~Emerald~Alpha Gideon kneels in front of me, his eyes filled with tears. My mouth widened from what he did. I didn't expect Gideon to cry in front of me. Seems like he was just happy knowing that I allowed him to court me. I don't have a problem with that. Gideon is allowed to court me because he's a kind-hearted Alpha I know. He was there during the times when I needed someone to lean on. He's one of those people who lift me up. My heart will be safe with him. I know he won't hurt me just like what James did to me.‘You are not sure about that, Emerald. Just think carefully about your decisions in life,’ Lilian uttered.I let out a deep breath and didn't reply to her. I have to focus myself towards Gideon who was in tears until now.“Thank you for giving me a chance to court you, Emerald. If you accept my hand, I promise you will never regret it. You will never cry just the way you experience from James. I will accept you and Jacob with my heart,” Gideon uttered between his tears.
~Emerald~“Yes, I will reject James and choose you, Gideon.” After Gideon heard my answer, he couldn't stop himself from smiling as if this were the best thing he heard from me.“That's good, Emerald. I just wanted to make sure that James had no chance with you. Come on, let's eat our dinner,” Gideon said, and I smiled. He went back into his seat, and we began eating the food that he prepared for our date. We just talked after eating until Gideon decided to bring me back to my cabin. He accompanied me there and never left until I entered the cabin. I was still smiling as I locked the door of my house when someone spoke.“Where have you been?” My heart almost jumped off from my rib cage upon hearing that voice. A deep voice coming from James. I took a deep breath and said, “You don't care.”I walked away and decided to pass him when James stopped me by grabbing my wrist. I gritted my teeth and took his hand off my wrist.“Did you think I wouldn't know where you are?” James respond
~Emerald~“Does he make you happy?” I was stunned in my direction when I heard this from James. As I stared at him deep in his eyes, all I could see was pain. I know this is painful for him but just like what I have said, James has to experience this. He has to know that he can't have everything.A deep breath escaped out of my throat as I tilted my head as I spoke, “Yes, I am happy with Gideon.”‘That's a lie, Emerald. You have to tell James the truth!’ Lilian screamed at the back of my head but I didn't listen to her. I disregard her screams because I can do whatever I want to do.James, who heard my answer smiled bitterly, tears still flowing from his eyes. He used the back of his hand to wipe the tears. “You are right. I deserve all of this, and I would forever hold this regret until my last breath. If I couldn't have you anymore, then it's time…” James paused for a moment, and then he continued, “It's time for me to give up, Emerald, but it doesn't mean I'm giving up on loving
~James~Just after talking to Emerald, I went back to my cabin in Gideon's pack. I can feel my heart still in pain knowing that the woman I loved chose my step-brother instead of me, but I respected her decision. I didn't want anything but to see her being happy with someone else, and I couldn't give her that because of my chaotic life.“Alpha James?” Levi asked after he saw me. “It's time to leave, Levi,” I uttered, walking straight to my closet. I just took my coat. I will leave my things behind because I don't need it, actually. Levi, who was confused about what I said, walked in front.“What do you mean, Alpha James?” Levi asked, his voice filled with confusion. I let out a deep sigh and met his gaze. “We are leaving this pack for good. Emerald has already made her choice and she didn't choose me.” Levi gasped from what he found out as if he couldn't believe it. This man knew all the things and efforts I did for Emerald. He knows everything because he's been with me.“She chos
~James~After leaving my step-brother's pack, I go back to the Crescent Moon Pack right away. My men immediately welcomed me the moment they saw me enter the border.“We are glad to see you here again, Alpha James,” one of them uttered these words to me. I just looked at them with my blank face. Emerald kept banging on in my mind, and it's just difficult to forget about her, especially our son, Jacob.My gamma, Calvin, immediately met me in his serious reaction. I stared at him thinking about the task I gave him.“You have to know something, Alpha James,” Calvin said, making me stop from walking.I let out a deep breath, nodding my head responding to him.“Follow me to my office and bring everything you've gotten for me.” Calvin nodded his head responding to me. I continued walking until I finally reached the mansion. The moment my beta opened the door, I was surprised by what I found out.“James?” Katie was shocked when she saw me. My jaw tightened when I noticed what she was holdi
~James~“It is the time for Katie's dethroning, Calvin.” After I mentioned these words towards my gamma, I left the office while holding the DNA result in my hands. I walked straight to where Katie is, and she was in the living room, sipping a coffee as if nothing happened earlier.“James,” she stood up from the couch to face me. I started gritting my teeth, my eyes were fixed on her. I threw the result in front of her face that shocked her.“Explain that to me, Katie!” I barked, making her nervous. It's obvious from her facial reaction that she's nervous about what I have against her.Katie read it, her eyes widened. She was even shaking her head, which made me cross my arms while waiting for her to speak. “N-No, no, no. This can't be. This is not true, James. The result is fake!” Katie crashed the result and threw it somewhere. She started crying in front of me.‘You didn't say anything yet, but she was already affected. Seems like, someone is being guilty,’ Logan murmured at the
~Emerald~It's already been one month since James left the pack and after that, I haven't found him. I couldn't feel his presence anymore and it's kind of frustrating for no reason. “You should not feel that. You made your choice, remember?” Lilian asked at the back of my head. I let out a sigh instead of answering her. I know I am not entitled to feel this and maybe this is just a mistake, so I tried removing James from my mind. Tonight, Gideon and I will have a date. I have already accepted him when he courted me and I can't understand myself. There is something in me that doesn't like that idea of answering Gideon. It's just difficult to explain.“Emerald?” I raised my head when I heard my best friend's voice. Cassandra came inside while smiling. I furrowed my brows because of that and wondered what made her smile so widely. “Has something happened, Cass?” I inquired. She walked straight in my direction and then held my hands. Cassandra stared at me deep into my eyes before sp
