VALERIE'S POV★I sat on the bench of the training arena as I took deep breaths and relaxed from the hectic and tired training I had undergone. Sweat dripped down my face and my heart raced so fast. I was literally trembling as my hands shook.I couldn't even stand up or balance myself as my head was bent and sweat dropped on the tiles of the arena.Thank the Moon Goddess I was alone. I wouldn't appreciate anyone seeing me that way looking like a dead fish.And yes, I agree that my thoughts diverted to Kaden and that beautiful woman every now and then which made it hard to concentrate and then caused me to mess up what I learned.I groaned and tilted my head back as I looked around the arena. I soaked in the silent and chilly breeze.It was stupid of me to take up the duel. I knew Grey’s plan was to publicly humiliate me and I just fell right into his trap.How stupid could I be? He beat Bruno with one hand and I could only imagine how he would mercilessly humiliate me. I just needed
VALERIE'S POV★It dawns as bright and fresh as any perfect early spring day, the remaining dried leaves on the ground glittering like diamonds in the bright morning sun. The air crackled with my nervous energy as I follow the road to the Village Square, where the duel will take place. Every single year I’ve come to watch others fight and train, it was unbelievable that I got to have a duel with Greg. I felt the lingering gaze even when I was not participating. This day is something I’ve dreaded for along time. Everyone in the pack is out and on their way to watch, buzzing with excitement as they chatter amongst themselves. They are excited, and a small part of me that still has hope should be too, but I’ve got more chance of a thousand flying unicorns filling the sky than this day turning out good for me. The girls from all over the pack steal nervous glances at the males, as if we’re on our way to a school dance instead of arguably the most important event in our lives. I met Gre
VALERIE'S POV★It was the day of the coronation, Skylar was finally getting crowned as the Alpha of her pack whilst her beta was too.I lay in my room to keep myself busy with my phone when Skylar walked in, “Are you not planning to join us? It's my coronation day today." She said, frowning as she sat beside me. I turned to her, then sighed, “I would have loved to come but your cousins would be there.” I added with an eye roll, "They are all avoiding me if that's the word to use."“Really?" She snorted, "do you think they'll let you be here all by yourself then?” She asked while I burst into a small pearl of laughter.“I wouldn't want their trouble so it's best if I don't go at all. I'm sorry."I added and Skylar sighed.She knew the rift I had with her cousins. I stood up from the bed to admire her outfit.“You look ready and sweet."“I do?” She twirled around as the beautiful robe beautifully swayed the ground with a smile.Kaden walked in, seeing me looking so casual: no sign that
16VALERIE'S POV★For the tenth time, I tossed around the bed, turning to the length and breadth of the large bed but no sleep was coming.As I turned, I tangled myself with my covers. I shit my eyes one last time, waiting for sleep to hover over me but it was delayed. I lay there sprawled like a chicken on the bed as I glanced at the ceiling.My mind was swirling through my head like a breeze. “So now to sleep now it's a problem?” I worried about something if not a lot of things, and Greg was one of my issues.As the sleep failed to come, I slowly got up, heading to the window to have a perfect view of Skylar's pack.It was a Serene environment, with the moonlight buzzing in the skin after the sun had successfully gone down. Just as I was about to walk back to my bed, I heard a knock on the door,“ Who could that be?” I asked myself but I opened it before I knew it, right?I walked lazily to the door, dragging my feet with me, I looked through the door to see nobody.“That's stran
ANSEL'S POV★I laid a cloth on my face to shroud my sight with darkness and force sleep upon myself, but my mind was not at rest and my eyes knew not to sleep a bit. I pressed the cloth to my face, stubbornly hoping to effect some miracles, but I only looked stupid even to my imagination. I took the cloth off my face, stretched it, and made a blindfold that stretched from my face to my occiput, held together by a knot.That’s one of the quick sleep therapies I knew so far, but once again, I failed. We've always been known for just one thing, strict!We had never found ourselves in the odd situation of being stroked by such emotion as we had all suffered in secret, though we try as much as we can to hide it, it remains visible, if not to everyone at least, it had been quite obvious I could tell both Kaden and Grey had fallen.And what about me, I’ve fallen much deeper than they did. I sighed, my plans were not something one would deem too easy as it has to do with so much emotion an
18VALERIE'S POV★I stretched and opened my eyes and I took in the scent of Ansel. I widened my eyes and sat up. What is he doing here? Did I have my nightmares again? Did I burden him?I stared long and hard and took in his features. He was very handsome. His light skin looked like it had never seen the light of the day. His muscles are so big and his arms always felt so safe, it felt like home. And his lips, damn. My lips would fit perfectly in his and the exchange of tongues and- mmmhhh. I looked away and took deep breaths before I let my hand walk around his body. I tilted my neck to him and shut my left eyes and I see he is turned towards me still fast asleep. His heavy hands dropped on my stomach. He pulled me to him, I fell on him and my breathing seized. I am so close to him. My lips were so close to him and I didn't need to move much before my lips touched. I brushed my hand on his cheeks and a smile erupted on my lips. I pecked his cheeks and he pulled me closer and my li
