Jasper I set out to see Reginald. It was the same time Gwen would be leaving for the clinic. I decided to drop by her house so I could take her. And later when she's closed I'll go pick her up. I could spend little time with her, as I wasn't going to be meeting her tomorrow in the woods. My mother wants me to take her to her aunt's place tomorrow to pick up a few items. She lives at the Bayview colony. "Jasper, you're late. She just left," Mrs Esmeralda said. "Is that Jester?" a firm and high-pitched voice asked. "Jester?" Mrs Esmeralda looked at me confused and then turned back and said. "No. It's Jasper."I hear footsteps approaching. "I know that, but I prefer to call him Jester." I don't need someone to tell me who this person was. Only one person could call me that. But why does she try to piss me off by calling me that? And what was she even doing back here? I looked up at Zara. "Hi." "So I heard Gwen is working at an animal clinic."I nodded "Yeah.""I just got back. I
GwenJust as Zara promised, she came back. I never took her words seriously. When she promised me that she was going to come back, honestly, I didn't believe she would or if she ever did, that she would be back this soon.I thought her business with the Silverblade knights was more important than me and it would take her forever to return or perhaps never return at all. I was thankful she helped save me from those guys. I appreciated her with a nod. I couldn't hug her like I did Jasper. She was still a stranger to me and she refused to tell me anything about why she left or who my father was. However, I felt sad after I left her standing there to meet Jasper but later discovered she was gone. It was as though I had pushed her away and that was never my intention. I couldn't pretend that I knew her well, and keep a fake smile like everything was alright. When Jasper told me she followed him to surprise me and that it wasn't long that she arrived in town, I felt I should have thanke
GwenI dragged slowly alongside Collins who's lost a lot of blood now. I thought about how we were going to defend ourselves but a large tree trunk stopped us. Someone had hurled it at us. We were quick to move out of the way, which caused us to fall and roll on the ground. "Arrggh!" Collins cried, holding his leg. "Sorry! Hang in there," I whispered. I had no clothes to tie on his feet to stop the bleeding. We usually dropped our clothes at the entrance of the woods, just beneath the trees. It's true. Lisa had been the one chasing us. She shifted into human form. My mind couldn't wrap around how someone who was supposed to be in the hospital would be here, trying to hurt us. People didn't know she was sick. If they knew, and she was seen here at the hunting grounds barely after three days of being admitted to the psychiatric ward, then she would have been reported and dragged away from here. Lisa laughed, she was holding a blade. Her body was smeared in blood, Collins's blood. "
GwenA blow to my chest throws me off guard. Blood spewed from my mouth. I coughed out more blood and the coughing made the pain more intense as it surged through my body. It seemed my ribs had cracked. "Bitch! You're going to die. Nothing is going to stop that from happening."I was tired of begging her to let go. Her tenacity made me realize she wasn't going to give up. "Then I'll fight you back until only one of us stands," I muttered. "Alright then." She shifts into her wolf form. I shift too, my legs hit her muzzle. She takes in the blow without flinching and instantly her claws dig into my back and begin to slice. The pain had me howling. I struggled out of her hold. I could feel blood trickling down my back from the cuts she'd inflicted on me. I'm still an amateur when it comes to shifting and fighting in my werewolf form compared to Lisa who had found her strength and learnt to shift for years. I didn't allow that knowledge to deter my spirit from fighting back. I looked
GwenBarely thirty minutes after waking up, a tribunal was set up by the pack community. The hearing of my encounter with Lisa is to take place at an Assembly hall commonly called the 'Moonlight Tribunal Hall. My father drove me, my mother, and Zara to where it was going to take place. I learned that Lionel was at school and that Collins was at the hospital, still unconscious. It was going to be me versus Lisa now. I could see Jasper enter the hall. Seeing him walk into the hall made tears well up in my eyes. At a point when fighting Lisa, I thought I was never going to see him again. He searched around the hall quickly as if looking for something. Since I woke up from what I'd like to call a mini-death, I haven't seen him until now. His eyes fell upon me. He smiled and waved. I waved back. He rushed over to meet me. "How's my strong mate doing?" he asked, wrapping me in his arms."I'm okay. Like it never happened." I liked that he called me his 'strong mate' like I really was. I
GwenThe hall fell silent after everyone was implored to keep quiet. Alpha Howl began "You said Lisa killed Katherine. She admitted that to you?""Yeah," I answered. "But she's denying it now. I hope you know why we are all having this sitting. It's to eliminate any friction that could exist between the packs or colonies involved. You saying she killed Katherine means you are trying to say a member of one pack is responsible for the death of another pack member. Is that the case?""It is. She boldly admitted that she killed Katherine.""And why would she do that?""For the same reason she tried to kill me too. Because of Jasper. She wants no other girl next to him. She mentioned that if she can't have him, then no one else would.""Is that all she said to you?""She also said she wants me and Collins dead because we know her secret now. A secret she and her mother had kept hidden for many years.""Do you know what secret this is?""Her mental illness.""What else?""She also made Ser
Jasper I still can't believe it. And I wouldn't say Gwen is lying. I trust her. Lisa's obsessed with me. I know that much.She's always been. She gets crazy and jealous whenever she sees me with other girls. I wouldn't say we were close but we dated for a very short period before I decided to leave her. I met Katherine two months after I was done with Lisa. Lisa was showing signs that weren't healthy for our relationship. She was too clingy and I saw it as her being desperate to be given attention by me and worse was her obsession with me. I couldn't stand any of that. I wouldn't say I pushed her away but she had begun to annoy me with her incessant calls and messages about how she loved me and couldn't live without me. Of course, I didn't take her seriously at all. When I first made out with Lisa, It was my first time. It appeared she was experienced and she wasn't a virgin. She never told me how she lost her virginity nor did I ask her. But she was the first girl I ever got to f
Jasper This was getting intriguing. But since people's lives were affected, I'd prefer to use the word eerie because there was this strange atmosphere as Mrs Grimwood spoke about how the man she later remarried became her and Lisa's doom. The hall was so silent that if anything as light as a piece of paper had dropped, it would have been heard. Mrs Grimwood began. "The day Lisa turned thirteen she came to meet me telling me her stepfather who I had married was doing some weird things to her. We were only six months into our marriage. I asked her what things and she started describing how he touched her body and how he kissed her. For a minute I couldn't breathe. And I did the most simple and most cowardly thing ever. I ignored her." Mrs Grimwood began to cry again. A box of tissues was placed right next to her. Alpha Howl asked, "Why did you ignore her?""Because I thought she was conjuring up things again. The doctor had told me that her disease would prevent her from having insi