Irina: I woke up to find myself laying on top of Kai’s bed. I frowned as I pinched the bridge of my nose, trying to ease the headache that I was dealing with despite my sleep. “Good morning,” Kai said, his voice coming out as too loud for my liking. I frowned as I sat up before shaking my head in question, trying to process what I was going through before flashes of what happened started playing in my head. My eyes widened in surprise, and I shook my head. No, he wasn’t dead. The Alpha didn’t… “Dad?” I asked, getting up from bed in a rush. My knees weakened, and I found myself stumbling, nearly falling before Kai’s arms wrapped around my waist, holding me upright. I shook my head, he wasn’t dead, he couldn’t be dead. Cosimo did not kill him, he couldn’t have. “I’m so sorry, Irina.” He said, and I shook my head as I pushed him away. His eyes widened in surprise, and I let out a low growl. “You refused to allow me to save him! I could have helped him,” I said, and Kai’s eyes soft
Kai: I walked down the stairs toward the living room to find mom standing, waiting for me. “How is she?” Mom asked, and I shook my head. She wasn’t okay, and I knew that she wasn’t going to be okay anytime soon. She was in pain, and this wasn’t going to be something that she would heal from easily. “She is asleep. I barely managed to calm her down eventually, but she slept out of exhaustion.” I said, and mom nodded. “I know about the argument that the two of you had, and I know about her arm.” “I had no intentions in hurting her.” She said, and I nodded. “I am aware, but despite that, I am going to have to ask you to please stay away from her. She is going to need to rest and regain her own strength. I don’t want her to be put under pressure, not from you and not from anyone who is around the house.” I said, and she nodded. “She is mourning, and it is understandable.” Mom said, and I nodded. “Did she tell you why he killed her father?” “She said that he put her in a tough spot.
Irina:I woke up to a hand running over my arm, gently massaging it.It was Kai. I knew that he would be the only one who would enter his room to begin with. He gently wrapped a wrapper around my injured arm, catching me off guard, and I shook my head in question as I opened my eyes to see what he was doing. “You need to wrap it for it to heal.” He said, and I closed my eyes again, not wanting to look at him being as gentle and as genuine as he was being with me.I was tired and I was broken, and the idea of him being kind to me only made matters worse for me, especially since he knew that I betrayed him.“It would heal on its own,” I said, and he nodded.“But this would make it a lot less painful.” He said, and I squeezed my eyes shut. “Do you want to eat something? You’ve been on this bed throughout the whole day. I can assume that you would be hungry.”“I’m not.” I said, and he sighed. “Irina…”“Please, Kai.” I said, stopping him. “I really don’t want to eat anything. I just nee
Kai:My lips brushed over Irina’s before a cry of fear came from downstairs, clearly coming from one of the pack members, forcing the two of us apart as the two of us processed the sound.I frowned in confusion, and despite her fatigue, even Irina got up from bed, now ready to fight. Her eyes were a dark shade of golden as her wolf made herself known, and though I went to shake my head at her, wanting to stop her, I knew not to. At this point, she was going to need to get her anger out in her own way. And staying in the room all day was not going to do her any good eventually.The two of us ran out of the room, and I frowned when I saw Annetta’s body thrown in front of the house door. “Be thankful for the fact that I chose ONE over the three omegas that you had killed.” Viktor said, reading a paper. Irina’s heart raced, and she shook her head, not wanting to believe that this was happening. Diego, who walked out to take sight of the scene, froze as he took sight of Irina standing b
Irina:I sat on the windowsill, getting lost in my thoughts as I knew that I was going to have a lot to deal with tonight.The idea of knowing that my mother could either be in danger or completely against me right now played in my head. But I knew that I had nothing to do right now. Cosimo has stripped me off my own humanity, something that I never allowed myself to lose before.“You need to eat, Irina. You are tired and you are going to need to regain your strength.” Kai said from behind me. I looked at the man over my shoulder, and though I didn’t understand him or his motives right now, I nodded as I turned to enter the room. He wrapped his hand around my waist, holding me to him. My wolf gave into his touch, the one sense of humanity that I had.I sat on the couch that Kai had in his room and took a bite out of an apple slice before getting up from the couch. I wanted to go back to sleep, and Kai sighed.“Irina, this is not you eating…”“I am tired,” I said, and he sat beside me.
Kai:“What are you doing?” Irina asked, smiling at me. It’s been a week since her father died, and though I knew that she was still in pain, she was losing a lot of weight and she wasn’t eating as much as I wanted her to; she was at least willing to talk more often.“I am heading to work. But you are going to stay in the pack today. You have to rest for a while longer and I don’t want you pressing on yourself while dealing with your boss…”“You know that I am not going to keep hiding at home from the man. I am going to have to go to work eventually, whether or not I am done with mourning, he would not be caring, Kai.” She said, and I nodded. “I know, but I don’t want you to feel like you HAVE to go. It is a choice that you have and no one is going to force you to do something that you might not be ready for.” I said, and she smiled. I watched as she stood on her toes before kissing my cheek, making me smile. It was small gestures like this one that told me that I was doing the right
Irina:I sat in my office, reading through the papers that I was going to eventually need to give to my boss to sign.He was annoyed, I was well aware of that, but there was no changing the reality of facts. I was tired and it was a leave that he was forced to give. It wasn’t one that he could choose not to.“He is waiting for you, Irina, if you keep delaying things he might…”“I know, Delilah,” I said, stopping her from finishing what she was going to tell me. I was already going on a thin line with the man, the last thing that I needed was to be reminded that I was going on a thin line.I walked out of my office and toward his, knocking on the door, keeping the best smile that I could muster. My eyes were exhausted regardless of the makeup, and though I knew that he didn’t want me to go, I knew that it was something that Kai had noticed. Him allowing me to go to work without creating a fuss was a miracle itself. But I could only guess that it was because he was aware of how tired I
Kai: “You expect me to believe that Cosimo is playing a game on us?” Alpha Sebastian asked, raising an amused eyebrow at me. The fact that we chose to go to a public place to speak to him was one idea that mom approved of. I knew that she still had a heavy feeling about us talking together, but I also knew that seeing as we had different options now, she was more than a little willing to comply with us. “You are going to believe it because you know that we wouldn’t be benefiting in killing my father-in-law. If I wanted the woman to be with me, I doubt that killing her father would be the right way to start.” I said, and he scoffed. “Say that I believe a word that you are saying. What is the guarantee that you are not going to do it again? If Cosimo was the one who did it, we would have known. The men would have seen him.” Sebastian said, and I took a deep breath. “And you are going to choose to believe that I, a man that doesn’t know him, did this?” I asked, playing my cards we