Amelia had never expected to have such a tragic life. In the second year of her marriage, she was drugged to vegetable status. She could not move, speak, eat, or go to the bathroom on her own, but could hear and feel and see how her husband betrayed and humiliated her.In the big, fancy wedding room of her and her husband, Amelia was placed in a cold wheelchair with a thin blanket covering her legs.In front of her was an extravagant canopy bed which was picked up by her mother as the dowry. But now there lay another woman, laughing and tangling with her own husband, Ian.“Ian, you are soooooo good!” After a long and annoyingly loud sex, the woman laid on Ian’s chest, panting breathlessly.Ian grabbed her hair to his nose to have a long deep sniff, and then he chuckled with significant satisfaction, “You are great too, Dora.”Dora quickly climbed up from his chest, straddling his strong waist with her plump breasts perking into the air. When she looked down at Ian, her eyes were fil
“Mate.”The moment she heard that word, Amelia felt her heartbeats stop. She was the Alpha’s daughter, but she never got her wolf. Theoretically speaking, it was impossible for her to find a mate. That’s one of the reasons why she was so touched when Ian asked her to marry him. Even after her 18th birthday, Amelia still couldn’t shift. Except for her parents, all her packmates mocked her and questioned her true identity. Someone even gossiped about her being an adopted human. Only Ian stood by her determinedly and told her he would marry her no matter what. Amelia indeed felt happy and lucky by then. After Ian’s proposal, she completely forgot about the mate thing. Back then, she thought nothing in the world could compete with the love between her and Ian, not to mention “the mate” which was so far and distant from her like a myth.But now she indeed felt it.Even though she couldn’t move, speak, or even blink her eyes. She felt something different was approaching her from her back.
"Wait for me, mate." Right after he sighed upon her ear, Amelia suddenly opened her eyes.She found herself lying in her teenage bedroom back in her old packhouse. And familiar noises of chatting and laughing were coming from outside the door.The light in the room was off, but the ceiling could vaguely be seen by the dim light that leaked through the gap under the door. She laid there on her bed motionlessly, feeling her heart pounding violently like a drum. Her marriage with Ian and the hellish tor/ture in the wheelchair was now flashing back in front of her eyes like the most horrifying nightmares. But Amelia knew it wasn't nightmares but the most realistic life she had just lived in person.Then what happened?Why did she suddenly wake up in her teenage bedroom in her old packhouse? And why was she suddenly able to move?It may sound crazy, but Amelia now indeed felt her fingers. She curled the fingers of both her hands into fists without much effort. And then she slowly proppe
Amelia decided to escape.Though she hadn't figured out what was happening to her or was this a dream or not, she wasn't going to marry Ian and let him manipulate her again.To tell on him to her parents was impossible, as Ian had always been the perfect guy in her parents' eyes. Compared with wolfless Amelia, it was Ian who got more trust from her parents and her whole pack.To accuse him of drugging her without evidence would be like setting herself on fire. Amelia was a timid girl, but she wasn't a stupid one.She remembered the rogues would attack the pack tomorrow night. Amelia left a note to her parents to explain her disappearance and warned them about the attack. And then she packed herself a packsack for escape.She was a wolfless wolf, except for school, her parents rarely allowed her to go too far from the packhouse. She had never worked before and only got some pocket money saved. Which could only support her for about a week.But she had learned enough about humans from h
Darren didn't leave after sending off Amelia. He stayed in that grove and watched until Amelia’s figure vanished into the station’s building. He waited for a while in the woods and then shifted into his human form. Rogues who live in the woods can only survive in their wolf forms. It had been years since the last time he transformed into a human. His hair was long and untrimmed, as well as his overgrown beard, plus his disabled right eye, which made him look like a scary homeless man. He didn't want Amelia to see him like that. It may scare her. But she was too fragile for him not to worry.When he looked at her, he saw a delicate flower that could be broken off even by a gust of slightly stronger wind. Her voice was soft. Her facial expressions were always timid. Though she had the most beautiful smile in the world, whenever Darren looked at her, he saw a fragile soul which might collapse at any moment.To be honest, she wasn't the strong Luna he was looking for. She had nothing ev
Once Darren faded out of her eyeshot, Amelia surprisingly found that she started to hesitate.She was hesitating about the destination of her trip.The big city was too much for her to handle. She had never been with too many people before and she was a little afraid of doing so. When she left the packhouse, she had planned to go to one of those little towns far away. But Darren told her to go to the city. She obeyed out of instinct.Throughout her whole life, there was always someone to tell her what to do. Even if she disagreed, she wouldn't be listened to. To live under others' instructions had become her living habit. Facing Darren, she still did it out of habit.But now Darren was gone, so did the pressure that had been messing up with her head. Now she was able to think clearly. For the first time in her life, Amelia found that she was totally free from wolves now and completely belonged to her own. She suddenly had this strong impulse to cut off her connection with all the wol
