The next day, there was another Beta Jacob's lesson that Fenris wanted me to attend to. I gasped before I got up from the bed. It was my usual routine, I took a shower, had my breakfast, and then went to the room full of students looking like they wanted to melt me with their stares. The fifteen-year-old girl I met yesterday sat down beside me again.
We had a conversation about her complicated life before Jacob finally arrived and started the class. We had an exam again that well, I got a perfect score this time. After that, Jacob gave me the permission to exit the session early.I was alone in the master's bedroom and I couldn't stop overthinking about Claude. Our last conversation and the way he looked at me were still shivering the hell out of me.I shrugged all the bad ideas off and decided to just wander around the garden again. The beautiful flowers and colourful butterflies were at least giving me some peaceful vibes. That there was s"Kira." Mom showed up in the dining room.I sighed in relief as I loosened my grip on the dagger in my pocket. "Mom." My breath was still running away from me. Goodness, I was being more paranoid than ever."Can't sleep?" Mom asked.I nodded before drinking my milk."Something's keeping you up at night?" My lips thinned. "No, mom. It's just that… I'm not sleepy yet.*Mom took water from the fridge and put some in her glass. She then drank it before she looked back at me again."Do you wanna see something new?" Mom suddenly asked."What new, mom?" I smiled. "Magic again?"Mom chuckled. "Just come with me, I will show you something amazing." Mom's face was always brightening up every time she was talking about magics or the stuff. I could see how she missed her powers after being just an ordinary human for a very long time.I held onto
"As much as I want to, Kira, unfortunately, I cannot. Your mom will be your tutor from the beginning of your learning about magic to the end."I shrugged and pouted. As expected, that would be his answer. I excused myself from him and read more books about magic on the corner table. I puffed a breath, okay, this was enough. Perhaps I wasn't really totally ready for this. I put the book back on the shelves and said my goodbye to Slender.It was my rest day after the whole week of my tiring training with dad, although the silence and doing nothing felt exhausting to me lately, I was getting used to it. I just wished I could bond with Fenris more often. I didn't realize marrying an Alpha wasn't so easy to handle, goodness! Always busy, meetings everywhere, training and sessions every day. I was walking back towards the master's bedroom when I passed by my parents' room. The door was slightly opened. I paused for a while, thinkin
My brows crossed but I pursed my lips when Fenris' eyes looked deeper into my soul."Are we gonna talk about him again?" I sighed as I intertwined our hands together. "I told you, he is simply a close friend and nothing more than that."He rolled his eyes. "Just make sure he isn't just using you to get information about us. You're risking our safety just by simply talking to a vampire.""He is trustworthy, Fenris. Even Vilka trust him.""Yet your vision tells you that Vilka is gonna kill you.""You now think that that vision is accurate?" I raised my right brow."Expect the worst so you won't be disappointed, at the end.""Yeah, but… you can't only see the worst in people. That's a sad and stressful world to live in.""We live in a stressful world, what do you expect, Kira?"I looked away and puffed a breath. "Okay." "Okay? Okay, what?"
"Dad, not all vampires are the same." I looked away. I had never seen dad's eyes so deep before."You can say that, but how sure are you?""Dad, he has been my friend since college. I knew him and I know he won't do anything to harm me or my loved ones."Dad raised his right brow again. "You knew him since college, don't you think that itself is alarming? How could that be only a coincidence? Perhaps he already knows what you are before you even realize it yourself.""I don't think so, dad." My brows crossed. "What's all about this? I thought you have no problem with me befriending anyone I want to?""But vampires—""Why are you generalizing? Not all vampires are bad just like how not all witches and wizards are greedy and not all werewolves are good, that's how the world is, right? Nazarus is a good friend. Ask Vilka, if you want to."Dad sighed as his hand gripped tighter on
Fenris glanced at me, and I clenched my jaw. No, I wouldn't say I liked the idea."Uhm… Fenris and I can get it for you," I suggested. "So you can just rest here. I'm sure you're exhausted from what just happened." She looked at Fenris before she looked back at me. "Are you sure? Maybe it's too much to ask. I can really do it myself, I just need a companion who knows where it is located.""I'm sure, Atasha. My husband and I can get it for you, right, Fenris?" I smiled at him despite my trembling lips. I wanted to glare so bad at him but whatever.He nodded. "Yes, of course. Just wait for us. I also think you should rest. Stay here and we'll come back with the plants your cousins need, okay?"Atasha sighed as her shoulders dropped. "Okay, then, thank you." Her lips thinned."No worries, Atasha." I shrugged. "We'll go now." I then pulled Fenris' hand to exit the mansion.I rolled my eyes a couple of times while we were walking at the tall grasses, waving some of them with our hands so
