William arrived at Samantha's place, where he found the healer working away with some medicine in her office. "Samantha."Upon hearing his call, Samantha turned and was more than happy to see him, rather than surprised. "Oh, Alpha! I am so glad you're here! Please, have a seat."Taken aback by those words, William walked over to her and sat in a seat opposite of her. "Why so happy to see me here?""Well, I know you've been seeing Ellie lately, and you know I have been seeing her on a weekly or semi-weekly basis to see how she and the fetus are doing," she began already setting some slight alarms in WIlliam's head."Get to the point."At those words, the smile Samantha had on her face left, replaced by a conflicted expression. "With the baby starting to show in the middle of her second trimester- and I don't mean any disrespect to you or Beta Jen- but to ensure a smoother growth for it, you will have to spend more time with Ellie."William raised a brow at what his healer was suggestin
"Are you serious, William?" Jen asked.After half an hour of searching, William found his boyfriend in his personal training area, doing some exercises to relieve him of some stress pented up in him. The Alpha reluctantly asked his Beta to join him in his house, confusing Jen as well as made him concerned by how the request was made. Once they entered William's home, Jen's confusion has been cleared upon being given certain news. News... that made him feel perturbed."I'm afraid so," William confirmed. "Samantha told me it's to ensure the pup will be born as it should. I really want to think she's joking about it, but...""She's a healer," Jen interrupted. "She takes pride in her job, and would never make a joke about anything that concerns her patients. That includes pregnant women, and their unborn child.""Yeah..." William did not know what else to say after that. As he thought, Jen was incredibly saddened by the news- disappointed, even. "Jen... I'm so sorry.""Why are you apologi
In Ellie's house, Ellie was getting a checkup by Samantha, and was soon to be done with it. If the pregnant woman would be honest, though she knew what she told William earlier and what he told to her in response, she did not think the guy would actually send the healer here. Thankfully, with her condition, it was easy to come up with an excuse for having her here."Hmm... Everything seems fine to me," Samantha said, looking over Ellie's examination. "You said you felt a little strange earlier, but what about now? Still feel something off? You told me you didn't feel anything while I was examining you.""Well..." Ellie was feeling something... in her stomach area. She didn't know if she was really feeling her child in her move or if it was something else entirely, but considering how Samantha didn't say anything as she was examining her stomach area, she didn't know if she should say anything or not.Samantha noticed the hesitance in Ellie's expression and placed a comforting hand on
Night has come in the Devorare Pack. After spending the afternoon with Jen, William walked on to Ellie's place, far from looking forward to what he will be doing for the next four months. He had thought spending time with Jen would help him relax from the idea, but now that he was nearing his destination... his dismay returned.'Four months... I have to deal with that damn mutt for the next. Four. Months...' he thought, letting out an annoyed sigh. 'One hour... I really HOPE I can be away from her for at least one hour a day. Be with Jen in that time to fight against the mate bond, prevent it from growing any more than it already has.''Even though your pup needs you now, you have the nerve to even think this?' Liam judged, increasing William's irritation.'You again? I don't know if I told you before, but you're really turning into a true thorn on my side here,' the werewolf thought with a low growl.'I'm not being a thorn; you're the one who keeps denying the mate bond. How much lon
William was sleeping peacefully throughout the night, when he heard some strange sound. Waking up, he looked around, finding himself in an unfamiliar environment.'Where the hell-? Oh, that's right... I'm now sleeping at Ellie's,' he remembered, running a hand across his face. He heard more of the sound that woke up and turned to the source, which was nothing than Ellie, lying on her side in bed, twitching and breathing funny.The Alpha walked into her room with a raised brow, wondering what the noise was about. Once he got close enough, he was puzzled to see her crying in her sleep, as well as realized that her funny breathing was nothing more than her grunting.He became worried for the female werewolf and shook her awake. "Ellie. Hey, Ellie. Wake up," he called.Ellie jolted up with a light gasp, panting slightly. "O-Oh... It's just a dream..." she muttered, lightly rubbing her eyes."You want to talk about it?" William asked.It seems Ellie was still half-asleep when she woke, for
Days passed since the new, temporary living arrangement. As the days passed, there had been no improvement for either side of this 'fated relationship'. Not only was Ellie not willing to reach out to William, but at night, when the guy awakens from his mate's whimperings, he kept pushing the topic of her past onto her, only to receive nothing but silence in return. The silence was getting to William's nerves... Even more so since he had to be careful of how to treat her with her current condition.The pregnancy symptoms increased as the time passed. From morning and late night nauseaa- when she wasn't having nightmares- to her change in appetite. With each negative-like reaction occurring from her, William couldn't help but subconsciously feel like needing to trend carefully around Ellie, for their pup's sake. The Alpha never felt the need to be so careful before, but he couldn't truly say he disliked it. Then again, that could be his wolf affecting him.Speaking of Liam, to William's
