Judas ’s house was filled with so much excitement and warmth. Everyone at the table was chatting and laughing loudly, even George seemed to integrate himself with the people around. He was talking excitedly with some colleagues from his work place and everyone seemed to be in a good mood. I was sitting alongside some of Judas ’s friends who talked about various subjects they wished to discuss among themselves. From their personalities to what they thought about worlds and city outside Greenwood , to family and work and just social gatherings that brought happy cheers and laughter to our faces.I did not have much to talk about but it was easy flowing into the conversation especially when Judas ’s friends were easy to let you in on what they talked about. And it was exhilarating to laugh freely among strangers who were no longer strangers but gradually making an impact in your life.“ So tell us Zara, what did you enjoy more doing as a child?” One of the ladies at the table asked. I t
I was agitated and so was my wolf. Despite Zara not wanting me, the mate bond still made me feel horrible.I guess, I sort of deserve it though seeing the horror Zara must have passed through while she was a kid knowing her parents died right in front of her and were never avenged. I imagined she must be having the time of her life with the lowlife guy she ran away with. At this point, I was disappointed with myself. This wasn’t the alpha he’s imagined and prided himself to be. Someone who couldn’t exactly control the affairs of his own pack.Maybe I really should not have listened to Lia and involve the rogues because they weren’t exactly top on my option list. If anything, they were the last. I have had a traumatic experience with the rogues as a kid. I was what at the time? Ten? I was playing in the yard with one of the royals’ kid who was only about my age too at the time when they came and took me and the kid. I couldn’t exactly tell if they did it for the thrill or they were ju
~Zara~I screamed at the sudden ticklish onslaught. George was grinning at my torture but it was my favorite form of torture. He leaned down and placed his lips on mine.“Girl, I love you.” My insides melted. Sweet words and sentences like this from George makes me fall all over again.“Is this your way of telling me that you will be going to the city council soon and you will be leaving me all by myself?” I teased. Well, not entirely teasing. I was always kinda sad to see him leave in the morning. I want to be with him all the time.“I am sorry baby.” He looked genuinely sorry. His pretty eyes twinkling with a quiet apology. “But I got you something.” My mouth formed a perfect O. He reached into a chest of drawers beside our bed and brought out a bunch of supplies.“You know, for your painting.” I screeched from excitement and straddled him. He grinned at me, seemingly happy. I planted a huge sloppy kiss on his lips.“Thank you, I love you.” He nodded and pushed my hair back.“Right b
~Pedro~Lia groaned. Good, she is awake and she is all healed up now. Sunlight strewn into the room through some open window. I called the pack doctor.“Joe, close that shit.” I wasn’t supposed to cuss. I mean, I am supposed to be in control at all time especially in front of my pack members. I motioned to the window. He gave a bow and quickly went about doing my bidding.“The light is fine.” Lia mumbled weakly but the window was already close.“How are you doing?” My brows furrowed. I really should have Akita punished. So maybe I haven’t announced that Lia is the future Luna nor do I think I will be doing that anytime soon but it was no secret in the pack that Lia and I were screwing. Pardon my crude language.“Why are you sitting at my bedside?” Lia asked suspiciously. I resisted the urge to say that we are a couple. We are not normal at all. We might be powerful together but we are dysfunctional. “Don’t you have some alpha stuff to do?” She blinked. If I didn’t know any better, I w
~Zara~The charity was going well by all standard. I didn’t really see much of George that much though but I was having ton of fun with John and his smart mouth. We were walking around the venue exploring the expanse and beauty before we finally decided to find a seat when they were about to start donating money.“Your husband is the dashing one in the suit, huh?” I nodded. John smirked bringing his seat closer to me conspiratorially. “I can tell. You can’t take your eyes off him. You haven’t—not since we got here.” Well, John is right. He looks mouth wateringly good in the suit. I looked down at my own black little number. It worked well with my olive skin.“Well, I struck out you know. I can’t just believe that all that is mine.” John ’s eyes softened.“He struck out too.” The boy is awfully kind and sweet for a teenager. It was wonderful. “Y’all are like the it couple. My one true pairing.” He grinned at me and that was when Judas got on stage. We all erupted in cheers and app
~Pedro~Lia was acting like a peevish pregnant woman and I get it. She is all stressed out because of the coronation ceremony and the rituals but the pack members already offered to help and she rejected their help. She was paranoid about them ruining her special day. In her own words, it’s her childhood dream and she won’t let low lives and ordinary mutts spoil them like she wasn’t a mutt herself but I am letting her be. Right now, she is screaming at Alice and poor Alice looks like she is about to break down crying. Poor woman, she deserves better than this.“You should take it easy, you know. And let other people help.” Apart from your annoying and bitchy little sister. I added in my head. Alina is a freaking nutcase.“Alina is helping.” I snorted. Or she is just prancing around my building and causing troubles. Just yesterday, she was dry humping a prison guard. Every thing about Alina infuriates me, from the blue streaks in her shiny black hair that she kept short because she is
