"I wanted to get some extra meat," I say smiling but stop her once I see the line of wolves already waiting. "How long have they been waiting?" I ask her.
"For a while now. We are short on hands as the others are tending to the old." She says trying to cook the meat quickly for the hungry wailing pups.
"May I help?" I ask her.
Her eyes widen and she shakes her head, "No, Luna. I don't think-" I cut her off.
"That a Luna should do this. Well, I was never a proper Luna, to begin with, was I?" I say with a smile grabbing the extra thong from the table. "Will you teach me? I have never done this before." I ask her softly earning a nod from her.
She teaches me the way to grill the meat to
"How much time do we have?" Deimos asks again."20 minutes," Giovanni says."We protect the weak first. Make sure every single wolf is in the shelter." Deimos orders as Giovanni nods eyes calm focusing on his words."Then what?" Giovanni asks.Deimos lips tilt up in an evil smirk, "We fight."For the first time in my life, I felt the rush of time. We needed it to calm down and go slow but it ran like a wildfire killing every last inch of peace with it. I counted the number of pups as they huddled in the arms of their mothers.The old were all sitting on the ground with blankets around their shoulders. I could smell the waves of fear
"Next," I whisper darting onto the others. My eyes search for Giovanni mid-fight. I see him pound his fist into the rogue's face with ease. He is doing well. A rogue sneaks closer behind him slowly with claws out ready to strike. I cannot reach him in time.Reaching into my pocket I grab one of the knives. Holding it tightly in my hand I aim and throw it at my target. It flies through the group of fighting wolves and strikes deep into the right eyeball of the rogue behind Giovanni. His mouth opens wide as he falls onto his knees death taking him.A sudden blow to the back of my head takes me by surprise. Blood seeps down my forehead leaking down my eyes and cheeks. I turn around slowly and find a female with tattoos covering every inch of her skin. A scar cuts through her left eye as she watches me gauging my next move. With a baseball
"Alpha." A voice calls me. A female. A warm palm is placed upon my shoulder softly shaking me from my slumber.I open my eyes with every energy I have left as the sunlight peering through the slits of the window shade strikes deep. Annoyance is the first feeling that arises within me on this new day.A small yawn escapes my lips as I stretch my arms flexing my muscles. Tying my loose hair up in a quick bun I finally acknowledge the wolf's presence."Elriam." Is all I say. Her eyes are drowning in pain and worry. Both the feelings aimed for me. I keep my emotions in a cage not showing anything, not even to her."You know you can talk to me about anything for I will always be here. By your side." She says her tone gentle.
Paying no heed to it I continue with the meeting. "Of course as you requested. May we start the presentation of our drafts?" Luigi asks and I nod. They immediately fiddle with their computer and head towards the screen preparing for the presentation.I often feel his eyes on me. Marco's, perhaps curiosity ignites him. I lean my back into the chair, tiredness taking over. I haven't slept for a long time and it's taking a toll on me. My headache worsens with each passing day.The presentation begins and Luigi takes the lead, I can feel how nervous he is. Well, I can understand his nervousness. It is difficult to speak to someone with the highest authority. Throughout the presentation, I watch keenly and listen to every word the males speak.I want the best for Giovanni. Even if my pack n
Tying my hair up loosely I head into the bathroom to wash my face. Splashing the cold water to wake me up from this nightmare I look at my reflection in the mirror. Who are you now, Lumina? Do you wish to run or are you strong enough to fight?I don't know. I answer myself. I don't know who I am anymore without him by my side. Heading down the stairs Elriam is already present waiting to greet me with her little book."Good evening, Alpha. Did you have a good rest?" She asks me and gives her a small nod. "Ragon called." She said and my eyes quickly snap to hers. I immediately walk closer to her my mind entangled with worry."Okay?" I ask her."There have been no changes." She replies and disappointment hits me. I have gotten used to it
'I want to die. If he dies, I will die with him.' This thought always seems to run through my mind day and night. A lot of mates have been separated through death. The one left alive could live through a strong will. But not me, I...I can't do this anymore.He sleeps as silent as a dead male, that I keep checking to see the rise and fall of his chest. Perhaps he dreams of vast fields and flowers, maybe even me and pups. But all I dream of is his dying eyes and his soul saying its last goodbye.More months have passed and Deimos hasn't woken up. At this point, wolves are losing faith, the halls filled with their never-ending chatter of his coming death. I try to remain strong as I walk past them, but for every word they say there's a crack on my wall.His health is deteriorating. They i
I scan the list whilst itching the side of my neck. This has been happening to me constantly, my neck keeps itching. "Alpha!" Elriam's loud voice startles me as I turn to look at her."What is it?" I question her frowning as she walks closer to me.Grabbing my jaw in her palm she moves my face to the side baring my neck to her. "Your mark." Is all she says and my eyes widen.Slapping my palm over my mark to feel it I slide my fingers across the itching flesh. It doesn't hurt but it feels rough and the skin seems to be peeling. "How did I not notice this?" I ask myself in a whisper.Elriam quickly grabs my wrist and guides me to the pack hospital. Her feet walk fast just as the thoughts running through my mind.
