CHAPTER 46 ALICIA’S POV A part of me could sense something wrong the moment I woke up. First off, there was the loud sounds of birds chirping and the sun streaming in from wherever the Goddess knew where coupled with the fact that the bed was very warm more than it should be, giving off something that only had a meaning: I didn't sleep alone and there was someone with me. I opened my eyes after a while, a yawn escaping my lips before swallowing my morning spit. The first sight of the bedsheet confirmed my entire fear, the black color a very far contrast to what I’ll get no matter where I am. I was never a black color person. I sat up immediately, taking a long look at my surroundings before everything rushed to my brain. My eyes widened more than their normal rate as I let out a long internal scream within me. I was in his bedroom. I was in ARTFOLD PANTHER, the alpha’s bedroom. I spent the night in his bedroom. There was no word for this, aside from the fact that I was doome
CHAPTER 47 ALICIA’S POV When I finally opened my eyes again, I was in the doctor’s office and his big face with his large rimmed glass was right in front of my face, a touch shining brightly on my face and a disgust that has never left his face either because of me or something else still seating there. Maybe I would talk to Artfold about him. He clearly doesn't like his job enough to wear disgust on his face this much. “I’m awake.” I breathed out. He moved away from me immediately, turning the touch off and crawling to his little space where he jots stuffs in. “Do you hate me this much?” He looked back at me, his face now dissolved, “I do not hate you, lady. I simply do not like the way you take some of my times by your needless fainting.” I scoffed, managing to sit up. I wanted to reply to him when he stood up and marched towards the door, slamming it shut and leaving me with no one else to throw my response too. I fell back to the bed, closing my eyes quietly. How did I
CHAPTER 48 ARTFOLD’S POV It was late evening already, yet the words I read from the pages of what Alexander left us, the one that hung in my head without movement was what he said of her, what he knows of her and if I ever get to catch that bastard, I would skin him head to toe and every part of his body and make sure he knows what he has messed with. “I know where she lives, I know where she hides, what she eats everyday and things that she does. She is still very much alive and only I, can lead you to where she is.” He has written in his note. He knew that Alicia figured it out. He had said in the note that he saw it from her face. He didn’t mean to keep taking a part of her memories, but he needed it. That bastard had the effrontery to write that he meant well when he was coming back to the pack but on meeting Alicia, he figured she was a part of a great grand scheme that was coming for me, hence why he did what he had to do. I wore the last of my clothing as I stepped outside,
CHAPTER 49 ARTFOLD’S POV “How much did you hear?” I asked, returning to my seat and putting my ass on it. She walked towards the chair, her heels clicking on the floor at every step she took. She took the first chair to my right, crossing her legs and making herself comfortable before snapping her head towards me. Her eyes were calm as the waters, her face radiating with a glow. If not for Alexander, we should be eating dinner together, my mind and head running all over the place on how to ask her the questions I badly wanted to ask her the night before. But if not for her, I would have had Alexander in my palm, he would have not gotten any chance to escape and maybe I would have been in the car by now, riding off to find my beautiful and dearest mate. My Liana. “I remember everything he took from me,” she finally said something. “What?” “I said, I remember every memory he took from me. Everything. I remember them fully now.” She restated. A frown made its way to my face, sh
CHAPTER 50 ALICIA’S POV It has been three days since everything happened and the heat in the pack has not even died down for a bit. Everyone was working more than their working hours, the priestess didn’t have any time to even entertain me because they kept having meetings on meetings, Callum the same thing and Artfold has not shown his face ever since that night. Asides from the note he asked a guard to deliver to me last night. “I really want you, Alicia. In everything I’ve been doing, you take up half of my thoughts, but I need time to be sure about you, about us. And if this is what I want.” I angrily tore the note and threw it to the bin. It was all an excuse, and I didn’t want to think of it to be something more than that. If I did, I was lying to myself. If Liana returned, there would never be a part where he would think if he was now sure about them, he would take her, swing her in his arms without a doubt. I didn’t want to be the second guessed mate. It was a thing that
CHAPTER 51 ALICIA’S POV. I didn’t say anything immediately I figured he was in the room, just turned back and continued my search for where the little switch could be. If it was in my room that this happened, I would know my way around but here, I don’t know one shit and I can’t afford to stay with him in the darkness even for one more minute. My hands fumbled in the dark, my eyes opened to nothing but a pit of nothingness. I carried my feet carefully, not wanting to give myself a bruise in a locked room without any care. And which I was sure that Callum or Mia would never find any help. Mia. I was going to kill her immediately I was out of this place. If Callum had come to me, I would not have answered but I only came here because it turned out to be Mia, because she begged me with something that turned out to be a lie. I was trying to figure out where the light was when I felt something stumble hard on me. A scream left my mouth as I figured out what it was, I was going to f
CHAPTER 52 ALICIA’S POV. “I missed you, Alicia.” The silence in the room turned sour and awkward immediately. I gulped down, unable to form words to use as a response or even open my mouth to him. “And I know it might sound wrong and all, but I really missed you. You didn’t even come out once for the air or anything, I sent numerous guards to you and you declined everything..” I stood up, anger soaring within me. I walked towards the door and twisted the knob, wanting to leave. He has chosen her over and over me every fucking time and now he had the guts to start professing.. “Alicia… “I’m sorry, Artfold but I really don’t want to have this conversation with you. It would be better if we just eat and sit in silence till they come back.” “But I’m really sorry…” I turned back to meet his eye, “and I do not care!” “I do not care if you’re sorry or not. I’ve watched the first mate turn his back on me. I begged and pleaded, did everything he said I should do to have a place. I
CHAPTER 53 ARTFOLD’S POV I was the first person to wake up between both of us, and waking up first has never felt so beautiful and sweet at the same time. I could not remember the last time I felt this way. Maybe when Liana was still alive. I quickly shoved the thoughts of Liana off my mind to focus on her, the way she slept so peacefully, the way her lashes rested on her face quietly. Everything felt so surreal and stomach filling. I stared to her face. Last night has been one of my best nights so far, crazy and splendid. From the kiss, the little approvals, her little giggle, me holding her till morning, everything was great. I leaned and placed a peck on her cheeks before standing up, ignoring the pit in my stomach that felt weird about everything. I lifted the corners of my lips up as an idea for the morning popped into my head. An annoying sigh escaped my lips, followed with the clench of my jaws as I turned the knob and noticed it was still locked. “Callum…” I growled in