ALICIA “I was worried about you. My intelligence reports said that you left two days ago and I have been waiting for you. When you didn't turn up I became worried and I sent signals around looking for you. You can imagine my happiness when the radio call came with the information that you had been found" Drake tells me when we get to his quarters. The pack house is very big, with several wings, and one wing is assigned to him alone. It has two bedrooms, a sitting room, a washroom and a kitchen. It is a home away from home. We are in the kitchen together cooking coffee as we talk.“You won't believe if I told you that those warriors were very upset when you sent for me. They kept on taunting me.” I say.He says something to the effect that they were acting out of caution.Earlier, I had gone to the bathroom and scrubbed myself from all the dirt that I had accumulated, then threw into a bucket all my dirty clothes and put on Drake's shorts and T-shirt. They were all oversized but that'
ALICIA “I want you to assume that you have not seen that letter. Promise me that you won't think about it and you will sleep like a baby." Drake tells me as we cuddle in his bed.“Maybe I should just run away and go back to my pack. Alpha Lazarus may decide to give me away to secure release of the hostages.” I muse.“And you think I'll allow you to slip away? Do you know how dangerous it is for you out there?” He asks.“But at least I will be doing something, running away Drake?”“Relax. I can assure you that Lazarus won't even think about giving you away.” He says as he pats my hair.I am so worried because I have now become one of the conditions Alpha Eric has set in order to release the prisoners in his custody. Earlier, I had suggested sleeping in the separate bedroom since we are now away from home but Drake didn't think so and that's how we have ended up in this bed.Regarding the letter, Alpha Lazarus said that he needed to sleep over Eric's demands and discuss them with his s
ALICIA The cave has some dark recesses where the candle light doesn't reach and our shadows are cast dancing on the walls. The cool breeze washes in and I feel a bit cold, but there's some sort of comfort in Drake's hands, some warmth. The cave has no door, but the falling waters block the opening, and no one can ever suspect that there exists a dwelling here. We can live here for years without anyone knowing about our whereabouts. Maybe we should stay here until the war is over? I should suggest this to Drake. We can make it our love nest, secure ourselves from whatever it is that's happening out there. But asking him will be wasting my time. I know he is dying to join the war. War ignites a flame in him that's very difficult to extinguish. Just last night he was so sad that he had been away from the battlefield.He's holding me tightly as we romance wildly."Don't hide from me Alicia. You're beautiful. Please allow me to show you how much I love you," He tells me.This is a day I
ALICIA In the early hours of the morning we walk back to the pack house and straight to our quarters. I am very sleepy and tired from the activities of the night.We didn't sleep much last night because we couldn't have enough of each other. We ended up devouring each other all night but now that's in the past. I feel great, having Drake as mine and mine only. Except for the sleep in my system, I feel sufficiently energized and ready to join the troops, but not today. Right now I want nothing else but to sleep the whole day. Drake isn't as lucky as I am. As a major leader in the ongoing war, he is needed in the usual morning meetings to plan the day's activities at the battleground. I look at him as he strips to his undergarments and puts on his fighting gear. He looks commanding, given his huge physique, his broad shoulders, his tallness and big muscles. I am glad that all these belong to me and consider myself very lucky. I feel that I have won the war against Bernice and others w
ALICIA It's on a Friday afternoon and I can't concentrate in class. The lecturer keeps looking my way and I pretend that I am serious but my mind is far away. I am thinking about my former pack which is miles away, where I fled after being rejected by the Alpha. My memory goes back to the night when it all happened.We were all gathered at the pack house for a party organized by Benedict, our Alpha. His son Eric was celebrating his twentieth birthday and this was the opportune moment to crown him as the new Alpha.My mother had tagged me along against my wishes. She insisted on taking me with her because the Alpha had decreed that every pack member should attend the party. The reason I didn't want to attend was because I knew Eric as a very contemptuous person who looked down on those below him.At the party I stayed outside because I didn't want to encounter him and the kind of friends he kept. I went to the swimming pool and relaxed on the reclining sofa, listening to the loud mus
ALICIA.“Hey rogue, how are you doing?” Bernice shouts as she enters the classroom. It's on a Saturday morning and I thought I will be the only one in class so that I can catch up on what I missed yesterday. But now with Bernice around I don't think I will be doing any studies.Bernice and I know each other for a very long time because we were together at my former pack. She was the daughter of a single mother who later left the pack to unknown destinations only for me to discover that they moved here. Bernice has changed from that friendly girl to a bully who keeps on tormenting me, calling me all sorts of names. Of late she calls me a rogue because of my stay in the woods. I always ignore her. “You won't answer me Scarface?” She starts coming closer. The name Scarface is intended to irk me. She is referring to the scar on my face. I ignore that too.“Listen, you can't just ignore me. You are not in my level so you better be humble and answer my simple questions.” She says as she si