Amelia was thrilled by her achievement on her first day in this big scary city.Not only did she find a job successfully, but she also got a huge paycheck which was much bigger than she could ever imagine.Hey, who said she was a useless trash who could never live on her own? See, she had a job now and she could afford her food. After leaving the coffee shop, Amelia took time to find a place to live. She was unaccustomed to noises and was afraid of crowds. In the end, she found an old tall building in the middle of a dark alley.The smell of the alley was stinky and it was completely hidden in the shadow like the sun would never come to this place. But Amelia liked it because it made her feel hidden and safe.Within the cold stone building, it was smelly and dark too. Amelia stepped into it and saw nothing but an old male clerk sitting in the reception hall. He was skinny, half bald without any hair on the top of his head. The rest hair around his head was white and messy. He attenti
Ian felt something off.Yesterday, when he received that alarm reminding him someone broke into his apartment, he was in his office. He quickly turned on the surveillance that he installed to watch Amelia and then saw a big scary wolf barge into the living room.“Fuck!!!” He cursed, and quickly rushed out of the office.The moment he pushed open the door, he found himself going into a different place or world.In front of him was a big living room under dim yellow lights. There were sofas, TVs, and teenage boys and girls, laughing and making fun with each other. Seeing him walk into the door, a young male wolf seemed about 17 or 18 walked towards him. He had curly brown hair and a pair of kind blue eyes. When he spoke to Ian, he wore this big, lively smile, “Where have you been, Ian?” He patted Ian’s shoulder, “The Alpha and Luna are looking for you for your wedding with Amelia. They are waiting on the second floor.” His voice and gesture were as familiar as his appearance. Ian reco
Nine’s POVUp to today, I still couldn’t fully comprehend why I stopped for that teenage girl on that day.It was one of the coldest winter nights in this strange country, chill, dark, and the iciness was just seeping under your skin.There was no wind that night, just snow, flake by flake, but in quite large sizes, falling off from heaven.I walked aimlessly in the thick snow on the street. The melted mud soiled my furs on my legs.There weren’t many street lights either, just cars and scarce passersby running past hurriedly. I heard loud music and laughing noises coming from those colorful stores on both sides of the street. It was still early in the night, but the street was so dark and quiet like it had been devoured by the demon.I walked haphazardly on the sidewalk, eyes fixed in the air, mind wandering restlessly.It was the 60th day I arrived in the city. As always, I found no one even slightly looking like my aim. It was quite disappointing, but I didn’t think much about it.
Amelia was waiting outside the village in the car. Up to today, they had been traveling around the country for 7 months. They paid a visit to Emily first, and then went to Fay and Gregson’s son and all the other wolves who were once part of the murder.They hunted down every wolf who was responsible and made them pay their debts.James’s house was their last stop. After today, they would head back to their home and start a new life.Amelia said “No” when he asked if she wanted to visit her parents with him. Darren knew the reason. James and Doris were just the most ignorant and stupid couple he had ever met. Harm would be the only thing they might have caused Amelia if there was a reunion.He wrapped his coat a little tighter because of the autumn’s cold wind, then quickened his steps to the outside of the village.The sky’s color was sullen yellow today. While he was still far from their car, suddenly he saw Doris standing beside it with Amelia. His heart clenched. He then ran toward
James was pretty upset about his retirement life.Nearly three years had passed since he lost his pack to the rogue he hated most, Darren. Though he had successfully persuaded himself to accept the fact and have a life with nothing a long time ago. Still, he was worried all the time about his adopted son, Ian. Three years ago, right after Darren took all his property from the Wolf Committee, Ian showed up at his front door later that day with a heavily wounded face. He plunged himself into James’s arms and cried. “The Rogue has put a wanted notice on me. He wants me to be dead!”James patted his back and sighed, knowing it was the ending of his and his pack’s glory. Still, he had this tiny expectation left in his heart that maybe someday, Ian could find a way to defeat Darren and regain everything. He was a smart kid, and had always been. And, he was the heir of the most powerful pack, Green Lake.At that point, James could hardly tell. Did he adopt Ian out of his condolences to hi
