*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. Having grown up with only my sister as my family, I was well aware of the importance of a sibling.
And although I had despised Clay for rejecting me, I was glad now for it led me to my current mate, Cain.
Clay might be the golden boy of the Pack but the real gold was hidden in Cain’s eyes and heart. They were the most honest and loving I had ever known to be.
Smiling at his remembrance I suddenly heard the door of the mansion click open and searching eyes fall on me at once. They lit up when he saw me looking back at him and sooner than later, I felt him touch the side of my face in greeting as he said, “You look beautiful.”
I didn’t even realize when but I had unconsciously found myself gravitate towards him as we met half way on the steps up to the entrance.
A cold drop of water that fell on my hand made a shiver run through me and broke me out of my trance of gazing at his hypnotic and lovable eyes.
“Did you just take a shower?” I asked touching the tips of his wet hair that had been messily pointing out in different directions. Stepping back to gaze at him I noticed that he had donned on a black button-down shirt and a pair of blue jeans but the buttons were all done in a rush as it left gaping holes in between.
“Didn’t you pay attention to how you were putting on your shirt before you came down?” I asked chuckling a little as I traced the snug material of the small clothed bunching as little valleys on his chest and looking down, I saw him mumbling out a curse as he just realized his state.
“I caught a smell of you as soon as I got out of the shower and I couldn’t stop myself from coming to greet you,” he honestly replied making me blush at his words and the happiness in his eyes. Was he that eager to see me again?
‘Weren’t you hurrying everyone up as well?’ Xara taunted me in my head and blushing inside while feeling my heart beat happily at our mutual feelings, I moved my fingers to help him put the buttons in place correctly.
“Little sister, I didn’t know you were so provocative as to undress him as soon as you saw him, can’t you wait for a little bit to at least get inside the house first?” Leia’s laughter rattled me through my core as flushing a scarlet I immediately pulled away my hands and turned around, suddenly reminded of her and Michael’s presence.
Although a Cheshire grin was plastered on my sister’s face Michael seemed to be eyeing Cain’s hands on my waist that I didn’t even realize had been holding me close to him.
He was making me lose consciousness of any actions and surroundings…
“I know that Leia must have had a word with you but please Cain, I hope that you will value Asa and treat her with all the best things in the world, she is like a sister to me,” Michael said, his gaze turning softer as he looked at me. I passed him a grateful smile and nodding at me he then cleared his throat and said, “That being said, can you not act so intimate in front of me? Please get a room, I need some time to get used to the thought of the two of you together.”
“Michael!” I cried out in embarrassment at the obvious hint in his voice of what he was giving us permission to do.
“I didn’t actually need your permission Beta Michael but since you have so generously put it in words for us, we shall meet you in time for dinner in about half an hour,” Cain smiled, a superiority reflecting in his voice as well as respect. It was a weird combination but I was thankful nonetheless for he didn’t act in a rude manner to him.
Michael was just as important to me as Leia.
Hoisting me up in his arms suddenly, making me squeal out in surprise I looked at my mate in wonderment as I whisper yelled at him, “What are you doing?”
“Taking you away from them,” he said tightening his hold around me as he bent to place a kiss on my forehead, “You don’t know how long I had been waiting for you to be back in my arms.”
It had not even been more than five hours!
“But this is so embarrassing,” I said as I looked over his shoulder at my sister and Michael to see one with a broad grin and the other with a shocked expression on his face.
Now they are definitely going to think that I am going to make out with Cain!
‘But aren’t we going to make out with him?’ my wolf asked sounding a little confused and looking away from the pair, I sighed as I told my wolf, ‘We might but they didn’t have to know that.’
“Please put me down, Cain, I will walk on my own,” I pleaded to him as I gazed at his face. He had a determined look etched on his handsome features as he had his face in an emotionless mask again. It sometimes made me confused of what he really was thinking but his honest words were a direct reflection of his soul.
He loves me just as much as I love him.
Looking down at me on listening to my words he brought down his warm eyes to rest on my lips that were formed in a pout at his stubborn hold and he took some time to think. Moving the golden orbs to my eyes after a few seconds his lips suddenly broke into a smile as he said, “No, I quite like this position.”
It is going to take me some time to unravel how this man thinks.
How could he say that to me so easily and unashamed?
“And I know you like it too; I can hear your heartbeat increase slowly and steadily.”
It was a myth when everyone thought that Cain Arius was socially awkward with his words. No! This man was a fucking genius in making people feel exactly how he wanted them to!
Under his gaze, his constant touches and his honest and unabashed words I could feel my body grow hotter and hotter. His arm that was touching my bare skin under the flailing material of my dress felt like it was scorching my skin there and same was the case with his hand under my neck, the tips of his fingers brushing my breasts.
Suddenly a low growl brought my attention back on him and looking at his face I saw that his eyes had turned darker as the golden was shaded over by hints of blackness bordering the circle.
“I can smell your arousal, my precious mate, did my touches make you wet?” he asked, sniffing the air slightly as he increased his pace that had been a slow walk before.
