-Aria- Gosh, what the hell. I'm not even here for Lisa yet she wouldn't let me have breathing space. I did not put up for this and was not prepared to fight some jealous mistress. Asher is not even her husband. If there's anyone who even has the right to do this, it should be Crystal, who doesn't have a say now because of someone who had been her friend for years. Now while I work on my revenge I have to deal with Lisa too and she seems a very corny one. I have to be more careful. The movement by the window got my attention. It seems as if someone was throwing small stones. By this odd hour of the day? It was late in the night or very early in the morning and it was still dark outside. I waited for a while, thinking it would go somehow but it didn't. I had to go see what it was. I stood up from the bed and walked slowly to the window. I hesitated, my instinct was against the idea but the noise wouldn't sleep. I bet to think it was a mischievous child out there but I knew there
-Asher- I don't know what kind of connection it was I felt towards Jasmine and couldn't explain it. It feels as if I have known her all my life, yet it's not been up to a month since I met her.Even though she is from this pack, she did not stay here long for me to have known her or have any sense of familiarity but each day, I am being drawn to her and cannot wait to see her beautiful face.I observed, though, that she was still pretty; her face looked pale in an odd way. I wondered if she might be sick but did not bother to confirm or intervene. I concluded that the death of her husband was what was disturbing her.And that is the more reason why she needs a companion and someone to be by her side. It was a pity that such a pretty young woman should be widowed so early. But deep down, in as much as I felt sorry for her, there was a deep feeling I could not help. Like a forbidden affection.So I kept looking out to see her throughout the day till it was late in the night and there w
-Lisa-I was so lost in my thoughts that I did not realise Crystal had been in my face."You did this, right?" She said, startling me and I jumped. I hissed when I turned and saw it was her. "You know something about this."She was annoyingly getting to my head and I felt irritated."Can you shut the hell up and get out of my face?" I scowled at her. Her lips twitched into a smile instead."You could not stand that she was taking over your place in a few weeks, right? What you have struggled to achieve, perhaps preparing almost all these years since you found out I was getting married to the alpha, another woman was doing it effortlessly. She did not even have to betray anyone to do it. You have found someone who is far better than your match, Lisa.""You can talk," I eyed her. "After all, you don't have anything you are fighting for, so I can understand. You are already a loser, so you don't mind whatever happens that keeps you relevant no matter how little it is. Please, get your pa
-Aria- I opened my eyes slowly, and the thumping in my head welcomed me back to reality."What...where am I?" I asked, looking around. I sat up and exclaimed, feeling a sharp pain in my stomach."Easy now, before you hurt yourself," I heard a man say and turned to the corner the voice was coming from. I had not noticed he was there."Who are you?" I squinted my eyes at him."I am a doctor," he replied with a small smile on his face. I squeezed my face in thought. I still did not understand what I was doing there until I felt the sharp pain again and looked at the wound.Then the memories started coming back. I went out in the morning and then..."Don't push it so hard," the man said, his voice calm. "You might get more hurt."I rested back on the pillow and exhaled. He stood up from the table with a cup and walked to me."Here, have this," he stretched it towards me."What is that?" I asked with a frown."Now, don't be stubborn; take it," he urged, and I shrugged away."I don't like
-Zafa-I watched as Aria's face reflected the seriousness that was on mine, but hers was a mixture of confusion and worry.I knew she would feel this way, and that was why I was sent to guide her, to help her fulfil her mission."I don't quite get you," she said, her voice a slow whisper. I stood up and walked slowly towards her."I don't expect that you will understand everything just yet," I told her. "But with time, you will. You have reincarnated into another life, not just for yourself and your revenge but for the entire werewolves clan. Therefore, you have been empowered to do all that. Once your revenge is done, you still have to fulfil this. It is your main purpose, coming back to life."She looked away, and her eyes held a turmoil of thoughts. She looked back at me."If you had not told me all these other things about me which no one knows, I would have never believed you," she said and I nodded."I know."A moment of silence passed before she spoke again. I waited patiently
-Dante- "I did not expect you would be here any time soon," Asher said and I snorted."I sent a message to you a day before," I said indifferently."That was too sudden, and we don't do it like that; you were meant to let me know longer than this, your rules, remember?" he stated."Well, does it matter? You have broken that law many times; do you dare to complain?" I raised a brow at him."Not at all," he raised his hand in mid-air. "Since you are the one in charge here, if anything goes wrong, you will cover it up.""Indeed," I said as I sat."I Have been able to get something prepared for you despite the short notice, will you like to eat now?" He told me and I shrugged."I don't mind, but we should talk first. Unlike you, I prefer business before pleasure.""Alright," he adjusted on his seat. "What is the update? You told me you will get back to me soon but it has been longer than I expected.""You will agree with me that these things are not a matter of urgency. I had to think th
