“I didn’t know that Alpha Maverick had a private jet at his disposal,” Easton snickered sarcastically, and Alec scoffed.“What do you think we are? Some barbarians who stay in one place?” Alec retorted.“I don’t think you’re too far from that,” Kael commented.“Except for the fact that this pack is the richest in the whole southern area and top five in the whole world, you must be an imbecile to think that they commute on foot,” Layla chimed in, earning glares from both Kael and Easton.“Which pack are you from exactly?” Easton asked, and Layla shrugged.“Why don’t you switch packs and declare yourself a bona fide member of the Moonlight Pack instead of being a backstabber?” Kael shot at her, but Layla just poked her tongue out at him.“I would have done that, but then that means their beta would have to follow me. You can’t function properly without your Beta, and your Beta can’t function at all without me…” Layla trailed off.“Who fed you those delusions?” Kael asked.“Need I remind
“And what exactly do you mean by, ‘You are Maverick Prill, and room 232 is yours?’ What about the second room? My room?” Aurora asks, her voice laced with irritation as she faces the overly-peachy receptionist.“Exactly what you heard,” the woman replies with a smug grin, eyes flicking over Aurora. “Do you have trouble hearing?”Aurora nearly scoffs at the woman's dismissive tone. This was the problem with dealing with humans in a pack-dominated world—no matter how polite they tried to be, their underlying rudeness always slipped through. Aurora could bet anything that if this woman were a werewolf and knew her reputation, she'd be speaking with a lot more respect.“So, are you saying there’s only one room reserved under our name?” Maverick asks, his eyebrow raised. It’s clear he’s having a hard time processing this, especially since he personally made the reservation for two rooms.“Yes, handsome. It appears that way.” The receptionist looks Maverick up and down, twirling her hair and
“Are you sure there was still no room in this damn hotel?” Aurora asked the bitchy receptionist, who was now glaring at her.“I’m going to say this for the last time, ma’am. There was no room available for the rest of the month. We were fully booked.”“There wouldn’t be anything if I offered to pay three times the amount?”“Would you like it if I kicked you out because someone offered to pay threefold, ma’am? Even though I would do that to you without being offered so much,” she asked, but muttered the last part. Aurora scoffed.The only reason the woman wasn’t tearing her hair out was because one of the executives was on the premises, and if a receptionist at a hotel that prided itself on the opinion of clients was found insulting one of them, shit would go down for the employee. There was also the possibility that the press was lurking around somewhere too.“Now, get out of my sight, ma’am. There’s nothing I can do, and why the hell were you so hell-bent on not sharing the room with
“What? No,” he said with a small chuckle and turned to glance at Aurora, who was sleeping peacefully on the bed through the glass. He turned to face the view again.“Of course, I won’t be able to come since fucking rival 1.0 is right there,” she said, and Maverick could picture her doing an eye roll. “Why the hell did you call me?”“Because you’re the only one awake at this time,” he replied.“Of course, that shit ass beta of yours will be on fucking period and will subtract your head from your fucking neck if you wake him up.”“I’m glad you know that.”“How’s the fucking situation?” she asked, and he was silent for a bit, his eyes sweeping over the many small lights in the distance.“We decided to be friends,” he said.“Wait? What? You’ve decided to be friends?! You fucking talked about it?!” she yelled, which made Maverick remove the phone from his ear to protect his eardrums. “You didn’t talk about it?! None of you fucking mentioned the freaking past and just decided to be damn frie
“You seriously couldn’t continue to make me sleep on the couch. That wasn’t done. How about we do it like this? We take turns— you sleep in bed today, I will tomorrow,” Aurora said as they entered the elevator and pressed the ground floor button. She was already sick of staying in the living room until morning.“You were just complaining. I was sure you weren’t feeling any sort of pain,” Maverick replied, his hands buried in his pockets as he stared ahead.Of course, there was no way she would feel sore since most nights, she slept in the bed anyway, and not once had she ever woken up while being carried to and from the bed.Whether it was because she felt safe in the environment or because she just always had to involuntarily let her guard down at night, he would never know.“Yes, I didn’t feel pain, but that didn’t make it any less uncomfortable. Let’s just take turns and be fair,” she insisted.“I didn’t know you played fair. You didn’t seem to consider taking turns when you readily
Isn’t this a coincidence?” Aurora heard behind her, and she turned, staring at Ferix in disbelief.“No, it isn’t. I would like to report you for stalking at this stage,” Aurora replied, crossing her arms over her chest, and Ferix laughed. She wondered what was so funny.“Why would I stalk you? I had some things to do here, and there’s no way I’m supposed to find out where you go and who you see when I just met you four days ago.”“And do I have to remind you that from four days ago until now, there’s been no day that I don’t see you?”“Like I said, it’s just a coincidence,” he said, and Aurora squinted her eyes at him.“I don’t even know why I’m talking to you in the first place,” she said and turned to walk away, but he immediately followed her.“You still haven’t told me your name.”“Why should I?”“It’s only fair. I told you mine.”“Too bad. I don’t play fair, and I never asked for your name. Now fuck off,” she said and hastened her steps. He immediately rushed after her and grabbed
