*Kael* What do you do when your Fated suddenly hugs you? My hands are stiff by my side as Lilac wraps her own arms around me, placing her head over my chest. I clench my fists, trying as much as possible not to let her form against me derail my thinking. "Step back, Lilac" I finally speak. My voice demanding. She does, and I try to fight the low growl that escapes my mouth at the loss of her warmth. "Oh shit.. I am so sorry, I don't know why I did that." It is the first time I hear her cuss out loud. She is blinking...rapidly. Seems like she does that when she is confused or nervous. I can still feel her warmth seeping through the thin material of my shirt. Her scent filling up my room like it belongs here. I sigh heavily, rubbing the bridge of my nose."Why are you here?" I ask again. My voice is gruff. I can't help the way my eyes rake over her body, lingering on where her dress begins to ride up slightly. She frowns slightly, her cute button nose pucker
*Lilac* I am out of my mind. I am out of my fucking mind. "Girl! Loosen up, look how gorgeous you are... I mean, if I were your husband, I won't let you out of the damn house." I am out of my mind. I am out of my fucking mind. I must have banged my head? No, there wasn't an accident so I sure as hell did not bang my head. So what happened? Why did I hug him? Well, he just looked so sad and I felt really bad for him. He is a Lycan! He is also my husband, so? God! Where the hell did that stupid bravery come from? What if he had got annoyed and ripped me into half? Milo and Nina will definitely want that happen. Father will loose his shit.. Oh Lilac Hirav! Why are you so dumb?! "Lilac Hirav Aspen!!" "Holy shit, you scared me!" My head snaps to Issy. It is then I see the car has stopped. "What the hell is going on in your head Lilac?" She snaps, unbuckling her seatbelt. My head pinches and I frown at her. "Why?" "I've been sc
Lilac* "You are hurting me, Kael!" I groan, biting my lips as he holds me back against the car, his grip on my hand tightening. I don't think he hears me, because his grip doesn't loosen a bit, and his blue eyes darken the more. Am I imagining the gold rims I see at the base of his pupils? My head starts banging and I groan again. Kael's grip loosens for just long enough for me to throw an arm up and then he slams me down onto the hood of the car again."Stop being stubborn," Kael growls, pressing his palm down on my legs this time before I can kick him off again. My wrists feel like they're getting ripped off from all the twisting around I'm doing, but it helps keep myself restrained. Kael pushes himself forward so that our noses are practically touching. I stare into his angry eyes and try not to let my breath catch in my throat.He lets go of one wrist long enough to grab hold of my other hand and hold it up above my head, pinning my arms to my sides. I gasp when my fee
*Lilac* "Wake up! It's Lupin o'clock!" Waking up to a throbbing headache should have been the highlight of my day, but add a screaming overly excited Issy to the said highlight? I should probably just sink down and pray that sleep comes to take me away again. I don't know when I fell asleep yesterday, all I remember is dragging my crying mess of a self off the floor and slumping down on the bed, my pillows soaking in my tears. "Goddess, you look awful Sunshine, did you cry yourself to sleep?" Issy is talking again and I can't help the groan that leaves my lips as I sit up. Only if she knows how true that is. And her new nickname for me? Let's not go there. "Good morning to you too Issy," I say groggily, "what are you doing here?" She gasps, placing her hand over her chest in an obvious mock surprise... "Is that how to greet your best friend a good morning?" Bestfriend? "Have we gotten to that level?" I narrow my eyes at her, blinking afterwards, trying to c
"Monsters are not born... They are made." ------ *Kael* The news is splattered all over the lytnet; "Prince Kael attacks a lower ranked Lycan without cause." Nosy journalists and bloggers. The only thing I'm thankful for, is the fact that Lilac's face isn't seen. Father is furious. Raving mad as expected. He is pacing as if his feet will carry him away from the accursed article on my stepmother's hands. He rips it from her hand and throws it down at me. "Care to tell me what the hell this means?!" He yells. "It is clear as day already. I attacked a lower ranked Lycan." I say in reply. Father's eyes darken, clearly riled up at how carefree I sound. If he thinks yelling at me would have me cowering at his feet, well he should know better. "You are always causing trouble, Kael! Have you no regard for your reputation?! If you want to fight, join the fucking military!" I shrug. Father knows very well that I don't care much about my name. I don't even bother
*Lilac* So unlike the stories that we were told about Lycans. I have come to realize that Lycans and werewolves are totally different from what we thought them to be and I live in a city of Lycans. Werewolves are ancient and have gone into extinction. These Lykae people though are just as humane as we are except they have beyond natural genes that are akin to that of wolves.. Which means they don't have wolves spirit living in their head, neither do they transform to wolves. They only phase out their magic from time to time.Furry bodies.. Sharp eyesight.. Fast movement. Alcohol immunity and a lot more magical abilities peculiar to each person which I learned increases according to their ranks. Alpha(s), Beta(s), Delta(s) and Omega(s). Two weeks has passed, and I seem to be getting an hang of Lupin Academy and Lycania in general...but not my husband. I don't think I have even laid my eyes on him since that day at the clinic. He didn't even come for his class last week.
