ALPHA KING XALEN~~“This better be good.” Theo groaned within me.Although I didn’t growl, I was just as cranky as my wolf. I kept a straight face as I stepped into the throne hall, shifting my gaze from one deposed elder to the other.I was about to enjoy breakfast with my family when I got Evan’s message through the mind link. My beta informed me that my deposed elders had been clamoring to meet with me, and even though he had tried to hinder the inevitable meeting, they had all gathered before my throne.Frankly speaking, I didn’t expect the elders to come to me as a group. I believed they would rat one another out and sneak around just to be in my good books.“Clearly, they are gathered to fight back,” Theo informed me just as I sat on my throne, my eyes piercing through the souls of the old and supposed-to-be-wise wolves before me.They all fell to their knees as soon as I sat on the throne and chanted, “Long live the King.”“You may rise.” I breathed, sighting Wyatt and Evan
HAYLEE~~I have a lot to do.So much was on my plate, and I was struggling to keep a straight face.Before going to bed last night, Xalen and I concluded that I would begin my physical training today, and after speaking to Aradia, I have added spiritual training, reading books, and finding more clues to the list.I also needed to get myself examined so I could know what poison flowed within me.Training with Xalen and telling him about my time with Aradia was at the top of the list when we woke up this morning, but since Xalen had to meet with the Elders, I decided to get myself examined even though Aradia told me that the poison wasn’t harmful.“Who would think of doing that aside from Allison?” I asked myself and my wolf.Allison was the obvious threat to my life, but even though we lived under the same roof, she wasn’t close to me. The people closest to me were the kids, Xalen, Flavia, Roy, Benita, Maeve, Orla, and Jose.Of course, the last three were more like acquaintances at
HAYLEE~~Flavia handed my samples to trusted healers before we left the building, heading towards the general library without Sophia and Asher. I would have loved to leave Jodie with the healers as well, but she wouldn’t let them hold her.“I admire you, Haylee. You are one of the strongest people I know, and I hope you get your happy ending because you deserve it,” Flavia said to me as we walked side by side to the general library.My heart swelled, and a big smile found its way to my face as I muttered, “Thank you, Flavia. You don’t know how much that means to me.”She still doesn’t know everything about my past and who I was meant to be, yet she has accepted me wholeheartedly.We continued our walk, and I noticed that the library was in the heart of the pack, where most pack members resided. Although Allison and I stopped chatting as soon as we were allowed into the library, Jodie continued to coo happily, attracting more than a few annoyed eyes.I was about to mutter apologies t
HAYLEE~~“I’m pregnant with your child, Alpha Jett.” The world as I knew it froze at that moment. My eyes widened and my breaths became shallow as shock and undefinable emotions coursed through my body, replacing the initial excitement and hope that I was feeling.This can’t be h-hapening… This should never happen. Those words shouldn’t be coming out of my sister’s mouth… her eyes shouldn’t be glinting like that for goddess’s sake!She was my twin sister and–“You’ve got to be kidding me.” Alpha Jett’s voice cut through the thick layer of my thoughts.If I weren’t looking at his face, I would think he was mad about my twin sister’s announcement but the twinkle in his eyes. He was happy. My twin sister just announced that she was carrying his child before everyone in the pack during a party meant to celebrate my nineteenth birthday… A party I believed would be used to crown me Luna of Cresent Moon Pack because a year ago, on my eighteenth birthday, I discovered that Alpha Jett was
HAYLEE~~I was ripped off Kaylee by the familiar coarse hands that had shown me to the door of hell many times in the past– my father’s hands. For the first time, I cried to the father in the beast he had willingly shown me over the years. I stupidly thought he would take my side for the first time. A girl could wish, right? So I cried, “Dad, you can’t let her do this. You can’t just stand there and watch Kaylee snatch my mate–” But my statement was interrupted when his palm settled over my cheek like thunder. He slapped me and I tasted blood in my mouth as my father yelled in my wet face, “How dare you attack your sister! How dare you lay your hands on her? The Alpha has chosen a mate and it’s not you even though the moon goddess thought someone as plain as you could be Cresent Moon Pack’s Luna. That was a mistake on her path and we have corrected her mistake.” No, the only mistake here was having him as a father. The only mistake was picking to look like my heartless mother wh
ALPHA KING XALEN~~I don't know.I don't know how to exist in a world where my mate doesn't. A world without my Laura. I have spent the last five days beside her motionless body and even in that state she managed to look beautiful. She managed to capture my heart like we were teenagers again. How I wished she would open her eyes and tell me, “It’s a joke, Xalen. How can I die and leave you and the kids?” But today, I had to put her to rest. I had to bury her according to tradition so she could find peace in the afterlife. My heart was heavier than my bulky body and breathing felt like a crime because Laura wasn’t breathing. She was six feet under the ground we used to walk as the King and Queen of the werewolf realm–“Come forward and present your gifts.” My trusted Beta, Evan, voiced, calling on the visiting Alphas and leaders of the numerous packs under my jurisdiction.The funeral has ended as far as I was concerned. I had buried Luara and I don’t understand why these people