Aurora glanced back subtly without turning her head at all, it was more like a side glance to catch the shadow of the person trailing after her.She smirked when she saw that they were still following her. She had gone out for a jog since the room had become unbearably boring, Maverick was still buried in work the next day, hardly paying any attention to her— not that she needed his attention anyway.But now, two men were following her, trying to keep it subtle, but she noticed them immediately, and since she was up to nothing and in need of some activity, she turned into a quiet street, empty of people, with an alleyway just beyond.“Perfect,” she muttered to herself, continuing to walk. The men grew bolder, no longer bothering to hide that they were creepy stalkers.Aurora turned sharply when they least expected it, her mouth quirking up in a smirk as she stretched, straightening her hand, ready for a fight.“Now, gentlemen, don’t creep on ladies; if you wanted to ask me out, you cou
The car pulled to a halt in the parking lot of a very sparkly and shimmering building, with lightning flashing all over the place. Aurora stepped out of the car and raised her head to stare at the name of the bar.“Devil’s Light,” she read out loud and smacked her lips. “Very fitting, there’s no way these lights aren’t devilish.”Maverick stepped out from the other side of the car and walked to her side. They both stared at the building for a moment before they nodded and began to walk toward the guards at the door.Maverick showed them their card, and they allowed them entrance. Their eyes scanned the numerous humans enjoying themselves, dancing to the loud beats of the DJ, completely unaware of the supernatural club that occupied the floor right above theirs.“Ignorance is really bliss,” Maverick muttered, and Vincent arrived at their side just in time. Aurora didn’t miss the glare Maverick sent his way, but she ignored it. The man had said that he offended him.“This way,” Vincent s
Phoebe stared around as she was being led towards the Mistress’s office, when she arrived at the entrance of the castle, she didn’t have to tell them about who she was before she was told to come along.It seemed that he had informed them that she was coming, she didn’t know why he didn’t tell them straight away but it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing for her.If she played her cards well, she would be able to turn everything in her own favor.The castle was fairly beautiful but also dark at the same time, it was a stereotypical dark place that one would expect a witch to live in. It seemed that this Mistress is such a cliché person.The man in front opened a door after knocking and fast enough, they were in the study and in the presence of the Mistress herself, there was also a lady standing by her side.Phoebe found a seat without being invited to sit in one, she studied the expression on the Mistress’s face and didn’t like it one bit, it was weird—but she couldn’t figure it out so sh
“Do you want to take a rest now? You have already worked hard since you found the books,” Maverick said, placing down a glass of milk beside Aurora.“Yeah, I should probably rest soon but there’s no way I can now, I want to gather all the facts I can get about the ways of producing the potion that can turn the potion back to normal people.”“You already found out about how to take care of the fetus and you have administered methods on it,”“Yeah,” Aurora hit her back on the chair softly. “Who knew that it was actually something as easy as finding essence fertilizer and using it on it raw? Turns out that the thing is not purely evil.” She mused.“That doesn’t mean that we should relax though, I am quite anxious about this master, he already ordered that they should turn me into a puppet. They are taking their sweet time which could only mean one thing,” she turned to glance at Maverick.“They are preparing something.”She nodded. “So I have to hurry.”“How are you supposed to get the p
A groan fell from her lips, followed by a pained grunt, she heaved heavily and tried to adjust her head to the darkness but she discovered that she wasn’t in a dark room, instead her head was covered by a dark cloth. She tried to move but she discovered that both her arms and legs were tied tightly—she had been abducted!Phoebe regulated her breathing and ease her body, preparing herself to recount the events that happened before she found herself at his place.She had spent quite some time at the spot where she hid, she made sure that the night had come before she set off. One, it would make her mate who might have been expecting her think that she was being stubborn and decided not to set off on that day again, two, she had better advantages at night—it would have been easier to deal with trouble she encountered on the way when her senses were all alerted.She had set off, walking carefully and examining everything and everywhere around her, she even made sure to be as careful as po
