Melissa.I walked briskly out of the room, resisting the urge to fan myself because of what I just experienced in Alan's room. No one, I mean absolutely no one had spoken that boldly to me about sex and even made it look hot while doing so. “Goddess, he is trouble.” I whispered to myself on my way out of the room, ignoring the servant girl who had been asking me where I was headed. Alan was trouble, in fact the two mates the Moongoddess had decided to bless me with were trouble and as each went by, I found it hard to resist both of them.They were both the same. I realized as I began to weigh their characteristics. Yes, Alan and Zach may have their differences in lifestyle and even looks, but when it came to making me hot and speechless, they were both similar. What a perfect way for the Moongoddess to decide to punish me.In less than two minutes, I was out of the entire house, heading to nowhere in particular and that was okay as long as Alan and I were far away from each other. It
ZacharyI watched her go with my heart full of not just regret but frustration. Regret, because I wished I could call her back to right the wrong, and frustration because I knew calling her back wasn’t the right thing to do. My parents were honorable people and even know I had spent just few years under their care, they did raise me with honor. Having a sexual relationship with your student, whether she was your mate or not, wasn’t an honorable thing to do. The honorable thing would be to quit being her teacher and claim her the official way, but at the moment, quitting was the last thing I wanted to do.Teaching gave me purpose in life and training young wolves to be the strongest that they could be, was also one of the few things that gave me purpose again. After the death of my parents at a very young age, I had struggled to live alone, struggled to fend for myself, but I managed to do it because I had promised my mother that I would. After high school, things became tougher and it
MelissaFreya had a long look on her face all through breakfast and even while we walked to school the next day which bothered me because she wasn’t someone I knew to be moody. I allowed her to keep to herself on the walk, but when we got to the classroom, I went to her seat and sat on her table. She looked up at me with huge eyes when I did that, offering me an awkward smile which I knew she didn’t really mean.“What is the problem, Freya?” I asked, not just because I was inquisitive, but also because this time around, I was genuinely worried about her. She sighed at the question, placing her head on my laps for a brief moment. When she looked up again, her eyes were almost teary.“I went to the professor’s house last night,” She blurted out softly and I gasped, using my hand to cover my mouth in order not to attract the attention of the few students in class already.“You know the professor’s house?” I asked and she nodded her head pitifully. “I coincidentally saw him when I went o
AlanIt was hard to explain what I felt seeing Melissa and Zachary in the hall. Their body movements were awkward, as if they felt guilty and it made me feel there was something between them. I tried to push the thoughts to the back of my mind, tried to give the excuse that Zachary was an honorable man who wouldn’t have anything personal with his student, but it was all too difficult.I took a step closer to both of them, immediately noticing the look on Zachary’s face as he watched me. I have always known him to dislike me because he hated the fact that I, who whose father had stolen the alpha title according to him, was going to become alpha. While we were in school, he hated me, avoided and ignored me even when I tired making friends with him since he was also of higher wolf hierarchy. So we had ended up being just acquaintances, or even enemies at best. Seeing him looking all guilty and anxious with Melissa in the hall didn’t make me feel good and I suddenly felt my blood boiling
ZacharyAs the students began to leave, I noticed Alan’s eyes on Melissa who was now standing and ready to leave with her friends. My gaze lingered on him, trying to understand the expression I saw on his face, but it was impossible. I wasn’t seeing the brotherly affection in which he usually looked at Freya with, neither was I seeing the soft gaze one would normally look at their friends with, I was seeing something else. Something that I didn’t want to think about.Melissa and her friend who were at the back of others spoke among themselves on their way out, not caring if there was someone else in the hall and I couldn’t help but watch them and even Alan. Melissa said nothing to Alan when they got to the door, but Freya squeezed his hand, and he offered her a smile in the process. His gaze darkened when they focused on Melissa, and I could swear something passed between them before she walked out. I didn’t know what it was or what to call it, but I knew my blood boiled over and over
MelissaThe moment the alarm sounded, I grabbed my bag and ran out of the school, almost bumping into Zach on my way. He had an alarmed look on his face when he saw that I was the one leaving, but I ignored him without apologizing and continued my journey. I knew he was going to be surprised at my action and so would Chloe and Freya who always left the school with me, but I didn’t care. I would apologize to them later on, right now, I needed to make use of my opportunity and speak to Alan.The house was empty when I went in and aside the little sounds of plates coming from the kitchen, there was no other sound in the house. I was aware that my father and Ciara would be having a meeting with the elders at the shifting square at the moment, so I immediately rushed up the stairs and pushed open Alan’s door without knocking.He stood up from the bed as soon as I walked in, the look on his face changing from annoyance to surprise when he set his eyes on me.“I could have been naked, Meliss
