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At night,
"Why aren't you joining those girls there?" Lifting his head from his beer glass, with an arched brow, Zander watched Valen poke him on his right hand's bicep.
He bit the corner of his mouth whilst trying hard to resist her presence around him, "Why would I join them, huh?" he asked in return as he looked at a bunch of three hot girls moving their hips on the dance floor.
"I wonder why not?" He heard it coming from her mouth. "You look like a dumbfuck playboy. I can only wonder why are you sitting here and not hitting on those girls!" With his jaw dropping in shock, Zander glared at her angrily as he finally realized why she had even come to see him in the corner of the club in the first place.
"Just go away before I ruin your makeup with a hard punch. Do you want me to do that?" He threatened her, and that was enough for Valen to know that his threa
13...Reyne watched the stars in the sky peeking down at her, smilingly. She raised her right hand and pretended to touch them with her forefinger. More like pop them one by one like soap bubbles.Unfortunately, they were so high that she cannot reach them! Reyne huffed, her hands crossed across her breasts and she stuck her tongue out towards the sky. It was her frustration she showed to those stars that teased her by being so high and unreachable."You think you can look at me and not let me touch you? You are wrong, Mr. Star and relatives." She started speaking to the stars. "You wait and watch. Just let me get my mate. After he comes, I will make sure that all of you kiss my feet."Reyne smiled and blushed. She covered her face with her palms and acted crazy. She sheepishly chuckled and peeked through her fingers at the starry sky, and covered her eyes again.This was n
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15...In the morning,Zander stirred in his sleep. Some vague memories from last night disturbed his slumber. He can't do anything more than undo his eyes and lift his weight on his left elbow, and look at the bright rays of the sun that were sneaking inside his bedroom."Ugh... Gosh. My head!" his fingers pressed against his scalp, there was a throbbing, ringing ache, spreading all across his skull like it was hammered a dozen time.He let his head fall on the pillow again since his weak elbow, precisely weak due to the morning sickness with a bad hangover, went flat on the mattress.He rested on his stomach while he struggled to recall what happened last night. The last thing he remembered was exiting the club after he watched Valen and Ryley in the corner of the club, kissing and cuddling!What happened after that? He cannot
16Zander's POVMy heart jumped, up and down, inside my chest as I pushed my feet ahead. I was on my way to the same bus station where I had Zack exclaim about our mate.I am not honestly a love-sick kind of wolf who is dying to meet his mate, I was yet a bit anxious to know who she is. So far I have been assuming that she was not from our pack or else, by now, I would have met her plenty of times.I thought she was somewhere away. Where I can't find her. Where I might have to go after taking the oath of a beta, as an adult matured wolf. Regardless, what I experienced the other night was shocking as hell.She was here. Right in front of me. Inside my own pack yet I did not meet her. And I saw her! Yep, I did. Even though her image was not clear, I know I did see her. It was her.Stupid Zack could not see her properly as I was dizzy. Our vi
17My mate. I saw my mate. But not the type of mate I was wanting to see. He was a bloody drunkard! Probably a rogue. Because after I ran away from there and anyhow reached home back, I heard dad speak about that place with someone.It is not a good place as there is a notorious bad club ahead of the bus station where all the bad and spoiled wolves go. May be he had just come out of that place before I encountered him."No, dad, I am absolutely fine. It is just that I ran recklessly last night for the first time. And that makes my entire body hurt. I just need some rest." With his eyes moving everywhere on my face, I confidently lied whilst pushing back the hot tears that threatened to flash in my eyes.I have not intimated dad about my mate. There are two causes behind that. One, that he would surely ask me to help him find him so that he can go and talk to him. And second, so that there is a valid
18...In school..."What? Why are you guys looking at me like that?" Zander shrugged his shoulders amusingly, because it was now hard to avoid the looks coming from his friends.Ever since he came to school, they have been staring at him. Be it Ryley, Clarke, Yeoman or Wendy, all of them stared like he was some kind of alien."Not only you alone, but that crazy mate of yours has been eyeing me too. What has gotten into your rusty heads?" Zander pointed at Valen who was sitting with her own friends, at a different table, in the canteen.The first lecture just ended. Although Zander attended it, he didn't get any attendance because he came late. He joined the class when half of it had already passed. The hot teacher Mr. Vera did take him in, but she took away his attendance.In fact, Zander didn't seem to mind it at all. He was not into studies an
19...Zander's POVThey just ruined my mood.Fuck them all!!!And that freaking Valen... That girl will die in my hands. I swear that I will be the cause of her death for she really tests my patience beyond limits.Huh. Freak.I took a long deep breath and came to the parking lot. My body rested against the closed door of my car and eyes closed. I felt my body skipping across the metallic body of my vehicle and my butt falling on the ground.I sat there with my legs stretched wide before me. Thankfully I could hear nobody around. Hence, the lack of noise and isolation helped me compose myself sooner than I expected."That was not right. I should not have said that to Ryley. What must he be thinking about my words?" I can't help but think about it as my fingers tiringly curled together into fists.
20...Mrs. Brown batted her eyes a few seconds after Zander left the sight of her eyes. It was hard to take that reply from him. He didn't sound like himself at all."Mummy, Zany has returned. Can I go to play with him?" Little Milan halted at the entrance of the kitchen whilst asking for permission from her mom.Only if little Milan could understand that her mother had not heard her words, she would know that she was not going to get an answer. Mrs. Brown was too shocked by Zander's reply to focus on her daughter that was waiting for her answer.Milan patiently waited for her response. The little cub played with her fingers as her cute dove like eyes watched her mother's colourless face. She waited until her patience answered.And when Mrs. Brown did not attend her interrogation, she turned around and nearly caught speed as her legs hit further to meet her brother.
