IRIS.Where was I?I couldn't tell where I was.I took another look around to be sure I was not hallucinating. Sire enough, I was in an almost empty room. How had I gotten to the place?I tried to stand up from my sitting position, but that was when I noticed that I was sitting on a wooden chair and my body was tied to the chair with some kind of rope that was so thick it was cutting into my skin. I whimpered softly as I shook myself to see if the rope would loosen a bit.My head protested in response to the action I just carried out. I winced as I couldn't tell what it was that could have caused so much hurt in my head. I tried to lift my hand to my head, but the task proved impossible also. Tired and ready to give up, I took another clear look at the room. There was barely anything in the room. As far as I could even see, it was just myself, the chair I was tied on, and some broken pieces of woods scattered around. Other than that, there wasn't anything of interest. Except if one
IRIS.The annoyance I felt from looking at the person standing in front of me made me want to kill the motherfucker."How dare you?!" I growled angrily, my patience already waning thin."Calm down, my sweet." The person said, moving more deeper into the room. He had a box in his hand which be dropped on the floor gently before he concentrated back on me. "You look like you need to breath."Even though I tried to ignore it, I couldn't deny the seductiveness in the tone that was implored."Tell me why, Arnold, that I am tied up like someone that is getting sacrificed to your goddess this instant!" I threatened.For a response, Alpha Arnold moved from where he stood and came even closer to me. He crouched low until he was looking at me eyeball to eyeball. His smile turned huge when he tried to touch my cheek with his hand and I just rapidly turned my head to the corner to avoid that with him."I see that you are still as stubborn as something else, my sweet." He said with a chuckle. Then
Iris.For over ten minutes, I did nothing but sob my eyes out. I didn't know what opened up my dam, but I just felt that if I didn't let the hurt out, I was going to die.The arms that surrounded me tightened some more. I blinked rapidly, making more tears fall. I also got more into the embrace of the man holding me."There, there. Keep calm and let it out." Alpha Arnold said to me, patting my back repeatedly. "Cry it out." He said again.Another ten minutes more, and my well of tears had died down. I sniffed and moved away from the embrace of the man I was in. I looked at him with my teary eyes and was slightly ashamed of myself for how I had allowed myself to be vulnerable with him. He seemed to know what I was thinking about because he moved closer to me and took my hand in his, giving me a reassuring squeeze. I blinked back the tears that threatened to come again."Come, let me treat the injury at the back of your head for you." Alpha Arnold offered. I nodded to give him my consen
IRIS.For the next three days after Alpha Arnold took me in, he barely gave me any time to myself At first, I thought that he was doing whatever it was that he was doing just to use my plight to try and win my heart, but I soon realized the error of my ways. Rather than enticing me as I first thought, I noticed that he did was gave me a companionship. In fact, his presence was so soothing that I barely had any time to think about Dylan and his mistress.I sighed, realizing that I was already so close to defeating the purpose of the man who wished for me to be happy. Even when I tried to stop it, my traitorous mind couldn't stop thinking about the man and wondering if he was now happy that I was out of his hair and he could now openly display his lady love.Even before I could dwell on the thought any further, a gentle knock sounded on my door. Thinking that it was Alpha Arnold, I cleared my throat first to devoid my voice of any emotion that could betray me and my line of thoughts."
