Kirsch's POV I prisoned Scarlett. She wasn't even surprised when I ordered her to follow me with the Alpha Aura. Actually, she smiled when I came to her door the very next day of the new moon as if she had been expecting me. "You are not allowed to accept Willa's mindlink until I say otherwise." That was my first sentence toward Scarlett, using Alpha Aura. She nodded with a smirk. I took her to a secret safe house in the woods behind the Alpha's house, a safehouse that Taran didn't even know about. "Is Willa really poisoned by wolfsbane?" I started with the one question that bothered me for long. It would be a really rare case, but if not, then many legends about magic would make sense on Willa's case-- "No." Scarlett sighed as she answered. She knew she couldn't hide that if I ever got suspicious and asked her directly with Alpha Aura. "Willa is the one who has magic, isn't it?" I asked, knowing the answer-- "Y

Kirsch's POV I decided to keep the secret of Willa's wolf a while longer. There was too much I still didn't know about that, when Scarlett seemed to know a lot more. Willa didn't know she was cursed, nor that her wolf had been waking up every new moon. I didn't know how she would feel about that, not to mention it meant that her granny had been lying to her all her life with basically everything. "I think you don't remember it because Cerberus shouted that through the mindlink. I'm not sure if you were linked in but I did send you a request." I had got so much better at lying now, and Willa didn't seem to suspect a bit. "Really? Are you just saying this because you don't want me to go?" Willa squinted her eyes in suspicion. "Cerberus is here, ask him yourself!" I nodded at Cerberus, knowing Willa would believe him. We both knew Cerberus never lies, and she trusted Cerberus. She felt the special bond between them, I knew it! I didn't kn

Willa's POV I was pretty sure Kirsch knew what we were doing in the bedroom. Apparently, Cerberus thought the same thing-- He snorted at Kirsch every time he laid his eyes on Kirsch for a whole day. "Why aren't you at work? Isn't it a Wednesday?!" I rolled my eyes as I put another slice of pizza in my mouth. As good as it was, we had been living on take-out for days. I missed Taran's cooking. "Hmm...? Not too much happening at work..." Kirsch glanced up before his eyes fell back on the file he held in his hand...which was work! He totally stayed at home when his work was piling up to the dining table just to keep an eye on me and Cerberus! "Well, then you will have time to go out with us in the afternoon, right?" I curved my lips tauntingly. "Hmm...sure." Kirsch nodded as his eyes dashed from left to right fast before he suddenly looked up, "Where are you going?!" "To the beach. I thought it would be fun to spend some time there. We both love it." I grinned at his wretched look,

Kirsch's POV I expected Willa to hate me, but I didn't expect things to be so bad. She no longer comes home. She officially moved to the cave by the beach where we usually keep some emergency stuff. By "move" I meant she left the Alpha house with only the cloak on her back. She didn't even take the shoulder bag I got her. Cerberus had been staying there with her. It was the first time that Cerberus was the tin can telephone instead of Willa. [Alpha, I'm at the edge of the forbidden forest with food and some cloth.] I mindlinked Cerberus, [How's Willa today?] [Not talking.] Cerberus was obviously not doing well either. Willa's low mood was taking a toll on him as well. It was almost Christmas and it was freezing cold at night even for werewolves. Cerberus had been shifting during the night to be her bed these days. He was the only one Willa allowed to stay close, but she wasn't even talking to him. She would just sit there with her arms around her knees, crying in silence. [Can

Kirsch's POV I got to Willa within twenty minutes. Though I honestly wasn't sure whether I was there to save Willa from Derek or Derek from Willa, because he looked like he was gonna have a stroke if I had come any later. "Alpha." I bared my neck at Cerberus as I walked past Derek when I got there. Cerberus grunted as a response, and Willa nodded at me slightly. "Alpha Kirsch!" Derek shouted with a shred of gratitude in his tone because he could finally stop talking to Willa, "This is--" "Invasion." I turned and cut him off coldly, "Since when did the Treaty start sending troops into a pack without even so much of a notification, let alone negotiation?" "I'm sorry." Derek apologized with a crafty tone, "We were told that a mad rogue was luring around your pack, and we merely came for the concern of your safety." They wouldn't hesitate on murdering Cerberus if they thought they had a chance to win. They would still be apologizing to me at that point when they purposely tricked me