Rain’s POV.
With tears in my eyes, I find myself standing before Willowcreek. The town’s biggest pub.
I don’t know how I ended up here because I was moving on autopilot.
As my eyes take in the neon lights gleaming before the pub, I know I need to be there and drink away my sorrows.
If I have to burn my last card here I’ll. With that, I begin to move to the pub. I present my fake ID and head inside to the bar.
The moment I take a seat, I order a very harsh drink that’ll make the burn I feel in my heart go away.
How could Killan be so cruel to me? I ponder with bitterness while I gulp down the first shot the bartender served me.
My heart squeezes as my mind replays the image of Killan’s head between the legs Nadia sucking her off.
A stupid, bitter laugh vibrates from my lips and I feel the bartender looking at me.
“Hey, are you good?”
I stare at him lazily while drinking the fifth shot he has served me.
“Haha…” I laugh humorlessly as my lazy gaze take him in. “I wish I could say…that...” Stuttering, I pause a little and belch.
I just want the pain I feel to go away. I want to switch it off if that’s possible.
The bartender watches me intently as if he’s willing to listen.
“Look, I don’t feel okay. At all. I just feel like burning down the whole town right now. I wanna…” I belch again.
Time runs by fast and before I know it the DJ turns on the music and people gather around the dancefloor, romping each other.
“Why would you want to do that?” Asks the bartender when he returns from serving someone.
“It…sucks you know?” I grumble, my vision going blurry. The alcohol effects and my tears make it quite difficult to see.
But I struggle to watch the young man while I tell him some bullshit things I feel right now.
“When someone you love says you’re just a specimen…”
“A specimen?” I hear the distinct voice of the bartender. I nod at his words. He says he understands while I order more drinks.
All I feel inside me right now is the need to prove Killan wrong. He can’t be right about me.
“That must have hurt…” The guy says but I’m already standing wobbly on my feet as I hold my glass of Bourbon.
“It did…it fucking did.” I slur, swinging my body to move to the dancefloor when my body crashes into someone’s body.
“Gosh!” I slur, laughing as I watch the mess I l've made. “Eww, I’ve soiled the shirt, hmm…” I say, laughing at nothing.
My hand moves up and trails the mess I’ve made on the person’s shirt. He freezes when my fingers trail his soiled shirt.
The moment I touch his body in a feather light way, I sense the swirl of something strange through me. The stranger’s torso is sharp and trim.
The urge to slide my hand through his torso up to his chest fills me. My eyes are blear when I look up at him, but from the sharp lines of his chiseled jaw, I know he must be one of those models that have lumberjack body.
“Excuse. Please, get the lady a drink of water.” The strange man says when he notices me staggering again, taking my full glass of drink from me.
“Psst! Give that back! I’m not done drinking!” I hiss in a groggy way, staggering in tow with him.
“No, I’m not giving it back to you.” He hisses but I hit my hand into him, wanting to grab my drink back.
How dare he? I think in my fogged mind. The bartender quickly does what the stranger says and brings a bottle of water for me.
I grumble while I snatch it away from the stranger and gulp.
“Next time, you know the right amount you should drink.” His words sound more like a warning than an advice.
Pissed at that, I veer around, only for me to stumble and fall into his arms.
The man grips me quickly, steadying me on my feet. That’s when I saw his face. With a sharp facial outline, a pointy nose, and almost silver eyes, he’s hands-down the most handsome man I’ve ever seen.
His brown hair is curled neatly behind him and he has this otherworldly aura rippling from him as he holds me and looks into my eyes.
“You might want to be extra cautious too, lady.”
Now that he speaks so close to my face, I sense the effects his deep baritone voice is having on my body.
Eyes still a bit bleary, I stand shakily on my feet, straightening the crease on my shirt.
“Thanks but don’t order me on what to do and what not to do…” I rasp, sitting back in my seat.
“You saw it as that. But I don’t. Was just trying to help you.” He intones.
Despite myself, I let out. “Yeah, but save it for your kids, thanks.”
“Really? That’s it?” He states with shock and when I look into his face now, watching as his lips curl into an unbelievable smirk I wish he would put those lips on me.
For the first time in my life, I find myself desiring something I’ve never desired before.
A man’s touch.
Why do I feel it all of a sudden? I wonder, locking eyes with him.
The man stares at me with devouring eyes, like he wants to eat me out just as much as I want to eat him out too.
The hairs on my body stand on end as I track my eyes down to his customized two-piece suit.
Hell, he looks rich and smells like one too. What is this about this hot stranger that makes me want to do things I’ve never dreamed of?
