ADAIRA~“What do you think you’re doing?” She scoffed.“Know your place, slave.” She said as she eyed me with disdain.She thought being close to Gavrael would save her somehow, that I would be too scared of him to actually attack her. And if I wasn’t so angry. I would have held back, but right now, there was no backing down till someone’s blood spills. I shoved her and she stumbled backwards with a look of surprise in her eyes.“This is the second time you’re trying to imprint my face on the sand, and it better be the last time. I don’t know what your problem is but I’m not dealing with it so be warned.” My voice was guttural because my wolf was close to the surface.Midi snarled and moved towards me.“How dare you lay your hands on me, you filthy mutt!” She yelled.“Between the both of us, who’s the mutt, rogue?” I said sarcastically“Better a rogue than a lowly slave. I could make you lick my feet right now and you would have no choice but to do it.” She said to me with a sneer.“
ADAIRA~Her claws sliced my face and nearly took out my eye. The wound was superficial and would heal soon, but I was so stunned that she tricked me so I tripped over my feet, fell and rolled over three times before my body stopped. Midi was on me in the next second and I yelled as her claws dug into my shoulders from behind. Now, my wolf was pissed. I rolled over to get her claws out of me. I knew it would really hurt and my flesh would get torn, but I did it anyway and then I let my wolf take over. I growled angrily as my paws hit the ground. I still felt the lingering pain in my shoulders from Midi’s claws digging into them, but it had mostly healed because of my shift from human to wolf.It was no secret that I was a better fighter in wolf form and not just because of the enhanced senses of a wolf. My wolf just had this special connection with nature that seemed to be more than regular wolves. Sometimes, it was like I could feel every particle of air that got into my lungs, feel
ADAIRA ~ I turned and ran off before Gavrael could say another word. I knew he would probably punish me for what I just did to Midi, but I honestly couldn’t care less. I left because I wasn’t in the mood to hear how he would punish me this time. I was too riled up to accept any punishment from him without protest, and I didn’t want anyone else to pay the price for my actions. I would still have to deal with it later but that would give me some more time to shore up my defences so I would accept my punishment with my head held high and my lips sealed. Besides, I have to join the others to serve them all breakfast. I may poison them one of these days just to teach them a lesson not to bite the hand that feeds them, but I would have to come up with a fool proof plan in order for that to succeed. I had been told by one of the females I work with that three other females had planned to poison Gavrael and his pack of rogues on the first week after they took over. She said no one knows how
ADAIRA~I didn’t have time to dwell on the fact that I had been able to sense him before he materialised. It meant that our bond had gotten stronger, and it was a major advantage, like a warning bell just in case I was doing something that he would consider wrong and would require me to avoid him. But it was still weird because I’ve been trying to make the bond wane and we hadn’t been intimate as much as we’re supposed to, why was it getting stronger?“What are you doing here?” I spluttered as I nearly swallowed water from the shower while trying to speak.“You scared me half to death.” I said as I tried and failed to glare at him.It was hard to give someone the stink eye when water was trying to blind you. I moved my body away from the stream of water coming from the shower head by taking a step back. But this only made Gavrael move with me.“What are you doing?” I asked as he moved even closer so I had to take another step back.The look in his eyes made my nipples harden. I had e
ADAIRA~I wasn’t afraid as I got dressed and walked downstairs to join the others to serve meals, but I was still wary. I didn't know what to expect, the anticipation was killing me and not in a good way. Gavrael was making things worse by behaving like he hadn’t just been in my room trying to seduce me, and then threatening me right after that before leaving. He was seated at the head table with the high ranked rogues that usually ate with him minus Midi. Shifters healed fast but even broken bones required more time before they would become good as new so she must be with the pack doctor. Knowing that I managed to keep her away from Gavrael was immensely satisfying, even if it was just for one meal. If she was here, she would have been throwing herself at him despite his disinterest. Other female shifters wanted him too, but she was the only one bold enough to show it.The rogues gave me the stink eye as I went around passing out food and clearing out empty plates while Gavrael igno
ADAIRA~It turned out that the spanking hadn’t been the only punishment Gavrael had in mind for me. After getting me hot and bothered, he left me hanging on the precipice of release and sent me off to continue my duties. I forced myself not to turn back to beg him to keep touching me till I had an orgasm, and walked out of the dining hall with whatever shred of dignity I had left after having my ass on full display for everyone in the room. I had been planning to get to the closest bathroom and relieve the ache between my thighs by myself, but Gavrael spoke to me through mind link like he knew what I had planned.“You’re not permitted to touch yourself, Adaira. You better turn around and get back to cleaning the dining hall with the others.”“Get out of my head!” I growled at him and he chuckled.I leaned against the nearest wall and squeezed my thighs together to try and get myself to cool off. Then he spoke to me again even though I just told him to stop communicating to me through
