"Mam, you can't go inside. How did you even come here?" Maya, Levi, and Rish looked at the two guys standing on the pack's territory they needed to enter. Alisha's face was filled with questions. Why had they stopped? Wasn't this Maya's hometown, as she had said? So why weren't they being allowed in? What was going on? She scanned her surroundings.It was as confusing as hell, even more confusing than Alice."I wanted to talk to the security head. Do you think you can stop me? Just call Jackson. He will identify me," Maya growled, losing her patience - her patience running on thin lines.She just hated this interrogation. She knew this would happen. Coming back after so many years, things would have changed. Still, she couldn't deny that she found it disrespectful, no matter what. She couldn't just accept it.She was the sister of the queen. She was a doctor who had treated so many people. She felt proud of her identity. She never wanted to lose it.Staying away from the pack didn
Alisha gazed at Maya, her eyes filled with questions, eager for answers to everything.She doesn't even want to wait for answers. She's here, trembling in fear, and Maya wants her to trust them.She trusted them; that's why she's here. Otherwise, why would she follow someone she's only known for three days?Moreover, why wouldn't she find it scary? It's clearly something incomprehensible. Her mother, Mary, always told her not to trust anyone in life.And now, she feels she was wrong to trust them.Alisha closed her eyes, trying to shake off the fear. Why does she feel like she's in a more dangerous situation than she was before with Alice?"Here," Maya said.Before Maya could say more to Alisha, a man came running with a phone."Sir Jackson is on the call," he informed.Maya immediately took the phone and put it to her ear. "Jackson.""Who?" the person on the call asked."It's been eighteen years. Seems like you've forgotten my voice too, or is it because you're getting old now?" Maya
“Why did you come here? Isn't what you did 18 years ago enough?” Jackson narrowed his eyes as he asked.Maya didn't like the way he was talking to her. They used to be friends, and now he was behaving like an enemy.“I am here because I am part of this pack too,” Maya retorted, sitting on the chair.“Not after what happened. You already left years ago. You think you can just come and claim to be part of this pack whenever you want,” Jackson groaned, his voice dripping with anger.“Drop it, Jackson. We both know you can't be angry with me. I am the only friend you ever had,” Maya chuckled, pointing at him.“That's not how you should behave when you left this friend years ago. It's not how you thought when you left me, did you once think that?” Jackson, all pissed, sat on his chair.“I am not here to fight. We both know I had to leave because I can't just sit around and wait,” Maya squinted her eyes.She knows his anger is somehow justified too.Because he was not happy about when she d
“Mom, you need to come outside. Alisha fainted,” without knocking on the door, Rish entered the office.Maya, who was already shocked with the news that someone else was now ruling the pack, jumped in her chair with the sudden news.“Mom, did you hear me? Alisha lost consciousness.”Maya snapped back from her thoughts and stood up. “How?” She tried to make sense of it.“I don't know. She was just scared and overthinking. Levi and I tried hard to calm her, but she just fainted. Levi is holding her. We need to take her to the hospital now,” Rish explained, panic filling his voice.He didn't even know how to react himself.All he knew was that something wasn't right.“Carry her to the car. Follow me,” Jackson immediately stood up and started walking, with Maya following him and Rish leading the way.Levi, who was holding Alisha in her arms, was shaking, not knowing what to do. Due to how sudden it happened, it really scared her out of her wits.“Mom,” Levi shakily called as she saw Maya
“What curse?”“The one that's holding back her wolf, Lima. It's quite a thing, which is not explainable,” Jackson sighed as he looked toward Alisha's pale figure.“He is right, I don't know about the curse, but she has a wolf, which I can sense through her blood but unable to detect. She lost consciousness suddenly,” Maya explained some more, as she tried to hold herself from all the panic she felt in her veins.“She is the royal blood you told me about? The daughter of the late King and Queen?” Lima asked, with glowing eyes as she scanned Alisha's whole body, through her witch powers.“Yes, she is. I only met her today. Maya just found her three days before,” Jackson stated the whole thing in one breath.“She is cursed. No one can cure her. She lost consciousness because that curse's side effects take a toll on her body when her wolf tries to dominate her. She is overflowing with negative energy,” Lima said, as she can feel everything through her powers.“What you are saying Lima, ar
"We have to bring that Alice here,"Levi and Rish's eyes widened, while Jackson wriggled his eyes, remembering when Maya told him about Alice and how Alisha ran away from him."What are you saying, Maya? That fucker, isn't he the one who literally hurt Alisha?" Jackson cursed."You forgot that only mates can come closer to royal blood, so if that guy is able to do so, then I am pretty sure he is Alisha's mate," Maya's blood boiled as she processed her own words.She hated Alice from her heart, even though she didn't once see him. But hearing Alisha's words and the way she told, he is like a bloodthirsty monster.But now what choice do they have? The curse can be lifted only by mating, so there's no other way to save Alisha.Maya knows that her late sister did this thinking the mate will love Alisha. Not just that Alice is a prick; he is a human too, who doesn't understand any mate bond.What's worse is, he is some kind of obsessed man who doesn't even behave like a decent human; he be
