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AUTUMN:The she-devil was blocking my path.I wondered why she came here. Perhaps to bring hell into my now peaceful life. Right. She was one of the major contributors to why staying in this pack was hell in the past. She asked someone to make me suffer while laughing in the background. And now, Maddox was going to marry this woman? Poor beta. I halted.Forcing a smile, I asked, "Yes, Miss Sabrina? Is there something you want to know?"Her nostrils flared. She was mad. Again. Nothing new about that. “You said the wrong question. It should be something I want you to do,” she reiterated. I was right. She bright hell with her. “May I know what you want me to do, Miss Sabrina?”She flipped her hair to the other side. "I want you to clean the chapel." Clean the chapel? Alone? It must be alone. But the chapel, if cleaned alone, would take half a day. And it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. When I did not say anything, she asked, "What? You're saying no? Did you buy your
Last Updated : 2025-04-25THE ALPHA'S DOWNFALL [01]
AUTUMN:Fifteen years ago...Autumn was only 8 years old...We sprawled on the grass. The three of us. Maddox. Hugh. And me. All of us were catching our breaths, after running for a long time in the forest. It was fun and exhilarating at the same time. Maddox said it would be more fun if we had our wolves, but we had not reached our eighteenth birthday, yet so there were no signs of it. "That was fun," Hugh declared, the eldest among us being ten years old. But he did not look like ten years old. He had a huge body and daddy said that he would become a fine alpha with all the muscles and genes he had. Between Maddox and him, he was the tallest with the rest of us and the leader of the among us. "If we had our wolves, then, we would be faster than we ran using our feet," Maddox stated. He was one year younger than Hugh was. Two years older than me. But still, it did not stop us from forming a bond. I did not know how our friendship started, but daddy said that it had something to
Last Updated : 2024-11-17THE ALPHA'S DOWNFALL [02]
AUTUMN:Beta Maddox and my eyes met. Then, he opened his mouth, but I could not make out what he was saying. The woman who was kicking me suddenly dispersed and ran away. In a blink of an eye, he was suddenly in front of me and helped me get up. His mouth opened, but I could not hear anything. ‘Mate,’ Trisha whispered.Images of our childhood resurfaced of him promising me to take me as his mate and rejecting anyone if it was not me.This time, this was no longer our decision, but the Moon Goddess herself.Did the Moon Goddess pitied me this time?“Autumn,” he called, glancing at the surroundings. We were in the secluded part of the pack house, where only a few would pass. This was the part of the house going to the utility room where it was also rumored to be housing a lot of ghosts.Beta Maddox helped me stand and nearly released me when we both felt the strong flow of electricity when our skin contacted.It was undeniable and without a doubt he was my mate.Finally.“You are my ma
Last Updated : 2024-11-21THE ALPHA'S DOWNFALL [03]
AUTUMN:It had been a week after the beta’s rejection and I was pretending that everything was normal. No. My bad. There were no pretensions anymore because no one was giving me their attention. No one. So there was no pretending at all since they did not see me.I was doing my usual work in the pack house. Cleaning the hallway. Wiping the portraits on the wall. Wiping the dust of the enormous sculptures. Everything was monotonous. And it was already tiring. Lazily, I dragged the mop back to the utility room. I had already finished cleaning everything. There were a few omega's that I had met, but no one bothered to say their greetings. All feared me. A gasp escaped my lips when I felt the sticky liquid on my hair. With shaky hands, I reached out and found out it was nothing but an egg thrown on my hair. Again? Incidents like this were no longer new.The hall rang with laughter coming from my pack members. ‘Don’t tell me you will do nothing?’ Trisha asked, baring her teeth to me.
