ROSE
Dead was an understatement. As soon as the brunette with grassy green eyes looked at me, I saw her smile for Deamian turn to a scowl of resentment for me.
"You. What are you doing here?" She spat, crossing her arms over. Although she had every right to be angry, she was still talking to her alpha and I was not one for letting others disrespect me.
"Excuse me, but I am not a dog that you can just speak to like that." I said. It was then that Deamian spared the both of us confusing glances.
"You sure do act like a dog! And you look like one too. Like a mutt." And that was it. That was a boundary she overstepped... not even overstepped, she leapt across it and stomped on it.
I could feel my claws elongate and my fangs as well. I let out a low, angry growl which ripped from my chest. But she didn't look like she was scared.
ROSEI sat across from the Moon Goddess who sipped her tea and then looked up at me. I'd asked her a question and yet she still refused to tell me the answer."How familiar are you with your pack’s history?" She asked me as she daintily placed her teacup back on her saucer and cleared her throat.I shrugged, "I don't remember much. I was young when my parents told me about the pack."She shook her head in disappointment."You never even tried to find out?" She asked.I sighed, not in the mood to be lectured, "Look, I didn't have time to go and find out okay? Now if you would please enlighten me, Your Greatness!"She leaned back and placed her cup beside herself on the coffee table. She then crossed her legs over like a lady and interlocked her hands.
ROSE"What do you mean I will be living in your house? And what about my pack?" he said.I rolled my eyes at him as I led his dirty, smelly self to my house."People are trying to kill me and if they get to you, I'm definitely dead." I said.He huffed and stayed quiet until we reached the house. He looked up at the large light grey painted home surrounded by rose bushes of every colour and I swear for a second a smile made its way into his face. But it was gone too soon to be certain.We went inside and he ogled at the interior. The soft, blue couches, the black Coffee table, the big television against the wall, the fireplace and the white carpet underneath a small table which stood systematically around the lounge.We then went upstairs to the rooms and I led him to his."Your room. Ther
RYKERRYKERI didn't understand her... I couldn't. She was so heartless and cold. It was as though her heart was utterly love intolerant. Her eyes even held the most unemotional look in them as she glanced at me from above her cup of coffee. Did she really hate me so much that she wouldn't even try to get to know me? I knew I was a "worthless omega" but did she really hate my status that much? If she knew who I really was, would her feelings for me change? Would she fall for the other part of me?"So, I'm out today, last night we had a few more stray werewolves. You can check out the pack grounds if you would like. If so, inform Carina. Under no circumstance are you to go around unattended!""Why?" I asked, hoping that maybe it was a sign of affection. Maybe she didn't want me hurt because she actually cared."So, you don't go telling people t
ROSEWe ate in silence. I don't know why but today was hell being away from Ryker for so long. I had to be near him, and I didn't understand why. I'd been fine before he moved in..."How was work?" He mumbled.I was shocked at this and was about to retort something when I decided to just go with the flow."It was fine." I said. I was still wondering about what happened between Carina and him. What had made her cry like that?He nodded and shovelled more food into his mouth. It was at this point that I was struck by his appearance. Was it possible that he'd become more attractive overnight? Although pale and still quite bony he seemed even healthier, even more radiant with a soft, pure aura radiating about him."So, is this how our conversations are always going to be? I ask something and you give an answer indicating t
ROSE"So, you're finally showing me the Moon Flower today?"Weeks had passed since Ryker's coming into my home and today, he had to spend the day with Carina in the human world while I met with the Goddess.She giggled for a long while, recovered, looked at my face and then said, "Oh, you were serious?""Dead serious. How am I supposed to protect something if I don't even know where it is or what it looks like?" I said.She sighed and nodded, saying, "I suppose you are right..."She then stood up and motioned for me to do the same. And so, I did. She then moved closer towards me and took my hand which really startled and shocked me."Oh, don't look like that," she said with a playful put, and then we literally teleported into an underground greenhouse-looking place. For a second, I tripped and
ROSEI woke up almost ambushed by Deamian who hovered over me. I was on the floor and my body ached slightly. The idiot pushed me off!"What. The. Actual. Fudgeballs!" I yelled.He burst out laughing and I took the opportunity to trip him.He landed with a hard thump right next to me. I began laughing and so did he... Until eventually we stopped. We were close... Very close. His piercing blue eyes stared into my soul and roamed my face as though he were capturing it for future reference. For some or other odd reason my heart began thudding hard against my chest and I gulped slightly. I must be getting the flu, right? Probably from all those plants in the Moon Goddess' sanctuary.We were so lost in each other. So, stuck in our own world that when Carina entered the room, I nearly had a heart attack.She stared at us; he
