“You should rest. I’m leaving now.”Marcus helped Tina get into her bed. Yet, he showed no interest in staying.However, Tina did not let him just leave like that. The girl surged up, catching his arm, pleading with him, “Please don’t go!”Marcus sighed, shaking his head. He refused, “I don’t think I should stay.”“Why?” Tina seemed clueless, “Is it because-”“It isn’t because of anything,” Marcus assured her, “I just thought that you need some rest.”Tina shook her head. Stubbornly she said, “No, without you here, I don’t feel safe at all! Especially after-”The girl left her words unfinished. But even that, Marcus could still understand what she meant to say.Marcus sighed. He sat down on Tina’s bed, pat her hand, and said comfort words to her, “It’s alright. Giselle-” the head alpha had to pause for a second as mentioning his once mate’s name. Somehow, he still could not bring himself to say her name comfortably like before anymore.It felt like his throat had been blocked by an an
The apodictic expression on the girl's face and in her tone of voice caused Marcus to feel nothing but irritating and a little bit upsetting, too.“I want to be your Luna!” Tina repeated herself. The girl looked straight into Marcus’s eyes, urging him to give her an answer.And whatever he was going to say to her, it must be in her favor.But much to her dismay, Marcus was not the type that easily gave in. He would not be compromised with such an obnoxious request. “You’re crazy.” The head alpha huffed as he turned on his heels, so ready to leave.“You don’t know how crazy I am, Marcus!” Tina shouted behind his back, causing the head alpha to stop in his track.“Excuse me?” Marcus glanced at her. However, as he realized the girl might not be in her right mind, the head alpha turned away one more time. He decided that he had had enough of talking with Tina today, “We should talk when you’re calm, Tina. Really!”The girl did not let him leave. She screamed at the top of her lungs, “I
“Do you know what you are talking about?”Marcus focused on her. His expression looked cold and threatened.The pressure radiated from Marcus seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, squeezing Tina to the point where she could not be content with it any longer. Tina had the feeling that with just a little bit of carelessness, her whole body would be crushed by that terrifying pressure.Tina could swear what she was seeing right there and then was no longer Marcus in his human form. It was his wolf. His greyish-white wolf with flaring red eyes locked its focus on Tina. With her slightest movement, it would not be hestitant to tear her to pieces.She was nothing but its prey.And that terrified her. Even with her wolf, Tina could not be sure whether she survived after facing an alpha in rage.“No! No! Marcus, I’m sorry, I’m out of my mind. I don’t know what I am saying. Please, please!”Tina curled into a ball, shaking vigorously. The girl was a crying mess then.“I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to,
“Mom!”Tina crawled over to Brenna, grabbing her hands in the girl’s shaking palms, pleading, “I don’t want to do this anymore. I’ve regretted it now, mom. I want my wolf back. Please give me my wolf back.”Brenna found herself completely dumbfounded by Tina’s outburst of craziness. It did not feel like the girl was having an episode. It felt like the girl had been insane.If Tina did not lose herself before, she definitely did by then. Seeing Tina like this broke Brenna’s heart, and the banished Luna felt unspokenly utmost helpless feeling ever.The banished Luna pulled her daughter in for a hug. She felt the urge to cry, but no tears were coming down. Brenna swore she could hear her heart being broken into pieces by such a hurtful stage that her daughter was in.Brenna was hurt, too.She had pictured that Tina would be like this once the girl’s wolf dead. But to face it in reality, it was such a horrendous scene.Brenna tightened her embrace, peppering kisses on Tina’s crown of the
Lukas looked at Marcus, annoyingly.However, he decided to act like he had not seen the head alpha of the Bailey’s pack at all. Lukas turned his attention back to Giselle, who was about to escape into her car.“You can’t answer that fast,” Lukas disapproving of her refusal.“I have all the right to,” Giselle was being fed off by Lukas’s unruly. And she also did not have it in her to pay Marcus any attention, too.Lukas only was a handful.Noticing the two barely gave him any attention, Marcus felt so annoyed. But, much as he wanted to let himself be acknowledged by the two of them, he could not. Because he did not have any reason to. Not to mention, he was in no position to.He was not Giselle’s mate anymore. He had rejected her. They were even going through divorce progress. At this point, Giselle was nothing but his pack’s member, she had all the right to befriend or have any contact with others. Even, finding herself a new mate was not off the limits.Marcus huffed, finding his way