“Mom, Dad, Emily….”He drifted back to his childhood in that cold, suffocating lake water, reliving everything that was so treasurable and amiable for him….When he was sinking, the lost memories of his slowly grew back piece by piece. He remembered how his sister fell from the cliff on the exact same day, and how Roy caught him in the lake, then took him to a secret chamber underneath it. That’s how he survived.“Hope you can have a normal but happy life, kid.” Roy sighed and wept beside his bed, then did something to his wounded eye. He couldn’t remember.Next, another surge of hatred and fury overwhelmed him.Now he could see clearly how he and his sister saved that wounded rogue boy in the forest, but got betrayed and attacked by him.“Fuck you! Fuck! How dare you use the Alpha tone on me?!” The rogue boy cursed, riding on top of him, using that sharp rock in his hand, repeatedly beating his head. After crushing his left eye, the rogue stood up and started to kick his chest and s
Adam had no idea why he agreed to help Mia. Mia was just an orphan he picked up from the street 10 years ago. A girl who had grown up, but refused to leave. When he told her that she was free to go at any time, she just said, “You need someone to take care of you, Master. And I am that perfect someone”, and then stayed as his maid.Adam didn’t try to persuade her. He didn’t even talk with her that much. He wasn’t a passionate person, had never had too many emotions. During the past 600 years, he had witnessed the death of too many people. For him, people were just things, or even less than things. Because things can last and stay, while people change and decay so quickly.No matter what kind of lives they have, or how reluctantly they behave, the endings of them are just the same.They will all die eventually, being buried into the earth soundlessly, and then quickly dispersed into nowhere.Years later, sometimes even days later, no one would ever remember them. Only he, the outsid
The moment Amelia heard that she felt her blood freeze.She quickly turned her head and then looked towards the castle, then saw Jovian grabbing a young girl in uniform by her throat, dragging her to the window.It wasn’t the girl who served food for them tonight, but Mia. The torch dropped on the floor had ignited the curtain beside the window, the whole place was about to sink into fire.Jovian giggled at the window, tightening his grip on Mia’s throat, “Guess what I will do to her, baby brother? I am going to eat her alive, starting from the fingers.” He reached his other hand to Mia’s wrist and broke it off like it was a chopstick. Mia screamed out of pain, but it was quickly cut off by the hand on her throat. Her face instantly turned purple. Tears streamed down from the corners of her eyes.“Or I am going to rape her right here and dismember her. You hate that kind of thing, don’t you, little brother? I hear you deprived a wolf for a human girl.”Adam’s face turned pale. Ameli
When Amelia headed back, the temperature within the manor had suddenly dropped.The whole place somehow went into dead silence. Ominous coldness infiltrated her skin. Amelia kept her footsteps light, eliminating the sounds she made to the minimum. Way before she made it to the castle, she had already heard that cocky male voice laughing and shouting from inside it.“Where are you, Adam?”“Come to meet your big brother!”“It has been 70 years since the last time we met. Don’t you want to treat your brother to a drink?”His tone was both playful and vicious, sounding like provoking a fight or seeking conflicts. No matter who he was, his visit here was definitely not kind.Amelia quickly climbed up to a huge maple tree outside the castle. She hid herself on a branch under those lush leaves, observing the castle, trying to get a peek at what was going on inside.From the opened window on the façade of the building, she saw an average-height figure wandering through the hallway on the se
After going back to the castle, they said “good night” to each other.Adam parted with her in the lobby. He didn’t want to frighten her by escorting her to her room.Amelia took the elevator and went back alone. After entering her room, she loosened her hair first and removed all the ornaments Mia decorated on her.After that, she picked out one of her own dresses from the closet. She didn’t wear it. Instead, she wrapped it around her waist and then shifted.The castle was high, but the second floor wouldn’t be a problem for a deft wolf like her. She pushed open the window using her paws, and then jumped out through it.The dirt underneath the window was soft, tinged with the mixed scent of different kinds of plants. Amelia stopped there for a second to identify the direction. And then she moved her legs and sprinted. She was heading towards her mate who was guarding her outside those tall grey walls.She just had one of the greatest nights of her life. She couldn’t wait to share it
Adam had made plans for tonight.Long before he asked Amelia to Switzerland with him, when he was still in her bakery shop typing, writing, and observing her, he had already decided what he would do to her once he brought her here.When the night came, he would invite her for dinner for sure, but before that, he would have her dress like a princess, even make her wear a splendid wedding dress.After she cried throughout dinner at the table, he would “ask” her to dance. In the company of the beautiful symphony of Shubert, he would flirt with her, tease her, and even terrorize her by pretending to bite her. “I am going to transfer you to a vampire,” he would whisper in her ear, gliding his sharp teeth through the soft skin of her delicate neck.Amelia would be so scared, and then she would run and hide.He would chase her through every single room of this huge castle, having some weapons and exits prepared for her, giving her fake hopes now and then, but quickly push her back into deep