#Chapter123One Confused Raven The smell of the ocean fills my being as I gain control over my consciousness. I feel something heavy on my chest and something draped over and around one of my legs. I feel tingles all over my body but mostly on my flat belly where something heavy lies on top, as well. No matter how hard I try to pull myself free of this weight, I cannot.The only thing that is free is my right arm and right leg. I slowly open my eyes to the plain white ceiling and blink a few times. I rub my eyes to free myself of the sleep and bring my elbow to the side to lift myself up. But the only thing that moved was my right leg and my head but not much though as he was peacefully sleeping with his head on my chest with a white t-shirt on. What?He laid there on my bed. With me. One of his arms under my head, acting as a pillow. His eyes were still closed, and I sensed that he was still asleep. He looked so calm. His messy bed hair made him look very handsome. And very
#Chapter124Raven Belongs To Who?No matter how much I wanted to get away from him, all my efforts are futile. I mean how can I when he’s literally onto me every second. Either hugging me or holding my hands. The whole ride, he had his hands on my thigh because I wouldn’t give him my hand to hold and I scooted further away from him. But he decided that he could still hold on to me by grabbing my thigh now. Oh, why?When we arrived at the parking lot, they were already there with their cars. He swiftly parked it next to Eliana’s white Porsche. I quickly grabbed onto my bag and run out the door. “I’ll see you later.” I shouted out as I dash inside the building. Thankful that none of them are with me on any of my classes.I walk into the class, finding Emily already seated on her chair. I hurry over as I feel eyes on me. “Hey, Emily.” I take a seat next to her. “Hey Ama-”“Woah” I turn her way, but her eyes and mouth are wide open. “What happened to you now?” I ask confused,
#Chapter125Raven’s confession IIThe car journey was filled with silence. I was shocked silenced. My mind kept thinking of hundreds of thousands of reasons for his declaration. But I came up with nothing. The only question that came to my mind again. Why?As we passed the gate, he turned the car on the other side of the road leading to the cliff, where I decided to end everything. Yet here we are again. Karma keeps playing around with me. He stops the car in the same spot as the last time and gets off. Now he’s on my side with the door wide open for me to step out. Having nowhere to hide and nothing else to do or say, I comply.He closes the door behind me and cages me in as both his arms are stretched and on top of the car on either side of me. I’m once again entrapped by him and completely engulfed by his scent. The feeling of statics runs in the air as it lightly bounces off my skin every now and then. What is this feeling? Why am I feeling this?He leans his head
#Chapter126News For RavenI didn’t let go of his arm. I kept hanging on to it. I thought that if I let go, I will wake up from this dream that I was living right now. So, I held on like my life depended on it. It actually did though. He was my life. Another big confession to myself that I wasn’t ready to share yet.The whole ride back home, I grabbed onto his arms as he held the steering wheel with his other. He equally didn’t seem to want to let go as he interlocked our fingers and kept rubbing the back of my hand throughout. When he stopped the car right at the entrance, he pulled his arm back, but I whined. He chuckled deeply before he pulled my head to him and gave a long peck on my forehead. I smiled at his gesture. When he pulled again, I finally let go. He got off the car as I shuffled on my seat and got the seatbelt off. As I turned around to get out, he was there, with his body bent forward, his face so close to mine. I can feel his warm breath fanning my f
#Chapter127Raven in love When I open my eyes, I find a silver pair looking into mine. “Good morning, Koraki.”His voice is husky. And I find it very sexy. I close my eyes and smile as I feel him place a light peck on my forehead. He pulled me on top of him as he rolled on his back. One of his hand around my arm and the other on my very naked back underneath the hoodie. But I didn’t mind it or the tingles that spread throughout.“You know that it’s too late to go for the morning class now right.” He says quite happily. I open my eyes and push myself up on my elbow on his chest to look at him. “What?”Then I scrambled away from him and tried to get off the bed. “Why didn’t you wake me up?” But he just pulls me back and I fall on top of him again. “You don’t even like that place anyways.” “I don’t like the torturous lessons, but I enjoy going out of the house and meeting other people.” He growls softly as he tightens his hold. “I meant Emily. Emily. Let go now.” I p
#Chapter128Raven’s stupid LycanNervousness was taking up my entire body as I climbed the stairs into the cosy but spacious insides of the private jet. It was eating me inside out as I leaned back on the huge comfortable chair. But it did no good in comforting me.I keep zoning out in my own mind as scenarios kept playing in my head. What if his parents don’t like me? What if the other Lycans think that I’m weird? I did literally just come from the woods. Would they like me? Would they accept me? I’m an outsider.Seeing my tense body, Lucas pulls me on his lap. So, now I lay on him with my head on his chest. His beating heart calms me.Thump. Thump. Thump.I close my eyes and let my brain rest. We’ll see when the time comes. Rest for now, Raven. Just close your eyes and let go. And I fall into a warm darkness filled with his scent as sleep takes over my body.I feel myself being lifted but I was too tired to open my eyes. So, I got comfortable in his arms as I heard
