"Please, STOP!" my voice sounded like a yell to my ears but it barely made a sound when I, myself, was racing with my last breath. I tried to move my feet or at least crawl closer to Ezra and Razel but the more I move my wolf, the more excruciating pain my wolf felt inside me. The night air was thick with the scent of blood and sweat as Ezra, Razel, and I lay on the ground, our bodies battered and broken after our fight with the werewolf alpha and his pack. I could feel my heartbeat racing, my breaths coming in shallow gasps as I tried to push myself up, only to be shoved back down by one of the wolves. Then I glanced over at Ezra and Razel again, their chests rising and falling shallowly as they struggled to hold onto their fading life forces. Also, I could feel my own strength draining away, my vision clouding as I fought to stay conscious. Suddenly, I heard a voice flicker in my ears, the words feeling like they were inside my head. I looked around, but I saw n
Then I glanced at Razel to check if he can manage to travel in his current condition. "Do you need a back ride?" I asked him. "What am I? A baby? I am no longer the eight-year-old kid you know, Ezra." Razel chuckled. "Enough." Felise cut us in. "Instead of wasting your strength talking, better save them so we could reach our friends as soon as possible." Part of me wants to explain to them what happened to Felise earlier and how she got her alpha transformation. But then I realized it must have remained a secret. Razel was not part of our pack. Telling him everything about it might put me and Felise in danger. So, I kept it to myself. And planned to discuss it with Felise once we could have time alone. We started our journey back, walking slowly and cautiously, keeping an eye out for any more rogue wolves that might be lurking nearby. But fortunately, we encountered none. When we finally arrived at the beach, our friends were surprised to see us. They had
As my body instinctively began to shift, I felt a sudden impact on the back of my head. Everything went black, and the next thing I knew, I was waking up in a cold, dark cave. My body was covered in blood and bruises, and my hands were locked in chains. I tried to scream, but no sound came out. For days, I remained trapped in the cave, my body growing weaker with each passing moment. The chains around my wrists had cut deep into my skin, and the injuries from the impact on my head had taken their toll. As the day turned into three, I knew that my condition was only getting worse. With no one coming to rescue me, I had little hope of getting out of the cave alive. Despite the pain and fear that consumed me, I refused to give up. My wolf knew that my wolf instinct would not allow it. One day, I felt a spark of hope as I heard footsteps approaching the cave. My wolf tried to scream out, but the sound was still too weak. The footsteps grew louder and louder until finall
The training was grueling, but my wolf did not complain. I wanted to prove myself to the pack and show them my worth. Felise, on the other hand, served her punishment diligently and respectfully, not deviating from the rules. Three days later, before we could go back to school, Feise and I were both summoned to a meeting with Alpha Alexander. "Do you have any idea what would Alpha Alexander wants from us this time?" Felise asked me out of curiosity. Felise and I were seated in the backseat while my stepbrother was seated in the driver's seat. I don't know how but since they got me out of the cave, they were both protective and considerate of me. I offered to drive them heading to our pack village. And so he and Felise could have a moment but Razel ignored my suggestion to drive for us. Instead, he rushed to the driver's seat. "Not so sure. But I guess it has something to do with the punishment for us. As far as I could remember, he did not say a thing when we
As soon as the final bell rang in the school, I quickly gathered my things and headed straight to the rugby field. I was pumped up because my stepbrother, Razel, had texted me earlier, telling me to come to the field after class. He said that he had something important to tell me about the rugby team. Don't know what it was about but I could not wait to hear what it was. Upon arrival, my eyes could see a group of male students already on the field, warming up and getting ready for an upcoming game. Then I walked over to them and I was completely surprised when I saw Razel running towards me, his face beaming with excitement. "Hey, Ezra! You made it!" he exclaimed as he gave me a big hug. "I'm so glad you could come." "What's going on, Razel?" I asked, curious as to why he had wanted me to come to the field after class. Without a word, Razel turned towards his teammates who were all huddled together, watching our interaction. He put his arm around my shoulder
I was about to say something but the awkward sensation between us was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a naked woman whose body was covered in dust and dirt. At first, we didn't even notice her. But then we heard a soft, choking sound and looked up to see her crawling towards us on the floor. People around us were already gathering and whispering, but we were frozen in place, staring in shock at the pitiful sight before us. The woman's face was obscured by the grime on her skin, but her eyes were clear and bright. She seemed to be looking directly at me, even though I had never seen her before. She reached out a trembling hand and tried to speak, but her body finally gave out and she collapsed onto the floor. I jumped up from my seat, my heart racing with fear and uncertainty when I noticed the werewolf blood that runs through her veins. Razel was close behind me, his hand on my shoulder as we knelt down next to the woman. She was still breathing, but barel
