Quinn Mia? Where was she? I had lost her while we all dispersed into various directions, running away from the boars. She was meant to stick to me but she didn't. She had run faster than I did, scared of being mauled to her death in the forest. It wasn't like I wasn't afraid of dying too but I had a far greater responsibility than saving myself. Mia had to be safe. I had to keep her alive. I had started to run after her, watching and protecting her from behind. I was going to run to where she was and we would be safe together. A fog slid on the path between us and I couldn't see her again when it cleared up. Where had the fog come from? There was a lot of strange happenings in this place. Where had Mia gone to? I cursed as I leaned and looked ahead, trying to find her but I couldn't. This was bad. That had been a fog and not a whirlwind. It wasn't meant to have carried her away. It was only meant to have blocked my path and it had only there for two minutes. Mia couldn't have run f
Mia Where was the boys? I asked with panic ringing in my ears as I realized that I couldn't see them behind me any longer. Maybe the boars had finally caught up to them and they were fighting it. I knew looking for them would be stupid and nothing but a distraction that they didn't need and decided to stay where I was and wait for them. I trusted them. They wouldn't leave without me. If they were done, they would find me and we would continue on our journey. I waited and began to frown when I realized that two hours had passed and they were nowhere to be found. Had they lost their way trying to search for me? I didn't think it should be that hard. I had only been running in a straight direction. I believed that it would have been easier to trace me. I got up on my feet and decided to look for them myself. I scowled as a bright light suddenly appeared in my path. I blinked and covered my eyes with my hands. By the time I opened them, I was shocked to find myself staring at a hard wa
MiaI almost cried when I saw the boys again. After watching all those gruesome images and crying my eyes out in front of the mirror, I suddenly met myself in another place. I was afraid of being tested again until I saw whirlwinds begin to appear and when they evaporated, I saw the boys on the grounds looking as confused as I was.Maybe that was nice. Maybe that wasn't. I didn't know yet what was about to happen. It could be that we were about to be tested again and this was a puzzle that we would have to fight together.I sighed, hoping that wasn't the case. I was drained. I couldn't do this anymore. Watching those images had messed with my psyche. I couldn't get it out of my head that I was going to betray the boys to the dark wizard. I shook my head in terror, my body wracked with a tremor. That shouldn't happen.Come on, Mia. It's just an illusion. I reminded myself for the thousandth time.The boys finally noticed me and started running towards me at the same time."Mia!" They s
MiaI woke up to the sounds of the boys talking in low tones. I stretched, looked around the tent and realized that I was the only one left in there. I picked my phone and checked the time and saw that it was ten in the morning. I gasped and jumped out of bed, hissing with anger and self-loathing. We had planned to wake up by eight so we could get an early start on the journey, now I had drawn us back by two hours. Those annoying wolves. Why didn't they wake me up when they rose from bed?"The princess is awake." Jack grinned as I stepped out of the tent.I blushed, not because of the title he had called me but because I saw that they had done a lot of things while I was asleep. It seemed like they had all washed their faces and brushed their teeth even though they still had the same cloth on and had also made breakfast."Why didn't you wake me up?" I glared at them."What do you think?" Jack grinned."I swear I'm going to kill you if you say something cheesy." I growled at him.He la
MiaWe were done with the raft and finally on the sea. It was calm as Jack had said and we paddled forward, gently as we could.We kept quiet all through the journey, afraid that the sea was like the echoing forest and didn't want to alert it to our presence.We got to the middle of the sea and were glad, almost congratulating ourselves for making it that far when it happened. The calmness of the sea was a false alert, a trap into our doom. It suddenly swirled, the water moving with a disturbance that caused the rift to move sideways.John looked like he was going to talk but Quinn gave him a look that silenced him. This wasn't the time to remind us of how right he had been by telling us to be careful. Moreover, the raft had almost gotten us to the other side.The raft moved violently, threatening to throw us into the sea. Oh God! No! That shouldn't happen. Not at all.We were glad that we had strapped our bags to the raft with ropes before getting on it or we would have lost them. We
Jack We all trooped off of the raft once we got to the shore. We untied our bags and the ropes, letting the wood flow back onto the sea. I heaved out a sigh of relief, glad to be alive and safe. I was glad that my idea had worked. I would have felt guilty in hell if we had all been killed, telling myself that I should have listened to John. It was good to have a crazy idea and have it work out without being told 'I told you so' afterwards. It was even better to be on land in an open space instead of fighting for your life over water or trekking amidst trees that seemed as terrifying as the forest itself. "I'm glad your idea worked." John said, moving closer to me and clapping me on the back. "Me too." I replied him. Quinn finished stashing his bag onto his bag and pushed the wet ropes into a nylon bag, carrying it in his hand so it could dry off. We would definitely need the ropes anytime soon. Mia staggered on her legs and we all rushed to her side, supporting her with our hands
