Mima's POV“What do you want to tell me? Spill it out.” I turned to Dylan to hear him out. I felt Zahra’s hand on my wrist as she tried to tug me out of the room but I didn't want to leave.“Well, glad you made the right choice.” He smirked and walked over to his desk and sat on it.“There's this maid... what's her name again?” He placed his hand on his chin, faking trying to remember.My heart sped up because I knew who he was referring to, but maybe she wasn't the one.“Oh yes! Julia. That's her name. Wasn't she your friend while you were here? Have you seen her around lately?” He stared me in the eye, his smirk growing wider.“What did you do to Julia!” I screamed at him in anger. He couldn't have possibly killed her, would he?Zahra tried her best to hold me back but I tugged my hands away and stomped towards him.All colour drained from his face when I grip his shirt and pull him towards me.“What did you do to Julia? Speak this instant before I gorge your eyes out with my bare h
Mima's POVI saw Stephanie standing in the distance with two guards beside her looking all put together like she always had. She still had that evil aura around her and I was sure I wasn't the only one that could feel it.The guards kept a reasonable distance from her and you could see the fear in their eyes.“Mima, oh my. You look beautiful.” She gushed when she spotted me.Oh please. I rolled my eyes at her and I saw her left eye twitch at my reaction. She can't possibly be expecting us to act all buddy- buddy after all she had done to me.She held onto my hand and pulled me really close to her into a hug. I felt really uncomfortable.I pulled away immediately and kept my distance between us.“Your maid has already told me why you wanted to meet with me.”“Oh, has she?” Stephanie looked at the maid with anger visible in her eyes. “Did I ask you to tell her?”The maid began to shake and tremble at how Stephanie was staring at her.“I... I...”“It's not her fault; Rake wouldn't let me
Mima's POV“The rules, the first person to leave the oyer incapable of moving on their own, wins. No shifting and no claws or teeth. It's going to be a pure fist match.” The moderator said as he looked between the both of us. I nodded at him, accepting the rules of the match.I looked at my people once more giving them a small smile before looking back at Stephanie and her condensing smile.The moderator left the circle and a whistle was blown.Stephanie didn't waste a second as she rushed to me with so much force that I was tackled to the ground. I raised my hands to block my face just like it was taught to reduce damage.She didn't waste a moment before throwing punches at me.She kept on hitting me, not giving me space to gather myself and the roars of the crowd got louder. They were shouting her name so loudly cheering her on.She took a second to hit me and I used that opportunity to push her off me and put her in a headlock.The crowd booed at me and Stephanie was trying to pry
Chapter 47THE AFTERMATHMima's POV“Mima.”Julia smiled at me as she limped toward me.I had forgotten to ask her why she looked so injured when I saw her at the brawl. Purple and black bruises littered her skin, dark against her complexion, and her right hand was wrapped in heavy bandages.Why... What did they do to her?Zahra seemed to notice my shift in expression because she gently took Kia’s hand and stood. “Come on, Kia, let's take a walk.”I barely registered Kia’s little voice asking, Why is Julia hurt? Before the door clicked shut, leaving us alone.The moment the sound of their footsteps faded, I rushed to Julia’s side and grabbed her uninjured hand. She flinched as I grabbed her, but immediately she noticed what she had done. She turned and tried to smile, but it didn't reach her eyes.“What happened to you?” I muttered.The moment the door closed, the strength she had been holding onto shattered. Her face crumpled, and she broke into quiet sobs.I couldn’t hold back. I pu
Mima's POVRake's smile fell and his brows furrowed slightly, his lips pressing into a thin line as he stared at Julia, looking directly at her wounds.Julia squirmed in her seat, shifting uncomfortably under the scrutiny. Her fingers fidgeted with the hem of her dress, and she cast a nervous glance my way as if silently asking for help.I elbowed Rake in the ribs. He flinched and looked down at me with his brow raised and I mouthed later.He gave a subtle nod and looked away from Julia.I sighed, turning my attention back to her. “I was thinking... when I go back home, I want you to come with me.”Julia blinked. “Come with you?”Rake’s brow arched slightly at my words, but he remained silent.I nodded. “Yes. I don’t think you should stay here. It’s not safe, and you don’t owe them anything.”Julia hesitated.Rake finally spoke. “That might be a little complicated.” I frowned at him. “Why?”He leaned back to the wall and crossed his arms. “Because Julia is still a member of Dylan’s pa
Mima's POVI shifted slightly, brushing strands of hair from his forehead. “Kia,” I whispered.The room was quiet except for Kia’s steady breathing beside me. His small arms were still wrapped around my waist, his body warm against mine.His eyelids fluttered open, as he looked around, probably trying to remember how he got here.“Morning,” he mumbled.I hesitated before speaking. “You stayed with me the whole night. Thank you.”He shrugged. “You needed it.”I smiled faintly. “I really appreciate what you did but don't leave Zahra alone without telling anyone. This isn't our pack, we might not be safe.”“I told Zahra you were sad and she let me come here,” he grumbled. He didn't like to get scolded. That's one thing I had noticed about him.Kia turned his head slightly, staring at the ceiling as he ignored me.Sheesh.I should change the topic then. “Kia… Can you tell me about your past?”His whole body tensed.I had expected that reaction. Kia never talked about where he came from or
Rake’s POV“Rake, sir,” the maid’s voice calls softly through the door. “A letter for you.”I sit up in bed, instantly awake, rubbing my eyes. I throw on a robe and open the door. She hands me a letter and immediately I glance at the seal, I recognise it.“Thank you,” I mutter, and she nods, disappearing back down the hall.I sit down on the bed, the thick paper crinkling in my hands as I break the seal and unfold the letter.Alpha Rake, we’ve found leads on the strange who kidnapped Mima. We also have new information on Kia’s past. Come back immediately. It’s urgent.~BeckI run my hand through my hair in frustration. We have to go back.Mima was sleeping on the bed peacefully with Kia tucked beside her. He had been sleeping here ever since that day he spoke to me. Mima stirred and slowly opened her eyes. She looked around the room before her eyes landed on me. She looked at the letter in my hand and raised a brow.“You’re up early,” she comments, her voice light, though I can tell
Mima's POV“Alpha Dylan will see you now.” Immediately, Rake got called back, and Dylan sent a guard to call me to his office. I came by but it seemed he was occupied with some people in his office.The guard pulled the door open for me to walk in and two people stepped out at the same time. I had never seen them before but I unintentionally shivered as they walked by me.Two old men with scowls on their faces. I stood rooted to the ground as they walked by me. Something rolled off them in waves and I was scared to my bones. Was this the negative energy the goddess was talking about?I was definitely not ready if it was. No wonder she told me to leave. Should I have gone with Rake?No, I can do this. Why do I need to run?“Mima, I'm so glad that you could make time to see me.” Dylan sat behind his desk, looking as stupid as ever with that obviously fake grin on his face.I smirked at me and his smile fell for a bit before he nervously put it back on his face. He was scared of me... Go
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