-Lisa- I was seated in my room and waiting for the moment Asher found out about the missing necklace, and not long after, I heard his loud ranting and smiled to myself. My moment has come.I ran out to meet a small crowd of maids and guards gathered around him. Jasmine was there too. Ah, good. Just the right person I needed to see."What is wrong alpha?" I asked with a concerned look on my face as I approached the scene."Someone stole my necklace," he said, red with anger. "The ancestral necklace that has never been worn by any werewolf in the whole of this pack for all these years.""Impossible," I exclaimed. "Who will dare do such a thing?""This has never been done before," Crystal said. "Have you searched well alpha? It might be lying somewhere."I eyed her."Woman, shut up if you don't have anything to say," Asher fired at her, and she shook a little. Serves her right. "Do I look like a child who would start ranting about something he is not sure about?""I'm sorry," she said s
-Aria-Just like Asher had declared, I was invited to eat at his table for the first time, and when I got there, he was already seated with his wife and mistress, Lisa. I greeted him and Crystal and ignored Lisa as I sat.I could feel her glare with the corners of my eyes but I pretended not to observe. The maids served us and barely after I began eating, Lisa turned to me."I hope you like your food," there was something about the sly smile on her face."Yes, I do," I returned the gesture. "I hope you like yours as well."She did not reply. We continued eating, and whenever I glanced towards Lisa, there was a satisfied smile on her face. Whatever makes her sleep at night? I snorted inwardly and ignored her for the rest of the meal.Asher kept bringing up conversations which he directed at me, making it a bit uncomfortable since his women were there. I tried as much as I could to skillfully respond so as not to upset anyone, except Lisa of course, who was naturally upset with me simpl
-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
- Dante -I looked around at the faces of everyone present and all I could see was pity. Yet no one could stop Adonai, not even Damon.I did not hold it against my brother as I understood his feelings. He has been pushed to the wall and forced to retaliate.I take this as a punishment for all I have done to him and every other person. My only pain is that Sierra would have to die along with me for my crimes."You don't have to do this," She said, looking me straight in the eyes. "You don't have to die with me. I will face it alone.""You don't understand Sierra," I shook my head at her. "You did nothing wrong but loved. I have committed so many atrocities, and I believe I am paying for them. I thought it had all passed, but I was wrong. Just like I feared, I couldn't run away forever. So I should be the one, apologising for putting you in this.""Before we die, I want you to know that I love you," she smiled sadly. "I have never experienced this kind of love before. I grew up with a m
- Aria -"Are you sure about what you just said?" I asked her and she nodded."I did not see her face, but I am very sure she was the one dressed like that," before the maid could finish the statement, Adonai had bolted out of the room.Good thing Damon and his men had not set out. Adonai went straight to the guest building and almost broke the doors open."What's happened?" Damon asked."Where is your sister?" Adonai asked him icily."Is anything the matter?" Damon inquired."I have no time and patience, just answer the damn question. Where the hell is your sister?" Adonai shouted and by now, the entire royal house was awakened.Sierra appeared behind her brother and Adonai dragged her fully out."Where is my child?" He asked her and she looked puzzled."I don't know what you are talking about," she said with what seemed to be a feigned ignorance."Are you insane?" Adonai growled violently. "You came to my wife's room when she was not there, attacked the maid and took my baby away an
- Damon -Damn it! Damn it!!I hit my fist on the wall severally until blood gushed out of it."Brother!" Sierra called in alarm and tried to move towards me but I held out my hands to stop her."This is fucked. Fucked!" I half yelled. "I was humiliated and almost killed and those bloody warriors did not fucking show up.""Something must have happened, brother," Sierra said in a bit to calm me down but that angered me the more."What could happen on a day like this? "And you," I walked to her menacingly and she moved back. "I asked you to drug Adonai, didn't I?"I grabbed her by the neck with the last sentence and she choked."I did," she coughed, trying to get out of my grip. "That was the reason he was weak from the beginning of the fight.""Then what happened at the end, huh? Where'd he got that sudden burst of energy from?" I shook her violently."I don't know," she said. "But I did according to what you said. Madin was with me you can ask him."I loosened my grip on her and turne
