P.S: Dear readers, we've come to the end of this book. I'm happy we both have come a long way and I'll appreciate if you could leave a comment in the comments section for this book. I'm not asking for too much but your rating will go a long way too. Thank you. **** Blanco had fought until the enemy soldier before him had slumped to his knees as if dead. But the man, a black ring on his finger, was not dead at all. Only the demon inside him. And when soldiers of countless coasts began to cheer, when word spread that a prince, no he wasn’t a Prince anymore, the King who was promised, had defeated Kera, Blanco simply turned from the battlements.He found him by scent alone. Even in death, the scent lingered, a path that he followed through the wrecked streets and throngs of celebrating, weeping people.Rowan Mikhail smiled at his bleeding heart, and he had seen him first as Blanco ran to his friend’s side,“Don’t die on me!”, h
I could hear the sounds of their jaws ripping into some flesh and I gripped my mother harder, pushing against her skin. “Mum, I'm scared. Please. Are we safe?”My boyfriend, Liam, was at my side, and he gave me a quick squeeze, shaking his head. My mother went quiet, and I stalled my breathing, hoping that if we breathed quieter, we wouldn't be found. It was wishful thinking, and I guess that somewhere deep down, I knew it, but it wasn't till we heard wood splintering before I realized. I said a prayer to the moon goddess, hoping that I had heard wrong, but my boyfriend tore open the back door and crawled into the rainy darkness.“Babe. Please, Let's go. Once you're out, we'll get your mum and dad, we need to get to the bunker. We'll be safe. You heard the distress signal, didn't you? We need to get up.”“Olivia. Please listen to him. The longer we are here, the faster they will find us. They will hurt you. I love you too much to let you stay here. Leave right now.”I could hear the
Throughout my birthday, and the three weeks that followed, the pack and I worked to clean up our home. It was our tradition to cremate the bodies of our kin when they died to give them an easy passage to the afterlife, and so we spent that day gathering up their bodies and bathing them, so they could be wrapped respectfully in cloth. I had helped to pick up the bodies of every other family, but I just couldn't do it for mine. I couldn't look at my father, or what was left of him, and even worse, I couldn't deal with the idea that my mother, who had hugged me, and held me, and loved me so powerfully to her last breath was dead. Liam was my strong tower in all of it. He helped me carry out my duties, picking up broken up floorboards, picking off wood from the floors on the homes we visited, and having my back, throughout. When I fell ill from the sheer stress and exhaustion, he didn't force me to be strong, or tell me any of the motivational bullshit that everyone was used to feeding
It was the morning of his 21st birthday when my entire world fell apart. I had stayed up all night to wish Liam a happy birthday. I had baked a cake at a neighbor's house to surprise him, and I had also called a few of our friends in the pack together to wish him a happy birthday. At 7 in the morning, I had gotten everyone over for the big surprise, and they had all came out. They came in with handmade birthday cards, the little kids all gave him hugs and gifts, things that warmed my heart. Everything was going well, and everyone dispersed for the day, and I said thank you by the door, thanking everyone for their time and their love.He had some business in our newly constructed town hall, so I waved him off for the day, remembering that the second surprise would be happening there, and I would be heading the crew to crown him as our Alpha. I worked along with everyone else and after dressing the little kids up, I went ahead to take a shower and prepare myself for his party, so I lo
The next day, a meeting was called at the pack hall, made mandatory for all the pack members to attend, and even though I had just lost my partner, I knew that Alpha Liam deserved the title, and the respect. I made the deliberate effort to arrive there early, avoiding the glances of everyone by wearing a black dress and a black hoodie. A few people saw me, but they understood that I needed time to myself, and they let me be, going ahead to get seats in front. I sat at the back and kept my head down, feeling it in my heart the moment that Liam walked up the aisle with Anne trailing behind him. I bit my tongue to avoid a sob choking out of my throat, and I slid down even lower in the seat when they arrived at the front. This was his first official address as the Alpha, so I got up and applauded with everyone else when he arrived at his place on the podium. I sat down as quickly as I could, and he walked forward to address all of us. I looked at his face, the man that had become my wh
I looked at him with a cocked brow, marveling at how lovely his name was. “Nice to me-”“And my name, ” interrupted the other brother with a cocked brow, “Is Asher, and we are the Alphas of the Blue Blood pack.”“Nice to meet you,” I smiled, beaming at them. “You guys have really cool names!”“Well, thank you,” continued Dante, getting up to move closer to me. “So, about those directions you were going to give us… ”“We are heading back to the Blue Blood pack after a long trip down south. Our compass broke, and now neither of us knows the way to get back home.”“Oh.. I've never heard of the Blue Blood pack,” I explained, “but if you remember any landmarks, I should be able to direct you to them.”“Give us a minute to think,” they said, so I turned away from them and piled rocks to form a circle, picking up some lint so I could start a fire. It couldn't be safe to keep moving the dark, especially since I had no true destination and was simply heading north, in the direction of the sun.
It had been thirty minutes more on the road, and I was already tired. The trails were bushy because they had not been walked through in quite some time, and to make matters worse, it had been rainy a few weeks prior, and coupled with the current sunlight, they were growing quite well. Dante had fallen back, tending to the horse, but Asher stuck to me like glue, getting so close that I could feel his breath down my neck. I shut my eyes to it and refused to feel the sensation, but at a point, I got exasperated and turned to face him, smirking in satisfaction as my braided hair whipped around with me and slapped his face. “Look, what is it? You already said we're going the same way. We agreed that I would lead the way. We're already in so much agreement, so why the hell are you breathing down my neck?”“No, I-”“Listen to me,” I continued, holding up my hand, “there is such a thing as personal space, and you are going to have to respect mine. I want to be able to turn around with my br
Chapter 7They continued the journey on their feet, worried about the horses and how they would deal with the stress of a gallop after the wild one they had just been on. Dante immediately agreed, his affection for his horse trumping anything else. Asher on the other hand did not want to walk, and he told me as much. “Look, our pack is still at least two hours away, and it's an even longer journey when we are walking. I really don't want to do this.”He had stopped in the middle of the path, and instead of dignifying his outburst with an answer, I walked past him, noting that Dante and the two horses had done the exact same thing. Sighing, he turned around to walk with us, pausing at the trunk of a very wide tree. It had some mangoes on it, ripe and heavy, and I stopped abruptly too. As though my stomach recognized the fruit, it growled, and I blushed. “So you're hungry too? I thought we were just going to keep walking for hours on end and then hope for the best?”“In what world do