~Zara~After the huge argument with George that night and he’s promised to be my best friend, I felt a lot better and you want to know who else is my best friend in every thing that is happening to me right now? John . Judas and George , they have a job and they cannot just be sitting around with jobless old me all the time to keep me company but Kel is exactly like me and has no job so I guess he can sit around just like me and get away with it.Right now, he is seated in the living room and I am with this larger than life easel that he gifted me to draw him with. John is a really horrible model for picture drawing though. He keeps moving and he can’t stop talking.“Your auction drawing was absolutely amazing.”“I know because you won’t shut up about it.” He gave a little chuckle.“What is there to shut up about?” I only hmmed to answer him. I am a flurry of activities at the moment, holding up the paint and swiping my brush swiftly over the face of the easel. “ Are you sure you a
~Pedro~I was pacing around in my chambers. Oh, this is really bad— so bad that I can’t even begin to explain. Akita must have done this to spite us. A final slap on the face to Lia and I before she left the world because why’d she choose to kill herself on Lia’s coronation ceremony of all days. It is something I can do too or something I will do if I was the one treated the way we treated her. Jeez, I didn’t know Akita had it in her. The pack members are so mad at me and Lia right now. Some of them even went as far as throwing huge shards of glass and stones at Lia while she was trying to get back inside the chambers. Lia was not very upset about the news and to be honest, that was kinda predictable. What is there to be upset about?The girl took her own life and I say that she is free to do anything she wants because she is the owner of her life but why’d she choose to do it on my Luna’s coronation day and her timing is kinda off because they already made Lia the Luna before the new
~Zara~"Tell us what it is Zara. It is very rude to keep people in suspense," Julian complained and every other person in the room supported her with a groan. "Calm down at least allow me finish breastfeeding," I retorted. Breastfeeding, I could not believe I actually said that word. George was in the kitchen preparing something for me to eat and no one saw it fit to help him out. Ever since I came home that day from the hospital, up till the date of my delivery, I caused him nothing but work. There was always something I wanted or did not want. I blamed the fact that he got me pregnant whenever he complained about me being too demanding. I would ask him to carry a supernatural child in his belly for a couple of months and see how it is. "Name the child already. We don't even know it's gender," someone else grumbled from the crowd and I laughed. Almost everyone I knew and cared about was around after they heard I had delivered the baby and had already gotten home. I felt honored
~PEDRO~"I do not want to go," I argued strictly with Lia but she seemed to have had her mind made up. "We have to go. She is legit," she insisted. I sat still, not moving from my position. She was trying to persuade me to follow her to a witch down town who could tell our future. I saw it as a waste of time and money, I had other pack duties to face. "Lia, I have things to do other than listening to a witch. I have not much good lucks when it comes to having encounters with witches remember," I defended, not even wanting to go but also not wanting to give her a direct no for an answer. "Then I'll ask for the witch to come over. It will be the best. She was the one who predicted that I would be Luna one day and here I am. All I had to do was work well for it," Lia explained further earning a groan from me. "Will that not cost us more than expected?" I peered and she nodded her head. "Yes, but you are alpha remember. Money has never been an issue for you," she chimed and I sighed
~Zara~"What?!" I was breathless for the next couple of seconds and my jaw was down and my eyes were wide open. "Congratulations ma'am," the director walked right in, holding a file in his hands and giving it to George. I was carrying a baby in my belly. The news caught me off guard, I knew how I was supposed to react to it and I wanted to do so but I was way too stunned to even make a statement. My hands crawled around my belly as I tried to listen to an extra heart beat but then I remembered my werewolf aid was no longer available. "I'm pregnant," I murmured quietly. "Yes," George seemed to be very overjoyed by the news and he continued to hug me every once in a while to tell and show me how happy he was. "I'm carrying a child inside of me," I defined the term pregnant again to myself and this time, tears clouded my eyes and I made no effort to hold them in. I was having mixed emotions. Somewhere in me I was overly joyed to know that George and I were going to be parents soo
