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Chapter Thirty-Six
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2025-02-06 17:27:32
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Khai’s presence entered the room and eased into bed. My back was to him and I pretended to sleep. His warmth inched closer and closer until his arms wrapped around my body. I moved myself out of his arms.“I knew you weren't asleep.”“I thought we agreed on no touching in bed.”“I thought that after our make-out session, all rules were gone.”I could hear him smirking through his voice.“I just want to grieve in silence and... in space.”I came here to cry alone.“Don’t you want to stop grieving, haven’t you had enough?”My head snapped in his direction. His head rested on his palm. I didn't have the words.“I want you now,” Khai said softly.I had assumed he was an impatient person but now I knew.“That’s selfish," I stated.Anger simmered in my belly and crawled up my throat like bile. If I stayed there I would say things I didn't mean. I got up from the bed.“Where are you going?” he asked as I opened the door and shut it behind me.Inconsiderate bastard. Impatient prick. Insensiti
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Grace never left her room. She just stopped going out. I bet the stench was putrid.Mom always left food for her at the door and she would open only for that. The same person who allowed her to stay didn't even talk to her. I only saw Grace if I woke up early enough to find her heading to the shower. Very early."So Grace stays?" an elder asked.We sat in a meeting, me and of all elders of the pack were in the living room. It had been two weeks since the treaty was broken. Schedules clashed and there never came a time for everyone to come together until then. Things were always slow here."Yes," I sighed heavily.I stood in the middle and they all sat on the couches."No punishment?" another asked."The Luna prescribes we don't.""So you let your Luna control you?" An old friend of my father asked from the corner.I growled under my breath and sneered at him. I knew they would see it that way."She doesn't control
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Elders gathered around us in a crooked circle. The snow was weak beneath us, it melted completely with each step. Icicles melted and snow shook off trees at the slightest touch. News had spread and a couple of pack members came from their homes, even Audrey was there. Roman and I stood in the midst, a knife in her hand. My grandfather stood closest to us.We'd put contingencies at play. I made my grandfather vow that if I died they would not harm Roman but let her go free."You know," she said lowly, only loud enough for me alone to hear.Her long eyelashes brushed her cheeks, and she gazed up at me with bright, beautiful eyes. I couldn't wait to see her in the spring."My mother told me I was special but I've never really known for myself. Either we look awesome or like fools."I squeezed her wrists to comfort her."I don't care what we look like."Her eyes filled with hope and a glimmer of affection and she looked away."Trag
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Khai was glorious. He glowed like a black moon but one that emitted its own light. He was larger than he was before and his eyes were now green. I thought it would wear off after he turned back but he remained like that. The power overwhelmed his body and when it wore out he collapsed. Hopefully, when he wakes up he will be himself again.“Roman,” Jacob called.I was in Walter’s room where Khai lay unconscious on the bed. The harsh light spotlighted his handsome face. Walter was also the only one I felt comfortable confiding in. I liked spending time with Yolanda but I had learned quickly that she couldn't be trusted with much.Jacob knocked on the door.“Our grandfather wants to see you.”I followed Jacob to the living room where the elders had gathered once more. They told him to leave.“Take a seat, Roman,” Khai’s grandfather said.His name was Emiliano and his skin was like old saddle brown leather. I thought he looked handsome for his age. I could see where Khai got it from.I to
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When I went to the kitchen, the house was silent. The elders had left and I found Eddie in there."Luna?" he asked with concern in his tone. I couldn't tell if he was genuinely concerned or just faking it because I was right before him. Last time, Khai told me he thought I was a dust rat."How is school?" I asked him.This was the standard question for Eddie and Kyle, a question everyone asked them."Not good," he replied. "At this rate, I don't think I'll make it to university."I opened the fridge and took out some leftovers from last night."Oh no," I said. What else could I say?It went quiet between us."Say, do you feel the unsettling presence of this house? Like a dark energy?"He looked up from his homework and scrunched his nose."I don't think so."What did I expect?Linda came in and started preparing dinner. I sat beside Eddie and watched her. It sure did suck having nothing to do. Back home River and I always got water from the well and every night I did the dishes. Here
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When I woke up gravity felt like a boulder pressing on every fibre of my body. I was heavy and my head and neck pulsed with a pain I'd never felt before. Walter had me on a drip, I pulled out the needle and sat up. The world spun and I felt incredibly worn.How was it that I felt like I was on top of the world and then the whole world was on top of me?I needed to get out of here. I could feel a shift in my mood coming.I dragged myself to my room and got dressed. I could hear Roman and Linda cooking and talking in the kitchen. It sounded like they were starting to get along. I got dressed and used the backdoor by the garage to get out. I phased and ran out into the wild.I couldn't say how long I stayed out there, but I returned replenished. Roman was upset and worried about me but it wasn't anything I couldn't reassure her about. We sat in my bedroom and she'd just come from a shower. Water dripped from the ends of her locks and steam filled the room from her boiling shower."I'm fin