MelissaWith a hoodie over my head and free pair of joggers on my body, I left the house, placing both hands into the pocket of my pants. I wasn’t one who liked to exercise but walking usually helped take a lot of things off my mind, especially things that usually had no answer to them.And right now, the one thing in my mind which I had no answer to was Zachary and Alan. I couldn’t explain what I had felt after seeing them going at eachother in the training gym. At first, I thought it was surprise that they knew eachother enough to hate each other, but later on, it felt like I was angry. I was angry first at them, for staring at each other like that in a place that was way easy for anyone to walk in. Then, I was angry at the moongoddess, for continuing to make my life difficult. Yes, I had two handsome mates, and I was beginning to learn to accept my reality and had even started planning on how to let both of them know that they were my mates. But why did they have to hate eachother
MelissaIt was the weekend and just Freya, Alan and I were left in the house. My father, after making Alan in charge of three of us, had left for a meeting, which I was sure would likely take the whole day, with his new wife. I sighed in distress, recalling how Ciara had smiled at me when she was about to leave and how I had ignored her like she hadn’t existed. I knew that the day was coming where my father would question the way I treated her and that when it came, I would need to have a reasonable answer for him. Alan had also noticed the way I treated his mother, but he had tried not to say anything even though I knew he was not pleased with it. And my hunch was correct when he began to ignore me. I had tried talking to him twice. Once, when Freya wanted to make snacks for three of us and had asked me to go see if he wanted some. Twice, when I needed a needle to stitch up a tear on my dress and had gone to his room to ask after the servants told me he was with the sewing kits.He
MelissaIt was Alan’s coronation ceremony, and we were all gathered in the shifting square to witness the occasion. I stood sandwiched between Freya and Chloe, who looked at the podium Alan stood with love in their eyes. It was difficult for me to concentrate on the event though, because I kept thinking of Zachary even though it had been two weeks since his death, but I stood there, looking on like everyone else.The sorceress performed her incantations on Alan and after putting on the alpha robe on his body, she invited the spirit of all alphas before him to dwell on him. At that moment, he shifted into his wolf form, to show that the process was now complete, and everyone bowed their heads in respect to him. Alan’s wolf howled into the sky, his sound the only thing being heard in the shifting square, and I closed my eyes, already feeling the impact of his strength around me. When he was done, he shifted back into his human form and the warriors gathered around him to cover his naked
MelissaAfter twenty minutes of crying and holding Zachary in my arms, I finally found the courage to crawl to my father’s table and press the button underneath it for the servants. Zachary still laid on the floor in his pool of blood and as for his heart, I kept holding it in my hands because it reminded me of the fact that I was the one who killed him. It didn’t take up to twenty minutes for Jackie and one of the servants to appear in the room and they both froze at the sight in front of them. “Melissa?” Jackie called softly as she came forward to kneel beside me, ignoring the blood and Zachary’s body. “What happened here?”“I did what I had to.” I responded, allowing my gaze to settle on Zachary again. This time around, I felt no more pain because I had stayed long enough with him in that state.“Is this why the sorceress came today?” Jackie asked. “She wanted you to kill him?”I nodded my head in response, before looking up to the other servant who was still shaken up by the whol
MelissaLike a ghost, I walked weakly into the house, surprised that my legs could carry me despite how weak they were. I wanted to scream at the moongoddess, wanted to bawl my eyes out, but the more I thought about killing one of my mates with my own hands, the weaker I felt to even do any of those things.The maids watched me with intrigue as I walked, but I ignored them as if they were not even present. While taking the stairs one at a time, Jackie rushed to meet me and with her right hand, turned me to face her. I forced myself to focus on her face, seeing that she had on an expression of worry and concern, so in order to ease it, I offered her a genuine smile.“What did she want?” Jackie asked, her eyes scanning the entire house to make sure Zachary wasn’t anywhere close. I took her hand off my arms and shrugged my shoulders in response to her question.“Tell me, Melissa.”“She just wanted to confirm something from me. it is not a big deal.”“I heard her say something about you h
