ELENA’S POV
I had been in Lukas’ mansion for almost two weeks now and nothing had changed, he was still treating me like I was either his child or his possession. He still knew that I didn’t wnat to be here and yet he chose to not let me go, it was obvious that he didn’t care about me. What had I expected from a man like him, he was cruel and the only thing he knew in life was only to please himself. The longer I stayed with him the more I hated him. However, despite the hate that I kept showering him with, he still seemed to have hope that one day I would willingly offer myself to him. To some degree, he even seemed to try to make me like him by doing things he thought I would like. In a weird way, I could see that he was a caring and loving man but he just wasn’t the man for me and that was just something that he would have to accept and realize.I hadn't made any friends in the mansion and that was all thanks to the fact that Lukas had been keeping me locked in his room. At first, he said he was keeping me in his room all because I had tried to escape the first night he was here, and then after that, he started saying that he was keeping me locked up because he didn’t want to share e with anyone. It was one thing to be with a man that I didn’t love or desire but the worst thing was the fact that he was now possessive over me. However, I was finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for me because Lukas had decided that keeping me locked up wasn’t a very good idea. I was now allowed to walk around that mansion but I had an escort everywhere I went.
The wasn’t much for me to do in this mansion except spend the day watching other wolves as they trained. This was something that I loved watching because it had been a dream of mine to also be one of my pack’s warriors, but sadly, Lukas had shattered those dreams with his lust for a young virgin girl. Even though I blamed my family, specifically my mother and my father for what was happening to me, I still missed them.
I wished that I could just get a chance to visit them and see how they were doing after I left, I also hoped that when they saw how unhappy I was they would realize their mistake and demand that Lukas sends me back to them. Of course, I knew that he wouldnt willingly hand me over t them but at the same time I had to keep some kind of hope alive. It was the only thing that helped me through my day, I now lived my life imagining what it would be like if I was still at home. I couldn't stop thinking of how life was back home and wondering if they missed me as much as I missed them. I couldn't imagine my father and my mother spending nights together and discussing how much they missed me and wished I was at home, but I knew that was something they thought about individually.
Today I was determined to ask Lukas to allow me to visit my family just once, I knew that convincing him to let me go was going to be very hard but I was desperate and I was almost willing to do anything to get him to agree to my request. I really hoped that he would allow me to just see my little sister even once, I didn’t wnat her to visit because I didn’t wnat to expose her to the vultures that were in this mansion.
I waited for Lukas to arrive after dinner as he always did, he always slept late but he always made it a point to come and see me after dinner before he went back into his office. I was so nervous because I didn’t know which direction this conversation was going to take. My greatest fear was for me to end up under Lukas, that was something that I wanted to delay for as long as I could.
“Good evening my love,” he said as he walked into the room
”Can I please go and see my family?” I asked without hesitation, I didn’t wnat to wait before asking him because I was afraid that I wouldn't up not asking him if I delayed asking.
“Whoa..” he laughed “that was out of the blue,” he said as he sat on the bed next to me
“I miss them and I just thought that maybe you would allow me to see them just one more time” I begged
“Am I treating you horribly?” he asked me and I hesitantly shook my head
“Then why are you acting like I am the worst thing that had ever happened to you?” he asked
”That is not what I mean, I would just love to see them one last time and then I promise” he interjected before I could even make the point I was trying to make
“If I am not treating you badly then I don’t see any reason for you to go there,” he said
”But they are my family and I love them,” I said and he cleared his throat
"I am the only family that you need and I am the only one you should love,” he said getting u from the bed and giving me a brief smile
“Get that through your head and all will be well,” he said with a wink as he walked away leaving my heart crumbling into a million little pieces. I just felt like this man hated me.
Had he just brought me here in an attempt to see just how far his cruelty could go, why would he refuse me the right to visit my own family? He wanted to be everything to me, he wanted me to think that I didn’t need anybody else if I had him and that was simply not true. Even if Lukas was my real mate, and even if I did genuinely love him I was sure that I wouldnt abandon my own family all because I had him. Why did he have to be so difficult even in something that seemed so simple? I wasn’t asking him to let me go, I was simply asking him to allow me to visit my family.
However, I felt that I was to blame for all this because I was the one who had tried to run away from the first night I was here. I had vowed to make things very difficult for him from day one and now I was regretting it because the tables had turned on me. Lukas was the one that was making things very difficult for me and I didn’t know how to change things and put them in my favor. It was clear that he didn’t trust me.