William rushed over to Jen's place as quickly as he could. The arousal feeling from the mate bond was really affecting him bad, as he felt his mind getting a bit hazy, prompting him to hurry to his destination even more.'What the hell, William?!' Liam shouted in his head, much to his dismay.'I am NOT in the mood, Liam!' William angrily thought.'But you left Ellie! Just when you both got something going!''Got 'what' exactly? You should know that I don't want to have anything more to do with her! I may be with her now for the pup, and I may have already decided to be merciful to her after the pup is born, HOWEVER! I refuse to even get along with that mutt! My future, my decision! And I decided to spend my future with none other than Jen; not her! And you are far from helping me with this!''Except I am your wolf! As your wolf, I am also your subconscious! It is practically my job to tell you what to do, particularly if it is for your sake! I had let you be with Jen- a werewolf you w
Ellie and her former wardens walked down the road to Jengo’s house, where they assume William will be. As they walked, Ashina couldn’t help but sneak in some glances at the pregnant werewolf, worried for her about what they may witness or overhear later.“Will you quit looking at her like that?” Morgan told his companion in a whisper.“How can I not? We know how much our Alpha loves our Beta,” Ashina whispered back. “If those two had an argument bad enough that the Alpha left her for Beta Jen, I worry about what we will see…”Her saying that made Morgan sneak a peek at Ellie as well. The pregnant woman seemed oblivious to what they were talking about, which set some ease into his own heart. He did not want to put on stress to her and get chewed out by his leader for it. “Yeah… I admit, this is worrying,” he muttered.“Oh, so now you see things my way. Why did you tell her to go find him, then?!”“Between her making assumptions and giving her increasing stress and her witnessing what i
“So that’s what he’s decided…” Ellie could only say, after being told of the punishment William gave her by Raymond.“Unfortunately, yeah…” the Alpha weakly said. “B-But hey. Look on the bright side. You’ll still live. You’re not going to die.”“Not now, at least,” Ellie solemnly added. “William may not have decided to kill me, but making me into a slave? You know as well as I do that that’s even worse than being exiled. And here I thought I wouldn’t be used as a tool ever again…”Slavery amongst werewolves… While it was not something common amongst any werewolf pack, it was still a well-known punishment amongst many. Usually done to werewolves who committed an unspeakable crime as irredeemable mutts, or members of a fallen pack’s Alpha’s family as trophies. Either way, once branded as a slave, no longer would that werewolf be seen as an equal. No longer would they be treated as a person. Instead… they will be treated as a tool they aren’t.Since slavery was a practice that was rarely
Meanwhile, at the Hermit Pack, days had passed since the encounter with the Nex Pack. After getting the time to personally grieve, it was now the day when the Hermit Pack was to move out and merge with the Devorare Pack. With news of Jengo’s passing already well known to all the werewolves in the Hermit Pack, the Devorare Wolves- well aware of their Alpha’s full feelings towards their late Beta- did not want to bother their leader with the preparations, and thus managed to get everything done in time.Of course, the preparations made were not just for the Hermit Wolves’ relocating, as one certain werewolf had just found out.“Alpha William… Tell me you are not serious about this!” Raymond requested.“I believe I made myself clear plenty of times these past few days, Alpha Raymond,” William said, looking over some documents. “Especially when I requested you to make such arrangements. You who is the only other person present at the time of Jengo’s death, in addition to being a fellow Al
It was a cold night at the Nex Pack, as Lyra, Hayden, and the other juvenile werewolves knelt before their Alpha. Most of them were quite frightened being in his presence. Specifically since they gave in their reports about the mission.“Let me see if I got this right,” Drake spoke after taking in a breath. “Not only did you kids find your target and let her go free, you told her everything about herself. In the presence of two other nobodies, no less. Did I get that right?”“Nobodies they may be, Alpha, they are also someone close to the target,” Lyra corrected. She being the only one not fazed by the menacing aura he was emitting.Her casual response only served to increase Drake’s rage, as he personally rushed down to his stepdaughter and slammed her face down to the floor. “Do you really think this is supposed to be funny in any way at all?” he questioned. “You don’t seem to understand how severe the situation is here. In this pack, it is one thing if our target manages to escape
