001 Powerful And Handsome

Willa's POV

Only 3 months after Granny and I joined this pack, the pack already hated me to my guts.

We had been changing packs ever since I could remember, and the lifespan of our stay was getting shorter as my 18th birthday closed in.

All because I was wolfless.

Being wolfless was the worst. People threw hatred at us like it was their job. They believed we were cursed, all because of a stupid curse story among werewolves--

There was once a wolfless girl. The whole pack hated her. She disobeys her alpha, and brings misfortune. On a new moon night, the girl was dragged into the woods by a wolf. Suddenly he saw fangs grow out of her mouth as her body covered in furs! She stabbed those fangs into his neck, and ripped his heart out with her claw! She was banished by the pack.

"Willa! You have been telling pups the cursed story again, haven't you?" An annoying voice rose behind me when I was about to enter the woods where granny's cabin was.

It was the alpha's son -- Mr. Goody-goody. He hated me. Not only because I was the "cursed" wolfless girl, but also because I pulled a prank on him.

To be fair to myself, at least my prank was funny.

"Are you even aware that the whole pack is already talking about your curse now?!" Mr. Goody-goody yelled with a glowing righteousness look.

I wasn't cursed!

I had a wolf in me when I was born. But because my mom was poisoned with wolfsbane when pregnant, I now had wolfsbane poison flowing in my veins ever since they clawed me out of my mother's dead body.

In this sense maybe I was cursed.

The remained poison wasn't enough to kill me, but it put my wolf into a deep sleep. I couldn't talk to her, and she couldn't shift at thirteen when all my peers did. So yes I appeared to be wolfless, but I DID have a wolf.

A wolf that didn't exist to others.

"I'm NOT cursed!" I bared my teeth at him, "I would kick your ass more easily when my wolf wakes up in 2 months!"

My agony had an expiration date.

As the girls around me went gigglish about finding their mate at 18, I was looking forward to the dawn of my poisonous EVERNIGHT. The moon goddess touches us with her blessing on our 18th birthdays, and granny said it would rid me of the poison once and for all!

Only 2 more new moons to go before I could finally meet my wolf. All I needed to do was to lay low, for now.

"I'll get you today!" Mr. Goody-goody growled at me as his ears turned red. His hands turned into claws, and his canines stuck out of his lips as he charged at me.

I dashed into the forest, running toward granny's cabin.

All of a sudden I heard a rustle coming from my left. I dodged, only to have a huge wolf dashing over, barely missing my head and landing on my right. Then Liam caught up with us.

He had help to ambush me!

"Liam, that was a cheap shot, even for you." I backed a step as Mr. Goody-goody and his friend cornered me.

"You made me a fool in front of everyone, and tonight is the payback, Willa."

"The ten whips your father gave me WAS the payback." I sighed, rolling my eyes.

"That's Alpha Jasen to you!" Liam shouted at me, "And that's nothing compared to what I have planned for you today."

"Can I take a rain check for another two months?" Packs had banished me for misbehaving in the past, but attacking the Alpha's son would be different.

It was humiliation to the Alpha, and I would be hunted to the end of the world.

"Do you really think your wolf would wake up? Wolfsbane has no cure, stupid! You will be wolfless forever!" Liam burst into laughter.

His friend Mike shifted, holding up his camera phone at me, totally naked. I wish I was blind.

Liam's his eyes turned vicious cold--

"Strip and bend over, bitch. You are mine tonight."

My blood ran cold.

"For the love of the moon goddess, Liam! I'm still underage! Leave now or your father WILL hear about this!" I used the age shield.

"Speaking of my father, he wants to know where you were last new moon, little Willa." Liam smirked.

"I took a sick day off, for my poison." My heart skipped a beat when he mentioned the new moon. No one could know that secret.

"I know, but you weren't at home, were you?" Liam took another step closer.

Great, they knew.

Guess the lifespan of our staying at this pack came to its end.

"Well, that's my deep dark secret that no one gets to know, not before they are dead." I sighed, pulling a knife out of my boots.

Liam burst into laughter.

"You still don't understand, Willa. Unlike you, I have a wolf. So what do you plan to do with that little blade of yours?" Jason said with a vicious smile.

"Try and find out," I rose my eyebrow with a smirk. If I had to leave, I might as well have my fun.

"Strip and bend over!" Liam's eyes narrowed.

His body was now half in human form from the midline of his body, and he grunted with the human half mouth: "If I have to tell you again, I'll rip your arms off first and then your cloth!"

Seriously speaking, half shifting was THE ugliest. A claw was fine, better if cute wolf ears. But never try with half of your face, not if you have any self-respect.

Although I guess Liam didn't have any.

Liam roared as he lunged at me with his claw thrown at my face. I slashed open my right palm before I clenched my wounded hand and got it covered in blood.

Every time, there were always morons who would try to attack me, thinking I was some poor defenseless girl when I told them repeatedly--

I really WAS poisoned with wolfsbane!

I dodged Liam's half-hearted attack and slapped my bloody palm in his face. All I needed was one drop of blood in his mouth and he would be dropping on the ground, rolling in pain and wailing--

Like he was now.

Before Mike could even understand what happened to Liam, I dashed over, only to slap my hand on his face the second he started to shift.

I dropped more blood on their faces, and they were now too weak to even growl because of the excruciating pain.

Wolfsbane lit your blood on fire.

I tightened my cloak and pulled my red hood over my head, keeping my head low as I dashed toward granny's cabin.

Time to leave the pack.

I wore a red hood cloak ever since Granny told me the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Werewolves attacked me all the time, and I wanted to be a cool wolf-hunter version of her, handling all the bad wolves that attempted at my life neatly.

They didn't scare me anymore, what scared me now was--

I took a deep breath before I mind linked granny: [Granny, remember how you always say you want to move to a big pack when I turned 18 for a change?]

[Yes?] Granny sounded alarmed already. I was only easing in the topic!

[Just wondering, do you have one in mind already?] I managed a grin. Granny glanced at me suspiciously, but she picked up her drawing again. She was a tattoo artist. She drew all the time.

[Gemini Crescent Pack. Their Alpha has a good name. Powerful and handsome. And he doesn't banish wolfless.] Granny sounded pretty certain about the choice.

Handsome? I frowned with confusion. It was a super weird comment. An Alpha's appearance had never influenced granny's choice of packs before.

But the good thing was we got a place in mind.

Granny continued, not noticing my confusion: [It's our pack to settle down, so I don't want to spend any new moon there. I was thinking we move after the new moon in December, so that--]

[Great!] I cut her off, nearly reaching our cabin, [Or maybe we could move today!]

[Willa, what did you do?] Granny put down the parchment, deadpan.

[I put down Liam.] I blurted like ripping off a bandage.

[You did WHAT?!] Granny's wrath almost burned through the mind link.