SOPHIA'S POV "You should get some rest now." I pulled the blanket over Lydia's lying figure. She said nothing to me after that, more like she didn't appreciate my efforts. I found it harder to believe that she disliked me or hated me which was certainly the case. All I had ever wanted was the best for her, Her father was the kind of parent who likes to spoil their kids, I just thought I could be that disciplinary mother that would make sure she didn't go rotten. I sighed. "Good night." Lydia faced the wall and ignored me. My phone beeped at the same time which left me no time to worry about her rudeness. I checked out the screen, my eyes widened in shock. Patrick needed me and it wasn't Phelan sending the message, it was Patrick himself. "If your father comes looking for me, tell him I went to see a friend." I wasn't sure if she would pass the message or not but I had to try. I opened the door and walked out of the room at a steady pace, shutting the d
DUNCAN'S POV The road leading back home was as busy as they came, not with vehicles but with teenagers whose only concern in life had nothing to do with keeping track of time but everything to do with having fun. The scene took me back to the time I was just fifteen years old like them, young, full of life, probably invulnerable and most definitely, I didn't have me a dying wolf. The carefreeness of my young age was something that had gotten replaced by the burden of being an adult. I had a lot of things going on on my mind almost at the same time, the most important topic was always the one taking the lead and I still couldn't understand, no matter how much I tried to. The call I made to Lyra this afternoon didn't go as expected, I had just thought I was doing a favor nothing more but what she had accused me of. Trying to kidnap Ryan and take him away from her was something I would never think of doing. I could never have her back in my life, but I could have R
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. "