MiaIf wishes were horses, beggars would ride. I should have known yesterday when I was wishing for no adventures before bed that it wasn't as easy it sounded. It was easier said than done. That was the life here.We hadn't bothered with tents last night, wanting to feel the cool open air on our skins as we sleep. That had been the reason I wasn't suspicious until it was too late.I had felt a hand on my leg and had thought it was one of the boys moving in their sleep and had flicked it off without even bothering to open my eyes to see who it was. I assumed that there was no need as I was sleeping in their midst after all.Some seconds later, I felt the hands again on my legs. This time, they were trailing up my body. I scowled as I flicked my sleepy eyes open as I wondered who it could be. I chose to believe that the person was lost in his dreams and didn't know what he was doing.I knew the boys wanted me but they wouldn't disrespect me like that, not here. Quinn had asked me repeat
QuinnShit! I cursed all through the day. I could feel the energy. I looked at my brothers and knew they felt the same way that I did. They could also feel what I was feeling and the fear coursing through my veins was by no doubt running through theirs as well.This was not good but what I knew would happen. It wasn't possible that there would be no full moon night throughout our journey here. Maybe I had hoped that we would easily find what it was we had been looking for and be out. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. We had been here for almost two weeks and hadn't gotten to the Aselia tree even though we were on the Gayalluc island. Of course, treasures were always hard to find.I looked at Mia, hating that we might put her in danger. I feared that we should shift tonight and kill her as the dark wizard had predicted. That would be a disaster. I would want to kill myself but I wouldn't because we had to save dad and couldn't let our family die out like that. I also couldn't kill m
MiaFinally. It was done. I was mated to the boys. The mating ceremony was over. Some of the new wolves who didn't know were shocked that I was getting mated to the boys as they had assumed that I was getting mated to Quinn only but they had also moved on quickly and were happy that we were officially mated.Not all the wolves were around for my Luna ceremony and ritual or they would have found out about the intimacy between me and the boys.I was proud that mum was there to see mating ceremony and that there wasn't any knife cutting in this own. I didn't think mum was going to stand still if she saw that bloody crooked traditional knife cutting into my skin. I hoped that she wouldn't ever see the scars on my back. She had asked if I was keeping any more secrets from me but I didn't think I was going to tell her about the scars on my back. She was going to freak out if she saw them.She was just getting warmed up into the world of the werewolves and I couldn't show her the scars and r
MiaI had thought that mum would never want to see us again after last night's fiasco. I couldn't blame her. We hurt her and she had a right to her anger. I would have been mad as well if I was in her shoes. I was surprised when she came out and joined us for breakfast. That was good. That meant she was slowly letting go of her anger and would soon warm up to us. Maybe she would be forgiving us anytime soon. I had thought I shouldn't hold my breath on waiting for my mum to forgive us but now, it seemed possible.I was glad that I had told Albert to let us call her to join us for breakfast when he was about to ask the maid to send her food to the guest room that she had slept in. I knew Albert was affected that she had slept in another room. He looked worse, much worse than I had ever seen him. He seemed like he hadn't slept a wink last night with the absence of his wife in their shared bedroom. I didn't think I had ever seen them apart when they were in the same vicinity. He missed mu
VanessaI couldn't believe it. I still found it hard to believe that my own daughter could keep that much secret from me. I thought that we were close. I thought that we were as close as thieves. I thought that we didn't share any secrets. I thought that... Oh no, o stopped thinking as I didn't know what to think of anymore.She had to be kidding me. I felt like a fool, living in a house full of secrets and I was the only one who knew nothing about it. Asides the revelation that had happened in Mia's room after I found her kissing her brother, I had gotten more from her and I couldn't believe it.I still couldn't get the image of her kissing Quinn out of my head. I wondered what I would have done if I had found them in bed. Oh no! I couldn't bear to think of that. If she was dating the three of them, that meant that she was sleeping with the three of them.Oh my! How did that even work? I couldn't think of my daughter whoring herself out but with the way that they had explained it, th