ALICIA I have been having a problem from the day I was attacked in the forest. My wolf disappeared completely. I think it's because of the serious injuries the beast inflicted on me. Melissa told me that I spent about a week in bed unconscious. Since then I have tried severally to summon my wolf but to no avail. Right now I need her most but still she is nowhere to be found. Drake towers before me, the sleeves of his shirt rolled up to reveal muscular arms, networks of veins intertwined with toned muscles. That is all I can see for now because my head is bowed but I belief that he is a sight to behold. The girls didn't throw themselves at him for nothing. Silence reigns for a very long time and I just wish that this ends soon so that I may go home. I am inside the biggest office in this pack and the owner is standing in front of me, saying nothing, watching me as I teetering on the brink of fear. “What's your name?” He finally says and I lift up my eyes to look at his. They are st
DRAKEI can't believe what Alicia has just done. I don't know whether her actions are equal to a rejection or not. If it's a rejection then it will be too bad. As the Alpha, and as a man, it would have been better if I was the one doing the rejection.There is however something I don't understand. Where is her wolf or why is it not responding? Usually, when mates meet, it's their respective wolves that feel the attraction.My wolf already identified her as my mate, so why didn't her's do the same? So many questions linger in my brain after she left and I can't find any peace because my wolf won't let me.“She will come back brother, don't worry so much.” Victor says as he pours some coffee for me. Victor is my step brother.My mother died a long time ago when I was a small boy. I remember how much she loved me because I was her only child. When she died my father was very devastated and withdrawn. He retreated into some sort of cocoon and concentrated all his efforts on pack work. I w
ALICIA In the early hours of the morning we walk back to the pack house and straight to our quarters. I am very sleepy and tired from the activities of the night.We didn't sleep much last night because we couldn't have enough of each other. We ended up devouring each other all night but now that's in the past. I feel great, having Drake as mine and mine only. Except for the sleep in my system, I feel sufficiently energized and ready to join the troops, but not today. Right now I want nothing else but to sleep the whole day. Drake isn't as lucky as I am. As a major leader in the ongoing war, he is needed in the usual morning meetings to plan the day's activities at the battleground. I look at him as he strips to his undergarments and puts on his fighting gear. He looks commanding, given his huge physique, his broad shoulders, his tallness and big muscles. I am glad that all these belong to me and consider myself very lucky. I feel that I have won the war against Bernice and others w
ALICIA The cave has some dark recesses where the candle light doesn't reach and our shadows are cast dancing on the walls. The cool breeze washes in and I feel a bit cold, but there's some sort of comfort in Drake's hands, some warmth. The cave has no door, but the falling waters block the opening, and no one can ever suspect that there exists a dwelling here. We can live here for years without anyone knowing about our whereabouts. Maybe we should stay here until the war is over? I should suggest this to Drake. We can make it our love nest, secure ourselves from whatever it is that's happening out there. But asking him will be wasting my time. I know he is dying to join the war. War ignites a flame in him that's very difficult to extinguish. Just last night he was so sad that he had been away from the battlefield.He's holding me tightly as we romance wildly."Don't hide from me Alicia. You're beautiful. Please allow me to show you how much I love you," He tells me.This is a day I
ALICIA “I want you to assume that you have not seen that letter. Promise me that you won't think about it and you will sleep like a baby." Drake tells me as we cuddle in his bed.“Maybe I should just run away and go back to my pack. Alpha Lazarus may decide to give me away to secure release of the hostages.” I muse.“And you think I'll allow you to slip away? Do you know how dangerous it is for you out there?” He asks.“But at least I will be doing something, running away Drake?”“Relax. I can assure you that Lazarus won't even think about giving you away.” He says as he pats my hair.I am so worried because I have now become one of the conditions Alpha Eric has set in order to release the prisoners in his custody. Earlier, I had suggested sleeping in the separate bedroom since we are now away from home but Drake didn't think so and that's how we have ended up in this bed.Regarding the letter, Alpha Lazarus said that he needed to sleep over Eric's demands and discuss them with his s
