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GAMMA KENZO. Continuation of the FLASHBACK.Carrying Jillian on my back was not a problem. She was light as a feather, and she knew how to secure her arms around my neck and her legs around my waist. But the water current was no joke. I was holding on to the vines tightly, but from time to time, I would reach for her back to make sure she was still secured. The fact that she was screaming every time the water hit us made everything even more intense. But it surely did help me focus because I knew she was safe and the water hadn’t drowned her yet. Her voice, even if it was deafening, was a better sound than the rage of nature and kept me entertained—as if I had my own cheering squad.I had no idea how long it took us before we were able to cross the river. My hands turned red from gripping the vines tightly, and I was sure my neck, too, from being strangled and grabbed by this girl. But instead of teasing her, I swiftly moved her around, placing her on my front and hugging her. Befor
LADY JILLIAN. “So, are you mated?” I asked. I’d been wanting to ask that since I saw him. I couldn’t see any mark on his neck, but then some people wanted to wait before they marked each other. “What do you think?” He asked back, a coy smile playing on his lips, and it was making me feel giddy. Kenzo’s adorable smile remained the same. It was the very reason I trusted him so easily when I was fourteen. I was just lucky he didn’t turn out to be the bad guy my father feared when he found out I spent time with the Gamma of the Dark Forest Pack. He heard things about his pack Alpha, and he never liked him, but he couldn’t do anything when Kenzo was accepted to be part of the camp in our territory as he was qualified to join. “Hmmm… I don’t see marks.” I replied.“Good observation.” He chuckled before pushing his food inside his mouth. I giggled as I watched him. I was seated in the corridor outside his cell, my back leaning against the bars of the adjacent cell to his. “But I see man
XANDER.“Can you hand this to the female in black?” I asked, pointing in Lady Catherine’s direction.The server tilted her head, following where my finger was pointed. “Is she the one beside the female with the midnight blue dress?” She asked.“Yes, that one. And make sure you do it now.” I let my Alpha aura out. With too many Alpha pheromones in the room, I was not afraid to let out mine at this instance. I wanted the server to know I was not just an ordinary guest so she would do my request right away.I watched as she walked toward Lady Catherine while I made my way to where Beta Julian was. I engaged in a conversation with him but was constantly watching as Catherine read the note.Her expression changed. The smile faded on her face, and then our eyes met for a brief second. I was the first one who let go and left the ballroom. I grabbed a glass of rum on the way out before heading to the other ballroom, where Maddox and Carlotta were. “What took you so long?” Maddox asked as I h
BETA ARLO Silver Moon Pack Beta—Nadine’s original packThe call and confirmation that Alpha Jace and I were dreading finally came. Catherine approached the Alpha with a note she said that came from Xander, and then he got a call from Austin stating that Gamma Kenzo was in their territory.As much as we didn’t want to think of the worst, Alpha Maddox’s action after Alpha Jacob was announced the winner of the election was a blatant confirmation that Xander was not lying. Alpha Maddox was anticipating Alpha Jacob’s win so he could continue with his next plan—to serve the Montrell with Nadine’s head. We were running out of time, and we couldn’t be careless with our actions. Kenzo confirmed that Maddox had his own set of men who were not pack warriors, and they were more ruthless because they worked for money. They were never really part of the pack, so one command from Maddox and they could cut anyone’s life. Additionally, the Alpha instructed all men at their border not to allow anyo
MINDY.I waited until I found a ride that would take me to the border where I needed to be. After walking over a hundred meters, I could already see where I was headed. My heart thudded loudly, and my wolf began pancing inside my head. My wolf, Tala, had always been a submissive wolf, and most of the time, she was quiet in my head. But she was getting more agitated than I was. ‘Are we in danger?’ I asked.‘We’re always in danger.’ She replied. ‘But I can’t understand what I am feeling at the moment. It feels like I want to know what will happen next and don’t want to know as well.’I didn’t say anything and just hurried forward. She was right. We were always in danger, and I shouldn’t be meeting anyone I didn’t know, but a part of me was curious if this was Arlo. I wanted to meet him. I only heard his voice, and it already piqued my interest. I bit my bottom lip, suppressing a smile. I was so pathetic. I never went through the teenage stage where I got to appreciate boys, and it mig
BETA ARLO. “I don’t think I can give you what you need. Maybe we should just reject each other.” Mindy’s words cut deep until I saw the pain in her expression.She was terrified of something. Or someone. A flashback of my conversation with Alpha Jace flooded my head. The female he wanted me to pick up in the middle of the forest was someone who had been sexually abused by Alpha Maddox. It was the reason Nadine wanted her out of here.Was it her? When we talked on the phone, Mindy never confirmed she was the female I was supposed to meet, but my heart clenched in pain just at the thought that it was her. “I don’t know… if… I can be intimate with you. I know that’s what men want.” She was stuttering as tears kept racing down her cheeks, and I couldn’t stop my own eyes from tearing up. She was trying to be strong in confessing this.“Maybe I will...” She kept talking in between her sobs.I was still on a high from smelling her and finding out I finally found the mate I had been waiti