ROSEAs soon as Deamian was gone, I had to go and help Carina find my idiot mate who was still missing. Pack members we questioned had said that they'd seen him for the day, walking around and making friends but I didn't care. He disobeyed me- again. He was so stubborn, so defiant. He was unlike any werewolf I'd met before. He didn't even really fear me, and that is what had me so interested in him. If it had been anyone else, they would have been dead by now, for defying me so much. However, with Ryker, I could not live without his defiance. He made me normal, not like some kind of raging monster.After searching the restaurant, admin department and storage facilities, Carina and I decided to check the training centre.Low and behold, my mate was there, talking to Henry as though they were the best of friends. To say I was absolutely outraged would be an under
RYKERShe fell asleep next to me. She was gorgeous and looked so innocent and harmless while her eyes were shut. Finally, I'd broken through her walls. Hopefully, I'd end up capturing her heart too. But there was something that made me nervous. How would she react to the truth and would it break our trust when she found out?I couldn't think of that now though. I was just enjoying her being close to me. She still reeked of Deamian though and I wasn't sure how that made me feel... His scent was always on her though, always lingering…. I’d known Deamian for a long time, probably longer than anyone else. He and I, we could never seem to escape one another.I snuggled closer to her and wrapped an arm around her body. Once she said the words, I'd show her the truth.She wriggled slightly and then settled, probably feeling the sparks between u
ROSE"Grayson, get off your phone and help your baby sister get the cereal from the cupboard... I'm not joking Gray! Right now!" I yelled as I put the kettle on.Grayson, the young boy I'd rescued nine years ago had grown into a handsome, healthy and very grumpy teenager. I treated him as I did his younger sister, my own biological child and expected him to take the role of alpha... After I transformed him into a werewolf (it was a promise I made to him). I absolutely adored both of my children."Mom, can't she use a ladder to get it down herself." Gray yelled as he took his headphones off.I shook my head at him, grabbed the cereal and handed it to the copper haired girl with piercing blue eyes."Here we go Rachel."She smiled and sat next to her brother, sticking her tongue out and teasing him. I chuckled. Soon Deami
ROSEI was lying on the floor, winded and in shock. What kind of sick and twisted person was she? She must have been a teenager when she'd instructed Adamson to do such a thing... How sick was Scarlett... And how sick was Adamson to obey her. A young girl giving a slightly older boy such an instruction. It was then that I remembered it all. Adamson. He was why I became what I became. He was ruthless when it came to my torture and the deaths of my parents, an older teenage boy. That's what he was back then. A teenager committing acts of terror. And if he was so young and could do such horrible things, what stopped me. When I'd finally escaped, he'd left.It was then that I grew angry. I felt my bones begin to crack and I howled out as fur began to sprout from my skin. I was turning."What?" Scarlett gasped. I guess she forgot about my little unusual ability to transform.
ROSEScarlett stood there in shock. She still couldn't believe it. However, in a matter of minutes her face grew to desperation and she grabbed a nearby rogue."This will have to do!" She said. She cut him, bled him into the ceramic, recited something in ancient tongue and then drank the mixture. It honestly happened so fast that I had no time to react and in a matter of moments, her body began thrashing forward and back, her eyes rolled back, and she fell to the ground. Horrified but still aware of her growing threatening presence I inched closer to her now still body which lay on the ground. Suddenly, her eyes darted open, her hair immediately changing into a dark silver colour and her eyes started becoming a reddish colour. This didn't feel right. What did she do to herself?She stood up so quickly I barely saw her, and then smiled. What the hell."See I may not be
ROSEI didn't know how to feel or how to act. By this time, Deamian had explained everything to me and I was in a state of utter shock. Apparently, Scarlett was taking her revenge on Deamian because she expected to become the next and final moon goddess since they were in love. Now she had a whole revenge plan calculated and constructed to perfection. She was the one who dragged him out of the place but could not bring me along because they hadn’t had enough time. They needed Deamian's Moon blood seeing as he was half of his mom's species. They also needed me for the moon flower essence which I had absorbed, which meant I walked right into their trap. They needed to do it now, before the essence integrated with my DNA and it became impossible to extract. That meant, they only had today. I wish I'd known. I wish I'd been more aware, less naive and gullible. I wish I were alpha Rose and not Rose, Moon Goddess with actual emotions.
