ログインBella’s POVThe refuge turned out to be an old farmhouse, sagging at the edges, hidden behind enough overgrown brush that I understood immediately why it had survived thirty years without discovery.We got to the place before it was really daytime. We were all tired and hurt. Ronan was still shaking like a leaf from what had happened to him from the thing that had made him hurt the people he was supposed to help. Nobody said much on the way to the house we were all too tired to talk we just. Breathed. We had left our cars back where we started. Now we were just trying to get to the house. The house smelled old and dusty when we finally got inside it smelled like wood smoke too. It was so quiet in there it felt like nobody had lived in the house for a time like it had been empty, for longer than anyone had ever lived in it.Gordon got the fireplace going while Thor checked the perimeter, old habits from a night that had already taught us exactly how quickly safety could turn into ambus
Bella’s POVRonan.I stared down at his face, slack and unconscious, blood matting one side of his hair where Gordon’s blow had apparently connected harder than any of us had realized in the chaos of the fight, and felt the whole shape of the last several minutes rearrange itself into something far worse than a simple ambush. My legs were still buzzing from moving two times in a day and they were ready to collapse completely under the weight of what I was seeing.I said that it is not possible. My voice was very quiet. He was supposed to be, at the entrance making a distraction.He was there Thor said in a tone he was already checking Ronans pulse, his face did not show what he was really feeling inside. This means that something happened to Ronan between the entrance and something that changed the plan.Draven knelt down beside them he looked at Ronans face closely this made me feel worried.His pupils Draven said, look at Ronans pupils.I looked, and even in the dim torchlight I cou
Bella’s POV“Everybody out. Now.”Dravens voice was really loud in the room. It stopped all the noise. I felt Dravens hand grab my arm. He pulled me towards the doors. The old leaders were still shouting behind us. The guards did not know what to do. They were not sure if they should remain and guard the room or take everyone out of there. My legs were very tired, from everything that happened in the two days. They did not want to move. My body kept moving because I was scared of what Draven would do if I did not.We only took three steps before everything went black and the lights went out.Draven and I were stuck in the dark. All the lights went out at the time. The chamber dropped into darkness. It was so dark that it took my eyes seconds to see even the faintest outlines of the room, around Draven and me. Somewhere in that dark, I heard the distinct sound of a body hitting stone, and then another, quick and controlled, the particular efficiency of people who’d trained for exactly
Bella’s POV“I won’t be part of this.”The voice came from deeper along the row of seven seats one of the elders getting up with some difficulty his face showing a special kind of pale color like a man who had just seen all his belief in his own power fall apart right in front of him. I hadn’t really noticed him before one of the seven but something about the way his voice was shaking made me look at him properly for the first time. He was young enough that this seat had probably been the top of his dreams not something he had been in for a time already.The woman looked in his direction her expression changing from satisfaction to a bit of curiosity.“Won’t be part of what " she asked.“Whatever this is " he said. His voice was shaking,. He didn’t go back to his seat. "I took this seat thinking I was working for the power, in our world. If that power was never real if we’ve all just been pretending to govern for the benefit of something hiding behind a screen then I have nothing left
Draven’s POVI knew her voice before I fully processed why.It took a while for the memory to come back to me hidden away for four years because I did not want to think about the night of my life.. When it came back it all came back at once and it was not welcome. I heard a voice that I had only heard one time before. I was standing over a grave that I had dug myself.I had told myself for years that I did not remember much about that night because I was so sad.. I guess some part of me remembered that voice really well and it came back, to me now.I said "You were there" before I even knew I was going to say it. The night my friend died you were there.The woman’s face changed, a look that was almost happy appearing for a moment as if I had finally seen something she had been waiting for me to notice."I wondered how long it would take you " she said. "Four years is a time to hide a memory that specific. Good job, on finding it again.""You gave the order.""I gave orders that night.
Bella’s POVShe didn’t look dangerous.That was the thing that caught my attention watching the person walk across the stone floor toward the seven elders none of the threat I had prepared for. An woman silver hair tied back in a way wearing clothes that could have belonged to someones grandmother, the kind of face that made you want to believe in it even before she said a single word. She walked like someone who had never had to rush in her life every step not disturbed by the dozen pairs of eyes now looking at her."Please forgive the drama" she said, her voice was calm and almost apologetic. "I do not like secrets and screens I think secrets and screens are bad if I am being honest. Places like this work when some conversations happen where nobody can see them that is what I think about secrets and screens.The old man with hair sat up in his chair I could see the old man with hair was really scared. The old man with hair was scared under his face now that the person he answered to
Bella's POV I began to run as fast as my legs could carry me, even though I was wolfless. I was agile and had always secretly trained myself to be strong, even though I had no wolf. A Luna was supposed to have strength to defend the pack alongside her Alpha. I had done all these so that I coul
Bella's POVRonan almost fell to the floor as he coughed up blood, his body folding in on itself as if he were weakly—no, even weaker than I was ever supposed to be.“How dare you, Bella?” He snapped, his voice hoarse yet filled with disbelief. As if the idea of me rejecting him first was something
Bella's POVThe rain was incessant as it destroyed all the dishes and cakes I had made for our night dining with Ronan.He hadn't come for the hotel reservation I made for the both of us, wanting to celebrate our anniversary.And I wasn't ready to give up celebrating it because of the bad incidents
Bella's POVToday was my fourth anniversary with my mate Ronan, the alpha prince of Moonstone pack, but instead of happiness, I had mixed feelings.I held the test strip in my hands as I hid myself in the crowd, watching the bikers on track racing."You're infetile, luna Bella" the doctor's voice e