I whimpered and hid my face when I realized that I had made myself known and within a second, I found myself being thrown on a soft bed as a pair of familiar lips attacked me.
The kiss had immediately started off in a passionate and heated manner, forbidding my lungs of any air but that wasn’t my concern now. Even as my chest started feeling heavy my lips continued to work together to match the tempo of my mate, unable to stop myself from feeling the pleasurable electricity that flowed through every touch of his.
It was only when I had started turning light headed when he finally let me go and panting on top of me, he pressed his forehead against mine in an attempt to calm the both of us down. The room that I had been unable to even take a glance of was filled with sounds of our heavy pants and I felt my hands being tightly intertwined in his as he whispered to me, “Can we skip the dinner and continue with this at my place?”
My lips opened to reply with an affirmation when suddenly I heard my sister’s voice ring in my head, 'Finish up with whatever it is that you are doing, you have got twenty more minutes.'
That ruined my mood and even if I was still in a daze, I shook my head in negative, making him sigh.
How did I lose control of myself like this?
How was I turning so bold to even think about skipping a diner with the Alpha and Luna of our pack just so I could make out some more with him?
Groaning he rolled off me and laid on the bed as he said, “They are calling us down for dinner.”
So, he had been mind linked as well. I felt slightly embarrassed to know that the Alpha and Luna knew what I was doing in their home but if they had to blame anyone then it was their son who didn’t seem to care about time and place at all.
“You make me do things that I never thought I would,” I mumbled finally finding strength to sit up straighter and look around at a room that seemed to be a kid’s room. There were posters of cars and superheroes stuck on one wall and the other adjacent to the bed had many photo frames hanging on it.
It was Cain’s room when he was a child.
“Like what?” he asked breathily, his curiosity seeping through the heavy tone making me look at him and raising an eyebrow at him I shrugged and said, “This, I never imagine myself to be able to kiss someone with such animalistic intensity to the point that I was ready to forsake my breathing than to part with them.”
He chuckled at my words, his expressions becoming clearer when only the two of us were present and leaning forward he tucked a black tress of my hair behind my ear and then leaned down closer to it, “Don’t worry you can let go of any inhibitions when you are with me because I will look after you for the both of us.”
That made me blush and pecking his lips I said, “Thank you.”
Grunting Cain eyed my lips again as he said, “It’s dangerous to do that when I am already turned on.”
My eyes followed his own and landed on the slight bulge in his pant making my eyes widen and I swiftly got off his bed before he could pull me into another mind numbing make out session as I said, “I will go down now I think Leia is calling for me again. You can come down um, after um, you have taken care of it. Bye!”
Rushing out without another glance at him I slammed the door shut behind me hearing a light chuckle escape him and without another second I hurriedly moved down the corridor to the stairs, trying to navigate my way to the dining room.
That man was too bold.
I won’t put it past him if he decided to mate with me right here, right now.
Suddenly I felt a hand grab onto my arm and pull me in through a cracked door throwing me on a bed again as a second later I heard a click of door getting locked.
Uncaring of the throb in my head that had been caused by the edge of the headboard hitting me hard in the back of my head this time, I sat up and stared at devilish blue eyes.
“What are you doing Clay? And what is the meaning of this inappropriate gesture?” I shouted holding my head in my hand as I looked at the man who looked perfectly similar to my mate and yet didn’t have an ounce of personality as great as him.
‘But they still have a similar habit of throwing you on a bed,’ my wolf joked and ignoring her I ordered her to work on healing my head.
“Hello to you to Asa. I am just here to full fill my promise that I made to you,” he said as he took a step forward towards me. When my confused expression didn’t clear up, he said, “Why are you always this slow? If you had been smarter than I would have accepted you.”
As he said this, he started buttoning off his shirt that he had been wearing.
“W-What do you mean?” I asked trying to sit up straighter feeling a sudden emergence rise within me.
“Can’t you tell?” He asked buttoning out two more buttons of his maroon shirt to showcase his wide muscular chest.
My eyes must have looked panicked enough by now because a smile wormed its way on his face and tilting his face he said, “I am going to ruin you so that no other man would ever mate with you again.”
