It’s not looking too good for the White Howlers thanks to the Dark Alpha… What do you think they’re going to do?
— Zane Frost — I’ve been staring at this piece of paper for hours contemplating if it was real or not, but mostly hoping that it wasn’t. It couldn’t be true, could it? And what is up with this Pack and their obsession with leaving notes? I had no idea how much impact there would be over a few words on one fragile little thing. “You know staring at it isn’t going to make it any less real?” I turned around and saw Skye standing by the doorway, the expression on his face both solemn and anxious at the same time. He knows what’s happened, but none of us really have an idea on what to do next. “If I could tear this into pieces in order for it not to be true, I’d have done it the second I saw it, but alas, that’s not how things work, so I’ll just stare at it like an idiot for now.” I replied to him and he gave me a sympathetic look before walking towards the chair across from me. “How’s Leia? Has she said anything to you?” He shrugged his shoulders accompanied with a s
— Viktor Morgenstar — I don’t know when the last time it was since I’ve felt her, but I do know that it’s been too fucking long. Sometimes it’s like I’m withering inside, like my strength is dwindling because I start to forget what it was like when I’m next to her. Other times I have this rage inside of me because I long to feel her again and that rage doesn’t stop, it just keeps on growing. There is pretty much no in between and I can tell most of the Pack members are starting to notice that I’ve been different; less alert, less heedful. “Viktor! Viktor!” Amethyst’s words sound like scratching nails on a board, and I am abruptly brought back to the present. I remembered I was in the library, gathering information about Packs in different hemispheres, but then I spaced out. Amethyst is now standing in front of me, hands on her hips, and a look that only says she once again didn’t get what she wanted so she’s come to complain to me about it. I pretend not to have hear
— Leia Steele — I’m banging on the door like a crazed lunatic, shouting out for Zane wondering if he could even hear me because aside from the sounds of drilling noises, I can’t hear anything else. “Zane!” I shouted for him for what seemed like the hundredth time, but to no avail. “Zane, please! Why are you doing this?!” I asked, but deep down inside I already know the answer. After I told him that there was no way I was letting him stop me or anyone for that matter from going to Viktor in order to save Keira, it was like there was a switch that flipped within him and he boarded me in the room out of nowhere. First he locked the door from the outside, and when I realized what he had done, I knew the window would be my only choice, yet I was too slow compared to him. Before I could, he put some sort of lock on the rails and I couldn’t pry it open and I tried. I really tried for what felt like hours but it didn’t budge at all. “I’m not letting you go, Leia! I’m not letti
— Zane Frost — Everything is settled. Nobody has slept a wink since we started talking about our plan and getting ready for it. It’s not that we don’t have time to get a little bit of shut eye, it’s just that we can’t even if we wanted to. There is too much at stake with what is going on right now and not enough certainty with what we are about to do. “I want to go.” River’s office door slammed open as Skye barged in. “I don’t care what you want. You’re not going, and that’s final.” River answered right after as he continued fixing his things. Aspen and I gave each other a quiet look. I tilted my head, signaling him to talk Skye out of it, but Aspen merely let his tongue out at me, claiming I was on my own. Thanks for nothing, idiot. “You know I can fight as good as you guys, maybe even better! You need me!” Skye continued to point out reasons why he should join, but his brother was clearly not having any of it. “Do you really think I would let my younger broth
— Leia Steele — When I was a little girl, my mother used to tell me stories about werewolves and what they called mates, which were what their partners for their entire lives would be called. I remember that I would sit there by the fire, being cozy right next to her as we were wrapped in a blanket, and listen to her talk on and on about it for hours. “My mother, your Nana, was the one who told me about it, and it’s my turn to share it with you, little bug,” she whispered gently in my ear. I looked up at her, uncertainty on my face. “Every one of us have mates? Really? What if the Moon Goddess forgets about me?” She shakes her head. “That’s not possible, munchkin. The Moon Goddess would never forget about someone like you. In fact, I’m sure she is patiently waiting for the day you turn eighteen so you can finally meet your other half. I can just imagine how perfect he will be for you.” My mother’s smile is cheek to cheek as she gushes about a man that neither of us have e
— Zane Frost — We were all watching Leia with eagle eyes. We can’t miss a single thing because if we do, this might jeopardize everything, and there was no way in hell I was letting that happen. It already took every ounce of me to let Leia go, and Goddess, if her being a few feet away yet untouchable already pained me, I would have no idea what I would do should the unthinkable happen. “Three of mine are now set up on the East, whilst three of River’s are on the West side.” Titus came up to me. I turned around to give him a quick nod before going back to looking with my binoculars. I couldn’t look away from Leia, not even for just half a second. All of a sudden, I felt a hand on my shoulder. “It’s going to be fine, Zane. Once those bastards appear, we’ll get them, and by the end of this day or even before this day ends, we’ll both have our girls back.” Titus looked at me with a reassuring smile and I am thankful for his support. Well, everybody’s, that is. None of
