Moon continues with her arrangements, sorting out the food to prepare for the evening while looking at the list to be sure she made no mistakes. Outside the store, Aiden was getting apprehensive about being caught by the watching eyes of others. Deciding to walk away, he heard something hit the floor and his ears perked up for another sound just in case it might have been a fraction of his imagination. Listening closely, whoever was inside the store made an effort to pick up whatever it was that fell and made a shuffling sound with her legs. Her grunts betray her gender. It had to be Moon; her partners would always abandon her, leaving her to take the workload on herself. Before now, Aiden would have sneaked in to help her out till they were both done with the work and he thought of doing that today, at least to make up for his actions back there. “Moon, I know you are in there,” Aiden said but met with silence. Knowing she was still mad at his action, he decided it was best to
Diana’s eyes glittered in delight seeing her target fall and make a mess of herself. Putting her right palm over her lips, she hid her smile but her eyes crinkled to show her pleasure. ‘I am just getting started, by the time I am done with you, you won’t recognize yourself.’ She thought to herself, returning her eyes to the food.“Did you see that?” Lilian asked her, not hiding her amusement. “Yeah,” Diana responded her eyes not leaving her food this time. “Come on, I deserve an accolade.” “The most beautiful villain of the Silverstone pack, I think it’s high time you revived a trophy,” Amira whispered, her face shining with delight. “But seriously girls, one would think you guys just got the biggest award or something. Tone it down; eyes are watching us, too.” Diana said with a wide smile this time. She looked towards Moon, whose embarrassment wouldn’t let her leave the floor, and nobody was willing to help either or offer a word of consolation. “But seriously, I thought you
Moon’s POVAIDEN! How do I contain this embarrassment and anger? As usual, he wouldn’t look at me; he only joined them in laughing instead. I don’t need to look for the people behind this, I know it is Diana and her group. I had considered standing up and running from the room, but the thought of what would be said about me haunted me from the moment I thought about running. Tears threatened to fall but I had to hold them back with every fiber of my being. The fall from earlier hasn’t healed yet, and I had to experience another fall. My joint aches, the bullying wasn’t this much till I decided to confess to Aiden.I shouldn’t have. I should have kept my feelings to myself or, better still, confess my feelings to him in secret, but what was the possibility of finding out his true nature if I had done it in secret? The thought of his acceptance then, gaslighting me gave me gooseflesh. Then, I wouldn’t have been forced to go out of the building and cross paths with Liam. From the co
Moon’s POVIf he is resisting or getting actively involved, I can’t tell, but I see her pull away, a huge smile on her face like she had just won a vicious battle. She flashes me a quick smile before looking back at him; his shoulders keep moving, evidenced by his hard breaths. She leans in and whispers something to him, and I see him still. Then, she relaxes before starting her devilish giggle; it irritates me. ‘Can you just move!’ I beg my legs; they are willing to move this time, but my brain wouldn’t permit them to. I suddenly want to know how this will play out, the desperation to hear whatever it is she whispered to him. Her hands roam on his body and I hear him grunt. A grunt I recognize, my heart deflates. ‘You have a mate Moon!’ I warn myself, and in doing that, an image flashes in my mind, and my eyes open in horror. What if Liam had his fill waiting at our usual spot and decided to come to the gate like he had done once? What if he had seen Aiden place that dirty li
Aiden's POV“What do you think you are doing?” I whisper-shouted at her, my hands itching to strangle her.“What do you think I am doing?” She asks back, leaning on the wall, her hands crossed beneath her breast and her eyes looking suggestively at me.“I told you not to lay a hand on her,” I said with my teeth clenched, my hands folded in a tight ball. “Did you?” Came her reply, her head tilted slowly to the side with the corner of her lips lifted to the side.“Diana…”“Oh please Aiden. I didn’t touch her, or did I?” She smiled playfully, and I caught her red, shiny lip gloss.“I know you are behind what just happened,” I said in controlled rage.She looked at me, her lips restraining her laughter. “Prove it.” She said, bringing her hand to cover her lips with her brows lifted.Looking at her facial expression, I felt mad. She would be the only one apart from my parents to bring out the part of me, the extremely angered but helpless part of me.“Oh, Aiden.” She started placing her
Aiden’s POVThat feeling doused into a basin of ice blocks with her next line of words. “Stop protecting her.” She said slowly.“I know who she goes out to meet, I have met him myself.” She continued. I felt my heart was going to burst out of nervousness. What was she up to? Why would she meet Liam?Knowing Moon’s secret isn’t safe with me anymore, I begin to devise means to get her to stop getting infatuated with Liam, mate bond or not. “Stop your infatuation, it will destroy you. One more provocation from you, her secret, and yours will spill into the ears of our pack members, the elders inclusive.” Her words made my heartbeat almost come to a stop. “Think about your parents' reaction. What do you think they would say on knowing about your infatuation with the lowest werewolf in the Silverstone pack?”“Do yourself a favor and don’t get in my way.” She finalized with a devilish giggle as she relaxed and gave me a wicked look.I am left speechless as I look into her eyes. ‘Forget
