There's one rule everyone knows, never follow anyone blindly if you don't want to and Alpha Ciandra knew that better than anyone. But what would she do? Stomp her feet down saying she didn’t want to go? She cussed Beta Pierre for leaving her with him. They had a meeting inside the forest and she had been looking forward to it because she also had something important to ask him regarding the pack’s luna. She hasn’t stopped wondering where the woman went, for the weeks inside the Dark Shadow Pack, neither had she seen her nor heard anyone speak of her. It was as if she had disappeared into thin air, she couldn’t say the luna was dead because if she had been dead, she would have known. So, where was the luna? Did she know someone else was her husband's mate or so he claimed? How was she not thinking of asking the man in front of her? He surely would answer it correctly and faster. How would she start the questioning anyways? Alpha Ciandra felt like the only thing she had been doin
**WARNING** An eerie silence welcomed her when she entered Alpha Alphonso’s office, before she climbed into her bed, Callister had come to call her, informing her the alpha needed a word with her. And from how things went from the cave to the packhouse earlier, Alpha Ciandra was a hundred percent sure the man wanted to talk things about the pack. The small light from outside dimly lit the office, she couldn’t miss the interior design of the office. It was breathtaking, and well arranged with his cologne lingering on the air. Alpha Ciandra saw a piece of paper on the table, she picked it up, and for a few seconds, she admired the handwriting, the words were written meticulously as if they had all the time in the world. She read, "you left me. Alone." She rolled her eyes and proceeded, "I have gone to my bedroom to freshen up, I will be waiting for you in my office there. Hurry. It is important." Giving the office one last look, she folded the paper and dropped it in her pocket.
She was weak, confused, felt empty, and sore all over. She blamed herself for going to him, for answering Callister when she knocked. For forgetting the chances were high of him not giving up on her being his mate. Before she became his protector, she studied everything about him and the pack, and even after she arrived in the pack, she wasn’t too quick to judge anyone, well, except for Beta Pierre. Regarding Alpha Alphonso, she had listened to everything her father spoke of him, she hadn’t missed a word. She never thought she missed something as useful as the alpha being a beast. Did she zone out when her father mentioned something important? “Did things turn into shit the moment I laid my eyes on him?” She wondered as endless tears flowed down her wrecked face. She couldn't remember the last time she cried this hard, with the pit inside her stomach getting deeper. She knew of his behavior, his demanding nature, obsessive and every negative thing, and hell, she never said no to
Elder Karela's voice from outside didn't seem pleased at all, and Alpha Ciandra knew for sure the old wolf wouldn’t leave any time soon. It has been weeks since she saw the woman last, so, whatever reason she was there clearly she couldn’t wait till later. Alpha Ciandra went into her shower, showered hurriedly, dressed up, and opened the door for the woman with a fake smile. She appeared as collected as she could, and when the woman pushed past her, she held the door tightly to avoid falling. "Have I always been this weak?" She wondered as she closed the door. She wasn't someone who doubted herself, but after the alpha easily got his way with her, she wasn’t sure anymore if she had been strong, to begin with. Had it always been a lie? She thought. Alpha Ciandra managed a curt nod towards the one chair inside her bedroom. "Elder Karela, how may I help?" She asked. The woman had disdain in her eyes, she pointed to the bed and Alpha Ciandra finally realized why she was giving her
Alpha Ciandra had her back against the door with her eyes closed, she didn’t care how long she had been there and whether the alpha was outside waiting for her. She could go by himself for all she care. If need be, he could come and drag her to whatever meeting he wanted to take her to. After realizing crying was useless, she stopped and was now having the nagging question as to why the alphas didn’t notice she wasn’t okay. Like, seriously, even though they were not that close, didn’t they notice something different? Or maybe they did and chose not to give a damn? She was sure she didn’t appear happy, so why didn’t they ask? Sighing, she was puzzled if Beta Pierre would have noticed if she had looked at him. She hated the dooming feeling all over her, she recalled when she visited Pryden, House of Noirin, and the Shutter Island, and how she was so used to hearing disgusting stories of what had happened to them before coming to the two houses, but not once did she hear anyone s
She ignored the burning look she could feel from the alpha, with her face glued to the window she was surprised Beta Pierre didn’t ask again if she was okay. She pushed away all nasty thoughts that threatened to surface and waited to be told they have arrived. **Three hours later** Alpha Ciandra woke up to Alpha Alphonso removing a strand of her hair out of her face with no shame, she jerked up, hit him on the chin, and moved far away from him. From the front seat, Beta Pierre joked, “damn, you are feisty when you wake up.” “Beta Pierre, give us a minute.” Alpha Alphonso said with his eyes on her, when the door locked, he grabbed her chin, “don’t you dare do anything drastic, I want you to be on your best level.” “Do you have to grab my chin?” She slapped his hand away with anger in her eyes, “can you stop fucking with me.” Deep down she was trembling, inside she was a child on a corner wondering what she went wrong and if this was finally her fate. Alpha Alphonso returned too
