Olive's eyes slowly flapped open to see a sky so clear and bright, she thought she was on the other side of life. The last time she looked up, the sky had looked dangerously angry and looked lit up with hot coals. But this sky now was beautiful in its natural form. Birds sang afar off and she could see hawks hovering over her in the clear skies. Funny, hawks hovered in the sky that way when there was a fire somewhere below and the smoke was reaching up. Right?She breathed in and her chest hurt by that action. She tried to move her neck and her neck hurt too. She gulped and her throat hurt also. Why was she hurting all over?She gathered enough of her energy and pushed herself from the ground but couldn't sit upright. Something was pinning her to the ground. That thing was over her legs and her chest. Oh no! Was she shackled?‘Stop being dramatic. It's just me,’ Wayne's voice whispered into her mind like a caress. She blinked and looked over her body. His huge legs had her legs locke
“She's trying to kill me,” Wayne whispered to himself as he stared at the destruction, his eyes wide open. Afar off, Olive chuckled without looking back at him. She had crossed to the other side of the field, the supposed entrance. Right there, she shifted into her magnificent she-wolf, the grey beauty. ’Come on, let's move,’ she mind-linked him. Wayne exhaled and shifted into Fervour. He tore through the destroyed land and was soon running side by side with his mate. But they didn't race long. Jake had arrived with a new van. “Beautiful morning considering the shit you both caused last night, isn't it?” was his first greeting. He had on a not-so-friendly smile as he approached them with two white shopping bags. “What happened to your face?” Wayne asked through Fervour. Jake glared down on his Alpha wolf. “You should be thankful you're not noticing my blisters on a corpse. Go change let's go. The others are in far worse conditions.” Wayne gave an animal-like eye roll and sto
Alpha Knight wore his sunglasses and stepped down from the van as the chopper began to descend. He held out his arm to Olive as she too got down and approached him at his side of the van. She had already won her glasses from inside the van.“You okay!?” Wayne asked in a shout, against the noise of the chopper. Olive looked up at him and smiled. Her hair was whipping against her face and entering into her mouth. She hastily put her fingers to work by pulling and pushing them away.“I'm fine. You?!” she asked back. He nodded.“There's no way in hell I'm entering that thing!” Lutz shouted from the back. Olive rolled her eyes behind her sunglasses.“Oh please do not start with me! We entered a plane three months ago! Did we fall to the ground like you said?!” she nagged and turned around to glare at Lutz. Unfortunately, he couldn't see her eyes.“I apologize on his behalf, Flamera. He's...he's still very backward despite living in the modern world for a month,” Koushi apologized and bowed
Olive was more than scared to walk through the door and complete her mission. She had already come so far, why back down now? She belonged to a cult… Or rather, she was forcefully held in a cult where she could not do otherwise. She had to obey the laws or she'd be punished… slowly and painfully. She had escaped from kidnappers at the age of 14, and ran to a man to help hide her. He actually did hide her, but he never let her out again. She was abused by him, sexually and physically. He made her succumb to joining a cult after much beatings. The beatings later stopped, but she turned into something else. She was nothing but a vessel, an object to the cult. She had slept with men for them, maimed people, and killed a few too. The life Olive lived was terrible, but she had no choice. She was bound to the cult until she found her mate. Her ultimate wish was to find that special one who would free her from the cult automatically, and make her life return to normal. She had seen how som
It felt like a thousand bags of cement were tied around Olive's body when she woke up. She couldn't even move her neck to look around because it felt so heavy and painful. She however knew she wasn't outside anymore. She was still on the bare floor, but under a roof. Olive didn't stay for long before someone realized she was awake. Maybe they all came to check up on her turn by turn.“She's awake,” a man announced. Fear skittered through her heart. She was going to face another torture again. Two strong arms pulled her up and she cried in pain. Her injuries hadn't healed at all despite the healing ability of the body of wolf shifters. Dry and fresh blood were still all over her but her hair and clothes were already dry. She was dragged into a room and pushed to the floor roughly. She screamed and hugged the floor while crying. Oh, her life would have been roses if she had found her parents instead of running into the arms of a strange man who turned her life into a living hell. She
Olive's eyes widened in shock. Wayne Knight… her mate? Was that even possible? She laughed at her stupidity. Yes, she was stupid enough to think that. She knew that it was just her mind playing with her and giving her what she desired. She desired a mate, and her mind was toying with her. Wayne was Cynthia's mate. That explained why she was with them in the first place, because she couldn't work against the cult unless she was mated.Olive shoved the thought of Wayne being her mate back inside. She growled at her wolf to sit still and stop miscalculating things. Though this was the very first time her wolf had acted this way with someone, she still didn't want to believe her. The Big Bad Alpha couldn't be her mate. And even though he was, she was sure to be rejected by him. That angry look he was giving her few seconds ago explained that he was not going to show her any mercy. She closed her eyes on the floor there and slept off.***Alpha Wayne Knight was beyond angry when he saw Ol
Olive screamed as she met eyes with Wayne. She was surprised to see him when she had thought she was dead. Didn't he kill her earlier? Or did she have a bad dream? She shifted in the bed and tried to sit up but felt her arms brushing against the sides of her breasts. It was skin against skin. She looked down through the blanket and her eyes turned into that of an owl again. She was naked! She clutched the blanket against her chest and sat up, moving as far away from the edge of the bed as possible.Her injuries were still fresh, but not bloody flesh. She seemed to be healing.“What—what am I still doing here?” she asked with her face flustered.“Where were you supposed to be?” Wayne asked with no emotions in his voice. He looked angry and murderous as he stared at her. And Olive—she was scared to death. Her heart began to beat loudly.“I thought I was…I thought you would…I—”“Enough of the I's,” Wayne barked and walked fully inside the room. He dumped the bags on the bed and walked
“S-s-sir?” she stuttered and her feet got rooted to the ground, unable to move.“You heard me,” he stated and walked ahead to the bathroom door. Olive's heart thudded loudly. She thought he wanted to rape her too. No way in hell was she going to be in a bathroom with a man having no conscience. She couldn't bear any more torture.“I'll get ready!” she yelled and ran swiftly into the bathroom, shutting the door and leaving a surprised Alpha behind. She slide down the wooden door and sat on the floor with a deep sigh. Her life was turning upside down. Wait—it had always been upside down.She looked up at the shower and got on her feet. She showered because she had no other option. There was no window in the bathroom to escape through.It was after she finished showering that she realized she had now healed. No single injury, though she still felt weak and fragile. Her skin was back to normal...with all the old scars that would never leave her.“How did I heal so fast in a few minutes?”