“Clay you should stop joking around,” I sternly said hoping to turn the situation over and throw him off with my confidence. It was difficult to fake a hard demeanor though because there was madness reflecting in his blue eyes. “Shut up, you stupid bitch!” he spat his hands fisting his shirt and ripping it open all the way off his body. Balling it in his hands, he threw it aside and glaring at me he said, “I don’t want to hear you whine about anything.” Nonetheless garnering some more strength I scoffed as I said, “You know that others can hear you threaten me, right?” Grinning at me he cocked an eyebrow and laughed as he said, “Then shout and try calling them. Do you think I am a fool to be doing this here if I would get caught so easily?” That would make sense and it was normal for werewolves to have their rooms soundproofed given that we were creatures with sensitive ears and no one wanted to hear a couple’s private conversations at night. ‘Cain, Clay has gotten hold of me in a
*CAIN ARIUS* ‘I want mate back in our arms,’ my wolf, Dion, whined in my head as images of her from before came resurfacing in my mind. Groaning I tried to push it back as I scolded him, ‘Don’t, I cannot afford to take another cold shower right now.’ He grumbled at that but giving in he trudged back into the back of my mind, silently searching for Asa with our eyes. Patting my hands down my shirt to smooth it over I finally entered the dining room where I noticed Mom and Leia setting the table while talking together and a quick peak in the kitchen tells me that Dad and Michael were bring the dishes in while discussing some recent pack issues. It was Mom who noticed my presence first and smiling she tried to look behind me as she asked, “Where is Asa?” My brows knitted in confusion at this and taking a sniff I asked, “She was supposed to be here around twenty minutes ago.” “No, she hasn’t returned back since she went with you, I thought she was still with you,” Leia said
*ASA TRINE* A gentle feeing, warm and slightly annoying made me blink my eyes for a few seconds before I opened it. The rays of the sun were falling right on my face and trying to sit up to avoid having it tickle my skin anymore I find that I am unable to move my body. Realizing that a hand was gripping onto me I looked to my side to see Leia still sleeping as she had snuggled closer to me. Why was she in my b- Before I could even complete that thought the whole scenario of yesterday’s night came rushing to my head and tears instantly pricked my eyes. Why? Why did Clay had to go this far to fulfill his sick hatred and motives? “Asa? Asa!” Leia hurriedly got up as she pulled my face to look at her and then grabbing it between both palms, she said, “Breathe, okay? Try and breathe. You are safe, I am here for you.” It was only after she pointed out did, I realize that my chest had been clogged up with unfiltered air that had been finding it difficult to leave my body as I hyperv
*ASA TRINE* A gasp resonated out of my lips as soon as I opened the room to the cabin where Clay had been admitted in. His body had been covered by a blanket but the part which had been left uncovered was painted in white. He had been covered in bandages completely except for the expanse of his face that had been giving color to the white canvas of his body. It had purple and bluish bruises with red gauzes and stich lines creating it into a gruesome masterpiece but the main attraction was the stamp of a black burned cross on his forehead. “Can you not look this happy?” Clay disgruntled as his eyes glowered at me. They had been opened in mere slits by the swelling that surrounded them. Realizing that a smile had been gracing my face I tried suppressing it but hearing my mate scoff from behind me as he placed a hand on my waist, I again felt a bigger smile take over my features. I had been scared for nothing. The monster, just the thought of whom made my frightful heart beat wildly
*ASA TRINE* “Where is Cain?” Luna Catherine asked once she saw me entering her library alone. Her soft voice startled me and looking at her with a disgruntled expression I waited for her to repeat her words. At my lack of an answer, she furrowed her brows and the smile left her face as she asked, “Please don’t tell me that what happened yesterday has hampered your relationship with Cain! I promise you, Asa, that Clay has received his punishment so please don’t blame my one son for the mistake of the other.” In this moment for the first time in my life Luna didn’t seem to be like a leader talking to her subordinate but like a mother worrying about her children. It was weird and shaking my head to rid her off her worries I lied, “No, it is nothing like that, Cain just got caught up with some work.” She seemed unconvinced but sighing she patted the seat next to her on the cozy looking sofa that she had been seated on. I hesitated for a second but lowering myself on the spot directed b
*ASA TRINE* As soon as I heard his words, I became aware of my condition and I felt my body burn as blood rushed to the pit of my stomach. Why did I have to have my heat now of all times! Another surge of heat stronger than the one before made my knees buckle from a force unknown to anything that I had ever felt before. It automatically made me lean further into his body and the warmth of his lean muscles provided me with a sense of calm instead of heating me up more. I didn’t want to stay in his arms but this was the only place that I wanted to be in. “Asa,” Cain panted his grip tightening and his eyes flitting from between deep dark black to his bright worried golden. Moving me away an arm’s length he helped me stay up and then pleaded, “I need you, Asa. I won’t be able to control myself for very long.” Inside me I felt Xara growl at me as well, as she pushed me to tear apart Cain’s clothes and take him as his. But how could I give my body to a person who supposedly betrayed me
*ASA TRINE* “I had been trying to control myself for your sake but fuck how dare you say that to your own mate!” Rather than saying anything back in response I quirked an eyebrow at him and growling lowly at me in warning he devoured my lips and to my surprise suddenly bit me making me moan as a shiny bead of blood appeared on my punctured lips. It slipped down over the edge and I watched his eyes follow it with carnal desire. His parted lips, the wispy breaths leaving them and his messy hair made him look like a sexy god and licking the blood I again kissed him as I felt him slip his hands down my panties to find the moisture gathered there. I was drenched. His lips slanted up at the visible embarrassment in my eyes as I tried to hide the awareness of the situation. I might have been acting bold a second ago but now that his eyes had regained the wildness, I found myself turning timid in comparison. His curious finger stroked my wetness gently, making me crave to feel a greater p
*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* “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