The last day of the training came by and we were busy with the tasks Amy was to do for her final test. Beta Gray, who had been away from the palace since the wedding, finally came to witness the test that had been going on. At the sight of how strict and thorough Helena was with Amy and how she kept judging critically, he already sensed that the situation was not only for proper training but also to get back at Amy for thinking she could do anything or anyhow she wanted in the palace just because Alpha Draco doesn’t favor the Luna. One thing he loved about Helena was her smartness. She wouldn't fight a war she would not win and that was why he was silently rooting for her to find the truth about the death of her parents in the palace. “You are here”. He heard Alpha Draco remark and turned to the direction where the voice was coming from to see the Alpha moving towards him with his guards following closely. With a bow, he greeted the Alpha, “How have you been, My Alpha?” but the Alp
HELENA’S POV That very morning, I knew something was up with the sudden change of scent in Alpha’s room. Draco is someone sensitive to scents, so for him to request a change of scent meant that something might have happened in my absence, but that was none of my business. I only owed him a greeting after all. Amy suggested a meeting to discuss a certain issue about the traditional day coming up which seemed strange to me, but I know if I don’t wait to talk about it, I might lose the right to host it as the Luna. “I think we should meet just like you said”. I accepted, taking my seat at the table. Alpha closed the book he was reading and came to join us at the table. As soon as he took his seat, he asked what we felt would be the best activities to carry out on that day, so it would be worth it. “You are always stuck in the palace and that day is the day assigned for everyone to come to the palace. The kids of the pack are the younger generation, so they should be closer to you, ev
I was so bitter about what Amy did to me with the poison ivy. She had done her research and knew that it was a flower that shouldn’t be near me, then purposely added to the incense, purposely started a meeting till my system absorbed the toxin and reacted, almost killing me. She must have been joking if she thought I would sit still after that horrible incident. I also made sure to think long and wide about what would be the perfect payback and when the ceremonial dinner was announced, I decided that it would be the perfect stage to have my revenge. With a careful investigation through Han, I found out that she was intolerant of cauliflower. She listed it as one of the spices that shouldn’t be in her food, in a large amount because of her irritable bowels, when she was being asked about her palate by the kitchen department. Immediately I saw the information, I knew what to do next. If I decided to make use of it while cooking, I would be caught by the staff and they would complain a
AMY’S POV Although I did start the attack on Helena, I wasn’t prepared for her heavy comeback. The blows she was delivering were so heavy that I almost died in the past few days. Ever since the announcement of my training till the day I was discharged from the hospital for the insane diarrhea I had, I saw hell! All those paybacks were enough to humble me, but given the person I was, I never planned to give up on either making her leave the palace or make her life a living hell. As soon as I was sure that I was fine enough, I went to visit Alpha Draco, who had just come back from a trip with the Beta. “You didn’t ask of me even when you heard that I almost died at the clinic”, I confronted him, entering the large bedroom I had missed. With a deep and tired tone, he answered “I am so sorry, I have been so busy with the Beta that I couldn’t take any time off. I am so glad that you are fine now.” The tiredness coming from his voice was enough evidence that his trip had been stressfu
Upon getting to Helena’s quarters, Secretary Han didn’t make things easy for me. I could see the reason why Helena had someone like her by her side, because she was damn fierce. It was as if she would rain fire on all of us if I dared to touch the little boy playing at the side of the room. “You will have to kill me before you take him out of here. The Luna is not here, so you cannot take him out of her quarters without her permission” she insisted when I asked for the child. Her dedication made me scoff. I knew it wouldn’t be easy and that was why I had to ask for the seal of the Alpha before coming to play my card. I didn’t waste any time before pulling out the mini seal that was behind me to show her. I asked, “Do you know what this is?” and she answered without hesitation, “It is the king’s mini-seal.” With a solid nod, I said “It’s good you can recognize it now you know that I am not here on my own accord”, which of course silenced her. She was at a cross road. She would ha
*A MONTH LATER* Helena finally got used to her baby not being around her and continued to live her life of being at the clinic most of the time while also addressing every other issue that pertained to her position in the palace without hesitation. She had been trying her best to find the man with the mark through Han, who would go undercover into the town but couldn’t find any trace of the man. Although she decided to give up for the time being, she still vowed to do anything it takes her to find the man whenever she sees any clue that will lead to him. Fortunately, her chance finally came one afternoon when the chief doctor of the tenth tribe came over to the clinic to oversee the affairs of the clinic, since it was their tribe that manages the medicinal affairs of the pack. As they looked around and talked about things that might need improvement, the Chief got a notification that he had a guest who was waiting for him in the lobby. “Let’s go back to the lobby. I will come over
