ELSIE’S POVI walked through the halls, allowing myself to sway my hips as I ran my hands through the walls that I didn’t know I missed. In fact, it was almost like I was missing every single wall that wasn’t the walls in the cell. After the car parked right in the pack, I didn’t even know how I was supposed to feel. But then, I was ecstatic. I still had my doubts about everything that Carmen was telling me about leaving. Not until he led me to the car, and I went on tip toes to kiss him before zooming off in the car. Things were finally working out. Who was I not to bask in the glory? I didn’t even care if anyone was looking at me while I kissed Carmen. What mattered was that I was finally out of there. And there was no one that had the right to send me back. I could feel eyes on me as I walked through. The maids and everyone else. Even the Elders of the pack. As far as they couldn’t walk up to me and tell me what they thought about the whole thing, then trust me. I was more than
ANA’S POVThe night went as quickly as it came. Anna had begged that she wanted to sleep in the room with me. And I couldn’t refuse. I had her on one side, and Logan on the next, with the both of them squeezed in between me. It was supposed to feel tight. But it was the most comfortable thing I could have felt in months. By morning, the three of us had gotten back to our usual routines. Ana was out, watering the flowers, and Logan was out talking to the guards just like he had been doing this whole time. It was almost like he was paying more attention to them after everything that they had done for me. And I was more than grateful to them for it too. I didn’t know if I was supposed to give an official speech. I didn’t even need anyone telling me. I wanted to give an official speech. I just didn’t have the time to do all that. Not when I slept with Elsie’s face in my dreams constantly. It was Logan’s arms around me that managed to calm me down the whole night. There was something abo
ELSIE’S POVI was more than tired of drawing circles on the floor. But that was the only thing that I could keep myself busy with at this point. I couldn’t let anybody try to oppress me at a place like this. This was the pack that I had plans of taking over. It was slightly funny that Selene had returned. But somehow, I expected her. She and her stupid soul as Ana couldn’t just die. She had to return over and over again. But I was more than glad that I was as smart as I was. I couldn’t get someone like Rowan involved in a plan that I had again. He was just an old man with a big mouth and tall claims. I needed someone who was still executing tasks just as he was supposed to, even while I was being locked up. And I had the perfect man for the job.I heard the protectors open, I knew just who it was. I stood up to my feet, with a small smile on my face as I took in his silhouette.“Elsie,” he called out, and I leaned against the slightly cold metal. “Carmen,” I called back, and he grin
ANA’S POVI was rushing over to the Elder council room like my life depended on it. I was more than thankful to one of the maids that had seen Carmen heading there. I didn’t know what right he thought he had to try to convince them behind my back, but I wasn’t going to let any of that happen. Just as I walked up to the door, I heard hushed voices on the other side of the door. “We all know that I will be a better Alpha that Selene. She is a female. And she won't be able to handle two packs being merged together. I got all the information about what she had done the last time. Isn’t that more than enough proof that she can barely even hold one pack together?”“She was proven not guilty,” I heard one of the Elders say, and I burst into the room immediately, making him smirk. “I just knew you were going to show up,” he said, and I looked away immediately. “Is this the game you want to play?” I asked, and he frowned. “Being so cheap and coming to meet the Elders of my pack just to go
ANA’S POVWhat the hell was he talking about? I didn’t know what business he had with Elsie outside being her husband’s mate. But I didn’t like the sound of whatever I was hearing. This wasn’t the Carmen that I knew. Carmen hated Elsie. And now, he was practically trying to protect her?I looked up at Logan, and he gave me the look that I should calm down. The type of look that he had been giving me this whole time. “Is something wrong?” Carmen asked, with his chin tipped. I couldn’t help but wonder if something was going to change if he knew that I was actually Anna. But he was practically a stranger. I couldn’t just let him in on what I was keeping from my own mates. “Do you have a specific reason for trying to protect her?” Logan asked, and Carmen looked away immediately. “Because I’m very sure that you are well aware of the sins that she had committed already. It’s nothing new in the pack.”“It’s not something that I am interested in listening to. She is my cousin’s mate. And it
CARMEN’S POVThe elders were slightly nice. But the Alpha was something else. There was something about her. Something that seemed familiar, yet far away. Watching Elsie tied up was the last thing I would have expected to see in my lifetime. Considering how she swayed her hips when she walked through the halls. I was about to head out of the pack when one of the maids reached out to me. She had her eyes fixed on my boots. “Alpha, Beta Logan had asked you to stay back so that you and the pack could come to an actual conclusion.” There was nothing more to conclude, but I was more than willing to have a little chit chat with the Alpha of this pack. To bring down her little chin that she had tipped the whole time. There was this pride within her that I couldn’t look past. “Where does he want me to stay?” I asked, and the maid smiled like she was going to be killed if she hadn’t achieved what they sent her to do here. “We have a room arranged for you.” She said, walking ahead of me, a