DONOVAN'S POVLucky for me, there is an elder council meeting holding today and I intend to use this opportunity to convey the message that the spy had delivered to me. As I dress up for the meeting in my room, a knock comes on my door and before I could invite the person in, the door is gently pushed open and Lori steps in, catwalking majestically as though she already owns the place. It is funny how she is more confident around here now that Alexis is out of sight.I bet she would die from shock once I bring Alexis back to the castle. "I didn't ask you to come in." I look past her and focus on buttoning my regalia. "Why? Does my presence falter you?" I feel her arms wrap around me and I disentangle her hands from my body and distance myself from her a little. "You have to leave. My presence is needed at the assembly gathering."But as always, Lori is hard headed and stubborn. She closes the distance between us again and I set my jaw when her hands land on my crotch. She locks a d

ALEXIS' POVI throw the block of chains outside my window and tie the end to a hook by the window. Testing the risk of the chains, I pull against it strongly and thankfully, it stays strong and doesn't budge. I cast the room one last look and try to control my breath, while trying so hard not to panic. For the hundredth time since I had the wild idea of an escape plan crossed my mind last night, I try to convince myself that this is the best escape plan. I have to protect my child from them. I have to escape for my child. That same night, I had come up with the idea of utilizing the same chains I had been tied up with to escape.It is barely dusk now and I have calculated that if I would be able to run as fast as my legs can carry and escape the grounds of Coral pack, I would shift into my werewolf form and continue to run until I know that I am safe and far away from the claws of Alpha Crane. I shut my eyes briefly and take a deep exhale before carefully lowering my frame over the

ALEXIS' POVIf anyone had told me that I would be able to sustain a hundred lashes of cane on my body, I would have argued and maintained that I would die and not survive the first five strokes of cane. Who would have thought I would actually sustain a hundred lashes of flogging and still be alive? Although I can almost not call it surviving. My whole body aches terribly. I can barely stand on my own and my legs are shaky and can hardly support themselves. The Alpha had ordered for me to be chained again and locked up in my room after the flooging and to be left without food and water for the rest of the day.As I sit across the bare floors of the room, my back pressed depressingly by the door, I cry. For the first time, I cry in pity for my own self. Sorry that I was ever born only to live a life of torture and pain. I cry, wishing that grandma Rivera never spared my life and that she had rather left me to die with my parents. I cry over and over again until the tears in my eyes are

ALEXIS' POVI am drowning deep into the water, holding my hands out for someone to help me. Anyone. I sink deeper and deeper and just as my eyes are beginning to shut close, he reaches for my hand and starts to pull me away again. I look into my savior's eyes and his gaze holds mine.Donovan.………My eyes slowly flutter open as I regain consciousness. I am lying on the bare floors of my room and my head aches badly as I try to raise my head from the ground. A flashback of last night rushes through my head and I panic at the thought of Randall being caught trying to help me. Where is he? What if they have done something to him? My panic skyrockets but I console myself again and I remind myself that Randall is the Alpha's son. He wouldn't be so malicious and cruel enough to kill his own son. It is myself that I should be worried about. I doubt that I would be able to get out of this situation alive this time around. I decide to take the risk and try to escape one last time. I might get

DONOVAN'S POVEverywhere is in chaos as the war goes on. Everyone is shifting from man to wolf form and back to human form again. There is bloodshed everywhere. This is what Alpha Crane wants and it is exactly what he is getting. While I fight with my armies against the Corals, I keep my eyes down for the Alpha and his betrayal children but I do not sight any of them. Seeing the way some of the guards are preventing us from venturing into the castle, I conclude that the family of the Alpha are hiding inside the castle.Those fucking cowards. "Aim for the castle!" I howl to my army and they howl back in response. The war continues and as we fight and struggle to find our way into the interiors of the castle my thoughts keep drifting back to Alexis and my heart boils even more in rage at the fact that Alpha Crane had tried to kill her right before my eyes. I will make sure he pays for hurting her. Now, I shift back to my human form and pick a sword from the ground, running behind my