"I thought you always carry extra clothes and elixirs with you."Rendall leaned on the door of the stall Helia was in."I brought extra clothes and elixirs along with me. They were in my bag but Danica double-crossed me and took my bag away," Helia said bitterly and Rendall knitted his brows."But Danica said she did not know where you were when I and Selene asked her.""She did?""Yes, she did.""It's sad to say but you're much better than your childhood sweetheart.""She's not my childhood sweetheart," Rendall snapped and silence was Helia's reply.He said nothing to her afterward. He was fighting an inner battle with his wolf.‘Barge into the stall and have her for yourself,’ Conri urged but he refused. He was trying very hard to not do what Conri wanted him to do.‘I won't. Stop pestering me,’ he scolded.‘This is the right time to mark her and make her yours.’ Conri would not give up easily and Rendall knew it. Rendall wanted to succumb to Conri’s request badly but he could not
"Danica had locked you inside the washroom?" Selene was shocked beyond words at the revelation of how Helia had gone missing. "Why would she do that?" Brient, Helia, and Rendall exchanged knowing looks. "She had probably seen Helia as a threat," Brient answered with a sly grin, wiggling his eyebrows at Helia and Rendall and Helia choked on the brownie Selene had coaxed her to eat. After she, Brient, and Rendall had returned from the ice cream parlor, they went to Selene's apartment. Selene had rushed home from the office to prepare something for Helia and after much thought, she made brownies. Helia did not want Selene's effort to be in vain, so she had to eat some despite how little her appetite was, and the little appetite she had was lost completely at Brient's words. She looked around Selene's living room. It was not as big and luxurious as Rendall's but she felt it was more homely. She liked it. Prized arts decorated the walls of Brient's living room but family pictures decora
"You all are back from isolating me," Brient commented wryly from the dining room as he saw Selene, Helia, and Rendall entering the living room."We could smell breakfast," Selene beamed as she noticed how the dining table was filled with food. She rushed to the table enthusiastically."Foodie," Brient scoffed as Selene pulled one of the dining chairs and sat on it.Helia frowned and moved away from Rendall as she realized that she stood beside him. Selene and Brient stopped to watch them. Seeing that Rendall maintained a poker face without reacting, they glanced at each other and shrugged. Brient continued setting the table for breakfast while Selene munched her omelet.The doorbell rang."One of your girlfriends has visited," Selene announced to Brient, wiggling her eyebrows and he gave her a cocky grin."But it's strange. I am not expecting any of them. And who visits a guy this early in the morning without informing him?""Danica," Rendall beamed as he opened the door. Helia groan
Rendall gazed at Helia who was across the room with Dylan. She laughed heartily at something Dylan had said and Rendall frowned.She was like ice whenever she was with him and Rendall wondered how she could be very comfortable with a human.Conri got infuriated as his mate got closer to another male. Rendall knew that the wolf wanted to surface and tear off the flesh of the human Helia was with badly."Rendall!" He heard Danica yell his name. She was loud enough to set him free from his thoughts with a jerk."Huh?"Rendall looked at Danica and from the look on her face, it seemed like she had called his be multiple times before he finally answered."Why do you keep on staring at them?" She asked, referring to Helia and Dylan that were laughing like a drain across the room."It's nothing. I'm glad she's no longer with us." Rendall feigned a smile and she smiled back at him coyly but Rendall kept on looking across the room at Helia and Dylan at intervals.He tensed up as Helia stood up
Brient frowned."I don't know who this person is," he said sadly and they became blue."The good news is that we've gotten hold of some useful information," Brient tried to sound positive."Yes, " Helia agreed. "We now know that Danica once worked at the company as a cleaner. She's no longer a worker but someone who might know her location works at the company.""We just have to find this person," Rendall added and sighed in frustration."How are we going to find a coworker that ‘might know where Orenda is’?" Danica said, air quoting the ‘might know where Orenda is’. "We have thousands of co-workers. At least, we knew Orenda’s first name and that's why we could find something about her and it even took a long time. Now, we have to find another person whose name is unknown to us. Where on earth do we start from?"Her words gave a negative vibe and in no time, all of their spirits became low.The waitress brought drinks for them and when she got to where they were, she missed a step, an
"You made the new IT manager Helia's guide on purpose, right?" Selene smiled cockily at Brient who sat on the floor of his living room. He was playing a game of chess against himself."I just want Rendall to have a taste of his own medicine," Brient grinned and Selene chuckled.She closed the door and left the entrance of the living room to the couch opposite Brient."Did you see how he was during lunch on Monday? He obviously likes her. I wonder why he isn't making any move."Brient smiled sadly at Selene's words."Rendall and Helia are very different from each other," Brient's voice was flat. "They can't be together.""But just like me, you want them to be together, right?""I should not want that.""But you do," Selene smirked and Brient sighed. "By the way, why can't they be toget—" Selene paused as soon as she heard footsteps. Rendall was walking down the stairs. Brient and Selene gasped as they saw him.His hair was no longer white. It was as dark as night. His haircut was diffe
"Rendall!" Brient thundered before Rendall could say any more words. Rendall snapped his eyes shut in frustration. His mouth was shut too. Brient maneuvered his way to Rendall, avoiding the broken glasses that littered the floor of the room.As Brient got to him, Rendall opened his eyes and sat on the bed behind him and Brient followed suit. Brient looked at Helia behind Selene whose worried eyes moved from Rendall to Selene. Rendall had almost revealed their identity in front of Selene and she was scared that Selene might suspect something.Brient smiled and then he mouthed to Selene: "He sucks at expressing himself."Selene nodded in agreement and Helia heaved a sigh of relief. At least, Selene had no idea of what was really going on.Brient looked back at Rendall and as he opened his mouth to talk, he looked at the door again at Selene and Helia."Can I talk to him in private?"Selene gave him a nod and then she beckoned on Helia to follow her. She closed the door and they both lef
Rendall winced in pain at the sharp pain across his chest. He only felt the pain for a moment and afterwards, he felt nothing.His eyelids flapped open and as he looked around, he realized that he was not lying on the soft bed of his glass littered room, but on a grass bed of an open field. He sat up straight to have a better view of his surroundings, and he began to have memories of him running through the place while hunting. It dawned on him. He was back to the wereworld, and he wondered how.He looked at the strange tree opposite where he sat. Rendall had never seen a tree like it, and it was unlike the other trees of the forest he was in. The leaves of the tree lacked chlorophyll completely. They were as white as wool.A strange woman sat on it with her legs dangling freely under her white gown. Her long hair that was as white as his once fluttered freely in the wind, that moved about as it liked. His eyes met hers and he froze. He had never seen someone with the color of her ey