ALLANI walked through the hallway and I halted my steps as I noticed that the guard with my luggage was standing as if he were lost. I walked straight to him, staring at him while he bowed his head to greet me. I kept wondering what it was that kept him there and just then, I cleared my throat to talk."What exactly is going on here? Did you forget the road to my room or you are lost? Which is it?" I asked rapidly, not giving him the opportunity to answer one question before asking the other. He inhaled deeply before he looked at me in the face momentarily."Nothing much, young alpha. I figured out that you might have locked your room before you left in the morning, that was why I waited for you here in the hallway. Perhaps, when you were done with your woman, you would come here and open the door." At some point, I didn't know what to feel. " Was he trying to be considerate or was he trying to mock me?" I asked myself. Many thoughts rushed through my mind as I stood there in front o
ALLANAll these thoughts and more ravaged my heart. I didn't know what else to think, so I just stayed mute like that until she walked out the door and shut it. I then heard Sonia murmuring some words and I had to put forward my ears as if I wanted her to repeat what she had said again."Oh, I wasn't talking to you. I... probably was just thinking out loud." She said in her defense and quickly looked away from me as if she didn't want me to ask her any more questions about what she had just said. I only nodded my head for a while and then followed by the loud silence that engulfed the whole atmosphere. I could not deny the fact that I was not comfortable with the silence that ensued between us. "I mean, can't she just ask me how it went at the pack that I went to? Why was she being all silent and not responsive? Why was she giving me the silent treatment?" I could not help but ask myself several questions as I stayed there. It felt awkwardly abnormal and I became uncomfortable at so
ELARAI walked back to Alpha Dale's room, not looking back at all before he was going to stop me from going. I heaved a sigh as I stayed there for a moment, thinking about what went on a few moments ago. "Why is all this happening to me right now?" I asked myself as I didn't know what else to do. I looked around the room, and it didn't look like it needed so much arrangement. I walked to the bed and sat at the edge of the bed. Many thoughts rushed through my mind as I sat there, taking a deep breath to calm my racing heart. I didn't think it was long enough before I heard a knock on the door immediately the door was tried to be opened. I gasped as I tilted my head to look at the door and then I recalled that I had locked it when I walked inside the room. My heart raced faster than normal as I quickly stood on my feet and rushed to the door to open it. While I hurried to the door, I could not help but think of a lie that I was going to say in the advent that it was alpha Gunther or al
ELARA"That must be the room, I want to get into. This is my only opportunity to get into the room. If I miss this chance, I will never get any more opportunities." I said to myself as I lowered my head while I waited for Alpha Dale to respond to what he had said. I found myself wishing he agreed and disagreed at the same time because either of those options would favor either of us. If he agreed to go there with him, I would be favored because I get to find out what I want to know about myself. But if he disagreed to go with him, then it is Allan who would be favored because I get to find a way to know what they would be discussing."I think that is a good idea. After all, we don't want anybody to disturb us while we are having our meeting." He said in a low tone as he looked away from alpha Gunther. Many thoughts rushed through my mind as I heard him say what he had said. I took a deep breath as I walked toward the middle of the room. "Now I have to find a way to get into that room,
SONIAThe morning came sooner than I ever imagined. "Perhaps it was because I went to bed late," I said to myself as I reluctantly opened my eyes, but the rays of the sun that fell on my eyes made me shut them immediately. I moved my hands around the bed and suddenly noticed the presence of someone on the bed, forcing me to open my eyes sharply to see who it was. "Who was I sharing my bed with?" I asked myself as I flipped on the bed to quickly see who it was. I heaved a sigh as I noticed that Allan was lying next to me, still deep asleep.It was then I remembered how it all happened last night. After the burst out and that knock came in, it was his guard who came to tell him that his key was not found. "What do you do when you can't find your room key? You ask for the spare key to your room." I told myself as I looked at him with scorn. But he was too scared to walk into the alpha's room to ask for the spare key to his room. He walked back shamelessly to my room and knocked on the do
ELARA"You know that was not the initial plan, right? I don't like it, now that we are close to achieving success, you and Alpha Raymond want to change the whole plan." Alpha Gunther said and I was surprised at the choice of tone and words that he had used to talk to Alpha Dale. He sounded very dissatisfied and upset about the whole thing. "What exactly was the plan and why were they trying to change it right now?" I asked myself as I stayed silently in the dark corridor. There was not a single sound Andi tried as much not to make any sound while I stood there. "I know. I know. But this is not on me. I spoke to Alpha Raymond yesterday and what I was able to gather from him is that he is trying to use his power of influence to change the whole plan. This dynasty that we want to form is supposed to be beneficial to all of us. I mean, look at how good you have been in the job you were given. Hiding all the tracks of our deeds and you didn't even mention it outside for once. You deserve
