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Reyne 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.
Even while writing, it seemed like a sweet dream. Zander and Reyne??? I can't believe it myself lol... But he's different from Ryley. His STORY will be different. His struggle will be different from Ryley's. His insecurities will be... Different 😈😈😈😈
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
76As much excitement as she did not derive during her hunt for Zander, Reyne was gaining it now! While looking for her handsome mate's best friend.She felt like a butterfly. A newly transformed butterfly with little but invaluable benefits gifted to rare ones.She was wandering in the air, dancing with the winds as she sought to follow the wave of air, in search of the guy who had left a scary impression on their first meet.There was happiness on her face, eyes twinkling in curiosity, body literally swirling in the air. She cheerfully hopped with her bag on her back, crossing from one corridor to another.He must be a bad guy, but he was the best for now. Perhaps, it was because of Ryley why Zander accepted her. He needed to clear the air of distraught between him and his best friend. And he knew it would not be possible without having a solid cause for it.What c
77 "Are you… Joking with me?" Ryley had his front facing Zander. He stood his body supporting the wall of the railing, his hands falling on his sides as if they had lost their energy. He received a serious expression with a shake of head from left to right, "You bet I am not. This is not the time to joke, buddy." His nervousness was visible. His growing pupils and shrinking forehead depicted his emotions. Ryley vigorously shook his head in bewilderment not long before he, much to Zander's surprise, burst into laughter. He was laughing? He didn't crack any joke, did he? Obviously not. Zander blinked his eyelids. His hands ran through his hair while he distracted his gaze from his friend's face just for a second and looked at the silent river far away.
78Fear coursed through his body, numbing his head and throwing him into a psychic pool of terror that gripped onto his guts."Reyne is in school?" Ryley found himself standing next to his paladin friend as they both concentrated on the source where the scream had come from."She wanted to help me find you." Zander rather reminded himself more than answering his bestie.Bloody fucking hell. He was so engrossed in the mission of pacifying his best friend that he forgot his mate was in the school, alone.He was so much into the thought of unveiling his secrets to Ryley that the thought of Reyne being in school slipped away."Helppppp! Zanderrr!!" and now she was, most definitely, in danger."Now it's us who have to find her." Ryley announced as they jumped down the terrace like ninjas, with no fear of breaking their bones or hurting their s
79Everything seemed to blur around. Zander’s mouth slightly parted at the view and then it drastically came dropping down when his eyes captured the looks of her face.It was viridescent. Her lips, jaw, fragile cheeks as well as the forehead has turned like moss. Her hair, floating around her as though under water, made a knot of fear develop in his core.The white, hot crop top that had got his heart jump at the sight... was all green. Nope, she was not filled with colours like a picture in a picture book. It was indeed real. His porcelain skinned mate looked like a plant.“Goodness,” Ryley, who stopped right behind Zander, gasped, his skin instantly whitening at the look as memories from the past bothered him.A year back, he had seen his mate in quite the same condition. She was also captured in a freaking envelope under the silky strings spun
80"Mom!" Dashing inside the door, Zander went on his knees with an unconscious Reyne who was dripping wet in green sticky slimy stuff covering every inch of her body."Zander, Ryley!!! What is this? Is that... Is that Reyne?" His mother was sitting on the couch with Milan by her side, teaching her drawing.But as soon as she witnessed her son and his best friend slump on the floor with an unmoving body of a fragile girl that looked awfully familiar, she left her spot and with a quick run, sat from across Zander on the ground.Her eyes were wide opened, mouth unlatching and latching again and again as she struggled to put her emotions in words. She was beyond petrified. Her hands reached out to touch Reyne's face behind that nasty thick layer of green liquid that had covered her skin while her teeth clenched together."What happened to her?" Just four words were all
81 Zander's POV I can't put my feelings into words. Oh that I was alone with this dumb fuck! Then I could knock some sense into his head by shoving some hard punches. He was just messing my head with his fucking behaviour. Here I was nervous. Every cell of my body was shuddering. My mate was in a disarrayed condition while my mother cleaned her. My father with the other two significant leaders was standing behind me. I can feel his warmth gracing my back. I expected Ryley's support. Yet all that he showered me with was his absurdity. Zack was turning impatient inside my head. My own body's temperature was falling. I was in a wicked situation where I could neither say anything without thinking nor act as anything that would raise doubt. But instead of taking my back, this fucktard chose to mock and humiliate me over our l**k. I so wan
82 "Trust me, I never felt so dumb ever before in my life," Ryley remarked. "I mean... Uh, my father, my alpha father always knew what I had been doing all this while with Valen." He and Zander had comforted themselves in the guest room as they enjoyed the cool breeze gushing inside the white themed room combined with light emerald color. His was taken over... By his mate. Though it was not prohibited to walk in his chambers while his mate slept probably in nothing on his bed, Zander acquainted himself in the guest room with his best friend as they talked about the conversation that continued (after forcing it on them) after being kicked out of his room some hours back with their vile fathers. "Neither did I. I feel like all my secrets have never been secrets but an open message." Zander, whose bare torso was loving the cold assault of twilight air instantly replied, sharing his own fee
(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