"Give me a quick brief." I say as my fingers touch the piles of tin cans and other necessities'. Fresh meat hangs from the hooks attached to the walls. The females will cut some to produce dried meat for the coming winter.The males take me through the warehouse pointing at all the latest supplies as well as the ones that haven't been used. It depends on the wolves' tastes as to what they like and what they don't. "The only problem is that we haven't been able to acquire this specific item." One of the males speaks up pointing to something on his notes pad as I look at him."Write it on a piece of paper along with all its information. I shall import it from my pack." I say as his eyes widen."Why? Why must you do so much for a pack that isn't yours?" He asks and I tilt my head to the s
It was not an effortless decision for it would come with a price. And that price delayed my path of action. I knew the pack would go against me and I knew I would have to execute numerous of my warriors and that fact chained me once more.It felt as though I was spitting on father's grave, I was destroying everything he trained me growing up. I wondered if he saw me as shameful, I wondered if he deemed me as his male no more for if he were alive my father would have reprimanded my choices.That permanent state of hell I was in, that confusion I abhorred it. I was stuck I could not move, annihilating your wolves as an Alpha meant the moon would sentence me for it, she would have to take something from me and I sweated it would be Lumina or Kal.But observing my female living in discomfort each day because of my discretions, I could not follow it anymore. I could not withstand it so I stood on that stage and I declared the end of the tradition hoping it would pave
Whilst the females moved an unconscious Lumina to the other room, Elriam was generous to place the pup in my trembling awaiting hands. It was a male, yet there was no happiness from my side mere neutralness for I had lost someone dear to me. It was a day of birth and death, birth of my male the death of me.The reason I had feared to love her had come to stand haughtily in my reality, Lumina wanted to leave me. She spewed heartless words to my face of how I disgusted her, of how she rebuked our bond that we were no more as one.She said she could live without me with such ease as I tensed my jaw and took her strikes for I earned it. I deserved each blow of her whip as it peeled the skin off my bones.Then she changed. She became a female I could not recognize, our relationship had blazed to ashes there was nothing left between us. She left a trail behind with torn pieces of herself that I often secretly bent to pick up and lay in my treasure box.
