*CAIN ARIUS* I was definitely homesick in just a day and my home is where my mate is so right now all I wanted to do was hug her to myself until and unless I felt that it was enough.I knew that what I had done yesterday had crossed a line and I am really shameful about it but I am sure the two of us needed this time away from one another to settle our thoughts first.I had been therefore prepared to grovel and ask for her mercy at any cost if she was still angry but when I reached the door of my house I smell the most disgusting and infuriating odor ever. This smell belonged to Clay and barging in worried if something had happened or if he had tried to force himself on Asa again I shouted, “ASA!”Following their smells that are heavily permeating the air everywhere and are spread throughout the house I look into the living room and move towards the kitchen shouting again, “Asa, where are you-”The scene that greets me makes me stop mid-sentence as if I have been smacked in the face
*CAIN ARIUS*“Thank you so much for today,” Clay said standing by our entrance door as he smugly smiled at me. The look on his face was condescending as he shifted his gaze to Asa as if to remind me of her presence and clenching my teeth I looked away.“Why? Dear brother didn’t you enjoy our time today? I especially enjoyed your food Asa,” he said and before Asa could again invite him to our home I quickly intervened as I said, “Today was good but I think you should go home and rest now. It has not been long since you were out of the hospital.”My words must have struck realization in Asa because her expression immediately shifted to worry as she said, “Oh yes, it completely left my mind! Please go home and take some rest, I wouldn’t want something to happen to you.”I wished she hadn’t added the last part because it made my blood boil to see her worry for him like that. He didn’t deserve her care after everything that he had put her through. The thought made me feel like a hypocrit
*CAIN ARIUS*“Still no news, huh?” I asked looking at a desolate Michael who looked at me from the other side of the table sitting helplessly in my office.“Alpha said that the elder from the Aegon Mountain will arrive today and check up on Sofia, the others, and the Moonstone, so let’s just hope that he finds something beneficial,” Michael said massaging his forehead as he leaned back against the chair. It was clear that the last few days since Sofia had become vegetative had caused a great impact on him and his health.One could easily notice the change in his weight and the tiredness, worry, and sadness reflected from the dark circles under his eyes that encased tired orbs that constantly stayed in a droopy manner.Seeing this state of the man who was once full of vigor I felt guilty for some reason and sighing I apologized, “I am really sorry for Clay’s behavior and for his noncooperation. We have been trying to get him to speak about the night before Sofia fell ill or the morning
*CAIN ARIUS*Since the visit of the elder was kept a secret from the pack, there weren’t any pompous celebrations and no extra effort was put in by the pack in preparing for his visit, but that wasn’t the case for us. I had been up and about since early morning to make all the arrangements and oversee anything else that I reckoned was needed in welcoming the elder from Aegon Mountains.The elder was provided a small guest house near Mom and Dad’s home to suit his privacy and also be close enough to help him if he needed any assistance from us.Right now Michael and I were waiting for dad in this small house making sure that everything that our guest would need was in its place while dad picked him up from the border and brought him here.“Do you think he will be able to help us?” Michael asked randomly as we sat down on the couch finally done with everything.“I can’t say for sure but if dad trusts him then he must be something else,” I muttered feeling tired as I looked at the clock
*CAIN ARIUS*“Were you just about to leave?” I asked as I saw Asa standing outside her best friend Kate’s shop with her and her mate. When there gaze fell on me I noticed that they didn’t seem as phased bye like the others usually were and I liked it. Giving them a nod with a smile I received the same from them back.“What are you doing here?” Asa asked looking surprised and I watched that her movements caused the shopping bags in her arm to shake and I was moving too take it from her when she shook her head and told me that she would be fine.Insisting on carrying the bags I took it from her arms when I heard whispers rise from around us.‘Look its Cain and Asa, I heard that they are madly in love with each other seems like the rumors were right.’‘Yeah and now that eh sis in love he doesn’t even seem that scary, don’t you think?’‘Oh! If I have to be honest then
*CAIN ARIUS*If it weren’t for the fact that Asa had come to meet Elder Morris I would have closed my door and then banged her night against it for looking so fucking adorable in her cream floral printed dress.Her hair was also tied in a girlish side braid as she had applied slight makeup to her cheeks making them seem fuller and rosy each time she smiled. Her lips matched the light blush that her cheeks were adorned with, the lightest shade of pink almost close to her original lip color.All in all, even in her modest, full sleeves, knee-length dress she looked out of this world.It was true it seems that clothes can change the atmosphere of a place. With Asa dressed like this if I hadn’t known better I would have thought her to be a blushing virgin.“You look fucking delectable today,” I hissed adjusting the crotch of my pant behind my table as I watched Asa come and sit in front of me in my office.Her eyes were quick to catch the movement of my hand behind my table and though I h
*ASA TRINE* As soon as I felt Clay standing next to me I wanted to move away from him but despite everything in me, I couldn’t. This place just felt so right, by his side, that is, that my body seemed to realize it and didn’t shift on its own accord. There was some form of conversation that was taking place in the room between Grandpa and Clay but even as I looked at the others to try and understand the situation I found my eyes shifting back to him. He was just too beautiful to not notice. I watched as his lips curled into a snarl and he shouted something the sound of which only seemed to cause goosebumps on my body and before I was aware of what was happening, I felt his touch on my skin causing the sensation to increase, making me gasp. I looked around while I felt my body being tugged towards the door and as I was passing my eyes met with that of golden angry orbs. Something in my heart thudded at the familiarity in them and I felt a voice in me telling me to break free fro
*ASA TRINE*I was pleasantly surprised when I got a mind link from Leia early morning the next day to come to her house. I had made plans with Clay to visit a bakery today but since it was Leia who was calling me I decided to cancel my plans and Clay understood about it as well.He was really such a great mate!‘No, he isn’t!’The voice in my head spoke making me feel annoyed at it as I tried to suppress it back inside.I had to temporarily live with Clay’s twin brother because of some problems that I didn’t quite understand but since Clay says it's fine for now, I didn’t try to question it much. Even then I felt awkward around him. I can’t properly pinpoint what the emotions are that I feel when in his vicinity but I sometimes feel like running away from him and on the other hand, at times when his golden eyes look at me with love or hurt I feel like wrapping him in between my arms and hug him so tightly that he would never be able to get away from me again.He confused me.I was the
*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