Instead of going full mode of wrath and jumping to Lukas, the head alpha of the Bailey’s pack chuckled. Marcus’s chuckle seemed out of nowhere. And to Lukas, upon seeing the smudgy expression on Marcus’s face, Lukas wanted to do nothing but rip his smirk off.“What are you laughing about?” Lukas asked dangerously.Marcus only glared at him before turning around, facing the clueless Giselle.To be honest, it took everything in Marcus not to lean in and kiss her. He refrained himself from doing so. His inner wolf was mad at him because of such.Without saying a word, Marcus opened Giselle’s car door, pushed her in, and closed it back.“Hey, what are you doing?” Lukas was disapproving.Giselle was confused, too.She looked at the two outside. Marcus’s back faced the car door, clearly to prevent Lukas from getting any closer.Giselle sighed, but she decided to drive away anyway. She was too tired to deal with anyone’s sh*it at the moment. She just wanted to get her things done and then he
Tim glanced at Marcus and excused himself, “I’ll get going now.”Marcus nodded, “Bring me the footage first.”“Sure,” Tim replied then left the office.“Oh, I forgot!” Marcus exclaimed, “As my first order, you should start with Raiz.”Tim looked surprised but agreed nonetheless, “Roger that!”When there were Marcus and Fynn left, the head alpha asked, “What’s wrong?”Fynn threw the folder he had with him onto the table, “It isn’t Giselle who killed Tina’s wolf! She was blamed for what she didn’t do!”“Pardon?” Marcus glared at Fynn. The head alpha even thought that Fynn had lost his mind for a second.Marcus had seen the horrid scene with his own eyes.Giselle was right beside Tina. The Brown girl had been sprawling on the floor, puking b*lood. There was even a poison bottle beside them. Everything had been against and directly at Giselle that she was the wrongdoer.But now? Fynn came and told Marcus otherwise.The head alpha looked puzzled, “I’ve been at the scene, Fynn. I’ve seen it
“Why?” Fynn asked.“I’m feeling like I’m nothing much different from that of a loser!” Marcus sighed.Fynn really considered the question for a good while.The doctor then sighed and disapproved, “No, Marcus. I don’t think you’re a loser. But! I don’t think you’re a good mate for Giselle at all. In another way, you’ve failed miserably.”The head alpha did not even bother to look up at his friend. He was still keeping his head down and bitterly scoffed.What did he expect from Fynn anyways? The doctor had never known for being good at his words. Marcus could be considered himself lucky enough that the doctor had not gone straightforward at “No, f*ucker, you did a terrible job.”Be that as it may, although it hurt his feeling, Marcus could not deny that Fynn was telling the truth. The head alpha was indeed a terrible mate for Giselle.“I don’t know about your thinking, but really, Marcus, Tina isn’t good for you. And you have seen enough for yourself of her toxic traits. Let that girl g
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Derek met Giselle again a week later.The girl was queuing at the coffee shop that Derek was frequent. The two were pretty surprised to see each other there.“You were Derek, from a week ago on the street, right?” Giselle asked him first, with a hint of unsure.Derek beamed at her. He nodded, “Glad you remember me.”“Oh, no. Not that kind of remember,” Giselle shook her head.The manager chuckled, “I know. So, erm- would you mind having a cup of coffee with me?” Derek asked.And surprisingly, after a bit of consideration, Giselle said yes. But it was not rocket science. The girl was curious about Derek and that was all.From what had happened three days earlier, this man seemed to know her and that bothered Giselle. How could she forget if she ever met the guy? He seemed to be a nice guy, Giselle would remember if she had met him before.But then, again, everything about her past was nothing but a blurry mess to her. He might be someone she knew back then. Moving here was such a great
“Giselle-” Marcus said, trembling. He could not believe in his eyes anymore.It was Giselle by flesh and bones! She was not Marcus’s hallucination.She was alive!“Giselle!”The head alpha happily pulled Giselle in his arms, hugging her tightly as if he ever let go, then Giselle would disappear in only a blink of an eye.If that ever happened, Marcus did not know how he could hold himself together anymore.Now that she was here, he would not let her go ever again.His wolf was howling, feeling happy that it could finally bathe in its mate’s comfort scent once again.This was ecstasy.“Wow, easy! Who are you?” Giselle frowned, pushing Marcus away harshly. The girl looked at Marcus with only irritation and confusion.“Giselle-” Marcus found himself dumbfounded. He could not catch on with the situation anymore.Giselle frowned, eyeing Marcus head to toe. The girl then huffed, she sounded so distant, “Do you know me?” Marcus was too stunned to speak. His lips quivered but no words could
A year later.“It’s Toby’s wedding ceremony today, Gigi,” Marcus said, “He’s getting married to your human friend. They both seemed very happy.”Marcus shoved his hands into his pockets, his eyes darting away as he let out a heavy breath.It had been a year then. A year of longing and torment with Marcus.Time had passed but he could never forget the day Giselle fell off the cliff, and how useless Marcus felt over a year ago watching her disappear right in front of his eyes. Though that day had been gone for good, still, Marcus could recall the sadness and such a helpless feeling of a year ago like it had just happened yesterday.Marcus still lived, but he rather d*ead.The head alpha did not seem to be himself anymore but rather an alpha wolf struggling and tormenting himself.He overworked himself to the point of being almost exhausted. He rarely ate or drank anything. His sleeping schedule was a mess, too. He was deprived of sleep. Because every time he closed his eyes, he could no
