KALILA’S POV The way she had wrapped her arms around him, the way their bodies had clung together, I had never seen an inappropriate hug so passionate. I considered it inappropriate because it was never supposed to happen, especially not within the walls of the mansion, my word! Wendy was shameless. The startled look on Ares face worsened my anger, didn’t he see the possibilities of me walking in on them before he engaged Wendy in such an embrace? Damn the both of them! I hated myself for crying, yet I couldn’t help it, the tears just poured freely from my eyes and the cooling sensation on my skin when they dried didn’t make me feel better as they usually did. The image just wouldn’t leave my head and that made me so mad at Ares, he was the last person I wanted to see at the moment. I had been with Jeremy in the garden when the front door opened and Wendy walked out of the mansion with a frown. Our eyes stared intently as she yanked open the door to her car and drove away.
ARES POV I was thankful to have finally gotten away, my whole body was writhing with lust and the pain of knowing I couldn’t satisfy myself with the woman I desired the most, even though she was only a few meters away. The words I had said to Dahlia all came back to me, I had been extremely harsh on her, there was no question about it, but I had an image I wanted to portray to her. The cold, cruel and ruthless alpha she had always known, but the recent events were becoming a threat to that image. I had no other choice but to speak to her in that manner despite knowing that it would hurt her feelings. This time, unlike the other times, hurting her feelings hadn’t been intentional, I had only done that to try and cover up what I had done and it worked to some extent. When I had disengaged the kiss, I had been so shocked and startled by the realization of what I had just done, but I didn’t show my reaction. There was something impeccable that always happened to me whenever I g
KALILA’S POV I thought Ares was petty, really petty for the way he had dismissed his actions. From what I knew, if a man kisses a lady suddenly, he usually apologizes then shies away, but Ares? He was just so…so mean! As he left the room, I touched a finger onto my lips, the sensation was still there and I felt a warmth spreading through my body. It was the best thing that had happened to me in a long while and one part of me was filled with joy while the other wasn’t so happy with the thought of getting too close to Ares. Well what can I do? I’m woman after all. I thought as laid on the bed, ignoring the boxes I had packed earlier. Ares was such a strange man, first he had stopped me from going back to my pack; which I didn’t even know, now he prevented me from moving to another room in the most absurd way, but yet he acted as if I was the person he hated the most. Maybe I was, perhaps his feelings had a Jekyll and Hyde nature, most of the time he hates me, then he suddenly li
KALILA POV The rays of the sun penetrated through the windows and danced on my eyelids, forcing me out of my disturbed sleep. It felt like I had only been asleep for an hour, the morning had come way quicker than I thought and with dismay I remembered that it was the day I had to leave. Ares hadn’t even spared my protests a thought and it annoyed me that he was the first person I thought about as I woke up. I remained in bed for a while, not wanting to do anything. I had dismissed Angela the previous day before she could finish packing my stuff and any moment now, she was going to walk in. Ares wasn’t at his desk, there was no sign of him anywhere and I was thankful for that, I didn’t want to see his annoying face right now. Save for the fact that I knew nothing about my pack, another thing that I knew would be a constant threat to my emotional stability while I was away was Ares's safety, and of course, Wendy. I knew she was going to make a pass a him while I was away, I wis
ARES POVTWO DAYS LATER The previous day had been dreadful and so was today, not hectic or tiring due to physical strain or anything of that sort, it was just dreadful for the fact that I had nothing to do and my mind was constantly filled with thoughts of Dahlia. I had thought about going to the Pack office, maybe a little time there would have clear my mind and I’ll be too busy to even think about Dahlia, but when I had called Jeremy and told him I was on my way, he said not to bother. “I don’t see the need Ares, there’s hardly anything to do here anyway.” He had replied in a bored tone that lacked enthusiasm. “What do you mean there’s nothing to do at the office?” I had asked in an annoyed tone. “There’s always something to do.” “Well, I became so bored, I decided to do a week’s load of work yesterday and now there’s actually nothing to do.” He had replied. For the first time since I had known Jeremy, I didn’t appreciate his efficiency, other times I’d
KALILA POVMy stay at Dahlia's pack wasn't all that bad; it was an intriguing place, and I actually liked it. However, there was one factor that I had grown so used to, Ares. I had fully settled into Dahlia's room, which was marvellous. It was designed with only the best furniture and a few paintings that I guessed Dahlia had been attracted to. It was a place genuinely befitting a princess. Frankly, I was treated like one, mainly by Dahlia's parents. Her mother had seen to it that all my needs were thoroughly catered for."Oh, dear! No way, you're not to do a thing! Does Ares make you work when he has servants?" she would often ask.She made me feel like a little girl returning from a harsh boarding school. I often wondered how she would react if I were to tell her that I had become a regular at Ares's dreadful dungeon."You would see another level of freak out. She loves Dahlia more than her father. I'm not sure your marriage with Ares would last a second longer," Nova often told me
