"Are you regretting it?" I asked, looking around at this fancy-looking thing called a car that I completely forgot about."What?" Aramis broke the stare from the road when my voice was able to drag him out of whatever world he was still stuck in."You haven’t said a word ever since we got out of there. What is the matter? Are you having second thoughts?" I asked again since he was just blankly staring at the road again."No! Why would you think that? Do you have any idea how desperate I have been to see you once? You don’t even know how badly I wanted to see you and hug you. Just don’t say that again." He spoke so aggressively that for a moment, I kept staring at him in silence."Are you always that rude?" I asked and then let out a sigh, "If you are thinking you can be rude to me and I will just sit and listen to your tone, you are wrong," I looked outside the window, disappointed at how he had been acting ever since we jumped out of that land."Phoenix! It is not that. I am so sorry
"I am guilty of what I did," Zion murmured in his mouth once again. Aramis took Roman to his room to catch up with Evelyn, while I came straight to the living room to have a talk with Zion."Of course you are. You didn’t feel guilty because you realized how wrong you were or because you loved your little sister. You felt guilty because no one came to your aid in that war zone except that same little sister, whom you had abandoned. When you lost everyone else, you came back. That was guilt, but how is it going to help me? I lost the years of my life. I went through pain and agony that only I know. How did you expect a dying person to react to your constant apologies? I am sorry! But you are just like the others." I was pouring my heart out without a care in the world about how he would feel."He is genuinely sorry. There are people who will still not learn their lesson even after they experience bad karma. Zion is a changed person. He didn’t poison you, Phoenix. I am sure he messed up
"You are not happy to see me alive?" I asked Evelyn, a little late in realizing how inappropriate it was to ask a toddler that question."I am happy," she answered while sitting on my lap and looking down. She was frightened. I could feel her heart pounding against my palm from behind her back."Is there something scaring you?" I asked, and she jumped off my lap to walk over to her bed in silence. It was weird how my question triggered her."I am just very sleepy," she answered from afar, crawling into her bed to lie down. Aramis took Roman out for a walk so that I could spend some time with Evelyn. It was heartbreaking to see my daughter keep a distance from me."She never used to be so silent," a comment fell onto my ears. I raised my face to see Silver smiling at me from the door."Then what happened to her?" I asked, walking over to her and letting Evelyn rest as she had demanded.Silver looked hesitant in responding to me. The fidgeting of fingers and biting off her lower lip, th
"I cannot believe you are using my missing memory to escape this situation," I yelled at him for trying to be sneaky with me. I kept him in my heart all those years, trying to find a way to escape to meet him again while he was happily married here."Please, just calm down first." His request made me even angrier. Wanting me to calm down, as if my anger wasn’t justified."No! Why did I not tell my wolf to remember this memory? Why didn’t I tell her you had betrayed me? You must have done it when I died." I was not ready to take any lies from anyone. Just because I died and lost my memory doesn’t mean they can lie to me."He is not lying." Silver took his side. He kept her here and gave her shelter and respect. Obviously, she was on his side."I am not in the mood for any discussion anymore. I want to rest and be with my babies for now." Before I burned the mansion down, I let out a deep breath and calmed myself down. I needed to simmer down. Once I made myself clear about what I wante
Roman told me how Layla had been mistreating everyone after Aramis left. It bothered me greatly that the she-wolf to whom my mate had shown so much respect had turned against everything and everyone because she believed she was entitled to more.And then my son told me all about her actions, including her threats and evil behavior toward my babies.I was beyond enraged. My heart was pumping so much blood that I felt like the stream of blood would pour out of my nose and eyes."She had the nerve to think she could mistreat my babies and get away with it," I grunted angrily, making tight fists and getting on my feet to pay this bitch a visit.I marched out of the room and bolted to Layla’s room in anger. I was knocking angrily and tapping my foot on the floor. I was prepared and ready to throw my hands at her. Nobody gets to put their hands on my babies. She was scarring Evelyn by making her childhood a curse on her, and I was going to stop her.Layla opened the door, probably after mak
After the entire thing, the leaders sat with us in the living room. My brother and Silver arrived after informing Aramis of what happened. The kids were sent to the royal garden with the guards to play around while we discussed this serious matter."What is going on here?" Aramis entered the living room and gave a quick glance at everyone until his eyes landed on me and a sigh of relief escaped his lips."Are you okay?" he whispered from afar, but I turned my gaze away from him. It was all happening because of him. Why did he get her pregnant? Even if I did ask him to marry her for the babies. Why didn’t he wait for the babies to grow up a little?"We were asked to come here," Mrs. Heller didn’t like Aramis only paying attention to me, "You should also check up on your other mate," she said as she rolled her eyes at me."My other mate?" Aramis fixed his black coat and stretched his neck a little, "I have only one mate. The other was forced upon me." He didn’t hesitate to say it in fro
"But now she is pregnant, you have to give her respect," Mrs. Heller raised the same topic once again, and I sat back."But how? How is she pregnant when she has claimed to never be able to conceive again?" Aramis stood up and yelled at Layla, when talking to Mrs. Heller. Everybody was stunned once again, even me."She told us she could not conceive. This was the very reason Phoenix selected her for the babies, because she knew how a stepmother would prioritize her own kids. And our kids will suffer." Aramis was shaking his head and refusing to believe the news.I shared a glance with Silver, who had a frown on her forehead as if she was trying to solve this mystery.‘Something doesn’t seem right here,’ Nix mumbled. ‘You need to jog your memory. You must remember everything, Phoenix!’ She was right.Aramis would never cheat on me. So whatever happened when I was gone must have another side to it."I—I don’t know how it happened, but I think it is because of the alpha king. He is a po
After a little chat, I was left alone in the room to pack my stuff. Aramis didn’t ask me to leave the kids behind. I knew he wouldn’t do that to me."Hey!" I sensed Layla before she even spoke a word."I didn’t know you would want to leave so quickly." There was a hint of victory in her voice."I came back from the dead, Layla. Don’t try me," I turned to her and spoke confidently."Well, you had a family waiting for you. But now that you have heard the truth about your mate, I bet you are already regretting coming back here." She made sure she stayed out of the room when taunting me. She wasn’t as confident and fierce as she was trying to portray. "Since you are so confident, I’m leaving him behind. If you can make him fall for you, he is yours," I challenged her, too confident she could never make Aramis fall for her when I’m still alive. "Look at you. I feel bad for you, Phoenix. You couldn’t even hold your babies and watch them grow. Isn’t it sad that you were stripped of all tho