"Well, suicide girl didn't exactly give him an option. He is Alpha, he has to fight her. She challenged him, remember?" Ari nodded like the load of crap I was vomiting made a lot of sense."Yeah, right…because our very own rational father goes around accepting challenges from girls I am older than and most especially girls with a recent trauma and a death wish. He is venting and he is going to hurt someone!" "Well, I wonder who he is trying to hurt" I said and looked at my mother.I expected my brother to knock some sense into me but he didn't say anything.I moved closer to Luna. What I needed to say, I couldn't say it from the distance I was standing.I saw the Luna's posture as it stiffened. It confirmed my suspicion, she was angry. "How does it feel to have blown up our family?""You don't know what you are talking about, son. This is between your father and I, stay out of it" I was a Wolf, an Alpha and I could hear Luna's increased heart beat and I saw the fact that she was n
Ari's POVAniston threw herself at the Alpha like I expected, the crazy girl just used her entire body as a weapon. I wonder what she thought she was going to achieve. She was thrice smaller than the Alpha and throwing herself at him was like a baby bird throwing her little fragile self at a missile or a rocket.It made no sense but then again with Aniston, a lot of things didn't make sense. Like how she went from a little sobbing pile of mess my little brother had to carry to his room to a menace willing to take on the strongest man in Estonia. It was like she had a death wish or something…oh crap! She does.I watched helplessly as she became a human rocket launcher and Ryan didn't try to defend himself, he simply stepped out of the way and she landed on the wet ground face first."Ouch" She murmured and sat upright.I was too shocked to do anything. Storm looked either pissed or he was struggling to pass air, I couldn't tell. He just had this look on his face.Ryan was the first pe
Ari's POV Working on the assumption that Storm knows that Aniston is my chosen mate and it was only a matter of time before such information found its way to Lee or worse, my Dad…I needed to work harder and faster to find a way to stop Ryan from pushing out Luna. Out of the numerous bad ideas I came up with, only one seemed like a good bad idea. I went in search of my Grand Uncle Chad. I went to his house near the outskirts of town near a few caves left in Bayblue. His home was secluded and wild with little to no technology in sight, it was one of the things he bumped heads with my father about. Chad Black was anti-technology. He believed wolves were abandoning the way of the olds by infusing technology with our day to day activities in Bayblue. Chad was weird in a lot of ways. He didn't believe in modern medicine or western education or the twenty-first century, and it cost him almost everything. His mate, my grandaunt Esther died during childbirth due to excessive loss of blood
Ari's POVThe inside of the house of bamboo was exactly as I remembered because before it became granduncle Chad's home, it was my grandfather's and their father's too.It was more like an ancestral home than a habitable house but Chad was as stubborn as they come and I don't think he ever forgive his late brother, my grandpa - Alpha Abbott Nocturnal Black for letting the pack catch up with the rest of the world and that hatred might have been transferred to Abbott's son Ryan, who not only brought in more technologies but agreed to share it with other neighboring packs like our powerplant and clean water Dam.To Chad, my father was a disease. A disease that was beginning to infect other packs and the hostility between them has since grown. There was the occasional family reunion whichever happened once a year where all the members of the Black family came together and pretended to stand each other like they weren't secretly planning and plotting each other's death - Ryan and uncle Cha
Chad's POV Genevieve Bull, tall. Beautiful. Dreamy eyes. with a stunning glare and the curiosity of a black cat. I stared but only briefly. I have to come up with a plan on how to break the news to her mate without triggering an ancient tradition of a duel. Where I will be required to fight Elijah for my sins, a fight to the death actually and with the goddess on his side, it was a fight I was bound to lose. Losing to him would be honorable and certainly the right thing to do but I am a Black, we hardly do the right thing and I would have to kill Elijah. Shame. He was a good Beta and partner in my scheme to regain what was rightfully mine to begin with. I returned my attention and gaze to Evie. For some reason I longed to satisfy that curiosity in her eyes. "What are you doing here, Evie?" I asked her bluntly. I was never one to beat around the bush when I could be blunt about my questions. My late mate used to joke that I had the patience of a castrated bush rat when it came t
Chad's POVI waited for the outburst, I waited for the challenge and the inaudible beat of the drums of war too. I waited for predictable shoving of chests in anger and the flashing of that legendary temper of Elijah Bull, something that would earn him another scar to show off.I simply waited and observed.Elijah Bull, second in command of Alpha Ryan and his father's successor. Only a blind man couldn't see the extent of his greed, there was no moral code or limit to his schemes, I am surprised my nephew was yet to deduce his true nature and that particular mistake was bound to stab my poor little clueless idiot nephew in the back if he is not careful enough.But I see him alright. My need to be Alpha stems from the fact that our pack was deviating from our roots…our culture. The young are beginning to forget what made us werewolves and our old are letting them. I want to be Alpha so I can rescue them from the clutches of modern technology and its hubris, from the pollution of the ou
