BRIELLE “Did I just hear him right, or I was just hallucinating?” I asked myself as I stared directly at him, looking shocked. It felt like time came to a pause and everything seemed to stop. “They will take me home?” I asked myself again and just then, lady Arianna's voice sounded from the background, bringing me back to reality.“What is wrong? You don't like the idea of following you to your pack? Because I don't understand the way you look.” She said, and I shook my head immediately, finding my word to talk, but I felt my words choked up in my throat. Jasper quickly cleared his throat, and they all looked at him before he talked.“I think she is just overexcited about it. An honor it would be if you, Alpha Maxwell followed her to her parent's house. That's why she was dumbfounded and couldn't utter any word.” He said, and I immediately nodded my head slightly as I pointed at him. At this point, I found my voice already and could talk. I heaved a sigh as I looked at the alpha befo
ARIANNA We all ate our food in silence after the awkward conversation between Jasper and Brielle. I looked at Jake who was busy with his food and seemed uninterested in what was going on. Elizabeth was watching but didn't quite say anything as well. Zoey chipped in a little, but I could understand her withdrawal from the conversation. I was starting to get uncomfortable with the silence at the dining table. For a moment, I thought Alpha Maxwell was going to talk, but he also kept mute and then I knew if anyone were to break the silence, then it had to be me, so I cleared my throat slightly to talk.“What time are you going tomorrow? Morning, afternoon, or evening?” I asked her and as if she were expecting me to ask her the question, she started to hum. This went on for a while, and she finally heaved a sigh to talk.“I think the afternoon should be good. What do you think Zoey?” I immediately tilted my head to look at Zoey and I wondered why she was trying to bring Zoey into the conv
PETE "Mom, are you sure this is going to work? I don't want this to fail at all. Allan and I have worked so hard to make this come alive. I don't know what would happen to him if this doesn't work out." I expressed my fear in front of my mother and all she did was just laugh about it like nothing I was saying was serious."Mom, how could you be laughing in this dire situation? You are in no position to laugh at all. You seem not to know what we have gotten ourselves into. I am a male who is attracted and mated to another male, what are you expecting other people to say about us?" I asked in fear, not quite obvious but still there. She finally gave me a slight sharp look before she inhaled deeply to talk. "You worry too much. Why can't you just be as calm as me? Is it too much to ask?" Her voice was low as if she were trying to whisper her words. I lowered my head slightly. "She doesn't seem to understand what I am talking about." I thought for a while before I raised my head back t
ARIANNA Waking up to the buzzing sound of my ringing phone, I could not help but look at my phone to see who it was that was calling. "Allan!" I whispered, checking the whole room to ensure that no one was around to listen to me speak to him on the phone. "Hello..." I said and he didn't even attempt to exchange pleasantries with me before he started to throw shades at me."Don't tell me you are still in bed by this time. Why are you still sleeping, your crazy alpha husband was dicking you all night?" He asked and I could not help but wonder how Allan could comfortably talk to his sister about King Gregor like that. For a moment I didn't know how to reply to him to sound exactly like his sister."He wished he had the opportunity to dick me throughout the night. I was up through the night for something else. What's up, why did you call me this early?" I asked, trying to let everything flow so naturally. He inhaled deeply for a while as if he were arranging the thoughts in his head bef
ARIANNA I walked out of the room, heading towards the room of King Gregor. I had many thoughts in mind as I walked to his room. "What if he sends me away from him? What if he decided that he wanted me to go for the MRI scan to see if something actually happened to my brain? How would I explain to him all that has been going on for the past weeks?" Just when I was in the middle of all these thoughts, a loud voice suddenly echoed and I was jolted back to reality, forcing me to halt my steps immediately to look."My queen!" I read Amber's lips before her voice replayed her words in my head. I shook my head slightly and looked around to see where I actually was. I then noticed that I was in an entirely strange place in the castle. Somewhere I have never been since I arrived at the castle. For a moment, I asked myself how I managed to walk to that place without knowing. She walked closer to me and judging from the way she looked at me, I could tell that she was a bit worried. I only inhal
ALPHA DALE ********“Good morning, alpha Dale. I hope you had a great night?” Marie tried to get on the good side of me as she walked up to me, but the kind of fierce stare that I gave her, made her retract from what she was about to do. I heaved a sigh as I halted my steps and tilted my head to look at her.“Wait! What are you still doing here in the pack? You ought to have left by now. Why are you still here? It's confirmed that you have no business to do with her disappearance, and besides you were already leaving that day before I stopped you.” My voice was stern and coarse as I spoke to her. She inhaled deeply, lowering her head, but I was not moved by all that she was doing. I only waited patiently for her to do all she was doing so that she could start talking.“I just thought that leaving you in your trying times like this would be a wicked and callous thing to do, and I don't want that at all.” I could not help but chuckle as I looked her in the eyes sternly before I cleared
