ALANAThat night, I came back to try to talk with William again. Carrying with me a platter of a chicken dish that I cooked, I smiled at the royal guard again. This time, I look more presentable. I am fresh from the bath and dressed with the white sundress that he gave me as a birthday gift. I am sure he will be happy once he sees me wearing it since he always complains that I don’t wear many of the gifts he gave me.“Please, can you ask the alpha prince if I can talk to him? Please tell him it’s Alana.”“Yes, ambassadress.”He knocked and opened the door again to call for William. This time, I did not dare to peep at the gap because I might cry incessantly once I see any part of him.“Alpha prince, the ambassadress is here. She is asking if you could talk to her.”I did not hear any answer from the room so I stepped closer to eavesdrop.“Tell her to go away. I will be busy tonight,” Drake said in a firm voice as the guard inside shut down the door.The royal guard looked at me with p
WILLIAMSophia and I are facing each other at a private dinner in a restaurant a few miles from the village. The woman is blushing all over while trying to appear as dainty and elegant as possible in front of me.But I was too shrewd to be tricked by this. I have met people like her and it always ends up in the worst way against the other.She glanced at me and wiped her mouth in a very demure manner making sure that I see how her colored nails are flicked in a way.“Alpha prince, thank you so much for inviting me to this dinner. It looks so inviting here.”I just nodded at her while thinking about Alana earlier. I think I may have overdone it a bit. I was being too needy and hurting that I pushed her away twice this day. The first one can’t be helped, but the second and third instances? There is no excuse for doing that to her. I was just being a jerk and mean to her at this point.Sophia smiled at me in a rehearsed manner. Even the way she moved her neck is a product of a behavioral
ALANA“Ambassadress, Luna Minerva wants to talk with you,” the royal guard informed me after knocking on the door.“Let her in,” I said without looking up from the stacks of papers on the table.I am trying to find a way to minimize the expenses in the mansion so we could build more schools for the children.Minerva entered the room with a big smile on her face.“Alana, my sweet little child.” She hugged me and even kissed my head. “I missed you so much.”I just sat there frozen in awkwardness. My heart is squirming in unease while she kisses me. “Take a seat. Why are you here?”My stepmother took my hand and gave me another one of those creepy smiles she had. “Alana, why are you so cold to me? Did you already forget about how I loved you then? I am sorry if you mistook my discipline for cruelty. I know you are so young then to understand that your dad and I have just a different way of showing how we love you so much.”Love? They love me? No matter how little my limited experience an
ALANAThe door of my room creaked open but I continued pretending that I was asleep. I did not panic or scream because I already knew who he was with his smell that was constricting my throat with emotion. His scent is the only thing that I want to sniff right now for sleep to set in on me but as unfortunate as it seems, I still do not want to talk to him now.My heart is still heavy with envy. I heard from Sophia that William gave her the best treatment like a princess in the restaurant. It doesn’t make sense to me since William knows how Sophia abused me.She has been bragging about that to the entire mansion and of course to me saying that the alpha prince is still mateless until now and rumors have it that he will be married to another woman this year regardless if he finds his mate or not.That woman could be her since she was one of the promised girls to the alpha prince.I wanted to tell them that he has already found his mate, that it was me all along which explains how he ca
Alana“Don’t go, please. Don’t leave me here, William.”I tightened my arms around his waist, pressing my face further into his wide back smelling his intoxicating scent.I miss him so much. I miss William. I miss my mate in every way possible.I felt his hands on top of mine as he turned around to cup my face, wiping the tears on my face.“I am only waiting for you to say that.” He leaned in and kissed my closed eyes down to my nose until he reached my lips where he planted soft kisses. Then, he rested his forehead on mine as we gasped together with how it felt good to be finally touching and kissing each other again.“Gosh, how I miss doing this with you, Alana. The weeks without seeing you and touching you like this is such a torture.”He kissed my lips again and drew me closer into his body. “Let’s not do that to each other, okay? Let’s first talk it out. I don’t want both of us to ever go through that again, okay?”My tears started falling again as I nodded. “I’m sorry,” I whispe
“Alana…” his voice is hoarse as if he is in pain especially when I squeezed his hardness lightly.“Can I? Please?” I asked again, with each second I spent my hand on top of it, the harder it became, mesmerizing me more.“Oh, Alana…” he gave in and guided me back into the bed.“Fuck!” he muttered when I stood up and knelt between his legs.I looked up at him from the floor and asked innocently, “Why are you cursing me, William?”“I’m sorry. It’s just that,” he paused and cupped my face. “You look so hot right now, Alana.”Hot? Am I burning now?Crawling closer into the gap between his thighs, I raised my hand and slowly unzipped his pants with my trembling hands.It took me minutes before I successfully zipped it down because my hands are too shaky to perform a very simple task.I also do not really know why I am doing this but I was just too curious to see him inside there. I want to touch it to see what it’s going to make of William.He traced my lips with his fingers. “Alana, you ca
