ALIYAH’S POV
"Wife? So you’re mated with my sister?"
Shawn laughed, which echoed in my head. He sounded amused at what he heard from Reid. I know. He could not believe that someone had decided to marry me. All my life, he’d been insulting me because I had an ugly body. A day would not even pass without him telling me how terrible it felt to have a sister like me.
And now... he’d learned that I was married. His ugly sister, whom he used to enslave, had a mate and got married.
Reid’s expression hardened. "Do you have a problem with that?"
"Yeah. You married that wench whose wolf is mute? What a pity," Shawn replied, and I caught the menace in his tone of voice.
"Try to speak ill of her one more time, and I will tear your mouth apart," Reid warned him.
Giving my husband a one-handed shrug, Shawn then glanced over at me.
"You seem to have poor taste, Alpha Reid. You should’ve rejected my good for
ALIYAH’S POV"Holy crap. I thought we were going to die there! What happened yesterday was so intense!" Liana exclaimed in relief when we got into the Wrangler jeep."Liana," Klaus called for her warily. "Let’s not talk about it anymore. Aliyah doesn’t want to hear any of those things that happened for sure.""I’m fine. T—Thanks," I said, and gave them a reassuring smile.We were already on our way back to our territory. I could not help but look at the East Coast Ocean on the side of the road. It was such a satisfying view that it made my heart calm. The salty and humid breeze blew through my hair, and I tucked it behind my ear as I continued to admire the clear blue waters. It was like a reminder that no matter how bad yesterday was, the sun would always rise again and give me another chance to spend a new day better."But seriously, I think I finally understand why Aliyah left her pack," Liana remarked. "I looked at
ALIYAH’S POVI snapped my eyes open, feeling the cold sweat forming on my forehead. Blinking slowly, a soft gasp escaped my lips. The searing pain in my head was evident, making me unable to think clearly. It was as if my mind was haywire, and all I could do was look around the room I was in.That was when I realized I was lying on the cold, dusty floor. My heart pounded fast the moment my eyes darted to the familiar tiny window where I used to put my white daisy. I sucked in a breath, tried to rise a bit using my shaking body, and as my eyes surveyed the room, I figured out I was inside the old attic... the familiar old attic that used to be my cage at home."No... no..." I began shaking my head. "This can’t be possible... why am I here?"My chest tightened as I became fully awake, recalling what had occurred before I got here.The witch... the witch attacked my pack mates... she hurt Reid with a silver bullet, and abducted me afterwar
REID’S POVGasping, I forcibly woke myself up from an unwanted nightmare. Beads of sweat were dripping down my head as my chest moved up and down to catch my breath. I sat upright and began looking around the familiar bedroom back in the pack house. The place was a bit dark, and the only thing lighting up the room was the moonlight pouring through the window.Swallowing hard, I tried to remember what happened. The vivid memories of how the witch blocked us on our way home and how she attacked every one of us made my eyes burn."Aliyah..." I called my wife’s name as I surveyed the room again. "Aliyah!"I was about to stand up when I felt the throbbing pain in my stomach. I looked down only to realize that I was terribly wounded due to the silver bullet that the witch used to knock me down. However, I gathered all my strength and forced myself to rise to my feet. Slowly, I walked out of the bedroom and called out to Aliyah once more.I co
ALIYAH’S POVI’ve always felt that fate was trying to fuck my life over and over again. My emotions were all over the place. There were many questions whirling around my head that remained unanswered.Why did it have to end this way?Why did the Moon Goddess let it all happen?Why was it always me who needed to suffer?I’ve spent so much time crying in the attic. My heart and soul were ripping apart at the thought that Reid was already dead. A big part of me was hoping that he was still alive after what the rogue witch had done to him, but a voice in my head kept whispering that no werewolf could survive a silver bullet inside his body.Shawn made it clear. That rogue witch used a werewolf’s weakness to knock Reid down and kill him, and I wasn’t able to do anything to help him at all.I just sat inside the Wrangler, and watched... watched how the rogue witch killed him mercilessly.And now I feel l
ALIYAH’S POVTwo days had passed. I was at the point where I cried myself to sleep at night, and began waking up from the nightmare of how Samarra shot Reid with a silver bullet the next day. I felt my body weightless, my head empty, and my heart wrenching every single minute of my life.I was in total grief. At the same time, I had no choice but to serve my ‘family’ and the witch who killed my mate—that Samarra, who I started to observe whenever my mind stopped being fuzzy.Apparently, she became Shawn’s fling. I didn’t know how she was able to get into this territory without getting attacked. As far as I recall, my father loathed witches more than he hated vampires and humans. He even ordered the warriors to kill every other creature who would dare enter this land. Now, I could not seem to understand why he let a witch live in this house who bluntly seduced Shawn, as if my brother didn’t have any reputation to protect.
SAMARRA’S POVFrom the dust, the witch would rise...Samarra Bryn is my name, and I came all the way from the Moon Witches tribe to this place with one goal in mind: to avenge the death of my mother.Being a werewolf-witch hybrid, I must confess that I encountered a hard plight. Every day I had to find a way to survive and become powerful so that no one would disparage me for being different.This wasn’t the situation during my childhood, for I had lived a normal life in the pack which was led by my father. He was an alpha, and he loved me and my mother so much.However, everything turned upside down when my mother told me the truth about our identity; that she was a hybrid, a half werewolf and a half witch.That made me the same.All my life I thought I was a full-blooded werewolf that was raised in a royal family of a well known pack, but those were all lies. My identity was tainted, and at first, I hated it. I hated my
ALIYAH’S POVThe roaring thunder woke me up. Blinking, I realized that my body was trembling due to the cold breeze that was entering through the small open window. It was raining heavily outside, which made the night sadder and emptier.The room was engulfed by darkness. Only the moonlight pouring through the window lit the tiny space of the attic. My gaze surveyed the place, and I did not understand why this room that became my cage for most of my life was giving me a strange feeling. It was just the same as far as I recalled before I escaped the last time, but now it felt so foreign, too different.My body had not recovered from Samarra’s attack earlier. It felt so heavy that I could not move properly. I could still feel the trauma lingering in every part of me, particularly from my lower abdomen, which she purposely clutched using her magic. In an instant, my eyes welled up.Because of my poor attempt to kill that devious witch, I put the
ALIYAH’S POVEveryone who was fed up with darkness and cruelty would find a way to escape. I’ve done that before. My unwanted past pushed me to run away from my own family, and I decided to face my death outside the boarders.I could feel that my wolf wanted me to do the same thing right now; to escape the hell of a house I was serving again and pray to the Moon Goddess that I’d be able to come back to the Jewel Pack territory in a complete state.Yes, it's easier said than done. The question was, could I possibly do it right now? My life was different now that I was pregnant. As much as I wanted to flee and return to where I truly belonged, I was afraid Samarra and Shawn would make things worse for my baby.The next day, Samarra was so happy regarding the great news that Shawn announced in the house. He was able to convince the council to support his decision to marry Samarra. The unification would be held two weeks from now, and right