ALPHA DALE *********“He said he is going to send the address to the place very soon. Let us wait for it. Before we go there, just know that I would not be open to negotiating anything stupid. If he cannot bring down his request, he would have me to contain with.” I explained with a stern face. My beta looked away and just as he was about to talk, my phone chimed, and I opened it immediately to see what it was. “He has sent the damn address.” I heaved a sigh as I talked, and he stood up immediately. I gave him a puzzled face as I wondered where he was going.“Where are you going to?” I asked him, and he halted his steps immediately, tilting his head to look at me briefly before he talked. “I thought he had sent the address. We need to be there as soon as possible. And please, let me handle the negotiation. We don't have to settle everything using force. Sometimes we just need to go slowly. So please get up and let us go there.” He explained slowly, and I just lowered my head, heavi
ELARA “You are the Elara that the chief warrior was talking about? It is finally nice to meet you.” Alex said and I lowered my head instantly. Fear ravaged my whole body as I stood there with him. The stories that I heard about him, made me fear him even before I got to know him. “I hope you are ready for what is to come. I don't have to read all the rules and regulations to you. I will be your personal instructor, and you have every right to listen and obey everything that I say to you. If you don't, blame yourself for the consequences.” His words carried threats and that made me fear him the more. “Perhaps I should not have come here at all,” I said to myself, and then I suddenly felt his hand on my shoulder, sending shivers down my spine.“You should be very careful around here. You are the only female in this camp, and you know what that means. I don't have to spell it out for you.” He said, and at first, I made a puzzled face as I looked at him in the face. He looked at me with
ELARAThe door opened and light flashed into the room. For a moment, my heart raced faster than normal. I wanted to peep to see who walked in but as soon as I moved my head towards the opening, the light flashed into the room again and I quickly had to retract my head. Forcing me to make a thudding sound as I hit against the wall slightly. "What the hell just happened?" I asked myself. I just hope they don't come to check what happened here and find me here. I closed my eyes as my heart raced faster. I could hear the sound of my heart beating like it was about to jump out of my chest."What was that?" Surprisingly, I heard the voice of the head maid. I didn't know when I suddenly opened my eyes. I was extremely shocked to have heard her voice. "How did she have access to this room?" I asked myself and then I recalled that perhaps she wanted to come and pack the cups that were used to drink coffee last night. But something was not right about how she came into the room. She laughed for
ELARAI involuntarily slapped myself, forcing me to open my eyes immediately to see what was going on. I realized that an insect was crawling on my face. It was then I came to know that I slept in Alpha Gunther's private office. "How did I even sleep? How did I sleep here?" I asked myself in a low tone as I stood up on my feet immediately. I looked around and from the way things were in the room, it looked like the sun was already up and shining. I was sure that they would all be looking for me in the pack right now. "What do I do?" I asked myself as I walked around the whole room.My gaze fell on the cup that sat there on the table where they had their discussion. As I saw the cups, my mind wandered back to the discussion that they had last night. "What could it be that they wanted to achieve? Who is Alpha Larry? Where has he been? Could I have seen him before?" I asked myself all these questions and soon, my thoughts were occupied again with the fact that I was stuck in the private
SONIA"That was when I started to have a rethink about the whole thing and that was why I asked you to meet my father and talk to him about the fact that you don't want this. That you never wanted it in the first place but you are too much of a coward. Right now, I am not scared of what might happen. I am ready to go and tell them that I am no longer interested in the arranged marriage and I will also tell them that you are not interested in the marriage." I explained slowly like I was counting my words as I spoke them. He only stood there and watched me as I talked. "I am so enjoying this whole drama and the way it is going. The only thing that I don't like about this is the fact that he keeps quiet most of the time. Where is the proactive Allan that I used to know? Talk to me like the man that you are Allan? Don't be such a coward." I thought in my head before I heaved a sigh and the only thing on my mind at that moment was that since we were no longer interested in the whole marri
