Hi! So sorry for the late uploads 😭 have been the unluckiest person to not only break my laptop but to also have my phone’s LCD broken (it’s old, so I also really need to replace it). Will do my best to continue, though. Thanks for everyone who’s still reading!
I looked at the stage, making sure the woman was not there and that I was just imagining things.But in confirmation, Lana wasn’t really present on stage, beside Titus, where she always liked staying.My heart beat faster as I looked at the forest again, still seeing figures moving about.What is she doing there? Why is she talking with a rogue? And most importantly, why is it not attacking her?Not that I want her to be attacked, but the most normal thing to happen when facing a rogue is to be attacked.Unless…“... announcement of the Top 14, the Kingsguard.”The applause that resonated around the area caught my attention. My head snapped back to the stage again and caught Titus looking at me. He gave me a small smile, but he immediately caught up to my emotions when a more serious expression came on his face.‘What’s wrong, my love?’ he immediately mind-linked me. I swallowed, feeling the chill around my neck when the wind breezed through the wide space of the pack. I can still
Goosebumps immediately rose on my skin as soon as I got inside the vicinity of Vamos’s forest.I didn’t hear Titus mind-link me back so my conscience speaking about just following his orders was immediately shrugged away; my worry for my friend intensified.What has gotten in that girl’s head that she suddenly ran here? Was she not thinking about her own safety?And has something really happened to Sebastian?‘Maddie? Where are you? I followed you.’ I said, slowly walking deeper inside the forest; my shoes making scrunching noises as I stepped on dried leaves.So many things happened to me in this place. I was beaten, almost taken advantage of, cried, saved, and all other things that I had ambivalent feelings for this place.But I know one thing for sure: this forest is dangerous.Stopping by the spot where I thought I saw the red eyes earlier, I looked behind me towards the still on-going ceremony. It had started getting mellow as it slowly went to its end. And I could see that som
“S-Samuel?”I mumbled as I stared wide-eyed at the boy whom I was cleaning the Omega house with.He was missing the last time I heard about him…“S-Sabrina…” He backed away and let go of the lady. She slumped on the ground, dirty and wounded, but all my attention was on Samuel. The quiet and nice kid I know from the Omega House.Before I went away for training I heard he was missing. Is this the reason why?“Samuel!” I screamed when he suddenly turned his back and started running. The other rogue whom he was with followed him. “Stop! Wait, Samuel!” I tried following them, but the laugh that came from the other rogue made me almost stop. The rogue glanced back at me and smirked, before he and Samuel ran—both half turned and smudged with dirt. I stopped on my tracks, frozen, and just stared at the pathway they went through until they went away.“Samuel…” “You know the boy.”My attention was taken when the lady suddenly spoke. I turned to her and saw her still sitting on the floor.
“T-Titus… I think I shouldn’t be here,” I said as soon as he pulled me towards him as he opened the doors of the board room where the rest of the Council people, including the Elders were gathered for an immediate meeting.Titus didn’t respond and just continued walking inside the large room. While I tried acting normal when all eyes went to us.Alphas, guards—now including the 14 Kingsguards, the Councilors and the people who were involved earlier watched us as they waited for the king to speak up.Titus stood at the head of the triangular shaped table, the tip pointing at him. He looked so tall and formidable most especially with his black and gold uniform and the medals that hung around it, that no one dared speaking. Despite his stance, his hand was still on my back, so I had no choice but to follow him. I noticed how most of the people’s attention were on his arm around me, so I awkwardly stood back a little, expecting Titus to let it go. He did, but he glanced at me with thos
But if it was really her, why would she do it? “We’re sorry for suddenly interrupting. But we have urgent information from Madame Belissa,” Ben informed, looking like he indeed ran from here. His white shirt was still rolled up, the white hairs on his arms showing. Even the grayish hair that he already had on his head looked extra bright, as if he had been very stressed by the situation. His usual warm smile wasn’t present in his face. “Proceed,” Titus spoke, turning his attention to them. “Lady Lana.” Ben gestured to Lana, and I turned my eyes towards her. Still in her body-forming, long, black dress, Lana Wintour stood in front of us with the same confidence she always had around people. Despite everything, her hair and make up was still perfect. But I could see behind her facade that she wasn’t as perfectly poised as everyone thought she was. Something in her eyes wants to break away. I could practically see it clawing at her. But she wouldn’t be the upright and disciplined