#Chapter129Raven – If Only-01The knock on the door and Eliana’s loud voice breaks me out of this trance. I get free of his hold and sit up on him, my legs on either side of his waist as I look at the door. “You know, I quiet like this position. You look good from down here.” I turn around to glare at me, only to find him smirking as he’s eyeing my butt that’s only covered with a black booty short. I gasp in shock at his comment. Then I hit him hard in the belly as an oof escapes his mouth and get off the bed. I hurriedly put on his t-shirt that lays on sofa by the window as I only seem to be wearing a short and a fitting cami top. Not fair, he’s always fully clothed while I’m almost naked. Every time. What is he trying to hide? Not the time, Raven. Then I run for the door.Eliana was about to knock on my face when I quickly pulled open the huge wooden door. She stops mid-air and smiles at me. “Hey, there little beast. I have come to collect you now. Hurry up and get dresse
#Chapter130Raven – If Only-02And there he stood, a man in black shirt and black smart pants and shoe. His brown hair glued back with a black rimmed glass on his grey eyes. I applauded for his sense of style. Given that he had a measuring tape hanged around his neck, I’m assuming that he’s a designer of some sort. Great. Here we go again.“Hello ladies.” He greets us. Eliana finally let’s go of us to greet him, giving him airy kiss to either side. “Hi Liam. Let me introduce to you to Aya here.” She points at Aya who gives a small wave. “My big brother’s mate. And Amara, Lucas’ mate.” She points at me. “Hey.” I say awkwardly. “Hmm. Let’s see. According to the measurements I got from the photo Eliana sent me, I assumed your sizes. Although I might have to tweak here and there. Nothing more.” He comes to me as he pulls out his tape and starts taking my measurements, making me freeze in all kinds of poses. Ha! I’m already tired of this.“There you go, all done for you. I am
#Chapter237Forged (4) (Special)Aries BlackwoodLike a magnet pulled by its other half, I walk towards her. “This is where she offered herself to save your soul. You didn’t even know her, yet she was so keen on being with you. I had asked her why she was so willing to love someone that doesn’t even know her existence?” Then she looks at me with a sad smile on her face. “You know what her answer was?”I shake my head, my eyes still on hers as I try to control these emotions wanting to pour out of me once again. “She told me she could hear your soul. That she could understand your heart. Said she would womb your sin and find a place where you both can be together in this loop of infinity.She was willing to sacrifice herself just to hear you laugh. I warned her. But my daughter is too stubborn for her own good.” She too shakes her head and chuckles softly. “I told her that just because she wants to be with you, doesn’t mean that you too would want the same. And you know what sh
#Chapter236Forged (3) (Special)Aries BlackwoodI open my eyes to the darkness.Pitch black darkness was all I could see. And I doubt if my eyes were even open at this point.But then I see something glimmer distance away and so I reach towards my only source of light which guided me to a land, painted in red, soaked in blood. Piles and piles of dead bodies covered the entirety of the land and there he stood, a boy with a sword pierced right through his heart.He holds his ground until no heart beats the land. Then he too falls on his knees. Swinging his sword up and onto the ground, he holds his wounded body upright as if proving the land that he was invincible even in death.And as something in that blood-soaked golden hair spurs my curiosity, I inch closer towards him, studying the lines of his equally bloodied face but his piercing blue eyes stops me from going any closer. For I see a replica of my own eyes. For I see myself in him. Baffled at the image of my younger se
#Chapter235Forged (2)Althea SilvermoonA group of rogues that wished to live in a pack again.With no place to return, no place to call home, they had chosen to remain on this barren land until their bare bone was the only proof that they once lived. And as my father’s words chanted itself over my head for the uncountable time, I had healed the hurt and guided them home as promised. Maybe that’s the reason they could bear to be with me. For they only saw me as their saviour and nothing more.I sigh softly as I feel the warmth of the flames. The only proof that I lived was the light rise and fall of my chest. Although alert, the only melody I was interested in listening to was the soft crackling of the wood as it sacrificed itself and burned into ashes.Thump.All of a sudden, I hear my heart thump loudly.Once. Just once.But it was enough to break me out of my empty thoughts. Lifting my chin higher, I place my palm over my heart to feel that lost sense once more. Sadly,
