***CALEB***I fidgeted a bit as Carla and Kayla gave me their complete attention and I wasn't so sure about this anymore. “What Caleb?” Carla asked worried already but I knew she was still deeply thinking about the possibility of Derek seeing her face and maybe more, but she wouldn't let out the other reasons her heart was burdened and I chose to respect her decision so I wasn't gonna press on her.“Well,” I stood to my feet so what I was about to say would sound more believable and slowly I began to unwrap the bandages around my body, specifically my chest area where the bullet had hit. “What are you doing?” Carla asked surprised and I jajy continued till the bandage completely came off.“No way!” Kayla gasped and stood to her feet, walked towards me then ran her hands on my chest, causing a cold shiver around my body, I jerked, her touch driving me insane and I wished it were only the both of us in the room, if only it were, even though I didn't know what to do with a woman, I kne
***CALEB***“Please check on her, what’s happening, why isn’t she waking up,” I rushed the words out of my mouth immediately after I entered my ward where Nate and Carla were still probably having some personal conversation, Carla sprang to her feet immediately she saw me, Looking worried. “What happened?” She asked as I made for the bed with Kayla behind me, getting there, I gently placed her on the bed and she was still not awake. “I don’t know, she had her head down, on the pillow in the other room and I was trying to explain why I’d done what I’d done to her and noticed she wasn’t responding and I turned her around and she really wasn’t responding”, I said, already losing my mind, unsure what was happening, Carla didn’t reply, instead she rushed to the bed and began to check Kayla’s pulse.“She’s gonna be fine,” Carla declared.“No, just tell me what exactly is wrong,” I said almost tearing up and she turned to look at them and then I saw the smile on her face.“Kayla is fine, s
***KAYLA***"I hear Derek will be announcing his mate and our next Luna today at the party, he's planning on marking her in front of everyone," Sheila, my sister said excitedly, her voice filled with anxiety as we rode in the car to the party.I shyly smiled, knowing fully well I was the one she was anticipating to know. It had been a few months now since I found out Derek, our Pack's alpha was my mate, and of course, Derek himself knew and so did my best friend, Kylie. I touched my stomach, recounting how I met Derek, and how we made the baby that was now growing inside of me, I could vividly remember the day he walked up to me in the gardens, the beginning of our love story.***FLASHBACK***I had just clocked 21 when I began to feel so drawn to Derek, even now, as I stood in a crowd of werewolves celebrating the festival of the moon goddess, I could easily pick up his alluring scent that was beginning to drive me crazy and different times, I had seen him steal glances at me, I gues
***DEREK***I announced Kylie as my mate, everyone seemed to be happy, apart from one person who stood in the doorway with a very moody and sad expression, Kayla.She didn't expect me to name her as my mate and Luna, at least, not after what her mother did to me 22 years ago. Layla, Kayla's mother had been my mate, but she had rejected me in the most humiliating way by getting pregnant for my best friend, Pete. They had gotten married and ended up having a daughter, Kayla and now, 22 years later, the daughter of those who had caused me the greatest heartache was my mate.Over my dead body would I be with her, Layla and Pete might have died early, thereby missing my chance to get my revenge on them, but their daughter was going to bear their sins."Derek?" Kylie called, I turned my face back to her."My father wants to have a word," she added, her voice laced with excitement and fulfillment, it was a great thing to be my mate.As I walked to my soon-to-be father-in-law, In the corner
***Kayla***I ran out of the room in shame and embarrassment, I was pregnant and had given my virginity to a man who didn't want me.I could hear Sheila running after me as I left.I ran outside, gasping for breath."Hey, Kayla, what's wrong," Sheila asked."Derek, Derek chose Kylie as his mate," I answered her."Are you that surprised sister? Well, I guess I am too, but why would you be this shaken over that? Kayla is our friend and that means one thing, we'd enjoy from her luxury as luna" She chimed excitedly, obviously clueless as to what I was going through."Derek is my mate Sheila, and…." I broke down into a hysterical sobinable to finish my sentence."No Kayla, Derek is Kylie's mate," she replied, confused as to whatever it was I meant "And please don't cry," she added patting my back."No Sheila, Derek is my mate, and he's been for 2 months now, in fact, we made a baby," I said, touching my stomach as I cried harder, then found my way to sit on a stairway at the entrance."But
***KAYLA***The morning dew brushed my feet as I ran with no particular direction in mind, morning was approaching already and I was still running, I had been chased like a criminal all through the night, and my body was weary already but I knew better than to stop.I kept running in the woods all sense of direction lost as different men chased after me, men who were once my protectors, neighbors, and friends now seemed to want nothing but to catch me for a murder I didn't commit.With the look of things, surrendering wasn't an option, I'd be killed before they heard I had nothing to do with it, I ran as fast as my wolf could carry me.I lost count of the