DAMIEN’S POVI really hoped that seeing her little sister would make Elena reconsider her feelings for her parents. She needed to forgive them not only for her sake but also for the pups that we were going to have in the future. It was as if I only existed to make this woman happy because the look on her face when she laid her eyes on her sister was enough to get me smiling all throughout the day. When Tasha and Elena were done with their meeting, I asked Charles to take Tasha back home because I wanted to go and hear from Elena how their meeting had gone. I already knew how the meeting had gone because I could hear them laughing as Elena walked her little sister out of the bedroom. Even without seeing her, I already knew that she was very happy.I was glad that seeing her little sister made Elena realise that she needed her family as much as they needed her. I had no family and I wished I had one. I didn’t want her to wait until it was too late before she made amends. Admittedly, her
ELENA’S POVI couldn’t believe what Damien was asking of me. He didn’t see what my father has put me through and he hadn't witnessed how everyone turned against me and practically sold me off to Lukas. After all I had been through because of them, I had no intention of going back there for any reason. The only person that I wanted to sew was my sister. She was the only person that deserved to see me. My mother had failed to stand up for me as a mother should when my father was throwing my rings out. I remembered how they has just handed me back to Lukas when I ran away. What kind of love was that? As far as I was concerned that was just selfishness because they gave me away to him all because they wanted to save their skin. I was the sacrificial lamb for my family and I literally almost died because of what they had done.I was even certain that my father wasn’t going to apologise to me for any reason. As far as they were concerned, they hadn’t done anything to me. As far as he was co
DAMIEN’S POV I was happy to finally be able to take Elena home with me. We had been apart for too long and it was also time for me to help ease her pain. She had already been through a lot and I just wanted her to get a break. I missed sewing her all happy and I missed seeing her smiling. Ever since Lukas had found out what was happening between me and Elena, things hadn't been smooth for us. First he had kicked me out of the pack and soon after that he ran away with Elena. However, that was now all after under the bridge and everything in order now, well everything except Elana’s health.I had chosen to move me and Elena to a different room because I decided she wouldn’t want to stay in the same room that she shared with Lukas. I didn’t even want to imagine the kind of memories she had in there but I didn’t want her to relive anything. I wanted the old bedroom to be turned into my new office and I wanted Elena’s bedroom to be joined with another room so that we could make it into ou
ELENA’S POVI had passed out sometime in the car as we made our way back to the pack. I felt like I could rest easy knowing that I was now back in the arms that I was supposed to be in. I still felt bad for the way things had ended with Lukas but there was nothing that I could do to handle that situation. I still felt that he had changed and that he regretted his actions but it seemed that I was the only one who believed that. I was saddened by the way Damien had turned into a monster just get get revenge on Lukas, but at the same time, I could understand his pain and who was to say that if he hadn't killed Lukas he wouldn’t come after me after I was well. I had to be honest with myself and the truth was that I knew that I would never have felt safe if I knew that Lukas was out there roaming free. I would have lived my life looking over my shoulder and afraid that he would come after me.When I woke up I was in the back clinic and although I was still in pain from the heat, I felt a l
DAMIEN’S POVNow that Lukas was dead, Elena and I could finally move on with our lives in peace. We left his body lying there in his yard and figured that some stray animal would get rid of it for us. I decided to believe Mike when he said that he hadn't told Lukas that we were coming but at the same time I made a mental note to keep a very close eye on him. Mike was not to be trusted and there was no way that I was going to give him a position that was going to make him close to me. I wanted to keep him as far away from me as possible for the sake of my peace of mind.As we made our way back to the mansion, Charles was the one that took over the well because I wanted to sit at the back with Elena. She looked horrible and instead of the sweet scent that I could recognise her by, she smelled like death was hovering above her. Even if she was in heat, how the hell was I going to help her and where the fuck was I even going to start? Lukas had really fucked things up for us and I wished
LUKAS’S POVI was struggling to understand why Mike had done this and why he had betrayed me in the way that he had. Had I ever done anything to him that made him think angry? Had I ever treated him unfairly? I couldn’t think of anything that I had ever done to him that could ever justify all that he had done to me. I had treated him like a brother that I had never had, but I guess he never appreciated that. Here was Mike, a guy that I had treated like my second in command standing over me with Damiena and Charles, the men that wanted me dead. I could understand why Charles hated me, especially after what happened to his father, but how could Mike do that?Charles and Damien kept interrupting my conversation with someone I had considered a brother for such a long time I chose to ignore them. I wanted Mike to answer me before I died so that I would die knowing exactly why he had chosen to betray me like this.“why Mike?” I asked him again.“I didn’t have a choice, Lukas” he finally sai