56. Reconciliation between the best friend
Adrian knew it! He so knew that it was something to do with Lisa.
Excitement filled him more than astonishment once Alan narrated the whole tale to him. He was unable to come out of the spell of excitement as Alpha Alan told him about Lisa being a moonborn.
Yeah, a moonborn.
The term itself caught him aghast let alone the fact that she was in love with her cousin. Anyone could be if what Alan described about Jeremy was one bit true. She grew up with him and developed a soft corner for him. It was no big deal. This was not new.
Moonborns enjoyed loving whoever they cherished. Lisa did too, and she also left with him to her pack where her people were waiting for her. Exactly this is what Adrian attempted to explain to him nonetheless the torn cloak and the condition in which he found Lisa's bag made him think thrice befo
57. A bitter prophecy "You saw my dreams too?" Stunned at the perception, Alan's eyelids enlarged as he leaned forward, thrilled. The old diviner acknowledged with a single nod of his head, looking through the desired page he wanted to glance at, in the tome. "You got to see a glimpse of the whole dreadful event that is about to take place on the full moon night, Alpha. Which is why I had been expecting you today so I could let you know the truth you are unaware of." "What kind of truth?" He asked, lingering on the edge of his seat. Adrian received a shivery stare from his Alpha friend that depicted more of his anxiety and remorse. 'It's okay, just stay put and listen to him carefully.' He assured Alan of his support and beamed nervously. Not in abundance but it did help the Alpha's throbb
58. You are a silver knight, Alpha. "What do you mean that it was not real? I literally saw her getting... Getting.. Damn it!" His voice hid somewhere in his throat. Alan can't put that scenario into a verbal description. Anger clenched his fingers into balls. Alan immediately drew him away from the oracle not wanting to effuse his wrath on him. He went to the window and glared outside, hoping for the cool morning breeze to chill his exasperation down. His eyes burned. His nails dig into his palm. That image of her being under the immoral hold of so many men distressed him. Nevertheless, he did not let tears well up. Alpha didn't allow his weaknesses out. Getting handicap at the moment was the last thing he wished to transpire. In spite of controlling himself to not to, tears made ways below his eyes. Falling one by one, in a series of silver trails. He was str
59. You can't help me get out of here, Sebastian. Blooming Peace Pack, In the cellar, "Lisa, look at me. Talk to me." Sebestian stared down at his sister on the other side of the cellar, his red swollen eyes wet with tears. He nibbled at his lower lip that was dry and cracked. His skin was a sheet of cracked, bruised, and bleeding mess. Deep marks of silver chain pressing down in his flesh looked darker and redder under the bright afternoon light creeping inside the cellar via the small opening built over his head for the passing of air. His sister won't speak. She had not uttered any word besides whimpering in pain over the impure touches of Julian and the soldiers who walked in to provide them food. "What's made you like this, Lisa? Please, talk. I want to know how Jeremy found you. I've heard the soldiers say the gorgon wolves sent to catch you did not return nor any soldier who had followed you after your flee. Then how? How did
60. Rescue expedition for the princess-- oops, his mate Brave Blood Pack, City of Marheen, "You knew it, didn't you?" His hands clenched at his sides and with a sudden growl from deep in his chest, Alpha Alan glowered at the old man standing across from him. "That day when you came to see me... You perceived the whole situation. You'd learned she was a moonborn and I was foolishly calling her as my mate when she was not really mine. But you preferred to behold silence as you wanted to punish me for hurting your niece. Isn't it, Ser Harrison?" He seethed, controlling his anger. Alan had his lips pressed in a thin line and eyes narrowed into slits. His hands were folded before his chest as he respired loudly as if expressing his exasperation through his noisy breathing. He didn't really want to come here and see this man. But he had to kneel down ac
61. Her savior for the rescue Harsh winds twisted their boats. The waves slapped their skin and eyes, causing them to put the veil of the eyelids over their sight while two guards on each side of the boats ceaselessly propelled through the rough sea waves with oars. On board, in one of the boats, Alpha Alan tried to look through the winds at their destination ahead. But surprisingly the winds were so turbulent and Alan had to look away given that he could not withstand the hits of plummeting raindrops. It has been irrationally showering today since morning. Alpha Alan's troop was ready since he announced their expedition mission. However, deep in his heart he was not feeling prepared. Prepared to face her! It has only been some days. Maybe weeks. To Alan it felt like decades. He was filled with mixed emotions of exhilaration and fear. He couldn't wait to see her, but at the