"And what was that supposed to mean?" Felise asked. But I simply lifted the tip of my shoulders in response to her inquiry. My wolf has been in the world for twenty-six years but I never heard of anything like that in our kind. A She-wolf? What was that supposed to mean? And what could possibly be the reason those rogue wolves are after her? "That's what those men called him. A she-wolf. Perhaps Alpha Alexander knows something about it." I heaved a sigh of distress before I raised the blanket that was wrapped around the woman's body up to her chest. "Should we tell him?" Felise asked. 'You mean, Alpha Alexander?" She nodded in agreement. "Do't know yet. We still know nothing about her. Perhaps we should just wait for her to wake up. Until then, we should keep our mouths shut to make sure the students in this school will not get panic causing more attention to the werewolf world." Until then, Penelope and I sat waiting in silence at the bedside of
We looked at the woman who was focused on the food and drinks in front of her. Several long curve lines were written all over our foreheads. "You're kidding us right now, aren't you?" Felise asked my stepbrother, still in disbelief. "I hope I am, Felise. But I am not." Razel said in a serious tone. "That's what the woman claimed as soon as I hopped into the room." Then Razel started to explain that Isadora had been a wolf when she was a kid. But that does not surprise me. What surprised me was that she claimed to have come from the past. "I tried to ask her for more information about her but she no longer said a word since then," Razel added. "The doctor believed that she could have lost her memories. And that they must do further check-ups." "But the clinic cannot perform that here, right?" Felise asked. Razel nodded. "Apart from that, the payment that involves brain scanning was too expensive. There is no way we can afford a million dollars for the operat
"You are the ones who killed me in the first place, Mom, Dad. My happiness. My rights. And on top of that, my future. What kind of parents do that to their daughter? I'm so sorry if I disrupted your peaceful dinner." Before I could lose my love and respect for my parents, I evacuated the house with a heavy heart and endless tears. There are no more words or courage left in me that could convince them. So I decided to focus on building my second family which is the pack the way Ezra and I wanted it to be. Piece by piece, we achieve a few things on our bucket list. Our numbers increased to a hundred. Three days later, our fifty became a hundred, and a hundred became a thousand in a matter of days with the help of Razel's pack and Ezra's endless effort to solve every problem every time we encountered one. On top of that, we haven't heard anything from the rest of the packs around us either, giving us enough time to become strong. For me to become the best version of
"No," Ezra blurted, "Let's stick with the plan. Baptism and the Mating Night. Rust will help you guys with the flow of the events. I'll be patrolling the perimeter to make sure the plan succeeds tonight." Right after insisting, Ezra shifted into a wolf and ran away. Yes. Running away would be the perfect definition of what he thinks he's doing right now. He wants to hide his feelings - that he was hurting by the fact that I am going to mate his stepbrother. I know Ezra more than anyone in the world. His pain was excruciatingly unbearable that was why he could not bear to see me getting mated to Razel. All though it was his plan in the first place, he didn't want to turn back on his words even if his stepbrother already confessed to us the possibility of not getting anything from their pack. As soon as Ezra was gone out of my sight, Rust ordered us to begin the baptism. Right after the successful baptism of the Crescent moon pack, I found myself in the middle o
"How about let's prove that your alpha is useless? Kill them all!" Alexander ordered his wolves before he shifted into one. His boisterous growls produced mild movements of the ground, scaring the hell out of everyone, including Ezra and Razel. Before anyone could lay their claws and fangs on my pack members, I jumped on top of Alexander and landed alongside Ezra and Razel. My desire to kill washed over me while shifting the color of my eyes. We already lost two of our pack members. Those numbers all end there. Alexander and his wolves were taken aback when I growled louder than him. My growls did not just produce continuous movements on the ground and shoo all the wild animals around us but shook off everyone's nerves. There was this strange energy that surged in every fiber of my muscle, reverberating through me like a bolt of lightning. I could even feel my claws and fangs increase in size. Sharpened by the seconds. The brown hair attached to my body refl