— Leia Steele — “You are no longer my father, you said so yourself that day you left me to die. You don’t have the right to be here and try to act like you care, and if I were you, it would be best for you to just get the hell out of here. You may have had no heart when you left me, but I at least am a better person than you so for your own good, you should leave while you still can.” I said that. I really, really said that to the man who abandoned me in a time I needed him the most, to the man who saw me as nothing but a monster, to the man I thought would love me unconditionally compared to anybody else. All this time I thought that he was gone, but I guess deep down, a part of me did also think about what it would be like if he wasn’t, and if one of these days he showed up in front of me again. I couldn’t believe that it did happen this time. I always imagined how I would react; if I would cry seeing him still alive and maybe even feel some sort of relief. That and run
— Viktor Morgenstar — I am not a patient man. Everybody knows this. So when I tell them I want things done in a specific time, I expect them to do it exactly as I say. Now imagine my absolute displease when I come down and not see the people I expected to see, specifically both my Beta and Gamma with a certain specific prisoner in tow. I grabbed a random passerby who seemed to have just been coming back from his run. He stares at me terrified as I hold him by his shirt. “Where the hell is everyone?” I demanded. “E— everyone?” He looked at me like I was talking in a different language. “For fuck’s sake, yes, everyone. Why do you think you are here? You’re not on fucking vacation, you imbecile.” His eyes widened at the realization of what I was asking for. ”Ah! Sorry, Dark Alpha! I— I was lost for a moment, but yes, I remember now. They should be here any minute. There was just a bit of misunderstanding or miscommunication with the transportation to here.” He explai
— Zane Frost — I hadn’t heard that voice for a while now and it did sound like it could have gotten a bit deeper than before, but I could still distinguish it. Sure enough, when the door swung open, he was all smiles standing in the hallway. Boy, I was not expecting him to have gotten even bigger than he was already before and did he grow a little stubble, too? “I’m back! Surprise!” Skye looked at us beaming excitedly. “Oh, Zane’s here, too! Great! I thought I was going to arrive tomorrow morning, but the journey ended up being a little faster than I thought so— wait a second…” He paused and that’s when I know he finally realized that it wasn’t just me that was also there. “Who… is she?” He blinked at her intrigued. “Well, this is definitely one homecoming I didn’t see coming…” I said with a soft chuckle to lighten up the mood but that didn’t really help. River let out a sigh before confessing to his brother. “This is Eva… my mate.” “Holy. Shit.” Skye reacted in
— Zane Frost — Preparations had been going on for a couple of weeks now. Everybody was excited for Skye’s sudden announcement that he was coming back earlier than usual. Even if I hounded him for more information, that boy was like a vault and he didn’t open up, not even to Leia who was itching to know what had made him suddenly want to come back. “What do you think he meant by ‘big news’?” Leia asked as we were in the kitchen, gathering ingredients to make all the dishes we knew everybody, especially Skye, would love. Usually we would leave the Pack chefs in charge of this, but since Leia was having this phase where she wanted to cook anything and everything, I wanted to be there and help her out. “I don’t know. Anything is possible with that guy.” I honestly answered with a shoulder shrug as I passed her the sifted flour she asked for. We were making various baked goods, but first one on the list was skolebrød, which was a bun filled with a gooey and delicious vanilla c
— Viktor Morgenstar — Before I jumped into that water, I thought it was the only way to preserve what little I had left in my life. In my mind, it was better to die than to live another day without Leia and our baby. I believed I was as good as dead. Until I got washed away onto land and I took another breath. It was hard to explain exactly what that felt like, but what was worse was having to watch the only love you have ever known get pulled away by somebody else and the baby you desperately wanted cared for men you had no idea of. My Dark Shadow screamed and screamed for me to get them back and though every part of me wanted the same as well, I knew that I no longer deserved them. For the first time in my life, I realized that what I wanted isn’t something that I am always supposed to have. After I knew that Leia and the baby were safe, I knew what I had to do. I had to leave and somehow, in some way, I had to become better. Not just for the family that I lost,