NADINE. My stomach churned. I knew Maddox was out of the territory, but without Xander here, I was agitated. Even if I didn’t want to, I was slowly relying on Xander. I knew I could do things on my own, but a part of me believed that if the time came and I could not do it anymore, my mate would come to save me. So, not having him around was giving me a bad feeling. I wanted the assurance that he was just somewhere, watching me. My body jerked when I heard the main gate rattle. Someone was trying to get in. ‘Please, please, don’t be Maximus.’ I mumbled under my breath, slipping my hand under the pile of clothes until I managed to grab the dagger.The door to my cell had been left open. No one was stationed in the corridor like before, so they thought locking the door was unnecessary. Maybe they really thought I could throw this dagger and kill them. Or Maddox just had a more wicked plan. My heart thundered as I slowly rose from the floor, holding the dagger behind my back as I car
XANDER.I had a terrible feeling that something was off, but Maddox didn’t say anything during the whole ride home. No matter how much I insisted on knowing, inquiring through our mindlinks, I didn’t get any response. So the six hours of travel was plain torture. I held my breath the moment we stopped at the border. I expected someone to say something, but there was none. Everything was calm. “Did you allow anyone in the territory?” Maddox asked when the car stopped.“I didn’t, Alpha,” Tyrone answered.“Anything I need to know.” The warrior shook his head. “Everything was calm for the last twenty-four hours.”Maddox didn’t ask for more and simply requested that the windows be rolled up and Carter continue driving into the territory.I eased back on my seat, closed my eyes as if I were resting, and connected my head to Matthew. ‘Where are you?’ I asked him. Since we didn’t have any Gamma yet, I was the one doing the security duty, including managing the border patrols. I knew Matth
TEN YEARS AFTER THE BIRTH OF XAVIER.XANDER.“Are you ready, Alpha?” Xavier asked, and once I nodded my head, he turned to his side and nodded at his seven-year-old brother, Nexus. Without any more words, they hurried off into the forest for my wolf, Orion, to track them. I always give them a fifteen-minute head start before I start looking for them.Fifteen minutes—enough time for myself to soak in all the things my eyes could see and think of all that happened in my life over the last ten years.Three years after we gave birth to Xavier, Nadine fell pregnant again. This time, she extended an offer to me for the Alpha position. Like she said, I’d been doing the Alpha work whenever she couldn’t attend to it due to the nature of her pregnancy. She was going through a difficult time with Nexus. There were days she couldn’t get up from our bed and would vomit from time to time. Although our son was healthy, Nadine would always end up drained of energy. I, of course, could continue doing
NADINE.Dad and Mom arrived just a couple of hours after I gave birth. Nadia called them right away when my waterbag broke, so they were already traveling while I was in labor. Xavier’s birth came early, yet we and the whole pack had always been ready for him.With the approval of the midwives who assisted me, we began our journey home at midnight. I couldn’t wait to introduce our son to his pack and welcome Jillian as our Gamma Female. We arrived by dawn, and I expected the packhouse to be quiet as everyone should be asleep, but the sight that welcomed us was indeed overwhelming to a mother’s heart.The house was bright with lights, and the packhouse ground was decorated with lanterns and banners—both for our son and our Gamma Female—as if they had days to prepare for this and not just hours. The whole area was alive, and even without hearing anything from the outside, I was sure there was music playing as there were people dancing.But the moment Kenzo’s door opened, the whole pl
NADINE.I had just finished fixing my hair and was ready to drive to the Midnight Pack for Jillian’s debut. I came out of our room and went downstairs to find Xander. He was ready many minutes ago, and I asked him to leave me alone in our room so I could continue preparing because he kept distracting me with hugs and kisses. I found him at the bar, drinking alone. I wasn’t sure if he noticed my presence as he remained standing by the large window, gazing outside while sipping his drink.He must be thinking about Carlotta and her pup, as this had been the only thing keeping him quiet lately. Xander was determined to find Maddox’s child and give it a good life. But Carlotta had been dodging us for almost a year.But today, we got more information. We finally had a name and gender. Maddox and Carlotta had a daughter, Maxine Charlotte Trevino. Carlotta named her after her father. But we were still clueless about where they were staying. All we knew was that the child had a fever, and C
