Time drifted away slowly after that, as they walked in silence."When are you planning to tell Josiah about Kassandra?" Wolfaraine asked, breaking the silence.Alphose stiffened beside him. He pursed his lips, a muscle ticked on his forehead."Stop postponing it already, Alphose. The more you do that, the more it will hurt. If she was your mate, she would have taken on your scent by now. You know what I do. I know you do. Put yourself out of your misery and allow that girl to reunite with her mate."Alphose swallowed tightly. "It's not going to hurt any less.""It's not. But your healing process will begin then. For now, you are just drawing out the pain." Wolfaraine turned to him, "Your own mate will come. I am sorry this happened to you."The cougar Alpha averted his eyes, "How sure are we that Josiah will come back to Naturiah because of this? Because of her? He has been away for the past ten years, dammit.""You will never know until you tell him. He deserves to know. He deserves
Author short note: We are nearing the end of our journey. ..."Werewolf Alpha and Head Sentinel, Adanel? Do you think it's him?" Degar referred to Alphose."Thinking about it, it seems much more likely to be him. The male barely talks. He was among the Wolves that were kidnapped eighteen years ago and experimented on. He was very strong to survive it, but I feel like there's something almost...feral in his eyes." Degar expressed calculatingly."Not to mention that his mate died. He has every reason to become a killer. He is the Wild Psychopath!" Alphose yelled, enraged, "Let's go get that motherfucker and torture him the changeling way until he tells the truth!"Degar glanced at Wolfaraine, "What do you think, Alpha King? Should we go and capture him? He has to pay for everything he has done!"Adanel. Everything in Wolfaraine denied that knowledge. It is not Adanel. It cannot be, he roared inwardly in denial.They walked out of hell together, the both of them. He was the reason Ada
She is missing. She is missing. Ismena is missing. My woman is missing.Over and over again, these words rang in Wolfaraine's head. It sounded unreal. It seems like a dream.His head thrown back, he let out an ear-splitting roar. As he roared, his beasts roared too. Tension corded his whole body, and his eyes were a whirlwind of colors. Amber. Blue. Green. Green and amber. Green, blue, and amber. "Alpha King, Alpha King, you have to calm down, Alpha King, please." It was Alphose's desperate voice, but Wolfaraine could barely hear him. The Alpha King took off in a dead run into the tower. Alphose, Adanel, and Degar ran after him, worried about their Alpha King. He practically flew up the stairs, throwing the doors open one after the other, shouting Ismena's name. Alphose has never seen him this angry, this desperate, this afraid. His mate never answered back, but the Alpha King did not stop shouting her name until he had thrown open all the doors at the east wing of the Tower.Isme
****************************************LABORATORY: UNKNOWN LOCATION.****************************************"Just how much of the damn drug did you inject in the woman? She has been unconscious for hours." Cronus grumbled begrudgingly at Onaries.They stood atop the stairs, staring down at the human female lying down behind the large confiding space which has a floor to ceiling heavy metal bars separating her from the rest of them. The bars were made of heavy irons coated in rhodium, specifically installed to hold a male like the Alpha King captive."I could not risk her waking up during the journey. Besides, she was not supposed to be asleep this long." Onaries stated.Cronus glared at him, "I hope you did not give her a dosage meant for a changeling?""Do not be ridiculous. She would already be dead.""Where are the damn humans anyway?" Cronus asked, looking around for them."The doctor is aboveground in one of his lab-rooms getting the things he needs for his experiments ready.