“You really do?” Aurora asked and Maverick nodded before he handed over a book that she didn’t know that he was holding. She collected the book from him and glanced at it for a moment before she turned to look at him.“What is this? Where did you get it?”“It is obviously a book and I got it from the training room.”She glared at him in anger before she moved closer to him but he only stepped away from her too. She raised the book in his face. “You obviously have this but you made me try every trick up my sleeve trying to open it when you have the answer? You are a jerk!” she yelled at him but he only rolled his eyes at her.“You might want to hurry,” he replied simply, she huffed and turned to open the book in her hand before she turned to stare at Maverick with surprised eyes.“You want me to use my blood? How am I supposed to do that?” He smirked before he provided a knife out of nowhere, she scoffed in disbelief. “I should cut myself?”“How else? Am I supposed to bite the blood ou
“Listen,” Mr. Brian’s voice started as soon as Phoebe descended the last step on the staircase, he was sitting in the living room and from the look of things, it was very obvious that he was waiting for her. Phoebe paused and regarded him with a blank gaze. “I don’t care whatever excuse you have, I have had it with you. You are going back to Blood Moon Pack today.”Phoebe remained silent, they would have this conversation the day before but when she came back from the hospital, his mother was nowhere to be found and Alec had assigned an important duty to her father.“I have arranged someone who would take you through the way to the pack, once you are out of the border of Moonlight Pack, the only thing you have to worry about are the puppets that would be lurking around,” her father continued regardless of her silence. “I have sought information from some members of the coven that I have good relationship with, they confirmed that the puppets have been reigned but regardless of it all
“I hope you aren’t feeling any pain again,” Sadie asked and Phoebe nodded with a blank expression on her face, she had collapsed as soon as she reached her room the day she met her mate and had extreme fever immediately, she was hallucinating the past events as if it was present and was breathing was erratic.Her parents had no choice but to bring her to the hospital and let Sadie attend to her personally. She was glad that it stopped their rants for a short time.Sadie furrowed his brows at her and stared at her in concern. Even though she didn’t get along with Phoebe, she couldn’t ignore a woman who seemed to be spinning down the depression path with a spiral, she bites her lips in contemplation.“Is everything alright?” She finally asked.“Does it look like it isn’t?” Phoebe replied, and Sadie just nodded in understanding, there was no way to force an answer out of someone who is not willing. She dusted her coat and dipped her hands in the pockets before she started making her way
The door opened and Mani stepped into the dark study that had only dim light at the moment, The Mistress was sitting behind her desk, she was flipping through a book that she got from the archived documents. She was trying to find out all she could about Crystabelle but she wasn’t getting anything through.Witches, no matter how powerful they might be, would have their records in the archives. It was a magic that no one has been able to find out its root, it would automatically record it, even the ones thousands of miles away or were just born or died. As long as you have some witch blood running through your veins you are down, but there was nothing showing up about Crystabelle, it was as if she didn’t exist at all.“What did you find out?” The Mistress finally asked her when she dropped the book down after a futile search.“There’s no way to be exact but she is at Moonlight Pack at the moment.”“Damn.” The Mistress sighed. “So there’s no way to track her movement.”“No.”“How is the
“I…I…” Phoebe stuttered, but panic blocked the words from tumbling out. She clenched her hands tightly as she heaved quietly.“It is as irritating as it can get with Aurora running around, but you also had to start your fiasco?” He moved closer and she remained frozen in the same spot.“I-I am sorry!” She fell on her knees in front of him, sweat coating her forehead.He squatted in front of her and raised her head to stare straight into her eyes, his hood obstructing her from seeing him but she didn’t miss the smirk that pulled his lips.“Do you know what you did wrong?” He asked, and she nodded repetitively, anything to make her escape his grasp. He was excited and it would be a bad idea to remain in his presence.“I am sorry, I am sorry, I am sorry,” she resumed her mantra and he scoffed.“Don’t be like this, mate.” He chuckled. “If someone saw you right now, they would think I am doing something bad to you. I heard your conversation with your mother.”Her eyes flew up to stare stra
“What are you talking about? I am not her!” She yelled at him firmly.He moved closer to her and placed both hands on her shoulders before he pulled her closer to himself for a hug. She struggled for a while but he didn't let her go.“Witches have their explanations and theories for things that happened around them because to other species, their abilities were already something unnatural. They didn't want to add more things that would lead to greater questioning.Your condition happened to others before and after a lot of research, they came up with a theory and an explanation, but the thing is, this situation is familiar to me too.When a werewolf goes rogue or can't handle pain and pushes their wolves forward to handle things in their stead, you don't say that they have been possessed even when the behavior of the human and wolf is different. We say that they were somewhere safe inside themselves and needed a break, they would come back later when things are clear in their head.Bu