AMAYA'S POV Nelo and I wandered the town from one street to another. There were just many things to see and walking with Nelo reminded me of the old times back at Westwood. The times we scurried the busy markets together; either running errands for those geezer elders or getting things done for the quarters. “I miss Selene,” I said feeling a bit sad. “I wish she was here with us. Then it'll be the three of us again.”“Me too,” Nelo mumbled. Well, the first hour was all fun and lovely but the sun soon came up high in the sky and I was beginning to feel damn hot. Nelo suggested we make a stop in one of the stores and grab water but it turned out neither of us had cash on us. Laura had all the money. “Oh shit!”Helplessly we turned around to return back. That was when we realised we had missed the roads. “Tired, hungry, no money and now we are lost…” “I think we have a bigger problem–”I heard Nelo say but I was too tired to listen as I just squatted down. “Amaya…look!”I heard gr
Lucius ambled in his hotel room. He was set to return to Westwood but his last meeting with Amaya kept on bothering him. After his meeting with Amaya, he'd been feeling strange. His plan had always been to act nice and kind to make her come back to him. However , those words he had said to her– when he had grabbed her hands as she was leaving. They were not words he could fake. It was words that could only come from deep within him. He took in a breath and felt his chest. Were those words genuinely his? Was he liking his rejected mate? With Jason's arrival, he had to abandon his thoughts. “I have bad news,” Jaxon started. “Tommy will be tortured today.”“He knew the risks. If he's weak enough to get caught, he should be brave enough to take some beating,” Lucius remarked indifferently. He grabbed his button up jacket. “There’s also something else…a problem,” Jaxon began. Lucius frowned, resisting the urge to snap. He was tired of hearing problems. When was he going to finally he
BALUS PACK “Prepare my car. We are going to Craven Pack.”“Yes, my Alpha…Wait, what? Craven Pack?” Luman expressed shock. “No, I cannot allow you to go there.”Alpha Balus ignored the shock in his Beta’s face and rose up. “I will only make a deal with him. If we are to win against Westwood, we need leverage of some sort over him. No matter how I think about it, Damian remains the only one we can go to for help.”“Damian is dangerous,” Luman said seriously. “I know but I can't sit back and do nothing. And no more questions.”*************Damian was going through the paper reports when he was informed of Alpha Balus’s presence. “Alpha Balus?” he asked bemused, pushing the reports aside. “Yes, my Alpha. There was no prior notice and he insists he must see you. From his body reaction, I believe it is urgent.”Damian rose from his seat, his surprise morphing into a serious facial look. “Let him into the meeting room,” he ordered. Minutes later he entered the meeting room where Alpha
Amaya opened the door to see Lyra standing there. She resisted the urge to frown. “Let's go to a party. My friend is hosting and she invited me. I am allowed to bring someone and well, let's say I picked you,” Lyra said with an indifferent shrug. Amaya blinked and regarded her for about a few seconds. “You are asking me to go to a party with you?”“That was exactly what I said. Now are you going or not?” Amaya drew in a breath. She wanted to go out. A lot of things were on her mind with Lucius's words taking the lead. “Are you coming or not!” Lyra snapped, angry that she was delaying. “I will go,” Amaya agreed. A party would be perfect to distract her from her thoughts at least for sometime. “I heard a party. Can I come too?” Nelo asked, poking her head out of her door. “Nope. I can only invite one person and she has the slot now. Get ready and we will meet downstairs in fifteen minutes.”“What about Nelly? She won't let us leave.”“I don't need to take permission from the bitc
WESTWOOD PACK “The seer is here, my Alpha,” a guard announced. Lucius nodded, slightly disgruntled with the information. He didn't even know why he was bringing her in again. He couldn't say if her prophecies were true or not. But he was short on alternatives at the moment. With Amaya still under Derrick’s wings, Balus preparing war against him and Tommy, a time ticking bomb in the hand of Damian, this was his last resort. “You must have already heard. Balus wants war. Does the goddess have any words for me?” He began as soon as the seer arrived. “Are you afraid?” the Seer asked boldly. Lucius jeered. “Me? Afraid of weak Balus and his little Pack? Why will I be? I have thousands of men and need only to say the word and Balus will be a past thing.”“You must not go to war. Never,” the seer warned. Lucius squinted skeptically at her. “What do you mean by that? I am not the one calling for war.”“The most important thing you need right now is the girl Amaya becoming your Luna.”“I'
Amaya shut her eyes and inhaled. Her breath came out in shudders. The drink was gradually leaving her head. She could feel the bar man's ravenous eyes on her. He'd already undressed her with his eyes. The polite smile on his face that once offered her a drink was gone and all she saw was a demon watching his prey and waiting to attack. She was seconds away from being molested and no one was coming to save her. Lyra was probably having the fun of her life somewhere. She reached out to her wolf. She had to help them. This was the most important time she needed her strength, she needed her… she clenched her teeth; she wanted to fight back but it was as though the more she tried to fight, the more her body grew weak. Helpless, she broke into a sad laugh. Her predator did not take her laughing lightly as teeth gnashed. “You are laughing?” he scoffed, advancing towards her. He tried to rip her dress apart but she reached for the sheets and grabbed, pulling them over her and with the wh