----- *Kael* For once in his life, my Father's happy face is directed at me. "You've made a good choice son," he says. "I always knew you had it in you to be reasonable." I plaster a fake grin on my face as General Caulder shakes hands with my father, his own grin as wide as saucers. "It is wonderful to have such talented and wonderful warrior like Prince Kael in Lycania army...it is such a great addition," he says. I almost roll my eyes. I will watch my back if I were him. Father nods at Caulder one last time before he gets into the car. I still hate that he insisted on coming here to suite his ego. He probably thinks I'm doing this because I'm finally taking his advice. If only he knew. The Barracks is buzzing when we walk through the door. The whole place is practically a hive of activity. Soldiers everywhere and women hurrying around carrying trays and cleaning gear and supplies. As always, I try not to take too much notice of everyone. Even though
*Lilac* Do you know what happens when your very hot husband whom you haven't seen for two weeks decides to come home? Especially when he is looking so rugged in a cargo pants and a button down white shirt? You don't? Well, here is the thing. Your brain freezes. Your heart goes into a fucking overdrive, and you completely loose it. "Hi." Fucking hell. Who says hi in a situation like this? Me, definitely. There is silence. Thirty seconds of traitorous silence, until I see his lips twitch and then he bursts into a full blown laughter. What the actual fuck? I am surprised, confused even as he continues laughing. Is he drunk? Lycan don't get drunk, right? "Princess," He says, stalking closer to me. He called me Princess, not Lilac. I don't swell on his newfound pet name for me. Should I run? What the hell is going on here? I take a step back, hoping to easily slip away because Kael does not seem to be in his right sense. His ever blue eyes are glazy and not focused. Is thi
*KAEL* I have no idea how I manage to drive all the way down to my suite. My need for Lilac is like the moon reaching for the sun's light. My ache for her is like an itching on my skin that needs to be expelled. My lips are on hers the moment we step inside. She gasps at my sudden intrusion but I care less as I deepen the kiss, my hands reaching for her neck as I back her against the sofa. I kiss her like it is the last thing I am going do and she meets with that same frenzied innuendo. We are drinking each other in like starved wolves, every each of our skin fraught with sensations. I reach for her dress zipper, but stop myself to look at her, silently pleading for access. Lilac reaches for my belt , and that is all I need as I pull her zipper down and her dress falls to the ground. I ift her up, my lips meeting her again as I lead us both into the room and onto the bed. My clothes are off too and I feel her shiver as I press against her. "It's your first time, isn't
*LILAC* I thought I died. If that dagger could have killed a Lycan in an instant, how much less a mere human like me. But then I woke up, two weeks after, in an hospital bed. It took a while before I could process what was happening, heck I could not even understand. Carla said the works of the fates were beyond our reasonings. Carla had stood at the door entrance of the room, watching as I came to life. Her first sentence to me was; "You did good, Lilac." Maybe I was dreaming, maybe all these was a little game before I finally stepped into oblivion, but then he had walked in his eyes redrimmed with dried tears black hair falling disheveled against his face. He had sprinted towards me, and he had cupped my cheeks with scarred palms and he wept on me. "I love you, Princess," he had whispered repeatedly. He was real. Everything was real. I lived. A week after, I had attended the trial of Talon and his wife, they were both stripped bare of their m
*KAEL* I have always thought it weird that I found myself more comfortable with Isabelle than I ever was with Talon, even way before I knew how cunning and cruel he was, but now I know, it is because there was never any need for us to fraternize because we are not even related by a single pint of blood. The crowd breaks into a frenzy, everyone trying to run for their life. My Father sits with shock as if he cannot comprehend that he has been fathering another man's son for years. Talon, in his changed form lunges towards me or rather my wife, and I do not hesitate but jump between them . It is like I am an invisible wall protecting the woman I love from any harm that may come from my beloved brother. Sarcasm intended. I feel his claws dig through the fabric of my shirt as if they could go straight through my flesh and rip the heart right out of my chest. "You've always liked to stick your nose where it does not belong, brother," he snarls. "Is this why you
