“Woah…the rumors were true huh, they really are a thing now”.
My ears perk up with incessant itches as my face goes frigid instantly. More comments fly about and it only peaks the disdain brewing within me. Asher…that bastard.
Going around and flaunting Heather as his girlfriend and stirring unending ruckus. I grind my teeth, feeling the bristles of my primal jealousy prickling all over my being.
“Silver! Hey- wait up!”
And yet, my body betrays my will to run away at the sound of her sunny voice. Hissing at my wolf for defying me and stopping my pace in wait for her to get close. I listen to the closing steps until her running feet comes to halt right before me.
“Silver…damn, I almost missed you. Let’s eat lunch together…though I don’t know where Ria is. I think she’s avoiding me…”
Getting to the part with Ria, her voice drops with worry and I have to pr
Clawing at my chest, excruciating pain I lured into my being. Itching madly…unable to control the spasms of pain that slices repeatedly against my body, stinging like iron whips lashing over my flesh. ‘Let me out….’ That deep growl resonates in the back of my head, dominating the chaotic mess my mind is degenerating to as I clutch my chest, sliding against the wall to a sitting posture on the cold floor. ‘Let me out…and let me go after her….’ I shake my head in the negative, beginning to view little colors through my eyes and I begin to panic, my wolf is gaining control. The colors fade into darkness, signaling my control and I hear his malicious growl from the depths of my mind and I bite on my lower lip to keep from screaming in pains. ‘This is how you want to play huh…Silver. Will you sit here wallowing in regrets or join me to rip that fool to bits and pieces and claim what belongs to us?’ His voice booms in my mind as I shut my eyes tight
“Hey, you’re leaving? But she’s in there. Playing games with Asher and a group of his friends…speaking of which…Ria’s also been avoiding her too. Know what’s up?” Not sure if it’s alright to tell him but I do anyway. “Ria likes Asher so she’s still mad at Heather. I’ll just quietly leave and try again some other time”. And before he can rain down his barrage of questions on me, I sprint off. What the heck am I doing?! I’m so close to her and yet I…can’t believe I’ve depleted into such a coward. I take shelter between the trees, resting my back against a tree as I scold myself. That’s when I pick up voices and her scent hits my nose hard, forcing a sneeze out of me. “So…” His voice drags, “…what is it you wanna give me?” I push off the tree and trace the voices and hide when i see his back. Trying to adjust my vision so i can see her clearer which is at the risk of my wolf jumping out. “Um…it’s nothing so special but- I’d like you to ha
“What are you doing here? Why did you come despite knowing what you put her through?” I almost forgot about this punk. Why do I have to deal with him now? Rubbing my fur-coated neck and letting out a yawn, “What do you want?” I ask in a bored tone. Just look at him, putting up those hard eyes and angry face. What a pup. “I don’t know what game you’re playing but you need to stop what you’re doing to Heather. Stop confusing her, Silver. Stay away from her, you’ve hurt her enough”. “What are you now? Speaking for her? Is what you think you share with her so weak? Why are you so insecure and looking for who to blame for it?” Dang it! My wolf is making this all come out wrong. These aren’t my words. ‘If you don’t want me violating our deal and taking charge, sit back and let me handle this lowlife punk’. So I step back and take a sit, hoping against the odds that he doesn’t get provoked into shifting. Cutting a glance at my mate begin take
Another failed attempt to see my mate has me tracing my way back to the cottage I live in, a shadow of myself as I use my heightened senses to guide me back. That’s when a mix of two foreign scents assail my nostrils. One of it seems faintly familiar and the other, completely…unknown to me. So I speed my pace and arrive before them. With my voice hard, I ask, “Who are you and what do you want?” “You must be Silver right?” What is with that serene voice that calms me down instantly? A warmth I’ve never felt before, searing through my being, arresting me from all angles and melting my despair away. Provoked at the sudden infiltration, I try to speak back but…it all just simmers away, making my wolf stir peacefully and rendering me away from all fight. She speaks again. “I’m sorry we came uninvited, but there are pressing matters to discuss with you” She tells me, haste in her voice and I nod lazily, still recovering from that beautiful attack. W
“It’s…fine” Finding my breathing hindered as well as I frown at us. “You…can get down now” I chide but she holds on tighter. “I don’t wanna” She shakes her head obstinately and I think I’m losing it faster than I thought I can manage. Patience is something I don’t lack but…but…but this girl! She accelerates the unrelenting pounding in my chest and my idiotic honed senses just have to pay attention to her racing heartbeat that drives me silly. I recover my wits and form a smile, bringing my lips to where I perceive her ear to be and whisper in a very sultry voice. “Does Asher enjoy hugs like this from you?” And she goes frigid, cracking me up as she jumps off me at once. Missing her feel against my body but I gotta let it go for the red look on her face I see from my right eye. She fumbles with her fingers, presenting her very shy and meek side to me. Slowly, my laughter begins to die as I really begin to take a look at her.
