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CHAPTER 12Derek's POVThe bed continued to shake and rattle dangerously but that wasn't the problem. The very walls of the room seemed to tremble dangerously but that wasn't the problem either.“Derek!” Father's voice cut through all the noise. He stood at the door keeping his distance and in his eyes, I saw fear, fear I had never before seen In him.“What have you done?” he asked in the utmost horror with his eyes fixed on my body which was slowly and agonizingly transforming into that of a grotesque creature I was yet to tell.“Father…” I managed to hiss out the word as my whole body trembled and arched violently. “Help… me…”“Derek! No.. no…. Derek!” He called loudly but his voice began to fade away bit by bit until…“Derek!”My eyes snapped open and I immediately sat up to see my father seated on the other end of my bed watching me calmly.My heart was beating so fast and so loud the noise momentarily filled my ears due to my enhanced hearing. My body was drenched in sweat and I

CHAPTER 14Derek's POV“How dare you!” One of the Bloodwood Councilors hissed angrily. “Keep a still tongue in your head, boy!” Another councilor lashed out.Daven stood stubbornly tall and firm with every single thing about him exuding pride and arrogance.“I apologize if I sound harsh.” He said but there was nothing in his tone to suggest that he was actually sorry. “I speak only with pain, pain born of the suffering my people have gone through at the hands of the rogues.”“Imagine his audacity!” Councilor Blanchard growled in annoyance.“It's okay.” Father finally spoke up calmly. “I totally understand.”Councilor Blanchard flashed a look of annoyance even at my father. I had known Blanchard since when I was a youngling and even though he was naturally a soft-spoken man, I knew he never tolerated nonsense.“With all due respect your majesty…”“I said it's okay, counselor,” Father spoke strongly. Blanchard muttered angrily but remained silent.“Alpha Daven.” Father turned his atte

CHAPTER 16Daisy's POVI stormed into the room and banged the doors loudly behind me as a sign of my anger.Daven stood at the window deeply immersed in a discussion he was having with his Beta in low tones while some servants packed in the background quietly, getting ready to make the return journey to Evergreen Pack.“I want her gone!” I fumed angrily.Daven and Beta Cyrax immediately looked up and even the servants stopped momentarily before they returned to their work.“Pardon?” Daven asked.“I want her gone! Vanished! dead!” I blurted out the words without actually thinking it thoroughly.Daven and Beta Cyrax exchanged glances and an unspoken communication seemed to pass between both men.“Alright, everyone out.” Beta Cyrax turned towards the servants and began herding them out of the room. “Leave it, you'll pack later. My Luna.” He bowed to me on his way out of the room.As soon as the door closed behind them, I turned again towards Daven. “You must do something Daven,” I said.

CHAPTER 18Layla's POVI must admit I had never seen a rogue before. All I knew about them was what I had heard from people and I never for once imagined that I'd have an encounter with a rogue let alone be surrounded by a dozen of them in the middle of nowhere.The stories I had heard about them made them out to be disfigured monsters but it wasn't disfigured monsters I faced there in that forest, they were men, peculiar looking but still men.I called them peculiar-looking men because of their unusual hygiene. Even with my not-so-sharp senses, the smell around them was just too much. Their nails looked dirty, their clothes were just bits of rags and their hair was a long and tangled mess.The ones in wolf form were quite interesting to look at. None of them had fur, making them appear skinny and sickly and the most disturbing fact was that instead of balancing on all fours, they were actually resting on two of their hind limbs with their mouths drooling and constantly growling.“Los

CHAPTER 20Layla's POVA lot of things went through my mind as I and Derek made the return journey to Blackwood Pack. Derek decided to carry for obvious reasons.. I couldn't travel with speed the way he could do and at this point, we were deep inside the forest and traveling back at normal pace would have taken time.Derek suggested turning back to his wolf form and carrying me on his back but there was just no way I'd be returning to Blackwood Pack riding a big black wolf, Derek..We later concluded that he would carry me in his arms which he did. But as he ran, as we broke through the leaves and grasses of the forest, my mind kept spinning…That rogue back there, Axel or whatever the hell he was called, he knew my name! Not just that but he admitted that he works for someone. Was this someone another rogue or was it, someone else? I wondered.The more I thought about it, the more I realized the more I realized the danger I was in. And then again there was that mysterious lady I had