Mima's POVThe room went back into discussing with one another and seconds later the man stepped in with a smile on his face. Sheesh, he must really love his daughter. I thought to myself because this brooding man just freaking smiled. I turned to see Brent fidgeting where he stood. He looked like he was uneasy as if something was bothering him.I thought back to last night and maybe being in a room filled with couples was doing so well for him.I sighed as I called out to him."Brent? Are you okay?" His eyes turned to mine sharply and he visibly inhaled. His eyes darted around the room and he seemed to fidget the more. This made me ore worried. "Brent? Is everything alright?" My voice is slightly raised now and it alarms Rake. Rake turned to face us and raised his brow."What's wrong?" He asked me."I don't know. Brent is acting weird." The brooding man was still walking in with his daughter and she hasn't really fully entered the room yet so she wasn't noticeable to us. They w
Mima's POV "Um--- what do mean by explaining, dad?" She said, trying to deflect what he asked her. "You told me that you already found your mate so what was that down there?" He frowned. He sighed and looked at her with pleading eyes. “Did you lie to me, princess?” She shook her head and he sighed in relief. “So, tell me. What's going on. I'm so lost and I need to know so we can get past this. For the sake of your mother, please.” He pleased and I felt so sorry for him being left in the dark like this. She didn't say anything for a while and kept looking at her fingers, wiggling them. "I thought I met my mate." She murmured. What does she mean by that?. "What do you mean?" I asked her and she looked up, taking my presence in before she sighed. "If you think I lied to you, Dad. I didn't. I really thought I met my mate. He was this man I met when I travelled to Rome. He had this scent that no one else could perceive and I knew this because I asked my friend if she could and
Mima's POV "Yeah..." I replied to her.She looked around in shock and I could tell that she was panicking. "Calm down, please Bri." I called out to her but she wasn't paying any attention to me. Beck, rose from his crouched position and placed his paw on her hand and she turned sharply to him. She smiled at him and placed her other hand over her chest, slowly calming down. "So these shadows... What do they do? Like what are the capable of?" She asked."Well, from all the spies that we have caught so far, we noticed that they're visisbly stronger that werewolves. The spies aren't as strong as the soldiers we fought off the other day though but they're stronger than the average werewolf so imagine how strong the soldiers would be." This freaked her out and I could recognise the girlish side in her under her gothic outfit. "So... What about how I felt towards him?" She mentioned and it didn't take me long to think that one through."I was kidnapped once. By a bunch that I think are
Mima's POV Her body shook as she vigorously shook her head. I looked to one of the guards, give me the key to her cell.He nodded and began to go through his keys."NO." She yelled. "Don't let that psycho bitch in here. She would kill me." She said, seeming hysterical.She stood up and rushed to the end of the gate of her cell, closer to where the guard was. "You can't do it. She'll kill me. See what she did to my hand." She raised her hand, shoving it in his face but the guard did pay mind to her still shuffling for the keys.She grabbed him and he turned quickly, raised the stun gun I didn't know he was holding and zapped her."Stay back you dirty bitch." He said, a little undertone of amusement in his voice.All I saw was red.Before I knew it, I was in front of him and slapped him across the face eating gasps from the other inmates."Who the hell legalised stun guns for you in the prison cell? Aren't the silver coated chains and the guns in your hands enough for you? And those a
Mima's POV "I work for those that kidnapped you." She said.Her reply shocked me. I would have never thought that those are the people she worked for. "I don't understand..." I commented and she looked at me with empty eyes. "I'm not human. I at least was truthful in that part. Viktor and his people made me. Those people are also Viktor's people but they want the woman in the prophecy for different reasons." "What are their reason?" I asked and she seemed sceptical to tell me."Viktor wants the powers for himself. He wants to take the power for him while the others want to sacrifice her to their God for them all to have more powers. So it's more like one wants all for himself and the others want for themselves." I nodded understanding what she meant. So I was basically in trouble from two groups then. "Do the sacrificial people know?" I asked her."Know about what?" She replied, looking confused. "About Viktor's plans." "They don't... I don't know how Viktor convinced them tha
Mima's POV I mentally call out to my wolf to stop putting but she doesn't listen. "Heal me." I said in my mind but she doesn't. Sheesh, what's wrong with her? Rake pulled me back and stared at me. "What's wrong?" I asked and he just shook his head. "It's your birthday next month." He said smiling and I was about to smile too when the images flashed through my mind of my family dying on my last birthday.Rake must have noticed the change in my mood because he placed a hand on my cheek. "What's wrong?" He asked but I don't reply. "Let's just go.". I told him. Walking away from him.A hand clamped down on my wrist and pulled me back, making mg face hit his chest. "Ouch. What did you do that for?" I yelled at him but his facial expression made me quiet down. "You never tell me anything." He murmured and my heart broke instantly. He's right. I'm always hiding things from him but I just am not quick to trust... What if he leaves me, breaks our bond like Dylan and uses my secrets a