~Emerald~‘Then do something, Emerald. You can't accept this proposal if you know you don't want it!’I could feel distress from the voice of my wolf. I understand her feelings because this is what I also felt right now. This whole thing made me realize that I made a mistake of accepting Gideon too early.I didn't expect that he would ask for my hand so early. It's as if he doesn't want to waste anymore time. “I know you're wondering why I asked for your hand this early, and it's because I don't waste time. I don't want to let you go and I am always afraid that someone will take you away from me, but if you don't want to accept it, you can tell me now and embarrass me in front of them,” Gideon responded in his sad voice. I clenched my fists after hearing Gideon's statement. I only have two options now. It's either I will decline him and embarrass the man who loved me and saved my life, or maybe I will accept his proposal.‘And then what will happen? Are you really going to fool your
~Emerald~I was supposed to shine tonight. This is my chance to prove that I can do what men can do, but it never happened.James has finally returned. He used his ability again to kill the hybrids without struggling, while I remained standing. All I did was watch him as he finished our enemies, those who kidnapped us, until Ellie was the only one who was left with us.James is just too powerful for the hybrids to kill them. They never think about the consequences of their actions.“Emerald…”The first thing that James did is to rush in my direction. He pulled my body, giving me a tight hug. I just bit my lower lips, as I tried to control the annoyance I felt towards James.“You made me worried. I thought something bad happened to you, but I'm glad that Alpha Maximo and Joyce cooperated with us to find Ellie. Thankfully, we came on time before something worse could happen to you.” James muttered, his reaction filled with worries.I can't help but pout on my lips upon hearing it. James
~Emerald~I was stunned when Emily cried in front of me. My heart shattered hearing her sobs as I can feel that she's carrying so much struggle in life and knowing that we've been kidnapped by Ellie. That woman is a total bitch. I will make her regret messing with me.“Emily, what happened?” I asked, my tone filled with worries.Emily bit her lower lips as she raised her head to look at me. Her eyes filled with her tears and fear is also evident from it. I know she's afraid of our situation right now, but I have to remind her that she has nothing to be scared of.I will find a way to escape here. Ellie will not succeed in her plans. She will really regret it later.“I-I heard what Ellie had told you earlier. We didn't know that she was a hybrid. We never knew that the pack we allowed to enter our territory was actually the reason behind my parents' death. Hybrids killed our parents, Luna Emerald!” Ellie explained to me.I was stunned upon learning it. I have never expected that the hy
~Emerald~“Luna is finally awake!”The moment I opened my eyes, these words were the first thing I heard. My head is still painful, making me grimaced in pain. I made sure that the pain in my head would lessen before I opened my eyes again.At first, my eyes were still blurry, but after a second, it started to clear. I started to panic when I suddenly realized the people in front of me.I even moved, but I can't move my hands because they were tied with a metallic leash. Beside me, I saw Emily, who was still unconscious.“F*ck! Where are we!?” I screamed in front of the wolves.They suddenly laughed as if they found my statement funny.“You don't feel this place, Luna Emerald?”One of them asked, making me raise my brows.“How would I know if you used a chemical on me to take my consciousness?” I blurted, and then laughed again.These wolves in front of me don't look familiar. I am certain that this is the first time I have seen them and the place they take us, I have no idea where th
~Emerald~“Stay away from her! She's a threat to you!”My mouth widened from what I saw. This is the old woman who just said so many things to me last night. The woman who mentioned the prophecy. I really don't know what she wanted to point out.“What the hell are you talking about?” James exclaimed, blocking the woman from hitting me with her stick.I can't believe she's being too aggressive now compared to last night. She wanted to hit me and fortunately, James is with me. He protected me from the old woman.“Alpha King, I want you to be careful with her. She brought misfortune with you. That woman will be your greatest destruction and if you don't leave her, the worst things are coming into your life!” She uttered, making me stunned.I just felt my body start to tremble as her words started to sink in to me. All the bad words that she mentioned were for me. The aggressive old woman was referring to me, and this is annoying. I don't know how on earth she made a story about me.She w
~Emerald~Ellie ran in front of Alpha James. She suddenly wrapped her hands around her neck and was about to kiss my husband when James stopped her.I suddenly felt my blood boil from what I witnessed towards Ellie. She changed abruptly. I saw how mad she was at James, but when she heard her father called my husband the Alpha King, everything changed from her.“Do you want me to deal with her, Luna Emerald? She's being flirtatious!” Emily reacted beside me.I looked at her, and shook my head in response.“No, need. I trusted my husband. He will deal with her and let's just watch how he will embarrass Ellie.” I muttered to her, even though my inner self was telling me to attack Ellie.“I-I didn't realize it earlier, Alpha King. I'm sorry if it takes time for me to recognize that you're the real Alpha King. Please, forgive us. We haven't recognized you because we never had the chance to see your face,” Ellie explained to James.At this point, I just crossed my arms, my eyes were on her.