The moon was a silver coin tossed onto the black velvet sky, and I couldn't sleep. Being crowned Alpha in a month felt… heavy. Like wearing a crown made of iron instead of gold.The coronation loomed like a thunderstorm, heavy and dark. I couldn't bear the thought of another minute stuck in that stuffy pack house, surrounded by all the pomp and ceremony. So, I grabbed my swimsuit, threw it on like a shield against the coming chaos, and slipped into the pool.To escape the endless buzzing in my head. So, I did what I always did when things got rough: I grabbed my swimsuit and slipped into the cool embrace of the pool.I couldn't imagine how heavy Skylar's responsibilities and duties would be as a female Alpha.Her coronation was still hours away, and the air crackled with anticipation. But not for me. My heart was a lead weight in my chest, dragging me down deeper with each passing second. I just couldn't deal with it, not even when I had my problems too.The rejection, still fresh and
VALERIE'S POV★In the hallway, Greg pulled me inside the bathroom stall and shut the door. Privacy. He needed to have all the space he could get to complete what he started. But he needed me. He’d grown to love the rejected, poor wolf, that is me, and trusted my judgment. But I didn't trust myself. Everything was happening too fast. “Careful,” he said.“I’m always careful around you,” I murmured.Standing beneath the gentle spray of the faucet in the shower, I watched him breathe. His brow furrowed in concentration, he gently moved strands of hair away from my face, his finger slightly touching my skin. I shuddered with pleasure as his fingers rested on my shoulder and slowly traced the lines of my neck, sat down t and then slid his fingers down my chest to the curve of one breast, and then cupped my thatch. His palm was strong, yet his grip gentle as Greg led her into the main stall. I had read about this for many months and had mentally prepared myself for the eventuality of th
SkylarI felt dizzy and the world spun around me. I barely had time to figure out what was going on or what had happened when I felt myself shift and my knees hit a cold and hard ground. I was supposed to be dead. I was this close to getting my head chopped off. The last thing I remembered was the guard with empty eyes raising a machete while Ramona and Coral watched me with amusement as I was about to be killed. I had accepted my fate because not only was I helpless, it was Grey who had asked for me to be killed but-Light. A light erupted, bright and blinding as it shone through the room, affecting me even more because it appeared so close to me. And now, I was here. A cave. The air was thick with the smell of moss and something I couldn’t quite place my hand on, the air was also moist and shadows were cast on the stone walls by the moonlight that shone into the tiny opening of the cave. A lantern was on but it was not bright and I blinked rapidly as I tried to figure out wh
KaidenI was in shock. Skylar was gone. One minute, she was kneeling in the middle of the hall, bleeding, wounded, her voice hoarse and broke as she begged Grey to tell them to stop. She was screaming, scared and trembling from all the exhaustion. Then in the next minute, as the guard raised the machete to behead her, a bright light shone through the room. And a figure emerged out of nothingness. It was the girl that had saved me- the one that had healed me and found a way to lessen the effect of the poison that had been given to me. The girl was facing away from us so I could see the look on her face. Coral looked surprised and so did Ramona- they had been looking for the girl and she had just appeared in front of them out of nowhere. Before I could figure out why she was here, she placed her hand on Skylar and they both disappeared. Gone. Like they had never been there in the first place. I stared at the empty space- the place she had once been, begging- and my body went ri
RamonaAfter Coral stalked away with a cold unreadable expression on her face after we had argued and I was left standing there confused. I didn’t understand why she looked at me like that. Like she was hurt that I had gone against her and she wanted to hurt me and draw my blood. I didn’t mean to go against her but, her saying I should stop my marriage to Grey was unbelievable. She knew this was what I had wanted for a very long time. I wouldn’t just throw all of it away because I wanted to please. Because Skylar had disappeared. We were in power now- in control, no one was going to win against us and I was sure we would find Skylar in no time. So, I didn’t know what the fuss was about. I dismissed everyone and stormed back to my room, not waiting for Grey to follow me. If he was really under my control, he would know what to do. Getting to my room, I slammed the door shut behind me. The sound of the door closing had echoed through the room and it felt like the walls were comin