ELARA"Why the hell are you laughing? What is so funny in what I just said. Are you trying to get on my nerves more than you already are. I am so upset right now." Alpha Dale expressed his dissatisfaction in what alpha Gunther had just done but he seemed unfazed about it as he continued with his laughter. "This goes a long way to prove how important he is to whatever plan that they have." I thought as I exhaled heavily but silently so as not to draw attention to myself. Alpha Gunther ended his laughter with a sip of coffee as I heard the slurp sound that he made when he drank from his cup."I don't want to ask you to listen to yourself because that would sound really rude and I don't want to be rude. But you are making it hard for me. Of all the problems that we have presently, is that what scares you the most? Are you being serious right now?" He paused for a moment but alpha Dale said nothing in return. The silence was there for a moment and then alpha Gunther cleared his throat sli
ALLAN*******"Dad! What are you doing here at this time and why are you holding that knife?" I asked as I watched my father walk through the dark side of the backyard. I stayed there for a moment watching him with the knife in his hand while it dripped in blood. There was a moment of silence. The look on his face was quite surprising rather than angry. "Why are you here? What are you doing here? How did you get here?" He asked in a low tone and I heaved a sigh as I moved closer to him. I tried to reach for the knife in his hands and before I knew what was going on, the whole ground was littered with the motionless bodies of people I could not recognize."Did you kill all these people?" I asked him and he could not even utter a single word. He only looked at the ground to see what was going on and he gasped. He let go of the knife immediately and brought his hands to examine them. His hands were covered in blood as he looked at it warily. For a moment, I didn't know what more to say
Elara's POV As I stood there in front of him, I couldn't bring down the pace of my heartbeat. He spoke like he knew what was going on. As if he knew that I knew what was going on with him and the head maid. I didn't know what else to do so I just kept mute and waited for him to talk but he also kept mute. I heaved a sigh as I didn't know what to do. My heart was beating fast and I couldn't do anything about it. I exhaled rapidly and just then, he stood up from the bed and walked towards the center of the room before he talked."You think you can just stay quiet while I talk? What a nerve you have developed. I don't know what it is but I have made up my mind to find out exactly who you are and if I found you wanting, I would not hesitate to kill you. You know some months ago, you suddenly went missing in the pack and then you came back, giving me a flimsy excuse. You didn't even think for once that I might punish you and out of the goodness of my heart, I accepted you back into the pa
Allan's POV My life in this pack had been so dry and full of traumatic experiences since the call off of the wedding. I tried to get on the good side of my parents but they both made me understand that the only time they would ever be happy with me was when I went back to marry Sonia. I had already made up my mind never to marry her, especially after knowing the reason behind them trying to arrange the whole marriage stuff. I tried to make excuses for them but I could not make any excuses for them at all. I wanted them to be themselves while I was myself. "You know what. I don't care if they accept me again or not. I don't care if they talk to me or not forever. They can choose to give birth to another son and fix a marriage for him or her but as for me, I cannot allow myself to be used as a bounty for some selfish goal. How can you call me your son and do all this to me? It's not done that way at all." I said to myself loudly like I was having a real conversation with myself. I hea
Sonia's POV "You know you are a cursed child right? You don't deserve me as your father. You are an illegitimate child. I don't know what it is that you are thinking but from today, I never want you to greet me or do anything that is going to concern me. Since you think that you are old enough to pull this off, you should be old enough to cater to all your needs as of today." His exact words when he found out that I was baking out of the marriage with Allan. He had since not talked to me. I didn't know how best to make him understand that I was not cut out for that kind of marriage. I didn't know what to do so I have since tried to take my mind off everything he said to me. I didn't even know why it all came to my mind this morning and I had to even sit outside my room, lost in thoughts.I suddenly felt a touch on my shoulder and I quickly looked to see who had the effrontery to touch me in such a manner. As I looked up to see who it was, my gaze fell on Eli as she stood there with a
