LYRA'S POV I raised the phone up to my hear rolling my eyes as I did so. "Hello." I said into the phone with a croaked voice. "You don't seem well, why are you croaking?" Came Duncan's response. "Just get to the point of why you called me." I said totally dismissing his sympathy. He had no reason to pretend or to sympathize. "I don't know if Jennifer told you about it but we found a lifeless wolf on the school premises today." He revealed. "She already told me Duncan. It's my territory remember, besides a lifeless wolf?" I asked. "That's not what Jennifer told me." I placed the phone on speaker all the while so Thorne could hear what we were saying. "He was almost dead actually. I had to transport him to my pack so we could do the interrogating." Duncan explained, his explanation only confirmed the suspicion I had of him in mind. He wasn't all that clean and he still wanted Ryan back. "Don't you think that I should be the one doing the
THORNE'S POV I flattened down the collar of my shirt before placing a knock on Lyra's bedroom door. No response. I sighed, she was probably beating at herself about what happened earlier today when it should be me doing exactly that. I knew I shouldn't have kept it a secret from her but what choice exactly did I have. Ryan's life was definitely in danger and the last thing I wanted was to have Lyra lose her mind over it. Things would still be under control if Tank hadn't let loose his bug mouth when he did this morning. I knocked once more on her door, she didn't reply. "Lyra?" I called. She made a sound but they were more of gibberish than actual words. I pulled down the doorknob and entered the room uninvited. Lyra was lying on her bed grabbing the sheets tightly for no reason at all "Leave!" She threw a pillow at me. I picked it up stealthily and placed it back on the bed as I approached her. "I know I must have angered you today." I
LYRA'S POV "What the heck happened?" I asked Thorne as they both walked up to me. "and why is there blood on your arms? Did you both get in a fight?" It seemed implausible that they had both quarrelled with each other and looking at Tank, he had no blood or dirt on him. I guess I had to wait for an explanation from them to know what happened. Thorne walked right past me as if he hadn't had my question. I pulled him right back to me before he could get in the car. "Why are you covered in blood?" I asked in a commanding tone now. Thorne opened his mouth and shut it simultaneously, then he sighed. "I bruised my palms." He said. "It doesn't look like all these blood was caused by a mere bruise." I told him just to let him know that I knew he was lying to me. "What. Happened?" I gritted out when he still wouldn't say anything more. "I fell in a pit, it was so great a fall." I could tell he was lying and it wasn't just by the way his eyes twitched when
LYRA'S POV "Mama." I heard Ryan's voice from deep within my sleep, his soft baby hands beating my chest softly as he yelled. "Mom?" He called again. But I was still deep in sleep, unable to bring myself to consciousness no matter how much I willed it. "Mum?" All of a sudden, Ryan yanked me up by my shoulders, his hand pulling me up with all the might that he had got. I woke up in the most unimaginable way possible. "What is it Ryan?" I yawned. "I want to go to school." He yelled. I stretched my arms and pulled my phone out from the drawer to check the time, "it's only four am." I told him. "it wouldn't be time yet even in the next two hours." I said. Ryan only stared blankly at me and I realized that he had little to no sense of time, so he understood none of all that I had said. "Look child,it's not time yet, you would have your bath later okay. Let's get some rest first." I coaxed him. "How long before it's time?" He asked. "
SOPHIA'S POV I closed the door slowly and stealthily behind me as I sighed in relief. It had been much more harder than a chore finding my way back in the pack house unseen. I moved away from the door and placed my bag on the dresser, suddenly all the lights in the room came and it wasn't I who turned them on. I looked around in shock and found Duncan standing right behind me. "Where are you coming from?" He asked in that calm voice of his. "From a friend's." I replied as smoothly as I would to anyone who ever asked for my maiden name. Duncan fisted his palm as his gaze narrowed in on me, so intent, as if he could see my deepest thought. I couldn't be intimidated because I knew it was one of those psychological tricks that ha used on people. I already had enough experience with him to know how to find my way around him. "What is it?" I asked him, "Or you don't believe me?" I added. "Duncan straightened up his right palm and placed it on the w
SOPHIA'S POV I sat impatiently in the bar as my heart thumped rapidly in my chest. I could say that I had been waiting here for more than an hour now, yet there was still no sign of Phelan whom I was waiting for. To think of it though, I didn't want him to show up anymore, especially not now. I looked to my right and my eyes caught a glimpse of the Nightshade pack warriors whose seat was not really that far from mine. I averted my face from their gaze, the last thing I wanted was for them to sniff or even notice me. The men erupted into boisterous laughter that somewhat pierced my earrings, I sighed in desperation. Probably, I should get out of here, time was already running late and the night would set in some sixty minutes later. I grabbed my purse from the seat beside me and padded out of the pub house. I looked around my surroundings for a while before making a walk along the walkway. A car soon came to a halt beside me, it's headlights flashing blatantly, the w