The woman named Zahra was just a bit older than me, and dare I say, was a beautiful woman nonetheless. She looks into our group, one by one, while the enforcers were stayed inside one of the guest houses, Zahra welcoming us into her home.
“I will leave you here for a moment, going to arrange your accommodation and your items that thankfully arrived.” Alpha Aren excused himself when Zahra open her door.
The four of us just stand outside, a bit scared for me, and probably confusing for the three alphas. Zahra chuckles when she looks at us.
“Oh, are you the charmer, the four of you?” Zahra said to us, while her hand is wave enthusiastically at us, “Come on, come inside, it would be freezing out here, at least I could make some tea or coffee for all of you inside.”
A bit worried but also curious, I took a step to Zahra's house, and the other three followed suit. Contrary from what I saw from outside, I saw a very cozy and m
I looked forlorn when I saw this beautiful woman who was sitting by my side. She was smiling and calmly gave the suggestion that I have some magical power now. The other three don’t help as well. They look at me and gasp, yes, gasping in unison.“You’re probably right, so now, what are we going to do?” Said Elm, nods his head.Zephyr put his right hand on his chin, “Hmm… We can’t hide her forever.”“How about built more hideout and then hide her by a rotation?” Aaron’s eyes were glaring with excitement right now.I can’t handle anymore crazy suggestion from all of them, “Alright, hold up! Hold that thought…” I said to all of them while thinking, “Wait… No, no holding, just erased those crazy plans, because I don’t have any power whatsoever!”“Are you sure about that? Because earlier, when the attack was coming, you gave us some
“Tell me, that you’re kidding…” I was in shocked when Zahra information begin to seep inside my mind. She shook her head, and a bittered smile came into her face, “I am sorry, for a thousand years that is the way of the mating ritual for the werewolf pack.” “Oh, if I get captured, I can assure you that I will put a hell of a fight to them.” I said to her with a confident. She let out a sigh. “Dear, they have spells. Sorcerers or witches could help them, never think that any pack doesn’t get any help from another mystic blood.” “No freaking way! So this whole werewolf pack disputes, wasn’t just about the werewolf? I thought that’s how your kind supposed to do?” I look at her in disbelief. “True, the pack dispute need to be solve by their own councils, but, the other clan will always be neutral for every side, they can however favor one side from the other, but they couldn’t help with any major conflict or in the battle.” Zahra then stood up and gave me some hot tea. “I realize that
It was the nighttime in the deep upper region of Toraja mountain. The night here was so cold, and being a woman who lived almost exclusively in a warmer area of the states, the chilly night in here equal living inside a freezer. How surprise I was when I saw the three of them were sleeping by the fireplace as well. I gruntled and begin to drag my blanket closer to the fireplace. “I was almost sure that you will be back in your room when you saw us here.” Whispered Aaron from behind me. “Ugh, shut up. This place is way too cold for me. Now scoot over so I can sleep in the middle.” I was too brazen. I just don’t want to be polite right now, and need to rest so much. He finally gave me a place between himself and Zephyr, and when I begin to close my eyes before another irritating voice whispering to my ears, “You know, you will be warmer if we cuddled up together.” It was Zephyr’s voice, he chuckles while the other two snorted and tried to contain their laughter. They are so annoying
“Welcome to the Acacia pack!” said the woman, who I assumed was Luna Acacia. The way she theatrically welcoming us, remind me of the Jur*ssic park movie quotes. She looks at all of us, while the four of us sitting awkwardly together. “Well, what are you doing standing around like you’re going to sing something for me? Just sit already.” As soon as I heard the words that were coming from her mouth, I knew I would love this Luna so much. We sat on the big table in the middle of the room, and I saw her descend from her throne and sat with us at the table. Luna Acacia took the middle chair, and her two mates take a seat on her right and left. Zephyr open the conversation for us, “We would like to say our gratitude for your kind invite to your pack, Luna Acacia.” Luna Acacia shakes her head to him, “Nonsense, I will do anything for the late Luna Hyacinth. We were friends, you know, when she got here to visit Zahra.” She took a sigh and her eyes filled with sadness, “I mourn for her. She
“If you really wanted to get away from the enemy who tried to do something without your consent, or any pack in that matter, we give you a choice to choose us as your mates.” Aaron finally said the dreaded words, although not expected it this fast. “Well, what do you think?” Asked Zephyr to me with an unsuspectedly nervous face. I close my face with my two hands, I was actually trying to convey about this mating ritual thing tonight, “Last night, Zahra asked me to go to her house, alone, she… She told me everything about the mating ritual, even explained everything to me.” The three of them look at each other, and I gave them more information afterwards, “Look, it wasn’t because she doesn’t trust you or anything, she just wanted me to be prepared, because there’s no other way to be free from the mating ritual.” “We know…” Elm say to me so suddenly, he rustled his hair awkwardly, “You can deceive us because… um…” He pointed at his nose, “Our sense of smell, we can smell a bit of Zahr