HAYLEE~~Fuck me!What the fuck was I thinking? No. I didn’t think when I heard that little child crying.My stupid brain just reacted to her and as I have always done with kids, I reached for her and offered comfort because no one offered that to me when I was growing up with an abusive father and a mean sister.And now that I was standing before the Alpha King, my heart was about to beat its way out of my chest. My body shook with fear as cold shivers traveled down my spine. There was something about his dark eyes that–“Don’t make me repeat myself?” His voice was cold, laced with anger that no one deserves, not even a criminal.I took my eyes off him, fighting the uneasiness my wolf was feeding my mind with. I said slowly, “I’m Haylee from–’ “Silence!” He snapped at me, causing me to jump away from him. If my mind wasn't shaky at the moment, I would have wondered why he asked me a question only to shut me up when I gathered enough courage to respond. However, I could only thin
HAYLEE~~“How dare you!” the hostile voice pierced my eardrums before an icy feeling cut through my skin, sending shivers down my spine. My eyes flew open and I jolted to my feet even though my brain wasn’t fully awake. I wobbled, my body shivering as I felt another icy feeling. I was drenched. I was soaked. Yet, I couldn’t scream as my eyes met with Owen’s angry ones. “How dare you fall asleep, Slave?” Owen, the head of servants in the Royal Pack, snarled at me.He was holding two black buckets whose content he just poured all over me. My hair and the dark brown dress I was given three days ago were dripping. The chilly air of the night wasn’t helping my case– everything was against me.“I d-doze—” I tried to speak but my teeth chattered and I instinctively wrapped my arms around my body, “You dozed?” Owen hissed. Ever since the Alpha King stopped me from leaving the hall three days ago, my life has changed drastically. One would think the Alpha King who didn’t hide his hatred
HAYLEE~~Flavia handed my samples to trusted healers before we left the building, heading towards the general library without Sophia and Asher. I would have loved to leave Jodie with the healers as well, but she wouldn’t let them hold her.“I admire you, Haylee. You are one of the strongest people I know, and I hope you get your happy ending because you deserve it,” Flavia said to me as we walked side by side to the general library.My heart swelled, and a big smile found its way to my face as I muttered, “Thank you, Flavia. You don’t know how much that means to me.”She still doesn’t know everything about my past and who I was meant to be, yet she has accepted me wholeheartedly.We continued our walk, and I noticed that the library was in the heart of the pack, where most pack members resided. Although Allison and I stopped chatting as soon as we were allowed into the library, Jodie continued to coo happily, attracting more than a few annoyed eyes.I was about to mutter apologies t
HAYLEE~~I have a lot to do.So much was on my plate, and I was struggling to keep a straight face.Before going to bed last night, Xalen and I concluded that I would begin my physical training today, and after speaking to Aradia, I have added spiritual training, reading books, and finding more clues to the list.I also needed to get myself examined so I could know what poison flowed within me.Training with Xalen and telling him about my time with Aradia was at the top of the list when we woke up this morning, but since Xalen had to meet with the Elders, I decided to get myself examined even though Aradia told me that the poison wasn’t harmful.“Who would think of doing that aside from Allison?” I asked myself and my wolf.Allison was the obvious threat to my life, but even though we lived under the same roof, she wasn’t close to me. The people closest to me were the kids, Xalen, Flavia, Roy, Benita, Maeve, Orla, and Jose.Of course, the last three were more like acquaintances at
ALPHA KING XALEN~~“This better be good.” Theo groaned within me.Although I didn’t growl, I was just as cranky as my wolf. I kept a straight face as I stepped into the throne hall, shifting my gaze from one deposed elder to the other.I was about to enjoy breakfast with my family when I got Evan’s message through the mind link. My beta informed me that my deposed elders had been clamoring to meet with me, and even though he had tried to hinder the inevitable meeting, they had all gathered before my throne.Frankly speaking, I didn’t expect the elders to come to me as a group. I believed they would rat one another out and sneak around just to be in my good books.“Clearly, they are gathered to fight back,” Theo informed me just as I sat on my throne, my eyes piercing through the souls of the old and supposed-to-be-wise wolves before me.They all fell to their knees as soon as I sat on the throne and chanted, “Long live the King.”“You may rise.” I breathed, sighting Wyatt and Evan
