For the first time since I came back in time, I had such a nice moment. Seeing Adolphus paying made me feel weird and at the same time, I was happy. I mean, someone bought something for me. My aunt never bought things but just because she was forced and I used to work part-time jobs.His hand on my menu, hiding the prices, kept replaying in my mind. It was something… I didn’t know how to describe this feeling.“Do you want a teddy bear?”He pulled me out of my trance. I looked at him then at where he was staring. There was a stall with a little challenge. I was walking next to him, trying to keep up when he paused and I almost bumped on him.“You’re not supposed to ask your date if she wants a teddy bear. You go and get it for her, surprising her, to get a smile out of her,” I replied with deadpan eyes. “You’re horrible at this.”“I’ve never dated anyone,” he shrugged, grinning. “You’re the first. Wait, does this mean you accept being my girlfriend?”I walked forward, giving him a sid
When I came to be, I was in a basement or what looked like one, maybe a warehouse. The ceiling had an opening and since I was on my back, I could see the crescent moon. It was the same warehouse from my memories.I was kidnapped once before. A lot of men came at me before Frederick showed up, saving me. First, they treated me like a whore. Second, they had their dicks all around me. Third, when Frederick showed up, I had to cling to him for dear life, crying on his shoulders.It wasn’t going to happen again, right?I shouldn’t let it happenI wriggled. They tied my hands behind my back, my feet as well. They filled my mouth with a rag. I felt the tears rush into my eyes but I refused to cry. I should calm down and think this through.Alright! There were a few warehouses around. But this one… This one was familiar. I looked around, searching for anything familiar and found the number nine painted on the wall. It was one of the Crescentmoon pack’s warehouses.I should have seen this com
“You dare trespass and kidnap my girl,” I heard him say in a rough enraged voice.I’ve never heard of a werewolf speaking in their wolf form. Mostly, it was mindlink but for him to speak like this. It was amazing.Everything in me softened. He appeared and now, it wouldn’t happen again. No one would take me against my will. No one would break me. I just hoped he would reach his twenty-one years old quickly. I wanted to forget everything.Alarmed, the others started shifting as well. But Adolphus didn’t wait, he lunged at the first time, grabbing him by the neck and breaking him. The way he did it, I wondered if I looked the same when Nialliv’s father killed me.I felt someone behind me. I pulled away and looked back. Aiden smiled sadly.“It’s okay. I will untie you so we can get out of this place.”“Oh! Thank you,” the tears rushed to my face but I didn’t want to cry. “Thank you,” I repeated.‘I told you he would come. Let’s believe in him more form now on.’Yeah, I should listen to y
The kiss was brief and sweet. He pulled away quickly. I was hungry at some point and wanted him to kiss me more. I wanted that day to happen again, when we were all over each other.“You’ll come back to live with me. No one has ever took you from me when you were in my building.”I chuckled. “But Frederick still got inside, didn’t he? There is no place I can be safe but with my grandpa. And speaking of grandpa, does he know that I was taken?”“No. I don’t want to tell him,” he looked away, as if he was lying. But I knew he wasn’t lying so it should be something else.“Why? I am sure he’ll know. So it’s better if you tell him.”Why was I even trying to make grandpa worry? This was weird. I just wanted to know why Adolphus didn’t tell him. Usually, since grandpa was the only person who cared the most about me, he should have known that I was kidnapped.I touched my lips again. It felt nice. The first time I was kidnapped, it took me years to move on and accept what happened to me. Now,
I had to retreat and hide behind Adolphus. It was unconsciously done and somehow, it made everyone look at me with their curious eyes.“Grandpa?” I hesitated. “I thought you vomited on everyone tonight. Did you do it well?”He cleared his throat. “My son is always that soft-hearted. He is the only one that smiled at me. I can see his ass being chopped quickly and thrown out of the way. But it’s not this that I am aiming to talk about. Why the fuck no one told me that you were kidnapped?”“C’mon! Old man, you know that there isn’t enough time for that and no one wanted to ruin your big moment.”“You don’t get to have a say in this,” he pointed at Adolphus, threatening. “I will throw you to the water and let you battle your demons by yourself.”He flinched. Adolphus actually flinched and let out a nervous chuckle. Was I seeing right? Wasn’t he fearless or something?Adolphus wrapped his arm around my shoulders and squeezed me against him. I struggled so he would let me go but I soon gav
Adolphus tried so hard but he failed. I stayed in the mansion, in a room and a bed I never thought I would lay in one day. That woman, my grandmother, wasn’t happy about it. She leveled me up so many times and yelled at grandpa for disappearing for years.She’s been going on and on over how she ran the family while he wasn’t around and grandpa shut her up with one look. I didn’t see her again until the next morning. However, I was distraught by another matter. I had a dream, or something close to a dream. It was like a memory but I’ve never had this memory before.It felt so real and it got me shivering.I was in the same bed, not able to control my movements. It was terrifying in a way but I experienced it before so I knew I wasn’t dreaming and this was some kind of a memory.I felt my covers slide down my body then a hand settled on my back. I was sleeping on my stomach, as if I was hugging a pillow. His touch was so warm and so hot. My blood ran faster. After a playful giggle, I op
I stayed frozen for a while. I hugged my pillow, my eyes closed and reminisced about my mother. I recalled her face, the way she was angry for me, the way she smiled and also grandpa. He was the same but his reason was ridiculous. I guess when my mother wasn’t around, he left earlier than scheduled. I think I should ask him about it later.And then, there was my father. I could still feel his hug, his warmth. It brought the tears to my eyes. What could I do to have that moment? Just one moment with them? Why couldn’t control my actions? I wanted to hug them and say how much I missed them.I wasn’t ready for this.The door opened and a stranger barged in. She leveled me up with a hard stare. From her outfit, I guess she was one of the servants. I sighed.My hand slowly slipped under the pillow behind my back and my fingers wrapped around the hilt. I pulled the knife and quickly tossed it at her. The blade glazed her face and landed right behind her, on the door.“Are you crazy?” she y
I returned to the campus today.I came a long way from the first day I came back in time. I wasn’t terrified anymore and my life has been easier. I could see how I missed on so many things in my past life. I was weak, uninteresting, only good to be used. I’ve never thought there would come a day where I would be proud of what I achieved.My Uncle told me I should be proud of myself.He was nice, unlike what I expected.In my last life, all the Remington stayed away from me. Maybe they didn’t need a useless one. And now that I showed my worth, they were willing to side with me. Killing those rogues should have been the critical hit that made them make the decision to accept me.I was painfully aware that a weak one shouldn’t be cultivated. Weakness only brought suffering. I was aware of that more than anything else.I closed my locker and met with two bright golden eyes at the same level as mine. I thought I would never see her again. Alice.“If you came here to apologize, don’t bother
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