AKIRA'S POV I woke up a few minutes later, my head began to spin as I tried to blink my eyes open, my limbs felt like jelly and as I attempted to raise my hand, I realised that I was paralysed. All of what happened a few minutes ago came back in a rush and fresh tears began to stream down my face. Why did Ares not tell me all of this? Why did he keep this away from me? I gasped and turned around, trying to find the one person responsible for this. "What did you do to me?" I glared at Serena who was sitting on Elizabeth's favourite couch without a care in the world. She giggled. "It's a little something my mother gave to me. I knew it would knock him out really fast but I was told it would only last a few minutes for witches." As she spoke she was sneaking glances at Salvatore whose hands were bound to the table behind him. "Why did you do that to him?" I questioned suspiciously. "Aren't you guys accomplices?" Something wasn't right, why would she go behind Salvatore to do

THIRD PERSON'S POV.Alpha Ares was proud of his doings. He has grown up to become a very strong and powerful Lycan and Alpha who was widely known around the world. But lately, he had been feeling really... empty, putting it lightly. He looked at the sky, the Moon Goddess was really testing his patience. It has been thousands of years and still she hasn't given him a mate. It was really getting to him. He looked beside him to find his Beta, Czar, looking as sullen as ever. Czar had lost his mate but it was almost a damn year and he still hasn't gotten over her death. Was this how he was going to be for the rest of the damn year? Ares thought with pity.But he didn't say it out loud. Probably because he didn't know what it felt like to have a mate, hence he kept his mouth shut. They were both sitting on a bench in the garden with a bottle of Cheval Blanc between them. While Czar was still nursing the loss of his mate by getting drunk every single time, Ares was nursing the absence of

AKIRA'S POV After I spoke with Nana last night, I refused to go down for dinner even after she and Madam Yelena asked me to. Instead, I ate on my bed and listened to the chattering and laughter from them with pain in my heart. , I know it was wrong of me to still isolate myself even after what Nana and I spoke about but I needed last night to regroup. I needed that time alone to cry and myself together for the last time. I knew that no matter how much I needed to forgive Ares, I also needed to forgive myself. I needed to stop blaming myself and Ares for what has happened. And I knew that soon, the Moon Goddess was going to bless Ares and I with another child. And if it was meant to be, she was going to restore my powers. Waking up this morning was really refreshing. I woke immediately I heard the bedroom door beside mine slam shut. Ever since I woke up from unconsciousness, he has been religiously waking up to join them all for breakfast downstairs. I quickly took my bath before