- Aria -The entire pack was gathered outside for the fight, and my heart beat along with the drums that played. Damon walked to me just before the fight began."So you choose to do this the hard way," He said into my ears."You will not have the better of me," I replied. "I believe in my husband."He smirked and walked away."Did you keep the warriors at hand?" I turned to Zafa and Loveth who stood behind me."All set and ready," they affirmed. I had asked them to prepare the army in case something went wrong. I cannot risk it. They had advised me against it as that would be cheating, but if Damon wanted Adonai dead, then I would bypass every traditional rule to save him.I did not sleep all through the night and I was sure Adonai didn't either. In the early hours of the morning, he had crept up behind me and spoken into my ears."I hate to admit that I fear as much as you do. But I wouldn't hide my face from this. Even if I die, I would die trying to preserve our love. I need you to
- Adonai - Damon took his time before answering that, and I knew his every move was intentional and to get me upset as well. "It means that she would have been my wife," he finally said and I charged at him. His men were immediately alert and stood before him to counter my attack. My men also stood ready, but Dante and Zafa held me back. "You watch your mouth you demon," I warned angrily. "Don't you dare sit to my face and tell me shit! You don't speak about my wife in that manner while I am here." Damon did not even move a limb, and his eyes remained on me steadily. "I'm not going to forcefully take your wife," he said, raising his hands in mid-air and throwing them back. But she is going to have to choose between me or you. And the prophecy speaks of us ruling together. I don't see how that is going to be possible if she doesn't get married to me." I was fuming with anger but had to remain calm. I sat back on my chair. I was pissed more at Aria, who just sat there and li
Aria -I sucked in a deep breath after Damon was done talking."I cannot leave my husband for you," I told him."And you cannot bear to have him dead. Look, either way, I would still have you. That is the only reason I am killing Adonai, to be with you. You will be a widow after his death and you cannot be alone. You see, I'm a very open person. I would have harboured this in mind and done it, but I am telling you now so you can have a choice of saving him or not."He waited for an answer, which I did not have."I think your husband is coming," he said, his voice low. "You have the whole of this night to decide that. Goodnight pretty."He walked away and Adonai appeared behind my back. He held my waist."What was he telling you?" He spoke into my ears gently."He wants to convince me to willingly give in to him so he doesn't have to fight and kill you. He intends to kill you if we insist you fight with him.""And what did you tell him?""I did not give him a reply...yet," I told him.
Zafa -I lurked around the guest's building, hiding in the dark corners and looking for someone I would like to have a conversation with.Luckily, not long after, I saw him and approached him just before he made a turn into the open."We meet again," I said and his eyes widened."Zafa," he called my name."Madin," I called back with an unsmiling face. "Beats me what you are doing here.""The same goes for you," he threw back and I scoffed."You cannot say that because you are the traitor," I told him. "So this is where you have been all this while. You ran away to be with them.""No I did not run away," he corrected with some traits of pride in his voice. "They came for me.""So you knew about them all these while and did not say anything to anyone," I was boiling with anger."Now why would I tell you when you kept associating yourself with the other packs and not sticking to your assignment? You know more than everyone else what the other werewolves did to us. Their bitter hearts di
- Adonai -"And then what would happen to me?" I asked as I walked in on the conversation and they all turned to look at me. I knew there was more to this visit than what they had spoken out there in the courtroom and this just confirmed it. "So you knew more than you were saying in the courtroom?""Alpha please don't get this wrong," Zafa said pleadingly. "We never planned for all of this to happen. "Just like I told the Luna, this came as a surprise to me.""Adonai, we'll handle it," Aria said."So what do you expect me to do? We are still in the dark about everything that's to happen. I need you all to come out clean about these people and what they are doing here," I said impatiently."Please be calm," Aria placed her hand on my shoulders. There was always a way her touches had effects on me. "We'll find out everything but we need to take things slow to be able to do that.""Now you tell me what we are to do," I demanded, but my voice was softer than it was before."They are our v
- Aria -I had just put the baby to sleep with the help of Diane when Loveth walked in with a long face. I sighed wearily because I thought this was a usual bicker with Diane. Ever since I had my baby, the two had been acting like cat and rat."Something's wrong," she said before I asked."What may it be this time around?" I asked."You have visitors," she told me and I stopped what I was doing."What visitors," I wondered aloud."Visitors from Moonfill," she said and I raised my brow questioningly."Never heard that name before," I said with a frown, but Loveth did not look like she was going to give me more information, so I assumed that was all she knew about them."So where are they now?" I wanted to know."Adonai was attending to them, I came here to tell you," she said. "But they are here specifically for you.""Oh," I mouthed and turned to Diane. "Please watch over the baby. I will be right back.""Sure Luna," she said hurriedly. She was listening to the conversation between me