CHAPTER 62CLARA'S POVI took a deep breath as I looked at him.The fact I was actually trusting this man enough to take that leap should be alarming to me. I mean, what if he had not caught me?Well, I did take the jump and he caught me bridal style and for a moment, we found ourselves lost in each other's eyes."I told you I'd catch you." He said to me,"Yeah, right. Barely." I teased him as I smiled sheepishly."Say that again, Clara." He dared me.I felt uneasy, as he was actually leaning in closer to me."Um, we should get to the principal's." I said, squirming out of his arms.He noticed my unease and let me down. I stared deep into the pools of his eyes again, another mistake I should try to fix. I mean, how do I live with myself everyday? I see his intense gaze on me."Let's go then." He said to me, giving me his hands."Sure. Let's go." I responded as I rose up smiling at him.We made our way through the back, being careful to keep off the public path as we went around the sc
CHAPTER 63ALPHA DERRICK'S POVI crossed into the bedroom the moment I opened it. It was arranged and the bed, untouched. Hawkins obviously never entered the room. I still had to check even as there were no blood stains in the room.I checked everywhere in the bedroom and there were no signs of him. I stared at the bathroom door and started off."Of course, he's not here." I muttered under my breath as I closed the door I had just opened.I came out of the bedroom and found Clara standing there with her arm stretched out in front of her. She looked overwhelmed with fear and delight as the cuckoo bird I had just left in the cage stood majestically on her arm."I told you not to touch anything." I said to her,"I know you did but the poor thing just caught my eyes." She said to me,"That poor thing should be in its cage." I said to her,"The cage you left open, right?" She asked me.I looked at her and sighed as I came close."We need to go." I said to her,"Are we going to be cruel eno
CHAPTER 64CLARA'S POVI had not been totally wrong to be suspicious of anything. I could tell from what I was feeling right now that a lot of things had gone wrong and down the drain with Principal Hawkins.The blood stains was more than enough evidence and now, I could see Professor Derrick had caught on with my fears too as he looked around the area."Did you find anything?" I asked him."Hold on." He said to me as he was busy looking around.I stood there observing him for the moment and then suddenly, he turned around to look at me with those eyes of his."We would go this way." He said to me solemnly.I knew things were going badly right now. I quickly went over to him as I fell in step with him and kept walking briskly beside him.We went on silently as I kept myself from saying anything. I could not have him lose concentration at this point. We went further into the woods and he would occasionally sniff the air and would have us turning into one part of the woods or another.P
CHAPTER 65ALPHA DERRICK'S POVWe approached Hawkins where he was propped up, my heart full of expectancy. I wanted him to be alive as I would fare better with him telling us the take of what had happened to him. It would be much easier and better to hear it being told from the horse's mouth itself than from mine and I would finally have something to argue with."Please be alive, buddy." I said to him as I knelt down in front of him.I carefully unwrapped the handkerchief around my hand and reached out two fingers close to his nostrils. I wanted to catch him breathing especially as I was listening but could not hear his heart beating. I was still trying to hold onto the false hopes of having seen him jerk when a maggot crawled out of his nose.My hands dropped sadly as the dawning realization hit me drastically. He was clearly dead. I stood up sadly as I looked at him and around us."He's dead?" Clara asked me."That he is." I responded sadly to her."But we saw him move." She cried o
CHAPTER 66ALPHA DERRICK'S POVHearing that someone from Beta Benson's camp was here seemed to aggravate me even more. But more importantly was whatever they were doing?This was my chance and it was right here. My eyes widened when I saw someone coming out of the house bearing a bucket in one hand and wearing a glove stained with blood.Those bastards! They were trying to get rid of evidence and I had to stop them."Is it coming off at least?" The one who Clara had said was the right hand bodyguard asked."We got everywhere wet and now it is gradually getting out." The man with the bucket responded."Well, hurry up with it. We don't have all night." The man responded."Yes, Sir." The man with the bucket responded as he proceeded to throw the contents. He had just spilled a little from the bucket when he was stopped."Asshole! You want to pour it out there?" The bodyguard asked again."Well, where do we pour it, Sir?" The man asked.By the look of things, the cleaners did not want to
ALPHA DERRICK'S POVWe had just enough of dancing around each other and I was actually beginning to tire of his games. It was time to end this and end this I would.He had suddenly come at me again when I caught him by the neck really firmly. My claws were daring to pierce his windpipe.He put his hand up instantly."Who sent you?" I demanded."I'll not say anything!" He said angrily."Oh, really? How about I start off on the basis of killing you?" I asked him."Go ahead. Killing me would be way more merciful than what he would do originally to me. Be my fucking guest!" He yelled at me."Oh, I see. I wasn't exactly planning on killing you. I was going to pierce your windpipe like so but not so deep. Just enough to make you feel ultimate pain and enough to let you heal. Then again. What do you say?" I asked him."You're not evil. You wouldn't." He said to me,Whatever was making them think I was Maximus the merciful?I smiled wickedly as I recalled how angry I had been at his master. O