62. Alpha Alan was here— to save me, his moonborn self-centered mate. Lisa's POV I shrunk at the noise of clattering metal. The iron lock was being unlocked. My heart pounded at the noise and tears oozed through the tightly clutched lids of my eyes. I was not prepared for this. I couldn't be prepared for this ever. I hugged my arms moving more and more into the corner when a loud noise erupted in my cell. The door plunged and rocked back and forth since it was forcefully undone. Steps thud near me. The surface rumbled and I could feel the sensation coursing up my body. The sense of having another person in the same air as me tightened my throat with adrenaline. 'Please do not approach me. Please... Please... Please.' I prayed to be abandoned, left untouched. I prayed for them to slit my
63. Feeling her pain Alpha Alan's POV I had wanted to go on my knees and cry when my first gaze fell on her. She was in the corner hiding her face away. The look of her perished frame turned my hands powerless. The smell of salt from her tears and her dread brushed at my skin. I stood immobile outside her chamber which was as small as a cage used for holding chickens. There was no room for ventilation except for a small opening in the wall over my head, from which the gust of winds rushed in. They were hard and strong, freezing the walls cold. The bars of the cellar transfused frosty coldness in my palms as I tried to open the lock. When it didn't budge after several attempts, I snapped it into two pieces. The door split off from a kick as I accessed it with hasty steps. I had not prepared to but as I neared her with a wooden torch in my hand, I doomed to the ground on my knees
64. A heartless savior, alpha Alan It was her eyes crying, but his heart that pained. It was her lips quivering in fear, but his mouth that dried. It was her fingers that clasped around his knees, but it was his palms that felt irritation and contraction. Alpha Alan shut his eyes, seething angrily. This was the last thing he had wanted to see. He then undid them vigorously as a heat of aggression spiked up his spine. He pushed Lisa away and fisted his fingers tightly, preparing to kill, as he put the fire torch off. As the steps neared, he undid his mouth and his canines appeared while his claws inclined too. Her mufflings of fear pumped his fury. Alan did not wait for the owner of those audible steps to near them more as he himself jumped out of the cell, letting out a small howl. He tried to suppress it but he could not stop from m
(LAST) Lisa retired to Alan— correction, their room now, in the middle of the feast as she could not control her emotions any longer. He had scared her to suppress her tears but now she wanted to pour them out. Stopping them was making her feel sick. Having come back to the room, she locked the door and threw herself on the bed. He was bad. She dug her face in the pillow crying her heart out as she thought about him. He didn't make her feel good at all. Even during the feast, for whatever time she stayed down there, he ignored her. He didn't hold her hand when he was introducing her as Luna. Alan didn't even shower her with a gaze of love when the oracles put around her shoulders the cloak of Luna and put the crown on her head. He was such a bad mate. Thinking about what happened she was weeping in the pillow when from the window, Alpha Alan entered.
77. She was making him fall in love with herself harder and harder. Putting the curtains back, she came back to bed and settled on it. Her eyes burned but she didn't let tears spill. She was marked. She was accepted. She was taken as the Alpha's Moonborn mate. Nevertheless, she was still not wanted. At least that is how it was seeming to her given that he didn't come to check upon her even for once post that one meet before his leave. After he returned, she tried to hug him but he refrained her from doing so. The guests he's bought with himself were more important to him because rather than consoling her restlessness, he escorted them inside the castle while she was left there with a petrified Adrian who was lost in his own predicament. He played matchmaker for his beta as well as her brother but ignored his own mate. He ignored her. Having saved her from killing herself, he
76. Waiting for him restlessly The rest of the day Lisa spent waiting for Alan. He'd promised to come to her once his undone work was finished but there was still no sign of him. She was fine now. Thanks to the healers for giving her medicines that worked quickly, boosting her recovery. Since she was a Moonborn and now satisfied with her life for being marked, her wolf worked upon helping heal her. The fever was gone. Her weakness too. Lisa relished the day going around the huge castle with Jenny. Initially, her nerves tensed up when Jenny came to see Lisa in Alan's chambers. But her disclosure of not being his mistress anymore made Lisa sweep on the bed in relief. Since she was not his mistress any more but a close friend, she developed a friendly bond with Jenny within no time. The two of them moved around the castle with Sebestian joining them at a moment. He was hap
