Ariana's POVAs soon as Claire asked her question, the other girls' eyes started to roam about us. Emily was looking at us with a look of adoration while Sophie was gazing at us with puzzlement across her face. Charlotte on her own just looked at us with no hint of an emotion displayed on her face while Claire on the other hand was staring at us so hard with suspicion marring her features."So you guys are just noticing our dresses now?" Diana asked with a broad smile on her face, trying to diffuse the tension that blanketed us like a thick cloud.As I looked around, other people from the tables near ours were staring too, and they were not making any effort to hide the fact. Clearly, they wanted to know why the most popular clique were standing around instead of going out and why two out of them were putting on the same clothes, albeit ones with different colors."It's not only the dresses that are the same. Look at the boots too. The only difference is in the color and the length. D
Ariana's POVAs I sat down on the same couch I had occupied yesterday in the Alpha's office, doing the same thing I had been doing yesterday (compiling records of the pack members across various topics and years) my mind flashed back to the blankness I had felt just minutes earlier when the Alpha had spoken of a public whipping.When he spoke of it I had been puzzled and my brain had been blank. What was he talking about? Who was the public whipping meant for? I tried and tried to search my brain for something, anything but I came up with nothing. Nothing at all. He seemed to have seen the confusion I felt displayed all over my face because he came to my rescue immediately. "Do you not remember that yesterday, I sentenced Colin from the kitchen to a penance of public whipping after he tried to come between me and my pack members? Surely you should not have forgotten about it by now. It happened barely a day ago," the Alpha said coldly and his voice reverberated throughout the whole r
Ariana's POVAs the head guard spoke those words and left the dining hall as fast as he had come in, the voices that had quieted before when he stepped into the dining room resumed and people started speaking with urgency in their tones. Everyone was trying to talk at the same time because of the urgency of the situation. They contemplated the situation at hand and wondered who the person that had been unfortunate enough to get sentenced to a public whipping after more than a year's respite was. What had the person done? they wondered. Who was the unfortunate person even? they asked themselves but they didn't get an answer because there was no person in the dining hall presently who was privy to such information, or so they thought.I on my own part was still seating with my friends on our regular table when I had the news from the head guard. I tried to control my reaction, gasping in shock just like the rest of my friends. As I looked at their bewildered faces, my face mirrored the
Ariana's POVI stood there, rooted to the ground in shock as I stared at the massive form of Alpha Derek on the raised platform in front of where we stood. He was dressed in a black robe with hair slicked back and a sword slung over his shoulder. He looked the picture of a true Alpha as he stared off toward the horizon, his whole body still like that of a stature. He never turned as teenagers began filing into the empty space in front of the pack house but I knew he could sense that he knew that people were even though no one standing outside had talked since they arrived.Most of the teenagers had come outside in with laughter and chatter but as soon as they caught sight of the Alpha standing there with the aura of power surrounding him, they had fallen quiet at once. No one- not even the most hard headed of all the teenagers could dare to risk the Alpha's wrath. Alpha Derek hadn't even asked anyone not to talk but just his posture conveyed the message to everyone.It seemed as thoug
Ariana's POVIt was the day after the public whipping and I was emotionally drained after witnessing what the head guard, Reece did to Colin and how he was after everything. Colin's back had looked like a slab of raw meat that had been stabbed over and over again. The silver whip that had been used on him left long red marks on his angry and battered skin that I doubted whether the skin on his back would ever heal completely. The whole skin on his back had been molested and even if I didn't like him, I still pitied him. Hell, I pitied how he had looked after the whole ordeal. He hadn't even been unconscious, and my guess was that they had carried him to the pack's infirmary to treat him in his poor state but I couldn't be too sure because I didn't now how they did things in this place. Hell, I had never even witnessed a public whipping before now. My uncle, Mr. White, the Alpha of Blue Moon Pack had been callous and heartless but not to the extent of organizing a public whipping for
Ariana's POVAs I walked toward the source of the sound, dreading what I would find there, I was certain that someone was screaming. After all, it was only a human being who could produce sounds like that; an animal could not. As I continued my trek along the hallway, I hoped that the screaming person was not in some kind of danger. But if the person was not in danger, what then was the cause of such pained screams I was hearing? It had to be something dangerous. Still, I pushed my thoughts aside and placed my focus on finding the source of the screaming.As I walked further and further along the hallway, I was surprised that I had not yet gotten to the source of the sound. It had sounded more closer than it seemed when I first heard it. Why then had I not gotten to it yet after about a minute of walking? Still I was determined to locate the screaming person and do what I could to ease their pain because clearly, the person was in pain. I just hoped that when I finally traced the scr
Ariana's POVAs I stared at Colin who was still glaring at me, it took me a moment to compose the thoughts in my muddled up brain and put two and two together. Claire was here and she was putting on a pure white dress like that of a nurse, right? And I remember Emily telling me just the day before about the career choices all the girls chose after high school. I also remember her telling me that Claire was training to be a nurse.As I added all these details together, I was able to come up with a picture. This place was the pack's infirmiry- now that I remember, that sign on the entrance door had signified it- and Colin had been brought here to be treated after the harrowing assault on his back so I could guess that Claire was the nurse attending to him and I could only assume that the other lanky woman who was standing next to Claire and holding a clipboard was the doctor. The doctor narrowed her eyes at me just like Claire was doing and tried to communicate with me emphatically but
Ariana's POVAs Colin, the former cook lunged toward me, it was just like the scene with the wolf from when I had just come into this pack. The wolf had lunged at me and I had been defenseless. This scene too was like that, only that the difference in them was that the first time, a large black wolf had charged at me but this time, it was a pudgy middle aged man who had an injury covering his entire back. The difference was clear.The wolf that had tried to kill me then was the Beta of this pack but that was not the point. The point was that if I could manage to dodge the wolf of the Beta of this pack, clearly a strong man, then who was a sick fat man that I couldn't dodge? I shifted my stance, positioning myself properly against his massive frame. Before long he was almost on me, his huge stomach in my face when I side stepped him at the last moment, making him fall to the floor of the room with a heavy thud. I had known exactly how he wanted to move. He had wanted to land on me as