Mima's POV “What prophecy?” I still never really understood what this whole thing was about. People always want power and power corrupts absolutely. I had powers fine. But who are they to list after them? Threathen so many lives for them? I remembered the time I overheard Julia being maltreated by the elders in Dylan's pack because of this. I spinner around, turning sharply to him.He looked shocked to see how I faced him. “Call your elders here immediately.” I said in one breath.He didn't look fazed and just stared at me with a taunting smirk on his face.“I wouldn't.” My anger began to rise and my dormant hate and want for him dead was resurfacing. Zahra gasped and Dylan stumbled back as I walked towards him.I was pretty sure it was my eye colour. I was still reigning myself in so that my true powers wouldn't be publicly exposed like this. “Do you want me to ask again?” I said to him threateningly, making him fall to the ground on his butt. He shook his head and that smirk
Mima's POV "Um..." I stared at them, feeling my cheeks turning red in embarrassment. I can't believe that I just did that.The soldiers that ran in with Zahra started to murmur amongst themselves about what I just did and you could see the multiple questions in their eyes but the one I could read in almost all their minds 'What is wrong with our Luna?'"Okay everyone. You can leave." Rake commanded and slowly, they started to walk out one by one out of the building leaving Rake, Zahra, Beck and I alone. "Mima, what the hell was that?" Rake asked and although I owed him an explanation, I wasn't going to give him one. I ignored him and took the book walking towards Zahra and linking our arms together. Zahra raised her brows at me, smirking but she doesn't say a word and just goes with the flow. We walked out of the building and I could feel them following us. "Mima, I asked you a question." I just continued to ignore him and walked away till I felt a hand on my arm holding me bac
Mima’s POVI stood in front of the healersitent, watching as the injured soliders where taken in one by one. Any injury too big would then require my attention.“Mima.”I turned slowly, and there he was… Dylan.His once pristine armor was cracked and bloodied, a ghost of the Alpha he used to be. His face was gaunt, eyes wild and desperate. His steps were uneven as he approached, and for the first time, I didn’t feel the familiar hate that I felt toward him. I felt… nothing.“You came back from the dead,” he said, breathless, as if seeing me alive again was too much to believe. “You came back for me.”I frowned. “I didn’t come back for you, Dylan. I came back because my mate prayed to the goddess for me to come back. I had to. For them.”His jaw tightened. “You don’t mean that. You… you still love me. I know you do. You wouldn’t have come back otherwise.” He stepped closer. “Everything we had, everything we were, it meant something. I lost my Luna. But you… you're still mine.”“No,” I
Rake's POVThe world had stopped.I couldn’t hear the cries of victory around me. I couldn’t hear the screams of my pack. I couldn’t even hear the roar of the wind as it tore across the battlefield. All I could hear was the only sound that mattered.. and it was the deafening silence in my heart.Mima.My fingers brushed her cold, lifeless face as I cradled her in my arms. Her skin was pale, the life that once burned so fiercely in her eyes now snuffed out. “Please…” I whispered, my voice barely a breath as I bent over her. “Please, Mima… don’t leave me. Not like this. Not after everything.”My wolf howled in agony, pressing against my chest as if it, too, could feel the emptiness inside of me. The loss. The endless ache. The weight of her death was too much to bear. My chest tightened, my lungs burning as I fought to hold onto the fragile hope that somehow, someway, she would open her eyes again.But as I sat there, helpless, holding her in the midst of the chaos, a sinking feeling
Mima’s POVHe was smiling.That wicked, cruel smile, aimed directly at me, as if daring me to try something, to fight back.As if he hadn’t already taken enough.Kia gasped, kicking, blue sparks fluttering weakly from his fingers. Rake’s eyes were wide, his body twitching in resistance, but he was too weak and too injured.And I was useless… lying down there not able to save the ones I loved. Is this really how it would end? Is this what all I've done will amount to? A scream tore from my lungs as I forced my body to lift from the ground even with the hole of the sword attack from Stephanie still in my chest.My hair whipped around me as they grew longer and shone brightly in their white glory. The marks on my skin began to glow brighter and brighter than they've ever shone before and my voice? It didn't sound like it was only mine.I screamed again and the earth yielded to my call like I was its owner. The sky dimmed, clouds swirling. The earth groaned beneath me.Viktor's grin falt
