Bernardo “I am not just another alpha. I am king. I am royalty,” I growled. “Just because you are royalty doesn’t make you any more than the rest of us alphas, have some respect, Bernardo” He warned. Not the one who is trying to steal my woman asking me to respect him, where was the respect when he brought a woman who already carried the mark of her mate to his pack? He wasn’t the one to be talking about respect and I wasn’t leaving until Harlyn came with me. She belongs to Crimson Moon and even though she doesn't feel welcomed now, I had plans of making her the most respected woman in the kingdom. “Have some respect? You are trying to steal my woman,” I fired at him. “No, I am not trying to steal your woman, I saved her, know the difference,” He responded. That got me and I unclenched my fist and sat up. “Save her? From who?” I asked, I was never one to fear but with Harlyn I have become a little weak, resulting in the fear. Here I was, mad at Hillan but what I hadn’t done
Bernardo “I came to take you back home with me,”I told her. her expression softened for a moment but then it went hard again. She looked at me in disbelief.“Why would you do that?”She asked. “Because you belong in Crimson Moon, Harlyn. Your place is by my side, always,”I told her. She shook her head.“I am not coming with you,”She declared, not meeting my gaze.“Harlyn,”I whispered, I understood her not wanting to come with me after the way I treated her but I couldn’t go back without her.“I don’t want to be a member of your pack anymore, you guys treat people like me like shit over there, meanwhile in this pack, everyone is treated equally and with respect. No one cares that I have no wolf. They still treat me like a pack mate even though I have been here for a week at most, I feel safe here,”I felt sick, not just me, my wolf felt sick too hearing our woman declaring that she doesn’t want to be with us. I was at fault. I knew I shouldn’t be doing it at the moment because i
Harlyn I couldn’t believe Bernardo was standing in front of me. Neither could I believe that he came because he wanted me back and what was even more crazy about the whole thing was that I wasn’t going crazy after all. The crazy man found a way to get in my head. All the times I thought I was hallucinating; it had been him. He somehow, I don’t know how but he got into my head. I tried to push him out and it worked. But I could tell that it was only going to work for a short while. I didn’t know what he did to me. “Why can you hear my thoughts?”I fired at him. He tried to come near me again but I raised my hands up to stop him. I didn’t want him near me because I was scared that I might give in if he touched me. I already made a fool of myself by being worried for him when Hillan had hit him. I should have let Hillan throw him out. Instead, I let him leave us to talk. I had nothing to say to Bernardo. “But you wanted him to come back,”My wolf chirped. She didn’t even hold a grudge
Harlyn“I can’t. I know I hurt you deeply and I don’t have a right to be here asking you to come back with me but I can’t leave this place without you. The Crimson Moon doesn’t feel the same without you. You are the one for me, Harlyn, please take me back,” “I don’t want to. Bernardo. You don’t get to come back now and ask me to come back with you or take you back. you had me freely and chose to let me go. Sucks for you,” I said as I put some distance between us. I was done talking to him. if I keep standing here and listening to him, I might give in. I couldn’t do that.“Harlyn, please,”I shook my head. Just as Hillan walked back into the living room. I turned to him for rescue. “I don’t want him here,”I told him and he nodded. I ran upstairs to my room and closed the door behind me with a loud bang. I rested my body against the door, my heart beating so fast and my wolf scowling because I didn’t take Bernardo back. I couldn’t lie to myself anymore. I wanted to take him back. I
Bernardo The drive to the hotel where I was to stay until I could get Harlyn back with me was hell of moody. I was in a foul mood and it was all of my own making. I kept reminding myself that this was all happening to me because I let it happen. I was to blame for everything. Did I really expect Harlyn to just accept me back? Of course, she wasn’t going to just take me back after how I treated her. I got in her head for a few minutes after I left Hillan’s mansion only to hear her stay the reason she didn’t want to take me back. She was scared. Scared that I might get tired of her and send her away again. I needed to find a way to make her know that I would never do something like that again. that it was a mistake I had no intention of repeating. I may have failed to win her back today but I will not give up like that. I am never going to give her up and I told Hillan just as much. Hillan was a better man than I thought. He was kind of understanding after he got over the initial shoc
Harlyn After Hillan left me, I sort of went to lay on my bed and tried to avoid thinking as much as I could now that I knew Bernardo could get in my head whenever he wanted and it was crazy. I couldn’t even think for fear that he might be listening in on my thoughts. It was invasive and even more annoying because I couldn't do it back, maybe if I could then I would know if he meant everything that he had been saying to me. He did say I could when I marked him back but I didn’t want to fall for his trap. We will have to have sex for me to be able to mark him so what if he was doing everything because he wants to screw me for the last time to get me out of his system?I waited for him to say something. To hear his voice but there was nothing. I couldn’t feel him in my head. He may have listened to me and actually stopped trying to get in my head. I did push him out even though I didn’t know how I did it. Hillan asked me to give it a thought and give him a chance but I wasn’t so sure I
Harlyn“That’s the whole point, there was supposed to be something here and now there is nothing, you did it,” She let out turning away from me again and talking to my mirror.“JULIA!”I was forced to yell. She turned to me with the biggest smile ever. “I knew you were special. from the moment I saw you. I knew you were special. I can’t believe Bernardo thought it was okay to throw someone like you out. he must have been out of his mind,”She said, yeah, even Bernardo had said he had been out of his mind when he did what he did. “Now you are scaring me. What did I do? Why am I special? I don’t see myself as special though. Maybe weird but definitely not special. Special would be me having some kind of powers but I don’t have any power. I am stuck here without a wolf. sorry, I have a wolf, she just doesn’t want to surface,”I pointed out.“That’s what I am trying to say, baby, you got special powers.”Julia said. I shook my head, clearly, the alcohol that she had taken at the party
Harlyn I couldn’t believe it. I kept looking at my head and looking back at Julia who was staring at me with an ‘I told you so’ expression. It wasn’t me. I didn’t feel anything. If I was the one that did, I should have felt something. How would I be a healer and not know? “It’s not me,”I finally said after a long moment of just staring at my hand. Julia shook her head. “It is you. Harlyn. You are gifted. You are a rare wolf and a special kind. There aren’t many healers in packs around the world. Wow. I never thought I would meet a young healer,”Julia said in awe. I shook my head still because it just didn’t make any sense to me. Why didn’t I know this? Why haven’t I been able to heal anyone before? “You don’t understand, it can’t be me. maybe you really have fast healing powers. I am not gifted in any way. Why would I be a healer without knowing? Without a wolf who can surface?”I asked, throwing my hands in the air. “You don’t know until you do something extraordinary like you