The next day, Ellie had regained consciousness and found herself in a very familiar room. One she could not believe she was in again. Only much worse than the last time.‘Again…? I’m in a cell again…’ she thought.She reached a hand out to the bars, hoping that the room she was in was not really what she thought it to be. Upon feeling her finger burn on contact, Ellie hastily recoiled and curled up in a ball.‘He… He really believed it all… He believed a bunch of strangers, who are also his enemies… over his own mate… Then again, when has he ever believed me in anything?’To say Ellie was in disbelief of her own situation- of the events that led to her current state now- would be an understatement. Regardless of how much William detests her, how could he easily believe in what other werewolves claim? More so when those very werewolves were part of the pack he insinuated to have a bad history with? She did not want to think what she went through last night was real, but here she was… S
Why was Sheera here…? Why does she have their son- her own boy- in her arms in that condition? Why was she even holding him in a way no mother would hold their child, but in a way a kidnapper or any sort of criminal would carry a kid?! More importantly… why was she standing with the Nex Pack like an ally rather than a hostage…?“Sheera… What’s going on here?” Killian dared ask.Sheera gave no answer, as she approached Clifford with the big werewolf behind her, and bowed to him loyally. “My many greetings, Sir Clifford,” she said.“You took a while to get here. I thought for sure you decided to back out at the last second,” Clifford said.“Nonsense. I just had a bit of difficulties trying to get this thing under control and Big here disposed of Private,” she simply said, tossing William on the ground, raising Killian and the other Devorares’ bafflement towards her and worries for the boy.“William!” the Alpha cried out, about to rush to his son, only to be knocked down to the ground by
With Sheera and William, the pair made it to the gorge, where one of the guards stood waiting for them."Beta Sheera, Master William!" he greeted with a salute."At ease, Private," she greeted in return. "Is it only just you? Where are Alpha William and the others?""They went on ahead down the gorge. We should catch up to them. Best shift into your wolf form; the slope is steep enough, but it's probably because of the rain we had, it also looks really slippery," Private warned."So we're almost at the meeting?" William asked."Yeah. And you can meet a new friend."Sheera smiled at those last words. Only... something was off about it. "Well... Not exactly," she said."What was that?" Just as soon as Private asked that, a heavy thud was heard from directly behind him.He turned to see who or what was behind him... Only to see black.******Killian and his group carefully descended down into the gorge in their wolf form. Thankfully, even with the new moon out and weakening them, they ca
With Raymond now gone with Ellie, William walked over to Jengo’s torn body. As he stared at it, images- memories- came flooding back into his head. All about a certain day in his childhood… when his mother betrayed their pack for the Nex Pack.*FLASHBACK*It was a peaceful night. One with clear skies and lots of stars shining down. The moon was in its New Moon Phase, a time when all werewolves would be at their weakest and most vulnerable. That said, it was also the perfect time for there to be a peaceful meeting between packs.“Alpha Killian, I really need to ask this again. But are you sure about this meeting?” Hugo asked his Alpha.“Hugo, be at ease. I understand well of your worries. But look up, will you? Tonight is the new moon. A time when our kind as werewolves are at their weakest. No matter how dangerous the Nex Pack are, even they cannot do us much harm at this time of the night,” Killian assured. “Their leader asked for this meeting at a time when neither side can do any s
William could not believe what he was seeing before him… He wanted to think he was seeing someone else who looks like Jen lying in the pool of blood, practically torn to pieces. But no matter how he looks at the corpse in Ellie’s hands… No matter how he smelled this scent… There was no doubting it… Lying dead in his fated mate’s arms was…“JENGO!”All heads turned to his direction at his shout. While one Ellie paled at the sight of seeing the Alpha here, the other werewolves around them looked at him with confused expressions.“Huh? Who’s the new guy?” Hayden questioned.“Someone connected to the dead, maybe? He did cry out that guy’s name, after all,” Lyra guessed. “That being said, if he has connection to that dead wolf…” She trailed off there and looked down at Ellie, taking notice of the frightened expression on her face. One look at the expression she had, and an idea came to the juvenile’s mind. One she would have to wait on, as she would like to have one thing confirmed about w
How could this have happened…? Where did he go wrong…? He tried his best to follow their movements, to defend himself against their attacks, and land a hit on them. And yet… They were too fast for him to follow, no matter what he did. Their strength broke past his defense easily. Worse off, not once did they give him a chance to do anything but defend. These juveniles did not even give him the chance to recover from any of their attacks.And now, because of the huge different in their strengths, there Jengo lied… In his own blood with an arm and leg missing from his person. His assailants all stood around him, looking down on him. Some had on mocking expressions, others were cleaning off his blood that got splattered on them during their attack fest.“Wow. Who’d have thought blood from a victim would taste so different compared to animal blood?”“Same with attacking a kill target. It really is different from doing hunts.”“And yet our superiors have been wasting our time away, making