ELEANOR After what almost seemed like an eternity-long drive, we finally arrived at a huge modern building located at the center of a populated city. Elijah, whose name I learnt from their conversation with Alex while I was watching the passing trees out the window, opened the trunk of the car to pull out the only baggage the omegas from my pack had arranged for me before I left. I immediately rushed to him and gracefully reached for my own stuff. I felt bad thinking about Elijah carrying such a huge luggage for someone like me. Someone who would potentially ruin their pack. That I couldn’t take. My hands accidentally grazed Elijah’s skin when I heard Alex speak from behind me, making me jump in surprise. I turned around and looked at him, frowning at me like I just committed a terrible sin. And for some reason, I felt guilty, which is utterly ridiculous to even think if. “Elijah will take care of those” He glared daggers at his beta with his sharp eyes. Shaking my head, I refused,
9 ELEANOR "What do you mean had?" I ask, meeting his gaze. "I had a mate, but she...died." He said those words so slowly as if he would break if he went on too fast. A gasp slipped from my lips so I brought my hands to my mouth. Alexander's mate is dead? "H-how?" I ask, suddenly feeling nervous to know the cause behind his mate's death. A mate's death could drive werewolves insane to the point of seeking their own demise. That is how serious it breaks you when your mate bond is forcibly torn apart. You love the other too much you won't be able to make it or accept that the other has gone. Looking at Alexander now, he looks perfectly fine and confident when he stood in the meeting room, but I certainly did not know he had lost his mate. "Killed. Someone from an enemy pack. We're still failing at finding out who the killer is, so the case had since remained unsolved." He looked at me unsure. "Oh" Was all I ever was able to say. Wait. If Alexander's mate died, then that means...
ELEANOR I bit my lip, not knowing what else to do when I heard him grunt slightly. Then he cleared his throat and I felt a hand now touching my chin. His touch alone was seemingly alike to the jolt of electricity coursing through my body as he lifts my head to look at him and meet his eyes. Heat rushing to my face, I stared at his piercing blue eyes that was looking right into my soul. It's like my face and whole body is burning under the intensity of his gaze and his overwhelming touch. "You look.... beautiful" He leans in his face closer to me and I didn't know whether I could take it anymore. It has gotten to a point where the smell as aell as the hotness of his breath was already turning me on, that I needed to push him away slighty as I settle my hands on his rock hard chest. God I can already feel his abs right here. Instead of pushing him away I pushed my body back as Alexander stood so strong and hard. I looked away from his gorgeous face, feeling my heart quickening its
ALEXANDER Veronyka is taking things way too overboard. I know she isn't always like this. I've known her since she was just a little pup, and I can tell somehow, this Veronyka sitting two seats away from me now, is not the Veronyka I know. "Veronyka Blade! You will not disrespect my mate in this house! Apologize!" I made sure to emphasize that last word for Veronyka to understand, that she's done something she will soon regret if she still chooses to push her boundaries more than she should. I shot her a warning look complemented with my most effective threatening glare. Veronyka pursed her lips into a thin line, as though she was holding her emotions back before me. Damn right she should. But instead of apologizing directly to my mate, she hurriedly stood up, making a screeching sound as she pushes her chair abruptly and hurting my ears, enough to irk me in a way I never felt towards her before. Don't get me wrong. I love Veronyka. Just not the way she wants me to. I love her li
ELEANOR Ares kept groaning and muttering something incoherent in my head, then complaining over and over about why I went with Adrian rather than his brother, Alexander. Ares felt comfortable being with the alpha, saying she can feel kindness from him and even a sincerity towards us. I say she's getting way too comfortable and accepting with everything in our enemy pack, as though she's completely forgotten our main goal once we got here. To escape and go rogue, or maybe live as a normal human being in some place far away from the werewolf world. Get a job I don't know. Pay for an apartment and such. That's what I'm seriously looking forward to. Not how to be a part of the enemy pack, to which my father threw me in like garbage he didn't need anymore. I walked silently side by side with Adrian, who was leading me somewhere I couldn't care much about. Honestly I had wanted to go with Alexander at first, but after he mentioned the thing about a mating ceremony taking place, and not j
ELEANOR The thing that was hanging between Adrian's legs felt hot and hard beneath my thighs. Though it happened for only about two seconds, I felt it. My heart raced rapidly as if I'd just run a marathon and I was too nervous to glance back at Adrian's face. So I immediately picked myself up from his lap, before Alexander, who was already glaring threateningly at him, explode like a ticking bomb. The room was filled with Alexander's low growls the next moment, and I nervously looked up at him, but his gaze was completely fixed on his brother. Whipping my head to the side, I caught Adrian smirk at him, making my eyes widen in confusion and shock. I turned my head to look at Alexander who I noticed was clenching his large fists. I gulped, suddenly burdened by the stink of heavy tension swimming in the air around us. I could have sworn their energy were clashing in the middle right where I stood amidst it all. As I looked closely at Alexander, I saw his eyes darken completely, his b
ELEANOR "Eleanor Raven, I want you as my Luna. My mate. Chosen or not. Do you accept?" I pursed my lips into a thin line, shifting my gaze away from his face that resembled hope and even happiness. I balled my hands into fists and refused to see him eye to eye. "I...uhm..." I can feel my back sweating as I try to formulate words. When I raised my head to look up back again at him, he suddenly ran his hands down my thigh and swiftly picked me up like a feather. My hands were thrown instantly around him, wrapping them around his brawny neck as I locked eyes with my godlike supposed-to-be mate. I felt my heart skip a beat as his eyes trailed down to my lips. "You don't need to answer that right now, Ellie. I want you to think about it, in your own pace. But remember, you're MINE. Even if you say no, I will never give up on you." I stopped breathing upon hearing those words. It was like my whole body turned into jelly including my heart. Hearing him call me Ellie suddenly made me fe
ALEXANDER I groaned inwardly in bitter annoyance when the sound of someone knocking on the door got in the middle of my important meeting with my precious mate . Taking in a long whiff of the scent that was lingering from behind that door, I instantly came into realization necessarily to figure out who it was. "What do you want, Veronyka?" Silenced filled the entire area as my eyes sweeped the room towards the door. I can see her biting her lip and looking away from the door in front of her through my alpha wolf's eyes. She was hesitating, as though she was forced to stand there behind that door blocking us from view. I heard her take a deep breath whilst Eleanor scrambled off me, leaving my fingers wet and slick from touching her for long enough. I didn't want it to end, but because of Nyka's interruption, I got no other choice. Eleanor sat up straight on the bed and pointed me to the door using her lips moving to emphasize I need to go there and open the fucking door. I po