***************************NATURIAH***************************They searched for her till nightfall, but they couldn't find her. They were still searching.After they found out she was missing, an emergency council meeting was called. The council was told what was going on, including the news about Onaries. Head Sentinel Rodarh was devastated at the news. The older male broke down and cried at the council meeting when he found out that their own Alpha leader was Naturiah's serial killer.Then he'd sworn to help found the Rahinna Queen and to bring Onaries to justice. All the Alphas sent out their sentinels, their warriors. Everyone was searching for her, including the alphas. They searched every nook and cranny of the Heart of Naturiah, the Werewolf clan, and the Elephant Clan but she was nowhere to be seen. Naturiah is a big world. It will take at least three months to search every single part of it, from clan to clan. That was their fear the information they don't have, the time
Cronus stopped in front of her and crouched down. Claws were unsheathed from his fingers, and he ripped her clothes off in one swift move. "Leave me alone," Ismena cried out. Her hands grabbed hold of her gown, holding it to her body to keep the garment from sliding to the ground. "We can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way, female. I don't mind the hard way," he smirked, "I love me some claws. I'll take so much pleasure in declawing you. " He reached for her hands. Ismena panicked and bit his arm so hard that she drew blood. Cronus hissed and slapped her hard across the face. Ismena saw stars. Her ears rang, and tears overfilled her eyes, spilling down her cheeks. He gripped her cheeks, forcing her to meet his eyes, "You are gonna be a good girl, or I will really roughen you up, human.""I don't want your disgusting hands on me!" She screamed to his face, the pain from his slap reverberating in her body."You make it sound like you have a choice," he smirked again
Wolfaraine stood at the edge of a cliff where the search for Ismena had brought him to. It's a warzone inside him, with the man and the beasts so restless, desperate, and devastated.Where are you, Ismena? Please be alive.Both his palms were bleeding; he'd dug his claws in repeatedly to hold himself together. At this point, he was a flicker away from losing his sanity.The worse part of it all is the dark and the fear. Being in the dark, not knowing what has happened to her. The fear that something horrible has happened to her already.His eyes watered. Again he blinked furiously until the liquid went back to where it came from. "Someone wants to see you, Alpha King." He swerved towards Degar's voice.The leopard Alpha was standing with a female. Flaora."I do not have time for—" Wolfaraine began."Please Alpha King. I think you will like to hear what the female has to say." Degar pleaded.Flaora stepped forward nervously, "In the afternoon, I saw m-male with an unconscious female
Two hours later, Cronus was still fuming about what happened down the underground. He sat sullenly in one of the labs, glaring at the crack in the otherwise perfect color of the white wall of the room.Impatience was killing him. He had been here for almost twenty-four hours, and his body was literally crawling with impatience. The worst part was that they won't allow him to have some fun. He had been so excited about being included in the production of the drugs, the bullets that were made with the Segillaria Leaves he handed in that he didn't really care much about their plans because he was sure of the end game; The death of Wolfaraine. Damn he should have paid more attention when they were planning this shitty plan of theirs.So, their plan is for him to stay like this for the next three days, bored out of his mind and lusting after a human female who he apparently can't have—one who might even die from the drugs she'll be injected with before the Alpha King gets her—doing nothi
When the full moon eventually came, screams from two women in two different parts of Naturiah were particularly high in the air because two couples were getting mated. One from the Cougar Clan, the other from the Heart of Naturiah.In the Cougar Clan, Alphose held his woman close as he gave her all that was him. She has never taken all his forms before, but tonight she was going to before the mating ritual is performed. Her sweaty body shook under his, and he could smell her fear too. He whispered words of love and encouragement to her ears as he filled her body from behind yet again and began thrusting again.They were in their bedroom, kneeling on the floor with Kassandra's upper body lying on the bed and Alphose's own blanketing hers from behind. They've been at it all night. She has lost count of how many times she has released. At this rate, her soul was going to leave her body. Alphose was the best lover she'd ever been with—hell, even the word 'best' does not do him justice. G
"I love you too, baby." He rose with her in his arms, withdrew a gold ring from his pocket, and slipped it into her ring finger. "It's so beautiful..." She cried, staring reverently at the sparkling jewelry. "It looks so good on you," he whispered to her. That night, they made passionate love together. As always he took his time arousing her body, touching her everywhere until she begged him desperately to join them intimately before he proceeded to do just that. They created the perfect rhythm together, moving sensuously and whispering words of love to each other. Wolfaraine took his time making her go wild in pleasure in his arms, he savored the cries, the litany, the sounds he drew from her as they pleasured each other for hours. Afterward, they lay together, sated and happy. He caressed her belly, cradling their child as Ismena burrowed closer to him. "I'm so glad that it was my father that helped us escape. We were victorious because of him." She played with the soft hairs