"Get the car ready, we need to reach somewhere, now," Alice walked out of his office as soon as he could. His long steps halted a bit, but he gained his composure and left.The unknown call, claiming they know where Alisha is, literally boomed in his senses.At first, he didn't pick it up, seeing the unknown number, but after a few more calls, he answered, all pissed.When he heard that the person on the call knew where Alisha was and how she was in the hospital, it took everything in him to not want to jump inside the phone. She made him feel so helpless, and now she was in the hospital.Leaving aside the fact that she ran away from him - what rang inside his head was that she was hurt somewhere, and that was disturbing.He wanted to punish her for running away, as soon as he got his hands on her. At least, that's what he thought before. Now, hearing about the potential pain or injury she had, which he didn't know about, was making him push out his animal instincts.He sat in his car
"Come on, let's go"Alice's eyes narrowed in a second. Then he looked at Jackson and Rish with distrustful looks. How could he trust these two?"Do you have any other option?" the voice in his head asked.He knew he didn't. This was the only chance, and the way they were saying Alisha was in trouble, he couldn't do anything other than try to trust them."Are you coming or not?" Jackson repeated his words in a pissed-off voice. Now, he understood what Maya meant when she was talking about Alice, and he could see why Alisha ran away from this guy.He wasn't giving any good vibes at all, but there was something about him that was noteworthy, though Jackson couldn't quite figure it out.He just couldn't drop it, but he couldn't ignore it either.But for now, he had to take this guy to the hospital so things could be good for Alisha. Other things he could figure out later. What was necessary needed to be done for now."Why should I come with you both? I just met you. Can I even trust you?
"What is happening here?" Maya entered the room, hearing loud bickering voices."You hear me, lady? Just get your niece some manners. If this continues, I am not going to be the person you can blame for whatever her so-called words lead to," Alice's eyes blazed as he walked out of the room after issuing the threat.He knew staying longer would only worsen the situation. She would keep talking, and he would get more worked up.“Alisha, why are you crying? What just happened here?!” Maya gasped, looking at Alisha who was clearly upset, tears staining her cheeks, looking like a mess.“Nothing.” Alisha closed her eyes, squeezing out more tears, feeling bad and angry.One thing she couldn't deny was that now she couldn't run away from him anymore. Before, she had some hope, now she had none.Because he was her mate, now she needed him, not the other way around—it was quite disturbing to be true. She didn't want him; he scared her and made her feel disgusted.Why did it feel like everyone w
"I can understand, Angel," Alice said, trying to calm himself as usual, his anger ready to burst out. He didn't like the way she had just spoken to him at all.He was having a hard time understanding everything too, but he wasn't behaving like this. He was stopping himself from letting his anger take over, especially after she had just run away from him."You don't understand! What will you understand? You just ruined my life. I don't even want to see you, and now I find out you are my mate. Why does it have to be me?" Alisha jerked her hand away from him, her eyes shining with tears, the red orbs sparkling from crying.Alice's jaw clenched as his muscles tightened. She had really developed this habit of showing anger and saying whatever she wanted during the three days she had been away from him. From the start, he didn't think she feared him. That's why she ran away so smoothly. If it weren't for this whole scenario, he wouldn't have gotten her back. How would he have found her in
“Sister of my mother?” Alisha mumbled, feeling like a punch to her gut to know everything.“Yes, you are my niece. More than a niece, you are our Queen—the one our whole pack has been waiting for for years. I haven't set foot in the pack for the past 18 years, but I can still say everyone was eagerly awaiting the royal blood to bless them. You are a blessing for us all, just like your mother was,” Maya's eyes welled with tears as she remembered her sister, the one she had spent her whole life with.For protecting the pack and everyone, she sacrificed herself. That's what Alphas and Lunas do. But Maya couldn't do anything other than feel bad because as a sister, she couldn't wrap her heart around it.This tore her heart apart, making it tough for her to even remember how she hadn't found her sister's dead body—only her brother-in-law's. She tried and tried, but she found out that as much as she wanted it to be a nightmare, it was the reality she had to face, whether she wanted to or no
“Calm down, you just woke up. There is no use having so much anger bubbling through your veins,” Lima said as she walked toward Alisha.She took Alisha's wrist in her hands and started checking her veins to see if she was fine.Alisha looked at her with so many questions in her head. She didn't know who this lady was, and she was clearly not comfortable being touched like this. After what had happened, she wasn't comfortable with anyone present in the room.At least not with Alice's presence. He just stared at her as if she would evaporate if he took his eyes off her for a second.“Who are you?” she asked, wanting to know because this woman didn't even look like a doctor or nurse.“I am the one who saved you, queen. I'm Lima, your magical witch, around the corner for many years,” Lima replied as she softly looked at Alisha.“My name is Alisha, not queen,” Alisha answered, confused, not knowing what the other part of the magical witch's statement meant.Why is everything so confusing?