- Aria-I moved from my hiding spot where I have been eavesdropping on the conversation between Dante and Asher.I have always known Dante has something up his sleeves, and this was evident. Adonai and the council of elders had not believed me.Now here was Dante, plotting with this man to bring Adonai down, yet back at the pack, he was acting like Adonai's dotting only brother.So many things ran through my mind, but the one that bothered me the most was all Dante had said about Adonai.I have been wondering what he felt when I left, but I had not expected it would affect him as much as Dante said...well maybe I did.My heart ached at the thought of what Adonai was going through because of me. No, I shook my head. Why am I concerned about the way he feels? He can go to hell for all I care, I do not and will never love him.But as much as I tried to convince myself, my heart felt otherwise. I have to think and leave these emotions aside. I have no time to go through with my revenge. I
-Maria-I walked into Adonai's room with a tray of his lunch and found him resting on the table, his head downward, just the way I had left him earlier.My eyes lingered on the table where his breakfast was left untouched."Greetings, alpha," I greeted softly, but he only managed a grunt. I cleared away the previous meal and dropped his lunch. I glanced at him one more time before walking away.Back in the kitchen, I remained restless. Adonai was slowly becoming a shadow of himself all because of Jasmine...Aria.I don't know why she decided to run away after realising the alpha was developing feelings for her. She shouldn't have done that. I suspect she also feels the same way for him deep down, there was a connection between the two.Adonai is tied down with the fear of what people, especially those selfish set of elders, would say if he goes after her because she left as a mistress.But there's one thing we are all missing out. I know Jasmine is pregnant. And for that alone, Adonai
- Dante - "Maria, what are you doing here?" I asked weakly and my hands fell to my side."What are you doing here?" Ariel asked, dragging her roughly when she did not say a word. Maria did not attempt a reply, but her eyes were steadily on me, boring into my skin accusingly.I did not need anyone to tell me, she had heard, she knows."Damn it," Ariel swore under her breath. "Why don't you say something you old cargo.""Ariel!" I called sternly and she hissed."Are we going to stand here and keep looking at each other? I don't have that patience.""Maria," I called softly, coaxingly. "Why are you here? You shouldn't be here."I was confused. I did not know what to do with her, but she was a threat to me. I take Maria as a mother. She has been in the palace for years, serving my parents with extreme loyalty till death and then taking care of me and Adonai.This kept me at a fixed spot."I never knew you could turn out to be this," she finally spoke, disappointment laced in her voice. "
- Dante -I saw Adonai sitting at a corner of the building all by himself, and I could see the burden of the recent happenings on him. As the good and caring brother that I was, I walked towards him to engage in a conversation and to heighten his pains. When I got closer, he did not bother to look up to see who it was. I took the chair next to him and sat."Are you thinking about her?" I asked and he did not reply. "She does not deserve you. She took advantage of your feelings for her. You let emotions override you and look at what it has done to you.""I chose to love her of free will," he finally spoke, looking straight ahead. "She has not reduced me to anything. I am responsible for my feelings."I could not believe that he was still trying to defend Aria despite what she had done to him. Even though I could not say that was entirely the story. I did not bother to ask what his plans were to resolve everything because I could see that he had nothing. It filled me with satisfaction t
-Loveth-I watched Zafa's face and it seemed what I had said was getting to him."You are right," he said and I smiled within me. "This indeed makes me look like I have placed myself in second place in Aria's life and makes you think I am fine with it, and that's because of the way I have been acting with her," he adjusted and continued. "But you are wrong to think I am doing this because I helplessly have feelings for her."My face fell at his denial."Isn't it obvious?" I pointed out. He took a few steps closer."There is something I have not told you all this while and I think it is high time you know," he said slowly in the manner that suggest he was about to reveal a secret. I looked up at him and waited expectantly. He sighed before he continued. "Aria is the chosen one. She is the one the prophecy speaks of reuniting the werewolves Kingdom and under her reign as Luna, our existence will no longer be hidden because she will find us a voice and right amongst all these packs."I b
