Alira’s POVThe stuff of Lengend… Some people called me that.I wondered if this man who was now pacing before me, I wondered if he knew who I really was, if he would tremble in fear. After all, as the rumours went, no one who saw me had ever lived to tell the tale.“You say that your stepson was kidnapped and you suspect Alpha Damien?” he asked me, not quite believing what I had just told him.This was Elder Zigmund. He was considered by most as the highest authority in the council. The others on the council had not been hard to convince. Most had visited Alira and so it was not difficult to convince them, they said it was blackmail but I did not see it that way.I believed it was a necessary tactic. I had worked hard to gain the trust of these men, and now was not the time to let sentiment ruin everything.“That is right,” I said to him in a confident tone.There was no way Orion would return to the pack after the message I had left in his dinner. He had run just like I had told hi
Damien's POV I was hurt. My feelings were hurt, deeply. Olivia really sounded like she was over me. She had matured a lot since she had first left my palace or more like run away from here. She looked at me with eyes that told me that she did not trust me. It broke my heart to be looked upon that way but there did not seem to be anything I could do to change how she felt about me.I had wanted to bring up Jeremy. I had wanted to talk about letting him know that I was his father but it did not seem like the right time to bring it up, the problem was that it never felt like the right time.“The guards said I will find you here,” we both turned to see Jeremy bouncing into the room. He looked happy today, like a burden had been lifted from him. I was glad to see him so cheerful. I knew that Simeon's abuse and his consequent kidnap had taken an emotional toll on him.It had been difficult watching him retreat into silence at night, often curled up beside Olivia with his arms tightly wrapp
Olivia's POVI had crawled out of that day to meet no one in the study. I forgot about the book for a while too because my life was just more important than some book. The fear of execution had been my greatest nightmare in my childhood. It had been because lots of servants got executed, even those who had been wrongfully accused or just unfortunate to get caught up in a misunderstanding.But curiosity got the best of me and it was not the book this time that led me to the study even though I had told myself that. It was the hidden room in the Alpha's study I was curious about.I returned to the same place I had hidden myself and discovered it was a short corridor that led to another room. I had discovered so many other tunnels and secret passageways and by the time I was twelve, I could disappear for days at a time and no one would miss me.When I turned fourteen, I had a plan to escape the palace but I had fallen in love around that time and soon those plans had faded into the backg
Olivia's POV “I think Austin has left,” said Orion to me. I could not make out his face in the dark but his voice sounded scared.“You can't go back in there,” I told him, holding his hand to stop him from going into the study.“I cannot stay here, forever,” he said to me, sounding frightened.“I know, follow me,” I said to him. I held onto his hand and walked slowly through the narrow space that we were in.We walked for a while and then I hit a wall. I paused, then tapped the wall six times. It opened to a room that no one but me knew in this palace. By the look of things this room had remained untouched.I glanced at the book that I had stolen from the Alpha's desk and it brought a smile to my face. I spied something else too and picked it up.It was full of dust and as I lifted it, a lot of dust blew up in my nose.“What's this?” Orion asked me.I tore a part of the large paper, “Here, this is going to take you out of the blood moon pack.”“Olivia? What's happening?” he asked me,
Damien's POV I made sure Austin was out of the hallway completely before reentering the study.“You can come out now,” I called out in the room. No one answered me and not a single thing creaked to show that there were people hiding somewhere here. I was beginning to feel stupid right about now. I could not understand how they had disappeared but I was about to find out for myself.“Olivia!” I shouted but I received no response. She was just gone, just like that?“This is ridiculous! It's not funny anymore! You need to come out now!” I screamed but I was only rewarded with silence.“Olivia?” but it was all quiet.I sunk into my chair, perplexed and tired. I had received troubling news on all fronts today and I feared that I may have been played like a fool by Olivia and Orion. Although, the young prince looked very scared. I wanted to give him the benefit of doubt but how could I? And where the hell were they?There was a knock on the door, “who is there?”The response I got was Oliv
Damien's POV“Someone kidnapped him yesterday. At least, that is what his stepmother thinks. Damien, there's a lot happening over there. It's uhm…”I was looking under my desk to be sure that Orion and Olivia were not there. It was clear which made me slightly worried. I looked around and I could not spot them, I looked at the window and it was locked from the inside.Where the hell were they?“Are you looking for something?” Austin asked, seeing my eyes roam the room.“No, no,” I fixed my gaze at him, “you should sit.”He sat down and I sat too. I was not comfortable, given that I was not sure where Orion and Olivia were but I had to pretend.“One of our spies in Orion's palace sent me a message last night. Apparently, Lady Bingham Orion has sent men to look for Orion. She has not informed her husband that his son is missing. She believes that he was kidnapped,” Austin paused and I feigned surprise at his news. Any other reaction would have told him that I knew something more and I w