#Chapter234Forged (1)Althea SilvermoonMy feet digs deeper into the scorching golden sand as I make my way further into the land of dunes. The sun sits hot on the crown of my head, and my forehead beading with sweats, trickles down, dampening the white cloth covering my eyes as I advance further into the land with no direction. With no aim.I don’t know how long or how far I had travelled. I have passed through lands, crossed the ocean. I have even travelled across the universe with Alex always by my side. The essence of my life now engraved on the entirety of the vast universe.Had it been a century? A millennium? Or had it only just been years?I look up to the sky, feeling the sun hard against my face and I exhale tiredly.I don’t know. I don’t know anything anymore.The only thing that I knew was that I was once again back on this deserted land, occupied only with silence and the occasional howling of the wind. But my soulless body preferred its silent words anyways
#Chapter233Free (Special)Third personShe sits frozen still while the rest of the world moves on. Chaos finally gone along with both darkness and happiness. The land sits silent, too quiet to be called alive. And when everyone thinks that she will never come out of her grief, she stands herself tall, although tiredness evoking of her, she moves even though forced.With face as empty as her heart, she carries herself forward, towards the edge of land and Alex comes forth from her shadows. Taking her in the strong hold of his arms, he descends, wings spread wide, down to the land where flowers bloomed beautifully all around. And when he lands, Althea moves out of his hold, her eyes solely to the front as she gracefully glides through the narrow path. Ignoring all eyes on her, she continues to move forward to where her mother sleeps within that vast tree, her pale skin now as white as the snow covering the mountains. She stands before her mother and the man, she once loved as
#Chapter232The goddess of life (2)Third personShe whispers the name of mate as pain becomes too much for her to bear and in a silver flash, appears a man, wrapping his arm around her defeated shoulders, holding her tall. And with a swing of his arm, he dismisses the darkness floating the land, as if it was nothing but a heavy mist.He stands dressed in white and like the goddess, he too holds the brilliance of heaven, the halo in his silver hair, and supremacy on his silver eyes. But those silver orbs remain on the girl, searching for the light, the innocence she once radiated with.He had failed to protect his little girl, one whom he loved before heaven.“My sweet, little Althea.” But Althea looks back with hard eyes, blaming him for her loss as she pulls Aries tighter in her arms, in fear that he too was against her being with Aries. “What has this world done to you, my little Althea?”She keeps her glare on him even though, Randolph, her father, held the softest gaze of
#Chapter231The goddess of life (1)Third personShe lowers her head a little. And finally, the Lycans and wolves could see the light in her eyes that now shines through the world, as those silvers torches the darkness around.But on the other hand, her coal back eyes become one with the so-called darkness. Hatred, it holds all. Slowly making the silver dull which only holds the pain, the sadness. It grieves its loss and gradually the light in them too starts to fade along.“I will destroy this land that does not hold your breath. I refuse to reside in a universe that does not accept your heart. And I will never ascend to heaven that does not house your soul.” Gruesome words roar throughout the land as the war halts, as if time froze still petrified of the rise of the dark goddess. One by one, the creatures starts to dissipate as the darkness touches its core. Until there was none that lived apart from the man called Vyncent. Staggering on his feet, he moves forward, wounds
#Chapter230The dark goddess (2)Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonThe wind blows hard as a loud roar echoes the field. A divine beast soars through the blue sky with his silver wings, beating on his back. The girl chuckles softy as she looks upon the beast and stretches her arm forward. And he lands inches away from her and strides with power, his marvellous wings spread high, until his furry head touches the small palm of the girl. “Would you like to join me on this journey, Alex?”He grunts softly while nudging his furry face against the palm of her hand, making a sweet giggle erupt out of the girl. The goddess walks towards them with a small smile on her face now as she looks at them both. Then her eyes shift on the silver of his wings and she steps forward. Gently stroking the soft feathers, she seems to be deep in thoughts. “I better prepare for the worst then. Who knows when you might need some kind of harmony in your life? I’m sorry to burden you with such weight,
#Chapter229The dark goddess (1)Althea Zoella Castellanos SilvermoonThen I hear the loudest roar of all, every other feeling in the air dull compared to it. I sit numb as I look up at the sky, but my vision far from it. My pitiful lips torn apart, pulled away from one another. It was me. My grief. Echoing to the heavens.Then I’m pulled into a land, heavily filled with green, blooming beautifully with tulips that stretched beyond, meeting the peaceful blue horizon. Then I see a girl dressed in white, her perfectly sliver hair blending into the pureness that she exuded. She sits on her knees as she hovers over the pond. Hesitantly, I move forward, pulled by the curiosity that held the girl’s keen eyes tightly to the pond. I stand just behind her and look over her shoulder at the clear colourless water. But instead of both our reflections, I see a man. One that looks very much like Aries with his golden hair now shorter, trimmed and his face void of the light stubbles. He loo