~Jaden~ “F**k! Damn lily!” I could hear all the bells ringing off as I saw the damage done to her mother’s picture. I f**king knew she was up to something, as she stared straight at me with her big shapey eyes. All lies! Immediately those words came out of her mouth of her wanting to be like me and stuff about learning from me, it set all alarms off and ringing in my ear at high speed as it was certain she meant to say the entire opposite of what she said to mama. But this? She completely outdid herself, and I’m supposed to completely flip, grab her by the neck and strangle the very life out of her but I won’t… I can see it’s exactly what she wants, as she’s growing wings all of a sudden by herself. I could see it all from miles away as I expected every other little tiny trick she would try to pull every time I called her out or tried to put her in her place. I wouldn’t give her what she wanted… If it’s my reaction she wants then she won’t get it. Besides, she used her
~Lily~ The bright light streaming in through the window was the first thing that woke me up, before dad’s voice resounded strongly through the mindlink. Thank God I was up before his public message went round. I wanted to believe that his earlier statement a few seconds ago wasn’t meant for me and didn’t involve me. “Get your sleepy ass up and report to training this morning!” That wasn’t asking as the voice made himself very clear through the mind link. He sounded hot, fierce and like someone was going to get it from him this morning. I pushed it out of my head, concluding that it was a mistake as I wasn’t part of those that trained. Well I wanted to train too but according to mama, I had a lot of brothers who would do that and would protect me. My mind travelled back to yesterday, as I stood face to face with Jaden and knowing clearly what I did, I waited for my punishment or death but got none. I knew my fear could be smelt, as the strong mind I thought I had
~Lily~ I stood a distance from him as he had his eyes glued to me with a deadly glare. I definitely made it in time with the way I ran all the way here. It wasn’t a three minute run from the pack house to the training ground and he all too well knew it. With his smirk now sitting on his face, I returned a lazy smile as I made sure to be here on time. “This should be the first and last time anyone would come late to any meeting from now on.” Authority in his voice as he freely gave off his alpha aura, compelling all attention on him not really asking for it. And with the way he had his eyes still on me, kept me secretly on the edge as I knew it couldn’t be anything good. “Come over here, Lily” my name rang out loudly and roughly on his lips and I walked forward, towards him like a sheep ready to be put to the slaughter. ‘What is he up to?’ Raya asked, feeling a lot uncomfortable like I was right now. ‘Please tell me this is you in agreement saying we shouldn’t be
~Lily~ “Wake up sleepy head! Be here in 20.” His voice was quick and abrupt, jolting me up from my beauty sleep. What the hell? I was really hoping everything that happened yesterday was a nightmare and I would wake up shaking the information out of my head, forgetting every single detail. But no, Jaden was truly in charge and I could already foresee my future crumbling in his hands. It was all too good to be true that my greatest life tormentor and long time bully would just let me go after destroying one of his works. I knew how he treated them like his babies and when he didn’t do anything, with my head taking in what exactly I had done, for a moment while I was a little scared I knew I was in for a lot. Not until I woke up the next morning and still nothing was done. He definitely didn’t allow me to outlive the doubt for too long and did his thing again and this time bringing me to nothing in front of the pack. I confirmed with mum and she confirmed that every war
~Lily~ “You are late!” His voice was laced with pure bitterness as he stood firmly, looking like he was purposely waiting and keeping track of time all for me. “I found out that the training wouldn’t start until the next 30 minutes, so there wasn’t a need to rush.” I already prepared my next response to him, as I knew it was coming but his eyes remain still like his lips right now, as he gave me a quick glance over like how Cam did a few minutes ago. I could take a quick guess and internally I knew it could only be a look of disgust on his face right now as I looked away. I do what is best and avoid looking up at him as I turn mine elsewhere in annoyance. “30 more minutes for everyone else but not for you.” “While I think of your punishment for coming late, make sure everywhere is set and sparkling. Not even a single dust Lily.” He sounded a little different, retreating in his steps as he gave out his command. “Too many insults in a matter of just 2days. First I wa
~Lily~ He was direct with his words, not filtering anything as he smiled back showing off his perfect face and stretched forth his hands towards me. “I’m Nova, you?” He still left the smile plastered on his face. He had deep black hair, a little curly, styled to perfection as he gave an all too good aura. His rough voice played melodious tunes in my head as Raya remained quiet, taking in all our thoughts. His other hand go slightly behind his head as he rubbed it slowly. “Do I still have to get the webs out first before I can get your name?” Oh my, I was completely drawn in that I forgot I left his hand hanging. “Yes if you can get them out, then I’ll tell you.” I took his hands, allowing him to squeeze mine a little. ‘Don’t smile too much, Lilly! We don’t want to appear desperate to him.’ She finally spoke out, letting her worries surface. Prior to the day when we get to find our mates, we haven’t really made any move or even found anyone that interest us. I
