Blake’s POVI put my hands on Nora’s shoulders and shoved her hard enough to break the connection, the moment Gwen turned and walked away. Nora staggered backward, her eyes flying open in surprise and confusion. She stared at me with murmured shock. "What's wrong, Alpha Blake?" she said, her voice shaking.I stepped back, literally running a hand through my hair, my face a picture of frustration and internal conflict. "Nora, this just doesn't feel right," I told her, and my voice was taut. "I've got to understand what's really going on here."Nora's eyes flickered in an effort to understand my sudden change in mood. "Alpha Blake, I told you the truth. Lady Gwen is the one who's mistaken. You have to believe me." Her voice came out begging like she was desperate to take back the trust she felt slipping away.I shook my head, my eyes hardening. "I do believe you, Nora, I said.Nora felt panic rise in her chest. She had been so close to securing my unwavering support. She took a step clo
Gwen’s POVI was surprised to find Alpha Blake in my room and yet I still stormed in, banging the door. I ignored him, and walked past him, my posture rigid, trying to camouflage the whirl of emotions that were threatening to surface. Alpha Blake watched me, his face unreadable, as I stormed around the room in rigid movements that carried purpose, putting up a few items and tidying up as if his presence did not affect me."Gwen," Alpha Blake finally said, softer, but rather equally insistently.I didn't turn around, I focused on straightening some picture frames on my dresser. "What do you want, Alpha Blake?" I asked, my tone colder than I intended.Alpha Blake sighed, and the sound was heavy with an overlay of weariness. "We need to talk."I went on bustling around, though my movements turned a lot more agitated. "About what? I think we've said everything there is to say."Alpha Blake took a deep breath, his eyes meeting mine with a sincerity that threw me off guard. "I just want
Gwen's POV“Come on, Gwen! I said I am sorry!" He pleased following me around the room. I stopped by the sitting area and turned to him, I was still angry and pissed at him. “You didn't even ask me what happened, did you know how you looked at me?" I asked him. “That must have been unconscious and that is why I am pleading with you to not be angry at me. I'm sorry!" He said for the umpteenth time as I wasn't having it with him. “You always take her side and end up hurting me! You hurt me with your ‘best friend’ attitude with her! I am supposed to be your best friend!" I yelled, wrapped my arms around my chest angrily. The more I saw the picture, the angrier I got. He held my arm and looked at me but I didn't see his eyes. I noticed his eyes were filled with regret. “Gwen, can you just look at me and see my sincerity? I am truly sorry! I shouldn't have even hugged or taken sides with Nora! And I know I hurt you with that silly action, that was why I ran here immediately to apologiz
Gwen's POV I screamed, the sound shattering the stillness of the room as I felt Blake jolted awake beside me. “Gwen, what is it? Did you have a nightmare again?” He asked me with a thick deep voice of concern… and still sleepy. I didn't respond at once as my body was still trembling with fear, uncontrollably. I looked blankly ahead with terror, I had to brace myself to look around again and this time there was a creation or was it a figure? Anyway, the figure was gone I could still see the silhouettes of the figure in my head and it left this eerie feeling which was attached to his presence. The lamp by the bedside was switched on, flooding the room with its soft glow and reassuring light. Blake drew me closer to him as he followed my gaze. He also scanned the room with his eyes darting to every possible visible corner. I guess he was looking for any sign of danger because of my reaction. “Come on, Gwen! Tell me what the problem is! What happened?" He asked me again with a more u
Blake's POV I watched Gwen closely as she recounted what she had seen. She took a deep breath to steady her shaky breath before looking up to my gaze. She was really struggling and she could see the terror in her eyes“Blake, I… I saw something,” she started with a stammer, her body trembling uncontrollably. "I saw a creature. A figure! It was in the room, standing some feet away from the bed staring and watching us!” she explained to me as she pointed at the spot she had seen the figure who was a creature.Even though I had dismissed what she said as just stress which birthed all these, I couldn't deny the fear that laced every single word she spoke. She even moved away just because I refused to believe her but that's not true, I was just not ready to accept this!I knew for a fact that she wasn't lying in any way if making it up from some figment of her imagination. This was different from her once-usual nightmares. She believed what she saw and every word that processed out of h
Gwen’s POVThe next morning, I woke up to find out that the bed was empty, cool sheets being a blatant reminder that Alpha Blake was gone. A flicker of disappointment washed over me. I had hoped to wake up and have him right beside me, his presence a kind of comfort in the storm of emotions that swirled around us.I slowly sat up, stretched, and tried to wave away the remnants of sleep. The rows and tentative steps toward peace of the previous day replayed themselves in my mind. It felt like a fragile peace, one that could shatter with the slightest pressure. I couldn't help but wonder where Alpha Blake had gone so early in the morning.Probably off dealing more pack business, I thought, sighing softly. It was clear the responsibilities of leadership weighed heavily on him, yet what could I do? It didn't mean I couldn't feel the pang of loneliness, and uncertainty.I slipped out of bed, my bare feet striking the cold floor. I put a robe around me and padded over to the window. The su