ALANAWilliam groaned before he leaned in to kiss me but before his lips could touch mine, a knock interrupted us in the middle of making miracles.I pushed William away and covered my body with the blanket even though he had not even removed any of my clothes.Amused, he kissed my nose and playfully bit my ear. “My little bold mate is really shy all along,” he teased me before standing up and opening the door, not even bothering to put on a shirt.“Francine,” Drake spoke as I peeked through the covers.The woman is smiling from ear to ear when she realizes that William is in my room.“Did you know that you have come here at the worst possible time?” Drake said in a pissed tone.The woman just laughed and glanced at my direction so I immediately hid under the covers in embarrassment.“That’s my boy. And please, before you come to me, I have no idea that you are here in Alana’s room. I just knocked to check up on her and give her this glass of milk she forgot to drink earlier.”“Thank
ALANA“A what?” Francine asked with wide eyes, almost falling from her seat. “Come again, Alana? Can you repeat what you just said?”Given her reaction, I felt a bit embarrassed. With flushed cheeks, I asked her again. “Can you please teach me how to pleasure a man? I want to make William happy.”“Alana…”I took her hands with me. “Please Francine. I know this is too much to ask but I don’t think I could ever find someone as reliable as you. All I want to do is make William happy. I don’t know how to do that since I haven’t had a man in my life.”She laughed a little before taking my hands together in hers. “I don’t know if I should take it as a compliment or not but you really came to the right person.”My eyes widened in happiness. Does it mean that she’s agreeing already?She laughed upon seeing the glow on my face. Pinching my cheeks lightly, she nodded. “I will teach you everything I know, Alana. Don’t you worry.”To my happiness, I hugged her tightly. “Thank you so much, Francin
ALANAIt felt like all the blood in my body had been drained when I saw him staring back at me.Did he see how my body is rejecting his blood and scent? Did he see how difficult it was for me to drink his blood even when he knows that I am his mate?But he also knows your real identity, Alana. He knows that you are from the clan of his enemy and this is fate's way of saying that you will never be together, the small voice in my head said, rendering me helpless for the next seconds.He looked into my eyes pleadingly and shook his head at me. “Please stop it now,” I read his mouth. “I don’t want to see you suffering anymore.”I shook my head too in reply and took the vial in my shaking hands while not cutting off our gaze. No, I will never surrender. I will win this contest no matter what!In a heartbeat, I opened my mouth and drank the blood in the vial feeling the liquid scalding my throat.“Alana, no!” William screamed from the tower and jumped down towards me but the guards were qui
ALANA“I am done!” Georgia shouted and ran to the doctor carrying a petri dish in her hand. “This is the blood of the alpha prince.”The doctor inspected it and nodded. “Passed!”Georgia smiled widely and turned to me with a mocking smile on her face. “It’s so easy. I don’t know why the mate of the alpha prince is having a hard time. Does it mean that she’s really incompatible with the alpha prince?” she said before running to the other station.I just did not pay attention to her because I am too drawn into the fact that all I am smelling in these dishes is Lucas’ blood.“I am done!” Sophia shouted by my side.“Passed!” the announcer declared as my sweat broke out from my forehead because I still cannot pinpoint the basin that holds William’s blood.I feel so useless feeling this way because why the hell I cannot recognize my own mate’s blood? Despite the medicine, I should have at least sensed it because William and I are always together.I should have at least developed some sense
ALANAGetting up with my body shaking all over, I ran to the bathroom and looked for anything to cover up the mark on my neck.I found my make-up that I used to put on my neck before to hide William’s mark. I never thought that I would get to do the same thing again in a very different situation but this time, I really want to hide this hideous mark on my neck.“It’s okay, Alana,” I said to myself while my tears were falling as I’m trying my hardest to steady my fingers. “He still hasn’t fully claimed you. You did not transform in front of him so he cannot really say that I am his mate.”The powder fell out from my hand as I slowly sank into the floor with my hands on my face, crying my heart out.“How can he be my mate when I don’t want him at all? Moon goddess, William is my only mate. He is the only person I love! He is the only man that I would ever love forever!”“Ms. Alana.” A knock stirred me out from the turmoil of my emotions. “We really have to go. The test is starting and t