*FEW YEARS AGO* One of the scientists in the human world was faced with urgency to make a drug for a boil plaque that swarmed this country. The plaque was spreading so fast that it killed thousands of people in the country just in the span of three days. All the doctors were trying hard to find the cause but nothing was coming forth, they were all dying instead, which made it difficult for anyone to approach the illness not to talk about studying how it works. People kept losing hope day after day until the bold doctor stood up and did research over and over. After two weeks of trying hard, he finally developed something he felt would work but he needed people who could volunteer themselves to get the drug tested. Since the people who already had the sickness felt they would die, they volunteered themselves as lab rats but something unique happened. There was a werewolf between them. The innocent doctor, who didn’t know that fact, went to inject everyone with the cure he had develop
HELENA’S POV Everything was starting to make sense, the pieces that had always been confusing were coming together one after the other. Some things had happened in the pack that I didn’t even know of because I didn’t live in the pack till I was twenty-two. My parents were always busy with their research and medical affairs of the pack, since they were high quality doctors and they got worried that I might not be receiving enough love due to their frequent absence. “Do you want to live with your family outside the pack? You will get to play with your mates that you like and also see an entire new world” my mother once asked me when I was about seven. Without hesitation, I accepted the offer and I was taken outside the pack to live with my extended family. I met many people there and made many friends since I finished all my education at my family’s place. I returned to the pack when I graduated as a medical doctor so as to work with my parents at the pack’s clinic, but I didn’t step
The fight at the border had been quite fierce due to several intruders trying to sneak into the pack because of the pack flourishing. “We just rounded up some spies we caught trying to enter the pack. They are now in the back quarters”. One of the soldiers rushed to update Prince Klaux who was just coming back from another mission. With a tired sigh, he gulped down a bottle of water and signaled to his assistant. “Let’s go and check them out. This is really getting out of hand” he said, and left with the soldier. The spies were interrogated and they confessed that they were on a mission to find out the manufacturing process of the cures that were being developed at the pack’s research lab. “Which pack sent you?” he questioned “The bluemoon pack”, one of the spies responded. “I hear of new packs every day” he groaned as his hands found their way to his waist. He turned to his assistant and scratched his head for a while, “Feed them, give them a place to sleep and send them on the
Prince Klaux had been frequently visiting Han ever since she had been on the sick bed, even though he didn’t exactly know the reason why. “You always find yourself here. You both didn’t have anything going on while she was still fine though”, Vincent once said to him, and he smiled a bit. “I know right, we never had anything going on. I guess I just missed seeing her standing by cutie’s side. No one to bicker and argue with, it feels weird” he responded, and Vincent chuckled. “You really need to think about it further. Something might be kicking in”, Vincent remarked, and he denied it vehemently. “What do you mean kicking in? You are just blabbering nonsense” he muttered, but Vincent only patted his shoulder before leaving him. That very day, he came by after leaving the proposal party. He came to check up on her since it had been a while due to the fact that he was away from the palace. “You seem to be doing well over there, seeing you don’t want to come back here anymore. I gue
The priestess treated Jerry and told her that she would have to hope that the moon goddess would have mercy and grant him another spirit wolf in the nearest future because nothing could be done anymore, since the spirit wolf was killed after being torn away from him. For days, Helena couldn’t digest the news. She couldn’t eat, move or do anything. Nothing made her happy no matter what anyone did. She couldn’t rid herself of the guilt that her son had to face such a terrible fate because she was not there to protect her son, thanks to her obsession with the cure. She lost interest in everything and was ready to give it up. Alpha Draco gave orders for Elder Damon to be executed publicly and his family were turned into slaves, Amy’s entire tribe was banned and a letter was sent to every pack not to accommodate them with the notification of their crimes. Ava was hanged as an accomplice to the crime and her family were sent out of the pack. Both Helena and Vincent got healed from the vir