Last Updated : 2024-11-21THE ALPHA'S DOWNFALL [04]
AUTUMN: Beta Maddox looked like a god who had walked here on earth. All the women had gaped at him as if he was what they were worshipping on the ground he walked. My stomach churned. Why did he have the perfect timing? Always seeing my pathetic side. The bullied. The weak. “Beta Maddox.” The crowd dispersed and parted. With my heads bowed, I waited for the footsteps to stop until I could see feet right in front of me. I had to stop myself from inhaling his delicious scent. Damn it. Why did he have to barge in and pretend that he did not reject me? I hated him. I loathed how he tossed our past. "Bullying in front of the daylight?" Beta Maddox asked. Why do you ask when you even rejected me. Secretly. ‘Why? You want the world to know that he rejected you and that you want it to be out in the open?’ Trisha asked. “Sabrina!” The woman paled. Sabrina was too flabbergasted to answer. She should have reacted that way. Bullying was prohibited in the pack, but it was
Last Updated : 2024-11-21THE ALPHA'S DOWNFALL [05]
AUTUMN:What? Beta Maddox did not expect that I would rob it into his face? Shame on him! “Watch your mouth, Autumn,” he whispered, his voice flat. "I am still your beta. I am your superior. You follow whatever I say."I am your ex-mate, I wanted to say, but stopped myself from saying it. “Why would I? Will you punish me? Do it. All of you are good at bullying me so it does not make any difference at all.”“All I am saying is that…”“What?”“We are no longer eight and nine years old, Autumn. We are already adults. That's why I am asking you to talk in private.”I scoffed. “No. You talk to me in private because you do not want the pack to know that you're paired to a curse one? Enough of being a fake knight-in-shining armor, Beta Maddox. You already rejected me. So please stop giving me your fake care."He heaved a long sigh. "Everyone who is bullied, I will do the same to save them, Autumn.""Whatever you say, Beta Maddox. If you will excuse me."Gathering my cleaning utensils, I w
Last Updated : 2024-12-02THE ALPHA'S DOWNFALL [06]
AUTUMN:Those memories were what keep me doing. If the did not exist, what would keep me going? Beta Maddox stared at me for a long time before he heaved a long sigh. "I'm not asking you to forget them. I'm asking you to move on from the past. There's no way that would happen. I'm talking about the promises we did, Autumn. As you can see, I am already arranged to marry to Sabrina. I cannot say no to the elders. I have no—"Damn him! He had no choice, really? “Stop!” I said cutting off his word. It was uninteresting to hear how he was an obedient beta. Gathering my courage, I asked, "Is there anything else you want to say, Beta Maddox? I don't want to hear anymore of the past."He opened his mouth, and was about to say something, but closed it again.Good because I did not want to hear any of his lame excuses."Can I ask something, Beta Maddox?""What is it?""Don't call me anymore especially if we are in private. Sabrina, your fiancee will get mad at me for sure." Especially if sh
Last Updated : 2024-12-03THE ALPHA'S DOWNFALL [07]
AUTUMN:First it was confusion and the next, I was glaring back at Beta Maddox. With no plans of answering him, I hurried cleaning the hallways, mopping everything and when I was done, gathered all the cleaning materials that the other omega's had dropped on the floor. “Have you gone mute?” he asked. “I said why are you cleaning the hall alone?”At the corner of my gaze, he pocketed his phone in his pocket, while eyeing me.“I did not need an audience, Beta Maddox.” Telling him why the others left was a waste of time. There was no guarantee that he would take my side. He rejected me, remember? Seeing him will only make the mate bond painful. Just because I carried it well did not mean that I was no longer in pain. “I am overseeing things, Autumn. You're not answering my question.” “I'm not the only one working. Try to check if the others are done as well.”I double checked the hallway, checking if there were still spots that were left. But there was none. “Done. You're the only o
Last Updated : 2024-12-05
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AUTUMN:The she-devil was blocking my path.I wondered why she came here. Perhaps to bring hell into my now peaceful life. Right. She was one of the major contributors to why staying in this pack was hell in the past. She asked someone to make me suffer while laughing in the background. And now, Maddox was going to marry this woman? Poor beta. I halted.Forcing a smile, I asked, "Yes, Miss Sabrina? Is there something you want to know?"Her nostrils flared. She was mad. Again. Nothing new about that. “You said the wrong question. It should be something I want you to do,” she reiterated. I was right. She bright hell with her. “May I know what you want me to do, Miss Sabrina?”She flipped her hair to the other side. "I want you to clean the chapel." Clean the chapel? Alone? It must be alone. But the chapel, if cleaned alone, would take half a day. And it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. When I did not say anything, she asked, "What? You're saying no? Did you buy your
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AUTUMN:“Are you asking for a date with me?” I confronted him right away.Dimitri smiled, showing his perfectly white teeth. “You may call that a date or whatever you want as long as you will give me your precious time.”“There is nothing precious to slaves.” We were nothing but insignificant pests in Sabrina’s eyes. “Slaves or omega’s as you call it, their time is precious. They are always busy juggling different tasks at the same time. Life is always busy for them,” he sympathized. “You seemed to care about slaves. Why is that?”He gave me a half-shrug. “I sympathized with everyone. Not only my people.”“Your people? Hmmm. What is your social status in the pack?”He glanced at me and grinned. “Why do you ask? Will you give me a chance if you will know my status in the pack?”“No,” I responded, not batting an eye.His jaw dropped. “I’m an alpha.”“I don’t care. It will not change at all.” Did they have a thing for slaves? Why did everyone I knew were either alpha or beta? “Why? D