CoralThe anger I felt was like none I had ever felt in the past. It burned hot, unrelenting and through my veins as it clawed its way to my chest like a beast that hungry blood, and would do anything to get it.Skylar was gone.Gone.Vanished before my very eyes like smoke in the wind.That girl—the one I had been desperately searching for had appeared out of nowhere, and in an instant, almost like she hadn’t appeared in the hall at all, she had stolen what was mine and had disappeared with it.And now, Skylar that was once wounded, bruised, and broken was no longer in the middle of the hall where I was getting the satisfaction of watching her bleed and beg in pain. My fists curled at my sides and turned away from the crowd towards Ramona, glaring daggers at her.“This is all your fault,” I gritted out through clenched teeth, my voice dangerously low and venomous. Ramona blinked, surprised but quickly regaining herself. She let out a scoff, rolling her eyes as she waved her hand i
ValerieI smiled in my head, satisfied when I saw that Coral was now plotting against Ramona. One thing about who has a thirst for power that wasn’t theirs or people who loved making people suffer was that they didn’t trust anyone- not even theirselves. And now that Coral had asked Ramona to do something not Ramona straight up rejecting and refusing to do it, Coral mind was made up that she was going to be eventually betrayed by Ramona. But my victory was bitter because even as I savored my success, I learned something else- something that made my insides burn.Ramona was planning her engagement to Grey and the thought of it alone made me sick.Even after all she had done, after taking away his free will, after turning him into her puppet- she still wanted more.She wanted to own him completely and I wanted to scream. To fight.To burn everything to the ground before I let her take him.But I couldn’t because I was nothing.An echo. A prisoner. A ghost trapped in my own body, curs
GreyI was drowning.Not in water. Not in blood.In her.I had to put up with Ramona, be with her all the time while acting lovingly. Her presence felt suffocating, filling every part of me, twisting my thoughts, coursing through my mind and making me desire her even if I really didn’t want to. I could still feel her magic coursing through me, strong, unrelenting and taking away my willpower as she forced me to do as she wanted. My body obeyed each and every of her commands- in fact, she didn’t need to tell me to do something before I did it sometimes. The words that came out of my mouth were what she wanted to hear and my hands did as she wanted- whether it was a massage, a hug or a cuddle. And I hated it.I hated every second of this existence.Hated the way my own body betrayed me, the way I knew I was doing something monstrous but couldn’t stop myself.Most of all, I hated what I had done to them.Kaiden. Ansel. Skylar.I hated myself because I had whipped them. Over and over a
CoralI raised my hand to her mouth and held it together, cutting her off with one quick movement of my hand. She widened her eyes in surprise and looked at me like I was crazy, making me drop my hand and roll my eye in response. She pulled me close to her and wrapped her around me for a hug. I stood stiffly in her arms and wondered why she was hugging which spiked up my suspicion. I pulled away from her and eyed her with suspicion. Ramona blinked at me, her expression smug. “Why did you hold me by my mouth?” She asked in amusement. “Now, I’ve lost my train of thoughts and I can’t remember the last thing you said. Plus, you looked tense, that’s why I hugged you, maybe that would help.”“You never stop talking, do you?” I asked as I slightly bent my head to the side, studying her. She let out a small and soft laughter, it was the best sound ever and on normal days, I would have laughed along with her but now? It only made my skin crawl. “I had a vision,” I said, my voice blunt a
CoralI woke up with a gasp. My breathing was unsteady and there was as sweat all over my body, making my hair and cute cling to my body like a second skin. I opened my eyes and tried to separate the couple by things I had seen in my dream to what was in front of me. The room dark, except from the silver of moonlight that shone into the room through the curtains and the windows. I had been twisted uncomfortable while asleep that my bed was now tangled and the pillows on the floor. The blanket I had used to cover myself was all tangled up with my legs and it felt like I was being dragged to my death- a cruel death with unending torture. For a moment, I could still feel myself falling, I could still hear the cruel and malicious sound of Ramona’s laughter as she pushed me off the edge of a cliff, making me fall down to my death. My hands trembled as I curled my fingers around the sheets, gripping the mattress. I let out a small sigh as I forced myself to take slow, steadying breaths.
ScottThey chained me up inside a old and worn out barn- half the roof missing, open to the relentless glare of the sun that was beginning to rise on the horizon.And worst of all…They took my ring.The sunlight ring that I had always worn- the ring that had protected me for years was hurriedly removed from my finger and carelessly tossed aside like it was of no importance. I could already feel the intensity from the sun breaking my skin and I felt hot all over. The leader approached me- the one who had looked me in the eyes and lied to me from the very first day I had started living in their camp. She looked at me with sharp eyes and a malicious smile plastered on her face as she walked closer to me. She stared at me dead in the eyes, her voice loud and sweet but filled with undeniable venomous intent. “Did you really think you could escape and outrun us, Scott?” She asked, her tone degrading. “That’s so stupid of you.”I clenched my jaw, wanting to break free and teach her a le