It isn't easy to fool a wolf. But it is easy to fool a wolf who is desperate. And this shadow wolf was desperate, Crystal guessed. After all, it would not be easy to keep Ace imprisoned much longer on one hand and fool her on the other. She watched from the window as Doyen's imposter prowled outside the packhouse. She knew that whoever the man was, he was actually wondering if it was worth it to not listen to her orders and invade immediately and take her by force. She was not foolish enough to think that if this wolf attacked her it would try to take her in the wolf form regardless of her own animal or human state. A mark in the wolf form was the most permanent and strongest form of controlling their mate. Over the last many years, even fated mates had never done that for it would take away the power balance and in turn create more troubles for mates. Suddenly, she saw the wolf stiffen and glance in the opposite direction. As expected, he immediately raced towards the forest. Using
As Ace tried to bring forward his wolf, he realized that Doyen's presence in his head was visibly reduced. His wolf had been significantly weakened by the silver and whatever it was they had used to knock him out earlier. As a result, if he tried to change now, it would only weaken him. He would have to use his human self to reach Snowheart Mountains.But first, climbing a tree, he noticed the fire that had now taken over the entire building. A grim satisfaction raced through him at the site of the werewolves running out of that place, badly burned and charred. But then he noticed something that suited him just fine. Instead of escaping the some and fire, the wolves immediately turned to their human forms and focused on saving a hidden part of the building. Falling to his feet, he inched closer to the building, letting the billowing flames and smoke cover his scent. Stopping about a hundred metres away, he finally spotted the thing that was brought out of the fire followed by two men
"You lie." The tension in his body seemed to peak as Juan continued to kneel. Doyen seemed to whisper in his ear that all this was a way to catch him off guard. He had just spotted his most trusted man with his enemy. An enemy whose identity he had been searching for, for quite a while. If Juan really was loyal, he would have come to him the moment he knew something. "Get out of my way." Ace growled at the man, wanting nothing to do but reach his mate at the soonest. But Juan shook his head and reported," No. Not without you have heard my explanation." "I have seen what I needed to see and do. Be grateful that I am not changing already and tearing your throat out." "You are not changing because you can't change yet!" The next minute, Ace wrapped his hand around Juan's throat, squeezing his neck. The man turned his head away and did not put up a fight, indicating that he was still submissive to his Alpha. "Alpha Ace, I know you do not believe in second chances and once I have ex
"Kill Him." As the words echoed in the clearing, the allies who had stopped further away, confused if this was Ace or not, did not doubt anymore and walked forward. The Black wolf growled softly, and power unlike any other seemed to be emanating from him, making them stop again. The white wolf shook its head and spoke to the allies," None of you can kill him. And I was talking to him." The black wolf stared at the white one as Erin spoke again," I am talking to you, Doyen. If you are truly my mate, then kill him." While the white wolf could talk in human language, letting her voice echo, the black wolf could only reply via the mind link as it said," Who do you want me to kill Erin? Are you not weary of all the blood on our hands? We were born to bring peace to the werewolves but we have only brought bloodbath." This time, Erin replied to him," The blood baths are not on us. I want you to kill the one person responsible for the blood baths. The one on who you rely to survive. Your
Seeing his own wolf attack him, had momentarily stunned Ace. Even though he understood the situation, the reality had yet to hit him. He thought back to the words that Juan had shouted after him. "The only way to destroy the remaining soul is to let go of your own will to live. Only if you die willingly and acceptingly, the shadow Doyen will be annihilated with you. Without your soul to support him, Leo Storkis will not have anything that would make him survive." There had to be another way. He had not even thought of a way to save the other wolf when he noticed him fighting Erin. THe relief that had hit him to see Erin standing there had been instant. However, the next moment, he was on the ground, with a wolf under him. Looking into the dark eyes of the feral animal, Ace curved his lips. So this wolf wanted to challenge him. The sentence brought back a childhood vision. It had been of two wolves fighting to the death for domination over the other. One had been desperate and made
Juan dragged an almost dead Ace in his human form to the place that Master Leo had ordered him to bring. He looked down at the struggling to breathe alpha and sighed," I warned you in the very beginning, did I not? I told you taking her in would harm you and so you should not have taken her in. If you had not given her asylum then you never would have bonded with her so well. And then maybe one part of your soul could have been saved." Juan huffed as he climbed the mountain's slope and continued to talk," I decided to follow you because you were so powerful when you killed your own father... I thought you would rule the world and I would be able to serve you. I have never really been much ambitious, you know. Isn't that why you trusted me to begin with, overlooking your own visions which spoke of me being evil? Anyway, this is what you get for preferring the greater good over your own good sense. But, don't you worry. I have been loyal to you for the most part. I did not tell the mas
as if he had seen a ghost, Leo Storkis pointed a shaky finger at Ace. His first thought was that it must be the soul but then, he looked down at the altar and finally accepted that he had been fooled.Focussing on his slave, he accused, "You cheated me!"But then, he noticed this Ace was squeezing the servant'd neck and frowned. No, If Juan had cheated then Ace would not be attacking him.Angered that he had used all his men to divert the attention of that Luna and moon hunter pack leaving him vulnerable, he stepped back slowly and picked up the small stone he had laid just under the altar.Holding it with both hands, Leon started to chant loudly and a ball of fire appeared in his hands. With a look of loathing, he straight up threw the colossal fireball at Ace and Juan. This servant was no use to him anymore.But then he was shocked as Juan raised his hands and quickly pushed back Ace with his elbow, stopping the ball with ice."You.... why do you protect him? You are my servant!"Jua
While Juan and Crystal ran forward, Leo stepped back. laughing maniacally, he held the dagger up, looking down at Crystal frantically trying to stop the flow of blood from Ace's stomach having forgotten about him. how foolish. Looking down at hwr, he raised the dagger again. Better to kill both his opponents than risk leaving someone behind for revenge. Anyway, he had no intention of living in the shadows anymore."Ahhhh!" With a scream, he launched the dagger again to push into his bqfk, when Ace moved again. Using his o2j momentum, Ace turned Leo's weistnl inwardsb, causing g him to be impaled on the dagger.A shocked scream escaped his lips and he tried to get up but Ace simply pushed him down, letting the dagger dig in deeper.As Leo's desperate cries echoed in the cave, it started to shake and small pieces of rocks started to fall. Worried about the cave collapsing, Juan spoke,"Alpha, Luna, we need to escape. This cave is filled with Leo's magic and if we do not escape then we wi