ALPHA JULIANThe constant ringing of my cell phone dragged me out of the short nap. I had heard it ring a couple of times, if not a dozen and more times, but I chose to ignore it. Holding my mate in my arms felt so good I could barely snatch myself away from her. Her scent was so strong and feminine that it tingled my senses. She felt so soft wrapped around my rigid muscles. I felt like one little touch from me would break her more than she was already broken, and so I tried hard not to move as she slept peacefully until I fell asleep myself while holding her in my arms.When I could no longer take the annoying ringing of my cell phone, I slowly untangled my mate from my arms, letting her fall ever so gently onto the bed. Her soft snores tugged at my heartstrings. She was fucking adorable. The dried-up tears on her face were a reminder of the horrible things she told me moments ago, and it makes me want to deliver a hard punch to the wall while imagining it is a particular Alpha's fac
ROSELLAI don't know for how long I slept, but the man who saved me was no longer beside me when I woke up. I don't know how to describe the feeling that settled inside of me in his absence, but I sure as hell didn't like it. The last thing I remember is crying in his arms after I told him everything I went through in the hands of Alpha James. When he pulled me to him, I let him, surprised that my body didn't make a perverse reaction to him holding me so close to him. A single touch from Alpha James repelled me, but this man's touch didn't. If anything, it made me snuggle closer into him as if I could enter into him.His big muscled arms enveloped me, and I've never felt so safe in someone's arms like I felt with him. His masculine scent intoxicated me, and his cologne was so good it tingled my senses. I know I shouldn't trust him. I know I shouldn't trust anyone even when they give you all the food you've dreamt of eating, let you rest, watch over you like a baby and hold you in the
I had always heard about alpha Julian but I never got the chance to meet him personally. I used to think he would be a very bad person with the way Alpha James was always talking about him. But this man here beat all my expectations. He was magical. Okay! I was officially confused right now. I don't get a thing he is saying. What mate bond trial? "Mate bond trial? What for?" I asked in confusion and I saw him sigh. I wanted him to explain to me properly. "It is to see if the bond between you and Alpha James is broken. I know it is. But I definitely have no choice but to give proof of it. The council of elders needs proof that the bond is broken and a mate trial is what we usually do to prove it." He explained further and I got confused the more. "But he mated me!" "That doesn't make you his mate! You're my mate, and the mate bond trial will prove it. The elders will decide on the date for it." This was definitely too much for me to register. He's hell-bent on proving that I'm h
JAMESI still can’t believe I’m doing this, but well, I am. I need to do it—anything at all, to get my Rosella back. When I woke up this morning, the first thing that came to my mind was thoughts on how to get Rosella back. I didn’t know how everything got to this point and I could have been stricter with that stupid human. I shouldn't have let her have the freedom of leaving the house; now I’m stuck with headaches on how to find the bitch. I mean, I couldn’t sleep, as it eluded me, and ran away as all I could think of, everything in my mind was centered on how I could get that bitch back. The stupid mate is with my half-brother, the Alpha King, right now. I can’t believe Julian outsmarted me again, talk about being lucky. The son of a bitch had always been lucky from birth, he gets the throne and our father’s attention, but James is the black sheep, the one that doesn’t deserve to stay with the elites. Well, that is what I am doing now. I am at my brother’s home, and I have just on
“Julian, don’t push me…” I tell him slowly but he just smirks and then says, “And if I do what are you going to do. You might as well go to hell for all I care, that’s none of my business.” He spits out.“Do you know that she’s pregnant?” I ask him slowly, and for some time I get no response. Silence descends for a while, and no matter how hard I try to know what the fuck he’s thinking, I just can’t.“Do you know she’s carrying my child?” I ask again, louder and clearer this time because I want him to hear every single thing I’m saying. I don’t even know why I’m being this calm, which is so unlike me.“She’s with your child, that’s none of my business. That girl is battered, bruised, and pregnant, and lest I forget she doesn’t need you. The mate hold between you both is broken and she can feel our mate bond now. You don’t feel connected to her again spiritually, It’s just greed left. I think you need to have that in mind, as you leave this place because I’m done with this conversatio
Julian “Where is she?” I shouted at the receptionist, giving me one-word replies as I frantically asked about Rosella. I don’t want anything to happen to her, and right now, I am so fucking worried. I willed myself to breathe, but It wasn’t working on me. If it were another person in my shoes now, I would have been so angry that they aren’t listening to me, but I can’t even listen to myself right now. My wolf pacing around in my head wasn’t helping things at all. I don’t want to imagine what could have happened to her. “Where’s the doctor? Where’s the man in charge? That fucker who called me, where is he?” I ask again. I’m currently at the hospital, and all of the nurses were staring at me like they were seeing something new. I don’t blame them; It’s not every day you wake up to see your alpha raging mad in the reception of the pack hospital. I can’t imagine what would happen to her if James got to her. With the way, he was so anxious to get her. He even desperately offered me someo
