“Our king and alpha, Cyrus has been taken by Gedoni and his men and we need to reclaim our king. We need a king and an alpha to lead our pack. If we do not act fast, our enemies will subdue us.” Sule started.He paused for a second and he scanned the room, all the council members were nodding their heads.“We cannot make a move without a leader. An alpha. Our pack cannot be sent to battle without an Alpha. We have tried to maintain orderliness in these past weeks since Alpha Cyrus was taken. But the word is spreading and wolves are beginning to act out. They need a leader as a symbol of orderliness.” Sule continued.“that’s why I’ve called this meeting. To discuss the fate of our kingdom.”“We all know that half of the members of our army were wiped out, the last time that Tobias and Gedoni infiltrated us, the army general has been training a new set of wolves and humans. We are almost ready for battle

“I’ll like to speak for myself please.” Lucius continued. “My father, King Cyrus, sent me away to America six weeks after our tenth birthday. My brother, Prince Darius as you all know, successfully turned on our tenth birthday. He is a strong wolf and from the little, I have seen in the few hours that I have returned, his strength seems to be a match for his temper.” Some men laughed. It was a joke after all. But it was also true. Lucius wasn’t laughing. Neither was he smiling. “I, on the other hand, couldn’t turn like my twin brother. And for six weeks, my father’s Beta and right-hand man, Sule stayed with me in the woods, trying to get me to shift but we turned up unsuccessful every single time.” Lucius paused in his walk, by the time he made the statement, he was standing in front of Sule. His eyes looked down into Sule’s eyes and Sule could see the gratitude in them. Lucius wasn’t angry or sad about what had happened, instead, he w

Emelda had been pacing around her room. Her grandmother had left in a thunderous rage and Emelda was loaded with anxiety. She needed a run, Sasha was itching for a run.But she couldn’t leave, not until she figured out what was going on.The council meeting had been on for hours and she had been waiting.Emelda had been able to put things together. She had mated with Lucius and she had not just loved it but had craved for it. But just like her grandmother had asked her? Why was she ashamed of it?She searched her soul and found the answer: she was supposed to hate the family that caused her mother’s death. But in contrast, she had opened up her body and soul to them.Emelda had initially felt a connection with Darius. When he had marked her, Sasha had agreed with Darius’s spirit wolf. But when Lucius came, it had been something utterly different. The burning passion had been explosive.Emelda continued pacing, SHE NEEDED A

Emelda hurried back to the palace. She had taken a longer time than she had anticipated because Sasha was tensed and needed so much time to blow off the steam. Sasha had gone on a long and hard run through the woods until she reached the back of the palace where the Alpha-making ceremony was being held. She had stopped at a small hill and she watched the ceremony from there.She watched until she saw Darius pulling out another wolf’s heart from his chest. Sasha didn’t know who the wolf was and she couldn’t hear what was going on but the sight was so vicious that she shivered. And then she shifted back to human form and ran back into the palace through the same tunnels that Lucius had led her out of.No one saw her, even when she crawled into the guestroom that now served as her bedroom.But as she entered the room, she found her personal maid, Vera. The little Omega servant that Darius had assigned to her.Emelda was covered in mud and she knew that Vera had

Back in the enemy camp, Gedoni and Tobias were having a discussion about their last steps on how to finally infiltrate the Lake wood kingdom. They were laying out a strategy on how to position their army in the right spots so they could overthrow the palace.And they had the key ingredient that was going to guarantee their victory: CYRUS.Gedoni wasn’t taking any chances, he had waited for this moment for a long time. Ever since he was a kid, when he watched his father die at the hands of Cyrus. He had carried the grudge, the pain, the sting. And this was his time, to avenge his father’s death, and he wasn’t going to back down now.“So, when are we killing him?” Tobias spoke from his side of the room; his bamboo seat was placed by the left end of the room while Gedoni’s seat was at the other end.“Killing who?” Gedoni threw the question at Tobias. Gedoni didn’t like Tobias. Not even a little and he did