CLARA'S POV"Sleeping?" I heard his voice in my head and nearly jumped. It was dark already after all. I had fallen asleep after missing the dinner as we made it back late. Grace and I had decided that we were going to get something from her snack packs. A good number of cookies and we were off to bed.I had actually been in the middle of a beautiful dream when his voice in my head called. It had been a little hard to tell a dream from reality but alas, I opened my eyes and sat up. It was dark now as the lights were off. Nevertheless, I turned on my side lamp and squinted my eyes as I stared at the time on my alarm.01:23?Was Derrick kidding me? Least he forgets, I do have school. "Yes. Took you long enough." I said to him,"Apologies but you must come now. I need to see you." He said to me,"What is it?" I asked him."I'm in front of your door." He responded."My door? Are you crazy? You cannot enter the female dormitory. That's forbidden." I said to him,"I know." He responded."
GRACE'S POVI found myself going deeper into the woods after I had snuck out. I had been awakened by a shrill voice and it had me scouting through the woods. I took a turn around the area where the staff areas were and then I found myself in a path through which there were lots of gravestones.The burial path. This place was forbidden. I wanted to turn back."Come, Grace." I heard the enchanting feminine voice call out to me.I could not find it within me to resist as I started forward again. I needed to get to the root of whatever this was as I continued forward. It was almost like what happens with sailors that meets with sirens.I kept moving forward and soon, I turned through another path and could see an old cabin I had never seen nor did I know existed.Wait, I have seen this cabin in a dream before but there was a beautiful woman in it whom I identified as the moon goddess."You're welcome." A crackly old voice I instantly recognized called out to me.I looked to my side and I
CLARA'S POVI looked up at her but had absolutely nothing to say."Clara, did you hear me?" Grace asked me."Yeah, what?" I asked her."We need to talk. There are things I must explain to you." She went on to say."Yeah. Things like how long you were planning on keeping me in the dark?" I asked her as I stretched out on my bed."Clara, it's not as you think." She dared to say."Of course. It cannot be as I think because I thought we were best friends and we keep no secrets." I said to her,"Of course we are. We are best friends. We keep no secrets." She responded.I scoffed."Then I plead that you tell me, truth ambassador, is this the first time you snuck out this way?" I asked her.She was shocked obviously as I was staring now as I laid on the bed, directly at her."Clara?" She called me with a gasp."Grace?" I called her back."You're seriously going to be this way?" She asked me."Are you intentionally averting from what I asked?" I threw the million dollar question at her."Fine
ALPHA DERRICK'S POVLeaving Clara behind at the pack there had been the toughest decision I had yet made. I worried about her but she was right. I cannot put the fate of the entire pack at risk because of one person."But Clara is not just one person. She's our mate." Reid said to me."That has not been confirmed yet." I responded."But the signs are there." He responded."And since when did you become such a love expert?" I asked him."Come now, Derrick. I had a love life before this. Do you think I was always this way?" He asked me."Certainly not. What was her name?" I asked him."Clover." He responded."That's a beautiful name." I answered him.I felt his mood dampen as he mentioned her name."Have I ruptured a bad memory?" I asked him."No. It's actually a good and bad one. I have not mentioned her name in many long years since I lost her." He said to me,"How did you lose her?" I asked him."To the humans. They took her while she was with child." He responded."That's...sad." I
ARMAND'S POVI had waited for the elders to return with their decision. I have no idea but I was actually concerned about Orlando and how he might have to force my hand. He had been on my neck, breathing down hard. Right now, the only thing on my mind was to get my hands on him and have him put in a coffin forever beside his friend. Who knows, I might actually sink that coffin someday and bring them eternity in pain. They would find themselves drowning over and over again until they have to cry to the damn silent gods to come to their aid.And then, their turmoil resumes again.Uncle Magnus ruined us. Why could they all not see that I was trying to build us up? Looking at the way out hunting has been dwindling as of recent and the rations of distasteful animal blood getting smaller, it would be just a matter of time before we starve.Most of our young vampires that were turned before the werewolves took hold of power had yet to have a taste of what human blood was like. They were not
CLARA'S POV I woke up this morning and went straight to the bathroom. I opened and found Grace there instead and angrily I turned away. She was brushing her teeth."Clara..." She called me but right now, I did not want her numerous excuses. She had been lying to me all along. It felt as if I had been living with a stranger all this while when I had thought that I had my friend beside me."Please finish. I have classes." I said to her as I went back to my bed.How was Derrick? He was yet to reach out to me but I longed to hear from him. Right now, he seemed as though he was the only one I could ever really trust. "What happened to me?" Clover suddenly asked me.I chuckled."Of course, and you too." I responded to her.I reclined on my bed now as I wondered just how I would be going on about the potion. I had not mentioned it yet to Grace but then, I did not need to.I was still laying down there when she came out. She had finished up quickly."Clara, I am sorry." She said to me,I go
CLARA'S POVI was obviously late. I looked around as I was clearly going hysterical at this point."Clara, we need to..." Clover said."She's not here... she's gone. It is all my fault." I responded instead."Clara, calm down. We can figure this out." She said to me,I could barely hear her at this point as my eyes were scanning the area. I sniffed the air but even her familiar perfume was nowhere to be found. I noticed someone was coming in and quickly, I grabbed her by the arm.She seemed frightened and I felt sorry for her but I needed to make sure Grace was safe."Get off me, you freak!" She shrieked."Grace, have you seen her?" I asked her."No! Get off!" She yelled as she peeled my hands off her. I would not fault her however because I understood they did not really like me.Fine. I would go around looking for her myself.I started around the school premises, everywhere I could think of but Grace was still nowhere to be found at the moment. I eventually was left with just one pl
CLARA'S POV"Come out now." I said to her looking sternly at her."Do you forgive me?" She asked me."Yes. Now get out of that place." I said to her,"I wish I could but apparently, I still have two hours until my punishment." She said to me,"What exactly did you do?" I asked her."Didn't you hear? I ate in the classroom." She said to me,"Oh, you were actually serious." I responded."But..." She started."Shh...ears and gossips." I said as I had just turned and noticed Melissa who was looking right at me with a dangerous grin on her face.She was perked up with her wolf ears obviously and I was trying to keep from laughing out loud. I had intentionally mentioned the part of gossip while looking at her to make certain that she heard.I listened for her reaction."Peasant." She said angrily as she looked away from us."Queen bee." I responded slowly but I knew she heard."What was that about?" Grace asked me."Apparently, some princesses think they are way too good for their own good
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