AMAYA'S POV I ran out of my room, down the stairs and towards Damian's room.“And where do you think you are going after causing trouble?” Nelly gritted, blocking me. “I'm sorry and I will apologize again if you want me to but right now I'm in a hurry–”“Damian isn't in his room,” she said, unmoving. “Where's he?” I asked, panting. “Why do you want to know so bad? And besides, you don’t have the time to ask for him when you need to serve your punishment–”“I’m sorry and I will accept my punishment whatever it is but I'm in a bit of a hurry right now.” I turned and dashed out. First, I checked the meeting hall building but Damian wasn't there. I didn't know where he was but I would find him. I would find him and I would ask him why… why he bought me despite having to lose in the deal…why he always saved me…why his closeness made my heart flutter… why he was there last night…how he found me in the club…I could hear the racing of my heart. There were so many things I wanted to ask
EARLIER ON…“You will be addressing the guards in five minutes, Oliver, Are you ready?” Raze asked Oliver who it was and it had always been his duty to speak to the guards. “I will do it,” Damian interjected, sauntering into the training room. “You will do it?” Raze and Oliver asked, surprised. “You sure you don't want us doing it?”“He wants to impress his lady guest,” Raze whispered. Oliver frowned. “Impress her? But she won't be there.”Damian heard them and shot them a silencing look. “This is a serious issue. I must speak to them myself,” he added, swiping off a strand of hair that tried to come into his eyes. “Have you thought about Balus' offer?” Raze asked. As a matter of fact it was because of that that he was going to address the guards. Lucius was a cunny man. By now Damian was hundred percent certain he'd received news of Balus coming to him for help. He was expecting Lucius to send a spy to his house but he will make sure to not give him a chance to do that. With
“You won't be going.”Damian was startled by a voice as he dropped the call. Without turning, his senses provided him the answer. “I have to save her and stop that bastard from hurting more people,” he said as he finally turned around. Nelly flared up. “No. You won't. Why would you save someone like her? She betrayed you!”“You don't know for sure. Those words came from Nello. She is not the most innocent person. She could be lying.”“What would she gain from that?”“What did she gain by betraying her friend?” He made to walk past but Nelly blocked him. “Still, you shouldn't go…” her voice was pleading. “I–I can't bear to see you get hurt. I would go crazy. It would kill me.”Damian observed her. Then he sighed. He was thinking Nelly had gotten over her crush on him but it seemed she hadn't. He held her shoulders. “Look Nelly, I cannot allow Tommy to be roaming around my Pack before people get hurt. I must catch him.”“I never said he should be allowed to live. I want him dead more t
Tommy tied up Alpha Kael and Blackridge after making them surrender. To save their lives, they'd agreed to let him use some of their men as he demanded. “You have lost, Tommy. You will never win,” Kael gritted as he sat with his back tied together with Blackridge:s back. Tommy laughed at him. “No Kael. I have not lost and I will not lose. I will make sure of that.”Blackridge suddenly burst into laughter eliciting a deep frown from Tommy. After some time, he stopped. “You are still delusional. You will never win Damian. You are a fuvking loser!”“Is that what you hope?” Tommy asked with a chuckle. Well, he could understand. They were helpless at the moment and their only hope would be hoping that Damian saved their arse. “What did you do to Balus?” Kael asked. Tommy's lips looped as he briefly recalled how it happened. “He was a senseless fool with a lot of pride. Friendly advice. Try not to end up like him.”“You are a bastard! You are a fucking monster!”Tommy ignored their rant
AMAYA’S POV “Make sure to take her back safely,” Damain ordered the guard and darted off. “Wait! What's going on?” I yelled. How could he just leave me here and dash off without saying anything? I was going after him when I stumbled on a stone I hadn't seen and plummeted to the ground. My eyes became heavy and hazy. Things grew blurry and all of a sudden, several voices echoed in my head at once. I shut my eyes and a serious headache attacked me. Different kinds of memories bombarded me, it made my head ached. I could see the guard before me. His head had grown double and his mouth was moving. He was saying things but I only heard muffles. I passed out. I woke up an hour later and found myself in my room. Surrounded by faces I recognized. I panicked. “You are awake,” the doctor said. She was the same doctor that treated me before. “Are you okay?” she asked. “Yes…yes.” I tried to get up but realized the spot I knocked my foot against the rock was wounded. I groaned receiving hel