To think I’ve never felt this way with Killan.
Killan? Gross! I speak inwardly. Right now, even thinking about Killan’s name much less is face or what he did to me makes me feel like vomiting.
“Yes…that’s it.” I stutter as I feel myself spinning under his devouring eyes.
He oozes a strange kind of power. Oakdale is a small town where people usually know each other. I know a few familiar faces given my father’s status as one of the town's mayors but I’ve never seen this sinfully handsome stranger before.
Maybe he’s not from this town. The fact that every other thing around me--- the music, the din of conversation, fades intensifies the hunger I feel under his gaze.
“I don’t appreciate it when strangers try to butt in my affairs,” I add, uncapping the bottle of water and taking another sip.
“I see. Very well then. Sooth yourself.” He drags his eyes around me and…his silver eyes change a little to amber but it vanishes as quickly as it comes before he walks away.
How is it possible for someone’s eyes to change like that?
Dammit! Maybe I’m seeing double, I rub my temple while sighing. I owe it to this drink.
Watching the stranger walk away with rigid shoulders makes me realize he's pissed. I guess I was rude. I should apologize, I tell myself and surge on my feet but the man’s already out of sight.
“Where did he go?” I say under my breath, determined to find him and apologize and…
‘Kiss him…’ the voice in my head suggests.
I suddenly find the urge to kiss him and have him explore my body so appealing that I rush through the exit and saunter into the dimly lit alleyway.
That’s when I see him hastening down the cobblestone ground of the alleyway.
“Hey! Wait…” I hoot as much as my croaky voice can allow me.
The man continues moving, his strides fast and hurried, despite hearing me. The blaring of car horns accompanies me as I half run and half walk towards him and clasp his wrist.
“Hey!” I murmur when I touch him but he quickly presses me into the wall.
“What do you think you’re doing? You shouldn’t be here!” He roars into my face and the whoosh of his harsh breath on my face turns me on so bad.
I feel my nipples turning into pebbles, my cunt moistening. I swallow as he sandwiches me between his body and the building’s cold wall that’s pressing into my back.
“What if I choose to be here?” I say instead of muttering my apology.
The moistness l feel between my legs increases and I find him sniffing the air as his beautiful silver eyes bore into my green ones.
“You’ll end up regretting it! You’re drunk!” He roars so lowly into my face, his mouth a fraction of an inch away from mine.
“Uh-uh. You got it wrong. I’m not drunk and I chose to be here…” I mutter but he doesn’t let me finish as he spits out.
“Why?”
There’s this sexy grit to his jaw like he’s trying to keep himself at bay. But the luscious way he’s looking at my lips tells me he feels what I feel too.
With my nipples hard and my mouth watering for a taste of him, I brush my upper body into his chest. A hiss spills from his mouth.
“Because I want to do this…” I whisper into the hot air between us, standing on my tiptoes, I press my lips against his luscious ones, kissing him.
“Fuck, you asked for this, lady!” He lets out when he breaks away a bit, ogling into my eyes.
The man growls low in his throat and before I know it, his big palms cup the sides of my face as he presses his mouth against mine again.
Oh, my God. I’m kissing a stranger in an alleyway? The thoughts flash through my mind rapidly and before I know it, he whirls me around and presses my chest against the wall, hitching my poodle skirt up my waist and slamming into me.
TBC.
