Darius“I'm still waiting. If you've got nothing better to talk about, then I have something better doing with my time.” The room had been dead silent since I almost strangled an elder. They all look scared, scared not to say anything that might cause me to flare up like that again. “Your Highness…” one started, clearing his throat while looking round the table at the others before his eyes finally settled on me. “You should understand our concerns. We are concerned for the people and their trust in us. If they all end up dead because of lack of negligence, who would you rule?” I was silent for a few seconds as I held his gaze. He's brave, I'd dice him that. “Your point exactly?” I asked again and this time another one took it from him. “As Helene said earlier,” he started, referring to the female elder that spoke earlier. “The council of elders exist to give advice to the alpha king. We're only here to lay our concerns and give you advice.” My finger tapped on the side of my he
Lyra“She's waking up.” The voice slipped into my ears as I groaned, coming back to life. My eyelids flutter, slowly opening and when my pupils detected light, my eyelids shut again, protesting to the sudden Intrusion of light.Slowly again, they opened, and this time, they stayed open. The first thing I saw was white ceiling until I turned my head slightly to meet worried brown eyes.“Marcus…”“Luna… thank God you're finally awake.” Using my palms, I pushed my weight off the bed, sitting up. “What happened?” I asked, and he let out a low breath before opening his mouth to give me a response. “I found you passed out on the floor in your room when I came to check on you this morning, considering you were injured last night.” The mention of my injury snapped my eyes to my leg only to see the injury still there. Not healed. “What is this? Why am I not healing?” I asked no one in particular but surely enough, Marcus gave me a response. “I don't know, my exact concerns too.” “I nee
DariusThe doors to the throne room groaned as they opened, and I stride in with my fury already burning a quiet path behind me. My boots struck the marble with enough weight to echo, each step daring anyone in the room to look me in the eye. “Admit it, you're scared for your throne, after all, they have started doubting your reign.” My wolf’s voice held a quiet weight of surrender, and it just sounded like he was hiding inside my head, waiting to die. “If you keep quiet, I'll have the correct headspace to deal with this. Either help me out of this or just keep quiet and let me think of how to keep us in the game.” If I wasn't speaking in my head, I'd be speaking through gritted teeth. The air was thick with tension, and from their faces I could see that they were there to fight. This meeting just wasn't like the normal meetings called to deliberate over matters of the park, this one was to challenge my throne. “I've always hated the council of elders, they were just a bunch of e
LyraThe pain was so maddening, my mind dragged me down memory lane of how much pain I ensured in the hands of Blood moon pack.I turned, using my fore limbs to push myself up whilst dragging my hind limbs to hold my weight. I turned my head towards the direction of the limb I felt the pain and I saw a silver arrow, engraved with a language I couldn't read. I wasn't allowed the liberty to think too far when I heard the snapping of a twig. “We're not alone.” My wolf mirrored the thought in my head. Turning toward the treeline, I stared intently towards the direction where I thought I heard the sound. My ears perked, waiting to hear something else.“Fuck!” I cursed as the pain seared even more. I wondered, surprised as to why the wound was yet to heal. At first, I saw nothing. Then they stepped out, three humans but I could tell they were wolves from their scent. I could see the way their eyes gleamed, with something more than hunger. Malice.“Well, well, well” one of them growled,
DariusI thought rejecting that swine would be the last I know or hear about anything concerning her, but I didn't know it was the beginning of my problems. “Just so you know…. You killed us.” My wolf whined from the condemning place he had decided to hide himself ever since I broke the mate bond. As usual, I ignored him, flipping through pages of the complaints that were brought to my table. “Keep ignoring me, it would change the truth. We've become weaker than we ever were and we're losing our hold on the throne. Your people are beginning to doubt your capabilities.”Why did the heavens make it so that we could communicate with our wolves? The knock on the door distracted me from my thoughts as I watched the door pushed open and Rafe, my beta, walked in. “Alpha…” he began but I was too eager to cut him short.“If it's not important, I don't want to hear it.” “It's important.” I dropped the book in my hand in anger, leaning back in my chair as I folded my arms and held his gaz
Lyra“What the hell?” I whispered to myself as I looked around the room, trying to make sense of what just happened. My eyes glazed towards the window and all I could see were night stars and reflection of the moon. It was a dream… or was it?I couldn't understand what I just saw, it looked so real. People I've never seen before, sorting me out and Darius coming here? What a fucking joke. Anger suddenly consumed me at the thought of Darius. Flinging the covers to the side, I got out of the bed and walked out into the open space I had turned into a little community for me and my rogues. “Going somewhere?” I was quick to bring out my claws, my eyes glowing at the sound of the voice. But when I turned, I relaxed. “It's me.” Marcus said, raising his hands in surrender. “Its the dead of the night, Marcus, what are you doing up?” I turned around and kept walking, the sounds of singing crickets interrupting my thoughts. “I couldn't sleep, I thought it'd be best to take a short walk ar