KALILA POVAngela was thrilled when I broke the news to her. There was a room assigned to her, and after leaving Dahlia's parents, I headed straight there."Come on, Angela," I said, opening the door to the room. "Get your things ready. Let's go home."Her eyes shone with excitement and relief. Before I could close the door and walk away, she jumped to her feet and said hastily, "Your stuff! Don't do anything, ma'am. I'll come to pack your things and then get mine."I nodded, and she followed me to my room. I was getting used to the princess treatment here at Dahlia's pack and the Luna treatment at Ares's pack. Dahlia had quite a life; I concluded as I watched Angela neatly fold and arrange my clothes into boxes. I had brought so many clothes, only to stay for a week. But that wasn't my concern. I wondered how Ares would react. I knew he wouldn't be happy. He might even get angry and throw me into his dungeon. But at least I would be close to him. From there, I could find out what was
KALILA’S POV The door vibrated from the impact as I slammed it violently behind me when I walked into the room, Angela had met me coming up the stairs and from the flustered expression that came to her face, I could tell that she had noticed the contorted look of anger on my face. I felt like a kettle of water on a red hot fire, I was fuming, even as I sat down in front of the mirror by the bed and stared at my face. I didn’t like him, at all. Ares was everything bad to me and I hated the fact that I was tasked with the gruesome mission of keeping such an arrogant man alive. I wouldn’t have minded being on the other side, I really didn’t like him. Although, coming back to the Crescent moon pack, I hadn’t expected him to welcome me with open arms, a hug and perhaps even a kiss. No, I had come back unannounced and I knew he wouldn’t like it. But the direct and harsh in which way he had made it crystal clear to me that my presence was unwanted here got on my nerves. As I kept s
KALILA POV I looked up at the moon and asked, "Will Nova still be with me?" "Nova dies with you as Dahlia." The goddess replied. I cleared my throat and took a deep breath. "I wish to stay here and live as Dahlia and Ares's Luna," I said, and something like a heavy weight was lifted off my heart. The satisfaction I had been looking for just flooded into my body like a fucking tsunami. The void in me was filled to a plethora, and the smile I had been struggling with formed on my face. This was it, and this was the discovery of myself I had been searching for all this while. I was meant to be here, with Ares and the rest of them. "Very well, Kalila, your wish has been granted." She beamed at me."Just like that?" I asked, hoping an out of the body experience would happen. Like something magical to signify it was done."Just like that," The moon goddess said; it was the last I would hear of her for quite some time. I watched the moon fade as it ascended back into the dark void; sl
KALILA'S POV The moment I blacked out, I knew that was it, that was the end of "Dahlia" and the return of Kalila. I did it! Three months, three whole months of torture and endurace, and love and pain had finally come to an end. I was in something like a dark hole; all around me was darkness.But something wasn't right, something wasn't right with me; I didn't feel that satisfaction; I didn't feel that plethora of happiness I had always pictured that I would feel when this moment finally came. There was a void in me, an emptiness that only increased as I felt myself growing further and further away from the Crescent moon pack, from Ares, Jeremy and Angela and Melissa, and everyone who wasn't trying to kill me, and the only question I could ask myself was 'Why?' Why was it like this? Did Nova's departure cause the emptiness in me? It could be.Nova was already a part of me; I loved her; even when we didn't see eye to eye; even when I didn't heed to her advice, I loved my wolf. I
ARES POV I sat in my study; my fingers were shaking as I smoked cigarette after cigarette. My mind was in complete turmoil; all my threats were gone, all of them. I expected a happily ever after with Dahlia; even though I knew she wasn’t who she claimed to be, it suddenly didn’t matter anymore. My love had reached new heights for her, and all I wanted in this whole world was for her to remain by my side. But I wasn’t battling just any werewolf or Lycan, and my obstacle was the Moon goddess herself.“You can’t lose her, Ares. You have to do everything within your power to keep her.” Leo said. Although inside of me, his voice was as sad as Jeremy’s. “What can I do, Leo? It’s not in my hands anymore; if it was against mere mortals, I would have handled the situation and kept my Luna. How am I supposed to hold her back if it was the wish of the moon goddess to take her?” I asked the thought of Dahlia leaving for good didn’t even want to register in my mind. “Then there’s only one th
