*ASA TRINE* Clay had been taken away. After I had come out of the room the next day, I had asked about his whereabouts but no one knew anything or was willing to say anything about him. Even the Luna would evade my questions and every time I mentioned him, I could feel Cain tense up and stare at me as if trying to figure out whether there was something more to my worries. Aside from the slight insecurity of his, he had been treating me really well. It was to such an extent that even Leia had given her permission for me to go around with him freely without her constant supervision. “Here, your strawberry ice cream.” I felt something cold touch the side of my cheek making me shiver and Cain’s smiling face soon came in my view from behind me as he placed the bowl in front of me. We had just returned back from our daily run and was now enjoying ice cream, like we religiously had been doing for the last one week and thanking him for the sweet delight I puckered my lips for a kiss. “A
*ASA TRINE* It was the first time I had been completely brought to the limelight and I don’t think I appreciated the attention as much as I thought I would. My lips were constantly aching from the fake smiles that I had consistently put on for the whole crowd to see. While living in the shadows I never once had to worry about these kinds of things. My ‘star’ sister would handle everything but today I was the star and I hated having to put so much energy into burning this bright. I am sure I looked nothing but like a flickering candle. But this position also gave me some power, people didn’t dare insult me directly. “It’s so nice to meet you again Asa, you remember we went to the same school? I always wanted to come and say Hi to you then but I couldn’t because you usually stayed all alone by yourself,” An annoying face that was one of the ‘populars’ in high school greeted me and I noticed how she underhandedly tried to make people aware of my standing in the school as a loner and
*ASA TRINE* A pinch and an embarrassing smile later Sofia took a step forward and said, “Pardon my mate, we just got to know each other so he confused my name with the Trines as I had just been telling him about my relationship to them but I am Sofia Ignis, Michael Ignis, your Beta’s sister.” She had started off awkwardly due to the mistake that Clay had made with her name but by the end I could tell that she was proud. I don’t know how she was cool when her ‘mate’ had done such a blunder with the very introduction of the person he had been attached to but because of the consistent smile on her face it was bearable to face that second hand embarrassment on her part. Was he mocking me when he took my surname instead of hers? But didn’t that insult his mate that he supposedly loved so much? There was a slight look of confusion gracing Clay’s face as he listened to his mate talk to people who had disregarded his previous mistake and were now congratulating her. It was the power of th
*ASA TRINE* The hateful lips that had tormented me time an again with the words that spilled out of it, slowly dipped down in a satisfactory frown. The perfectly groomed brows that sat on the top most part of his forehead stretched closer together more than ever and his eyes had a light burning inside it as the blue gleamed viciously in the moonlight. Clay was furious, exactly how I wanted him to be. I wanted him to feel the rage I had been burning with. But suddenly in an instant, almost within a flash of a second, he was standing in front of me while Cain had a hand on his chest stopping him from taking another step further. It was embarrassing to admit but my heart had stopped for a second when I realized what might have happened to me if not for my mate’s presence. “Stay in your limits,” Cain warned him audibly but still low enough that it wouldn’t garner any attention towards us. Lowering his gaze, Clay watched his brother threateningly push out his claws and returning his s
*ASA TRINE* “Cain, no,” I weakly refuted as I felt his fingers glide over the heels of my foot in slight curvy patterns. My attempts were halfhearted at the best as I slowly pushed away at Cain’s head that was lowering towards my feet. “What are you- Cain!” I scolded him but it sounded more like a moan even to my own ears as I felt his tongue flick a scraped wound leaving a wet trail in its wake. The sensation of his hot tongue and seductive gaze sent a shiver rushing through my body. Fuck! Another slicked movement on the ankle made me gasp again and fist his soft hair in my hands. This made Cain hiss as he looked up from where he predatorily kept bunching up my dress, revealing more and more of my shin. “I was just trying to disinfect your wounds,” he said trying to act innocent as he continued to glide his fingers sensitively over my bare skin. There was a hypnotic glint in his eyes that kept me still even as I felt the air caress more and more of my skin. It was only when I fel
*ASA TRINE* “Luna?” I called out as soon as we reached the Alpha’s residence. She had been curled like a ball on the sofa in the living room, drinking a glass of wine while looking as if she had cried tears all night. “What’s wrong, Mom?” Cain asked, alarmed to see his mother in a state such as this. She was a composed and strong lady therefore seeing her in this condition didn’t settle well with me as well. Looking at the both of us she wiped her face for any remaining tears with the sleeves of her beige night gown that she had been wearing and sitting the glass back down on the coffee table, she croaked out a smile as she said, “Is Clay alright?” Her question angered me slightly and the brows that had been furrowed before in her worry were now stretched up high at the indecency of the question, that she had been asking her child who had just been hurt by the other one, an hour ago. Shouldn’t she ask how Cain was doing? “He is alright, Mom,” Cain replied back normally, no traces
