What will happen next?
AZALEA'S POVAs punishment, Reid and I are subjected to 15 hours of training, banned from sparing with any other person and 50 laps around the entire camp perimeter from 4 am every day.By the second day, my body can't get out of bed, sore on every side I turn to, I'm pretty sure my wounds are inflamed at the moment. But I can’t sleep in, or more punishment, I seem to be a magnet to it recently and Alpha Henry does not seem to run out of them. Cursing the Alpha once more in my mind I crawl out of bed for another morning of terror.Twenty laps in and my body begins to give up, my legs become too heavy to carry, everything I step on feels like glass. I look up to see Reid resting, he always finishes his laps before me, anger bubbles through me like fire. I grind my teeth together."If I reach south pole before you, five more laps." I suddenly hear beside me. I turn to catch Alpha Henry towering over me. I look up ahead to the south pole miles away, my thighs are burning, telling me to st
AZALEA'S POV"What did you say?." He asks stepping closer. My heart begins to thunder again at his proximity. Its been doing that a lot lately.I frown trying to remember my exact words that might have tipped him off, I was just running my mouth without thinking, so the chances I said something to offend him are high."Defender of the weak?." I ask in a slow voice. He shakes his head, his frown softening a bit."No, no the other one….""Savior of all?.""Yes, that, where did you hear it?.""I don't know, I just thought of it." I rush out, his aura now chocking me - but in a good way."My dad used to say those words……" He stops talking for a while, as if in deep thoughts, then a small smile creeps to his face. "For a second, I thought I heard his voice." He says."What, what was he like?." I ask, feeling the urge to, even though it might bring my untimely demise. He had mentioned his father two times for me not to be curious. Alpha Henry tilts his head slowly that I didn't think he woul
AZALEA'S POVA loud gasp left my lips as I examined Lexa's right leg. A huge bite mark is obvious as well as the blue almost purple skin that surrounded it."Let me see." I hear Alpha Henry say. "Can you walk on it?." He asks. Lexa tries to stand up, but immediately falls to the ground.Lexa has her reservations about Alpha Henry, but unlike myself she prefers to avoid the scary man all together. So as he tries to reach for her defective leg, she cries out for me, scooting away from him. He looks up at me and bites his lip.The bite is much more than just decaying skin, and he can see that. The faster the access the situation, the best for her leg. Understanding his unspoken words, I hug Lexa and place a soft kiss on her head."He's just going to look at it." I whisper to her. And immediately he grabs the leg, I see her bone almost digging out of her skin. Hot tears fall from my eyes."Its broken!, Azzy its broken! He broke it." She cries."Don't worry, it will heal in a few days." He
HENRY'S POV She must think I'm an asshole. Maybe because I am. And also because I have to be fair, or at least try to be.Reid turned up with a black eye, so I didn't need to do anything but give him some more threats, like peeling his skin off and feeding it to mountain bears, squeezing out every drop of his blood to feed rogues.You know, the usual stuff and when I saw that he had paled, I let him go for the rest of the day. But then I had to punish both of them in front of all the other survivors so they know not to try such again.Nothing enforces a rule to a bunch of youngsters like a scapegoat.The nepo boy amazed me and handled his punishment rather well, unlike feisty over here. Huffing and struggling through the laps.I'm sure its harder because she thinks she didn't deserve it, but there was no excuse for almost ripping out his eye. Even if he attacked first. Ryder and I were perfectly present and ready to handle the situation if she had just learnt to control herself.Of co
HENRY'S POV"Psst." Harper, one of my guards on patrol nudges the other as feisty walks out of her tent once again. Baths have been reduced to once in two days because the regions are getting colder and we are finding less water bodies as we travel.At this point, I just want to be home in my own bed again. This journey has lasted a whole week and five days of pure disdain having to entertain a bunch of teenagers and children."There she goes again." He replies."Want to go watch?." Harper asks and my fists squeeze into a ball. Usually when everyone else bathes, all females go first, logically, then the men and finally children. Its common sense to not want to peek at them, we're in the middle of a freaking war. Romance should be the last thing on anyone's mind.I know that a lot of people are hooking up, some girls from Rocky mountains with boys from Blue ivy. But I can't penalize anyone, if its prohibited, they'd do it anyway and I'll have to keep dealing with punishing them every ti
HENRY'S POV"No, don't say that, you saved us, almost a hundred people." She says.Her words surprise me a little bit, because I was under the impression that she hated that they were being "saved" to Red Fire. In fact Lexa had on occasions mentioned that we were probably taking them to become slaves in Red Fire; mopping floors and cooking all day.It’s a laughable notion because Red Fire is a large pack and definitely self sufficient. We didn't need slaves, people had their jobs and did it remarkably well."Well, I have also killed hundreds of people." A very true fact."Sure there are a lot of rumors about you, and you are a complete pain in the neck, but you're not all that bad." She smiles."Like my mom would say, people give all sort of names to things they don't understand because they are scared of it." Her mother sounded like a very wise woman, I am beginning to understand why all three of them seem very much grounded than the others in the lot."The first time we met, you sav
