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
AlanI shouldn’t be here.I kept telling myself that I shouldn’t be standing in front of Zachary’s house like a stalker while waiting for him to return from school, but here I was, ignoring my own head just because I had a few things that I wanted to get off my chest.The alpha had warned me to stay away from Zachary and even Melissa had done the same, but I wanted to confront him for doing something as reckless as coming to the alpha mansion to report my origin to the alpha. Even though everything had backfired against him, and he only found out that my blood was indeed pure alpha.I winced slightly as the thought of sharing the same blood and placenta with Zachary flooded my mind. It was still hard to believe that we were not just brothers who shared the same parents, but also twin brothers. All my life, my parents had told me Freya and I were siblings and made me believe I was their son. But all of it were lies, and I still couldn’t look Freya in the eye and tell her we had been li
MelissaThis was a disaster.Freya, seeing Alan and I this way was a disaster.Of all people in the world to catch us in such compromising position, it had to be Freya and the look I was seeing in her eyes told me it wouldn’t be easy getting out of this one.What was I going to say to her? I wondered as she dropped the hand on her mouth and walked fully into the room. What the hell was I supposed to say to prevent her from raining hell on both Alan and I? Wasn’t it enough that I was having a relationship with our professor, a professor that she was in love with and had been in love with since she was younger, now, I had to add her brother into the equation? How the hell was I supposed to get rid of the disgusted look that was now on her face as she continued to stare at us?“What in goddess’ name is going on here?” Freya finally found her voice as she asked. I turned to look at Alan, expecting him to be the one to answer, but he said nothing and continued to look at his sister. “Will
MelissaFor the next one week, Freya watched me like a hawk. On our rides to school, she made sure she sat in front of the car; beside her brother so that Alan and I wouldn’t have any contact with eachother. At home, she watched my every move from day to night. During the day, she was always six feet close to me, making sure that every time I turned, I saw that she was there and at night, she usually comes into my room, scan the entire place before retiring for the night. In my own home, I felt uncomfortable like a prisoner and even though I didn’t want to accept that her round the clock watch over me helped to keep me away from Alan, it actually did. For one week he and I had said not more than ten sentences to eachother and that wasn’t just angering me, but Lia also.It was our deadline today, and after school, I locked myself up in my room, just because I didn’t want to face Freya and give her my decision. If she thought isolating me from Alan could help me end my relationship with
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