~Asher~ It’s been over a week now since we signed the deal and we were supposed to meet on neutral grounds to discuss the proposal. One of the reasons I’m greatly feared and respected is how everyone In my pack is secured. I run a 24/7 sure security and outsiders aren’t allowed into the pack. I’ll be meeting Tristan a few stops outside my pack borders as he isn't allowed in yet. On getting there, I walked towards the small shed where we agreed to meet. “Asher '' he called out as he stood with his right hand man. It was supposed to be a closed meeting with just us but there was no way you could go anywhere without your second in command as we both know we don’t fully trust each other. “Tristan” I replied with a nod as I walked towards where they were standing with Ross. “Are you sure about this?” Ross whispered to me, maintaining his stance as he kept his eyes on both Tristan and Jason. I know just how much he distrusts them, I do too but I believe he has an idea why
~Hazel~ It's been a week and some days since I last saw Tristan, with his suggestions dangling in my head. This week has been my best week since all these issues started arising, and it started with Asher. I’m always meant to worry when I know he can just walk in anytime just to taunt me. But if I can agree to act as Tristan’s queen he wouldn’t be able to overstep as he should be bound to respect another’s supposed queen right? These were the times I wished to shift, to find solace with my wolf, Kyra. I stopped shifting frequently after I found a home with the lycans. I wanted nothing to remind me of Asher as I had lots of memories of my wolf running with him and cuddling a lot of times. Moving with a small bag I walk along the side away from the bakery and my house, heading towards the tall trees. I walk a long distance wanting to be away from prying eyes. This was the only time I had now as it was still school hours. I hated to turn in front of others and loath
~Hazel~“What’s going on Hazel?” I asked her while waiting for a reply as we gazed into each other's eyes and I could see hers was flooded with worry. “Mummy!! Aunty rose!” His tiny voice drew our attention, breaking away our gaze as she tried to hide her worries. “My baby!” I stretched out my arms as he ran into them for a big hug before walking toward Rose and hugged her legs as he didn’t want to be carried. “Aunty rose! We had a deal” he whined as Rose wanted to lift him up for a proper hug and I became curious about the deal. “Okay okay a deal is a deal” she answered letting out a smile with her hands in the air as we walked back to the shop together. “So what’s this deal about?” I asked, peering into their eyes as I felt a lot left out with the both of them avoiding my question. I watch Rose nudge Jaden's arm slightly and he moves a little. “Mama it’s nothing, we just agreed that no hugs outside the school gate.” He said looking at Rose like she forced him t
~Hazel~After sharing some quiet moments with Rose and letting the silence do nothing but eat us up as the decision was made, I’ll be acting as his queen and maybe my heart might open up to him. Covering the short distance, I walked back home wanting to tuck Jason in as it was already late and walking into his room I was greeted with his calm and cute face as he had quite similar features with his Asher. He slept quietly on his bed with his drawing book and crayons sprawled out on the bed. I walk back to the bakery with my phone in hand to call Tristan as I haven’t said anything to him since that day and he hadn’t called either. I glance at the light shining from the phone with his name displayed boldly. ‘This was the right thing to do’ I kept on assuring myself as the image of Jaden being mocked in class kept bugging me. He picked after the first ring “hey wolfy” he said calmly like he’s been waiting for my call to come in. “Hi Tristan” I greeted, taking in a deep bre
~Hazel~ I was up making breakfast and trying to get Jaden ready for school when his text came in. ‘On my way, I’ll drive you guys to school.’ “Hurry up baby, you don’t want to be late for school” I already dressed him and went ahead to serve him a quick breakfast of toast and eggs before Tristan arrives. “I’m coming mama, I need to get my bag” he called out with his tiny voice as he walked out of his room and towards the small dining area I had set up when I had enough to start buying furnitures. “Uncle Tan would be taking us to school today. You can start eating without me, we wouldn’t want to keep him waiting.” I bent a little to kiss his cheeks as I walked back to the kitchen to clean up. “Yay! Uncle Tan is coming.” He nodded with huge smiles as he began to munch on his food. I love the friendly relationship between the two of them and sometimes I wish I could give him more. The rough sound of engine pulling over fills the air as Jaden runs down after t
