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Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE: THE SURRENDER
Alisa could not tell what exactly was wrong with her, because everything was wrong.A few hours before, she had been pushing in the Labour Room, giving all her strength. Now, she was on the back of a wolf, holding on to its neck dearly as it slowly ran towards the road. Between those hours and now, she had had a terrible nightmare, had jumped through a glass window while running away from wolves, and had left her baby behind—which she was beginning to loathe herself for. What kind of mother did that? Had seen a man twitch dead and naked right before her very eyes. But all she was really thinking about was her baby.Originally, it was all a contract, and she should have been preparing to say her final farewells to the child, disappearing from its life as though she never was. But now that she had birthed it, and fed it milk from her breasts, she did not ever want to let go.An ill sense of foreboding clouded her heart, as though something bad was about to happen to her baby, a bad fee
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO: DOCTOR KING
Alisa was blinking her eyes open again, but this time it was not in a white hospital. It was in a place that felt to her like a warehouse, the skeletal rods that were lined where a ceiling should have been evidence of it. She was lying on a bed, cold steel handcuffs holding her to it. “You should rest, Miss Grant.” The doctor’s voice watched her in exhaustion. “You have been through a long night, and you will go through an even longer one.” And secretly, he hoped she would see more nights than just this one. She had only been a pawn in a game, and now he regretted playing that game, not with her eyes fixed intently on his here. She would have been a pawn and remained a pawn if a wolf with a penchant for breaking laws did not go farther than he had to. Of course, the Guard had watched the both of them all along, he included. Every spare moment Alisa and Jayden thought they had been sharing was secretly being watched by careful wolf eyes, and every secret conversation of theirs was
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE: REVERSAL
A few blocks away, Jayden heard Alisa’s scream.He was sitting on the cold concrete floor of the cell, the evening sun filtering through the window and onto the ash wall, filled with several scratches from prisoners going mad from all the time they spent here.The cell was cold, but thankfully he was no longer naked, not the way he was when the Guard had taken him. He got up and went to the door of the cell, leaning on the cold bars. He had not been so alone in a long time. And helpless too, though the helplessness was a familiar feeling for him. Alisa screamed in a room not far from him but these bars stood against him, barring his movement.Where would everyone else be?His mother was being passed around from Alpha to Alpha like a slut, and Alisa was even more helpless than he was. Anita and every other worker of his were all humans, the wolf world common folklore to them— if the newspaper headlines did not serve to ignite curiosity. Somebody may have gotten a few shots, but the pa
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR: ELLIOT'S TRUTH
Elliott left Jayden and went to the room where Alisa was kept, and she lay asleep, her golden blonde hair falling carelessly on the bed. Strands of them covered her face, and he pushed them carefully away with his finger, noting how much her baby had taken after her.He peered into her face, thinking that in a universe with no Jayden, she would have been his. But Jayden was here, and taking the fall for him. In the record of the pack, no wolf had ever mated a human to have children before, everyone knowing the difference between wolf and human. Whatever relations created between them was formed at the Lupercalia, where hunts were made and Lunas joined in, mating the champions.Back then Elliott had known he was no one’s choice for a mate. He was a true Omega, as weak as a Luna, and secretly looked up to Jayden, wishing he was his successful young cousin, envied by the males and loved by the females. Successful in both the human and the wolf world, running a chain of businesses and bei
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE: DREAM IN THE CELL
He did not know when he slept on the cold floor, but as he sat up, Jayden could only think of the dream he had just had. A dream that had not come to him in so long that the memory was beginning to elude him.It was the white fur once again, her grey eyes looking at him, sadness reflecting in them. And this time, he was not in his wolf form, but in his human form. She ran off and he tried to morph and follow her, but he just could not, so he helplessly watched as she bolted away in the distance, leaving him behind.“Why do you come after me, Jayden?” He heard her voice ask. “You have ceased to be mine these past few months.”He was yelling her name when he woke up.Everything and everyone was leaving him alone. Including Avana. He did not want to be alone. He dreaded being alone, but now he was alone. He was born to be alone. First, his mother, then his father, then he ran off and was alone till he found Avana, but she was taken away from him too. In those years without Avana he had
