I was up way before Groban woke up the next morning, I had already showered and dressed myself, and was now in the kitchen preparing breakfast. I was really hungry, it was undoubtedly because of the cold as we had officially been hit with winter last night as if blasted with the sheer vengeance thereof.
Or maybe it was the dream I had last night, it kept replaying in my head over and over. Seeing Dimitrius’s face as he glared at me, and then all those women standing protectively as they surrounded me. Stopping what I was doing I leaned my one palm against the counter before placing my other hand against my stomach.
My brows furrowed as I tried to shake the dream from reality, ‘It was just a dream, it was just a dream,’ I kept breathing as I momentarily closed my eyes. Sighing as I forced myself out of my reverie I quickly stood up on my tippy toes as I reached for the eggs which were on the top shelf of the cupboard in a basket, suddenly I gasped as I felt his body p
Groban POV Groban POV I tried to compose myself, still reeling my beast back in just as I got to the door to open it. When I did, I was met with Dax standing in the cold of the morning with white snow covered everywhere outside, besides seeing his ugly mug, the scenery was actually quite beautiful. “What the fuck do you want?” I snapped at him, my irritability level now being way off at this point. My beast was going crazy inside of me after smelling a different scent of Laya, what the hell was going on, why was there another scent attached to her own. It was driving my beast to the brink of insanity. “Well this isn’t exactly the way you should be greeting you’re big brother now is it, Groban,” Oh I was definitely not in the mood for any of his bullshit today, that was for sure. “Dax, I’m not in the mood, so just tell me what you want and get it over with,” nodding his head in his normal devious manner he merely shrugged,
Groban POV Three days ago I found out that Laya was carrying our pup, and honestly my stomach was in knots. I was trying to stay calm, cool and collected. Except how could I, she was carrying my own and we were stuck in the pit of a place that would kill us with no remorse if they found out what we were. This made me more anxious because now it wasn’t just us anymore, there was someone else to worry about, my baby was growing inside of her and all I wanted to do was being happy and excited but I couldn’t. I needed to go and speak with Ward, it was winter and we were closed in with snow, there was no way that we would be able to leave now, but sooner or later we would have to leave here, the brothers wouldn’t take kindly to a pregnant female in the camp. So I had to play it smart, I had to make sure that I would be able to get Laya and our unborn child out of here when the time was right, for now at least with the heavy snow, it s
Ward POV I looked up from my desk with my reading glasses securely nestled on the bridge of my nose, while evaluating the new territory threat we had been warned about. It seemed this whole world was going up in a ball of shit and soon every human being alive would be clawing at the very existence of itself. Groban stood in the doorway of my cabin looking at me in a familiar way I had seen him look at me so many times before as a small boy, each and every time that he had done something and was afraid of what I would do or say he would have that same look upon his face. The thing is there was never a thing that he could do to disappoint me, it just wasn’t in him to do so. I wished sometimes that he had indeed been my biological child with Marina, because as much as I loved my son Dax, he showed the characteristics of a narcissistic psychopath. He enjoyed killing, and the brutality of this world excited him instead of causing him to flinch away
That night the brothers were all gathered together around the great fire for a meeting. I walked behind Groban and sat beside him on a tree stump around the warm fire. I didn’t look up but noticed a lot of unhappy eyes on me, Dax was the first to pass a remark. “Seriously Groban, now you have to bring her to our meetings too. This is strictly for brothers not vermin,” Glaring at him Groban smirked, “Dax, I would gladly leave her in my cabin but, for the life of me I can’t seem to figure out why you can’t stay away from my cabin all of a sudden,” Narrowing his eyes at Groban, Dax scoffed but said nothing. Ward entered the circle and took his place at the head of everyone else, he had two elders on his left and three on his right. Swallowing hard I clenched my jaw. I always kept my eyes down not to let on what I was, if I dared look up I would be dead where I sat, Dax and the brothers would kill me.
The next morning as I stood preparing breakfast there was a knock at the door, I instantly felt a lump in my throat as I gasped, I stared at the door as I clenched my jaw but I didn’t make any advances toward going to open it. Groban wasn’t here and he definitely wouldn’t be knocking anyways. Again there was a knock at the door, sighing I decided to slowly make my way over to it. Don’t be scared Laya, you are a white wolf, you are more terrifying than any human standing on the other side of that door, I kept telling myself. I took a deep breath before finally opening it. Somewhat surprised by who was on the other side my brows furrowed, I saw Ward standing right in front of me staring at me as he smiled softly and nodded at me, “Um- Groban isn’t here,” I said instantly looking down. I still felt terrible for the way I had spoken to him the last time that I had seen him, at the time I didn’t know why but soon after realizing that I was pregnant it all kind of
Groban was lying on the kitchen floor where he collapsed shortly after both ward and I had basically helped to carry him from the front door, my eyes had scanned outside briefly across the snow and there was blood splotches in a path in the white soft snow as he had stammered toward safety. He was covered in blood all over, his chest, his face, down his arms and legs. It looked like he had fought hard against whatever or whomever had attacked him. Ward had him on his back as he ripped at his shirt to see the extent of the damage, and I felt helpless in that moment as I gasped at the sight of all the blood the moment I saw his chest. I felt my body begin to tremble as I wrapped my hands around his one hand, I sobbed as I shushed him saying, “It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s going to be okay,” he groaned as he winced in pain and agony at the sudden contact of Ward as he inspected the wounds more closely, and a part of me wanted to smack Ward away, to stop him from hu
Groban POV When I came too I expected to see Lay right beside me, but she wasn’t. Instead I turned to see Ward sitting on a kitchen chair with his arms slung over his knees gingerly wiping at the dry blood against his hands with a cloth, clearly my dry blood, I thought as my brows furrowed. “How long have I been out?” I mumbled as I slowly sat up to inspect my chest, it had completely healed which wasn’t surprising I suppose. I was a shifter and not just any kind but a lycan prince, but still, the wounds had been so severe I wasn’t quite sure if my body would mean?” “You’re symbols Groban, they began glowing red and the moment Laya placed hers to yours, you’re whole body arched off the ground, you’re veins were glowing red as well and then you’re wounds knitted themselves together at such a speed, none of which I have ever witnessed on you before. Groban, you’re wounds should have killed you,” gulping I started looking around almost frantically
Groban POVI darted through the snow in the direction in the direction of where I knew Laya would have gone, my heart was beating hard in my chest. So many things running through my mind all at once as I kept pushing forward at a rapid pace, I knew I needed to get to her, stop her from going after Demetrius.She doesn’t know what she’s going up against, not even I had known the full extent of what Demetrius was capable of until earlier today.It had happened so fast that I hadn’t had time to prepare, because I had shifted that time in the woods with Laya, it’s been on the back of mind constantly that Dimitrius would be able to know of my existence and there for be able to track me down.And I had been right to be concerned, I had been correct in doing daily perimeter checks and looking for a threat. The problem was, I had never anticipated how calculated and well-orchestrated Demetrius would have been.