Darius's POV.There was something odd about the way all of my plans were all of a sudden shattered, and I knew that I needed to go deeper into seeking what really happened instead of looking at the exterior. Isabella is giving me her opinion, which was to do an open execution search, which means that whoever finds Ryan and Jessica first has the direct order to kill them. But that was not what I had in mind; it was nothing related to the way I wanted all of this to go.That evening before retiring to sleep, I decided that I was going to go out of the Ashmoon pack the next day and find the seer. The seer was the one who always revealed deep things about the pack and the entire kingdom to us, and for a long time I had not visited or spoken to him since my war with Ryan and ruling of the pack with Isabella.I believed strongly that with the powers that Isabella had been able to get and with the two of us combined as the rulers of the Ashmoon Pack, I did not need any guardians from a seer,
Isabella's POVWhen Ryan and Jessica suddenly disappeared from the Ashmoon Pack, I knew that I was now faced with one enemy, and that enemy was Darius. I failed to take out Ryan and Jessica, but I was not going to bother myself about them but deal with Darius until I had gotten my ground, and then I would go after Ryan and Jessica myself.I knew he was going to be extremely angry, so I did not bother saying a word to him at that moment until I was certain that his anger would have begun to die down.It was not until the next day, almost in the evening, that I went to his chamber with a tray of food in my hand, wanting to calm him down, and despite how resistant he was, I still insisted on going into the room and dropping in the food for him."I want to help you do this, and I want you to know that despite our differences or whatever the issue between us might be, I am always by your side, and everything I want is that you win. How about we give an instant execution order and ask that
Darius's POV.That night I felt like hanging myself and letting myself die when I realized that my soldiers could not get hold of Ryan, Jessica, and the other accomplice. It felt like the end of the world to me as I was forming in anger, scattering everything in my bedroom, not wanting to speak to anyone because if I was given the chance to speak to anyone, I was going to rip their head off and take my vengeance on them.My room was locked from the inside, as only I stayed in there trying to understand how I had Ryan and Jessica, and all of a sudden they both disappeared without a trace. It was the worst thing that has ever happened to me, and the words of Ryan coming back to me telling me how everything was going to be a failure kept haunting me.I immediately dismissed taking the ceremony when Ryan and Jessica got out as I waited for them to return so that I was going to carry out the execution even without the ceremony, but I had waited all through the night and to the next morning
Ryan's POV.At that moment I could not blame her because I could see right through her that she was weak and she needed rest, and slowly I helped lay Murphy in a corner and led him to rest with his head on a stone that I had kept, and Jessica found a spot where she lay slowly. The night cloud had covered completely, and it was not a full moon night, so the moon was not shining up there in the sky.I walked over to the spot where Jessica lay, and as I sat there, I could feel her breathing was so low. He was completely exhausted, and that was one thing that made me detest her for using the Luna Shadow Curse; however, she had used it to save me, and I was eternally grateful."I'm sorry that I am the reason you are so exhausted, Jessica. I wish there was another way we could go about this. I wouldn't have made you suffer this much," I said to her in a low voice, but she was already closing my eyes by that time, and to indicate that she had heard me, she slowly lifted her hand and placed i
Ryan's POV.All that was ringing in my head from that moment were the instructions that Jessica had given me, and I was anxiously waiting for the moment when Murphy was going to attack so that we would begin to fight our way out of the Ashmoon Pack, but then something else caught my attention, and it was the way that Isabella had called Darius to a corner and they were speaking in whispers.There was a little something off about the way that they had gone to the corner and were speaking, not wanting us to hear what it was that they were saying, and I knew instantly that Isabella was at her plan.I turned my gaze to Jessica, who was also focused on Darius and Isabella, and at that moment I wished desperately that Murphy was going to show up so that we would be out of there as soon as possible.I tried to move closer. So Jessica had a word with her, but the girl that would hold me there was very vigilant as he dragged the chains binding my hand, pulling me hard to the ground.I shut my
Isabella's POV."Oh no, Ryan. I think you are getting this all wrong; it is not I who would fight you. I know that you have always thought yourself to be superior to me, and fighting with me is going to seem like child's play to you, which is the reason I do not want to strip you of that flex and let you fight someone who I know very well is way tougher than you, and if you are actually able to defeat this one warrior, then you are able to keep your life intact." Darius said to Ryan, and from where I stood, I became even more curious because I wondered who it was Ryan was going to be facing if it was not Darius.I had expected that Darius was going to want to fight Ryan himself, especially since he claimed that Ryan did not have his wolf and that he had won Ryan in a battle before. I thought that staring in silence as I waited anxiously to see who this warrior that Darius had decided was going to be the one to fight Ryan would be.Just then he began to walk in, and as he stood in fron