AMIRA“Amira! Amiii!” I almost dropped the plant pot in my grasp as Ruelle ran over, screaming my name like her ass was on fire.“Ru, did you forget again that we have a sensitive hearing? I can still hear you if you whisper.” I scolded her before dropping the pot before I accidentally dropped it. My dad wouldn’t like that.I used my pinky finger to scratch my ear as it was ringing because of how loud she was screaming. I rolled my eyes as I watched her run towards me. Even though I corrected her a billion times, she was going to do it again.She silently screeched to a stop in front of me and placed her hands on her knees while she panted dramatically.“What is it now?” I asked with a roll of my eyes. Ruelle was a drama queen and would always be.“What are you still doing here?” She asked after she straightened up.My brows shot up at her question and I pursed my lips while placing my hands on my hips “I should be the one asking you that. Why are you here when you should be getting r
SORENThe little control I had snapped, and I was unable to stop the fist from coming down on Koa when Amira stepped in front of my fist at the last minute.My fist stopped an inch from her face and my heart clenched painfully in my chest, even though I didn’t hit her.Not once had my body ever allowed me to lay a hand on Amira. It was the reason she was the only one who was allowed to come close to me when I got like this.My body recognized her, even in its mad rage. Her presence held the almost impossible ability to stop me when I couldn’t stop myself. It didn’t matter how angry I got; my body always recognized her.The torment followed, drawing me out of the red haze as realization set in. My wolf clawed at the back of my mind painfully. He was in such great turmoil that we were so close to hurting our…I flinched back in horror.Our what? I wanted to ask but it would be futile because I haven’t shifted yet so I couldn’t speak directly to my wolf, but I had always felt him at the
AMIRAI made sure to keep my eyes on Soren and my distance close as we ran to the border.Nevan, the wolf who had informed us about the attack, ran by me, panting loudly as he tried to keep up with us.“How did they get the child?” I asked Nevan.“He was playing along the borders."“Oh, for goddess’s sake,” Rune growled under his breath. “We tell the mothers to always educate their pups on going close to the borders, and Luna Leonora warns them daily as well.”“The mothers? Talk about the fuckers who are supposed to be on patrol today. How come they didn’t notice a child at the borders?” Koa grumbled and took off faster than us, so he could catch up with Soren instead.“I know it’s getting close to their retirement since Koa and his new team will be taking over soon, but even this is too much. They've been slacking these days, and Alpha Alistair is going to have their necks,” Ruelle groaned from my right side.“They took only the pup?” I asked Nevan to be sure, and he nodded frantical
AMIRAThe tracers were much faster than us since they were shifted wolves, but we had no problem keeping up because of the intense training we had to go through every day.We ran further away from our pack borders, and it worried me because I had never been out of the pack lands before and certainly not this far but I had no time to dwell on my little worries.The tracers followed the invisible trail that must have been left behind by the pup as we went deeper into the woods.The tracers came to a sudden halt and began to sniff the air. I tried to copy them, but I couldn’t detect any scent which meant the rogues were masking their scents, but it wasn’t going to be an issue for the tracers.Soren placed his fingers on his lips, and we shut our mouths tight to stop our panting so the tracers could listen for any heartbeat or sound.We bent down to hide among the trees and grasses while we observed the surroundings to see if we could find anything.If the Tracers had stopped, it meant th
SORENWe arrived at the pack borders to see Lucas had been reunited with his mother. Satisfaction bloomed in my chest at the job well done. It gave me confidence that maybe somehow, I could manage to be a good leader when I took over from my father.I’m well aware of my problems, especially with my wolf and it had become a major concern of mine because I feared that I wouldn’t be a good leader, or I may end up hurting my pack members accidentally if I lost control.“Well done” One of the elders of the pack, Malachi greeted with pride as we entered the borders of our pack.The tension that had built up in my body when I left the pack territory fizzled out as the familiar air of home hit me. It would never be an easy feeling to get out of your pack borders, but we would get used to it with time.“You got Lucas back without a single injury to the child and yourselves. And also, in a short amount of time. I am very proud of you” My father praised, clasping my shoulders. It was one of the
“What the fuck, Amii. Did you bathe in the rogue’s blood to show your victory or what?” Ruelle exclaimed when I crossed the border mark and met her and Dad waiting for me.“Haha,” I laughed sarcastically with a roll of my eyes. “Where is Lucas?” I asked, my eyes scanning the little crowd searching for the boy.“Over there with his mother” Ruelle pointed at the same time my eyes found them. A smile bloomed on my face when I saw Casia with Lucas in her arms in a tight hug and tears streaming down her face.“Thanks be to the goddess” I muttered “I’m so glad we were able to complete our first real task. I always had little doubts that Elris simulations wouldn’t help in the real world, but I was wrong. It was as though I was in Sparta the entire time”“But did you have to be so bloody? I knew you were a bloody fighter in simulation, but you carried the same energy to the real world” She eyed me with disgust, repeating Rune’s words from earlier.“To hell with you,” I told her with a light c
