LOGINAylin's POV I hadn't expected another day to pass within those four walls. Morning sunlight filtered through the barred window. The room was quiet except for the distant sounds of hammers striking timber and people calling to one another outside. I sat on the edge of the bed, absentmindedly tracing the fresh bandages wrapped around my ankle. The fever had broken, whoever treated me knew exactly what they were doing. I rose carefully and crossed to the window. The colony was already alive. Men were repairing roofs while others hauled stones across the courtyard. Women stirred enormous pots over open fires as children ran back and forth carrying buckets far too heavy for their tiny hands. Not one of them looked like the bloodthirsty rogues I had been taught to fear. They looked tired, hungry and broken. An elderly man struggled to lift a bundle of wood onto his shoulder. Before he could lose his balance, Dorian appeared from nowhere and took the weight from him without a word
The Moon Goddess' POV: Mount Olympus"Mother, save me. I'm sorry I disobeyed. These people are wicked. Their hearts are full of evil. Bring me home. I promise to be a good daughter, better than I ever was."Every word reached me, every tear found me, yet I could do nothing.There was my daughter, the only fruit of my loins, down in a dungeon, restrained by cuffs and chains, made to eat dirt at its very best.Pain jabbed my heart as she dashed towards the door and began pounding on it."Let me out!" my daughter cried. "I am innocent!"I wanted to save her, send hail crashing upon the mouldy walls of that colony and burn it to the ground.But I couldn't.Since Aylin left, Olympus has become a graveyard. It has been two years now, yet no banquet, no celebration and no heavenly music could fill the hollow in my chest. I had only ever imagined loneliness, never the horrid taste of it.Aylin was the universe's gift to me, a reward for every sacrifice I had made. Yet now she was gone, stolen
Aylin's POVI didn't sleep. I couldn't.I managed to stand on my feet and lean against the railings, my breathing ragged and slow. The passageway was dark, but I kept my eyes fixed on the faint line of light seeping through the entrance. I was waiting for the giant man who would saunter in at any moment. I could already feel it, his firm hand around my throat like before, whisking me away to a place unknown."Mother, come get me," I cried, my eyes closed in deep meditation. "I can't do this alone."But there was no answer. Every connection I had to heaven had been severed. Not even a speck of lightning or rain answered my call.. I looked at the cold food on the floor my stomach growling with hunger. Maybe I should have eaten it. Eventually, exhaustion overtook me, and I slowly dozed off. But suddenly, the metal gate clanged open.I jolted awake, scrambling to my feet to find a tall figure standing in the centre of the cage.Dorian.His expression was unreadable, his lips pressed into
Dorian's POV I shouldn't be doing this. Every part of me is reluctant to go forth with the plan, especially my wolf who keeps purring and whining in discomfort. I couldn't even look her in the face, and that's unlike me. Or maybe it's because she already looks tired, broken and weak even though she hasn't been in the dungeon for long. So, who did that to her? What in the moon's name am I doing? I am supposed to be a protector, a leader and a revolutionist, not a fucking kidnapper. Heat was crawling under my skin, the damp passageway getting smaller with every breath I took. Suddenly I heard footsteps behind me, but I didn't stop to look. I didn't want to see anybody. "Dorian, hold up, can't you hear me calling?" The voice had already broken into my thoughts, and the sight of Vincent's face soured my mood. He was the last person I wanted to see. I made a turn and stopped at the door of my room but he had already run up to meet me. "Your grace," he panted. "What's happening
Aylin's POVI didn't know how long I had been unconscious. But a wave of heat brushed against my face and I jerked awake. Opening my eyes, I found myself lying in one corner of a squalid dungeon, sunlight pouring through a tiny window high above me."What is this place?" I asked, struggling to rise to my feet. I scrambled upright, only for something cold to bite into my ankle. I looked at my right leg, a chain was coiled tightly around it. I attempted to move, but the chain snapped taut and pain shot through my leg, forcing a cry from my lips."Awake already? Oh good."I raised my head to find a dark figure standing at the entrance of the cage, behind the bars. His voice was deep, calm, almost bored, and his broad shoulders swallowed the doorway."Who are you, and what do you want from me?""Not me, them. The people who are paying me for you.""I don't understand. Did Kael ask you to do this?""Oh no, " he shook his head. "Kael and I have no dealings whatsoever, never again.".As he
Aylin's POV Kael didn't show up for our wedding.On the very day we chose for the event, he travelled to Greece with Cersei. Shame rained on me like a storm as the guests left one after the other."Why would a common omega aspire to be the bride of the King?"“Who does it think she is? There are better women out there, women of real royalty and she dares think she has as a chance?”"Finally the veil over Kael's sensibility has been lifted. Aylin Moondream my foot.”I stood in the decorated hall and listened to all of it. The mockery, and the pity that was worse than the mockery. Not one person stopped to question why their king had abandoned his Luna for the daughter of a dead sorcerer, the princess of a pack infamous for dark magic and treachery. Not one person found it strange. To them I was the problem. The presumptuous omega who had climbed too high and was now falling where she belonged.But I kept this alive. I gave up everything I was to keep that man breathing. And I stood i







