104 BA Growing louder on her inner being are the screams of longing, excitement, and a little of fright. This is probably the first time Maridelle has heard of her Aunt Lily talk about her father’s pack; a part of her origin that she wished to know since the first time she learned of her true identity. Since then, during her leisure time, she would conceived ideas of how the wolves on her father’s pack would look like on their pack run; what certain qualities make them stood out from the other packs; how they get through the day; and when she does not have a free time, Maridelle would steal time for her imaginations to embrace her. All of a sudden, her thoughts had zoomed out of her terrible situation until each of her neurons got theirselves working for her to get herself thinking, will they accept the hidden daughter of their Alpha? She doubt not. Maridelle has accepted it already. She will be destroying their peace. To avoid that, she knows the pack will immediately shun her.It
105 BALily saw her sitting on one of the chairs located at the porch. She was trying to find her after they had settled. But doubt is whispering to her saying she should not disturb Maridelle, who by the time is looking pensive. Shrugging the whisper, Lily’s feet prance towards her. “What’s wrong?” Lily pulled one chair and sat adjacent to her. “I was looking for you. You haven’t eaten your dinner. You must be so hungry. You know we had a long tiring day.”Lily does not want to tire her even more with her verbosity. But Lily finds it necessary to speak some words. However, Maridelle just stared at her for few seconds before she returned to her own thoughts. Lily gave off a deep long sigh. Maybe it was Maridelle’s peace that she needed the most and not her company. “I am sorry. I should not have disturbed you. I’ll just leave you here and if you are hungry, there is food in the kitchen, but if you want me to make one for you, you know I am always availabe. Just call me.” She stood u
106 BA What she saw written on his face made her rethink everything they shared together. Well on her memories and probably on their memories, they have been sharing bad remembrances all thanks to her troublesome blood. But is it enough reason for her to see Alpha Lachlan's face covered with an emotion she could not tell what is? They had shared, though little but genuine memories together. Maridelle only needed a simple 'Yes' or 'No' as an answer. But instead he made her leave the room in a manner a cruel master would do to his slave. Maridelle complied to his hurtful demands and without giving him a look, slammed the door as she took her last step out of the room. She does not know where she is heading, but she run towards the densest forest she had ever seen on her life. Beads of sweats are forming on her forehead; some had already found their way on her cheeks. When she had almost tired herself and her legs is feeling shaky, she stopped in between enormous trees. The sound of t
107 BAThere was a long pause in the conversation that Maridelle felt anxiousness slowly creeping into her body. She wanted more. Her mind desired to glean every bit of information she could get from the talk. To have a clarification, hoping that she would understand why all of a sudden Alpha Lachlan is talking about her parents’ death. And does the information he know is so big that it had hindered him to give her his mark?But the silence frustrates her. The longer it takes for her to hear what Nyx would respond to her twin, the more she overthinks. Does Nyx knew about it? What’s taking her too long to say a word? A simple “What about that night?” could make the conversation run. But instead she heard the kitchen utensils clattering and the sound of footsteps is heading towards her direction is getting louder.Immediately, she searched for a space to hide. On her right side, few steps away from her, is a spacious nook with a huge vase containing a leafy ornamental plant. Her feet sc
108 BAMaridelle know they heard it and by that she is certain both of them will come after her. As what she had expected, her name has been called out many times. But she is just as determined not to give a glance as the man shouting and going after her. “Mari!” Alpha Lachlan called her name for the uncountable times, “Please stop running!” He begged as he tried to close their gap. Still, Mari is gaining distance from her. She is just a naturally born fast runner. “Mari!” Nyx tried to get her attention; nevertheless, she got nothing in return. The time has come. It is this moment that he feared the most. Maridelle had the knowledge that he got involved on her parent’s death and she is not even asking for further details nor she is willling to listen to his explanations. The memory has stopped haunting him; he is now caught on the dilemma it had prepared for him to suffer. But he has to speak to her before she totally get him out of her life. Alpha Lachlan did not give up and ende
109 BA “Mark me, Alpha.” What she had just said has reverberated on his ears. It had occupied him for few seconds that he did not realize he was not responding to her demand not until Nyx took the courage to interfere. Nyx nervously neared them. “I don’t know the feeling of being fated to the Alpha, but as a wolf, as a daughter of a former Alpha, I know it does not happened the way you are asking it from my brother.” Nyx thanked herself for properly composing her sentence because honestly she don’t know what to do next if she would mess up. Still, she tried for she know her brother needs something to buy him time. Towards her direction, Maridelle has thrown a fierce and unmovable look. “Right. I am a daughter of an Alpha too. But I did not grow up with my father.”Alpha Lachlan could not give her a glance. Though the manner Maridelle is speaking is already calm and he sense that she will listen to his explanation, he can still feel tinges of hatred concealed beneath her self-contr
110 BA Alpha Lachlan Caruso could not resist it. The woman who is standing in front of him looked like a goddess that is taking all his strength off his body and soul so effortlessly. He is tempted and his wolf is in thrilled agitation telling him to take the chance. X could not wait either because of one reason: he will be marking her sooner. “Mark her, Alpha,” X urges him through their mental link. His lips delightedly curved upwards. “I will,” he responded, completely forgetting his reason why he would not mark her in the first place. Fingers are crossed. She hoped he could not hear her heart beating erratically. The feeling is so strong that though she don’t usually have heavy breaths, Maridelle could not count how many times she had heaved deep breaths just to calm herself and hopefully make her able to think clear. Both of them breathes long and heavy breaths in unison. She is waiting for him to initiate it. He is readying himself to own her completely. “I love you, Mari.”
111 BAViller is currently walking on the road only the past travellers know where it leads. On his hand are a round stone that he keeps tossing in the air. His forehead is problematically creased. Around him are the serenity offered by the ocean on the other side of the road and on the other side is the relaxing peace given by the forest. But it did nothing to calm him.“That is not going to help, you know,” Jek commented. He is with Viller the whole time. From the time Hodor almost killed them for not making progress with their search for Maridelle and the rest of them until their failure at Hilwood. The stone has stopped bouncing on top of his palm. If only it could talk, it would complain how hard it is held, so hard that it is almost getting pulvurized. “Fuck!” Viller shouted frustratedly as he hurled the stone to far away distance. “We had them right into our teritory! This is all Vamoire’s fault. If she was not that careless with them, King Hodor won’t get angry. I should be a