of their pack member before leaving them for me to find out, they died on my place and might cause something harmful to my land or my people. Only the fire can purify what she had done. I rubbed my eyes and turned the steering.I can’t trust Ravenna. She is wicked and the most powerful now, considering she had the blade. Hecate won’t interfere as she already went rogue and decided to leave the coven. Hecate is a deity and a witch bu
Reed’s pov“So, now the dear Asher had also visited the infamous witches’ land. We all are on the same ground. Like a happy family.” Diana said and almost stopped herself from chuckling out aloud, cutting the silence. Diana was sitting at the back; Asher was by my side already busy in his thoughts. I was driving the car which was a pretty distraction for me.I tried my best not to divert my gaze from the road and yet keeping my ear on their conversation and thanks to Diana it was getting pretty much amusing by every passing second.I can tell by the voice of Diana she was thoroughly enjoying the fact that Asher was ‘abducted’ by Hecate. She was loving it seeing the emotion of demise on Asher’s face. Sometimes I am way too scared seeing this sadistic side of hers.He is a true witch through and through. She didn’t miss a single chance to torment someone verbally
Reed’s pov“Promise me you’ll be safe.” She said and her eyes followed Asher as well. He nodded and I walked back to the car not before looking back at my shoulder to answer her. “You too.”Diana opened the portal in the wood and jumped inside her. I didn’t start the engine until the portal closes. Once I was sure, Diana was gone I stared the engine and drove in the direction of place I was longing to reach as soon as possible.My mind was not at peace, someone was conspiring among us, one of us. Azra confirmed it before we send him back to the underworld. But who? I know only rogue king won’ be enough for what Ravenna had in mind.“Asher do you know someone by the name of Azra?” I asked and glanced at him through the corner of my eye.“No, why? Does it have to do something back at the pack house?” he asked and opened his eyes to look back at me. I know I got h
(Three days before the car crash) Esma’s pov “Still banging your head in the books?” I heard Dumeny's voice from behind and I shut my diary as soon as I heard him coming in my direction. I have been writing everything since last night in this diary. Since I met Moona. Thanks to the evening primrose, my memories were intact but as the time passes, the primrose witters and so did my memories of last night. I have been writing non stop and everything I could remember but as the clock ticks, my mind started playing with me. it all seems like I was in a delusional paranoa. If it was not for the early two pages I wrote, I would have thought of it as a dream shrugged it off. But it wasn’t. I wrote this as the first thing. Everything was real. “You ditched me at the morning breakfast, what you been writing here?” he asked genuinely curi
Esma’s pov “Calm the fuck down all of you.” Dumeny roared for the first time and all of a sudden, the room fell in the absolute silence. Every one of them, stood attentively to bear the command of an alpha, including me. “We are surely outnumbered but we can’t look out from the fact that we are facing mere rogues.” He said and all of them started murmuring among themselves. He was right. Wolf without a pack is just like a blade without its edge. A blunt knife to be more precise. We wolves are powerful in packs but whenever we went rogue, our power started to diminish, the sense of sight and smell, the ability to transform back into human, all started to get lost and in no time, we become monsters without any control or our will. I stepped up to look at the faces of the people who were risking their lives alongside ours. “All of you, every one of you is forged in the fire of intense battles and hard trai
Reed’s pov I make my way through the corpses. One by one, body from body I walked through them. I didn’t look at the faces who dared tried to face me moment ago and eventually enveloped in the arms of death. They were not meant to die here, not by my hands, not for that fucker. “Stop where you are, mutt!” I lifted my head to look at the faces of the guards protecting the main gate of the castle. I have already killed the hundred since I entered inside his pack. The most powerful pack of the world. Blacklaw pack. “Don’t come in my way, run and I will spare your life.” I growled and threw my clock aside to turn in my wolf. I make sure my weapon was secured in my clothes, the one I paid a hefty price for. “Now!” the guard at the front commanded and the sky covered in absolute darkness, it took me a second to register what he was up to. They have surrounded me already.
Reed’s pov“Alpha?” I groaned internally but for some reason I feel too tired to open my eyes. There is only pain. My head, my chest . . . burning pain. My side, my arm. Pain. Pain and hushed words in the gloom. Where am I? Though I try, I cannot open my eyes. The whispered words become clearer . . . a beacon in the darkness.“His left and right ribs are severely bruised and he had a hairline fracture at the right side of the skull but he is healing faster and most of his injuries are already healed.“Then why is he still unconscious?”“He will wake when he is ready. Just give him some time.”“Any news on Miss Rockwood?” the words were anguish, breathless.“I can’t find her. I don’t know where she is, I tried the finding spell but as if she is totally disappeared from the world.” Now, I recognised that voice. it was Diana’s. the f
Esma’s pov Darkness engulfed me. It was the same kind of darkness one would have witnessed during a long slumber, or death. Death? Am I dead? I don’t know. This is oblivion. At least it felt good. It’s peace, in oblivion, in emptiness, without any worry, without any fear. It was just me now. no one to bother me, no one to hurt anyone. I could float in this abyss of nothingness forever. “And what about me? about us?” my breath hitched hearing that familiar voice of a man. I hear it so many times, calling me, pulling me towards it. I can’t put my finger where I heard it. deep down, my heart was earning to hear it again and again. “Kitten.” It calls to my deepest depths of my heart again and this time I tried to move. Who is it? who’s calling me? “It’s time to wake up Esma.” this time he called me by my name and my heart thundered. “REED?” the name automatically left my lips and all the memories gushed back like the thund