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Reyne watched her face in the mirror in the washroom. She could have gotten into a bad cat fight if Zander had not pulled her away.
She was hurt and annoyed but when his eyes met with her, she had completely frozen. He really had a bad effect on her and resisting it was not possible either.
"I disgust you right, fine... Let it be that way."
She stared at the redness covering the whites of her eyes. They were not just small veins popping up and making them look swollen and deeply hurt, but also showed how much they had cried for a mate who didn't give her a damn.
She placed her hands on the counter of the washbasin whilst allowing the brine she had held back till now. She did cry there in the canteen but not as much as she had wanted to do.
"I hate you, Zander Brown. I hate— loving you." She brought the eyelids over her red eyeballs and seethed.
The bell for the next lecture
68Reyne's POV"What the! Where the fuck are you lost? " I elevated my head and looked at the person."Ryley?" my breaths normalized as I set my eyes closely on his face.Relief and calm washed over me. I had not assumed to find anyone in school at this moment for it has already been an hour or two since the lectures got over.His pupils were glaring down at me in vex but they eventually softened perhaps after noticing my condition.My eyes were thrilled and scared. I can see him read my facial expressions and see how vigorously I was shivering. My cheeks must be flush red for he stared them insanely before bringing his hands to hold me by the arms and ask, "What's wrong?""Ryley, there..." I pointed behind my back but words won't come out.My lips quivered, I stared back at him as I could not put my feelings into verbal exp
69Zander's POV"Wendyyyyy, I told you she's mine," I grabbed her by the back of her neck and dragged her out of the chair.She kissed the cold white floor with a thud but it did not affect my grip on her."I will kill you today." All of our friends' eyes popped out, mouths dropped open and eyebrows elevated as they watched me kneel down beside her body which was lying on the stomach and pull her hair as if I was her twin brother.We often fought like this. We all. Our bond is as strong as an iron statue but our fights are as dirtier as the pigs who jump in mud. We pull each other's hair, give damned scars and scratch each other's skin like how little cubs scratch out the flakes from a thermocol sheet.And I was madder than ever today not because she dared to hurt MY mate but because it was just my right to freak her out like that. I don't want to admit but it hurt me to see her like that. She
70"Zander?""Umm, I am teamed up with your daughter for an assignment in school so," Biting the corner of his mouth, Zander faked a disinterested look at her father as he stood on the door before him. "I came here to discuss the same with Reyne.""Okay, come in." Zander exhaled out the breath he had kept holding inside his chest and strode inside after her father stepped aside.Throughout the day before the dawn he battled with his heart and the thought of meeting her. But then he eventually decided he wanted to see her and came here by using the assignment as an excuse.Yep, the same assignment he had created a fuss in the school about and humiliated Reyne."She is in her room," Mr. Stark pointed at the long corridor in front as he showed Zander the way to her room. But when he finished his incomplete statement a rush of anger and jealousy crept in his chest, ".. With Brandon. Th
71 "Yes Zander? Tell me, what is it that brings you here?" her voice sliced the quiet, thrilled and lingering air mercilessly, exasperation rippling midst her statement. It seemed peculiar to her that Zander came here. To her house. What for? To see her disheveled state post his friends troubled her? Or to see if she still was waiting for him like the previous time? Or was it because he wished to know how it felt to see your mate with a filthy bitch for a girlfriend, sitting in his lap? The remembrance of the morning incident only brought fresh tears and more and more vex to her. Her cheeks turned crimson, eyes oozing redness alongside a thick layer of glistening brine. It lingered at the edge of her lowered eyelashes, accumulating there before they cascaded below to the curves of her cheeks after transforming into a big thick droplet. "Yes, Zander Brown, I think I asked you something?" fluttering her lashes, her hands cl
72 As much as it shivered her, it soothed her soul for her mate bond and instincts were desiring his one gaze. The sound of his deep breathing developed a steel rod in her back. She sculptured there, under his scorching gaze that oozed hatred, despicable vex and a warning that clearly meant— run away! Yet all she did was, settle in a seat and open her bag, and drag out a book and her pouch. She pretended her best to seem she landed here unknowingly and acted as though sitting under his dark disturbing gaze was nothing. However, it worried her. His presence and his unblinking stare made her feel uncomfortable. She felt herself at his radar, but then also, she remained there, acting as if studying, engrossed in her book. The pretense seemed almost real. Real as if she was into books, yet all where her attention remained rooted was him... In the farthest corner, certainly stabbing her with the pointed daggers of his stare
73"His eyes were the darkest shade of blood red, skin extremely pale like a dead corpse and lips... His lips had a sinister grin. I freaked out Zander, he had gripped my wrist so tight that for a moment it felt like he would twist it and break it apart from my hand." Reyne cautiously said, her hands now clutching on his collars.She was engrossed in his scent, his dark raven eyes as she narrated her experience to him."I thought... I thought he would... Kill me right then and there." That was an extraordinary experience she added, something she had not really felt but gladly communicated to him.And she pouted too... Another cause to make him believe it. Though it was not true.And to her expectation, he stirred.His lips tightened into a thin traumatized line.His gaze darkened on her innocently projected facade.His
74Reyne opened her mouth to say something. Anything. But her voice didn't comply with her. She had nothing to say.Hence, she literally melted to the ground. Her hands rounded around his neck tightly, and echoing of her sobs was the only sound that flared in the air.This had to be a dream. A beautiful dream because Zander the jerk Brown was not an easy nut to be cracked!He could not accept her so easily, could he?"Zander," She tried to acknowledge his words but failed.Her voice failed her. Her thoughts failed her. Her feelings. Her Strength. All of her failed her.This was too good to be true.She swallowed hard and hiccupped. The very moment she fell, he pulled her in his lap. She stayed in his arms and cried for good while his hands consoled her by rubbing her back up and down.
75Amidst the quiet rippling of dust in the atmosphere, Zander's steps shuffled on the tiled floor of the school premises. He wandered from here and there, peeking inside almost every second classroom as his mind sought to look for his other half.Oh no, not the other half he just got closer with!But the other half he basically grew up spending his life with. The other half he shared all of his secrets, memories and zealous moments with.That person was not his mate.Um, you can call him his mate... But a mate for a friend.It was his best of the best friend. Brother from another mother. Alpha companion aka Ryley the rascal Shine.Zander eagerly searched for him. His deep eyes held excitement. Though there was some fear of being thrashed by Ryley, his hunt did not die. He had manifested his hopes about finding his best friend cum brother c
(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