"The dungeons? Was this the best you could do?" The woman asked Damien, who had a small smirk on his face."Consider this, my little act of kindness." He responded sarcastically, and the woman snorted."You said my mother sent you?" I asked, and the woman nodded to that. "Where is she?" I questioned."That I cannot tell you," she said unapologetically.I felt a spike of pain in my chest thinking about my mother. Maybe Damien was right, and we should have never let this woman/messenger —or whoever she thought she was in here. For many years, I had suffered and gone through hell at the hands of my ex-parents. I wondered where my true mother was; I did believe she had died, or just as Felicia said, 'wondered away', but no, she was alive; she knew where I was; she knew everything; and yet, she had stayed away, all this time till now, and she doesn't even think I am important enough to come by herself; she had to send someone.Did I ever mean anything to her?I doubted it."She doesn't ca
(Lena's POV)There were no screams this time."Lena," I heard Damien's voice call."I am fine," I answered, rising to my feet."She did it," Aradia said to no one in particular."What did she do?""She overcame them; she overcame her 'nightmares', and now she is free.""What next?" I asked, still feeling overwhelmed but wanting to hear any information that had to do with my mother. I didn't want to think about the 'vision'—if I could call it that—seeing the wolves in a puddle of their own blood. Though I knew it wasn't exactly real, it still felt strange, and there was something in me—something that had changed since that. I didn't know what exactly that was, I was still trying to figure out if that was a positive change."I'll take my leave," she says."What? But you just arrived? I thought you wanted to tell me things.""What things?""Other things, like the prophecy and what really is going on, you cannot just leave like that.""I have fulfilled the reason I was sent; I would retur
(Lena's POV)I cried myself to sleep that night, even if there were no nightmares.."Where are you taking me?" I questioned Damien as he led me to the library."Last night I was wrong; you need to see this.".I didn't really tag Damien as the reading type, but there was something about the way he navigated the huge library; he had been here before—countless times, now it was like he had already memorized each route.He stopped before a shelf that was very similar to the others, then picked out a book, scrolling through the pages, then he stopped at a page."This was what I found, but I didn't think it was anything then," he said, handing the book to me.There was a picture on the page of a female with a star-shaped tattoo. Staring at it, I felt like I had seen this somewhere."Do you know what that is?" Damien asked"It seems so familiar... like I had seen it somewhere, but I can't place where," I answered..The Last Lykaina~'The last of her bloodline, rejected by all, loved by one
(Lena's POV)I knew I was being followed even as I ran. I went faster, but they weren't giving up. It was like they had been waiting for me.I stopped.Turning back to them, I regretted that decision almost instantly. They weren't rogues, as I could tell from their smell, but they looked exactly like the wolves in my dream, with the same black fur and long jagged and sharp teeth, but this time they were two and not three.The wolves walked closer, intruding on my personal space. I sneered out a warning, but from the look in their eyes, they didn't take it. Just like in my dream, one of them leaped at me. I was faster. I sank my claws into it's skin. The other one joined in, digging its fangs into my skin. I let out a silent whimper. I slashed at it, getting it in the eyes.They were strong wolves, and I hadn't been prepared. I felt another slash to my back as I battled the first, and I dodged a hit from one of them.I could handle them if I were prepared; I wasn't, and I was losing fo
(Damien's POV)I had tried finding the woman, Aradia, but she had disappeared, just like how she seemed to have materialized from nowhere. I don't know what the strange woman did to Lena, but I didn't like it one bit. Yes, the nightmares had stopped, but then she was... changing, and I am not sure I liked this other part of her. She needed help, and I was ready to be there for her, but she seemed to prefer being alone more, and that wasn't helping.I know she hadn't hurt Kaden on purpose, but things had to change nevertheless. I knew when this was over, she would never forgive herself if she did harm her own child. I couldn't let her live with that kind of guilt, and so I had to take him away for the time being. Lena had chosen one of the spare rooms to sleep for the night. I didn't think I could go through the night without checking up on her.I placed Kaden on my lap as I applied the white balm to the red angry blister. I wished I did understand what really was going on. I wanted
(Lena's POV) I woke up with this strange feeling like something bad was about to happen, I felt nervous. The pack seemed too quiet for a regular Saturday morning. Pushing all those feelings aside, I got ready for the day. There was a knock on the door and for some reasons, my heart pounded. It was the Luna, my mother. She had a smile on her face and that surprised me, I was used to the ugly looks she usually reserved for me, so this was new, still I felt hope building up, it was stupid to think that she smiling at me meant anything, but still I felt hopeful. I found it strange that a mother could hate her own child. Her only child. "Your father wants to have a word with you darling" she said, I didn't miss the pet name, it had been years since she called me any pet names, it felt all wrong, everything about her visit, for one, she was trying to be nice and secondly my father rarely speaks to me, sometimes it was like he wanted to forget he had a child. My parents had wanted a male
(Lena’s POV)It still didn’t register in my mind, what exactly did my father mean?Married?“This is all some kind of lie, isn’t it?” I asked and my mother shook her head.“That’s why you’ve been summoned here”“No, it can’t be true... father!”, I felt the panic rising, I knew my parents didn’t like me, but this was too far, exchanging me for money was cruel, even for them too.“Remember you are doing this for the pack, for all of us, we would be free of the debts we owe the other packs”“You have no right to marry me off to settle your debts, I’ll find my mate....”My father stood to his feet, looking furious. “I am your father and your Alpha, I have every right to do so”“But... but what about my mate?”“Cut the Crap”, my mother said to me, “You didn’t find your mate when you turned eighteen, maybe he is out there with someone better or he is dead, sorry to break it to you, but you might never find him”I didn’t know why it always came as a shock to me when I hear the hate in my par
(Lena’s POV)True Mates didn’t need wedding ceremonies to make things official, but Alpha Damien was not my mate. Our wedding came only three days after my father had shared the news to me, unknowingly to me, my father had gone behind my back and accepted the marriage proposal without even asking me, he knew one way or the other, this would end up going his way as they always did. My mother made sure my face was caked up with layers of makeup, in an attempt to make me look a bit older. Alpha Damien was thirteen years older than me, I was only nineteen.I couldn’t believe my own parents could do this to me, I couldn’t even bring myself to think about our wedding night. I couldn’t. I couldn’t marry Damien.I had a plan, I would not go through with this wedding, I had to escape. I had already gathered up my savings, it was all in my purse, It wasn’t much but enough to start up a new life, of course my father would have my card blocked if he discovers that I took it along. I knew out t