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I climbed the stairs to the rooms. Passing my room where I could hear Roman shifting around, listening to my earphones. It was what fascinated her most about the modern life.I set two taps on the door and her groggy voice lamented."Go away.""It's Khai, open," I demanded.It took a lot of fidgeting and shuffling for her to finally open the door.Her red hair was untamed as it reached down to her shoulders like wild branches. Dark circles under her eyes. Despair decorated her body as she slouched and her lips remained curled upside down. I pushed past her and inhaled a thick stench in her room. I rushed to open the windows and curtains."Are you trying to die?”"Maybe," she mumbled.She closed the door behind her and turned on the lights. Bright pink walls. It was a mess. Clothes were everywhere, plates of food piled up in the corner crawling with cockroaches and the stench was unbearable. I had to keep myself from gagging."You can't live like this.""I just did," she said languidl
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He let me guide him into the room where I aggressively pushed him onto his bed. I was burning with a pyroclastic rage, erupting from me like a volcano. I climbed on him and straddled him on the bed.Khai could barely think, I could tell. He was out of breath and desperate for my lips. I kissed him deeply and caressed his neck. He moaned into my lips. I lowered my lips, kissed and sucked his neck. All things he had subconsciously taught me.Then as soon as he was at the top of the moment I stopped and got off him.Puzzled he looked at me as I sat down on the bed beside him."Roman?" he was breathless.He sat up straight and fixed his shirt."Khai," I replied."What's wrong?""I'm not going to do this with you. I'm not some city wolf."He shrugged; his eyes still dazed with passion."Where I'm from you marry a girl before you sleep with her. The culture that you guys have here. Sleeping with each other as if sex is as casual as a conversation is insane to me."His eyes dimmed but not in
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The guard dogs ran ahead of me, howling in celebration. I turned my head away from the corpses and tried to convince myself I was walking back from somewhere else. But I couldn’t forget what I did, not while I had his skull in my mouth.The howls filled the air all the way back to Traga land. Outside the house many wolves in their human forms had gathered, ready to receive us. They were so excited to see us, cheering and joyful that the reign of Azraels was finally over. I placed Intiyago’s head in the middle of the garden and everyone erupted in joy.Where was my joy, I wondered. I couldn’t feel a thing.Intiyago haunted me for so long, made my life a living hell and now that I had ended him I felt no joy nor sense of completion. I entered the house and phased into a human in the kitchen.My behavior offset them but they continued to cheer and celebrate outside, hoisting Intiyago’s head and parading around with it. The house was e
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The world was red as I backed away, trying to shake the blood off my face. Intiyago walked slowly toward me. Prowling, Ravenous and angry but his eyes – his eyes were sympathetic.Roman, this is not what I want. His voice was soft in my head. He stopped in his tracks, his head lowered down and he licked drops of my blood which had fallen on a rock.No.But it was too late, his pink tongue wiped the rock clean and his eyes surged with a golden glow. A menacing growl ripped out of him.This is what I want!His voice was heavy again, dark and sharp. The sun healed the scratch and I could see properly again. I charged toward him and clawed at his face. Claw after claw I saw blood and more blood until his face was disfigured. He howled and jumped to the side where he rammed me into a tree. The impact almost broke my ribs but I got back up and gave him everything I had. I rammed him into the other tree and bit into his arm so hard I hit his bone.The painful howl he screamed satisfied me i
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Malcolm decided to return to the funeral with a busted nose and lips. I waited on the porch for the guard dogs to appear. They said that as soon as Khai was buried we would get to go.Nothing else mattered but my vengeance, nothing at all. There was no after. I couldn’t imagine it and if I died killing all the Azraels I would be satisfied, I would’ve achieved my life’s purpose.A couple of wolves… Ten? No fifteen. Twenty-seven? Thirty! Thirty, to be exact broke out of the forest, ravenous and ready to fight. Traga guard dogs. Slightly bigger than other wolves and their legs showed that they spent their time fighting and running. These were strong wolves. I almost felt pride when I saw them coming in, if no one knew – they would’ve thought they were wild wolves.I got to my feet as family members and other Tragas came back to the house in their human forms. Hannah ran to my side.“You don’t have to do this. You’re the alpha, send them out instead. You stay.”Vomit bubbled in the back o
