BRYAN. Today was the wedding, Alexander and Tina were getting married while I was incapacitated on the bed. There was no way I would sit still and do nothing. He would have to die for thinking of coming to take control of the empire I had built for years. Alpha Nathan had said he would take care of it but I did not trust him. The last time Nathan came here, I stole his second phone and he didn't notice. He thought that he had left it at home. This phone has been useful to me for the last couple of weeks. One time I was almost caught by Lena, that devilish child always found ways to ruin things for me. Foolish girl, she killed her mother who gave her life and also caused this accident to happen to me. Tina was only trying to care for them but I am a jealous man, I would not let another man care for my family. I would continue to kill every man who tries to take the Beta position so the pack would have no choice but to leave the position vacant. Only if I had a son. Ricardo was t
ALEXANDER. My mission might seem outrageous, wanting to marry an older woman because I needed revenge. Perhaps, I was at the detriment of my life. Giving it all just to ruin a man who was supposed to be my father. But, have you ever watched your mother suffer? Vomiting. Crying. Feeling weak and betrayed. Her heart hurting so much, she shivered on the floor for more than twenty-four hours but all you could do was cry and try making her feel better. Yet, all of that didn't work because it was a mate bond. Her mate was cheating on her and she could feel every ounce of it. Watching your mate cheating was one thing, feeling it was another one. My mother had to go through this kind of pain and I had to watch and try to make her feel better. Every single time I had hatred in my heart for the mate bond. I prayed never to find my mate because I would never accept her. Furthermore, I had revenge etched in my heart. The ginger tuxedo was what Tina picked for the wedding, I paid for it an
LANA. After Alexander left I stayed, watching because I didn't know what to do. I didn't know all of Dad’s plans and I couldn't go and meet him to tell me. He would curse me. How was I supposed to save him? He was stubborn and wouldn't listen to me. I ran my hand into my hair, racking my brain for ideas. How was I supposed to stop something I didn't know about? All I felt was pain straight in my head because my brain was tired of thinking through the entire thing. ‘Transition minutes!’ “What?” I asked, feeling Elena come forward. ‘Whatever your dad asked them to do would be done during the transition period. Do you know what transition minutes are right?’ She asked me and I nodded. My father was the Beta hence I knew about it. It was the time when the fellow would connect with the previous Beta through their blood. It was their most vulnerable state. Geez, Elena was right. “Thank you!” I whispered. ‘Don’t thank me, he is our mate!’ I took a cab back to the wed
ALEXANDER. It took me ten minutes to get back to myself. The Alpha carried her to the hospital while I stood there watching her blood slide through the floor. What just happened? I was in shock, even Tyrant came forward with the same emotion. ‘Did she… did she take a bullet for us?’ He asked. Why did she? She shouldn't have. Goodness, I was undeserving. She warned me but I did not listen to her and now she has taken the bullet for me. My hands shook. The Alpha car had left before I moved. “Alexander, are you okay?” Tina asked but I did not respond to her. “Who shot the gun?” She asked. My eyes darted to the direction it came from and I saw that it was a timer. Someone had placed the timer gun on the tree and set it to this time. The transition time when I was going to be unconscious. Lana warned me. She told me about it but I did not listen to her. I thought that she was being selfish and wanted me to herself. My heart froze in my chest, becoming heavy because of her. She
LANA. After two weeks, I was released from the hospital. I didn't have to pay a dime because the Alpha was the one who brought me over. The pain should have been visible on my face when I was told that the Alpha had admitted me to the hospital. The man that I took a bullet for didn't care about me enough to bring me to the hospital. He didn't check on me either. Annalise came every day and she slept over sometimes because of Dad. She said Mom and Alexander had gone on the honeymoon given by the pack. Also, Tina and Alexander were going to move to the new house given by the pack. Annalise was also going to be moving back to school, she was supposed to have gone after the wedding but she stayed because of me. I had told the doctor not to tell anyone about my breast. I didn't want anyone to know about it as he would only lead to fake pity. I didn't want anyone to love me because of it. It was the bad kind of love that I didn't want. My dad and I were left in the old house, just
ALEXANDER. Honeymoon? I hissed at the thought. Tina had sent me a message concerning it. I had also received emails involving it yet none of it excited me. I tried making it work, to be excited about it. I couldn't bring myself to be. Still, I couldn't ask about Lena. I couldn't text the Alpha to know how she was. The good thing was that the pack group didn't have anything concerning her. Overthinking it, Lena wasn't popular in the pack. She was mostly hated by everyone and no one paid attention to her. It could be the reason no one said anything about it. Hence I ran in the wild to make myself feel the slightest bit better. No, it didn't work. I just got tired, train and sleep again. The pain in my heart didn't cease, yet I didn't know what it was. Perhaps it was because of her. I hadn't marked her so I didn't have much connection to her. Two weeks passed and I finally faced my fear. To be honest, I had never felt such strong emotion in my life. Nothing had ever made me sl
