Darkness was ruling over the Starfall forest.‘Hoot! Hoot!’ The frequent screaming of the owls bothered the enigmatic tranquillity of the night until footsteps began to increase, crackling the dry branches and leaves under its claws.It was the footsteps of a night creature that was running through that dense, Starfall forest of Auryn. Her breathing was heavier as she ran faster until she reached the top of the mountain that was separating Auryn and Verena, working as a border between those two kingdoms. That golden she-wolf stood higher on her hind legs, pointing her nose towards the moon.The silvery moon, loomed large, surrounded by an ethereal glow like the mighty queen of the velvety black sky. The stars in the presence of the moon made it the guardian of all the stars.That Shewolf’s golden and silky fur tousled by the soft breezes of the spring as her rare purple eyes were the colour of lavenders; lively, enchanting, and beautiful. Breaking that serene silence of that silve
POV of Eliza Claire Gold(5 years later, Velvet Villa, Starlight Kingdom)‘Knock! Knock!’“Are you ready, Lily?”Issac’s gentle voice echoed from the opposite side of the door as I checked myself once again, staring at my reflection in the huge, round mirror of the washroom, and then replied, curling my lips into a seductive smile, “More than ready, Sir. Let’s taste some exotic wine tonight.”“Not Sir. It is Issac. How many times do I have to correct you?” Issac protested annoyedly.Clicking my tongue, I only blurted out a tiny ‘sorry’ in response. Grabbing my masquerade mask, I fixed my astounding and comfortable, red dress, embroidered with shimmering golden threads. However, it was a little too revealing and attention-seeking, not according to my taste. While putting on the mask, I opened the door and approached Issac Liwan, my senior and trainer who was standing all dressed up in a maroon tuxedo. Issac swung his head around to look up at me. He scanned me critically and beamed
(POV of Eliza Claire Gold)‘Damn! It looks magnificent.’I mumbled as I entered the vast hall of the VIP floor. It was more extravagantly decorated than the ground floor. A famous pianist was playing a gentle piano tune as some luxuriously dressed couples were swaying their bodies along with it. ‘I should go and find Mr Hogg before anyone else recognises me here,’ I thought to myself as I paved my way through the crowd. Instead of taking the left, I turned right in the direction of the confidential area. That floor was specially reserved for the elite guests of the party so the security was also very strict there. The moment I tried to enter the corridor of the guests’ rooms, I was stopped by two guards who blocked my path, “May we see your ID card, Mam?”“Sure, one minute”, I pretended for a moment to search inside my handbag. Then I flashed them a disappointed smile as I answered in my honeyed tone while playing with a strand of my hair, “I am so sorry. I just forgot it in the ro
Wait! Let me accompany-”Before Juliet could finish her sentence, I ran through the crowd in the opposite direction of Sasha. ‘No! No! How can she be here? She was occupied on the other side of the party! I can never meet her.;’‘H-How will she react if just for once I talk with- What am I even thinking!’ Thousands of conflicting thoughts were in my head when I barged into the washroom. Without realising it, my vision blurred by tears. The tears I always tried to hide from everyone, began to run down from my eyes. Biting my lips, I tried to control the sobs as I kept on murmuring, “Calm down! Calm down! I have an important mission to handle. I must not get distracted.”Taking deep breaths, I calmed myself down and wiped away the tears from the corners of my eyes. But the memories that I was trying to suppress were constantly tormenting me within. After waiting a while, I decided to go back to the party, suppressing my emotions. Obviously, that mission was more important than my sil
‘Damn! Issac!’I cursed annoyedly while walking hastily through the vast and empty corridor of the second floor. I was impatiently trying to call him, ‘Why isn’t he picking up?’My eyes were bordered with tears and my mouth was as pale as my cheeks.I hastily walked out of the Velvet Villa in search of a taxi. It was so early in the morning that there was barely any guard so none tried to stop or question my messy and suspicious appearance. Holding my heels with one hand, I was staggering and dragging myself as far away from the Velvet Vila as possible. My head was still throbbing and my vision was blurry due to the tears, clouding my burning eyes.An inner torment began to gnaw at me as memories were burning my heart. I mumbled, biting my lips hard to control my tears, “How! How the hell did I end up with him again?’While remembering about last night, my face turned red and gloomy as I mumbled, “I- I just h-hate him so much. I never wanna-”My voice just choked in the middle of the
“Make Haste, Eliza! Eden is waiting for you outside,” Aunt Christi was running behind me, holding my handbag while I was still trying to fix my extravagant and heavy gown. It was the first time I had attended such a huge social gathering; I was feeling extremely anxious, too. One of my grooming ladies tried to calm me down, “Little Missy, that gown looks so elegant on you.” While rubbing my fingers nervously, I scanned myself once again in the huge oval mirror of my bedroom as I mumbled, “Don’t you think that this dress is a little too much? I think that I should wear something casual and-” “You can think later. We are already running late.” Shoving my matching handbag in my hands, Aunt Christi just walked me out of the room, holding my wrist. My heart was thumping so loudly that I couldn’t hear any other sound around me. My introverted personality was screaming in frustration. The moment Aunt opened the door, I found Eden, leaning against a huge pillar of our vast corridor. He wa
