She stared at the strawberry blonde haired, green eyed girl who looked back at her, Jade's eyes swept the entire span of her body which was adorned in a long white lace evening gown, its off the shoulder tulle puffy sleeves with the sweetheart neckline showing of her collarbones. Jade had decided not to do anything with her face, wearing her long hair down, with her face makeup free. What Jade felt a bit skeptic wearing the dress was the split in the dress that went down the side, exposing her right leg, she felt like it was too much for an initiation ceremony, but she had no other option as she didn't own any dress of her own, and the only person that could help out was busy preparing for the event, Violet had left the dress on her bed in a box for her but Jade hadn't paid any attention to it, which she regretted now. 'It seems like I have no other option' she thought to herself as she turned around, her eyes fell on Adonis who sat atop the bed, who seemed to be fiddling with the bla
"Alpha" Beta Brian speaks up, "it's time" Adryan nods his head at this."Come" Adryan says to Jade, placing a hand behind her back, guiding her and Adonis towards where the metal bowl was placed on the wooden table in the middle of the stage. The metal bowl had intricate designs along its circular sides. A detailed carving of the stages of a man changing into a wolf was carved into it with immaculate artistry.Jade and Adryan stand opposite each other, facing each other, with the metal bowl in the middle.Upon signaling Brian with his hands, who steps forward and hands Adryan a sharp knife, light reflecting off of its sharp and pointy edge. Its, handle was made of some kind of wood, which, just like the meta bowl, had designs carved into it, this one showing different phases of the moon. Adryan hands Adonis over to Brian, who stood beside him.Adryan takes the knife in his hands, he lifts his eyes to catch Jade's green ones, his eyes seem to ask her 'If she was ready?', Jade nods her h
The bunch of filthy rogues growl, revealing their sharp canines. As the first of them jump and attack, one of the warrior's wolf form, which was standing guard. Everyone else spring into action, the ones in the wolf form immediately jumping onto the nearest rogue, while the ones in human form transformed into their wolf form. Adryan turns to Jade. "JA-" even before he could call out to her, Jade had managed to shift into her wolf within matter of seconds. Adryan watched as she transformed, and now in her place stood a midnight black colored wolf with white fur around her ears and sides. Jade's wolf, Kira turns to look at him, and then turns back and runs into the field, where the chaotic fight had already started. Kira runs to help one of the she wolves fighting one of the rogues, who had managed to clamp its razor sharp claws onto her paws. 'Are you just going to stand there like an idiot or are you going to join the fight, Alpha?' Vince voices out inside Adryan's mind, making Adry
"Shift back" Adryan says to Vince for what felt like the thousandth time, but the reply he got was unfortunately that of the numerous times he had asked the question or more like ordered. 'Not until she wakes up' came his usual reply. It's been five hours since everything went down and Jade had been unconscious all this while, Vince was getting worried and paranoid as she wasn't waking up, Hence the reason why he wasn't letting Adryan take back control and he wouldn't until she wakes up and he see's for himself that she was okay. It was a task on Adryan's part to hold Vince back from taking full control of him, and from attacking the pack doctor and other pack members whenever they took a step in her direction. Vince would immediately growl at them like a rabid dog until they got the message and stepped back. Thankfully, Blaine, the pack doctor had said that she was just in shock and it would take her some time to wake up. Vince's huge hulking frame was resting beside the bed she
Jade stood shocked as she was still taking in what just happened moments before. Earlier she was pressed against a very naked Adryan and now she stood in an awkward position in front of him, basically shielding his naked body from Adeena who stood to the door of her room with a questioning look plastered onto her face."We were just talking" Adryan immediately blurts out.Jade wanted to face palm herself at his excuse, he could have at least said something more believable.Adeena looks at Adryan skeptically, "So you were talking to her while being completely naked?" she tilts her head to the side in question.Adryan's lips part as he realized how stupid his excuse sounded. Even though Jade stood in front of him, it didn't completely shield his body from being exposed to Adeena. She could make out his muscles as he tried hiding himself behind Jade, who was too small for him to completely cover himself.Adeena felt herself flush as she took in Adryan's exposed body. His well-formed chise
1 week laterIt had been one week since Jade and Adonis were initiated into the pack and the whole rogue attack went down, since then something around the pack house had changed. Pack members she saw seemed more alert and on edge, she could basically smell it on their scents, everyone has been silent, the usual carefree atmosphere forgotten for the time period. This only made Jade more confused and on edge. This only led her to believe that something serious was happening, and it seemed that everyone else excluding her seemed to know about.What further proved her theory was Adryan's absence during the week. He rarely came home, when she had inquired about his where abouts to Violet, she had let Jade know that he was busy with his Alpha duties and was on edge because of the rogue attack. Violet's words only confused Jade more, since she had been with him after she woke up from her unconscious state, Adryan seemed fine in fact he didn't look the least bit worried.Jade wasn't sure if he
