ALARIC.I’ve been on the plane for hours now, I didn't keep count. From the moment Gina and Mary left, I had felt something empty in me. I knew I would miss her, I knew I shouldn't have left her alone and I should have brought her with me instead. We could go together to visit her distant aunt when we were back.Dang! How did I not think about that? I had sent her off with three guards and Mary. What if they are not enough to keep her safe? There was no way anything would happen to Gina anyway. I knew she was stronger than that and if something had gone wrong, I would have felt it. At least, a little bit. But I had been calm through the flight. The attendants were human and I could sense some more werewolves on the plane.Outside, the world blurred into patches of green and brown. The worlds had faded into the horizon but none of it mattered. My mind was elsewhere.Gina.It hadn’t been a day, and already I felt the gnawing ache of her absence. Being apart from her was like having a pi
FREYA.I couldn’t stop running. The wind tore at my skin as I shifted, bones snapping and reforming, the familiar pains and aches of shifting took over. But I didn’t stop, not even a second to breathe. My wolf form surged forward, paws pounding the earth with pain and desperation. I need to make it to the stream, I need to cry out to Morgan for help.Through the pain and the run, I couldn’t outrun the deep ache gnawing at me from inside.Mary!I didn’t know what to feel, how to feel it and this chase wasn’t giving me the chance to either. She had been with me all this time and the only reason was because she was meant to kill me…but she didn’t.
FREYAThe drive back home was exciting and a little nothing with the two hearty men who followed us around. After the trip home, with our bags, we set on the journey to meet Morgan. Taking the forest next to the pack house, we plunge into it with great faith not to run into any trouble.The day is a little sunny and not as cold as usual. Mary walked beside me and often held my hand as we walked through the woods.The woods were chill and the smell and sound of nature gave a good sense of safety. But that didn’t last long. We hadn’t walked too far before Mary picked up sounds coming straight at us.“You know what,” Mary said with a shaky voice. “I think we sho
FREYAIt’s evening and I haven’t set my eyes on Alaric. Mary suggested we take a quick stroll but I wasn’t taking any chances. I almost died the last time I went out without Alaric and doing the same thing right now would make me look stupid.I am already stupid even if people don’t know it yet. I feel greatly embarrassed by the whole situation. Perhaps if I hadn’t allowed Calista into my home, she wouldn’t have been able to take Rowan from me and I wouldn’t have died, and being stuck in another person’s body wouldn’t have happened in the first place.I need to see the old healer quickly. She would have a better idea of what I ought to do. Seeing Morgan is going to be hard. What do I tell Alari
FREYAI’ve been worried for days. Even though Jay had told us to visit him, I can’t help but think it is a trap to lure me into my death. Something is growing inside me and this time, no one would be able to save me from it. Not even Alaric. If nothing can be done about it, if my end is drawing near, then I better go back to Moonheart and finish what I started. Isn’t that the main reason I am here, still alive in another person’s body?I haven’t been able to get my thoughts together and Mary hasn’t been having a good time either. She sees through my worries. When she realized that I was no longer blind, she jumped up in amusement and almost used a day to cry. I felt bad for making her go through this kind of emotional stress and I was tempted to tell her I wasn’t blind to begin with.But that is the least of my problems now that I have agreed to go see Jay in the evening. Alaric has been worried, almost more worried than I am. He doesn’t know what to do and he can’t just do nothing.
CALISTA.Rowan’s attitude has changed for good. I have tried everything in my power to make him change his mind. But I can’t leave Rick alone. Not now, not ever. I had known Rick a long time before I got to know Rowan. I wish Freya were here and she would do her duty as a wife.Things weren’t meant to take this turn. Freya wasn’t meant to die, that’s what he told me. He said we were just going to do things according to its plan and things would get easier. I went to the graveyard beside the house where the dead child was buried. I scoffed and threw the flowers at it. It should have lived. That would have cost me less than the burden I carry around myself now.After spending about an hour by the grave, I turned around and found Rowan coming towards me. I changed my mind and remained there. Tears were far from my eyes but I did my best to act sad although I was a little sad. Dressed in a well-tailored black suit that had rose prints on it with dark shade glasses, he stood beside me wi