number of pack territories I had passed, but one thing was sure, I was still in the borders of packs friendly to Ravenclaw, and that was why they could openly chase me even though we were in other territories.The reasonable thing to do now was to find our rival territory, Crescent Pack, that was to be my safe space, I wouldn't be ki
***CALEB***I looked at the beauty before me as she and Carla, my younger sister conversed, she wasn't spilling much, but I knew some secret she wished to bury and not talk about laid buried behind those eyes of hers.I was so taken by her that when she asked how I wanted her to pay back, I blurted out, "Marry me," I had said the word out loud before I realized what had happened."Come on Caleb, you don't want to take advantage of someone in this kind of situation," Carla said, trying to talk sense into me."Take advantage? Why will I, you know as much as I do that I am Asexual, no she-wolf out there appeals to me sexually," I said, I was asexual, I have been for as long as I could remember, I just never felt any form of pull towards any gender romantically, but looking at Kayla now, I can admit i wasn't so sure anymore."So why will you want to marry her," Carla argued back."If I do Marry her, her child will be mine automatically, that way I will secure my line without the councils
***CALEB*** "Alpha Derek of Ravenclaw wants to discuss a treaty?" I asked as I paced in my room alongside my best friend and right-hand beta, Nate. "Yes, and he wants us to fix a date soon," he answered. "Fix a date? What about the venue?" I asked. "He has offered to come here, to Crescent Pack," Nate answered. "Alpha Derek is a cunning one, more cunning than his father; there's something he wants, something that he can't reach unless he comes inside our territory," I deduced. "So what are you going to do Caleb," Nate asked. I paused for a while to think through what to do, "do you perhaps think he could be after the moonstone?" I asked. "The moonstone? Why?" Nate questioned. "He only has half of it, and so do you, and no one has chased after it since the Cold War; why want it now?" He added. "Because Derek has always been a power-hungry fool," I hissed out. "Tell him we'd be coming to Ravenclaw instead, he doesn't have to come here," I decided. "And tell him, this time a
***CALEB***“Please check on her, what’s happening, why isn’t she waking up,” I rushed the words out of my mouth immediately after I entered my ward where Nate and Carla were still probably having some personal conversation, Carla sprang to her feet immediately she saw me, Looking worried. “What happened?” She asked as I made for the bed with Kayla behind me, getting there, I gently placed her on the bed and she was still not awake. “I don’t know, she had her head down, on the pillow in the other room and I was trying to explain why I’d done what I’d done to her and noticed she wasn’t responding and I turned her around and she really wasn’t responding”, I said, already losing my mind, unsure what was happening, Carla didn’t reply, instead she rushed to the bed and began to check Kayla’s pulse.“She’s gonna be fine,” Carla declared.“No, just tell me what exactly is wrong,” I said almost tearing up and she turned to look at them and then I saw the smile on her face.“Kayla is fine, s
***CALEB***I fidgeted a bit as Carla and Kayla gave me their complete attention and I wasn't so sure about this anymore. “What Caleb?” Carla asked worried already but I knew she was still deeply thinking about the possibility of Derek seeing her face and maybe more, but she wouldn't let out the other reasons her heart was burdened and I chose to respect her decision so I wasn't gonna press on her.“Well,” I stood to my feet so what I was about to say would sound more believable and slowly I began to unwrap the bandages around my body, specifically my chest area where the bullet had hit. “What are you doing?” Carla asked surprised and I jajy continued till the bandage completely came off.“No way!” Kayla gasped and stood to her feet, walked towards me then ran her hands on my chest, causing a cold shiver around my body, I jerked, her touch driving me insane and I wished it were only the both of us in the room, if only it were, even though I didn't know what to do with a woman, I kne
***KAYLA***What do you do when you are in control of a place but you're not? The thought weighed on my mind, as I watched Derek and Sheila play host welcoming the other alphas that were just arriving today of the meeting and it was the same thing they had done throughout yesterday, even though they were playing host, welcoming guests should still be the responsibility of a member of the crescent pack, or so I thought but seemed Derek had different thoughts, and since Caleb asked I let him do as he please, I knew I couldn't stop him or something.I smiled as alphas and their lunas passed my side, no one even recognizing I was Luna of Ravenclaw.“Having a hard time?” I heard Carla hissed into my ear, I turned and she had a smile on her face that slowly turned into a concerned look.“You really need to ask?” I replied raising an eyebrow at her.“Well, I'd advise you on how to overcome all of this,” she said and now she had my attention.“Come on, tell me something I don't know,” I begge
***CALEB***Shit! That's what I feel like right now as I lay on the bed in the royal clinic, trying my best to look somewhat not as shitty as I felt, I was king and alpha and my health alone was a major deciding factor in how the people of the crescent pack felt and how our stand in the wolf community is viewed.