-Zafa-"Why haven't you taken your breakfast?" I asked Aria with a light frown when I walked into the room and realised she had not eaten her food."You lied to me," she crossed her arms across her chest. "This is a drug and not tea.""Well, would you have taken it without any stress if he had told you what it is? Besides, it's a dried herb used for tea.""It's bitter," she complained."Just a bit. Stop complaining and take it now," I picked up the cup and stretched it towards her. "You need it to enhance your health.""I'm much better now," she said stubbornly."Only I get to decide that. I am the doctor here," I pressed and she grudgingly took it.I sat on a stool and watched her. She rested back on the bed when she was done drinking."So..." I said in a bit to start a conversation."So this is your place," she commented, looking around."My humble abode. You are welcome," I said with a small smile on my face."You made me believe you were the only one of your lineage so I did not e
- Prisca-"You...you followed me?" I stuttered. He stood up from the bed and walked towards me slowly. I moved back instinctively."Yes I did," he said casually. "I came to your house, but you were nowhere to be found, so I sat and waited for you. Where have you been?"For a brief moment, life left my body. I thought he followed me to the hideout and knew everything.Oh shit...I let out a deep breath of relief. Thank goodness."Uh...uhm," I swallowed hard. "I was just around, you know. The pack. I needed some fresh air so I went for a stroll.""So why didn't you return to the palace?" He asked further and I quickly thought of what I could say."Well," I chuckled nervously. "Just trying to escape from the tension in the palace. I mean, so much has happened in just one day so..."Adonai grunted and his eyes scrutinised me, perhaps trying to see if he could believe me or not."I had to come here because we needed to talk," he finally said. "About what's happened earlier. We are married b
-Prisca- "Who are they?" I asked them, trying hard to keep calm."We don't know Prisca," one shrugged. "But they did not look anything like us. They looked different. Maybe werewolves from another pack."What business does Aria have with other werewolves that they came for her? Or has she been having contact outside our pack all this while? That bitch, I cursed under my breath. She always manages to escape my hands.Gosh, I hit my fist against my palm. And I was this close to getting rid of her this time. I hissed and made for the door when the men called my attention."What do we do now?" They asked and I scowled at them."Get your failure asses back home. What else is left to be done when you have lost her?""Then what about our payment?"I turned round in disbelief to face them. Had they the nerve to ask me that?"What payment?" I scoffed."For the work we did for you. You haven't paid us.""You bunch of losers are expecting payment?" I asked."We had a deal. You cannot just send
-Prisca- Yes! My plan has finally worked. I am going to exchange marital vows with Adonai and legally be his wife.It does not count that I am impersonating Aria. He is not going to be tied to Aria in reality but to me.I sat beside him, before the crowd with my face veiled and a sly smile across my face which no one could see.A few people had suggested I take off the veil so they could behold my face but Adonai politely declined. No one pushed it, and I successfully got tied to Adonai.I had feared that Dante would have wanted to expose me because he didn't seem pleased with the plan, but he didn't.I was led to Adonai's room while the party continued in the hall. There I took off my veil and sat comfortably on his bed.He was not here yet, for he was still having some drinks with his visitors. I chuckled happily. Alas, my dream has come to pass.The door opened and I quickly adjusted. I hissed when I saw it was Ariel."What are you doing here?" I asked sharply. She did not reply b
-Adonai-It took a while before what she said registered in my head."Are you insane?" I retorted, placing a finger on the side of my head."No, I am not," she responded confidently."How then can you say such a thing?""I am only trying to help you, alpha," she said. "Think of what the people at the table will say when you return there without a bride.""And have you thought about what it would be when they also realize that you are not Aria?""They wouldn't have to know. A bride can be veiled. You are not under any law to reveal your face to anyone. I believe that they might think that is what you want and they will respect it."I hesitated, trying hard to think about what Prisca had said. She was right. I would be seen as a fool if I returned to the people with the news of Aria eloping with another man and there would be no wedding.It would be the second time I gathered people and something ruined the ceremony."You know what, you are right. But this is just for the ceremony. You
-Adonai- I took in a deep breath to steady myself when Maria approached me, her face strained with worry and told me Aria was nowhere to be found.I had asked her to go get her since the ceremony was about to start."What do you mean by she is nowhere to be found," I asked, my voice in a low whisper so the people at my table would not hear."Even I don't understand myself," Maria said. "But she is not in her room and no one seems to have seen her."No, this cannot be happening now. I braced myself and tried to remain calm."Uhm, gentlemen, I will be right back," I addressed the men at my table."Is everything fine?" Dominick asked as I excused myself and I told him all was well. All was not well at all. A few minutes to the start of my wedding the bride is nowhere to be found.I walked with long strides towards Aria's room with Maria following steadily behind me."I was wondering if she had to quickly do something outside the palace because it doesn't seem like she..." Maria trailed