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
He kissed her and she kissed him back. As they kissed, Helia wanted to push him away from herself badly. She should hate him, but here she was, immersed in a kiss with him. No! She had to stop this. She bit his lower lips in panic. He winced in pain and drew his lips back from hers. "What the hell!" Rendall cursed. "I almost stopped but you led me on." "I didn't," Helia denied and Rendall frowned at her. She moved away from him and headed to the door. "Brient asked you to keep me company until the doctor arrives," Rendall called after her as she placed her hand on the doorknob. "I think I've entertained you enough," Helia said flatly and as she pulled the door ajar, Danica's face popped in. Danica pushed the door and it opened widely. "Rendall!" She shrieked happily as soon as she saw Rendall and rushed into the room. Helia watched in disdain as he opened his arms for Danica to run into. She rolled her eyes as he engulfed her in a tight hug. She walked out of the room and slammed
"Flight 194 to Ocean Ville boarding now through gate five," the speaker blared and the Hispanic man that sat between Helia and Rendall beckoned the both of them to follow him and they did so until they got to the plane.Rendall and Helia's seat numbers were 4c and 4d respectively so their seats were next to each other. As they got to their seats, they both rushed for the seat next to the window. The other passengers watched in amusement as they fought for who would sit on the seat. Their fight attracted one of the air hostesses to themselves."Sir, Ma'am, what are your seat numbers," the air hostess asked."4c," Rendall answered."Mine is 4d.""The lady's seat is the window seat," the air hostess said and Helia stuck her tongue at Rendall who sneered at her.The airplane took off and both of their ears began to hurt."I think I'm going deaf," Rendall muttered as he placed his hands over his ears and Helia snickered."Don't you feel it?" Rendall asked."Feel what? My ears aren't hurtin
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
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.