Ari's POV After I left Chad's land, I made my way to where I parked my car.Dev was sitting on top of it, carving wood with a pen knife.She was wearing a leather jacket and jeans with a mini white shirt inside that barely covered her boobs. On her abdomen was a tattoo of the number 7 alongside a number of symbols I didn't recognize.Her hair was braided partly and she was wearing a heavy black eyeshadow that made her look like a supermodel assassin…the dangerous kind I see in overly dramatic Korean movie.Then it suddenly dawned on me, the last time I saw her was in the gym and I was in a foul mood and barking orders. And I haven't even gotten around to apologizing for what happened in Red Lycan nightclub, when I ditched her to come to Aniston's rescue."Dev""Hey" She looked up at me and got down from the car.I moved closer to her."What are you doing here?" I asked her.She came closer and handed the carved wood that looked like an arrow to me.I took it from her. It was perfect
Aniston's POV I wanted to wrap my hands around his neck and squeeze until he was red in the face and struggling for just a breath of fresh air. I wanted it so badly that I imagined myself doing it.What about me makes douchebags like Nick and Ari attractive to me?!Am I like a walking dipship antenna or magnet? I mean, come on!First, it was the asshole Nicholas Ray Morgan and then the high and mighty dickwad Ari Thunderbolt Black.I mean look at him…with his smug smile and his chiseled jaw and puffed up chest, that he was basically perfect doesn't mean he wasn't Satan's younger brother.I turned and latched my gaze on him. I didn't bother blinking at all.I was going to tell him to go to hell but when I opened my mouth, what came out was …"You ignored me this morning Ari. Last night you told me you loved me and today, you humiliated me. I thought you were different" Great…way to go, Aniston. Be the feely touchy emotion walking bell you've always been. Tell him how you feel and hol
R18Warning.This chapter contains explicit sex scene. Please read at your own discretion.Aniston’s POVI stood in the shower naked as a new born baby counting minutes till my hot…hot mate who just told me he was in love with me joined me.Then the doubt started to creep in. He was going to see me naked and be…inside me and stuff. Did I even shave?I am supposed to shave right?! Quick Ani, check!I was about to when the door opened and Ari walked inside and locked the door behind him.He joined me in the shower and stood behind me and let his hands wander.I should say something…right? I could sneak out for a minute and shave my legs.I opened my mouth speak...All that came out was a hum.A hum?Are you fucking kidding me?!A freaking hum like a cave person. Ari ran his hand through my dark thick wet hair that fell to my back before grabbing a handful of it to rub on his cheek. When he was done, he pushed them away to expose my bare back. First he kissed my neck as his left hand
Aniston’s PovI sat on a swing by the playground for a while. God, I don’t think I have ever been so nervous like this before. Forty-five minutes and counting, that is the amount of time I have sat at this spot waiting for Ari to come, refusing to accept that it might just be over for us.I tried not to imagine a world without him, I did just the opposite. I allowed myself to daydream…about a possible future where I was actually happy with the love of my life, we had two children, a daughter named Dani and a son name Ari-Storm. And two rescue dogs and a white picket fence.I knew that the possible of that happening was slim…it got slimmer when I felt the first drop of rain.It was almost an hour, he wasn’t coming.Storm came to sit beside me."What are you doing?" he asked me."Waiting" I murmured."For?" he asked but I kept quiet. "What are you waiting for? It is going to be a downpour, Ani. I don’t think he is coming".I turned to look at him. My eyes had a glint of tears in them bu
Aniston’s POV“Few weeks ago when you told me you love me, did you mean it?” Ari asked.“Yes. I love you”“Okay…okay then, because maybe I can live with your secrets” he murmured. “Even thought it hurts that you can’t trust me with them but I am tired, Ani…tired of hoping I could catch a glimpse of you in my dreams...Tired of hoping, praying that maybe you would give me a reason why I am so untrustworthy. I have recurring nightmares of you lying dead in a ditch somewhere and then I would wake up and pace and scream and pray! I am tired of being left on the side walk”“You asked me to leave, Ari”“Well, you didn’t want to stay. You would rather be elsewhere but with me, Aniston! You chose your bloody secrets over me! That hurts you know”I grabbed his arm. "I am sorry. I got scared and I panicked. And I just…ran. I didn't think, I couldn't think…I just ran. And I thought I would never see you again but you are here and I am here now and I want to tell you everything, Ari…everything fro
