Lyle didn’t hear from Grisha for the entire time she spent with Arya and others that evening. When she went back to her room to sleep, she started thinking about Ryder again. She missed him with every passing minute and somehow she knew that Grisha missed him too. Her loneliness was so intense that a thickness formed in her throat and her eyes stung with tears. She was conflicted between anger, bitterness and desire. Was she so unworthy that Ryder forgot her so soon? In only three days he had forgotten all about the connection they had?
As the night grew, she became antsy. Her wolf started clamoring. Unable to sleep even for a minute, Lyle got up. She folded her knees, curled her hands around it and rested her head over them. She began to rock herself in order to allay her fears, nothing worked. ‘We must go to find him,’ Grisha said, withdrawing her from her angst.
Arya continued, “We tried to find the their pup, but the child was lost… forever.” Her voice trailed off. “When I saw you, I could see how much you resemble our mother. You have blue, almond shaped eyes and her nose. You got those raven black hair from father. Heck, even your style of speaking and a few mannerisms are the same. In fact the similarities are uncanny.”“Really?” Lyle said, feeling joyous on the inside. Her skin was lined with goose bumps.Arya brought her hand to her face and said, “Really.” She held her hand. “Come let me show you the photographs of our parents.”Her chest tightened as Lyle got up to accompany Arya to her room. All the way to her room she bounced her feet, as she was unable to hide her excitement. Ary
At first Lyle was pretty awkward and flummoxed by Dominique’s offer to go with her to the Silver Moon pack, but Dominique’s genuineness melted her heart. The man didn’t talk to her for the first hour of the journey and maintained his space. He walked behind her all the time as if watching her as if to protect her from dangers ahead. Although she was feeling reticent, the silence between them was deafening and she was flustered. After the incident in the woods, she had stopped talking to him, but then when he offered to walk her to meet Ryder, her emotions conflicted. Not able to bear the uncomfortable quiet between them, she stopped all of a sudden. He jerked his head when he came to a halt. Lyle turned to look at him. She put her hands on her hips and said, “Thanks for accompanying me, Dominique.” “You are welcome,” he said with a half smile.
Lyle went completely still and her mouth fell open. From the periphery of her vision, she saw Nina and Dominique coming to stand in front of her. She felt heaviness in her limbs and a knot formed in her stomach as shock numbed her mind. Dominique had been with her since the beginning and she had grown to trust him to the extent that she depended on him blindly for directions to the Silver Moon pack. So many thoughts bounced in her mind that she didn’t know how to segue them.“You must be wondering how this all happened?” Nina said. There was a thick rope in her hands.Lyle blinked her eyes as her gaze darted to the rope in her hands. She flinched. “What are you going to do with me?” she asked, not bothering to talk about the connection between her and Dominique. Her mind started charting escape routes.
Dominique cocked his head to look out of the window. The sun had begun to descend. A smile lit his face as if he was about to accomplish something soon. Lyle’s mind was still in a mess. Her lips quivered when she tried to segue the sequence of events in her mind. Things in her life spiraled down when Nina entered her life. She was going to marry Blake and would have been the Luna of the Blood Moon pack. She looked at Nina who had gone to the center of the small room, where ashes soaked in blood were sprinkled. “You know what Nina?” Lyle said. “If you hadn’t come in my life, I would have never met Ryder.”Nina whipped her head back to see her. With wide eyes, she chuckled, “Do you mean you are thankful for my presence in your life?”“Yes I am,” said Lyle as tears stung her eyes. “I met the l
While the brother and sister were arranging things for sacrificing her, Lyle was busy slowly burning the rope in her hand. She was so furious at them after listening to their sinister plans that she wanted to kill them for creating so much chaos across the werewolf realm. Her magic was thrumming in her chest so wildly that she had to make strong efforts to suppress it. Her wolf, Grisha, wanted to come out and kill them, but she had to cajole Grisha to stay in because she wanted to use her magic. She directed a trickle of her energy to her finger with which she slowly started cutting the rope of her hands. And while she did that, she kept the siblings engaged in a conversation.The challenge wasn’t to keep them occupied in a conversation but the challenge was to make them believe that they were trapping her and that she was vulnerable, fragile and useless. As soon as the rope was cut, she direct
Dominique lunged at Lyle with a fierce roar. Immediately she flung her hands forward and a beam of white lights that looked like whips was thrown at him. However, the lights never hit him. He had charged at her but he ducked and slid on the ground. The beams went to hit the trees behind him, which groaned and ripped off the ground, their barks and branches splintering into tiny pieces. Taking advantage of the situation, Dominique used his magic and set a thick beam of red light towards her, hitting her badly.Lyly was thrown off the ground, into the air and she smashed right at the back of the hut. The impact was so high that the wall collapsed when she hit it and the debris fell all over her and around her, quieting her under them.What now remained was silence wrapped in dust and creaks of trees and wooden frames and clatter of smashed stones and hard c
Silver Moon pack’s borders weren’t well guarded. Lyle had picked up a bag littered on the ground and stashed the severed head of Dominique inside it. Everyone seemed to be in a jubilant mood and even the guards were relaxed. When Lyle slipped past them, she noticed that though all of them were talking with each other, they had glossy eyes, as if they were entranced. They gave her a cursory glance and resumed talking. It was… strange.She walked further into the territory. The whole pack was decorated with ribbons and lights and loud music was blaring from somewhere. As she walked through the streets, she found that there was hardly anyone around. Houses looked desolate and chilly winds blew, howling like they were mourning. Very few people were sitting in the warmth of their houses doing mundane jobs. Even though it was all very weird, she had to find her way to Ryder’s house. Lyle
Elara’s body visibly shook and her facial expressions became slack. Her lips trembled when she said, “Dominique, my son.” Disbelief marred her mind and tears continued to roll down out of shock. Her body posture collapsed. Her voice cracked, “What has she done to you?” With her wrists locked, she bent over him and clung to his head. Her wails ricocheted in the room they were in.Suddenly she experienced chilliness around her and her muscles felt weak. It was as if her magic was weakening. There was a stabbing pain in her stomach. Eyes widened, she looked at Lyle, whose eyes were glowing orange as if a fire was burning in them. With her hands in front of her, and eyes staring in space, darkness shot all around her in tendrils that twined like gnarled roots of trees. The dark tendrils slid on the floor towards Elara like ripples on water and penetrated her magic. Elara sho