SORENI dropped the towel I used to clean my hair in the laundry basket and made my way to the balcony. It had been hours since I watched Amii stormed off, walking past me and Ivannah without sparing a glance in my direction.I saw a little glimpse of her expression and I had not been able to get it out of my head. I didn’t know if I was exaggerating by assuming it was because she saw me with Ivannah. She always had an expression like I betrayed her anytime she saw me with her sister.Koa entered my bedroom and paused when he saw the worried expression on my face. “What’s up with that look on your face?” he asked, coming to sit beside me in the balcony.I eyed Koa, contemplating whether I should tell him what’s on my mind. Koa had always been the mature one among my friends. He always listened and never judged.“What do you think about mates?” I asked with an apprehensive tone.I watched as his expression changed to surprise and I didn’t blame him. Mates was not a topic we discussed
AMIRA“Just one more” I urged as I pulled out my history note to complete the last assignment that was due in three days. I always liked to get them done before the deadline because it ensured I did them to the best of my ability instead of doing them at thelast minute and ending up with a B or C like Ruelle.My bedroom door opened without any prior knock and before I could smell the person, I knew it was Ivannah. I braced myself forwhatever it was she had to complain about this time because that was all she ever did when we were in a space together.“What do you want? I’m busy” I told her without lifting my head from my book as I pretended to do my assignment.Ivannah said nothing as she came to stand beside my table. Instead, she slammed her phone on my book where a video was playing. “What the fuck, Amira?” she yelled, and I winced at how loud
AMIRA“Are you ready, children?” Inara asked, her white hair and white eyes glowing under the moon.“Yes” We chorused.I was nervous and I was certain I wasn’t the only one who shared that feeling. This was the first time we were going to cross realms and we were going alone.Inara, the pack seer was going to cast a spell to open a portal that would take us to the human world. Apart from being a seer, she could also cast some spells.I guess you could say that Inara could be likened to a witch except witches had no wolf but she does and she was more powerful that the average witch.Inara closed her eyes and began to chant in a strange language we couldn’t understand. We were doing this in front of Inara’s hut since she didn’t like to venture far from it.A small portal appeared before us. I looked inside but there was nothing in it. It made me wonder if we were being transported to the dark forest directly.“The portal would remain open for the next three hours so you have to do whate
SOREN“Soren, your father calls for you” a pack member nudged me softly, drawing me out of my head.That was all I seemed to be able to do lately. The worries had piled up to the extent that I spent days thinking about everything but finding no answers.“Thank you, Jom. I’ll go and see him now” I told the young wolf who nodded before he scurried off.I got on my feet to go to my father knowing that if I lingered, I may forget about it when my thoughts invaded my reality again.My father was in his office and I knocked twice when I arrived to inform him that I was here.“Come in, Soren” He called from behind the door and I opened it and stepped into the office that would become mine when I took over the pack.“You called for me?” I asked, taking the seat, he gestured to with a frown on my face. I didn’t like meeting with my father because the majority of the time when he called for me, it was never good.“Yes. There is something urgent I must talk to you about” He finally lifted his hea
AMIRAIt was barely one hour into the date and I already felt like I could be somewhere else instead of here. I wanted to go home.It was stupid of me to think that I could sit for goddess knows how long and watch Ivannah rub herself all over Soren while he sat there with his wandering thoughts, not giving a care about what she was doing.“Is he okay?” Koa whispered to me while he nudged his head at Soren who was sitting opposite us with Ivannah wrapped around his hand as she talked his ears off about a topic, I had no knowledge of.“I don’t know. He wouldn’t talk to me” I told him with a worried sigh as I glanced at Soren again.Koa turned his attention to Ivannah who called his name and they began to talk. I turned my attention back to Soren.“Hey” I called through our private min link and his eyes snapped to me “You’ve been distracted all evening. Are you okay?”Soren smiled, his eyes lighting up for the first time that night and pride bloomed in my chest that I was able to make hi