~Emerald~“You cheated!”I suddenly turned my head at Joyce when she shouted those words. My mouth widened at her in disbelief.“Watch your words, Joyce! You are talking to the Alpha King!” Casper reminded her, but she shook her head.She was gritting her teeth as she looked at us, anger filled her eyes. Ellie, on the other hand, was looking at me dangerously.That kind of look, I know there's something playing in her mind and I need to prepare that. I can already sense that they will do something very unlikely. I know these wolves won't accept defeat and my instincts earlier are right.“We can't accept this, Casper! That man cheated my father. He's not the Alpha King. He can't be the Alpha King!” Joyce continued shouting.James didn't say anything to her. He just remained standing while looking at her, but I can already feel what's in his heart. James wanted to kill her, but we can't do that. There's no way you can hurt someone without valid reason.“I keep saying it since earlier th
~Emerald~My eyes were still on Casper's visitors. I don't want to move my attention away because I want to see what could be their reactions when they found out that James is really the Alpha King. They don't believe Casper's words.I know this is difficult to believe because they haven't met the Alpha King yet, and I understand that, but I won't tolerate what Ellie had uttered from earlier.“Don't worry, Casper. We know what we are doing, and we're popular for doing deals, don't we?” Alpha Maximo responded to Casper.James let out a soft chuckle and I know because he can't believe in them. He never expected to find out that nobody did recognize him, and now I was thinking about how Casper's visitors will find out about us.“How will you confirm it?”They turned their attention to James when he finally decided to intervene. I just took a glance at James because I focused my eyes back at Ellie.I was guessing about what they will do to confirm that the wolf in front of them is actuall
~Emerald~I can feel piercing eyes on me, but I didn't mind them. My attention was with Ellie to know her reaction.After I asked that question to Ellie, she started smirking. It even took her a minute before she responded.“Well, I just have one plan towards the Alpha King. I will just offer myself to him and I know he will not say no to it. I have a nice body and all the male wolves in our pack have been dreaming to touch it,” Ellie muttered in confidence.When I heard what she said, I could feel my teeth gritted, while my hands clenched in annoyance. She looked overconfident when she uttered those words at me.This woman has no idea that she was talking to the wife of the Alpha King.“Did you know that the Alpha King has a wife?” I mumbled, and because of what I had said, James pinched my arm.I just glared at him and he sighed. He's trying to stop me from fighting Ellie, but I won't back out. I will just teach this woman a lesson to be cautious on everything she wants to say.“Oh
~Emerald~James doesn't have a choice but to agree to Casper after I confirm. He agreed to stroll the pack that his father stayed with before we went back to our pack.After talking to Alpha Casper, James and I returned to our room. We lay on the bed and James told me to sleep. He never leaves my side until I fall asleep. James' presence really helped me to relax. I have forgotten everything that happened that day.The next morning, James woke me up. We took our shower together and left the room to start the day within Casper's pack.James was holding my hand as we walked the way out of Casper's mansion. The moment I stepped my feet outside the door, I found myself amazed from what I saw.“This pack looks wonderful as well, James,” I mumbled to him.“Tsk. Our pack still looks better and more powerful.” He responded.I just shook my head and didn't mind what he said. We just continued walking until we found Emily and Alpha Casper coming into our direction. Emily is smiling already, whi