“So, from the look on your face, I think that you have made your decision?” Asked Zephyr to me. We are sitting on the porch, the four of us, enjoying the cold raspy air while the beautiful view of the mountains is right in front of us. I took a sighed. This should be fun, or thrilling, but all I can feel is a fresh terror. “I decided to… Umm… do mating ritual with the three of you.” I said with a panic begun to set in. The three Alphas looks at me in an astonishment, they probably couldn’t believe that I was agreeing with them this fast. “Are you sure?” Asked Zephyr again. I sighed and smile, trying to hide my nervousness, “Yes, I’m sure, and positively so.” They took a sighed in relief, even saw their communications through their eyes to each other. They were thinking about something. With a frowned on my face, I proceed to interrogate the three of them, “Wait, did you really think that I don’t want to do the mating ritual with all of you? Why did you think so?” “Aaa… I mean,
“Well, you ought to know about that. I mean, you’re doing the mating ritual with three werewolves, and need that I remind you, three werewolf alphas.” Acacia was chuckling after looking at my reaction.I rolled my eyes and tried to keep her focus into our conversation, “Seriously, I mean, please… Be serious about this, do I really have to… In bed with them in the first day of my marriage?!” I tried to be as discreet as possible, but my screeching probably won’t help that much.“Yes, I’m afraid so. In order for the successful mating ritual, you need to consummate the mating bond, right after the ritual ceremony.” Said Acacia with a concerned on her face. “Are you sure you can get through with the ritual, dear?”I turn my head to look at the other side. Zephyr was having a conversation with Alpha Aren, his poise manner although irritating me but also one of his charm that I was somehow attracted into. There’s also Aaron, who seems like an easy going tall and broad shoulder, not to menti
I was getting ready on the wooden house near a waterfall, the place for the mating ritual. It's almost midnight. The priest, Zephyr, Elm, Aaron were waiting for me outside, at the place where they called as the circle of prayer. “So, are you ready?” Acacia looks at me, after she help me with the make-up and my dress, Zahra also there, the two of them don’t even let other pack member to help me, they knew I was nervous and doesn’t like strangers to be near me. Hence that they are also still a stranger to me, but at least they know something about me. I look at myself in a tall mirror on this wooden house by the waterfall side, a very beautiful view, and supposed to be the first night house after the mating ritual. Pack member was busy cleaning and decorating the house the first night, but seems I can’t even appreciate their hard work for now. “I don’t know if I’m ready. I mean… a week ago, I was in the hospital getting ready to go home after the recovery of my surgery.” I was lookin
The morning comes, and my hair got tangled everywhere. As I woke up, I heard someone groaning on my side, it was Elm, he was sleeping beside me and my hand just brushed into the stubble on his chin. He wiggled and I was giggling. When he opened his eyes, I kissed him slowly, “Good morning, my love.” I said it to him with an obvious smile on my face. Another person was groaning from behind me, his hand going and creeping out to my bare breast. “Hey beautiful, not you Elm.” Said Aaron from behind me. When I turn my head, he devoured my lips as if there was no tomorrow. “Fancy another one?” He doesn’t joke, as I feel his shaft already half erected in my bum. I pointed at the small bed on the other side, “What about Zephyr?” “No worries, I was ready.” Said Zephyr on the other bed. He jumps and goes to the big bed. “Now, where were we?” I was laughing at how enthusiastic they were. Elm settled on behind me, and as I kissed him, Zephyr’s hand already caressing my thigh. Aaron was settle
“We won, it’s over now.” Zephyr’s confirmation has just come to my realization, everything is over, but Hyacinth is gone. I was crying, even wailing, the three Alphas were flustered by my sudden tears. “Darling, what happened?” Zephyr asked me while Elm embrace me and tried to calm me down. Aaron was panicking, he was rambling, but the only thing I could do was shake my head and cried. After a while, I can finally calm down for a bit. “How are you feeling now?” They asked me while I wipe my tears. I took a deep breath and smiled. “Better now, sorry, probably because of how emotional I was after hearing the news, and also…” Don’t even know how to explain about Hyacinth, and just awkwardly went quiet. “She’s gone, right? Hyacinth, she is truly gone now.” It was Aaron who spoke, and my head turned to Elm. “I never said anything to them, they just knew, Cat.” Said Elm to me. “So, all this time, the three of you knew?” I asked them while my head went back and forth. Zephyr, Aaron,
Even Ivy seems flustered to see the Moon Goddess, I saw her bow to her, and I did the same. The Moon Goddess smile and raised her two hands. ‘Hear me, child, as the one who see all, and the one that granted all. This is just one of the things that I will continue to support.’ She took Ivy’s hand and kiss it. ‘She is the one that I have chosen, the one who guided the existence of the pack, as the Moon Goddess, I want you to take her side as she is the rightful owner of the power that I bestowed.’ And then her finger pointed at me. ‘She stole the power and has no right to wield it, as to how…” Before she could even finish her sentence, I punch the so-called Moon Goddess in the face. The audience was in shock, but the three Alphas then climbed the center stage. “Halt! We have the evidence that all of this is a ruse from Luna Ivy's side!” Aaron was screaming to the audience, while Elm tending to my wound. “Are you alright, sweetheart? I am sorry, but we need to wait for the witch to sp
