Nadia's POV

I really thought getting with Vance would be a very big get-back at Landon, and the fact that I took his sister down too.


It's been over three months since Talia passed, and I became Luna. Almost three months since I lost my son too.

Since the loss of his successor, that's what Vance thought at least, and the death of Talia, he has meddled much less in non wolf activities and is more concerned about keeping the pack under control and making an heir out of me.

'Where were you last night, Nadia?" Vance asked while shaving a few stubbles off his chin that were already turning white.


'When exactly?" I asked, acting surprised. 'You mean between the room and the living room?" I asked again, reminding him

'It's very sickening to think that you take me for someone so daft." He said angrily.


'I wish I knew what you are referring to but I don't." I replied to him again.

'That's unbeatably the most stupid in I've heard all day." He shouted.

Vance has been really edgy of late, snapping and sparking at every single inconvenience. I'd love to say it reminds me of Landon, and that I'm back to that life again, but in his defense , I actually have been the unfaithful one in this relationship,

'Babe." I called him, holding his hands. 'We can talk about it."

'So now you can be the rational one?" He asked, looking me in the eyes.

'Don't sound like that baby." I said, pleading with him.

'My question still stands," Vance reiterated, 'where were you?" He asked again.

Maybe I would have gotten the chills if I did not have Tracy under my arms, I know she would dare not say anything she knows that would as little as suggest, much more implicate me.

'I was here in this house." I replied to him again, maintaining my stance and poise.

'Don't fuck with me, Nadia!" He shouted.

'Babe." I whined. 'I swear I was here." I said again. 'Did you send someone to get me? Where did they check?"

'Could you not ask stupid questions?" He bellowed. 'Tracy and I turned this house upside down searching for you last night."

I got that he did not mean to mention her name, but it slipped out anyway in the heat of his anger.

'I may have slipped out for a little fresh air." I said, feigning confession.

'So you have been lying to me?" He asked me, angrily.

'I'm sorry." The tears welled up in my eyes promptly, and streamed down my cheeks as I bent my head in ‘remorse'. 'It's been…"

'What did you go out for?! Nadia! Answer me! Have you ever heard a Luna leave her palace? Why act like you are still the mate of some beta or lower ranking wolf?" He looks very livid. 'Aren't you destined to be royal?"

'It's been a lot for me!" I snapped, sheepishly. 'I've been going through a lot locked up here in this house all by myself most of the time."

'Where else would you rather be?" He shot back. 'On the street? Talia never…." He paused abruptly as he noticed his mention of her.

I chose the time wisely. Shutting my mouth and crying my eyes out, I strut away from the room.

'Nadia!" He screamed after me, a little less harshly.

I walked as far as my legs could carry, out of the room, into the living room, out of the living room to the corridor which led to the door that led to the roof.

Vance is heavily at my heels. My nightgown barely has any grip on my body as the haste and blindness I'm running in.

'Wait!" He shouted behind me while I teetered to the edge of the rooftop, with absolutely no intention of making it over the precipice.

'Why do you still care?" I asked him, looking to the foot of the building and trying to hide my building nausea.

'Because you are mine, Nadia." He replied, shakily.

'Dear Alpha, a silly little property is all you see me as." I said, pained and sarcastic. 'Just let me go."

'I can't, Nadia. I won't." He said, sounding tired and stressed but also pleading.

'I'm tired, Vance, I am." I said to him, 'I've never been loved for what I am. It's either it's my fate, or destiny, or just something I have to do." I continued. 'None of these have ever really been my choice."

'We can talk this out under calmer conditions, Nadia." He said, still trying to change my mind.

'No condition is ever that calm with you, Alpha." I called him by his title to avoid anything endearing. 'I'm sure you try to focus on Talia when you see me. That must have been the only reason you could stay with me this long."

'How did you think all these up?" He asked me, very surprised. 'And chill out with the titles. I'm having a conversation with you as my wife, and me as your husband."

'See how it sounds so easy on the ears." I huffed.

Both of us are quiet for a while. I sense his shift in position, all the whole maintaining my stance., while he gradually drew closer. I'm supposed to be scared and start thinking up all nasty narratives that could involve him making some silly mistake and I'd slip off the precipice, but I'm not. I'm not scared of dying, but it would surely be much better if I didn't go by my own hands.

'Please. You are scaring me." He said seconds after securing me safely.

'I did not mean to." I replied to him.

'Baby," He called me, 'we could always talk about things" He said. 'This," referring to the circus we both found ourselves in, 'is no way to settle a matter."

'I'm sorry, babe." I apologized, tearing up and hugging on him so tight.

'I love you." Vance said to me.