ZacharyA deep sigh escaped my lips after hearing Freya say those three big words to me. No one aside my mother had ever told me they loved me before, not even Melissa, and the fact that I got to hear them from someone who meant nothing to me, got my blood boiling in anger. I took a step away from Freya, making sure to keep a reasonable amount of distance between both of us just in case someone decided to intrude. Freya on the other hand, didn’t seem to like the gesture because she immediately closed the gap again, the look on her face telling me that she was here for business.“You shouldn’t say those words to just anybody, Freya.” I spoke, doing my best to ignore the look on her face. “You should say them to your mate alone.”“My mate is dead,” she blurted out to my surprise. “And I have decided that you are the one that I would like to say these words to. So, I think it is time for you to stop pushing me away.”I sighed again at her words, not the least pleased that she was standi
Melissa“I heard her loud and clear, Zachary, she said she loves you.” I said in a hushed voice as I watched Zach pack up his teaching materials into his bag. He had a smile on his face, as if he enjoyed my predicament and I had no choice but to walk closer to him and snatch the bag off his hands.“Melissa.” He sighed, and I could see he was struggling to get rid of the smile on his face. “What do you want me to do about it? It is her feelings.”“And you are hurting them.” I snapped, ignoring the way he scanned the gym to be sure no one was close by. “You should have been able to dismiss her by now, you know, tell her something that would make her not to come back again.”“I thought you said you didn’t want me to hurt her feelings.” He asked, sitting on his table with folded arms. “If I dismiss her the way you want me to, don’t you think it will hurt her more?”“Freya is a big girl, Zach. It is better you rip the Band-Aid once and for all.”“Okay, fine.” he said, raising both arms in
Chapter 76MelissaAt first, a suspicious look crossed Freya’s face when she laid eyes on us, but when her gaze began to scan the position we were in, confusion set into her eyes. Alan quickly let go of me, to show his sister that nothing was amiss, but she wasn’t having any of it."What is happening here?" Freya asked in an annoyed voice that could be confused for a shriek and to minimize the damage, I rolled my eyes at her and walked towards my closet. "I asked a question." She called again, forcing me to look back at her."Weren’t you the one who asked him to come in here and ambush me?" I demanded, ignoring the raised eyebrows Alan threw my way."What is that supposed to mean?""I come into the house from school, and you are at the door, hounding me about upsetting your mother, now I come into my room to meet Alan doing the same thing. So I ask, didn’t you both plan this?"Freya scoffed in confusion again, and when she turned to look at Alan, I took the opportunity to heave a sig
Melissa Chloe pulled me into her embrace the minute she and her father walked into the house, I accepted the hug, taking in a deep sigh of relief when beta Alphonso set his fatherly gaze on me.The sorceress was right afterall. Having Chloe and her father in the house brought me so much relief that I hadn’t expected, which made me to wonder if I had ever considered Ciara and her children as family. Yes, I was sexually attracted to Alan and always felt adrenaline whenever he was close by, but a moment like now, made me realize that when I needed to be consoled, not even Alan’s presence could help me. In a strange way, I wanted Chloe and her father to remain in the house, just so that I would know that I wasn’t alone."Did the sorceress say any other thing to you before she left?" Beta Alphonso asked, while his gaze scanned the living room for something best known to him. "She only said she made incantations and that we should hope he regains consciousness." I answered, feeling a cert
Melissa“What do you mean Freya caught you with the professor?” Chloe asked, almost screaming her lungs out in shock. I ignored her question and began to pace the long halls in the bathroom, my head all over the place. How could I have been so stupid? I wondered to myself, while wishing there was a way to turn back the time. Only if I hadn’t gone to the gym to see him, then I wouldn’t be in this predicament at the moment.“What did you go to the gym to do during school hours?” Chloe asked me and I groaned out of frustration. In anger, she walked towards me while I was staring at the mirror and turned me forcefully to face her. “I warned you about this, didn’t I?”“I don’t need the I told you so right now, Chloe. I need you to tell me what I am going to do.”“If you said she caught you, what use is it thinking of what to do?” She asked, her eyes staring daggers at me. “If only you knew how to control your urges, this wouldn’t have happened.”“Like I said, I don’t need the lecture. Wha
MelissaAs soon as I walked into the house, Alan took my hand before I could even blink and dragged me into the garden. I was surprised at his demeanor but after what happened between Freya and I in school, it wouldn’t be a surprise if she had come running to tell him about it. When we got to one of the pavilions in the large garden, I pulled my wrist away from his hold and began to massage it gently with my other hand, not the least pleased with his behavior.“If you wanted me to come to the garden with you, you could have asked me politely.” I said to him, but the look I saw on his face made me to swallow the rest of my statement.“Freya came home pissed as hell this afternoon,” he began, coming closer so that he was all over me. “She wouldn’t stop calling you a hypocrite, so I want to know what the hell happened.”“Why don’t you ask her yourself?” I said, trying to walk out but he had his hands on both my shoulders again, stopping me from achieving my aim. In anger, I shrugged off
MelissaI didn’t realize I had slept for so long until the door to my room opened at night, and I jumped up from the bed. There was no movement from whoever had intruded on my privacy, so I turned to my bedside table, took notice of the time on the small clock there, before flicking on the bedside lamb.Alan stood by my door, his back against the hard wooden material with his eyes heavily on mine. I yawned out the sleep from my eyes, before allowing my gaze to travel down his features, noticing the pajamas trousers he had on, and the shirt which was left unbutton to reveal his delicious abs. I didn’t want him to know that prior to waking me up, I had been dreaming about the both of us doing unholy things together, so I adjusted my position on the chair and stared at his face.“It is past nine, Alan and I am sure the household is full. What do you want?”Alan said nothing for a while, his silence making me quite uncomfortable. I took a deep breath when he came forward to sit on the bed
AlanAfter the full moon, I found Freya seated on the floor of the garden, hugging her knees and staring at the sky. From her demeanor, I could tell she needed to be alone, but as I made to continue the journey to my room, something kept drawing me back towards her.“Hey.” Melissa called when I stopped moving again to look at Freya through the door connecting the lobby to the garden, and I turned to look at her. “Is there a problem?”“Freya seems like she is down, but I don’t know if going over there is what she would want.” I replied.Melissa allowed her gaze to travel to where Freya sat, and I watched her shrug her shoulders in response. “I am very sure I am the reason she is seated there so I have no advise to give. She didn’t run with Chloe and I during the shifting ceremony tonight, so I think she wouldn’t want to even lay eyes on me.”“So, do you think I should go to her or not?” “She is your sister, Alan. You should know what she wants better than I do.” She answered. I nodded
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