Iris.One thing was sure as I followed Alpha Arnold to wherever it was that he was leading me - I was scared. But even more than my fear was the adrenaline that was pumping through me as I tried to rack my brain to know just exactly where it was that the man was leading me to. However, my mind was relaxed since I was sure that there was no way the man was going to do anything bad to me.Shameless of me to admit, but I knew just how in love he was with me.As we walked, the people of his pack kept glancing our way. Once they bowed in greeting to their Alpha, they gave me different kinds of looks, some of which included jealousy from the ladies, distrust from the men, and curiosity from the children. I understood all the emotional displays that were being passed to me, but that wasn't to say that I wanted to be the recipient of them.“Come.” I heard Alpha Arnold called to me out of the blue. Starled, I paused and looked to my side. I was a bit surprised to see that I was standing in the
Dylan. "Did you or did you not find her this time around?" I yelled at the three guards that were left now back at the mansion. From the way the three of them avoided my eyes, I knew that the result of the search was once again negative. Still, I wanted to hear it directly from them."Answer me!" I yelled again, not willing to let them take the easy way out. The three of them immediately bowed their heads while looking around and at the floor, but never at me."Now!" I growled at them, letting my eyes change color from the normal sapphire to that of my wolf's - red - to show them that I was at the end of my wit already.One of them fell to the floor when he raised his head slightly and saw that I was indeed not ready to hear any excuses from them. The others with him quickly followed his movement, their knees falling to the floor."We combed all through the route and the pack from the beginning to the starting point, but we weren't able to find out where it is that she had gone to or
Dylan."Alpha Dylan, may I have a word with you?"Just hearing the voice was enough to sour my already bad mood times ten again. I stood rigid while contemplating what it was that I should do. I was well aware that my guards were looking at me and looking at the woman who seemed to have become brazen just because she slept with me. I knew without bring told that the guards would like to know what it was that I wanted to do about the woman.I turned slowly to find her standing behind me. From her stand, I could tell that she was ready to cause a commotion if I didn't grant her wish. She knew that I could read that from her posture, if the way she smirked at me was any indication. I gave her a smile of my own, but it wasn't a pleasant one. it was one which promised her a bad retribution if she dared to cross her boundary."I have no desire to talk to you. As a matter of fact, I think I was very specific in letting you know that I wish to never see you again. Could it be that you have no
IRIS.Life was hard for me to follow after leaving everything and everyone I love to carry through this journey called life all alone. I didn't know if my nights of always shedding tears were because I miss those important people - my mom, my dad, Clarise, and it was painful to admit but also in the picture was Alpha Dylan. If anything at all, he was the one I missed the most of all the people - even as he was the one who had thought nothing wrong about betraying me the most.I swiped away my tears, angry at myself for still caring and missing the same man who didn't blink twice before betraying me. I got up from where I lay on the bed, knowing fully well that the sleep would not come even if I tried to force myself for the rest of the night. I moved out of my room and made my way to the library to get some books to read as that was the only thing that could keep me distracted enough to not think about anything or anyone. When I got there, I was glad that the place was empty. I picke
Iris.I watched the Alpha Arnold walk in with the man who had refused to grace me with his presence for a few days now. I didn't know why, but I had gone from not wanting to have anything to do with the man to simply missing his presence around.But then again, as much as I missed his presence, there was still this warning in a part of my heart that kept telling me that I should not give him the chance to get too close with me. Otherwise, I would be playing with fire. I didn't even know what that was supposed to mean, but I wanted to pay attention to my sixth sense. In a way, it had helped helped me out of trouble.A sigh escaped my lips as I turned to pick up a handkerchief so that I would be able to wipe sweat off my face. I was alerted to how well I was healing now. If it was before, rather than that sigh that I let out, I was sure that it was going to either be a groan or it was going to be me being in tears from the excruciating pain that would take over me."Let me help with tha
Dylan.I woke up with my head banging hard like I had spent the entire night handling some dangerous mission that left my life on edge. I groaned as I got up from the bed and made my way to the...Wait? A bed? How had I gotten onto a bed? The last thing I remembered was Alpha Arnold trying to communicate with me and me rudely cutting him off. The events that follwed after that were a bit not so clear to me."Are you okay now?" I heard the gruff voice of the man I was just thinking about. I turned around and saw him sitting down on a chair, a book in hand - book that I was so sure he was not reading - and his attention duly focused on me. I looked around and saw that we were in the same hotel room we had gotten for almost a week in a row now. Or was it three days? My brain was still a bit foggy, so I couldn't think straight.But how? How did he end up being with me? Was he not supposed to be with Iris?"Is something wrong with Iris?" I asked him without even stopping to think."Oh, so
