Asher's POV"Arabella, I said come out now. I don't want to hurt you and you're already sick." I coughed a little to sound not so serious."Please, darling"I heard nothing. I sighed, "Don't make me come up there, Arabella, I'm already having a bad day as it is. Please come down" my tone lowered into a whisper. I even smiled, "if you come down, I promise, I'll do anything you want"Still nothing."Arabella, what is going on with you?!" My next words failed to come out when my wolf stopped me."I think Arabella is gone. There is nobody there"I rolled my eyes. Again, with the chasing.I said no words as I jumped on the table standing next to the wall and then grabbed the handle next to the manhole in the ceiling.To be honest, I had sensed Arabella's scent ever since but I chose to act oblivious to it. Maybe she was frightened and did not know how to handle so many people around her, which was what I hoped.Apparently not. My arms pulled out the cover of the manhole which came along
Arabella POV:I felt air fading from my lungs and water filling them up instead. I couldn't breathe. I was feeling weak and for some reason, something ached in my abdomen."Help!" I screamed in my head but only bubbles came out of my mouth. I was underwater and drowning to the bottom with speed. I tried to free myself but my luggage was cramped to my leg. The zipper at the end of my jeans was tied to the wheel of my luggage.I shook my leg to free myself but I was drowning fast. The leg shake caused my abdomen to feel like it was rupturing."Help! Help! Help"My wolf could do nothing about it. She didn't answer. My body was too weak.Was I going to die this way?Drown to my death?! Oh no!...A tear rolled off my eyes while I was underwater. I tried my best to rise above the water but it wasn't working. I finally gave up.With one last breath that brought more water into my lungs, I closed my eyes, waiting to die but…. Something pulled me out of the water.I felt air blow on my skin
Arabella's POVI tightened the nerves around my face. That was usually the first sign of me waking up. It was followed by me yawning."Arabella, wake up, we are in a strange land" Wolfie called to me.I slowly opened my eyelids to see a pale figure staring at me with a beaming smile. She looked beautiful and familiar. I blinked a few times before my mouth fell open. I soon realized she was me.I jumped up in surprise while I also gasped. "Who are you?!"She smiled and finally retreated into her seat. She had on a black coak and a wooden staff by her side. "Wakey wakey!"I was still in horror to see someone look awfully familiar to me. It was like I was staring at a mirror."Please, tell me, who are you and why am I here?" My right hand was shading my chest while the left supported my weight on the floor. I was ready to run if I felt any threat."Seems you lost your memory when you fainted. Is it that or maybe the potion we gave to you? " She cackled. A familiar sound I had heard somew
Asher's POVI thought my mate was going to be in the high mountains, that maybe the witches had found her and taken her against her will, but as I went there with my soldiers, I found that she was nowhere to be found.The witches were present and they were as scary as ever, but my mate was nowhere there. I could not sense her."Tell me where I can find her"I commanded. I was ready to shift into my wolf self if they fumbled with their words or made jest of me. I was not going to take no for an answer."Arabella, your mate is not here, go elsewhere and find her. It's my sister's two hundredth birthday and you're disturbing our celebration" I flared my nostrils at them. Even though they were powerful witches which every Werewolf was scared of, I didn't care "If it wasn't you who took her then who did?"The one who spoke first turned to face me. She got up on her feet and began strolling to me. I leaned my chest outward and took in a deep breath, readying myself for whatever she wante
Arabella's PoV"Please tell me what would you have me do?"I fell on my knees again and crawled to them, raising my head to look into the eyes as I begged to be let in.I knew better than anyone but if they let me go, I would have no place to stay. One of the witches cackled. The one that was tall looked at her sister and then back at me. "Well you see we don't have anyone to cook for us and we also have no one to hunt for us, if we take you in, I would have to do those chores without complaint. We will provide a safe place for you to stay but you will be the one to determine how long you will stay by how hard you work""So in summary, what you want me to do is to cook and clean?" I had to be sure I was on the same page with them.Mary and Mary nodded. "Simple and straight to the point right?"Actually, it was easier than I thought. When they had demanded for me to do something for them, I had expected that I would have to sell my soul or perhaps even offer my child but listening to
Alpha Asher's POVI cleared my throat as I commanded the guard to let alpha Nick throughout. I sat comfortably on my throne. I was waiting for him. My finger created a rhythm with the handle of my chair as I took each breath, I was nervous but I wouldn't show it."I heard something funny and I came to check. Hopefully, it is not true" an ornery voice pierced through the silence of my halls. I could hear Alpha Nick nearby."Alpha Nick, it is a pleasure to have you here. To what do I owe this visit again?" I sprang from my chair and walked down my stairs to the common floor to meet him.Alpha Nick entered with about ten of his soliders behind him. Immediately he got in, I signaled my beta wolf to have twenty men wait outside our door.Alpha Nick came to a halt when he was inches away from me. He raised his chin and flared his nose while his eyes glared at me.I cleared my throat. I thought I had asked him a question."Do you mean tea or would you much rather prefer a glass of cold beer?
Arabella's PoVI had just finished cooking for the witches. My back ached, alongside everywhere else on my body. I screamed inwardly because of the pain I was facing but outside, I laughed. "What do you think of the meal?" I asked Mary. The Mary with less hair on her head. She cackled again and as I had come to learn, I understood that she liked it.I watched her dip her spoon inside of the plate of rice and scoop once.The other Mary did not bother to use a spoon. She ate with her hands and I stood there, watching her tilt the bowel while it was on the table. She looked contented and happy. I like watching her."I see you're enjoying your meal, Mary" I was the first to speak. It had been a week since I stayed with them. Time went by really fast in their coven. I went out to buy some ingredients for a meal and was told three days had passed in the outside world, I wondered how they managed to understand the time difference."You cook well– even better than we who are witches, you sho
Arabella's PoV:My jaw dropped when I saw Asher. Of all the people that could have appeared for me to train with, the witches chose Asher, the man my heart ached for. "What happened to using Alpha Nick to train with?" I yelled out in the open. I received a strong win as an answer. Of course they did want to train me in the most gruesome way possible, I could understand that."What am I supposed to do?" I asked my wolf quietly. Maybe she had some ideas on how I was meant to attack the situation.She did not answer but then, another voice answered.It was completely different from the voice my werewolf always answered with."Kill him"I stopped breathing to listen carefully."What did you say?" "You said you wanted revenge on your enemies, how about you start with the easiest of them all. Start with Alpha Asher. He would not be so hard on you""But…" my eyes wavered as I tried to search deeply in my mind for an excuse. "But I don't have a weapon. In this place you brought me to, I ca