After slipping into my pyjamas, I looked at myself in the mirror. After realising that my wolf spoke in my head, I was happy and confused at the same time. It didn’t happen before.‘Do you remember that moment when Frederick beat Nialliv?’Yes, I do. I remember how it happened. I thought I was dead but I was still around.‘Yes, it happened. What Nialliv failed to realise is that killing you means killing me. We are one. That’s why I am a Sigma wolf. We are bonded to the soul not the body. If she took the wolf of another werewolf, it might have worked.’So, she knew that I am a Sigma.‘It seems she realised it late, yes.’Then why didn’t you talk to me before?‘I was weak. The two days you didn’t take the Adagoril, I worked hard to stay awake. Also, while you stayed with Greyson, I regained my strength slowly. We might not shift on our birthday but it won’t take long after it. We’ll just need to find an antidote.’Yes. I will work hard to find it. I have an idea of what I want to do.T
Three months later,I was finally back to this place everyone called campus, a school for werewolves with a different system. I knew I shouldn’t be here but there was still time till I could switch my life around.Alice linked her arm around mine, smirking. I couldn’t believe that her brother let her wear such an outfit. Well, I was no better but I didn’t have a brother to tell me what I should wear or not.The accident came to my mind, the one I had the first day I came to Saulville.It didn’t happen before.I wanted to know who hit me, who I angered with my presence.“Do you have any idea on who hit me that day?”I looked at Alice who had been preoccupied with a few girls giving us the evil eye. There was still a road ahead before we could consider ourselves inside the building.“Hit you?” She was confused for a moment but quickly remembered what I was talking about. “Ah! The accident! To be honest, no one knows. You were lucky that day. I heard that Frederick tried to look for who
Even if this happened, even if she was hurt, she wouldn’t just stop trying to be my friend.A tricky situation. I should end this before it turns ugly.Eleanor dragged me to the bathroom, where she started to fix her makeup. She talked non-stop and her ducklings joined enthusiastically. I felt I didn’t belong where they belonged. Maybe I should have listened to the Second Ebony.‘You’re the Second Ebony. I am smarter. I should be first.’Yeah, whatever.“I thought you’d come and find me once you came back,” she turned her attention to me, for the first time bringing up a topic about me. “Why didn’t you? I thought you didn’t want to be her friend.”“Well, it’s complicated.”“Well,” she mimicked me. “You should make a choice. Your mother was a rogue so you’re a rogue too. You’re not part of any pack. I don’t know why they accepted you when you’re not part of any pack but you should choose the pack you want to join very carefully.”“I don’t know what you mean.”She stopped applying her l
I looked for Alice, because I wanted to clear things up between us. It was time to stop my bitchiness, as the Second Ebony called it, and accept her as my friend. I should also apologise but apologising wasn’t my forte.I would need to work on it.I sipped my coffee to wake me up. The taste was horrible as well as all the bullies ready to bully me. I spotted Sophia and Eleanor, talking to each other and turned my head away so they wouldn’t know I knew they were buddies.I nearly spat out my coffee when I heard an evil chuckle behind and I knew who it was. Definitely not the one I wanted to meet out there the first time I came back for school.I spun around, holding myself proudly and locked eyes with Luke and his smug grin.I thought I’d see a little surprise on his face or some kind of unexpected reaction but it wasn’t the case.“Monkey,” he started. “You look different somehow, more confident. I like this. Do you think you can make it harder by glaring at me like that?”I stood stil
“You can keep the clothes. I don’t need them,” the girl who lent me the tracksuit said, her expression uninterested.There was something about her familiar.I was in the changing room, holding the tracksuit in my hands. It didn’t look like it would fit me but I had to do it. The girl saw that as well and told me to keep it.“What’s your name?”“Why?”“I will bring you another tracksuit.”“Just keep it. You don’t have to give it back to me.”She left. I was the only one in the changing room because all the other girls left earlier. I spent hours so I was late.I hurriedly switched my dress to another one. Because I was paranoid, I stuffed my dress in my backpack and hid it with the equipment. It was better than leave it around for anyone to destroy it. It happened to me several times.The bullies picked my clothes from my locker and ruined them. No matter what I did, the bullying didn’t stop. Frederick could only comfort me. He acted as if he was trying his best but it wasn’t working.
