Plop! Plop!!!The first thing that Oliver noticed before he even opened his eyes, was the sound of water dripping from somewhere around his vicinity.He grumbled, feeling disturbed.“Mom, please stop that,” he muttered under his breath, hoping the dripping of water would stop disrupting his sleep flow.But all he heard was a whisper in his ear, “I am not your mother.”His brows furrowed and his face scrunched up as his brain slowly processed what he had heard.Not his mother..?All at once, his eyes flew open in alarm and he glanced up in front of him.It was then that he realized that he was on his back, and as his vision focused on the ceiling, he also had the stark realisation that he was not at home, or in his bedroom.He was not even anywhere familiar, like his girlfriend’s room (or was it ex, now that he knew she was cheating on him with Taylor), or any of the places he had been to before in his life.No, he was in a cave.Or at least, it looked a lot like a cave from what he co
“Hey did you hear about the news?” a girl asked her friend as they walked the hallways.“What news?” the friend asked in return. “Oh, you mean the anonymous person. Have you found out who did it?'' There was clear fear in the girl’s voice as she queried her friend. “I thought it was just a ruse, but now it's looking more and more real as the day goes by. I wonder if the principal’s going to do anything about it. Such people go to our school! And my mom and dad are considering pulling me from school and moving away! That's ridiculous!”“Shhh! You don't want anyone hearing,” the first girl admonished her friend, pulling her into another classroom, which was likely empty.As the two girls left, Eleanor, who had been watching their exchange, left the shadows, which had blended in with her very well. Too well, in fact. Eleanor always had that ability, to make someone think that she was not there, and she used this ability most times to her advantage. She was always listening in on people’s
Jay cursed his luck.He was in the woods again, having decided to take the trail path through the forest and see whether or not he could find someone - anyone - who would know where his daughter, Scarlett was.Now, it was evening, and he was trying to make a fire using the firewood he had gotten. Luckily, it was summer season and there had been no rain for the past three days, so he could find dry wood to use as kindling.However, he was trying to recall the last time he had made a fire like this, which had not been for a very long time. In fact, with Jay being a wealthy Alpha, he had barely utilized any survival skills in his time, especially since he had built his family with Skyler, and had to take care of Oliver and Scarlett.He tried once again, rubbing the sticks together and bemoaning the loss of his lighter. How had he not remembered to bring it? It was just his luck, then, that after a few minutes of trying, he was able to produce a small spark, which he fanned generously unt
Things were really getting out of hand.Jay sighed, not for the first time, as he shifted from foot to foot. He was now tending to the fires that were slowly dying, trying to keep it up for much longer as the nighttime was all around him. With the sunset, had come the loss of warmth, and also the sounds of the forest waking up.The weary Alpha, still searching for his missing daughter, put more kindling into the fire, feeding it and tending to it. He needed to make the kindling last until the next hours as he rested for a bit, and before then, this fire could not under any circumstance, go off.Once he was fairly certain that the fire was not going to be dying anytime soon, Jay sat back on the log of wood he had been occupying for the past few hours.The sounds of crickets chirping and the nocturnal animals waking up caused Jay to mutter under his breath.He never had been very comfortable with staying out in the woods in this way, and he tried to avoid it at all costs before. Now, ho
Meera was trapped, and she hated it, loathed it with every fiber of her being. The anger in her body flowed off her in waves as she watched the Elders of the Sacred Court of Hades surround her, and stood upon the podium as if she was on trial.How had things gone so damn wrong in the blink of an eye? How had the one thing that stood between Meera and that she-wolf caused such a commotion, and brought chaos to her plans in such a way?Her mind whirled as she flowers at the faces of the Elders, thinking about what had happened in the past hour.The battle right at the gate had been fierce and had used up more of her magic reserves than she had ever expected. In fact, it had been one of the worst fights that the witch had been in, in her entire life.And that was saying something, given that she always had the upper hand, even with her battles with werewolves, many of whom she had their skulls decorated on a shelf in her coven.She was ingenious, and a bit of a trickster in battle. Her m
Jay frowned, as he felt his muscles shift in the way that he knew to be a tell-tale sign of his shifting.This was the third time in the past hour that he had felt such a thing, and it was getting worse.Why was this happening?“What’s going on?” He asked his wolf, but no quick response came brought, making him more frustrated.More strange things just kept happening as of late, that befuddled the Alpha seriously.And it had nothing much to do with his shifting or Scarlett.Things were just off, for some reason.Jay found that as he kept moving deeper and deeper into the forest, his senses were picking up the scents of another pack nearby. Was that why his wolf kept wanting to come out and making his muscles shift uncontrollably?“What is the problem?” Jay asked his wolf, but no reply came quickly once again.He growled in frustration and kept on moving towards where he sensed the edge of the forest was.He had too many things in his mind for the presence of another pack to be threate