*ASA TRINE* The sun was up and shining bright this morning. It was one of those days when you would want to wake up and just enjoy the cheerfulness that the nature spread around you. You could see passing smiles on almost everybody’s face as they went about their daily work. But it had taken me some time to realize that it wasn’t because of the day that had plastered such smile on their faces, it was because of the new rumor and drama that had enfolded yesterday night about Clay and Sofia that was causing it. It was sadistic to like this so much but I really wanted Clay to get to know how it felt being at the receiving end of the vicious judgements. I wanted to see him frowning and hiding from the gazes of the people that were laughing at him, that would keep on following him like a terrible shadow. I wanted him to hear the deliberate whispers of spite and humor that people were spreading about him. I wanted to see his head hang down in shame but- “Seeing you like this I really did
*CAIN ARIUS* “You just wait and watch, I will become the Alpha of this pack soon,” Clay brooded as he glared at Asa who in turn stood her place and huffing accepted the challenge, “We’ll see.” There was a spark between the two, a crackle of animosity and for some reason even this slight connection of theirs still bothered me. Curbing the urge to act on the scenarios in my head that were ranging from strangling my brother, to putting him up against the wall by his neck, I clenched my fist tightly together and waited for him to leave. Mom would cry again if she heard the two of us fought. Sighing I saw them still fixatedly glaring and I despised the way Clay looked at her. Whether it was eyes full of love or hate if they stayed longer than necessary on my mate then I couldn’t help but feel threatened by it. As if noticing the change in atmosphere, Clay’s eyes flicked towards me ever so slightly and then with a grunt of exasperation he marched out from Dad’s office as we followed out
*ASA TRINE* “Come on, hurry up Devin, you can’t be this slow!” Leia scolded him and the sound of it came all the way up the stairs making me stifle a laugh. “You look beautiful, miss,” Ross said gaining my attention as he helped me with my skirt that had wrinkled below. “Oh no, Ross please don’t do that I don’t want you hurting your waist,” I said as I tried to stop him, but it was no use the old man had been so used to taking care that even after giving him retirement from all his work he would still find something to do. “Michael! That’s not right! The cake should be here!” she shouted again as I heard Michael shuffling around and again I tried to stop my laughter from filtering through at my sister's frustrated antics. “Its time to go down, Miss,” Ross said as he smiled at me and hooking my arm around his I took his help to carefully step down the steps as I saw Cain standing there at the end of it with little Kiara in his hands. She looked adorable in her frock that she had b
*ASA TRINE* “You called us, dad?” I asked peeping in. Nodding his head at me he motioned for us to sit down and filtering in I noticed that Luna had also been there looking through some books as she smiled at our presence. “I am sorry that I am late,” Clay’s voice filtered in but he stopped soon after when he saw the two of us already seated there, “I swear I haven’t done anything this time.” “We know that you haven’t done anything Clay, we are not here to complain about you,” Cain said huffing at his brother but a smile slipped on his face and I wondered if it would be right to separate these two brothers when their relations had only just started improving. “Well then what is this family reunion for?” he asked as he sat down on a chair beside Cain looking at his dad with a questioning look making Cain and I fix him with that same gaze. “Can’t I just miss my children?” Alpha asked as he looked at us and when we remained adamant in our gazes he laughed and said, “Fine you caught
*ASA TRINE* “No, wait, did you bring the bag of chips that I had kept on the table?” I asked stopping Cain as he looked at me and shaking his head in negative, he said, “Just give me a minute, I’ll be right back!” It had been two days since we had gotten back and thankfully the crowd had started straying away from us a slight bit for us to decide on going on a picnic today. Another thing that had been something really good was Cain’s carefreeness. He had been smiling more and he didn’t look like he had to be on his toes every moment of his life. I think a huge credit goes to Clay and I rejecting each other. This weird phenomenon had also seemingly improved his outlook of his brother as he didn’t seem to be worried about his presence around us anymore though it didn’t mean that he became any less possessive. Looking back at our home I waited for him to come back but it was taking him longer than I had thought, and I wondered if I had actually brought the chips with me. Looking
