DUNCAN'S POV "What you're not serious?" I rasped turning to Lyra. I didn't bother about Thorne 'cause I had no business with him. "It's the truth and as Thorne insinuated earlier, some things should not be joked about." She breathed. I shook my head vehemently find it unbelievable to be true. I've had my suspicious about Sophia and what she actually stood for but being faced with the prospect that the child I always considered to be mine did not belong to me was absolutely inconceivable. "You necessarily don't think that I would believe that do you?" I snickered. I laughed because I wanted this to be a joke and for them to know that I was just taking it lightly but the look on their faces, particularly on Lyra's, one of pity. "I wouldn't advise you to take a paternity test, it might just break your heart even further but if that's all it would take to convince you." She shrugged. "We are leaving for a minute, we would talk about this later." She
THORNE'S POV I stood just in the middle of the hallways as I dialed Elyan's number, I needed to know how they faring out there. He along with two of the pack guards had been sent to monitor the activities going on in Patrick's pack, we had to check out for signs that they were truly holding Ryan hostage before we could attack them. I placed the phone to my ear as soon as the line connected. "Elyan, how is it going?" I asked him immediately. I couldn't be out with them but It was also a part of my duty to check in on them from time to time. "So far, we've seen nothing yet, the pack is clear, nothing out of the ordinary if I'm to ignore how roguish this place looks." I could feel him bite his lower lip on the other side of the line. "I honestly don't think he is holding Ryan." I told him. "We can't say for sure, he wouldn't possibly parade him around for us to see." Elyan said thinking I was insinuating at that. "That's not exactly what I mean, i
THORNE'S POV Peter brushed beside me in the packhouse of the Bloodmoon, "I didn't expect you to come so soon." I said looking at him. I didn't expect him to come at all. Yesterday had been awful, we ended up back at Bloodmoon at half past the hour and all I could say was Lyra couldn't feel herself. Contrary to Tank's words, Duncan wasn't at the pack house but he hadn't returned to the nIghtshade either. I would have wished I could get a hold of him last night even if it was just to lay a punch to his face. Some part of my gut just told me he had something to do with it, he couldn't possibly show up one afternoon and Ryan would get kidnapped same day. It was too much of a coincidence even though we knew Ryan was already at a risk of being kidnapped. "I didn't plan to either but you know the council came over again and they are surprised at your sudden absence. Put more accurately, they feel disrespected." Disrespected? Pfft, that wasn't even a word I would us
LYRA'S POV I sat downstairs in the dining room with Peter after Thorne went out to attend to something with Raphael. I'm just surprised Peter didn't go along with him which meant it wasn't officially and was just something casual. I had woken up early this morning, not seeing him in bed, I dressed and showered on my own and came downstairs to eat where I met Peter. He was already at the dining room when I arrived. "Good morning." I greeted him as I took my seat. "Good morning." He replied and went back to eating. "Could you possibly know where Thorne is?" I asked him. He looked at me. "He didn't tell you?" He asked me. "No." I shook my head. He didn't, Infact I had no idea when he left the room or what time he woke up to say the least. Our race last night had done a lot to me. Caused me to be exhausted and had me passing out, all that trouble, yet I didn't outrun Thorne. It got me pissed but I just knew I would have to pick someone
SOPHIA'S POV "I'm surprised you had to listen to Lydia and not me." Duncan was already in our room when I got there and I didn't have to wait so I just asked him the question that was burning inside of me or rather that would help convince him that I had no hand in it. "I'm sorry it's just so hard believing things that come from your mouth." He replied, he stopped packing for a brief moment and turned to me. "Why did you tell Lydia about Ryan?" He asked me. "I just wanted her to know she has another sibling, shouldn't I have?" I wore my sweetest smile. "You shouldn't." He said. "And why is that? You want to hide him away from the rest of the family?" I questioned him. "That isn't what I plan to do and it's none of your business what I do, they just shouldn't know each other at all, okay." He yelled. "Alright, I would say no more and just get to packing up for our trip." I walked away slowly. "You're not coming with us." He looked at him. I stopped frozen in my
SOPHIA'S POV "Why did you call me here?" I asked Patrick as I folded my hands up my sleeves. It was enough that I had to think up the solution to Duncan's problem all by himself now he still had the guts to call me over for a talk when he wouldn't even say anything the last time we met. I wasn't even sure how I did it but I had been able to spend the last two days in Nightshade without Duncan bringing up the topic of divorce it anything. We had fewer fights but all I had was only just pretend that I actually cared and he fell for it. So much for the discerning alpha he thought he was. "A lot of reasons." He replied. "But I would only tell you one." He paused. "And what is it?" "I want you to go to Bloodmoon." He announced. What? "Is that a joke?" I queried and for some reason he didn't have me cracking up like all genuine jokes did. "It's not, Sophia. I would need you to go to Bloodmoon." He repeated. "What for exactly? You do know that I'm not wanted there. I don't