ADAIRA~My greatest wish at this moment was to have even a sliver of Gavrael’s powers so I could squeeze the life out of Midi without having to lift a finger. If I could kill her without touching her, then technically, I didn’t disobey Gavrael’s order to not lay a finger on her. After preparing the bath she ordered for, I planned to stay outside the bathroom and wait for her to clean herself up. Instead, she made me stay inside the bathroom to watch her frolic about in the tub just to spite me. Then she made me wash her hair and back. With every second that passed, I got more angry but I couldn’t do anything to her for the sake of the safety of my pack members. And the female just couldn’t keep her mouth shut. She talked about anything her tiny brain could think of despite the fact that I absolutely did not want to listen to a word she was saying, nor did I actually care about her life.And she wasn’t really talking, she was mostly bragging about the fact that she was one of the firs
ADAIRA~I was terrified when I saw her in that state. I ran to her and got on my knees next to her so I could cradle her head on my leg.“Grandma, what’s wrong? What happened? Who did this to you?”She was strong just a few hours ago before I left to attend to Midi. Even though she was an elder, she was still hale and hearty. Someone must have harmed her in some way, and I would make them regret the day they were born for doing this to her.“No on h.harmed me, my s.sweet child.” Her voice was so weak, and I could barely hear her words as she spoke.I had to lean down and get closer in order to hear her, despite my advanced shifter hearing.“I need to get you to the pack doctor, right now.” I said as I tried to move her in a position that I could lift her up.She looked so frail all of a sudden, like she had aged a few centuries in the time it took for me to handle Midi’s tantrums and get here to meet her. If not for the damn female ordering me around and forcing me to stay there agai
EPILOGUE ~ Using up so much power drained both me and Gavrael, and we both passed out almost immediately after. We didn’t wake up till after two whole days because our bodies shut down to heal and recuperate. When we finally woke up, we discovered that using so much power had broken the hold of the third souls we each had. I no longer possessed Selene’s soul and Gavrael no longer possessed the soul of the demon king. Their essence had returned to the volcano realm after their souls split from ours. They couldn’t be killed, she was a goddess and he was a god, but it would take a long time for them to recreate a physical form. For now, I was just happy that we would no longer be the victims of an age long war. Then came another problem, the issue of Gavrael’s possessiveness. He was no longer under the control of the demon king, but now that he knew I was pregnant, his wolf was just as easily pissed off as he was before. It was usual for the mates of pregnant females to become very ter
GAVRAEL ~ He calls himself Zephyr, and seeing him manhandle my mate made me angry. But my anger wasn’t enough to break myself from his hold and regain control of my body. “Kill them all, I’ll deal with her. I could only watch as he took Adaira away from the battlefield, knowing that she was their only hope to win the battle against his beasts. “How does it feel having so much power but being unable to use it? You trapped me for centuries, took my memories, took my powers, kept me in this mortal body. This is just a slight taste of that. So tell me how it feels to hate what’s happening but not be able to do anything about it?” I could feel his amusement as she tried in vain to free herself from his grip. He was enjoying her struggles and her helplessness. I couldn’t even reach out to her to at least let her know that despite everything, I was still in here even if I’ve been pushed so far deep in my subconscious that I didn’t know the way out. But he had put an impenetrable barrie
ADAIRA ~ Gavrael is gone and there is no way for me to get to him. I wanted to use my powers to get across to the nether realm but Theia warned me not to do so because I would never be able to defeat him in his realm, he was stronger there. Our best chance of winning this battle is here in this realm, which means we have to wait for Gavrael’s return. By the looks of things, he would not be returning as my mate but as the demon king, with an army meant to obliterate us all. “There has to be something else we can do.” I said to Theia after waiting for an hour with no sign of Gavrael or any danger. My wolf was restless because my bond to Gavrael was so faint now that I had to search deep before I could feel it. I was terrified. What if the demon king somehow finds a way to sever our bond, how would I be able to reach my mate and bring him back? “You need to calm down. Your restlessness is affecting your pack. They’re already dreading the fight we all have coming, and they only stayed
GAVRAEL ~Heat, rage and pain. Those were the only emotions flowing through me at this moment. It was like my blood had been exchanged with lava and my head was being drilled open by a thousand nails. I felt the power of the full blood moon before it even rose and cast its reddish hue over the earth. This past week, I had to stay away from everyone except Adaira because I was losing my temper at the slightest provocation. I knew it was just because of what was coming that my restraint was shitty but at the same time, I couldn’t control myself which led to my isolation in order to protect everyone from me. Adaira was the only one whose presence I could tolerate even in those moments. And the second those rays of light from the full blood moon touched the earth, everything became worse.Heat, rage, pain. Nothing else mattered but these, and the demon whose soul was bound to me feasted on them delightfully. He was much stronger now and he was actively fighting me for control of my body.
