**Jared**"There's another attack at one of the local villages. I think the rogues are running out of supplies and are now stealing from the local villages." David reports.I sigh and watch the villagers as they clean up the mess that Harald and his gang have done."It's a good thing that no one was killed. Although a few wolves that tried to fight back were injured severely and currently undergoing treatment. Doctor Jordan is on his way to help them out." David adds."It's about time we put Harald and his gang in their place. They need to be taught a lesson that will stop them for doing their dirty deeds." I say with determination."I agree with you, alpha. Their atrocities have gotten out of hand and will be dealt with accordingly." David says.The head chief walks up to us with his staff."The people want to hear your voice. At this moment of brokenness, your voice of assurance is what we need to keep ourselves from stumbling and falling." He says.I step down from the car, a few w
The nurses and Doctor Jordan rush towards us, they take Isabel from my arms and carry her to her room. Father stops me from following them upstairs."I need to speak with you, Jared. Privately."We exit outside to discuss whatever matters that are trivial to him." What in the name of the Moon goddess are you doing with that girl?" Father spits."I just saved her life… again, if I leave her out there to die then that means I'm not a good alpha." I remind him of his own words."This is out of the context of trying to prove whether you are the good alpha or not. This is clearly getting out of hands, you are obviously attached to that weak she wolf.""Yes, I'm attached to her because she is my mate. Storman confirmed it earlier in the words when I found her wounded and dying. She's my mate, I'll have to be there for her no matter what the risks and circumstances are. She's mine now."Father grunts. "She's yours but not officially. You know that everyone else in the pack is aware of your
I take a hot shower after Isabel sleeps off. Before leaving her room, I clean her up and dress her in a thick pajamas to cover her from the cold weather. Coming downstairs, I meet Theda at the dining table already. The food is being served by the omegas and Theda does nothing but snap at each one that comes to the table.I exchange glances with Myra, who is standing at the corner with another young man with glasses on his face. David comes down for dinner without Serafina."Where is Serafina?" I ask him knowingly, I already know that she is mad at me for attacking her at the training ground but I had no choice. I was desperate for answers about Isabel."You know where she is. She refused to come down for dinner when I asked her to." David shrugs.Elder Lee comes out from the kitchen with Stephanie to join us for dinner."Hey! How dare you try to sit with the alpha at the dining table. Don't you know that servants like you should be eating in the kitchen and it should be the remnant
**Isabel**I watch from the window when Jared and Theda leaves together. I guess he doesn't care much about me after all, only interested in the things that will promote his pack. I am not in the list of important things to care for.Nevertheless, I will not be saddened by such occurrence. I will be strong and prove my worth to everyone. But then again, every time I try to be strong, something holds me back.Shrugging off the thoughts off my mind, I come downstairs to eat breakfast since the entire pack house is now quieter.To my surprise, I see Myra and Cardin in the kitchen. They're chatting happily while preparing a home cooked meal."Myra! You came here." "Isabel!"We embrace each other warmly. "Isabel," she calls again. " I've missed you so much, how have you been coping with this place? Tell me everything about it." I shrug. "Nothing much. Only jumping from one trouble to another, what about you and your mate?""We've are fine, and glowing too.""What about the pack? And Wi
My eyes are swollen when I wake up in the morning. A lot of thinking, a lot of crying has made me look a lot like a disheveled she wolf who went astray. The past few days with Theda has been hell.The worst part of everything is that Jared is keeping quiet about it. I haven't crossed paths with him ever since the night of the kitchen encounter. But Theda has been going about the pack house and oppressing me like the devil she is.I rub off the sleep from my eyes and prepare myself for the day's work. In order to avoid Theda's crazy delusions from affecting my life in the hard manner, I have made up my mind to join the omegas in their morning routine work. Much to her delight.After taking my bath and dressing up in a simple flowery gown, I open my door and shockingly find Jared standing in front of it. His hands are hanging in the air - it's obvious that he is about to knock or contemplate on it."Hi." I say awkwardly."Hello, Isabel." He responds.I'm not going to waste his time any
