Rendall sat on his bed and watched Helia with rapt attention as she tidied up his room."I hate you for making our mate do such hard work," Conri said spitefully in his head but he tried to ignore him."Your head is a mess. I don't want to imagine how much messier your room is," his wolf said and Rendall shook his head. He was doing this because he loved Helia. Staying in Khron would have done her no good. The werelions there did too many laborious jobs. In the Alpha's court, on Rendall's watch, she only had to do the cleaning and without her knowledge, Rendall made sure she ate well."You missed a spot," Rendall called out to her hearing, feigning anger. He pointed to the spot under his feet. He raised his feet and placed them on the bed. "Clean it again.""But I've cleaned that place numerous times," Helia pouted."Do you want me to punish you?" Rendall snapped."You can't punish me," Helia smirked."And why can't I?" Rendall frowned."Because you love me too much," Helia beamed. Re
"Your Highness, someone is here to see you," the guard announced as soon as he got into Rendall's room."Tell whoever it is that I'm not interested in seeing anyone," Rendall said and the guard."I told that foolish, old lioness," the guard hissed and Rendall's interest in knowing who wanted to see him peaked."Wait!" Rendall ordered before the guard could leave. "A werelioness wants to see me?""Yes," the guard replied."Who is it?""Ariela." The guard mentioned the name like it belonged to a good-for-nothing personality."Is that not the former Luna of Khron? She is older than you and you deem it fit to just call her name without respect.""She is a slave," the guard said in his defense and Rendall scrutinized him."You were the guard that had beaten Helia till she passed out the other time, weren't you?" He asked, squinting his eyes."I did that on your command. She was being disrespectful to you so you ordered that she should be flogged to death. I flogged her hard and she passed
Alpha Janus watched his son, Rendall who held Ariela by her hair. He did not need a soothsayer to tell him what was happening"What's the meaning of this?" He asked, feigning ignorance."You promised me the protection of Alpha Leander and Helia if I keep a distance from my mate after you found out Helia was my mate.""Weren't you the one who killed Leander? I thought you went about announcing that you did," Alpha Janus said."I didn't do it." Rendall looked at Ariela. He gripped her hair tightly and she winced in pain. "She did it. She killed her mate.""Then why did you make an announcement of you killing Leander? Are you trying to play tricks on me?" Alpha Janus said while maintaining his poker face. "I have personal reasons for doing that. I just want the true murderer of Helia's father to be punished.""Oh! I see," Alpha Janus gasped as if he had just realized what was going on. "You're trying to protect that mate of yours. Part of the agreement was for you to reject her. You hav
Rendall's eyes were on the window as he sat on his bed. He had been in the position — the same position for three days, without eating food, or even drinking water.He turned to his right, raised his arms, and took his face to his armpit. He moved away from it in a jolt immediately, wrinkling his nose.Rendall heaved a sigh. His smell meant nothing to him now. Helia had rejected him as her mate. He had expected to feel nothing for her but he still did. He had expected to feel the pains felt when the mate bond is broken but the only pains he felt were pains of rejection.He had not expected it to happen after her rejection but he wanted Helia to be closer to him than ever."Did it not work?" Rendall muttered to him. If Helia's rejection did not work, was he supposed to be happy or sad? He had no idea. Rendall just stared into space reminiscing on every moment of Helia's rejection."I don't think it worked," Rendall muttered to himself. He furrowed his eyebrows when he realized that the
"My Lord," a guard cried out as he barged into Rendall's room."How dare you come into my room without knocking?" Rendall snarled."I'm sorry your highness, but something really tragic has happened.""Get out!" Rendall snapped."Leander's daughter is nowhere to be found," the guard pressed on."I asked you to get out!" Rendall growled, surprising the guard. The guard had expected a different reaction from Rendall. He expected Rendall to get pissed at his enemy for escaping, but here he was, acting like the news meant nothing to him. "Are you still standing?" Rendall asked coldly as he noticed that the guard was still in his room."No. I'm not," he replied and ran out of the room.Rendall sighed in relief. He was relieved to hear that she had escaped from the dungeon and had gone with Montague. Montague was the only person, aside from himself, that he could trust Helia with. Hopefully, Montague would take her out of the wereworld before his father has been notified."Hey," Rendall cal
Montague swallowed hard as he opened Rendall's room door to see Rendall pacing up and down the room."R— Rendall."Rendall turned to him sharply and Rendall gulped."What took you so long? Have you escorted her out of the wereworld safely? Where is she now? Do you know if she is in a safe place?""Well—" Montague's voice trailed off. He wondered how he would tell Rendall that she had made him sleep off and when he woke up, he could not find her. He had searched for her for hours but she was nowhere to be found."Well, what?" Rendall asked at the top of his voice. He took a deep breath. "I just want my Helia to be safe," Rendall added with a mellowed voice."I know and that is why it's hard to tell you this.""Tell me what? Did anything bad happen to Helia?" Rendall asked with concern. He wondered why he still acted lovesick when it came to Helia. She had broken their mate bond by rejecting him. Why did her safety still matter to him?"I don't really know?" Montague looked at his feet
