On that day, Wayne had gone to Italy for a visit to an Alpha friend of his. He had a pack hidden in Rome, unknown to humans. All members of his pack were rich, and had lots of jewelries which had been passed on from generation to generation. These jewels were priceless possessions and some even had myths attached to them.
Alpha Maximo was a calm yet deadly man, just like all of Wayne's friends were. But he was quite different from them in a way. Dante Maximo was kindhearted. No one knew he even possessed a dark side because of how good he appeared, both to humans and his pack. Dante had not found his mate yet, but he was already saving tons of jewelry for her. He said he couldn't wait to meet her.
Out of his jewelry collection, he gave that gold necklace to Wayne. Saying he should keep it for his own mate.
“Have this, Wayne. I pray your mate likes it,” he teased as he handed it to his friend.
“Why? I don't care about a mate. In fact, I h
Olive watched as Gia disappeared behind the doors. She felt her heart racing fast. What did Gia mean by that?‘What is most precious to them is Wayne's life. And of course, their pride. Therefore, they wouldn't want someone who has tried to tarnish both,' Gia's voice repeated in her mind.She palmed her face. Did Gia know that she tried to kill Wayne? Is that what she was threatening her with?“Gosh,” she exhaled and hugged her arms. She felt chilly all of a sudden. She sniffed and began to walk out of the room.'...therefore they wouldn't want someone who has tried to take both,' she heard Gia's voice again. She gulped as she pressed the elevator button to open it.She regretted trying to take Wayne's life. What if she had succeeded? She shook her head to throw off the thought of her mur.dering her own mate. There was no way she would have succeeded. Wayne would always be one step over his enemies. Or even more steps.But,
“What did you just say?” General Kalif asked. It was like he didn't hear well. Gia scoffed and sat up.“Father, please. Help me here,” she pleaded, ignoring his question.“Help you to do something stupid?” he laughed dryly. It didn't even seem like he was laughing. Gia frowned deeply. She hated this attitude of her father. However, she decided to calm down first and explain things to him. He was the only one who could help her. If he was on her side, then she would win for sure.“The Alpha has found his mate. She would be the Luna of the pack,” he said firmly and resumed looking through the file.“She is his mate. But is she fit to rule the pack?” Gia asked. He raised a brow but didn't look at her.“Olive is not fit to be Luna of this pack. You know very well the kind of members we have. They would never accept her and if we pin her on them, this could lead to a rebellion which might
Olive stirred and Wayne sat up immediately beside her on the bed. He looked at her face and exhaled. She was still sleeping. Her face and body were back to normal now and she was breathing normally too. He had undressed and slipped into bed beside her but couldn't sleep instead kept looking over her like a newborn baby. It had been over a day already yet she wasn't awake. He had been so worried at first. Terrible thoughts crossed through his mind. If his sister hadn't been around to assure him Olive was find, he too would have broken the hell down.‘Is she awake?’ Dolly's voice came in as if she too saw Olive's movement.‘No. Just stirring,’ he answered and laid back. He stared at the ceiling and ruffled his hair.He remembered how he felt when she was on the floor. Why was he so scared? Why did he think she had died? Why did that even cross his mind? Wayne had a very good hearing ability, better than most werewolves. So why couldn't he h
How did he find out she had cried? Could he have been watching her all that time? No...he would have rushed to her immediately when she started crying. And there was no way he would even be watching her. He's not God.“You lying to me?” Wayne asked and raised a brow at her. Her face flushed up.“Gosh! No. I am not... lying,” she said and tucked her hair behind her ear then she chewed on her lips. Wayne sighed loudly and she looked down at her hand.“Eat up. You'll talk later. Don't worry,” he smirked and turned away. Olive gulped down water immediately and fanned herself with her hand. She looked up at the drip and saw that it was finished already. She wanted to gently remove it herself but Dolly burst into the room.“Don't worry, I'll do it,” she said and the next minute, she was removing it already.“Thanks, Dolly,” Olive appreciated and rubbed her wrist.“Vanessa's leaving
Wayne cleared his throat because he felt a lump coming up. He didn't want to answer this question. At least, not yet. He looked at Olive's eyes and realized she really wanted to know. She must have been dying to know for some time now. Considering the fact that his eyes have been displaying a show lately. He smiled.“You won't tell anyone, right?” he asked and she quickly nodded.“This is a long time secret that no one knows except my father, Dolly, and my men. No one in the pack knows,” he stated and ran his fingers through the hair on her back, careful not to disturb the thick braid behind.“Why just you guys?” Olive asked with furrowed brows.“Do you want to know why?” he asked and she nodded again. He exhaled with a smile. She was his mate. And she should know what she was mated to.“I have three wolves,” he revealed.“What?!” Olive shouted and stepped back. Wayne la
His chest vibrated and a low growl emanated from his throat. He felt a deep rush of emotions and he grabbed her tighter, pushing her body against his like he wanted her to sink into his own body. He just couldn't get enough of the kiss. He wanted more with her. Heck! He wanted everything with her. All of her.Olive moaned as her hands grabbed him tightly over his shoulders. His tough and rigid body was like a fortress to her, protecting her by encasing her in. She didn't want to leave that fortress. She wanted to stay in his arms forever. Who knew a man's arms could feel so good and comfortable that a woman would not want to leave?“Wayne,” she cried as she felt the same rush of emotions he was feeling. She was not as strong as he was so she felt like she was going to breakdown soon. She was already shaking and her whole body was crying on him to do something to her. He groaned when her smells hit him. Immediately, he buried his face into her neck to save himself.“You smell so damn go
“She didn't say anything serious. I was just too emotional which was why I cried,” she retorted and scoffed.“You are being so dramatic, Wayne,” she added and crossed her arms.“Dramatic? You fainted! And you received a fucking IV drip too! But you say I'm being so dramatic? Goodness!” he ranted and banged his fist against his thigh. Olive palmed her face to avoid looking at him.“You know what worries me most? The fact that you're a werewolf yet you passed out from just crying like you were a weak human being. What if she poisoned you? She's the Chief Female Army Commander and has access to a lot of weapons which includes poison. What if she is trying to kill you? Damn! I'll burn her alive!”Olive's heart fell to her feet as she heard him rant out his worries. She removed her palms from her face and looked at his red face. She could deduce one thing. Alpha Wayne Knight cared about her. He cared about her so damn much.She gulped down and slipped her hand into his which startled him a
Olive was covered in blood. Even her red dress was darker because of the dark liquid . Her face was bleeding and blood was gurgling out her mouth as she struggled to breathe. She was half conscious despite all the pain.“Olive! Baby!” Wayne panicked as he saw her in that state. He held the glass in his arm and pulled it out abruptly, slicing his palm in the process. But did it matter? Of course it didn't matter to him. Olive was dying here.“Baby, hang in there. Hang in there for me please,” he cried. He felt hot tears stinging his eyes as she gasped and blood poured out. The metal was through her heart region. If help didn't come soon then she would... No. No way!‘Jake! I need help. We've been in an accident by Moonlight High. Olive... please help Olive,” he pleaded to Jake. He could only pray that he heard. The car was sideways and he was at the side that rested on the ground. He couldn't open his door to come out and couldn't risk moving out through Olive's door.He looked to 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