Good Evening, Aldus.”Eden curtsied to the Mage as he explained briefly, “Eliza Claire Gold is here to get your blessing so that she can officially join the pack tonight.”Aldus’s young voice echoed again, “Come inside. Let me have a glimpse of her destiny.” The room was dark still now but the moment we stepped in, a bright light filled the room and I found an old man with long white hair and dark eyes, sitting on a couch with a heavy book in his hand.He had a very gentle smile, peeping through his silky grey beard. Looking up at me, he greeted me warmly, “Good Evening, Miss Eliza. May I?”He raised his hand in front of me as he asked for my hand. He had a very unique aura, powerful yet mysterious and unpredictable. I felt awkward and slightly scared. But, he added again, “Don’t be scared, Young Lady. It will not be as painful as your first transformation.”Smiling nervously, I placed my hand on his, “I am not scared at all.”Chuckling, the old man covered my hand with his as he clos
(In the room of Keir Allen Walker, 5 years ago when he was 23 years old)(The Clan house of Night Walker clan, Verena City)“Damn! What a long day it was!”Keir just threw his exhausted body on his king-size bed after a long day of hard work. Through his open window, he could see the reddish sky and the horizon where a red fireball was wishing its goodbye for that day.The flocks of birds were returning back to their nests and the dense starfall forest was looking so mysterious and solitary at the reddening hue of the twilight. From afar, Keir could see the peak of the hill that was separating the Lycan and Werewolf kingdom.Suddenly, his heart twitched with a longing, recalling about that golden she-wolf which he saw last night. After that incident, he couldn’t sleep even a wink; the whole night, he was thinking about her.While tossing and turning on his bed, he spent the night frustrated and tormented. His Lycan was growling impatiently, demanding to meet her. That intoxicating scen
“Maybe!”I asked, recalling about that day, “Anyway, I have a question.”“Go ahead,” Eden answered casually, crossing his long legs. Lucas’ powerful well-muscled body moved with easy grace as he took a step closer to me. A waiter was passing by at that time with a tray of alcohol in his hand. Picking up two wine glasses from his tray, he passed one to me, “I noticed that you prefer wine so have a drink with me.”“You noticed that too! Impressive!”I teased with a bright smile as I took the glass of wine from his hand. While sipping that exotic wine, I asked curiously, turning my face in his direction, “Did you really win that gambling game in paradise? Or, did you guys just lie?”An irresistibly devastating grin relaxed the muscles of his face. While enjoying the wine, he answered, “I was actually about to defeat Keir in the very first game but that would just spoil our plan of attacking. We were waiting for our informer’s signal. So, I intentionally lost my chance to win you, M’lady.
Good Evening, M’lady. It is a pleasure to meet you again.”I was tired of talking with the guests. So, leaning against the bar counter, I was sipping my red wine while lazily looking around us. The hall was overcrowd with all the high class guests.Father, Murphy, Eden, Haru, Jordan- everyone looked busy entertaining the guests and welcoming them. Surprisingly, that night, many renowned Lycans attended our party which wasn’t really common as Lycans preferred to avoid those kinds of parties.That extremely familiar voice startled me, making my heart skip a beat. I turned instantly. To my surprise, Kyrell was standing there with his usual and polite smile. His tall and slender silhouette had a lot of similarities with Keir. However, their gazes were totally different from each other. The calmness of Kyrell’s eyes was different from the burning and mysterious gaze of Keir.Smiling warmly at me, Kyrell approached me, ordering a whiskey for him.Suppressing my complicated emotions, I retur
(POV of Eliza of 19 years old)(7 months 18 days passed after the incident of the Red Light Village)Sitting in the rose garden, I was trying to memorise a bunch of complicated laws of our pack administration. I already finished learning history, geography, economics and math though I scored average in all of them.However, my etiquette and my dancing skill were my special weapons. I was extremely good at different foreign languages and playing violin. I even started learning piano recently. It was my new obsession.After that incident in the Red Light Village, months passed away and I didn’t meet with Keir again. That dawn when I returned with Eden in the pack house, both Kyrell and Father left to take care of that mess. I was feeling extremely guilty when I met Jordan. He was so injured that it took him a week to heal. Though my foot healed within three days and I returned to the training field once again, the wound of my heart didn’t heal yet. I swore not to trust anyone ever agai
