A small luggage containing nothing more than some clothes. The wolves were all staring at her with their scrutinizing gaze when she reached inside her bag and pulled out a journal. Not just any journal but a torn, brittle journal that looked decades old with yellow pages.
It was thicker than its usual size because it had many cutouts from newspapers and photos glued in it. When the lady opened the first page for Alpha Hercules to look at the photo stuck in it, at his back Brandon gasped.
His eyes grew unevenly wide while the others sought to take a look at the picture on the first page of the journal.
"Bloody hell! I have read about him in the old library. A crazy stupid asshole he is." The Gamma's son exclaimed with wide eyes.
Yep, he was there too. Reyne's first ever friend.
Alpha Hercules took the journal and his calm expressions bec
Silence pulsed between them. Her words were a vicious kick to their stomachs. They were having a hard time processing the information. But there Zander maintained a sinister expression as he urged her to continue, "Then what, Mrs. Augustin? What next?"Her hands were shivering. Astonished, she looked him in the eyes and resumed, "When I couldn't bear them getting hurt, I told Reyne that I would help her escape. She declined to leave due her injuries and that her father was incapable of escaping with her. Rather she provided me the address to this place and requested that I see Alpha Hercules and tell him everything and call help for her. She said that her mate would come save her."Zander who was now standing next to Alpha Kent shuddered. Adrenaline pumped into his veins and tears blurred his vision. His father got his back as he rendered him comfort.Nevertheless Zander glared at the journal in
105 "Well... I am still having a hard time sinking it in." Zander looked from his cup of black coffee to his Alpha friend as he remarked with an open mouth. "What? The weapon?" Zander guessed because it was a hot topic of discussion out there in the foyer between the Alphas who were chit-chatting amid their important conversation about how to take this animal of a man, human by birth yet a disgusting creature at the heart, down? "Um yeah, I mean, would you have thought that the axe you were using to kill that scoundrel of a creature was actually an armament of the first paladin?" Ryley said in a breathy voice. "No." Zander shrugged his shoulders. He was looking into his phone at the pictures he and Reyne clicked some minutes before her abduction. His mind was somewhere else and he failed to share Ryley's astonishment on the topic concerning the axe of the first paladin. It was too hard to accept that the weapon they had bee
106 She yelped, snuffing weakly and frightfully. Reyne was broken behind repair. Her will broke. Body on the verge of giving up. Even then she remained perseverent. Just sometime more before aid would come for her. Help was on its way. "Kill us? Little kitty, you think your mate will stand a chance to stand against us?" Phoebe Augustin placed his large palm on Reyne's slightly visible abdomen and embedded it beneath her top. She convulsed. Twisted and tossed. Reyne screeched her lungs out and acted insane until the hand was expelled from her. The old man fizzed away. As much as he had wanted to fuck the teenage she-wolf, he had not desired anything else like that in a while now. But he had to hold a constraint on himself if he fancied fulfilling his dream. That being realized, he moved away with a struggling sigh. "Ah, you are a wild little bitch and this makes me wonder if you are so hard to control, are your mate and
Sleep deprived for the whole night, Zander spent it sitting on the roof outside Ryley's bedroom, seeing the starry sky.His wolf was restless. He could not breathe properly since he could sense the torment befalling their mate. The entire night they kept staring at the stars, hoping for her to look at them too, assuming that she was fine and not in the basement as described by the magician's wife.Then just as the first ray of morning erupted, taking earth under its embrace and brightening the dark atmosphere, he felt somewhat relieved. Because it was time now."Zane," Ryley peeked out of the window of his room at him."You are called downstairs. Come on." Zander didn't need to be told twice because the first time was enough to fill his chest with energy.He hurriedly jumped down the roof and barged in through the main door. Zander gulped his saliva in n
108"Be careful, you all. Free our members and be back soon." Alpha Kent patted at the shoulder of Alpha Hercules before they settled in the car and left with the woman.When the car was gone from our sight, we came out of the window and peeked down— only to witness Alpha Kent and Ryley with others looking up at us.I was still cluelessly glaring at my father. I was grumbling in anger and pain because when I entered Ryley's room to get the axe, my father held me down and prevented me from going out of the room as he hushed near my ear, 'Don't move, Zane! Just don't move.' and right before my eyes the alphas got into the car and took off!Now that the car was gone and when I freed myself from my father's iron grip and came out of his clutch, which was too difficult to break down earlier, I looked around myself— only to be overwhelmed."What the fuck is going on?" I
109 With the sun hovering high in the sky, shining proudly down at Earth, the cars came to an abrupt halt much to Zander's surprise. He was mentally motivating himself as he stared out of the window and when the cars pulled at the highway across from them, he broke from his deep thoughts and stared out the window. "Why did we stop here?" He questioned, his fingers clenching at the pulled down window glass. His father was sitting beside him in the backseat. He blinked with a small smile at Zander and replied, "You weren't wondering about flying all the way till Vegas, were you?" Zander confusingly with his chest rising and falling as he took disappointed breaths, same out of the car like the others. Before he prepared another question, he looked before him at the Woods and things started making sense. They were in Woods Land, the dangerous woods of their pack. It
110A physical flash and burn shocked Zander to the core with its all-encompassing depth and strength and power as he hissed in exasperation at the view across from him.They were in the theatre where the Mad Magician's magic show was flaring in full swing. All the werewolves including himself were astonished observing the crowd that had gathered to see his show. Oh no, it was not because he was showing anything extraordinary as for now, but because of the slogan he had used in the advertisement regarding shape-shifting demonstration which was going to happen toward the end of the show, as a show stopping magic demonstration.In that instant, every other thought and emotion had ceased to exist except for a cascade of urgent directives to kill that bastard of a man he watched standing in the middle of the stage, showing some magic trick of fire through a woman."That's Phoebe Augusti
111With his mouth pressing at hers, Zander looked around the room with his peripheral vision. It was a vast area. As far as he can see, there were doors and huge corridors.He assumed he would note the region in his mind during the kiss, and go away after knocking her down. But surprisingly, he didn't know what to do.His inside curled. The thought of Reyne made a wild current of dissatisfaction run down his spine. Still, he continued moving his mouth on her as he guided his hands around her waist.Just as heat of pleasure wormed within her, she eased down. The heat helped loosen her tight muscles and seize her trembling. Finally when Zander recognized she would not backfire his plan of occupying her sexually, he parted and stared in her eyes with a fake smirk."I've been wanting to do that since I saw you outside the theatre. You are hot!" She tilted her head back and