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
MelissaI stood at the gate; mouth wide agape in disbelief. Zachary hadn’t only walked out on me; he had refused to answer my question after coming in here and scaring the shit out of me. I still couldn’t believe he had asked to see my father, and after standing outside the house, waiting for him in what seemed like forever, he still didn’t tell me what had happened.“Melissa!!” Freya screamed from behind and I turned to give her attention, resisting the urge to roll my eyes at the angry look I saw on her face. “What did he say?” She asked, stopping a little distance away from me.“What did who say?” I asked, leaving her to walk after me as I headed back into the house.“What did the professor say? Or is it Zachary, you call him?”“I really do not have time for your nonsense right now, Freya. Zachary said nothing to me, so I am as oblivious as you are.” I answered, still walking into the house. To my surprise, she got in front of me, and placed her hand against my chest to stop me fro
MelissaAfter a whole school day of being ignored by Freya and Zachary, I walked home with Chloe, telling her about what had happened in the alpha mansion the previous night. She expressed a lot of shock and even dismay as soon as she leant about my father and Ciara’s involvement in the conversation, before stopping me in the middle of the road to express her thoughts.“Zachary was in the same room with not just the alpha, but also the luna?” She asked, and I nodded my head.“Is it so hard to believe?”‘Uh huh!’ She exclaimed, screaming on the road. ‘It is so hard to believe that he left his little home and walked into the lion’s den all by himself. What if he was torn apart by the alpha?”“My house is not a lion’s den, Chloe, and my father doesn’t tear people apart.” I chuckled, but she shook her head, still not willing to let me continue my journey. “By the way, you come to the house and go whenever you want.”“That is because you have been my friend for ages now, and also, my fathe