Steve walked into his room, smiling a false smile Ellie could see."Ellie... You have no idea how happy I am to have you back," he claimed.Ellie's frown grew at those words. Words that contain nothing but lies and a hidden agenda.'Does he really think I'm still the naive girl from back when we were together?' she mentally questioned."Funny, considering the fact that you practically threatened me to come here," she then said."Only because it was the only way to get you to come here," Steve retorted. "You have no idea how much things have changed since you left. Well... Actually, you can see it with your own eyes, the number of changes that occurred."Ellie's eyes softened a bit when he said that, looking down on the floor as she recalled what became of the other werewolves."I don't suppose you can tell me what happened after I left, can you?" she asked."After you left, Maddie... She's gone mad. Not only has she been demanding to have your head on a silver platter, as you may have
Ellie's eyes widened in shock by the words that came out of Steve's mouth. The nonsense she just heard. "Excuse me?! What the hell are you going on about now?!" she demanded. "Perhaps you've forgotten, but you were the one who initiated the rejection between us!""I know. And I was so foolish to do that instead of trusting the Moon Goddess's decision," he said, unfazed by her rage."You nearly killed me. Happily, no less.""And I was stopped. Yes, it costed me an arm, and the lives of a few of our own people, but in the end, I didn't kill you, and I'm really glad I didn't."Ellie grew more disgusted by how seemingly desperate this man was getting. If she didn't know any better, she'd think he was being truthful about his apology and remorse, and actually thought she would forget everything he had done to her, and then some. But she was no fool."I don't think you even realize one very important thing; YOU rejected ME! Your fated mate! As such, there is no such thing as 'getting back t
Meanwhile, with Steve, the Beta of the Hermit Pack was walking down the road, heading straight to Maddie's house, as per usual. As soon as he arrived at his destination, he didn't bother knocking at the door, as he let himself in, and was greeted by the sight of Maddie's parents and Albus."You took a while," Aiden said. "And? How is our stray guest?""Healthy, for one thing," Steve answered, a disgusted expression on his face. "For another, I think she grew a backbone being away for so long. Even though she's supposed to be a weak werewolf now.""You forget, she may have Maddie's wolf in her now, it is only the majority part of the whole wolf; she still has a part of her own wolf inside of her," Albus reminded. "Well... Not that it would matter soon. Not if you find a way to convince her to get involved in the Wolf Swap Rite again, so we can extract her remaining wolf and put it inside Maddie, where it belongs."As Ellie had thought, Steve was not being genuine in his remorse and ple
The evening was calm as ever in the Devorare Pack. Perhaps a bit too calm, now that the werewolves did not need to resume their training for a war that abruptly ended. While some relished in this time of peace, others were not as relaxed in doing nothing, as they used their free time to do various activities to get their bodies moving. Be it resuming their training or simply playing a game.Jengo was amongst those training, as he was in his personal training ground, doing some squats. Unlike most werewolves, though, he was not doing them because he was feeling restless; he just wanted to get his mind off of a certain something.'William... I wonder if he's truly gone to look for her...' he thought.Jengo did not want to consider it, but after the chat he had with his boyfriend about the latter's possible-true feelings for Ellie, William just disappeared. He assumed that it may be to finish things with his mate; an assumption that he fears so. Jengo wanted to believe in what he and Wil
A couple days passed sinced Ellie and William got captured by the Hermit Pack. In the time that passed, neither had seen nor heard of the other, for Ellie had been kept in Steve's room, with her only contact of the outside world being from the open window and the Beta himself. He who refused to say a word about the prisoner, who had been kept in the cell, still healing from his dagger wound. With the current lack of security around the pack, Ellie had already considered sneaking out of the house to search for William, only to then remind herself that a witch was also present in this pack. As if that mental reminder wasn't enough, at one point, she tested the window to see if there was any sort of witchcraft done to keep her here, tossing a piece of meat from her lunch delivered to her. Upon doing so, the instant the meat went through the window, it bursted into flames. This 'defense mechanism' combined with the fact that Steve not once even asked Ellie if she wanted to get some air du
William was still stuck in his cell. Rather than do nothing but wait as his injury heals up, like Ellie, William had been using his time to train himself however he could in his limited space. And as best as he could in his condition.Under normal cases, werewolves would be fully recovered from their injuries in a day or two at most. With a wound inflicted from their prime weakness, though? William may as well be a human with a stab wound. Maybe even worse, had the Hermit Pack's healer not have stitched the injury and come daily to check on him.Despite the injury, William endured the agony and do whatever training he could do that would not open the stitches. He already tried looking for a way out- especially when he does not know how this pack deals with prisoners and refused to want to know- only to then notice his cell was coated in silver. Perhaps not 'everywhere', but any possible exits or breakouts he could see were practically protected by it. Not to say that he would not be a
In Maddie's house, the Alpha was not feeling the least bit amused about what was happening while she was bedridden. It was annoying her enough that she had to stay isolated in her room on Albus's advice, locked up in her own home, enchanted by some spell to supposedly prevent her scent from getting sniffed out from the werewolves outside, out of fear of what was happening to her body. But learning that both Ellie and the Alpha who saved her are here?!"Albus! Do NOT make me say it again!" she shouted, banging her hands on the locked door."Miss Maddie, I implore you to please listen and see reason," Albus calmly spoke on the other side, unfazed by her shouting."Screw the reason! You're telling me both that stray and murderer are here, IN MY PACK! As Alpha, I demand you let me out so that I can personally deliver hell onto them both! Especially Ellie!""And risk your well-being in the process? You do remember what I told you about your condition, right? Should I do as you say in your
Steve was enraged. More than enraged; he was practically panicking, as he vented out his frustrations on a thick, sturdy tree in the woods not far from the pack.It has been three days since he made that bet with Albus. Three days... and he has made so little progress in convincing Ellie to even trust him. At this rate, once tomorrow comes and goes, he will lost his bet with the gypsy. Other than getting his pride damaged from being unable to do as he claim he would, who knows what Albus will do? He never did say what his condition would be in their bet, and Steve did not want to know what that would be.'Dammit... My pride as a werewolf is on the line here!' he thought. 'Come on, you stupid Beta, think! How do you win Ellie back to your side? Can't play the nice guy act, obviously. She's not stupid enough to fall for it again.'"You still haven't won her over?" came a voice, snapping him out of his thoughts.Steve turned to the source and saw it was none other than Aiden approaching