Selene's POV“I hope you'll keep to your promise and take me to my daughter?” Benita asked.“Sure, we will,” I replied.She stared at me for a while and then at Dark. “Can I have a word with you for a moment?” she said to me.I was about to follow her when Dark held my arm back.“Why can’t you say it here?” he gave her a dangerous look.Benita stared at him, surprised. “Don’t you trust me by now?”Dark was silent. He slowly let my arm go. “Scream my name if anything happens,” he said while staring at Benita.I nodded, a little amused to see that he cared that much. His actions were suddenly strange, and I couldn’t see any reason why he should act that way. I was just his personal servant, anyway.I followed Benita into her room, and she asked me to sit. Then she leaned into my face, closely. I watched her, wondering what she was up to, and then she pulled my mustache off.I gasped, covering my mouth.“You’re not a man, right?”My eyes widened, wondering when my cover had been blown. “
Selene POVI remembered growing up with a strange bottle tied around my neck like a necklace. No one told me what it was for. All I knew was that my father had gifted it to me when I was born.I never knew what my parents looked like. I grew up with the Alpha and Luna, so my childhood wasn’t all that rough—except that I was hated because the Alpha favored me. He treated me like his own and was the most excited when he found out I was his son’s mate.But on the night he was supposed to announce the next Alpha, he died. I had gone to his room that night, only to find him lying on the bed, half-dead. He looked like he’d been poisoned.Yet, he still smiled at me like always, bringing out the bottle-necklace I had thrown away. I blamed my father for leaving me and making everyone hate me, so I had despised the necklace and threw it away. I never knew the Alpha kept it.The Alpha placed the necklace around my neck and told me never to take it off—that my parents were always with me. He ment
Selene’s POVA mind-link with Dark was confusing. We weren’t connected in any way, so I didn’t understand why.“He’s our mate,” my wolf said.“But he doesn’t even recognize us.”Dark was pushed into the store with me, and the door was locked.“How did you do that?” we said at the same time.“You go first,” he muttered.“We could have taken them. Why did you let them take us?”Dark stood up and walked toward the door. I stood behind him.“From now on, don’t say a thing. Just watch me,” Dark replied in his usual cold tone, then broke the door.“Are you still standing there?” he asked when I didn’t follow him out.The woman and two other men were talking when we walked in on them.They were startled, wondering how we had escaped.They came after us, but Dark stood his ground. He caught one of the men by the head and smacked it against the ground. He was cool.The lady stayed back in fright, gritting her teeth. “What do you want?”“We have not come to fight. We only came to in search for
Dark POVHayley had fallen into my arms. In that moment, I released my hold and she crumpled to the ground.“You should return to your room,” I said.She looked at me, clearly annoyed, but didn’t dare to disobey.When she was gone, I clutched my chest. It wasn’t pain or heartbreak, but it was beating fast, and it felt like I needed to be somewhere immediately.Sal.I thought inwardly.*****PRESENT “They are in danger,” Sal said. There was fear and panic in his eyes.“Let’s leave.” I said.Sal gave me a questioning look, then blinked stared at me from head to toe and turned sideways.“I should go get something for you to cover up.”A few minutes later, she was back with a cloth, a pair of trousers, and a shirt she had gotten from the pack we had just left. Although it wasn’t my size or style, it still fit.Sal continued to follow the tracks left behind. We reached a place where the trail stopped. There was someone up ahead. Sal was still trying to say we wait and watch if it's an ene
Selene’s POVThe old man with long beard looked almost like a half-completed wolf. He had a hunch back and hairs on his face. He didn't look human in some ways. The old man dipped the knife into the bowl and brought it out stained with something blue and slimy.I stared at him, confused, wondering what he was up to.He held the knife upwards, muttered something I couldn’t understand, and rubbed it on each side of my arms and then my forehead.My skin shivered at the feeling of the blue slimy substance.None of them said a word, just moving like they were under some kind of control.Then I felt the place I was chained to begin rising.They rose too, lifting their arms into the air and lowering them again.Could these be members of the pack?A door opened before me, and I felt myself, along with the platform I was chained to, moving toward it.The old man stepped forward, tore my skin with that same knife, and poured some liquid over the wound.I yelled in pain as the liquid burned my
Chapter 33Selene POVMy chest wouldn't stop hurting—the bond was snapping. I could feel it."Selene," Riven called, and I turned to him. I sat outside my tent with Riven while the others slept. It was my turn to do watch, and Riven insisted on staying with me."Are you okay? You look lost," he asked, and I nodded."Perhaps I'm just tired," I smiled faintly."You should rest. I'll—""No, there's no need. Thank you. I'm fine."He was silent for a while before grabbing the side of my arm, and the next thing I knew, my head was resting on his shoulder."Don't be stubborn now. I still took care of you when we stayed in the woods," he smiled."The moon is bright today," he muttered, staring up at the sky."Do you want to tell me why you hate Dark so much?" I asked.He looked at me, then back at the sky. "We once had an encounter many years ago. I hadn't met Dara or Silas then. I was just a lone rogue," he chuckled."Were you chased out of your pack at an early age?""I wasn't exactly chase