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Fear 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
83 'Umm I would be the last person to refuse the sight but Zander, don't you think you must not enter now. She must be... Naked!' His shadow painted the tiled floor black, growing wide and big at his side as the dim light luminating over his head covered his fair skin into a shade of primrose. Soft and warm. Tickling and soothing. The blanket of light cast a shadow of his lashes on his cheekbones as Zane thought of his wolf's words. 'I know you know how eager I have always been to embrace our mate. This is not the correct time. She must be in pain. And shock. And in deep sleep. So let her be in that and gain back some energy. We have our entire lives to love her.' Yet another convincing set of statement from Zack. He sounded imperatively significant but then it was hard to unnotice the inquisitiveness he displayed. It was like 'Do it yet do not do it' voice. One that was supposed to convince
84Sun crept up and its golden rays diffused over the horizon, welcoming yet another eventful day. Zander stretched his arms for a second and went back to controlling the steering wheel.He yawned as his sleep was not satisfied. Nor was his body with his mate's fragrance and touch. But here he was, with Wendy, his badass girl. They were off to Reyne's house to bring some of her clothes.Wendy hated it. Oh no, or should we just reveal that she almost kicked Zander to the ground when he called her over to his house for this. For helping him with her clothes. She was mad for disturbing her sleep. And for whom? That bloody migrant bitch who caused a whole lot of chaos between them."Uh, Wendy, I was thinking of grabbing some coffee from Herman's." Zander spoke, but he must have forgotten that she was MAD at him.Her hard peripheral glare wiped off the layer of fog from his head and helped him reca
85Zander stilled there. No movements. No respiration. No blinking of eyes. He seemed more like a mannequin standing in his position ceaselessly that Wendy pulled at his arm to get his heed as he was not responding in spite of her constant calls.She tugged at his sleeve yet no movement. Defeatedly, she brought her feet angrily and stomped it on his, earning a loud cry.He jumped holding his feet as he painfully winced. Zander ultimately came out of his trauma and cast her a dark look. "Why did you do that?" He clenched and released his teeth."You were not responding let alone move, so..." She shrugged her shoulders and Zander came back to a standing position.His mind wandered back to Ryley's message and the colour of his cheeks transformed to sandy dull."You have zoned out again. What is wrong, Zander?" Wendy pulled his sleeve, she whined li
86 "How dare you!" Hari rose, his knuckles turned white as he clutched his fingers into a tight fist. The colour of his face became scarlet. He tightened his jaw while his gaze shot dark glares at them. Between his anger, there was a hint of insecurity that screamed in terror. Terror of losing something precious. The crescent moon mark on her back below her right shoulder was not known to anyone except for himself and Reyne. Not to forget her mother that delivered her to this world. Because she herself had one on her shoulder. "Mr. Stark," Ryley interrupted. He had had enough of the elders and their conversation. It was leading to nowhere but moving round and round. If they really needed to know the backstory then he was certain that this argument was not going to help it. Someone had to drift the motion of their conversation elsewhere. It was him wh
(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 criedβ 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 timeβ 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