Danica froze as Nalea puffed angrily. She looked up at the 7feet tall beast and it glared down at her. Danica shuddered in fear. She planned to make Helia shift to her lioness but she had not thought of what she would do if the lioness came after her life.She began to whimper as she thought of how she had signed her death warrant. The lioness who had gotten annoyed at her whimpering grunted and Danica's whimpering seized immediately.Nalea began to take slow, intimidating steps toward Danica. Each step she took made Danica's heart flutter in fear. Danica tried hard to move away from the lioness but she was pinned to the wall with the lioness hovering over her without giving her any chance to escape. As Danica looked at the lioness’ angry face, she knew that if she did nothing, she would be dead meat— literally.She had to think of a way to get out of this and she had to be fast. Nalea drew closer and with one look at her face, Danica could tell that she was enjoying this as much as
"Hello.""She isn't at home.""No, we can't find her here either.""Okay. So""Okay.""I will hang up now.""Bye.""What did he say?" Rendall asked eagerly as Selene ended the call. "Did Brient find her at home?"Selene shook her head sadly and Rendall kicked the empty trash can next to him."What do we do now?""I informed the security officers and a few colleagues that she had gone missing. They are looking for her too. If she's still missing after twenty-four hours, we would contact the police."Selene watched him as he paced up and down the hall."You need to take it easy," Selene pointed out. He was stressing himself out. She was amused at how he was stressed out because of Helia. They quarreled almost all the time.Rendall sighed in frustration, stopped pacing, and sat next to her."Is she stupid?" Rendall asked rhetorically. He sounded frustrated. "How could she have gone somewhere without telling anybody where she was going to?""She was with you and Danica. Wasn't she?" Selen
"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