ARMAND'S POVI looked at the young man that had come to deliver the message and then at Marcus. What have my people done?"Send for Kruger." I said as I sat down on my bed."Do I bring him here?" The young man asked me.I was angered now at his question. Could he not see the head of Orlando here? What was it going to seem like when the elders found out that I had kept on the head as a trophy in the most despicable manner?"Are you stupid? Have him wait in the throne room." I responded.He bowed his head."My apologies, sire." He said as he turned away."What is the matter, Armand? You certainly do not like the werewolves. Why are you upset that one of their own was killed?" Marcus asked me."You don't get it, do you? He was killed by our kind." I said to him,He still did not seem to understand as he stared confusingly at me."As it should be, right?" He asked me.Damnit! What was so hard to comprehend right now."No, Marcus. He was our spy. Now, I had promised him to turn him and mak
ALPHA DERRICK'S POVWait, what was happening right now and since when did Melissa...?For once, I have to agree with Reid. Melissa looked like she was getting ready to pounce on either of us and I could see how angrily she was glaring at me right now."Reid, what happened?" I asked him."Oh wow, like you brought me out and left me with Clara to watch over her, right?" He asked me."Has this occurred before?" I asked him."I don't know. I should be asking you." He said to me,I turned to Clara and she looked helplessly at me. Wait, was she also stuck here or had it been that while in my absence, Melissa and her had sucked it up and made up?Actually if that happens, it would give me joy that she would at least have some breathing space and allow me conduct my investigation."Um, Melissa..." I called her cautiously."What?" She demanded angrily."I need to tidy up stuff." I said to her,"What stuff? If this is about them taking Clara, it's not happening! They would kill her like they ha
ALPHA DERRICK'S POVAlpha Clark looked like he was going white from the shock of seeing me.He was momentarily stunned and remained in that position for a while before blinking like he was actually trying to wave aside whatever he was feeling."Um, of course not. There's no problem. Please, now you can have your seat." He said pointing to a vacant chair.Sorry ass Clark. What was he actually thinking was going to happen right now?I smiled dryly at him but did not let go of Clara's hand."I was saying you could sit." He repeated himself."I heard, the very first time." I said to him,"Certainly you should accord our Alpha a little tinge of respect in the presence of all others even if you are haughty headed." Beta Benson who was entering from the opposite direction said to me."Come on, Benson. You shouldn't talk to Alpha Derrick that way." Alpha Clark said to him."But he has no right to speak crudely and besides, it was Clara we sent for." Beta Benson said out loud as he glared at m
CLARA'S POVWait a minute, what was that again?I was actually at a point beginning to feel invincible to all of them but luckily, Professor Derrick had my back. However, right now he was beginning to confuse me with what he had just said. They were all here trying to decide my fate while I stood there.Hello guys, I'm actually here and should be involved in whatever decision you all are making about me, right?Someone tell these men."What is that word?" Alpha Clark asked no one in particular.I knew he was directing the question at Professor Derrick but was scared of saying it straight.Well, I would not say I blamed him for being afraid. The man sure as hell did leave an impact. Professor Derrick knew he was confused and then assisted him."Seems someone did not study the old texts properly. It is dici hominem and it is of Latin descent. It is to take in and I lay a claim as Clara's guardian from this moment hence." Professor Derrick said.Seriously, I felt really valued at this po
CLARA'S POVI had to choose now, right?There was no way in the world I would be able to decide so easily, especially when it could bring harm to the one person that has come to love and intercede for me.They were watching me and so was he. He stared pleadingly at me and I could feel his pain and worry instantly.Suddenly, Derrick synched to our mind link."Clara, please let me do this for you." He said to me,I chose to give him no answer as I did not want to harm him."Clara, I think this is something you, I mean, we should do." Clover said to me."You don't get it. It's like putting his life on the line." I responded to her."Clara, I know you can hear me, just say yes." Professor Derrick pleaded further.Could he not seem to understand the fact that this was just one of those really difficult decisions to make or was he beginning to kid with me."Clara, the man loves you and you know it. There's no telling the truth to you." Clover advised further."I see he does, Clover. But wha
CLARA'S POV"We cannot go with that alpha, the girl clearly disagreed and must have said that out of fear." Beta Benson said.Wow, since when did he know me so well? The pathetic man, he was gradually beginning to steadily grit my nerves and all I wanted was to be away from him."Benson, what are you trying to do?" Alpha Clark demanded."Ask her again, Alpha. Clara would confirm my fears, she made a mistake." Beta Benson said with so much worry and energy."Are you trying to call us both deaf?" Professor Derrick demanded."All I'm saying is that as her guardian, I cannot agree to this. I'm the one who is supposed to protect her and not the other way around." Beta Benson went on."The other way around is impossible because Clara is not protecting you." Professor Derrick said exactly what was on my mind."Seriously, what are you trying to do? Clara has always been safe in the pack until you came along." Beta Benson insisted.Seriously, I was beginning to wonder exactly why he was this w
ALPHA DERRICK'S POVI was more than relieved now that Clara had accepted my offer openly to be her guardian. However, it had come at the cost of having to open up to her on my knowledge about her father."And there's no telling how she would react." Reid said to me."Could you shut up now?" I asked my wolf."Easy, big boy. I only worry about you and what would become your fate with Clara." He said to me,Of course, that was my major concern. I was left alone in the room with the two devilish persons now and they seemed to be hoping to devour me."Wait, what really happened to Hawkins?" The soon to be principal asked.Sad, they did not even tell him the fact. Clearly, he was not working for them and had been probably installed as a neutral party."You know what, Beta Benson would escort you out and we'll speak to you later. Right now, I have things to sort out with Alpha Derrick." Alpha Clark said to him."But I'm supposed to be here too." Beta Benson protested."Of course but the thi
BETA BENSON'S POVDamnit, the insolent boy and his provocative approach. He clearly had been onto me for way longer than I could have imagined and I like the fool as always have underestimated him again.I could see the look on his face when he mentioned that song and how accusingly he stared at me. He knew something and was clearly trying to make me speak about it too. Wait a damn minute...Was the past beginning to rise and bite me in the ass? How many more people knew about this song or suspected me being the reason why it was being sung again.He had asked me a question but my mind was hazy that I had not really paid attention. All my focus was on this one song he had brought up after all these years."Alpha Derrick, I am sorry but I didn't quite grasp what you asked." I said to him,He smirked.I never should have engaged him in an argument about Clara. Even while I had been arguing, I knew I should have shut my mouth but I was clearly too occupied with enjoying his restlessness
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