"You should stop staring at me like that" Adryan says, his ocean blue eyes still glued onto the laptop he had been working on, a pair of glasses resting on the bridge of his nose. His words startling Adeena. Adeena was in Adryan's office, she was sitting on a love seat which faced towards where Adryan sat on his chair working on his laptop on God knows what for the past few hours. He hadn't said anything beside greet her when she came in, his ignorance annoyed her, but she kept quiet, pretending to read a book for the past half an hour while staring at him work. Adryan was an extremely good-looking, with him growing a scruff over the span of a week, and the glasses only contributed more to his looks. His blue eyes staring at her made her nervous and shy all of a sudden. "Me? Staring at you? Please" She rolls her eyes to look more believing, "You wish" she says.He stares at her some more, in a scrutinizing manner of his that made her body heat up. He doesn't speak anything for a few
A sudden crashing noise from downstairs manages to wake Jade from her sleep immediately. Turning to her right, she finds Adonis sleeping beside her peacefully. Last she checked, before she went to sleep, Adryan was still in the pack house working, so the sudden noise made Jade alert.'Let's go and check it out ourselves,' Kira's voice sounds inside her head, making Jade jump in shock.Placing a hand on her chest above her fast thumping heart, "God, you scared me Kira." to which Kira just wags her tail side to side, urging Jade to go downstairs and check what made the noise.Skeptically Jade decides to do so, just as she was about to open the door to her room, she spots something from her peripheral vision, the light glinting off of its metal body. Turning, she finds a metal baseball bat resting against the wall, her mind clouds with confusion on how it managed to get into her room without her knowledge, but then she vaguely remembered Violet placing it in her room, saying that it was f
Jade looked down at the necklace that she had thought she lost, but there it was. The same crescent moon-shaped necklace with a circular pearl in the middle. The same one Adryan had gifted her. Next, she turned to open the envelope, which was a small rectangular. When she took out the note, there wasn't much, just a line. After reading it, Jade didn't know what to feel. 'I'm sorry for everything' ~DariusWhen Jade read Darius's note, she was honestly conflicted. She didn't know what she expected it to be. Maybe an explanation about why he did what he did. maybe the words he said we enough. Some thinks are left unsaid. Yet there was relief, relief that everything was over. Now she could live peacefully without the fear of any more attack on the pack and loss of life due to the war.Everyone in the pack was overjoyed to hear that the war wasn't going to happen. That they could return back to their lives after more than an year of being on the edge.——
*2 months after Jade's return*Two months passed since Jade had returned to the pack. Everyone in the pack sighed with relief upon her arrival, because for the past year, their Alpha was like a walking time bomb, and everyone including the Beta Brian was afraid that they would say something wrong and cause the Alpha to explode and go on a rampage.Jade also learnt that it was Adeena who had helped Darius with the kidnapping, and when Adryan found out, he almost killed her but elders in the pack stopped him. Instead, Adeena was thrown out of the pack. Exiled and doomed to survive with rogues.Violet also let Jade know that looking after Adonis was the only reason Adryan survived. She couldn't imagine the inner battle his lycan was having after losing their mate for over a year. Violet had hugged Jade tightly the moment she entered the pack house, swearing to never leave her side. Jaade couldn't conceal her tears when she saw her baby, Adonis's eyes filled the moment he saw his mother,
Memories kept coming back to her like the tide in an ocean. When she tried to pull back they hit back stronger. Until she regained her lost memories. And everything hit her all at once. Her past, her mate, her son...she has a son, whom she hadn't seen for over a year.Her sense of loss was so powerful, that it felt hard to breathe. Looking at Darius, knowing what he had done, and taken away from, she didn't know what she felt anymore.———In the dead of night, as darkness covered everything, a figure was seen walking with purpose. Jade kept her footsteps light as she walked towards the border of the territory. As she reached the border, she remembered what Darius had shown her before. The border was bound with immense magic making it impossible for one to cross the border, as Jade reached her hand towards where she thought the boundary was, her hands felt empty air. It felt as if the magic bound had completely disappeared, which shocked her as she didn't expect things to be so simpl
