Axl’s P.O.V
“Why are you picking at your food, Axl?” Elder brother Elliot asked from across the dining table, startling me so hard I almost fell off my chair had Ellis not helped me sit firmly with a hand on my shoulder.
“Easy, baby sis.” Ellis reached over and ruffled my hair. “You look a little too thin and pale. Is everything okay?”
“yeah.” Eric butted in. he was sat next to me, the plate of chicken and rice in front of him almost cleared up. “ever since the coronation night when you’d just disappeared, you’ve been acting weird. Do we need to call the doctor?”
“It’s nothing. Maybe just a stomach bug.” I forced my hand to lift my fork to my mouth, gagging at the scent of chicken that filled my nostrils. Oh no. I was going to throw up. Before I could make a spectacle of myself, I scraped my chair back and bolted away from the dining hall while ignoring the looks my brothers and father gave me. Even though the blood rushed to my head and the dining hall swam before my eyes, I rushed away from them, blindly stumbling through the halls till I got to a restroom.
I barely made it to the toilet before the contents of my stomach hurled into the bowl as my stomach retched and retched till nothing else came out. Returning the lid of the toilet and flushing the toilet, tears stung my eyes and I leaned against the toilet bowl after the vomiting spree. I felt so tired and weak but I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I didn’t understand what was happening to me and I didn’t know why my heart always felt like it was ripping into two.
The tears fell without control and I sobbed heavily into my hands while curling up into myself right there on the restroom floors. What was happening to me? I asked myself.
Once the tears abated, I closed my eyes and rested my head back on the toilet boil, letting my mind wander to that night.
The last thing I remembered was walking in the garden and then darkness. Then I woke up in my room, in new clothes, my clothes actually—the dress I’d worn to the ball was gone—and a strange soreness between my legs. I’d refused to think about it. I’d refused to even contemplate the thought that someone had…had….forced…forced…
No. No. it was impossible. I dragged my knees up under my chin and wrapped my arms around my body as tears threatened to fall again. I was okay and nothing happened that night. Maybe I was stressed up and still hurt from the rejection so I fainted and hit my head. The caked blood I’d felt that morning behind my earlobe was from my head hitting the ground. Nothing else.
But when I asked everyone who brought me to bed that night after I fainted in the garden, they all denied it and looked at me weird. My lips trembled and I caught them between my teeth to hold back those tears. Maybe it was one of my brothers who carried me to bed and forgot about it.
Sucking in a breath, I struggled to my feet and blanched when I came face-face with my reflection. I looked like a shadow of myself. Leaning over, I washed my face and mouth with water, scrubbing hard till some semblance of color crept back into my cheeks.
I’d better go back down to join them or they might come barging in and asking me questions I had no answer to.
So I went back to the dining room. But as the smells of the food in the hall reached my nostrils. The room spun and I felt dizzy again—the way I’d felt that time after I’d ridden on a carousel years ago when my brothers took me to the carnival. We haven’t actually done that in a long time… I thought as my eyes swam. I felt hot and cold, all at the same time. There was a peculiar roaring in my ears, and I heard all my brothers yelling my name as I fell into blackness.
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The room was no longer spinning. Carefully, I opened my eyes and turned my head, meeting my father’s gaze.
For the first time, my father had another expression on his face other than disgust for me. “Lie still. The doctor is on his way.”
But it was me so yeah, I immediately jerked upright—and gagged as a wave of nausea swept over me.
“For the moon’s sake! Do you ever listen and do as you are told?” concern overrode the impatient irritation in his voice as he pushed me back onto the pillows.
“My dress will get creased if I lie down in it, Dad,” I said hoarsely, although this time I didn’t even try to raise my head. I might get sick again.
“you are worried about a dress right now?” his voice was scathing.
I simply shrugged in response. It was he who made breakfast in our family such a royal affair. Only brothers were allowed to dress slightly informally, that is without tuxes but I was to be adorned in a full princess dress that I really didn’t fancy. I just thought it would be very wasteful to ruin the expensive dress. “I’m not really sick, Dad. I don’t need a doctor.”
He waved me off like I made no sense. “Nonsense. You can’t eat any food and you keep fainting.”
“Father, the physician is here.” Elliot broke into our argument before I could answer. The old man, always soft-spoken and gentle took a few shots of my blood while talking to me about the moon. My father had long gone, leaving me with my three brothers who surrounded me on the bed as the doctor took my blood. “I am going to take a few samples of your blood to test for anemia.” He finally said closing his suitcase after giving me an injection on my wrist to help with my nausea.
“It’s fairly common amongst young ladies like you to lose lots of iron once they are menstruating.” He narrowed his eyes at me. “Or most cases, because of the fashion trend to be…er…slimmer, they starve themselves and…”
“Our sister is perfect the way she is, doc.” Ellis interrupted sharply, eyeing the doctor with slight rage. “And we tell her this every day. I can assure you that she isn’t starving herself to look thin.”
“If that’s all you can leave now,” Elliot added and held my hand. I hid a grateful smile and gave the doctor a sheepish look.
He nodded. “Of course, the test results will be ready tomorrow morning.”
That night as I went to bed, I dreamt of strange hot male hands on my body and firm lips molding mine to his.
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I opened my eyes to find sunshine flooding my bedroom. Frowning, I glanced at the clock and was startled to see that it was eleven a.m. I had never slept so late in my life, but the long sleep must have done me so much good because I did not feel as nauseous and tired as I did the other day.
“How are you feeling?”
