Maya's POV“We have to make her believe you are betraying her.” “But wouldn't it be wise to apprehend her where she is? Just snag her out of her hiding place, along with Alpha Thomas? Have them both arrested with charges of betrayal?” Derek questioned.“While that might be the best idea so far, I think doing that will have the entire tribe thinking I have prejudice. She is your sister and he is opposing me. Let the evidence play out naturally for the people to see.”Something about his calmness bothered me but Alpha Williams was confident in his ways.“So what would you have us do?” Derek asked.“Refrain from talking to them and if they insist, tell them you've met the Alpha and told him about their plans. They will leave you alone. Do not be bothered much.”“Alright.” Derek left us, the door clicked gently behind him, Williams returned to me. “Have you been able to rest?”I swung my head to my side. “Not really. I had another dream.”“Your sister was chasing you in this one?”“No.
Maya's POV.Williams had been missing all day. With my bed rest restriction set in place, I was locked inside the room and told to only knock if I needed something.By the third knock, the healer's help deemed my demands as ‘not actual needs’ and asked that I not call for help again.“That was rough.” Melissa laughed in my face. “I would have never said that to you if I was her.”“Hush it, please. I don't want to hear it.”“Then go to sleep. It's the least you can do. Scratch that, it's what you've been ordered to do.”“But I have nightmares when I sleep.” I told Melissa. “You can't protect me there. Sarah's always trying to kill me.”“Maybe this time, things won't get that bad. Just close your eyes and go to bed, and if she does, get up.”Melissa nagged like she was my mother. So much that I laid straight on my bed and shut my eyes close to appease her.“Now go to bed and when you're awake, we can go find our mate.”“Fine.”Darkness consumed my vision with my eyelids sealed shut, mi
Sarah's POV.“When I get my hands on her… I promise you, she'll never walk the same.”Thomas adjusted the seats back in place before he came to my side. His arm wrapped gently around me, pulling me closer into him.“Take it easy, you're getting agitated over a fool.” The tightness in my chest didn't ease. I bit down on my lip instead, my vision darkening, “I can't calm down.” I growled, “She just ruined everything we worked so hard for.”“There's still a way to get everything back, we just need to think of a new plan, come up with something Alpha Williams and Maya wouldn't know. Strike them before they can even see what's coming their way.”Thomas placed his palm in mine, the heat from his touch was warm and comforting.But it wasn't heat I needed. It was revenge.“First she tried to push me out of what was rightfully mine, she killed our mother, made our father hate me and just when I was about to finally get my revenge. She stopped me.”“We’ll still get—“No! And stop saying we wil
Alpha Williams' POV “They call it the Purple tongue curse.” Justin straightened the picture before me. On it we're pictures of body parts all turning purple. Tongues, chest, arms, knees, necks and even eyes. “They all have this in common too.” He pointed to another part of the picture. The engraving of a flower tattooed on their palms. “All the victims have those.”“Any survivors?”“None. All the children who were infected died.”“That's bad news.” I sighed, a slight rub to the sides of my forehead. My brain felt like it had been split in half. “How many kids are we looking at?”“About fifteen? There should be more. More reports are coming in by the minute.”“That's even worse.” My head fell back, “any cure yet? What have the healers been able to come up with?”“Nothing. No progress at all.” Justin shook his head, he settled into the chair before me. “I'm afraid the healers say they can only help contain the poisons in their body. Nothing more.”“That's not good.” I dragged a deep
Maya's POV.“What is going on?” I barged in, eyes scanning the room, heart thundering in my chest.“There!” She pointed her hand from across the room. My vision swarmed in her direction.There, just feets away, was a child crotched down, shoulders shook violently, eyes bulging, red and tear stricken.“H-help…” his lips trembling.My limbs moved before my brain could. I rushed to touch him but the maid grabbed me.“Let go. He's sick.” I growled.“No, Luna. That's the reason you can't touch him. It's contagious.”Contagious?I stood balanced, her hand released from my side. My breath steadied. “What happened to him?”“H-help, Luna… help me please.” His voice was rough, hoarse with pain.My heart grew heavy. A tear threatened to fall. I could feel my heart breaking for this little boy.“We don't know but from what he told us, something about a leaf.”My ears perked. My eyes shot to the Alpha. Williams gave me a knowing look. Could it be the same flower I had thought of in my dreams?“Wh
Maya’s POVSleep had become a battlefield for me.As much as I tried to close my eyes, I couldn't.Especially when the Alpha was out of the pack, in meetings.Every night, when I tried, the shadows of my dreams twisted into my sister’s face. Sarah. Her eyes burning with hate, her voice hissing curses, her hands holding knives or fire or worse. One night she slit Alpha Williams’ throat in front of me. Another, she poisoned the food of the entire Silver Moon pack. Another still, she dragged me by the hair and whispered, "If I can’t rule, then no one will.”Each time, I woke up screaming.That morning, I sat on the edge of the bed, my chest heaving, sweat sticking to my nightdress. Alpha Williams stirred beside me.“You dreamed again?” he asked, his deep voice rough with sleep.I nodded, unable to meet his eyes. “She killed you again. I tried to stop her, but it’s like she’s… stronger than me in there.”He reached out and cupped my cheek. His touch alone slowed my trembling. “Dreams c