“I believe Darius and I have come to a middle ground on this,” Tyrell said just as Deirdre and I walked into the throne room.I turned to Darius to gauge where we stood with Tyrell, and from the smile on his face, I knew he had done it. He was successful in getting Tyrell on our side.“It’s time for us to go back to the pack. We don’t exactly leave our pack in the hands of others, especially when they’re that many. They have a hard time living each other when they’re that much,” Tyrell informed as he placed a hand on Deirdre’s waist and led her away.“It would be a total honor to have you over at the pack sometime, Zara. I can show you around. It gets boring being the Luna who’s trapped in the house because somebody doesn’t want her leaving.” She glared at Tyrell as she said this.“I’ll find some time to come. I’ll let you know first, of course,” I said with a genuine smile. It would be kind to have a friend who understood the same struggles of being a Luna that I did.“Absolutely! Ma
“I made a new deal with the witches,” I announced to Darius when I walked into the bedroom and found him sitting in bed with a sleeping Aaron.“That’s good news. Sometimes I don’t know how you do it.” He shook his head in amazement. “Also, Alpha Tyrell is coming over to the pack today. He wants to talk about the alliance between us and how well it stands.”I could see the worry on his face, and I hated it. He knew he was a good alpha, but the events of the past few days had been weighing down on him.“Darius,” I called out to him with a worried frown. “You’re going to do good. You’re the same person who created the alliance in the first place, aren’t you? I’m sure you can do it.”He nodded, but there was still a glazed look in his eyes that told me he wasn’t exactly ready to go down there.“Alpha Darius,” a soldier called after knocking and walking in. “Alpha Tyrell and Luna Deirdre are here. They’re down in your throne room to have a talk with you. What do I tell them?”“We’ll be dow
The witches were more affected by the death of their leader than I thought they would be. It was obvious right from the moment I stepped into their coven and the gloom hit me so much that it almost made me cry.“What in the world…” I trailed off as I looked around to see vines hugging trees so tightly. It was a sight I had not seen the last time I was there. It was now harder for me to walk down the paths because there were vines covering the whole place, making it hard for me to find where to put my legs.As if the trees were not enough, the vines crawled up the houses of everyone. Almost as if it was keeping everyone in and keeping everyone else out.I was torn between calling out for attention and going to see the state of Janet’s house. I settled for walking over to her house, which was the most shocking sight of all.There was barely anything there I could call a house. It was all green with the vines that had wrapped the space up, small flowers opening up to the sky from the vin
Darius and I burst out of the bedroom, instructing the woman who was tasked with taking care of Aaron to join him in the bedroom and lock the door. As soon as we were out of the house, I started to hear the loud noises of people from the borders.“I think you should return to watch over Aaron,” Darius said when he stopped in his tracks and cupped my cheeks in his hands.“No.” I shook my head. “Someone’s taking care of him. If I see the arrow and figure out that it looks like the one from before, then we’ll be sure to rule the rogues out of it.”Darius looked at me, clearly confused at my logic. But I didn’t have the time to explain just yet. I would tell him everything when we reached and saw the arrow, so I took his hand and led him to the border.“There!” He pointed in the direction of the spot where a good number of the guards were gathered and yelling.“He’s dead! There’s nothing we can do!” One of them yelled at someone else who seemed to be bending right beside the body of the s
“It’s someone we know,” Darius said as he paced up and down in the bedroom. I was feeding Aaron, but my mind was racing with the different possibilities of who could have sent that arrow to us.So far, all we knew was that the person was skilled in archery, and the person knew that we would be at Aeron’s pack. Or they had followed us there.“And you’re saying you trust every single soldier you have out there? You don’t think there’s a possibility that one of them could be a spy?” I raised my brow at him.He looked at me with a warning stare and slightly shook his head as if telling me not to go there. I couldn’t help but have that thought, though. Would it be the first time that we were being betrayed by someone we trusted? No.“You do know that if you have any spies among your soldiers, it wouldn’t be your fault. I hope you know that,” I reminded him. “And it wouldn’t make you a horrible alpha of your people. In fact—”“No, Zara.” He stopped me by raising a hand to keep me from going
“Darius!” I yelled. Fortunately, I managed to hold his hand and pull him back to me before he could run to Frank and start the same thing that had gotten us here in the first place.“You don’t want to do this,” I whispered aggressively at him as I pulled him far away from the crowd. “Maintain a level head. This is the same reason why we’re here, Darius. You know that.”He looked down at me as he heaved continuously. Then, he stepped back and raised his hands in surrender to signal to me that he wasn’t going to do anything rash.“I see why the moon goddess picked you and not him,” Frank said to me, starting to press on at Darius’s short fuse. “Maybe you should be the alpha since you’re better at speaking and convincing people instead of him. His brother was miles better than him at being a leader. That’s why his pack is still as backward as it is.”“You’re starting to push it. I have no patience for this nonsense,” Darius warned him. “I know the last thing my brother would want is me b