I declared my agreement with Clayton broken.I needed to get the evidence to implicate him.He is so careful; in covering his tracks, he is sneaky. I will give him that.He can't be too careful forever; he will slip one day, and then I will trap him.I am not so happy that he wants his mate to come back here; since she came here, there has never been peace at all.I wish she could stay there; I don't like that her presence upsets my mate, but since I promised to take care of my little brother and lay down my life for him when necessary, I have to do this for him.Hours passed since my friend asked me if everything was alright.I froze; I couldn't say anything to her.I have to properly construct a lie so that I won't expose myself unintentionally."When we got there, they were already prepared,One of the guards must have alerted them.""How did you manage to escape?""I threatened him; he had no choice but to let me go.""With what?""I held his wife hostage," he told her the half-tru
Stephan POVThe day has finally come, we are getting Miranda out. Her mate said that she agreed to show him where to follow to hide his identity.I have to make sure that security is tight in the pack before I leave so that my pack will not be invaded.I instructed my gamma on what to do to tighten the security and how to make sure that he covers everything if I don't come back immediately.I had to prepare for that; there is a possibility that we might not come back immediately.We are going to rely on Miranda, which is a stupid thing to do.I would rather fall down the bridge; at least there, you know the outcome.I am so glad that she doesn't know I will be joining him; that is an added advantage.We disguised ourselves in an unrecognizable way, making sure that no one knew who we were.Before we left, I had to see my mate and kiss her goodbye.I searched for her in the room, hoping I found her there. I was told by the maid that she had gone out a while ago, and I would
Clarissa's POVIt is wonderful that my mate came back safely to me.You might think that I am a bitter bitch, but honestly, I wish they had failed in bringing her back. I wish they had come back alone.Sometimes this mating bond doesn't work in people's favor; assuming Liam was not mated to that bitch, he would have seen how evil she is.They say love is blind, but this time around, a mating bond can make you blind too.He has been bothering my Alpha to assist him in getting the bane of my existence back.Well, they did; congratulations to them. I pretended that I was okay with it, while hiding my disdain.I wish I could confidently tell him to reject her. I know Liam; the guy is a fucking baby and so gullible.Whenever I tell them who she is, the baby will never agree that the chameleon is evil.There was a time when my mate was like this too, and now his eyes are open.The day they came back, the bitch walked in majestically, taunting me.From her body language, I knew she was mo
"What are you talking about, my love?"I don't understand."Why didn't you tell me about meeting my grandfather?""Why did you hide it? It is not a big deal; you should have told me." I queried.He looked shocked for a while and swallowed hard upon hearing me say it to him."Where did you hear that from? Who told you?" he growled."Don't you dare growl at me; it doesn't cover up the fact that you hid it from me, you asshole," I yelled."It was that shadow witch who told you, right? Answer me," he yelled.He doesn't have the right to yell at me; I was the one who he hid something from. If he is reacting like this to it, then what am I supposed to do about this? He promised me that he wouldn't hide anything from me, so he goes ahead and does this. "Babe, I did not have bad intentions for hiding it; I have good reasons for it.""Okay, what are they? Tell me one good reason why you covered this up."I didn't want to upset you, my love; I honestly didn't."Feeling his emotions, I noticed m
Clarissa's POVI have seen my mate angry, but never this angry; he looked terrifying. I am afraid of him right now, even though his anger was not directed at me.It was as if smoke was coming out of his ears; he looked like he wanted to strangle her and was controlling himself from doing it.He grabbed her by the collar and pushed her off gently.Miranda landed on the wall with force.Liam looked horrified. He ran to his friend to help her up. He assisted her, taking care to look her over and see if she sustained any injuries.Satisfied that she wasn't injured, he looked at my mate with disdain."You could have killed her. Control your anger, Stephan, Control yourself before you kill someone." My mate looked bothered; I could see he didn't mean to hurt her.I think it was the force of his power that came out like that."Liam, he didn't mean to; it was a mistake." I intervened."Stay out of it, Clarissa," he warned.I know better than to get in between two angry brothers. I wanted to
Stephan's POV I was in my office discussing with my gamma about war strategies; we have to prepare ourselves for war. It has been a month now since I broke off my alliance with Shadow Pack and told their alpha to prepare for war.He will do that because he knows that I meant every word I said.I have been trying to avoid my brother since that incident happened. I don't want any issues with him again. He is my little brother and my beta, and I will always love him.I need to give him space so that he can get his head out of his mate's ass.We were almost done with our discussion when my friend ran inside, interrupting us. She looked troubled and restless. I became alarmed to see her in this state. "My love, what happened? You look like you have seen a ghost.""It is about the guards you stationed outside the pack.""What about them? What happened?" "They were attacked by the rogues today; only one of them survived." I was shocked to hear that. I stood up abruptly, bre
Clarissa's POVMy mate looked terrified when the physician, shook her head.I thought he was dead the minute she shook her head."Alpha, the poison inside his bloodstream is too strong; we need to do something to get it out, or else he will die," Mia said to him."What do we do to get it out?""We should focus on how to get the blood out, through where he was stabbed with the poisoned claw so that he will still be alive till the guy I sent to bring the drugs for me comes back with it."Stephan looked at his brother's face as if he were weighing the pros and cons.He instructed her to go ahead and do the necessary things needed to keep him alive."I just hope it hasn't gotten to his heart, alpha," Mia said to him.She took out her surgical knife, sterilized it, and cut a little opening in the side of his ribs that was stabbed with the poisoned claw.Black blood oozed out from there; she did not try to stop it; she allowed it to flow till she had gotten everything out.H
Stephan's POVI was inside the room waiting for my mate to join me when I heard a thud. I felt a weird feeling in my gut.It was as if I were being stabbed because of the pain I felt.A chill went through my spine.I knew instantly that something must have happened to my mate; I felt her pain.I prodded her mind to know what happened to her, but I felt nothing. I can break through her barrier any time she has her wall up.I heard a thud, and before I could react, someone screamed.I was horrified when I sensed what happened and perceived her blood.I ran outside; it seemed like I flew to her.Getting there, I saw her on the floor; she was bleeding on her head.I froze seeing her lifeless on the floor. I have been through this countless times, yet the experiences did not make me get used to it.I checked her body to see if she was bleeding anywhere else, but I did not see anything except on her head.I touched her vein; she was still breathing.I needed to get her treated