Alpha Dylan. Days after the doctor told me those words, my heart was no longer in the right places. I lost track of myself and barely managed to keep my shit together.The possibility that the woman might never remember who I was? How absurb! Except that I knew there was nothing absurb about the matter. In fact, since I got that revelation, my mind had been far away. Why?Because every time I stepped into Iris's room, I got that look that said that I was a nobody to her, so she couldn't overly be concerned about my presence. While I tried my best to act like the words and actions didn’t get to me whenever I was with her, once I was out of her room, my heart always sank down.It was so bad that even Arnold had begun to notice the difference to me. Now, I hadn't gone to the hospital for two days in a roll after telling Arnold to only contact me if there was something wrong or if my signature was needed for something.While I was at the hospital, I tried to urge the doctor to continue
Alpha Dylan. Just like the first time she would ever ask me that question, my mind still went blank again. How could she always ask me the same question every time she set her eyes on me?"Iris, it is me, Dylan," I said in a lame attempt to make her remember. The doctor came over to my side and moved around me to get to her. Once he was close, he began to examine her thoroughly. Unlike the first time, no one told me to move my ass out of the way. I waited, watching as the doctor used some sort of touch to check her eyeballs, roamed his fingers in front of her, and asked her a few questions also."How do you feel now?" He asked when he was done with his examination. He had his hand on the report card that was always seated at the edge of the bed. "A bit of a headache and pain," Iris mumbled out. "Dry throat also." She added after a while.The doctor nodded and wrote some things in the card. Once he returned the card back to the usual position, he turned to look at me first, then bac
Alpha Dylan.I rushed into the hospital the next day, a few minutes past 10 in the morning. Or was it 11 AM already?I had no idea that I was extremely tired until after I got to the hotel, took a long needed shower, sank into bed and just dozed off instantly. The only thing that was not making me panic was the fact that there was no call from Arnold yet, which could only mean that Iris was fine."Good morning, sir." The receptionist, whom I didn't bother to find out her name, said to me as a form of greeting when she saw me. I nodded my head to her before letting out a short, "good morning to you, too." And then, I was rushing to get to the ICU so I would be able to see Iris for myself. "Arnold, how is she?" I called when I got closed enough for him to hear me."You are here." He said gently. He was standing close to the glass area, almost as if he was just checking her out. "There has been no casualty since you left. In fact, she opened her eyes about three times already, but they
Alpha Dylan.Five days of no show. Five days of no reactions. Five whole days of waiting for a miracle.Iris had not shown any form of life or even danger ever since she got wheeled into the operation room for over five days now. At a point, I became so worried about her state of just lying down, looking almost lifeless. I didn't know if I should be worried about that or if it was a good news in itself. The doctor had told me that she was responding to treatment, and it was good that she was not showing any reason for crisis as that could be bad for her.Now, I was just standing outside the ICU section she was put in and watching her through the glass wall. The first day after she got in here, I visited her for the number of times allowed. The second day, I did the same. The third day, I came in once and allowed Arnold to use the second time. The fourth time, I couldn't find the courage in me to go in there and look at her when she looked like she was in a lot of pain, if the way she
Giselle."He failed," I muttered to Juliana the moment I got into the mansion and settled on the couch in the living room. I didn't need to tell her some more about whoever it was who failed. From the way she gasped softly, I knew that she already knew just exactly who I was talking about."I never thought he would ever fail." The maid said as a way of response.I never thought that he could either.From the way the man had handled me and the ruthless edge he had around him, I had been so sure that Beta Daniel would not have been able to survive an attack from the rogue. But somehow, that hope had been dashed."He did injure Beta Daniel heavily, though." I sighed as I remembered just how bloodied the man had been. Heck, he had even given the authority to someone else because he needed to recuperate completely. If only the rogue had managed to deal one deathly blow to the man, all my problems would be solved by now."Maybe Beta Daniel had someone help him out of the blue? Perhaps that
Beta Daniel. I hurried back to the pack, my blood still dripping from my injured arm to my shirt and trousers. In fact, I purposely held the arm over the clothing so that the blood would drip more on them, and it would look like I was injured in more places than just the arm.The moment I got to the gate, I was stopped by the guards who immediately camouflaged around me whole looking around, their swords ready just in case there was a danger lurking around."At ease," I said, making my voice sound low and disgruntled. "I made sure to lose the man before coming back to the pack," I told them. It would do no good to deliberately make them worry when I knew that all was well.Or could it not be?For all I knew, the other man could have played on my intelligence and was just waiting for the right time to strike me. Or maybe he was even interested in invading the pack and dominating it so that he would be the new Alpha."Still, do not let your guards down," I said as an afterthought. Afte
Beta Daniel. I was still lost in my thoughts and concern for the pack that I almost didn't notice that I was already in the forest which bordered the two packs. A squirrel made a sound, and I paused as I looked at a tree and saw the said squirrel trying to get some kind of fruit which looked like nut. Or more like trying to crack it. An army of ant interrupted the squirrel on the mission it was after. The squirrel, sad that his mission was intercepted, raced from the branch of the tree to another in order to get the ants to leave him, still holding on to rhe nut like it's light depended on it.I laughed at the small event I had just witnessed. I tsked and ignored the squirrel and the ants and began to make my way back to the pack. I tensed when I noticed that there was a movement behind me.It was the same kind of walking pattern I had noticed before when I was going over to Alpha Arnold's pack. I doubted if it was the guards of the pack or any pack for that matter since this part of