HELENA’S POV I played all day with Jerry who was now very big. He was growing so well that I felt bad not involved lately in his growing process but I needed to find the cure in order to be by his side. I came back from his quarters and went down straight to the lab where I found out that Vincent had injected himself with the cure we recently developed. “Why would you do that? Who would attend to me?” I lashed out at him and Han gave me his note “It is brutal to keep watching you battle with the pain of the cure every time. Let’s share the pain together this time around” was what was written in the note Han said to me, “You don’t need to be afraid, I will be the attending doctor” and I nodded. I trusted her enough after all I was given the shot and placed under observation. It didn’t take up to three minutes before I fell asleep but I felt my furs sprout and my claws coming out before I lost consciousness. The next thing I woke up to was everyone fighting and running for their liv
Draco was coming back from where he went to deliver flowers as usual to Helena but he was not let in on her orders. That didn’t annoy him nonetheless, he only wanted to keep trying till she would open up to her. He was passing by the kitchen when he witnessed the sight where Amy was trying to pick on Chief Kinn, even to the extent of slapping her. He paused at the door to take a look around from one maid to the other before he started entering the kitchen till he got to Amy. “What do you think you are doing right now?” he growled at her and everywhere shook. He was so livid at the sight in front of him and the bitterness he had for Amy added fuel to the fire. “I was only trying to teach her some lessons, why is that a problem?” Amy countered, not backing down easily “Are you asking me if that is a problem right now? Can you listen to yourself?” he growled hard and rushed towards her in anger. She shuddered at the sight of his anger, she had never seen him that way. His furs sprou
The sending of several types of flowers from Alpha Draco continued day and night but I couldn’t bring myself to send him any response even though I loved the flowers. I didn’t want to give him any false hope, fall in love with him and disappear like the passing wind when death comes. It was better how we were neither enemies nor friends. “I only have to fulfil my purpose. Any other thing should not be attached. He should just focus on being the best father for our son” I stated when Han was trying to convince me to spend the little time I have with him instead of avoiding him “You might come to regret this when it’s extremely too late. It is best you enjoy everything you can now” Han insisted but I just tucked myself under the blanket and faced the other side. I couldn’t stop crying at the fact that I wouldn’t be able to stay by Draco’s side after we cleared the misunderstanding. I wouldn’t lie, I still loved him dearly. We were both torn by the greedy adults but we managed to pull
B Beta Gray was surely stunned at my reaction as I rushed towards him and jumped in his hand. He wasn’t expecting it but then he couldn’t allow me to fall so he had to catch me so fast. “Uh.. Uhmm.. You didn’t.. uhm have to.. uhm” he kept stammering and Alpha Draco came to his aid. “She didn’t have to hug you, right? I support that fully” Alpha Draco commented with a fake frown, and we all laughed at his remark. “So you managed to retrieve this from Elder Damon’s house? It’s well written and decoded”, Vincent stated as he flipped through the book. “Yes, the man with the scar has been captured too. He’s the closest aide to Elder Damon. He’s in custody at the prison”. Beta Gray chipped in with a bragging right and Vincent smiled. “He should also have the taste of what being locked up against your will looks like. I hope he rots in there”, Vincent remarked coldly before raising the book. “Since what we need is here, we should get to work as soon as possible” he added, and I agreed
HELENA’S POV Everyone was happy that I was finally awake after a long week and the Alpha instructed the kitchen to throw me a mini-feast. “Whatever she wants should be cooked for her with immediate effect. Nothing should be left undone for her, take care of all her orders with optimum care and swiftness”, he ordered, and the maids had no choice but to agree with him. “Why are you putting so much pressure on them? It’s not like I can eat more than my stomach”, I argued, but he shook his head. “You deserve everything” he declared, and I gave him a suspicious side eye. “What do you mean by that line? You are being cheesy for no reason”, I attacked, and the Alpha sighed in frustration. He moved closer to where I was attending to the flowers by the window and let out a small cough. “Helena, are you still going to continue this way? Don’t you think it’s high time I was forgiven?” he carefully asked, and my hands paused. I turned to look at him and dropped the napkin in my hand. “Dra
I finally opened my eyes after being unconscious for two days and I saw Vincent studying hard at the table close to the window at the far end of the room. I groaned slightly as I tried rolling to the side in order to stand up, but no matter how I tried, it was an impossible task. “Are you finally awake? Don’t try hard to stand up, you can never stand up for now”, Vincent cautioned and started to walk towards me when he heard my groans “Why can’t I stand up?” I questioned, losing the fight against standing up and lying there. “The treatment I placed you on is so strong that it won’t wear off for the next three days. I know that you will never rest if I tell you ordinarily, so I have to place you in absolute rest against your will and I am not sorry to take that decision”, he said boldly, and I just smiled. I knew Vincent to be stubborn and strict, so it was not surprising to see him act that way. We are both stubborn and determined, it was obvious that I wouldn’t allow that if I wer