ELARAIt was a sunny day and I could not help but wonder why all of a sudden I found myself in the past. "What really happened?" I asked myself. It was as if the witch gave us that concoction to take, it affected us and took us back in time. I saw myself in the warrior place again and then I had to go through it again. I didn't know how to go about it so I tried to forget it and focus on the pressing issues that were on the ground. I heaved a sigh as my thoughts wandered off to the fact that Levi and Sonia agreed to call off their wedding. "How did this even happen? They were supposed to get better wedded by tomorrow. What is going on with them? I never knew it would get to this point in their marriage." I said to myself. I sat there in the middle of the room as I thought about how the mating ceremony was going to be. "I just hope that I find someone who is going to love me for who I am. Not judge me for any reason and I also hope I get my wolf too." I said to myself as I sat there o
ELARA"I was thinking of that too. I have a lot of things to talk to you about. The past few weeks and perhaps months, have been tedious in terms of events. Many things unfolding and your acting strangely is enough to talk about. But I don't think you are in the right state to talk right now." He talked slowly like he was trying to carefully select his words, or perhaps he was trying to count his words as they left his mouth."I am okay. I need to talk to you about something very very important. It cannot wait. I think I have dragged this for too long and it is starting to affect me, you, and the entire castle." I said, trying to sit up on the bed and he aided me. He arranged the pillow to support my back and I smiled slightly."I think I have an idea about what you are about to talk about. See, I have been having these dreams. Very disturbing and alarming. There were many people there but you weren't there. Your brother, Allan is there and also the daughter of alpha Gunther is there
KING GREGOR "Your majesty. We found your wife." The head of the guards broke the news to me moments after I gave him an order to find her wherever she went. I sat there in the room, facing the window. I reflected on the past few days, weeks, and months. Many things have happened within the past few weeks. Things that I really can't explain and I don't have the explanation of. First, it was the sudden changes that Arianna started to show. She acted so differently and I just had to ignore all of it. Then followed, was her sudden claim of memory loss. I don't know but I seemed to believe her.As if all these weren't enough to mess with my mental health, the dreams started to come up. Unexplainable dreams that could raise my doubt in ten folds. It would have been better if the witch were able to translate the dreams but she was of little or no help at all. Above all, the most surprising thing was my sudden likeness for Arianna. I never liked her before. The only reason I was involved wit
ELARAI opened my eyes suddenly and the first thing I saw was this magnificent creature. It looked like someone that I had seen before. No! I cannot be here. This was not how I planned this to go. I kept trying to make myself believe that I was sleeping and then the voice came at me."Elara! I suppose you know where you are presently. What happened to you? Why were you stirred off what you wanted to go and do? You begged for a chance and you got the chance but what did you choose to do?" I felt a sting in my heart as I recalled the day that I was begging the moon goddess for a second chance. A chance to go and avenge my death and that of my unborn child. "I don't know where to start. Perhaps it was as easy as I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be easy to carry out the whole plan I had in mind but it was tougher than I thought. There were a lot of constraints. The person whose body I woke up in had a life of her own and it just mixed up with the whole thing. At so
SONIA"No, you didn't do anything. As a matter of fact, we had just finished what we wanted to iron out. We were just about to step out of the room and come downstairs to join them for breakfast. How are you?" He ended his statement with an awkward question. His facial expression said it all. If only he could take back his words, he would not hesitate. "How had he always perceived Eli?" That was something that I had never asked him. I didn't want to sound awkward so I just kept mute and waited for her to talk. Many thoughts rushed through my mind and just when she wanted to talk, I could not afford her to tell him what happened the previous day, I cleared my throat slightly to talk and then their attention turned towards me."You know you don't have to be so formal right? We could go back to the way that we have been doing. The small plays and everything. Things might not be as you think they are. Right, Allan." I could not deny the fact that it felt extremely awkward saying all that
SONIAI knew for sure that it was Eli who was standing in front of the door. "What could she be looking for? Did the alpha send it to us? Many thoughts rushed through my mind as I looked at the doorknob and also the face of Allan as he also looked at the doorknob. I thought of ignoring the knock but not long after, the knock came on the door again and I had to heave a sigh. "Even if I needed this interruption, it was too quickly. She should have waited for us to finish all this before she came to knock on the door." I thought for a while.I walked towards the door slowly but hastened my steps as the knock came again and stayed frequent. I could not take my mind off what had happened earlier. I didn't know what to do or how to go about it. "Perhaps he might be feeling awkward and timid after the show or perhaps he enjoyed it as much as I did. Whichever way it is or however it is, I am not fazed by anything." I said to myself as I reached for the doorknob and quickly pulled it to see wh