I bit my lower lip as his fingers trailed my shoulder slowly. "What… do you want then?" I swallowed deeply before I looked around. The side of his lips rose. "It's not as if we've never done this before, Kira." He stuck some strands of my hair behind my ear before he cupped my face and kissed me again.I parted our lips and kissed his jaw, down to his neck. He leaned with his jaw clenching, giving me deeper access to his neck. I sucked and licked it, and hearing him moan softly awoke all the temptations growling inside me.He massaged my head as I continued sucking his neck, leaving some marks, enjoying the fact that I owned him. He was all mine. I looked at his eyes and smiled when I saw the way he closed them as he moaned my name softly. When he opened his eyes, all the glittering pleasures were ln his pupils, and I couldn't help but be ecstatic."Well then…" I looked around before I grabbed his hand and put it on my chest area. "Let's do it again."The side of his lips rose as h
"Fenris, where are we going?" I asked again when he didn't utter a word. "We still need to go back and get the fruit!"We were in the woods. I didn't know who could be roaming around here, most probably, not only us. Dark Summoners just attacked Atasha and her cousins. We couldn't just travel further away."And we will go back later. Don't think too much about it," he said, still running."Where are we going then? What are you planning?""No plans, just running with my love."I slapped his chest, but I hugged my arms back to his neck quickly."Shut up!" I scoffed. "Of course, you're planning something! What is it?""Just enjoy the adventure, love. It's not every time that we will have the time to bond like this. I know I've been busy lately, and now I'm making it up to you." His ran got slower, thankfully. I was like being carried by the earthquake a while ago.I smiled af
I swallowed deeply. "I am asking, what if, Fenris.""I know, but would you?"I gasped. "Nevermind the question. I wouldn't run away, anyway.""Perhaps it will be a long conversation.""What?" I arched my brow."You, deciding to run away will be a long conversation between you and me. I cannot leave my family and my pack, but you are part of my family. What am I supposed to do, right? It's going to be a long discussion.""Don't worry, we wouldn't have the need to discuss that. I would never run away and leave you guys behind. Werewolves are my family now. We are in this together, Fenris."I ran when I smelled how we were getting nearer our destination, and I sighed in relief as I saw our clothes, still on the ground, and the fruit as well.I quickly dressed myself up, and Fenris did the same. I was about to grab the fruit when he stopped me. "Don't touch that.""What? Why?" My brows crossed at him.He kneeled and looked closer at the fruit as if examining it without touching it."What'
I swallowed deeply after seeing some backpacks and winter clothes that they had prepared for us. My mind was roaring everywhere, and I couldn't even sink in the information Guardian Leo was saying to me.My chest was thudding so loud, and all I could think of was I wasn't ready. I didn't expect everything to happen this quick.We rode horses to travel the cold land, and I couldn't stop glancing at Fenris every time I would think of backing up. I sighed deeply and tried gathering courage from I didn't even know where I could actually get one. Perhaps, the look of Fenris reassuring me was enough.We arrived at the strange mountain ranges, and from there, we teleported to the icy plateau on top of the hill. My hands were trembling under my gloves. Fenris held me while we were looking around the place, examining the surroundings."I don't understand," I muttered. "I can't see anything but icy mountains. Where could be the location of Darkesta's territory?"I hugged myself when the strong
What happened that night was still hunting me to this day — it had been two weeks and up until now, we were still thinking of the purpose of why Darkesta's little dogs suddenly attacked us."Claude is dead."When Fenris brought me that news, I was stunned. I thought I would be happy to hear those words but then again, I remembered he was once my friend. Even though it wasn't really for him, it was real for me and Lilien."They decided to kill him after he almost successfully transformed himself into his wolf form," he added.I sipped on my cup of coffee while my heart was still feeling unsafe. Darkesta was not only the devil, he was intelligent and whatever he was plotting against us could be the real end of our kind. I was just so frightened by that thought."What about Vilka? Do you believe her?" I asked before sipping on my coffee again.Vilka explained to us why she suddenly disappeared from the mansion a minute after our soldiers had traced foot tracks of Dark Summoners. She said
My jaw tightened as my claws gripped tighter on the ground. I stepped back, lowering my body while gazing at the three creepy humanoid wolves. They were standing on their two legs, and it made them look more monstrous. I prepared myself for a possible attack."Calm down!" The humanoid wolves were almost laughing in my ears. I didn't know they could talk to us through the mind link. "You seem to be too threatened to us. Don't make it so obvious, I suggest." The humanoid wolf in the middle kept blubbering, sounding so boastful.I glared at them deeper as I hissed. Fenris was looking much more eager. I could even hear his blood boiling so hard.Fenris howled. "What do you want from us?!" He also spoke through mind-link. The humanoid wolf on the left side chuckled like a playful yet annoying child. "You know what we want. "We will never surrender to your greedy master, you asshole!" Fenris fired back while he was scratching his pointed claws on the ground with his sharp teeth showing.