LENA. The first day of school wasn't easy. I struggled to have my bath. I watched the wall clock tick, watching as the arrow moved by seconds and minutes without blinking my eyes. Fear resonated within me. I hadn't seen my breasts. I had avoided them for the longest but today I had to go to school. The school was my outlet. I gently stepped off my bed, stopping myself from tearing up. I had cried over and over again, nothing made me feel better. Not the tears. All it did was make my eyes blurry and heavy. Eventually, I had to bathe except I wanted to be bullied for smelling and having not bathed for two days. I swallowed as I stepped into my bathroom. I had washed it the other day yet I did not bath. Trust me, it was dusty and disgusting but I did not feel the need to bathe after. That was how scared I was to strip and have my bath. Fear of seeing my body unhinged. Not unhinged, I should never refer to my body like that but that was what it was. One of my breasts was gone, a
LENA. Home was not a fun place for me. I wished that I didn't have to come home but there was no where else to go. Have you ever felt like you didn't belong in the world? As if you weren't supposed to be human? Perhaps you were supposed to be a temporary thing in the world and then a mistake happened. Wolves were permanent but we were lived longer than other creatures on earth. Well, except trees. I would rather become a tree though, not existing but now that I think about it. Trees have more horrible life than most humans did. They got cut off by us for the sake of our benefits yet we care the least about them. This world was cruel and I wished that it was less this way. Walking home felt like hell but I had to go home because my father was waiting for me. Although he acted all cold and mighty, he still needed me. And knowing that he needed me, I couldn't leave him despite all that he did to me. I braced myself for another hatred that would drip from him to me. After dropping
ALEXANDER. “Thunk!” “Thunk!” “Thunk!” I could still hear the sound of the needle forced into my skin, and the liquid spreading through my body. I could feel the hands of the matron I had trusted around me as she released the entire thing into me. Just before my eyes completely closed up. Just like that, it began. Day after day, she came and injected me with venoms that stung. Day after day, I began to lose my senses. My memories began to jam with each other. I saw faces and memories I wasn't sure belonged to me. Voices and thoughts that weren't mine. “But why do we keep injecting him?” One of them, she. Tina. I wasn't sure, my memory was quite hazy had asked. “To jumble his memory, to make him do as we say. He is going to be Alpha and he will be under my control.” The older woman sat next to me, her fingers crawled over my skin. I couldn't quite place her voice. It sounded familiar, like I knew her but then I didn't. I couldn't recollect her face. Her memory was there, in m
LENA“And who are you?” I raised a brow at the young man who boarded the plane. He wore a Barcelona jersey and dirty, crazed blue jeans. He looked ridiculous—mostly because he hadn’t even bothered to comb his hair. It was wild and all over the place.Still… he was handsome.Sharp jawline. Tall. Muscles filling out the jersey.But I was irritated. Why was he dressed like that? And more importantly—why was he on this plane? It was a private jet the Black Moon Pack arranged for me. They didn’t want anyone knowing their Alpha was receiving therapy.I looked up from my tablet, clearly demanding an answer.He glanced over his shoulder like there might be someone else I was talking to.“Oh, Dr. Lena, what they say about you is true,” he said with a smile.I raised a brow, unimpressed.“Well, I’m Dr. Austin. I’m your partner!” he added.My eyes widened. Dr. Austin? The director? The expert in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy—known for handling extreme cases in the most unique ways?Why was he dre
LENA. SEVEN YEARS LATER. “A transfer letter?” I asked, dropping the letter in front of my boss, Rodrigo. Doctor Rodrigo was the name I loved to call him. “Yes.” He sighed. “There is a critical patient I want you to take.” I chuckled. “But you couldn't inform me prior? You just want to send me back to the west pack, why? I don't want to go there.” It had been six years. Six years I had avoided that place that traumatized me. Now, I was leaving fine. I was now a doctor, a successful one. Although I couldn't be an oncologist like I wanted to be, I seemed to find peace in speaking with people and healing them with my knowledge. I have had countless cancer patients come in here. I have had many patients who needed me after their boobs were cut off. I could relate to them hence it was easy for me. Now I have a Bachelor’s in Psychology. I was also a doctor of psychology which earned me the title Dr. As well as a licensed professional counselor (LPC) All of these in six years. Jenna
