Alexei:Scarlett and I walked toward the room where my sister was staying.Ivan, who was watching her, more specifically, trying to get answers out of her, took a step back when he heard us coming in.Scarlett froze at the sight of the bucket that was beside her bed. My sister’s hair was just drying, and the bandage that was initially on her stomach was now open.“What the bloody hell happened here?” Scarlett asked, shaking her head at both me and Ivan. I shrugged and Ivan smirked at her. “You two are impossible” she said, looking at my sister. She went to take a step toward her, but wrapping an arm around my beauty’s waist, I stopped her from approaching.“Alexei” she urged.“If she is alive, malyshka, it is for us to get answers only. Claire would be dying soon enough, her death would depend, of course, on whether or not she cooperates” I said, glaring at Claire who whimpered in pain. I nodded at Ivan to take a step toward her, and seeing him, my sister flinched, realizing that she

Alexei:I smiled at my beauty who lay peacefully in my arms.The mental battle that I was in was something that I wouldn’t wish for an enemy to go through.It was one that not only broke my soul and shattered my mind, but broke my whole family too.“You have no idea how grateful I am for you being here, malyshka” I whispered to my sleeping mate. I kissed Scarlett’s temple before carefully getting out of bed. Scarlett needed as much as rest as she could get to heal, and I won’t even start talking about her nutrition.I walked out of the bedroom to check on Claire, who I knew left the surgery room before we went to bed. I just didn’t want to worry Scarlett with the fact that I might be getting out of bed while she slept.Walking down the stairs, I frowned when I saw Nikolay sitting on the couch which was by her infirmary. His eyes were fixed on the ground and despite it being a while past one in the morning, the man was wide awake.“Your father is inside, Alexei” Nikolay said, his playf

Alexei:I frowned when I woke up to find that Scarlett was nowhere to be seen. Her side of the bed was cold meaning that she has been awake for a while now, and rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I sighed when I checked my phone to find that it was a while past noon.I got up from bed and walked to the bathroom to freshen up, catching Scarlett’s scent in the house, knowing that she was safe somewhere downstairs with the other family members. Maddie would most likely be with her, and if not Maddie, it would be Lena, Ivan, or even Artur. If anyone in the house knew what it was like to go from ‘stranger’ to family in this house, it was Artur.The fact that I knew that she shouldn’t have been out of bed with me asleep was something, but judging by the fact that I also knew that there was no way for me to keep her in bed all day while she let me sleep, she had to move for her wolf’s sake; I knew that I was forced to submit, leaving her to do what she saw as right.I walked out of the bathroom

Alexei:I frowned in confusion when I noticed that the house was completely quiet. No one was in the living room, and seeing as I couldn’t hear anyone walking around upstairs, I knew that the top floors were practically empty. If anything, the girls were literally nowhere to be seen, and the men were busy going about with their duties as if it was some long day. But fucking hell, it wasn’t just Maddie or Scarlett now, even mom and Aunt Sienna seemed to have disappeared.“They couldn’t have killed one another, right?” Dad asked, entering the living room. I looked at him and raised an eyebrow, not bothering to comment as I caught their scent in the kitchen. I walked to the kitchen and frowned in confusion when the smell of cake filled my nostrils. Scarlett was surely keeping herself busy with the amount of baking that she decided to want to do today.“Just place these here, Isabella, they would be shaping themselves after cooling down” I heard Scarlett’s voice before opening the door.

Alexei:“I chose you over that, and when I came back home that evening, I couldn’t help but fear them hurting you. They gave me time to choose, to think carefully, but I already knew that I wasn’t going to let them hurt my mate, and regardless of the consequence, I knew that I had my mind set on getting you out of there” I said, avoiding her eyes. My wolf whimpered when I saw tears falling from her eyes, and knowing that I was somewhat the reason behind them, I couldn’t help but regret talking about it.“I know that I should have told you about it earlier, and I know that I’ve made my mistakes by sending you to the facility; but I also knew that there was no way that you were going to believe me. Locking you up here was not an option, and making you work as one of the slaves would have broken me. Yes, sending you to the facility may have not been my best move, but believe me, Scarlett, the last thing I wanted to do was hurt you” I said, my eyes meeting hers. Scarlett wiped her tears f