Moon’s POVIt’s painful running but I can’t stop myself from doing it. It only seems okay; I get locked up in my room and breathe in the scent of my bed. It will calm my nerves.If there is any open wound from my fall from earlier, I can’t say because my mind is pretty preoccupied. How on earth would I know what Diana must have told Liam? When and where did she meet him? I need to see him tonight, I’d have to devise a way to sneak out of the pack house no matter what.Entering my safe space, my room. I closed the door and locked it immediately after. If there is something I wouldn’t want tonight, it is an unwanted visit from Aiden.Just like I thought, a knock came. His hand rapped gently on my door at first before hitting harder. I held my throbbing head in my hand as I felt like telling him off with a shout, but my throat was dry; I would need water to achieve that. I only want my personal space without all these. Is it too much to ask? “Moon?” He called.“Please open up the do
Moon’s POVBending with a pounding heart, I carried the parcel and waited for a bit to see if someone from somewhere would pounce on me and yell to attract attention. When nothing of such happened, I slowly receded into my room with the parcel in my hand. It felt a little heavy, I had to use both hands. Sitting on the side of my bed, I kept the parcel, studied it, and contemplated sneaking out to meet Liam first. “But…”Okay, never mind, I will just open it slowly. Drawing it carefully close to me, I take my time unwrapping the carefully packed parcel just in case there is a need to repackage it back the way it was packaged.Inside this beautifully wrapped package, I saw two other wrapped packages. By this time, my heart was thundering. What if I blow up? Or is something harmful in the parcel? Another unwanted memory flashed in my mind, but I blinked it away.Picking one parcel and throwing care into the wind. I tore it open to see a little note attached to the attractive-looking
Moon opened her eyes to see Victor on his knees with his hand on his open stomach. A gory sight to behold. She looked at her hands soaked with blood and her eyes widened. She wanted to feel fear but she only felt disgust. “I can’t believe I have your disgusting blood on my hands.” That was what she said. Moon almost bit her tongue to stop herself from talking but still talked anyway. She felt afraid yet courageous, she felt alone yet with company. Alpha Victor looked at her but he wasn’t surprised.“I knew this day would come.” He has his hands trying to stop the blood gushing from his belly. “You did? I doubt.” Moon walked closer to him and Liam almost shouted her name to stop her. “I didn’t kill you on purpose.” She sneered at him. “The next time you’d teleport in here again to cause havoc will be your last.”Victor looked at her before smiling, his teeth were bloodied. “I don’t need to. I have seen your future. You’d be worse than me.” “I will never be you.” She spat. “How
Moon POV. My face burned when I heard his words. Alpha Victor, the devil behind my misfortunes. I feel my teeth gritted on their own; I struggle to control my anger, the pains from my past, and the trauma I have been through. What was he doing here? Did he come to get his daughter? Did he come for Liam? “Alpha Victor?” I asked the man who looked up at me from his bent posture and he nodded, coughing in-between. I bit my lips till I tasted blood, the pain and misfortunes riling up my anger even more. I felt powerful; the angrier I felt, my eyes felt hot, my nose itched, my breath harbored, and my entire body trembled. My fingers would have dug into my palms and drawn out blood if I hadn’t bitten them off due to nervousness. “What does he think he is doing here?” I felt my lips tremble. If I looked scary, I don’t know, but I saw everyone shift away from me except Liam, who struggled to stand to his feet and covered my palm with his. “Moon, you have got me.” His voice penetrated
Placing a hand on Moon’s hand, a soft glow enveloped both Moon and Harper, healing them all at once. It was risky but Liam found it more risky if anything happened to Moon. He felt weakened; his shoulders sagged as he groaned but still held on till Moon pulled out and held on to him, but his weight was much on her. Her hands gave way and he fell to the floor. “Liam?”“Alpha?” “Liam!?” The rest called in panic and concern but Alpha Rex only got startled before looking on.“Liam?” She called, wanting to touch his face but Liam held her hand mid-way and shook his head at her. “Don’t.” He shook his head, smiling weakly at her. ***Appearing right in front of the pack house, which had a group of gossiping females, Alpha Victor startled them, and they began to scream at the sudden appearance of a handsome, elderly-looking stranger in their midst. Looking straight into one of their eyes, he manipulated their mind. “Take me to Liam.” Just like a fool, she walked ahead without a stop
“Kia?” Olivia entered the sick bay to see a back full of blood. “Kia!” She called with more urgency as she rushed towards him. He turned to look at her before melting into her trembling arms. “Aunty?” He whimpered. When Olivia’s eyes met Harper’s body on the bed with her uneven breathing she tried to understand what happened. “What is it?” She looked into his eyes. “My Baby.” Kia pushed his lips to the side, his eyes staring into the distance. Olivia disengaged from the hug completely. “The baby is yours!?” She didn’t know if she should be happy at the news or disgusted at the lady who chose to make herself an object of shame. “Yes, but…” Kia stopped to get a hang of himself. “But?” Olivia left him and walked towards Harper. “It is in danger.” “She tried killing it off?” She stared at Harper on the bed and refused to touch her. “She tried killing its father.” Serenity exposed. “What?” Olivia snapped her head towards Kia whose eyes snapped shut, refusing to look anyone in t
“I reject…” “Wait!” Serenity had screamed at him, the painful ripping of her heart was overwhelming. She could not bear to hear him say it all out. “Please don’t.” She found herself pleading. “I can’t do this anymore. We can’t do this.” He said robotically. “Aiden.” She called him, holding onto the sticky bar, not minding the stench and the severity of the situation. “Leave.” Aiden looked away. “I can’t. We are mated.” Serenity found herself saying. “I killed her,” Aiden confessed, putting her off. “What!?” She would admit, she was shocked. He smirked at her shocked expression as if that had been his expectation all along. “Serenity!” Someone called her from the entrance. “Please leave if you are in.” Another ordered. She knew she wasn’t supposed to be there, it was the rule but she didn’t mind violating this rule. “We will come in two minutes, and we request you leave, or else we won’t be responsible for whatever reaction you get.” The head prison guard said this time.