~Lily~ I waited till he went out, confirming with him that I heard whatever he just said. I stood in there for a few minutes, thinking of my next move as there wasn’t much to do outside. I didn’t want to go out there to sweep the air again but the other part of me wanted to still go out there to take a peek at Nova. The supposed Lycan that I should be wary of. ‘What do we plan on doing with this information?’ Raya mumbled as I could feel her move around my head as the information of a new lycan was alarming enough to set us on the edge. ‘I’m guessing we’ll have to get our information from Jaden himself.’ Definitely our last resort, Jaden held the answer to the reason why Nova might be a threat but that doesn’t mean we can’t get to know him for ourselves too. Can’t just trust only Jaden’s judgement of anyone. I’m a little disappointed with Cam if that’s exactly what he did. A bully who is a threat to me, shouldn’t really have much to say about another wolf being
~Lily~ The training kicked off almost immediately as the space was now filled with lots of vibrant werewolves, ranging from 18 to their early 20’s. Many already found their mates and their mark was sitting pretty on the side of their neck. You definitely can’t blame me as this was all I could do. I got my next orders and I’m not allowed to leave but to sit and watch. I moved my eyes moving from one mark to the other, analysing to notice any difference in any of them. ‘Something is definitely up?’ Raya chipped in. ‘I thought we agreed on leaving this discussion till later?’ Of course something was up. He dragged me back from whom he perceived to be a danger? Of course I knew I wasn’t going to be on his radar if we were talking about people he was going to keep safe. But dragging me back only meant there’s a story there for us. And with the way his eyes twitched and turned to complete black, almost matching the colour of Nova’s hair. ‘I reall
~Alpha Asher~ “They are prepared and ready?” This was a one time thing and we could not let anything go wrong about it. “Yes alpha, I just heard back from Kade and they should be here on their way tomorrow. “Nothing should go wrong about this plan or we’ll never be able to find out who the real culprit is.” The worry etched on my face wa becoming a normal due to stress, deprivation and lord more. This was a serious issue on ground and even as it looked actually like nothing, it was slowly eating his way to the heart of werewolves race. It was a great threat and easy means to curb it was never going to be an option right now. “You still think someone among us is the culprit?” Ross asked, real worried as he still found a bit hard to believe. “Even as hard as it may seem to believe, it’s the outright truth and I know it so well.” I gave him my quick reply as we decided not to talk about it anywhere here as apparently in a war ground, the walls
~Lily~ The image of last night's ordeal came flashing mad somehow I could feel my cheeks heat up with pink hues. I woke up and was just staring at him. It took a while to get out of his arms that he wrapped all around me and then without thinking it through I turned to face him. I was flooded with different kinds of emotions that I couldn’t put a name on it. The only thing that made sense right now was to stay right there and stare straight at his face. He was officially my first in everything that he’s done in days. I wasn’t too knowledgeable in these things but I wasn’t at ignorant to know that he made me c*m several times last night that I lost count. And with every strength that I had gone, I fell into his arms as I continued moving with so much vigour like he couldn’t get enough. I could still feel his breath on my neck, when his hands finally made contacts with my br**sts. The pinching, the squeezing and oh my, my head was already spinning a
~Lily~ It was becoming a simple reality as I stood in his room with my back facing the door. I tried real quick to catch my breath as the images were looking very vivid. It was dark in here and yes I did notice that the paintings were nowhere in his room when I was here earlier. That was the very least of my problems as I was head on facing the bed, rethinking what I just did. “Good thing, I like the light out too.” I could hear him utter very clearly in his light hearted tone. His voice resounded like a calm river, with its currently but more like it was currently at sleep for a while. Wait? Please tell me I didn’t just tell him I sleep with the light on. ‘Oh yes you did. And you said it so boldly like you were ready for anything tonight.” Raya spoke out not so calmly as I could see that I wasn’t the only fidgeting right now. I wanted anyone to tell me just know that I didn’t indirectly tell him I was cool with whatever would happen tonight. “D