"No, I highly doubt that," Ezra replied, compared to me and Razel, his voice still filled with hope. "There is another group of wolves a few meters away from the house. They have Mom and your father in that car." That makes sense. My senses were focused only on those werewolves above us. Diverting my heightened senses away from them did not even come to mind. Indeed, there, not far away from the house, stood ten more of Alexander's pack, surrounding the car where Razel's parents are held captives. Ezra's werewolf instincts about Rustom holding them alive were precisely right. Rustom had his motive for letting them stay alive. That also makes me wonder why Alexander agreed to help us save Razel's parents in exchange for Lance. Does that mean he also had his motive for keeping Lance? If there was one, what could it be? But no matter what that is, I must be prepared. "There were thirty werewolves in total surrounding us right now," one of our new members conf
"What will happen to them?" I asked those security guards who dragged me to the parking lot and hopped me into someone's black BMW car by force. Then we took off. "Don't give me that kind of glance, old man." I continued, this time, with a demanding tone, "You knew something. What does Aric wants from them?" "We don't know what Alpha Aric wants from them exactly, but I heard it will not do good to both of them..." As the old man kept on talking, I kept my eyes glancing in and out of the car, especially the direction we were heading. Based on my quick observation, we are not heading to my apartment, my parents' place, or Aric's den, but to the airport. Behind me, if I am not mistaken, were two large luggage bags. What's going on? I know what I did was unforgivable. But are they planning to separate me from Ezra? No. Aric is going to kill them. We still have an unfinished business with Alexander. And we just built our own pack. I must do something because my
Ezra nodded, "Simply because I closed my eyes back then. What if they notice and attack us all of a sudden?" he replied. I don't know if he was simply teasing me or not with his response. His overflowing rage toward me twenty seconds ago, but our ten long seconds kiss, melted and turned into a fine blushing. However, it does not change the fact that he wanted me to mate with his stepbrother. "Sorry," I uttered softly, "But I'm afraid my wolf cannot mate Razel right now, Ezra." "May I know the reason?" he insisted, his voice started to calm down as well. Perhaps he already confirmed that those wolves just passed by were already gone. There was no other way they could have sensed anyone's presence underneath the abandoned house because Ezra and Razel securely surrounded the place with human poop and other disgusting smells to distract a werewolf's heightened sense of smell. Even if we were outside sitting inside the car, they could bearly trace us either because
Ezra's serious expression cut deeper into my heart. However, my instinct senses something more than meets the eye. It seems to me that he had something in mind that he was afraid for me to know. A part of me wanted to ask him about it but I know today is not the best time to push it through. Ezra still has something in his mind. He had to save his Mom to be able to make peace with his stepbrother. Let alone we still need to negotiate with Alexander which I still found not an assurance that their parents are still alive a the moment. That one concern alone could turn everything upside down. The best thing I can do for myself right now is to support Ezra's plan. In order to help Ezra build the pack, my wolf must address the mess I made at the wedding first. I don't want to pour fuel into Ezra's blazing fire so I must make sure he or Razel do not get involved with it. So I proposed to Ezra to explain to us about the Crescent pack. Part of his job being my advisor is
As soon as I reached the middle part of the red carpet, my feet lost their will to move forward. My throat dried all of a sudden accompanied by the tears in my eyes flooding my cheeks. "Ezra, please, save me. I can't do this anymore." I uttered to myself. Everyone in the wedding venue, most especially the groom, furrowed when I simply looked him in the eye. Doubts were apparently displayed all over my face. The moon goddess seemed to have heard my impossible prayer when everyone's attention was shifted onto someone else - to the person who just slammed the door of the church open. I slowly turned around and found a familiar face. Though his entire face was covered in sweat and dirt, my instinct can never get mistaken. My knight in shining armor just arrived a bit late but it was the thought that counts. "Razel," I softly mumbled his name. Even though he was not my true knight in shining armor, it was the thought that counted for me. I don't what exactly happene
"Right," Razel nodded his head, "Aric and his men will be out the entire day to attend the wedding. It will be our only chance to achieve the plan. Ezra and I must take the opportunity of them being gone to search for Lance in his den. Is that what you mean by it, Brother Ezra?" "It is the only way I could think of we could save our parents, Felise." Ezra agreed. "We hope you understand that. Please, do me a favor. I need you to get married to Aric tomorrow." My heart feels like I was left all alone and got sunk into the bottom of the wide blue ocean that the two could do such a thing to me as though none of them considered how I might feel about it. I want to save their parents as much as they do, but I did not expect it to be this way - hurting me badly. Selling me to the wolf whom I hated the most. On top of that, my love and care for Ezra was unconditional. I may have promised him that my wolf would do everything to make him happy, but no matter how hard I try