Blake’s POVI and my Beta, Felix, walked in silence as we made our way through the dense forest leading to a cabin hidden far away from anyone else, the pack seer's cabin. The air was rife with anticipation, every rustle of leaves and snap of twigs beneath our feet just amplified that tension between us. My mind was a jumble of questions I hoped the seer could answer, questions that had been plaguing me ever since Gwen's revelation about Nora.Felix, feeling my internal conflict, finally broke the silence. "Alpha Blake, are you quite positive about this? You know the seer has never been one to give direct answers. Sometimes, her prophecies can be more confusing than enlightening.".I sighed, running a hand through my hair. "I know, Felix. But I need some clarity. Gwen's accusations against Nora have shaken me. I need to know the truth, and if anyone can give me a glimpse of it, it's the seer."Felix nodded, understanding the weight of my words. He, too, felt the unease that had set
Gwen’s POVBack and forth across my room, I paced, a jumbled mess of thoughts in my head. I had been desperately awaiting Alpha Blake's return, knowing that his visit to the seer could hold the key to understanding strange happenings within the pack. When one of the guards finally relayed that Alpha Blake had returned, I wasted no time. She rushed to Alpha Blake’s room, my heart was racing with hope and fear.The night was quiet with the moon shining brightly above, its rays a silver, glamour cast across the lands. I moved swiftly down corridors with my steps quick and determined. I needed to see Alpha Blake and hear what the seer had revealed. At his door, I did hesitate before knocking softly."Alpha Blake, it's Gwen. Can I come in?" I said, my voice barely audible.There was a slight pause before I heard Alpha Blake's tired voice from the other side. "Come in, Gwen."By the time I entered the room, Alpha Blake was undressing. His jacket was already off, and he was unbuttoning h
BLAKE'S POVThe fear in the eyes of the midwife made me want to rush to the delivery room and bring out my wife. At this point, I did not mind not having to have our baby for now. All I wanted was to have my wife back in one piece.“What…what's the problem? " What's going on?” I yelled at her, losing the last ounce of self-control I had left in me. The midwife instantly transformed with fear and my heart started beating fast. “She…uhm, Luna is having issues breathing, and she keeps crying even after the baby.” She said and my heart dropped. I instantly returned Nathan to her and ran into the delivery room when Gwen was screaming her head off.“Don't let her take me, Blake. " Don't let her take me, please.” She was crying and writhing in pain. So much that our mate bond began to hurt me as well. I rushed to her and held her hands, Then I noticed the midwife returning to the room with our baby in her hands and I got an idea.“Give me the baby,” I instructed the midwife and she passed h
GWEN’S POVAs the days got closer to my due date, my body felt the stress of carrying another life apart from the one that it was used to carrying. My back hurt, my knees hurt, my feet ached, and even my stomach wasn’t left out as the sensations in there felt very uncomfortable. My baby was kicking so hard that I was convinced he wanted to become a footballer or an athlete and was ready to get straight into the field once he was out in the world.Every night before I went to bed, I had to get a massage of my waist and my swollen legs because they just ached so badly. Even Blake had gotten to apologizing for making me go through all that I was going through because of his big-headed baby. I knew that pregnancy was supposed to be a glorious time and mine used to be but it was fast losing its sparkle and becoming a trying time.As if all of that wasn’t enough, the heartburn I was suffering had me staying away from foods I craved so much all because they set the heartburn off so much. So
GWEN’S POV“Bring the other box for me”I had been buying a lot of things in preparation for the baby’s arrival and I just knew that I was going too crazy with my purchases. The baby wasn’t here yet but if I didn’t want to buy any clothes for the next year, we were still going fo be alright.The box was brought to me and opened to reveal a blue jumper that looked like the best thing ever created in the world. We awwwed and ahhed at it before setting it aside to look at the contents of the next box.“Woah, I wasn’t informed that we were opening a supermarket in our room”I flew off the bed I was sitting on and into the arms of Blake, who was at the door as he had only just come in. It was lunchtime, so I wasn’t surprised to see him. We shared a kiss and then, I dragged him to bed with me to look through my purchases with me.“You got all these in blue? Why not pink?”Blake was adamant that we were going to be having a girl but I was still stuck on the hill that it was going to be a boy
