**XANDER'S POV**
"I never knew you went through something like that." Eunice said and smiled pitifully at me.
"It is okay, I have been facing it, that is why i must protect Nicole at all cost." I said. I have been fighting an inner battle with Killian. He wants to mark his mate but I don't want to force her.
"I want to mark you." Killian said after pulling the last string and finally won.
She was taken aback by his husky voice.
"What was that?" She asked. I cannot reply her because our handsome gentleman, Killian, is attending to her.
“Hi, I am Killian and I am his wolf." He said and smiled at her.
Dummy! I scoffed.
"Ohh, hi." She said shyly. She calmed down a bit but I could sense her nervousness.
"Should we go for a run?" He asked after a while.
"Run?" She asked.
"Yeah, run in the woods, you know." He said with a smile.
Gosh my wolf has been whipped which is now affecting me."Okay, how
**CIARA'S POV**"How will I get these injuries treated?" I thought painfully. No one wants to associate with me like I am some plague. I could not cry. That is if there are more tears in my eyes. I chuckled bitterly.I carried myself into my bathroom and had a cold bath on my colored injuries. Ouch! It hurts. I could not take the pain from the cold. I wore my clothes and was about stepping into the room, my vision suddenly became blurry. Before you know it, I blacked out....*****************I found myself in the most beautiful place I have ever seen. A place with a beautiful waterfall with different colorful flowers and tall trees, the beautiful view of a rainbow during sunset, beautiful butterflies moving around freely and giving it a unique kind of peace. Then a butterfly came to my side, as I wanted to take it into my hand, it flew away. I started following it, trying to get to perch on my index finger but it kept moving away. Then it stopp
**NICOLE'S POV**"Wakey, wakey." I heard Eunice call out from my deep sleep.I opened my eyes slowly."Sleepyhead." She said as she opened some package of food she had brought for me."I brought you some food." She said as she begin to serve it into a plate for me."You are quite happy this morning." I said and smiled.She smiled. I looked around and saw my brother also."Oh brother, never knew you were here." I said.He smiled."Ugh, looks like they've already reconciled." I thought."No longer fighting, huh?" I asked and raised an eyebrow.Xander went closer to Eunice and gave a small peck on her cheek."What does it look like?" He asked and smirked.Wait, did i just see something on Eunice's neck?"How are you feeling?" Xander asked."I am fine." I said, still looking at her neck. She noticed it and covered it. A shade of pink appearing on her cheek.I moved my hands to her neck, i removed her hands t
**XANDER'S POV**I finally marked her. My mark looked so beautiful on her neck."So beautiful, MINE." I said, pulling her close to me."MINE." I repeated again putting my head in crook of her neck. I licked it while she shuddered and moaned.If she was a werewolf, i would have been carrying her mark, but since she is a human, i still have visible love hickeys that she planted me during our sensual love making."So are you ready for your Luna ceremony?" I asked her."Yes." She said, almost immediately."Alright... Let's prepare for it." I said. Then i kissed her.**CIARA'S POV**Beep... Beep... Beep...The sound of the machine beside me slightly brought me out of my state of unconsciousness.I opened my eyes a little but closed it back sharply due to the bright light of the room. I tried opening it again slowly.... Ever slowly until i finally opened it completely. I looked around me, i was still on the hospital but i was no longe
**CIARA'S POV**If only they will permit me to explain. If only they allow me to give them the detail of what ensued that day, maybe - just maybe things would have been different. The pain of being blamed for what you did not do. The pain of being misunderstood, do you know it?.I.... I... I also lost my own parents and my mom... My mom was carrying my younger sibling in her womb... But she was also killed. I am in pain both emotionally and physically.Why am i always blamed for every bad thing that happen to them?Why?! Why?!Moon goddess, this is so unfair.When did my life become so miserable? so miserable that i don't recognise my self anymore.Ahrghh!"I am just tired, the pain is way too much, it is so unbearable.""Oh, death, i am ready, take me to the afterlife where there would be eternal peace.""Death, why don't you take me when i asked you?"."Why did you have to take everything from without permission from me?"