My heart thundered as Fenris' eyes and mine met. "Stay here," he commanded."What? No—" He got out of the room without letting me finish my words. I gulped before I rushed to follow him downstairs. Noises were coming from outside the mansion and when we finally exited the house, I saw some soldiers talking and discussing some things. In contrast, others were spread around the huge house, they were anticipating something, and my heart was thudding continuously for what could be it."What the hell is going on?!" Fenris exclaimed, and finally, he caught the soldiers' attention."We saw tracks of Dark Summoners leading to this place—""I know, but did you see them? How the hell did they get here without anyone sensing them?"Strange. Even I didn't sense the unwelcomed scent of humanoid wolves. "Alpha Fenris, I checked Vilka in her room, but she isn't there." A maid approached him."What?! What does she have to do with any of this? Are you sure she didn't sleep in her own house?"The mai
I swallowed deeply, convincing myself they were nothing but friends just like me and Nazarus — come on!"Yes, my cousins are regaining their strengths, thankfully."I cleared my throat before I stood properly and composed myself. My elbows hit some leaves, and I immediately noticed how quickly their eyes turned into me. "Oh, Kira!" Atasha chuckled awkwardly. "My cousins would want to give you and your mother this." She handed me two necklaces with a fang pendant."Really?" I still couldn't figure out how to interact with her. I never wanted to be fake or plastic or whatever they call it. "Yes, they've been planning to come here, but they are still regenerating their strengths — maybe next week they could thank you personally.""Oh, that's nice." I grabbed the necklaces from her soft hand. "Tell your cousins not to worry, and we appreciate their gifts and their gratitude." I glanced at Fenris, and he slightly smiled at me. My lips just thinned.I wanted to ask what they were talking
We arrived in the woods right on time while the Sun was about to rise. Good thing, the soldiers arrived earlier than us. They seemed responsible and dedicated to their tasks. We stayed near the river for a couple of hours. Fenris had been discussing something with the soldiers. They were plotting a plan while I was on the lookout for the busy group. Surprisingly, no Dark Summoners attempted to attack us. I was quite anticipating the action now, but perhaps it really was better for them not to attack or anything. The damage they could cause was too much, for sure.Since we saw no sign of attack, Fenris and I decided to go back to the mansion. He instructed the leader to inform us once anything unfortunate occurred. While we walked our way back to our house, the soldiers stayed in the woods as it was one of their duty — to guard and observe the forest.The next day was a really bad day for me. I work up without Fenris on my side. Since my body was so heavy and even my eyes, I didn't no
Nazarus just shrugged and started walking to the exit of the mansion. He looked back at me and gestured to me to follow him. I rolled my eyes before walking. I watched Nazarus back while walking. It was only at that time I noticed how neat and elegant he walked. Every step of him was really careful — I laughed at the thought of why we waste our time walking if we could just teleport. Fenris's deep gaze met mine when we reached the gate. "What did you do?* His brows crossed at Nazarus.I snaked my arm over Fenris' arm. "Where are we going?" I asked.Fenris remained to stare at Naz. Naz laughed and shook his head. "Chill! I went to the restroom and walked past her in the living room.""Where are we going, Fenris?" I asked again.Fenris finally looked at me. "You'll see."I rolled my eyes before looking at Nazarus. "Where are we going, Naz?""You'll see." He mocked Fenris.Fuck them!I crossed my arms over my chest and just followed them. We walked for a few minutes until we reached M
Slowly, the estranged man opened his eyes and quickly met mine. "You're gonna die… you're all going to die…." His huge black pupils trembled on my chest. I took a deep breath as my chest tightened.Fenris kicked the man before he stepped on his chest. "Don't listen to him." He tightened the grip of his feet on the man's chest, stiffening the Dark Summoners' human body."What do you want from us, huh?!"The man smiled strangely and slowly, he chuckled like a devil. "You're all gonna die…." He breathed out before coughing after Fenris squeezed his chest more with his feet."Fuck you! You're the one who's going to die today." Fenris grabbed his dagger and sliced the Dark Summoner's head off. I flinched and stepped back as the blood splashed everywhere. I covered my mouth. I was used to seeing brutality, but I couldn't still stop to be shocked at times."Why did you kill him? We could get information—""Do you think he will say something?" Fenris cut me off. "Think of him as Claude. He wi
Fenris raised his right brow. "You're talking about me?" "Oh, it's not important." Nazarus shrugged his hand. "Don't think too much about it."My lips thinned when Fenris glared at me. "What?" I arched a brow. "I just told him you don't like plucking the flowers in the garden."Fenris looked at the flower in my hand. I thought he was going to get it to me, but he just turned his gaze back at Fenris."What it is with the flowers that you're always giving to my wife, huh?"Nazarus raised both of his hands as if surrendering. "Just a nice gesture, calm down.""Nice gesture." Fenris scoffed. "Bullshit.""Fenris." I cleared my throat."Anyway, Fenris," Nazarus uttered. "It's perfect timing that you're here. I have to discuss something with you."Fenris' brows crossed, and so mine."About what?"Nazarus glanced at the mansion. "Can we talk inside?""Why? Can't you discuss that here?" Fenris sounded more disgusted yet intrigued.Naz looked around. "You won't wanna risk someone hearing our