GWEN’S POV“Trances are only a gateway between the past and the future. There is but a thin line which separates both time parts and the wielder of gifts should be careful to recognize that. Sometimes, the present may even get interwoven at certain points because of the emotional attachment of the wielded powers to events happening around. Trances may come as flashes in the eye of the mind and may be triggered by the five senses. The sense of touch and smell are the strongest triggers of this. Hence why a wielder should be careful what is touched because then the curtain may be shifted and what lays beyond glimpsed”I was so invested in the book I was reading that I didn’t even realize that the sun was now setting. I had picked up the book I took from Nora’s room which I had been unable to glance through for so long after lunch ane had been reading voraciously.From what I had read so far, I was coming to understand that the moon goddess had blessed me with a gift so rare that many eo
BLAKE’S POV“Could it be true?”Seated in my office alone, I pondered on the events of the previous day. I was over the moon that Gwen was now speaking to me after I explained that all the times Nora and I had met up had been for the baby we were expecting. She had been extremely skeptical and withdrew her belief in my explanations, not until my personal guards confirmed what I said.Embarrassed didn’t cut how I felt that Gwen couldn’t take my word for it but instead, had to rely on the words of my staff who served me. I understood why she wasn’t giving me her trust freely but that still didn’t take away the sting. When that case was resolved and I apologized for once again, making her feel like she was coming second in my life, I brought up the drawing.She had tried to deflect by apologizing about intending to move out but I quickly redirected her attention back to it because I knew I hadn’t hallucinated the slight sense of alarm in her voice when she asked me what I was doing with
BLAKE’S POV“So what do we do about it now?”The table broke out in murmurs as people spoke with themselves, trying to come up with a solution to the matter at hand. Things were spiraling out of control so fast that I worried if we didn’t do anything quickly, we were going to be at the mercy of our enemies.I knew that I wasn’t the only one who recognized that there was a bigger issue, far bigger than the one we were being faced with because it was clear that everyone at the table with me was worried. The meeting didn’t seem to be yielding any progress and we had been at it for a few hours already.“I’m not hearing any suggestions”When there were still no profitable suggestions more than 30 minutes later, I adjourned the meeting to two days later so that everyone had enough time to come up with something tangible that we could use to protect ourselves while we tried to understand what was going on with the strange breaking-ins we had been having around the pack.“How is she doing tod
GWEN’S POVMoving back and forth in the room, I slammed my clothes in the open suitcase on the bed, all the while muttering angrily to myself. He hadn’t even bothered to come after me, which just meant that he was okay with me leaving. He didn’t mind that I was about to walk away from our marriage and his life with our baby. Perhaps this was something I should have done a long time ago.So annoyed was I that I didn’t even bother to get everything that was mine in the drawers, deciding instead to come back for it when I was a bit more settled in where I was going to be staying till I finally left the pack as a whole. No, I had a change of mind. If I stayed, he was still going to have access to me. It was best I just left, so I could put everything behind me and start a new life altogether somewhere else.My suitcase beside me and a small messenger bag slung over my shoulder, I started making my way towards the door. I didn’t look at anyone as I walked out with the intention of leaving.
GWEN’S POVThe longer I stayed there holding my bleeding toe, the angrier I became. At a point, I turned around and started marching back toward the pack house, one destination in mind. Without thinking twice, I went straight to Blake’s room to wait for him.The fight I had been putting up to give him as much distance as I could was the last thing on my mind. I didn’t even remember that I was supposed to give him a hard time in having my attention. I just wanted to get to the bottom of the matter at hand once and for all so we all knew what was going on for goodness' sakeWhen I got there, as expected, he wasn’t there because he was too busy gallivanting the whole arena with Nora at his side. I slumped onto the chair there, full of restless energy. My foot tapping on the floor and my eyes trained on the door, I planned what I was going to say to him in my head.After what felt like centuries of waiting, the door finally opened and Blake walked in. When he did so, he stopped startled a
GWEN’S POV“Luna Gwen, can I ask a question?”I stopped sipping from the glass that held chilled orange juice that one of the maids had brought to me. I was seated outside on the patio, enjoying the afternoon as much as I could because being cooped up in my room was starting to take a toll on my mental health and making me feel cranky all the time. Snapping at others wasn’t my forte so I thought it best to have some fresh air.“You’ve already asked one but go ahead”Aurelia blushed and adjusted in her seat opposite me which I practically forced her into. She was adamant about remaining standing, as if she were some soldier on guard duty or something like that.“Why didn’t you confront Alpha Blake and Healer Nora when you saw them yesterday?”Her question brought back the annoying memory of the day before when I saw Blake and Nora sharing a moment or several moments together. I didn’t care to know what they were up to so I didn’t ask.“What good would have come of that?”My tone sounde