The next day, Onaries was publicly executed in the square at the Heart Of Naturiah, before the people. Crowds gathered to watch it and it gave them great satisfaction to see the shame, the humiliation on the psycho's face before he was beheaded. To Onaries, it was the worst punishment. He should have killed himself when the lab was invaded—it was better to die in battle than to be killed by public execution where the people get to laugh at him, spit on his face and call him names. He'd been tortured for days by his own Head Sentinel, Rodarh who took great pleasure from the act. He tortured Onaries until he lost his pride and begged to be killed. But Onaries, that monster, had denied him. Until today when he was publicly executed. As for the human doctor, Beloca; Alphose, and Degar had taken turns beating the man up, they carved his skin out of his own body, his screams like music to their eyes. They tortured Beloca to an extent that he stopped breathing several times, but they did
"Nothing, Miss Kassandra; I only forced your dormant hormones to come alive. My 'attempted claim' on you forced your body to wake and take on your mate's scent." He smiled a little, "Now, you practically stink of him." Sandra doesn't understand. "Him?" She asked, confused. "The Steele trying to break down that door, ma'am. You are his mate. There was a time you were very sick, right? To the extent you thought you might die, right?" Sandra doesn't need to think hard about that. "Yes, when I was very young, I suffered pneumonia." He nodded knowingly, "Whatever drugs humans used to cure you suppressed your hormones that made you a potential mate. So deeply suppressed that they wouldn't have stirred if you hadn't met your lifemate, my twin brother, and I wouldn't have been able to awake them if I didn't push as hard as I did. I'm sorry for hurting you, lass." The man wasn't as bad as she thought he was, Sandra thought, and some of her fears dissolved. Instead, joy began spreading thr
When Ismena heard the news about Alphose and Kassandra, she left the Tower and went back to Eline's house to be with her best friend. Sandra cried on her shoulders, dreading every hour that passed, every ticking of the clock because it was a reminder that Josiah was already on his way to Naturiah to claim her. She told Ismena that she didn't wanna do it. She just wants to go back to the human world. It's better to go home to live the rest of her life alone than to be with a man who isn't her Alphose. Although it killed Ismena to do it, she talked her out of it. How will she live the rest of her life knowing that she could have met her soulmate? She could have been with him, but she gave up on it? She talked her into giving Josiah a chance. After all, who knows? It might be the best decision she has ever made in her life, right? The Alpha King, on the other hand, could only pat his best friend's shoulder, commending him for doing the right thing even when the 'right thing' hurts. B
He smiled, "She is. Do you remember all your time together with her?""Oh yes. She is my best friend.""She will be so happy to hear that. It'll probably make her cry. She thinks of you that way too. Maybe even more.""I want her to stay with us forever. You're going to mate her, right?" "Yes, I will. If she will have me." Wolfaraine stated matter-of-factly. He has no doubt anymore. He wants to spend the rest of his life with Ismena. In fact, he cannot imagine his future without her in it."I'm glad. I hope she will have you, too. We will be one big family. She is so brave. She's everything you need in a mate. She always came by my room, all the time, no matter how scared she was. She came every day. I knew you two fought when she didn't come by for a few days. I was mad at you because you let her go.""Is that way you growled whenever I came close? I thought perhaps you hated me.""I never. I was just mad at you, madder, because I couldn't tell you how I felt. I'm happy you two sort
He walked into the room, quietly closing the door behind him, and took a few minutes to just stand there and watch them. The two most important women in his life. He felt lighter and refreshed, his heart filled with happiness like he'd never known before. How his life has changed in the past few months. He'd resigned himself to a bland life filled with guilt, sadness, and loneliness, never taking a mate, never having a child of his own, and living day by day with the fear of not knowing when he would lose his sister forever. But Ismena came into his life and changed it forever.He'd felt more in the past six months than he has in almost twenty years. The past no longer fills him with rage and sadness, his cougar wasn't as rough and out-of-control as before. He has a mate who is so highly compatible with him, his child is growing in her belly, and his sister, who he thought was lost forever was back to him again.Complete. He feels complete."What are you thinking so hard about?" Ism
Gasps of disbelief filled the air. The people were shocked and excited. They found it hard to believe that their King's sister—someone who they'd all given up on—would take her mortal form again after all these years. Murmurs rose in the crowd, bits and pieces of them could be heard audibly."Did you see that—" A voice said."What just happened!?" Another added."She took her mortal form again...!" "Bless the Lord!""May the deities be praised...!""Did you see that too?""...thought it'll never happen for her.""It's been eighteen years."Wolfaraine Daminor Throne stood frozen. He glanced down at the small, pale, feminine hand in his larger one. His eyes trailed from her hand to her arm, up to her shoulder, her neck, and her teary face. His throat constricted at the sight in front of him.She was more beautiful than the distorted image his mind had desperately held onto all these years. His sister was ten the last time he saw her face. His eyes watered as he gazed into eyes as blue
All the leading Alphas of Naturiah were there, the sentinels, the Betas, the Omegas, the houseworkers. He could see Eline, Mirian, and Kassandra too, even the Alphas that fought with him in the human world earlier in the day. They were all gathered there. They rose and greeted him respectfully when he walked through the door with his mate in his arm.Then they were crowding him. The joy and relief on their faces, filled his heart with love for his people. The females had tears in their eyes as they came really close to him. Some were hugging him, while the others were kneeling at his feet—a gesture of welcome and respect. They were all careful not to press tightly against him because of the woman in his arms. Ismena wiggled a bit, a sign that she wanted to be on her own feet, but Wolfaraine glanced at her and shook his head slightly."Please, I'll be careful, and I'll be right here by your side." she pleaded, a hint of her smile on her face. She knows how badly his people wanted to g