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AUTUMN:No, no, no. I was not admiring this man. I did not come here to admire someone but to do my end of the bargain.“Not that close. But our mothers are sisters. I have no choice, but to keep up with her attitude,” Dimitri stated.I was not the only one who had a problem with her? “I'm glad I'm not the only one,” I muttered to myself.“Come again?” Dimitri asked.I forced a smile. “Oh. Where did you live, by the way? I haven’t seen you here.”His eyes danced with mirth. “Are you interested in me now? I'm still single. Unmated. Not attached to any woman,” he informed while wiggling his eyebrows. He was playful and flirted, by the way. Men like that usually approached me. “No,” I responded, my voice flat. We started walking down the aisle, without glancing at Sabrina. If I looked back, perhaps she was only giving me a death glare for talking to her cousin. Dimitri clutched his chest as if he was in pain. “Ouch. You’re turning me down that easily?”Giving him a side-eye, I state
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AUTUMN:Sabrina. How do I describe her? Nothing had changed at her since the last time I saw her. Instead, she grew even more beautiful, and standing next to her, I felt like I was the ugliest of all. I looked really like a slave next to her. This was one of her goals. To make me feel small. And the way she was watching me with my oversized T-shirt shirt and smirking said it all.I stared at myself. Black pants oversized T-shirt. A shirt which I bought from a thrift store as well as some black shoes. I forgot to change into something decent. Earlier, I never thought about making myself presentable. My focus was attending the rehearsal. If I had thought about Sabrina, things might have changed. “Maddox. I’ve been waiting for you!” she greeted and ran towards the beta, and jumped at him. The two almost fell on the ground, but the beta regained his footing.When our eyes met, she smirked at me, dippeddiped her mouth into the beta, and torridly kissed him.If she thought that I would
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AUTUMN:Glaring at him, I said, “Why did you not tell me anything about it?”Looking at the rearview mirror, he said. “She only knew recently.”“How? Did you tell her?”Damn it. This would be a big mess. Sabrina will even get angry at me. I leaned back while biting my lower lip. Sabrina will make my life even more miserable. Just the thought of it made my body run cold.I was not scared of her. I was scared that I would no longer be able to contain my emotions and just…explode, creating a much bigger mess. ‘We can fight now,’ Trisha stated. ‘Hugh will make sure that we will be protected. We are practically invincible now with the alpha backing us up.’‘I don’t think that it’s a good idea,’ I said. ‘Fighting back will only gain more enemies.’Trisha rolled her eyes at me. ‘Since when did you become scared like this? Don’t be. Now is the time to fight, Autumn,’ she pressed. ‘If that bitch will hurt us in any way, she will regret it. I will make sure of that.”“I never told her, Autumn
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AUTUMN:I stared at the ceiling and laughed out loud. “Don’t you dare give me your bullshit, Maddox. Don’t lie to me. For what?” He stared at me for a long time, his eyes holding too much emotion. It seemed like he wanted to say something, but was holding himself. “I'm not lying. This is difficult for me, too.” He pulled the blanket from his body. “Oh, please. I did not think I had to spell it out to you, Maddox. Of course, it would be easy for you. It was easy since you rejected me in the past.”His face darkened. "Could we please stop talking about the past?" he asked. Running away from the past again? "This mess started all because you rejected me. And now that I was to be completely free away from you, you're giving me conditions that I don't have any choice but to follow. You're always so selfish, you know that?""It's give and take, Autumn. If it were me, I would never join the ceremony. The pack needs me right now. If someone is selfish, it's not me. It's you forcing me i
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AUTUMN:The late morning sun peeked at the window of Beta Maddox's room, casting a warm golden glow. I found him reading something. A romance novel? Nah. It was so brief that when I entered his room, he hid it under his blanket as fast as he could. It seemed as if he did not want to be caught reading that book. Probably he was reading an erotic book. To kill sometimes. "You looked as strong as a cow," I commented after bringing food for the beta the next day. It was a warm broth, which I had cooked earlier and carefully laid on top of the food tray covered with a cloth to keep the heat in. “Paying Mika a huge amount of money was worth the alpha’s wallet.”He looked like he could go to the battle given how his face was tainted with pink shade now.My heart was already happy seeing the huge changes in his physical body.I was not that evil to ask something bad to befall him. “What did you bring?”“A warm broth,” I answered. “Hugh cooked it for you so you should eat it,” I lied. T
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AUTUMN:My breath caught in the air. I did not look at Hugh right away. Instead, I stared at his fingers sliding into mine. It molded perfectly as if we were made for each other. ‘You two are both made for each other,’ Trisha stated, sighing. ‘He is our mateeee!’My heart was loud now. Louder than the squeals of Trisha inside her mind. Could Hugh have heard it, too? I wished he could not. It would only embarrass me even more. Did I like the feel of his hands against mine?His fingers locked mine and I could feel his callouses—one of the signs of how he worked hard to keep the pack safe. His hand reminded me of the great responsibility he was carrying. Until now. I fucking loved the feel of our calloused hands against each other. There might be times when I denied it, but when he did something to surprise me, it was always surprising. Finally, I looked up and saw how Hugh's eyes danced with joy when I did not tug my hand away. "I love you, Autumn. I really do."My heart somersaul
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AUTUMN:I did it again. Forgetting that I should be saying that it was my "friend" who was asking. That it was for a friend.Dang it. I should be careful with my words, especially around Mika. This woman was sharp and I could not hide anything from her. "Y-yes. I'm asking for my friend."Her eyes narrowed, suspicion evident in her eyes. “You sure?” she asked as if she was only waiting for me to come clean and confess that there was no friend and it was nothing but me. I bit the inside of my cheeks. Right now, I should be telling her the truth. And nothing but the truth, but…wasn't it too embarrassing already?“N-No.”Mika heaved a sigh. "I know it's you, Miss Autumn," she said, out loud. "I don't get why you have to deny it. I can sense if you're lying or not.""It's not me," I lied once again, wanting to hold on to the lies. "I'm not buying it," Mika said. "Alright, whatever. It's your life. You're my client.”“It wasn't really me.”Trisha rolled her eyes at me. ‘What’s the harm
