Ward POV   I looked up from my desk with my reading glasses securely nestled on the bridge of my nose, while evaluating the new territory threat we had been warned about. It seemed this whole world was going up in a ball of shit and soon every human being alive would be clawing at the very existence of itself. Groban stood in the doorway of my cabin looking at me in a familiar way I had seen him look at me so many times before as a small boy, each and every time that he had done something and was afraid of what I would do or say he would have that same look upon his face. The thing is there was never a thing that he could do to disappoint me, it just wasn’t in him to do so. I wished sometimes that he had indeed been my biological child with Marina, because as much as I loved my son Dax, he showed the characteristics of a narcissistic psychopath. He enjoyed killing, and the brutality of this world excited him instead of causing him to flinch away

The next morning as I stood preparing breakfast there was a knock at the door, I instantly felt a lump in my throat as I gasped, I stared at the door as I clenched my jaw but I didn’t make any advances toward going to open it. Groban wasn’t here and he definitely wouldn’t be knocking anyways. Again there was a knock at the door, sighing I decided to slowly make my way over to it. Don’t be scared Laya, you are a white wolf, you are more terrifying than any human standing on the other side of that door, I kept telling myself. I took a deep breath before finally opening it. Somewhat surprised by who was on the other side my brows furrowed, I saw Ward standing right in front of me staring at me as he smiled softly and nodded at me, “Um- Groban isn’t here,” I said instantly looking down. I still felt terrible for the way I had spoken to him the last time that I had seen him, at the time I didn’t know why but soon after realizing that I was pregnant it all kind of

Groban POV   When I came too I expected to see Lay right beside me, but she wasn’t. Instead I turned to see Ward sitting on a kitchen chair with his arms slung over his knees gingerly wiping at the dry blood against his hands with a cloth, clearly my dry blood, I thought as my brows furrowed. “How long have I been out?” I mumbled as I slowly sat up to inspect my chest, it had completely healed which wasn’t surprising I suppose. I was a shifter and not just any kind but a lycan prince, but still, the wounds had been so severe I wasn’t quite sure if my body would mean?” “You’re symbols Groban, they began glowing red and the moment Laya placed hers to yours, you’re whole body arched off the ground, you’re veins were glowing red as well and then you’re wounds knitted themselves together at such a speed, none of which I have ever witnessed on you before. Groban, you’re wounds should have killed you,” gulping I started looking around almost frantically

Laya POV I followed the trail to where it began in the snow, Groban’s bloody trail grew immensely the further I went. My eyes were completely zeroed in on what I saw in the snow, so much so that I didn’t focus on anything else besides his blood against the whiteness.Suddenly I felt a blow to my head as I hit the ground, bewildered I looked up and all around before finally focusing on an image before me. Swallowing hard I recognized the face I saw before me,“Demetrius,” I said sternly as I glared at him. Smirking he crossed his arms as he stared down at me,“The fact that you know who I am should not surprise me, but tell me little hybrid, how long before that thing growing in your belly comes to be?” I swallowed hard as I furrowed my brows, how did he know I was pregnant, I wasn’t even showing yet, I had a very tiny bump if any.“Wondering how I know huh, oh child, I wasn’t born

Hours had passed and still, no one had come to remove the human from my cell, I called him that now because I didn’t much care for his name. He was nothing more than a puppet to Demetrius and he had tried to seduce the vampire side of me which I hadn’t realized up until this moment, was actually incredibly strong.I didn’t know how we were going to be able to get out of here, but I knew that we had to. Demetrius held power over all things here and it seemed that his reign of dominance was way farther spread than we had ever anticipated it to be, with us stuck in here there was no telling what he would do to us, or try and force us to do.I still couldn’t believe that Demetrius had put a human in my cell who willingly wanted me to feed on him, the thought of it made me feel sick to my stomach.I sat huddled up in the corner of the metal bars where Groban had stuck his arms around to get to me, I hadn’t been able to see his face but j