"Your Highness."Alpha Janus frowned at the guard that had dashed into his room. He needed to rest but the guard had stopped him."Why are you in my room?" Alpha Janus snapped and the guard shuddered in fear."Y—your h—highness—""Do you want to die?""No, your Highness. I just have something important to tell you.""Then talk.""It was my shift to guard Leander's daughter and—""Go straight to the point," Alpha Janus snarled, interrupting the guard."I got to the dungeon to see that Leander's daughter is missing.""What are you saying?" The guard gulped. Alpha Janus' voice was cold and intimidating. His Alpha aura got stronger."I—I had no idea how it happened. I just knew that I was to guard her dungeon, but when I got there, I saw it open with no guard in sight."Darn it." Alpha Janus clenched his fists. "That goddamn daughter of a feline. How in the wereworld did she escape? The goddamn dungeon was witch-proof. There's no way she'd escape without the help of—" Alpha Janus' eyes w
"You're joking, right?" Rendall frowned as he heard Alecto's words."Joking? Should your father killing Alpha Leander surprise you? You of all people know the kind of person your father is.""But he promised me that he would not kill Leander and Ariela told me she did. Why would Ariela tell me she killed Alpha Leander when she did not.""He he. All I know is that your father has a hand in Helia's father's death.""How do you know the things you know? Who are you?""He he! You'd be the first were-creature to ask who I am. The rest assume they know but I can assure you that I'm not what they think I am.""Then, who are you?""You would know how with time," Alecto smirked. "All you have to know now is to go to the human world to Nyx's house.""Nyx's house? But we—""Helia is on her way there," Alecto chipped in and Rendall did not bother to argue again."Did my father really kill hers?" Rendall looked down at his feet and Alecto heaved a sigh."I warned you not to ask me that it'll hurt.
Helia watched in terror as the silver bullets moved toward Rendall. She closed her eyes and without thinking about it, she muttered words. Words which she had seen somewhere but could not place where.Energy radiated from her and immediately, she heard the bullet strike someone. She felt her heart freeze, hoping it was not what she thought. Hoping that whatever she had done had worked.Helia's eyes snapped open and when they did, they moved to Rendall, then to Alpha Janus and they dilated.The son stared at the father and the father stared back. One of them was on their knees, gasping for his last breath."F— father?" Rendall's voice quivered.Alpha Janus' head was bowed in shame."You tried to kill me?" Shock was written all over Rendall's face. He knew that his father was evil and despite the threats, he never really thought that his father could try to kill him."Save me.""I can't. If I could, I still wouldn't. You deserve what has befallen you," Rendall spat disdainfully.Helia s
"Rendall!" Helia called out as soon as she got into Rendall's room. Rendall was seated on his bed with worry etched on his face."Helia?"Rendall got up from his bed. He began to look around and Helia sighed."You can't see me, remember?" "Oh! You're right. You're under an invisibility spell. You were still in my father's room after I had left, right?""Yes.""And you heard Mr. Wilkinson and my father talk about me, right?""Yes.""What did they say?"Rendall's question was followed by a long silence."Your father. He is so—""Evil?""Evil is too weak to describe what he is. No offense, but I'd rather not have a father than have a father like yours.""I know right? So, what did he say?" Rendall asked and he raised an eyebrow as he heard her sigh again."We have to be cautious.""What did my father say?""That he'd kill you if he finds out that you're trying to trick him," Helia said and Rendall chuckled sarcastically."Well, I'm not surprised. He'd do anything for power. Do you hear
"Everything that happened, happened according to how it was fated to. All this happened for one result. The werewolves are getting punished for taking the land of the witches. The werelions are punished for not helping their neighbors." "How do we get out of her punishment?" Helia asked "That's for you both to figure out. You both have the knowledge you need to break the curse of Khron and Wulfe. You have to. It is your destiny to do so." "Since we are destined to save Wulfe and Khron, we'll do so, right?" Rendall asked and Alecto smiled. "We have destinies. We can also choose whether or not we want our destinies. You can choose to save the werewolves and werelions. You can also choose not to save the werewolves and the werelions," Alecto answered with a casual shrug and Helia and Alecto glanced at each other. "We have to take down both my father and Mr. Wilkinson," Rendall said and Helia scoffed. "Like you would really take down your father. You would surely betray us," Helia s