I could literally hear my heart beating so loudly.‘I-It’s okay… I swear. It’s understandable. It’s because they don’t know me.’ I reasoned through mindlink.But Titus turned to me, looking frustrated. “You are not to be spoken like that,” he said out loud, his eyes bright, his wolf just right at the surface.He faced the people again. “I will not let anyone speak to you like that.”The silence that followed after that felt chilly, and it stretched on for minutes. Nobody dared speaking as we all could practically feel how Titus was just controlling himself not to throw a fit.I watched as he clenched and unclenched his fists.I wanted to reach out to him, but kept myself still. I didn’t want to make matters worse.“This meeting is done.” After a while, he finally spoke. “You may now go.” At first, the Councilors and other Alphas looked at each other, reluctant over moving, but they eventually did.Councilor Antonio moved first, the other Councilor followed along with the Alphas and
“She hasn’t woken up yet. But all is well with her, don’t worry.” I nodded at the nurse that was inside Elder Belissa’s private room. “Thank you,” I said, and she immediately went back to her work. I watched her silently as she fixed the tubes that were injected in the arms of Madame Belissa, making sure everything was okay. After everything that I just heard from the rogue and her last night, I knew I just had to talk to her again. I want to know what she meant about my ability to hear other’s wolves. And how it connects to my being mated to the king. But the echoes of the machine and the silent heaves of breath from the Madame was all that I could have right now. As the nurse said, she hasn’t woke up yet. The madame’s regeneration isn’t as fast as it was when she was young. And I heard she was almost two centuries old. “If I’m allowed, I’ll visit later again,” I spoke as the nurse continued organizing the area after a while. She nodded. “You are allowed, Miss Sabrina. The
“That would totally oust me from his choices.” She huffed, sounding defeated.I shook my head. “Lana, if you think I’m gonna use this information just to get Titus from you, then I’m offended you think so lowly of me.”She met my eyes. “If he was going to choose, I’d rather have him choose by himself and not intentionally influence his decision.”“But that doesn’t exactly make me feel better,” she said, still sounding defeated. “It was pretty clear what his choice was.”I heaved a deep breath, realizing where this antagonistic attitude of hers was coming from. I knew she was genuinely thankful for what I did last night, but what she witnessed in the boardroom brought her latter bitter sentiments of me.We both fell silent after a couple of minutes. We just stayed rooted on our feet, but looking somewhere else rather than each other.“Look…” I turned to her when she decided to break the silence.“I am grateful—very grateful for what you did to my Nana. I-I’m not ready to lose her.” S
It took months before Vamos was able to recover. The fire that had started in the storage area of the pack had gotten so big it ruined half of the woods behind it. It went to the villages, the Office Building and the Omega House. Thankfully, the last two structures weren’t completely devoured as our other packmates quickly managed to stop the fire while the fights continued on the grounds that night. With the Command I did—which I vaguely remember doing. I thought I was just wishing it to happen—some rogues indeed snapped out of the effects of the Freedom. They stopped fighting and realized what was happening. Most of them were our packmates that were bitten and have turned. Still the effect of my Command, some did fight their heads, and most ran to follow Benjamin’s scent as he tried to escape. His body was then found by the Kingsguards who went to some rounds all around the pack vicinity. He was almost at the edge of Vamos, going to the human community, but the rogues were able
“Please! Wake up!” I screamed as tears finally fell down on my cheeks. “Titus, please! Wake up!” I cried and held his cheeks. His eyes were closed, and blood was all over his face. And I could see how battered he was. His lip was cut, his nose was shattered and his right brow was cut. But I know he’s still there. I may not hear him, nor feel his presence, but I know he’s still there.He has to be. “Sabrina, he’s been bitten too many times. He will change—“”We have a cure!” I looked up at him and immediately remembered that I left Lana and Nathan inside the clinic. “Lana and Nathan have the cure! Get to them and make them come here!”But Sebastian continued looking at me sadly. Maddie was already crying beside him as she clutched on his arm. I looked at all the others who were around us: the Councilmen, Edwin, the Kingsguards, even Miranda who remained strong and alive along with our packmates who survived.Anger boiled in my chest when all I could see were sadness and defeat in
Chaos continued on the pack of Vamos.But my eyes were trained towards my mate. Benjamin had shifted on his dirty, black and brown wolf who was buff but smaller than Dmitri. I knew that he was in no shape to fight the Alpha King. Titus was vicious, and I saw how just like me, he was just holding back earlier. “Ahhhh!” I turned and saw the scarred lycan as he held his spear in hand, ready to attack me. I jumped in the air and kicked another rogue for traction as I flipped in the air. With my jaw prepared to get his head, my back paws kicked the spear down and closed my jaw on his shoulders, making him scream. Blood boiling, I bit harder on his shoulder even when his blood had coated my nose and chin already. But I didn’t care. I wanted him gone forever. He has always been a pawn. Many lives were wasted, ruined and lost because of him. I yelped when even with immense pain, he managed to slash my side with another spear he suddenly grabbed from the rogue who passed by. I flew back
