They left the room and walked through the hallway but did not take the direction they came in through. They were going to use the back door.They got outside and their limousine was waiting for them there. Wayne made Olive enter first and then he entered too.“Why do you seem pissed?” she asked as soon as he sat down.“Not pissed. Just not happy,” came his reply.“About what exactly? That your friends got drunk and wasted?” Olive asked again.“That my sisters are taking after my footsteps. My brother is already a mess just like I was. He's okay though because he knows how to take care of himself. He knows how to do moderation. Vanessa...well, no hope. She's a full blown hoe. But Dolly, I'm scared the most about her.”“Why? She was drunk that's why she was doing that. Dolly's not like that you know. I'm very sure she would be really disappointed in herself if she sees my video,” Olive defended her and Wayne chuckled.“It isn't that,” he replied.“What is it then?”“Dolly is clueless an
Few minutes later, they reached the castle and Wayne took her straight up to their elevator in his arms. She complained and whined that she could walk and he should stop being such a gentleman. But since she could not read minds like him, she didn't know he was preventing people from seeing her looking so sexy and alluring.When they rode up to their quarters, Olive thought about where all the guests they were getting would stay.“Where are your important guests going to stay during the course of the mating festival?” she asked with furrowed brows as they walked past the fountain. She glanced at the sparkling aquarium and felt delighted at the beautiful fishes and bubbles and lights.“Don't you mean our guests? They're not just my guests, Olive,” Wayne stated and she mouthed an 'oh'.“Our guests. My bad. They are our guests,” she corrected herself.“We have lots of five star hotels in the city for them to lodge. Some of them own villas here. And some are going to stay at the castle's
It was morning already and Olive woke up in bed with a stir. She flapped her eyelashes gently, like a butterfly taking its first flight. She yawned and stirred again, then she spread her arms and hit something hard.“Wayne?” she called and met eyes with him. He was sitting down, with his back resting against the headboard. He wore no shirt, and his waist down was covered by the blanket.“Morning,” he said and smiled at her. She rubbed her eyes then hugged his legs.“Morning,” she replied and laid her head on his thighs. She closed her eyes and exhaled. Wayne's fingers ran through her hair and she got the shivers.“What time is it?” she asked.“Ten in the morning,” Wayne answered and she shot up.“What!?”He shrugged casually. Her eyes darted to the wall clock and saw it was fifteen minutes past ten.“Why did I sleep so much? Weren't we supposed to go and receive Alpha Maximo from the airport?” she asked and he nodded.“We were supposed to. But then, I couldn't drag a sleeping girl int
The three cars which left the Balendin Pack Castle came to a stop in front of a huge villa. A man in suit quickly came out of one of the cars and opened the back door of the car in the middle. Wayne stepped out and held out his hand. Olive's fingers delicately crawled into it and her feet stepped on the floor with him pulling her out gently.“Thanks,” she muttered with a smile and he returned a look of admiration mixed with love. His hand encircled her waist and together they walked towards the villa. Two of their guards followed them while the remaining ones stood guard by the cars.“Nervous?” he whispered as they reached the entrance.“He's your first Alpha friend I'm meeting,” she whispered back. Wayne chuckled darkly.“Relax. You're too perfect to mess anything up.”That brought a smile to Olive's face and she did relax. The door opened from the inside and an old man stepped out.“Alpha Knight. A pleasure to see you again. Please, come inside,” he said in a pure Italian accent and
Wayne and Olive returned to the castle around past one in the afternoon. Olive was so tired, yet happy and wouldn't stop smiling. Wayne on the other hand wasn't smiling but at least he was happy she had gotten on the very good side of Dante. He had had a little fear at the back of his mind that his good friends would not accept Olive. But seeing how Dante reacted to her, he was more than happy.“I need to have a very long sleep,” she groaned as she pulled out her heels in the elevator. Wayne grabbed her waist and lifted her face to look at him.“You look so beautiful,” he muttered and stared at her lips.“And why are you looking like I gave you a love potion?” she asked with a laugh. Wayne chuckled softly and kissed her slowly.“Hmmm,” she moaned and hugged his back. Wayne nibbled on her lips and sucked her tongue before releasing her.“Can't wait to mark you,” he whispered as he trailed a finger down the side of her neck. Olive pouted at him and flapped her eye lashes like a cute Pix
Jericho came forward and picked a hamburger to eat.“So how was y'all's hangover?” Olive inquired as she picked a plate of lasagna.“Terrible. I felt I was going to die. If Vanessa had not made soup for me and given me her pain killers, I'd have fainted,” Dolly spoke and Shem scoffed.“Are you sure you're the doctor here? Why should Vanessa give you drugs? Don't you like know what you're supposed to take and just take it to stop the pain?” he asked and Dolly rolled her eyes.“For your information bro, I don't drink and get drunk everyday so I don't keep hangover pain killers beside my bed to take when I wake up.”“I'm still disappointed in you. When are you going to return full time to just practically living in the hospital again? I'm sick of your face.”And that was how Shem earned Dolly throwing him a slice of pizza right in the face. He screamed and shut his eyes because it was hot and had stung him.“Do you guys know what happened yesterday?” Olive asked with a mischievous grin.