CLARA'S POV"Did you see all that move from our man? He is so strong!" Clover said to me.I had been watching them retreat and then I turned to sit on the cold ground by the tree, pulling my legs up to me and wrapping my arms around them now.I was actually worried that he would be going into the den of the lions alone and I was not there to protect him."Aww, come on now, Clara. He would be fine." Clover said excitedly to me."Really? Because I am actually beginning to worry more." I said to her,"Derrick would not be harmed. Not a single hair on his head." She said to me,"And you know how?" I asked her."Because it's the way. To harm an Alpha is like drawing blood and swords for war." She said to me,"How old are you, Clover?" I asked her, trying to distract myself.I needed to feel better because the night had covered the sky now. It was dark now and I was all alone at night."I'm very old, Clara. You want to hear the story of what happens to us wolves?" She asked me."Would that
GRACE'S POVI had to figure a way around this. Perhaps I have not been the best of friend's to Clara owing to the fact that I have been keeping a number of secrets from her. For a while now, I have been unable to get actual sleep but I had to pretend. Several times I would be awake but pretend not to notice her sneaking out of the house to see Derrick. The reason for this was something I could not actually tell her.It would be best if she does not know.It all started with the night I turned sixteen. I was supposed to be linked to my wolf and find my mate but that had not happened either. Something however happened to me that night.I had fallen asleep on my bed but then I had a number of bad dreams and omens. I kept finding myself running in the woods and trying to figure out where the noise was coming from in my head. It was as though all the nocturnals had suddenly awakened and were trying to tear down through my defenses. I screamed for my own peace but it did not happen.I even
CHAPTER 135 CLARA'S POV "What's happening? I'm seeing you..." I heard my own words voiced out in amazement. The moon goddess simply stood there and would not make a move. It was then I looked up at her and noticed that she looked sad still in the eyes. Oh well, so much for wishful thinking. "You still do not get the point, Clara." She said to me, "What point? That I should not even be allowed to see my father? That's a huge point you made." I looked at her spitefully. "No, child and trust me, you're beginning to test me." She responded. "Of course. You're the moon goddess and as a pawn in your games, I shall only shut up and take it all like a champ. No complaints, eh?" I said to her, jutting out my jaw stubbornly. "You're really something, Clara Silver. You try to get on my nerves but I find you amusing." She responded. "Of course. Every blind wolf out there is amusing. No complaints." I responded. I saw her bite down hard as she could before approaching me. Perhaps, my ton
CLARA'S POVIt was quite...Oddly so.I had been hoping that Arlene would at the very least try and check on us but I never saw him. There was no sign of him and neither was there any of Derrick.Fear gripped me as I found myself wondering if everything was okay with him (Derrick).I needed someone to talk to.I needed to share my fears right now but Derrick was nowhere to be found."Clara, you need to rest." I heard Clover say to me."Oh, Clover! I feel so alone and lost." I said with a sigh.That was the honest truth. I felt bitter and really worked up right now but was there anything I could do?I doubt so."You'll be fine." She responded."I don't even know where Derrick is. I'm so worried. Are you not worried? What if the vamps took him?" I asked her.She let out a long drawn exhale."I am worried too, Clara. But even more than Derrick, I am worried about you. You're hurting and you have a lot on your shoulder." She said to me,"You shouldn't worry one bit about me. I'll be fine
CLARA'S POVI felt really excited as I caught onto the scent of the man that had been once announced dead. My dear father and I knew now that I had never been able to forget his scent.It was just as I remembered, so different yet so great."Dad." I called him as I traced to a standing position, where his head was."Who are you? Why do you call me father? I'm yet to find myself a woman." He said to me suddenly and I felt shattered."Father, you don't remember me?" I asked him as tears formed in my eyes.How could he do this to me? It might have been a long time but I who had lost him at eight had not forgotten him. Yet, he had such effrontery to forget me in such a short while."Come now girl, I don't know who you are. I believe I had a crush at my pack but we were just kids before I lost my way." He said to me, breaking my heart further."I'm your daughter. I'm your baby." I said to him,"How old are you then because you look so old." He said to me,"I'm only eighteen." I said to him