MiaIt was revelation day. It was a hassle trying to calm mum down after witnessing me and Quinn kissing. She had glared at us with her eyes widespread and in disbelief."Can someone tell me what is going on here?" She yelled."Please calm down, mum." I pleaded with my face blushing red. I was embarrassed. I shouldn't have let this happen like this. I felt like she was disappointed in me and I hated myself. I wanted my mum to know about my relationship with the boys but it was not like this. I felt bad with the way she was looking at me and I wished that the ground would open up and swallow me whole."Calm down?" She squealed. "I just saw you kissing your brother while the others are looking at you. That was a passionate kiss for it to be seen as brotherly. You were sucking on each other's tongues and Jack was looking at you as if he couldn't wait to undress you. How can you tell me to calm down?"I sighed. I shouldn't have said that. "I'm sorry, mum. I will tell you everything that
Quinn"Mia! Wait! Stop!" I shouted at her to stop but she wouldn't. She kept on running, heading outside and I knew that I was messed up if she could get out of the gate. She would misunderstand the whole scenario and harden her heart before I could find my brothers, and go home to beg her.What was she doing here? Scratch that. That wasn't the right question to ask. She could be here for reasons of her own that she knew. The right question to ask was why she would think that I was cheating on her. I understood that the situation wasn't a nice one and it was possible that jealousy suddenly crept up on her but she should have held on to her logic. I was a wolf and never would I cheat on my mate. She was far from thinking right and that was what I had to help her do which was why I had to run to her before she could escape.I ran after her, watching as she took a bend. I sighed. If she could get out of that turn, she would be at the gate and that would be the end of my immediate apolog
MiaI flicked off the paper in front of me, tired of staring through fonts and ink. I had been busy. No, I had been trying to keep myself busy. Those were what I had been trying to do all day, all week since the boys had left.I missed them. I missed them with an ache that had my heart rolling and I couldn't imagine how they would feel as well since we were all mates and were apart. I was sure that it would be hard on them the same way it was hard on them. I wondered how they felt. We had calls everyday and almost every minute but that couldn't suffice for being together.I couldn't tell if they were in pain from our phone conversation as they were trying hard to hide it from me which was also what I was trying to do. I was also hiding it from them how much I missed them so they wouldn't be distracted and be able to concentrate where they were.I sighed. As if we could hide how we felt. Even if we didn't talk about it, we all knew that we were missing one another greatly. It was the m
QuinnI thought I had seen the last of Susan by telling her how I didn't miss her but I was wrong. She was more determined to have me in her space and because I mentioned my brothers the other time, she extended a bit of the gesture to them though it was all too obvious that what she was doing to them was fake and all she was concerned about was truly me.I sighed. I hated unnecessary attention of any kind and I had tried my best to avoid it by staying on my own in the barracks but now she was bringing me out in the open against my wish.I didn't like this and I was going to have to talk to her. What did she think that she was doing? That I was going to like it? She was being ridiculous if she didn't know it and she had to be dreaming if she thought that I was going to like her gesture.I remembered that I wanted to tell my brothers something and was about to speak up but the bell beat me to it."Oh! That is the bell for dinner. Shall we?" Jack said."No problem." John replied.We had
QuinnI missed Mia. I missed her with a pang. I didn't think that I could stay far away from her any longer. It was easier staying far from home when I wasn't a mated wolf but it wasn't the case now. My mind was conflicted and my heart longed to be home where she was.It was affecting my body as well and I had gone weaker and wasn't discharging my duties properly. I wasn't the only one as I had expected. I wasn't the only one mated to Mia and missing her. The three of us were weak and the major had noticed immediately the second day that we reported for duties. We got tired easily and were easily distracted.He had teased us about losing our abilities because we had been away from so long and had told us to get back in shape as soon as we could. I shook his head. If only that he knew. He didn't know that what we needed wasn't more trainings but being by the side of our mate.There was no way that Mia could be allowed to stay and live here with us as she wasn't an officer. We were the
MiaNo matter how much you anticipated or feared a day, it was going to come. I didn't even have the time to anticipate this time as it had come suddenly. I hadn't been expecting it. How could their major tell them to come back and give them only two days to do so? Who did that? He hadn't even given them time to prepare at all and had just wanted them to be back. Didn't he think that they were going to have to prepare? What if they were in the midst of something important when they had gotten his mail? Were they supposed to have dropped it all and reported to work?I believed that they were. They wouldn't have been military men if that wasn't the case. They weren't meant to complain when they got an order but followed without a complaining.I snorted at my thought. I knew that they were military men before I got involved with them.I was going to miss them. I stood by, watching them with my arms folded on my chest as I watched as they packed their luggage into the car.They turned whe