GAMMA KENZO.I unclasped her bra and tossed it aside before pulling away from kissing her, letting my eyes savor the perfect breasts that were made for me. Jillian had a petite frame, but her breasts were bigger than her size, and burying my head in between them was a fantasy I wanted to fulfill. She bit her bottom lip before her hands cupped the sides of her breasts and gently kneaded them; all the while, her eyes were swirling with lust. “Do you like them?”My eyes were surely twinkling as I nodded my head, like a boy on Christmas Day. “I fucking love them!”I didn’t need an invite as I bent over and captured one of her breasts, and a grunt filled my throat as I savored her bosom, one after the other, letting my tongue and hand play with them and her nipples while my sultry mate was fumbling with my shirt and my pants, helping in taking them off my body. After I had my fill, my lips pressed against her firm stomach. I trailed my mouth down to her inner thigh where my hand was, par
FUTURE GAMMA FEMALE JILLIAN.“Have you played hide-and-seek?” I asked him in a soft voice after he sent a message to Beta Xander. First, he asked them if Alpha Nadine had given birth and told them to call him anytime. He also informed him that “he got the girl and that he was blessed tenfold tonight.” Even though it was just a text message, I could see the pride in him as he puffed his chest while he was typing those words. Kenzo, even without him knowing, really knew how to melt my heart.“Hmmm... what are you planning to do?” He asked, his forehead creasing. We were already in the hotel lobby where I was staying. The party was already over, but my family was still there to make sure all the guests were sent off nicely and out of the border, but they let us leave ahead. I stood in front of Kenzo, walking backward as he walked forward at my pace. I placed my hand on his chest, a playful grin etched on my face. “Catch me if you can, lover boy.”I pushed him playfully before running
FUTURE GAMMA FEMALE JILLIAN.I watched in awe as my father, Alpha Lucas, took the center stage together with my mother, Luna Katarina. Unlike other parents, Dad and Mom were actually happy that I found out who my mate was as soon as I turned eighteen. Dad was glad he turned out to be the same man I was in love with. He didn’t want me to have any doubts about the man I would be in a relationship with, knowing that my mate was just out there somewhere. Although he was sad I had to leave them sooner, he knew I would be in good hands.“We would like to thank everyone for gracing us with your presence for our daughter’s coming-of-age celebration.” My father began, and the crowd gave him a round of applause. I couldn’t help but smile and playfully roll my eyes upon seeing my mother looking at him as if he held the whole universe in his hands. But then I realized it must be the same way I looked at Kenzo whenever he wasn’t looking at me, and I got to study his features. Dad looked at Mom
GAMMA KENZO.I had never driven so fast as I did tonight. Good thing that I only needed to drive along the forest road, so there were no cameras and traffic police lurking around. If I had my way, I would have run on my paws so I’d be faster, but I needed to look presentable, and I couldn’t just rip my clothes off. I was stopped at their border, and it seemed the one in there had no idea who I was. He denied me entry because I didn’t have the invitation with me. In my rush to get help for the Alpha, I might have dropped it somewhere in the packhouse. Only when I instructed him to reach out to Alpha Ledger and we conversed over the phone did I receive permission to enter.The drive to the hotel where her party was ongoing was plain torture. I was happy that I was here, but the thought of missing her dance and her not being my fated mate kept seeping into my mind. “Judgment time.” I reminded myself of this as I picked up the bouquet of red roses from the backseat of my car and made m
LADY JILLIAN.“Mine!!” The growl was so loud it vibrated through my whole body. I shoved Wes’ hand off me and abruptly turned my body around to face the direction of the voice.And my heart stopped as I stared at the man at the far end of the corridor. My eyes locked with Alonso, Alpha Aeon’s son, the next Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack. My mouth parted as a shriek passed my lips, something I was not able to control. “No!”Until I realized something.I was older than Alonso. Even with him having a wolf, it was impossible that I scented him. He was not eighteen yet. —----------------------GAMMA KENZO.I ran my comb through my hair one more time, perfecting my hairstyle before pointing at myself through my reflection in the mirror. To say that I was excited was an understatement. I was beyond ecstatic.Tonight, whatever fate had in store for me and Jillian, we would finally take our relationship to the next level. I could officially claim her as my girlfriend, and we would take it fro
A YEAR AFTER MADDOX’S DEATH. LADY JILLIAN of the Midnight Pack. I couldn’t erase the smile off my face as I looked at my reflection in the mirror. My hair was tied up tightly in a bun, and I was dressed in a swan-like ballerina dress. The only jewelry I had was one pair of crescent moon earrings that I had never taken off. Finally eighteen. My family was throwing a grand ball for me, and I would start the night with a ballet dance that I’d been practicing for many months. The dance was about a female coming of age and spreading her wings. I was excited, not only because I would be turning eighteen and would finally be able to do many things, but because I could officially say YES to Kenzo as my boyfriend. We could make it official. Kenzo and I started dating after he was re-inducted as the Gamma of the Dark Forest Pack. He asked me if he could court me, and I said he could, or he could come back once I turned eighteen, as I was not allowed to have a boyfriend until then. Not that