RALPH I didn't feel reluctant to attend this festival because I am searching for my mate, coupled with the photo I saw earlier. I was eager to see my Aurora. But right now I'm getting tired, as I haven't sighted her yet, neither has Aiden. Maybe this is a celebration for all packs but it wasn't a celebration for a lonely wolf like me. "Can you just show me you are here?" I whispered, rubbing my neck. I messed up. I messed up pretty bad, and I regret it. I only decided to make Lisbeth free just for a reason. Why did her spell take so long to be broken? I inflicted so much pain on my mate. She ran to me for safety after cutting ties with her pack, but I ignored her. I ridiculed and made her feel worthless. I almost had another Luna while my real mate needed my help the most. "I promise to right every wrong I've made." I walked slowly in the hall, looking around for the sharpest sight of her. Most of the attendants were putting on masks, which means she will be on a mask too, she mi
AURORA "Why do you look like me when my dad doesn't?" I heard Jasper ask as he looked up to the man holding his little hands. The man came into view, under the lights, and my heart dropped to my feet. It was Ralph! The same minute I saw them, the next second, they disappeared. I looked around, searching for them. Where could they have disappeared to just now? My heart was beating really fast. This is exactly what I have been avoiding. This is why I didn't want Jasper to come to the festival hall. Thanks to that Sierra bitch that delayed me. I should have retrieved Jasper back into his room long before now. Him meeting Ralph wouldn't have happened. I know my son, Jasper, very well. He is quite inquisitive. If he sees any slight resemblance, he will keep asking questions till he gets the answer needed. He took after his real father. I know if Ralph sees me, he would definitely recognize me. Even if my mask makes it hard for me to be recognized, he would surely recognize the mate b
AURORA “Alpha Brian, you…” "Isn't she the missing Princess, Princess Aurora of the Riverbells pack?" Someone said amongst the crowd, cutting me off and calling everyone's attention to me. Gasps sprang in the midst of the crowd as they acknowledged it was really me. "Your father is sick and you couldn't fill in for him?" The MC threw the question at me and I huffed in response. "He never cared enough to request my presence." I said emotionlessly. He kicked me out like garbage, like I was nothing to him. I only tried to force him to accept my stupid mate by severing ties with my pack, but little did I know, it was only going to harden my father's heart into turning his back against me the very moment I needed him. "You need to come home with me, Princess." My dad’s beta, Arthur, came closer to me, and I stepped back. "I was your princess long before I became a rogue thrown out of your pack. I am not needed in your pack." I refused to back down. If I was still there, all this drama
AURORA Jasper's head was already on my lap; he had fallen asleep, and I was almost dozing off as well. Everything that happened was beginning to weigh down on me. Well, that was until I heard a shout from the front of the car; one of the guards dropped dead, the car before ours came to an abrupt stop. I was confused. Why would anyone attack us here? I opened the car window a little and peered outside. It was the woods surrounding us, and I could recognize the woods as the ones before getting to Riverbells pack territory. "Beta Arthur? Beta Arthur," I whispered to wake him up. I began to slap his leg gently. What kind of a deep sleeper is he? Who made him Beta again? "Relax, princess, we are almost home," Beta Arthur mumbled, still dozing off, and I hissed. I had no choice but to wait patiently for whoever ambushed us to at least come to us. I held my son securely in my arms and waited for the worst. I could defend myself, but what about my little boy. The thought of Jasper getting
AURORA The remaining journey was smooth, and within an hour, we arrived at the gates of the Riverbells pack. It was the same front gate where I was thrown out as a rogue. The gate opened for us, and the car was driven in. I got down with Jasper in my hands and looked around. There weren't many changes except for the flowers I was taking care of before I cut ties with the pack, which were absent from where they had always been those years. Dad knew what I went through before those flowers could spring up, and he still got rid of them. “Things are no longer the same, Aurora,” I told myself. There was no welcome party for me, as there has always been whenever I'm just out for a day. I've been away for five years, and everything that concerns me had been wiped out. Tears threatened to fall from my eyes, but I forced them back. I am not in the Riverbells pack for remembrance of memories; I am here just because I want to see father one last time. "You know your father's room; I have t
AURORA Expecting red blood to drop, my eyes widened when I saw tiny blue liquid dropping into his mouth. I withdrew my hands immediately, opening my palms only to find that the cut had closed up but the remnants of the blue blood were still on it. I looked at my father and he gave me an apologetic look. What's going on? Every werewolf I have come across in all years of living has red blood, I have never seen a wolf that has blue blood before. I thought my blood had always been red, like every normal wolf. How is it possible for it to suddenly change? A few hours ago, I got a little scratch from those bastards from hellhounds' pack, and I could swear my blood was red. So, what the heck is going on right now? "Dad…. Why… Why is my blood blue?” I stammered, looking up from my hand to him. Upon looking up at my dad, I gasped at the scene before me. “Wh..wh..” no reasonable word could proceed from me. I staggered, still staring at him. My father had suddenly begun to show signs of