I walked towards the grounds where almost all the fights stopped at the emergence of the new group. For a moment, everything seemed to have frozen as my mind filled with rage for the man who ruined my life. Those pitch black eyes suddenly found mine, and a grin immediately plastered on his scarred face. “Ah, Sabrina. It’s so nice to see that you are okay.””Bastard,” I seethed. He just smirked. “I’m going to kill you.”His smirk turned into a grin as he positioned. “Try me.”I lunged at him, shifting mid-air and abandoning all thoughts of not causing permanent harm to anyone. This man deserved all the harm anyone could cause him after all the evil things he has done. I was about to bite his head off when he suddenly brought up a spear which he used to cover his face. My jaw clenched on the metal weapon, and with my grip still on it, he threw his arm out, making my body fly in the air. I landed on my paws, finding my balance. The bastard didn’t expect how quick I was when with ano
Screams echoed all around the pack as a huge explosion shook the ground once again.I stood up and took the two bags filled with needles I managed to already put tranquilizers on and ran towards the window. My eyes widened when I saw how huge the fire had gotten in the forest. And it was now crawling towards the Omega House and the villages, where the explosion happened. “No…” I breathed out and quickly ran back down. I fought against the rogues I came across. I immediately noticed how their numbers have doubled in just a couple of minutes. I was surrounded by five or six people, but with the tranquilizers I have in hand, I managed to push down two within just a minute. ‘Sabrina!’ Someone screamed but I couldn’t look where it was as I struggled at the neck lock that I was caged in. Taking another needle from the lab gown’s side, I injected it to him and stabbed the other one who attacked me. I pushed out the liquid to his skin.But before I could attack the last one in front of
‘We’re almost there!’ Nate and I’s paws pounded on the ground, but a rogue suddenly appeared behind the shadows, making me stop for a while. ‘Rina!’ I backed away as Nate took on the rogue. I let him, knowing he was far stronger. And I could sense how eager and suddenly fired up Nate was. It's just like me, the compulsion we heard from our king about killing an infected wolf was making us want to do it more. The rogue went down and we quickly made our way towards the entrance of the dungeon that we could now see. Thankfully, there was still no one there that could possibly stop us. ‘Let’s run faster, before anyone gets here.’We both sped up, knowing the possibility was there. Our paws made loud noises as soon as we entered the quiet cave of the dungeon. The cave’s width and height accommodated us as we both entered the prison where Lana Wintour was.”Nathan,” Lana called as soon as she recognized Nate’s wolf. Nate didn’t say anything but I saw something flash in his eyes.I tur
‘Go, Maddie and I will continue helping the rescue. We can’t abandon this or everyone will be turned.’ Edwin told us. ‘Go, Rina. Only you two can stop this.’ Maddie added. ‘Let’s go.’ Nate and I started running in the opposite direction. We were now running towards the pack grounds where most of the fights were happening. Lana told me she was studying my blood samples for something else. I could only hope she was studying them for a cure. And that that cure is already available now. If it is, I don’t know yet how we are going to spread that to the infected. But first, we have to make sure we have a cure for this.’She has the cure?’ Nate asked amidst another fight we were having. We were teaming up now to make things quick. Nate is a very skilled fighter and is very strong, he could make the enemies fall down in a matter of a few seconds. His wolf’s jaw was so strong he could rip anyone apart. I’ll have to thank him for even being here. He’s an Alpha in a different pack. And yet,
Being bigger and heavier than her, I immediately locked her on the ground. She barked at my face, and I was once again surprised at how strong they were. I was fighting a half turned young wolf. She’s a teenager, and yet she’s almost as strong as the trained Warriors I have fought. I could see that they are unlike the rogues I have encountered before. They were not mindless. They know what they’re doing, but their minds are twisted with the Freedom’s ideology. And the dark protruding veins around their body wasn’t as huge. They were smaller now, but they crawled at a wider scope like webs in their body.“We will defeat you! This kingdom is ours—“I cut off her screams and bit off her neck when she tried getting away. I heard a crack and pulled back, just leaving her unconscious as I processed everything that was happening. They indeed have perfected the Freedom. The turned wolves are more coherent and mindful—but manipulated according to their liking. Benjamin has infiltrated the p
As soon as I was able to properly stand up, the soldiers started attacking. Loud screams and groans echoed around the grounds as Titus and Sebastian moved like lightning. I barely had anyone attacking me when the rest of the Warriors came in to back us up. I didn’t know there were this many that had gotten the injection. There were basically more than fifty of them. And they were moving unexpectedly faster, their attacks stronger. I huffed when someone was able to approach me with a swing on his heavy fist. I fortunately evaded it and it landed on the nearest tree on my back which had my eyes widen.The tree bark just shattered, making the tree shake. It could have been my face.I faced the Warrior rogue and saw his pitch black, sparkling eyes. “Ahh!”I quickly moved away before he could smash my face. He was unimaginably strong for someone who’s gotten half of his body burned. This was the effect of the perfected Freedom. They are going to be as strong as trained lycans. They wi