CLAIREBy the time it was early evening, I was ready to leave with Alex. I paced about the length of the room, keen for his return. I know you all think that I should stop him, and ask him to stay with his mother, but it was his choice to make since this was all about him. All I could do was just stand by him while making sure everything was in order in his life. And by order, I meant seeing that smile return to his face just the way it always was before he learned about his relatives.I paused in my pacing and looked out the window to see if I would see any traces of him, but I got nothing. I went to the door and peeped, but still, I got nothing about him. I became tense, seeing as how it was already getting dark a bit, yet he was not here. According to him, we were supposed to leave once it was evening. After pacing for about five minutes more, I got tired of just pacing about and decided to go in search of the man.I left the room I was staying in and went through the long corrido
ALEXAKIS I stood in front of the mirror and watched as my black hair stood out in pikes, and my grey eyes bore deeply into me as if they were accusing me. And if they were, I knew they had every right. After all, I had defiled even my own words... right after I promised to leave the pack. But there was nothing I could do about the whole thing. If I hadn't seen what I saw, then I wouldn't have minded leaving no matter how hard Luna Lisa and her people tried to trap me into staying. But I already saw it and since there was no way I could un-see the whole thing - that is even if there was a word like un-see - then I had no choice but to remain behind until I could figure out everything.And to figure out everything, I had to know about the pack. I had to know about everything and everyone who made up the Morning Dew Pack members. To do that, I needed someone who knew the ins and outs of the pack. Somebody like... Luna Lisa. I shook my head in disagreement. There was no way I would go t
ALEXAKIS After Luna Lisa had ordered the man to take me around as I wished, she left immediately without saying a word anymore. For two days after her verdict, I kept following Kieran about, watching as he moved from one part of the pack to another just to make sure everything was going on smoothly.I looked up just in time to see the man diving for the left, and I quickly followed. If I hadn't looked up when I did, I knew I would have lost him just like I did that first day I started following him about. I didn't know why but I kept feeling like the man was deliberately trying to shake me off his tail. Something in me kept telling me that the man would have bluntly told me off if not that he didn't want to defile the order of his Luna -at least, not directly. He was doing it stylishly though. If the way he kept turning me away from himself was any indicator."Were you going to disappear on me again?" I asked him as I met up with him at the corner that led to the market. The man rasp
ALEXAKIS Seeing the opportunity for Claire to start doing something to earn some cash for herself, seeing as how she lost her earning -or thought that she did since I got all her money back from that traitor friend of hers- and she didn't like sitting still at a place for long, I rushed to her place.From the moment when I dropped her back at the place and told her that we were aborting the mission to leave, I hadn't set my eyes on her anymore. I knew she wasn't petty though. So she wouldn't hold my weird action against me. I should talk to her and let her know what it was that I saw. But that would be putting her in danger and I wanted to avoid that as much as possible. The less she knew, the safer she would be. I got to her place and knocked."Who is there?" She asked. I heard her footsteps approaching the door and I waited for her to open the door. The moment she did and saw that it was me, she closed it back, almost slamming it in my face."Claire," I called out to her. I turned
CLAIRE I could feel his excitement. I found myself smiling at how happy he seemed just because I chose to stay with the pack. If only he knew that staying with him was not the only reason for the influence in my decision. If only he knew that I wanted a haven for myself too, even if it was just for the main time. Moreover, getting a job would help me remain focused, and I would also be able to save up enough cash to spend. It was a win-win situation for me, an all-rounder."Since you are scared of the people in the pack, how about if I accompanied you to the place? It is at the café spot just down at the end of the pack area." He said to me after he was done with all his excitement spam.I shook my head at him. "I think I can find my way there myself," I told him when he looked at me with a questioning look. I figured that since I was going to remain at the pack a bit longer -could go on for months- then it would be wise of me to try and find my way around and also mingle with people
CLAIRE I let out a sigh as I began to scrub the counter free from any form of liquid puddles that was on it. I couldn't believe that I had been working at the café for a week now.A week of surviving among the people I feared. A week of meeting new people and getting to see that they were all not as bad as I thought they would be. None of them treated me like the outcast I expected to be. You know... an outcast in the sense that I wasn't even a werewolf, to begin with. Or an outcast in the sense that the family I came from was their number one core enemy. Instead. They treated me nicely. True. Some of them ignored me plainly, but no one was rude to me or even treated me unjustly. It was more like everyone just decided to mind the reason why they walked into the cafe in the first place."Are you wiping over a spot repeatedly just because you don't want to take a customer's order?" I blinked my eyes. I stopped wiping and looked up to face Isabella -the only rude person I knew of at t
Evie's POV What was the point of being appointed a leader when it was all just in saying?After Father had appointed me the leader of the hunters and I had passed the test to determine if I was fit enough to be a leader, nothing had remained the same anymore. By saying so, it was not in gladness. I thought being appointed as a leader meant that the decisions and everything about the hunting group would be placed under my care. But no, Father had simply turned me into a leader only by mouth.The Midnight Hunters group that was supposed to be mine was still ruled by the old man. Every time situations comes up that required the decision and action of the leader, Father would always step up, pushing me back into his shadows.I had complained to the man severally. Each time I laid my complaints at his feet, all he said was that he was just helping me out so I wouldn't be overwhelmed. "What overwhelming?" I scoffed to myself as I combed my hair in readiness for my outing. It just felt to
ALEXAKIS I didn't know what to make of the situation that was currently brewing between Claire and me. The fact that she was the one who kept complaining that I had no time for her, yet when I tried to move closer these past few days, she was the same person who took three steps back for every single step I took made me feel overwhelmed. I knew why she was like that though. A smile crept to the corners of my lips as I remembered how her lips had tasted. Perhaps I shouldn't have kissed her like that, with no warning given. But I wasn't sorry about the kiss. It was something that had lingered on my mind ever since she told me subtly at the cave that she loved seeing me shirtless.When I saw her in the cave looking almost lifeless, I knew that she was someone dear to me. Someone I never wanted to lose... ever. And then when I saw that she was awake after days of drifting in and out of consciousness, I had to fight the urge to run to her and kiss her until she was senseless. Ever since