[Alexander]I was too stunned to follow her, my feet feeling like lead held them shackled to the carpet. Valerie had been so close - so close to scenting me that I wasn’t sure why she chose not to do it. She knew I was her mate - she had acknowledged that much - but she still decided to leave in a hurry, as if the thought of me being her mate disgusted her.I was far from disgusting. I was Alpha. I was also the CEO of my father’s mining company - a title I had worked very hard to attain. Amelia was the brains in the family, and growing up I always thought that she would be the one to take that place. So I worked harder and strived to get that position, even though her healing abilities made her look towards a career in medicine. She had no desire to work in the company, but still, I had to prove that I was fit to be CEO.Becoming Alpha wasn’t something I needed to prove. My lineage belonged to a long line of Alpha males, and I only had to grow up and become of age to become Alpha of th
[Valerie]Luck had been on my side, for the most part. After making the seemingly never-ending walk back to Pleasant Hill, I forced back the anxiety that was threatening to eat me up alive, and went home.“Mom.” I breathed in relief when Edith opened the door, only to find surprise on her face.“Honey! What are you doing here? You should be at college.”I took the feeble hug she gave me and relished in her warmth for that moment, and walked into the house on feet that were burning and legs that felt numb after my journey on foot. I held the kitbag tighter around my shoulder so Edith wouldn’t be completely shocked by the blood-stained blanket. I was already thankful enough that she didn’t seem to know about anything that had happened. I didn’t need her to worry.“I’ll go back to college tomorrow. I just need to rest.”“Of course baby!” my adopted mom fussed over me, touching my arms, my face, as if inspecting me. “Did you get hurt? Did that Garret hurt you again?”“No mom!” I shrugged a
[Alexander]I remembered the donut vendor I had once witnessed her bickering with. I greeted the man and ordered a tray as an excuse to make small talk and perhaps find out if he knew the girl.“I’ve always wanted to try these.” I smacked my lips together in pretense as I looked down at the mini donuts glazed in chocolate - I hated chocolate, “The last time I was here, I planned on coming over, but you were fighting with someone.”“Oh,” the vendor rolled his eyes as he remembered what I was talking about, “It was barely a fight. That silly girl was just upset because of the chocolate coating. Said I should have asked first.”I grinned with humor. So Valerie and I had something else in common. She was right too; he should have asked first.“You like it?”I took a bite of one donut, inwardly cringing as the taste of cocoa touched my tongue, and at the same time, I caught a whiff of a familiar scent. “Hmm! You haven’t seen her around, have you?”“Oh! I have actually. She was just there by
[Valerie]I had to admit that I was scared, like a bear caught in a trap. I knew the Alpha would not give up, so I gave in, pulling my weight to a nearby tree and transforming into my human. The transformation was again painless, and I knew that it was my mate that made that possible. But it barely explained why, for years, the pain gripped me each time I transformed back and forth.Alexander changed too - and I realized my mistake early. We were out in the woods, in the middle of nowhere, in what he called the Land of The Witches. I had never heard of the witches except around campfires when the elders told us that the witches were not to be trusted, and that back in the day, they used magic to seduce the wolves and snapped their necks any chance they got. But none of us had actually seen one. To me, witches were just a myth.Alexander, however, went as far as accusing me of using witchcraft to ensnare him. I didn’t think that I would ever need to. Looking at him in all his glory, mad
[Alexander]I had never made love to a woman out in the open. But this wasn’t love-making. This was anger at the very brim, unable to hold in any longer. It was as if I was a man possessed - possessed with dire need and the wolf in me unable to show restraint any more. She seemed to enjoy it though - what part of my beastly act had her walls begging for me, I wasn’t quite sure. It could have been the roughness, or it could have been the fact that her mate claimed her, but either way, I felt like crap.The nauseous feeling wasn’t from being with her. It was the act itself, as soon as I released the pent up desire, that made me feel like a dog. In my head, I tried to blame her, tried to blame our circumstances and even our surroundings, but fell short. It was I who was at fault. Or the wolf.I didn’t want to look at her when I finally let go. Not because she wasn’t the most beautiful thing in the world; her hair damp from sweating, smeared with a mixture of soil and pieces of broken bark
[Valerie]My mind woke up before any other part of my body did. For a while, I thought I had been dreaming, until a gentle tug between my thighs reminded me that what had happened was very real. Beaming from ear to ear, feeling wholly satisfied and newer than I had felt before, I stretched my limbs and then frowned. My head rested on grass, which was odd. I opened my eyes, and blinked a few times to adjust them to the low light of the crescent moon seeping through the canopy of trees.“Alex?” I turned to my left, feeling his warmth still spread out on the cheek that had been resting on his chest.He wasn’t there - neither was he on my right. I rubbed at my eyes then looked again, but still, Alexander was nowhere my eyes could reach.“Alexander?” I propped my weight on my elbows and looked down at my battered legs, but he wasn’t anywhere near me.“Alexander!” I called out louder this time, and waited. I only received silence in response.I looked all around me, realizing that I was alon
[Alexander]I walked Melissa to her door, feigning a smile when she turned to give me a curt nod, a genuine one curving her lips. I don’t know what possessed me to do what I did, but the regret was obvious, that even she didn’t have any further thought about me going inside with her. The light in her apartment went on, and the curtains closed on her window, just as it did on her desire for me.The wolf cries I heard in the distance didn’t stop. Although in human form, I should have been able to understand why they cried, but only managed to interpret it as a hunt. Maybe my lack of understanding was owed to the fact that I had too much on my mind as I drove back home from dropping Melissa off at her apartment.I didn’t expect her to take rejection so easily. In the two years she worked for me, she came across as a determined woman. But even when she had the crudest thoughts of me, she never did really act on them. I supposed the human was influenced by the Alpha in me, who demanded resp
[Valerie]I was stunned by the mighty being who towered above me; her hair white as snow, billowing out behind her in the wind as she stretched out pale arms and the werewolves around us fell in submission. Her eyebrows matched her hair, and her eyes remained a faded shade of the red they were before she transformed. She was otherworldly - taller than most humans, her skin almost as white as her hair, but still, she was mesmerizing in all her beauty. She seemed delicate, as if her bones may break at the slightest touch, but when she spoke, through blood-red lips, she sounded as fierce as her werewolf looked.“We will not kill you.”Her voice rang through my ears, and I kept my head up, wondering what she wanted from me.“What do you want then?”My human spoke from within, and I was surprised that she understood me even then, casting her feral eyes down on me.“I can sense what you want, child. Tell me what it is.”Sense? How? She wasn’t a wolf just as I was, neither was she human. But