JAYDEN'S POV We kept going after the little weakling, trying to make sense of the fact that she was in hunt mode. But there was also something awfully wrong with the way she smelled. "Can you smell that?" I passed through my link with Jordan. His wolf looked at me and nodded. "She's both terrified and vengeful. I think she was..." A loud shrieking noise cut of the communication between us and we turned back in the direction we were supposed to be looking. Jordan and I were Alpha wolves, and that made us just a little bit faster and stronger than the average wolf. That and everything we lived through before we came here. We finally spotted the white wolf as she bared her teeth at a young girl with bright pink hair who was shivering in a corner. I sent a wave of my Alpha aura over the environment, hoping that it would help to calm the storm raging in the beautiful, angry wolf. She simply glanced in our direction, her eyes shooting daggers at us. The wolf shook its head and poun
GAZELLE'S POV My eyes snapped open and immediately pain doused me in its cold torrents. I was cold, shivering and tired as hell. What the fuck happened? I felt like I was smashed to smithereens by a boulder or something even heavier. I raised my head slowly off the pillow, dragging my gaze around to get a better view of my surroundings. Where was I? A groan worked its way out of me as I struggled into a sitting position. The room I laid in was adorned with luxuries I knew to only be present in... Shit! Am I in the Terrors' residence? As if on cue the door to the room slid open and in came a very familiar fragrance, one that managed to confuse me everytime I sniffed it in - a mixture of something I would term arousal judging by its description in the books I've been reading, and fear. "You're finally awake. We thought you might need to be doused with somwthing cold first." That was Jayden. He was always so casually cruel, always speaking in a tone that belied the level of crue
JORDAN'S POV I had no idea why it was that I decided to intervene, but I did. And Jayden knew me well enough to ask no questions and only go along with my plans. "You have the wrong person." That was the single sentence I made after I walked into the room. "Excuse you?" Ms. Ines barked out in fury. I had to admit that the woman could be pretty scary, what with her expressionless face and eyes that seemed to see through to your soul, and the stark bluntness with which she made every comment; but she didn't faze me even a little bit. "The person you intend to punish is not the person that should be punished." "You seem to be forgetting who really runs this school, Jordan." She glared at me. "Jayden, talk some sense into your brother." Of course. Jayden was the charming one, the one that everyone believed was the good sheep in our identical herd. My brother simply shrugged and folded his arms across his chest, his own way of letting her know that he had chosen a side already.
GAZELLE'S POV My head was swimming by the time we all walked out of the office. I could see the looks of confusion on the faces of Jayden and Jordan, and to be honest, I felt confused too. I could also tell that something was seriously wrong with Jordan and that lady. Her hatred for me seemed to increase as soon as he walked in, and they kept glaring at each other like they wanted to have each other's throats. Could there be some sort of shared history between them? I mean, there were some comments that felt like they were familiar with each other. "Can you hear me?" Someone snapped in front of me and my eyes suddenly focused on Jayden that looked furious. "I..." I took a step back and shook my head slowly. "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention." "Clearly." He mocked. "If you had knocked that painting down, maybe you would have been able to pay something else." My eyes started scouring the place immediately and I noticed that Jordan was holding a painting that was slant
JORDAN'S POV My head has been filled with angry thoughts since I walked into room 21 to find Ines sitting there. The woman was a snake, deceptive, and very cunning. To me, she was most of all disgusting. I looked around the table at the lack of reaction from Jayden and Jeremy and decided that it was time to put an end to the charade. Having Jeremy speak up them just proved my suspicion. He's the reason Sarah came over tonight. This was all a ploy to disgrace Gazelle. "I'm just trying to be kind to her. She hasn't had anything to eat for so long, right?" Sarah smiled at me in a way that would have fooled anyone but me. "Shouldn't you be more concerned about the well-being of your friend, Gwen?" "She got herself into this, she should be willing to deal with it herself." Sarah spat. "What happened to women supporting women?" I countered in a very calm tone. She flung a lock of hair over her shoulder and scoffed. "That applies to sensible women, not stupid bitches like
JAYDEN'S POV Something was terribly wrong and I could feel it. Contrary to what a lot of people assumed, I wasn't chill with the fact that my brother always counted the number of words he said to me. I studied his face, the impassiveness displayed there making everything inside of me cringe in annoyance. "When are we needed? Surely it cannot be immediately," I finally spoke up. His eyes turned to mine and he shot me a look that made me feel foolish. "When have we ever had the luxury of reporting in whenever we felt like?" I let the sigh stuck in my chest out. "Fine. Let's go." Jeremy didn't bother with hiding his displeasure with the situation. He scowled as he walked past Jordan and into the hallway. It was common knowledge, at this point, that Jeremy totally couldn't stand Jordan; but I had no idea if it comprised of anything other than the fact that Jordan was almost always mute. I pulled my brother aside as I walked up to him, shutting the door to the living room. "
JORDAN'S POV "It's quite easy to make demands like that when you're sitting safe behind an office desk, isn't it?" I spat out before I could stop myself. Something about the woman made me want to vomit. She irritated the fuck out of me and I was always fighting the urge to simply wring her throat with my bare hands. "Excuse you?" Her eyes were oozing fire as she trained them on me. "There's just three of us. And yet we're constantly being pitted against a full army of wolves by ourselves." "You're Alphas." She deadpanned like that could justify everything in the world. "Doesn't make us infallible." I bit back. "Maybe if the board could be a little bit more considerate about the kinds of missions we were sent on, we wouldn't have a revenge on our hands now." My tone was becoming a lot more disrespectful with each word that came out of my mouth and I noticed my brother stiffen beside me. One of his palms dropped on my thighs, calming me down without words. As expected, Jayden
JEREMY'S POV I couldn't possibly be imagining this. This place was deserted to a very large extent. Something was most definitely up. Every single person that had walked past us or even peeked through their windows at us since we strolled by casually had been either female or child. It was Jayden that finally responded to my comment. "No, it's not just your mind. This is actually a space dominated by anything other than the male wolves." Jordan made a show of sniffing the air. "There's no single scent of a male wolf within a 50 mile radius of this place." "What do you think could be going on?" I asked. This was seriously crazy. There was no way in hell that all of the men in the pack had just decided to step out on the same day. Especially not after the number of traps we'd had to get past on our way here. "I think there was more than one trap left waiting for us." Jayden didn't sound too pleased by that possibility. Not that I could blame him, I wasn't pleased by it either.