Zorien’s POV.-After my pup leaves in Kitra’s car with her friends, I stride into my study where I’ve got matters waiting for my attention. I’m becoming aware of my pup as the days roll by. It’s because she’s gradually gravitating toward the day she finally comes of age. Not just her private conversations with her wolf, I can predict the direction of her thoughts and can easily decipher her distress.My perception of her topples over every other perception, aggravating my craving to have her and marring my restraints to wait it out. I feel her all the time and the swishing colors of her switching emotions make my chest crumple with forlorn when she’s absent for too long.The way she melted in my arms last night, tells me she’s undergoing what I’m battling with. She just doesn’t know it yet. How mesmerizing it felt to watch her ease into my arms, feel her beautiful fingers course through my hair, and even be audacious to grip at it.Tsk, the night ended too quickly.My short

Zorien’s POV.-After assuring my pup her friends are alright, I instruct her, “I want you to play along to me being a human. The people I want you to meet assume I’m just that, and I don’t wish for them to know of my true nature”.She nods obediently, looking more radiant in her lively color as she clutches onto the long sleeves of my coat that’s draped over her small shoulders. She looks so tiny in it that its hem sweeps over the floor. Just looking at her, I can’t help my anticipation to see the fireworks she’ll explode into when I reunite her with her family.“Let’s go.”I bring her to the cabin, carrying her in my arms while she shyly places hers around my neck with a stubborn shy blush featuring over her adorable face. She’s been docile since she woke up, acting submissive to me without any defiance. I also can’t feel her wolf and I’m worried that poison must’ve hurt her more than I assumed.Placing her gently on her feet, she marvels at the log cabin situated at a l

Himari’s POV.-With a hand on my chest, I keep stealing back glances to see Zorien hasn’t shifted from his position while he watches us proceed into the forest of my Pack. My mind link is rekindling along the way, and I can’t stop this fuzzy feeling bubbling in my chest as I keep stumbling upon little obstructions on the way just because I can’t bring myself to stop staring at him.Who would’ve imagined my family would be the ones to go find me and not the other way around? The extreme joy still rattles in my bones till this moment, and never has Zorien been more benevolent with me. His minions found them, and Zorien ensured no harm was suffered by them. He gave me the one thing I had been hoping for the most. For this magnanimous favor he’s done for me, I won’t ever forget to repay him.‘We’re getting close to our Pack. I can hear celebratory voices, I think some party’s ongoing’ I hear Runa’s raspy voice and my face comes alight. I can no longer keep staring at Zorien, and

Himari’s POV.-I’m stunned by her sudden outburst, with my eyes expanding as the meaning of her words sink in. What? Flynn is...a half-Darkling? I don’t follow. She looks at me with alarm, realizing what she’s said unintentionally and she lowers her head, biting her lip anxiously.“W-Welma, what did you just say? Flynn’s a Darkling?” I don’t believe it, not that sweet and friendly boy. He’s nothing like those vicious creatures. He has a heart that feels.Welma begins to rattle her head sideways in turmoil. Her mood dampens sorrowfully as her lips reluctantly begin to speak in a shadowy voice, “Our dad was a human with a mania for demonic prowess, and on one of his summonings, he got possessed by a Darkling. All rituals to force the Darkling to depart from a mortal body, were abortive...dad wasn’t willing to relinquish the new powers he was drunk in.”“Mom had us both with him in that unstable condition. I’m a girl, so I got to inherit the title of a Witch from my mother’s

Himari’s POV.-It hurts, but it’s not so much that I can’t endure. I’m experiencing a new bout of astonishment as the flames take a life of their own, expanding prevalently as they conquer the dark force in a carpeting effect.‘Woah! Did you see that just now? Let’s hurry on before the next fleet arrives’.Too bad I can’t feel smug about my beautiful performance just now. I hasten after the others, seeing the riverbank coming into view as well as faint whispery shrieks sounding from the background. We get to the riverbank and meet an urgent problem.“How do we make it across?” Elsa frets, looking exhausted as she frowns at the flowing river. I look to Welma who looks at me and walks towards me to say, “We can’t reach the authority on the other side. And if I recklessly fly us in, we’ll be killed on spot”.My soul is on the verge of death at this moment. What do we do? Those Darklings are drawing closer. Wait- if we intrude into Zorien’s territory, his security will be aler