Ethan’s POV:Ahh, finally! Finally, I made it to my dream university after all these years of working myself to the bone…Bordwell University, my dream campus. Standing in front of the lavish campus entrance gate, I couldn’t help but feel a bit overwhelmed by my emotions. My new life begins here…a life where I could provide a good life for my mother who’s the only family I am left with in the whole world. After losing my father to a car accident when I was only 7, my mother was still very young and beautiful. But without listening to anyone’s advice, she didn’t give up on me and rather raised me all alone facing the turbulence of hardships throughout her whole life. Watching her suffer all her life while holding a serene smile on her lips, ignited the fire within me from a very young age to be very successful in life so that she would never have to work again to make ends meet. The first step towards my long-awaited goal was to graduate from the most prestigious university in the c
Ethan’s POV:“Are you alright?”A kind, soft voice from behind summoned me as I turned back to notice the person who had called me. That guy was also a tall, handsome young man, but a little shorter than me in height. Wearing specs and looking a bit nerdy, he seemed like a studious polite student, but I wondered if all the guys on this campus were blessed with handsome faces.“Well, I happened to meet an arrogant jerk on my first day here. So, I am a little perplexed right now. I wonder if the other people here are at least a bit friendly…” Gulping my saliva, I answered him in a low, irked tone while glancing at the way that jerk just left. “Well, everyone who runs into Zeus for the first time has the same experience more or less. He’s just the opposite trait of yours.” That guy chuckled a bit while responding to me, walking closer. “Zeus?” I quickly caught his point, frowning my brows as I questioned, “Did you see me bumping into that jerk? Are you talking about him?”His smile wi
Ethan’s POV: I was certain that Zeus had noticed me standing at the door bearing a contemplated look, but that jerk arrogantly turned away his face as if he didn’t give a crap about my existence at all. At that moment, a middle-aged lady professor walked inside the classroom, making all the students greet her cordially. I was still nervously standing at the doorstep, contemplating my choices, but I heard the professor summon me, “You’re the new scholarship student, right? Why are you still standing there, come inside. Take a seat. We are already late to start but the freshmen will share the class today with your seniors because it will also cover the syllabus for their midterm.”Her greeting didn’t make me feel at ease either. All the desks were already taken, except the one next to that jerk and I didn’t have the slightest will to sit there either. But since the class was about to start, I felt like I had no other option as I marched close to his seat. Gently I tapped my finger on
Ethan’s POV:Exceeding my expectations, this wicked jerk tried to manipulate me so that he would further enjoy watching me get belittled again, but I wasn’t a fool to commit the mistake of putting my trust in someone like him. I angrily turned my face away from him without paying heed to his deal, and rather sulked at him, “Why the heck you would assume that shit when I have always liked women? I would rather prefer to die than be interested in someone like you who is always annoyingly full of himself.” My blatant scowl paused Zeus for a moment, as I could feel him slowly backing off from me. However, I didn’t mistake seeing a tint of jealousy in his pitch-black eyes which he had fixated on me. Moreover, the surly expression on his face seemed to depict that he truly disliked my answer of preferring women over him. Wait, am I so exhausted now that I have started to see things? There’s no way someone like Zeus would bother to show any interest in my liking preferences… Yeah…I must h
Ethan's POV:I was shaken inside by the horrific tarot prediction, and couldn’t stop rolling my gaze over that sentence repeatedly for a few times. My throat felt parched from the harrowing anxiety, making it difficult for me to swallow along with the cold shivers crawling down my spine. I have been using this app for over a year and most of the time, it has given me accurate readings for the day. But today when I was eagerly looking forward to this fresher’s party…reading those scary words turned my blood cold as it was the very first time I had obtained such an eerie prediction. What would I do now if this was truly a bad omen? Initially biting my nails, I thought of skipping the party and staying inside my room to avoid any possible danger. But when I looked around myself, I realized being cooped inside this tiny room with poor ventilation would drive me even crazier from overthinking. At that moment, I mustered my inner courage, thinking that the wise choice would be to attend
Ethan’s POV:Can my day get any worse today? Now I have started to think, maybe that rude bastard Zeus was the root cause behind my awful luck today! If only I hadn’t bumped into him here before anyone else…perhaps, today would’ve turned out to be the best day of my life! F*ck you…Zeus! No matter how much I tried to vent my frustration by internally cussing at that arrogant punk, my mood only worsened as I saw all the other students entering the restaurant gallantly while showing off their passes. I was forced to stand at the corner from the gate, letting others walk past me. Initially, I thought of pleading before that giant guard again, but his dark eyes with that murderous glare in them scared me. I was also gifted with a tall and good physique, but his crazy big muscular mass scared me, as I knew he might be deadly strong enough to beat me into a pulp if I further pursued. Losing all hope by now as I was mentally preparing myself to leave, a sudden gentle tap on my shoulder fl