*LILAC* Two weeks of immense training on how to use the arrow. Two weeks of attending Lupin without Isabelle. Two weeks of finding out that Beryl Caulder isn't as bad as I thought... And two weeks of Carla trying to teach Kael king duties. King duties. It feels surreal that he is even thinking of taking the throne from his Father. I know it has something to do with the Klux that Beryl, Romwn and I have still not gotten his identity. Kael knows something, but he is not telling us. I do not bother him because I know that eventually everything will come into light. The Klux has not attacked since that night. Raul, Emery and Perez has been buried and Isabelle has not left the palace since the royal guards came to take her away from Carla's place the next day after the incident. Today is the Last ball of the mating season and today is the day Kael has decided to confront his Father to step down from the throne. Nothing could go wrong, right? But the hope is farf
*KAEL* I hate surprises. From the on start of my life, I have always hated surprises. Birthday surprises? My mother made sure there was nothing like that after I went into a full panic mode the first day she had organized one for me. My gifts were never even wrapped because I hated wanting to know what was wrapped inside. The scent. Fuck! Why did I never think to that level? Why did I not piece two and two together way before now? Maybe I would have stopped the deaths, maybe I would have– Fuck. It's late when I get back — Carla's home precisely. I find my way into the kitchen and fish out a bottle of whiskey from the cabinet. Only if I was not immune to alcohol. I do not bother to take a cup as I uncap the bottle, bringing it to my mouth and gulping it readily. The sting in my throat is welcoming, I do not stop, not until I hear footsteps and her scent tickles my nose. As a moon Lykae, sometimes the ability to recognize scents very easily could be more of a cur
*KAEL* The familiar gates of the Lyncs barracks greet me as I ride in. I waste no time in parking my scooter and head to General Caulder's office. He will not be expecting me, nor what I have for him. Atwater is the first one I see though, my supposed roommate, he is also headed to Caulder's floor I suppose. "Hey, Atwater!" I yell. He stops and slowly turns back to stare at him, he gasps, his eyes grew wide wide with shock. "Your High... I mean Lieutenant Aspen? Is that really you?" "Obviously. Are you headed to Caulder's office?" He nods. "Come with me then." Atwater says nothing as he leads the way to Caulder's office, he is probably wondering why I am being friendly to him when i never even cared about his existence during my stay here. Getting to Caulder's office, Atwater raises his hand to knock but I push it open instead. Caulder abruptly looks up from his system at my interruption. I cannot tell if it is a genuine smile that graces his fa
Victims: Perez Gillero, Raul Nyx, Emery Lon-Nyx Ages: Twenty, Twenty-four, Twent-three respectively. Assault weapon: A weirdly crested dagger. Suspect: Not found *LILAC* "I killed them," she is saying hysterically. Her black curls are all over the place and eyes red rimmed with tears. She looks like she is going insane. I cannot imagine how it would feel to loose all the people she had once called friends. Even I who had only known them fleetingly can feel my heart ache at their demise. Is it Perez? Or Raul and Emery who had just celebrated their mating ceremony some months ago. My own tears are falling and consoling Issy is getting harder by the day. Carla comes into the room. "You can leave," she says. "I'll handle this." I do not argue with her because I am just as mentally stressed myself. So I leave her to it and find my way into Kael and my room. It is the dead of the night, probably around 12, Beryl had gone back after staying for an hour whi
*KAEL* I should trust Lilac to be okay on her own. I should not follow her. But this nagging feeling gets the best of me and I find myself walking closely behind her, being subtle enough for her not to notice. It is when I see Russo and Caulder waitibg for her that I realized she lied and she was not going to use the restroom. We are here. "We should find somewhere to hide." Russo is saying. This is when I step out of the shadows. "I do not think that would be necessary." "Holy shit!" "Kael?" Lilac's eyes are wide as saucers when she notices me. "It's funny how you want to find a secret organization when you can't even tell that I have been behind you." "You followed me," Lilac says in disbelief. "I did," I reply her. "I thought we agrees we were going to solve this together, so what is this going behind my back to find some organization or whatever the fuck this is about?" She snorts at my outburst. "You left this morning, obviously to find some clues yourself right? Why
*LILAC* "YOU ARE NOT GOING WITH US, KAEL!" Issy is yelling at her brother. "Unfortunately you cannot tell me what to do, Isabelle," He grits out. "It's Issy goddamnit!" "I'm going with you and that's final!" "You are only going to ruin our fun, what is wrong with you brother!" "Twice i left her in your care, and something terrible happens!" "That's not a me problem. That's your city's problem." And then a pause. I gasp because I only just noticed the slipup, To Issy, Kael is not suppose to know that. "You lost your memory Kael, how do you know that?" Shit! This time Issy' voice is low and full of so much pain I had no idea she carried. She repeats her question, rather slowly this time, emphasizing on every syllable. "You lost your memory Kael, how do you know that?!" "Carla and I told him some things," I try to defend. "You are lying," She mumbles. "You both are lying to me." Tears start to form in her eyes and I cannot help the guil