Jaque POV . . I stayed in his room for the whole night, just staring blankly at the ceiling. Logan left the villa after we talked. He didn't say anything. He just listened. He just stayed in the library for a couple of hours, and then after that, he left with Jackson. I couldn't believe this was the kind of life I was having in this world. I thought when I found out Adam was my mate, the moon goddess had answered my prayers to be with my first crush, but I was wrong. Then she gave me another chance of happiness. She let me be mated with the Rogue King after Adam rejected me. Far from my expectations, she just let me taste a life of luxury for days and also took it from me in the most painful way. 'Moon goddess Diana, you are cruel!' I muttered nonchalantly. The dark room was joining me in my reflection. I was lying down alone here on this wide king's bed, hands spread on both sides, and my mind wandered far away from the werewolf lands. "Huh?!" I jolted when suddenly the lig
Jaque POV . . "That was a great one?!" Kelly was appalled. "How?!" She raised both of her hands while bouncing her shoulders, asking for an explanation. "Alpha Adam Hayes was bound not to live. He was supposed to die that day if you didn't catch him!" Witch Anya was creating more mess in my head. How could she say such stuff to a fourteen-year-old Adam, I should say? "He was just 14. He was the heir of the Blood Moon Pack. How could you say that? If that happened, he was too young to die!" I shot her a series of questions. "It is the life of everyone to live and die, Jaque. Whether we are too young to leave or too old to die. Just like me!" She shrugged off while opening the small box containing pepper powder, cinnamon, wild roses, and orchid petals that were crushed into pieces. "Ops! I almost forgot the finishing touches!" She smiled while shaking her head. "Forgive my forgetfulness, Shiva!" She was talking to my wolf, and I felt a growl bounce in my chest. "Wait! Yo
Logan POV . . "Noooo!" My legs weakened. My mind was shattered, and my heart was aching. "Jaque!" I muttered in the air. My knees fell on the burned ground, ignoring the pain the scrapes had produced. My eyes were seething, watching my burned villa turn into dust. Who dared to do that crime to a king? Exploding my house was not the only mistake they had made that deserved brutal punishment. It was not the only crime they had done that was punishable by slow torture. It was not the only grave offense that they made that even their fifth generation would be accountable for death. It was the fact that they had killed their queen, my mate, my reason to live sedately. They had murdered Jaque. They had burned her alive. "Jaque!" I let out a menacing growl. Thorin was crushing into pieces as he grieved the loss of our mate. Yesterday, we just talked. She poured out all of her emotions to me. I was ready to rectify everything. I already had a plan. I didn't want to let her go.
Jaque POV . . "How are you going back to the pack?" I asked nonchalantly my best friend, who had been with me since last night. This woods looked far from the Blood Moon Pack. It absolutely looked isolated. "The same thing we did last night. My Aunt Anya will bring me back to my room like nothing happens!" I sighed at her answer and kept prepping my chin with my elbow while watching the scenery from the window. Kelly was busy munching pancakes on the patio with her cup of hot chocolate milk. "Looks like I can't attend graduation, Kels!" I told her with a heavy heart. My mom always dreamed of me being in a graduation gown and graduation cap. "What shall I do now while I'm stuck here?!" I stomped my feet on the wooden floor, earning me a shrug from my best friend. "Aunt Anya said you need to train. Also, she said she would help you shift!" With that, I glanced at her. She nodded as her confirmation. "Your wolf needs to control her powers!" "Aside from being strong, what
Logan POV . . Although the whip made a grave impact on my back, cutting my skin off, I didn't make a single sound as it landed on my bare skin. Because my healing abilities were faster than usual, wolfbane was thrown on my wound, and I grunted at that, my eyes closed. The council declared a two-whole-day punishment for me for challenging the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack and for creating chaos in the human territory. Somehow, my roar at Jaque in front of the restaurant created some news flashes on every broadcasting channel on every news. Since yesterday, I would be brought out to the training ground where I would be whipped a hundred lashes, and after every whipping, wolfsbane would be rubbed into my wounds. I grunted in excruciating pain at the last whip that hit my back, and when the punisher dropped the whip, signaling the end of the punishment, I fell loudly to the ground with my hands tightly tied with thick ropes. My beta immediately came to my rescue along with Serena
Jaque POV . . "Huh! This is hard. Can we take some rest?" I asked while panting. I had been doing this push-up for about fifteen minutes, and I could no longer take another move. "That's the simplest, yet you can't even last long!" Witch Anya shook her head in disappointment. "You keep going. It is not even an hour or thirty minutes, tsk tsk tsk!" She placed her hands on her hips while ambling back and forth in front of me. "I have never done this before. Not even once!" I defended, which was the truth. My father never brought me to the training ground or the gym. Although I went there many times by myself, that was to clean them. The Davis family all thought I wasn't warrior material, and if the Blood Moon Pack would ever be attacked, I would be their first bait so they could escape. That was the words of my stepmother and stepsister. "You were treated as a slave. Use that strength you saved now. No more whining like a baby. Stop complaining and start growing up!" She whi
