*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
“Be careful Asa,” Catherine Arius, our Luna of the Pack Blessed Moon kindly admonished me to stop me from banging right into her. Griping onto myself at the right moment, I looked up at her with a sheepish grin and bounced on my toes as I apologized, “I am sorry Luna I was just in a hurry to see my sister. Do you know where she is?” Shaking her head at my excited stance she placed her hands on my shoulder to calm me down and with a small secretive smile on her face she asked, “Did you find your mate?” Blushing as I realized that she must have understood the reason of my excited gait I pouted at her while trying to calm myself as I babbled, “Not yet but I am hoping to find him soon.” At my words she gave me a motherly smile and then with a small kiss on my head she said, “Happy eighteenth Birthday, Asa. Your sister was called in early this morning for some Beta work. I am sure you’ll find her somewhere inside.” The Pack house was huge and finding her here was going to take me some t
*ASA TRINE* Pain. It started off as a dull throb and extended to a magnitude where physically stopping myself from letting out a scream was painstakingly impossible. My lips that I had bit on to stop myself from releasing any noise bled a trickle off blood from the corner, as my canines pierced into my skin. The pain of this wound was although irrelevant in comparison to the one that was burning in the center of my heart. A slight whimper escaped me even though I had been trying with every cell in my body to suppress my anguish. But like I said, it was impossible to not cry when the one thing that had been yours even before you were born was the one rejecting you. Clenching my palms into a fist as I looked with blurry eyes at the smiling face of my mate. Once again, he scoffed at my hateful glare and bending down, he turned Sofia’s head to him, like a puppet and mercilessly, right to my face he kissed her. The severed bond and the defying of his actions against the goddess’s will
*ASA TRINE* I had immediately and subconsciously let go of Cain as I turned to look at Clay’s raged form. The trivial details that once went unnoticed by his sharp eyes now sparked in recognition as his confused gaze fazed the beautiful ocean blue to curb into darkness. His wolf was out as it pushed Clay’s body off the floor and stalked towards us. The thudding of his steps made me wince and in a matter of few seconds I found myself pushed to a hard chest as Clay gripped me to himself forcefully. If it had been a few minutes before, that he had kept me in a hold as tight as this I would have been overjoyed but right now it was prickling my body and burning my heart with a rancid disgust to even feel this man’s touch. How dare he? I also found that without my now mate’s touch that is Cain’s touch, my body had reverted back to its spent and lethargic state. I found it difficult to stand straight as the exhaustion of the previous trauma hassled through me again. It was truly a wond
*Asa Trine* “Asa. Wake up, please.” A voice as soothing as I had remembered called out to me as the familiar feeling of a hand raking through my hair pleasantly tickled my otherwise numb body. I don’t know for how long I had been unconscious but listening to her voice and feeling her near me made me feel safe enough to try and open my eyes. “Leia, I think she might need a little more time, her body had gone through two big shocking revelations one after the other,” another familiar and comforting voice despaired making me want to open my eyes and stop the sadness from reflecting in his voice. “What should I do Michael? Did I fail as an elder sister? You remember what happened to her when Mom and Dad passed away, right? I can’t go through the pain of seeing her lifeless like that again.” This time her soft voice had hints of panic visible in it and I could picture her holding onto her mate’s hand tightly to find strength. Mate… I wonder where my mate was? Shouldn’t he have been he
*ASA TRINE* If anger was a person, then I would say its name was Clay Arius. Standing there, still by the door he looked menacingly at the two of us making Cain’s grip on me tighten. Cain had usually been the quiet type but even he didn’t seem to like the way Clay had been throwing us a disgusting look and a derisive chuckle reverberated out of his chest. “I don’t see why you are so concerned with my mate’s health,” he said stressing on the word ‘my’ possessively as if to send him a message that would stop him from overstepping his boundaries more than he already had. This caused the direction of Clay’s somber glare focus solely on his brother, the enmity rising more than before but without giving him a chance to retaliate Cain jabbed another condescending statement as he said, “Unless of course you are jealous of us? It seems that you finally came to your senses to see the treasure that you have lost.” Like I said before, I had rarely ever had a single decent conversation with Ca
*ASA TRINE* There was a roar of whispers following us. “Who is that girl with Cain?” “Is he kidnapping her?” “By the way, she isn’t struggling against him could it be that he has done something to her?” Cain had a reputation in this pack. The reputation of a killer and a dangerous man. He was the most skilled fighter in the entire pack and wasn’t a person who liked entertaining anyone. Therefore, though famous, people usually misjudged him. I would rather say he was infamous, to be honest and I felt a tinge of guilt prick me when I realized that if not for today and if not for the fact that he was my mate, I would have likely followed the petty folly and continued to believe rumors about this genuinely good man. And all because he didn’t mind or bother to correct them. My face had been turned towards his chest in such a manner that only the back of my hair was visible and every time when I tried to face the crowd to let my identity be known he would swiftly press me back again
*ASA TRINE* “This dinner is going to be so special!” Leia chimed from beside me as we stood in front of the Alpha and Luna’s personal house. Usually, the couple lived in the pack house as it was closer to work but they did have their own home and getting invited there was considered to be a lucky and golden opportunity. Glancing at her I gave her an awkward smile trying not to let my discomfort show on my face. What did Clay mean by his words before? Was he going to kill me or get me banished from the pack? Maybe I should have told Cain about it… ‘Then why didn’t you?’ my unsettled wolf prattled the thought that she had been meaning to ask me for a while. Sighing I looked at the pleasant white house that had lights brightly shining through the windows as a buzz of excitement could be heard in the murmurs brought by the lightly blowing wind. ‘I didn’t want to cause more of a wedge between the two brothers,’ I replied back as I now knew the truth about their strained relation.