My heart beat seemed to be increasing with each passing second. I still had my hand to the door knob, my poor limb frozen in place. I wasn't thinking straight, I couldn't even think clearly. Moments before I could push the door open, I heard a voice. A voice that screamed terror, a voice I wasn't ready to face who it belonged to.I refused to believe he had just spoken. I just saw him, a couple of moments ago, muttering peacefully in his sleep, so how could he? The photograph! But it didn't make that much of a noise, it shouldn't have woken him up, unless in real sense, he wasn't really deep in sleep."Where do you think you're going?" I could hear his voice play dangerously loud in my head. "You didn't think I'd let you leave so easily, did you?"I shut my eyes tight. There was something I always did when I was scared. Any time I got scared, which was really rare, I always closed my eyes and sort of tried to wish whatever danger I was in. It worked a couple of times, if you could cla

I didn't need a seer to tell me I sounded crazy at this point, I could feel it from Zoe's uneasiness. She didn't believe me, I wasn't sure I believed me either. It was only a hunch but the rate at which I'd jumped on it scared not only me, but Zoe too. I couldn't back down now, it was too late already."Are you sure about this?" Zoe called. Sometimes she always managed to ask the right questions at the right times. Or maybe, the right questions at the wrong times. If this was the right time or not, I couldn't quite tell. " Do you think this will work?"Honestly, I had no idea. I'd sprung upon the first idea that came to mind and I wasn't quite sure it would work out. I couldn't tell that to Zoe though, if she hadn't found out already, you know with her having the ability to read my mind and all."Yes." Luckily for me, my voice didn't come out as hoarse as I thought it would. It sounded chill, confident and if I wasn't in this predicament, I would have believed everything was under con

"You're kidding right?" Was the exact same reaction I had when I'd just finished some of the books and pieced two and two together, so seeing or feeling Zoe rather have the exact reaction was proof that I wasn't crazy and most importantly, that I wasn't wrong. " Tell me you're kidding.""I'm not." I replied, settling on the chair in front of my vanity. Flashbacks from some of the scenes in the books played in my head and I shuddered momentarily. " I really am not.""How could someone do those kind of things?" It was mortifying to be honest. Mortifying wasn't even the right word for it. " And to your wife too. ""Or any woman for that matter." I chipped in. Just because they were married, that didn't give Oliver Sage the right to hit her. The worst part is, he hit her in worthless situations even when it wasn't her fault. " He was a monster.""Well the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, they say." Zoe quipped. " It truly doesn't. Do you think that's contributed to the Alpha's mental

I stood by the door of the throne room, ears pressed against the double doors that separated me from Noah and his dignitaries that sat around him. I wasn't keeping tabs on him, but a certain birdie tipped me off that he'd headed straight to the meeting right after our little heated argument in the room. He'd left me speechless and I was sure he was reveling in the fact that he'd won and that didn't sit right with me. So I'd decided to make him pay, one way or the other.Snippets of our conversation from earlier came up and a few words struck something in me.Women are weaker vessels, only to be trampled upon and nothing else. I agreed it wasn't totally her fault, but a huge chunk of the blame fell solely on Anthonia but at the same time I just couldn't pin everything on her. Knowing the kind of man Oliver was, I wouldn't be surprised if he had something hovering over her head, just like his son had over mine. Either way, I would find a way to end all of this. Now that the mystery of

NOAH I only had one place in mind, my study. That was the only place that could give me the comfort and solitude I needed. My room would have been the next stop for me but that was no longer possible, someone else had decided to barge in and ruin every ounce of sanity I could get. Yeah, that's right; Bailey Gayle.I fumed as her words rang loudly in my ear. With each step I took towards my study, the voices got louder, her sickly sweet voice threatening to make me go mad. In more time than I'd anticipated, I arrived at the door of my study and barged in, slamming the doors behind me. It rattled in its hinges and for a moment I thought it would fall down. After a few minutes had passed and there was no activity on the door, I headed to my desk and slumped into the chair, my back coming in contact with the soft cushion.A sigh slid past my lips, and Bailey just wouldn't leave me alone."I would never touch a woman…" I heard myself say. I knew I had anger issues, but it wasn't as ba