AN UNEXPECTED HELPERLEXI’S POV“What do you mean by that?” I asked him. “Where did you even hear that from?”“Where did I hear it from? It is all anyone has been talking about in this house for days now,” Manny raged, stepping closer to me.I scoffed, folding my arms. “That is a rumor, and why do you even care anyway? We aren’t together.”“Just because we aren’t together doesn’t mean I want to hear the mother of my children getting it on with another man under my roof,” Manny fired back.“Another man?” I echoed in disbelief. “Jax is your brother and I am not getting it on with him.”“So everyone else that has been seeing you together is lying about it?” Manny asked and I stepped closer to him.“Does that idea even make sense to you? Do you really think I am stupid enough to have an affair in the same house with my children or with you? Just what do you think of me?” I asked, feeling my blood racing in annoyance.Manny stayed silent for a second, regarding me like he still couldn’t tr
RUMORS AND CONSEQUENCESLEXI’S POVI sat in the fields, watching Wayne and Dexter play ball with Nia, the sounds of their laughter was like music to my ears and soul. For a moment, everything seemed perfect, seeing Nia play happily with my boys made me very happy, and I felt at peace for the first time in a while.When an all too familiar click of heels stepped behind me.“I see you are settling in happily with your rogue family,” she commented, pausing in front of me.“What do you want this time?” I asked, rolling my eyes.Clara shrugged, her bright eyes glinting coldly. “Nothing, I just don't understand how you can be so comfortable being such a lowlife bitch. You may think you have won because you managed to get your rogue boyfriend out of the dungeons but I am going to get rid of you, even if I have to drag you out of the pack myself.”I scoffed in response, knowing Clara wanted to just provoke a reply from me.“You aren't going to say anything?” She asked, seeming unamused. Sud
CONVINCEJAX’S POVWhen the guards came to the dungeons, I began to fear the worst. “Nia get behind me,” I instructed her in a bid to protect her. She rushed behind me immediately, just as the guards opened the iron bars.“Come out,” they yelled at me and I stood still, holding Nia in place.“Why? Where are you taking me?” I asked as the guards stepped in to drag me out.“Alpha Manny has ordered for you to be moved to one of the guest rooms,” one of them said, taking me by surprise.“What?” I spluttered out as the other guard removed the chains from my hands and feet, setting me free.“Don't get any ideas Rogue,” the guard said as we followed him out of the dungeon. “You and your daughter are still going to be watched twenty four hours a day and you will placed in a guarded room, so don't think you can escape so easily now that Alpha Manny has granted you mercy.”I stayed silent, looking at Nia's face then back to the guard, wondering what the hell had just happened.From the way Lex
AFTERMATH OF A DECISIONLEXI’S POVI woke up restless, tangled in the bed sheets as my mind raced with questions.The room was warm but yet my body felt cold, like I could not rest at all, with everything that had happened. The world that I struggled to keep calm had been tipped upside down since Jax came after me. I had warned him not to come but even I should have known that he was never going to keep that promise. Since his return, he had dealt with seeing a mother that abandoned him, dealing with Manny’s anger and going before the Elder council only to end up thrown in the dungeon. I looked ahead at the ceiling, remembering the one thing he had asked of me yesterday, the one thing that I could not give him. He wanted me to return back with him like it was possible for me to abandon the children that I had fought so hard for and leave them with someone as crazy as Clara. Especially now, when Wayne was finally softening up to me and Sophia was back in the house. Even though I
OF WOES AND REJECTION JAX'S POVI sat in the dungeon, unable to forget the interaction I had with my mother.She was still as evil as I remembered.Still unable to take accountability for her actions.But even if she was terrible and she hated me, how could she reject me like that?How could she stand before the pack and claim that the child she gave birth to and abandoned was not her own?How could she do that to me?She had rejected me for the Alpha, why did she like him more? Wasn't I also her child?Coming to this place was a bad idea, I thought, as I rested my head against the stone wall.Maybe I should have snuck in and figured out a way to help Lexi escape from here, now I was trapped, bound in chains, with a broken heart and no escape plan.I sat on the cold floor, feeling the chains around my wrists clink with every move I made, hating the ugly emotion that I was feeling in my chest—-rejection. My mother had not wanted me. She hadn’t even bothered to look at me in remorse a
THE UNRAVELINGMANNY’S POVMy mother turned to me with an apologetic look. I stared at her, feeling my heart ache with the pain of betrayal.How could she do this? How could she lie to me like this all this time? She hadn’t just lied to me, she had lied to my father. I closed my eyes remembering when my father was still alive, how he had treated her well, never knowing that she had another son that she abandoned elsewhere.The elders murmured between themselves, throwing distasteful glances at my mother. Even Lexi shook her head in disappointment. The only person that remained unmoved was Jax. His presence had caused all this trouble and all he could do was lean back and watch my mother with a cold expression? I was sick of this.Sick of their whispers and looks. Sick of the fact that by morning, the news of my mother’s rogue son would have spread throughout the pack.To everyone else, it was just news, but to me, it was my life and my life had been a lie.Suddenly, I could not s