Mila’s P.O.V.It had been the longest three days of my life, but I knew that tomorrow Damon would be home, and all would be well again. Ebony had kept me close, as promised to Damon, I was barely out of her sight for more than an hour and she had kept me very busy, which I was secretly grateful for. She had decided to embrace the fact she had no wolf, but still keen to be a healer of the pack. We spent hours and hours going over old books of witches, and earth healers, going from page to page in the spell book that Alpha Marcus had once used to heal me, she wanted to understand more about the old witches and their magic, whether it was something you were born with or something you could learn. “Ebony, we have been reading the same book now for hours! I really don’t think you will get much more out of it than you already have”. I teased her, she was so focused, and it was a pleasure to see her immerse herself into something after all her heartache over being human. “Oh, I’m sorry Mila,
Mila’s P.O.V.It had been days since Demetri kidnapped me, I wasn’t sure if anyone would even still be looking for me or if they just accepted that I was gone now. Everyday Demetri came to visit me, he would bring food and water, and every day I refused. I was growing weaker, I could feel it inside me ‘we can do this Mila, we are not giving up. Not now. We just have to stay strong, think of a plan!’ it was Tae, she had been trying to reach me for days now, but like the food, I never spoke back. Instead, I sat there in silence, staring at a wall behind me. Never moving, barely even breathing at times. I wanted nothing more than to shrivel away into nothing. The emptiness I felt in my chest without Damon, it has been 8 days since I saw him last… I ached for him. I knew I would die here. The thought of it was horrific, not the death. I knew the moon goddess would take care of me, but for Damon, if the pain didn’t kill him, it would likely send him feral. Perhaps the moon goddess would sh
Jett’s P.O.V. She was a vision, the image of her mother! Demetri had done well, for once in his life. Although he would be nothing without Narcia, that stupid witch believes she is so madly in love with me that she would do anything to help us. I will play along for as long as necessary, for as long as she is useful. I do not often have use for women, Talia was an exception, she was everything to me. I could have given her so much more than that oaf Zachias! He was never good enough to be Alpha, I knew it from the start. But I kept him sweet, long enough for him to trust me so completely he could not see my desire to take his wife from him, and I did. She was mine, I had her where I wanted her. She would have learned to love me eventually, if she did not resist me so much! She could have been in ecstasy, I remember that day like it was yesterday. “Ah, Mila, how rude of me, I’ve been watching you grow for so long now, I had all but forgotten you don’t likely recognize me anymore.. my n
Damon’s P.O.V.Day 9. With every passing day, I grew weaker, I lost a little hope each time the sun set without Mila by my side, but it seemed like I was the only one. No one else had lost hope, every morning they would check in with any piece of information they had, they were clinging on to every detail. “What is the point anymore?!” the room fell silent. “Why are we even doing this, we have nothing! She could be anywhere, anywhere at all in the world and we would never know! Why are we even bothering with this false hope anymore” I broke down. I was trying to accept that she was gone, and my heart ached. “Damon, there is no such thing as false hope. Hope is all we have. And while ever there is those of us who love her, and want her back, then we will never give up hope. And I am ashamed of you. You of all people. Who never once left her side, when you were 7 she went to spend the week with her grandparents, and you followed her the whole way and slept outside their garden, 8 years
Damon’s P.O.V. It was Mila. I just knew it, I could feel her. She was in pain, Axel was howling for us to hurry and find her, he felt it too. In the vision I had, I saw a stream and a nearby mountain. Not much to go on usually, but I knew these lands, I knew the borders and I definitely knew that mountain! It was in the heart of Alpha Fangar’s territory, along the stream it bordered with our own but it was so far out we never suspected to look that far away for anything to do with the strangers. If only I had realized, she might be here with me now instead of me racing to find her alive. “Damon! Are you quite sure about this? You are certain its not just your desperation to find her?” My father was worried, I knew he wanted Mila back just as much as I did but I also knew he was wary of starting unfounded wars with neighboring packs. “I know it father, I know what I saw. It was her, she was trying to reach out to me, to make me see, to make me feel!” I had never been more sure of anyt
Narcia’s P.O.V.It worked! I couldn’t believe that it actually worked, I knew the best chance we would have would be if I was to temporarily disable the barrier but even then I was skeptical. I could see Mila’s pack making their way over the river, there were hundreds of them, surely Jett wouldn’t be so stupid as to think he could win over a pack this size. I had better hide too, they know that witch magic was used against them for a time, they had no way of knowing that I now wanted to help. They would kill me on site for sure.All around me members of Jett’s pack gathered, stalking the newcomers, waiting patiently for the opportunity to ambush them. They split off into teams of three, smart move. There were ten times of them compared to Jett’s pack. These wolves wouldn’t stand a chance, but they were just defending a person they believed to be their Alpha if only they knew the truth. One wolf with the forward pack intrigued me, I couldn’t put my finger on why. But he stopped moving…
Damon’s P.O.V.Ambushed. We never saw it coming. Chris could tell something wasn’t right, he had a great instinct for that, and if he hadn’t have warned us, we might all already be dead. I must thank him for that later. He took his place in front of me, my father and Talia and ushered us to retreat, I didn’t want to leave him, but I could feel her. I knew she was close and I had to find her. I took off in the opposite direction, back towards the cliffs where the river crossed the caves. ‘Damon.. Damon where are you?’ I could hear Mila in the mind link again, that barrier that surrounded us before had now gone… what had happened? I didn’t care I just needed to find Mila. ‘Mila! I’m here, I’m here!’ I ran into a clearing, as the trees began to disappear, Mila came into view, and she was cornered by Alpha Fangar!We shifted back to human form, and ran towards Mila and Fangar, they too were in human form, and she was protecting another young girl I did not recognize. “FANGAR! STEP. AWAY.
Ebony’s P.O.V.Tonight was a full moon, ironic really. I would have laughed if it hadn’t been so cruel. Mila would have laughed at the irony. I had never seen Damon look so broken, his whole world had been shattered in just a few short days. He lost hope, allowed himself to hope again only to have Mila ripped away from him once again. Ezra had been clinging on to me and Narcia most of the evening, she was distraught, Mila had been the one to show her how life was meant to be, to give her hope. She, of course, would be welcomed in to the pack, along with Narcia, while Damon was swallowed by his grief we took the opportunity to talk to Ezra and Narcia about what had happened, it took a little longer for Narcia to convince Alpha Marcus and Talia that she regretted her actions most whole heartedly, but once we learned that she was Chris’ mate, there wasn’t much left to say. They were so happy to have each other, and their love was overshadowed by their sorrow. Mila had found a way to brin