**XANDER'S POV**My phone suddenly started vibrating with different notifications buzzing in and it was disturbing to my hearing as i need to finish these paperworks as soon as possible.Well, did it stop? No, it did not.I stopped what i was doing and picked the phone." Oh, what the fuck is it? " I said frustrated as i unlocked it." Who is this? " i asked, narrowing my eyes for clear image of the picture. Wait.......I got the greatest shock of my life... My mate.... Wait... No.... Eunice with another male on a bed cuddled up together..... She.... She.... Definitely can't do this to me... No.. i refuse to believe that Eunice could cheat on me... No.... Impossible.... Never!I stood up immediately, the person who sent this was anonymous or else.... Luckily the person also sent the address of the place.In annoyance i threw my phone away making it smash on the wall. I left it broken and rushed out.***********On my way, i tried cal
**XANDER'S POV**I trusted her and she broke the trust. I loved her but she pretended to love me. What a waste of love!"Ahrgghh!!" I yelled as i threw everything in my office away.I felt betrayed and heartbroken. My so called other half slept with another man in an hotel. An hotel! Gosh, i have been a fool all along this while. Oblivious to see the real her.At the time i met her, i thought my years of staying alone was over, i felt like i had someone who i could come back to and cry in her bosom, i felt like i found who will be willingly and eventually stay by my side and won't leave, who will accept every part of me, who will correct me when i am wrong, but no, i thought wrong."Fuck, Xander, what have you done to your office?" Lucas yelled as he barged in."Hey, you had better watch your tongue, Beta." I growled at him, radiating my Alpha energy.He bared his neck in submission."But what is all of this?" He asked cautiously. Taking his w
**EUNICE'S POV**"Oh my god, my life has been ruined by a random stranger." I mumbled while crying. I sniffed back the mucus in my nose and dabbed my face with my palm.I got into the pack house and was welcomed with a slap on the face from Nicole.As soon as the slap landed on my cheek, i winced out in pain."Nicole, see, let me explain." I pleaded with her."Please, listen to me." I said, trying to hold her hands."Explain what?' She yelled and pulled her hands away."Explain how and why you cheated on my brother." She asked and let out a dry laugh then she jerked her hand away from me."I don't want to ever see you or talk to you again." She yelled at me and left."You need to calm down." I heard someone say. Someone i did not notice was there - Kira. She gave me a tissue."You want me to calm down if you had not left me with that stranger, i would not have been in this situation." I said to her tearfully or rather angrily, anyo
**XANDER'S POV**It hurts me to avoid her for a whole week, like a whole week. Although Killain was angry, he wanted to apologize to her for yelling at her but no, the plan will be ruined.I already postponed the luna ceremony, so she could have all the time she needed to take control of her self and also to calm down.When Killian won't stop wanting to be let out and yelling at me in my head, I took her favorite hoodie to keep him at peace and also to prevent him from going savage. I secretly went to her room to watch her sleep. She is human so she could not have possibly sensed me."Mate, meet mate." He kept chanting in my head."I have said it before, we need to give her some time." I said out of frustration."Mate..""Gosh, i am so done with the with this paperwork." I said and barged out of the office."I need to run."**EUNICE'S POV**Nicole ignores me now. Whenever we go to school, she behaves like i don't exist. It hurts seei
~Legend's POV~ I looked at myself in the mirror and smiled in satisfaction. "Things are about to get hot." Gael said and I chuckled. I know he does not like the way I did not tell him anything but I just can't. "Let's get going." I said and we both stepped out of the room. As we walked the corridors of the palace, the maids and guards bowed in greetings. I released a deep breath and wore a stern face. Just as we got to the entrance of the throne room that announcer was about to alert them of my presence buy I raised my hand to shun him. "The Alpha Prince..." He swallowed the rest of the word as I stepped into the room. Everyone turned their heads to towards me. And I stood all and mighty in the middle of the throne hall. My father and I shared this 'make sure what you want to say does not lead to your dethronement' kind of look and I almost snickered at him. "Rest, father." I said through the mind link and he seemed to be taken aback. I looked around to take a good look at th
~Leticia's POV~I stared at him as he zoomed off. Honestly, I was too dumbfounded to talk. Like he literally stakes his claim and I could not do anything. Okay, I agree. I am denying the bond. That is because I don't want to get all too attached to him. Like I notice the way Damien and Ciara always behave. Not to talk of how Leo and Rose do.Nah! I can't do that."So you know him?" Brian's voice came from behind me.Gosh, I have forgotten that he was even here. I turned to him and smiled."I should be the one asking you that question?" I said to him with a glare. He gulped down and looked away."So you were a wolf, like seriously? Wait, am I also your mate?" I asked him to be sure I am not between two guys."No, you are not." He said and my mind calmed down a bit. But wait?"Why?-""I lost my wolf already." He said and my eyebrows furrowed in pity."Hey, don't give me that look of pity. I am only with you because I love you but now that I found that that you are Legend's mate. I gue
~Legend's POV~"Hey, Legend. You can't keep doing this to yourself." Gael's voice said from behind the door. I hissed out and gulped down another bottle of alcohol. It's been a week since my father gave me that stupid options that left me dumbfounded. I could not even think of an escape answer for him. All I did was watch my mate leave from the window of my room. I sniffed in and took another sip. I had locked myself in and refused to attend the court meetings but one thing my dad does not know is that I was drinking. I belched and took another sip. I have missed her so much to the extent that I don't even think I can ever see her again. But why will dad put my life at jeopardy all because of his own mate?!I shook my head and tried to stand up but I slumped back on the floor. I winced slightly and checked my arm. Her bite mark was still there. The place she had bit me one week ago. I would say her teeth is quite sharp to the extent that they left a mark. I tried to get up again but
