He knew me, not me, but the one in me. How? How did he get to know? Who was he, even? Was I being held hostage? No, that was not happening.The simple plan was to get to work and do my normal thing, what was this?!"And...who may you be?" I raised my brows, fear was gripping me eventually but I tried to look unshaken on the outside. He frowned deeply, and right before me his eyes changed back to the normal 'brown' eyes I had seen earlier. The change was quite scary. He let out a sigh and faced the wheel, "What a shame. You don't even recognize me." "Can you just answer the question?" I raised my voice a bit, getting impatient as my fear continually increased. He turned around to coo me. "Hey...easy. It is not like I am going to eat you up or something, you just have something I need.""And...what is that?" I pressed further and then he smiled broadly, rather than finding it attractive, I found it terrifying and annoying. "Not so soon. It's one step at a time, Kierra." "Don't call
But how was that even possible? The cologne I had perceived when I entered my apartment was that of Jordan and this guy's own did not smell anything like it. To some extent, I was quite sure that Jordan had brought that book there.And now, it seemed like he knew who Jordan was and judging from his impulsive reaction, he was not on good terms with him."You know who Jordan is?""I said not to mention his name!" He snapped again not even wanting to hear the word at all."Okay, fine. But what do you know about him? And how did this book come about? How much do you know about me? And what do you want from me?""A question at a time, young lady." He cooed and I frowned."You will not call me that.""Whatever. Every answer you get comes at a price."The moment he said that, I remembered Jordan saying the same thing to me, in Italian. What really was with this give and take principle?"Okay, fine! What do you want?" I did not even hide my desertions to know anything and I had this feeling t
"How dare you?!" Jordan roared, He had appeared in the room all of a sudden. "And how dare you come into my territory?" This guy also replied, his face darkening the moment he saw him. I could really perceive some sort of strife from Jordan's brother."You have something of my own, Judah." Jordan responded, in a calm manner. Oh, so this green eyed dude was Judah by name? "It's not here so get the hell out!!!" Judah yelled at him.I started to feel some headaches and I just had to chip in. "Guys! You are shouting, I am here please." There was some quietness for a while, the Judah started again. His eyes were gradually turning green and from the little time I had spent with him, I could tell that that happened whenever he was about to probably cast spells or maybe he was angry.I knew something good would not come out of them being together within the same room but I could not think properly to do something before it gets out of hand."You came into my own space and stole my posses
"And what the hell were you doing around Judah? Huh? Why would you give up your abilities for some meagre information?" Jordan started to scold me the moment we landed. He really choked my thoughts then I could not think so fast so I could reply to him. I opened my mouth to speak and all that could come out of it was, 'I am sorry'. I rather said apologizing."I said stop being sorry!" He asserted firmly. "I blame him instead, but you could have easily sensed he was using you." He pointed that out. It was very funny how I saw what he was doing clearly but just decided to ignore it.Nevertheless, I was ready to take the blame and I was doing that out of fear, Jordan was actually very scary. And I could not still get why he was so mad when it was me involved.I sat down on the couch in my living room and that book, was still on the table there. He just stood, staring at it but doing nothing. I reached out for the book and then stood up and walked up to him."It's yours. I am sorry I re
The look on Karima's face was an indelible one, one I would never forget. "What did you just say, Mira?" She raised her brows. I nodded reassuringly, "Yes, but it was nothing. Dude just had a few questions to ask me and then.." my voice trailed off.I could sense how badly she wanted to leave what she was doing and come over to me, but then I had gotten what I wanted. The look on her face said a lot already, that she knew who Judah was and the kind of person he was."But...I hope you are okay, you are not hurt anywhere?" She inquired and then I smiled broadly. "I am fine, Karima."The reaction said that there was trouble lurking somewhere and as it was, it was a matter of urgency. There were so many confirmations to her true identity. Any normal person would have asked me to go to the cops to file a suit against whoever kidnapped me but she was not doing any of that.A few minutes later, she called me to the kitchen counter to eat. We were both silent throughout and on my part, I j
"You will not defy me, Kierra!" A woman with strange white hair yelled at me and I shivered, nevertheless, I still felt Stony somewhere in my heart. She was dressed in a cream-gold regalia, with a jade hairpin holding her hair up. "I will do what I want, mother. It's not fair on them all." I responded to her. "What do you know, child? Don't meddle in this." Her tone became quite softer. "Mother, they are good people, I promise, and they need me. I can't stand the sight of those innocent people being slaughtered because of me.""They deserve it!" She yelled again angrily and her eyes glowed like flames of fire, so brightly. She exuded so much energy that each time she raised her voice to yell at me, I would feel almost blown away. Compared to her, I was very little in terms of abilities and aura. "Lady Kierra, please..." I heard a different voice pleased so gently and turning to the direction where it came from, I saw that it was Madison."Stay out of it, Maddie." I grunted. "You
