*ASA TRINE*Awe stricken faces and mesmerized eyes reflected the gem that was held for them to see.Placing it on the decorated table that was made as a small altar to put the lighted candles on, Alpha then turned to face the crowd and greeting he said, “Thank you everyone for assembling here for this praying ceremony.”The crowd immediately quieted on listening to their leader’s words and continuing with a smile Alpha said, “We are the children of Moon Goddess and to show her our gratitude for loving us and protecting us we have gathered here together to pray to her for our good health, prosperity and her constant blessing.”I had been so drawn in by the magnificence with which he had the crowd hushed that it took me a second to realize that Cain had been holding out a candle for me to take. Looking around I noticed that the others all had one in their hands as well and holding the stand tightly in my hands I silently thanked Cain.Luna brought forward two candles, holding one in eac
*ASA TRINE*It was unfair of me to take advantage like this but it was not every day that people could witness the gentle side of Cain and it would be the perfect opportunity to change their perception of him.Rubbing at my own eyes to rid them of any lingering tears I smiled at him and nodding I said, “Yes, I would really love that.”“I am sorry I don’t understand what it is like to lose your parents at such a young age but you can talk to me about it and I will try to help you feel better however I can,” he added as he guided me towards the bonfire where the people were dancing.Like I said before, I had lost my parents at a very young age so I had enough time to cope with their loss. It was obvious that one could never very well get over it. Even then, these past few years and the small family that I had found in Leia and Michael had been enough to keep me happy and sane.It was sweet of him to say that and squeezing his hand to let him know that I was grateful I stood by him as we
*UNKNOWN POV*The woman was scared as she could feel her eyes droop as the alcohol and tiredness manipulated her body to stay in bed. The comforter felt soft under her but it was a shame that she couldn’t enjoy it.Slow and steady breathing finally echoed the room from beside her and sighing she gently picked her head up from her mate’s arm as she stared at his face. He was asleep, at last.Sitting up properly on her bed she heard it creak but with the amount of alcohol her mate had consumed in the ceremony today there was no chance that he would wake up or at least she hoped he wouldn’t.Sighing she stared at his face that was sleeping peacefully without a care in this world. He was the most handsome man she had ever seen and she was happy that he was his.The night air that entered through the open window was cool and the light from the full moon casted on his face left her wishing to curl up in his arms and sleep.No, get a grip you can’t give in to the temptation!She thought as s
*ASA TRINE*I was woken up by a hand caressing my skin. The fingers seemed to be searching for something and still in my drowsy state I shuddered as it grazed the underside of my boob. The hand stopped, then retracing its steps suddenly grabbed hold of my boob completely in its palm and squeezed it.A moan escaped me as my eyes fluttered open. I had barely slept properly last night as I was being ‘punished’ by my mate and I had a half mind to be waking up just yet.“Cain,” I moaned out, reprimanding him when I felt him continue to play with my breast and when he squeezed my nipples I gasped and was about to bring my hand up to remove his, I found that I couldn’t move them.My hands had been taken captive in his other hand and shaking the sleep away from my mind I groaned, “Let me go, Cain.”I couldn’t see his face as my back had been facing him but I was aware of his wakefulness and that wasn’t just because of his actions but because of his member down below that he now thrust between
*ASA TRINE* For the first time I felt scared to look at one of these mystery patients. It wasn’t just any patient now it had hit closer to home. She was Michael’s sister and at some points in my life a friend to me. I might not like her as much now but she didn’t deserve this.“Cain! Asa! Thank goddess you two are here. I don’t know how it happened- Sofia is,” Mom was really worried that she could barely say out her sentences properly. Dad immediately held her in his arms and nodding at us to step into the closed room outside which they had been standing he moved to take her away.Inside I found Leia consoling Michael who was aimlessly stood in the corner staring at his sister. His face was marred with stress lines as he stood with the help of his mate.The room itself had been wrecked completely but not paying attention to that for now I gazed at Sofia’s pale face with her eyes shut like she had been sleeping. Every patient that had extracted this strange disease slipped into coma f
*ASA TRINE* The shock of the sudden hug and the words spoken by him had taken me by surprise.Did something happen to him for him to be acting this way?There was an emergence in his voice that startled me and the relief that rang with it made me believe that he must have been emotionally shook to be behaving in such a manner.‘He just realized that his mate might not wake up ever again, he is bound to feel sad and lost,’ my wolf commented and taking that thought into consideration I slowly brought my hand up to pat his back. I might have hated this guy but if this was how much pain he felt for Sofia then even I felt my heart move for the two of them.Feeling my hand comforting him he hugged me tighter, making me uncomfortable and just when I was about to reprimand him I heard him sniffling as he placed his head on my shoulder.He was crying?The greatest jerk in the world, Clay Arius was crying?Realizing that he might have been affected more than I had thought I bit my tongue to s
*CAIN ARIUS* There must be something!Looking through the thick log book I sighed when I had not met anything unnatural even after all this while. As far as I knew there weren’t anyone in our pack who would be courageous enough to even try and hurt the Beta’s sister and Clay’s mate, therefore my suspicions were on an outsider but till now I had not come against anyone outside of our pack that was present in the prayer ceremony yesterday.Suddenly I felt some tension pass through our mate bond alerting me of Asa being in some kind of stress. It was only a small shock but it worried me.Did something happen to her?I was trying to mind link her when I felt a nudge in my head and guessing it to be from her I immediately accepted it.‘Sir, we didn’t find anything suspicious in the ceremony grounds,’ The warrior who I had elected for this task told me and gripping the shiny pen stand in my hand I cut the call without a word angry at another dead end.Who was this asshole behind such a wi
*ASA TRINE*What the fuck is he saying?I had wanted to inform Cain first and foremost about this situation myself so that he wouldn’t be shocked and worried like he must be now. But with Clay coming here and spouting out his nonsense he has made it more difficult for me to even handle this situation.“Why are you still standing near him Asa? Why aren’t you telling him to move away from you?” he said in such a languid and confused manner that it seemed like Cain had been in the wrong here and not him. Also why the heck is he trying to pin all of this on me?“Why would she say anything? She is my mate!” Cain shouted at him pulling me away from him and motioned me to stay back as he faced his brother.“That’s obviously because she is my ma-”Clay had barely gotten the word ‘mate’ out of his mouth when in an instant Cain came in front of him and landing a punch straight to his gut he made Clay go flying back a few meters and into some wild bushes.While I was coming back to the Pack hous
*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