Magnus’s pov.All my life I have known pain. You are not considered to be an alpha if you are a weakling. The Lycan gene is poison to those who cannot wield its power, it corrupts you, weakens you more because you need strength to fight, and if you have no strength for the fight you are beaten. Pain has been my friend for a long time for I am an ancient, I am feral, I am one with nature. The pain that seared through my entire body was not something I was familiar with though. Tears threatened to escape my eyes as Selene pressed down on the wound with a piece of her cloth and a mixture of herbs.“Hmmm.” I groaned. The tears were now close, I bit down hard on my lips to stop myself from screaming.“Please, stay still.” Selene pleaded. Her icy blue eyes were filled with fear and concern. She wrapped the cloth around the wound in a bid to stop the bleeding. I watched her hands as she walked quickly but her face soon called to me and the memory of the moment we had shared. No, now was not

Selene's povFor the first time since I met him, I was seeing my father. Sure I have looked at him before, and stared at him a few times too but I have never really seen him, or acknowledged him. But there he stood, with a piece of iron sticking out of his leg, blood dripping from his lips, his body a battered mess, all caused by the mother of the man he was going to rescue so selflessly.I nodded to him and he nodded back at me. He grimaced a little and turned to Mira. “Do you still want to stand here fighting, when your son is out there wounded?”“LIES!!!” Mira screamed madly. “It's a lie.”“You're doing whatever you can to escape my wrath! Bunch of spineless cunts, that's what you are!” She looked at me but I could no longer see anger in her eyes. His furry chest heaved with breath and I could see tears at the edge of her eyelids. She wanted it to be a lie.“There's no time for this!” I cried, “Magnus is hurt and I fear other demons are still out there!”“Shut up!!” She yelled a

Selene's pov.The demon by the right had a huge green scar running from his eye to his chin. He turned to the other and smiled.“It's been a long time since I've had a good meal.” He said with a smile. The other Demon looked back at him and giggled madly. “Oui. These counts don't know what they've gotten themselves into.” He said.My father kept on walking until he was right in front of them.“By the order of the moonstone pack, you are hereby placed under arrest.” My father yelled for all to hear.The demons looked at him with shocked expressions on their faces.“Under arrest?” The ancient one asked.“The future is a weird place.” The other one said with an almost sad tone.“You are outnumbered and outmatched! Surrender now!!” Gabriel yelled. I could see his muscles flexing and his grip tightening. The joke was revealed to me suddenly. He was not expecting them to surrender. It was a joke the demons did not understand.“And what happens if we choose not to sur

Selene's pov.“What are you talking about?” I whispered confused. “You are a hybrid, you are a stranger. You are an abomination!!” The ancient one said pointing at me. She rose to her feet, her veins standing on end and her eyes as red as blood.“These are serious words you speak, Miranda,” Ansari said quietly. She looked at her with a serious look on her face.It was a serious matter. How dare her. How dare she talk to me that way.“She is not one of us,” Miranda said. Her entire body was shocked In apprehension. She turned sharply to me.“All these things, all these problems. It is all because of you.” She pointed at me once again with her bony finger.“No!” A voice said. I turned around to see my father rushing to the front of the room.“Do not attack my daughter.”“Gabriel,” Mira called worriedly.“You dare disrupt this meeting,” Miranda yelled at my father. “You dare talk in front of me, after the monster you brought here.”Gabriel's body shook violently. “You say one more word

Magnus's pov.“Magnus?” A familiar voice called. I opened my eyes slowly and tried to process my surroundings. “Magnus, brother it's me.” A hand landed on my shoulder. The voice sounded familiar I turned my eyes to the face in front of me.A young handsome Asian face, blue eyes, and extremely thin lips. The lips stretched in a smile.“There we go.” He chuckled lightly revealing extremely white teeth.“Darius?” I asked. He smiled again and my heart leaped instantly.“Darius you're back.” My arms flew forward as I hurried to embrace him. I grabbed him so hard that he groaned out in pain.“Easy brother, easy!!!” He groaned. I released, my pain was still there, and looked at him with happy eyes.“When did you return?” I asked eagerly. Darius had left home for college four years ago. It had been so long, too long to have been away from your best friend.“This morning, Got into town to find it so quiet. It's always quiet but quieter than usual.” He chuckled.“Yeah, things have been rough