~Asher~ I watched her come down from his car with Tristan’s hand at her back as they walked towards us. We got here a few minutes ago and was told by one of his men that he was out but would be back shortly. We decided to wait as he was to lead us to the silver oak trees. I had series of discussions with Ross after the one on one meeting with Tristan and he kept on nagging about why I was riled up about Hazel when I single handedly sent her out. His exact words were these, “what the hell were you thinking? You wanted to start a war for a girl you threw out?” He bluntly told me, looking me in the eyes. “A bloody war is exactly what I’ll start!” My tight fist kiss his face as I answered him with a growl. Ross is my childhood friend and that’s the only thing keeping him breathing and standing next to me. He understands me better than anyone else and is the only one that can stand up to me and still live on. Her face became clear as I fixed my eyes on her, st
~Hazel~I could see the worry in Tristan’s eyes as the plan was never to leave me alone with Asher. But if I let him go alone, then he might likely come over to the shop and walk in when Jaden was around and innocently playing around the shop. I tried to tell him with my eyes that it was okay and I’ll be fine. This monster couldn’t eat me up, he could only try to break me but I wouldn’t allow him. I suddenly had found the courage to talk back to him as my son's need for safety pushed me to be bolder. I could feel his eyes all over me from when we both came down from the car till when Tristan stood up for his call and came back. I wanted to call him out on it but refrained after thinking that he might be purposely doing it just to spite me or force me to react to it. I wasn’t here for his games,neither here to be his game either, so I did what I could and ignored him all through as I could feel him boiling as I paid no attention to his tactics. I thought for a secon
~Hazel~ He had a cold look on his face as his face became unreadable when I stole a quick glance. What?! So now he’s quiet? He thinks I can’t return the favour and snap right back at him. I would do it at every opportunity I get to make him pay for everything he made me and my son go through. “I guess staying with the lycans has surely given you lots of courage” he muttered through clenched teeth as he looked me over with a deadly stare. “Better than staying with corny wolves..” i muttered back as he gave me a quick cold stare as he looked like he would strangle me and I caught Ross look over the rear view mirror not to look at me but at his alpha and I understood that he was definitely mind linking him as I felt Asher lean back into his seat as his aura filled the air showing just how pissed he was right now. I knew I had overstepped and at this point I shouldn’t really say much as he might pounce on me. After driving for what seemed like an hour because of the ten
~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
~Lily~ “So I also don’t get to choose where to stay? I know you know nothing about fun, but when a free day is mentioned, it’s most likely related with anything that’s not working.” I run my lips, hating to be quiet today. If he’s going to play this his way and keep me here then I’ll also talk and if possible cause great harm to his eardrums that he’ll send me out himself. “Fun is whatever we say is fun, lollipop. And the pictures I have up here are every bit of fun but what we don’t know is, if it’s fun to you yet.” He muttered pointing to his head as he made it sound like he could see right through me and afterwards made close eye contact with me after my very best efforts at avoiding it. I held my breath for a second, trying my best to hold his gaze too as I long avoided looking his way since I came in. I never ever took notes and I feel like punishing myself for taking notes now as I stood still, the words hooked on my throat with his mention of the pictur
~Lily~ “Lee, are you okay? Did he do anything to you?” Her eyes followed my every move, waiting patiently till I entered my room. Of course I knew with that public show of the one alpha we both hated, carrying me on his back and talking strangely like he didn’t want to push a spike through my heart, would definitely arouse suspicions and lord of questioning from Molly. I did the best I could and went straight to my room not knowing what I was going to say to her. I didn’t tell her anything the last time and clearly hawk wasn’t bothered about others having their own different thoughts. “I’m fine, he was just filling in for Kade.” I said to her putting on a smile so she wouldn’t suspect anything. She stood there for a minute, watching me closely like if she stayed longer I would break. “I’m guessing you have a lot to tell me because they couldn’t be all.” She finally concluded, opening my door and stepped in first. “Okay I’m all ears, let’s go.” Sh