Mima's POVRake’s grip tightened around me as I collapsed into his arms, and for a moment, I felt like I could breathe again. But the illusion was shattered now, and Viktor’s rage was not far behind.“How dare you!” he roared. The air around us rippled with pressure as if reality itself buckled beneath his fury.A blast of dark energy shot from his palm, slamming into Rake and sending him flying from me with a sickening crunch."RAKE!" I screamed.He hit the ground hard, coughing up blood, his body limp.I felt something inside me snap.The illusion, the pain, the grief, it all faded, replaced by a white, hot fury that surged through my veins like liquid fire.Viktor turned to me with a twisted smirk. "Still so fragile, little Alpha.” He looked as if he was lost in thought and then spoke. “I thought lycans are meant to be stronger.” Then bellowed out a laughter. But I was already moving.I summoned every ounce of power I had, launching a wave of searing fire toward him. It struck hi
Mima's POV"You're lying," I whispered. My voice cracked under the weight of everything.Viktor. He must be lying… there is no way that someone related to my family would cause so much actual chaos. He isn't telling the truth. He's not my uncle, he's not related to my dad's and there's no way he shares the same blood as me.He smiled like he knew every part of me. Like he was waiting for this meeting his whole life."No, Mima," he said gently. "I never needed to lie. Not to you. I mean this is the end that determines it all so why would I need to lie? I have no reason to do something as insignificant as that.”I took a shaky step back. My heart was racing, every instinct screaming at me to fight. To burn him. But I needed answers."You look exactly like him," I said, voice hardening. "How is that possible? Even if you're brothers you don't need to look like him this much. You must be trying to fool me." I already told you that I have no time to play such phony games and we look alik
Mima’s POVWe followed the trail that they had left behind.Marks, clawed bark, blackened grass, smoke spiraling in the wind like fingers pointing the way. The packs and their warriors that we have assembled, Alpha after Alpha and warrior after warrior followed me.No one asked where we were going. They trusted me. Rake walked beside me in silence. His blade never left his hand. Beck and Zahra were already ahead, scouting. Everyone else trailed behind, a small continent of fury and fear marching toward a battlefield they hadn’t seen yet.But I had.In my dreams. In the whispers from the goddess. In the warnings carved into the bones of my losses.Still, when we arrived, it didn’t look like a war zone.It looked… empty. What the hell is going on?And in the center, maybe twenty of them? The shadow soldiers.I stiffened. “This isn’t right.”Zahra frowned. “Where’s the rest of them?”“They want us to think this is it,” Rake said. “It’s not.”I didn’t speak. I just stepped forward.Ever
Mima’s POV“Rake? Mima?” Zahra called out as I poked my head out. She rushes over to me and hugged me tightly and Beck turned in the direction that Rake was looking and saw Martin's body leaning by a tree. The hood was off so it was pretty obvious that the man was dead. Zahra turned and saw it for a second before she held me tighter. I was numb and wanted to cry but no tears were willing to come out. “I'll get the body.” Beck volunteered and walked towards where the body was. He put the hood back on and carried the body in his arms while Rake took me out of Zahra's arms and into his. “You're certain that you didn't run into anyone on your way here?” He asked and they both nodded. Rake shook his head and then signalled for Beck to start moving so we can get back to the pack.No one said a word on the walk back.Rake carried me because I was still shaking too much to walk properly. His chest was warm, but it couldn’t chase away the chill inside me.Beck walked ahead of us, Martin’s
Mima’s POVIt was strange… waking up and actually feeling stronger.Not just rested. Not just healed. Stronger.It had been three weeks since training started, and a while since Rake and I mated and somehow everything was falling into a rhythm. The packs, once strangers and even enemies, had found a weird sort of harmony in blood and sweat.Kian had leveled up so fast it was almost scary. His elemental power had gone from flickering sparks to full-out flames, literal ones and his forcefield gets stronger as more impenetrable per day.At one point, he scorched the edge of the training field and Frederick nearly had a heart attack. Ria’s speed was unmatched, and she’d been training stealth maneuvers that left even seasoned warriors blinking in confusion.And me?I wasn’t just shooting fireballs anymore. I could shoot bigger ones and I could use my powers for a longer time without feeling tired easily.Rake noticed it first.“You’re glowing,” he said bluntly one night.I snorted. “What,
Mima’s POV“I must be dreaming,” I said flatly, staring at the man walking into my office.Dylan.Of course.“What the hell is he doing here?” I muttered.‘if you're here to ask for the release of your elders, it wouldn't work. They committed a crime on our turf and our land so your begging is useless.” I said and he looked taken aback.Guess he wasn't informed about that yet then. “He says he wants to help,” Rake said from beside me, jaw tight.I let out a dry laugh. “Help? His pack slaughtered mine. Help is the last thing I’d call this. Plus, his pack is filled with disgusting and bike creatures that would do anything for power. Him included.”I said loud enough for him to hear what I thought about him.“I know.” Rake’s voice dropped. “But we need the numbers.”I hated how right he was.We had maybe two, two and a half thousand wolves tops. Kian and Ria’s intel put Viktor’s army over six thousand. Trained.I didn’t have the luxury of pride right now.Frederick stood ahead, already