ALEXAKIS As I grabbed Claire's hand and led her out of the place, I aimed to find a place where we could be seated and spend some quality time together. I might have let us move over to her room, but I knew that servants still trooped in and out of the place now and then. What I wanted was total calmness for both of us. I decided to move us into the woods where we can just sit on a tree branch or a clearing and chat away to make me forget the pressure back at the house with the way Luna Lisa and Nathaniel had gone all out with each other."Alpha Alex." A young girl of no more than ten years old greeted me. I was taken aback by the way it seemed that people had chosen to attach the Alpha title to my name even when nothing has been finalized yet. Perhaps it was not just the council members who had made up their minds to instate me as the Alpha. Perhaps the pack members had decided in their hearts who they wanted. I knew how sad it would have been for Nathaniel if he were to hear how t
CLAIRE Once again, it was another dull day at work. Few customers only strode in to get coffee from us. The rest ordered some other things, but the turnouts were still very low compared to how business usually bloomed before. By the time it was 4 in the evening, Mrs. Annie was already asking us to start cleaning up so we could close early. I was wiping the cups clean when she came over to me. She stared at me for about a minute but didn't say anything, and I was forced to ask her what she wanted."What is it?" I asked her. My nervousness was that she was going to sack me because the business was dull, and she figured she didn't need many helping hands. I became worried instantly, knowing that if she turned me away, it would be hard for me to get any other job around the pack."How are things proceeding at home? You know, the tension about the whole Alpha thing?" Mrs. Annie asked me.I released the breath I was holding. I couldn't believe that all she wanted was gossip. But I wasn't w
CLAIRE I knew that I should decline his kiss for the sake of my own sanity, but I couldn't. Instead of me rejecting the kiss, I shamelessly opened up to him, letting him engulf me in the euphoria of his love and affection. I couldn't deny it anymore, no matter how hard I tried. I was in love with the man, and there was nothing I could do to halt the emotions."Open up some more to me, baby." He whispered to me in a low seducing tone. His tongue pushed even deeper into my mouth, and I gladly let him in. His body moved up my own some more, causing friction that left the space between my thighs getting pooled. I moaned softly, not knowing what to do. My hands went around his neck, and I spread my legs out for him to give him enough space to get enough of his body where I needed him the most. He stopped kissing me, and his mouth trailed kisses on my face, down to my neck. When he got to a spot where my vein was, he lingered there and continued to suckle me, his teeth grazing at that sp
ALEXAKIS The moment I opened the door the next morning, I met Luna Lisa pacing about the living room. I thought she was still bothered about Nathaniel, so I tried to make my way to my room as quietly as I could. She spotted me and rushed to where I was. She slapped me on my arm, and I winced from the pain."Where have you been all night? Do you even know how worried I was about you?" She said to me.My shock was visible for all to see. The woman was worried about me? "I..." I gulped hard, not knowing what else to say to her. She held my hands and placed them on her cheeks. "I know Nathaniel is giving you a hard time, but can you please just continue to hang on? Please?" She asked me.My heart melted, and I moved closer to her. Before I could talk myself out of it, I enveloped her in a hug. She cried as she wrapped her hands around me. I patted her back softly, then stepped away from her."Don't worry about me. I'm fine," I said to her. She nodded at me, and I gave her a small smil
CLAIRE It was the weekend -the time of the week to not have anything tangible to do. The cafe was closed throughout the day since we barely had customers during the week. This made Annie decide to close the door for the weekend. From the moment I woke up that morning, I did all that I could. I cleaned my room, made my bed, read a book, and literally everything else that I could think of doing. Still, it wasn't so long until I began to feel bored. Not wanting to disturb Alex over such a childish thing, I decided to stroll around. After almost an hour, there wasn't anywhere to stroll to again, leaving me no choice but to go and see Alex despite not wanting to disturb him.As I walked down to the corridor that led to his room, pictures that were hung around the place caught my interest, and I spent about ten minutes admiring them. I saw one that belonged to the family. It has Luna Lisa and her husband and Nathaniel. Even Kieran was in the picture. The boys were still young, and they al
ALEXAKIS "Thank you for the breakfast," I said to Luna Lisa the moment I was done eating. I got up from where I sat and wanted to leave, not wanting to be anywhere around Nathaniel for the time being, but Luna Lisa's voice stopped me."If it is okay with you, Alex, can I have a word?" She asked me.A word? With me? I looked at her and she nodded her head."Sure," I answered her. But I wasn't sure if I should have said yes or no. If Nathaniel was to come in and see us together, he might start another of his tyrant acts. At the point where I was, I was not sure that I would be able to just quietly endure the whole thing."Come, let's go to the garden." She said to me. She got up from her seat and led the way to the place. I followed her at a slow pace, apprehensive about what she was going to talk about. Was she going to ask me to leave the pack because my stay was making Nathaniel uncomfortable? Or was she finally going to ask me to leave the position of the Alpha for the other man?
EVIEI sat on the couch in the living room, my hands on my system, typing away. I had been trying to search for the wolfman ever since I broke up with Scott. I needed to steal that man from Claire so that I would be happy once again. The plight I was going through at home just kept going from worse to worse, and I was already on my threshold. I needed something or someone to fill me with happiness. And right at the moment, the wolfman was my obsession, and I felt that he was the only one who could do the job. The only thing was, I couldn't find him on any of the social media handles no matter how hard I searched or even the keywords I used.I was so lost in what I was doing that I didn't realize that my mother was seated beside me until she bumped me gently on my arm with her elbow. I looked up and saw her looking at me with a smile."What are you busy with?' She asked me, the smile still on her face."Nothing," I said to her and closed the laptop immediately. I got up from where I sa
NATHANIEL I couldn't believe it. No, I refused to believe it.How could everything going on be like this for me? Was that how my life would come to an end abruptly because of a man who knew nothing about our pack? And everyone even had the enforrentry to behave as if I was overreacting. Yes, I was overreacting, but it was for my sake. I had given every of my existence to the pack and the people just because I thought that I was going to take over the pack in the future.If they were expecting me to sit still, then they were deceiving themselves. I was not going to sit still and watch as someone else stole what should have been mine by rights. Hence, the reason why I called the meeting for the Elders. If there was anyone who would be able to right the wrong I was facing, then it was them. They were the ones who determined who gets to be in the golden seat. Even if it was the wrong choice, as long as the Elders approved it, then the masses had no choice but to accept it."Elder Damon,