~Legend's POV~I walked through the corridors as I quietly anticipate her to be there. At least."She does not have a wolf." Ryder's voice said in my head and I halt to a stop."What did you say?" I asked him."I tried trying to connect with her but.. ask what she is." He said and went to rest back. That's how he does. He leaves me to do all the work while he tells me bit by bit, putting me on suspense. I shook my head and walked into my chambers. I opened the lock and went in."Mate!" I called out."Mate!" She mimicked me and I chuckled low key."Tell me why you are being like this towards me?" I asked her."Because you must have mistaken me to be your mate. Like let me tell you, I don't have a wolf and besides I am a witch." She said and just like that I jerked back immediately.Impossible!What kind of shit is this?"You are my mate. I can feel it." Was all I could say to assure her."I don't know what to say because I have a fiance who I love so much and I am not going to give it
~Leticia's POV~I don't understand why my brother insisted on my coming here. I scoffed as I watched them give the honorary speech about the said Alpha king who sat all mighty on his throne and had this forced smile on his face. I need to get out of here.I looked around but my brother was nowhere to be found. I shrugged and walked out from the crowd. I looked around and my legs took me towards the garden. As I was looking around and I bumped into something or rather someone. "Ouch!" I winced as I held my forehead.I looked up at the person who stood before. He has his eyes glued on me like I was some support to his life. "Mate!" He whispered and my eyes went wide open."You say?!" I gasped in shock and moved back a bit to take a proper look at him."You are my mate?" He said more like asking."I don't know what you are talking about and if you may excuse me, I am here to get fresh air and you seem to be blocking it." I said to him and turned away from him. Before I could take anoth
Torn between his duty and heart, Legend Brendon has reached the junction at which he has to tread carefully or else he would lose everything that made him the Alpha King. When he meets his mate, Leticia, she was everything he did not expect her to be. A witch. He must make sure she does not get killed and fight against the roaming shadows that were threatening to destroy his kingdom.• • • Chapter one Chapter One~Legend's POV~"So tell me why you are not excited about your father's birthday?" Gael, my best friend and Beta's son, said and I exhaled deeply."It is not that I am not excited about it. Heck, I am so happy that he is aging fast and I will become the Alpha King but my wolf has been feeling jittery which is making me look stressed than usual." I explained to him and pinched the bridge of my nose. But instead this fool took it as a joke and grinned like a dummy. I snickered at him in annoyance and almost rolled my eyes at him.I can't. As per my father's word, I am the Alph
**A Month Later**"So tell me why I should follow you to the Alpha king's birthday?" Leticia asked for the umpteenth time as she saw across the table with Leo."Because I said you are going with me." He said with his hands on my lap. She rolled her eyes and shrugged."You're going?" He asked."Not like I have a choice." She groaned and I chuckled low-key.Ever since we caught the scoundrel, everything was at peace. I even went to see my parents, well foster parents. They asked for my forgiveness and I just forgave them. Don't want them to be sulking up to me. After that, we also and when I say 'we', I meant Leo and I. We went to see Levi. He had also become the Alpha of his pack and he said that he searched for me all over the place when I went missing and apologized for his inconsistence. I introduced Leo to him as my mate and everything went fine. So tomorrow was the Alpha king's birthday and we were all invited. Well, mostly the Alphas and Lunas."Tomorrow." He said and dragged me
************Rose's POV************So right now, we are in front of the entire pack who has been unable to shift. It was early in the morning. Samantha was still tied down with that spell bound rope."A lot of you think your Luna was the one who caused you to be unable to shift. Well, guess what. It was one of you." My mother yelled."I know you all must be thinking of who I am. I am your Luna's mother and I will not stand and watch you all paint her bad when she is not." She said and they looked at her with awe."Well, I guess you all must know that this lady here is a witch and the one who assisted the person to stop you all from shifting." She continued. My mother kicked her to start talking."The one who came to me for help was none other than Jacksonville." She said."He told me about the fact that he was not satisfied with the new Alpha and that he was the one who supposed to be in the position that he was and we came to an agreement." She explained."Bring Jackson out here."
************Rose's POV************"So after putting such a bold and dramatic front before Leo, you are here sulking?" My mother asked me as she placed the cup of water before me. I grunted and sipped a little."Mom, you don't understand. Ever since I came back, I don't understand a thing at all. Where I was taken to? What they did to me? How I was handled? I know nothing at all. And now the pack is struck with some stupid disease or what should it be called?" I said with a look of sadness."Whosever might have taken you cleared your memory and I will love you to relax so that I make a portion and try to remember some spells to track the witch." She said and went into the room. Well, they now stay in the cave, not actually a cave, but it was built like one. And the environment is serene enough and it is quite conducive especially for them since they wanted to be away from other people."Rose," Leo's voice said in my head, making me jerk."Leo?" I asked."How are you?" He asked and I