Mima's POV“As you can see here, the number of tubers, fruits and other crops that we could harvest began to reduce and since I concluded that it could not be the workers, something must be wrong with the soil.” She stood up and tried to touch a potted plant on the floor. I swirled my fingers, bringing the potted plant from her office here since the one she wanted to touch was just an illusion. “Thank you.” She said after finally being able to hold it.She walked over to me and placed it in front of me.“The soil must be dying.”“Dying?” I asked her.“Yes, you see. It came as a shock to me. We always had the soil tested every few months and if we grew cabbage in a particular partch for a while, we switched the crop that would be grown there next. To keep the soil healthy.” I nodded, following what she was saying.“Like I said earlier, something wasn't right so I scooped out of the soil and put it in this pot to grow this plant.” I finally took a good look at the plant. “I chose a
Mima's POV “I need you to run some tests on this and figure out what is wrong with it.” I had left Kia in the pack house with Daria to clean him up and get him in clean clothes. Then walked over to the laboratory with the soil to get it tested. I didn't want to waste any time. I needed to know how to solve this issue. Who knows how long Viktor would stall before he attacks. The man I was talking to looked up at me, stared at me for some seconds and then went back to what he was doing like I wasn't even there.The laboratory was huge with many men and women in lab coats roaming around, dealing with bubbling liquids and what not.“I am talking to you.” I said. A little but harsher this time. I was in a hurry, j still needed to scout the weaponry for anybody that seemed out of place and this man was wasting my time.“I don't know how you were able to get access here but I am not responding to you.” He replied rudely, making me gasp as he sneered and went back to this work.I turned a
Mima's POV I turned around to see Rake staring down at me with a smile on his face. “What are you doing here?” He asked. I smiled at him and then gestured for him to lower his head. “I'm trying to weed out the shadows in every unit. I'll tell you what I've discovered so far later, but for now we have a more serious issue.” I whispered in his ear. Rake frowned and then pulled out a chair to seat on. He turned to me, giving me his full attention.“Tell me.”“Look around and tell me what you notice.” Rake looked around and immediately there was a frown on his face. He must have not caught on to what was going on around because he was focused on me. “What the hell is going on here?” He whispered yelled making some heads turn to us.“Why are they eating in their workspace? Don't they have a cafeteria to cater to that? This is highly dangerous, eating in the presence of where toxic materials are.” He said to me and I nodded. “That's exactly what I thought too. Immediately I saw all
Mima's POV I walked inside Rake's office and took my seat. He went to check up on the trainings of the soldiers so I was alone. I was arranginging some documents on the information concerning the weaponry and the other units that I was yet to visit. Going from one unit to the other was extremely tiring and I had no strength to walk around and still train Kia which by the way we have made Zero progress.I dumped the papers and rubbed my temples when the door burst open and Kia ran in towards me. I smiled and stretched out my hands, welcoming him into my embrace.“Mima!” He squealed excitedly at me. I ruffled his hair and pulled him up to sit on my lap. He had a book with him and he flipped the pages, reading them as I went back to work.A while passed and a knock sounded on the door. “Come in.” Safire walked in with some papers in her hands and she looked afraid? What happened? She placed the papers on the table and stood away without taking a seat.“Take a seat.” I told her an
Rake's POV I placed Mima on the bed and kissed her forehead. It took a lot to put her to sleep after what she had just witnessed. There is a lot on her shoulders and it hurts me so much that I can't help her to release her burden. She's the only one that can help to identify the shadows with the powers that she has and I feel so useless as the Alpha and her mate to do nothing but just watch from the sidelines. I gently removed her hair from her face and stared at her. She turned but she didn't wake up from her sleep. Someone knocked at the door so I stood up immediately to answer it. “Yes?” “Alpha, the body has been buried. I came to report that the laboratory has a report that Luna requested and there is a woman by the name of Olivia waiting in front of your office.” I sent him off and he bowed before walking away.I turned back to Mima and kissed her on the forehead again and then touched the necklace that I gave her.–I got to my office and walked in, taking the papers from
Mima's POV Julia was missing? Rake turned to face with a slight frown on his face. He didn't look too pleased by the news either and he looked as though he didn't want me to find out. He rushed to me and pulled me in for a hug, patting my head.“It's not your fault.” He whispered in my ear.How did he know that I was blaming myself? I mean, if I had come here instead of being numb from what I saw, maybe she would still be here and whoever took her wouldn't have.Maybe–Rake hugged me tighter and said it over and over how it wasn't my fault. I relaxed in his arms and let him hold me. It wasn't my fault. I told myself. I pulled away from him to see that everyone in the room was staring at us and my cheeks tinged pink. I cleared my throat and walked over to the doctor. “What happened?” I asked him with a stern voice. The doctor couldn't possibly be a shadow right? If he was he could have killed Rake when he was sick but he tried everything he could to help so he couldn't possibly b
Mima’s POVThe pain in my back stung, but I pushed it aside. Olivia stood in front of me, shaking like a leaf. Her eyes weren’t just wide with fear, they looked troubled.“Olivia…” I started, gently pushing myself off the bed. “I didn’t mean to—”She shook her head rapidly, backing up until her back hit the wall. “There was something in your hand. You were holding something in your hand!” She screamed at me.I looked at her confused and raised the pendant. “You mean this?” Her face morphed to that of horror.“That thing. That pendant. Don’t bring it near me again,” she said, her voice trembling, every word soaked in dread.I looked at the pendant in my hand. I stood up and walked to the other side of the room and I quickly tucked it back into the drawer and moved slowly toward Olivia, keeping my hands in view.“I’m sorry. I didn’t know it would hurt you,” I said softly.She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. After a few long seconds, she nodded and opened
Mima's POV "So what do we do now?" Rake asked."We find a way to help Olivia and we look for Julia and then the weed out other moles."He nodded and took my hands in his. "Learn to take it easy though. Don't be too harsh on yourself." I raised myself to his cheek and gave him a peck. I jumped out of bed and was almost out the door when I stopped."It's almost time for the pack meetings. We'll be the ones hosting this time. Maybe we can convince the others to work with us and fight them. They can't possibly have a hold on all the packs by now right?" I said to him.He looked in thought for a while before he smiled and nodded "I expect nothing less of my mate. Smart idea." I blushed at his compliment and the way he stared at me and I ran out of the room."Zahra." "Mima."We nodded to each other and just stared for a while before we burst out laughing and hugged. "Ready for another day of training Kia on what we don't know shit about?" She said and I laughed."I'm ready." We walked
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