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[Kian](Past)One by one, all the campers entered the forests.In the end Carys, Christian, Levi, Joshua and I were left.“Let’s go together,” Levi suggested.“You think I am scared of this stupid place?” Christian scoffed. “Stupid people have haunted me enough throughout the hunt. I am so glad this stupidity is finally ending!” He landed a swift glare at Carys and entered the forest.“Don’t mind him, please,” Levi chuckled nervously, looking at Carys and her dad.“Of course not! Don’t worry, it’s fine,” Carys said, waving her hand. “He is just being himself. Isn’t it, dad?”“That friend of yours is a unique young man, isn’t he?” Her father looked at Levi and Levi’s nervous chuckles turned into coughs.Levi cleared his throat, “well… he is, I guess. That’s the beauty of life, right? Uniqueness.” He bowed at beta Logan. “I will be off now. It was nice meeting you, sir.”Levi hurried into the forest.Beta Logan stroked Carys’ frivolous strands back in their place. “It’s a Wild hunt. The
[Carys](Present)“Seriously? Are you really going to do this again? Repeat everything all over again? All these years of hard work and medication, for what? Don’t make things worse, Alpha.” Jackson’s fury was clear from his words to his glare that bore into Kian. Kian had lit up a cigarette. Or something that looked like a cigarette, but it clearly wasn’t just tobacco if Jackson was reacting so aggressively. I didn’t have to double guess on what it could be.I don’t know why, but I had followed Kian to the parking lot. Maybe it was Alpha King’s words, but I didn’t even know what to say to him.I was hiding behind one of the concrete pillars, watching them. For the time being, it was just us. Others would be here shortly.“Where in the world did you even get it?” Jackson held Kian’s wrist, preventing him from inhaling whatever that was. “I know how you’re feeling and I understand—”“No, you don’t. Jackson, you can never understand.” Kian’s voice was hoarse and a little shaky.“Fine. I
[Carys]He just stood there, listening with his head held low, his eyes dead.I leaned against his car because if I didn’t; I knew I would fall. My legs felt too weak to carry all the burden I had been shouldering within myself. I had told him everything I was holding back, yet my heart felt heavier with every silent second we shared.My occasional whimpers and both our erratic heartbeats were the only sound echoing in the parking lot.I grabbed his wrist, “seriously Kian! The first thing you thought of was drugs? Do I not matter to you even a little? Am I so worthless to you now? That you seek an escape from reality before me? Was it that easy for you to choose a fucking drug over me? It didn’t even occur to you that I might be waiting…” I bit back my words as he looked into my eyes.I shook my head.“It’s not your fault. I expect too much. You know what? Now, I am glad the poor soul didn’t come into this world. What would I tell them about their father? That he is a fucking drug ad
[Carys]I was back in the Autumn pack.It took almost a week to complete all the formalities of retiring from the beta’s position of the Autumn packs. Meetings, oaths and contracts to maintain confidentiality, gathering and handing over all the exclusive benefits and information I had as the beta to the new beta who was yet to be chosen, and so on.It was a long, complicated and tiresome job to get rid of my only job, but finally I was jobless and I had no idea what I’d do once I ran out of the money I had. But I’d see about that once that happened. For now, I was rich, and I used the wealth to pay off the debt of a 100 million that I owed Kian. Thankfully, Verity was in contact with Jackson, and Jackson helped me in transferring the funds to Kian’s account.All my investments along with my father’s investments were returned to me because as a rogue I wasn’t allowed to hold stocks or estates in the Autumn pack or any other pack.Joshua tried to convince me time and time again to re-e
[Joshua] “Make sure everything is perfect. I can’t afford a single mistake tonight,” I talked through the phone. My steps faltered as I neared my office. Pocketing my phone, I hid my presence and gingerly got near the ajar door. The security of my office had been compromised several times ever since Carys stopped being my beta. Her absence from my life just kept getting louder every day, but that would change after tonight. And I wouldn’t let anyone interfere with my plans of making her mine again. I peeped through the ajar door. My office was dimly lit with a figure sitting on my chair behind the desk. I entered my office and stood before the invader as she flipped through the photo albums I always kept locked in my desk. I strode to the desk and snatched the album from her hand. “Don’t touch my things!” I glared at her. She smiled, “sorry for looking at your precious obsession.” “What are you doing here?” I asked. She took out another album and kept flipping through Carys’
[Carys]I signed the sale agreement and slid the file across the table to Joshua. He checked the documents.“Perfect,” he said. His gaze dropped to my cleavage. I cleared my throat. He looked into my eyes.The notification lit up on my phone screen. “Money received. Thanks,” I said and got up from the chair.“That scar on your chest… how did you get it?” Joshua asked.“Got it tattooed by the most famous tattoo artist in Xafran,” I said.“Tattoo that’s burnt and carved by a blade on your skin? What kind of tattoo artist does that?” He asked.“Special kind?” I shrugged.He closed the file, got up and walked round the table towards me.“Wanna go on a walk?” He stretched out his hand.I stared at his hand. “I can walk on my own two feet without needing extra support, Alpha.”He smiled, shaking his head.We strolled down the familiar paths. I looked back towards the palace. I knew Joshua would try to isolate me from Verity and that is what we planned on.By now, Verity would be with t
[Carys] “What rubbish!” Joshua growled. “Don’t listen to her, Carys. She is lying. She just doesn’t want you with me. When she can plan an attack on herself just to keep you away from me, weaving these webs of lies isn’t a big thing. Besides! There is no way she can know what happened in our lives ten years ago.” “Then you tell her what happened,” Edith said. “You can give her better details about how you induced the miscarriage and corrupted the doctors to manipulate her medical reports.” Joshua clenched his jaws and glared at Edith. “I know what you are trying to do. You are seeding distrust between us. But it won’t work. Carys knows me well enough to fall into your trap…” “I don’t,” I said, staring at the album lying near my feet. “Who… who are you?” I looked at Joshua. “Joshua?” I shook my head. “You are not him.” “Poor girl. The man you kept calling your bestie stabbed you in the back again and again while you kept questioning the source of your wounds. I know the truth will
[Kian]My fingers rested on the keys of my laptop, but I didn’t even know what I was doing. I was lost somewhere in her tears and the last kiss we shared.The worst had already happened. Still, there was a foreboding in my chest.I curled up my fingers and shut the laptop. I couldn’t concentrate on anything, no matter how hard I tried. My thoughts kept wandering back to the illusion I witnessed in the Forest of Mirrors. I rubbed my stinging eyes with the heels of my palms. Shutting my eyes, I ran my fingers through my hair, leaning back into the chair. Hoot!Snow White screeched, perched on the windowsill of my office.I looked at her.“The window’s open, Snow White. Fly out if you want,” I said.But she didn’t stop screeching.I let out a sigh and got up, walking closer to the window.“What is it? You want me to close the window?” I asked, looking at her. She turned her head 360 degrees and screeched again, looking outside the window. “What do you want me to do?” I asked, follow