Davina I am seated on Keith's bed, overly sensitive to his pungent scent, staring and smiling at him as he undressed and walked to the bathroom without really looking at him while making runs at different theories about what I had just discovered. I am in danger, and If I was wary of Jason before, now I have to be extra careful and avoid him totally while trying to figure out what his deal is in this subtle chaos. I didn’t know Jason had any family. He never talked about it. No one does. I never knew he even existed until Keith showed up from nowhere. Apparently, he has been lurking around the park from place to place ever since I started coming to Antarti to get acquainted with Cullum, occasionally slipping out to hang out with Keith. It’s all coming back to me now. I have to find out everything I can about him from anyone who knows anything, of course discreetly. Does Keith know Jason has a brother? They’re close, but I have seen enough to know Jason is the face of cunning and ev
Chapter 21 Keith “Who are you, and what have you done to the lordly bitch that won’t surrender to my whims and prominence as the alpha?” I squinted as I looked over at Davina. She was lying motionless, calm, and peaceful. I almost can’t believe it, especially after invading my privacy and brutally fighting me for it; that on top of all the other fights, quarrels, and unending disagreements—the very definition of beauty only; nothing more. What are you doing?I walked to the bed slowly so as not to startle her. I tripped and almost fell because my eyes were on her and I forgot about the stair-like elevation I have to climb to reach my bed. Really, dude? A wave of relief washed over me when I looked up after regaining my stance to see that she was still lying still like a sleeping lake. “Hmm,” I shrugged. People always said that Davina is beautiful, but I hadn’t really seen what they were talking about. I probably never looked at her—not until then, on my bed, with her fingers in
Chapter 22Davina“What took you so long? You have gotten slower. Maybe it’s all that Luna special treatment you are getting nowadays,” Evans teased, crossing his hands on his chest as he stood at the entrance of the cave. I rolled my eyes. “I came here as soon as I can, and…” I dashed toward him and picked out a strand of his curly blonde hair and zoomed back to where I stood, holding up the strand between my thumb and index, and wearing a smug expression. “As slow as you think I am now, you will still never be able to catch me.”“What the hell was that?” Evans’s eyes bulged out and he took a few staggered steps backward, pointing a finger at me.“What is what?”“How did you d-do that?” he stuttered with a hollow voice from his sudden breathlessness. “You were there and then you weren’t, and then you reappeared just now.”“What do you mean? Have your senses dulled? When last did you wolf out under the moon? Are you alright?” I blurted, worried he might not be healthy. The Evans I kno
Davina“This doesn’t make any sense? The color of my eyes means everything. It’s my very nature. I don’t understand,” I blurted, pacing around the spot I stood. “Is it bad or good, or…”“Calm down. You seem to be alright. Actually, better than alright,” a muscle in Evans’s jaw twitched. “We will figure this out,” he nodded. “We have to understand it.”“How?” I threw my hands in the air and let them fall loosely at my side as I feel overwhelmed. Am I sick or something? Was it the wound? I am totally healed, so what is wrong with me?I observe my hands like I would find the answers I need in them.“Veena, calm down,” Evans paused for a bit. “Has anybody else noticed any of these things about you—your eyes and enhanced speed?” “I don’t know. I haven’t wolfed out in a while now,” I mutter, looking away. I know he would be alarmed that I have transformed. Every wolf is supposed to transform out under the moon frequently to maintain a state of balance between both the human and wolf forms
Chapter 24DavinaI wiped my hands on my face as I was feeling quite tensed and sweaty. My hands on my face did nothing to ease the droplets running down my face so I rubbed them on my forehead again. As I dropped my hands, I caught a glimpse of blood smeared on my palm and it set my heart pounding faster than I think it has ever beaten.What’s this?I glanced down at myself and saw that I was covered in blood like I had a blood bath and I stepped back, falling to my knees as I splayed my hands in front of me.“This is not how I remembered it,” I cried to Evans. “You know me. I wouldn’t…” I looked over at the girl and tears rolled down my eyes. The gory sight terrified me. I have seen worse because I hunt, but she was just a little girl, and didn’t know if I killed her myself. It seemed so. There was no other explanation.“I’m I dreaming? I better be dreaming. I don’t know what is real right now. I helped her. He,” I pointed at the wolf taking its last breaths. “…and some other wolf we
Chapter 25KeithMy door busted open and I raise my head, gritting my teeth in contempt for the fool that had the guts to fling my door open without a knock knowing that I am the Alpha.I will have your head on a stake.I jerked off my bed as Jackson’s maid come to view, breathlessly waving her hands in the air, looking mortified like she had just seen a ghost. Her petrification dampened my anger as tears rolled down her chin. She clasp her hand together and stuttered, “It’s Jason—he’s dying.”“What the hell do you mean by that?” I feel a chin run down my spine. Is this some kind of Joke? “He is outside, bleeding out and barely breathing. Nothing the doctor is doing is helping. Please do something. He can’t die,” she cried and fell to her knees.My thoughts ran amok as I realized she is not joking and indeed as I focused my hearing on the chattering voices outside, I heard people talking in panicked tones about Jason.“No!” I yell and run towards my door. The maid got out of the way
Chapter 26Davina“Where am I? Evans!” I yelled looking around me without recognizing where I was—everything was blurry. “Evans, where are you?”“Calm down, Veena. You should stay down,” I Evans say and I relax a bit. “Stay.”“I can’t see anything now,” I blinked numerous in an attempt to clear my vision, but nothing happen. “What is happening to me?” Panicking, I managed to hurl myself up. I threw my leg forward, but something pulls me back I feel a sting of pain on my ankle and I immediately bent down to feel my leg. My hands clashed with as shackled which drove a familiar discomfort waging through my body.You didn’t dare!“You chained me up?” I yell.“I had to,” Evans said and I follow the direction of his voice with my head. “I freaked and it is the only way to keep you from going anywhere or doing any other weird stuff. I don’t know for sure what is happening to you so this is the best bet. You should sit down and try to calm down.”“Calm down? Are you serious? This of all things
Chapter 27Jason Keeping Keith and Davina at each other's throats had been the ultimate plan. As long as they were not in sync with each other, plan A will work. If they remain partially bound to each other long enough for me to complete the ritual to bind me to both of them, then I will be a force to be reckoned with; the weak spot in their connection. This will allow me to gradually siphon all their untapped energies until they become feeble, too feeble to face the weakest wolves in our pack. Imagine me, Jason, the cast-away, now the strongest wolf to ever grace the earth. I will be unstoppable. Finally, I will redeem my family's name and glory. A little while longer. Just a little while. Everything just had to look normal–me on Lucifer's side as his puppet best friend that he can order around and talk down, forgetting that I raised him to the height of being an Alpha. Without me whispering in his ears, he would still be Lucifer, the mafia in the streets whom only a group of ot