Dolly ran into her room crying. She banged the door behind her and crashed on her bed. She couldn't believe she had stopped so low and embarrassed herself so much. How could she do that? Of all the things to do while drunk she had to make out with Terry. And Terry? Why was it even Terry? She looked so serious and lustful in that video that she was sure she would have gone down to the floor with him and do it there. And he too was so drunk that he played along. What even made them drink that much.As she laid down and cried into her pillow, her door opened and Terry ran inside. He saw Dolly crying so loudly into her pillow and his heart ached.“Dolly?” he called as he walked towards her. She sat up immediately and saw it was him. She stared at him emotionlessly for a few seconds then gulped.“Excuse me, Terry. I'd like to be alone,” she croaked and wiped her tears while looking away from him. Terry heard her, but instead began to move closer. She jerked backwards on the bed and glared
It was after dinner that Wayne and Olive were able to visit and welcome the important guests in the castle. The visit Olive loved the most was that to Prince Dakar whom she had heard so many stories and myths about. The Prince who was exiled to a deserted island.He was such a lovely, little worded man. He was a big guy, bigger than Wayne and he had lovely shoulder length hair. And he could cook! Goodness, he was a great cook. But if she continued to admire how alluring he was and how his aura was so powerful, then her mate could send him back on another exile to the island.The day was almost over and they were now in bed getting ready to sleep and wake up on their big day. But Olive was so nervous. She had never been to a mating ritual before, neither did she have any idea at all of what it would entail.“Babe, how's the Mating Ritual in Balendin Pack performed?” she asked. He yawned and patted her head.“You'll be carried off by the priestesses come dawn tomorrow and will spend the
“I half expected you'd not give me back my dagger,” King Xandros joked as soon as he stepped out of the forest, the way he had done two days before. Only Wayne and Olive were standing there to meet him. The others had mostly returned to Balendin Pack earlier. “I just finished one war with a vampire, I'm not quite ready to start another,” Alpha Knight joked in the same light.The vampire king laughed. It was so soft and innocent a stranger could fall for it. If he didn't see the fangs that is.“Wise of you. Very wise. Well, thank you for bringing it back.”He lifted his hand and the dagger lying on the soil rose to meet it. King Xandros looked it over, examining every crystal on it and the way the moon's glow bounced off the sharp blade.“It's not a fake. It's the very same knife,” Olive declared. King Xandros smirked.“If it wasn't the same knife, I'd have known the moment I stepped foot on the ground. I'm just... wondering how it felt like to have plunged into Prince Valerik's hea
Olive woke up abruptly after a nightmare. She saw The Baron touching her again and her Firewolf hadn't damned the bloody dampeners this time. She exhaled and rubbed her neck, right over her physically hidden mark. She looked around her and realized she was in a very cosy tent. The walls were icy. Literally icey and as she looked around with compression, she realized her mate had iced the entire tent.Why?“Burning hot you were. So hot you could have barbecued us all from fifty metres away.”Olive looked up to see Mufasa threading carefully towards her on the ice ground. She smiled brightly but couldn't bring herself to hug him. She had no strength.“Beautiful to see you back with us, my dear. Believe me, life without you is not worth living. Especially as your mate took it upon himself to personally see to our premature deaths.”Olive laughed at this. “Here. Drink this all up. It's the Ethe Orbs but for a different purpose for you. You need strength.”Olive gulped it all down but ma
The Baron smirked and Olive would have given anything in the world to just smack it off his face. “That one is very dear to me. He came in two days ago, two days after you came. You both are very dear,” he drawled. “Let him go. Don't you dare hurt him. Or any one of them!”“Sssh now. I said I wouldn't keep them if you complied. I'll free them if you strip.”“Never.”He shrugged.“Well then. I'm very sure this suit doesn't stop them from getting a brain rush. They can stay upside down for as long as it takes for them to choke on their own blood.”Olive exhaled and shut her eyes. She tried to summon something, anyone, anything. But she was blank on the inside. She looked at the manacles around her ankle and gritted her teeth. She knew what they were. Special Vrek Cult punishing tools. “I see you recognize the dampeners. Good. You will remain helpless for as long as it would take to get you to cooperate.”With this, The Baron flicked his hand and darkness clothed the cave again. His c
