HUNTER.The warriors sure do eat a lot and the workers are inevitably tired. Aunt Hyacinth is not here to help or give them instructions so the kitchen is a little messy and Daphne is doing the best she can to help but the twins have been more than a little fussy lately. She suspects that they’re ill but she’s been a little hesitant to call the pack doctor for treatment. She thinks it’s nothing serious.He’ll be here to tend to the warriors today so I guess we’re going to find out what’s really wrong with the twins. “Are you okay?” Daphne asks worriedly staring at the blood dripping from the back of my hand. She’s been ignoring me for a while now so I guess I should he thankful to the man that wounded me with his sword.“Daphne, I know I should have said something but I have to process my thoughts firsts and—”“I’ll get some ointment, the wound is not that deep.” She stares at my hand once more and walks away. It’s going to take a lot more than a scratch to get this woman's forgiven
HUNTER. “You better start talking! You only get two chances and you already lost one so if I were you I’d be very careful with the last one.” “Your Alpha is dead! That is all we have to say to you.” “No, you actually have more to say but you just don’t know it yet, I’ll be right back with a little something to jog your foggy memories.” “Wait! That is truly all we know. We were sent to take over this pack and enslave all the people that we couldn’t sell as slaves.” “Who sent you?” “Alpha Jethro. He gave us the instruction right before he went to kill your Alpha.” “Did you see Jethro kill Nikolai?” “Who's Nikolai?” “My Alpha!” “We didn’t have to, your Alpha had already been hit with out poison arrows twice, all that was left was to finish him off.” All I’m hearing is that there’s still a chance that Nikolai killed Jethro. He’s not one to go down easily but where is he? Where on earth could he be? I have to contain this news about the possibility of Nikolai being dead for
NIKOLAI The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this man was that I was going to have to kill my father twice and I was right He's a Tyson too and that can only mean one thing; that my father had siblings. “It’s probably just a coincidence that he has the same surname as you and looks like your father split into two. We should just apologize to the big guy and be on our way.” Winter whispered tugging at my hand desperately. “I won’t take long.” I assure her but I don’t think it’s the assurance that she wants. “We shouldn’t even be here, are you forgetting the plan? Are you forgetting Jacob? He’s never going to forgive you if he dies.” I almost forgot about Jacob but like I said, I won’t take long. I just want to have a word with this man. “I think you’re at the wrong place Tyson junior.” He growls but I’m not in the least threatened, Winter on the other hand looks like she just offended a god. “We’ll be on our way sir, we’re deeply sorry for the inconvenience.” Wint
WINTER.Something weird is going on. I feel like every door we walk through leads to another big secret that couldn’t keep itself from us anymore. The gates were oddly familiar but I waved them off because I thought it could have just been nothing but a mere coincidence and now there’s yet another Tyson staring us in the face?!“I’m sure you travelled quite a long journey to he here so tell me what would you prefer, tea or juice or maybe water would do. Would you like the maids to prepare a bath for you?”I want all of those things that he just mentioned but everything comes with a price and nobody is nice to their enemy for no reason. “Before we discuss anything else, I need you to hand Jacob back to me. He has done nothing wrong.” Nikolai says, his frown not faltering even once. “Oh, that guy! He’s doing a lot better than you think. I’ll show you.” He descends from his self-made throne and his robe flows on the floor behind him as he walks towards us. The robe looks heavy, I’m s
HUNTER “Charlene, I love you but you have to stop crying, your tears are not helping.” Daphne says putting her down in her cot and doing her best to stop her own tears from falling too. I told her about my plan to go back for Nikolai and she somehow managed to coax the truth out of me. She knows Nikolai asked me to be his Beta. She also knows that she can’t talk me out of my decision to accept his offer. What I don’t know is what to do to get her to stop crying. “Daphne, I’m really sorry that I didn’t tell you. I just didn’t know how to spring up the fact that I was going to be the second-in-command to someone who’s father you hated so much.” “You and I know that it’s not about his father!” Daphne yells. “You know what this is about.” I honestly don’t. I have no idea what this about.“Why don’t you want me to become Beta?” I ask calmly. It’s a dangerous question to ask but it’s all about taking risks at the end of the day. “You think I don’t want you to become Beta? That’s ho
NIKOLAIMy father having siblings comes as a complete shock to me especially because he lived his life like a loveless beast but that’s not what bothers me at all. I have way more bigger problem than uncles I didn’t know about.I don’t know if I can trust Hunter to take care of pack on my behalf. Only the palace guards are currently remaining at the palace and Hunter can’t fight to save his life. Winter doesn’t know I asked him to be my Beta yet and I’m not going to tell her until he accepts. When he does accept, the first thing I’ll do is train him to fight, if I still have a pack to lead by then that is, he can’t be my Beta and not know how to kill a person with his eyes closed. “You have to make a decision now.” Winter whispers and it occurs to me that I’m still in the presence of my oppressor. He’s asked to give him everything my father owns and I have to admit that it’s quite a lot to hand over to someone I’m meeting for the first time. It’s a lot to hand over at all. “If I
WINTER.Nikolai's impatience is a part of the reason we’re here instead of back at the pack and if he does this one more time, I might just snap. “Let him finish!” Elkan says pointing a warning finger at Nikolai but Nikolai ignores his warning.“I would but we don’t have that kind of time, I have a pack to get to,” he says hastily.“We would already be at that pack if you weren’t so impatient so please don’t make the same mistake twice and keep it together.” I scold and he pouts, at least he knows not to ignore my warning.“As I was saying, our father was the original owner of the house you live in. He came up with it out of the love he had for his pack and your father stole it from him, from us, from our family. “Who built the house?” Nikolai asks and they both go quiet.“I guess father built it then, that’s why you’re so quiet. How do you claim that someone stole something when you’re still in possession of it?”It's a very valid question. “How?” I ask feeling proud of my smart h
HUNTER. The warrior’s inability to leave the palace turned out to be a blessing in disguise, I have to say that this is the happiest I’ve been to see Nikolai, but maybe not as happy as I am to see Winter. “Are you okay? You look terrible.”“You don’t have to be modest, I smell terrible and frankly I feel terrible too. I feel like I came back from the dead.” Her shoulders are so low, they’re almost sweeping the ground. “I’m so sorry. I’ll ask the maids to prepare you a hot bath right now.” “Thank you.” She says and heads up stairs without looking back. I turn to face Nikolai, he looks just as terrible but there’s a smug smile on his face.“I knew you could do it.” He says and gives me a side hug, if he wasn’t so smelly the hug might have lasted a little longer but there’s only so much of his stench I can take.“How about the offer I made? Did you consider? You don’t have to tell me your answer now!” he stops me. I think he’s nervous.Nikolai is actually nervous. I feel so important