AZALEA'S POV"So you're in this position," His slow whispers tickling the hairs on my neck and ear. I nod, focusing on my breathing instead of the way my stomach plummet or the way my heart raced or the way a million sparks and goosebumps covers my skin each time he touches me. I wonder if becoming stronger is as easy as he said with my current distracted state. I shake out of my own thoughts and focus on the training at hand. Its just the two of us once again in the dark training ground. "My right arm around your neck and possibly a weapon to your head, what you do is you to take this your left arm and will angle out your elbow and make a fist then you take your right hand over that fist to make a really strong powerful jab to the side of the person.""Yeah I got it. So I do this?." I ask."When your opponent is monetarily disarmed, you grab his right arm that was around your neck and twist it all the way to his back." He said demonstrating slowly, till my right arm was touching my
HENRY'S POVI spent the better part of the night planning a new defense formation against the Rogue attack and the Black Lotus packs. It was difficult dealing with such inexperienced group of fighters unlike my seasoned soldiers, but it had to be done.And I am sure I have made it abundantly clear multiple times that everyone had a responsibility to keep themselves alive. I can not be every body's savior even if I wanted to.I sigh to myself again, recounting the night's troubles. Failing to detect the Rogue in time was definitely a problem, one I took full responsibility for. After all I was the alpha, but it made me question many things I thought I knew.I decided to forget sleep and do another lap round the entire camp to look for clues. I made my way back to the camp fire where Lexa had been attacked and sat for a while, beckoning on the help of my ancestors to at least find an answer or I would run mad.I was so close to giving up when I caught the whiff of something, - it was ver
HENRY'S POV Shaking my head with amusement. "Still the same hotheaded bastard, I see." I smirked and clasped Gray’s forearm in an elongated weird handshake I didn't think I remembered that we made up when we were kids. "Still the same arrogant prick." I looked around quickly for Eli, its best I keep these two apart for a while. Gray chuckled before my eyes landed on the woman beside him. She had bright brown eyes and an air of quiet confidence. My brows lifted. "Your mate?" Gray in a manner I've never seem him before stammered, avoiding eye contact and the girl—Emma, I assumed—cleared her throat. I crossed my arms. "Oh, this is interesting." They have definitely fucked. I arch an eyebrow at Gray laughing. He sighed as she gagged at my eyebrow, pulling me aside. "It’s…..Uh complicated. But listen, Emma has rare abilities. She saved my life, Henry. And she might be able to help us." "Help how?" Gray’s expression darkened. "She gets visions. She sees things others can’t." Emma gi
HENRY'S POVI sat at the edge of my desk, my fingers pressing into my temples as I stared at the glowing map and countless computer screens before me. My eyes burned from lack of sleep, but I couldn't stop. I wouldn't stop.Azalea was out there, suffering, and I was stuck here, unable to do anything.I used to take huge pride in my collection of super computers with accuracy of 0.00001 to trace even the tiniest signals. I personally designed the tech lab myself, I gathered only the best from all around the world, Eli and the rest of the tech team are the very best among werewolves.Yet when it truly matters, the best computers and the best tech team can't seem to trace one person. Right now, as I stared and listened for the continuous chime and beeping from over 50 computers in every corner of the 1500 square feet lab I wanted to smash everything into tiny balls and set it all on fire.My frustration boiled over, and I slammed my fist against the table, the sound echoing through the ro
AZALEA'S POVMy breath hitched, my heart hammering violently against my ribs as I tried to process the impossible. Kai. My brother.And yet, he stood there, grinning like a madman, his red eyes gleaming under the dim lights. The once familiar warmth in his gaze had been replaced by something dark, twisted, malevolent."K-Kai?" My voice was hoarse, cracking under the weight of my disbelief. "How are you.....alive?." I puased to ask. Till now, I had thought he was in the fight that night of the attack. I remember dad saying something about calling him. I didn't know if he died or survived, but Ryder had assured me that no one alive was left behind in the pack. His sinister smirk only widened as he stepped closer. "Oh, sister, don't look so surprised, I was never truly gone," he taunts, stepping closer. "Did you really think you were the only one who survived?"."Something was deeply wrong. My instincts screamed at me to get away, to fight, to do anything but remain vulnerable before him
