Story timePov: MaddieA woman had suddenly appeared in the fires and she wasn't getting consumed by the flames. The fire burned brighter and brighter, a bright orange colour that roared to life around her. Flames licked around her, her clothes, her skin, her hair, but they only rolled around her and danced out of her way.She stepped out of the fire and everyone started clapping and cheering. She was the oldest woman I have ever seen, her back was bent over by age and she walked with a stoop and a wobbly looking walking stick, her hair was so grey, it was cotton wool white and her face was rough and wrinkled up. She walked with a limp and it took her a while to get to where we were standing.She reached us and it looked like everyone had held in their breaths to see what she was going to do about me.She tucked her walking stick under her armpit and raised both her hands, beckoning me to bed to her level.I did and she took my face in her hands and touched my forehead with hers. "My
designated whorePov: MaddisonWinston suddenly turned to me, "I'm going to have a little chat with Maya," he said to me through gritted teeth, "you're safe within these borders. Nothing can harm you here. Please, wait for me here, I won't be long okay?"I nodded, a little confused and curious. He was trembling in anger and I could tell it was probably because of everything Maya just said."Go," I told him. "I'll be fine."He nodded and turned around, walking in the direction opposite of the way we came.After he left, slowly, people started breaking out of their segregated groups and reconvening in smaller, tighter ones.The air around me had been sucked dry of his lightness and merriment and had been replaced by something sticky and heavy and dark and suffocating.One by one, people started to leave with their families and friends and I wasn't surprised when I saw Ethan kiss Gwyn goodnight on the cheek.I sighed and went to the one of the tables laden with food abd drinks. I pulled
The act of feedingPov : Maddison"You should have left me for dead!" I heard a pained familiar voice shout and I stopped in ny tracks, sinking in to the ground and hiding behind a tree trunk. "I would have been better off dead! Why did you bring me back anyway?!"Nathan! I realized the voice immediately and crept around the three, not wanting them to see me so that I don't ruin their moment."I told you!" Gwyn groaned exasperated, "Winston wanted you back. He was hurting so much after you left. He really wasn't himself. He wasn't okay after your death.""He seemed very damn well fine to me when we visited him for the first time since your brought me back to life," Nathan grumbled, annoyed and frustrated. "I hate this! I hate everything that has to do with this. I've tainted the legacy I left behind. Nobody even remembers what I did for the pack anymore. Nobody even cares! I used to be Nathan the sly. Nathan the evasive. Nathan the wraith... Nathan the fallen hero of the blood moon pa
The woman in the cavePov: WinstonI didn't remember it being so hard to her little hideout, a cave that was really just a large hole carved into the side of the mountain. Tremendously high from the ground.I hide climbed into Maya's cave for sport all the time when I was a kid. It was literally the only thing I was good at when i was still a pup. The only thing besides fucking shit up, that I was completely good at.Maya was never kind to me. But she wasn't cruel either. She was a hybrid, half wolf, half witch and she had retreated to these parts after the discrimination and stigma became too high among the women in the camp during her time.She wasn't kind, she wasn't cruel. She was only just bitter.My mother used to pay her a visit three times a week, bringing camp gossips her way and delectable foods every once in a while. And I used to tag along too. After my mother fell ill from an unnamed illness, I started paying her these visits on my own. She made me sit by the fire and o
The Witch's TalePov: Winston"How Nathan is being treated is even more despicable than how I was being treated during my time. And the worst part is, I had no affection whatsoever for the camp. My mother was a werewolf, married to a werewolf but had been sleeping with a warlock, and when she gave birth to me, the child of her sacrilege, I was cursed to never be able to transform. My mother was dragged and humiliated for cheating on her husband, much more with a 'lesser' creature and she took her life when she couldn't stand the humiliation anymore... After she died, they turned that hate on me. i had loved the pack at first and really tried to fit in, but after my mother took her life, I became the subject of their attacks, the topic of their gossip. It wasn't much better in the household I shared with my father, he beat me everyday and tore my skin open and bashed my head against the walls whenever he felt like. He called me a whore, an abomination. When it got too much, I moved awa
ConsequencesPov: MaddisonI was just stepping out of the bathroom, wrapped in a fluffy white towel, my hair and body, damp from the shower when the door flew open and Winston swooped in, worried out of his mind, his eyes unsettled and frantic, his body, pulsing with unspent energy.He barrelled into the room, looking around frantically, his voice dripping in urgency. "Maddie! Maddison, where are you?!""Winston?" I asked, confused.His entire body froze at my voice. He turned around and saw me standing at a corner of the room, in his blindspot and his shoulders sagged with relief."Maddie, god!" He cried in relief, walking over to me and sweeping me into his strong, strong arms.I sank into his embrace, clutching at his arm and he held me in place, sighing into my hair."God, I was so worried!" He breathed, his breathing uneven, his voice hoarse, "I almost tore down the forest trying to find you. I thought I told you to stay there?"My heart set out like a siren at the awful, awful m
Hang from the GallowsPov: WinstonThe Supreme Court was a little more like a glorified throne room where I usually meted out judgements or solved disputes during my first few years, reigning as alpha. It lay behind two huge set of metal doors carved into the side of a a huge mountain on the other end of my territory.I had called a meeting, commanding all of my subects to gather there today for a tremendously more important announcement, an icy judgement, a ruthless punishment I was going to mete out on the one werewolf stupid enough to dare lay his hands on my mate.A growl rumbled in my chest just at the thought of it. At the thought of this... Lowlife, with the audacity to harm Maddison.I had been too young to notice it, or even do anything about it, but Maya had said that my own mother had been treated unfairly by other pack members, even though she had been carrying the Alpha's son. And she wasn't the Luna, but a certain level of respect should still have been reserved for her.
Favourite fixPov: WinstonMy entire body freezed mid strike as I felt another presence join me in my private sparring room."I thought I would find you here," the very familiar voice said aptly.I exhaled the breath I had been holding and completed the punch–kick sequence I had been been doing on the sparring dummy, before I turned to him, grabbing my bottle of water and draining the contents thirstily."Who invited you in?" I asked my best friend now, raising an amused brow.He looked at me, shocked at first, and then he caught on to the fact that I was actually smiling at him, and his lips stretched into a conniving grin that was so Nate... That grin that made him look like you two were in on a private joke or something. Even if he had no idea what you were talking about, his goofy grins made you think he did."Thanks, man," he said now, his voice turning serious as he went to perch on the raised steps to the boxing ring. "I... I was actually going to leave today, immediately afte