Chapter Thirty OneNaomi couldn’t sleep.She had spent almost an hour tossing, turning and rearranging her pillow but to no avail.She considered watching a comedy to help with the sadness she was feeling but she wasn’t up for that.She loved romantic comedies. But it didn’t seem like the best time to watch a lovey dovey couple work through their issues and run into each other’s arms for an emotional happy ever after.She would probably scowl, boo and toss popcorn at the TV screen.She loved love and didn’t want that to change.In the past, she had never been too convinced about that soulmate stuff. Yes, there was someone out there for everyone. But if that didn’t work out, you could move on and fall in love as many times as you needed to until it felt right.Now, the soulmate stuff was starting to make sense and that was because of Daykan’s arrival into her life.It felt magical when she was with him. It was disheartening that after what had happened tonight, the fairytale scales h

Chapter Thirty ThreeDaykan was walking to the Council’s meeting room. It was more of a hall but a small one compared to where they held their general packs’ meetings.It was where the Council sat to determine issues that affected the collective interests of all the packs within the estate; Daykan was obviously one of those issues.Individuals were rarely ever summoned to such meetings and never for a fight between members of the same pack. It would have been slightly different if the parties were from different packs. But then, the Alphas of the affected packs could sit together and discuss. There wouldn’t necessarily be any need for a Council gathering; unless all the packs had been involved in the fight. He could imagine that; it would be a bloody melee.So dealing with little ol’ him was equivalent to a bloody melee between the five packs; the story of his life.Perhaps he had always been looking at this the wrong way. He should have ditched the negative outlook a while ago and

Chapter Thirty Five“Pop, are you sure we should be out here by this time?” Paul Caddie tried to keep the quiver of fear out of his voice.He mistakenly stepped on a twig and jumped at the unexpected sound of it breaking.His jump caused him to trip and bump into his father, who was a few steps in front of him.Paul stumbled back with an apologetic look on his young face. “I’m sorry Pop.”Simon Caddie turned around and barely managed to keep a lid on his irritation. “For God’s sake Paul! You’re a twenty one year old man and you need to start acting like one. So stop fidgeting like a damn schoolgirl and stay in one place before I accidentally shoot you. You’re annoying the shit out of me!”“I’m sorry Pop. I’m just a little nervous. I was wondering if we should be out here by this time. How about we come back when it’s less creepy?” Paul swallowed nervously. An owl hooted nearby and he barely managed to hold back a squeal of surprise. Any more irritating sounds out of him and his dad

Chapter Thirty SevenDaykan felt lightness in his chest.He didn’t shift his gaze from Naomi as he walked towards her and Louis.He was so happy to see her. He had missed her so much.For a second, he forgot what was going on between them and toyed with the idea of drawing her into his embrace.But he instantly remembered when he reached them and she flashed a small polite smile.It was not the grin or bright smile she had usually greeted him with in the past.“Hi Naomi,” He said softly.“Hi Daykan,” She replied in a similar tone.“Hi boss,” Louis flashed a friendly grin at Daykan.“Louis,” Daykan nodded at him and briefly glanced in his direction.But he immediately swung his gaze back to Naomi.“You haven’t been here in a couple of days.” Daykan said gently. “I’m glad to see that you’re back. I thought that you had moved on because you were finally done with my gym.”Like the way you’re done with me, he finished silently.After Naomi hadn’t shown up for the next three days after the