Alpha Knight returned from his quarterly report meeting with the mayors of the cities in Balendin Pack and sauntered straight to his quarters. He was exhausted. That word was even a freaking understatement. He was deteriorated. Every minute, he felt his life snapping away at the edges and his wolves losing their grip on his soul. They were amazing creatures and had been working so hard to keep him, especially Fervour who managed to tether unto the connection with Olive and feed it to his soul. It was the reason he hadn't gone wild totally. A part of him knew she would be back and she wasn't snatched away from him forever.“Are you okay, Wayne?” Dolly's voice sounded in his ears as he crossed the kitchen door. He turned and saw his sister coming out of it with two cups of coffee.“I'm fine,” he managed a reply. She hurried towards him and handed him one cup.“I checked your trash, Wayne. All of Mufasa's prescriptions are there. You aren't taken them anymore.”Wayne grimaced then gulped
Olive and Wayne unlocked from their welcome kiss, totally breathless yet needing more.Olive's fingers dug into Wayne's unruly hair and she smiled at him.“I've missed you so much,” she whispered. He smirked and held up her face, almost wanting to kiss her again.“If you know how much I've missed you —”“You'd give each one of us sacks of gold coins,” Jake cut in with a smile. Olive whipped her head towards where he stood just few feet from them.“Jake,” she called and embraced him. He patted her back, genuinely beaming with joy.“Glad to see you back whole. This place was awful without you,” he said then stole a glance at Wayne. Olive furrowed her brows.“Why do I feel like he gave you all a lot of trouble while I was aw...” she trailed off when Wayne turned around and the light directly illuminated his face.“Wayne...what is this? What happened to you? Baby!”She gasped as she thoroughly began looking at him. She was so overcome with joy she hadn't seen that her mate had deteriorate
Shem poured out drinks into cups and took one for himself as everyone else began grabbing theirs. They were all gathered in the Circular Cabinet after a rough day of engaging in extreme trainings, checkups and investigations. It was a day after the strange attack from the prisoners and investigations surrounding their sudden behavior were ongoing. How did they even break out from the prison? Even the prison guards were under possession and had joined in the fight.Unfortunately, most of the prisoners had to be killed in order to curb the fight and the few that survived were in the infirmary under strict and secure conditions.“Do you two actually wear anything order than those strange black villain outfits?” Shem questioned, looking at Lutz and Koushi who were picking up drinks. They had initially insisted on standing guard in front of the Alpha and Luna's quarters because they must keep ‘their’ firewolf safe at all times. It was a ridiculous idea, considering those two were still und
Olive laughed then looked up at her young brother-in-law.“Hi, Shem. Nice to see you again. You look way bigger and finer, dude. What have you been doing?”She hadn't actually spoken with him or really even seen him since she arrived. He was in his wolf form fighting that night when they came and didn't shift back before she took Wayne to their quarters.Shem shot her a smile.“I've been fine. Just being handsome as usual. But what I did the most was miss your presence especially the times that loaf by your side there gave us slices of hell each day for sandwiches.”Then he and Crusoe explained all Wayne had actually gone through and how he had almost taken them all down to hades. Olive was horror-struck and dumbfounded at the revelation. She never knew it was that bad. He had definitely ran completely mental!She was glad she had returned before it got to a point of no return. But she had one question and that was what had happened to him other than the call of the mate bond. She cou
“Did you say the Ignis fatuus can destroy as long as its the target?” Crusoe asked, sitting up and peering his eyes.Olive furrowed her brows. As long as it's the target? So did the dragon think it through to mark a particular target and destroy it no matter what it was?Wait...if that was the case...then—Lutz's voice cut into her thoughts.“Yes. It can. Anything can be destroyed with it. Cancer, organs, poisons... Especially those with no cure. Example, the Touch-me-not poison. Olive's future dragon is the only way,“ he revealed and the information was like a bomb was dropped in the mist of them all. In fact, Olive heard a loud thump in her ears like a bomb truly dropped. But that could just be her blood pressure.“Are you...real?” Shem stuttered.“As real as a two century old alchemist and historian can be,” Lutz replied.Olive's hands began to visibly shake and she found it hard to control the tremors. There was hope. There was freaking hope for them.Goodness! There was hope!Wayn
Alpha Knight stood at the end of the hallway, his hands on his pockets while he looked out the window there. Lutz and Koushi looked at each other with furrowed eyebrows, none of them moving away from the door they had stepped through from. Alpha Knight turned his head slightly just enough to look at them. He raised an eyebrow, his eyes piercing deep at them.“Are you going to keep standing there? Or should I make you come all the way too?” he asked.“How dare you hypnotize us?” Lutz asked, his nostrils flaring in anger. Alpha Knight made a sound that seemed like a chuckle and a scoff altogether.“Come here, Firewolf Guard,” he said under his breath with his power and the two men began walking until they each stood right behind him on both sides.“Even if you don't respect me as your leader's mate, husband and Alpha—you are in my territory. Respect that,” he said darkly and turned around to meet both men's gazes.“I want to know what I must concerning the journey.”He released his hol
Lutz smirked at Alpha Knight and again, Koushi elbowed him.“Why the heck is he looking at me like he put a thumbtack in my seat?” Wayne growled as Mufasa turned to get a mason jar.“Oh nothing, Big Bad Alpha, go on,” Lutz sneered.“I swear if this thing so much as stings me, I'll claw your throat open,” the Alpha threatened and Olive laughed.“I won't lie, Lutz needs a good clawing,” she said and exhaled.“So Mufasa, how are we going about this?” she asked and flexed her fingers. The gateway to her healing powers. Contact was very needed in that aspect, unlike her firewolf powers that could be wielded even from miles away.Mufasa brought the jar and gently opened it. The glow exuding out of it was beautiful and there was a bit of a fizzy sound emitted out, as if they twinkled.“Olive, dear. Placed your index finger in this and put as much power as you can in it. Not too much to drain you.”Olive nodded and dipped her index finger in it. She expected it to be warm, but surprisingly it
The visit to the facility was very quick. They only took a look at the dead prisoners and checked on the scientists analyzing the living ones. They confessed that something bizarre was intertwined with their DNA strands and it seemed they had acquired it through breathing. In other words, the air was polluted. Wayne and Olive had both glanced at each other instinctively at that. Lutz also raised a brow in suspicion but he didn't utter one word.At the end of it all, Alpha Knight ordered that the scientists begin to work on any technology that could block whatever it was in their system. Preferably, a tool that could stop people from inhaling whatever the possessing drug was. He also gave orders that the security of the pack's hidden facilities be intensified and warded against even stronger forces. The threat of the upcoming war was palpable. And there was no time to relax anymore.***One Month Later***The tension in the air was so bad even Mufasa got a fresh wave of anxiety while