EDEN POV“What do you mean you have no idea how you did that? You were literally choking the bitch while standing across the room. Only Grace and her squad are capable of doing that kind of thing.” Venice countered slapping her hand onto the table, her green eyes snapped wide at me from where she sat.“What else do you want me to say? I don’t know how I did that.” I responded with a shrug, my hands raised on my sides hoping that they would cut me some slack even once. We have been going up and down this road for the past hour, and Riftan had remained silent the entire time. I had no idea what was going through his mind, or how he took this whole thing, and his silence was killing me. “Eden, I think you need to start looking further inside you.” Grace countered in a smooth voice, a serious look plastered on her face. I heaved out a disturbed sigh and glanced at her. “What do I need to do?” “Tell me this…” She shifted in her seat until she was sitting at the edge of the seat. “What
Chapter 37EDEN POV“What do you mean you have no idea how you did that? You were literally choking the bitch while standing across the room.” My stomach plummeted at the words that were screamed from across the room. “You guys need to stop freaking out. I don’t think that was all my doing.” My voice shook towards the end as fought the tremor in my voice. “And you expect us to believe that? Eden… We saw you. That was all your doing. I was shocked at first because only Grace and her squad are capable of doing that kind of thing, but we saw you. Your are the one who did it.” Venice countered slapping her hand onto the table, her green eyes snapped wide at me from where she sat. I hated being on spotlight, and it seemed like that was what my life had come to these days. “What else do you want me to say? I don’t know how I did that.” I responded with a shrug, my hands raised on my sides hoping that they would cut me some slack even once. I had no idea where all of that power came from,
EDEN POVWhen he said somewhere far away, I didn’t presume that it included a boat ride off the UK and onto foreign lands, and another excruciatingly long but awesome ride with my head out of the sunroof singing to the songs played in the car. But man was it exuberant.I felt lighter on myself, the air felt fresher to breathe, and Riftan looked so carefree like the weight of the entire world had been lifted off his shoulders. “You still haven’t mentioned where we are going.” I accused settling down into my seat with a pout before folding my arms across my chest. It was weird how we seemed to have just clicked out of nowhere even though we didn't see eye to eye from the beginning. A part of me believed that it was all thanks to the mate bond, while the other believed firmly that this whole mesh Unga of destinies and bloody prophecies drew us closer. It was true that our fate was set on stone even before we breathed our first; yet I still hoped that somewhere deep within him, what he
EDEN POV“We can always turn around, you know? All you need is to say the word and we will go back to baking pies and cakes in our shop.” The voice came out smoother than cotton, comforting, considering the kind of dilemma I was in. I very much wished I would take her up on her word and do as she suggested but that meant putting everyone’s lives on the line, everyone… including the people who looked at me like I was some kind of a redeemer. My smile came out forced, and so was the breath that followed. “You know I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have the choice. There is no other way.” I responded before staring out the milky clouds below the metal craft. “That’s what he says. But you know there is a way out. There is always a way” Serena, my waiting maid, bodyguard, and one the most powerful warriors of Crescent Island Pack, argued as she dropped in front of me, a concerned look on her face. I wanted to believe her, desperately so. Because I was dying for a way out of this. But the t
EDEN POVI knew this dream too intimately. I knew how it played out from the beginning till the very end. And I knew that every time it haunted me, I very much wished it was but a bad dream. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. It was a recollection, a memory playing on the loop in my subconscious. A memory of that becursed night. Lifeless bodies around me, others in wolf form and others in human. Cries filled the night air while cinder and ash rained from the sky of blazing fire around us. The helplessness from watching my pack being massacred by a group of rogue wolves, wolves so powerful that no weapon penetrated their skin…Wolves with eyes blazing red like burning flares of hell fire.Warriors falling, one by one. Throats being ripped and torn in front of my very own eyes.My mother's lifeless body with her throat ripped out, my father wounded and howling over the body of her mate...the pain he never recovered from.And Kai... My favorite young cub with a crescent moon on his forehead, w
RIFTAN POVFor the past hour, I have been trapped between the land of the living and the realms of the dreams, my mind slipping to both sides at once. I was vaguely aware of the plump, smooth, and naked body pressed against my own, while soaring within plates of nightmares and solidified hell. I was thankful for clarity, when my mind mind fully slipped to reality, saving me from the hell of my mind. The sound of my phone vibrating from my nightstand was what woke me up entirely. I peeled my eyes off before rubbing a hand over my sleepy eyes, then stared to my side at a redhead who was rubbing her small body against mine. I stretched to the side for the phone but was stopped by Blair as she yanked my arm back and started raining kisses on it. “Why don’t you ignore it?” She purred before inching closer until her face was a breath from mine. I ignored her instead, pushing her face from mine, and then picked up the small device from the nightstand and stared at the caller. GAMMA wa
EDEN POVEverything was happening too fast… or maybe too slow, I had no idea. All I knew was that something was happening and everything else was making my blood run faster, my heart pump quicker, and my lungs work over time. It was overriding my system with what felt like a ball of fire and my mind was failing to have a firm seize on the whole situation.It was as though I was left grasping on the thinnest shards of a sanity and I was damn sure I was this close to losing it. Was I supposed to feel this way? Like I didn’t belong? Yes, I get it, this place was so foreign. My whole life, I have known the small island, and if I were to really think about it, I still didn’t belong there either. But now, everything felt different. With all these thoughts running amok in my mind, I rolled up the window and turned the ignition, before kicking off the side of the road and driving the remaining kilometers to the pack house. It had been a few minutes since I stopped for a quick pep-talk w
RIFTAN POVThis had to be a joke. It had to be one cruel joke. There was no way Eden Noles was my mate. I fucking didn’t do mates. This whole damn world knew I had no strength in me to abide by all the rules of the mate bond and whatever crap it came carrying on its back because… I fucking didn’t ask for this. Eden Noles was supposed to be a docile Luna who would sit on the throne with me and shield me from all the drama. Not a fucking…“Alpha…” The door to my office suddenly burst open, revealing Kylek who seemed even more rattled by my reaction.“Is Miss Noles…” He let the words trail to the background, but everything he wanted to say to me was written bolder than HOLLYWOOD on Mount Lee. “Kylek… She can’t be here. She has to go back. You know I can’t…”“Can't what, Alpha Hawk?” Ethan Noles stepped into the room, followed by none but one who was surely going to send me to an early grave. That silver hair, the one scent that seemed to fill the whole house… I wanted to sink my f