LOGINOctava’s povI stared at the man before me, he was desperate to know what my answer was. How could I tell him what I was feeling?I took in deep breaths and looked around. “We don’t need to talk about this…”“Stop stalling octava,” he gritted his teeth in anger. “Just stop… it doesn’t suit you.”“So what do you want me to say? It's not like I can easily push aside everything that I'm feeling right now. And most of which isn't related to romance. I'm mad, and I'm not just mad about you or Kaelan or Thomas. My emotions are all over the place. I just need time to think.”“Octava, you've had time to think for a very long time, yet you haven't done anything about it. All I'm just asking for is how you're feeling right now.”“And I don't know!” I yelled. “I don't know how I'm feeling. I'm still thinking about it, trying to understand why things are happening the way it's happening. I don't think you understand where I'm going with this.”“No,” he shook his head, “because I actually don't.
Octava’s pov“No,” I shook my head. “That’s not the point. You’re changing the narrative.”“I am not,” he said adamantly. “I’m dealing with a pattern here. If there’s one thing that I’ve realized on this planet that we’re living on, it’s that everything is a cycle. Everything is a pattern. You can’t hate one without hating the other.”I shook my head. “Well, I’m not like that. I’m on the very low chance that I’m going to hate anyone for going against what I don’t like.”“So you’re trying to tell me right now that if I and Jakeson were to say, ‘release Thomas,’ you won’t hate us?”I bit my lower lip. “There’s no way you guys would say that after what you’ve gone through. You lost a lot of warriors out there.”“I did,” he smiled, “and a lot at that. But the question now is, with how many people that I have lost, do you think that the first thing on my mind would be to go ahead and try to kill the man? I would not be thinking of that.”“That’s because he never kidnapped your son.”“I’ve
Octava’s povAs I walked out of the room, my anger rose to high heights.I couldn’t believe my mother would side with those traitors.I got out of the palace to breathe; this place was suffocating me, but the moment I closed the door behind me, I found the elder who had been with my mother standing before me. Instinctively, I clenched my fists in anger.He looked at it and then smiled while looking up at my face.“Are you going to hit me?”I shrugged. “Did you do anything to deserve the punch?”He smiled at me, then muttered, “I understand how angry you are. To be honest, I am not happy about what Thomas did either, but here we are.”“Here we are about what? You are not the one who had his entire life turned upside down. You are not the one who Thomas kidnapped his child. He waged a war against this kingdom by aligning himself with rogues. Yes, you heard me. I had to watch my warriors die in the field of battle. I had to align myself with wolves. That’s something that Lycans have neve
Jakeson’s povSeeing her standing there made me smile even wider. I could only imagine the way my wolf was jumping within me.“Are you okay?” she asked, as I gave a short nod. “Because you’ve been staring at me since without saying anything. Did you hit your head too hard on your way down?”I scoffed. “You really have a way with words.”She shrugged. “I had to learn. After all, it wasn’t like you were there to help me or protect me.”I sighed. “Octava, please.”She stared at me for a while, before giving a nod and stepping back. “I’m sorry. I just had to say it.”I shook my head. “You don’t have to apologise, but at the same time, you have to understand that I’m trying everything I can for you. I don’t want to be that guy who does things to hurt you, but at the same time, I don’t also want to be that guy who doesn’t show you how much he likes you, how much he deserves you.”All she did was smile and give me a short nod. “Fine. Let’s say that you are right. Let’s just say that for the
Jakeson’s povElma was a piece of work. Talking to her was going to give me so many issues and I just wanted to stay away from her by all means.“Harrison, could you please leave us?” she said to my beta, but that only angered me as I sat up.“He stays.”“I just want to talk to you about something so important. Just the two of us.”“Whatever you want to say, say it in front of my beta. We are both leaders of our pack.”She scoffed, “Well, what I want to say is a matter of the heart and not of the pack. Harrison doesn't need to be here for that part.”I opened my mouth to counter what she had said when Harrison stepped forward, “I think I'll just let you two sort out what the problem is. I'll be outside if you need me alpha.”I felt something inside me break as I watched him leave while Elma had a victorious smile on her face.She stayed there for a while before walking to the window to stare out of it.“The lycans do know how to design their kingdom. Have you seen how immaculate their
Jakeson’s povI slowly opened my eyes as I winced when it was hit with a bright light. I tried to raise my hand to shield my face, only to find it was restrained by something. With a heavy sigh, I fell back in my bed to look around and think of where I was.I was in a hospital, but how had I ended up here?What was the last thing I could remember? That was when it hit me. I had been engaged in a fight with the one-eyed bandit and he had sliced me with his wolfsbane-infused sword while also being shot with a bullet laced with wolfsbane.I had almost died.My eyes soon got used to the light as I found someone standing by the window. The figure of the person was blurred as I tried to make out who was standing there.“You’re awake!” the person said, as I blinked rapidly, getting the full shape of the blurred person.She turned to me. It was the queen. She was in normal clothes, not her royal regalia. And she looked so ordinary. No guards around her, no crown, no heavy makeup. She just l







