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 POV "You thought you did." He said."I was sure that I did. I strangled you and you died when the building collapsed." I rebutted but he just laughed in my face, taking his precious time to mock me.I could feel my hands shaking but I couldn't place what from, whether fear or anger. Or was it both then? "Well, I'll leave it to your imagination to guess how I survived but you didn't kill me." He said and then he swing when I wasn't looking, I took a hit to my stomach and stumbled backwards as he stretched and flexed himself watching me groan in pain."Would you look at that. Who would have guessed that you were still as weak as ever?" I tried to stand up straight but what was a black magic mage doing having all this strength in him?He swung at me again but this time I saw it and ducked again but I acted too soon, thinking I had read his move.I raised his leg and kicked me by the side and I felt my body flying in the air before filling to the ground with a loud thump.My who
Rake's POV "What's the situation." I asked Beck but he just shook his head.It had been four days since Mima collapsed in my arms and she's yet to wake up. The children were safe, all of them with no one injured and Kia attested to being fine and that nothing was done to him.Lady Safire was getting quality treatment but I still didn't get it.Was that red cloaked man really dead this time?We could only find his burnt remains but it looked too well burnt to salvage anything and confirm if it's was a real person or not. I had been stuck in my office for those four days.Beck stood by my side,going through the reports that we had the departments in the park send since we heard the news of possible invasion.I have never felt so useless in my life. I'm always having no choice but to leave things to Mima but as her mate, I shouldn't be letting her suffer and fight this hard She's doing so much...Flashes of all the times that she was injured and/or unconcious crosses my mind and my w
Mima's POV My eyes fluttered open as I got up from the bed, groaning. "Urgh, what time was it?" I muttered, searching for my phone.I finally found it and I checked the time seeing that it was noon and it had been FOUR DAYS?! Why was I asleep for that long? I thought.I gig out of bed and trudged to the bathroom to get cleaned up and changed.I was drying my hair with a towel when I heard shouts from the hall. I dropped the towel and slipped into one of Rake's shirts and some pants and walked out of the room.Some maids were talking animatedly about some fight and I just had to listen in."The Alpha and one of the best fighters that we have are sparring?" One of the maids said and the other nodded eagerly to confirm that information."Yes. I would have loved to watch bug in on duty for making dinner. Do you know how hot the fighter is? She is literally a dream." She gushed, turning red over the thought of Zahra.That was when the thought processed. Wait what? Zahra and Rake were
Mima's POV The dungeon was suffocating, a dark lightless pit that reeked of decay, despair and rotting flesh. Bodies littered the cramped cells, slumped against the cold stone walls.The other members of my pack were packed into one cell. I was alone in another. I looked across the hall and spotted my best friend. Her head was resting on the wall. Her once striking brown eyes were dull, rimmed with red from several hours of crying. She had lost her mate in the attack. I heard this from the muttering of the other pack members about the people we had lost… She must be really hurt.She hadn't spoken since we were thrown into this hellhole. No one had. All we had witnessed was too great for words.My stomach churned from starvation and and my wrist felt raw from the silver laced iron chains that chained me to the wall. I closed my eyes letting the silence of the cell fill my ears but all I saw were my family's dead bodies. The sound of my mother's screams, the look in my brother's eyes
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