~Pedro~Proud was an understatement, compared to how I felt at the moment. Nothin could wipe the smile off my face. I was the new new alpha or alpha's. A dream come true, finally. The wives of the former alphas has already reached their family few minutes ago. I got news from each and everyone one of them. Yes having them kidnaped and using their vulnerability against them made me look like the bad person here but desperate times called for desperate measure. I did what I had to do and it was worth it.I am my father's son and his method of ruling runs through my veins. Everyone continued to congratulate me and I never stopped any of them, not even even once. It all helped to swell my head, I hoped that the news spread fast and reach all comers of the earth. I won the fight and I barely even made any moves. Deep down I hoped I sparred with at last one of the alpha's. I needed some blood to be shredded but they all backdown easily like cowards. It was pathetic how attached stro
~Zara~There was absolutely nothing to do, it was a weekend and I had no work. But for some reason, George had to leave me again to attend to somethings at the council. I sometimes feel a lot jealous when I realize how much effort and time he puts into his work. But then I remember how he treats me like a queen that he says I am. He's the sweetest thing and I could not find myself getting mad at him for long. Picking up my television remote, I tuned the station once again. I hoped I found the right program to watch fast because my mind was going crazy from the boredom and it was eating me up fast from the inside. The whole thing I was doing was worthless. My belly made a low growl and I remembered I had not eaten since morning. It also meant I had to find what to cook, George had already spoiled me with making me foods now I was too lazy to take care of myself. I turned my head to the direction of the kitchen, contemplating whether or not to get up and get some food. I looked at th
~Pedro~We were waiting patiently for both Alan and Denver to just make the damn call so we can get this over with. I really don’t have the time for this.Their Lunas were sitting in a dark room but they weren’t tied up or anything. We let them be free. I don’t have time to torture people or fight a goddamn war. The werewolf society might have rules about this sort of thing but this is the time to change their goddamn rule and give us all a chance to live even after competing.Fine, I am not saying this because I am a good person. I am just saying this because I want to take the cowardly way out and I don’t want to have to kill anyone because I wouldn’t want to have any casualties on my neck or anything like that so it’s only wise that I do it this way. Kidnapping both their Lunas and getting them to withdraw from the competition. They aren’t really withdrawing per day just submitting to me.It wouldn’t be really hard with Denver because he is obsessed with his Luna. A tiny looking wo
~Pedro~After the counter attack that we have the Ray pack, they have been pretty silent for a while and I will like to think of it as a calm before the storm. Lia is so busy training hard because she felt like I beat her too easily at the sparring we both had but all explanations that I had to give that it was because I had been learning how to fight since I was born and well, I am an alpha too so I will be more stronger fall on deaf ears.She told me that she felt weak but I know that’s all a lie. This is happening to her all because she is feeling so goddamn nervous about the war and I have told times without number that I have got this under control. But for now, while everyone slaves away training and shit, I am sitted here in my chambers with my tablet and I am watching this series on Netflix about werewolves. This is my way of distressing. You wouldn’t understand until you are the leader of a bunch of people who think they are going to die because there’s war looming on the hor
~Zara~This is really fun. You know, having a boss who was once rude and grumpy to you and now even though he is still rude and grumpy, he is not so bad anymore because y’all had an encounter and now he respects you. I wouldn’t say respect per say—it is a little begrudging but now he behaves better and not only to me but the other co workers. Park was excited as hell.He and Pérez had a really epic fallout the last time that Pérez thought he did something wrong again and he thought about quitting. I couldn’t exactly tell him not to do what he wants to do. He is an adult and he can make his own decisions but also I think I will really miss seeing his face at work and his false flirtiness.The relationship between Pérez and the rest of the co workers shifted dramatically last month when he had some breathing attack. I was about to tell him that some teachers were here to see him because they want the students to come here for their art class but instead I met Pérez laying on the floor,
~Pedro~We werewolves must be psychopaths because ever since I brought the news back home to my pack that we are at war with the Ray pack that is Denver pack and starlight pack which is Alan’s pack, they have been really excited. Dylan was making good on his promises, he supplied me with over two thousand soldiers.We were still good friends and the pack was confident that victory was ours in this war. Lia, not so much. She was completely pessimistic and got angry at me for taking such a huge step without telling her but I don’t really care about what she thinks. Before my father died, this was what he wanted for me and no matter how much I hated the man, it was a good thing to want for himself and his son but it is not a monarchy and even if my dad has the title, I will still have to fight for my own place at the table.It’s good though not having everything handed over to me on a platter of gold. That will be bad for me and my reign as alpha in the light pack.Lia walked into my cha