ARES'S POVMy heart lurched when Angela rushed into my study breathlessly. I stared at her with wide eager eyes, waiting for her to deliver the news that made her so tense and seemingly excited. “She's awake! The Luna is awake, Alpha Ares, Luna Dahlia is finally awake!” She kept screaming and I jumped up from my chair and ran out of the room. When I got to the door, only then did I slow my pace and tried to act cool and collected. Although I managed to pull it off when I walked in, my heart was beating wildly and crazily. My hands were itching to touch her smooth, austere skin, my lips were craving the feel of hers. Everything in me was channeled towards her but I was Ares, I had to be calm. Jeremy was coming back today from a healer, he had been heavily wounded from the battle and had to be rushed away. The doctors did their part but Jeremy still insisted on a local healer to ensure that the scars went away quickly. After Dahlia/ Kalila and I spoke for a while and I revealed tha
KALILA’S POVThere was something about the way the guards regarded me when they led me outside the palace. I only thought about it more the next day after I woke up on a pile of carefully selected grasses. When I had stopped struggling and accepted that Ares hated and rejected me, I just let the guards take me away. Outside the pack house, they had let me go instead of dragging me all the way and I walked out with them by my side with a little dignity. I couldn’t find Jeremy anywhere, he probably didn’t want to set his eyes on me either. The guards gave me a bemoaning look before they bowed and said, “So long, Luna Dahlia.” They still acknowledged me as the Luna, I had won almost everyone over in the past two months and a few weeks. I thought about Angela and how she would react when she figured out that I was gone. Perhaps, she would be as disappointed as Ares and Jeremy after learning about the secret I had kept from them.Regardless, I wasn’t going to leave so easily, I couldn’t
ARES’S POVThe sound of the glass on the wall was like a shrill cry of a baby. It came crashing down to the floor in splinters and I just stared at it with bloodshot eyes. “Fuck!” I exclaimed aloud and bit my lower lip hard until I felt a rush of blood.This couldn’t be happening, this couldn’t be fucking happening. How could this be? How could this be real? It was absurd, it surely couldn’t be possible that another person’s spirit would take over someone else’s body. It made absolutely no sense! I looked at Jeremy who still had the diary in his hands, then Jeremy looked at me. “She didn’t take the diary with her.” He said gloomily. “She’s Kalila, she’s not Dahlia. She…she confessed it to me and I’m sure as her close friend she must have done same to you. What did she say?” I asked, dropping to one of the couches in the room. “Wait, before you sit, get me a drink.” Jeremy stood still, not moving and not obeying my orders I squinted at him and cocked my head sideways in confusion
I let him go and took in deep breaths. “Alright, I’m not Dahlia, I’m Kalila. That’s my name and I’m not a werewolf either, I’m human. I was…I was killed by a girl named Millicent who awfully looks a lot like Wendy, that’s why I attacked her at the office party the first time I saw her. I was reborn into Dahlia's body, I don’t know how either. You have to believe me when I say that.” I swallowed hard, feeling a lump at the base of my throat. “It was fated by the Moon goddess, she gave me instructions and told me why I was reborn here. She also gave me conditions and a mission to fulfill before I can return to the human world. And that mission is to keep Ares alive, and I had just three months.”He shook his head in disbelief and bewilderment, “That’s fucking crazy, you’re fucking crazy!” He exclaimed and I had to hold his hand again. “Jeremy, that’s the truth. You have to believe me!” I said firmly. “I know it’s crazy, I know it’s difficult to believe but that’s the damn truth and I’m
KALILA’S POVJahdiel was crazy! He had to be but he was very smart too, I had to warn Ares. “Dolph! Drive faster! Please!” I suddenly yelled and Angela turned to look at me in confusion while Dolph stepped hard on the gas pedal. “Ma’am, is anything the matter?” She asked.“Everything is the matter, Angela, every fucking thing is the matter!” I replied hysterically.When Dolph parked the car, I didn’t wait for Angela to get the door for me, I sprang out and ran into the house. “Where is he?” I wondered as I didn’t see Ares in the living room. I ran to his study and threw the door open, he wasn’t in there either.“Ugh! Where the fuck is he?” I exclaimed with frustration and panic as I ran up the stairs. I walked into the bedroom and that was where he was, seated at his desk with a very grim expression on his cold face. “Ares!” I exclaimed and ran towards him.There was nothing stopping him from believing me now, our relationship had blossomed and there was trust and love between u
KALILA POV “Leaving already, Lisa?” Melissa asked and the beautiful lady nodded quietly and walked out. I stared at Melissa quizzically and she sighed, “That one is a keeper for my brother, that’s his favorite whore. She lets him do anything with the handcuffs, whips and his teeth, they’ll make a brutal couple. But I forbid it, I won’t be able to sleep at night with her screams.” “Hmm…” I nodded. “He has quite his range of women.”“And he’s behind us right now, what a creep.” Melissa said, looking past me and I turned around to find Jahdiel staring at us at the foot of the stairs. “You usually plunge into a heavy sleep after…you know…that…so what are you doing here?” Melissa asked.He stared fixedly at me, “I found out we had a guest, do you mind if I had a word with our guest?” He asked.Melissa’s hesitant eyes looked at me first and I nodded. “Well, seems like she doesn’t have a problem with it. But!” She pointed at him. “I won’t let you talk to her like that, I’m sure you reek o