CHAPTER HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT ALPHA KADEN’S POVA WEEK AGOI sat on the mat spread out on the porch of the getaway house, stretching my hands. Since I left Zephyr, I had been traveling around with Eretria. A few days back we stopped at this lovely resort in god-knows-where and paid for their get away house which was also located in a place outside the map came with. I was worried but she thought it was one hell of adventure. Well, I grinned, the things we have done in this house is quite an adventure.“Do you love this view that much?” Asked a familiar voice. I turned around. She smiled at me, carrying a tray of food with her. I stood up immediately and helped her with it. I placed it on the mat. She sat next to me. “I asked you a question.”“Oh the view. Well, it’s alright but I wasn’t really thinking about that. I was thinking about that trip.”“Why do I have a feeling that in those thoughts, there is not a moment you picture the things we did outside the bedroom.”I grin
CHAPTER HUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVEN TAYLOR’S POVPRESENT DAY“What happened when I was out. I feel like I feel a building.” I complained, stretch out my tired body while Zephyr watched. “Do you feel pain?” He asked warmly. He sounded quite exhausted.“No I don’t. Just weak and weird. I feel like I’ve grown an inch.” I turned to face him, draped in a thin strapless nightgown.He grinned. “You’ve grown a lot of things.”“Really?” I asked, surprised. He pointed at the mirror hanging on the wall. I flip flopped to it. Zephyr just kept his eyes on me. He just seemed like he couldn’t believe that I was awake and well. I didn’t need anyone to tell e what ever happened when I was asleep, wasn’t simple at all. But I didn’t want him to keep thinking about it or looking at me like I was still weighed down by it.I stopped right in front of the mirror, staring at the reflection it casted. I frowned. ‘This… is this me? This can’t be me, right?’ I turned to look at Zephyr. “Shocked?” I nodded.
CHAPTER HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX ZEPHYR’S POV“Zulu.” I called out his name. He was standing with his back turned, admiring a painting hung on the wall. He spun around immediately. He bowed.“Greetings Alpha Zephyr.”His eyes traced me from head to toe. I was covered in bandages and bruises. Has brows furrowed.“You have something to tell me.” “Oh.” I drew his attention back. “Of course. Please let’s sit first.” He sat on the couch, I took arm chair, difficultly setting myself on it. He watched me. I guess his curiosity got the best of him and he blurted out. “Alpha, what happened to you?”I looked at him and smiled. “Nome of your business. Now, what do you have for me?” He cleared his throat, dipping a hand in his animal skin bag. He took out a small statue of SHILA and gave it to me. “I found the leader of that cult. I overheard him talking to the Lycan king, Xavier.”I raised a brow. “The Lycan king?”“Yes. You were right. He was protecting them except it wasn’t just because th
CHAPTER HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVEZEPHYR’S POVAfter five days of waiting, it was finally time to wake Taylor. The priestess brought down a table to the back of the yard where the bigger garden was. She dressed it with as many bedsheets as she could find in the house and then she asked me to bring her down. I did, Oscala following slowly behind. He had left us, at least that’s how the priestess put it. His spirit traveled to the world where Taylor was held down by the power of the heart stone. He would help her from there, he told me before he left. Now his body was just a walking shell. He continued to chant a spell, on and on like a mantra. As long as he did that, he would be able to return to his body.I placed Taylor on the table and stepped back. The priestess got some white robes and smeared her blood on it before she tied Taylor to the table with it. Her hands first and then her feet. She stood by her head side and the. She looked at me. “Are you ready?” She mouthed.“Yes.”
CHAPTER HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOURZULU’S POVI paced back and forth in the dark throne room. My heart beating a little bit faster each time I looked at the clock. ‘They were supposed to be here an hour ago. Do I have the wrong location?’I shook my head, shunning the thought. I had been listening and watching them for days now. I couldn’t possible because wrong. I don’t ever things like this wrong.“After you.” I stopped abruptly, breathless. ‘Did someone just speak?’“Please Xavier, after you.”My eyes grew wider. I was right, someone did speak. In fact they were coming this way. I turned left, turned right before I finally spotted the crack on the floor. I lifted the floorboard and lay down straight, closing it shut. At the exact same moment, the door into the throne room opened and Lycan king Xavier walked in. Someone else was with him. I peered through the hole in the floor, trying to find his face. I did, partially but I couldn’t recognize him so the partial was of no use to me
CHAPTER HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREEZEPHYR’S POV“Did you say she looks exactly like Taylor?” I rose from the dirt floor, looking at the Mr. Michelson.“Yes. She did. Exactly like Taylor. Well, back then you couldn’t tell because Taylor was still so tiny. She begged us. She refused to leave. We couldn’t turn her away as desperate as she was. So we took her baby in. She refused to stay. She was convinced that her baby was safer if she wasn’t with her. She made some changes over Taylor’s head and then, she left. When I heard the Alpha was about to wave war on the Lycans, my first thought was that they will kill us for harboring a Lycan and they would kill her.” He stopped for a moment, lowering his head. A deep sigh escaped his lips. “You were so young back then. You have no idea how terrifying it was back then. Even though things are quiet now. Even though it seems as though the treaty you are pushing for, will pull through. I… I.. I am still scared.”At that moment, I lost my voice.