DaphneLinc kept glancing at me as Alpha Colt was explaining everything to Lilah. I still had no idea how he knew that I had killed someone.It was a few months before I met Lilah. And it was in self defence.It had been a scorching hot day. My skin was burnt from the sun as I had no protection. I had barely eaten in days. The water that I had was almost gone. I had no energy left and all I could do was sit here, in this overgrown corner.A bottle was thrown into my lap, I remember his words. “Drink, we don’t need another one dying.”I had just about opened my eyes to see a man with olive skin, standing over me. His hair slicked back, sunglasses hiding his eyes.“What do you mean, another one?” I had murmured the words. My lips were so dry and chapped that it made it difficult to talk.He didn’t answer my question. He had just told me to drink. I was so thirsty that I drank the entire bottle.“Good girl.” He had muttered before pulling me to my feet.“Let go of me!” I had shouted and

Lilah “Are you sure that you have never met him?” I ask for the tenth time. Daphne groans into the table. She had been resting her forehead on the wood since she sat down. “I swear. Sophie would never let anyone meet him. He was this huge secret. Obviously I know why now. But she would tell us things and then when questioned. She would shut us down.” “Who is ‘us’?” “Mum, Dad and me. If we started asking questions first, she would lose her shit. It would always have to be on her terms. Still, they couldn’t see how vile she was. Do you think they know? Would Alpha Colt have sent them a message or something?” “I haven’t asked, but something tells me he would. They would only start a missing person's claim otherwise. Do you miss them?” She finally lifts her head and shakes it a little. “They made my life hell in the final few years.” “Your mum, she’s not a wolf?” “No…Well nothing suggested she was. It means my dad isn’t my real dad. It’s like one surprise after another since comin

Linc“I’m serious Daphne. If you want our bond to be fixed, you will keep your mouth shut. You won’t say anything to Lilah about what I have just told you.” I had fucked up by telling her. Yet at the same time, I felt like I had to tell her.She glares at me as she presses her lips into a thin line. Her arms fold across her chest, pushing her rounding belly out a little further. “You can’t be serious? She deserves to know.”“He has changed. He does not do it anymore. He stopped when he realised what Lilah was. We haven’t come across any half-breeds not until now and we have travelled the world chasing Lilah.”“But he still killed thousands. You know he threatened your pup!” She snaps at me“He wouldn’t”“Why would I bother lying about something like that? He has an evil side and you just can’t see it.” She drops her gaze, frowning into her lap and sighs. “None of you make anything easy, do you?”“Our way is straight forward.”“What, the constant lies? The secrets? You may think that,

LilahI could hear him. I could hear every single word that was coming out of his mouth, but I was speechless. Usually I had an answer for everything, but not this time.Betrayed. Sad, Angry. Annoyed. I felt them all. It was worse than when he claim clean about his relationship with Kaitlin.Colt’s hand keeps waving in front of my face. His fingers clicked, he called my name, trying to snap me out of this trance I had fallen in.“Me?” I mutter after what felt like forever. “You stopped because of me?”“Yes.”“If I had never chosen you, would you have stopped?” I was trying to make sense of it. Trying to get answers for the gaps in his story.It’s his turn to be quiet. He sits back on his heels, crouched in front of me. His bright cobalt blue eyes pleading with me.“When my father died, yes.”“If my parents hadn't plotted against him. He would still be alive.” It just didn't sound right. What if everything had been different?“But he isn’t Lilah and I haven’t killed any half-breeds for

Linc What was I seeing? She looked possessed. The mother of my unborn pup is still. Her chocolate hair blowing in the wind. But her eyes, it was like they had rolled into the back of her head and all I could see were the whites. She looks like she is standing on the tips of her toes as she focusses on the sky. What the fuck was happening to her. As I called her name. The Alpha turns to look. His head flicking between Daphne and Kaitlin. Was Daphne the one stopping Kaitlin from using witchcraft? If so, that would make Daphne a witch too. How? As Kaitlins hands hit the ground again. She screams as ropes appear locking Kaitlin against the grass, almost as if her own magic was working against her. Still, Daphne hasn’t moved. The guards that had surrounded Kaitlin disintegrate, just as they had in Alpha Colt’s bedroom. Turning to dust and floating away in the wind. Kaitlin was all alone and pinned to the ground. Screaming out words in another language. But no matter what, her witchcra