Has he ever been like this before? She can't understand why he is behaving like this, when he always behaves like someone who wants to harm her for little things.He always looks like he would kill her and wouldn't even blink his eyes at her dead body.Now, his eyes are showing softness, similar to what she saw in a snap at his penthouse, but the intensity of it now is visible, and she can clearly see it, unlike before."You should drink some water. I will call Maya and everyone in after that," Alice said as he grabbed the glass and filled it with water from the jug.Supporting her head, Alice held the glass to her lips, and she softly sucked a few sips of water. Her throat felt a burning and cooling sensation at the same time."Drink some more. You look dehydrated. At least finish this glass; it will help," Alice stated as he kept her head still, so she could easily drink the water.When the water finished from the glass, he removed it and gently put her head on the pillow. Alisha li
"Where?" Alisha jolted back, her eyes widening, pupils dilating, breathing loudly, sweat dripping from her body, her own voice echoing in her ears as if they were about to bleed.Beep! Beep!The unwelcome sound in her surroundings made her heart beat wildly. She tried to make sense of what had happened—who was in the dark? Were her parents dead? Or was what she had just seen only a dream?"Wake up, Alisha, sweetheart."Startled by the low whispering tone in her ears, Alisha shifted her eyes beside her and saw someone lying there holding her, feeling the large hands. But her eyes couldn't discern exactly who this person was. She blinked twice to figure out what was happening.Her mind was fuzzy. That woman's voice, whoever it was, pounded in her head, leaving her dazed and struggling to understand what was really happening."Alisha?"Once again, the voice struck her ears, and she tried to lift her hands, but couldn't due to the bone-cracking pain coursing through her body. Other than h
“Where am I?”In the darkness, everything was just too dark as the voice echoed.“Can anyone hear me? Where am I?”“You are where you should be, Alisha,” the voice in the darkness answered.Alisha felt her heart beating loudly as she tried to see around, but all she felt was blindness; she could only see the blackness in front of her, unable to figure out anything.“Who?” she asked with shivery hands.“I am the exact person who is part of you. You just have to find me. I am the only one you should believe in,” the voice stated.“I am scared of the dark. Please don't play a joke on me,” Alisha desperately urged.She doesn't know where she is; she doesn't know why she is here.She just remembered standing with Levi and Rish, feeling stressed, and now she's here. It's a panicking state she can't pull herself out of.“Maya? Levi? Rish?” She called, already stressed over the fact she trusted them and came to their hometown, and now she's somewhere she can't even see.She can only call thei
Alice muttered a curse; he just couldn't deny it, the way it was so scary, he still thought he was watching a nightmare.“Now you trust us, right? We are not enemies; we are the righteous family Alisha belongs to, not from that orphanage where she was born,” Rish's eyes tried to figure out Alice. It was quite hard to figure out what was going on inside his head.Alice sighed, knowing he couldn't deny this, and the proof they just threw in his face, he couldn't deny it after that.“I am trying to process everything.”“That's what you can do while helping Alisha recover. You have to mate with her so she can have this curse broken and wake up because she is in a loop, in deep slumber. Only you can help her; we have very little time,” Lima exclaimed.Alice did want to touch his Angel, do everything with her, but having sex like this is clearly something he doesn't think fits his bill.Even that day before the wedding, he talked to her on call, warned her about having sex with her, as thei
"Listen, Alice," Levi interjected, her tone calming yet firm. "We understand your concern, but there's more to this than meets the eye. Alisha's condition is... complicated."Alice's frustration boiled beneath the surface, but he forced himself to listen.Levi took a deep breath before continuing. "Alisha's not just physically ill. She's been affected by a curse.”Alice's expression hardened. "A curse? Are you serious? I don't believe it," Alice growled."You have to sit your ass down if you want to hear, because with this attitude, you're not listening and understanding," Maya rolled her eyes. She wasn't someone who tolerated such attitudes, especially from young people who thought they could behave however they wanted.Alice's whole body rushed with anger, but he controlled it as he sat on the stool beside Alisha. "Tell me. I'm sitting.""Better. What she means by curse is that someone cast a spell on her, a magic curse," Maya answered, keeping her tone flat."What do you mean?" Ali