“No… Uncle…don't say anything please…”“Damian, I killed your father.”Damian felt his throat dry up immediately. For a moment, his ribs neither took in any air nor expelled any. Silent turmoil over took him.He'd already suspected this was what his uncle was going to confess. He'd dreaded it and tried to avoid hearing it. But in the end he couldn’t stop the truth from being the truth. He looked away as a stray tear slipped down his face. “I won't ask for your forgiveness… I don't deserve it…”“Why? Why did you do it?” his voice was raw and his amber eyes had darkened. A surge of anger made him shake inside. “I wanted him to approve a new law. I killed someone but it was all by mistake, I swear it. It was never intentional. Before that night, the news was already set to break out in the Pack. All I wanted was for your father to protect me as his brother.”“You wanted him to hide you!” His emotions went loose. Uncle Griffin closed his eyes and silently cried. “Yes, you are right. I w
“You are here.” A voice startled Amaya. Frightened, she turned. Her heart skipped. She bit her lip. Why did her heart skip at the sight of him? Nelo's voice saying she'd confessed her feelings to him and he liked her echoed in her head. She swallowed hard and looked away. “Are you here to find out what my friend already told me?”“Do you remember here?” Damian asked, stepping forward. “Am I supposed to?”He smiled and said nothing. Then he went to the same spot he'd sat with her before and sat down. He patted beside it, “have a seat.”Amaya hissed. “Why will I sit close to you?”“You'd be glad you did,” he said without shifting his gaze from the stream. She glared at his head. What did Nelo see in him by the way? All he did was carry his shoulders high and wag his invincible tail when people hailed him ‘Alpha’.She later decided to sit beside him but not without some reluctancy. And when she finally did, she made sure to sit slightly far away from him. She peeked at him discreetl
AMAYA’S POV Damian liked Nelo? He not only liked her but actually confessed his feelings? I had expected all things but that was never in the list. What then was all the heart racing my heart did and what was with the love vibes and soft gazes he was giving me when he already liked someone else? Most of all, why did he want Nelo gone if he liked her? Why did my wolf lept before? So many questions rang in my head. I was going to ask Nelo if she was Damian’s mate but she reminded me Nelly was waiting and I shouldn't keep her waiting lest she bitch me more. “I still have things to ask you. Now I'm really curious,” I said weakly getting to my feet. Nelo's answers left me more confused than I was. Or perhaps it was just my heart refusing to accept the truth. I sighed as I walked up the mini stairs towards the balcony. “You took your sweet time.” As soon as I arrived, Nelly uttered. I looked at her ready to unleash bile but instead chose to be the bigger person and exhaled instead. “Why
AMAYA'S POV Nelo was allowed to stay. On a stupid condition, which I wasn't intending to keep. She was very happy when I told her and thankfully she didn't suspect there was a condition attached to it. She surprised me when she hugged me really hard and I couldn't breathe properly. When I finally managed to pull away, she was giggling. Another surprise. Nelo and I have been friends for a long time, alright. But I never really remembered seeing her this excited. Was she that excited to stay with me?Unlike her, our friend, Selene, was more social and if Selene was the one hugging me this tight and giggling hard, it wouldn't be so hard to believe because that was who she was. I missed Selene. Funny how I remembered everything about her but not what happened the last months. I sighed and shook my head. This wasn't the time for sentimental feelings. “So tell me everything. How I came to be in this Pack and about…those two men earlier.”“Those two men?” Nelo’s head tilted at me. “What
“Will you really keep her here?” Nelly demanded from Damian when Amaya was gone. “You can't possibly be serious. Not after her confession!”“Calm down, Nelly.” Damian told her, his mind replaying the conversation he just had with Amaya. Or simply put, the way his heart was beating rapidly during the time she was really close to him. He used to think he was tough and would never be under the effect of a woman. But Amaya kept proving him wrong. Right from the moment he saw her at Westwood. She'd looked young and without fear yet vulnerable. If she hadn't jumped back when she did, he would have likely taken her in his arms and kissed her. Yes. That was how badly he'd missed her. “Calm down? Am I the only one that sees the absurdity of it?” Nelly continued to ramble. At a point, she saw that Damian was not paying attention. “Alpha Damian!”“Fuck, Nelly!” Damian groaned. He really did not want to show his ugly side to Nelly again. But she was making it difficult for him. “Are you the Alp
AMAYA'S POV When I recovered, I decided to unravel everything. And there was only one way to do that. “She is not leaving,” I blurted. All eyes turned on me. It wasn't just because Nelo was my best friend and practically the only face I remembered vividly, I needed to know more. These contrasting feelings and these two men…what exactly they meant to me and which of them I had chosen as my mate and why. There was so much I needed to know and it was only Nelo that would tell me.The Alpha stepped back. He must have noticed his closeness was choking. “Amaya,” he called me. His voice was soft and husky. So much it made my heart ache. “She can't stay,” he said glancing towards Nelo. “Why can't she stay? She is my best friend and I heard we have been staying here together,” I protested. “Yes, that is true but she can't stay anymore.”“Why?”Again he glanced at Nelo and back at me. He sighed. “I have my reasons.”I tried to not be upset. But it was frustrating. He wanted her gone yet re