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Zander's POV
They 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.
21Mrs. Brown walked inside the main doors with a small smile placed on her mouth. She had Milan in her arms who was still sobbing a little bit. Whatever that happened at the house needed to be discussed, but at the moment she could not do anything except for forcing her lips into a grin and pretending as though everything was okay with her.“Pardon me, just got busy with some work at home. I hope I didn’t make any of you wait,” she spoke with half hearted expressions. “I am sorry if I did so”She had just advanced near the couch when Luna stood up, “Oh no, you are not. We just gathered in here. Mr. Stark is on his way to here.” She informed, progressing her walk toward her until her optics noticed Milan.Milan was sobbing across her mother’s collarbone, with audible sobbing that the Alpha and her husband including Luna moved their confused eyes from her
22Stumbling and slipping, Zander came out of the bar without even waiting for Ryley. He was in a bad mood that he cannot even stand his presence around him.Everything was frustrating. From the starry sky to the chirping of the night insects, from the silent ripple playing along the silence in the atmosphere to the rhythmic beating of his own heart— everything around annoyed Zander to an extreme level.He wiped his mouth and clenched his teeth tight as his legs moved ahead against his consent. He was not ready to move but his body was working on its own. That is how he perceived it. All in all, whatever that was happening was not happening as per his will. And that seemed like a frustrating parasite was drinking on his blood. It happened even when he didn't want it to."Zane..." He hissed hearing that irking voice again.He growled in return and increased his speed. The last thing
23"He is really handsome! You will like him too." His eyes found her emotionless facade with a grin creeping on his mouth.Reyne cannot deny that there was pure joy on his cheeks. The unknown glint of hope in his shimmering eyes make her believe that he was happy just by the thought of having his daughter mated to a decent guy.By the looks, Reyne knew, her father did not mean anything about the physical appearance. All that his words wanted to convey about the Gamma's offspring was that she would be happy with him.Reyne lowered her eyes as she controlled her increasing sorrow. Last night she got happy when he allowed her to stay home rather than joining him to the gathering. But now this! It was like life was playing a dirty revenge game with her. It neither wanted her to experience happiness nor be sad for more than a while. Happiness and sadness came one by one, and in line, for her.&nbs
24"Who cares?" Sitting in the canteen, like a tired and exhausted dude, Zander rolled his eyes. "I don't, to be really honest! I don't like plastic dolls any longer." He scoffed, sparing a glance at the hot girl sitting across him on the other table.
25 Reyne got down of the cab across the big, eye dropping school, with an open mouth. Her lashes never blinked right after exiting the vehicle. She paid the driver, failing to notice his thank you, and proceeded toward the big gate that was closed.
26"Jeez..." Breathing a heave, Zander descended the stairs of the school building and rushed across the garden.He stopped at the closed gate and maniacally began looking here and there. His eyes were wide open, hands fisted and face flushed with shock and disappointment as he frantically roamed his pupils in the empty big garden."I swear had smelled her here. Where would she go so quickly?" He spoke to himself such that the watchman sitting in his cabinet peeked out of the big rectangular window in daze.He was not petrified to see Zander but a bit taken aback. The rapid batting of his lashes conveyed there was another story to his expressions, and earlier than Zander saw him, he went back to his work without interfering in the bully's life.'I smelled her too, but unfortunately, her scent has faded away. Like she ran away...'Zack sighed guessing about th
27"Bullshit! I hate that dunderhead teacher. Damned old freaking bastard!"Nails biting into his own palms, Zander entered through the main door over his parents while they were having food, cursing and gritting his jaw. It seemed they had just begun as the table was still untouched and the plates before the three members were shining clean.They had their eyes watching Zander from head to toe not after looking at the clock with a big pendulum swinging effortlessly. One. Two. Three. And there it rang after both the hands pointed at the last number on the clock, twelve."Finally, your brat is here. Honey, I am not going to say anything so better you ask him where was he all this while and why is he late?""Mummy, Zany came home."Mrs. Brown heaved a rough breath as her fingers clenched and released, then again clenched and released as she sat
(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