LENA. Isaac told me that everything was weird and there was more to see than they showed. The pack had become more silent since the reign of the new Luna. Alexander had stopped coming to the school, and he had moved into the pack house. A new teacher replaced him and took us for the rest of the semester. Everything changed. It became quiet and I hated it. Every day, I woke up with the hope that I would see Alexander crawling up my window. But none of that ever happened, I didn't see my mate and I missed him so much. There were days I cried all day on the floor of my bathroom and other days, I cajoled myself to be strong. Lady Tina and Alexander’s relationship got stronger. I knew because I was stalking her page. She posted all about her husband who was the Beta and also the son of the Alpha. It was all over the pack page and everyone talked about it. It broke my heart every day. Isaac helped me go through each day. We became closer because he helped me to study for our final
LENA.“Hold on, who are you?” I asked, turning to her with an apt attention. She mentioned Alexander’s name when no one but me, Isaac, and Alexander himself knew he was my Nate. Who the hell was she? “Knowing who I am is not important right now, Lena. Your mate is in trouble and if care is not taken, you are going to lose him!” She warned, her eyes serious. Fear coursed through me instantly. Alexander? Could he really be in trouble? Or this woman was playing a prank on me. I stared at her for some time before giving a head shake. “I don't believe you,” I said. “Sure. I knew you were not going to believe me but listen to me at least. Alexander needs your help. At this point, the pack needs your help too.” She went silent after, probably allowing me to think what she had said through. For some second, it felt like I was in a movie. Because what did she mean by the pack needed my help? The help of an ordinary cursed omega? “Yes, your help. I know it is hard for you to believe. But t
LENA. My heart pounded greatly in my chest as I headed for the pack house. Every part of me told me it was not right and the sweet wouldn't work. Just why would an ordinary sweet make me change? I panicked as I neared the pack house. However, seeing him again seemed to heal a part of me. How could the same person who caused my heart to ache bring relief to it? The thought of it seemed so unfair. I just wanted to be happy without feeling all of these hurt and my happiness seemed to be with him alone. And if truly he was in danger, I would do anything to save him. To make him happy because his happiness was mine as well. I swallowed as I placed a knock on the brown door that led to the pack house. I knocked on the door, my heartbeat synonymous with a club. I heard footsteps approaching, someone coming to open up the door. Finally, the door was pulled back by someone. A maid. She sized me up, her eyes moved down my body and then back to my face. “Who are you?” the maid asked. “Uhm…
LENA. “You came for the maid’s job, right?” She asked. She didn't mention my name. No one had mentioned my name ever since, did the sweet work? “And the maid job you shall have, Lena!” Her tone sounded close to that of a witch. I mean those in cartoons that are normally scary, that was exactly how she sounded. I didn't want the maid job anymore not after I had witnessed Alexander smooching lady Tina. I never should have made my way here. “I don't need the job anymore,” I said planning to turn around and leave. Whoever that girl was, the one that came to me, she lied. She came to play tricks on me, she must have found out Alexander and I were mates. Alexander’s mom closed up the space between us, moved as fast as her legs could carry her. Every step she made resounded in my chest. She grabbed my arm and pulled me to her so suddenly with her condescending gaze. “You said it yourself, you want to work here as a maid. So why are you leaving?” She asked, her stare nothing but
LENA. The pack house has the maid house separate from the main house. One of the maids, her name being Joana. She was also the one who had opened the door for me when I came to the pack house. Joana had a scar on one side of her face, it wasn't very noticeable until she started to speak to my face. She took me to my room after I had agreed to stay. I was glad because the pack house was different from the main house. Although I would be working in the main house. I will try my best to avoid Alexander and Lady Tina. “So we are staying in the same room, is that okay?” She pushed the door back and we were met with one single room and another which was the bathroom. The room had two single beds, a small size beds. “I am glad we are staying together,” I said with a smile. She returned the smile. “Most of the time, you will told to clean the house. That is where we are lacking workers. You don't have to worry, we can do all of the work together.” I nodded and went to my side of the b
LENA. “What do you want?” He asked, his voice thick with indifference. He turned back to the stairmaster, walking on it, his muscles flaring. He sounded so mean. What did I ever do to him? “First off, what did I ever do to you? Why do you shut me off? I am your mate, not just some girl. You could have just rejected me like normal humans do. But no, you prefer to taunt me!” I yelled. I couldn't help but let it all out. Every part of me had begun to tremble from the anger that I felt. Why did I become so unlucky? Unlucky to find a man like this as a mate. One who was not easy to get over? Gently, he turned to me. His eyes were expressionless, nothing was in them. They were dry and he stared at me with no recognition. As if I shouldn't have spoken to him. As though my words were ridiculous to his ears. “Are you a part of the drama club? Is this your part you are playing out?” He questioned innocently. No sarcasm on his face. No anger, plain innocence. As if he didn't know what I was
ALEXANDER. Her tears, they hurt me so much. I could feel his much pain she was passing through and how much it hurt that her mate was being so mean to her. It hurts me too. So much that I had to be so mean to her. But then Tina was staring. Looking at me. I couldn't pull her to me. Tina walked into the gym room few seconds after she left. I acted like I was upset. Like I believed every lies that I was told. “Why did she come here?” She asked. “To seek forgiveness. She wanted to be back in my life even after everything she did to me. I told her that I love only you and she can never take your space in my life.” I hissed feigning disgust. Tina nodded, happy with the lies I had told. She didn't know I was playing along with her. With them. By them I meant she and my mother. I had caught them, red-handed. They didn't know, they didn't realize that I knew of all their evil plan. The thought of it all just made me feel like shit. My mother had lied to me all these while, and what s
LENA. The next day, we were to prepare the meal for the entire family. I did as instructed. I stayed in the kitchen while the other maids did the dishing of food. As much as Joana wanted me to go over there, I just couldn't bring myself to face Alexander. “Lena, what do you plan to do now that high school is over?” Joanna asked while I chopped the legumes she had passed to me. We were now cooking for the workers including ourselves. I paused for a second before I continued. “Well, nothing. What I have in mind I don't think that I can do it again.” I continued to chop.“What?” She asked. I smiled a bit. “surgical oncologist.” Ever since I lost one part of my breast, I had done many resseaches and I figured many women were battling with this issue of breast cancer. I know how hard it is seeing myself with one breast. I would like to stop it from happening to many other women. However, my result from high school couldn't do it. “Really?” Joanna asked and I nodded. “You don't w
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