ALPHA JULIANThe journey back to the pack house feels so slow and excruciating. My thoughts are all over the place and my mind is in shambles. As much I thought going to see her won’t affect me but it did, I felt nothing more than a failure. I wished I had searched for her more those days, I wished I actually paid attention to her behavior or the way James acted after she went missing. Thinking about it all now, his own act was so suspicious but my thoughts were all over the place. I try to will myself to believe that this isn't a dream and I'm yet to wake up from it. But the few painful pinches I gave myself proved it right that indeed, I wasn't dreaming when I saw my childhood best friend battered beyond repair and locked inside of a dungeon. The memories of how she looked when I saw her haunt me and even try to overshadow the memories I've had of her. We had so many memories together and I could barely count them. We took our first steps together and we have been friends since th
"What brings you here?" He finally asks when he realized I wasn’t going to talk first. He leaned back in his chair before setting his reading glasses as well as the book he was reading down on the table. He fixed his gaze on me and I felt quite uncomfortable. I know he feels guilty for taking James away from his family but I deserve respect too. James wasn’;t the only one forced to grow up all by himself. "I was at my brother's place today" I go straight to the point. and I watch his jaws set in a tick. Whatever he wanted to say to me, he changed his mind before staring at me as if he wanted me to continue. I never did and he cleared his throat before speaking. "And? Have you agreed to return his Luna to him?" My father asks again and I try not to roll my eyes. This again? I thought we were over this already, maybe because he doesn’t believe in brothers going to war but he should be considerate of my own happiness, the only person I would truly love and spend the rest of my life wi
ROSELLAI was feeling stuffed in the hospital so I went out for fresh air and to think. With the trial creeping up soon I don't even know what to do, I'm so scared of the outcome and many what-ifs.What if I'm not Julian's mate and I have to go back to James. Will he kill me after I give birth to his child? I almost laugh mockingly at that, I know that is exactly what he will do. In fact, the only reason he hasn't killed me yet is because of his child in my womb. Just thinking of having to go back to that psychopath made my blood run cold.I'm also scared of the other outcome if I’m being honest with myself, what if Julian is my mate, I know he hasn't talked about what we're going to do about the child. What if after getting mated to Julian, he treats me right but my baby is on the bad side of everything? What if he treats me with love and he treats my baby with disgust? He hates his brother so why would he treat the child very well? Plus we would have our kids and the baby would end
Not expecting he stumbled to the ground with a now bloody nose, his beta tried t get in between us but with two punches he was out cold on the floor. I was too angry and before James could recover from reeling on the floor, I grabbed his collar before I delivered fast blows in quick succession to his face and he moved back. No one has ever seen me this angry before and I wasn’t regretting it one bit. I snarled at the weakling he had for alpha and went back to trashing him."Where is she?!"I growled my fist connecting with his jaw, I heard a crunching sound but I'd didn't faze him, I wouldn't be satisfied until I'm sure he wouldn't be able to work. I needed to send a signal to his stupid brain as a reminder that I am not someone he should ever mess with me his life. "Where the fuck is my mate?!" I yell in his face and I noticed the way confusion marred his bloody face. The bastard was acting ignorant and I wasn’t having any of that, I would deal with him properly. Getting over his ini
MARIAI'm in trouble. Big time. Why did I do it? I ask myself. What exactly made me do it? Okay! I know why I did it but I never actually thought I had the initiative to do this on my own. I never thought my anger and hatred would actually push me to do something that could lead to my death.But can you blame me? I was meant to be his Luna. I've loved Alpha Julian right from before he became the Alpha king. His little touches of affection to a girl who was like a sister to him meant more to me. He would hold my hands and explain things to me in the most gentle manner. When we first moved here and no one wanted to be our friend because I had mismatched yees, he would stay to play with me. He was the reason everyone started to talk to me without thinking I’m a witch. He is the kind of male every female would die for. Dashing, charming, sweet, and strong. Alpha Julian is everything a woman would wish for. For so long I kept my feelings from him a secret and watched painfully as he wen
The only issue with my plan is that it was half-baked. I never thought of what I would do when I kidnap her and I couldn't even dare to kill her. The plan was borne out of my anger and I didn't think it through. I couldn’t believe I was this stupid and I made myself fall into this shit. I never wanted to be caught in between two alphas war but this girl was about to ruin me without having to try at all. Now I don't know what to make of a drugged human sleeping on the floor while her Alpha is raining hell and burning houses down to find her. I didn't expect things to turn out like and they have gone completely down the drain.Alpha Julian will have my head if he ever finds out. And so the only thing I could do was to call my brother, Robert. He's the only one I know who can help me and I have sent for him to come to see me at my chamber. I stand, biting my nails nervously and looking out the window waiting for Robert to show up. He would surely know what to do. He won't leave me to m
MARIA“Oxytocin and what’s the name of that drug you called again?...” I ask the nurse who is with me while trying hard to remember what she called for me. I didn’t want to look dumb but I had a lot going on in my head. This bitch was doing nothing yet she messed with my head effortlessly. I’ve been uneasy since she came and it felt like she was going to snatch Julian away from me. She didn’t even need to do anything yet she has taken him away from me. She rolled her eyes before giving me an answer “Misoprostol…” I wanted to slap her face hard before sending her off. I was the one who needed her help so I have to put up with her tantrums. She knows she has the upper hand here and she’s making it quite obvious. “Yes, yes… I need this business to be a clean one.” I tell her, handing the bag of medicine to her and she nods. We already had an agreement involving money so getting her to do my bid won’t be hard at all. I dip my hand inside my bag to provide another wad of cash and I saw t
I’m already sensing they something bad must have happened, and I clench and unclench my fist, calming down the animal in me as I refrain from screaming.Calmly, I clear my throat and finally ask out loudly, attracting everyone’s attention, “What the hell is going on?”“Alpha King…” The doctor in charge, and the one I’m familiar with starts to say coming towards me with a smile and I look at him suspiciously. I don’t know how he manages to have a smile on his face each time even in extremely dangerous situations? Muzz me every time. “What’s going on here? Where’s Rosella?” I ask again redirecting my eyes to the bed but she’s not there. I really hope it’s not what I’m thin king because she can’t even be missing again for the second time in a row. Then who had been crying? One of the nurses or what?“Sir, you have to calm…” I interrupt him before he can even finish whatever it is he wants to say, “Calm down for what? Why is Rosella’s bed empty? Where is she? I need answers.”“Sir, to
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