— Leia Steele — I have heard and read about countless experiences, many good, many bad, about the newborn stage, but nothing, absolutely nothing can compare to when you are experiencing it yourself. Luckily for me, the phrase ‘it takes a village’ is definitely in effect with the White Howlers. There hasn’t been a minute that I’ve been completely alone with Lux and I couldn’t ask for anything else. Whether it’s Keira offering to help me breastfeed since I was obviously new in all of this and my body was still somewhat recovering thus producing less than ideal, or Skye and the other boys more than happily entertaining him during tummy time with all sorts of antics, or even the usually stoic Alpha Titus excitedly playing with Lux and Zora, his and Keira’s baby girl, everybody has been an absolute gem every single day. But of course, only one person has truly never left my side, and that is— “Zane Frost!” I heard a very passionate squeal on the other side of the door where
— Leia Steele — I woke up feeling somewhat… amazing, which is a completely baffling thing because as far as I can recall, I just fell off a cliff and dove into water while I was bleeding to death. How the hell does it feel like my body is completely healed? Or the fact that I even woke up because I could have sworn I thought I wasn’t going to make it out of there alive? Or wait… I sat up from the bed and frantically began to look around and take in my surroundings, trying to figure out where I was. Maybe I am dead?! “I can see from the very astounded expression on your face right now that you think you’ve somehow woken up in another space or timeline.” I turned to where the sound came from and saw a beaming familiar face. “Skye!” I couldn’t help but squeal his name out of pure happiness to see him, and he looks good at that. “Hey, tough one. Glad to see you’re doing good. No pain, right?” He asked as he walked over to sit on the chair next to me. I noticed tha
(Two Years Later) — Zane Frost — I am seated at the edge of the lake. The very spot I always find myself in whenever I go here. I don’t know why, but my body just somewhat gravitates to this place every single time without fail. Even now when seeing the sight of water still triggers a memory in me, I still stay here. My eyes closed as I laid down on the grass. Winter has gone, exchanged for Spring, and all the snow has melted, replaced with flowers of different colors that had bloomed a new life. A new life, it repeated in my head. That is what Spring is; the beginning of something new. Perhaps everyone, every single person in this world has had a moment that has split their life into two. When you look back at your days, there is something that changed you, some specific time that you know was cataclysmic to your entire existence. A moment that creates what happened before and what happened after. It shades your memories in a different perspective just as it shi
— Leia Steele — “AAAAAAHHHHHH!” I screamed and screamed until it felt like my lungs were going to give out at any second. It was hard to focus on anything aside from the crippling pain that was coming from my belly but transmitting all throughout my entire body. Viktor had quickly pulled me out of the room where the coronation was happening and when I thought he was rushing me to the Pack’s infirmary, he turned a different way that I had no idea where it was leading to. “AAAAAAHHHHHH!” More screams come out of me and I swear it feels like somebody is ripping my belly open. The sound of commotion seems like it’s following us. Left and right I hear people screeching as well as things being destroyed to the ground as the earth itself shook. “Wh— what’s… h— happening…” I managed to get the words out of me as I squirmed in pain as Viktor carried me in his arms tightly. In my mind, I wished somebody else was holding onto me, but my body was a betrayer, lavishing in the
— Zane Frost — I feel like absolute shit. Maybe that in itself is even an understatement because from my head to my toes, it’s like I’m being pushed onto the ground by twenty six-wheelers trucks. That is excluding the fact that my head feels like I’ve been pushed out of a plane and I’m currently twirling around and around fifty thousand feet up in the air. Holy shit. What the fuck is going on? “Zane? Zane! You’re awake?! Guys, he’s awake!” I heard a familiar voice shout out and I flinched in pain almost immediately. There was a loud echo in my ears and I thought my head was going to burst. “Shit, sorry,” the voice mumbled an apology. “Wr du hl m ei…” I tried to speak, but I doubt the letters that came out of my mouth could even form a single understandable word. My suspicions were proven correct when the person next to me burst out into a fit of laughter. If I had the energy to smack them, I would have done it, but alas, aside from being able to move my lips
— Zane Frost — Chaos. Madness. Death. It was left and right. It was almost impossible to escape, but I kept pushing. I told myself that I had to. I knew I had to for her, for Leia, for Keira, for everybody in my Pack and Alpha Titus’. This was all our fight and we had to end this today. No matter what. As soon as anyone tried to come after me, I fought to kill. I don’t think about anything else, but to get the upper hand. The very first time you hesitate, there’s no coming back from that. I see the bloodthirst in their eyes and in the way they growl. These wolves are different. Whilst the White Howlers and Blazing Wolves were trained to mostly defend themselves from the enemies, these ones were trained to do no defending, only killing, like they were all raised to be killing machines. It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, but I had to keep up with them if I had to get to Leia. When I saw her get dragged into that house out of nowhere, it was like a switch