ALPHA DERRICK'S POV"What about him?" Randall asked as he nudged his jaw towards Kent who was still knocked out and tied up.I looked at him inquisitively before responding."The vampire said to follow him. We would follow him. You bring the boy."I said to him."Why do I get to do the hard stuff? You knocked him out, don't you think it is part of your responsibility now to..." He was still speaking when I cast him. "Fine. You don't need to look at me like I'll be next. I'll bring him." He sighed heavily as he went to Kent. Trust Randall to always make a show of how angry he gets. He made certain to land a kick to Kent's butt before struggling to pick him up while grumbling."Alpha Derrick, walk with me." Arlene said to me.Well, I guess he was back to his twelve year old vampire mode. To think a few minutes ago, this adorable looking young boy had been so intense with his glare that I nearly forgot how to breathe. I would recommend that anyone picking a fight with him should have mad
BETA BENSON'S POVI have been waiting at the pack house for this good news.Alright, bad guy here and I totally agree but you would have done the same to have some aspects of relevance attached to your name.This has always been my game plan.It is too bad I have not had the chance to introduce myself properly but I am the one who's supposed to be leading this pack.I had a strung out rivalry with Todd Silver and it was not a thing today. It was an old strife, maybe one he was not sure had such strong genesis.Could we say I always hated him and his guts from the moment my childhood dream girl had developed a friendship with him when Todd was newly transferred to our school.Everyone was all over him. He slowly took over everything and seemed like he was the saint of our time. It did not make any sense and when I tried to talk him into joining us, he had turned me down.He wanted nothing to do with my silly games and made me feel the first insult of my life. I overlooked him and decid
ALPHA DERRICK'S POV"Clara!" I called out to her as she fell off my arms.Clara sure did know how to get everyone on the edge. Right here in the vampire territory which we had encountered and she was clearly unfazed. She had suddenly left my arms to the ground and was sniffing her way further deep.I have never seen anything like that in my life. The way she moved faster and sniffed around, it was something from the human sniffing dogs.I wanted to go after her but a couple of vampires deterred me as they hissed right into our faces."Clara!" Grace even called out to her but I doubt she could hear either of us.I glared at Arlene, especially when a vampire seemed to want to threaten Clara."Arlene, are you going to let them hurt her? Us? We're not harming anyone!" I said to him as my eyes kept following her."Friends, let us all be calm. These ones mean no harm to us. At least, that much I can assure you." Arlene said to the snarling vampires."We cannot trust them in the heart of our
CLARA'S POVI had been through hell and back.It was all the fault of the damned moon goddess. Why on earth would she curse me with blindness? Could she see now the havoc she was causing?For crying out loud, I nearly drowned!"But you didn't." Clover said to me."Shut it, Clover." I said to her,"Clara, anything could be taken lightly but blasphemy against the mood goddess is evil. She sees and knows everything." She said to me,"Oh and I hope she's seeing this now." I responded to Clover.This was my thoughts right before I had been plunged into water and was drowning.I had awakened sometime when Derrick was speaking to Beta Benson's men and it was not even up to a minute when I found myself drowning.I had been so weak that I could not move at all. Eventually, I lost it all. It would be best to just drown and die than be humiliated further.The water started to get into my nostrils and I found that I was beginning to struggle to breathe too. I thought to myself, what did it matter
ALPHA DERRICK'S POVI had heard stories of Arlene and his community of non-human blood drinking vampires. We believed it to be a myth as it was clear to everyone of us that a vampire cannot claim not to drink human blood.They were supposedly evil and dark creatures from our opposite kind. The dark brother to our moon goddess had been believed to sire them.Dracula and Selene used to be siblings. Whilst Selene saw only the beauty and pureness, Dracula was believed to have experimented on the lives of humans, leading the great god to cast him down on earth and curse him.He became the sire of vampires.This was the story we had grown up to.However, the wild spread fanatic was how some of these doomed ones failed to live up to expectations and would rather feed on animals than hurt a human.This seemed strange at the time. Tell me about Arlene a few minutes ago and I would have laughed at what myth one was playing at.From the vastness of this empty landscape, I could swear there are n
ARLENE'S POVIt has been five good centuries and eleven moons since I turned.My name is Arlene and some would call me the vampire old kid.I had been human until that day when I had allowed my disobedience to get the better of me.A group of strangers had come to our little yet peaceful village. These people were pale looking and I actually believed they were ill.They had arrived while we were celebrating our annual festival. Five of them. Two women and three men. They had been so friendly and soon, we learnt to accept them.All but one wise woman I hope sometimes when I lose people I love - my mother.She found them really weird and she called me every other time."Arlene, stay away from those strangers. Something is off about them." She said to me,But being the kind of child I had been, I found it weird that my mother would not want to mingle with them. I mean, they started assisting the villages with different things.I grew fond of the older woman among them. She seemed to be i