Ethan’s POV:I think I would’ve been a little glad if a ghost had actually shown up at that time in the party. But further adding to my miserable luck for today, it was someone worse than that. Zeus Blackwell…the root cause of my bad luck had arrived here too. That punk held a proud arrogant sneer on his lips as he walked through the glass door, bearing his majestic aura. Groomed in a branded pitch-black leather jacket with grey denim jeans in contrast, his onyx black hair bangs covering his forehead along with his sharp sexy jawline…were enough to reflect the radiance of a top-notch celebrity from him. I hated to admit that his handsomeness was way beyond too dazzling for me to ignore, compared to all the other men attending the party, who looked more like peasants to me before this ‘Dark Prince’. His big mysterious eyes had a reserved look in them when he calmly strode towards us, but while walking past a few young girls, Zeus made them gasp with his aura. Not only the girls, but
Ethan’s POV:As much as I was barely suppressing my vicious urge to twist his dirty hand with which he dared to grope my ass, shuffling my glare at his nasty smug face I gritted, “What the fuck…are you doing?” “I am just trying to be a bit familiar with you. It’s uncommon to find such a cute pretty boy like you here. You seem like a newbie at Bordwell University, right?”Without showing any minimal shame, that bastard groped my butt cheek a little hard this time, giving it a little squeeze, “I had my eyes following you since the moment I saw you here today, boy. It was a perfect chance to approach you when I saw you alone at the bar counter. Besides, you are perfectly my type.” While growing up in my small hometown, I had a vague idea of the kinds of perverts existing in this world, but this baldie bastard even topped them all! What kind of a vulgar pervert does someone have to be to approach a perfectly manly guy like me, and even call me cute? How dare he!?Strangely I observed th
Zeus’s POV:One week?Indeed, after facing such deep, stabbing wounds, I was assuming to be tormented by a severe gut-wrenching pain to stir all over by body, since I had already noticed the amount of wolfsbane dust soaked in the silver daggers with which they had attacked me, it might not be lethal amount to kill me but it was more than enough to leave some serious injuries. While I had such a yearning dream, watching Sophia once again right by my side, I didn’t have the slightest idea how much time had passed in the real world. When I woke up, the gut-wrenching pain all across my body, especially on my abdomen, felt a lot less than what I had hoped for, which ultimately made me feel boisterous about my fast-healing strength. But to think I was out like a light for a whole week, despite being a Supreme pure blood Alpha, it was something that took a huge blow to my pride. I gritted my jaws, lowering my gaze down from Ethan, who still stared at me with concern in his ocean orbs. Des
Zeus’s POV:While I was momentarily lost in admiring how delicately beautiful Ethan looked under the morning sunrays, I smiled at myself, watching how much he had drooled while sleeping peacefully in my arms. Knowing his panicky nature, I found myself being keen to watch his reaction once he realized he was cuddling with me on my bed… But watching him from close, I also observed that his face looked a little pale, as if he wasn’t getting proper rest lately, I intended to let him sleep for some more time.However, since I couldn’t recall how much time had passed or for how long I had been unconscious on my bed, my throat strangely felt parched and dry from thirst. Without intending to wake up Ethan, I tried gently placing his head on the pillow by drawing away my arm. But his grip on my arm quickly tightened from my slight movement, and he flickered his long lashes to open those beautiful ocean eyes, blinking at me in a drowsy murmur, “Why…are…you…moving so much, idiot? L-Let me slee
Zeus’s POV:~ “You may not realize it yet…but maybe you’ve found me already?”That familiar, soft, sad voice resonated deeply in my head, making me blink open my eyes with a sudden flinch. It was as if I was stuck in a time loop of repeating events. When I opened my eyes this time, I realized I had transitioned back to my reality rather than being stuck in my yearning lost dream. I lost her once again…in my life…and now…in my dream too. My heart felt a void deep inside as I blankly stared at the ceiling of my room, filling me up with an emptiness that choked my breath. Despite I acted like a pathetic moron and vented out my frustrations on the woman I had been dying to see one more time, her warm soothing hug seemed to absorb a bit of the despair I have been carrying alone inside my heart all this time. Like always, I remember, even in my dream, Sophia smelled like the soft green grasses after a fresh rain shower, one of my favorite scents since I have always liked the scent of flo
