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"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
87 "A gorgeous and ever so shy she-wolf. She was seventeen when her parents died and she had to live on her own. It had only been a few weeks to their deaths that Shae found an oddly mysterious woman standing at her door step. She was reluctant to let her in but she did as the woman was nice to speak with. The woman wanted to take Shae with her at her abode after she heard from the people in the locality that her parents passed away in an unexpected accident. The woman wanted to adopt her. Shae was not ready. She didn't trust her until she was told why the woman wanted her." He took a dramatic pause and looked at the jug of water on the table before them, on the table. The condensed droplets of water on the surface of the jug glided below its curved body and combined with another, becoming a thick drop before it flattened on the mahogany table creating a small pond around the container.
88 "He was held captive by the old woman since he was a destructive demon who had slaved many girls and destroyed their lives. And the wise woman had caught him once when she went to treat an ill minor girl. She had found the ifrit in her body and after bringing him out, she fought him until he lost and seized him in a cave far away from the human dwellings in a place that was older than our existence. She guarded it with spells and stuff that would keep him locked inside for years until the mining companies and archeologists arrived at the place. They dug it open and unknowingly released him in the process and he directly flew back to the old woman's place in order to kill her." It sounded like one of the stories taken from Arabian nights' Story book. Zander and Ryley unquestionably stared at him with dropping jaws and eyes which never blinked. If they had been anime characters stuck in a world of perils or for that
89 “Where the hell is Zander? He had promised to let me copy his notes.” Yeoman sighed as his eyes gawked at the threshold of the canteen from time to time. Wendy flickered her lashes over his words and twisted her mouth in irritation. She slapped him on the head and scoffed, “This is why you have been waiting for him, idiot! I thought you really missed him as he had not attended school for over a week.” “I do miss him alright. But a promise is a promise, and I won’t go to the next class until he fulfils it.” He replied and returned her slap back to her and flinched back in order to tackle her following punch. "You are so stupid, Yeoman. That Guy has not come for seven days and his notes are yet completed. And you... Your presence or absence makes no bloody sense." Clark said While Wendy rose from her seat in frustration and hovered over Yeoman’s head as her tiny fists hit him on the forehead, head and mout
90"Which is your favorite flavour, Britney?" Looking at Rayne's best friend, Zander asked her."Black current." She merrily replied."And Reyne would take a Vanilla and Chocolate mix. Okay then. I will be back with your ice cream." He answered and left the two girls alone. Britney amusingly arched her brows as Zander didn't ask his mate and just mentioned the flavour she would have.Obviously... He might be knowing her likes and dislikes!As he hit his steps further, Britney and Reyne watched him go away with an overwhelmed and happy grin. The entire day after lectures was bliss. Neither of the two girls could have had such an amazing trip if it was not for the wild wolves.One can say that the image of themselves they had formed in people's eyes was negative whereas in truth they were the sweetest guys.They joked, pulled each other
91 Zander's POV I get it today why Ryley used to tell me that, "You will know what real pain is once you find your mate." because the bickering and fights arising with relation to her are real nuisance. And my mate, one for all, is a type of mate that only appears cute and lovely from the outside but she is a bigger badass than me from the inside and I love it. Her sharp tongue and spicy replies to Yeoman sank my heart more and more into the ocean of devotion. She is just like my type of girl. "Why are you angry at me, Reyne? What did I do?" I loosened my hold on the mic button on w******p and the voice message was sent to her. She has not talked to me since she abandoned me at the ice cream parlour with my friends. She sees all that I have to say to her and leaves it unanswered, punishing me with her silence. I have gro
Zander's POVIt took us some while before we pulled the car across Reyne's house.Its wedgewood roof glowed in the moon light while the lamps igniting near the snow fence around the house made it look like a house as shown in a Disney movie.The strings of my heart quivered as I saw the lights on the windows glowing. Something throbbed in my chest and for the first time I felt intimidated. Gosh, this was never in my nature. I never fretted but this girl and her aura... It is something else which I cannot restrain."Why did you stop the car, Zany?" My sweety blinked at me with her eyes as she sucked on her forefinger.I gave her chubby cheeks a stroke and then smiled, "We have reached Reyne's house.""We came already?""Yes, we did, baby. Now it's the most difficult part," I peeked out at the window of her roo
Night darkened outside the window. The clouds thickened as they sought to keep the moon astray like fog that does to a traveler on a lonely road.The noise of the night insects slowly reduced and it eventually vanished like they were never singing. All the birds that were quietly observing the unseen side of the world that was alien to the human gaze stuck together with their partners and babies in the nests for the view before them daunted each feather on their bodies.The lights Zander had narrated as an ignition by the side of the fence around Reyne's house were now flickering. Going on and off. On and off. Then on and off it continued with a wheezing sound as though the filament was about to heat up beyond the point it could take and finally burst.Amidst all the mishappening that was taking place outside the house, Reyne remained in her room with Zander on top of her while Milan tenderly snored next to t
94 Zander’s POV Across the canvas of my closed eyelids, I saw a face as bright as the morning sun with eyes glimmering as if diamonds under light. The lips were smiling at me softly making me feel warm inside. I had an urge to touch them with my own mouth and drink the glossy juice of red they were stained with. When the lashes of those eyes flickered, my heart skipped a beat as I gasped at the serene look of them. Those cheeks were red as beet. One could get a shade of it on their fingers if they brushed them on the curvatures of her facade. I had sought to do exactly the same when I lifted my hand. No sooner had I settled the tips of my fingers on her soft skin, she turned into a pack of butterflies and scattered everywhere around me, those later took the shape of smoke and draped me back and forth until I could see nothing but darkness. And then suddenly