Rain’s POV.“Hmmm…” I whimper as toss around the bed. A blissful sigh leaves my lips.I feel so good in the right places, like my nipples and my cunt.What the hell happened? I've never felt like this before.Scratching my closed eyes, I slowly open them to take in my surroundings.“What the hell!?” I yelp, propping up on the bed. How did I end up here? I ask myself, darting my eyes around the room.My blinds are closed but because it’s transparent the sun beam shines in my small bedroom.What the heck? How come I ended up in my bedroom?I wrack my mind rapidly and I remember what occurred at school with Killan and Nadia.I went to the bar and I had lots of shots. I remember being with the stranger in the alley.Aside from these, I don’t remember much again.So? Who brought me home?“Grrr!” I groan when I feel the banging headache. Fuck, I’m having a hangover.As I’m about to recline back on the bed, my personal servant calls out. Nadia and I have different people serving us.Being th
Rain’s POV.“So, since you all already know my name, I’d like you to familiarize myself with yours too.” Professor Logan says, his sharp eyes taking in everyone in the classroom.I feel my whole body shaking at the revelation that the man I had tasted last night was my professor.Other students are already on their feet, introducing themselves as he had demanded. But I was so lost in thought that I did not realize it was already my turn for the introduction until Kylie bumped her shoulder into me.I gasp, staring at my friend to scold her but Kylie whispers, “The professor…”“The red-haired! May I know your name?” The professor’s voice intercepts Kylie.I feel a ripple of shivers down my spine and I manage to get up on my feet, swallowing the lump in my throat.“Uh…professor.” I stutter, my body jittering Why the hell am I shaking? Peering at him, I notice the intense way he's looking at me like he’s studying me.My whole body prickles with a strange kind of awareness under the weigh
Rain’s POV.Looking into Professor Logan’s eyes, my breath stalls in my lungs at the way he's peering at me like he's looking into my soul.I don’t know why I feel like he followed me here deliberately. Is that even possible?Gosh, my mind is a mess right now as I’m standing right in front of him, lost for words.I wasn’t aware the rector was calling me only for me to tour professor Logan around the school.How convenient? Being with the man I’m forcing myself to stay away from?Then the man chuckles, the baritone so deep it coats my skin with tingles. I get lost in his mesmerizing eyes.He shoulder passes me, putting some distance between us.“Lead the way, Rain Hanks.” Is what he says, cocking a brow at me. He knows what that look he's giving me does to me that’s why he keeps glowering at me that way.Embarrassment mottled my cheeks red when he says. “I simply don’t prioritize stalking my students, Rain Hanks. So, I advise you to get past that thought.”He adds a gear in his stride,
Logan’s POV.I shouldn’t be here with her!I shouldn’t be feeling the satiny flesh of her skin with my palms.Despite how much I tell myself that, my wolf insists on being by her side.To touch her. To kiss her.Fuck! It’s all messing with my head, burning my soul.Blade roars inside me, ordering me to spend more time with her. Then I ask her to hold my hand so we can wander into the woods.She said it’s a forbidden part of the school. Students aren’t allowed there but I know better.That’s the place it all started.My wolf purrs in my head when Rain knit our palms together and we begin to venture deeper into the woods. My nerves are frayed with an unbridled need to be inside her.The wagging of my wolf’s tail, the purring of my balls and the ripe tension I feel coming from Rain muddles my mind.When she mistakenly stumbles and falls into me, I give in.I pull her into my thighs, assessing her foot to see if she obtained any injury. Though I see none I keep caressing her foot.My fang
Rain’s POV.Whimpers of bliss vibrate from my chest, mixing with the pains I feel.But with each passing moment, he kisses me, crowding me with the heat of his body, I notice the pain isn’t there any longer.How’s that possible? Is all ponder on. Professor Logan tights his mouth on mine, holding the sides of my face.I give in, my legs parting to welcome him in between my legs fully. Tension uncoil in my belly as I savor the kiss.Wow! Hmmm. This is so good! I rasp.When he pulls back, his harsh breath washes over my face. Then… “Does it still hurt?”I wrack my mind to check if I still feel pain but I don’t.Strange, I ponder, ogling at his face through the dark.“Rain…” He chirps and his husky voice sends chills down my spine. “We shouldn’t have come here.” Echoes his voice.Professor Logan zips up from me, facing away as if he’s battling demons. But I know he's only battling his attraction for me.I refuse to battle mine for him anymore, certainly, not after that sizzling, mind-mush
Rain’s POV.“Gosh!” I let out, trying to meet up with Professor Logan’s car.He’s speeding away from our vicinity, making it difficult for me to catch up with him.“Hurry up!” I whisper under my breath to my bicycle, riding fast while also making sure he doesn’t see me coming after him.I turn every corner he turns to. Much to my surprise, I realize he’s driving back to the school direction.What? Why is he going back there? I wonder.“Fuck!” I yelp and squelch my tires to a stop when I see him kill his engine before a man standing by the sidewalk.I watch them in the dim parts, trying to hear what the blond-haired man is saying to him but it’s totally impossible to hear them.The blond then nods and enters the car. Professor Logan quickly starts the car and they zoom away.Again, I try to stalk my professor but the blaring horn and my name coming out of someone’s mouth makes me stop.“Rain!! Come over here!”Kylie! I mutter inwardly, turning my gloomy face to my girlfriend. She obvio
