Helia watched in contempt as Rendall chattered happily with Danica a few feet away from her. She frowned. He had promised her pork but immediately after Danica arrived, he deserted her."You're jealous," Nalea pointed out."I'm not.""Why then are you angry?""I—" her voice trailed off."Hehe!" Nalea snickered. "You can't defend yourself.""I'm neither angry nor jealous. I'm just annoyed," Helia huffed. "He had promised me pork a few minutes ago but immediately Danica arrived, he forgot about his promise.""The she-wolf is truly a thorn in the flesh," Nalea remarked maliciously. "You always give her a chance and it's really disappointing. Why do you always stand by and watch her snatch her mate?""I don't care about whatever she does and he's not our mate. We would reject him soon anyway.""Then, why did you kiss him?" Nalea said in scorn and Helia frowned."He started it and you must have pushed me to do what I did not want to.""You kissed him voluntarily. I had decided to watch wh
Rendall watched at a hidden corner in dismay at a beaten and battered Helia. He frowned. He had warned her about wandering into the community without an invitation, but she had not listened. She got beaten up because of her stubbornness and despite the pain the two burly men before her had caused her, she refused to kneel at their command on the ground before them. She stared at them defiantly instead.Furthermore, she stubbornly rushed toward one of the hefty men with her fisted hands pointed at him for the hundredth and for the hundredth time, he disappeared immediately she got to him to throw a fist at him and reappeared behind. Rendall winced as he watched the hefty man whip her back.Helia roared angrily. She spun around and went after the man who had whipped her."Leave this place," The other man bellowed."NO!" She roared, and he lunged at her and whipped her at the back again.She shrieked in pain at the impact, and she spun away from the previous man to him. She raised her
Helia sat on the bench, downtrodden. Rendall hit the rail angrily as the two hefty men left, and yelped afterward. He walked over to Helia who was weak because of the wounds she had sustained from the hefty men's floggings."You're still bleeding," Rendall cried out and rushed over to her."I'm a were-creature. I'll heal soon." Helia's voice was faint. She was getting weaker by the minute."Those men ain't ordinary. Their strokes aren't ordinary either," Rendall said with a brittle voice as he held her in his arms."Do you want to cry?" Helia asked with a faint smile, and Rendall frowned at her. He made her lean on the wall away from his body. He took off his shirt and began to rip it into four pieces."What are you doing?" Helia asked, but Rendall ignored her and took her hands."You should have stopped bleeding by now and should be healing, but you aren't, and you're still bleeding. Aren't you worried about losing so much blood," Rendall scolded sternly, and she smiled."Of course,
"What was your previous name," Rendall asked again. "Talk!""My previous name was O—" the spirit medium paused and smirked."O— what? Go on," Helia coaxed."Olivia," she answered and cackled when she saw the angry expressions on their faces. She had pulled their legs and she enjoyed doing so.Rendall grunted at her angrily and Helia glared at her."I told you the truth. Do you want me to tell you a lie?" She smirked and they frowned at her."Call on Nyx now!" Rendall commanded and the spirit medium raised an eyebrow."You seem to be an Alpha. Interesting, but I'm not a werewolf and I won't do your biddings because you're not an Alpha in the eyes of spirit mediums.""Just do it," Helia snapped."Don't you want to know my other name?""If it isn't Orenda, then we aren't interested," Helia scoffed and the spirit medium frowned."Begin!" Rendall commanded again and the spirit medium nodded. She took off the bag on her shoulders and brought her tools out of it. In no time, she was surround
"Brient."Silence."She isn't Orenda."Silence."And, Brient, I'm coming back today."Silence."Just drop it. It won't work out."She threw the phone in her hand to the bed without waiting for the person at the other end to say any more words. Helia's eyes were filled with tears. He had not seen her, but she had heard everything he said, and after he had spoken, she walked away without him noticing."I can't believe I almost trusted a wolf," she said as she fell to the bed beside her full bag.She had thought she had misunderstood him, but her instincts turned out to be right. "Damn it," she cursed softly. He had been feigning concern all the while. He was only acting as a savior whenever she was in trouble just to deceive her."I still can't believe our mate can do this to us," she heard Nalea sad and Helia smiled sadly."You better believe it. He had almost deceived us."With the back of her palms, she wiped off the tears on her face and stood from the bed. She picked up the bag on
On the weekend, Selene and Brient decided to have a picnic with Rendall and Helia in a park near their house. In their words, ‘it will help ease the tension that had ensued after Rendall and Helia had returned from Ocean Ville’.Brient and Selene watched Helia and Rendall give each other the stink eye as they sat opposite each other on the mat, and they both realized that the picnic was not working."Come on, the both of you should stop. I baked cookies," Selene said, pointing to the basket between them. "There are delicious cupcakes in the basket too. Everyone should eat and be jolly. There shouldn't be any malice."Rendall and Helia huffed, folded their arms around their chests, and looked away from each other."Enough is enough," Brient snapped as he saw that they weren't ready to talk to each other. "Selene and I won't talk to the both of you until you both reconcile.""Yes," Selene agreed. "We are both tired of the cat and dog behavior you both display. Brient and I will both lea
Terror was etched on Helia's face as she paced up and down the living room. It had been forty-eight hours since she last saw Rendall, and now, Rendall was nowhere to be found.Brient had gone to the police to file a complaint. Helia rubbed her palms as they got more sweaty. She had offered to join Brient in visiting the Police, but he asked her to stay back home to see if Rendall would come back.She had been glancing at the door at intervals, hoping that Brient would open the door and walk in, but her hopes got dashed each time she stared at the door."Rendall."She closed her eyes, probably trying to hold back the tears that were beginning to well in her eyes. "I'm sorry." Her voice was low and raspy. Her throat began to hurt."It was all your fault," Nalea said in her head hoarsely. "I thought I'd be happy if he wasn't around," Helia sulked."How do you feel now that he is missing?""I shouldn't be feeling this way for someone who had almost betrayed me," Helia said as her eyes o
As she sat behind her screen, Helia glanced at Rendall's seat, expecting to see him seated, but each time she did, she got disappointed."What's wrong?"Helia jolted on hearing Dylan's voice and she craned her neck to see Dylan standing behind her. He looked concerned as he watched her keenly."Nothing's wrong." Helia feigned a smile as she glanced at him, but he looked skeptical. He shrugged and sat on the seat next to hers."Would you be available during the weekend? I wanted us to see a movie together.""A movie?" She asked and he nodded. Helia stared at his face and she saw that it pleaded for a yes. His eyebrows were knitted in worry that he'd get a no from her. "I—" she paused. Her head told her to say yes. Except for the space, Nalea was occupying, of course! Nalea was screaming a big no, and her heart told her the same word.Helia placed her right hand on her forehead as the contrast in her head increased. Nalea wanted her to refuse, but she thought that a date with Dylan wil