MITCH"DAD, WHY DO we have snow all the time?" Addison asked. She has crouched on the floor ahead of them, running her fingers through the snow.Her mother would have chided her, but Anna wasn't here so Mitch didn't say anything about it. "Don't you like the snow?" He asked.She stood up and came towards them. "I like it," she said, holding Mitch's hand. "I'm just wondering. Our teacher at school taught us there were four seasons. But here, it seems like we are always in winter."Mitch chuckled and made a mental note to increase the salaries of the teachers in his kingdom school because they were doing a good job."It's because we are in the mountains," Aiden answered."Is that true?" Addison asked, looking up at Mitch who nodded."We are at a higher altitude than the normal people," He replied."Alt-tit-tude..." she mulled over the heavy word in her mouth. "So the closer we are to the sky, the more snow we get?""Hmm. That's one way to see it." He said.They walked to the palace. Dra
ANNAAFTER SITTING IN the hospital for hours, I decided to take a stroll to clear my head and prepare myself for the next thing we had to do. It was not going to be easy, but I was ready to do whatever it took to cure this plague.I hung my lab coat on a rack as I walked out. The sun was high and bright. I closed my eyes and raised my head to soak it up.As I walked leisurely, I allowed myself to take in and appreciate the natural beauty around me. This pack was a small one, but it was surrounded by nature. All evergreen trees, and exotic wildlife, and I could even hear the low trickle of a stream in the distance.It was nothing like the mountain Alps. Definitely not.I headed towards the direction of the stream and after a few minutes, I came out on the river bank. The stream was clear and flowed easily. I walked along with the current.What would my children be doing now? I wondered."What
ANNAWE REMAINED IN silence for a while, I could still feel the tension and worry in his body. As a Luna by Bloodline that I am, I could feel empathy and pick up minute body language from any wolf - things that a regular wolf would not see or feel.I saw the tiny tremors in his hand as he raised his hand from the stream. I could scent the hormones caused by fear and uncertainty in his body. Even though I had given him a little hope, he was still scared for his daughter.I sighed and decided to tell him what I suspected, but I had to break it to him in a gentle way. I leaned forward and dipped my hand into the stream, "Isn't this the stream where the first patient fell sick?" I asked.He looked at me dumbly. "Wha?""I was told that the first person fell sick after she played in this stream," I raised my eyebrows. "Or is that not so?"He chuckled and shook his head. "No, ma'am." He chuckled even more. "Not at all. We believe this stream to signify purity and even has magical qualities b
MITCH"WHAT DO YOU mean she's not here?" His mother asked. "I don't know much about your kind, but I know that the wife of the leader - or do you say 'alpha' - must always stay with him.""I'm an alpha, Mom," he said in a low tone. "Aiden, Addison... Go with Gran Jean. She'll wash you up and prepare your lunch." He nodded at a lady standing at the corner to take the kids away. When they were alone, Mitch looked at his mother. "The last time I spoke with you, you said the cold air of these mountains affects your bones."She scoffed and nodded. "It does.""So can I ask why you're here?" He sighed."Because you didn't want to come see me," she replied. "Have you been dodging my calls, Mitchell?" Her eyes were reduced to slits.He shook his head. "No mother. I have not. I have just been very busy... with the kids and the kingdom...""Yes. Now, tell me about the kids," She said. "I hope you didn't knock up any human lady like your father did with me."Mitch scoffed. Humans were too fragil
ANNAI CHUCKLED AS I ended the call and put the phone in my bag.I could not explain the sudden flare of emotion that filled me when she answered. For a second, I thought he was with one of his mistresses. Even though he had not been with one in years, I still could not trust him completely. "That was jealousy," Ava said smugly in my head. "You were jealous."I frowned slightly. Jealous, I scoffed. But that moment of clarity had spurned a type of feeling for him. I could not yet put a tag on what it was... I sighed and decided not to think of it any longer.His mother sounded nothing like him. I had not even known he had a mother. How absurd did that sound? The thought made me chuckle again. It sounded like she had met my kids, and she loved them. She referred to me as Mitch's wife, and I didn't disagree or correct her that we were "chosen" mates.Only humans used that word. Was she human? Was Mitch the spawn of a Lycan and a human?And did she know that the children were not rea
AS SOON AS the doctor was bundled into the truck, the men got in and they sped away before the warriors of this pack arrived at the scene."Where are we headed to, Beta Jones?" the man in the driver's seat asked as their car bounced along the rough road."Where else?" The first man that had stepped out in front of Anna snarled. "Take us back home." He turned to look at the unconscious lump of the doctor in the backseat and chuckled. He was Beta Jones from the Red Moon pack, and he was just doing what was best for his pack even though his alpha was nonchalant. He looked at the sideview mirror to check if they were still being followed, and to his satisfaction, no one was following them.When they came out on the highway and merged with the traffic, Jones leaned back and removed the leather bag that had been draped over the doctor's face. She was a very beautiful woman, he noted. But there was something about her.He could not tell if she was human, or werewolf. "She has to be human,"
ANNAWHEN I SLOWLY awoke, my head felt like there were two monsters playing catchball in it, but instead of rubber balls, they were using large steel balls.I groaned and turned over, noticing that my hands were untied now. I gently rubbed my head and felt a sharp pain at the back of my neck. That was where I had been hit. There was dried blood surrounding the area. I groaned and l sat up. My vision blurred for a second before my eyes adjusted to the gloom. The air was familiar. I took a deep breath. It smelled like... home.I looked around the room where I had been locked in. It didn't look familiar. The windows were barred shut so I could not look out, or open it from the inside. The room was bare. There was a bed in a corner with a nightstand and lamp, and a single cane chair at another corner. But that was all the furnishing in the room.Who were these people that had kidnapped me and what do they want? I wondered.I remembered that the man had referred to me as "doctor", could
RICK FORSON"DON'T DO ANYTHING weird," Jones said as they walked out. "She is a young, beautiful, and successful doctor, not like one of your whores."Rick scoffed. "Every woman is the same, Jones." He moved his shoulders, feeling a little sore. "For the right price and right man, they will be your whore."They walked by the two redheads who had been in Rick's bed a few minutes ago."Are you coming back?" One of them asked, batting her eyelids."In a short while, yes," Rick answered. "Take the credit card in the drawer. It is an open card, buy anything you want." They giggled in excitement."You are not so different from the Luna," Jones muttered. "Why did you do that? You are spending unnecessarily. The pack will go bankrupt even quicker than I estimated.""What do you know?" Rick chuckled. "You know nothing."Jones shook his head but didn't say anything as they passed by the Luna who was still lounging on the chair, gazing at some diamond necklaces, which she obviously just bought.