ALICIA “I was worried about you. My intelligence reports said that you left two days ago and I have been waiting for you. When you didn't turn up I became worried and I sent signals around looking for you. You can imagine my happiness when the radio call came with the information that you had been found" Drake tells me when we get to his quarters. The pack house is very big, with several wings, and one wing is assigned to him alone. It has two bedrooms, a sitting room, a washroom and a kitchen. It is a home away from home. We are in the kitchen together cooking coffee as we talk.“You won't believe if I told you that those warriors were very upset when you sent for me. They kept on taunting me.” I say.He says something to the effect that they were acting out of caution.Earlier, I had gone to the bathroom and scrubbed myself from all the dirt that I had accumulated, then threw into a bucket all my dirty clothes and put on Drake's shorts and T-shirt. They were all oversized but that'
ANDREW'S POV I know that my time with Alpha Eric is coming to an end, a bitter end. All the trust his pointman Brice had in me, if any, is gone and in its place a hatred that is so thinly veiled has set in. We have dispatched our men to go to war without us because we have to wait for Alpha Eric who has communicated through the radio that he's coming. He has indicated strictly that he wants to see me. The radio call was made in my absence by Brice, contrary to our procedures and that alone sends an alarm. This is the very first time a call has been made to Eric without me in the radio room. Brice went silent on me immediately after we came back from the river. Melissa made a very big mistake when she called Alicia by name, forgetting the pseudo, urging her to run away. Brice for some reason thought that I knew who this Alicia was and he demanded that I tell him, but I insisted that I didn't know her. This Brice, he has a very big sixth sense. “I don't believe anything you are sa
ALICIA I run through the open grasslands, aiming at the direction Andrew told us and as the sun rises I have covered more than three kilometers. I have gone through knee high grass which still has it's morning dew and my wet clothes are now soggy with water. The oversized boots make noise every step I make and I decide to do something about it. I can't get far in such conditions. There is no noise from behind and I can tell that my pursuers have called off the chase. I can now relax.I find a river and take out all of my clothes and wash them, then hung them to dry in the sun. I remain with only my undergarments and I plunge into the cold river water to take a bath.The water does wonders, cooling down all my body and mind. I had been haunted by the act of leaving behind Melissa in rogue territory but now the guilt melts away and in its place it's replaced by an assurance in my mind that nothing bad can happen to her with her mate near her. Some things happen for a reason, I muse. Fo
ALICIA We run and run, in the moonlight past the gates into the deep woods. I am leading while Melissa follows closely behind. She keeps on complaining that the boots she is wearing are so big for her but so are mine. Even after fastening them my feet keep on playing inside but I take comfort in the fact that even though they are torn, they are better than running on bare feet.“You better keep up with me Melissa, they will surely come after us, especially when they find out what we have done.” I tell Melissa who has stopped running and she now pants heavily.“My chest burns Alicia. Let's rest for a while.” She manages to say through heavy breathing.Just then the alarms go off, blaring noisily over the woods and echoing in the nearby rocks. They have found out about us and I just hope that Andrew isn't in trouble. I wonder what would have happened had he not come in time to our rescue. The guard he killed was about to inflict serious damage on us.Earlier at the cell we had plotted
ANDREW'S POV This is definitely going to be the longest night of all. I am in a deep hole already and I don't know what to do to stop me from getting deeper and deeper.The problems started when I walked away from a subdued Alpha Drake. Everyone expected me to strike him dead. Alpha Eric came to know about it and came to our camp at night. I only knew of his presence when I heard the generator outside go off and as a result we were plunged into darkness. I presumed it was the enemy's work because the generator wasn't faulty and it had enough fuel.With that conclusion, I jumped out of my sleeping bag and armed myself with a machete that never leaves my bedside. I had slept with my clothes on.I listened carefully, trying to gather any noise and found it odd that no one in the whole camp seemed bothered. They were all silent. Very unprofessional of the whole lot, but that is expected from amateurs.Satisfied that there was nobody outside, I stealthily walked out and dashed into the tr
ALICIA I focus my attention on my brother. He is struggling with himself, with his wolf. I know right away what is troubling him, Melissa is his mate but he can not bring himself to say the word, hence he stands there saying nothing. I smile, seeing him fighting the battle inside him, a losing battle. Melissa, his prisoner, and his mate. I know that his wolf will eventually win because that's what happens.Melissa too is scared. She is shocked at first to hear Andrew call me by name, evidence that he knows me, then coupled with the initial fear of being a prisoner in an unknown land. But I can see her struggling with what is going on inside her head, she has finally found her mate though in the most unexpected circumstances. She has been looking for a mate for a while now, and sometimes she would confide in me that she would like him to be a strong and muscular man who is caring and loving. Well, I didn't know that she was describing my own brother. He has all the qualities she wante