The safety edge was drawn up again for the third time in two weeks of nonstop fighting. This time, however, the Unbidden Army seemed to be dwindling in their numbers. Hopefully, they would soon run out of all unbidden warriors and The Baron would show himself for the final battle.Alpha Knight's hair was chin length now and he had it tied to the back of his head in a small ponytail. The effect of using his powers was shown in the growth rate of his hair.He was now standing in one of the tents, receiving reports of the war and how the people enclosed in their safety facilities were faring. A huge frown was on his face as he listened to a new report.Some of his soldiers were missing and they had last been sighted while fighting.“It's extremely strange. Even their mind links have been silenced. Nothing from them, as if they are dead,” one of the commanders revealed.Alpha Knight shut his eyes and traced them. He felt their auras and followed the trail. It kept going and going and goin
The suits were ready in two days. They were this full-body, extremely fitting like-a-second-skin, midnight blue, superhero-like suits. They clung to the bodies of the soldiers like wet polyester and were as tough as metal when struck from the outside. However, they weren't heavy neither did the soldiers feel like they were wearing the toughest and strongest uniform on earth. Impenetrable. After training with the new uniforms and suits for a whole day, Alpha Knight called the next day a day of partial rest then the following day they would move out to war. A pathway had been created from their park to the hideout location of The Baron by the joint work of Ami, Lutz and more Alchemists. All they had to do was march through the massive pathway only the Alpha family could control and they would wage war on the side out of the blue. The partial rest day had already begun, soldiers were milling around fully dressed, weapons strapped in and ready for war. But they were laughing and jesting
The hustle and bustle in the pack was evident even to a napping baby. The entire pack had more tension than the electrical tension wires around the pack. Pack members were growing nervous and fearful, with all the rumours of war and vampires flying around. Some were trying to leave the pack but Alpha Knight ordered that no one left. At first, it seemed like a tyrant command. But it soon became clear to them that if they had left the pack and were attacked, what would they do? None of the packs had the security that Balendin Pack had, and surely they wouldn't even accept them in. The human world was out of the question for those who had never left their realm. If they fled Balendin Pack at the moment, they would just be rogues—not accepted in any pack and not able to return to their own pack. There was also that fear surrounding the rumours of disappearing rogues. It could be anything. Alpha Knight had summoned his generals and commanders, ordering them to get troops ready to be depl
“Gia's head!” Olive gasped, a chill running down her spine at the revelation.Wayne nodded, his jaw locked tight.“That's what it looks like,” he affirmed. “What's the order, Alpha,?” Jake inquired, his face just as rigid as his Alpha's. “Send orders to get her detained at the border. She shouldn't step foot on our land. Send word to General Kalif to meet me at the board room in five minutes.”Jake nodded and bounded off immediately. Olive crossed her arms.“What are you thinking?” she asked. His thoughts were quite jumbled up she couldn't understand a thing.“Wondering why he went this extra length just to send a message,” he answered and began to walk. They followed after him. “Wayne, what if it's a trap?” Shem asked.“That is also crossing my mind,” his brother answered.Olive exhaled as they got into the elevator. Her heart was racing. If that was truly Gia's head, then The Baron had just used her and now disposed her off. Typical villain behaviour. She never liked Gia but she
The camp was empty safe for a massive building that was like a stone tower. There was a huge field surrounding it, cleared clean of trees, shrubs and plants. Calor could smell it.“Damn, it that's foul!” Olive sneered and gagged. “The Unbidden Army. They smell dead,” Astra explained. “But where are they?” Wayne asked, looking at the camp through Astra's vision too.“Underground, in that building. Laying low,” she replied. A few men with thick leather hoods were stationed outside, and there was an occasional movement of other people to and from the tower. A few tents were pitched on the field and they contained a few people.“How can we attack and besiege this place? It doesn't look impossible but...I kinda feel like there's more to this place than any we see,” Olive noted.“You shouldn't even be seeing this place in the first place,” Calor communicated. “Why?”“Because it's warded. Heavily warded to be simply invisible. No one should see or access it. But we can. And by that, I me
The van parked in front of the castle and they alighted. The fresh air hit their faces and Olive took in a deep breath. She was home. Oh, she missed home so much. She couldn't wait to see the guys. Alpha Knight came around her and sneaked his arm around her waist.“How does it feel?” she asked, looking up into his face as he gazed at his magnificent castle. The sun was setting already and the glow illuminated the building.“Feels like peace,” he answered and looked down at her.“I thought you felt at peace wherever I was?” Wayne chuckled.“I feel at home wherever you are. But I feel at peace when you're home with me.”Olive rolled her eyes.“You're just good with words,” she muttered and he laughed. “Are we heading in or gazing at the castle like it's a new building?” Jake asked as he made his way towards the entrance. Olive chuckled and followed after Jake, with Wayne right beside her. Her Guard followed behind them and they entered the castle together. Guards nodded pleasantly at