MelissaI shuddered at his words and the meaning behind them, just realizing for the first time that he had indeed lost his mind. He really wanted to make love to me? I wondered, thankful that I didn’t say the words out loud. Zachary wanted me to have sex with him, despite the turmoil going on in the pack and the many atrocities that he had committed. He wanted me to give myself to him and forget the fact that he had killed so many people in the pack and was still holding my stepbrother and sister hostage. Was he crazy?Don’t you want me to make love to you? his voice came crashing through my mind, forcing me to blink away my thoughts and focus my attention back on him. there was something in his eyes as I looked into them, something that told me I wouldn’t like his next action if I were to say no to him. with a little hesitation, I linked my arm around his nek, and pressed my lips against his.The kiss was slow, and very calculating, as if he was trying to make sure we were on the sa
MelissaAfter convincing Zachary to allow me to move freely outside the house, I walked into the cell where Freya and Alan were supposedly kept. I froze at once after seeing the pack and mansion warriors occupying different prison houses, with Marcus being one of them. The guards all stood up from the floor they were sitting on and bowed their heads in respect when they saw me, their simple gesture forcing me to bow back.“What the hell happened?” I asked, looking at Marcus alone as he walked closer to stand in front of me. Even though the railings demarcated him from me, I could still see his injured face properly.“Zachary has lost his mind, Melissa.” He spoke, using his hand to massage his swollen lips. “He came here with rogues and disrupted the coronation process.”“I know that.” I responded, looking around to be sure the rogues standing as guards weren’t paying attention to our conversation. “He has occupied my father’s bedroom and as it stands, I do not think he plans to let yo
ZacharyI knew Melissa hated me. It was in her eyes and also in the tone of her voice. I might look like a monster to her because I had done a terrible thing to take back what was supposed to be rightfully mine, but I knew she would grow to forgive me one day. Afterall, she had no other choice because we were both going to spend the rest of our lives together.The rogues I had put in charge of the cell bowed to me as soon as I approached and i nodded my head to acknowledge them. The cell housed four separate prisons, each large enough to accommodate more than twenty people at once. So, we put the mansion warriors in one cell, placed the pack warriors in another, and kept Alan and Freya in the third. The warriors were all pleading for their lives when the cell door opened but I ignored them completely and headed over to where Freya and Alan were kept.Both Alan and his sister were awake now, but while Freya remained seated on the hard ground, Alan walked round the cell, probably thinki
MelissaI woke up with a faint headache and the smell of coffee filling my nostrils. I tried to open my eyes, to understand what was going on around me but it was quite difficult to. Last night had been weird, and the only thing I could remember was preparing to leave the mansion for Alan’s coronation ceremony. A lot of things happened after that, but I still couldn’t remember what it was or how I ended up lying on a soft mattress which I could feel behind my back. This wasn’t my room. I knew it wasn’t my room because after sleeping on a particular bed for more than ten years, I should know how my sheets felt and how they smelt. The sound of footsteps approaching me got me back to my senses and I used the whole of my will to snap my eyes open.The view I met in front of me was quite deceiving, so I had to blink three times to be sure I was seeing right and not just imagining things. Zachary smiled at me as he lowered himself on the bed, making sure the cup of coffee in his hand didn’
AlanAfter a successful burial ceremony and mourning period for the alpha, I stood in the garden of the house, thinking about the responsibilities that were about to befall me. The beta and gamma of the pack had prepared me for the coronation ceremony which was to happen in few minutes’ times, and I couldn’t wait for the whole thing to be over and done with. The sounds of footstep from behind had me turning at once to see Freya walking towards me. I offered her a genuine smile, just realizing that since the banishment of Zachary from the pack, she and I hadn’t said a word to eachother. But she didn’t return my smile. Instead, she stopped few meters away from where I stood and stared deeply into my eyes.“Do you feel ready?” She asked in one of her serious voices. I looked at her in confusion and it wasn’t until she tilted her head to the side did I understand what she was asking.“I do not know…”“You are supposed to know, Alan, you are about to be made the alpha of two great packs.”
MelissaI walked into school the next day with all eyes on me. Some of the students murmured as they walked past me and from their discussion, I knew they were talking about the subject of Zachary’s banishment. So many of them believed I had something to do with it, but I ignored their murmurs since none of them had the guts to come ask me about it.As soon as I walked into the classroom, all speech stopped, and everyone focused their gazes on me. I scanned the class for Freya who seemed to have left the house before me and she was seated on her desk, hands folded with Chloe bending down over her, probably asking explanation for what had happened the previous day. Ignoring the silent class, I turned to the direction of my seat only to see Jake waiting for me with hands tucked into his pockets.“What is this that I hear about marriage, Melissa?” He asked. I closed my eyes in distress, realizing that the last thing I wanted to talk about was my sudden betrothal to him.“You will have to