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX: LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Alisa woke up in a dark room, with nothing but a dim lamp hanging from the ceiling. Her wrists were still held by the cuffs, and she pulled uselessly while trying to break free from them. Her head fell back on the pillow behind it and she began to cry. Everything had gone wrong. She had gone from signing a contract to save Johnny’s life to lying like a prisoner of the state. The door swung open, and a huge figure she could not identify came in. All she could see was its form in the darkness, coming beside her. “Who are you?” She asked, her voice shaky. The figure made no reply but snapped the handcuffs off her hands as though they were made of wood. It then pulled her to sit up in the bed. “Do you remember me, Alisa?” It asked. She could not have missed the voice for anything in the world. “Elliott.” She whispered and then remembered in horror the image of the evil wolf she had seen in Jayden’s mind. He was evil, and she did not trust him. Having him snap her handcuffs off was s
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN: AT THE TRIAL
Elliott came back to her and nudged her, as though to make her follow him. She did, and together they came to a lower point on the rocks that seemed to be a shortcut to getting to the floor. There, Elliott sat, and she waited next to him.The leaves rustled and one by one, large figures came out of the trees. They came from all directions and sat on the ground, and under the moonlight, she could see the wary glances that met her. Those positioned in the front were the largest, though smaller than Elliott. Behind them were even smaller wolves, which were significantly more than the larger ones. Alisa guessed they were the Omegas and Lunas, while the larger ones in front were the Betas.Two wolves came with Jayden between them, a black robe hanging off his broad shoulders. They had him positioned on a different part of the rock, far away from her and then stood by his side. She watched his face, anxiously waiting for him to turn and look at her, but he did not.Elliott went behind one o
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT: JUDGEMENT
“The next charge is the charge of the betrayal of the secret of the pack’s existence by Jayden Wells to his human lover. For witnesses, I will call on something that has been a fairy tale for a long time because of how rare they have to be used. I call on the Wolf Guard.”The wolves made noises as two more wolves came up to the rock. They were Betas and both disappeared before coming back to their human forms, clothed in red robes. They both joined Doctor King where he stood, all three of them. “The Wolf Guard, who have been very instrumental in keeping the secret existence of this pack safe, and known only to selected Betas. You are here before the pack to testify against Jayden Christopher Wells for the crime of the betrayal of the secret of the existence of the pack. Do you swear to say the truth and exactly what has happened?”The wolves began to make small noises. Many of them had never heard of this guard before, and those who had heard of them did not know that they were still
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TWENTY YEARS LATERIt still stunned Alisa that she was called the Mother of Wolves. You killed the one who killed the King, they told her when Jayden Christopher Wells breathed his last. He should have been King for winning the duel, but we had not honoured him yet when you killed him.Now she had three strong sons. Elliott Jr., who was now twenty-seven, Melissa and Elliott’s son Felix, whom she had adopted, and her third child.The one born because Elliott had deposited one last child in her before his death. For some reason, she had named him Jayden. The Jayden before him had had a good heart in his life but had let evil control him.So it was that Elliott’s son with Jayden’s name was the King of the Winter and the Spring in the end.The snow stopped when Jayden died, but it was known to fall from time to time, in its own season. Palm Springs City was no longer an all-spring city, but snow fell in it now.Humans were still oblivious to the wolves around them, even though the number
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND ONE: THE RISE AND THE FALL
Alisa was close to jumping out of her skin when the cub wolf ran into her room.Its fur was black with streaks of white, but somehow she had recognised her son and was even more stunned to see him in a wolf form.Only...He ran off into the night and she had no choice but to follow, but not after throwing on a wolf skin cloak gifted to her by Elliott even though she had dreaded the wolf meetings. It did not worry her as much as the safety of her son did, so she followed, at least to keep him safe.But he was a wolf and she was a human, so she lost him and ended up wondering why she had followed him in the first place. She needed more protection than he did.He would have gone to the rock, she guessed, and Elliott would be there too. She had to be there, to see what was happening, so on and on she continued until she got to the rocks and saw even more wolves bigger than any she had ever seen at the Palm Springs meetings gathered at the foot of the rocks, all looking up.Atop the rocks,
