تسجيل الدخولBella’s POV“I’m not leaving,” my aunt said, “if that’s what you’re bracing yourself to hear.”I let out a breath that I did not know I was holding.Then what were you preparing me for I asked her.The end of answers she said. She held the teacup tighter in her hands. I meant that I cannot stay here forever hiding behind your walls while you are fighting a war that I helped start a time ago before you were even born. I owe your family more than hiding. I just do not know what that means I should do. I did not want you to think that I would run away again as soon as things got tough.Something in my chest felt better like a weight was lifted off. I felt relieved. I understood her. I looked at her face still noticing all the things that remind me of my mother, who I barely remember. I am still surprised when I see parts of myself in her face even though she is a stranger, to me.“Take whatever time you need to figure it out,” I said.“You’re not required to have every answer today.”She
Bella’s POVShe looked really thin standing inside the gate with Thors hand still near her arm. He did not trust her enough yet to let her walk freely through the compound. The weeks since she was at the keep had taken a lot out of her. There were circles under her eyes that were not there before and she was really careful about how she moved. It was like she was waiting for something to happen."Bella."That was all I said. I said it like I was not sure if I would get to say it. I walked across the yard before I even thought about it. I stopped a few feet away from her. I was still a little careful around her."You are alive " I said. "They let you go.""They did not let me do anything " she said. She was really tired. She did not even try to smile. "I left the night you did. Once it was quiet and nobody was watching the door I just walked out. I have been learning how to hide for thirty years. It was useful this time."Draven appeared next to me. I could tell he was really tense. "Y
Bella’s POVWe talked until the fire in Draven’s study burned down to embers, neither of us willing to be the one who left the conversation unfinished."I was thinking out loud because it was not helping me to think about it quietly in my mind " I said. The pressure does not get better if I stay. It probably gets worse the longer she sees the Artificial Intelligence system hold together despite everything she is doing to us.Draven said ". If you leave." His voice was very calm. I could tell it was hard for him to ask the question. "Tell me what you really think will happen if you leave the Artificial Intelligence system " he said.I think some of the pressure eases, at least in front of others. The story changes. Maybe some of the deals come back once it seems like the two of us aren't together anymore for her to focus on as one person. I hated how logical the words felt even as I said them hated the pain of seeing Draven’s face stay calm while something clearly hurt him to hear. ".
Draven’s POVThe old rogue coalition dissolved on a Tuesday, the message arriving through Frey, terse and final.We are sorry to let you know that the coalition can no longer stay connected to your area because of problems. This choice is not about you personally.I read the message three times feeling the pain of seeing an alliance I had worked two years to create step by step carefully working through every negotiation fall apart because of one message that took less time to write than it did to read. I remembered every meeting it had taken to get their trust at the beginning every offer I made every late night spent showing I was good enough, for an alliance that had never been as strong as I thought it was.Thor stood across the desk from me. Said "This is the sixth one this month". He was clearly frustrated. He was trying to stay calm. We have lost a lot of connections like the people who supply us with things and some of the groups that used to send their kids to us to learn.I
Bella’s POVThe days that came after felt like a jumble of tiredness and something unfamiliar like a mix of healing and being under attack.We returned to the compound after spending three days at the farmhouse once Draven decided the danger of an attack had changed into something more patient more planned out. The story about the council room did not go away. It actually got stronger as other people repeated it and added details. This turned one afternoon into a story about the council room being unstable. The story about the council room followed the council room wherever we went. I started jumping every time a phone rang in the house. This was a feeling for me. It was not there a week before. Now my body reacted this way all the time.One afternoon I was in the garage. I watched Gordon take another call from a supplier. The supplier was backing out of a long-time deal with the council room. I felt something in my chest. I did not know what it was at first. Then I realized it was fe
Draven’s POVThor met me at the door, a tablet screen glowing in his hand, his face carrying the particular grimness of a man about to hand someone a problem they weren’t going to like.Ronan said that this story is the start of our problems. She does not want to defeat us today. She wants to wear us down before the fight that will really count. Every time we lose a contract every time one of our friends stops helping the team every time the news makes the team look bad. None of these things will completely destroy the team away. The team will just get weaker and weaker so that when the real fight comes the team will not have the strength to stand up for ourselves.Bella just stood there thinking about what Ronan said. I could see Bella realizing the same thing that I just figured out.Then Bella said that the team cannot let ourselves get too tired. The team has to be smart about which problems the team tries to solve and which ones the team can just let happen without using up all o
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