ADAIRA~I was eating more than normal out of anxiety. It was still better than worrying myself to death and overthinking everything though. My sleeping schedule was also wack but that was understandable. The full blood moon would rise tomorrow night and I just couldn’t bring myself to sleep even if it still was hours away. My wolf on the other hand was calm and mostly silent. After the night of the pack bonding ceremony where we all shifted to wolf form and ran as one pack to strengthen the pack bonds, she hadn’t made a push to be set free which was unusual. Usually, if I stayed for more than two days without shifting, she would be angsty and restless, whining to be set free, and I would have to shift and run even if for a few minutes. But it’s been days without shifting and she was still calm, I had no idea why and I was too preoccupied with everything else happening to try and figure it out. Maybe she understood the complexity of the situation we were in and was just trying to help
ADAIRA ~ It took two days of mating almost all round the clock for my heat to die down and for the both of us to regain our senses. And as this problem was solved, another problem presented itself, our lives were just a myriad of problems nowadays but who’s counting. When we returned to the pack after my heat passed, almost all the other packs had come to join us, just two were left and they were expected to arrive in a few hours. But as I passed through the crowd, all the males were still attuned to my scent even though I was no longer in heat. Females were also drawn to my scent but it didn’t make them lust after me like it was confusing the males. It was a big problem because it was causing chaos and it was making everyone restless, and I had no idea why it was happening. In fact, it seemed to be even worse now than when I was actually in heat. Sage wolves had also been arriving from the human towns close by. They were wary but they were all put together in one house to await my
ADAIRA ~ Just as expected, the rest of the pack took the news of Sage wolves with varying degrees of disgust, shock and wariness. When we announced the merger into one mega pack, they were even more shocked and awed. There were obviously protests especially when we let them know that we planned to get messages across to Sage wolves in hiding and have them come here to join the pack. But we also explained the great danger that would be coming against us and that we would only be able to defeat them if we work together. Next we let anyone with ideas step forward and speak. There was so much to be done; clearing the surrounding forest for instance, so those that would come to join us would have room to build their own houses, plans to build another general pack house where meals can be taken by a larger group because eating together was a shifter custom meant to ensure the pack bonds remain strong, same as hunting in a group and running as a pack on some full moons. There would also be
ADAIRA~I moved closer and held Theia’s mother by the hand. I forced myself to relax and put every doubt out of my mind. If I could protect the whole pack with the barrier, this was nothing compared to that. I didn’t really know what to envision, last night, it had been easier to see a barrier forming in my mind just like Gavrael directed. But now, do I imagine her using powers? Or imagine me giving her powers?It turned out that I didn’t need to do all that. While holding her hands, I felt some sort of vacuum, a hole in her essence. A missing piece. I didn’t need anyone to tell me that that must be the part of her where her powers used to reside, all I needed to do was to fill it up. I reached out to her with my own essence and I vaguely heard her gasp as she was zapped with it. Her hands were released from mine as she crumpled to the floor and her husband rushed to make sure she was okay.I opened my eyes to see that she was faintly glowing for a few seconds before the glow died do
ADAIRA~I was getting weird looks from everyone that saw me today. After eating by midnight and talking for a while, Gavrael and I had gone back to bed to sleep and woke up after dawn but later than usual, we were entitled to sleeping in after everything that happened after all. But as we left the room to join the others for breakfast, everyone was either looking at me with awe or fear or both. I figured out why when Gaby walked closer to us to speak to me.”Ady, did you really… you know, do that stuff?” She asked.She seemed unsure of how to ask her question and if she should even ask it. I also didn’t understand what exactly she was talking about, so I asked.“What stuff?”“The warriors that fought with you, they showed all of us what you did. We weren’t there but we could see it from their minds. It still seems a bit hard to believe. You were flying or floating, I don’t know, and you were glowing, and there was so much light. And you burned the dead ones, none of the creatures cou