Jaque POV . . "What do you mean by Goddess Alectrona's descendant? How do you know they are coming?" I got up from where I was sitting and held her hand tightly. She looked deadly seriously and a tad bit scared. "Alectrona has only one child, and this child was adopted. She never disclosed the gender of the child to protect her or him from the moon goddess' children. Jaque, among her children, your wolf was the only one who saw the face of goddess Alectrona's descendant!" I was more shocked now than before. How could my simple life get complicated like this? "Why was that? Why was it that my wolf was the only one who knew about the look of her child? I don't understand!" I shook my head while pulling my hair, I was having a headache, thinking about my situation now. "That's because you were close to that kid. You were playmates. Although you didn't grow up together, you two usually hid your friendship from them. You had a meeting place with that kid. You just stopped seein
Adam POV . . "The news was credible, Adam. Jaque was burned alive!" My father spoke. I hit the glass wall of my office. I was by the window, watching the views outside. Well, I wasn't really watching anything, for my mind was occupied by the news that reached my ears. A lot of stuff had happened in just a blink of an eye. For the past three or four days, everyone could narrate such huge events in the werewolf world. First was the rant King Logan did at a restaurant in the human territory. Second, his coming into my pack challenged me to fight to the death, but it didn't happen because Jaque's wolf stopped us. Third, his arrest and punishment for two days for attacking me and for creating a disaster in the human territory, almost exposing our world. Fourth, his villa exploded at night with Jaque inside, being burned alive. I hit the glass wall one more time, and this time, Kylo ascended. A snarl escaped my lips, hurting and furious. Fifth and the most worrying news, King Logan
I had a sister. Her name was Demeter, and Alaric had killed him. No! Nomiko said accidentally... "How did you kill him? How old was she? Answer me, Alaric?" I shot him a series of questions. Nomiko became vigilant. She spread her arms to protect her mate. "Logan, it was an accident. Alaric never meant it!" Nomiko butted in. Alaric just rolled his eyes and took a deep sigh. He gently held Nomiko and pulled her behind him, covering his mate from me. "Nomiko, there is something you need to know!" He whispered. Alaric ignored my wrath. I stepped forward, ready to attack him, when he raised his hand at a stop sign. "You, too, Logan. Now that my mate has opened that issue!" He squinted his eyes at her mate, who was as baffled as I was. "What is it, Alaric? Tell me!" Nomiko demanded. I could tell, based on her gentle voice, that, just like me, she didn't want to be kept in the dark. "Demeter didn't really die. I just fulfilled her wish to leave the realm. She was burdened between T
Logan POV . . I felt a little bit better, a little bit stronger, and a little bit faster. Whatever the moon goddess had cured me indeed helped me a lot. I had been in the gym for six hours now, and I was still on the go to train and hone myself. With every kick and punch I did, I was thinking about the two important ones in my life, Jaque and Thorin. My mate and my wolf. One punch! It was all about Jaque's sacrifices. She was alone on Earth. The heck, I had no idea how she was these days. I missed her so much. One kick! That was my guilt for what I did to Thorin. I badly hurt my wolf, and only the moon goddess could tell if he was going back to me or would treat me as his enemy forever. One punch to another. One kick to another. I was not even satisfied that I took the spear from the wall and spinned it. My whole body, my legs, the whole me danced to the rhythm of my pounding heart as I practiced with the sharp blade and heavy metal of this deadly weapon. After that, with
Alaric POV . . As early as the annoying bird that kept on chirping on the branch of the tree near my room, I woke up to pay someone a visit. Someone I hadn't seen for a while now. What did she look like? Did she miss me, or did she even remember me? Which was which I didn't care at all. I would like to know what happened that she had to do that horrible stuff before. I jumped on every branch of the tree to reach the entrance where Logan and I entered months ago. I saluted the warriors when they saw me jump from the high pine tree in front of them. "Good morning, warriors!" I greeted them while they kept staring at me like they had seen a ghost. "Have some breakfast at the main hall. Tell Maggie it is an order from your Master Alaric!" When they heard my name, that was the only time that they bowed to me. "Greetings, Prince Alaric!" They also uttered in unison. "Yeah! Sure. No time for pleasantries. Just in case my mother asks where her firstborn is, tell the moon go