ROSELLAI can’t believe that Julian Rushed to see me. I didn’t even know that he asked them all to check up on me dutifully and report back every second. I have no idea what I’ve done to deserve all these kinds of love, considering the way I’ve been treated by James, and I can’t be more grateful.“Are you okay now?” He asks me, gently stroking my hair, and looking around my body, obviously looking for signs of wounds or bruises and I nod with a shaky smile. I just had a little dream, one which was too real not to be true, and when I woke up seeing that it was a dream, I was so relieved.My scream must have alerted the presence of the doctors and everyone I saw when I woke up, and that was what might have prompted the head doctor to call Julian here. I hated that I had to distract him from his pack duties or preparations for the trial. I hate to be a burden and the last thing I wanted was to be a burden to my second chance mate. “What happened?” Julian asks me, bringing me back from
ALPHA JAMESI dial Julian’s cell phone for the third time this morning unfailingly, but the fucker is deliberately not picking my calls. I’m trying hard not to get mad or anything and allow my anger to ruin things but the bastard is deliberately making things hard for me. I don’t want to lose it but I guess it’s hard for me because why would he ignore my calls. Maybe because he feels like he has the upper hand. I can’t wait to shock him out of his wits. The phone that I had placed on my desk some minutes ago, suddenly vibrates and I look at the screen, and Julian’s name flashes through. The call immediately hangs up just immediately it had ringed, and I smirk at his stupidity. He’s calling me then hanging up due to fear, an Alpha king shouldn’t be that weak. Julian wasn’t weak, he’s more like a scaredy-cat. A scaredy-cat that you can’t predict his next moves. I dial his number quickly, and it rings once and he picks. I thought he wouldn’t pick maybe he had an internal battle with hi
The rest of the fight was pretty much bullying.Watching her friend's head being pulled brutally from her neck was enough to awaken the darkest powers that lay dormant in her.Rosella attacked Akayla at once, blasting her with balls of fire. At first, Akayla did a good job dodging, but she couldn't keep it up for long.Rosella had her cornered in no time and as much as Akayla tried to fight back, nothing seemed to be working. Rosella's body absorbed every single ball of fire from Akayla and the more Akayla blasted her, the stronger she got.Akayla finally realized that there was no way she could get past Rosella and she decided to switch tactics to subtlety.She raised her arms in the air like she was surrendering and as soon as Rosella got close enough, she blasted her with all the energy she had.Rosella screamed in pain as her body struggled to absorb the blast and Akayla blasted her again.Rosella fell to the floor, her clothes burnt and torn in multiple places and Akayla laughed
“Some light training could help,” Alpha Julian suggested.“It’s magic we’re talking about,” Maika snorted. “You either have it or you don’t. She lost hers already and except we can find a way to get it back before Akayla sniffs us here, she can’t.”“Great,” Rosella sighed. “So I’m practically useless here.”“You’re not,” Maika frowned. “We would find a way. Here, hold my hands.”Maika stretched out her hand and Rosella took her hands.“Close your eyes, let’s try something,” Maika suggested.Rosella nodded and shut her eyes tight as Maika began to chant a spell. It took some minutes but eventually Rosella began to feel the power flow through Maika’s hands and into hers.Maika opened her eyes and dropped Rosella’s hand.“Try to light a flame now,” Maika said.Rosella spread her arms out and concentrated so hard but only a little spark came.“It would take a lot of time,” Maika sighed. “Your body is already used to the magnitude of the dark powers it carried before. What I have given you
It didn’t take Rosella a long time to find Julian. She knew his favorite spot, by the Oak tree and when she saw him there, she was not surprised.Rosella walked up to him and squeezed his hands in hers. He turned around, startled and she knew at once that he had not sensed her presence.“Rosella?” He asked. “Is that you?”“It’s me, honey,” Rosella replied and hugged him.They remained like that for a long while and when he finally disconnected from her, she saw that his eyes were pure white.“What happened to you?” Rosella cried. “Your eyes.”“She got to me,” Alpha Julian muttered. “Akayla. She killed our baby too.”“I know,” Rosella nodded. She wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes.“I saw him, Julian. I saw our baby.”“I saw him too,” Alpha Julian nodded. “I’m sorry I couldn’t do anything about it. I have failed you.”Rosella held his hands lovingly. She hated it when he was like that. He was her only source of strength and it seemed that he didn’t believe anymore. He had lost
