Melissa.My heart skipped a beat seeing Chloe standing there with her hand folded on her chest and a dangerous look on her face. I couldn’t tell whether she was smiling or not, but I knew I wasn’t pleased with the fact that she was there.Chloe took careful steps towards me, giving me the opportunity to see the real look on her face but when she opened her mouth to speak, I took hold of her hand and pulled her out of the school with me. We walked in silence even when we got outside and when I was sure we were now at a distance where Zachary wouldn’t see us, turned to look at her.“What were you doing there?” I demanded, staring at her with angry eyes. She scoffed silently at me, before looking down at my body to remind me I was still in my uniform.“I am supposed to be asking you that, Melissa,” She answered. “What were you still doing in school and in your uniform for that matter?”“I was…” I stammered, trying to think of what to say but the look in her eyes told me there was no need
MelissaAlthough it was a difficult thing to do, I accepted to talk to Alan about Chloe. It was still hard to believe that she was only willing to keep my secret if I did what she wanted, but with my current predicament, I had no other choice but to play along. Even though she was my best friend who I never thought would do such thing.I walked home alone when Chloe and I separated with lots of thoughts in my mind. First thing that bothered me was how Chloe reacted to the professor being my mate. She had been ready to swear that the moongoddess had nothing to do with the mating bond, but I had managed to convince her otherwise. Now with the way she reacted, I couldn’t tell how she was going to react if she ever found out about Alan, not only because he was my stepbrother, but because she also had a crush on him. Was my best friend going to turn on me because of a man when that time came? Or would she forget every feeling she had for him and stand by me?The second thought that continu
MelissaAfter training class the next day in school, Zachary asked for me to stay back while others were leaving the hall. I turned to look at Freya first to see if she would be suspicious, but she only kept her face straight and walked out of the gym. Chloe, on the other hand, waited for everyone to be gone before winking at me with a big smile on her face.“Take it easy, will you?” she teased. “You don’t want anyone to see you both.”“I am not stupid enough to do anything with him while it’s still school hours, Chloe.” I replied, using all the restraint in the world not to snap at her. Also, what you saw yesterday doesn’t always happen. That was a first.”“Okay.” She said, rolling her eyes at me. “Why don’t you go and see him before he loses his mind?” She teased. A sigh escaped my lips, but instead of responding like I would have loved to, I turned and walked to Zachary’s table. The clicking sound from the door showed that Chloe was already out but I didn’t turn again to confirm it
AlanI tried to pretend that I hadn’t heard what she had said by moving my ears closer and making a confused face, but I did hear what she said, and it sounded ridiculous enough for me to want her to repeat it.“What did you say?” I asked, still wearing the look of confusion on my face, and an exasperated sigh escaped her lips. I couldn’t believe she was the one sighing after making such a ridiculous statement, but I was still able to remain calm and patient.“I want you to take Chloe out on a date.” She repeated.“And why would I do that? Does it make sense for you to just come into my room and demand me to do such a thing?” I had to ask, folding my arms on my chest in anger.“Okay, look Alan,” she called shutting the door quietly behind her to come towards me, but I took two steps back to show her we were not in the close contact situation yet. “Chloe found out about Zachary and I today, and the only way to keep her mouth shut for now, is if you go out on a date with her.”My eyes n
MelissaAlan came back thirty minutes after Freya and I did with a smug look on his face. He walked into the garden to meet me but instead of coming closer so that we could talk without being heard, he stopped at a distance and placed both hands into the pockets of the ridiculously good-looking pants he had on. I had to admit that seeing him dressed in such spectacular outfit and sitting with Chloe at the café made me feel jealous. The café was intimate, and he was only supposed to go to such places with me. I had tried my best not to follow them, not to show him that their date annoyed me, but all my efforts was thrown through the window when Freya came up with the idea of spying on both of them. And he had made the whole thing worse by kissing Chloe.Alan had looked me in the eye, knew that I was watching them and still gone ahead to kiss her. Seeing his lips on hers for those few seconds had made my wolf to almost snap in the restaurant, but because I didn’t want Freya to be suspi
ZacharyShe was asking for a very difficult thing from me, and I wanted to refuse the request. I wanted to run away and tell her no one but Alexa was allowed to see Nate, but there was something in the way she looked at me that had me rethinking my decision. “Alan had no business telling you about me.” I said to her in an unusually soft voice, and she immediately nodded in agreement. “He didn’t, but since he did, why don’t you just show me?” she answered with pleading eyes. “Being a lycan is not something to be ashamed of, Zachary, you are supposed to be proud.”“Melissa, I…”“I want to see it, Zach.” She mentioned again, this time around, placing her hand on the part of my chest where my heart was located. Something about the gesture softened me immediately and I had no choice but to agree to her request.“Fine. You may want to step aside a little,” I mentioned, surprised with the way she quickly shifted even before the words left my mouth. I shook my head slightly at the distance
MelissaIt was hard to believe what was coming out of Zachary’s mouth. I desperately wanted him to wrong. I needed him to tell me that he was only saying these things because he was jealous of Alan, because he hated Alan. But the look on his face as he said them, told me all I needed to know. And now, it all made sense. Everything made sense to me now as I began to recollect every encounter Alan and Zachary had had. Yes, they hated eachother, but now I knew it was because of what happened during their childhood. Zachary hated Alan because Alan’s family had taken away his and made him grow up miserable.“Does Alan know about this?” I asked when the shock of the whole revelation began to subside, and Zachary shrugged his shoulders indifferently.“If you are asking if he knows his family is a fraud, he does. And so does his mother and even his sister. But if you are asking if they know that I was the former alpha’s son, they do not.”“How do they not know, you said you were spared.”“Ye
MelissaThroughout the next day, I found it difficult getting the opportunity to speak with Ciara alone. It was either she went for a pack meeting in the shifting square or had guests over at her office for another round of pack talks. I couldn’t help but get angry that she was being difficult to get a hold of. I mean, why was it now that I had something important to discuss with her that she had to be busy? Everytime, I came back from school, she was either having a cup of tea in the dining room or taking a nap in her bedroom. But now that I needed her attention, she had to be busy.“Damn it.” I snapped, forgetting the cup of hot chocolate I was holding in my left hand, and it punished me by spilling. I almost screamed out loud in pain, but because I didn’t want to alert anyone, I had to clench my teeth to suppress the burning ache.“Are you okay?” Freya called from behind me, and I turned to see her standing at the entrance of the kitchen with folded arms. She eyed the beverage in m
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