The silence in the room after the officials shouted their consent to what the Media and Public Relations Minister said was deafening.Alpha Knight was not uttering any word but just peered at the officials with a deep gaze that felt like he was checking their internal organs one by one. They were fazed by that stare, but they remained put because they believed he would listen to their request like he always did before.“You reject my mate as your future Luna?” he asked dangerously with his deep baritone voice vibrating the chairs they were sitting on and the table.They each began to sense that the news they had just given him did not sit well with him. His face had turned deathly and the temperature was dropping. His veins had popped out on his neck and forehead and...was that a gold tint in his eyes?“Yes...yes, Alpha,” the Minister tried to affirm in a brave tone. Alpha Knight's men which were behind him were giving him glares and deep stares that could make him pee in his pants. H
Gia was wearing a white dress with lacy long sleeves. She wore white pearl earrings and a matching pearl necklace. Her lips were adorned with a bright red lipstick that was a huge contrast to her pure white outfit. She was wearing a sheepish smile as she walked inside the meeting room in a catwalk that looked forced on her legs. She walked amidst the applause to the table, just beside the Alpha and gave her brightest smile at everyone in the room. She didn't even look down at the Alpha yet but kept giving everyone else a sheepish smile.“Please everyone, you may sit down. You're making me feel so flattered right now,” she said in a honeyed voice and the officials laughed and sat down. The Media and Public Relations Minister left his seat and gestured politely to it.“Please, sit down close to your future Alpha,” he said and she giggled dramatically.“Thank you, Minister Romano,” she said and sat down like a queen beside her king. All these while, Wayne and his men wore a stoic express
“What were you doing before I came in?” Wayne asked as he kissed Olive's neck gently in the kitchen. He decided to not think about how to tell her about the reason for the meeting yet. At least, until after dinner.“Oh, I was feeling hungry. You know I skipped lunch. So I was just going to make myself a thick smoothie,” she answered and he released her.“A thick smoothie,” he repeated and she chuckled then nodded.“See, I already cut the fruits. I was going to blend them when you arrived. You have a smoothie blender here. I was so thrilled when I saw it,” she pointed towards the kitchen counter where she had arranged her fruits in a ceramic bowl. The milk was sitting in a glass cup already and so was the small smoothie blender from his Aunt.“And how do you intend to make a thick smoothie?” he questioned as she took his hand to lead him to the counter.“By using more fruits and less milk. It will be quite thick and more satisfying. Come on, let's c
Cynthia gasped as she stared at the garment in The Baron's hand. He was stretching it out to her but she was too shocked to move her arms and receive it.So he could heal her face? She could be rewarded greatly just for killing someone she always wished to detach from the face of the earth? This was a win win for her.“Thank you. Thank you so much. I promise that I would bring you the head of Olive Roger and listen to whatever you order me to do,” she said while bowing to the ground again.“Tsk, promises. They're so hard to keep but easy to make. I'm fortunate that you happen to be making me a vow. No one makes me a vow and breaks it,” The Baron drawled, causing more and more goosebumps to rise on Cynthia's skin. She gulped nervously and almost flinched when she felt his hand on her shoulder. He was wearing thick leather gloves but she could feel the cold emanating from his fingers unto her arm, despite the fact she was wearing a hoodie.What was this hooded creature? He wasn't a were
Olive staggered back as she felt a heavy wave of despair hit her from all sides. Wayne's eyelids flung up and he sped to her to grab her.“Baby,” he called and hugged her to his chest securely.“Wayne,” she replied and broke down crying.“No, wait. Stop that. Stop. You know what crying does to you, babe. Stop,” Wayne ordered but she grabbed hard onto his arms and cried.This was her fear and it had come to pass. She wasn't going to be Luna. She wasn't going to stay by Wayne's side. How could Gia win so easily like this?Wayne's brows thickened and he pushed her away from him, grabbing her arms and glaring at her.“Don't you dare!” he yelled at her that she flinched and whimpered.“Are you out of your senses, Olive? Are you fucking out of your mind?!” he scolded so loud that she burst into tears again.“Stop this. Stop being so vulnerable like this,” he pleaded in an agitated tone. Olive jerked her arms off from him and ran towards the bathroom to go hide there and cry. But Wayne was s
Wayne chuckled as he heard her cuss him. He had one hell of a mate, didn't he?He reached the bedside and palmed his face. He was tired and it had nothing to do with stress at all. But the news and how Olive reacted to it was what was making his system dull. He had also just roused his wolves with the prospect of finally marking their mate and now tension was very high within him. Another fact, those two were still very angry. He was a mess as he sat.“Well, it's all good. We'll deal with this,” he assured himself.Few minutes later and his mate was out of the bathroom. She was towelling her body dry and glancing at him with daggers in her eyes.“I'm hungry,” he said to her.“So what?” was her reply. He smiled and rubbed his chin.“So we should get going now. The housekeepers would be waiting. We are already late,” he stated and she huffed and entered the dressing room to wear something quickly. She didn't have plans to shower but then, she had cried so she needed that. She was feelin
She felt like it was just a few minutes sleep, but when she woke up, it was an hour later and she was in a warm smaller bed in a smaller room. She sat up and rubbed her eyelids. The room was darkly lit and the curtains were down.“Wayne,” she called as she stepped down from the bed. She could inhale his scent vividly in the room so she knew he was around. She walked to the door of the room and turned the doorknob. It opened and she peeled out into the brightly lit up doorway. The floor was a wooden dark color, just like in the Circular Cabinet. And the walls were a light yellow.“We must have arrived in Lumpusberg,” she muttered to herself as she stepped out of the room and closed the door behind her. She looked at her feet and pouted. She wasn't wearing any shoes and she wasn't used to walking around barefoot. She however sighed and walked into the doorway, walking towards the end of it where there was a turn.She kept walking until she reached the staircase and went down it gently.
After dinner was over, Wayne took Olive to the balcony and had them sit and watch the moon that was almost full. It reminded both of them that they would be fully mated and recognized by the moon as one, as soon as it became full.“I'm scared,” Olive spoke up as she was leaning against Wayne's chest. He was sitting on a resting chair and she sat in between his legs.“About what?” he asked and smoothed her hair.“The future. What it holds for us after now,” she answered.“Do you mean after we're mated successfully? Life after that?” Wayne inquired.“Yes. That's what I mean,” Olive answered. Wayne chuckled deeply and placed a small kiss on the back of her neck.“You don't have to worry about that. Everything is going to be all right, okay?”Olive exhaled and didn't reply. But after about a minute, she decided to ask a pressing question.“What are your plans for us?”Wayne furrowed his brows and strained his neck to look at her face.“What do you mean?”“I mean, what would be the outcome
“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