#Chapter88If Only Raven StayedAs I lay on my bed after the wonderful dinner, the cook presented, all sorts of scenarios play in my head. Of what we were going to do next. What next? The question fills my head as the dark night slowly starts to light up. I requested to be in a room that faces the woods so I can take its energy to calm my storming heart. But it did little to help. I know I need to be in it. So, as the small rays that pass through my window, lights up a path for me, I get off the bed and walk up to the large window that I left it open the whole night. I climb up the small wall encasing the balcony and take a step off it as I floated in the air before I softly landed on the hard-cemented flooring. Then I leapt into the woods. I ran as if I was being chased. My own thoughts haunted me. I ran deep within the forest, where even the sun’s rays couldn’t find me anymore.I willed the trees to cover me better, hide me from my horrific future that I didn’t want to be
#Chapter89Hunting RavenEliana Tessa CastellanosMy life kind of feels empty now that the sisters both have decided to leave. We might have formed a bond over the past few days we have been together. I still don’t know, how they saved me but I’m still grateful that they did. They are a secretive pair of sisters, drastically contradictory both in features and personalities alike.Aya was the overprotective sister. Her light blond hair shimmered in the light. Her pale complexation made her brown eyes lighter or darker depending on the time of day. She is very tall for a werewolf and very strong, might I add very beautiful for a werewolf. It might be due to the Alpha blood in her. I doubt that they know I’m aware of this. A normal werewolf can’t take half of what our journey offered. She’s a very uptight person especially to strangers. But once you get to know her, she’s really not. It’s just a wall she tries to build around herself to ward off everyone.While Amara is a who
#Chapter90A Lone RavenWe have settled down in a small one room apartment that we shared with two other humans, Mary and Sophie. We met them at work or where Aya works. When we went in the small restaurant by the beach to ask for job, they immediately took her in. Even though it was small, it was lively and busy with humans and werewolves alike who filled tables after table, both inside and out.Aya refused me to go to work. She says that my big mouth will lead me to trouble eventually. And in a busy restaurant like that, there are too many eyes and ears to judge us. But after two days of doing nothing, I went to hunt down jobs myself. I found a small café to work in which was a few blocks away. They did not complain about the way I dressed. All they said was I had to wear an apron on top. That’s it. Not like I had to come out to the front. All I had to do was prepare drinks and hand it over. It’s all thanks to Oliver who kindly taught me how to use the machines.At firs
#Chapter91Same Old RavenI can feel myself wrapped up in a warm blanket as sleep slowly leaves my eyes. My body is rested and fully charged but it feels lifeless as I wake up to a cold empty room once again. The empty bed across me, almost mocks me. I can smell Aya’s scent. A sweet jasmine with a hint of fresh lotus lightly spreads across the room. She must have left by now as the scent only lingers. It does not fill the room. I get up off my bed and bring myself to shower before I head to a circle of life, I have been living since I got here. Everything is a repeat of the day before. I wake up each morning, go to work, come back late in the evening and go to bed again. Like a lifeless robot. I lived for money. To what it’s worth now. That I don’t know.I don’t know why I’m feeling like this. I need to get out of the depression I’m losing myself into. I need to get used to this so one day when Aya finds her mate, I can happily let her go. Yeah. That’s it. I’m going to work
#Chapter92Raven ready to flyI woke up to a delicious smell of pancake. But what made me more delighted was that I felt her presence. The sweet of jasmine and lotus filled the whole room. I sprinted out of my bed and ran out the door to Aya. I hugged her from the back as I didn’t give her any time to react. I inhaled her smell. It made my lip curl up in a smile and eyes filled with tears but I refused to shed. “Oh sister, I missed you so much.” I whisper on her back. She puts her hand on mine and squeezes it tightly before she makes me release my hold on her. She turns around and looks down at me as I am still hanging onto her. My chin rested on her chest as I looked up to her with a grin on my face.“Look at all these cute cheeks you have lost. You need to eat more.” She pinches both my cheeks and smiles at me. “Sit down. I’ll serve you some pancakes.” Then she turns around to make the last batch of pancake. But me being me, still hang around her. Once again hugging her fr
#Chapter93Where Raven Belongs“There you are ladies. I have been waiting for your call. I almost thought that you had forgotten about me.” Eliana appears out of nowhere. But the air around us is still heavy. Even though I want to run and hug Eliana, I cannot leave this Lycan wide open for Aya. My jaws tighten as a scowl forms on my face. “Oh, let me introduce you to my brother here. Elias Nikolaos Castellanos.” Her hand points toward the Lycan I’m having a glaring battle with.“Big brother, meet Aya and the little beast, right here.” That does the job now. I forfeit from my staring contest with Elias as I turn towards Eliana. “What did you call me? Never mind. No fair. That’s cheating. I lost because of you.” I accuse Eliana as she stares blankly at me. I give Elias a glare before I start blabbering. “My staring contests. I was this close to winning.” I motion with my finger, almost squeezing my thumb and forefinger.Eliana bursts out laughing as an amused smile takes pl
#Chapter94The Raven FleesI need to leave. The voice plays on my head over and over as I make my way towards the apartment. I fumble through the lock. I close the door shut as soon as I open it. The girls seem to have left for their night shift at the restaurant as I walked into the vacant room. I hurried past the door to the side of my bed. I take out all the money that I have somehow managed to save and put it together in an envelope. I take out a pen from the table that was by the door and quickly scribble, Aya, on it. Then I walked over to her empty bed and sat on it. I put my hand that held the envelop on the bed. I looked at it once again before I titled back and laid on the bed. I held the envelope high as I observed it. Did I do enough for her? Is anything I do ever going to be enough for her? I question myself so lost in thought that I didn’t notice her walk in me like that.She walks to me and grabs the envelope that I’m holding. She sees her name on it, so sh
#Chapter95Raven’s Family“You belong here with us just as much as Aya does.”I stop on my track. Eliana.“You know no girl has ever called me a sister and hugged me like that before. I don’t do well with hugs. Well my little beast, I will like to take this time to inform you that I don’t do hugs. At all.“You really are something else. So, the whole journey was just for Aya’s sake. You travelled all the way, just so she can find her mate somewhere along the way. You say you want her happy, but your action says otherwise. Don’t you see the sadness that you have caused her right now?”“Anyways, I don’t want to involve myself with that. The issue here now is between you and me. You don’t call me a sister unless you are called Elias Nikolaos Castellanos or Lucas Alexander Castellanos.” I turn around and give her a look with my face tainted with tears and eyes glossy. She walks to me and bends down so she’s eye to eye with me.“And just so you know. I don’t let my sister