We left Pascal's house after informing him we would send men to keep him safe. He looked scared and even wanted to go with us but we couldn't take him with us because of his dangerous it was. After that, we visited the rest of the students on the list. Funny enough, all of them had one thing to say about Fred. They all spoke of how intelligent he was and how timid he acted most of the time. None of them said anything bad about him. It made me realize Fred was a man who played with masks. The only people who knew who he was were those in the same group as him, those who knew him as the Scorpion. Each person has a part of him they had seen. “What did you go out to do?” Jeremy asked when he got into the car. "Who were you calling?" We had just left the house of the last student.“Fred. I have been trying his number since the receptionist sent it to me, but it's switched off.”“Should we investigate his house?” Storm suggested, turning to look at me. “He's the only one we haven't chec
I didn't return to the hospital after having my late lunch, opting to take a cab to the location. Since Fred wanted to meet me alone, I would do that, even if it meant stepping into the enemy's trap. What I did before I left was to construct a message to Jeremy, putting it on a timer, to be sent in two hours. This way, he will be able to look for me should I not return at the elapse of the time. I had to use that as a backup. I got out of the taxi and thanked him. Whatever my mates said to their people on the last day they had a meeting with them seemed to work because the man didn't take any money from me — not that I had one to spare. The last money with me was used to buy lunch — claiming he wouldn't charge his Luna. I waited until he drove off before I took a step towards the woods, standing in the same spot I stood on when I came to this place with my mates. “Fred? I know you are here. There's no reason to keep hiding. I came alone as you wished. Won't you meet me?” I demande
SUMMERFred remained silent after that, looking at me with an expression of guilt. I wanted to ask why he looked like that but didn't speak a word. Instead, I watched him, to know what he would say should he ever decide to speak to me. He cleared his throat before whispering, “I'm sorry.”I blinked at that, wondering why he was apologizing to me. “Why?” I demanded. “For not saying anything when I discovered who was responsible for this. I knew he was the only one when the 5th student got killed. It was too much of a coincidence, but I was scared someone might rope me in, which is why I said nothing, opting to keep things to myself.”“It's… It's okay,” I said with a smile, not ready to say anything more before understanding what the hell was going on here. It seemed there was more to this than met the eyes, and I wanted to know what the fuck was going on.“No, it's not,” he insisted, looking up at me. “It's not freaking okay. I should have reported this when I noticed the similariti
Trigger warning: Light torture and Gore“What the fuck is even wrong with you?” I snarled at him, fed up with his contradicting words. “Why can't you just fucking stick to one thing? Are you the Scorpion or not? Fred said —”I looked towards Fred, only to discover he was sound asleep. That bastard! How can he doze in such a situation despite the noises? Someone like him might sleep through an earthquake. Frowning, I turned to face Pascal. Pascal smiled at the question but didn't reply. He got an axe from the table I overlooked and walked over to Nelly. I watched with bated breaths, guessing he was going to cut her in two, only for him to cut the rope holding her to the ceiling. I released a breath of relief, thinking it was over, not knowing the bastard was just getting started. “And for your information, Summer, I deleted your message. Your dear Jeremy didn't receive your message. By now, he might even believe you returned home to get some things. It's a pity, though.” He chuckl
He left her after that, throwing her to the ground to soak in her blood. I couldn't look anymore. There was nothing to expel from my stomach, and it hurt like hell. I could only stare at the ceiling, wondering how I would get him to release me without arousing his suspicion. I needed to be out of here, and as far from this psycho as I could. “Are you hungry?” He asked, walking over to my side as he wiped his bloodied hands on the white handkerchief he brought out from the pocket of his shirt. “Hungry?” I scoffed, looking at the madman, and wondering what the fuck was going through his mind at the moment because it seemed to be a lot. “How the fuck do you expect me to be ravenous after seeing all this?” I mouth-gestured towards Nelly before I focused on him, my eyes dark in rage. He smiled at the question as he reached forward to touch my left cheek. “You amuse me, darling. Do you know that?” Winking at me, he turned. “I will get your favourites for you. Don't miss me too much.”I
JEREMYIt was getting late, and the Luna wasn't back. The last time I checked, I saw her leaving the hospital. She didn't take a cab though, and from the path she took, I could tell she went to the nearest café. I'd been standing by the window for close to an hour, waiting for her return so we could run down on the things Storm discovered, but she was nowhere to be found. I tried her number, but it was switched off.After Storm's arrival, I asked him to check for her at the Café, but he didn't find her, so I sent him to their house to check on her. She wasn't in the Alphas' hospital room and neither had anyone seen her since she left hours ago. Pacing the floor of my hospital room, I kept glancing outside, praying that all these to be a prank. I tried not to think of the worst, knowing my Alphas would have my head should anything happen to their mate. They wouldn't even care that I wasn't in excellent form, to protect her.A knock sounded on the door before Storm stepped in, a fro
SUMMERWhen Pascal returned with supper like he promised, he didn't force me to eat. He dropped the food on the same desk he cut Nelly's hands off on, smiling as he told me dinner was ready. I watched as he picked Nelly up and tied her to a chair. She was unconscious. Having lost that amount of blood, I doubt she would survive the night. I could already tell it would be late by the time Fred released himself. Pascal squatted in front of her. He touched her cheeks before he got up. I watched as he went over to the only window in the room. Below it was a small box, which I failed to notice because of how black it was. It was almost the same colour as the wall. And even if I saw it, I would have thought I was looking at the extension of the wall, not knowing it was a trunk. The box was a first aid kit. Smiling, he carried it back to her.I watched him know what he intended to do with the box, curious as I peered at him, observing his steps and waiting for him to do something bad as he
“What was she trying to convey?” Fred demanded, looking towards me. I couldn't answer him as tears streamed down my eyes. Watching her die made it seem like they ripped something from me. I could only watch her lifeless body doing nothing. I was as helpless as she was, and could only watch her draw her last breath. “Luna?”Blinking, I turned to look at him, frowning. “What's wrong?”“What did she gesture before she died?” His tone sounded urgent. More like he needed to know what she told me. “Will that help your case?” I frowned at him, not replying to his questions, but wondering his reasons for asking me that. Why does he sound as if he had to learn what she told me about?Sighing, he returned to what he was doing, this time, hasty in his actions. He wasn't as sluggish as he was when Nelly was still alive. I couldn't pinpoint why I had speculated about his activities, but I did. Wondering if, like Pascal, Fred wanted her dead? “I assumed she told you something and wished to know
“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