“Eden!”I looked at the tall and dark silhouette who was standing a few hands away from us along with Haru and two of our pack members. His car was parked next to him as we were already out of the Red light village territory.A sudden thin chill hung on the edge of his words as Eden spoke again while approaching us, “You are my father's guest. That’s why I am letting you go for this once. But, I never want to see you again around my sister.”Sighing, Keir only answered in his arrogant voice, “I am grateful for your generosity, Eden.” Then, taking long steps, he reached Eden's car. Haru hastily opened the door of the front seat. Putting me down there carefully, Keir only whispered a word, “Sorry!” He reached for my cheek as his cold and long fingers brushed against the delicate skin on my cheek. He gently caressed my cheek for a few seconds, looking into my eyes as if he wanted me to read his eyes and his mind. Then, sighing loudly, he closed the door of the car with a loud ‘thud.’E
“Dev? Can’t you hear us?”I checked his body temperature as I suggested to Keir, “You need to take him out fast. Take him to our healers. They are quite competent.”Lucas and a few other strangers circled us as Lucas ordered some of them, “Carry him and take him back to Sasha. She is waiting outside.”I was feeling very guilty as I couldn’t protect that kid. Tears were gradually clouding my vision. When I witnessed how others picked his numb body from the ground and was carrying him out. I couldn’t hold back my tears anymore.I mumbled, gently holding his one hand, “S-sorry, Kid.”Miraculously, I felt his fingers wrapped around my hand as they squeezed my hand gently. In a low and gruff tone, Dev muttered a few, incoherent words, “S- Sister, I can f- fight.”Lucas ordered his men to take him out carefully so I let him go.However, recalling Jordan, I hastily told Lucas, “Mister Lucas, one of our pack members is still fighting. He is all alone. Please send some of them to help him.”Lu
“Ugh! Damn! This bastard!”Dev groaned in pain as he fell on the ground instantly. Crimson liquid began to wet his light blue shirt. While groaning and panting in agony, he tried to get up but the huge, brown werewolf behind him, leapt on him as his canines penetrated his neck from behind.Dev was a little far away from me but I was surrounded by two guards. So, I could reach for his help instantly. I shouted, tilting my head in Jordan’s direction, “Cover me. I need to help that kid.”“Alright, M’lady.”The sounds of Jordan’s firing was suppressing the screams of the guards as they were falling dead in the ground or writhing in pain. Approaching Dev, I also leapt on that huge, brown wolf. Without wasting a second, I wrapped my arm around his throat and slit his throat.He struggled a bit and then, his body turned numb as I pulled him away from Dev who was almost on the verge of fainting. His breathings were ragged as he closed his eyes while murmuring in pain, “It hurts so much, Siste
“Sister, where is Elder brother?”Sasha’s brother shouted, standing next to me. Surprisingly, he didn’t leave with the other kids. Sasha answered in a breathy tone, “Don’t ask me about that selfish dude. He appears and disappears as he wishes.”Clicking his tongue, the kid stated, “Tsk! We should have brought our younger brother here. He is more reliable.”“Are you talking about Mister Kyrell?” I asked him curiously.His dark eyes sparkled, “Who are you? You even know our younger brother and you are so beautiful. How did you become Sasha’s friend? When did it even happen?”“Umm.. Now? I became her friend just a few minutes ago.”The kid laughed a bit as he took a few steps forward, blocking the path of one guard, “As I thought. You still didn’t even know her. Sasha didn’t even have a single friend for her arrogant nature.”Sasha was still fighting with one of the guards while her brother stopped another guard from chasing the kids. While fighting, Sasha shouted from that side, “Dev! B
“What did he mean?”I asked in a puzzled tone, staring at that dark and deserted alley.Honestly, Lucas’ presence with us was assuring though he had an annoying personality. Sasha yawned sleepily as she checked the time, “Some of our people are locked here including my brother and some females of our villages. I need to find him here.”I realised that this visit wasn’t a sudden desire of Keir. He planned everything beforehand, maybe to save his clan members. Lucas was indeed right. Keir used me to fulfill his purpose. Seeing me silent, Sasha assured me, “It wouldn’t take long.”I kinda started liking Sasha’s personality. Smiling at her brightly, I answered promptly, “It’s alright. Let’s go and find your brother fast. Where did Lucas go?”Sasha answered while leading the way through a dark and narrow alley, “To set free all the trapped ladies. Honestly, we know that this place and all the illegal business of this red light village can’t be stopped overnight. We are just trying to slow t
“Yeah?”I answered briefly. Sasha’s jade-spoked eyes widened with astonishment. She was barely able to control her gasp of surprise as she and Lucas exchanged a few shocked gazes. Lucas only sighed briefly as he mumbled in a low voice, “That bastard has some audacity!”He began to walk again, stealing the glance of the Paradise stall behind us.However, Sasha’s expression turned gloomy. She complained in a low tone, “I heard that Princess Eliza is a very cunning lady. How did you end up becoming his prey? That manipulative bastard!”I impatiently answered her, “Prey? I don’t know what you are talking about but I think that we really should help Keir or he wouldn’t be able to escape from-”However, I was cut in the middle by a loud exploding sound, followed by chaos and screams of the villagers and customers. Sasha hastily suggested, “Let’s just leave first. The situation will get worse.”I asked anxiously, turning in the direction of Paradise’s hall, “But, Keir?”Lucas’ tongue was hea