LENA. The hospital was extremely nice. I had never been in a private hospital my entire life with private nurses. Daniel said they were perks of the contract which absolutely sat right with me. Being with a father who hated me and a stepmother who hated to see me, I never got the luxury of being treated in a hospital. All the times I had been sick, I got drugs from the store. Nurse Giana was my private nurse, she was extremely nice and she told me to settle in while my test result came in. I rubbed my belly, hoping I would be pregnant. I had to be pregnant so I could continue to enjoy these perks. As much as it pained me that I had to leave Alexander, I couldn't let go of this opportunity. Here I was being pampered like a celebrity when I had gone through scorn my entire life. This was it, the moment that I so desperately prayed for all these past years. Jenna walked in after Nurse Giana left. Jenna had a look of panic on her face as she stepped in. Yet, she looked extremely gorg
ALEXANDER. Not long Daniel texted me, she fainted. I was working with the matron to know what really happened to her mother. “If you find anything, tell me,” I said. With this, I ran out of her office and got to my car as soon as soon as possible. What could have happened? Why did she faint? These were the questions that I had in my head throughout the entire drive. My head was calculating. Perhaps she felt dizzy because of the pregnancy? She really could be pregnant. She could be carrying my child. The thought of it alone made me so excited.And I was super happy to get to the hospital.Just when I was about arriving at the hospital, the matron sent a message to me. “Alex, it is truly connected to your mom and wife. You have to come over right now!” I read the text and somehow I was not shocked. My mother and Tina had already done so much. It was my fault for believing every words that came out of my mom in the first place. I forgot that even blood related people could still
LENA. It had been three weeks since I and the stranger had intercourse. Three weeks but I haven't felt anything. Daniel walked into my room and dropped some books for me to read for my upcoming exam. I haven't been speaking to him since the incident between us. “Thank you, “ I whispered. “Uhm…” He paused at the doorpost, his eyes were on me when I raised my head. “Have… do you feel anything recently?” He asked. I had also been watching myself lately but then I had felt nothing. Werewolf pregnancy was faster than humans and even humans should feel pregnancy symptoms at two weeks. “No,” I said. “Lena, you can't be tricky with this. You have to tell me everything.” His words were more like a warning. I said nothing.Did he think I would hide the fact that I am pregnant? “I used the pregnancy strip yesterday, it showed negative. I am not pregnant, yet,” I said reading through the lines of the medical textbook. Daniel nodded before he left. I sighed. I wonder why I haven't gotte
ALEXANDER. Lena had to be the one giving me the ability to wake up every day. The thought of she carrying my baby in her belly gave me so much strength to go ahead with my life. To find the truth and make everything right. The other day, I had seen her at the library, sitting by the window, lost in a book. She always looked the most peaceful when she was reading. There was something about the way she tucked her hair behind her ear, the way her lips moved slightly as she read, completely absorbed in the world of words.I had wanted to go to her. To sit beside her, to hear her voice again. To touch her. To feel the warmth I had been missing. To tell her she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seenBut I didn’t. I couldn't. We needed this space to sort things out. Also because this—this life she was building—was what I had always wanted for her. A life where she was free, where she had friends, where she wasn’t bound to me and the chaos that came with our families. I would do them
LENAI shut the door to my room behind me, my heart heavy with emotions I couldn’t quite name. Daniel’s anger still lingered in the air, suffocating me even though he was nowhere near. What was he hiding? His reaction had been so extreme, so defensive. Why would he get that angry over me checking his laptop? The more I thought about it, the more unsettled I became. What was so big about the stranger that he didn't want me to know? I sighed and moved over to my window seat, the place where I often curled up with my books. It overlooked a small garden that belonged to the neighbors. The roses there were blooming, their soft pink petals swaying gently in the breeze. Usually, the sight calmed me, but today, my heart wouldn’t stop racing. I tried to get lost in the pages of my medical textbook, but the words blurred together. No matter how hard I tried to focus, my mind kept drifting.Daniel’s behavior was odd, but what was more confusing was the stranger. His letter had left an impressio
LENA. The warm water cascaded down my body, washing away the remnants of sleep and the soreness that lingered from the night before. As I stood under the spray, I let my mind wander. The stranger’s words from the letter replayed in my head, over and over again.“My future oncologist…”Why did that line make my chest feel tight? It was ridiculous. I shouldn’t be thinking about him like this — whoever he was. The only thing that mattered was the deal we made and what I stood to gain from it. Still, the way he had written those words… as if he saw something in me that even I struggled to believe.I shook my head, pushing the thoughts aside. No use getting caught up in fantasies. I had work to do.After drying off and slipping into a simple white top and jeans, I grabbed my bag and headed out. The library was quiet today, just the way I liked it. The smell of books and the soft hum of silence made it easy to forget the weight pressing on my shoulders. I found my usual corner by the windo