The mansion of the Luminar family is what you called the building with historical significance. The old architecture dating back from the Victorian era is as impressive as the garden and the added building behind it. There are people in the garden and some designated party rooms inside this vast luxury mansion. “This is impressive, so they are what you consider as the old money, right?” I asked Zephyr who was holding into my hand, he turned his head and smile. “They are becoming this rich after the Luminar gained power, two hundred years ago.” He said to me while pointing at the painting in the grand room, the painting is hanging on the spaces right in the middle of the stairs. “That’s the Luna who supposedly gave the Luminar family their wealth and status. The great great grandmother of Hyacinth.” I look into the painting and saw a beautiful woman with chestnut hair and a smile on her face. This is probably the Luna who works together with the vampire queen. Both of them receive gl
“Ivy is here, with her two mates.” Like thunder just struck in my body, an adrenaline rush came rushing in. “What is she doing here?” I asked the three of them, not afraid, more like a curiosity on my side. “Did she want something?” “I don’t think so. She probably just wanted to observe us.” Aaron was calm, unlike the other two. Zephyr took a second glance at the guest room. “I don’t think so, they want to see something, they want to know how much backup that we have.” “Wait, almost all of our guests were in the dining room right now, what should we do?” Elm was making a lot of sense. Zephyr went quiet for a while and then said to Elm. “You go inside the dining room, and asked them to hide, take them to the underground shelter, right away.” He nodded his head and was almost gone when I call him again; I approach him right away and whispered. “Order the maids to clean the table except for our dinner plates. We don’t need them to count the plates, you know what I mean, right?” “O
“Nice to meet you, Missus Cattleya Hunt.” The old man named Reed Luminar is Hyacinth’s father. This is the first time I’ve met with one of the Luminar family, and now, I even met with Hyacinth’s real father. “Yes, Alpha, nice to meet you.” I’ve become accustomed to their title by now, and my eyes are already used to differentiate Alphas and Lunas from the others. “You probably wonder why I have her father here with us,” said Aaron towards me. I tell him the truth. “Yes, although, not really surprised by it.” “How about if we all sit down and have the discussion?” Zephyr led me into one of the chairs, he added a pillow for my back, which I am so grateful for. My back is killing me sometimes. The three alphas with Alpha Reed, sit around the chair with one big table, on the table I saw another enchanted map, I was fascinated by it and asked them immediately. “This one is different from the one we saw in New Orleans, right?” “Yes, Lia makes it for us, it is the map of the surroundin
(Cattleya) I feel so stuffy lately, probably because of the pups, although I was grateful that the morning sickness was practically gone now, but other discomfort comes and goes. My back begins to hurt and also had weird cravings that sometimes even my mates winced when they saw me eat. “Cattleya, are you done? We need to go in one hour.” Zephyr is calling me from the door. I shouted that I was packing my essentials, practically my new cravings, and shoved them inside my bag. He opens the door and chuckles. “Darling we can ask the maid to buy these foods there, you don’t need to pack everything.” “No, I don’t want the maids buying it for me.” I was pouting and pointing at the array of snacks on the bedside table. “They always messed up, one time I want some creamy butter ice cream, they bring back some butter ice cream. I want it creamy!” He raised his eyebrows. “Okay, whatever you want then. Now, if you’re finished with everything, how about you go downstairs and wait.” “I’ll go
(Zephyr) I saw Aaron come out from his room, glad he is already feeling better, burnout is a very damnest thing for us werewolves. “How are you feeling?” Asking this tall man while he walks into us. “Never been better, I must be so exhausted, got burnout for three days, this is the first time I need to be in bed because of burnout.” He rustled his damp hair and folded his hands on his chest. “You supposed to tell Cat that I will be fine after a few days though?” Elm winced at him. “She refused to leave your side; you know how stubborn she is.” And I couldn’t even give him a more good reason than what Elm gave. As I was laughing at him, I asked Xavier to look into the picture that I handed in his hand. “We need to stay there a week from now, I think I found the best place for our temporary hideout in the South, what do you think?” He looks at the pictures and laughed. “D*mn, Zephyr, I never knew that you have this kind of craziness in you.” “For her, I will do everything.” While m
(Aaron) My heart is pounding faster, and my whole body seems like hot coal from deep inside. I was burning, feels like I was been burned inside. This is the effect of a long-time transformation for me. Until, the feel of a cool cloth on my forehead. Opening my eyes, I saw Cattleya, wiping over my whole body with a waistcloth. “Kitty Cat, what happened?” I asked her and immediately a smile came on her face. “Oh, you finally wake up, you fainted, and we call the doctor, you got a burnout, too much time in your wolf form.” She told me, while still wiping over my body with icy water. “Is that icy water? How hot was I?” I asked Kitty Cat with curiosity in my mind. “Let’s just say, you need to be put in the icy bathtub for a while.” She winced while I can see visible black puffy eyes on her face. I get up immediately but got dizzy, she put me on the bed. “You need to rest, doctor already gave me full instructions, no rough activity for a few days.” “Your face.” My hand reaches into her