“What about the barrier? Can the guards get through it?” Oliver whispered to Leia, who shrugged.It felt like hours since Oliver woke up in the dungeon of Hades. He had not been able to tell what time of day it was, because he could not see daylight through the walls of the cave where he was imprisoned in.The repetitive sounds dripping of water from somewhere in the cave now left a vague frustration and resignation in the 18-year-old‘s mind. He hated the sound more than anything right then.Currently, he and Leia have been trading ideas on how they could escape from here. Mostly, the ideas had come from Oliver himself, but that seemed to be because how Leia did not believe that she would even be able to escape from here.There was a resignation in her mind about the idea of even getting a chance to escape.“I haven’t seen any guards able to pass through the barrier, but I suspect that they can,” she whispered back. “Why do you ask? Do you think that they can help us escape?”“I think
Back to the cityEleanor frowned at the giggles of the students. Oh, how she wished she could throw them all off a cliff! Or at least, that she could run away, very far away from all this racket that they were making.However, she had to manage to withstand their happy-go-lucky acts for now, because she was currently on a school bus with the rest of them.The previous day, the principal, a sweaty old man named Mr. Payne that made her skin crawl, had come into their class and mentioned that there was a friendly meet-up between students. A sports competition, of course, of which Eleanor knew that she was one of the star students in / track, volleyball, and tennis - and they would be picking some students to go on the impromptu trip the next day.Eleanor watched as other students murmured amongst themselves, querying why the principal had announced this news this late, especially amid all the chaos that was going on and fear being spread in their city like a virus.She had smirked in her
Chapter 92Meera could not believe what was happening in front of her. She had been watching the little play that she found amusing, she had to give it to them that the wolves indeed had a flair for the dramatic. The way they were all standing and looking like they had just received the biggest shock of their lives amused her to no end. It was almost as if they still thought they would be able to save her and even if they thought they did, it was just something that made her laugh even more. Scarlett had been destined for death the moment she had been captured by Meera and she had been smiling just a few minutes ago at the amount of pain that she was causing the wolves to feel.Then the Oliver boy had done something, she felt the thrum of magic from him and her heart lurched as she realized that she had made a very big mistake. She thought Scarlett was one of a kind, the only wolf with a special ability and even though she had been seeing Oliver around he even tried to attack her beca
The head of hades saw that they were indeed taking their time to consider what their options might be. He was here, waiting, while they discussed if he was trustworthy or not. He felt he had made the right choice by changing his appearance, if he had appeared to them as his normal self then they would have never even looked at him twice talking less of considering what he was proposing. He got the feeling that they were also the recipients of one of Meera's bad actions, from what he heard she had kidnapped the daughter of these wolves and that was something that he did not understand. Why would Meera be interested in the daughter of some wolves, it must mean that there was something else that he was not seeing here. There must be something about the girl that Meera felt interesting, and to be sincere, he only knew one thing that would make Meera even stress herself to abduct the daughter of two alpha wolves.There was something different about these wolves though, the boy that was st
Scarlett woke up to find Meera staring at her. Eleanor was not in the room and she didn't even realize that she had been so tired. The ordeal she has passed through these past few days made her feel like she was made of concrete and everywhere ached in her. She wasn't even sure what was what anymore, her leg felt numb, and the fact that she didn't sense Meera's presence when she came back in meant that she was also tired mentally too. She felt even more exhausted after the small chat she had with Oliver and the fact that she slept on the floor wasn't helping either, and now she had to deal with Meera looking at her like she was some unsatisfactory product.Meera already knew what she was there for. She had come to pacify Eleanor a bit and the little witch had asked for some permission to go out. She wanted to go to a mall. Meera sent her out with two guards, she was the ruler of the court of hades now so she had them at her beck and call, and she hoped that Eleanor would take an inter
