Phoenix Hart’s POV:
My pack was going crazy about this whole situation. Savia’s body was left at the Wailing River for the Wailing Brides to collect. The issue left was regarding Tanner and me.
“You should have been the first to call for his jail time,” Iris had finally found a proper time to make me look bad in front of my family. We all have gathered around in the living room to discuss this matter and try resolving it without anyone breaking any rules.
“Markus is not looking good, he just wants to spill blood,” Zion came out of Markus’ room and sat down with Iris, who had already started spreading venom.
“It is an unfortunate event. Who would have thought my daughter’s arrival back in the pack would get scarred like this!” father let out a sigh as he passed me a weak smile. I know it shouldn’t have been about me and rather about Savia, but as a father, he had seen me sit silently in the corner my entire life. He was upset that the only time I got my moment to shine, it was replaced with a sad and a disastrous day.
“Well, if only she hadn’t said yes to her mate, he wouldn’t be wandering on our grounds,” Iris whispered again, she was the most vocal one when it came to Omegas being treated badly yet here she was taking over my Alpha brother and shamelessly accusing me.
“What do you mean by that? Are you trying to say he came here to meet me and found Savia first?” I tilted my head, not afraid to glare at her.
“Phoenix! She is only trying to help,” Zion disapproved of my behavior towards his mate. Clearly, he must have shoved his fingers in his ears to not be able to hear the kind of remarks she passes on to me.
“This is what you call help? Her sentence started with me and ends with me,” I argued back as it was my right to do so.
“You really are not guilty at all? In cases like these, sisters would die thinking their mate hurt their brother and look at you. I can’t believe this,” Veronica, my own sister, was on their side. And why not? She had been jealous of me ever since I joined the warrior academy. She thought it would make me grab all the attention, and it did.
“All of you shut up!” my father suddenly raised his voice when nobody was backing off, “And you! Keep my daughter’s name out of your mouth. And if it is too hard, you can go back to your home for some time,” my father pointed a finger in Iris’ face, compelling her to let out a gasp in shock before he turned his attention to Veronica.
“Your sister is also going through a lot. Her mate has been accused of a horrifying act, do you think it is a picnic for her, do you want her to cry and that will comfort your heart?” he looked at Veronica and shook his head at her in disappointment, “She is the little one, you all should be concerned about her, not taunting and mocking her,” he ended his speech with a loud grunt.
I loved my father!
It seems like he was the only one who truly cared about me.
“Everything aside, what are we going to do now? The Alpha King will never bring his brother out and present him before us,” Zion staggered up on his feet with father to talk about the primary subject at hand.
“Of course, Tanner will have to come out once ---Phoenix rejects him,” F*cking Hassel Baine, I was wondering how long he was planning to stay silent and there he spoke up.
“I am not going to reject him without any investigation. I don’t believe in punishing anyone without hearing their side.” I was comfortably sitting in my chair, my posture straight, my chin up but my heart aching for Savia.
I could tell from the looks that they didn’t like seeing me this calm. They were expecting me to be all shaky and crying. I was not that girl anymore.
“Listen to her, she is still defenin---,” I had managed to piss off Zion this time. He was walking my way to point at me when we heard some commotion from the foyer.
“Tell your alpha who has arrived to have a word with him,” the loud, deep, and heavy voice with an aura of darkness belonged to the alpha King Aramis.
It took me by surprise because you could have informed him that his brother is being accused of a heinous crime?
We all rushed to the foyer and there he was, standing tall in an all-black suit. His eyes landed on my father and not long after, he tilted his face to look me in the eye.
“We are glad you are her---,” my brother started talking, but his words were cut off in the mid-sentence when the Alpha King grunted and slammed the center piece down on the floor.
“How dare you all!” he shouted while giving chills down everyone’s spine. I have never seen Alpha King Aramis this angry before, but I have heard that it is best to run away and hide when he is raging like a mad wolf, which he was right now.
“You all accused my brother of a crime he never committed,” he had some envelope in his hand that he was pointing at my father and others. I was able to recognize the seal on the envelope; I don’t remember my father sending him a letter.