Heather’s POV.“Heather sweetie, the boys are here!” Aunt calls from downstairs and I hasten up, swiping my phone and headphone off the bedside table and throwing them into my travel bag. “I’ll be there shortly!”Hollering back, I dash out of the room and slam into someone as we both groan. Kamila giggles at me, rubbing her arm, “You should slow down or you might just fall down the stairs”.And I pout, “You don’t have to put it that way. I’ll be careful!”And off I go with my explosive drive down the stairs and rolling into the sitting room where I instantly compose myself before the watching eyes.“Oh…hey Asher” I wave my hand softly and he smiles. But I’m searching for someone, craning my neck around until something hits me directly at the nape of my neck and I let out a yelp.Turning around with an evil glare that melts away to a
“Are you sure you’re alright? Do you need me to stay?” I turn around at the voices and see mom and dad by the main door.She pats his arm, letting out a nervous laugh as she shakes her head against the offer. “You don’t have to, it’s only a mild headache. Now buttercup, you have to get going before Weslee sees you” And she starts to push him out the door against his protest as I giggle at them.Skipping over, “Did you really have to chase him out that way- mom?” Surprised to see her leaning her back tiredly against the door with a palm against her temple and eyes shutting momentarily. Studiously, I draw closer just in time with her eyes coming back open.“Oh hey sweetie, you’re up huh? Hungry?” Even her voice is strained and her smile is sloppy. She looks…extremely exhausted.Ignoring her questions to stretch my hand up, flattening my palm against her forehead and my other palm
I watch the Gamma’s younger sister, Lana and my older brother Yohan from the porch I’m standing on. These two have grown so attached and inseparable in just seven hours. Yohan never wants to let her go and neither does she as she behaves all coy and shy, often bringing something to talk about. But she knows she has to return to the pack house as her help has been requested.When I told mom about it earlier, she was so happy to have her family and aunt Lisanna’s joined together and has been in a good mood all day. Despite Lana being four years older than Yohan, you’d think the otherwise when you witness how dominate he is over her. I guess that’s just a trait for the alpha blood.About to turn away from watching the couple when I see the boys returning from their ‘stroll’.Asher looks exhausted…actually, he’s the only exhausted one as he’s covered in dirt and leaves sticking out in his hair. I giggle at
“I’m done packing up!- Zach come help me out will you?” Ugh, why do I have so much to drag down? I frown and put my hands akimbo, staring at my luggage when my bedroom door comes open and a nineteen year-old Zachery steps in, chuckling into his fist when he sees my things.“Don’t let that laughter sip out. Help me get this down” I order and pick up my phone from my table as I join him to take them all down. Before I knew it, six years already sped by. A lot has happened, the family especially became much larger than it was back then. Harrison’s boys are as disastrous as he was and love to raise trouble all the time. Even the last of them who's only a year old, already knows how to manipulate the adults around him.Harlow has a son and a daughter, full of mischief but are quite cool. The girl loves to get into fights…must have inherited a little of me there.“Auntie you’re leaving already? When will you come visit us again?” Little Abby asks me, tugging against the leg of my jeans
A large hand comes over my back and begins to rub gently. “You know, when you keep breaking down like this, you make it hard for us to watch you. We decided we wouldn’t cry anymore and hold it up in our hearts instead…to honor her and remember her for as long as we live…” Harrison begins to say in a soft voice.“…so can’t you do us just this little favor and not cry like this?” I gently begin to detach my face from my palms and see Harlow with a painful look on his face and my breath catches. I lower my hands, bringing them down to my thighs in fists. Sniffing, “I’m sorry. I won’t cry anymore…I promise”. I’m sorry I’m still a child and still so weak. There’s still so much I have to prepare for and so much to learn. I couldn’t be useful this time…but I won’t give up.“About what I said that night, I didn’t mean to say those hurtful words and hurt your feelings like that. I was insensitive and selfishly caught up in my own spurt, I’m sorry” I keep my gaze on my fists, glad I came o
‘Isn’t there a way to still rouse her up so she can at least communicate with her mate?’ Alpha Marcus asks and is replied by the alpha, “We will count on a minute. That’s the only opening we get to rouse her up and get the task done. The pressure on her soul is immense, we cannot afford to keep waking her from that necessary slumber”.He’s speaking in things I don’t understand again. I fall back, watching them charge towards Talon who sends Hector and Hex flying and colliding into Silver as they fall into a roll. He then sees them from the rear and he turns, ready to attack when the white wolf and Uncle Gabriel both combine a barrage of attacks into his side and kick him away from where mom lies.Talon remains resilient, refusing to be pushed over, baring his dentition ferociously and making a leap, descending with his head first. The white wolf leaps too, their heads colliding in a massive headbutt.'What the hell...' I blink, reluctant to believe they're both still agile after tha