Alpha Rex sat with his shoulders sagged on Olivia’s high bed. He couldn’t and didn’t look at her face, he only listened. “Alpha Victor, he made me a clean slate.” She sniffled, her shoulders shook. She went ahead to recount what happened up until the day she met Liam. “He was a lonely and depressed little boy.” She sniffed again, before blowing her nose into her handkerchief. “He poisoned me. He…he used his abilities on me.” Alpha Rex’s face was in a frown as he stared at the floor. He hadn’t still forgiven Liam for what he did to him years ago; he would have almost died if Victor, his Gamma, hadn’t saved him. But even that was a ploy too. Olivia looked up at her Mate, standing up, she came and sat beside him, putting a hand on his shoulder. “Would you believe me if I told you he didn’t do it because he wanted to?” She asked him. Alpha Rex looked at his long-lost Mate with shaky eyes. “What do you mean?” “Rex.” Olivia sighed. “He would have refused if he didn’t want to do
Kia looked down on the kneeling Harper who held his kneels like her life depended on it. “Please, Kia.” Harper was on her knees, her hands holding his legs tightly. “Is the baby mine or not?” He looked ahead after asking her the question. “Please.” She repeated and he banged his hand on the wall. “That is no answer to my question!” His lips were trembling as he looked at the woman he once loved with every fiber of his being. Harper swallowed; she knew she had no chance with Liam anymore, so she wanted to do anything to get Kia to take her back. Yes, she was pregnant for real, and no, the child wasn’t Liam’s; she just wanted to be the Luna of the pack. But seeing her competitor had an Alpha for a father already put her off track, there was no way in hell she could compete with that. “The baby…” She held her stomach, tears rolling down her eyes. “Yes? What happens to the baby?” He questioned. “The baby, it is…yours.” She whispered the last word. “It is mine?” Kia bit his lower
Serenity walked absentmindedly down the stairs to the underground dungeons. She didn’t know what she was doing; she didn’t know why she was walking down here. Maybe she knew, she just could not stop herself. “Hey, whatcha doing going down in there?” A prison guard held her hand to stop her from advancing. “Let go of me, I need to get something confirmed.” Her voice was cold, she did not bother looking back either. “Haven’t you considered my proposal yet?” He asked, still holding onto her arm. “I won’t repeat myself.” She just added, her eyes looking through the metal bars of the closed dungeon. “See Babes. I like you and would do whatever it is you want, just…” Serenity made a swift turn, hooked her hand under his armpit, locked her legs with his, and within a couple of seconds, he was thrown to the hard floor. “Ooowwfff! What the hell man!” The prison guard was almost in tears as he tried to roll off the floor to get to his feet. “Learn to stay off when told.” Serenity warned
Joana, whose breath almost eluded her ran as fast as she could towards the rogue pack and ended up unconscious by the gate. She was picked up and brought into the Alpha’s court. “What is this?” Alpha Victor, who got down to chain smoking to calm his sudden wrecked nerves, asked, his head pointing towards the now transformed Joana on the floor. “We found her by the gate.” One of the burly-looking men with a long mustache replied, gently kicking Joana on her stomach. “Wake her.” He looked away, smoking off the cigar in her hand. Taking a bottle of water, a tomboyish-looking woman sprinkled it on Joana’s face till her eyes fluttered open. Coughing with her hands flying towards her nose to stop her from inhaling the nauseating smoke, Joana tried to understand her environment. She thought back to what happened before now but her brain went blank. “What brings you to my pack woman?” Alpha Victor’s deep voice asked. Joana straightened up immediately upon hearing Alpha Victor’s voice