**Jared**Okay, I admit it. I messed up - big time.I should probably apologize to Isabel for acting irrational. And for wolfing out on her, I didn’t even know when Storman took over.Nevertheless, I shouldn’t have let him take control of me. I shouldn’t have allowed him to wolf out on her, and to suppress her with his alpha aura.All this are as a result of our unprecedented misunderstanding between each other. Things had escalated to calamity at the heat of the moment and putting Isabel’s life at risk is not proper.“Wolfing out on your mate is the worst thing to ever do. If I ever wolf out on Serafina, she’ll end our relationship immediately.” David says to me.“Wolfing our on Isabel wasn’t intentional. Storman took me by surprise when he took control without my consent.” I reply him.“Even at that, you have to apologize to her. If you leave your issues unsettled and your matter in a complicated situation, Isabel might as well as leave you. Think about it.”“ Of course, I am suppose
Life in the pack house changed days after Isabel went missing. Stephanie has refused to speak to me since our search in the woods, David and Serafina haven’t said much to me too.Even Theda is as quiet as a mouse ever since then, she barely yells at omegas and hardly show her face at all to them. As for me, I’m moody at every little chance that comes my way.I don’t feel like the superior alpha anymore since my wolf shut me out. I haven’t told anyone yet that I can not feel my wolf for the mean time - except David of course. And not everyone is aware that Isabel is my mate, Theda only found out on the day we searched for Isabel. But I care less about what Theda thinks of, she never really cared if Isabel was anyone in this world.I sit at the balcony of my room, watching outside the pack house and observing other activities that the members of the pack are carrying out.My door opens and Theda walks in with a glass of juice and bread crumps. She places the tray on the mini stool by t
Sleepless nights, endless longings, loneliness and reclusiveness have taken over me as days turn to weeks since Isabel disappeared. The pack seems to have continued their normal daily activities, after all not everyone knows about Isabel or for the fact that she is my mate.I still have a hard time believing that we separated without settling our scores amicably, my heart aches every time I think about her and how much I’ve missed her and the warmth she brings whenever she is close to me. Mere words cannot explain how hurt I feel to have lost my mate.I am not going to move on yet, I have this strong feeling that she is still alive and recuperating. I intend to give her more time to get better wherever she is and then come back to me like before. A part of me claims that she is dead and have been devoured by the wild beasts of the woods that roam about recklessly, looking for a prey to devour. Isabel might have been one of the victims of such unfortunate disaster , it might be possib
THREE MONTHS LATER: EPILOGUE “Wakey wakey, mommy!” Some scream right through my ears. I stir in my bed and groan. “Leave me be, Somi. I'm not done sleeping.” “But it's your wedding, mom. Do you prefer to sleep throughout your wedding day?”I sit up immediately I hear that, I have forgotten that today is my wedding day. I scramble off my bed and tie my robe, then I head down to the kitchen with Somi giggling beside me.“Isabel honey, you look disoriented this morning.” Stephanie gasps and I shrug.“Somi caused it, what did I miss?” “The wedding gown designer, the makeup artist, and the hair stylist,” Myra replies.“This will be the worst wedding ever,” Jayne says.“Thanks, Jayne.” I roll my eyes and go to sit on the counter.“This kitchen looks yummy,” Somi says and Stephanie hands her some baked bread.“We made them especially for your mom, now Isabel, go back to your room and freshen up. We’ll send the list of people that Myra mentioned to help you get dressed, we have less than
Sorana.I never imagined that you will call for me again because you shut me out for a long. She replies.Her voice sounds like she has been expecting me to talk with her since I know that this is what she wants. That must be the reason why she reached out to Somi instead and told her the truth about everything.I couldn’t hold it back after I heard from my daughter that you’ve been speaking to her. I say.Trust me, Isabel. It’s not some garbage shit that I’ve been feeding her, it’s the truth about herself and she has grown to accept it.But there’s nothing I can do about it now. Jared doesn’t even want to remember the memories he shared with me any longer. He feels that it’s safer that way. I remind her of the conversation I had with Jared earlier.Listen to me, Jared can’t remember because there’s nothing that has triggered him to remember. You have to make that happen- you have to trigger him to remember something. Sorana pleads with me.Where do I start? I ask her.The auction- to
“Isabel, are you okay? You look drained.” Alec says to me.“Today was stressful I guess.” I reply.He offers me a cup of water and I gulp it down immediately. He sits opposite me in the living room and looks at me intently.“What?” I snap at him.“Something must have happened today, Isabel. You look flushed and compliments to the man that dropped you off. I thought you mentioned something about trekking home?” “Yeah I did but Jared shows up out of the blue and now I’ll have to find a way to make him regain his memories so that we could go back home with Somi.” I explain to him.Alec’s mouth drops open as he looks at me in shock, I’m not sure whether he’s mad or just surprised at what I just said. “Say something, Alec.” I urge him.His silence is actually disturbing to me. I want to know what his opinions are on this issue.“I don’t know what to say. Just do what makes you happy, Isabel.” He says before leaving me to my own thoughts.I go to Somi’s room to check up on her, she is alr
