جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 80

ASTRID. The kiss meant nothing, absolutely nothing to me. I tell myself as I stride down the hall. Goddess, I am such a liar, the kiss meant every literal thing to me, the way his lips had brushed against mine, those possessive hands wrapped around my back. Those hard kisses in the garden. Suddenly thinking about all of this makes me blush. Is this fate? Does this mean that somehow we are meant to be together? Even if we were, we just can’t, we have barriers holding us back, we have secrets pulling us away, I know that every werewolf’s dream is to have their mate and have pups of their own. But, it seems like the only thing that I am capable of doing is dreaming. How did my life become this? How did all those dreams just vanish into pure hope? “Juniper!” I call out when she enters the kitchen with a hand towel; I race towards the kitchen, stopping when I see her facing the counter. “Juni. What’s wrong?” I ask with a smile, but then she turns towards me with cold eyes. I am taken

ASTRID.I know one thing: Wolfsbane and silver mixed together is not good, the fog starts to spread around the room, panic courses through me. It’s hard to see through the white smoke, I hear hurried footsteps hurrying along the floor. The panic, the yells, the shoving away, everyone is as panicked as I am.Anyone who inhales this could go crazy. I have heard countless tales about wolfsbane and silver, enough tales to know that the wolf that attacked me that day was under the influence of the powder. My eyes cast up, the faint smell hitting my nostrils, my stomach churns with fear, an uneasy feeling washing over me, the smoke is heavy now, I try to see, but everything is blocked, yet people push me away while attempting to run with their breath on hold.“Everyone get to safety, now!” The voice which I presume to be Gus’s yells, I stand there, transfixed, shock still running through me, people shoves past me hurriedly, bangles jingling, dresses skimping together, people shoveling to ge

ZEKE.Damn. I ran along the hall, my chest tightening with every breath, Astrid didn’t stop. And, I am worried. The smoke seems to have flushed away, the town people have already flooded out of the pack-house, to their respective houses.“Astrid.” I say finally to her when we reach the main hall. She stares around with a flushed face, damn, the moment she said she wanted to help, something swelled up in me. She wanted to help.For a while, I was worried, worried that she would do something, and now seeing her face made me glad.But, that traitor, Thane. How dare he do this to everyone? Logan appears from behind; he has already taken off his gray suit shirt, and is now tugging at the edge of his tie. His brown hair is splattered across his face from minutes of running.“Where’s Thane?” I grind my teeth together, feeling the urge to smash that old man’s face, why would he do such a thing?“I don’t know, probably somewhere hiding, Gus is looking for me, the pack members are already safe

ZEKE.Council meeting going fine, Thane standing, serving his punishment, Logan and I already informed him his time was ticking by, he had one more day to come up with his possible suspect, else we are going to look through the books for his punishment.The woman named Diva, the Gamma’s daughter, won’t ever stop running her mouth about a new security system she thinks will boom, her father just staring at her in fascination. No wonder Preston has taken an interest in her.Everything moves on boringly, I want to slip away, then the door opens, and she walks in, squishing all the sanity I had left. Her confused brows met with mine, her sharp golden flecks staring at me boldly.It’s hard to concentrate whenever she’s around. They are talking, mostly yelling at her. Anger consumes me, she’s not an outsider at all, and she has fucking alpha bloodline running through her veins.She has every right to be here, to be in here. So I let her join the council, everyone’s surprised face meets mine

LOGAN.Oh goddess, the wound fucking hurts, but when you are used to all the pain in the world, nothing fazes you anymore, the pain from the arrow blade still hurts, but it’s nothing compared to the pain of my darkness.The only thing that sinks me in, that makes me want to crawl somewhere and escape. I am stuck in this room- thank goddess, it’s not a freaking hospital room, those made me cringe, the smell of stale coffee, and syringes, never a fan of those white rooms.I am in my bedroom; it’s hard to think of what the time is because I am on the bed, not even moving for a bit, rain thunders outside, tiny drops biting at my bedroom window. The white glass from outside flushes with rain water, a bandage is strapped around my shoulder.I try to roll to the other side of the bed, but I winced, fuck that wolfs bane. The attack is still fresh in my mind, the way the arrow skidded into the forest and down into me, it would take a professional shooter to target that well, even I can’t targe