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HENRY'S POVI need to keep my distance and this might just help, but I also need to keep an eye on her for any side effects of the chip. I knew nothing about her medical history other than she was adopted and her parents were never found, the implant could bring out any underlying issues and I don't want that.I am angry at my self for taking advantage of her, when she was so vulnerable. I am also angry that instead of being a responsible adult in the situation, I ran away like a fucking coward. I know she will avoid me, she has done it before but some how it made me angrier instead of content like I thought. We have one more full day before veering out of the woods back to the main road to have Eli pick us up. He had transmitted earlier that the choppers and busses were on standby to evacuate us as soon as we appear to the road.Another sigh leaves my lips at the thought that this will be over soon and if I stop seeing her as much, maybe I would not be this affected by her anymore. B
AZALEA'S POVTraining goes as planned, but with alpha Henry in a much angrier mood than he usually is, he pushes us so hard that a few people pass out dehydrated and fatigued.And as if that wasn't enough he announced them out of training for the war.While others were busy grunting and angry about it, I almost wish I fainted too, because I think he is extra cranky since I what transpired last night. have decided to avoid him like a plague.But the goddess wouldn't let me have it.We took turns in sparing with each other, changing partners every 10 minutes. I was down to my last sparing of the day which proved to be more difficult than the six foot men I had been fighting all week.Racheal was one of the very first persons I get to spar with weapons. We were given different arms according to our abilities. Some got metal bats, others like Racheal got a sparing rod with sharp blades, I got a short wooden rod.Trust Alpha Henry to mess with me at every chance."Is this a Joke?." I ask an
"Azalea you're going to kill her!." I hear Ryder shout, but his voice was too far away to reach me. Rachel wriggles underneath me, gasping for life. I was about to twist her neck between my legs when I was involuntarily yanked away from her thrust across the yard like a sack of flour.Before I register what is going on, people are being rushed back to the tents, Ryder and two other men carrying an almost lifeless Rachel away.My body begins to burn up as I took in the sight. I was about to murder Rachel. All I wanted to do was run, far away. With my hands, I try to push myself up with a large rock, but as I touched it, it shattered to pieces like a sledge hammer had gone through it. I stared at my hands, they looked normal.The ground continued to crack under me the winds getting stronger and sandier. I see Alpha Henry looking at me like he had seen a ghost.I moved to run away from him, towards the pond, as I knew no where else to go."Hey, no." He catches up with me, trying to hold m
HENRY'S POVShe's causing the earthquake. I can almost feel her magic grow, as she continues to panic. Amidst my own shock at her control of the wind and the ground, I shout to Cedric to get everyone to safety, while Ryder took care of a now limp Racheal. She had passed out but didn't die, thankfully.I turn back to Azalea, she was staring at her arms as a huge boulder just shattered as she touched it.She stood up quickly as she noticed me, I open my mouth to talk but she takes off running.'She's going to hurt herself if she doesn't calm down.' Things are finally making sense, why I felt such a strong connection to her, why she was such severe anger issues, why she had been pushing her wolf back.When I have been so focused on why her wolf presence was low, it never occurred to me that she was pushing her wolf back intentionally. I pushed her to heal, when she didn't want to at all.Azalea was scared of her own wolf, which is why she had been pushing back the entire time. She knew he
AZALEA'S POV"Yes, that's what powers like these are called." He answers.I stare at him, too stunned to speak."Control is all about the state of mind, with each extreme emotion you experience, a surge of energy is released, this energy the helps you alter the movement or production of something, an element.""Once you get a hang of that, you'll be able to control how your emotions influence the release of energy.""Emotion releases energy." I say. "Got it.""There is no shortcut, I have been learning about mine since I was born, I've had a lot of practice. It is very different for you, somethings might not work but keep an open mind."I nod."Do you dance?." He ask, I frown shaking my head."Dancing was one way I was taught, it helps with balance and building your core. What we can do is a ballad, I go and you follow simple.""There is no music.""That's the fun path, hum whatever tune comes to your head." He says. "……And feel."I have realized that all special features of our kind h
HENRY'S POVI pause, forgetting once again that it is entirely new to her. "Yes, that's what powers like these are called.""You can manipulate or rather control an element with your energy." I explain standing up. I pull her to her feet as well. Hoping that she can try to not kill another survivor when next they have to fight."Control is all in the mind, if you are happy, sad or angry or any extreme emotion, a surge of energy is released in form of the power to command the element. In my case, fire." I say sharply as the tree behind us catches fire for a second and stops."Are you happy, sad or angry now?." She ask watching me. I shake my head."Once you get a hang of it, or have had it as long as I have, you'll be able to control how much energy is needed to activate it or how much your emotions influence the release of energy."That was a mouthful, but I think she understood."Emotion releases energy, Got it." She nods. "And I know I have been saying this since I met you, but you
AZALEA'S POVThe next day after another brutal round of training, alpha Henry drops the bomb shell that it would be out last day in camp as we will finally be leaving the forest to the rendezvous point of Red Fire. Vehicles are waiting to take us into the pack.We could all feel the tension rise. Before now, to many of us, Red Fire seemed like a myth but as it drew closer, conspiracies flew at what we would find.I didn't know what to feel, scared or excited. My life had changed so much in the last two weeks, things I used to think would never happened have and others I didn't want to did. I certainly did not anticipate whatever is between Alpha Henry and I.I tried my best to avoid his stares through the training."Yay! We are a few hours away from becoming slaves." Lexa sighs."Are you scared of what might happen when we get there?." I ask her. She nods."Aren't we all?.""I know this whole thing has been hard, but I think Red Fire might not be so bad after all." I say slowly."At l
AZALEA'S POV"You were supposed to be mated to my sister, and I am 19, we have this huge age gap……" I list off. There are a thousand reasons why this is going to end with me getting hurt."Tha, that is a different story." He stops me, frowning. "A long one, but since we are on the matter." He gestures for me to sit on the tall rock that looked like a chair."I don't know if it was your sister, but I did end up finding my mate that night of the attack." He starts slowly. My heart plummets then I remember that I was with Eloise till she died, I doubt if the mate he found was her.I was about to ask when he continues with his story. "She was the most eccentric wolf I have ever seen, large and proud, definitely an alpha, but something was off about her." He turned to face the spring as the mist hovered over the clear green water."Because the next minute she rejected the bond and walked away."My mouth snaps shut. "It was in the woods, behind the, um, council house or what do you call it?.
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