In the realm of the gods and goddesses... Logan POV . . Alaric and I had been training for hours, and my human body couldn't take any blow anymore. I fell to the muddy ground a hundred times and begged for Alaric to have a rest, but he didn't allow me. "Come on, Logan. You can do this!" Alaric shouted while staring at me. He never helped me stand up. I carried my own weight, using my knuckles to dig the ground. My hands were now weak, and my legs were shaking. I was full of fresh and dried blood. Sweat and blood mixed all over my body and my face. I was also gasping for breath. My heart was pounding really loud. My head was almost kissing the mud. I was topless, and my jeans were already ripped. I lifted my head and stared at my trainer. "Come on, Logan. You can do this!" I knew I could, but my human strength also had its limits. "I...can't...take... anymore blow!" I told him in my shattered tone. Even my voice was completely exhausted. Alaric crunched down and
Adam POV . . She was lying on the bed so serene, so calm. It was like she didn't do something massive today. After releasing almost all of her power earlier to save those wolves, she lost consciousness in my arms. I carried her bridal style and placed her here in one of the guestrooms. There was this urge that was telling me to bring her to my room, but a part of me was also whispering that I was cheating on Jaque. Honestly, my mind was a mess since that 'kiss thing', and I wanted to hit my head hard on the wall, punishing myself for what I did. I heard her moan and moved her head to the side, showing her soft neck. My Adam's apple bobbed at the sensation I felt, imagining digging my fangs into her marking spot. I shook my head at that thought right away. When the door gently opened and Orora's smiling face peeped into the tiny space, I got up from the edge of the bed and stepped back. "No! No! You don't need to do that, Alpha Adam!" She uttered, stopping me from leav
Amira POV . . After willing a droplet to follow Serena's scent, the rest of us wandered into the darkness. Serena couldn't just attack the wolves earlier, for they would retaliate. They would wait for the evening to come so the humans wouldn't see their doings. "Open your eyes. I can sense her near!" Orora warned us. The only wolf with us had already shifted and was also vigilant, sniffing everything he thought was a lead. Andrew's wolf's eyes were sparkling blue, the color of the ocean. "Where's Collen?" I whispered as I glanced around. Everything was covered with darkness. However, with our powerful eyes, everything seemed to be just a daytime. "He shapeshifted upon arriving, so no one knew he was with us!" Orora whispered back. Suddenly, something moved in the forest just across from us. Andrew immediately jumped to see what it was. We followed at once and saw a bitten wolf, still whimpering. Andrew sniffed its scent and lifted its snout. He also checked his wounds
Adam POV . . D*mn this! I wasn't able to control myself earlier when I kissed her. I wasn't supposed to do that. I wasn't supposed to kiss her. I still had feelings for Jaque, and that was my goal. To get her back from Logan. To pursue her again, but what now?! I could still feel the taste of her lips. Sweet and soft. It was so good to nibble. The deeper I kissed her earlier, the stronger the urge I felt to do more than kissing. If I wasn't in my right mind, I would have laid her back on the bed and done something I would regret for the rest of my life. 'Kylo, talk to me, dude!' I nudged my wolf, who was dormant after the kiss. 'What's happening with you?' Yet, he didn't reply. He was just lying down in the corner, blankly staring at the wall. 'D*mn it, buddy. Let's focus on Jaque. She's the only one I want!' I told him, and he whimpered, feeling in pain. 'I know, it is hard. That's why we have to take advantage of this time that King Logan isn't around!' I gulped the last
Amira POV . . "What the heck? You called me a pervert?!" He was seething with anger. I immediately picked up the towel from the floor and wrapped it around my body. "You deserve it, pervert!" I roared back. "Get out of here. I need to change my clothes!" I pointed to the door, hoping he would leave, but he stayed in front of me, just standing while staring deeply at me. "Get out!" I repeated. "Pervert, huh?!" He smirked. "I will show you the true meaning of that word, princess!" Before I could define what he was going to do, he already pushed me against the wall, holding both of my hands. He raised them above my head and gripped them tightly. "What are you doing? Alpha Adam, let go of my hands!" I told him angrily. However, he remained steady. Until he ambled, gradually filling the space between us. "A-Adam, let me go!" I was a bit scared by his expression. He was enraged yet calm. His eyes were glowing from his natural color to his wolf's. "You will regret tonight,
Adam POV . . Andrew faced back and forth in front of me. He sometimes glanced at me and then stepped back. Obviously, he was trying to say something but couldn't. "Come on, Andrew. Spill it!" I told him, a tad bit annoyed. Then he stopped and stared deeply into my eyes. "Promise me you won't get mad. Listen for my explanation first!" He raised his hands, placing them between us at a stop sign. "What is it?" I raised my brows at him. Was it about the pack? "If it's about the pack, Andrew, I need to know!" "Jasmine is asking for you!" He gently uttered. "That's it?!" So what if she asked about me? Even if I rejected her years ago, she was a member of the pack. "No! There's more!" He cleared his throat first, then began talking more. "We found her speaking with Serena one time in the woods!" My eyes formed into slits upon hearing it. "She was the one who told Serena that Jaque was here!" "What?!" I curled my fingers into fists. "Wait! I told you to listen to every