AZALEA'S POVMy eyes snap open with a start, and pain shoots through my entire body immediately. My vision is blurred at first, I could only see white light for a long second, my ears instantly ringing till the ceiling above starts to clear.My whole body feels heavy and battered, like I just survived a trainwreck, but I wouldn't even know what that feels like. The cold attacks my body, from my feet as I become aware of the feeling in the rest of my body, I lay flat, grimacing at the light, grunting at my dry throat, wincing at the pain and soreness and finally shivering from the cold. Makes me wonder how long I was unconscious.'Unconscious?'Looking around the large barely lit space I'm kept captive in. From what I can tell, I'm bound to a hospital bed of some sorts, beside the bed seems to be a heart machine that is not on, nor am I hooked up to it in any way.The rest of the room sure didn't look or smell like a hospital, the air was rather stale and dusty. It looked old, like an o
HENRY'S POV 'That's the last set.' Ryder links me as the final glider rises to the air."Go round one more time." I tell the pilot, Sam instead of replying him. I see the looks they gave each other at my words, but I don't care. They know better than to defy me.I must find her tonight.I walk away from the cock pit turning to the two dudes on computers. I try to know most of the members of Eli's tech team by name but they keep changing. They continue yapping some geographical nonsense to each other typing away rapidly to the giant screens before them."How hard is it to fucking find a giant gold wolf?!."They all flinch, fear washing over their face.How fucking hard is it to trace her chip, how hard could it fucking be?"Still no sign alpha." I hear the pilot call out."Go around once more!.""We're low on jet fuel, Alpha." This time, its Ryder speaking. I shoot him a death glare and he holds my gaze instead of backing down.'Its been hours, I think its been established that we won'
AZALEA'S POVI join the rest of the crowd and split up into our assigned groups as we have been trained. All the while Alpha Henry was repeating instructions and all the cheering around me, I literally keep zonning out. My head is foggy and unable to concentrate. We make eye contact one more time, I guess his way of trying to calm me down which makes me wonder if he can sense that I am clearly disturbed. The last thign I would want is to cause a scene or delay this whole move because I am feeling a bit poorly or foggy. "Are you okay?" Casper whispers to me. I nod, before shaking my head.He cups my face and jerks his hand away quickly as if he had been burned."Fuck, you're boiling!.""Yeah." I laugh.He looks around to call someone but I stop him. I would die of embarrassment if he called any more attention to me. And I really don't want to be a reason we would delay the run this night. We are just minutes away from leaving this forest. I probably ate a wild berry and I'm having an
AZALEA'S POVI still dread these new found abilities, but Alpha Henry seems rather happy about it. Maybe because it made us similar in a way or because he always wanted to teach someone things he had learnt with his abilities, but until now it was not heard of.Even after so much practice, the only thing I am capable of is blooming flowers. That doesn't seem like a very useful ability unless Black Lotus were deathly allergic. He says he can see my powers swirl around me every time we try, that if I just concentrate more I would be able to unlock other parts of my abilities.What if the 'other parts' of my abilities are not as extra ordinary or are too dangerous?. We spent a few more minutes before having to return to camp separately."Where have you been?." Lexi asks me immediately I reach the clearing."Isn't it obvious, she smells like him." Justin replies looking over to Alpha Henry whose attention was on us, definitely not in the words Cedric was speaking, Lexi rolls her eyes and m
HENRY'S POVWe charge at each other, unleashing power aiming for each other's throats. I deliver the first blow to his side, peeling off a good chunk of his skin. He counters my attack however with a slash to my face, digging through my eyes.Without a second I recover, sending him to a near by tree. He comes at me again with full force, we tussle over reach other, biting and scratching at every turn. I make sure to target his neck multiple times.While I am a larger wolf in this fight, he has years of skill and training older than myself under his belt as well as the odds in his favor.'What’s wrong fire boy?.' He chimes prancing around me as I struggle to regain my footing. The earth is spinning under my paws. I can feel consciousness seep out of me.'Is that all you've got?.'Anger bubbles through me again as I let out a growl. He is baiting me to use my abilities knowing fully well that it would do more harm to the survivors of Blue Ivy than more harm to himself and his army. I sha
HENRY'S POVThe sun began to set and the entire camp gathered for what would be the last time in the deep of the forest. Eli confirmed the vehicles waiting at the other end of the forest to take us into Red Fire territory.As they all gathered, I let out a breath counting relieved that no one died and no one was missing.Yet I could not rejoice, because I knew at the back of my mind that, I had known all along, the feeling of dread that I could not shake since I arrived in Blue Ivy. Some thing would go terribly wrong.We split off into teams as usual, the children with the adults and a trained survivor in their group. This part of the journey was to be done in wolf. It is a tricky situation.Since the death of their Alpha, their link has been broken, and since the current situation didn't exactly favor a pack run, their bond as a pack has deeply weakened. It would be very difficult to keep everyone on track when they shift into wolf form.It would be hard to keep their wolves from goin