ALANAJust as William promised, he brought me to the dormitory himself before night fell but I did not let him come in because the guards were at the entrance ready to stop him.As much as possible, I would not like to see any scuffle involving William now that we are down to the series of last tests to have the right to call myself his future wife and luna.“I’ll wait for you in the cabin tomorrow,” he whispered in my ear in high spirits, the smile in his face stretching from his mouth to his ears.I giggled as my cheeks burned remembering how he took me over and over again without caring how others might hear us from outside his room.We stopped by a few meters from the dormitory while we were both tightly clasping each other’s hands.“Please, take care of your health for me, okay?” I asked him dearly. “Prioritize yourself. Don’t always worry about me because I am a strong person now, William. You made me strong enough to face all these.”He kissed my head and nodded at me. “I promi
ALANAThe seconds felt like forever upon hearing William ask that. I was the first one to move and grasped his face.“Are you okay? Feeling better? Do you feel anything weird with your body? Tell me, William. Please, tell me.”I did not know that I was already crying. I just realized it when William sat on the bed and wiped the tears on my face.“Tell me, Alana. Tell me what’s wrong.”I just bit my lower lip and hugged him tightly. “No, nothing is wrong, William. I…” I breathed a sigh of relief and closed my eyes to focus only on his scent even when it no longer feels the same way. “I am just really glad that you have woken up now. I thought you will be strapped in your bed again for days just like what ha-”My voice shook when I remembered that he was unconscious in his bed for days because of me. I thought that would happen again to him despite Francine assuring me that he’s fine.I felt his hand on my hair brushing it gently and kissing it with all the love in him for me.“Nothing
ALANA“Alana, it’s time. I have to take you back to the dormitory,” Lucas said from my back while I am still holding William’s hands.He is still not waking up but the color on his face is back. I peered into the bandage in his wrists and found a big deep wound there that is still bleeding.“William needs to do that for the prayers to be more effective.” That is what Francine told me as her answer. “Do not feel any guilt, Alana. He is just doing what I know you will do in a heartbeat for him.”Yes, she is right. I would do the same thing for him but still, I can’t help but feel guilty knowing that he was hurt again because of me.“Alana…” Lucas put a hand on my shoulder to which I yanked off as quickly as possible.“Don’t touch me!” I glared at him. “You disgust me, Lucas.”He clenched his hands to control his temper from exploding.“I did not do anything to you. In fact, you are the one that is making it hard for everybody, especially William. Alana, the mark on your body indicating
FRANCINE“William!”I was able to catch him into my arms before he completely collapsed on the floor.Unconscious, I slowly put him on the floor and began treating his wound. His hands have been tight and cannot do anything because of his parents pressuring him to stay away from his mate during the test.He can’t see or even touch his own which for every werewolf with a mate is a torture. They said they’d rather die than go through the agonizing pain of being separated.As for their case, William is more attached to the bond with Alana because werewolves coming from the clan of the current alpha king are known to be monogamous.“Alana…” William murmured in his sleep after I finished putting up a bandage on his wrist.He is hurt. He is too hurt now that even breathing right now feels like your whole chest is being burned.I carried William out from the shrine while the attendants were starting to clean the blood in the area.When I reached his room, I gently laid him down on the bed an
ALANAWe arrived at the white shrine of the moon goddess in the middle of the forest where two sacrifices in the form of a cow and a goat were already there on the foot of the moon goddess’ statue. Georgia and Sophia were already done and given that their animals were half-devoured, it was a no-brainer that their ancestry is spotless and they are very much capable of being William’s wife harmoniously.“Alana, please present your sacrifice to the moon goddess,” the high priestess of the moon goddess ordered me when I just stood there unmoving, my mouth wide open looking up at the statue in awe.So, this is what she looked like in her version.“S-She looked so immaculate. She looked so beautiful,” I whispered in the air while in a trance. “This is my god. This is my goddess. This is our goddess.”And she is a fair one.“Anyone who tampers with the result will be punished by the moon goddess so make sure there is no intervention that happens,” the high priestess warned me before leading
ALANAI paused when I felt something big stalking behind me. Flesh trembling, I slowly turned around to see the biggest gray wolf that I had ever seen in my whole life with its uncanny red eyes staring down at me.I gasped, my knees began to shake as its powerful paws started taking a step towards me. I tightened my grip on the deer on my shoulders when it smelled it.I won’t ever let it take the deer. It’s my sacrifice towards the moon goddess. William gave it to me and I would never back down without a fight at anyone that would snatch it away from me.“Back down,” I said with my voice shaking. “I said back down!”The gray wolf with its saliva dripping from its sides of the mouth just continued walking towards me until I was cornered with a tree behind me.“I said back down!” I growled as I felt the urge to let out Malaika. “Back down!” I growled again and again, my fur spurting out from my skin.The fear I once felt with this animal is now gone and I was overwhelmed with the feelin