ALEXANDER.
The first time I set foot in the pack, all I thought about was the way to claim the throne back. I didn't want him to be happy. Alpha Nathan, happiness wasn't meant to be his. There was only one way I could make that happen. Hence, when the plan presented itself I took it. Tina was her name, her husband used to be the Beta of the pack but he had an accident that caused him to be disabled. If I married Tina, I could be the Beta. I would be close to the pack and ruin them as I had always planned. However, she ruined it. Her. My mate. She just had to be my mate. I hated her the moment I got her scent and also realized she was Tina’s stepdaughter. I became mean to her, reprimanding her whenever I got the chance. This way, she wouldn't have hope of us being together whenever she found out we were mates. I didn't need a mate anyway. I didn't believe in love. Love? What was that? My mother, because of love got betrayed, tortured, and eventually insane. She suffered every day because of the love the moon goddess tricked us into ever existing. She used the mate bond as a trap for the weaker vessel and strength for the stronger mind. In the game of mate bond, my father had a strong mind while my mother was weak and stupid. Tears ran down her cheeks and down to her cupid lips. They had a pink natural tint. If she didn't lick her lips, I would have thought she had lipstick on. She looked at me, I could feel her eyes on me but I didn't look back at her. Tyrant was begging me to look at her but I knew that was where my weakness would begin from. She had the most beautiful doe eyes. I had almost fallen for them one time but held myself back. I wasn't going to be weak. Never! “What about dad?” She had asked. Tina defended herself, claiming she was only thirty-five years old and had married Lana’s father at the age of eighteen which made me wonder why she didn't go after her mate since she was still young. Why did she marry a man who was not her mate at the time? It didn't matter. I didn't care about anything. Lana banged the table, standing before she ran out. Annalise, Tina’s daughter tried to stand and follow Lana but Tina glared at her. “Don’t you fuvking dare? Stay right there!” We ate dinner, Tina all over me as always while I had to pretend that I liked her. After the dinner, Annalise walked over to me. “Why are you with her?” She asked. “You are young and I checked your record, you are only twenty-nine. Why are you with my mom who is quite older than you?” She frowned. I said nothing. Silence. I had mastered the art of silence. I learned that it killed people. It made them feel inferior and unworthy. It also helped me think while winning. “You are not going to answer?” She raised her brows, squinting them before running her hand in her ginger hair. She moved closer which was the opposite of what most people do. They usually walked away. Annalise inched closed and then stomped on my feet with her heels. “Fuck!” I shouted, raising my legs to touch the part she had hit. “Wow, you are not deaf nor dumb. Sorry, my bad.” She turned around, flipping her hair back before walking away. Shit! I growled again as the pain radiated through my body. She seemed like a whole lot of trouble. Thank God she wasn't going to stay here often. Tina came back later, she smiled at me but I didn't return it. She liked it anyway. Women like her loved the idea of changing men like me. “Are you ready to see your new room?” She asked. “Actually, I suggest we buy another house since this house has the blueprint of your previous husband which I don't like.” She smiled seeming interested. Being the new Beta, this house was going to be mine meaning the previous beta wouldn't have any house to his name. However, if I leave now and request a new house, he will have this house to himself. “You are right,” she said and I nodded. Tina moved closer, laying her head on my shoulder while I tried finishing the book I was reading. “When is she going to come back?” I asked impulsively. It had been over an hour since she left and Tina didn't seem to be worried about it. “I don't know but she better get back before tomorrow because of the dishes, I am not going to do them!” She spat, moving her head to my chest before sniffing me. “You smell so good.” She rambled. I looked toward the door wondering when she was going to come in. “You are not leaving today, are you? Stay with me, I miss you and your dick in me.” She ran her hand down to my pants. “I am not staying.” I stood quickly, still watching the door. Was she ever going to come back? I looked at my wrist and saw that it was a few minutes to ten pm. “I have to go.” Tina stood as well, pouting at the words I had said. “You never come to my house or stay over and you have never allowed me to stay over at your place. This is not nice.” She frowned again. ‘She thinks we are going to have sex with her when her ex-husband is next door? Shameless!’ Tyrant spat, glaring at her from my eyes. “Bye, Tina.” I patted her shoulder before leaving the house. However, I couldn't bring myself to drive off. I stayed two gates away from the house wondering when she was going to return into the house. Where did she go to? I wondered, my wolf restless in the back of my head. ‘We don't care about her, we just need to be sure she is safe’ my wolf reminded me and I nodded.ALEXANDER. The sun seeped into my eyes and I instantly flung them open. I was still in my car, two gates away from Tina’s home. I stayed here overnight. ‘Yep, she didn't come back,’ Tyrant said. “You didn't sleep?” I asked and he nodded. ‘I waited for her scent, until now, she hasn't come back.’ He yawned, his voice tired.What the hell?! Where did she go? I opened the car door and Tyrant came forward. ‘Where are you going?’ He asked. “To her house. Maybe Tina knows where she went?” I asked. ‘You are wearing the same clothes and shoes from yesterday, Tina will ask questions.’ He reminded me and I sighed. I had completely forgotten. ‘She might be in school.’ Tyrant added. I drove back home and showered before dressing for work. Being a professor was the best way to build my qualifications to be Beta. This was why I took the job and it actually paid off. In school, she was nowhere in sight. I went to every class she was supposed to have for the day yet she wasn't in any of t