Logan’s POV.Hiding in Rain’s bathroom, I peep at the older woman and wait for her to leave. She tucks Rain's duvet well, caressing her hair.Though it’s dark, I still make out her face and she looks the same as the picture Lester showed when I asked him to dig in deeper about Mr. Hanks's household.The woman struts to the dresser but I can’t see what she did there exactly before reaching the exit.I thought she had left when I pushed the bathroom door open, the hinges hissed and her voice echoed in the dark room.“Who's there?”My eyes go owl-wide immediately, my breath stalling.“I said who’s there?” The woman screeches and I hear her footsteps coming closer.Fuck! I curse, clenching back into the bathroom. I don’t know what I step onto but I suddenly find myself in a small walk-in closet, and into a heap of Rain's panties.“Dammit!” I curse, picking up some panties to stuff over my mouth.Jeez, what the heck am I doing placing Rain‘s panties over my mouth? I ask myself.Regardless
Logan’s POV.The blinds are drawn, allowing the morning sun to filter into my study. My footsteps echo as I head over to my bar nonchalantly, grabbing a bottle of margarita.Back behind my desk, I settle into my seat with a wince and pour the drink into my glass filled with three ice cubes.The two young men in the room watch me with curiosity. I know Lester watches me with worry given the slight wound I obtained earlier this morning.“Hmmm…” a hum escapes me when I take a drink, wetting my throat. Then I glare back at Tiago. “Let me guess, the rulers have notched up their security just to keep us away from this town?”Tiago swallows, a grit to his jaw as he nods. It actually amazes me how he manages to pretend to be human all these years while living under the noses of the four rulers. The four founders of Oakdale.Tiago literally works for Mr. Hanks, the highest and most powerful of the four rulers.He's Mr. Hanks' assistant. Tiago fell in love with someone and decided to stay human
Rain's POV. My eyes are owl-wide at the spectacle before me. I can barely breathe through my nostrils, hence, my parted lips play the role. An array of tulips line the edge of the mountaintop. I step forward, admiring the beautiful flowers with every simple touch. It feels so amazing. Plucking one, I perch over my nose and sniffle, the soft scent radiating throughout my body. I can't believe Logan had this prepared just for me. I navigate through the flowers until I reach the middle where the picnic has been set. Different varieties of foods have been set up on the mat. But what literally threw me off guard was the flowers constructed with four words. I love you, Rain. That has my heart spiking and unthinkingly, I turn and peer up at Logan who's standing stiff behind me.His face is pinched with worry which surprises me. "Is something wrong?" I blurt out, gazing at him and then at the beauty sprawling around me. "I know this isn't enough, baby. Look, being ancient, I barely
Logan's POV. "Are you sure she's going to like it?" A deep frown crease my brows as I stare at the array of tulips surrounding the makeshift bed I've made with Lester. We've been on this for a few days and now is the time it gets executed. Sure, my beta and I are ancients, so it's taking a lot for us to know modern things that are suitable for this picnic I want to take my mate on."I guess she will. Didn't you hear what the florist said? Women of this modern age love tulips." I shake my head at him, a snarky response building at the back of my throat. "She said women love flowers, but you chose to go for Tulips." His face twitches somewhere between a grown and resignation. "Well, I was guessing the Luna will acknowledge it." He quips in, shrugging his shoulders. "I hope she does, else I'm gonna make you eat those up." Lester growls at my words but I keep my expression lethal, waiting for him to spill those words lining his mouth. Quickly, he swallows it back, twisting his head
Rain's POV."So, students, that'll be all for today." Logan's voice booms across the class. Everyone rises up from their seats, hurrying out of the class. Kylie's hot on my tail, clearly curious about what I promised to tell her today.I wink salaciously at Logan as I shoulder past him in front of the class. His eyes burn a track on my skin, and before long, I feel my cell phone ding in my bag. "Are you going to give me the gist already?" Kylie spews out, falling into step beside me. I hold back my grin as I reach out for my phone. "Gosh, I hate that you're making me wait, ugh!" "I told you to be patient, girl...I'm still gonna tell you but it was to be done secretly." I say to her, walking backward in front of her. Her eyes home in on my face, wrinkles marring her features. "Oh, don't say I didn't warn you. You're going to crash into someone..." Just before she could finish, my back crashed into someone. A warbled cry pulls out of my mouth at the impact. A strange kind of dizzi
