Chapter: 77. Unwanted GuestLiberty povUnsure what to believe, I fall into some sort of catatonic state. The mate bond was severely weakened but I think I can still sense it, indicating that Maverick is still alive. But the King has issued a mourning period to mourn Mavericks death. York was broken due to losing his best friend. My heart and mind are not on the seem page. I need Maverick to be alive, I can not and will not live without him. But it seems impossible that he is still alive. But even Naveah no longer knows what to believe.As the academic year was almost over and most of the events before the start of the holiday were ceremonial events which got cancelled due to the mourning period, the holiday started early. Madeline and I travelled back to Howling Moon together. “I can’t believe he is dead,” she says just before we split to our homes. “Me neither, a part of me feels he’s still alive,” I admit. “Maybe his spirit surrounds you? As his body hasn’t been retrieved yet his soul knows no rest,” she o
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Chapter: 76. DenialLiberty pov/Can you still feel him?/ I ask Naveah. I need her to confirm that Maverick is still here. Losing him… I don’t want to think about it./I can feel him, but the bond is weak,/ Naveah sounds pensive and I get the distinct feeling that she’s keeping something from me. /Naveah, what are you keeping from me? I have the right to know. I need to know,/ I plead with her trying to persuade her to tell me what she thinks. /I can’t say, it’s just a hunch. If I find evidence I’ll tell you. Promise./ She then retreats to the back of my mind. I let out a frustrated huff. I check the time, still another hour before my alarm goes. Closing my eyes I focus on sending love and faith through the bond. I don’t know if it works or if Maverick can feel it but it’s all I can do now. I’ve promised to wait for him. To have faith in him that he would return to me. Somehow I manage to doze off again because my alarm wakes me up. I don’t feel a gaping hole in my heart so I assume Maverick is still
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Chapter: 75. RestlessLiberty povI watch Maverick walk away. Tears running down my face. We spent almost the entire academic year as friends with benefits, girlfriend and boyfriend when we could have been mates. There were so many moments in time where I truly believed him to be my mate but was too scared to stop taking the tincture so that I would really know. But I didn’t and neither did he. We both suspected we were mates but couldn’t accept the possibility we weren’t mates so we hid behind the fake safety of the tincture. Now we’re marked and mated for a small week and that might be all the time we had. Events from my previous life aren’t guaranteed to happen again and there’s significant changes in this life. Me having a different mate being a very big one. /Being mated might also be the reason he returns this time. The timing is different and he is marked by his fated mate,/ Naveah tries to give me a more positive perspective. /I know but I have a bad feeling about this,/ I sigh.“Come, let’s g
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Chapter: 74. GoodbyeMaverick povOver the past week I’ve prepared for this. I’ve visited Olwyn and she helped me with everything I need. Liberty didn’t ask for an explanation when I asked her to not tell anyone we’re mates. She nodded in understanding. Our marks are low on the neck so they are easily hidden from sight. Hours I have spent sitting hunched over maps crafting the plans alone. I have not shared my plans with anyone this time. Just like before Liberty pressured me to be careful and vigilant. Through the bond I can feel her worry and nervousness for me and the mission. Realising that my plan can easily go sideways and this might be our last week together we sleep together every night. To my happy surprise no one has informed the administration, or the administration has not bothered to reprimand us and put an end to it. We might have going for us that we have been close all year and we’re both doing really well in classes. I look at Liberty. Her face is peaceful and I can see the light frec
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Chapter: 73. MateLibertyThe scar on my neck from the noose I used to hang myself tingeled when I stepped over the threshold. My eyes immediately went to the hunched figure behind the bar. She is oddly familiar but I can not lay my finger on it. I did however immediately relax. However this is we can trust her to keep us safe. She introduced herself as Morgan and pointed us to separate tables. Morgan is definitely not the name I know her by. The Silent Night Hawk is unnaturally quiet for the number of people that are present. No one looks up and even in passing you can not make out a word that is being said. Morgan has put up some strong spells. Stuart, Madeline, Martin and I had a good dinner and talked about goddess knows what. All I know is that the evening sped by. Before I knew it Cassius and Maverick stood up. We paid at the bar and left. I’m anxious to know what Maverick and Cassius discussed. But Maverick is silent. In silence we’re on our way back to Black Forest. The atmosphere is tense.