We know all that it’s hard to crack a hard shell but I’m hellbent in cracking Freya Scott’s shell, the woman is filled with lies especially with things that concern Jared. Only she knows what she must have done to him to make him forget me and he can’t even remember me. “So did the partnership go well?” Freya asks.“Yes, we even agreed to organize an auction event which I’m sure that you’ll be in attendance.” Jane smirks and Freya smiles.“We’ll be looking forward to seeing you there especially your husband.” Jane says and Freya eyes her peculiarly.“Why are you so much concerned about my husband??” Smart woman - she must have presumed where this topic might be leading to. Jane and I exchange glances and I nod at her to continue. We can’t go back or fumble when we’ve reached this far to even be engaged in a conversation with Freya.“You see, Freya. The society is very much aware that you are not officially married to your husband but they’ll never say it to your face. We’ve heard th
Everyone mutters a greeting while my lips continue to tremble, he is standing right here and in front of me. The man that I have been separated with for seven years - the man that I had inflicted so much regrettable pains on, I never dreamed of meeting him again - not in this way at least. And now I hear from him that he has a wife already, thinking about it j hope ust adds to my already pounding headache.He takes his seat beside Jane and the meeting continues. I pretend to go through the documents in front of me to at least keep myself busy and avoid staring at his face.“And to continue with meeting, Miss moon was mentioning something about organizing an auction event to help boost our sales. Can you throw more light on this idea , Isabel?” Jane says and I jerk up.My eyes meet with Jared’s and the feeling of deja vu overwhelms both of us, I can feel it gushing and our hearts are racing. I can feel the mate bond reaching out to him - trying to connect to him but when it gets to his
We all know that fate is inevitable, whatever that is meant to be is meant to be. All my life, I have never imagined that this moment will come to be. A moment when my heart will be racing and beating faster than normal, a moment when my heart will skip in his presence or at his touch. That precious moment is in fact what I have been dreading for seven good years but like I said before - fate is inevitable.I head to work after dropping Somi at school, today is actually her first day in elementary school and I want her to have an epic first day. I have already promised to take her to the amusement park when I come to pick her up from school.I work at Billianxe group, a distribution company owned by one of the affiliates of Alec’s family. I was opportune to be given the position of sales manager and the job have really paid me off for five years now, although some people are never happy about it.I meet Jane Brit, the general manager of BG, at the elevator. She smiles at me and I smil
SEVEN YEARS LATER ** Isabel **“Wake up, Isabel.” A hand shakes me from my peaceful sleep and I groan in dissatisfaction.“What is it?” I snap at the intruder but he does not stop.“Wake up, you sleepy head or we will miss the surprise party we organized for Somi.” He whispers and my eyes shoot open.“Alec, goodness me. Why didn’t you wake me up earlier?” I question.“I should be asking you what’s wrong, you slept past the time and your alarm has been blaring loudly since four in the morning. Now come on or this surprise will be ruined.” He says and drags me out of the bed.The rest of the family members are waiting outside my door. Allen is holding the birthday cake with a burning cotton candle in the center, the kids are holding different presents with smiles that are beaming on their faces.“Let’s go, Isabel. We’re running out of time.” Allen says and I nod.We tiptoe to Somi’s room and I open the gently, we creep in and position ourselves around her princess sized bed. Then Alec
**Jared **How does one feel when he watches his life flash before his eyes or his loved one being taken away from him?I do not know how to answer that question because I have always avoided the situation, now that I am stuck in it, I want to try as hard as I can to decipher those questions. How does it feel to watch a loved one being taken away?Honestly, i literally saw my life flash before my eyes when Isabel walked into that portal and I knew that all hopes are lost when it was closed down. Before my very own eyes, the love of life chose to stay away from me because of a fabricated prophecy and vision.I saw her there - in the dark when I was broken- she was shocked when Sorana spilled the truth to us. I wanted to kill Sorana but how can I ? She is still attached to Isabel and we are in a realm, there is nothing physical in that realm.But the pains of losing her never seems to go away, I still read her letter everyday whenever I wake up and every night before I go to bed. I woul
They all say that there is always the calm before the storm breaks out. Maybe we can’t find peace, maybe we can’t find happiness but deep down in our hearts, we are aware that the bonds of true love can conquer it all and balance every inequality ~~~ Isabel Moon.“Are you not coming to bed already?” Tiffany’s voice shakes me from my thoughts.I think that I have been sitting by the window of the library with the letter in my hands. I must have drifted to sleep or something - my body feels a little bit numb from staying in one position for long. I stand from my position and stretch my body, my bones cackle in the process and their stiffness softens a bit.“I am now, I must have forgotten myself for a while.” I mutter and we both head to my room with the letter still in my hands.“You should not strain yourself too much. We do not what the chance of getting a new doctor are and we do not want you to be risking yourself in this critical condition.” Tiffany says and I yawn heavily.“I am