MIAWhere the hell was their uncle and why were Javier and Ivan passed out on the floor? A lot was running through my head and I was starting to panic, what the hell was going on?“Javier! Ivan!” I shook both of them but they just lay there like logs of wood, not moving, not responding to anything. I had to lean in close to see if they were still alive. Luckily, they were still breathing, and that at least calmed me down a little.Where the hell was Harold and what happened in the few minutes I was gone? I saw that the outside door was slightly ajar and I carefully walked over and peeped outside.I was about to call out to Harold when I saw that he was on the phone with someone and he was whispering. That was very suspicious. Who was he on the phone with and why was he whispering?I decided to eavesdrop on his conversation.“It’s not working, Rylee, something must be wrong with the potion you have me,” Harold whispered.My eyes widened with shock, Rylee? Did Harold know Rylee and wors

MIA"What?" I asked my mouth ajar, I could not believe what I just heard."Wait, what exactly do you mean? How, how do you know?" I threw a load of questions at Bastien.Bastien sighed, he looked visibly tired, "I have to apologize to you all, I thought that by keeping quiet, I would protect you and keep you from getting hurt but it turns out the very danger I thought I was protecting you from seems to be out to get you regardless of my efforts.""Which dangers? What are you protecting us from?" Javier asked."For starters, the fact that Leo was your father, I didn't want to hurt you, Javier."Javier's eyes dimmed and he swallowed."Can't have been easy for you either, Dad, finding out that mom your mate cheated on you, you have had to carry that secret and betrayal for decades," Ivan said, his face showing his sympathy."I didn't find out until three years ago as your mom was about to breathe her last," Bastien corrected him. "What made it worse is the fact that Leo is my blood."A s

JAVIERI shook Mia hard and shook her again but she did not bulge. It was like she was in a coma, alive but unreachable, this scared me straight, I got out of bed and ran to Ivan’s room and woke him up with a shout.Ivan awoke frowning, “What is it this time again?” The look on his face told me he already knew it was Mia-related.By now, we are already used to this pattern, Mia has a hugely emotional moment, we try to console her, we end up making out, fall asleep, and then wake up to a shout.It was the way things were around the penthouse now, neither of us could go to sleep and hope to wake up blissfully in the morning.“Come, quick, it happened again, she woke up after thrashing around in bed, had a similar look to the one back at the warehouse, said some cryptic thing like ‘he’s coming,’ then fell back asleep, and now, she is refusing to wake up.” I gave him the cliff notes of everything that had happened.Ivan got out of bed and followed me back and had his turn trying to wake h

JAVIER Watching Mia collapse in that ritual circle took my breath away, I could not breathe because I thought for a moment that she was dead.All the questions came rushing back, why didn't I stop her from carrying out this crazy plan? What was I thinking letting her go ahead with it? Was this the price of being a supportive mate? I should have been as stubborn as Ivan, if both of us had held out long enough, maybe we would have been able to convince her to back out but even as I thought so, I didn't buy it."Javier, snap out of it," Ivan said, perfectly reading my emotions and train of thought, "She is still alive, this is not the time to freeze up. This is the time for action.""It's not safe to enter into the ritual circle yet, stay out of it for now," Bastien warned, a worried look on his face. "This is all your fault, you talked her into doing this," I said, grabbing Bastien by his shirt collar. "Mia is a grown woman, I didn't talk her into anything, I presented her options a

MIAWhy did it have to be a dead end of all possible places I had to run into? This was no doubt done by Rylee since as she had proudly boasted she was in complete control here.I had no other choice now, I had to fight. How exactly? I had no idea but I was not just going to stay there and allow myself to be mauled to death by this monster that was coming towards me with killer intent.Suddenly, the door directly opposite to the one I had entered was covered in a bright light and a woman stepped out of it moving faster than a speeding bullet, she got to the wolf just before it could use its claws on me, laid one hand on its back and it shattered into a million specks.Just like that, the big menacing monster was reduced to nothing in mere seconds. I had to blink to avoid getting eye damage from the brightness of the light that had just come out of nowhere, it was still shining and had only just begun to dim.I squinted and brought down my right hand that was guarding my face and took