Adolphus’ eyes gave me the chills. I realised as I waited for Easton that he had them on me from the beginning. When our gazes met, a shiver ran down my spine. I unconsciously hugged myself.There was something that pulled me to him.“Let’s fight! Since you want it so badly, I will go easy on you. But on one condition, I want you to be my partner for the next session and I will be the one to decide what we will do.”“Fine but don’t hold your hits, I won’t hold mine either. If you think that I disappeared to live the good life, consider yourself wrong. I trained and earned some skills. Three months wasn’t enough but I will prove to you all that I am no pushover.”He flinched and failed to hide it.It wouldn’t be that hard to guess that he was thinking if I heard them or not. Their conversation made them worse in my mind but it made Adolphus better. Maybe he was better without them.“Alright! Don’t regret this later, Future Omega.”“Omega? Why are you calling me Omega? Do you think I am
‘You finally did it. You pissed off every single future alpha in the council. I hope you’ll be happy when they’ll bury a knife in our heart and stop it from beating.’“Who knows? Maybe we’ll get to start over again,” I mumbled.I checked with the café that promised me the position but it seemed it was filled when I was away. The manager smiled at me, telling me how it was unprofessional from me to leave them hanging.Well, it wasn’t my fault. Greyson decided to kidnap me.Now, I was walking the streets, trying to find a suitable café or restaurant where I could play the waitresses. I worked in most of them before so I should be fine.I needed to find a job quickly.There was rent to pay, a new apartment to find, and debt to get rid of.My wolf scolded me from the moment Adolphus told me to empty his apartment. I felt guilty. But what he said made me feel like ‘fuck apologizing, I am not apologizing’.The cold wind of the night slapped my cheeks. I spent hours walking, asking, looking.
ADOLPHUS’ POV:As a Bloodseek, I shouldn’t regret any decision I made. And yet, it felt as if I wanted to regret throwing her out in the open, with no one to protect her.Once out of my building, she’d be at the mercy of Frederick, whether she wanted it or not. He would find a way to get to her, as he always did. He once got to my sister and I had to work hard to make her realise he was a monster.‘That human dared to make Sister cry. We cannot forgive her. If it was once, it was fine but humiliation in front of the whole school, it’s not tolerable. She should be punished.’“Throwing her out won’t allow us to punish her. We'll need to keep her around.”‘On the contrary, she will have to struggle to find a new apartment. There are four days left and the month will be over. She won’t have time to move all her belongings so she will have to work hard to pay the days she used to occupy the apartment. We can charge her the value of half a month everyday till she leaves.’It sounded like a
Rayleigh laughed.“I am being serious here,” I pouted. “Grandpa left me with you because I requested so. I want to talk to you alone. It’s sad that Chronos isn’t around anymore but I think it’s for the better. Now, no one has to take meaningless responsibilities. I guess without them, everything will be peaceful.”“How do you know…?”I cut him off. “C’mon! You’re a smart man. You know there is no way a five years old child will talk like this. I’ve lived through two regressions and I’ve come back again as part of the plan, only this time, this is the final phase. We can’t lose.”“Ah! What happened? Why did Chronos disappear?”“My father was supposed to be the sacrifice. I don’t know why but unlike all the other Chronos sent, I am the only one who got to regress more than a decade. That’s why they left the burden to me. Since my father is still alive, I assume that Chronos took the hardest decision in his life. He chose to die and take the others with him. I don’t know if I should feel
EBONY’S POV:I opened my eyes early in the morning. I drank my milk and sat with my parents having breakfast. They laughed together and nothing reminded me of these moments. I have been waiting for my father’s heart attack for two weeks now and it didn’t happen.I checked my tattoo mark and it was there, just faint and impossible to notice.“Sweetie, do you want more milk? You’ve been sipping on your glass while it’s empty,” my mother said.Mom had long black hair and the palest, bluest eyes I’ve ever seen. They weren’t the normal typical blue. They were lighter and paler, as if they were diluted by white and became as blue as the sky early in the morning when the sun had finally settled in place.“Yes, mom.”And I was five.I couldn’t believe that it worked. My father was sitting there, wearing glasses and reading his early morning newspapers. Our house was small and it was full of magical artifacts. Maybe because I was five, I didn’t remember them. Or maybe because a lot happened af
FREDERICK’S POV:I stood outside, thinking about everything that happened to me, all the regressions, the people we lost. I’ve grown numb to all the deaths. As long as Adolphus was alive, there was always a chance to change the outcome.My final role was to kill him. For the regression to happen, he had to die after her.Now, whether we wanted it or not, things would never be the same. I would go back to the kid I was and Adolphus would go back to his old self too. To be honest, I was always jealous of how he had a choice in remembering or not.He got out of the underground cell built specifically for today.“You certainly put so much into this,” he said.“Of course. But this is where our role stops. No matter how much we want to influence things with our current memories, it won’t ever happen. We won’t remember anything.”“It’s true. But this is the price we have to pay if we want it to work. We only need to someone to warn them. They will do the rest. If it doesn’t work again, then