ChapterAri’s POVI stared at her face and then everything stopped. Time stopped like I wanted it to, because right this minute…right this second, everything just became too real and I had to deal with it.But I don't want to.I want to go back to the beginning. To the time when I was a boy and my only concern was the butterfly outside my window, when my mother's embrace was the safest place for me.I want to go back to the time when my father's shoulder was the highest place in the whole wide world…to the time when crying meant a smile was just around the corner.I want the beginning, when mother's laughter was music to my ears and father's voice was a source of admiration and solace.I want the little tree house behind the house, I want the fake dance parties and fast car races…to the time of tooth fairies and little gods, when Santa Claus was real…when all I had to be was… good and everything worked out just the way they were meant to be.I want the beginning and the goodies that c
Ari's POV I must have stood there for a very long time, just staring at nothing. Images of a naked man in Aniston’s room stayed with me for as long as i stood there. I mean nothing made sense anymore; nothing seemed real anymore too…everything has gone to shit. “Ari?” Everything seemed so far away like I was floating and nothing was keeping me tethered to earth anymore. Something didn’t feel right. I could feel it from the depth of my soul…I could feel it. I just can’t explain it. “Ari? Hey, are you alright?” Dev’s voice brought back to reality, I turned around and looked at her. She had a smile on her face. “Making this trip is the best thing to have happened to…” “I have to go” I murmured, more to myself than for her benefit. “What? Go where?” she looked puzzled. “I just saw a naked man in Ani’s room” I said and looked at her with this deep frown that came from my soul. “I am so sorry” She said. It sounded like she meant it. “It is a good thing we are here…away from all t
Aniston's POV "No, I am not""Yes, you are. It was idiotic of me to trust someone like Anton, I know but I was going crazy with boredom and…" I was interrupted by Markle "Do you know what is worse than boredom? Death, sis. You went with a strange man to God knows where, outside the scope of my protection and he could have hurt you…really hurt. Did you even think it through….""I am not a child, Mark. I can fucking take care of myself and stop treating me like some porcelain doll that will break at the sign of trouble! I am not breakable! Or I would have shattered a long time ago…so, just stop! Just…cut me some slack" i voiced my opinion strongly before continuing on my journey to my room, he tried to follow me but I stopped him"I know you suddenly want to be a good big brother but Just give me some space…I am serious, Mark, don't follow me!"I walked away and banged the door as loudly as I could when I got to my cabin.I went into my makeshift closet to change into something less
Chapter "Wow…you are really…really bad at threats, Aniston. Laxatives? Laxative was the best threat you could come up with. Even the way you are standing doesn't encourage fear and your face looked like you are about to offer me chocolate"I was taken aback and I couldn't speak. Anton removed his hand from his pocket."I am going to do something I rarely do. I am going to teach you how to effectively threaten someone and get them to take you seriously. Now stand upright, it will make you taller, narrow your eyes…please stop smiling…move closer to your intended recipient, pout and make sure to voice out each word with precision and bone chilling coldness, none of your sweet soprano voice, for Christ sake you are threatening someone not trying to get them to fall in love with you. Now, give it a try" Anton instructed me.I relaxed. I was always in the mood to learn something new.I stood upright earning another inch; I narrowed my eyes and pouted. When I opened my mouth, every word was
ChapterAri's POV Chioma didn't give it much thought; she just went around the table and hugged Veronica. "It won't be enough for the whole project but it is a good start. You can stop hugging me now, I haven't told you but…there is only a tiny hiccup, we need an engineer""Oh that's okay, Ari is one and a damn good one too. I am sure he is happy to help" Lee said and I turned sharply to glare at him in shock.Why on earth would he volunteer me for a project that huge when we leave in three weeks for home?"Will you?" Chioma asked me with a puppy dog look I couldn't turn down."Sure. Excuse us, come on guys" I ushered my friends out the door specifically to get my hands on Lee and murder him.When we were out of a hearing distance from Veronica's office, Lee took off on a run.I looked at Dev and I didn't have to ask too. She seemed pissed off."I will get him and I am going to fucking kill him!" She ran after him leaving just Caleb and I to stand in the middle of the hallway stari
ChapterAri's POV "Yes, that's one reason and second, is I don't want anything complicated right now. Nothing about starting up a relationship with Chioma screams simple. So, just drop it" I told him firmly. "And Lee, don't talk about Aniston like that ever again"Lee was quiet for a few seconds before he said something."Let's see how long you can go without sex, Ari""You make it sound like I am an addict" I turned to look at him."Just saying….the only thing the two of us have in common is the fact that we aren't saints. We all including Caleb love a good bang, maybe you more than all of us""I love sex! I ain't ashamed to acknowledge that but I am not a dog and I have self control. And I refuse to treat women like a sex object. Worry about yourself, Lee"I said and walked away but not before I heard him mutter "you are so full of it"I almost made it to my room which was opposite Chioma's when I saw a boy knocking on her door.He was skinny, average and had a dark chocolate skin