I woke up sweating like an animal ready to be slaughtered. It felt so real, super real. It was like those things were from my memories, but such had not happened to me before. I felt so so strange. My mum was definitely still alive, so what was that dream all about? As I sat up on the bed, Karima walked in. That moment, I remembered seeing her in the dream, with Madison. I sat up immediately, feeling so weird.She was not smiling this time around, rather she had a normal, straight expression on. "You are finally awake, Mira." She pointed out and I scrunched my brows. "What do you mean?" She walked closer to the bed side and subconsciously, I found myself shifting gently away, as if I did not want her to come close. She did not fail to notice that also and her expression changed."Did I do something wrong, Mira?" She raised her brows, looking worried. "No, I just.. it's nothing." I responded and she backed up. "Lord Reign is waiting for you in the living room. He has been waiting
After we had a few more discussions, majorly discoveries about my wolf. I believed all reports they gave me one after the other and I could not help but be surprised.I wanted to probe further but he strongly and indirectly countered me. I already got his message so I no longer bothered, then I remembered his burning forest. "How's the Eldrid forest now?" I asked."Why do you care?" Jordan just suddenly started acting grumpy. What was his deal, really? "Why not? I was there when Kai reported it to you, and by the way what's Eldrid forest?""The training ground." Karima responded and my eyes widened. "Really? Really? That forest where I almost died?" I raised my brows,not believing I had been so worried about the forest that almost had me killed. "That was my fault, I am very sorry." Karima apologized and I frowned. "Why are you taking responsibility for what happened?" "She has to, because she serves you.""You have overstayed your welcome, Jordan, you can leave." I said to hi
A week has passed since the incident, I got days off work to rest and tend to myself very well. We had left Jordan to the old lady Annatoria, one of the wisest priestesses in the wolf world. Though aged, she lived in a body of a lady in her twenties, very young but powerful.I insisted on going with them to her place, since Jordan had been put asleep with some strange potion that Madison knew about. She seemed to know a lot about him, any way.I was expecting a small hut filled with smoke from concoctions and sacred furnishings, but rather, we drove towards a mansion at the outskirts of Beatle City. A fucking mansion!After getting through some guards, we got into the main building where Annatoria was waiting. We had no idea she would be waiting but she was, actually.As soon as I walked in, she bowed at ninety degrees immediately. "You are welcome to my humble abode." She said warmly, in an honouring manner.I was confused and lost, I turned to Karims and Madison swiftly with a quest
It was a total mess in my apartment that night. I literally felt like I was going to die because it was already late, and after working for hours I could not even get rest and had to get into a combat with a blood-hungry mysterious guy.Apparently, Kai was delayed downstairs by some unforseen occurrences. He got tricked by some super intelligent informants about his family and that had him on the hook. When he found out it was all an orchestrated prank to delay him, it was already too late as I had already had it out with Jordan to some extent.But the issue there was the fact that we did not know who tried to stop him back there. Jordan was not the type to pull that kind of thing and I was pretty sure we all could attest to it. Karima and Madison were beings attended to medically. Kai had called a wolf doctor that was trusted and he came over to Karima's apartment where we all relocated to. "Let him attend to you first." The divine sisters insisted but I was more stubborn. "You ar
The drive back home was very quiet. And again I had questions just brewing in my mind without answers, I did not plan to keep them to myself for any longer though. Getting to the apartment, we noticed all lights were turned off. "Turn on the lights please." I said, referring to Karima because we were still outside. I did not hear anything from her and there was no result, as lightening. "Karima, please--" I suddenly heard the switch sound and the lights were on the next split second.The sight I saw was so terrifying! "Karima!" I yelled out of fear, seeing her wimping on the floor. I bent down and tried to examine her, wondering what could have happened to her within that short moment we had just entered. Then it came to my mind, then who switched on the lights? Without thinking any further, I knew there was someone in that apartment. As I walked in further, I started to perceive that familiar cologne. *He is here.* My ears stretched at the realization and before I could say 'J