“Are you sure you want to do this?” Nate asked as he handed me a cup of water. I stared at him, unsure myself if this was what I wanted to do.“Yes,” I finally said not sounding at all convincing, but I had to do what I had to do, not every time had I actually made decisions I was totally in love with since I became alpha, it was always a decision of what I had to do, what was expected of me to do.“Well, I hope Kayla and Carla don't rip your head off after what you're about to pull,” he said with a final designated tone and I just nodded.“I saw Derek in the bushes earlier,” he announced, suspicion edging his tone and I knew there was more he had to say.“And?…” I asked sinc
***DEREK***“Seems you got exactly what you wanted,” Sheila said as she threw her jacket on the bed. Then sunk onto the sofa In the room which stood just adjacent to the bed, then she began to take off her shoes.“Well, it was easier than I had envisioned, but a win is a win,” I said with pride.“You don't think she agreed too easily?” she asked, voicing her concerns but I call it bad energy.“Just do your part,” I simply said, more as an order than a request, any flop from her could graduate to become a flop in my plans and I wasn't ready to clean anyone's mess.“Of course,” she replied with a resigned look, which was perfect, she needed to know I didn't need her ideas or opinions, all she had to do was just follow mine.“Good!” I said and walked out of the room, going nowhere in particular, but I just wanted to be away.Then I saw her, the Luna of Crescent Pack, still veiled, but walking away from the castle clinic, which of course I knew I wouldn't be allowed to enter, since they w
***KAYLA***“He wants to be in charge of the annual alphas’ meeting for this year,” I announced to Caleb as I paced to and fro his room.“What?” he said as he attempted to sit up, groaning in the process, Carla immediately rushed to help him up.“I mean, was this what he wanted all along? Heading some silly meeting?” I spat out angrily, the sight of what had happened to Caleb fueling my anger even more.“No, Derek didn't wound me to head some silly meeting, in fact, it's no silly meeting,” he said after he had been helped up.“He must want to turn the neighboring alphas against the crescent pack and how best to do it than to let them all see us down, at our lowest, an omega Luna ruling,” Caleb explained and I began to understand what it was Derek and Sheila had planned up their sleeves.“So you mean, he wants us to be vulnerable to the whole world? Why?” I made a face.“Because once we're vulnerable, the council of alphas can convene and ask us to hand over the other half of the moons
***CALEB***“Are you sure about this decision of yours?” Carla asked me as she sat beside me, Kayla and Nate had gone off to sort different things out.“Yes, I don't think Derek would have been ruthless enough to send someone to shoot at me, and still notKill me? He's got something up his sleeves, and if we just wait, we will find it out soon enough,” I said to her, she looked unsure but she just nodded at me.“You should rest, I'll wait on you while you do,” she said and I couldn't be more thankful, I might be alpha and leader and not dead from a metal wound but I wasn't sure I could close my eyes again, but her staying with me in this room me reassured that someone's got me.I closed my eyes and slowly drifted to sleep.******KAYLA***I sat in Caleb's chair in the throne room as everyone awaited what I had to say, everything felt new and low-key, I was shy and didn't know how best to start.“Everyone's waiting Luna,” Nate whispered and I shook my head, then swallowed hard.“Our al
***KAYLA***“So who made it to the final round this time?” I asked after what seemed like a long while of checking out the embroidered work of the 30 that qualified for the second round, by this time I had so much stared at Caleb's wolf I could draw it with my eyes closed, it's cute though.“Somehow, Luna Sheila made it—” Carla said and I couldn't believe my ears, I rushed to her side to take a look at what Sheila had embroidered and honestly, it looked nearly as perfect as the ones Carla had put aside. “Well then, what do I know, Luna Sheila isn't only creepy but somehow also knowledgeable about things she shouldn't know,” I said aloud, then I smiled, it really was marvelous and now that she was trying her best to be Lune for 24 jours, I couldn't help but wonder why, since she was lima already and now she still wanted my place for 24 hours, I brushed said the thoughts as Carla completed her screening and selected just 5 top winners of the second round and she stood up to go announce
***KAYLA****“Lady Lena” I rose to my feet as lady Lena arrived at the embroidery class Carla had so graciously put together.“Luna Kayla, is it just me or have you been hiding your face intently behind that veil of yours? Why? You don’t think others should see your face?” she asked and here it was, the moment I had so dreaded just this morning.“The Luna has some injury around her mouth, she didn’t want to horrify everyone here but still wanted to join the gathering, so she decided to come instead in a veil,” Carla answered and I wished I could tell her just how much I loved her in that moment.The embroidery class began and of course. Carla outdid herself, there were three segments to the class and all we had to do was do as instructed, it was more of a competition, which Carla herself wouldn't be participating in.“Everyone's attention,” Carla yelled atop her voice trying to get everyone to other, it took a while but everyone's attention fell on her, I sat in the highest seat which