HELENI inhaled, sighing at the sweet smell of summer. Fall was close, I could feel it, and that sent tingles through my body. Things were finally getting into place. A smile crept over my face as I gazed at the sleeping woman. “It's a pity I have to do this.” I sighed, running my fingers over her smooth face. I would have sunk my claws into it and watched with satisfaction as the blood gushed, but I withheld the urge. I needed to make everything look real and perfect. Giving her a mark would cause her mates to suspect she was forced, and that wasn't something I was looking forward to. I picked her up from the couch and carried her to their shared room. I would have taken her to hers, but wanted to rub this in the faces of their mates. Knowing who they were, cheating on them, wouldn't hurt as much as seeing her with another man in their bed. I placed her on the bed, frowning when she tried to push me away. The drug I used on her was a heavy one, so I wasn't scared of waking her up
MITCHWe rushed home like possessed men, our hearts beating from both fear and the race we had down to our car. Instead of taking the elevator like we always did, Mike said it would delay us, so we ended up running down the stairs at the speed of lighting. Miles drove, and Mike sat next to him in the passenger's position. I was the only one sitting at the back, our thoughts all on our mate. The moment he drove into our compound and killed the engine, we jumped out of the car and raced for the door. “My Alphas!” Helen met us by the door. She was standing by the side of the house, but we failed to see her because our focus was on the door and nothing else.“Get out!” We growled at her, stepping to the door. I unlocked it with my thumb, frowning when I noticed the imprint of a hand on the handle. That wasn't caused by us, so there was no freaking way it could be there if someone weren't in the building. With our hearts thumping at that revelation, we stepped into the house, banging th
MITCHWe rushed home like possessed men, our hearts beating from both fear and the race we had down to our car. Instead of taking the elevator like we always did, Mike said it would delay us, so we ended up running down the stairs at the speed of lighting. Miles drove, and Mike sat next to him in the passenger's position. I was the only one sitting at the back, our thoughts all on our mate. The moment he drove into our compound and killed the engine, we jumped out of the car and raced for the door. “My Alphas!” Helen met us by the door. She was standing by the side of the house, but we failed to see her because our focus was on the door and nothing else.“Get out!” We growled at her, stepping to the door. I unlocked it with my thumb, frowning when I noticed the imprint of a hand on the handle. That wasn't caused by us, so there was no freaking way it could be there if someone weren't in the building. With our hearts thumping at that revelation, we stepped into the house, banging th
SUMMERTalk of something unexpected happening. I woke up when I felt a hand on my body. At first, I thought it was either of my mates' hands, but it felt so odd. Snapping my groggy eyes open, I screamed when I saw another man on the bed, naked and trying to feel me up. When I struggled to fight with him, he held both of my hands above my head, trapping me under him. I could even fight as I struggled to get him to free me, only to get caught by my mates. My gaze wandered around the room, at the lifeless human on the floor. I tried to wonder how everything went wrong. “I didn't do that,” I affirmed, looking up at them with tears brimming in my eyes. I sniffed, wiping the tears.“How do you expect us to believe you when we saw you in bed with another man?” Mike asked, a scowl on his face. I'd never seen my brothers as angry as they were, and I knew I was the cause. How the hell did I sleep off and get here? The human and —“Helen! Where is she?” I glanced around, expecting the werewo
Things were tense between us. I mean, the super strained one with an uncomfortable silence so thick you can cut through it with a sword and make a pie. After our confrontation, Mitch tried to act normal with me, coming up to tell me dinner had been made. I was the one who refused it, knowing they were only doing this because they'd gotten used to it, and were only feeling sorry for me. I didn't eat dinner that night, despite the many times they came knocking on my door. I was heartbroken, more than they were. Their accusations hurt me the most, not waking up to see a human in the same bed with me. It broke my heart to know that the men I'd loved deeply would think badly about me. The next day, I woke up before them, had my bath, and got dressed. I ate the last bread in the fridge, promising myself to get my food from now on. I would have moved out of their house, but the thoughts of what my father might say about it made me decide again. In a way, they weren't to be blamed. Anyone
I buried myself in work while seeking Helen. The woman has been hiding for a week now. Things were getting hot between my mates, and I knew it was just a matter of time before they snapped. We still lived under the same roof, but our conversations with each other had been strained. No day passes without me snapping at them, especially when they try to use that cheating word on me. Mitch was the only one who worked to act normal with me, but I could tell he was just acting. He was, after all, the one who cared for me the best when we were still harmonious. He'd gotten used to that and was attempting to keep up with it. The bitter one among them was Mike. He kept on snapping any chance he got. Miles remained silent. I doubt he'd spoken to me more than thrice since that incident. Most of the time, he avoided staying in the same place as me. They still send my work to me. Like I once said, my mates don't mix business with pleasure. Work was work. Our personal life had nothing to do wit