BRIAN I have never felt so betrayed before in my entire life. I saved her from being a rogue and accepted her into my pack. I fed and clothed her. I made sure she didn't suffer for anything throughout her pregnancy, even when the council elders refused to accept her, I threatened and made them accept her, only to be betrayed this way.As an Alpha, I was never supposed to be so kind hearted to a stranger but I still disobeyed the laws of the land because of her. I took care of her, forsook my pack duties because she was in labor. I took care of all the bills and everything she needed with her new born baby.I neglected the bad comments from everyone and decided to father her child even when we both knew the child wasn't mine. Jasper grew up to know me as his daddy. Why did she decide to stab in the back this way? It was part of her plans all along. Her real name is Aurora and not Riley. All these happenings made things make sense, I could recall each time I ask about her parents or wh
BRIAN"Don't ever leave me, Riley," I whispered."I won't," she mumbled and brought her lips towards my ears and gave it a little bite. It sent chills down my spine, it made my body move in a rhythmic way. "Riley, I really don't want to hurt you." I mumbled, my eyesight was getting foggy."You are not hurting me and you won't hurt me, Brian. You love me right?" She asked, bringing her face closer to mine.All I could see was Riley's round face and sharp eyes. Her lips collided with mine and I reciprocated with the same energy. It's been so long I kissed someone.Sierra had tried to kiss me a couple of times but I pushed her away each time. I lost interest completely when Riley came into my pack and it's her lips I've always wanted to have a taste of. And today that it seems like all was lost, I finally got a taste of Riley’s lips.I held her face tightly to mine and took control of the kiss. I stood up, allowing my robe to fall to the ground. I grabbed her butts from the short gown she
Aurora I watched the faces of the crowd go pale as they saw her head drop to a side and everywhere erupted in chaos as someone shouted. "A dead Alpha!" People stood to leave in a rush knowing the meaning of the very clear statement yet I watched closely. I knew they would come for her.The chaos and noise woke her from her slumber.It took her a while to adjust her eyes to the light but she eventually did and looked around frantically. I had let her sit freely without binding her to the chair so she could lead me to my target. 'Where is he?' I was in her head not as a mind link but as a torment perks of being the blue blood leader actually, I could invade their heads and get them to do my bidding but I rarely used my powers out of courtesy. This was one of the rare occasions. She held her head as if to silence my voice and jumped to her feet. On seeing this most people paused seeing she was alive."She's alive!" Cheers erupted so the ceremony could continue. "Please mount the podi
AuroraHe refused to tell me his name but I wasn’t interested in it, I was more interested in how he was able to numb his scent. "I don't know you, you have the wrong person." He said getting down from the bed to leave."Don't force me to get the information from you because I can and I bet you already know who I am." I stopped him."Just leave me the fuck alone. I said I'm not who you think I am."He was getting agitated, maybe he thought I was pulling his legs and trying to frame him like they had done his mum before he suddenly went missing. "Liar." I lifted his shirt to reveal the mark of my mother's bloodline .I had the same matk in the same spot."Do you still have anything to say for yourself?" I asked when he didn't deny further."What do you want from me? My past is buried." He looked sad and lost. I threw my hand around him and hugged him.He was much older than me but he had suffered a lot and I heard the stories growing up and only got to spend a few years with him durin
AuroraI had less than twenty four hours to either get it right or get it wrong, I realized my heart wasn't beating irregularly because I knew I was in full control yet still I wasn't ready for the worst to come."What are you going to do with her?" Connie asked me as she and Lyon watched the unconscious Zendaya lie in state."Wait, I'll wait for her to come around and snitch on us." I said actually meaning it.I needed her to regain consciousness and call for back up. I was going to end it all where it began. "Then?" Lyon was quite curious."Then the party begins." I told them"Alright now you're beginning to sound exactly as the Alpha would and that's wierd as fuck." Lyon cringed and I laughed but my heart was sad, I hoped the news got to him as well and he made an effort to come see for himself. "Do you think he'll come?" I asked none of them in particular. "I can't say for sure that the news will get to him given that he is not in his pack." Lyon shrugged. He was right, Ralph w