“Alpha King Aramis! We welcome you to our pack,” My father cleared his throat, taking a step in his direction, “We have accused no one falsely. There was an eye witness---,” before my father could finish, Alpha King interrupted him.
“What witness? Was it her?” he suddenly stretched his arm out and pointed the envelope at me, “My brother was innocent and you all ganged up on him. Your daughter made sure she strikes him the worst way possible and she did.” the way he was talking while not breaking stare from my face had filled my body with goosebumps.
I noticed the weirdness in his speech. Why was he referring to his brother in the past tense?
And what strike, what did I do?
“I beg your pardon! My daughter is innocent.” My father reacted to his accusations. I looked around and found my family acting weird. They were stealing eyes from us.
“Really? So innocent that she sent me a letter demanding justice and rejecting my brother in the same breath? Is this how your new law works, because I don’t remember allowing you to make new rules, new laws,” he had a fit of weird anger filling his eyes, but his words were what got to me.
I sent him a letter?
I rejected Tanner!
When?
Before my father could even react to all this nonsense, my brother jumped in to have a word with the Alpha King.
“We have a witness. Your brother can’t hide from the law and justice shall---,” he was murmuring but didn’t dare finish his sentence when the Alpha king turned his attention to him.
“You cannot lay hand on my brother. You cannot find him anymore, even I can’t.” this time, there was no aggression in his tone, only a broken whimper.
I gulped at his choice of words. My body felt an icy wave freezing my feet and then he said it.
“My innocent brother ended his life after reading your Great Warrior’s rejection letter,” the announcement of the demise of Tanner got me into stepping back. The view in my sight turned blurry and I lost my balance.
Zion had taken me back to my room while the Alpha King was yelling and shouting at my father. This had turned into a whole mess.“I am fine now,” I held my brother’s hand, preventing him from pulling a blanket over me. I didn’t feel like lying down in the bed, I needed to be outside and hear what was going on.The mate bond broke after the death of Tanner yet I didn’t feel the pain of it, why?I know I have never loved Tanner and he knew that too, but I had accepted him as my mate then why didn’t I get aware of his demise?“You should stay here, he is very angry right now,” Veronica and Iris walked into the room after us as well.“Is nobody with dad outside?” I asked out of curiosity, if we were all here, who was with father?His guards wouldn’t be able to help him make decisions, why were we hiding and my dad was facing all the wrath?“I am going outside,” I jumped out of the bed while ignoring the eye roll from Iris and exited the room to meet my father in the foyer. Zion had rushed
I had my eyes on my father, waiting for him to make a decision. As for me, I wasn't ready to sacrifice myself because they have made a mistake so I shouldn’t be the one to pay the price.I understand that my pack was in danger but giving up myself wasn't the right thing to do either.However, my siblings felt otherwise and it hurt me the most."I'm ashamed of you all!" my father finally stated loudly enough for them to know he wasn't pleased with them, "It's a shame that you are suggesting we send our virgin daughter, sister, the daughter of the pack to this man's mansion, who will be preparing the worst tortures for my daughter once he gets his hands on her. So, my decision is that we fight for the safety of our daughters," My father announced determinedly but he didn't receive the cheer he was probably expecting."Everybody prepare for the worst, then," Zion announced with a lack of energy, hands tied behind his back, and followed his mate to the room. After the living room was lef
I have watched my father’s dead body being taken away by the wailing brides. Many pack members mourned that day, but it was marked as the darkest day for me.The only one who had always defended me and shielded me from greedy eyes was now gone. I was left in the hands of these brutal people, who hadn’t stopped accusing me of my father’s death this whole time. I didn’t get any consolation from anyone, they all avoided me like I was a disease.I have returned to the pack house mansion just a minute ago when I heard someone calling for me.“What happened today was terrible,” Zion was standing in the middle of his people and in front of the empty chair that belonged to my father once.The big tears in my eyes wet my eyelashes, I blinked them away and refused to sit down.“My father was a great warrior; he was a great Alpha of the pack. He had maintained alliances with the other packs and always kept us safe but his one mistake cost him his life.” As he finished, everybody turned their hea