Mitch didn't speak of what happened in the sitting room, and I didn't press that. I just let him do whatever he wished, while looking for that slut, Helen. I had yet to find her, but I knew I would, and I did. I found her two weeks later, in a grocery store. I had just gone over to get some things when I met her. "Helen!" I called out, waving at her, smiling like one who had seen a best friend. I rushed over to her, still grinning. Her eyes widened when she saw me. She looked like a deer caught in headlights as she waited for me to arrive. The guilt in her eyes was enough for me to know she knew what happened that fateful day. “Hi.” She smiled. “What brings you here? Are you here to get groceries? What about your mates?” She asked, looking behind me as if they were hiding at my back. “Oh, them? I don't eat with them anymore. Since they found me in bed with a man, they haven't spoken to me. We are now like strangers sharing the same roof.” I sniffed, dabbing under my eyes with my h
I assumed they wouldn't stay back, but they did. It was surprising because I didn't expect that. I thought they would play it off as me speaking a bluff and go their way without listening to me. At exactly 9:50, I asked them to enter the bathroom. They did so with so much difficulty, warning me with their eyes. Mitch was the only one who didn't look at me with suspicion as he entered the bathroom. I locked it behind me and went downstairs to wait for Helen. I played everything cool, so I wouldn't look like I was expecting her. I made a cup of coffee and sipped it while waiting for her. She showed up at exactly 10, not a second later. “Thank Goddess, you are here!” I threw the door open and ushered her in, grabbing her hand. “You don't know how much this means to me.”“I'm glad.” She patted my palm with a smile. “We are friends, after all. I can't just let you wallow in sorrow without extending an arm of consolation towards you.”“You are an angel!” I gulped down the coffee and drop
“But before that, you guys need to wash up,” I said in my way stern voice. “What do you do after a full day of playing out?” “We wash up!” Blue replied while the girls groaned.“Good. It's time to do that, darlings.” The girls sighed at my words. With their shoulders drooped and matching frowns on their faces, they strode towards the stairs, with Blue skipping all the way.“How was work, darling?” Miles asked as he placed a kiss on my left cheek. “Good.” Smiling, I stepped into the kitchen to announce my return to my other mates before I went upstairs to help the kids with their bath. The girls asked to go first, so they could rush downstairs and eat the cookies their dad promised them before Blue could finish. And being the best mummy I could for my son, I bathed him first, while the girls groaned about how unreasonable this was. Really? They thought it was unfair because I didn't honour their wishes. I couldn't be blamed for that, though. Not when Blue was the only one who wo
Four Years Later“Mum!” I turned at the call, smiling as Hazel ran towards me. “See mummy, I drew a cat!” she yelled out. “Oh, darling.” I got down on one knee so I could hug her. “Let's see.” I took the drawing book from her and made a surprised expression at the cat she drew. “It's wonderful!” I leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead. “Soon, you will be so good at this, you will beat the best artists in the entire world.” “Even the humans?” She looked up, her eyes sparkling.“Yeah, those.” I patted her red hair, which was so much like my father's. Well, our babies all had red hair and blue eyes. I assumed they would have the same hair as their fathers, but they took after their grandfather. “Mum!” Scarlet and Blue ran towards me, yelling as they tried to outrun each other.Seeing how delighted they were at my return, you would think I left them for a trip, not knowing I just returned from work. Ever since the pack opened the veil to welcome the human city, the human
When I assumed things couldn't get any better, my mates proved me wrong. I didn't know they were still thinking of the mating ceremony. I had long given up on that. Despite the change of treatments from the pack; I assumed they wouldn't fully accept me. Who would have thought my mates would get them to accept me?They didn't tell me about that because the elders were still waiting for an auspicious day. As my due date got nearer, they became apprehensive. However, they didn't tell me the reason until the elders provided a date, two days before the date the doctor gave me. They were so thrilled, they almost hugged the living hell out of me. It felt like they were going to press our babies out from how happy they were as they expressed their happiness. I might not be a werewolf, but I understood how important it was for them to bond with me before the babies arrived. Father was, after all, the one who made the rules. Funny enough, I had forgotten about that until Mitch mentioned it.
