"Are you okay?" Onyx inquired, crawling over to Ruel's side, her gaze instantly landing on his rib where he was injured, "Shouldn't you have healed already?" Her eyes slightly magnified in realization, reached out to press her palm on his forehead and hissed at the heat. "Fuck, you have a fever!" Ruel took her hand off his forehead. "I'm fine, no need to worry, I will heal soon enough,"Onyx felt her heart break as Ruel moved away from her, resting his back against the wall, and suddenly, she felt guilt surging through her, knowing it was her fault he was shifting away. It doesn't matter, she told herself. It was better this way but she couldn't bare to watch him be in pain. She grabbed the hem of his shirt and lifted it to his chest, examining the injury, and her breath hitched at the three claw wounds at the left side of his stomach. "Why isn't it healing?"Seth left his place and approached his friend, squatting beside him and eyeing the injury, he reached out to brush a finger on
"So, have you decided yet?"Onyx sneered at the question, struggling with the hands that held her back from ripping out Oswald's throat, wanting badly to get rid of the smug smirk on his stupid face. "You should try again, bastard. You are in the wrong cell!" she growled at him, baring her teeth.Oswald swiveled and sauntered toward her, he leaned down to her height. He reached out to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear. "Have you gotten prettier, Onyx? You don't look your age, your mate is one lucky man," He enunciated, trailing the pad of his finger on her jaw.Again, Onyx snarled. "What have you done with Gwen?" She mandated. Onyx always knew there was something off about Oswald, yet she never glid far, brushing it as nothing, now, she wished she had dug further, she would have found what she wanted but right now, it was pointless beating at a dead horse because Onyx was going to put the bastard in his place.Oswald sneered, patting her hair. "You will probably never see her again
"You should eat?" Tatiana peered expectantly, placing a little tray of food in front of Seth while squatting in front of him.Seth tilted his head, giving the redhead an expressionless look. "What are you doing here Tatiana?""I came to give you food, you were injured and must have lost a lot of blood," She retorted, keeping her tone feathery and almost innocent.Onyx derided from the corner of the wall. "You've lost your way soldier,"Hastily, Tatiana's jaw strengthened and she dashingly gawked at Onyx. "I don't think so, I did what I did to save myself and my family and if you quit being stubborn, Alpha Oswald might let you out of here," Only fools would go after Oswald, Tatiana had chosen to exclude herself from that list."Really?" Onyx tsked. "You are something else, Tatiana. You chose a man who ruined your home. What are you, his bed warmer?"Tatiana's pheromones spiked. "He didn't ruin anything, Alpha Zahir and Luna Yaletha deserve what happened to them. He only wishes to aveng
Seth scrutinized the guard standing outside the dungeons, then his dark gaze flickered over to the keys resting at the top of his pants, Seth gazed at them intensively. Seth needed to get out of here, his wolf crawled at the back of his head, irking him to get them the fuck out of the cell, he felt trapped, bounded and Seth realized his instincts had gotten strong since he acknowledged the fact that he might be an Alpha, he could feel the presence of his wolf getting stronger, especially knowing his mate was in the arms of a bastard like Oswald, he needed to get her out.Seth averted his gaze, flickering them towards his cellmates, searching their sleeping faces till Seth found a pair of cold eyes staring back at him across the dirty floor "What?" He uttered in a blank tone."I know what you're thinking and it's not a bright idea," Ruel shook his head disapprovingly."Do you have a better idea Ruel, I can't stay here knowing my mate is in danger, I swear to the goddess, I will kill Os
He didn't know where he was, the more he stared, the more the surroundings around him were foreign. He was known for his skills in the woods as the pack hunter but right now, Seth couldn't live up to that reputation. He was lost and he knew it and it was dark, not that he needed light to guard his way, the full moon was a reminder that he was a supernatural creature.It had been more than twenty minutes since he woke up with his face buried in a pile of dirt in the forest and it had been fifteen minutes since he started walking without a sense of direction while trying to figure out what Oswald was thinking tossing him in the forest like some manure. For how long had he been inanimate?One thing Seth scorned was not knowing where he was. He made him feel clueless, it made him feel almost frightened and the growl at his head said his wolf did not like it too. Unexpectedly, Seth's nostrils were graced with a familiar scent and he paused for a moment, his eyes widening and his legs movi
Swiftly, Seth had omitted his blood-stained shirt to the floor, staring down at his stomach where he had been scuffed earlier at the fight. He glowered at the claw mark on the left side of his stomach, pulling taut lower to his abdomen.He swung at the space, looking around the ample and neat bedchamber he was steered to as soon as Xenia brought them to what was a deserted castle behind mountains, inhabited by thousands of rogues stuck in their human or wolf form.He and Ruel had been segregated and Seth didn't divulge in these rogues one bit. What if they had maimed his friend? Seth chose not to think of it, Ruel was a Beta, he would be able to take care of himself till they find each other and get the fuck out of here."That looks nasty,"He looked up at the voice to find Xenia lounging against the wall beside the door with her arms pleated on her chest. "Do you need help?" She nudged herself off the wall and approached him, coming to stand before him, her hand reached out to his de
Gwen's body jerked to a sitting position on the bed at the sound of the door opening. She heard the railed of heel boots and the whiff of something eerie before Odessa came to view. Gwen never thought there would come a day when her best friend would smell ominous and it made her gut whirl knowing Odessa was not who she was anymore. Gwen cowered to the wall, not from panic but she didn't want to get anywhere close to Odessa who ambled into the room with a plate of food, placed it on top of the bed, and gently nudged it toward Gwen. "You should eat," Gwen scoffed and rolled her hazel eyes. "Wouldn't you like it if I were to starve to death, wouldn't it give you a sense of fulfillment," Odessa shrieked. "Stop being so tenacious and eat before I lose my forbearance and jostle the damn food down your throat!" She blurted, losing her composure and Gwen nearly shivered at the shift in Odessa's scent. It was fatal and gothic. "What did you do to yourself, Odessa? Why did you let Oswald a
Gwen disdained her present situation but she told herself she could tolerate it, nothing lasted, she believed there would come a time she would be out of these chambers but what she despised the most and couldn't stand the sight of was the revolting look of ardor Oswald always gave whenever he shuffled into the room.It made her squeamish, it caused aversion that such a person existed and the prick was Odessa's mate.Oswald smirked at the sick look on Gwen's face. "What's with the face?""I want you out of my sight, that's the face. Fuck off!" She screeched, sneering at him."For a prisoner, you have a lot of brasses but you know what, that's what I like about you, it's intriguing," he tsked and crossed his arms over his chest. "I didn't want to break the news to you like this but Seth-" he waited and took pleasure in the look of horridness on her face. "..is dead,""I don't believe you," she looked away. She would never believe him. Seth couldn't be dead, she would have felt it. "If