AMIRAI walked out of Sparta without another word to Soren because I felt like if I had talked at that point, I would have said something I would regret and I didn’t want that.The hurt look on Soren’s face was stuck in my head but there was nothing I could do to prevent him getting hurt. It was either walking away or saying harsh words and I would always choose the former.I was embarrassed and frustrated at myself and my performance in Sparta. It was my lowest score ever and I knew it was because I had been distracted.No matter how I tried to avoid it, I kept visiting the night where I had carelessly used my powers and almost put my family in danger because of it.I had told myself a million and one times that I did the right thing but my father’s explanations kept coming to my head and I hated that now he sounded more logical and correct.It would have been easy for me to handle those drunk men without using my powers. I had travelled past my angry stage and now I felt guilty and
SOREN“That’s amazing, Soren. You’ve cleared the stage alone and can now proceed to level 3 difficulty solo rescue mission” Elris announced once I reached the final point of the stage.I was panting with sweat dripping down my hair down to my waist. The level I had just cleared was almost impossible to do alone and in human form but I had so much anger in me lately to be let out and I channeled it into the level and managed to clear it.I found myself getting angry very easily these past few days. I knew I always had bad anger issues but recently, the littlest things were pissing me off and I was getting more worried with my birthday drawing close.Now, I kept pondering about what Ruelle said about something big happening on my birthday. I wondered if it would be me doing harm to my pack and friends.“Soren!” Amira gasped in surprise when I turned to see her stepping into the simulation room with a shocked look on her face.She glanced at the ceiling where the level was displayed with
AMIRAI ran the rest way home, throwing my plans to take a walk into the bin after what happened. Ever since I discovered that I could manipulate people into doing what I wanted at the age of 10, I’ve never used it again.And no, that is not the reason why I was able to get Soren to calm down. I had never used my powers on him or anyone else and I planned to never use it because I hated to control people into doing what I wanted.I discovered my powers when I was playing with another pup from the pack. Dad took me to the park to play when the boy had taken my doll. I got angry and commanded him to give it to me.I remember being so scared at how lifeless he looked when he handed the doll over and walked to his mother.Dad had been the only one to see the entire thing. He had picked me up and held me in his arms as he ran home, locked us in the room and warned me never to tell anyone about what I could do if I didn’t want the alpha to kill the both of us.Ever since that time, I had ne
AMIRA“Amira, where are you? You’ve spent over an hour there already” Dad asked through the mind link in a worried tone.“The queue is very long, dad but it’s almost my turn. I’ll be on my way home soon” I told him with a tired voice.Dad asked me to go to the major store inside town to get him some things but today was Saturday so almost every family was doing their shopping to stock their houses since the shop wasn’t open on Sundays.I couldn’t remember the last time I came here on a Sunday so I had forgotten how crowded it got and I wasn’t happy at all because I had been standing for over thirty minutes just to get to the counter so I could pay for my stuff.Mr Azariel needed to get more people working at the counters because there were not enough to hold it during the weekends.“Just hurry back. It’s almost late. You know I don’t want you to walk back here from town when its late”“I know Dad. I promise I’ll be home soon” I assured him, glancing outside the shop at the sky that wa
SORENI finished training and decided to go in search of Amira. We were supposed to train together but the instructor had insisted that we trained without her to work on my self-control without her present.I wasn’t happy with the idea, but I also wanted to test my limits, so I agreed, and it turned out to be better than I had expected. I thought I would have been easily angered by the teacher and lash out, but he had been really patient with me, and we went through the entire training without any issues.Their apartment looked empty when I arrived, so I decided to go inside the house without knocking just in case Ami had buried herself in her books and music. She was addicted to music and couldn’t almost not study without them.I had no idea how she managed because goddess knows I’ll close my book and focus on the music instead if it was me.My face contorted into a frown when I opened her bedroom door, and the room was empty.“Soren?” I turned to see Noah with a smile on his face “A
AMIRAI locked myself in my room and buried my head in my books. I decided to study so I could take my mind off everything that’s been bothering me lately.There was a knock on the door, breaking my concentration and I looked up from the pages of my book for the first time in over an hour.“Come in” I called and twisted in my seat so I was facing the door which allowed me to see who was coming in more easily.Koi entered with a cheeky grin on his face and I knew he was up to no good.“I’m not going to be one of your victims today. I have to study” I groaned playfully, eyeing the hand that was hidden behind his back.“I promise I’m not here to pull tricks” he chuckled, glancing towards the opened books on my table. “Studying?”“Yes” I whined, before closing the opened book, knowing that there was no way I was going to get any more work done with Koa here. “I had nothing else to do”“Ami, I’m sure you are the only one in the entire pack who studies when they are bored” he chuckled, taki