Zeus’s POV:The sound of my sniffling tears and raspy breath echoed inside the small hut, resulting from the undying despair I have been bearing inside me for so long, and led an anticipated silence between us. But even though all of my vulnerable emotions were spilling out in the form of tears streaming down my cheeks endlessly, my vision had turned completely blurred, making me surprised to find myself crying out so helplessly in front of her. It left me bashful, but I could feel a load deep down my chest felt a little lighter when I sobbed my heart out before her. Like always, Sophia gently cupped my face while continuing to wipe my tears with her soft fingertips. Her angelic face was tainted with sadness to see me in this bereaved state, but she tried consoling my heart just the way she used to do it before. “Lord Zeus…I know everything. I have seen what you’ve gone through…and…I do not blame you the slightest for everything that you had to bear all alone. Instead…my heart…break
Zeus’s POV:With a sudden jolt, I woke up from my deep slumber, hearing the sound of mild canary birds chirping close to me. While trying to blink open my drowsy eyes, my head felt quite heavy with a dull pain aching all over my body, leaving me at a sluggish state. When my drowsy vision cleared up a little, the memories from last night were slowly retrieved in my mind. Fighting alone against those bunch of warrior betas while getting stabbed by wolfsbane-soaked silver daggers, I still managed to return home in a bloodsoaked state, only to collapse in Ethan’s arms, who seemed oddly at edge while trying to confront me. Watching me collapse all of a sudden must have made him hysterical, as by now I was already aware of his habit of losing nerve quickly whenever a tough situation arose…and compared to him, I was the calmer one to handle him with care. So, when my vision almost cleared up, and I hoped to go looking around for Ethan to finish our conversation from last night, suddenly,
Ethan’s POV:The second Zeus placed his lips on mine, a jolt of electric current stuck in me and I stood awestruck with my eyes wide open, unknowingly accepting his advances. In that glamorous knight armor with that shimmering long black hair that drifted along with the mild night breeze wafting past us in the middle of that dark forest, for a second the ethereal moment left me to stunned to even breathe. It was the second time Zeus drew me into a kiss, but unlike the first time when he intently played it a bit rough, this time, his warm hands held me tenderly by my waist, and he placed his other arm cupping my face. But I was quite taken aback to realize he was treating me way a bit too gently as if I was someone too precious to him to apply a minimal force on my body! Moreover, when he whispered into my ears earlier, calling me ‘his mate’, I saw his rolled onyx eyes filled with pure devotion, and an ardent flare of passion as if at that moment he wanted to scream before the whole
Ethan’s POV:With an unusual jolt, I blinked and found myself lying down on a heap of dried leaves, at the center of a dark cryptic forest. A faint trace of moonlight was visible inside that pitch-black forest, but the eerie atmosphere surrounding me left me pretty baffled for a while. Even though I couldn’t initially fathom how I reached inside this deep cryptic forest when I was seated next to Zeus a while ago inside his room. After a brief contemplation, when I admitted my feelings for him it had turned me flustered red from the aftermath of the realization, making my cheeks flustered red, and my head spin with all the chaotic emotions gushing inside me. My body temperature was rising to the point that I felt like I might get a heat stroke…but how the hell did I arrive at this thick scary forest? But while I deliberately gazed around myself, suddenly I sensed a peculiar familiarity amidst the surroundings which made me conclude that it wasn’t even real. I had initially hoped tha
Ethan’s POV:As much as I deliberately tried to hide my flustered face in response to Anna’s sarcastic taunt, when she exited the room and closed the door behind her, a heavy exhale fell off me. I averted my gaze back on Zeus’s numb, and completely still face as I grabbed my seat next to him on the bedside. I dimmed the bright lights glowing in the room to make sure he would have a restful sleep, but even with the gentle moonlit beaming through the window inside, Zeus still appeared extremely alluring like a Prince of Night, making me unable to take my eyes off him. Being lost in his magnetic charm, I slowly reached my hand out to touch him on his side- face softly, as if I unknowingly wanted to make sure that he was alive, comparing how listless he was lying down before me. My fingers gently grazed against his pale smooth skin, but the freezing cold temperature of his body startled me a bit hard as I whined at him on my own. “Hey…why is your body cold as a block of ice? You…aren’t
Ethan’s POV:After being frantically scolded by Anna, I tried to hold onto my silence to ensure I wouldn’t get on her nerves too much while she did her best to treat wounded Zeus. Though I couldn’t recognize why the uneasiness kept on growing inside me vigorously from watching Zeus in such a miserable state, her raging blue eyes served as a major warning to me that I mustn’t try to do anything that might trigger her wrath to attack or throw me out of the room instead. At the very least, I wanted to stay by Zeus’s side for now. From what I have read in the ancient literature, werewolves were the deadly mythical beasts who once ruled the world and acted on their impulses to attain their dominance, unlike humans who were treated as their slaves and only allowed to use emotions more. Thus when I fell silent, I saw Anna quietly pressing Zeus’s wounded areas with her palms mixed with concoctions, and chanted something with a murmur sound, following which an illuminant bluish flame emitt