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Alaric’s POV“You won’t believe what happened?” Ben reported when I emerged from my room. I frowned at him. Ben pulled himself up from his squatting position on the floor. By the looks of it, he had been waiting for a long time outside my door. “What are you doing here this early?” I asked. It’s a few hours before daybreak. I woke up early out of habit and decided to make a little run before breakfast. I was surprised Ben was up and moving about this time. Ben usually sleeps in after a night patrol.Ben was bubbling in excitement - very uncharacteristic of him. I darted a look to the door beside mine and found it closed. “Where’s Erin?” “She’s still asleep,” Ben answered offhandedly. I raised my eyebrows. So this is not about Erin.To humor him, I crossed my arms over my chest, leaned on the open doorway, and gave Ben my undivided attention. “Okay. What happened? You look like a dancing firecracker!” I commented. The excitement that never left his face doubled at my ques
“So that was his plan all along.” Steven, my senior adviser, opened the mind link to exclaim after we left the court building. “Shut it. Do not utter any word until we are in the safety of our own territory.” I ordered everyone as we trooped back to the truck. We rode the pack’s Defender in silence. No one dared to break the silence inside the truck. We were all preoccupied by the recent turn of events. It was a bumpy ride since I was driving, and I was not in a proper frame of mind. Leo’s intent is clear. He wanted me to mate his daughter so he could get his filthy hands on my lands. I did not slow down when we approached our pack's territory. Instead, I floored on the gas pedal to increase our speed. Dust and smoke billowed on the road we passed, but I did not care. The truck screeched to a stop when we reached the front of the pack house. I turned the ignition off and got out of the driver's seat ahead of everyone else. "I thought we were talking?" I heard Anton grumbl
Alaric’s POV Have you ever tasted fear? Have you ever felt a wrenching pain in your gut like it was being sliced open by a sharp knife? That is the best description I could come up with to explain what I am feeling right now. I felt an unexplainable, excruciating pain in the pit of my stomach, coursing through my chest. The worst thing is: I knew why it was happening. I brought this on myself, and I could blame anyone but myself. Erin is missing. I do not want to think the worst. The most probable explanation for this is that Erin escaped when the fight escalated. She took the pack's distracted state to get away. But the worst scenario could be that: Erin was abducted right under our noses. My fist clenched while I faced Beth. “Are you sure she ran away?” I asked in a dangerously steely voice. I could not rule out the possibility that Erin's Alpha father took advantage of the chaos earlier to take Erin away. It was highly likely since I let it out of the bag that
Erin’s POVWhat in the tarnation came over me when I decided to escape from Alaric's camp?Regret suffused me after my head covering had been roughly pulled off from me, and I saw the faces of my captors.Seven rugged-looking men surrounded me. I looked at the face of each one of my captors, noting they were not from my father's pack. For a while, I thought my father's men captured me, and would try to bring me back to Red Stone Pack. It fills me with horror just thinking about it. I just could not go back there.There is nothing in Red Stone Pack for me. My gaze went back to my captors. They were no ordinary wolves. They have the same massive build and tall frames. And the one thing distinguishing them was the tattoo on their left arm. From my distance, it looks like a flower with an intricate design, but on closer inspection, it appears as a mandala with an eye in the middle.“Who are you? What do you want from me? ” I hissed with so much bravado. I struggled but my hands
Alaric’s POVErin’s POVBella and I walked a bright hallway. When we reached the end of the hallway, she stopped, opened the door, and gestured for me to enter.I poked my head in and hesitated upon seeing Xavier waiting for me. He was alone. I know I should be nervous right now. But I was also curious. I wanted to know why I was here, and Xavier was the only person who could tell me. Seeing him dressed in a priestly white robe, I felt no fear. Rather, I felt a certain calm spreading through my entire being. The room is warm. Enough to make me feel cozy. In truth, I could stay in this house for good. There is a warm, secure vibe in it that makes me feel comfortable -something I have not felt in a long time. And Xavier, I looked at the man. He does not look old or young, but despite his brawns, he looked to be a very intelligent and wise man. “Hello, Erin Acklen, Alpha Daughter to the Red Stone Pack.” He addressed me formally.A frown formed on my forehead, and I shook my
Alaric’s POVThe first thing that clued me in on her location was the fragrant smell of lavender. It burst through my nostrils, filling my lungs with a certain kind of peace. A peace that has eluded me for the longest time in my quest for revenge. But a few days ago, in a rogue attack, we perpetuated against Alpha Leo of the Red Stone Pack, I came face to face with my destiny. At first, anger filled my heart. How could the moon goddess play a cruel trick on me?Why did she pair me up with someone from my sworn enemy’s bloodline?The goddess could have chosen someone from another park or maybe an ordinary she-wolf would do. But why her? This thought niggled my mind. Until I came to know her, and I came to recognize the sufferings she endured for the past 18 years of her life. How cruel her own father and presumably her mother as well to her. I am not fully aware of the things she had to endure. I could hazard a guess, but that guess does not give me the full details of her s
Erin’s POvI opened my eyes at the first crack of dawn, got up from bed, and did my daily morning thing before tiptoeing out of the room.My steps were quick but measured, careful not to awaken anyone. It had become a morning routine to get up before everyone else. The silence of the pre-morning dawn had a calming effect on me. It was like communing with nature at its finest hour. Outside the packhouse, I looked through the west side and started running. My destination?The pack’s training grounds. When I arrived at the place, I found no one there, which made me feel at ease. I immediately went to work. I did some warm-up exercises. Then, I started my training. I flexed my arms and legs, leaped, and made circular motions in the air before landing back on my feet. While my body was busy doing its thing, my mind was preoccupied with what happened after I came through after passing out in Alaric's room. I still did not recognize him or the people in this pack, and thinking about
Erin’s POVI never thought I would get the answers to my questions that very same day, making me realize Aesop’s lesson in his fables Be careful what you wish for clearly had some grain of truth in it. Remaining cooped up in my room the entire morning and way into noon because I am avoiding Alaric left me feeling antsy. I find it such a drag. As far as I remember, when I was back in my father’s camp, I was never idle. I would always be doing something - chores that seemed endless and had no time of ever halting. There is so much to do in running a packhouse. But coming here, I live a life of leisure. I had become quite adept at doing nothing, which vexes one’s mind making so much room for one to overthink. I’d rather move because as the day wore on, I found the four walls of this room quite stifling. By noon, I had enough! I need to quit loafing, or I will go crazy in solitude. Maya, my wolf, seemed to agree with me. It was never my best suit to wait still and do nothing. I