My heart seemed to have jumped out of my throat when my eyes spotted the present standing before my door. It wasn’t Zion anymore, he couldn’t be.He had tears in his eyes so it has to be someone else. My siblings were standing behind him with a sad glister glooming in their eyes.“We never thought we have weakened you so much.” Veronica filled her face in her hands and sobbed whilst Hassel turned his face to the other side.“I shouldn’t have blamed you for all that,” Markus stepped ahead and filled me in his arms. I broke down instantly as I recalled my father.He would have been so happy to see us all together. I felt Zion and Veronica wrapping us in a group hug too. Even though Iris and Hassel were not happy, it didn’t matter anymore. My siblings have realized their mistakes and that’s all that mattered to me.“Now! Let’s stand together like a wall and see who can steal our sister from us,” Zion broke the hug and announced as he secretly wiped the tears clean and acted tough.“I lov
Things were bound to change after my family horribly betrayed me. I was poisoned with so much love that I couldn’t even feel the bitterness in the alcohol while chugging it down.They were aware of my doubt in the loyalty of others, hence they used my desire to be accepted and loved by them against me and disguised as a loving family just to kill my wolf.I didn’t only lose Nix that night, I was no longer able to carry the title of the Warrior among the powerful creatures because I was not a supernatural creature anymore.I was a mere flesh and bone creature called a human now, ready to be sacrificed by her family.I woke up not in my comfortable bed but on a hard ground. The hard light was penetrating my eyelids, shaking me awake at the arrival of the day after the horrible night was passed.“Uh!” I groaned in pain when moving a muscle, my body was sore. Being just a human was a terrible feeling, I felt weak, and hard to wake up.I still managed to peel my eyelids open when I smelt t
My heart began to pound in my head, my body feeling an icy wave stabbing my skin like tiny little needles. The goosebumps covered my skin as I pushed my body into the corner and far away from the coffin.My mind couldn’t stop making up queries about what was this and why was it here?What was I seeing? Why was there a dead body of my mate preserved in a coffin? Why wasn’t his body handed over to the wailing brides?This wasn’t good for so many reasons. Not only would I be tortured watching him sleeping for eternity but the wailing brides will never let the Alpha King Aramis keep Tanner’s body.I was startled and shaken up badly, tears were streaming down my eyes as I forgot to blink. I couldn’t bring myself to go near the coffin and see his face from close. Sliding against the wall, I embraced my knees, pulling my legs closed and my knees to my chest. I could see the hole that silver dagger had left in his chest that he had stabbed himself with before jumping off the window.There w
“Morgana! Will you shut up for a minute?” I have been hearing the two talk for the last few minutes after Aramis left. I was told to get ready for something special he had planned for me.In those few minutes, I figured out that Jocelina was the mother of this girl Morgana, who was pretty bratty but whenever she was in front of Aramis, she wouldn’t stop being all cute and naïve but even her tone changed when he wasn’t around.“Where is he taking her? ask him,” she nagged her mother again, it had been going on for the last few minutes. I wondered how her mother was able to tolerate her because I would have snapped at her.“Morgana!” Jocelina grunted, watching me come out of my room in black cargo pants and a black top. I was asked to braid my hair and that kind of reminded me of my training sessions. We were advised to always keep our hair tied if we are going for a battle or even a simple fight.“All set? I will escort you to the Alpha King’s car now,” the smile of confidence on Jocel
I lay there waiting for his hand to land on me. When it didn’t end up happening, I opened my eyes and looked around to see Aramis holding the Blue Viper’s hand in the cage.The Viper grunted, raising his other hand to probably hit Aramis. When he looked into the eyes of Aramis, he stepped back out of fear. If Aramis was able to scare away such a villainous creature then it was clear that he was as powerful as the stories being told about his heroic actions.He then proceeded to bend over me and lift me up in his arms. His muscles were strong and big, his skin was warm and comforting.Although I no longer had my wolf, I was weirdly feeling him too much. He walked me out of there and sat me up in his car. He didn’t care what they say behind his back for interrupting a cage fight. He was the Alpha King; he was not going to answer anyone.“Back to the mansion,” he ordered the driver, who nodded his head and hit the road. I was barely sitting in the seat, feeling this excruciating pain thr