"Darius" A voice roared, "You better come back here boy". A ten-year-old boy slammed a door open, he looked like he was running away from something, although his leg was injured, and he was unsteady on the right side of his leg due to the pain. He had no wolf, he wasn't like the average werewolf off springs who would be able to heal despite not being of age where they could shift.Struggling as he ran, not stopping at all, fearing that the person would catch up to him and he would have to go through something worse. All of a sudden he feels himself bump into someone and falls to the ground, wincing in pain."Darius" a soft voice calls out his name in confusion, looking up from the ground, his eyes meet a pair of warm ocean-blue eyes filled with worry. Her eyes took in his injured body, from his hands that had fresh wounds and slash markings, to his wrists that looked like he was tied down to something tightly, with his clothes tattered and barely hanging on by the end. Luna Alana w
1 year laterHead tilted toward the sky with her eyes closed, Jade feels the cool wind blow around her, brushing her skin ever so softly, as the first drop of rain drops, slowly, with one or two drops turning to a constant rhythmic dance as the rain gets heavier. Suddenly she didn't feel the raindrops on her skin anymore, opening her eyes, she was met with an umbrella above her head, and turned to the side to find a pair of violet-coloured eyes already staring back at her. A smile graces her face, wet hair strands sticking to her face. With his free hand, Darius tries to pull her under the shelter of the umbrella completely, only for Jade to knock the umbrella out of his hands completely, causing him to get drenched in the heavy rain as well.Darius pulls Jade closer to his body, his hands cupping her small face, bringing her face closer to his face, Jade closes her eyes anticipating him to kiss her when she feels his lips place a soft kiss on her forehead. Tingles spread throughout h
Flashback (5 years ago)Jade's eyes felt like someone had clued them together, her head was pounding as she sat up, and she could smell the burnt smell of flesh surrounding her, with people screaming around her, tears slid down her cheeks, she was thankful for the first time in her life for being blind, because she knew that she wouldn't be able to stomach the view around her. Death loomed in the air.Trying to stand up on her shaky legs, she stumbles but she doesn't fall to the ground like she expected herself to instead she feels someone's touch on her body, their cold hands supporting her body, causing her body to tense up. "Who are-e you?" She asks, her voice stuttering with fear. Her question is met with silence, and the next instant she's picked up bridal style, she could tell that it was a man as she felt one side of her body pressed onto their hard chest. She feels the person carefully navigate through the aftermath of the fire.After a few moments, the person stops walking,
It was a quiet day, the wind howled moving the curtains back and forth with its powerful blows, and not soon after it started raining, Jade watched from the window alcove as the first few drops of water dripped down the leaves. It had been almost eight months since she was taken away from the pack. She missed Adonis, Adryan, Violet and everyone from the pack every day. She also often finds herself thinking about the weird mate bond she has with Darius. She has heard stories of werewolves getting second-chance mates, but that was only if they get rejected by their mate or one of them dies, what was even weirder in her case was that she had a mate already and she was a werewolf mated to a vampire.Feeling her stomach growl from hunger she decides to go down to the kitchen herself. Over the past few months, Jade had built up the courage to do things on her own, at first she was sceptical to go out of her room in fear of encountering a vampire but now she finds the hallways clear whenever
A wooden chair flies across the room full force and collides with the wall causing it to break on impact. The people in the room gulped with widened eyes, as they watched their Alpha lose his cool. "What the fuck do you mean that you can't find a single trace of her? how can a person vanish into thin air" Adryan shouts as he faces the pack members of the search team. Adryan was angry and distraught as days passed by. Adryan looked like a mess with his facial hair growing, with dishevelled hair. It's been three months since his mate went missing and so far he has no clue where she is or what happened to her."Calm down Adryan, I'm sure we will definitely find her," Brian says, placing a comforting hand on top of one of Adryan's shoulders. Brian motions for the search team members to leave, so that only he, Adryan and Violet were left in the room.Adryan's shoulders sag in defeat as he takes a seat on his office chairs."You know we don't have to search for her like a bunch of idiots wh
Two weeks passed by without Jade seeing him, she ate her breakfast, lunch and dinner in her room, she didn't join him like she did the first time during the meals, she was half expecting him to drag her out of her room but none of that happened, she was surprised, to say the least.Jade had felt an inkling that he was ignoring her after their last encounter in her room.She felt like being coped up inside her room was the only thing that would protect her from whatever she would face once she was outside, but she could only sit inside these four walls for so long, doing nothing, passing her days monotonously. She felt like she would lose her mind if she sat around for even five more minutes. It also didn't help the fact that she missed Adryan and Adonis so much, she felt like she had left behind a piece of her heart with them, she even missed Violet and everyone else in the pack. Jade didn't know how long it has been since she was taken away from the pack, or if Adryan was searching fo