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
Nodding, I walked over to the closet and got my dresses out, throwing them on the bed. I stuffed the dresses in there this morning, to make everything believable enough for her.“Do you think I should leave?” I posed the question, acting like I wasn't paying any attention to her reply when I was. “That's the only solution to this. To be happy, let go of every toxicity, and they are one. Just leave for a human city. It wouldn't be difficult for you to live there, seeing you are human.”“That's true!” I nodded. “I have a business to take care of. I shouldn't be bothered about them. But…”“Why are you still reluctant? Don't tell me you still care about them after their accusations? Girl! You've got to wake up. They don't love you!” “I know.” I plopped down on the bed. “It's just that it's too difficult for me. They were my first love. I gave them all my firsts. I can't just forget about them and move on. They still —”“You need to leave! They don't deserve you. Men are scum. Just leave
MITCHNone of my brothers wished to stay back. They thought she was bluffing and only wanted to spend time with us. It took a lot of convincing before they agreed to stick around with me. And when she locked us up in the bathroom, they almost broke down the door, thinking she wanted to do something disastrous.“Chill! Summer must have her reasons. Do you think she would shut us up if she wished to harm us? She could do that effortlessly without going to such an extreme.”And that shut them up. They knew I was telling the truth. Had Summer ever wished to hurt us, she wouldn't need to lock us up to do that. She had enough power in her hands. Despite what happened between us, we still loved her too much to let her go. Had it been someone else, we would have sent them out of the house. The only reason my brothers weren't kind to her was the thoughts of her betrayal. Having another of our mates cheat on us made us seem incompetent. We took the blame, but Summer didn't know that. The inci
SUMMERMy head hurts. I thought the next time I would wake up would be on a bed, with my stepbrothers kneeling around it to beg forgiveness after knowing what a lying and conniving bitch Helen was. What I never expected was getting woken by her and tied to a fucking chair. My face was wet. I prayed for the liquid on it to be water despite knowing what it was. The slight headache I had was enough testament to the knock she gave me on the back of my head. She leaned close with a smile, her canine glinting. It reminded me of stories I'd heard about vampires. Just like my stepbrothers, there were many mystical creatures. They lived in seclusion like we did and hardly caused any problems for us and the rest. They stayed away from the human world and each other. However, there were rogues in each place just like ours, and rogue vampires were the worst. They kill without a second thought, tearing off the skin of their victims and sipping all the blood in the body. Her canines reminded me
Everything that happened within that hour was blurry to me. I lost consciousness because of the loss of blood and was admitted to a hospital. I woke up a few hours later to find myself in an unfamiliar room. I learned from my stepbrothers that they had arrested Helen, and she was awaiting judgment in their cell. They didn't kill her on the spot like they did to the man because there were rules guiding all the werewolves, laws they all keep despite their status. All her accomplices were caught and thrown into the cell with her, to await judgment. I stayed in the hospital throughout the day and was discharged the next morning. I didn't get a concussion — lucky me. They said it was just a mild injury. Aside from the small hole at the back of my head, I was good to go. My stepbrothers wanted to drive me home, but I refused. Had I not cleared my name, I doubt they would have let me stay in the same space with them. I asked a nurse to drive me back home because I wanted nothing to do wit
My stepbrothers deployed more than a dozen werewolves to look for Helen, but it was futile. You could tell that she had long left the pack. There were no doubts that she might be in the human city, hiding from everyone, knowing the fate that awaited her should she show up in the pack. Not only did she lie to the Alphas, but she colluded with the others to get rid of me and occupy a position that wasn't hers. After a full week of staying at home, to work, I resumed working for my mates. The opening ceremony of my new store was around the corner, and I had already prepared everything so as not to be caught unawares. They tried all they could to get me to forgive them, buying gifts and apologizing to me every chance they had. They made sure I didn't get a moment to myself each day as they kept on disturbing me every chance they got. It was as if they were on a mission to torment my soul until I accepted them, something I knew would take a lot of time for me to do.I can't just forget
“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