HAYLEE~~“You can’t look at me like that, Nerina. You asked me to be honest with you,” Aradia breathed as if she hadn’t just dropped a bomb into my life.She concealed my power and what I knew was an exceptional beauty. I mean, look at her! If I was destined to look anything like her, then I had been robbed greatly.“Your powers and beauty are manifesting thanks to the bond between you and Alpha King Xalen and also the poison you were being fed by those closest to you, Nerina. You don’t have to worry, and I had to do that—”“You seriously had to make me ugly? Do you even know the kind of abuse I had to endure because of how I looked? I get picked out and picked on every day!” I wasn’t sure if anger was what I felt or if I was blown away by the fact that my mother was so powerful.“I suffered, Aradia, so you do not get to casually drop that like it didn’t cost me everything,” I gritted.Aradia nodded and said, “I know, and I am sorry, Nerina, but it would have been much worse if you
HAYLEE~~“Good to see me, huh?” The goddess-like woman before me uttered, beaming as her bright green eyes scanned my body.“You don’t even want to know,” I retorted, resisting the urge to throw myself at her.Was it even possible to touch her? I mean, this realm felt real, but that didn’t change the fact that it wasn’t physical.“Are you excited to see me because you genuinely miss me, or is it because you have more questions, Nerina?” She asked me, her smile still very much wide.If I were to be honest, I would say I missed her and also had questions for her, but it didn’t make sense to miss someone whom I knew nothing about. So instead of giving her all the answers, I chose to give her half, like she seemed to have been doing with me.“I have questions, and I haven’t been able to reach you, even though you claim I am in control of these meetings,” I uttered, and I had to watch her bright smile disappear gradually. To ease the awkwardness that was bound to settle around us, I ask
HAYLEE~~Xalen’s advice helped me survive twenty-four hours without thinking about my failure to connect with my mother. In fact, I slept deeply all through the night, and as much as it still pained me that I couldn’t help my new family find clues, I didn’t let it bother me much.“I shouldn’t be there. I am ashamed of myself,” I heard Roy whisper as I moved down the stairs, ready to attend Uncle Clavin’s burial ceremony.Flavia’s voice hit my eardrums next as she tried to convince him, “You have nothing to be ashamed of, babe. It wasn’t your fault that your dad died, and hating him was logical after what you were made to believe, but not attending his burial, a final farewell, wouldn’t be logical.”“You are right,” Roy sighed to his mate.The heaviness in his chest could be heard in his voice, and once again, my heart tightened because even though I also wanted to help solve this mystery, I couldn’t. There was no way we could move forward without uncovering the mystery behind Uncle
Princess Allison’s POV ~~“It’s been five days, huh?” I asked Benita after emptying the glass of fresh juice that she gave to me.She nodded, “Yes, Princess Allison. How are you doing? Do you need me to get a healer to check on you?”“There will be no need for that,” I answered with a straight face.Benita helped me rest my back against the headboard of the bed, and she queried, “How about the baby? You didn’t eat or drink for five days and—”“My baby is fine and I am too, Benita.” I snapped, getting irritated because she was acting too nice. We both knew she wasn’t a great person for goddess’ sake. “I don’t need you to pretend to pity me or pity me at all. What I need to know is what has been happening out there for the past five days.”She nodded and began to narrate the events of the past five days. She told me about how Haylee has taken control of the pack, household, and the kitchen. She was now the new woman of the house, and she made good use of the power she held.“What happ
Princess Allison’s POV (21)~~Time froze days ago. I lost count of the days as I rolled in my bed repeatedly. Truly, time froze until I heard a sharp knock on my door for the first time in what? A million years? I wouldn’t know.But I knew what I heard. Someone knocked, yet I couldn’t leave my bed or part my lips to respond.I was so out of control and pathetic. It killed me to admit this, but it was the truth.“Your Majesty?” The familiar voice of no one else but Benita pierced through my head, sending pain through me as she banged on the door again.Did she say, "Your Majesty?" I was no majesty. Even the biggest of all fools would know that yet Benita didn’t.“I am coming in, Your Majesty,” she announced, and I heard her open my bedroom door like she owned the place. She continued, oblivious to the fact that her voice was causing me pain, “I brought you food and drink. I can help you freshen up—”“Get out.” I found the strength to blurt those two words to one of the people who ru
HAYLEE~~Xalen didn’t understand me fully, and I didn’t expect him to because even I didn’t understand myself. I haven’t wrapped my head around my mother and my powers, so why should he?However, he had good advice for me, and he whispered it into my ears as his arms tightened around me, “One thing I know about power is that you can control it better when you stop trying to control it. I want to believe you are experiencing a block, Nerina. Relax and let this happen naturally, just like it did the day we made love.”That was advice that I should take seriously, but thinking about the first time Xalen and I made love sucked all seriousness out of me. My lips stretched into an uncontrollable smile, steamy memories filling my mind rapidly.And did he just call me Nerina? My smile widened even more, and I couldn’t be happier.“I am your person, Haylee. I will always be your person, so you can always talk to me about anything.” Xalen continued speaking, kissing my forehead and wrapping