When Tim and Ben got to the lighthouse, they got no sight of Marcus at all.Raiz’s lackeys’ bodies lay on the ground, no longer intact. Then there was also Raiz, who lay dead behind Marcus’s back. His cause of death might be a b*loody hole in front of his chest, or it could be because of the silver knife piercing through his forehead. Either way, Raiz was dead.But Marcus? They did not know about his whereabouts.The head alpha had been impatience, so he came here by himself first. And for what had happened, Tim and Ben could say Marcus handled the situation well. Yet, where was he then?Did anything unfortunate happen to him?The two looked at each other, frowning.Unexpectedly, they heard Marcus yelling, “Giselle!”The two flinched, rushing to where their head alpha’s calling rang up. And they saw him.There he was, diving under, frantically searching and calling Giselle’s name. But there was no sight of her.“Marcus!”“Alpha!”The two called out for their head alpha, but they got n
Without any hesitation, and not even a blink of an eye, Raiz’s blade c*ut through Giselle’s throat like it was nothing.Not only Marcus was too stunned to react, but only Giselle.The cut was quick. So quick that Giselle did not even feel the sharp edge of the knife slashing through. Only when the damage had been done, as the stingy feeling rushed in with the burning sensation that flooded her neurons, did Giselle realize what Raiz had done.Giselle looked down and widened her eyes in disbelief as she saw b*lood quickly staining her front dress.Her wolf immediately got into action, spreading its healing ability to keep Giselle from dying.The Stephern’s omega was lucky because it was not a cut caused by a silver knife. Otherwise, she would be dead by now.“Stop right where you are!” Raiz raised his voice, and he caught Giselle’s attention.And then, Giselle heard a raging roar. The roar was so scary that it even terrified Giselle’s inner wolf.Looking up, the Stephern’s omega saw Mar
“Aren’t you happy now that your beloved uncle calls, Marcus?” Raiz said smudgily.“Where’s she?” Marcus got straight to the point.“My oh my, aren’t you worried about her?” Raiz chuckled, “And here I thought you two are separated. How silly am I! I almost got played by your little one, nephew.”Marcus stayed silent for a quick second before replying, “Let Tina go!”His words hit hard.“Pardon?” Raiz raised an eyebrow as he glanced at Giselle.The Stephern’s omega quickly turned away, avoiding his gaze. Tightening her fists, Giselle bit on her lips hard enough that she tasted blood.Even though she had a guest that Marcus would call Tina’s name out in the very first place, Giselle still felt somewhat hurt.However, she must endure this feeling.As she said, Marcus and Giselle were histories. Apparently, Marcus would think of Tina right away. Also, it was kind of humiliating for Raiz that he had chosen the wrong one.Marcus probably had not heard about Giselle’s missing yet. Be that as
"What do you mean Giselle is gone?" Marcus sounded disbelief.How could she be gone?But f*uck it, he had no mind to think about it anymore.He had to get to the hospital first!.The special department was in a hastiness.Securities and guards were seen at every corner of the hospital and its parking lot, desperately searching for the Stephern’s omega, who had gone missing. Every little detail counted. Therefore, they were doing their best searching for her.Marcus barged into Giselle’s ward, where Fynn had already been there. The doctor leaned on the window pane that Giselle kept opened and facing the door. He looked troubled.The head alpha looked around the whole room, frantic.“She has been gone when I came here,” Fynn sighed, “We have no idea where is she. We have been searching throughout the hospital but could not seem to find her anywhere.”“Did she go out alone?” Marcus nervously asked, “Have you checked the surveillance footage yet?”Much as he wanted to jump right to his f
"Let me go!"Marcus was startled awake to find he was no longer in Giselle's dreadfully cold and cramped hospital room. He was at his house now, asleep on the couch since God knows when.The head alpha sighed, and slumped back against his couch.Resting his hand on his forehead, Marcus stared at the ceiling, remembering what had happened this afternoon.Giselle had told Marcus to let her go. She still did not have any particular feelings, however, Marcus could hear a little bit of inner pleading in her voice.Marcus knew it would be best if he let Giselle leave the mess that was him. But at the same time, he could not. Just as he thought about letting Giselle leave, Marcus could not bear it.He was too blind beforehand. He let his anger cloud his mind and made a terrible mistake.***“Let go of me!”Brenna and Tina shouted out loud. The two were kidnapped and brought to the forest within the Ashes pack territory.In such a place, no one could interrupt Lukas took out his anger on them