Rain's POV.It's almost time. I peel my eyes away from the grandfather clock hanging on the wall in Logan's mansion. A strange kind of darkness surrounding me. The full moon is out, poised to suck the life out of me. My chest is so constricted, that breathing isn't in any way an option. My time on earth is almost over. I guess what I truly am is a curse after all.It's just that no one saw it in that light. If existing means someone else's death, then I shouldn't exist at all especially if it's Logan. He's the only one who ever truly loved me even before I figured out what I truly am. I puff out a long string of breath, my hand reeling over the rose with split thorn I plucked from the garden specially for Logan. Glimpsing at my father, the beta, the healer, and a few of the pack members, I stalk to the pyre that holds Logan's decaying form. The tears rush out of my eyes in rivulet, smearing the makeup on my face. Yes, I applied makeup, the last one I'd ever do. My heart is sullen
Rain’s POV.My legs give out the instant I drop Logan’s bloody form on the couch. I pant through my teeth as tears trickle down from my eyes. It’s almost sunrise, and the pack healer has woken up. He rushes to the alpha, examining his wounds. “What happened?” Ryat asks me from over his shoulders and as I open my mouth to respond no words make it out. Manageably, I shake my head. The man twists his head melancholically before scrambling around to gather his medicine bag. Just then my father and Lester shove into the house. Their bodies were covered with charcoal and grime. Panting heavily, Lester approaches the healer, his face shadowed with worry. “Is he still alive?” Heis husky voice barely vibrates in my ears over my soft sobs. I hold Logan’s hand close to my chest. “That’s what I’m checking, beta…” The man trails off when he shreds off the rest of the fabrics covering the alpha’s wounds. Immediately he sets his eyes on it, a frown curls his lips. He hunkers low and plucks a le
Rain’s POV. Riot leads me far into the woods, taking me where I do not know. Despite how much I yell for us to go back to Logan’s mansion, my Lycan refuses. We work on instinct, prodding into the heart of the woods. Distant cries of pain fill my ears, urging me to probe forward. My lycan bounds towards the direction of the cries, heart-wrenching at the pains they feel. Who are they? Why do I feel an in-depth connection to them? Regardless, I shove through the woods, and the remaining parts of my body yet to transform spring forth. My long tail scraping across the barks of trees and over the ground. My corded muscles flex with each step I take, and the whooshing night air slips through my furs, offering me bouts of comfort over the foreign feeling grazing my inside. The moon forges on ahead of me, serving as a map guiding me to the direction my lycan is heading to. Riot releases a long howl the moment we step into the pack of wolves. Their houses are in total disarray and litera
Third Person POV. The car tires squealed harshly over the asphalt when Lester lost his hold on the steering wheel. His mouth dropped open and a painful snarl vibrated from his lips. They were yet to reach their destination and the weakness has struck them. “Nooooo!!” He let out in pain, fear for their pack gripping him. Tiago bristled in the passenger seat, feeling little bites of pain zipping through him. “The moon is complete,” Tiago whispered through his pain after looking outside through the window. Lester's mind was boggled. All he felt was his wolf pushing past his barrier, to the surface. The cracking of bones reverberated in the car, followed by a yelp of agony. “Lester…we've got to keep going…” Tiago sputtered, trying to hold the steering wheel but the sharp slash of pain that went through the pads of his fingers had him gearing back. His claws were protruding, he realized in shock, steering backward with a grunt vibrating from the deep recesses of his mouth. Beside hi
Third Person POV. Mr. Hanks had just finished taking a hot bath, prepared to curl over his bed and have a nice sleep. It had, of course, been a long day of disappointment. Slipping on his robe without much enthusiasm, he headed to bed and as he was about to pull his legs on the bed, a knock blared from the door. A confused frown etched on his face and with an irritated grunt, he stalked over to the door, fluttering it open. Much to his surprise, his new spy was on the other side of the door. “Sebastian,” He called, giving the man a once-over. No, Mr. Hanks wasn't expecting the man to show up so quickly. Yet he allowed him into his room. “You've come bearing news?” Sebastian gulped in a breath, trying hard to break the news to the mayor. “There's something you must know, mayor.” Sabastian managed eventually.The mayor paused, briefly casting him a serious look. “And what might that be?” “There's a pack of wolves…” “Where? How did you find out?” He interrupted Sabastian, growing
Third Person POV. All the mayors stood stunned. Words failed them as they watched what was transpiring. This wasn't what they'd expected. Hell, the girl wasn't like her mother! She's not shifting and that meant she wasn't a lycan. Disappointment filled the “Someone stop the fight!” He barked, shoving his hands in the air. “We can't. It'd reveal we had other intentions.” Mr. Ford replied to him. Shoving his scarlet face to Mr. Ford, Mr. Hanks barked. “I do not bloody care what people will think. I want no harm to my daughter!” He struts towards the drum and instantly beats it. All the cheers and murmurs in the field stopped. Everyone's attention turned towards the mayors. “People of Oakdale and our dearest guests. This is to bring to your notice the tourney has officially ended!” His words were ensued with confused murmurs. Something of sort had never occurred before. The tourney was more intriguing now it had intensified. However, no one had the balls to spill their protest