*ASA TRINE* “That’s enough Leia, please!” I begged as I tried to escape her aggressive hits that she had been raining down on me. After seeing me she had almost ran up to me and the first thing that she had done was to hit me with all the force and energy that she had in store. “Hey, that’s enough, please if not anything then think about the baby,” Michael tried to intervene and taking the opportunity I hid behind him feeling my head almost about to burst from the built up stress. I loved my sister and I knew that she wasn’t the cause of this but I was moments away from shouting at her. “She hadn’t been feeling well too Leia, please go easy on her,” Devin pleaded my case making Cain sit up straight as he looked at me and asked, “What? What happened to you?” I had wanted to speak to him the first thing when I saw him return but he had come back with the rest of the family and I couldn’t find a moment to take him away from them as the Luna showered him with love and Alpha pra
*ASA TRINE* Clay had disappeared away as mysteriously he had come and right now my brain had been combusting at the possibility of what was happening. Why did I feel those things that I would have only with a mate? What did it mean? “Asa? Are you alright?” Devin came in soon after Clay had dropped me off at the entrance of the pack house only to hide back into the crowds of people. Looking around for him I tried to see those same blue eyes that had once been the reason of my tears and later the cause of my determination to solve this mystery. I wonder what he must be thinking right now and whether he had been okay. ‘What is wrong with us Asa? I can feel a connection to Clay just as much as I can feel a connection to Cain but I feel as if my body is being torn apart in both directions,’ Xara panted in my head making me aware of my own body’s condition. Now that she said I had been feeling a slight pain in my chest since i got off the car and this must be the reason behind it. ‘Th
*ASA TRINE* “Are you excited to go home?” Cain asked looking at me from where I had been sitting in the passenger seat of the car while Devin now occupied the back seat. “Did you even need to ask me that, of course I am!” I said looking at him to find that his eyes had been looking deeply relaxed as they flitted over my face. There seemed to still be some anxiety within him but he was assured now that he wasn’t going to lose me. But he wouldn’t let me away from his eyesight for more than two minutes. So maybe he wasn’t completely healed yet but at least he was on that path. “I am so glad that everything turned out as it did and that nothing happened to you,” Devin sighed from where he was sprawled on the back seat looking as if the life had been drained out of him. Right now he looked older than what he was and I gave him an apologetic smile. “Sorry that you had to manage and meet all the people who had wanted to meet me,” I said remembering the hordes of people who had been
*ASA TRINE*“No...”I said for the first time in a while as I felt my voice return to me. I knew that I wasn’t conscious and that part scared me more for if I wasn’t consciousness then I must be dead for the goddess to visit me.She didn’t look anything extraordinary as I stared at the bright mass of light that had been blinding to me before. This light unlike Ephialtes had taken a much proper shape like that of a human and had long wispy hair of light floating all round her being. Her yes had been white as well but again unlike Ephialtes they didn’t look soulless they looked full of life.I felt blessed to have seen her but just the thought of what would it mean to be to see her meant made tears spill out of my eyes as I fell to my knees in front of her. None of my wounds hurting anymore and I wished for them to pain and hurt me again, anything that would tell me that I had been alive.“Please Goddess, let me live, please id don’t want to die just yet,” I pleaded pathetically the fac
*ASA TRINE*And as I said this I went towards Ephialtes who dodged me at my first try using all his effort to move away from me.“No! Don’t do this to me!” he shouted but as the sun’s rays started pouring over his body more and more he started disappearing and growing lighter in color as would happen to a shadow.“I need to do this Ephialtes, you have tortured many innocent people and I only hope that next time you wouldn’t walk on the wrong path,” I said this as I started slashing at whatever black misty body part I got making his body disappear and grow smaller and smaller.It was surreal to watch Ephialtes have nowhere to go as he started circling around me trying to continue to build himself up but the sunlight was making it impossible for him. His white pale eyes that usually stood out in its ghastliness didn’t seem as scary as they depicted his fright.“No, I remember now, this- this is how I was put to sleep all those years ago and now again,” he let out a groan as Cain and Dev
*ASA TRINE* His raspy voice almost instantly made all the hair in my body stand up and looking at his soulless eyes I wondered if he could see through my façade. The air had significantly dropped down around me and if Ephialtes had not been present here I would have been much intrigued to observe such a sudden change in my surroundings “Why? Aren’t you going to say something to me this time?” he asked swishing slightly to the left and the right making me flit my eyes to make sure that he hadn’t been able to sneak up an attack on me. “I don’t want to waste my time talking to you, let’s get on with the fighting,” I said hoping that reverse psychology would work on him as well as I noticed him pause and stare at me while I forced my face to stay impassive. “I don’t like that look in your eyes,” he gnawed out his words narrowing his pathetic pearls to look at me as he continued, “I quite like it more when they had been shut closed scared to even face me.” I wanted to look up at the