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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE LUPERCALIA FESTIVAL
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Jayden moved closer to the white fur hidden amongst the many Lunas around him wanting to share in his kill as soon as he chose them. She stood there, unmoving and still yet watching him, her blue eyes steadily locking with his as she flipped her tail gently from side to side, her neck raised high like royalty, almost like she was waiting for him to come and choose her. He had never seen her before, and still yet this beautiful stranger was calling his soul to hers. Other Lunas had done several things to get his attention, had licked and come close to him, and she had done nothing but stand out. He went closer to her and brushed the side of his black fur against her white, enjoying the way the colours of their fur contrasted, black against white, his paws crunching the dried leaves on the ground as the light of the full moon shone on them. He tried to sniff her hind and detect her mood but she growled at him, causing him to move a step backwards. The other Lunas there had seen that
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WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT SCENES SUITABLE FOR ADULTS ONLY*************************************************What they felt was an intense desire for each other. “I love you, Avana.” He moaned as he broke the kiss, panting and holding her tight to himself. He felt like he wanted to get into her skin, and even though he could feel her close to him, he still could not feel her enough. His bones were shifting in his body like he was about to morph, but he ignored it. “I love you too, Jayden.” She replied and pulled his face down towards hers. She did not want the kiss to end at all. If possible, she wanted it to last forever. His lips met hers again, and she held his face in her hands, her tongue dancing with his, her hands grabbing his waist and pulling him closer to herself. Feeling his erection against her was giving her a different kind of thrill, a kind of feeling she had never felt all her life. Jayden held her waist with one hand, his lips still on hers and pushed her in the
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Jayden shook his wolf head as if to remove all the memories. The Lupercalia festival now barely had any meaning for him anymore, and he was just here because every wolf would be here. He joined the Betas in their sitting rank, still the youngest despite being twenty-seven years of age. Alisa would never replace Avana, he was sure. She had never read his mind or understood everything about him instantly the same way Avana had. She would never see him hunt, or watch him morph into his wolf form, or mate with him the way he wanted. They were from two different worlds that would never meet. He was a wolf and she was human. The full moon had just come out from behind the clouds, but he did not join in the joyful howling that followed. All of it meant nothing to him anymore but rather, the Lupercalia served to remind him of Avana more than anything because it was where he had found her five years before. The Alpha had flagged off the beginning of the hunt, and several wolves were setti
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Alisa had flagged down a taxi that would take her back to the hospital after Jayden left, and as she sat alone in the back seat, she was constantly mopping her eyes with a handkerchief she had with her. She didn’t even understand why Jayden Wells leaving her hurt her so much, but it did. The windows of the taxi were shut, but the air conditioner was on, the taxi man seemingly concentrating on his driving. She was the only passenger, and it afforded her a kind of freedom to let her pain out. Her vision was already blurry, and she could see nothing but blurs of flashing lights of various neon colours that serenaded the nightlife. Something suddenly did not seem right, and the first was how fast the taxi seemed to be going. Alisa wiped her eyes again, and then looked around before it jumped out at her. The taxi driver had driven past the hospital. She reached over and touched him, but he made no move. “You have driven past the hospital, Sir,” Alisa said, her grip on his shoulder get
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She heard it from a distance. Like the shattering of glass, and then the twisting of metal. And then the dark cloud over her lifted before a bright light came over her. “Alisa?” She heard a voice. “Mum, Dad? Are you here?” She answered despite all the confusion. She felt a finger graze her cheek, then move slowly to her eyes, wiping her tears. She blinked, and there was another cloud over her but this one seemed like it was here to protect her. “Alisa?” She heard her name again. The voice sounded familiar, and she blinked repeatedly for her vision to clear, and when it finally cleared, she could not believe it was who she thought it was. Why was Elliott Hansen here? He picked her up and held her in his arms, taking her gently out of the car. She looked around for the taxi driver and he lay still on the floor, blood oozing out of his head. “Thank you, Elliott.” She whispered amidst the haze and the ringing in her ears as she faded into oblivion. Her eyes blinked open in the h
