"Alpha, good evening sir." I nod in acknowledgement and walked further into the room, she tells me to sit and make myself at home she'll be back in a few.I considered ignoring her request but decided to heed to it since I'll be here for a bit, not by choice of course.Not up to a minute later, she walks back out with a cup of water and a bottle of beer, she keeps it before me but I didn't spare it a glance, I'm not here for refreshments. Maybe she thought I was here to check up on her, I’m not her damn Alpha. "Where is he?" I asked and I could see the way she tensed. She froze on her spot and it was obvious she wasn’t expecting my question. We both knew the ‘He’ I was talking about and I would hate to repeat myself. I see her adjust her posture and tried to act as if what I asked hasn't hit home. "I-I don't know what-what you're t-talking about alpha." She stammered, I settled my gaze on her and she moved back shivering, perfect, I like when they get scared. I continued to stare an
ALPHA JULIANThe day has finally come. The day for the mate bond trial was organized by the council of elders to decide if Rosella really is my mate and if James gets to take her back. I can’t believe I’ve actually come this far with Rosella, the victory is going to taste so good. I don’t know the kind of trial the elders have set down for us but I’m quite sure I’m going to come out victorious. This moment only makes me realize how far I've come and the bizarre things that have happened right from when I found Rosella in that thick dangerous forest with the intent to kill herself. It ends now, all the madness of James trying to forcefully take her back ends today. All of her pain. Her suffering. Her sadness. It all ends today once I win the trial. I will close that traumatic chapter of her life and open another one with just the both of us; an Alpha king and his Alpha Queen. Together, against the world. I can’t wait to make her feel human again. I would make her feel so great and
"C'mon now brother. Scared that much?" James says stepping forward in front of me. My blood only boils harder at the sight of his face. The bastard had the effrontery to look as relaxed as if nothing here mattered to him. I hate that they could all see the fact that this woman belonged to me and James wants her to prove a damn point. "If you're so sure of yourself then let's fight it out like true men!" He added with a scoff and I almost threw a punch at him. I take deep breaths to calm the rage brewing inside me and I tell myself I have this under control. "This was your doing right?" I ask even if the answer is glaring. "What did you do? Offer the elders your pitiful money?" James chuckles. "Oh brother, you're making it so obvious that you're scared of me. Let's face it! If you're so scared to fight me like a man then give me back my Luna!" Enraged and totally mad, I shed my shirt off my body and stand half-naked with just my pants on and step down to grab a sword. "You want to
JAMESAnother vase goes flying across the room and I don't check for the direction it went flying through before I grab another with and send it in another corner of the room with the same force and rage as it hits the floor with a resounding chatter that bounced off the walls of my office and echoing through the entirety of the whole house. For the first time, these pretty decorations were starting to annoy me. I throw everything within my reach; files, books, stationery, and all until my office table is empty and there is nothing left to throw. The whole floor is a mess and there's barely any room left even for me to walk through.I'm hurt somewhere. I don't know where or how and it's probably a bruise or a deeper cut but the throbbing pain and trickling blood on the floor is enough proof of how deep into shit I am. In reality, I feel like shit. More or less like a failure. How could this happen to me? My entire body is shaking with so much anger and the urge to hit something. To
I pass a door and I stop, retracting my steps before unlocking the door and going down the stairs of the dimly lit underground room.The scent of blood whiffs past my nostrils as well as the stench that comes from the moss that comes together from dripping water. The place that serves as my dungeon is now empty and I hate that I actually expected to see someone there. Am I going crazy with such thoughts? She's dead. I killed her. I killed Anne. I killed my actual mate. For some insane reason, I expected her to still be in that seat locked down with both arms and legs. Head hung low with hair falling over her face like a curtain. Body weak, frail, and tired almost looking like a skeleton. That powerless weak look empowers me. Just like Rosella, Anne's presence down here keeps me sane and keeps me together. She's always at the receiving end of my anger whenever Rosella is too battered to be even touched. It doesn't help that Anne runs her mouth like a loose screw each time I come h
ROBERTI can’t keep this secret with me any longer. The way it’s eating me up, I don’t think I can take it anymore. The same way I can’t support evil, and even though doing what I’m about to do now would mean betraying my blood, I don’t care. I’m someone who wants justice, and even though I was misled, and my thoughts went astray when I helped Maria do her wicked deeds, I just can’t keep it to myself now.Maria is my sister, but Julian is my friend, my best friend at that. Julian was there for me even when my family didn’t know what I was going through. Julian never really made me feel like a subordinate to him and he enjoyed doing things to make me happy. Besides my loyalty stands with one man, and that’s Alpha Julian.My best friend, and the Alpha king of this realm, the only man who handled the crown with all honesty and never hesitated to act right even when It’s needed. What my sister is doing is not something good at all, and I don’t want to be someone who is advocating for the
All the while as he talks I make no move to even shut him up.I already know about everything, as I have eyes everywhere and insiders who tell me everything, and I know he’s so going to be astounded when I tell him that I know about all the secrets and even more.Despite the fact that I’m somehow angry and betrayed by some of the things he did, the fact that he has come here to confess and apologize is making me see him in a different light.Besides we’re friends, have been for such a long time and it would be a shame to let greed, secrets, and anger break the beautiful bond we once had.“Are you listening to me at all?” He asks after some time of talking, and placing my hands on the table in front of me I hum a yes.“I’ve been listening to everything you’ve been saying of course. I’m here aren’t I?” I ask him sarcastically. I saw the way he rolled his eyes in frustration and I choke back a laugh. “You haven’t said anything yet, and now I’m already beginning to get scared. I’m really
ROSELLAI sit by the chair and stare outside my bedroom window, thinking about how everything is such a mess, I don't know how my life became this complicated. I let out a small sigh and rub my eyes, feeling a headache already forming.A breeze blew into the room messing up my already messed up hair, if it didn't look like a bird's nest before, I'm sure it does now. I run my hands through it in a pathetic attempt to tame it, I realized it wasn't going to work so I give up with a small sigh.I'm pretty sure I'm not crazy but I could've sworn I heard a sigh from somewhere in the room, with the things that have been going on lately, I'm scared to look, goddess knows I have enough on my plate. I turned around to look at the whole room, I heard soemthing. I was sure of that. "Well, your attentiveness is next to zero, basically it's shitty." I jump at the voice and turn automatically. A woman was seated on the bed, my dirty thought is how the hell did she get here, I didn't hear the door o
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