Elliot’s voice made me jump and I turned to my head to see three of my brothers sitting in an armchair. Okay, Elliot sat on the chair while Ellis and Eric perched on the edge. But one thing was strange about them. Their eyes were as hard as diamonds and there was an odd tense line on their jaws. How could they even have identical raging faces?
Ignoring the warning in my gut, I muttered. “I feel fine. I don’t know why I fainted yesterday. Maybe I’m a bit anemic as the doctor said.”
“By the fucking moon!” They all leapt to their feet with such violent force similar to a volcanic eruption. “You can’t stop the fucking pretense that you don’t know what is wrong with you? TELL US WHO IT IS!”
Ellis who had never raised his voice at me was the one who spoke now and it made me shiver helplessly as tears stung my eyes. He sounded so similar to….him--Kael--…when he’d rejected our mate bond.
“What…what are you talking about?”
“Who the fuck got you pregnant, Axl?” Elliot said in his usually calm, but deadly voice. “You know you can tell me anything. Just give me a name and I’ll kill the bastard.”
Oh—oh goddess. Oh, goddess. No.
AXELLA"And how did you come to this conclusion that it was all a lie? One thing I can see is that your mate really loves you Axl. He took care of you and your kids all these years. He never let you suffer. Because he was guilty, he wanted to keep the truth away from you as much as possible. Are you really just going to throw all of these things away because of a simple mistake? I need you to think about this carefully if it is worth it!" Jenson said."You don't know anything. You are just a wolf. You have no idea how hurt I am!" I yelled at her."Of course, I am your wolf. But you seem to forget that I am a part of you Axl, I am not some separate person. I am you. I see what you see and I feel what you feel. You are just trying to run away because you are scared now. But if you really stop and look into yourself, you know that his love for you is simply not something that you can deny. You have every right to be mad that he kept it away from you for so long. But don't throw away all
KAII sighed as I walked around the palace. Although I had always been rude and mean to Jerome, he was not cruel to me when I arrived in his pack. In fact, he really treated me well.I had to give him points for that. I didn't think that I would have been able to do it. If a man who was in love with my mate arrived in my pack, trying to take her away with me, I would have lost my mind that was for sure. I'd make sure that he never came close to her even if that was the last thing I did.But he placed Elliot and I in a suite and he really treated us well. I was starting to see why Axl had picked him over me. No matter what, she was always his top priority.I wasn't stupid. I knew that if Jerome had his way, he would throw me in the sea and feed me to the sharks. But because Axl's brother was here, he was being polite to me. He considered Axl's feelings above everything else.I was really scared now. Would I be able to win her back at all?The more I thought about it, the more scared I
AXL"After he kicked her out of the pack, my parents came back to their own pack. But this was just the begining of another set of troubles for them. My uncle who had been in the pack with my grandfather thought that he was the one who would become the King after my grandfather. He was already prepared for this. Of course, this was not going to happen as Mt father was the first son. As soon as he came back, my father took back the throne from him""My uncle did not want to accept this. He started a war to take the pack away from my father but he was defeated horribly. He never stood a chance against my father. Despite the fact that he was given a lot of chances to change, he refused to take any of them and he was constantly thinking about how he was going to take the throne for himself. My father had to banish him and his family. I guess, my uncle did not want to feel like he had lost. He wanted to think that he had won and so he became the leader of the rouges" Jerome explained to me
AXLI paced up and down in my bedroom. I was really worried about what was going on. We just dealt with one brother of his and now there was another sister.I wanted to know why Jerome did not tell me all of these things about him. I thought that I knew him well enough but it turned out that I didn't even know a single thing about him. He has really kept it away from me well.I was still pacing when my door was open and Jerome walked in.He had a tired look on his face and I immediately lost all of my will to question him. I didn't want to make things even harder on him."Jerome...." I called out.He sat on my bed and pulled me to sit down with him."I....what is going on? She's your sister? How come I didn't know about this?" I asked."I'm sorry I didn't tell you about her at first. It's just....I don't even have an excuse for keeping it away from you. I just didn't want you to know about the dark past of my family. I wanted to appear perfect in front of you. I didn't know it was all
AXL"What do you mean? Kai....he can't be here. That's just not possible!" I had already rejected him. I made it clear when I was leaving that I didn't want him following me. He had to be completely crazy to follow me here!Jerome looked at me. There was some questioning in his eyes and that made me feel bad all of a sudden. I didn't want him to think that I was going back to him or anything like that.I no longer loved him. I wanted to love Jerome and that was what I did. I chose the man who showed me more than enough kindness. I was going to stick with that."Well, he here's right now and we have no choice but to go see them!" Jerome said.I wanted to hold him back and ask why he was being like to but I thought to myself that he was probably going through a lot already and that I should not make it even more worse for him.I nodded my head and I went out with him.We arrived at the big hall where Kai and my brother were waiting for us.My eyes widened when I saw Elliot. I wanted to
KAI"You want to leave tommorow? I don't think that's such a good idea sir. You are not fully healed. You could get hurt on the Journey there..." The Doctor said.I turned to glare at him when he said this. I didn't think that he had the right to tell me what to do. I had already decided that I was going and nothing was going to stop me."It's fine, Master. Since he wants to leave, I am sure that he knows what he is doing and he knows his body best" Estrella was on my side once again.I looked at her suspiciously. It was already more than enough that she saved all of our lives but why was she going so far to help us?I didn't want to think too much into it but I didn't have a choice at all.I sighed. It was not as if I could say no to her help. I needed it more than anything else.I turned to Elliot. "So we are going to set out tommorow!"He nodded his head in agreement."You should come with me. I have some rooms prepared. It's not much but you can rest there till we need to leave to