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED: BATTLE OF THR ALPHAS
Elliott ran towards the rocks after he had morphed into his wolf form, rage coursing through his body and pushing him to run faster.He remembered something Melissa had told him long ago when he went to see her in Snowfall one last time. It was about being king. “The King of the Winter and the Spring.” She had said, but now he was not too sure if she had told him the truth.The howl. Another wolf was here to challenge him.He was more powerful than many wolves, Elliott knew, but he did not know another wolf with a howl so loud. And the snow in the distance too. What signs were these?The rocks loomed high in the distance, and Elliott could see the wolf atop. His challenger. The one with the howl. All the snow he had seen in the distance melted before him once his paws touched the ground, and the place was back to looking as though no snow had ever been there at all. Only a slick wetness remained to show.He soon came up the rocks, catching the scents of other wolves from the other sid
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER NINETY-NINE: THE ALPHA OF SNOWFALL
Jayden thought he would cry and fall to his knees when he saw Palm Springs City in the distance.The city was covered in darkness, a sheet of inky blue sky hanging above it, with yellow lights coming out of square windows. Behind him was the Moon, and it felt to him like a sign of favour from the Moon Goddess.He stopped at the border and took in a deep breath. For a moment, he doubted. He had returned home for vengeance, so he wondered why he felt the fear.Jayden took in a deep breath before he crossed the border gingerly as if expecting to have the ground swallow him when his paw touched the ground. But nothing happened for a moment and then...The wet loamy brown earth beneath his paw froze and small cracking sounds were made as ice covered the ground. He lifted his paw and there was ice under it. He was the Reincarnation of the long-dead Alpha of Snowfall, and now he had brought the snow with him to the city, a city that had never seen snow.His other paw touched the earth once a
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER NINETY-EIGHT: ONLY A MOMENT
They were back on his bed, both reaching their climax at the same time. Alisa’s eyes locked with his as their lips parted from one last kiss, and time seemed to stop for them. She could feel nothing but him inside her, could hear nothing but the sound of his heart beating for her, could taste nothing but his kisses on her lips, could see nothing that was not his eyes and could smell nothing but his scent. All her senses were connected to him, and only him. His finger brushed against the strands of her blonde hair slowly, smoothening it. “Where have you been, my love?” She heard him say softly, as though she was a pigeon in his hand. “How could you see me and not know me, when I have loved you for so many years and through so many lives? Did you forget me so easily?” For some reason she could not explain, she wanted to cry. “I am sorry.” She whispered in response, not knowing why she was sorry or what she was sorry for. All she knew was that she was sorry. “We have loved each ot
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER NINETY-SEVEN: THE NIGHT
Alisa was watching her son cradle his puppy to his chest and plant gentle kisses on its head. It had grown considerably these past two weeks, and though it was still little, she knew it was going to grow big and strong.And for some reason, the puppy reminded her of Elliott. There was a certain shyness it sometimes showed that reminded her of how he used to act when they were together in school, and a certain playfulness too. Elliott had shown neither of both qualities these past few years, but well...“Can I go out to play, Mummy?” Her son asked, interrupting her thoughts.The sun was setting for the evening, and a mild breeze blew as an orange glow lit up the sky. Fine weather, harmless for her boy. “Don’t stay out for too long.” She warned him, but he was far away before she was done talking, carrying his puppy with him. The house was quiet once Alisa was alone, and it made her sad. She was trying to be a strong woman, but that was exactly where it hurt. She was strong, but she
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER NINETY-SIX: KILLING AVANA
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
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER NINETY-FIVE: THE REVELATION
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
Her Beta's Heart CHAPTER NINETY-FOUR: MELISSA'S DEATH
“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
