Maximus POVAfter Hazel left my office that night, she called and said doing a powerful spell right from the beginning would only trace the magic back to her. She suggested doing something small like casting a spell over some rogues to calculate and make their attacks faster. I asked her if there was any way to make it to where they had a set target to focus on, but she said it would be impossible without an item that belonged to the person.I told her I would check the blanket Rose used as a pillow for a lock or two of Rose's hair. As soon as we hung up, I got up from the chair at my desk and locked the door to my office then I walked over to the window and closed the black-out curtains so no one could see into my office. Absolutely no one knows about the small box-shaped hole under the rug that is in the middle of my office. I made it myself two months after I became alpha.I pulled the rug back and pushed on the floorboard gently and it instantly popped open. Inside is a small wood
Jackson POVThe whole time Rose was telling us what happened to her, she had a vacant look on her face. She was no longer Rose, just an empty shell of her. She was reliving one of the worst moments of her life. By the time she got to the middle of her story, she had tears rolling down her face. Rose never noticed because she was so lost inside her memory.I'm normally calm and collected, but hearing the things Maximus did to her had me shaking violently with anger. I want nothing more than to rip that disgusting, excuse of man limb from limb slowly and painfully. I want him to suffer just like he made Rose suffer. While I wanted to kill Max, I also wanted to pull Rose out of her head and hold her in my arms until all her pain and suffering were gone. I know that it will never happen because that is something she needs to do herself but I can try. I looked over at Damien to see how he was holding up and I was surprised at what I saw. He was sitting perfectly still, his breathing even
Rose POVI shot upright in bed as pain rippled through my entire body. I was drenched in sweat and my clothes were sticking to my body. A wave of nausea slammed into me like a tidal wave, I threw my body across a hard lump in the bed just in time to throw up on the floor. There was something off about the liquid I puked up. "Rose what's wrong?" Jackson asked with a groggy voice before he turned on the bedside lamp. "Oh, my goddess Rose!" He shouted as he shot up in bed holding on to my shoulders.At first, I didn't know what he was so worried about until I opened my eyes and saw the blood all over the floor. I realized then, that's what I threw up. Tears filled my eyes when another wave of nausea hit me and I violently threw up again. The pain got worse each time I threw up, after the fifth time, I stopped counting. I was becoming exhausted and on the verge of passing out. My hair was soaked from how much I was sweating. All of my bones hurt and I have the worst headache anyone coul
Rose POV Each and every one of my bones was breaking one at a time. My skin felt like someone had thrown me into a raging fire. While I was scratching at my legs my hands started to feel wet and when I looked down my thighs had deep cuts on them and claws had grown from my fingertips. I watched as my fingers shrank and my hands turned into paws. The feeling was terrifying yet exhilerating. Just when I thought the pain couldn't get any worse, my head started to feel like it was going to explode. The sound of my skull breaking and reforming was sickening and deafening. I looked down at my nose and bit back a scream while I watched it turn into a blue snout. I have never seen a blue wolf before. I didn't get to spend too much time thinking about it before my spine started to break again and threw me onto my hands, well my front paws. I felt my legs bend and turn into hind legs and just like that the pain stopped. I flopped down onto the ground on my side and soaked up the cool damp
Rose POV"By the goddess Rose, you really are a magnificent sight to see." He said with his mouth wide open. Jackie turned toward her father and growled, bearing all her teeth to him."I suggest you stop it little girl!" He snapped then looked back to me. "I really wanted to be the one you first shifted with so that way we would forge a bond, but it seems that I am too late. Oh well, I guess I just have to make sure your dragon shifts with me." He said with a crazy stare. I have never seen him like this before. Jewels raised her eyebrow to him having no idea what he was talking about."Oh that's right, you have no idea who you are or what you will become. Maybe we should do a story time, why don't you come a little closer." The smile that lay across his face was not a nice one, it was dark."What will we become Jewels? What is he talking about?" I asked her frantically."I don't know Rose. We need to either figure out a way out of this or we need to fight our way out. He has no inten
Rose POV When I pulled the shorts on i noticed something else too, I wasn't all skin and bones anymore. I pulled the shirt over my head and looked at the treeline where my mates are standing just on the other side of it. I want to go running out there into their arms but I'm worried they still haven't said anything about how big Jewels is. I sucked in a deep breath and walked out of the woods. To my surprised there were there were two wolves and two more people surrounding Jackie and talking to my mates. They must be some of the packs warriors. With the way they were surrounding her and one of them started tying her hands behind her back, I'm assuming they came here to bring Jackie to the cells. I walked over to them to see what's going on. "I want all of our surveillance footage pulled from every angle. Not just from the altercation with your luna but also every angle that catches the other side of the stream. I want to know where he came from and I want to know how they go onto
Rose POVIt felt like we have been standing here in each other's arms for hours. But at the same time, it ended too quickly. I couldn't help but feel hurt when they pulled away from me. I looked down at my feet and walked into the bathroom.It has white walls and black tiled floors. This bathroom is twice as big as Alpha Maximus's personal bathroom. There were two huge oval mirrors above the counter. The sinks are black and white marble along with the counter. The bathtub is a pure, shiny white clawfoot bathtub. It stands out beautifully in contrast to the black floors.On the other side of the room was a shower big enough to fit six people. Why does someone need such a large shower? I walked over to the shower to turn it on and my jaw fit the floor. There are shower heads all over the walls and the ceilings, the only place that didn't have shower heads is the long glass wall that has three doors on it.I looked around for the water nobs to turn the shower on but I couldn't find them
Damien POVJackson and I were having a drink while Rose was in the shower. I could not get the sight of her wolf out of my head. Jewels is the most beautiful wolf I have ever seen. I have never seen or heard of a blue wolf before, and I'm lucky enough to have her as my mate."Do you hear that?" Jackson asked me sitting forward in his seat. I focused my hearing until I heard what he was talking about. We both jumped out of our seats and ran into the bathroom. I was not prepared for the sight that was in front of me. Rose was sitting on the bottom of the shower covered in blood and clawing at herself. "I have to wash the feelings away. They have to go away." Rose said but she wasn't herself. Her eyes were completely gray."Rose?" I said to her but she didn't stop or lookup. "Rose?" I called to her again and still nothing except she started to dig deeper into her skin. "We have to stop her Jackson. I'll get her arms while you try to get her attention." I told him. We walked into the s