All Chapters of Nova: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Nova POVTwo hours later I was patched up and back home in my room. I still had an hour before I had to be at the pack house for work. I needed to have a shower and clean all of this blood off me, from my nose before I could present for my kitchen shift.Working in the packhouse kitchen was hard work but I loved it. I wasn’t allowed out the house much and my parents had banned me from the packhouse a long time ago. When the Alpha noticed I never attended pack events they made excuses that I had social anxiety and couldn’t cope and all sorts of bullshit.All of it to keep me at home so no one could see the damage they were causing me, the bruises, how sleep deprived and painfully thin I was. Then when I turned 16 the Alpha ordered I had to contribute to the pack and work in the packhouse. My parents were not happy as they had to be more careful in how obvious their damage was to me. To me it was a lifeline giving me a few hours a day away from my bullies.They were going to be fuming wi

Leo POV I am just sat in shock. I literally don’t know how to think or feel right now. After they took Nova from the pack house my father had wanted to talk further about what had happened but I couldn’t do it. I didn’t want to be near anyone or talk about anything. I just wanted to escape so I went to the woods and shifted and let my wolf, Lore, take over for a few hours so I didn’t have to think.Eventually I had to take back control and reopen the mindlink. Heading back to the packhouse I shifted back and picked my discarded clothes back up. My father reached out first.“Son, I know this was a shock but we did what was right” he said simply like it was an everyday thing“I don’t think we did dad” I replied. Nothing about this felt right. It had felt wrong from the moment Nova’s family came in spouting the crap about Nova and then after I touched her everything felt worse. This unease gnawing at me was telling me we had all just made the biggest mistake of our lives.I sat down by t

When I woke up again I had no idea how long I had been out. This wasn’t helped by not having any windows. I could have been here hours or it could be days. My suspicion is that they do this purposefully to disorientate people. My head throbs and my mouth and throat are dry and I struggle to breathe at first. Then I realise what woke me up. Someone else had entered the room and was looking over me. A young man, not much older than myself is looking down at me with concern etched on his face. I’m not sure how to react at first. “Hello” he said and just continued looking down at me. “Can I help you?” I ask him. Only after I say it do I think about what a weird question that is coming from a girl strapped to a bed. The guy looks at me perplexed and then bursts out into laughter. “Sorry “ he said calming down “but I’ve been doing this job for like a year and that’s the first time anyone has reacted by asking how they can help me” I just glare at him “I am glad my misery is funny to yo

Leo’s POV I hadn’t slept properly in days. That’s a lie. I hadn’t slept properly in weeks. Since they took Nova away. When I lie in bed I can’t stop thinking about her, seeing the horror on her face as they took her away. Reliving the sensation of loss, I felt as the car pulled away with her in it. No one would allow me to visit her in the Asylum, even when I turned up there, they told me she was having a bad day and they had to sedate her so she couldn’t see anyone. I told them I didn’t need her to be able to communicate My wolf, and I just needed to lay eyes on her and make sure she was in one piece, but I was not allowed in. Today was the day before her 18th birthday. Specifically, five minutes to midnight. In five minutes, I would have my answers. I was sat in the car with my father, outside Thornback, my dad had come with me so they couldn’t refuse to let me in this time and a little for moral support. I checked my watch. Three minutes. In three minutes, I had to decide the fa

Leo POVI don’t know how long I have been sat next to Nova’s bed, but it feels like forever. Every minute I look at her feels like it stretches forever. After the doctor’s revelations, my father went back to his office to arrange his personal guard to attend and help him take in Warrior Davies’s family. I don’t know what’s happened since.I couldn’t leave Nova and since then Doctor Woods has let me in to see her. Though after seeing her, I almost wish he hadn’t. I never knew what if felt like to have your heart break before but when I stepped into this room, I think I experienced it.Nova is lying in the hospital bed on a ventilator breathing for her. They said it was so she didn’t have to do so much work. She has several IV’s coming out the back of her hand and she is covered in bandages on her arms and chest. Her face is pure chalky white, and she is almost all skin and bone now.My wolf is restless in my brain. He wants to stay here and wrap her up in our arms and never let her go.