SUMMERIt appeared Helen was the one who followed me. While the others burned in the house, she escaped so she would get rid of me, as revenge. It turned out her lover died in the fire with the rest.We fought with each other, and she would have hit the stone on my head, but she slipped. When I saw her on the floor, I couldn't tell what got over me as I climbed on her and used the rock she intended to kill me with on her. It wasn't until she was dead that I realized what I had just done. My hands shook as I watched her, tears streaming down my eyes at the sight of the lifeless woman I had just killed. I didn't know what to do, and could only sit there bawling out my eyes as I tried to tell the world I didn't harm her intentionally. Had she not sought to kill me, I doubt I would have harmed her. It took a lot from my mates to console me until I stopped shivering. Though I kept on muttering that I didn't mean to murder her, I wasn't as scared as I was when I hit her head with the sto
“I support that,” I added when I noticed my brothers were looking at me, waiting for my confirmation. “It's settled then. No matter how many fake tracks we will get, we have all decided to scale through them, right?” John lifted an eyebrow, waiting for our reply. “That's right.” We nodded. If he was pissed we spoke at the same time, he didn't let it show. Instead, he grinned as he turned, and soon took off. We followed him, my brothers having changed into their human form after our first fight. They realized it was easier to fight the bloodsuckers in our human forms since our wolves were vulnerable to their claws.And like that, we ended up going to ten bases. It wasn't until the last one that we got on the right track. We learned it from a vampire who recognized John. It turned out John was with the vampire prince, who ran away from home when he was eighteen and refused to return.The night we beat him up was his first day away from home. Hearing about that made us guilty. Though
MITCHIt turned out we were right by enlisting John's help. I doubt we would have discovered a trail had he not been with us. Though it was painful to say these words, I would do that. His nose was more sensitive and sharp than ours was. While we couldn't pick up a scent from the different ones in the air, he could do that. He didn't even have to continue sniffing as he went like we would have done.Not only did he discover Summer's scent among the millions in the air, but he also found out that whoever took her was working with vampires. I would have teased him about not knowing the things his pack members were involved with but thought better about it. We had far more pressing matters to do, and teasing wasn't part of it. John didn't immediately set out when he got the scent he was looking for. He kept on sniffing to make sure his nose wasn't picking up the wrong ones before he took off. My brothers changed into their wolf forms and ran after him, while I called Jeremy for reinfor
I watched him without saying a word because I didn't know what the fuck I should say. This wasn't what I was expecting. When I called the murderer a psycho, I believed he did it because of the gratification he got from shedding blood. Who would have thought they forced him to do it? I didn't blame him at all. Even though his way of taking care of things wasn't right. He shouldn't have taken matters into his hands like he did. But I still didn't fault him.Had I been in his shoes, I would have done worse than that. I was aware of how soft-hearted I was, but not in such a situation. I wouldn't have let those men stay a minute more on earth, not after all the things they did to my best friend.“I wouldn't say I understand your pain, and I won't also claim to know how you feel because I haven't experienced something like this. However, I'm not faulting the actions you took. Had I been in the same situation, I would have done the same, even worse.” He looked surprised by my words. “Reall
SUMMERI watched Helen with a bored look on my face. “Why did you tell me that? I believe in actions and not words, Helen. I hope you realize that.” “Oh?” She grinned, not looking fazed by my remarks. “I do too. I love action more than words, Summer. Soon, you will feel a taste of it, but not now. I just want you to enjoy the peace of this place while you can.” I didn't reply to that. All I did was roll my eyes and hope she could tell her words did not bother me. The door opened and closed before I heard footsteps. Like I did when Helen stepped in, I didn't look back. I just kept my attention on the woman sitting on the bed, while waiting for the person who entered to show themselves. And when they did, I could only gape, watching Fred with shocked eyes and my mouth opened wide in surprise. “Are you two working together?” I demanded, looking from one to the other while trying to tell myself I was imagining things. I knew I wasn't when Helen smirked. “Stunned?” Fred didn't say a
He arrived a few minutes later. It was faster than we expected. And to further stun us, he ran all the way. If that wasn't freaking crazy, you got to tell me what else might be. It wasn't until he stood in front of us that we realized why we thought the scent on Summer's body was familiar. On the night Summer ran away from home after we found our mate, we went to a human bar to get drunk and ran into him. He had the most awful smell in the entire world, and that pissed us off more than anything else. To cut a long story short, we ended up hitting him to ease our pain. We might have wounded him, but we didn't care. He was an outlet for us. Though we regretted it the next morning when we sobered up, we couldn't find him. He seemed to have disappeared after the fight. That's if you would call it that. It was more like a beating than a fight since we ganged up on him. “Fancy meeting you again.” He folded his arms, staring at us with his mouth pursed. “Didn't count on meeting the bulli