~Lily~ “Did you have a nice sleep or are you still busy with my mom?” His voice swept in like he’d been waiting for ages. I didn’t reply immediately as his voice was the first thing I heard after sleeping for only god knows how long. And the mention of how he personalised his mom strangely sounded not so annoying like it always used to be. “Should go on helping her again soon enough.” My reply came like it wasn’t an issue talking to him in my head. Like I never used to have issues with him hanging in there in my head without permission. “Ohh really? You mind telling me all about this help that only you can offer, or can Kade come lend a helping hand?” He sounded so aware of everything being a complete facade. And with the sound of things, he just wanted to flow along. I took a second to really wrap my head around it as the fact that it was me having a conversation with Jaden through the mindlink and there have been no shouting and disagreement. “
~Lily~ I didn’t let the reminder that it's soon going to be my birthday get to me for long in my head as it drove different signals to me. I was supposed to be up and ready to leave according to what i had planned with Raya. Nothing was eventually stopping me and this was entirely what I was looking forward to but suddenly the urge to run away was slowly fading away. Like I could literally feel it and I’ll be deceiving myself if I said that was exactly what I wanted right now. Hate? Yes I still hate him and I also still wanted to find out why I could feel his sincerity through those words he uttered to me. You can pretend and fake sincerity but you can never fake it so badly that the other person listening doesn’t feel it to know if you are lying or not. “Oh my, thank goodness you are fine.” Her voice brought me completely out of it as I stared into complete emptiness. I must have stayed still for so long, thinking and drowning myself that I didn’t real
~Lily~ “Are you okay baby?” My mom didn’t waste time and went all out with examining my body and her eyes showing too much concern right now like she just saved me from the lion's den. “I’m fine mom, why are you so worked up?” I found myself asking after removing the hand I placed aimlessly on my forehead, that depicted my lack of understanding what was going on. I wanted to go on and ask all the questions in my head but I held back and swallowed all the words at the tip of my tongue, knowing I should be grateful right now that I got out. “Definitely not what I heard so I have to double check.” She didn’t agree with me and still continued. She changed tactics this time around, making it seem all funny and held back my laughter, trying to link one and two together. “Molly got to you?” I asked the question without even thinking twice about it. I already even concluded that it got to be that or nothing else. And while her actions were funny to me, holding back was gettin
~Kade~ “I just need to speak to him for a minute, it’s very important.” She kept on begging and pleading with her eyes as she didn’t dare go all touchy with me. “He’s busy. If it’s so important you can relate it to me and then I’ll surely let him know.” I faced with all seriousness so she could back off. I didn’t need a soothsayer to tell me anything before knowing that she was outright lying to my face and making up excuses just to meet Jaden. I guess keen eyes can be awarded to me after walking in the shadow of Jaden and watching his back. I knew everyone that had potentials of being a pest and had to keep details and tabs on them just in case. “I can’t tell it to you, I need to pass this on myself.” She said still speaking so softly that it was irritating to listen to her speak. I’m not sure it was her voice that was making me lose my patience. It had to be the very fact that I still remembered clearly what she had done to my future Luna. Yes
~Lily~ This was all looking extremely far from all the tricks we went round with or used to go round with. Now it was looking so scary and trying to put up a face or pretend my way through this wasn’t what I wanted to do. It was meant to be the end point as I opened my mouth and spilled all that I should, securing myself from whatever he had planned. He went calm, his eyes lowered, staring and holding mine in place. It wasn’t too surprising anymore since it had become a norm for days now. The words he spoke next also kept me quiet as I listened with utmost interest since it all revolved around me. He explained himself, saying things I thought I’ll never hear him ever say. ‘The almighty Jaden was apologising to us?’ I asked Raya as we found it so unbelievable but that thing in the depth of us could witness with him that he was being sincere. You could sense and see it with the way his eyes moved and looked so soft and gentle even they gazed directly at
~Jaden~ “Do you need anything?” I asked her, watching closely as I managed to make her sit on my bed with my different sets of portraits pushed to one side of the room. I didn’t really think about what to do aside from sticking my hands all over her body and places where she’ll definitely not be in support of. “Anything that’ll keep me alive would be fine.” She uttered with so much anger in her voice that I held back the urge to laugh at how cute she looked even when she tried to frown. I pretty much was blind and too carried away by pain and past events that I let it cloud my emotions and even my person. It was going to be hard to actually prove anything to her but I’ll try my best to make it quicker as I want her always with me. “Got that. Anything else you’ll need or you want to try to be a more specific lollipop?” I tried my luck one more time with her. “Yeah, how about your head on a platter and you stop calling me that.” She snapped with her head bringing out