The answer to a question that had been pestering her since she arrived at the Dark Shadow Pack was right here, staring into her. Although she had never met Luna of the Dark Shadow Pack, she had seen numerous photos of her, looking at the man in front of her, she felt like she was meeting luna for the very first time. The second time she saw luna’s picture inside Beta Pierre’s office, she concluded the beta was a pervert, because one, she had never seen the picture of luna inside the alpha's office, and two, how didn't the alpha ask him to pull it down? It had been absurd because, who would go around hanging their luna's picture in their bedroom, if only, at least the alpha's and it would have been understandable. You know, like when the citizens hung their president's picture in their rooms? She had asked Beta Pierre, and the man dodged the question as an adept soldier dodging an incoming bullet. Now, perturbed and stuck, she couldn’t help but wonder if the luna finally came b
Everyone became a suspect in her eyes. She pushed the thought aside, far deep where they wouldn’t resurface anytime soon. She gave Alpha Alphonso and Beta Pierre the benefit of the doubt. Her heart sank, gazing at the son and his father speaking in hushed tones, the devil once again found its way to her mind, seeding a weird thought, what if he was telling his son what he did? Shivering at the thought, she glanced at Alpha Karl and found him speaking to Beta Pierre quietly, smiling like long-time friends. Confused and irritated, she concluded one of them was playing her. Even in her pack, she was never used to standing around and doing nothing, if she wasn't busy writing letters, she was training herself or the warriors, and if she wasn't speaking to the warriors, then she was on her way to Pryden, House of Noirin, or Shutter Island. Previously, the moment her existence was announced to Alpha Karl, he would be grinning, happy his friend have visited. But now, Alpha Karl was ac
The nights and the days lengthened. The nightmares came in full force. Every night, she woke up screaming bloody murder, as much as she hated it, it bridged the gap between her mother, the woman she never knew. Unfortunately, she didn’t like the relationship as she was selling it to everyone else in the pack. Alpha Ciandra couldn’t help but remember the son she had abandoned. Apart from Alpha Hunter and Felicia, no one else knew she bore a child at the lands of the human. They had agreed to keep it a secret after Alpha Ciandra told Alpha Hunter she didn’t want her son to know the supernatural existed until he became of the age of transformation. Until then, Alpha Ciandra wanted Hilla to enjoy his life with Mart Stone. Living and having fun like everybody else. The idea of Hilla being here made her shudder. “Alpha Ciandra, let us check out the borders,” Avery said from outside her bedroom. “Coming.” She replied. They got closer after Avery promised to work on making Ciandra for
“I, Alpha Ciandra of the Vagabond Pack strip you, Beta Garrick, your powers as the beta. I denounce you as both the beta and member of the pack.” Alpha Ciandra said, smirking on her face. Felicia took his wolf and cursed him to never be accepted in any pack. As extreme as it was, Ciandra didn’t care. She dragged him outside and said, “An eye for an eye. Don’t show your face here.” “Two down, one to go.” Alpha Ciandra whispered while walking away from a broken Garrick, begging for Ciandra to give him one more chance. What he received was fair, right? For a best friend who betrayed her, she did it right. Another week ended, and the news was still circulating but Alpha Ciandra hadn’t been seen by anyone. She was inside the Vagabond Pack, tending to her father. And for the first time, her and Felicia’s relationship strengthened. She released the warriors but not without a clear warning that they would be shot dead if they dared look at her in the wrong way or even think of running aw
The news of the attack on the Vagabond Pack spread like wildfire. The return of the outcast alpha was the talk of the packs.Alpha Ciandra was back, and she was out for blood.With no news from Beta Pierre or Garrick, Alpha Alphonso knew Alpha Ciandra was coming for him with all she got. But until then, he planned on putting up a tough front that he wasn’t scared of. That he still had the power over the broken alpha. Did he?He said to Avery, “let us attack her before she attacks us.” Avery huffed, “Let me meet up with her and try talking to her, for a truce, an apology from you of course, offer her a few packs.”Alphonso was staring at Avery as if she had lost her damn mind. They all knew Alpha Ciandra wouldn’t care about that. “Plan the attack, Avery.” He ordered. “Let us not think irrationally. Alpha Ciandra is a good alpha. You destroyed her, remember? For all, we know she can be suffering from amnesia from all the beatings she got from you, asshole. So, go back to your safet