ROSEScarlett and I were quiet as we drove. We both knew that when push came to shove, I'd have to use what little power I had... And that would leave me vulnerable and ready to be caught, just as they wanted. There was no denying that this was a trap, that they knew I would stop at nothing to find Deamian who was currently more important than I was when it came to fulfilling their plans.Soon we passed a sign that read "Nightfall Valley". The infamous public werewolf graveyard. Although it was now old and abandoned, there'd been rumours of ghosts at night haunting the place. That was probably true... But I highly doubted they were ghosts. We passed the entrance and I parked on the pavement, next to a pile of rotting wood. Once we exited the car, I felt it. The lingering feeling of the bond between Deamian and I."He's here!" I said, and then grabbed the rifle and swung it around me. It would
ROSEThe next morning, I woke up to the feeling of a cold and empty bed with nothing but a scribbled note next to me. It read:Would have grabbed you too but your boyfriend gave us quite a struggleImmediately goodebumps formed on my flesh and I began shaking. They had taken Deamian in our sleep. They had taken him, and I had no clue where the hell he was. Immediately I jumped out of bed, following his scent out of the house and towards the centre of the pack grounds, not caring that I was in pyjamas because the place was practically deserted with all the killings that had happened the previous night.Panic ran through me as I reached the end of the pack grounds at the gate and the scent of Deamian just disappeared. I even tried to tap into our mind link, try to enter his mind, but I felt still so weak, like a new-born baby.&
ROSEI never felt so cold before. So cold it felt as though melted ice flowed through my veins."Rose?" that voice. I knew that voice anywhere."Deamian?" I muttered out my eyes were still shut, unable to open."Rest. You overused your magic abilities." he whispered. But I didn't want to rest. I wanted to go after Adamson and stab him multiple times in the neck with a pen. That's what he deserved after all.Slowly I fought the invisible force preventing me from opening my eyes.Eventually, I managed to pry my lids open, hissing as the light poured in.Deamian looked down at me, disappointed that I didn't listen.I can't just rest. Not after Adamson. Not after he tried to take someone important away from me... Again. I mind linked him this he sighed, giving up.
ROSEAdamson glared at me. His wolf form was intimidating yes, almost enough to intimidate me. To have me cowering, shaking. He had grown more powerful from the last time I’d seen him. Why was he here… was he in charge?"I see now that I shouldn't have let you live. No, not at all my thorny Rose." he said. That name, that name shot chills through my spine and almost had me absolutely in a state of panic. But I couldn't back down. Despite the flashes of memories of this monster torturing me, laughing at my screams, and humiliating me." What do you want, Adamson?" I asked. I noticed now how his pack had changed thanks to my killings years back. Now his pack was filled with rogues of different rankings, and humans. They were even larger than before."wouldn’t you like to know, my pet?" another demeaning name that made me shiver. But I had to stand my
ROSEAir... I needed air.That was the only thought ringing through my mind as I awoke. My throat was dry, and my ears rang. Was I supposed to feel this way after the memory ceremony? Like I'd been hit by a truck and then smashed continuously by the hulk?I slowly moved my head around and my breath hitched. There was no one here. Not a single soul in the silent, dark place."Hello?" I called out. I then began to hear violent whispers in my ear. I couldn't quite decipher what they were saying."All hail her majesty, Rose, the new Goddess." they screamed in my ears making me cover them with my shaking fingers.Then silence and darkness.Slowly, I began to hear distorted yells and my eyes began to flutter open."…whatever it takes, don't let them near her!" Mr Gimmw