“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
“Sabrina, dear.” I quickly nodded and smiled at Ben. “It’s nice to see you visiting.”“Yeah, I just wanted to check on the madame.” He nodded.“Excuse me.” Lana suddenly excused herself and went inside the private room. She didn’t look back at us and just closed the door.“How are you? Nothing painful?” Ben reached for my arm and inspected my body as soon as the doors to the Elder’s room closed.“Just a scratch,” I said, knowing I had a wound on my elbow from last night.“Hmm,” he continued looking at my body as if he could see any pain I was hiding.“Nothing from the scratches and bites you had?” I shook my head and smiled.“None. It seems like their venom didn’t affect me at all, just like what you guys said.”“Hmm,” Ben hummed as he continued looking around my body for inspection. I could also see his eyes slightly changing color as he sniffed the air. He must be using his werewolf senses to sense anything wrong in the air around me.That took a couple of seconds, and finally Ben
“I-Is that…”I couldn’t finish my words; shellshocked at what I was hearing and seeing through my werewolf vision.In the middle of the darkness was a form of an almost deformed human, half turned into his wolf form. The figure was standing but it wasn’t upright. His hands were on his face–his nails digging on his cheeks, and his screams were louder than anything I’ve ever heard in an enclosed space.“That’s him. That’s what became of him when we found him. We almost lost two warriors because of his strength and his untamed nature.” Sebastian was screaming that beside me, but his voice sounded like a whisper compared to the rogue’s screams of agony.My hands shook as it instinctively went to my mouth. Tears brimmed in my eyes as I saw what became of the nice and quiet boy I knew from the Omega house.“Samuel…” I muttered, seeing the tears that fell along with the blood on his cheeks.“Sabrina, no,” Sebastian followed when I started walking slowly towards his figure inside the cell. Bu
“Where have you been?”My head snapped to the corner of my room. All the lights were turned off, and it was already late. Even the Omegas in the house were no longer around the living area. I thought I was alone.But behind the shadows casted off from the moonlight through the window, my mate’s tall figure showed.“Titus,” I mumbled, seeing him sat on the chair in front of my bed.It’s been hours since the sun had gone down, and it’s been hours since I left the dungeon. But Samuel’s screams and words were still running around my mind, unable to suppress it.I needed to go somewhere else to release whatever ill feelings I got there.“I was just in the clinic,” I answered and sighed.Titus moved from his seat and stood in front of me. I sat on the bed and inhaled deeply.He leaned slightly and slowly took my arm that had bandages around. “You had blood taken?” His dark eyes lingered on the bandages, as if he could see through it.I nodded. “Yeah. Ben told me I could help if I let him
I stared at him for a while before I spoke.“Do you promise not to get mad if I tell you?”“Where were you besides the clinic?” He asked, his face curious and serious. I pouted a little, getting a little nervous over what I did when we already had a talk about this.We were finally having some time together without thinking of anything besides each other. But that has to be ruined. “Sabrina,” he called, sounding a bit impatient now.I sighed and surrendered.“Promise me first you’d see the reason for this and not get mad. At least not with Sebastian.”“Sebastian?” He sat up with the realization, looking a little mad with his brows still furrowed. Oh my. “Why–I told him not–“ I took his hand to stop him and sat up as well. “Promise me, please. I have a reason.”Still frowning, Titus looked right into my eyes and nodded briefly. I heaved a deep breath and sat properly on the bed, still holding his hand.“I–ah…” I looked down on our joined hands and exhaled one final deep breath.
I woke up hearing weird noises.I slowly opened my eyes, feeling my bed shake slightly. I turned my head to the side, and immediately knew where the movements and noise was coming from.“Titus?” I called. He shook his head and mumbled something in his sleep.“Hey,” I touched his arm, but he continued mumbling incomprehensible words.I looked at my window and saw that the sun had already peeked through the horizons of the sky. The sky was starting to become light blue but the breeze of the wind remained cold.I looked at my mate again and saw how sweat was trickling down his forehead as he continued flinching and moving around the bed, as if he was battling with something in his dream.“Titus, hey.” I shook him again.“N-No… don’t.” He mumbled, more comprehensive now.I touched his cheek and tapped him slightly. “Titus, you’re dreaming. Wake up.”I shook him once again, but he suddenly gripped my hand, holding it so tightly.“D-Don’t go, Mom.” My heart raced when his voice cracked, an
I inhaled the cool breeze of the wind as I stood beside the huge tree in front of the Omega House.I woke up with the sun already on my face, and with a note on my lamp that said: ‘Good morning, my love. I’ll be missing you again for the entire day. I have to go to work. I don’t want to disturb your sleep so I just wrote this note. I’ll see you this afternoon. Let’s have lunch together. See you.’My heart was still thumping real fast when a knock suddenly came on my door. Before I could open it, Maddie came in with a bright greeting. She noticed I was reading something, and my heart thumped for an entirely different reason that time. I immediately created an alibi and acted as if it was nothing.The situation made my mind go back to my thoughts last night. When can I talk about Titus and I freely? I’m not his secret, am I?I leaned away from the tree and put the broomstick I was holding earlier. I had just finished sweeping the yard. I insisted on doing that when the Head Matron d
“Hi.” I almost flinched when I was pecked with a kiss on my lips as I sat in the middle of the lunch hall. It wasn’t my first time coming here, but it’s probably my first time eating in this place. Most probably eating with Titus in public, alone. “H-hey,” I greeted back when he rounded towards the chair in front of me. I looked around consciously, my mind still in a haze after what happened in the clinic. “Are you okay?” He asked, seeing me look around. “Are… you sure you want to eat lunch here?” I asked when people were also starting to arrive. I couldn’t help thinking about what Ben said. “Yeah,” Titus nodded casually, already looking at the menu in front of the counter while we sat. “Why not?” I just stared at him. All the things I heard were blocked. An epiphany came in my head. Had I just been overthinking about his thoughts about keeping me a secret? About us? About all of these? Am I just getting in too much in my head? Why would I suspect Ben of something? He