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