THE LAST SUPPER 2Maika waited till they were halfway through their supper before she appeared from the kitchen again. She knew the poison was a slow one, and it would take a long time before it started working fully.Maisey sighted her at the door and called to her."Maika darling," Maisey called. "It's almost 11 and you still haven't eaten.""I'll eat later," Maika smiled. "I lost my appetite."Maisey stared at her for a while and frowned."You know it's not right to serve your guests and starve yourself?" He said."And where did you hear that?" Kika laughed. She dragged her chair closer to Maika and whispered in her ears."I know you don't feel like eating," She said. "I can always help you out."Maika managed a weak smile and nodded. Deep down, she felt a pange of guilt knowing that all of them were going to die at her hands. Kika especially. She wasn't a bad person, her only fault was moving with the wrong person, her own father, Maisey, and as much as it pained her, she knew t
THE LAST SUPPER 1Maika watched her father as he studied the map on the wall before him. He was lost in thoughts as he traced his fingers up and down, circling towns and marking off rivers. She wondered what he was doing but she didn’t bother asking. He was not going to live long enough to conquer any of the places he was marking so it was pointless asking.Maisey noticed her curious glance and he smiled at her.“My darling,” He said. “All these places you see would soon be ours.”Maika nodded and smiled knowingly. If there was one thing she liked about the man, it was his confidence and ambition. If only he could channel it into something better, something more meaningful and worthy. But no, he only cared about power. He only cared about ruling the realm, and his obsession with ruling the realm was going to be his biggest undoing.“What plans do you have for the new world when you take over, father?” Maika asked.Maisey smiled and ran his fingers across a small creek on the map.“I c
Rosella closed her eyes and the fire enveloped her.She could still hear Akayla’s cackles in the midst of the flames and when she opened her eyes again, she was surprised to see that the fire was not burning her.“Rosella!”Rosella turned around at the sound of the familiar voice and she barely resisted the urge to scream. It was no other than Sage, her mentor that had gone missing a long time ago.“Sage?” Rosella cried. “How? What are you doing here?”Sage managed a weak smile. “It’s a long story. I’m sorry I left you for so long.”Rosella ran to hug her but her arms passed right through Sage’s body. She stared at her in shock and she shook her head.“No, no, no, it can’t be possible,” Rosella cried. “Don’t tell me you’re dead too.”“I’ve been dead for a long time,” Sage replied. “Maisey did this to me.”Rosella’s eyes widened in shock. “Maisey?”Sage frowned at her. “We do not have time for chit chats, Rosella. My Spirit would be here to guide you and Maika. The two of you together,
A shrill scream from over a mile jolted Alpha Julian out of his reverie. He shifted into his wolf at once and his ears perked up, alert.Someone was watching him and he could feel it.He growled and bared his fangs, daring whoever it was to appear, but no one came for a while.Just as he shifted back to his human form, he saw her. Even in the midst of the fire, her aura was powerful. Her hair was blood red and burned along with the flame in the warehouse and she smiled noticing his stare."We meet again, Julian," Akayla smiled.Alpha Julian growled and watched as she walked closer to him. He backed away as she came closer."Are you now scared of me?" Akayla taunted him."I can never be scared of you," Alpha Julian growled. "You're nothing.""I was," Akayla agreed. "But not anymore, and all thanks to your little son."Akayla threw a stick at him and Alpha Julian caught it at once. Staring at it, he realized that it was not actually a stick. It looked like a little child, a little child
Rosella begged for the tears but they refused to come. The one person that mattered the most to her, she had lost. The evil witch now had her baby."Rosella!" Alpha Julian called again.She ignored his call and lay down on the bed silently. The smoke was restricting his view and she knew that he would have a hard time finding her."Where were you when I needed you the most!" Rosella cried. "I lost him!"There was a deafening silence in the room for a long while and Alpha Julian spoke finally. His voice was calm."How did it happen?""Susu!" Rosella cried. "I told you she was evil all the while but you never believed me. I'm the crazy witch who doesn't know what she's saying. Now we've lost our little boy.""No harm will come upon our baby," Alpha Julian promised. "I can assure you of that.""You can't assure me of anything," Rosella shook her head. "She would have killed me if she wanted to. You said you would be beside me but you weren't."From her voice, Alpha Julian could tell that
Susu carried the dead baby all the way to the abandoned warehouse.Her heart raced with excitement at the thought of getting Akayla back fully. Together, they were going to take over the world, just as Akayla had promised her.She got to the door of the warehouse and she looked around quickly to make sure that no one was looking. Seeing that no one was around, Susu pushed the door open and walked in.From a distance, she could feel the energy buzzing around Akayla. Even in her vegetative state, she was that powerful. Susu dared to wonder for a minute how strong she would be when all her powers were back.She stopped at the bed where the witch lay and she slowly removed the cloth that covered her body."My Queen," Susu announced her presence.Akayla woke up with a start and her eyes shone black. Her face was a mask of different dull colors: ash, grey and black in a few places, a subtle reminder of the day that she had tried to get the powers out of the portal and got badly burnt.Susu