Thoughts on our Dark Alpha so far? Next chapter will be uploaded an hr from now x
— Viktor Morgenstar — “Fuck! How the hell did three bloodthirsty rogues get to this area?! Shit! Viktor, get behind me! Get behind me now!” I have never seen my brother become so panicked until that moment. He shifted in seconds and though I knew that he was strong, I think the hardest part for him was having to protect me while fighting. I remember how badly I wished that I could shift to help my brother. How hard I prayed to the Moon Goddess to give me a miracle, one that would suddenly give me my wolf so my brother wouldn’t have to fight alone. Everything had happened so fast after that. One minute there were growls here and there, and then the next thing I know, there was a loud and painful whimper that shook the trees amongst the area. And then there he was. My older brother, Vincent, lying on the ground naked after being too weak to stay in his wolf form. “Run, Vik, run back to mom and dad…” He said with his last breath. I begged for him to wake up, to open his eyes,
— Viktor Morgenstar — Beyond my quarters, I can feel the sun slowly starting to set. Its warmth is disappearing from every inch of the forest until there is nothing but cold air and darkness that fills every corner of my Pack. I opened my eyes and am greeted by nothing but that same darkness I have become familiar with since that day many years ago. The day I realized I was no ordinary wolf, that something else inside me lurked. Sometimes I wonder if I am already dead, because waking up in total darkness makes me feel as if I am buried somewhere deep underground. I let out a deep sigh before pushing my sheets off of me and setting my feet on the cold marble floor. The chilly feeling of it instantly tells me that I am one hundred percent alive and that my body is still on this godforsaken Earth. Fuck’s sake, I just woke up and already feel like I need a bottle of the strongest wolfsbane liquor. It’s the only alcohol that can actually have an effect on me, but even then, it’s not re
— Viktor Morgenstar — “A family has tried to escape our Pack this morning. One of the border patrols caught them and they’re being held out in the forest.” What the fuck? I don’t like a lot of things, but one thing I hate the most is when people try to disobey orders because it means they are trying to disobey me. Who the fuck said they could just leave? I won’t stand for any of this. “Well, what the fuck are we standing for? Bring me to them,” I demanded of the two. They gave each other that same twin look where I know they’re communicating, but only they can understand what it is. “You got it, Dark Alpha.” Cal smiles before Cane starts to lead. A few minutes later, we’re out by the forest with only the moon for light. I feel rejuvenated as soon as I touch grass and feel the cool evening air. Something about it gives me energy. Whatever it is, it helps me get ready to face whatever bullshit it is I have to face tonight. “Please, please, let us go! We promise never to try and
— Leia Steele — I don’t know what the hell is going on. I can’t figure out if this is real or just a very fucked up figment of my imagination, but how the hell could I even have the ability to conjure something like this with my mind? I barely have energy to have dreams anymore, my nights merely just filled with endless nightmares of opening my eyes and seeing my mother’s lifeless body and her blood on my hands. Maybe that’s it. Maybe this is also a nightmare and for some reason, the Dark Alpha had ended up in it. How? I don’t fucking know, but this is the only thing I could think of that could possibly explain all this. Black eyes? Dark Shadow? Little Darkling? None of it is making any fucking sense to me! And worse of all, my one and only friend is still lying dead on the ground right next to us. I swear to the goddess, this is all so fucked up. I need to get out of here! “If I were you, I wouldn’t run.” He suddenly warned as if he had just read my mind exactly. “Wh– why?”
— Leia Steele — One second I can feel the ground underneath my feet, and the next there is nothing and gravity is pulling me down, and down, and down. At one point, I concluded that I was going to die because how often do you see a thin and frail woman survive jumping out of a window? Not a lot, that’s for sure. But a second later I feel my knees on the ground and my hands are touching the grass as well. Grass! I’m touching nature after months of being locked up inside! But I don’t have the time to revel on that amazing fact because I am in a life or death situation. “What the hell did I say about running, Leia Steele?!” The shout came from above me and I don’t need to look up to know who it came from. It’s him, and he sounds way angrier than earlier. The panic in me worsens and this time, that feeling of resilience or the strength that was brewing within me was no longer there. Shit, I think I’ve just gotten myself in a far worse situation. I am so utterly screwed beyond reco
— Leia Steele — Contrary to what he said earlier, this is definitely not his bedroom and we had gone back to somewhere else. I’m sitting uncomfortably on probably the most comfortable chair I’ve ever sat on in my life. The irony doesn’t go past me, but I can’t help it. I feel like a duck sitting on a lake with hunters all around me, but the thing is, I am trapped. There is nowhere else to go. At least not anywhere that won’t get me shot. Or in this case, whatever the Dark Alpha plans to do to me if I disobey him… again. He is the hunter and I am but a sitting duck. “The chair isn’t going to swallow you whole, you know? You can sit down properly and not just have half your ass on it.” He said to me with a half smirk. Asshole, I think to myself. But at the same time, why do my cheeks suddenly feel warm? Was it the thought of him looking at where my ass is? Ugh, stop thinking about it! “Suit yourself. I’m not the one getting butt cramps later on.” His smirk goes wider and s
— Leia Steele — His grin grows wider and I am seconds from palpating out of nervousness on my seat. Scratch that, maybe I already am. He lays back down and takes his glass up to his lip and even with the glass blocking most of his mouth, I can tell he is still grinning. When the moonlight from the window hits him, I feel both dread and something else in the pit of my stomach. My eyes can’t help but take him in as he drinks. The sleeves of his shirt rolls up a little higher, exposing more of the black ink that covers both his arms and hands. The rings that can’t possibly be real silver on his fingers shimmer from the light as he downs his glass of liquor. There is something about this man that I have never felt nor experienced with anybody else in this Pack. He is haunting, but at the same time, soothing. I can’t explain it, but looking at him both terrifies me yet invigorates me, too. I can’t look at him without having a crisis, but it’s even harder to look away from him. He is
— Viktor Morgenstar — “Let her go.” I told my Gamma, and most of the time, as he should, he immediately does whatever it is I order him to do or else. This time though, I can sense that he’s not too keen on doing such. The anger seeping from him, from the hand that is tightening more and more on Leia’s neck is obvious from a mile away. “Tell me, you stupid slut! What the fuck have you done with the Alpha?!” He shouts at her again and she visibly winces. Seeing her in such a position makes me feel two things. One, it makes me want to beat the living shit out of Cane because who the hell does he think he is hurting her? Hurting what is mine? Two, and I can’t understand it either but I know it’s there, but god fucking damn it, I have never been more turned on in my life watching her face turn redder by the second, the lack of oxygen getting to her, while her eyes grow even more and more desperate. I knew I had some sadism in me, but this might just be on a whole other level that Le
— 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