75She was marked by him.***Her smile was widening. She failed in life as a princess, she was going to win as an individual.This death was not really a defeat but her victory over her agonies she bore and a rejection she got despite being Moonborn.The cold water really put her mind off. What could be better than sucking some water in her lungs and ending it without much pain? Lisa left her hands loose and parted her mouth.The liquid made her feel dead already as she was in a fever. She had been weak as long as she woke up from her three days deep traumatized sleep. And this cool chilling water was only making her feel half dead.As she blew inside aiming to fill her lungs with water, a strong hold grasped her elbow in a painful hold and yanked her in the opposite direction of her drowning.It happened real quick yet she had already gulped some wate
74"I am going to bring my mate back." — Alpha Alan***Alpha Alan's POV"Lisa!"I stopped in the middle of my room looking at the spot I had left her some while back.'Where is she? Where did she go, Alan?'My wolf gulped his emotions for there was only her gown lying on the floor but her.I quickly went ahead to pick it up. Bringing it near my face I pressed it on my cheek to feel her. Her scent filled my lungs as I inhaled it. I hugged it to my chest as I fell on my knees.Her gown was torn which only meant she shifted into her wolf and possibly jumped out of the window. I got up to look outside the huge window while hugging her dress, trying to feel her.I really pissed her so much that she preferred to shift into her wolf and went away .Went away? That rang in my head like a caco
73"Please don't do this to me. I am sorry. I am sorry, Alan."***Lisa barged inside his room like a tornado. She was afraid to see him in bed with his mistress but astonishment widened her eyes for he was sitting near the huge window with her in his lap.She grew more amazed and fearful when she peered at Jenny from head to toe. She was really pretty. It was a face Lisa can't compare her beauty with. She was perfection personified. A figure any man would want to own. Deep dark eyes any guy would want to get lost in them.Her slender fingers remained pressed against his shoulders so tenderly that it made Lisa gulp her saliva. She was really gorgeous and looked like a possession an alpha would obsessively keep with himself. That moment Lisa really felt little in front of her. And the way Alan's hands held her, Lisa felt like crying her heart out. It was a possessive hold as though he owned her exclusively&mda
72"I didn't really mean when I said you can punish me however you want, Alpha Alan."****Lava-like eyes burning in the flames of utter aggression froze her. His hands caught her shoulders and pushed her back against a wall.Lisa stopped breathing when he came closer. Their faces remained just a hair-breadth apart as he grumbled. She regretted saying that, there was nothing she could do to unsay it regardless."Had I told you to go with him? Was it I who told you I don't need your help anymore? Was it I who asked us to take our different routes that day? No Lisa, it wasn't me. It was you who wanted to go with him. So whatever you went through— was the outcome of your own choice." She gasped as a shiver of pain racked her spine.His voice was raw and sea deep. His eyes portrayed animosity his words wanted her to feel. Although her eyes streamed at that feeling, Lisa summoned courage and lifted
71 "Then why are you here, princess? Go to your first choice." — Alpha Alan **** That night Lisa realized that life was harsher than what she has seen so far post she woke up in a medical room. She found herself surrounded by medics who were dressing her head and checking her pulse. "Lie down, princess. You are weak." One of them, a woman with a vibrant expression, said as she pressed her hand on Lisa's shoulder so she laid down in the bed she was in. Lisa looked at her side. There was her brother. His face was tight and he was clenching his jaw. His eyes were moist too. When he observed her looking at him, a tear dribbled down his left eyes and he immediately grasped her hand. "There's no way he'd melt, Lisa. Let's go home." His voice was heavy and serious. Sebestian portrayed concern only a brother would show to his beloved sister. She wa
70. "I didn't save you and your pack because I cared for her. My care and affection toward her died long ago when she walked on me with that cousin of yours." — Alpha Alan. **** Lisa clutched her brother's hand to stabilize herself. Her knees started wobbling right after her eyes found Alpha Alan. She had been confident and recognized what she was supposed to do once they reached the Brave Blood Pack's castle. However now, she felt her hopes and courage melting into mush. Sweat covered her back like a sheet of moss on water. She found it difficult to breathe as she looked into those eyes. They were dark... Like the clouds of a stormy evening. They were ready to pour but they didn't as if they were trying to get even darker. "I will call him here." That sound of Adrian's voice sounded pleasing to her ears otherwise her heart beats were the only thing audible to herself. "