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He fell on another car, and rolled to the floor, feeling something crack in his anatomy. It would have killed him if he was human, but he was a werewolf, and he would be fine, so he got up once again and dashed across the road and into the woods, leaving behind the stunned drivers who had hit him. It caused a commotion, and everyone wondered who got hit by two cars and still had enough energy to run. Elliott stopped after running for forty yards and fell to the floor, his eyes rolling in his head. His human form was weak already, and his arm was bent at an unnatural angle. He also felt like his ribs were on fire, and so he lay down, waiting to heal. The memory of Alisa and Jayden’s kiss came into his head again. He lay down and screamed as loud as he could, the pain in his heart combining with the pain from his broken bones healing. This emotion was strong, and so he morphed into his wolf form, his golden brown fur gleaming in the moonlight, all his bones in place. He then broke i
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Elliott was now in front of her, his hands gripping the bars between them. He was scary and looked like a wild animal, his hair ruffled up on his head and his eyes red. Was this what prison turned people to? She stepped back, but Elliott grabbed her arms.“I can forgive you, Alisa. Just tell me you love me. Tell me you love me more than you love Jayden. Kiss me and forget about him. Let’s behave like he never came into our lives.” Elliott said in a low tone.His grip on her arms was getting tighter, and they hurt. Plus, he was scaring her and she wanted to cry. She tried to pull away, but Elliott was holding her even tighter and trying to make her promise to love him. Right now, she was disgusted and had reached her limit.“I don’t love you, Elliott. Let me go. You’re acting like a child.” Alisa screamed. His hands were chafing at her skin with the force of his grip.“Let her go!” the guard ordered, and Elliott pushed her away with a shout.She was thrown backwards and almost crashed
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The farther away the wolves of Snowfall went from the beloved mountain they had lived all their lives on, led by their fiery leader with his unusually large form and bright blue eyes, almost bright enough to cast a blue shade on the floor, the lesser snow they found on the ground until all they saw was green, a new and uncomfortable sight to them as their paws and feet found it unfamiliar.They moved through the night, male and female, Beta, Omega, Luna, and cub, treading through the thick woods to avoid being spotted by humans and spending the daytime in caves or in hiding, taking the time to sleep. Hunts were done by night, with their leader Jayden bringing in the largest game, and for a pack where a man’s measure was by the size of his hunt, they could not entirely see any leader better than him.Yet, there was something sinister about him that they all feared. They had gone to sleep only to be woken by the most evil sound they had ever heard, and when they heard it once again, th
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It was so strange that it had to be a dream. It could not be real.He was lying on the floor of whatever place this was, that somehow had form to it like a small cell. It was a strange place; bleak, dark and foreboding, with barely any light in it even though he could see the four corners at the top, and how he could see in it was a miracle to him.Jayden was now sure he was dreaming because this place was as dark as the darkest hour of the night.He tried to get up and that was when he saw the form of Melissa’s body in the darkness, lifeless and far gone, and the memories of the previous night began to come back to him in the dream. He stood frozen with his mouth open and watched her sprawled body and the blood that stained the walls of the cell. Her stomach had been torn open, and her innards were spilling out.“I did that,” Jayden whispered to himself.“We did it.” A voice in his head answered him back in another whisper, and the sound echoed all around him, as though it was spoken
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“For five hundred years, those of us in Snowfall have remained under the frozen chains of the curse. While you who live in Palm Springs City are slightly less wolf than we are, with your smaller bodies and more time for your little ones to learn to morph, we remain here in the snow, waiting for the curse to break so that we can get the sunshine our fathers dearly wanted.”“And with one King over you all, a King from Palm Springs City,” Jayden added. His body was relaxed now. There was no enormous power struggling to come from his body. Melissa’s words had calmed him down.“Yes. All we want is the sunshine, and a happy place for our children.”“I will lead you there. I was to be King, wasn’t I?”“You were to be King. But many times, fighting to get what is ours only takes it farther away from us. Don’t you think so?”Jayden said nothing in reply.“Do you remember the first blood you shed, Jayden?”It had been Alisa’s parents. He remembered it clearly.“You like to tell yourself you we
