NIKOLAIMy father having siblings comes as a complete shock to me especially because he lived his life like a loveless beast but that’s not what bothers me at all. I have way more bigger problem than uncles I didn’t know about.I don’t know if I can trust Hunter to take care of pack on my behalf. Only the palace guards are currently remaining at the palace and Hunter can’t fight to save his life. Winter doesn’t know I asked him to be my Beta yet and I’m not going to tell her until he accepts. When he does accept, the first thing I’ll do is train him to fight, if I still have a pack to lead by then that is, he can’t be my Beta and not know how to kill a person with his eyes closed. “You have to make a decision now.” Winter whispers and it occurs to me that I’m still in the presence of my oppressor. He’s asked to give him everything my father owns and I have to admit that it’s quite a lot to hand over to someone I’m meeting for the first time. It’s a lot to hand over at all. “If I

HUNTER. The warrior’s inability to leave the palace turned out to be a blessing in disguise, I have to say that this is the happiest I’ve been to see Nikolai, but maybe not as happy as I am to see Winter. “Are you okay? You look terrible.”“You don’t have to be modest, I smell terrible and frankly I feel terrible too. I feel like I came back from the dead.” Her shoulders are so low, they’re almost sweeping the ground. “I’m so sorry. I’ll ask the maids to prepare you a hot bath right now.” “Thank you.” She says and heads up stairs without looking back. I turn to face Nikolai, he looks just as terrible but there’s a smug smile on his face.“I knew you could do it.” He says and gives me a side hug, if he wasn’t so smelly the hug might have lasted a little longer but there’s only so much of his stench I can take.“How about the offer I made? Did you consider? You don’t have to tell me your answer now!” he stops me. I think he’s nervous.Nikolai is actually nervous. I feel so important

HUNTER. Leaving Daphne was the hardest decision I’d ever attempted to make in my life, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. It felt like it heart was being ripped apart from the inside out. I went back to pick her up and Daphne walked in minutes later to taker her from me just like the way she took her hand from mine. I guess I don’t Daphne as much as I thought I did. How could she be so unfeeling? We went to that dinner table together, sat side by side and she just pretended like nothing happened. She added so natural , like she didn’t care. Maybe she really doesn’t care? What if she was not acting and that was her showing me her true colours? What if I’m reading this all wrong and it’s all just a simple argument that will blow over once we leave the palace? That has to be it, everything we built can’t just end over such a simple argument. Daphne loves me and I loved her too. We’re a family.You’re not their father! Her voice rings in my head again bringing me back to reality. Dap

AUNT HYACINTHI lock myself inside my room because I don’t want anyone to come in unannounced while I wipe the blood from my nose. The bleeding started a month ago, quite later than I expected it actually. I’ve dreaded the day that I start to bleed from my nose all my life. It was something I was scared of even more than death itself but now that I wipe the blood from my nose more constantly, death is what scares me. Every day, it feels like I draw closer to my grave faster than I should. Every body dies but not like this! I don’t want to for like this. I didn’t choose this life for myself. My mother didn’t either but I don’t have anybody else to blame but her, she’s the one that left me with nothing but a deadly ailment. She left me with no friends, no family, no food, no money and as if that was not enough to kill me in just a matter of days, she also had to leave me with the knowledge that I have a time bomb ticking inside of me waiting for the right time to blow up.I was a ch

WINTER. I went into our room to sleep after dinner. We no longer sleep in separate bedrooms, we’ve realized how short life can be and how easily one of us could be snatched from the other forever. Even aunt Hyacinth is kit questioning our decision, although she’s not questioning anything else lately either. I lay my head on the pillow determined to find sleep. Though I didn’t see Nikolai at the dinner table or Hunter or Daphne, I practically ate dinner alone on that big table, I wasn’t worried because I knew where he was. I needed to get as much rest as I could if I wanted my cuts to heal fast, that’s what the pack doctor said. I know it’s just a conspiracy between he and Nikolai but I don’t mind because need the rest anyway. The Luna meetings are coming up pretty soon and it’s kind of a big deal. A meeting for prestigious Lunas of different packs. This pack hasn’t attended since the demise of Patrick's wife, Nikolai's mother. But we’re still invited every year and the invitatio