But that was no choice to me, it seemed as though I was once more standing on that bridge. Life or death. I wanted to choose death, I would have rather fallen than betray either of them.The tradition of the chosen did not seem to hinder me even after I met Lumina for I had thought I would never fall in love with her. Yet I did I was in love with her unconditionally, she stood first in line among my every other duty. She was my priority in many ways.How could I touch another female other than Lumina? The image of it had me gag as it left a foul taste on my tongue. I was not that kind of a male, I promised to be loyal to her until the moon called for me.I was lost for I did not know much of the laws of the tradition so I requested Ragon to aid me to attain loopholes or ways I can tiptoe around it without harming any wolf. It was a tradition that had run smoothly in our pack for generations with no Alpha ever going against it and I did not want to be th
I could not think, I could not feel. A sudden sense of coldness lured me into its cave. I knew if I stayed I would hurt her with the vengeance of my words so I chose to abandon her in that aloof house until the turmoil of my heart and mind rested.Yet when I had returned I was greeted with something I did not wait for, she leapt into my arms caressing flesh pecking me all over my face showing her profound affection for me as she begged for me to forgive her. And I could not fight her, how could I have when she glanced at me that way?So I asked her to do something for me that I found arduous to do. To bare her soul to me and she had accepted with no reluctance. She taught me that I must soar above my walls and unveil myself to her eyes as well and I guaranteed her that I would with time.After a while, Lumina got sick fatally sick and I fretted the pill had done something to her. I often conversed with Giovanni's healer every night after I put my female to sleep
The goddess took her time with me as she kept me caged up for a while and on her chosen day she surprisingly tossed me back to my physical being as though she found no use to bother with me anymore.I do not remember distinctly the events that unfolded after I had awoken, it was all a haze of sounds, scents and movements. But what I do recall was the way the eyes of my female lightened as she examined me. She looked as though I had breathed life back into her and I was perplexed. I was the one who had been in a coma yet why did my moon blessed resemble a corpse as well?Was she not eating, was she not sleeping? Judgment took its time to settle within me. Lumina was not living, she was merely existing and that too not for her sake but mine hoping that I would wake up and embrace her one day. With everything Ragon had revealed to me of her lifeless days, my heart burned with tribulation.My fault, I was once more to blame for giving her that experience. Testifying
She wanted to hasten everything and we stood on thin ice once more, snapping our teeth at each other with a wave of outrage. She was always expecting me to understand her but she never once returned that from her side. What about what I wanted? I was not ready to be a father for I was only learning how to be a moral mate to her.But the way she looked at me it was as though it had been what she had yearned for all her life. To have a family of her own, who was I to deny that? Was it not my duty to her, to give her that life?I did not think I would be a good father, I did not want to raise my pup as my father bred me. I was worried I would end being the same as him. I wanted time before I could speak with her on the topic of having pups but she thought I was unconditionally against the idea.It was not true, I too wanted to see my female's belly swollen with my pup snoring within. I too did not have a family growing up and I despairingly needed laughter and joy
I knew the moon would condemn me for the way I treated her gift. I did not know whom to blame, Lumina or myself? Did I need to be more patient with her? Did I need to be more understanding?That day as I showered with a dejected heart, I had given up a little on us. I felt we were lying in a hopeless pit we were both equal predators always at war with the other. I did not consider we could ever be happy with each other and I was prepared to move to the other wing of the castle and isolate myself from Lumina for a while.I thought it would be for the best, I would not be able to hurt her and she would not be able to wound me either. I wanted to end our sprouting relationship for her sake mostly, she would be happier without me. Without the cruelness of our bond, we could have lived in the pack together but we would have not been in a loving relationship.As I departed the bathroom's heat, she sat on that bed whilst she waited patiently for me. I was astounded for
I entered Cronus's lands with a calmness which I owned a lot of yet with her fit of aggression towards me she stripped it all apart, she tested me with every breath she took. Master of control? No, when it came to her I was a master of nothing.Then I assumed her truth, she did not wish to return for she was in love with Cronus. It had to be the only reason, my canines ached to mark her then and there and drag her outside by her neck exhibiting to every wolf she was mine. I wanted to do it the hard away be the pitiless vicious beast I was.Then Lumina wailed and my being shook, her tears I was powerless to behold anymore. I did not wish to hurt her further than I already had. When she stuttered the truth of her feelings to me of how it had always been me and shall remain so forevermore I strived to hide my surging smile. She chose me and that was all that mattered.And for the first time in a very long time, I sincerely apologized and freed my soul a li
The second my lips brushed softly against hers, I knew it. She would be the death of me and what astonished me was I deemed I would willingly die for her if that was what she wanted. She drove me wild and frantic streaming behind her like a panting male in a rut.Yet that very same night as Cronus pressed her against that wall and vocalised of the feelings he possessed for my female the beast in me mounted, he destroyed the barriers and clawed his way up to make his claim and I failed to stop him.I detested the vile sight of Cronu's fingers on her flesh, the closeness of their lips. She was mine and mine alone, every part of her belonged to me. If she had run away from my heat I would have hunted her, arrested her and barred her in my room for weeks fucking her with a savagery until she squealed the truth of whom her male was.But from that event stemmed insecurity, I grew to become anxious that she would leave me. My confidence in myself diminished with each r