Damien stood in front of the palace maids whose loud wailing filled the air. The way they cried, even their sniffles annoyed him but he did nothing to stop them. He thought about lining them up to begin their torturing all over again but he thought against it. What if they were all saying the truth?His eyes quickly scanned their sweat and tears slicked face but he saw nothing aside from pain on their features. They also looked equally as confused as he was; the only difference was that their faces were contorted with pain.He was tremendously confused and angry too; and no matter how much he did to the palace maids, none of them seemed to know about Ariel ’s whereabouts.He has tortured them in every way possible, whipping, starvation ,threatening, you just name it but their answers were the same. None of them knew where she had gone to and hadn’t seen her since the previous day.Sighing in frustration, he angrily dismissed all of them and they all rushed away from him; seemingly happ

She felt suffocated as she reached for her room, guilt pouring through her head as she walked past rooms and different doors. Alex and Damien were fighting…. Two childhood friends were in such a fight and it was all because of her. She held onto her head as she made for the knob of the door of her room, she was done with all this, she had become extremely frustrated. If Elle were to ever find out about the fight between Alex and Damien, she was sure she would never hear the end of it. She twisted the knob and pushed the door open before walking into the room and then shutting the door right behind her. She inhaled deeply as she reached for a glass of water but then on the glass making contact with her lips, she realized she wasn’t even thirsty so she kept the glass back. She fell back on the bed as memories of their fight kept on troubling her. Was she that bad of a person? Was she so bad that a man had to go for someone else even when he knew she was alive? When he knew his mate was

With a slight howling sound, Damien came at Alex attacking him by diving into him from the door where he first stood, stunned at the sight of him and Ariel on top of each other. After colliding with him, they both went rolling on the ground clawing and punching at each other. Damien was far stronger than Alex so was over him delivering deadly strikes. Alex was not as strong as Damien but he was almost equally as fast as him and knowing that he had that as an advantage than most in the pack, he did not hesitate to make use of that every time. One of those times was that moment as he moved fast dodging most of Damien’s blows coming down at him nonstop. At the slightest chance Alex got, he tumbled Damien over and when Damien went flying to the other side, he quickly got up and tried making for the open window. Alex knew that he could not fight off Damien so he intended to escape at any chance he got. He also did not wish to fight Damien because he thought there had to be some sense in him

Damien was on his bed sleeping when he heard something. He quickly jolted awake but he did not stir and his eyes did not open. He was in that place between being awake and being asleep but he did not know the one to turn to. He could decide to go back to sleep. He certainly deserved a lie in after all the grueling and tiresome events of these past weeks. This stress from them had taken its toll on him and he really needed quality rest. It could certainly do more than help him since he was feeling fatigued.On the other hand, Damien reasoned in his half asleep half awake state, what if he could afford to sleep no longer? He was the Alpha of a pack as great as this and he was sure he would need attention in one place or the other throughout the pack house considering that there was a war coming up very soon. He needed to get up very fast.Damien was still making up his mind about getting up when he heard cries from someone very close to him. Who would have entered into his room and even

"Tell the pack. This is a new order that must be followed strictly. All our soldiers are going to be active from now, and we will soon be going into a war. If need be, we will also be recruiting men from the rest of the pack from ages 20-35 for the battle", Damien's rough baritone voice bellowed over the room of his cabinet which included his advisers, his elders and his loyal friend and second-in-command, Alex .At the alpha's last sentence, all eyes in the room were on him, every single one of them filled with shock."Alpha, don't you think-""Not another word," Damien ordered with his hand in the air, cutting one of the elders off."There is nothing to think about. Absolutely nothing. Everything I say here is final and will stand, except I decided to change it in the future, and I do not see that happening anytime soon- or anytime at all", he said, and there was pin drop silence as he continued speaking."Moving on. There must be no citizen loitering or moving about when the time for