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When we were out of sight he loosened his grip on me. My hand quickly found its way to his and I held it tight. I couldn’t let go of the warmth, even for a second. I still allowed my mind to play tricks on me. If I did not look at him and imagine his voice as Khai’s he would be Khai.“You can’t do that type of stuff. It’s traumatising,” he said.I knew it was wrong. I did not doubt it but I didn’t care.His other free hand ran down his face. He looked tired and sleepless. The bags under his eyes were swollen, and red cracked through the whites of his eyes. Had he not slept? I looked away from him, to the trees and anything else that would allow me to swap him out with who I wanted him to be.“That’s why we have to look at him before they shut the casket. It prevents such things.”Leaves crunched under his boots and my heels. My ankles and toes hurt.It was insane how it hadn’t been a complete year since I met Khai. I met him in winter and lost him before winter. I let go of his hand. H
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A blur turned into a man with long hair, hunched forward, his back to me. His shoulders moved up and down as he sat on the other end of the mattress. Sunlight poured into the room and it was warm.“What do you want Malcolm?”“Alpha,” he said dully. I groaned.“Please don’t call me that.”“Thank you, I wasn’t enjoying it.” He simply said.We were alone in the room, Edna and Audrey must’ve left for breakfast or something. A little tingle in my stomach made me desperately want to see his face.“Hey look at me,” I told him and he adjusted his weight.His hair was wet, dripping still and parted in the middle. He looked clean, it suited him to be clean.“Why do you keep long hair, you look like a songwriter,” I said.A small smile etched upon his face and I had no idea why it felt good. I hated it.On the other hand, my arms felt like they had been squeezed into immobility and my body was heavy. My nose was runny and I sniffled. I had been lying on one side the whole night, crying in my sle
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The hours went by and people stopped coming. Most must’ve been sleeping but I could hear them outside, mourning and crying, their whispers like the wind whistling through leaves.Before I could notice, Edna had curled into a ball and fallen asleep. Yolanda said she was going to the bathroom, but she never returned for a very long time. Audrey and I sat in silence for 20 minutes, just staring off into the darkness and the shadows that danced along with the candle flames.“She’s with Jacob, you know?” Audrey mentioned matter-of-factly.I looked over at her and her face was deepened by shadows, the crevices of her smile were like dark corners. The statement didn’t surprise me – rather I was absorbed in the atmosphere of everything. How dark and gloomy everything had gotten, how everybody’s smiles had turned into tears and clenched teeth. It only took a single moment.“How has this affected you?” I asked her.The question scared me at first, I was afraid she would give me something intell
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That night Khai’s bedroom was cleared and they only left the mattress. The room was as bare as carcasses my brothers and I left stripped of any flesh after a hunt. His smell went along with everything and all I could smell was the stench of cigarettes, old, from when Khai used to smoke as a teenager.The room was to be the main room of mourning. Whitney, Edna, Yolanda, Audrey and I sat in there with scarves covering our heads and the longest dresses and skirts we could find. Tradition was the reason for everything lately. We were supposed to sit there and mourn until the sun came up and the funeral began.I didn't want to do it, it sounded miserable. But then I realized I was nowhere above misery and I was the one who spent days with a corpse in bed, pretending and hoping he would wake up and call it all some foul joke. That never happened.Although I wasn’t officially a widow I was considered one. We never got down to tying the knot but his ring hun
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Malcolm’s eyes fell on me, cold and stern.“This is not Malcolm’s idea, it is simply tradition,” Raymond said calmly.“Yes… but I am the alpha, I can rule that tradition out of the book,” I said.Raymond’s face hardened. He stood up and stormed toward me. His hand wrapped around the collar of my shirt as he pulled me up to his level.“Haven’t you caused enough trouble, bitch? You will do as we say and fix what you broke.”His voice was coarse, hot on my cheek.“Raymond, calm down! Leave the girl alone!” Edna protested.With all his strength he threw me back into the couch and I sat back down. I tried not to show it but my heart was racing and I was scared. Raymond was a large man, akin to a bear. If we wanted to, he could’ve thrown me into the wall and broken through it.“Roman, I hoped I didn’t have to make it explicitly clear but
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Before I could get to know Audrey better Yolanda came to call us. Yolanda and Audrey’s relationship was characterized by brutal teasing, nothing was off the table. Yolanda only needed to say a sentence before Audrey criticised it.“Where did you pick up that atrocious accent?” Audrey asked as we walked down the hallway.At the first step, Yolanda tittered.“Must’ve been from those years when you tutored me. Heads up, read a book before you think you can lecture someone.”“I love to see you taking initiative, I didn’t know you could read.”The two giggled between each other. I didn’t know how to feel about the jokes though, since I couldn’t read.It never mattered if I could read or not back home, what advantage would such a skill afford a culture of people who hardly read? School didn’t exist either, at least in the formal sense. All older wolves saw it as their responsibility to educate those who were younger than them. One morning I’d find myself hunting with my father and the next,