Scarlett had just heard something that she considered unbelievable. She was sure that something was off because Meera just called herself someone's grandmother. She had actually been thinking that Meera was Eleanor's mother, all the acts of love and the fact that Meera looked so young, too young to be anyone's grandmother if she was being sincere, she could see that something might have happened at the court they went to. Eleanor seemed impatient for the power that she was promised to her and Meera also looked like she had a major headache and she didn't have the time to tolerate whatever insolence Eleanor might want to display.She also made a very shocking revelation right now, she was a grandmother but yet she looked like someone in her early thirties, a very young face and aura emanated off her and Scarlett could tell that wasn't normal. It was something to make yourself look young but Scarlett doubted that was what Meera was doing.She must have stolen someone's body. Meera was a
At the moment some issues were transpiring in the pack house. Jay and Skyler seemed to have gotten into a big fight and they were busy arguing with one another.Jay kept on insisting that Skyler return to the city to oversee the affairs of the huge pack house and businesses they had there. It would be unreasonable for the both of them to abandon the affairs of the pack for so long, but Skyler was adamant. She swore never to return until she saw her daughter again. She could not even believe that Jay was asking her to abandon the whole matter and go back to the city. She knew that what Jay was saying would be the right thing to do, the pack was as much as a family would ever be to them. They were the leaders of the pack and they needed to be there for the pack but she was not going to abandon her family again.While they were in the midst of their arguments, Oliver ran to them panting. He had left the room for some fresh breath earlier and now this."What is the matter?" both Jay and S
The rest of the pack including Ian finally arrived at the pack house, the heavy atmosphere that they carried along with them was evident in the way they all sat with their head bowed and lost in thought.Oliver could not believe what had just happened, he felt guilty for thinking that Meera wasn't a threat and that Scarlett would be safe no matter what happened, to him, all that was going on wasn't just fair. First Scarlet got tortured in front of them and she gets taken to heaven knows where after that. He felt they should have attacked Meera all at a go the minute that she dared to work her foul magic on Scarlett and that was something that he resented not doing.Leia sensing his anger tried to touch him so he could calm down but he yanked his hand away and went to a corner of the room and he started pacing."Are you really going to act like this?" Leia asked, looking at him and for the first time, she saw anger in Oliver's eyes. It was not like she hadn't seen him angry before, jus
Chapter 85Eleanor could feel the anger in Meera's voice as she told her of their history. So she was a wolf, after all, just an omega that the alphas always looked down upon.Eleanor could see why Meera seemed to always get angry when it comes to anything that has to do with the alphas. Even when she was talking to Scarlett earlier, there was a tone of hate in her voice and now she could see exactly why Meera was always so bitter. She was smiling now though and Eleanor could tell that this story was going to reveal what had brought them here as witches.Meera was already getting lost in the tale that she was telling and there seemed to be a rapturous look on her face."Whenever the alphas tried to push us down, we would leave, and then we would start somewhere else. Your ancestors were very ambitious people, they wanted to become greater than they were, they wanted to stop being seen as weak, and they wanted power too but then the alphas never allowed that, they always did what they
Chapter 84The elder could feel a bit of his power return as he came in contact with the crystal. It was only a fragment of the power though and he could already see that someone had been there. The place looked so lonely and deserted, a wall had already crumbled and the room was badly exposed to the harsh elements of this realm, he could also see that someone had definitely gotten to the crystal and it was just a matter of time before that person would be revealed. The crystal was an object of immense power and while it could not be handled by just anybody, there was certainly someone who knew about it and who dared to come to take it, they even braved the journey to do this act and thereby put the world off balance.The elder weighed his options and he wondered who this mystery person might be. He was just about to leave when he turned and saw a mirror, lying discarded on the ground and almost as pale and as broken as the other things. Because of the magic of the crystal, there was
Meera could see Scarlett looking at Eleanor and she felt anger rise in her. Eleanor would soon become a powerful witch, she was already a very powerful witch and so there was some sort of respect that should be accorded to her. Scarlett was now a prisoner and even though she was an alpha, she was still a prisoner. Meera saw the look on Scarlett's face and mistook it for the pride that the alpha wolves usually carried around. She should be scared and cowering before them, not just sitting and looking at Eleanor blankly in the face.Eleanor noticed that something like anger had overcome Meera's features, she could see that she was very angry and it was no doubt because of the insolence that Scarlett was displaying by looking at her straight in the eyes, she also felt some sort of pride already at the fact that Meera was basically treating her like a queen. There was something about the way Scarlett was looking at her that unnerved her and she wanted to scream at that look. This was th