Come rain, come sunshine, Alpha Hunter couldn’t help Beta Garrick. For all he cared, the pack could burn in hell. Why would he assist the same pack that abandoned his daughter without a second thought?Everyone stood by as Beta Garrick shunned her.No one asked her if what Alpha Alphonso said was true. No one wanted to hear the side of her story and watched as she was turned into nothing but a mere wolf on the brink of death. It had been more than one year and no one has heard about her. And since she was a powerful alpha who had fallen because she couldn’t close her legs, thus breaking the rules, her name was now known by everyone, everywhere. The old, the young, and the pups.Alpha Hunter was a hundred percent sure his daughter was long gone. And if it wasn’t for the fact that the tiny room he was in had nothing he could use to end his own life, he would have died long ago.How cruel of Garrick to ask him for help when he has been starving him?Alpha Hunter by now was used to Garri
The human city was not as she had imagined. It was something more. Something better.Alpha Ciandra loved this life more than anything. If anyone had told her this the day she left for the Dark Shadow Pack for her duty, she would have said, “are you crazy? I was born to protect. To fight, and to care about somebody and not me.” Of course, life at first hadn’t been safe. She had been distraught, which was expected since it was the first time she was staying far away from home, far away from any supernatural, and only surrounded by humans who seemed to love partying, laughing, and not caring.She saw pregnant women laughing with their friends. No one carried weapons around. Oh, the mornings she didn’t worry about waking up. The humans taught her something she didn’t know. Freedom. The freedom was great. As mundane as it sounded to anyone in this human city, Alpha Ciandra found it heavenly. For weeks, she watched the humans, paying for a motel room with the money she stole from Hi
For someone who never cared about their relationship, he was mourning too much.The whole pack felt Alpha Alphonso’s sadness. Even the Vagabond warrior.How could they when the alpha screamed every night in anger, thrashing things around, listening to no one but only himself? And the only time he was quiet was when he was asleep. This turned Luna Adrielle into his nurse. She hated him to her core and yet she had no choice but to take over the part of being fully his mate. Every time she touched his arms to beg him to stop wailing, she recalled those same arms harming her.For an abused mate, she was doing more than she was supposed to.Her love for Alpha August has always been strong. She was the one who should have been screaming the whole night and not Alphonso. She was the one who should be asking everyone what time it was and not being asked.The woman didn’t have the time to mourn for her dearest dead son, the son she lost a second away from having the perfect mother-son relatio
Alpha Alphonso began feeling better. He could feel Alpha Ciandra right beside him and this brought everything to light. He came back to his senses and the first thing he thought was; Luna Adrielle must return.“Pierre, where are you?” He met a block.Ever since they left the Wilder Pack, they haven’t taken more than ten minutes together. Beta Pierre was busy dealing with their plans since he noticed the hesitation in Alpha Alphonso when they embarked on the Wilder Pack last time.Beta Pierre wouldn’t let go of his plans or won’t change the direction, he has lost a lot to just say fuck it just because the alpha had missed his second chance mate. He planned on following the plan till he died. No matter what it took, they were going to make him an alpha in one of the nearby packs.They will own numerous packs; this had been their goal.“Avery.” He called.“Yes, Alphonso,” Avery responded immediately.Alpha Alphonso smiled at that; Avery was something for sure. “Come to my office.”Avery
Alicia was sceptical about her mother. The way she talked, the way she walked and even the way she ate. Staring at Kelly, Felicia felt her heart breaking severely. The lady she had known for years was now staring at her with awe in her eyes. Wondering who she might be. Of course, there was the same love lingering in her eyes, just like before, the problem was, that love was directed to her for a different reason; Kelly was grateful the stranger saved her from the goons who almost killed her.Alicia excused herself and asked her mother to follow her.Felicia placed a simple kiss on Kelly’s cheek and followed her daughter. She closed the door behind her and then turned to her daughter. She was gnawing the inside of her cheek, something she did whenever she was nervous.Alicia noticed it, and she confirmed that indeed, her mother was hiding something.“Mom, there is no way Kelly will just sleep and wake up with her memories gone. The Kelly I know isn’t weak, even after she heard her da
Once a pariah, always a pariah. The only difference here is that, she brought it to herself. Bad luck was following her everywhere. Look to the right, to the left. Still bad. She blamed herself and the moon goddess. She didn’t need a soothsayer telling her this has to do with her.She had felt the storm coming, but she never thought it would be in the form of the death of Hilla. Hell, she hadn’t even sat and think of what would happen.Ciandra kissed the lifeless body goodbye and grabbed her phone from the nightstand. The last time she spoke to her parents was when they were here, this will be the second time. It sucked.How could she start, “hey, I killed your daughter, come and take her?”She stayed silent as the phone rang, when she thought no one would answer, a manly voice came through, “Hilla, I will kill you when I arrive there.”Ciandra’s breathe hitched, they must not find her here. She is a wanted wolf by vile Alphonso, the last thing she needed was to hunted by humans who w