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Chapter: 72. CassiusMaverickBy being loose lipped Madeline and Martin signed my death sentence. Tonight the four of us will be walking into a death trap. At least based on my encounter with Cassius it will be him I’ll be meeting tomorrow. There is no way he will let me walk away. I can’t bring an army or even a battalion. It pains me that I will be responsible for the deaths of Liberty, Madeline and Martin as well. Their only chance is if Cassius takes them in. Previously it was just me who died. The men I brought with me were sent back to my fathers punishment. Cassius knows all too well what my father does with warriors who disappoint him. Now Cassius won’t be gaining men but he will kill me. Maybe not straight away at the inn but as soon as we set a foot outside we’re fair game. Somehow I feel resolved about the matter. Yesterday after breakfast I was angry. Then I panicked for Liberty. Now I’ve reconciled with the fact that I ruined my second chance. My only hope is that I’ll be let into the un
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Chapter: 66. Together (Epilogue Zared)Zared pov In my wildest dreams I hadn’t imagined how much and how hard work it would be to be Alpha King and father. Dysnomia demanded I also played a very active part in raising Derora and Arathorn. I was clueless how to be a ‘good father’. I only saw my father at dinner and then I was supposed to be quiet. Only when I turned 15 and my wolf was less than a year away did he start spending time with me. Grooming me to be his perfect successor. His lessons in fighting were brutal. He didn’t hold in his punches because if I found myself in a situation the opponent wouldn’t hold back either. I learned to duck and evade first. Once I had Gunther I gained strength. When I learned I could trust on Gunther's speed and experience I started throwing punches at him. So when Dysnomia handed me a very stinky Derora with an overflowing poop diaper with the words “I already had two of these today, this one is yours,” I was beyond clueless. “Goddess please help me with strength and wisdom. It’s
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Chapter: 65. Never had I ever (Epilogue Dysnomia)Dysnomia “Neptunes nipples,” I mutter to myself. I really want to finish this blanket before Derora gives birth. But the light is too dim for my poor eyesight. “Getting older is a curse. I can’t crochet for hours, my back hurts and my fingers are more crooked than the twigs of a serpentine hazel.” “Talking to yourself again?” Zared rhetorically asks as he enters the room, “I think it’s cute that you do that nowadays. Talking, or more accurately muttering, to myself is one of the most irritating things of being older. I often do it without realising. It frequently leads to over sharing of information. Even though Zared is older than me he is in a far better shape. I continue muttering under my breath ignoring Zared. He walks over and switches on a special reading lamp lamp with a magnifying glass attached we got in the human realm a few months earlier. Before we came to this era of relative peace people didn’t get this old. When I shift, which is rare nowadays, Aminta no longer
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Chapter: 64. ClosureDysnomia pov The sun peeps in through a crack in the curtains. I turn my back to the window and pull the blanket over my head. Of course I knew that having sex on a very regular basis with Zared could get me pregnant again but I’d foolishly hoped that it would take years not months. A soft knock on the door that I can but don’t want to ignore announces Austra with Derora. I sit up and plaster a smile on my face. I know the smile will be genuine in a few seconds when she hands me my little girl. Austra walks in holding my squirming little cherub. Her brown eyes have tiny golden specks showing that she too has some dragon magic. “Mwa!” Derora happily shouts out. I’m still not sure if she is trying to say ‘Mine’ or ‘Mama’. The one perk of being pregnant is that I can stay in bed and cuddle with her whilst the rest of the world is already going through the motions. I get ready with Derora playing and babbling on the bed. Once downstairs I go to my office. Zared is out hunting rebel
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Chapter: 63. Regnum Lunae LupiDysnomia povToday Zared and I will be crowned Alpha King and Alpha Queen of ‘Regnum Lunae Lupi’. Over the past weeks we have planned this day and the future of our kingdom together. The planning has given us a common goal to work on and has significantly improved our relationship. There are still trust issues on both sides. Encouraged by Gunther and Aminta we spend time with just the three of us. Breanna, Bridget and Zared haven’t spoken since that fateful full moon. They don’t want to apologise to Zared and Zared doesn’t want to listen to their grievances. It is quite inconvenient to have the beta’s and the Alpha not communicating. That is the root cause of guilt issues on my side. I’m stuck between my mate and my best friends. They understand me and feel bad that they hurt Zared in such a way that it puts me in a difficult position with both Aminta and with Zared. But they don’t feel bad for Zared about it or the act itself. Zared on the other hand won’t admit that he deserved
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Chapter: 62. Bury the hatchetZared povI didn’t expect to sleep peacefully, I expected to lay awake, tossing and turning. My sack hurt too much, my head was a turmoil. Gunther tried his best to take away the pain but the incision was made with a silver knife. Thank the Goddess Breanna stitched it fairly neatly with a hot needle. It hurt just like the alcohol hurt. But Gunther said it will make the difference between losing my remaining testicle and maybe my life to an infection or being to live on. It will scar, silver almost always does. Even if the scars are invisible you feel them when the temperature changes or when the skin stretches. In my case I will be painfully reminded of this ordeal every time I get an erection as it will put tension on my sack. Which is at least once a day when I wake up with morning wood. The anger was indescribable. The betrayal Janus and Dysnomia committed still burns. I felt love and pride looking at the pup in Dysnimia’s arms. Gunther presented me visions of us being a happy fa
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Chapter: 61. AftermathDysnomia povMy arm hurts. After giving birth Aminta didn’t have enough in her to heal it. It was bone deep. I shudder at the idea that it wasn't my arm but Derora that received the full blow. Breanna and Bridget informed me they had dragged a barely resisting Zared to the dungeon. He is in the same cell that Ahriman occupied. When Breanna and Bridget mind link me again with the question if they can torture him I hesitate. He is my mate after all. Part of me can’t blame him for what he did. He has been trying so hard the last months to get in my good books to earn my forgiveness. There were even times when I thought I could leave the past behind me and find happiness with Zared. It would never be the all consuming love that I felt, no feel, for Janus but it could have been a good life for both of us. /No don’t torture him just yet. Let me think. I’m a mess right now,/ I answer them. Should I kill Zared for the attempted murder of the heir of our yet to be named Kingdom? “You thoug
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