*Ralph*"I am least interested, my response is not changing. His nose flared and his breathing became labored. He looked different and I didn't push my luck since I was unaware of his abilities and dis.What had he done to himself?He had created a monster of himself with no remorse, he had definitely given more to his wolf side with the way he behaved animalistically on impulse. He was also cautious not to start the war first and I suspected that he still wasn't confident enough in his fortification. No matter the elements including magic, an Alpha remained an Alpha with the blessings of the goddess and several different other gifts. I needed to find Aurora and rescue Lyon, those were the most important things to me at the time. I returned with Kristen to where Brian held up with the rest after getting Annora to safety and I realized why Adrian was playing safe,He was already quite outnumbered seeing that we had two Alphas on our side.Completely exhausted I tried to communicate wi
AuroraIt took a while, lots of effort and all what not to get things out of Zendaya and surprisingly she had still not given me the answers I wanted.She had only given a silly condition for a bargain and I thought it quite fair."Just kill me because my tongue swore an oat not to disclose that information so I wont." She had boldly said that when I plucked her tooth one after the other with a plier and got my alibi to pull out her nails one after the other.A beautiful feel of satisfaction I got watching her writhe in pain but it wasn't exactly enough for me.Seeing the lifeless body of father had definitely brought a chill to my spine and blood, I had become cold hearted towards the parties involved and all I wanted to know was who was in charge.After much operations, Zendaya had offered to take us to the location. "Do you think we can trust her?" Connie asked me when I told her we were going to return to ny dad's pack and recover the seat of power since it was still vacant. Conn
RalphIt was like a movie where you watched lovers tear at each other's throats but what did I care?Adrian laid his bed and he was going to lie in it. Hopefully he was going to rest in peace with his father.I watched the tournament and observed Adrian's strength and weaknesses. He healed very fast, his speed was primal too and his attacks very accurate.Definitely, something had happened to him and I could see that he wasn't even fighting Kylie, he was just defending himself and pushing her away so he didn't hurt her until she found the dagger again."Good girl," I muttered as I saw her hand swing very fast before he could notice to stab him from the back as he laid on her trying to subdue her with his huge frame and weight.Like I said, his speed had greatly improved and in a split second, he rolled off her when he finally saw the dagger.I saw the look of shock on Kylie's face when his weight was lifted off her but she was already in full motion and she couldn't stop herself."Kyl
Adrian"I'm sorry." Kylie mouthed.I saw everything I stood for and fought for, fall to the ground but I couldn't rush in and pull out the stake to start treatment for him.It was a bloody scene, my Dad was still not close enough for me to trespass. I felt my head become light."Kylie why?" I felt a hand squeeze my heart tight that she of all people would betray me this much."Oh common, he's a prisoner charged with treason with a death penalty hanging over his head all this while. He was bound to die sooner or later." Ralph said smiling like the devil himself. I didn't see it coming. I knew had a devil side to him.Ralph had raised my hopes very high and taken me to a vulnerable state only to crash me at lightning speed with the worse thunder bolt; my mate.If it was someone else then I would have wasted no time to rip the person into two with the powers I had attained."I guess you can commend me for being a good Alpha now not so?" He paused and grinned like a child. "I have served
AdrianThe shock I received ran through to my bone marrow when my eyes fell on my mate Kylie, what was she doing here?I had picked her scent first but Ralph's blow had destabilized me in my distracted state and I felt the impact move me meters away but I was least bothered about that."Kylie," I called her name but she stood in her spot at his side. What a dirty game Ralph was playing, I knew him as a principled man and the last thing I expected was for him to drag my innocent mate into all of this."Addy, stop all of this please," she had tears in her eyes as Kristen held her hands to the back not letting her run into my longing arms."Baby I..." I lost the words, I could feel the bond pulling me to her, dampening all my vigor and lust for revenge Damn the goddess for such strong bonds of love that came with fated mates, love was the greatest force of attraction but I couldn't back down from my course simply because she asked, I had gone far deep and there was no redemption for me
RalphI turned and saw Adrian, well I was distracted by him so much so that I didn't pay attention to the petite lady that spoke to me first.He was truly standing there, my blood boiled in my veins as I recalled just how much he had betrayed me but something was off about him.He looked lost and drained, like a zombie maybe."Hello, Ralph." His voice was different too, I would have blamed it on magic but I already picked his scent from a mile away."Somewhere in my head I still thought that you'll be decent enough to address me as Alpha but I see that you already severed all the ties." I replied quite calm."There's not much to gain from given that I'm never going to kneel before you." "Bastard," I threw it at him utterly disgusted by his audacity. "More like the Ralph I know, calm doesn't suit you at all." Something was wrong, they had done things to Adrian and he had the look of a murderous monster in his eyes."Where's my mate?" I asked going straight to the point. "Your mate?"