(Last chapter) Five days later, In the lounge of the hospital beside the reception desk, Valen stood with her phone in one of her hands and a package in the other. She stomped her foot impatiently as she glanced at a recently received message, seething in vexation. 'Stuck in the traffic!' "Oh, moon goddess! Why do you have to mate me with such a dumb f*ck bastard." She cried— like she was a wolf, with a baby face and pout she was adored for. Then another message appeared on her screen that turned her facial expressions even sour and bitter. 'A bloody red lory has blocked my way. It's not moving further, not letting me do so.' "Oh Jesus, I will kill you, Ryley Shine." Valen shrieked, this time like a human, earning amusing looks from the passers-by and the watchman who was sitting across a huge television, keeping
117 "Tell me, I am on time." He said amidst his uneven respiration as he stood with his torso bent forward and hands resting on his knees, working on stabilizing his breathing. His beta entered the room behind him, "You are, Ryan." "How long has he been dead for?" Alpha Ryan asked coming to his full height even though his breathing had not braced up. He discerned the clueless faces of Zander's kith and kin waiting for an answer. When none came, his beta stepped next to him and disclosed, "Less than twenty-four hours. We still have time— but not much!" "Great. That's enough time." Alpha Ryan expressed his delight at his beta's reply with a clap of hands as the others gawked at him. Their doubtfully teary eyes stayed affixed on his face as he, standing as an odd one out, smiled in the whole room.
116A storm of grief, they never anticipated, knocked their senses down.Anyone and everyone, who walked inside the ward Zander's corpse was placed in, returned with an expressionless face. He was just too young to die. Nobody believed their eyes when they walked in, but when they returned, they realized it was indeed true.His parents and friends stayed lined up by the side of the wall adjacent to his ward's door, weeping.His father had awoken with a smile, hoping to see the others safe within the boundaries of their pack- back in their sweet home. But the news he was dawned with, trembled his very core, muting him for several times before his wife broke into his ward.They held each other in a forlorn embrace and shared their pain. Their first child, their son... Was gone.The doctors warned him not to leave the bed yet Mr. Brown overstepped thei
115"Noooooo! Zander, my son.. He Can't... He can't die!" Mrs. Brown melted to the ground, her body loosely flattened, wailing deeply on top of her voice."C-control yourself, Mrs. Brown. You..." Ryley, who had been attempting to handle her, himself felt his throat choke as tears blurred his vision.The news that they received was itself so shaking and bewildering that none of them was ready to believe it. Zander was dead. He died whilst saving his mate. The Paladin Alpha sacrificed his life to save the others.When in the morning the Gamma hastily rushed to woods land after receiving a call of trepidation, all of them prayed for the well-being of all the Alphas and betas who've gone on the rescue mission with Zander.Although the Gamma left in his car, he returned with five ambulances behind him that paused across the hospital gate. It was Ryley who was given a call by doctor Jason to come ov
114“Zane!” his father shrieked, perceiving him wail in discomfort.A big chunk of glass stayed stabbed in his stomach. Blood slipped at his temple given that his head hit against a sharp rock, making the world around him spin.He did not get a second to steady himself as the ifrit galloped near him. He lifted Zander by his neck, his hold tightening around it. The wisp sound of his slow squeezing at zander’s neck had his father roar manically while he plunged at the demon, turning into his wolf.His canines pierced through the shoulder of the arm that was clasping Zander in his hold, and caused him to loosen his grip. Zander plummeted at the ifrit’s feet coughing and gasping for air.“He was dead, wasn’t he?” there was a faint tremor in alpha Hercules’ tone.Nobody had any answer except for shocking gasps and he
113Satisfaction. It was a kind of satisfaction he never derived before. Not from bullying or hurting people. It can only be derived through killing... Killing the enemy.His chest swelled in pleasure and eyes brightened. The scent of Reyne stayed in his breaths. The air held her fragrance, which his lungs gladly sucked in.Those alphas waiting out there said that they would leave as soon as they found Reyne— without creating any scene, but he couldn't stop. He had to kill him. Kill them all. They tortured his Reyne. They threatened their kind. And hunters... He killed him half right when he mentioned them.But it was over. Zane killed them here and the doppelgangers killed his psycho wife there.He smiled to himself as he rushed ahead. He just wanted to get to his Reyne and hold her tight. His crawl was quick. Zane was moving further steadily until— he witn
112She was threatened to not cry as it would ruin her make-up. Reyne couldn't keep up with their threats though. With the grief of her father's death weighing down on her chest, she sat in the cage wearing nothing but a flimsy tight one piece suit that covered her from knuckle to neck.She was told they would come to take her out on the stage. She was supposed to end the show, using her shape-shifting technique as the show stopping demonstration. Earlier she tried to refuse and what they did was whip her in the back. They scared her to do even worse that she easily gave up.Worse was that they put her in a cage. A real freaking cage as though she was an animal. She was not an animal. Damn it. She was an extraordinary creation. That's all. Who was going to explain it to the humans notwithstanding.Now Reyne could apprehend the meaning of her father's words, that he used to say all this while. Thi
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
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