"Do you really have to go? Again?" Damien looked downcasted. "Please, don't leave. Stay a little longer." Helia and Rendall exchanged glances. They both looked sad too. "We have to go. We have a curse to break," Rendall explained and Damien looked up at him with his eyes glossed with tears. Rendall's heart melted at the sight and he took Damien into his arms and hugged him. "Aunt." Damien turned to Helia with his body still glued to that of Rendall. "Please hug me too." Helia opened her arms and Damien gestured for her to come closer instead. "But—" Damien's face fell, interrupting Helia's protest. She waved her hands in surrender and joined them. Rendall froze as her skin touched his. His heart began to flutter and so did Helia's. At that moment, they both realized that the rejection did not work. Damien smiled to himself when he saw them look at each other. He disengaged from the hug and as he did, Rendall and Helia were in each other's arms without Damien acting as a middl
Mr. Wilkinson smirked at Alpha Janus, brought another pair of eye contacts, and gave it to him."What do you think?" Mr. Wilkinson asked when Alpha Janus wore it and Alpha Janus looked at him."How do you use this? Can you hypnotize simply by looking a person in the eye or do you have to do something else?"Mr. Wilkinson raised an eyebrow as soon as he heard Alpha Janus' question and then he grinned. "Why are you trying to move faster than your shadow?"Alpha Janus was thrown off guard by Mr. Wilkinson's question before he quickly put himself together. "I'm just very curious, you know. I'd really love to know.""You seem—" Mr. Wilkinson's voice trailed off and Alpha Janus frowned.‘Just tell me how to freaking use the Gizmo, stupid human,’ Alpha Janus cursed in his mind."Your thoughts matter too. Just think about it while you lock eyes with whoever you want to hypnotize and boom, he or she would be.""We want to hypnotize every were-creature, remember? Would we begin to look everyone
"Werewolves and witches have a history?" Rendall was shocked."A painful one at that. Haven't you heard any folklore concerning it? Or at least a myth? You werewolves are good at telling fake stories anyways just for storytelling's sake."Rendall scoffed and looked back at the book. "Let's check out what is written in it. Do you think it's because of the history that Nyx cursed Wulfe too?""My mother did a great job by cursing the werewolves. I would have done the same," Helia said."Let's just check the book," Rendall said. He was tired of hearing Helia's complaints.She rolled her eyes, removed the book away from his face, and opened it."What's written in it?" Rendall joined her in checking the book and they both turned white as they flapped through the pages. The book was telling a story.It was a story of how the werewolves had forcefully taken the land of witches away from them.A long time ago, werewolves had no particular land. They formed packs that were ruled by an Alpha. A
"Please, don't send us away," Helia pleaded and Damien's grandfather scowled at her."Get out," he growled. "Daughter of a witch. Heaven knows if she's a witch like her mother. These things must exist in the genes. Your mother killed my only son and my daughter-in-law. I have almost nothing left. You probably want to take all I have away from me.""But—""If you don't leave now, I'd make sure I kill you with my own hands," Damien's grandfather threatened. "It will be fair enough anyways. Nyx kic cflled my son and I killed her daughter.""Sir, we—" "You're pushing me," he growled, interrupting Helia again."We're here because we need to break Nyx's curse," Rendall said quickly before he'd get interrupted by the old man."She cursed you?" "Yes, that wicked witch cursed the both of us and our families too," Rendall answered and Helia glared at him for calling her mother wicked."She did?" The old man's hard expression was beginning to melt."And a demon called Janus too. He is also cal
Helia closed her eyes. Her greatest nemesis had caught up with her without her seeing any way of getting out of it. So, Helia stood, expecting an impact.Suddenly, she heard the sound of a bullet striking flesh. Helia froze. She wondered where the bullet had struck. She wondered if she would die anytime soon. Helia placed her middle finger under her nose to know if she was still breathing. She was. She placed her hands on her chest. Her heartbeat was normal."Does death come this slowly?" Helia asked herself and immediately she felt something lift her. She snapped her eyes open and as she did, she screamed.Peering down at her was a blue-eyed white beast. She batted her lashes as it dawned on her that it was Rendall in his wolf form. She was in the arms of Conri, Rendall's wolf."From frying pan to fire," Helia muttered to herself. She looked away from his face to their surroundings and gasped. Lying on the floor were Alpha Janus and his warriors. They looked lifeless and Helia wond
"You're joking, right?" Rendall frowned as he heard Alecto's words."Joking? Should your father killing Alpha Leander surprise you? You of all people know the kind of person your father is.""But he promised me that he would not kill Leander and Ariela told me she did. Why would Ariela tell me she killed Alpha Leander when she did not.""He he. All I know is that your father has a hand in Helia's father's death.""How do you know the things you know? Who are you?""He he! You'd be the first were-creature to ask who I am. The rest assume they know but I can assure you that I'm not what they think I am.""Then, who are you?""You would know how with time," Alecto smirked. "All you have to know now is to go to the human world to Nyx's house.""Nyx's house? But we—""Helia is on her way there," Alecto chipped in and Rendall did not bother to argue again."Did my father really kill hers?" Rendall looked down at his feet and Alecto heaved a sigh."I warned you not to ask me that it'll hurt.