“The undisputed king of the Black Night Wolf Clan…” The white wolf alpha growls with cold reverence as he glares towards Talon who isn’t making a move yet, as if he’s taking in the new comers and trying to decipher according to his own sentiments what side they’re on. Friend or foe?‘W-what’s going on?’ Mustering the energy to link my mate and he snaps right in my direction, catching my gaze and getting alarmed to see the state I’m in. I try on a weak smile and look to my side to see a very tall woman, dressed in the same clothes as that white wolf and coming towards me.She crouches next to me, a beautiful smile on her face as she takes off her cloak and drape it over my nakedness. I blush and lower my head and she speaks, “It seems you’re his Luna, my cousin that is”.“Y-your cousin?” I look at her with wide eyes, noticing Silver’s running over as well. She glances at him and back at me, nodding, “His mother, Teresa, was my father’s younger sister. She was such a kind and lovin
I fall sick at heart, agony rattling around my being as they zip past, ganging up on Olyver. The piercing cry of shriek and terror plunges into the air as I shut my eyes…the pain and grief eating away at me faster that a lethal poison.‘Odelia….’ I feel so helpless, seeing Hogan approach us…crouching next to his mate who’s struggling to hold on for him.I feel so guilty…If I hadn’t been so obstinately bent on coming here…if I had obediently stayed back like Weslee did…this tragedy wouldn’t have happened. I feel so ashamed to even look at Hogan, guilt suffocating me as I begin to back away…I’m so sorry..I’m so sorry.Something stops me from digressing any further and I turn to see Hex. At this point, I just wish I was the one who got hit and not her…how do I face them all after the disaster I’ve caused?’Heather…hey, look at me…it’s not your fault. Please don’t blame yourself…Heather’Everyone will say it’s not your fault, trying to make the guilt go away but…this will never change
Glancing over at Odelia who’s talking to the pack’s beta’s mate, I wonder how I’m gonna shake her off so I can leave. Silver is so dead when I get him, how dare he leave me alone without even a word?‘Like you have an excuse yourself for what you did last night’ My wolf scoffs at me and my lips sew shut. Remorse funnels through my veins, making me feel sad for my insensitive action yesterday. I recall the look of utter shock and deep hurt in Harlow’s eyes and my heart convulses. How could I be so mean and thoughtless? I just let those hostile words flow from my mouth without thinking and now I’ve left them deeply hurt. Worst, I didn’t apologize for it. I have to leave this place. I get up from the barstool and Odelia looks my way instantly as if she’s been waiting for me to make a move. “Where are you going?”I don’t reply yet as I keep my gaze elsewhere, calculating how fast I can zip out of here, shift and sprint off before she’ll be able to chase after me. Sucking in a de
“He’s my mom’s older brother and the alpha of the pack she belonged to before she got together with dad” I give him my reply and quickly add, “He treasures mom like a gem and always flies over whenever she gets into any trouble”.“Oh…” He expels and I shrug, wondering what they must be talking about again. In our time of peril, it’s good to know we’ve got many allies willing to come to our help. In our time of need, we weren’t abandoned.And it turns out uncle Adams had been in company of alpha Charles, alpha Nyx, alpha Delano and alpha Caden. Together, they had taken their warriors with them to lend help to our pack in fending off the enemies' invasion.“In total, we got six traitors in cohorts with Kieran. Leon reached out to Ezra the moment they attacked so Nyx gave me a call and we got the others involved. We were already here in Canada when the call came through and those crazy nomads wouldn’t let us leave easily but Odelia and some warriors from your pack showed up and helped
Dad nods in support and says, “And Kieran’s gain in all this would be his heroic move to wipe out the perpetrators of the vicious act to gain favor from the masses. He wants the position of alpha representative of Canada. But….”“Why go as far as involve the nomads?” Hardin voices and they all look his way. True, Kieran could just get some unnamed rogues to do the work and get it over with. So why choose to get a whole pack involved as well? It makes no sense.“He’s not being reckless, he knows what he’s doing. Kieran wants to wage a war against me and to do that, he had to take out one of our strongest allies, the nomadic wolves. Tch, I should’ve seen this coming” He tusks at the end and steels his expression.“Yumi was most likely taken to cripple your resolve to fight against them, to keep you restrained while he crushes the whole pack” Uncle Gabriel adds, chagrined and dad only smirks effusively.“And then he’ll aim for even higher power…To stand at the apex of power, to rule
“It seems while I’ve been busy watching over the pack, you got busy maturing huh? You’re no longer that cute little cry baby” He suddenly says with a tease and I flush, embarrassed and ready to protest.But the warm smile he shows me, has me retreating and revealing a haughty smile, pride sprouting from the truth in his words. “I can become even better than this and surprise you in the future” I boast, receiving a bonk on the head.“Nah, I don’t think you need any more dose of maturity after this. We need you to remain our precious little girl forever, that’s much better and safe”.The hell? I fume, glaring at Harrison who wiggles his brows at me. “Safe- what the hell are you talking about?! You can’t keep me this way like this forever- I’m not some pampered pet!”But my protest only has my brothers laughing at me as I look down, boiling in anger and a red face from shame. Ugh, I’ll forever remain a little kid in their eyes…but then, I don’t feel bad at all.