Paige's POV"Do you want me to come over there?" Crystina asked from the other end of the line. I shook my head as if she could see me.After several days of mopping and locking myself in my room, I found the courage to call my parents and I asked them to tell me the truth and not leave any stone unturned. Even though they were both adamant at first, my mother cracked first. She told me she had begged my father not to do it but he didn't listen. My father didn't talk to me even after I was done talking to my mom and I didn't care. They lied to me all my life, they made me hate a different person, they almost made me leave Gabriel and made an innocent person apologize for the sins his father didn't commit. I asked them not to contact me anymore. I told my mother she should be rest assured that I'll be fine because it's obvious I'll be safer with the Lucien's brothers than with my own family. "You don't have to. Moreover, we'll be leaving for the palace in a day," I replied Crystina
Paige's POV "I didn't expect to see your face again or even see you marked by my brother," I rolled my eyes as I decided to ignore Carter no matter what. Gabriel and I together with Azel arrived at the palace two seconds ago and I'm so unfortunate the person who came to meet us at the door was no one else but mother fucking Carter. "Hello to you, Carter," I said with a fake big smile. "I know that smile is fake, Paige. You can't fool me," "Maybe you should stop stressing the girl out so much," Azel advised. We hadn't even walked into the palace yet because of Gabriel. Gabriel was speaking to a woman on the far end side of ours. "Aww, don't get too jealous, Paige. He marked you already, he can't jump to another woman just like that," "You're a pandemic," I told him. He wasn't just an arch nemesis to Gabriel, he was a problem to everyone around him except Azel. I've been thinking of so many ways to get rid of him and I just couldn't come up with something that'll kill
Crystina’s POV“I heard the Alpha is back,” A voice whispered and I turned, suddenly at alert as fear suddenly descended on me.“There she goes, weirdo” A male voice quietly mocked from behind me as I stood in the hallways of Moonvalley high school. I didn’t need to turn to know who it was or if they were referring to me. I know that was for me and it wasn’t the first time. Everyone has different nicknames for me; weirdo, dumbo, sicko, and every other awful word that ends with an ‘o’. It’s not like I care about what they call me or what they think about me, in all honesty, I can’t stand them either.I’m just an ordinary girl in the powerful Moonvalley Pack. Nobody cares about me being bullied or insulted by a group of spoilt high school brats. I’m so sure only a few of the people who live in Moonvalley pack knows my name or even know that I existed. Since I was brought here ten years ago, nobody looked at me twice except for Alpha Luka anyway. Well, no one would really care about the
Crystina’s POVWho else could do such a thing? Take the daughter of his father’s murderer and bring her to live with him. They all thought he had forgiven and forgotten the entire situation that led to the death of his father but in all reality, he hadn’t. He had only brought me into his pack, his home for retribution. He wants me to pay for the death of his father and his people. As for me, since I had no home, no parents, no pack, and I was just eight years old, I didn’t have a choice but to follow him.Three years ago, before he left town, he asked me to be his Luna and blatantly I said no, and he told me to my face that I was going to regret saying no to his offer. Three years later, he’s back, about to throw chaos into my silent life and make me regret saying no to him like he had said. “Are you sure you’re going to be okay?” Paige asked as we were about to separate on our way back from school. I hadn’t said a word to her since I heard that he was back and she hadn’t stopped ask
Luka’s POVThe one thing I’ve looked forward to since I left home three years ago was to hold Crystina in my hands like this even if it was just for once. Now, that I’m able to do that, I couldn’t help but feel bad as she trembled in my hands. It was messing with my head, my thoughts, and my wolf. This was my mate, the one woman I was destined to be with and the craziest thing is she’s scared of me. I can smell her fear mixed with her scent and I hate that.Three years ago, I found out that she was my mate and when I asked her to be my Luna, she refused. She blatantly said no to my request. It was as if I’ve been stabbed deep in my heart with a knife. Right before I left, I told her she was going to regret it. She was my mate and there was no way she wasn’t feeling the mate bond. She was probably hurting herself by trying to not be with me. I hugged her tightly and I could feel her trembling again.I was supposed to hate her! After what her father had done to my father, I’m not suppos
Crystina’s POV“Let’s go downstairs for dinner,” He stretched his hand out at me, I stared at his large palm for a few seconds before I shook my head.“No, thank you. I’m not really hungry,” I replied. That was a lie, I was famished. I wasn’t even able to eat lunch because of the news I heard at the cafeteria but I would rather fast than eat dinner with him.I can’t believe I let him hug me like that before moving away. More than that, I can’t believe I almost kissed him. Thanks to Rolf who saved me from that moment. Even though Rolf is a devil’s advocate and first son, I still have him to thank for saving me from losing the last thing that I can hold on to; my body. I know I’ve lost my dignity, pride, and reputation since moving to Moon Valley Pack but the last thing that I can hold onto was my body and if I let loose to Luka, he would also take that away from me and I would hate myself for that.I know I’m here because he needed retribution for his father’s death and it’s possible t
CRYSTINA ’S POVAlpha Luka didn’t say a word and neither did I. We were both staring at each other waiting for the other person to say something. Luka stared at me expectantly, his eyes narrowed as he scrutinized me. One hand was on the wheel while the other was on the passenger seat next to him. It was as if he was waiting for me to enter and take a seat. I knew better than to do that. Luka would never want me to enter his car. It was impossible, if I made the mistake and enter that car, I’m sure I’ll regret that decision for the rest of my life.Meanwhile, my wolf was encouraging me to enter the car. ‘I think he wants us to enter that cool car, Tina,’ Kris repeated and I almost yelled.‘Don’t be stupid, Kris, we know him better than that,’ I told her.“I don’t think we do, Star. If we don’t get close to him, how are we supposed to know if he’s a good or a bad person,” She admonished.“No is no, Chris. Back off now,” I warned. She quickly crouched and ignored me.“Good morning, Alpha
LUKA’S POVThe principal in charge of our Pack’s high school invited me to the school that morning because of the donation that I had made. We met the previous afternoon when I made the payment to the school’s account but I was surprised when she called me again to ask me to pay a visit to the school because she wanted to give me a tour of the school. I felt it wasn’t necessary but as the Alpha, I couldn’t say no. I haven’t been around for years so the school will be the best place to start so I can get accustomed and know what’s going on around the pack. When I woke up, I was actually hoping to drive together with Crystina to the school but before I came out of the room, she had left. I didn’t lose hope knowing fully well that I might be lucky enough to meet her on the way since Mary said she left s few minutes before I came out. Fortunately and true to her words, I found her on the walkways, she was shivering from the cold, her face red like a tomato and she was walking as slow as