Alpha Ragnar’s POVBlaire doesn’t answer my question—not immediately. She’s just standing there, smiling at me, as if I should be happy she came back... when she should have never left in the first place.“Well?” I urged.Blaire shot off the desk and said, “I was out on a hunt.”I raised an eyebrow. “A hunt for what?”Blaire placed her hands behind her back as she catwalked towards me. When she reached me, she said, “It’s a surprise.”“This isn’t the time for games, Blaire. Things are escalating as we speak. Jade is still missing. The rogues are still on the loose, and worse—now the Creslon pack thinks we’re trying to instigate war with them,” I said, my tone firm.Yet Blaire didn’t seem fazed by anything I said. Her happy expression still clung to her face, unbothered.“We have to approach everything one by one,” Blaire said calmly.I huffed. “You still haven’t given me an answer to my question.”“Right! I went on the hunt because I was unsure when you'd get back,” Blaire said.“That
"Alpha Ragnar, I have a report," Karius said, walking into the room. "The pack warriors stopped pushing the rogues and are arriving back to the backgrounds as you said. Also, the border is being reinforced as we speak.""What about the rogue leader? Has he recovered yet?" I asked."Not yet. Currently, he has regained consciousness, and we've managed to stabilize his vitals, but he's not fit enough to speak. So you cannot get answers now," Karius said.I growled lowly, and kairus saw the displeasure on my face."But I assure you," he added quickly, "the pack nurses are treating him, so it’s not going to take up to three days before he’s able to give us the answers we need.""Fine. What about Blaire? Anything about her whereabouts?" I asked.Karius sighed. He didn’t want to tell me, but from his facial expression, I could already tell what he was going to say."No, ehn?" I asked rhetorically.With a sigh, he nodded. "We're still searching, and I believe we should be able to locate her i
I wasn’t able to hear their answer. Or rather, they didn’t give an answer before Blaire commanded her goons to take me away.The silence of Borel's men was a big proof of the effect Blaire boastful threat had in the room. I still wished they didn’t make the wrong choice—to follow her.They took me to another room now, and unlike before, I couldn’t map the route we took—my mind was busy with thoughts of what had just occurred.I was dropped roughly into a chair, they took the blindfold off, after, they stood at the far corner of the room, silent like statues while I looked around the room observant.For some reason, the silence wasn’t bliss. I already had the unnerving feeling that it was short-lived. If only I hadn’t been caught.As if on cue, Blaire walked into the room with a plate in her hands. I looked closer, and I realized it was the food Denila had offered me earlier but I had rejected. She grabbed the chair from across the room and dragged it against the floor. When she got to
It was up to an hour later when Denila reappeared in the room. Before I could say anything, she threw a pair of fresh clothing at me, alongside some binders and a blindfold.“What are these for?” I asked, but Denila didn't answer me.“I asked a question,” I said again, but my words had no effect on her.“Unless you tell me what's going on, I'm not going to wear any of these, especially the binders,” I said firmly.Denila looked at me. She opened her mouth, and I grew expectant, thinking she was finally about to say something. But then she paused, narrowing her eyes as if I were something foul. Then she closed her mouth and walked to the other side of the room. From her expression, I could tell she probably felt her words would be wasted on me after our earlier argument.She rummaged through some things on the table, and after she had picked up a file, she turned to me and instructed, “Put them on,” with a plain expression.“Give me an answer first, else I won't do what you said,” I re
Denila's words pierced through me like a blade. I felt hurt she'd react to my predicament that way. She didn't utter even an apology—not one. But I sighed, dejected by the realization. She had never been on my side since day one, so why was I expecting anything from her? I thought inwardly.Denila started working on undoing the cuffs that bound me to the wall. Soon after, she undid the ones on my wrists, and I plopped into her arms. I hissed, the pain resounding because of the way my body hit hers.She helped me into a chair, after which she straightened my posture. Afterwards, she left the room, leaving me with the silence, only to return after five minutes with a tray of food in her hands. She set the tray on the table beside the chair and arranged the food in front of me.My gaze moved to the dish. It was a small cup with some kind of herbal tea. In the other plate I looked at—it seemed almost like jello, but they were cut into cubes and looked buttered. In the other plate, there w
Jade's POVI think I'm dead—yet pain coursed through my entire body. It wasn’t as intense as before, but it was still there, the dull ache a cruel reminder.“You can leave now.”I heard someone say. I was supposed to be dead, yet I still heard voices. Or were they just in my head? The response wasn’t clear, muffled like a whisper through water—faint, but real.The lights in the room were low, but even that soft glow irritated me at first. My vision was hazy, like I was looking through mist. Everything around me appeared ghostlike, as though I had slipped into a spirit realm.So that meant I had died, right?I thought so. I hoped so. I wanted it.But then, slowly, my vision began to clear—just enough to make out a familiar figure seated near me.I blinked once. Then twice. That’s when I realized the figure was Blaire.She couldn’t have followed me into the afterlife. No—unless, I hadn’t died after all. I was back.Back to this hellish life.“It’s about time you woke up. How was your na