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
MelissaI woke up the next morning, unable to stop my fingers from touching my lips. The kiss with Alan had been imprinted in my mind throughout the night and even in my dreams that it felt wrong to get up and go to school. Why was this kiss different? I wondered, as I relaxed my back on the hard wooden bedding behind me. I had kissed Alan before, hell, both of us had made love in this same room before, but why was a kiss as simple as the one we had last night different? Was it because of the conversation that happened before it? Or because he had kissed me so delicately that I melted like butter?Or was it because he had told me he loved me before the kiss happened?With a low yawn and an unplanned moan, I stood up from the bed, about to go into the bathroom to get the day started when the door to my room opened and Jackie stuck her head in.“Wow, Jackie, it is unlike you not to knock.” I said to her, but she was too busy trying to steady her breath to answer me. I watched her keenly
Zachary"Alan is going to be named alpha. Alan is going to be named alpha."I kept repeating the same words as I sat on the porch of my house, my head going round in circles. The thoughts of Alan becoming alpha disturbed me more than I had imagined, and I wanted nothing more than to stop that from happening. It was difficult enough that his parents had taken everything away from me and made growing up hell for me. Now he was going to be the alpha of not just one but two great packs?And what about Melissa? I thought, realizing that my heart rate immediately went through the roof just by thinking about her. I knew for sure that the first thing Alan would do after the current’s alpha’s death is dissolve his parents’ marriage and make Melissa his luna. There was no way in the world that he would have such power and not do something about the situation we were entangled in.What if he banished me? I wondered, standing on my feet to pace around. Worse, what if he kills me so that no one wo
ZacharyThe moment I stepped into the mansion, Freya came running down the stairs, dressed in her pajamas and having a questionable look on her face. She didn’t even give me the opportunity to appreciate the house or even look around before she started raining questions down on me.“What are you doing here, Professor Zach?” Was her first question. I tucked my hand into the pocket of my jeans, before lowering my eyebrow just to show her she was been rude. To my greatest surprise, she tilted her head towards the door for the warriors and the two men who had refused to leave my side since I walked in, bowed their heads and walked out of the house. “You can speak now.”“Whatever I came to do here isn’t your business, Freya.” I said, and she rolled her eyes at me. I knew she was angry and probably had a lot of things to say, but right now, she was the least of my problems.The sounds of footsteps coming from the right side of the house caught our attention and we both turned to see Melissa
AlanHe had the nerve.He had the nerve coming all the way from the crooked place he called home to stand in front of someone as mighty as the alpha and spew nonsense.He was the former alpha’s son? I asked myself while my hand was still on the collar of his shirt. How and in what world did that happen? My father had told us the former alpha and his family had been killed and that no one was coming to stake any claim to our rule. How then could Zachary call himself the son of the former alpha when everyone from that family was supposed to be no more?“Are you going to let me down now, Alan, or do you want to continue making a fool out of yourself in front of the alpha?” He asked in an usually calm voice that had me raising an eyebrow at him. I allowed him drop to his seat, stretching my fist to hit him but the alpha called my name at that instant, and I was forced to turn to look at him.“Let go of him, Alan.” Alpha Alexander spoke calmly, his eyes scanning both of us simultaneously.
Zachary“I will be damned.” I murmured, standing to my feet at once. I tried not to believe anything she said because Alan and his family had a history of lying, but from the sound of her voice and the tear that dropped from her eyes, I already knew she was telling the truth.Alan was my brother.I turned to look at him, to stare at him, trying my best to see any resemblance between the both of us but there was absolutely none. The alpha cleared his throat before I could ask the luna to explain herself, and we all turned our attention towards him. Now, he didn’t look like a sick alpha who was waiting for the moongoddess to call him to the land of the dead, he looked like the head of the family and a leader. And right now, he was staring at me and Alan like he wanted to devour us both.“Close the door, Alan.” He called to his stepson who was too stunned to speak, or even move. “Did you hear me?” he snapped, and that was all Alan needed to get back to his senses. He walked forward to do
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