The dots started to connect by default, as I traced down the bloodlines. Even though my memory about my initial self was getting vague already, I could remember the man that would never cease to bring out laughter out of my father asides my mother and me.They were best of friends. Mr. Callum had actually refused to take over his father's throne at their pack, but rather went fully into the business world, leaving the throne to his younger sibling. So, Travis was his son.. hm. "You seem like you know him." He pointed out and my body jerked a Little. "Of course, I do, very well at that.""Oh well, that's very much expected but i was acting on his orders to being you here."...So the whole Greenville thing was not a coincidence but an orchestration? I thought as I headed towards the elevator, so I could join Karima and the rest on the ground floor. I had just left Travis's office.I pressed the button gently and waited patiently for the elevator doors to open as I got lost in thoug
I closed my eyes for half a second there and opened them again to be sure I was seeing the right person. It was him, and he was staring back at me, as if saying "Got you by surprise?"That dude was sitting right there in a black tux.There was this grumpy look he had on, and it also looked like he was enjoying the sight. "Mira." I heard Karima whisper from where she was, watching me. Immediately, I got jolted out of my thoughts and then I took my eyes off him."Once again, you are welcome, all." I said, forcing a very broad smile. "I am Mira, your host's representative for today." I continued as I analyzed every seat with my eyes, then I noticed one of them was empty. Who was it again this time?Just when I was thinking that, Travis walked into the room. My eyes beamed when I saw him, he smiled when he saw me too and I just nodded gently. It was so good to see him there. "So the first thing on agenda is the introduction of every guest here." I announced and as I did the reading o
It was an exclusive party but according to Karima, who seemed to know almost everything about Greenville resort, even beyond the normal team lead duties now, I had to be wearing a party dress too and not the uniform."A party dress? But I am going there to work." I objected, not welcoming the idea of wearing something flashy and pretty for the event. "That's the requirements, Milady." She insisted and I sighed. "But I don't even have a dress." I tried to leverage on that until she called Kai in.He walked in with a cloth hanger that had about three dresses hung on it. I furrowed my brows immediately, feeling stunned. "You told him...to go get me a dress? That's... surprising." I could not find the perfect word to use."It took a whole lot of persuasion before he agreed to go. He never wants to leave your side." Madison, who had been quiet all the while chipped in. They decided to have me wear the Emerald green dress amongst others and then Madison styled my hair. She was almost go
He did not say anything about the Eldrid forest. I wished I could ask but what if it triggered him again? No thank you, I decided to keep my peace.Weeks passed and none of us had heard from him. Kai even came around to our house at many points in time because he was not also aware of his whereabouts.Our place had now become a temporary dwelling place for him whenever we were around, because we all felt like Jordan could show up at any time, and according to Kai, he was likely to come to my place first. And he claimed Jordan had strictly instruct him to protect me throughout the period he would not be around.All the while, we carried on with our normal, daily activities and it was quite hard to restore the normal team lead - team member relationship between me and Karima.I knew a lot now so things had changed, she could no longer pretend but I was fully ready to keep on acting as her subordinate, that's what I was anyway.Madison spent most of her time at home, preparing one thing
Maybe it was a dream? But I doubted it, it seemed all too real. Madison was standing right before me, yes. I was not questioning her existence but the fact that she was in my apartment, at my own place, was questionable.How? How did she get here? Before I could voice out my thoughts, she helped me up and sat me on the bed. I closed my eyes briefly and opened them again to be sure my head was not messing with me. I had thought maybe because of the information I had, I was starting to see Karima as her.But indeed, the face was not changing. "Madison?""Milady, it's me." She affirmed and I furrowed my brows, still thinking HOW? "Lord Reign called me, I heard about everything that happened." She was starting to come out plainly, giving an answer to my question.I was about to respond to her when she went down on her knees. "Forgive me, Milady. I am sorry for everything." Her action tugged at my heart and I moved closer to her. "What are you sorry for?" I inquired, using a neutral ton
"How do we catch him?" I asked Jordan the moment he dropped the lifeless eaglets. "We? Stay out of it, young woman, you will get hurt." He wanted but I remained obstinate."But this happened because of me. How can I just stay back and fold my arms?" I countered him but he was not listening.He started walking away and I went after him. "Karima!" He raised his voice all of a sudden and I could not suddenly move from a spot. It was as if my legs were bound and looking down, I realized something like a woven or entangled rope made out of sticks, came out of the ground and began tying my feet."I'm sorry, Mira. But this has to be done." I heard her apologize and I wondered when she even got there. "Let me go now." I said to her but she was not listening, she went after Jordan also.I thought she was supposed to be on my side? I did not stop yelling throughout the time I was bound, hoping deep down that they would consider me and come for me. But no, I guess Jordan was so rigid and K