LANA. When I raised my eyes, I saw Alexander's burning gaze on me. I was shocked seeing him in the Alphas’s home with my stepmother. He stood and walked over to me. Before I could react, he held my wrist and pulled me away from the room. I couldn’t fight him off because his grip was firmer. Sparks rushed through the part he had touched me. “Let me go!” I yelled. He didn't respond to me. He dragged me with him until we got to the back of the house. Then he pushed me into the wall before caging me, placing both of his hands on my sides. His burning gaze on mine. “Are you fucking Isaac?” He asked, his utterance was so sudden that I was unable to process it. “What?!” “You are fucking him, aren't you? That is why you didn't come home last night right?” He asked again. My eyes went wide. How did he know I didn't come home last night, stepmom must have told him. “What the heck. How could you say that to me?!” I slapped his hands off me but he wouldn't move. “Answer the damn quest
LANA. I didn't know what I did that made the school turn their backs on me. I liked it better when I was invincible to them and now they were saying mean words to me. During the first class, I couldn't check my phone to know what was on the school group that made them turn on me. However, I was sure that it had to do with Isaac. During the class, I saw them passing notes to one another but never to me. I didn't have any friends in the school so I didn't expect anyone to slip the notes to me. However, my heart thundered in my chest. Coupled with being in class, I was also scared of checking what was on the group. After the first class, I picked up my bag and braced myself to go back home. I didn't know what was going on in the school and I had no one on my side. It was me against hundreds of students if not a thousand. The hallway was silent and scanty, there was no student there and this gave me some sense of relief. I hadn't taken five steps when I felt something moist crack b
ALEXANDER. I was in my office when I saw a trending video of Lana and Isaac. I didn't want to check it at first until I saw notifications of comments from the students. The video quickly moved to the most trending on the group leaving me no choice but to check. Lo and behold, it was a video of Isaac kissing my mate, Lana. Instantly, my entire body tensed. My heart tightened with anger, not pain. I clenched my fist so hard that the screen of my phone cracked. ‘He really fucked her!’ Tyrant growled moving forward and peering through my eyes. “I am going to kill him with my hands!” I spat, walking out from behind the table and heading to the class where he usually was. I was blinded by anger and didn't have time to think about what I was doing. I searched for Isaac everywhere but did not find him. Going back through the recess room, I heard the students chanting harsh words. The words sounded familiar and I knew it could only be one person they were referring to. “Whore!”“Whore
LANA. Every part of me was in pain until Alexander shifted to his wolf form and his wolf hovered over my legs and licked my wound. My body instantly trembled with pleasure. Moans quickly slipped out of my mouth beyond my control. I grabbed the edge of the bathtub, my eyes rolling backward as his tongue brushed up my legs. I no longer felt pain. It was as though he was sucking my clit. Even my pussy began to pulsate, my walls clenching to be wrapped around him. It was so good that I lost every one of my senses. “Hmm…” “You are all healed up.” I had closed my eyes and didn't notice that Alexander had taken over again. His green eyes met mine, and he smiled which took me aback. It was the first time I ever saw a smile on his face. He looked at my legs, admiring the work he and his wolf had done. “You healed fine.” He smiled again. “Why are you smiling?” I asked. “Do you want me to cry?” He chuckled. I kept my next words to myself. Then his eyes traveled to my boobs which remin
ALEXANDER. Every part of me wanted her. I craved her so much to the point that I had to hold my breath. She smelled like heaven. She smelled like what peace would be. I knew I wanted to touch her and kiss her and fuck her. I knew. However, I couldn't. That would be disrespectful. I couldn't have her. I couldn't bring myself to disrespect her body like that knowing I would never be able to mark her and marry her like she wanted. This was the highest good I could do for her, stop myself from devouring her. I walked to the living room and cleaned the blood spilled by the dead rogue before carrying his dead body to the back of the house. I called the head guard right after to check the body out. If I was right then it meant someone was after my life. ‘Or hers.’ Tyrant came forward and I nodded. “What are we going to do about her? You know she can't go home and staying in our house will only arouse us.” I asked. My wolf was my adviser, he knew everything about me, and ever since I go
ALEXANDER. ‘What the heck did she just say?’ Tyrant moved forward, pressing closely behind me, and peeking at her through my eyes. She was looking at Peter and he smiled back at her. “You are for real?” Peter asked and she nodded. I didn't know when a growl escaped my lips. “Peter is gay!” I let out without control. My lips were faster than my brain. “Yes, and he said he is making his way back to being a straight man,” Lana responded to me, her tone different. I hated the way she spoke to me. It was like a shun. “Gays don't change, it is not a matter of choice.” I rolled my eyes. “Mine is. You can go now, Alex. Lana and I will be getting to know each other while your scent wears off her.” He grabbed her wrist and pulled her to his porch, hauling her into his house. Every part of me twitched with the need to pull her away from him, and back in my car. My wolf kept growling at the back of my mind. Relax, Peter was gay, he didn't like women. ‘It isn't like we care whether he li
ALPHA NATHAN. Bryan was my best friend and Beta until the horrible accident happened to him which caused him to sit in a wheelchair and incapacitated him. He was upset for weeks, crying his eyes out and throwing things about in the hospital. His family barely saw this side of him but I did. He was devastated and he blamed his first daughter, Lena for it. She ran away from home and he went out in search of her then the accident happened. Bryan told me last night to kill Alexander. To make life miserable for him. Alexander was the man Tina was about to marry to replace Bryan as her husband and Beta. Bryan hated Alexander so much, that he begged me to end his life which I told him that I was going to do. Alexander was a young professor in the pack, he had done nothing but fall in love with a woman like Tina. Still, Bryan was my best friend and I was going to do what he wanted even though it was against everything I stood for. We got to the game center where there were numerous gam
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