EBONY’S POV:I was sweating profusely. I would die. I would certainly die. For the second time. I knew this was coming but I didn’t expect it to be this soon. I was trying to make a plan to fix things but it seemed all the effort I spent on that was a waste.“Adolphus, please be gentle.”Adolphus was confused. “Aren’t you mad that I killed your father?”“I’m sure he wanted that. He didn’t play a big role in my life so it doesn’t matter. But can you untie me?”He didn’t untie me because Frederick was ready to shoot me. But thinking about it, didn’t he kill me before too? No, he said that Adolphus must have poisoned me so I was dying anywhere. But I didn’t cough blood, which meant it could be that I wasn’t poisoned.‘Don’t overthink. These jerks planned a lot that they won’t say. Well, since we have no choice, let’s just wait till they settle their score. Maybe they’ll fight.’“Wait a second, you look like shit. Did my father beat you that hard?”Adolphus shot me a glare.“Woah! My fath
ADOLPHUS’ POV:Instead of finding Frederick, I found her father. He was waiting for me in the middle of a clearing, playing with some cards. I shifted back to my human form.“You’re late,” he said. “I expected you to get here faster.”“Where is Ebony?”“With Frederick.”“Alright! I will go find her.”“I am afraid that you can’t do that,” he waved his hand and something shifted in the air. “You have to stay with me here. I want to fight you.”“What are you planning, both of you?” I growled. “She’s your daughter.”“I know.”“And you want to leave her alone.”“Frederick said that every time, you said the same words. That’s why the plan was for you to hate her but you still didn’t do that. He wanted you to hate her, to reject her while she wasn’t aware that you’re her mate. But it didn’t happen. I know why a part of phase 2 failed. When planning, no one thought of how my daughter is a variable.”“You won’t stop me.”I shifted and started running. He didn’t stop me. I thought he was all ta
I woke up in a cell. It was easy to recognize it because I’ve been there multiple times before. It reminded me of the torture I was subject to and how I suffered. I didn’t want to go back. And where was my father?The cell was dark. I couldn’t see anything. I tried to move my hands but they were tied. I was on a chair. I had to wait for a long time. I lost track of counting. Maybe it was the third time I reached one hundred.‘This is getting weird. We were with dad and then everything went black. Any idea?’Yeah, but I don’t wanna say it.‘Ammm… Yeah. Horrible. Dad is a jerk.’After what seemed like an eternity, the door opened. It was behind me and I finally caught sight of a lamp and a desk in front of me. Someone stepped inside. I felt him in my bones. Fucking Frederick.“Did you have to make my father into a jerk?”“He understands the consequences, don’t worry?”Frederick walked around and sat on a chair, not far from me.“How do you feel?”“Seriously? You’re asking me that? I fee
ADOLPHUS’ POV:When I saw a white wolf, I was confused. She was running and she didn’t care about the three that followed her. It intrigued me. And then, I felt my mark on her and knew it was my Ebony.I was stricken by how beautiful she was. She looked so free that it made me sad. She didn’t get to shift before and now, she felt how important it was.I didn’t want to overreact but I wanted her. Seeing her naked had only made me want her more. And then, there was her father. I was shocked. When Frederick said someone was telling her things, I didn’t expect it to be someone who was supposed to be dead.‘We gotta do it.’It’s hard to do it.‘We cannot run from this. We have to send her back and as quickly as possible. If she regresses to a time where everything can change, it will be better for all of us. It will undo everything.’But she will remember.‘It doesn’t look like she is suffering anymore. Look at her. She is happy. If she goes back, she will get what she lost and she’ll have
I was a wolf. I was running as fast as I could in the forest, forgetting everything that happened to me. It was so wholesome that I didn’t have to think about anything else. Nothing mattered but running.I felt freedom. Being one with the wind. For thirty years, I’ve never shifted once and here I was, running like a wolf. Nova was happy too. We were happy, ecstatic even. It was a feeling I’ve never felt before.I kept running and running, the wind over my fur but I didn’t feel cold. On the contrary, I felt complete. I finally had the chance to become what I was, a werewolf. We rolled in the grass, chased a few rabbits but didn’t catch them and howled. For the first time, I felt like a child.I didn’t care about anything else.I only stopped when the moon felt so wholesome. I stared at it for a while before I heard a laugh.When I saw who was laughing, I remembered my father, Brandon Wildknight.“Petra was white like you,” he said. When he stood next to me, I realized I was taller than
EBONY’S POV:I closed my eyes and waited for the blood to ooze from me but nothing happened. There was also the fact that I had to deal with a lot of pain. I laid on the ground and curled into a ball.There were a few more gunshots but I didn’t care. It was too much to handle. I hated pain. I hated everything that made me suffer. If this was how shifting worked, I didn’t want it.I heard a crack on my back and then a series of similar sounds followed, but it was slow. So slow that it put me into agony. I wished to sleep it off. Or maybe give my wolf control.Can you take over?‘I am. Why do you think it hurts? It’s because I am taking complete control. Your body is fighting it because you have Wildknight blood.’I felt a warm hand on my hair. It caressed me and then, I smelled something. It was like a smoke that made the pain fade. Slowly, I lost consciousness.Again, my wolf and I were sitting one next to the other. I was conscious of myself so it didn’t sound like a dream and it did