SONIA"Wait!" I said to myself but my body was not responding at all. I shook my head slightly before I continued to talk to myself. "What if he doesn't want this at all? What if he pushed me away from in after all that has transpired between us since the beginning of the morning?" I asked myself as even if I had all these thoughts in my head, I could still feel myself moving towards him. "Oh Moon goddess, how can I stop myself from all this?" I asked myself but nothing was coming to my head. As I stood there, a thought suddenly crossed my mind. "He mentioned my name in his sleep during the middle of the night," I recalled immediately but didn't show a sign that I cared about the fact that he mentioned my name. "It doesn't mean a thing." I tried to convince myself as I stood there before him. "Could he have been dreaming about me? Why did I just remember that he called my name in his sleep? Was the moon goddess trying to prove us a point here?" I asked myself but not long after thos
SONIAHe looked at me as if he were thinking of what to say and then the silence was really getting me uncomfortable. "What does he think he is trying to do? Why was he keeping mute like this?" I asked myself as I heaved a sigh. My mind momentarily wandered back to the times that I was staying in his pack. The whole ill treatment from him.I recalled the day that Helen almost killed his mother. The day he showed me that he was ready to go with her over me. I felt rejected at that moment. I felt like I was trying to fit in where I was not welcomed. I felt my rage increasing rapidly within me but I tried to keep myself at bay as I looked away from him slightly but brought my gaze to look at him. A thought crossed my mind to remind him about that night but another part of me wanted to completely let go of the thoughts and just go on with what was going on. I didn't want to waste any more time before I started to talk."What more do you want me to tell you? If all these are not enough fo
SONIA"What more sign does he want? Should I spell out to him that I am tired of this entire sham called an arranged marriage? Can't he see that I am no longer interested in being with him?" I asked myself as I slowly lowered my head. If I had wanted to say what was on my mind, I would sound very rude to him. I didn't want to make our last days together a tragedy so I shook my head slightly as I shook off the thoughts in my head.I tilted my head slightly as I looked back at him in the eyes. He looked like he was being held accountable or he wanted to be pitied. If all he didn't say anything again, I was just going to walk out of the room and head straight to my father's room to tell him the latest developments. I didn't know what else to do to make him talk so I just kept mute and waited for him to think about what was making him look at me that way but nothing was coming to my mind. I took out time before I looked away from him, all because I wanted him to talk to me. I did waste ti
SONIAHe also looked as if he was lost and didn't know what to do. That made me have the time to think of my next action. It was at this moment that I decided to let go of my initial decision so that I would know exactly what he had in mind to do."What do you think you are doing? I hope it's not what I think it is. Please let me go." I really should have kept mute because I didn't like the way I sounded at all. My voice suddenly started to break and he looked away from me. "He probably is thinking that I am not serious right now. I should have just remained quiet." I said to myself and placed a hand on my forehead. For a moment, I lowered my head and tried to convince myself that it was normal for me to act in such a way and when I was cool with it, I tilted my head to look at him and noticed that he was not looking at me. I wondered why he could not bring himself to look at me in the eyes but he still held on to my hands even while I tried to free herself from his grip. I wanted to
SONIAI didn't let anything bother my mind while I stood there in front of him. "Whatever the case might be, I was prepared to let him know exactly how I was feeling. I couldn't wait any more to tell him what I had in mind. I can't do this anymore. "Not anymore!" I yelled inside my head and just then his voice began to echo, forcing my attention back to him as I didn't know what to do.As I turned to look at him, he was still quiet and then I had the idea that perhaps my brain was playing a trick on me. We stood there in silence and I could not help but wander in thoughts as many of them ran through my mind. For once in my entire existence I felt like I didn't care about anything that happened at all. I was ready to let everything go just like that and focus on myself. I didn't know if it was the right thing to do but I wanted to just stay on my own and not do anything with anybody. I just hoped that he agreed with me or had the same idea and wanted to be free from all of this.He con
PETEI sat there in the middle of the bed, going through the letter that was just sent to me. I was caught in awe at the content of the letter. "Who could this bet that knew this much about me?" I asked myself and just when I became cautious of my environment, a knock came in on the door and before I could tilt my head to respond, the doorknob tilted and then the frightened image of Allan appeared before me. For a moment, I tried to decipher why he was looking like that but nothing was coming to my mind at that moment. "I am worried... So worried about us right now. What if..." I did not let him finish what he had to say before I quickly interrupted him, forcing him to keep mute for a while to listen to me."You keep acting like a lady. I am not surprised that Ariana, your sister was ready to throw us under the bus at the funeral of my step sister. You keep bringing me down every opportunity you get. We are in this together. You weren't only the one who had been having this dream and