ALANAAfter that, I did not waste any more time and went to the library to find out what happened five years ago. I need to fill myself in so I would have an idea what I am going to do.I want to know the whole truth. I swear that was Francine’s voice that I heard in Lucas’ phone but thinking about that now, when I am not that naïve, makes me feel so angry about him who tricked me.He was the one who made me do that to myself! He made me feel so guilty that I attempted at killing myself!“And I want to know why Francine became like that when she is still so healthy as far as I can remember.”I found my answers while browsing the Internet. And I can only do nothing but just clench my hands upon reading it. There is no confirmation from the source but one read at the paper and I know right away that this is something that Francine did for me and William.I printed it out and barged out of the library back into the palace with a sure person in my mind. When I reached the room, I didn't e
ALANA“What’s even worse is you were betrayed by a person that you trusted so much.”I surveyed her sorry state from her unresponsive body to the emptiness in her eyes. “Francine, I am sorry that Lucas betrayed you to take me and William down. I know how you cared about him. I should have listened to you when you warned me before about him.”Back when I was returning to my village, she told me to be wary of Lucas. I did not realize what she meant until now.“I will do everything I can to help you. I swear I will return your life back to you.”Kissing her head, I uttered a small prayer before walking out of the room and seeing Lucas right outside the window staring at me suspiciously.I stopped in my tracks and arched him a brow as I felt my blood surging.“What are you looking at?”I walked past him while keeping the turmoil in me in check. I need to see William. I need to touch him to calm myself or else I am going on a rampage.“It’s impossible. I made sure it will be impossible,” h
ALANA“It’s okay. You are going to be alright. I am just here with you.” He kissed my head while he’s rocking me gently on his lap. We are on the balcony of his room relishing the air while I am still catching my breath from what happened earlier. “You are never alone, Alana. I am here. Always for you.”I sniffed his scent and felt my heart rate going down. Back then and now, he is the only one who can comfort me in the ways that I never know he can.“Did she trigger you?” he asked after a while of silence.“Yes,” I answered while listening to his heart beat. Counting his heart beat seemed to be a hobby that I could never get bored of. “But it should not be about her anymore. I should be able to control myself. If I always get triggered by her, then I am just giving her another reason to control me. It should be the other way around.”I looked up at him who’s already staring down at me. “I want to be strong for the both of us, William. I don’t want to be a burden on you. I want to pro
WILLIAMI marched into the halls with the alpha king and queen luna hearing the pleas of Sophia about Aria.“Alpha king! Queen luna!” she knelt down and cried hard to make sure she gathered their sympathy but only fools would actually believe her crocodile tears.“My husband, the alpha prince, has taken home a prostitute from the outside. He broke off our vows to be a faithful husband to me. The woman must have seduced him and I don’t want the next alpha king to be corrupted. Alpha king, queen luna, please let me ask you to throw this woman away from the palace and to punish her for seducing my husband!”“If there is someone who should be punished here, then that should be me,” I interrupted her train of acting and looked straight into the eyes of my father. “Whatever you want to do with her, do it with me instead. If you want to punish me, then punish me now. She did not seduce me. I seduced her. I am the one who brought her to the palace so she is my responsibility!”Sophia gasped a
ALANAThe news of the divorce between Sophia and William spread like wildfire inside and beyond the walls of the palace.Everyone just shook their heads and shrugged their shoulders as if they already expected it to be happening.“I told you that that woman would not last as the alpha prince’s wife. She’s too rude and acts like a prima donna when the alpha prince is not around.”I paused from walking for a while across the hall when I heard the servants chattering in the garden while they’re cleaning. I am on my way to Francine to visit her and make sure that she’s safe. William told me everything about her situation and how she’s been given medicine to keep her in her vegetative state.“I know just like Georgia. Is the alpha prince that cruel? He changed into a completely different person just overnight. I can still recall him smiling to every person that he met but he just changed too suddenly.”I blinked and sighed hard. My heart ached for William. He must have been so confused whe
SOPHIAI watched in front of the mirror as my wounds in my face healed completely before shattering it into pieces with a punch.The words of that whore still rung in my head like a broken recorder.“No! No! I should not be thinking about what that bitch said! She is just nothing!”I screamed and began throwing things at the floor. “She is just a whore! She does not matter to me at all!”I looked around the room to find someone to vent out my frustrations and anger into.“You!” I hitched the arm of my fucking servant and growled at her.“Lady Sophia…” She stammered and bowed her head before me but I grabbed her chin and forced her to look at me. I do not care if I broke her jaw now.She gulped down the fear in her eyes that I always love to see in the eyes of my servants. That's why I keep them close to me.“Tell me who is more beautiful!” I repeated again while my eyes are changing to read and the claws were appearing. “Me or that fucking whore of a woman!”“Y-You are so much much mo
WILLIAMPiercing howls filled the entire vast clearing under the moonlight as the ball was tossed in the air in the middle of the night. The two opposing teams quickly raced for who would be the first to successfully sustain the ball in their hands and reached the finish line.Lucas is clearly dominating it all and no one can match him in the field. He’s running past the players in the field at a lightning speed.“It seems like you are enjoying the game, alpha prince,” Peter said with a shaking voice.He is an omega coming from the lowest ranks in the pack and is more than happy that I chose him over the others who are too willing to be by my side to earn the favor of the alpha king.I don’t want that. I want their pure loyalty only for me.“No, I am not really enjoying this as much as I will be if I am in the games.”“I’m so sorry to hear that the alpha king asked you to sit out of the games, alpha prince. He must have meant nothing but good things for you.”“Good things…” I looked a
ALANA“Good morning,” I greeted William with a kiss and breathed into his scent the second he opened his eyes to me.Exhaustion is on his eyes again but I am not seeing any thoughts of surrender. He has gone to China to look for a cure but returned back with the same results.“It’s okay,” I said and pressed my head against him. “We will be fine, baby. There is no need to dwell in bad news.”The path before us is darker than ever with the alpha king yet to agree with the divorce between him and Sophia while Minerva is on the move against me. I heard she’s planning on seeing the queen luna to ask for a favor for what William did to her daughter.I have no idea what it would be but I know it will be about me.William and I both know that and sooner or later, we will have to face tougher challenges but right now, nothing can come between us from eating our breakfast together to give ourselves some sense of normalcy like before when I used to cook for him and wait for him to come home.I m
ALANA“Alana, please!” Sophia was able to cling into my feet when the guards dragged her away through the chains. “If you still have conscience in you, can I appeal to it? Please, do not take my mother from me! I will not live away from her! I will not survive without my mother! Alana, do you really want me dead? Do you really hate me that much?”Without thinking for another second, I nodded convincingly. “Yes, Sophia. I hate you so much. I don’t really know why you are still asking me this when it’s evident from the very start that I hate you! I hate you for what you did to me and to William!”I glanced at Minerva who’s just staring at the floor with her eyes empty. I guess she could not believe that this was happening to them. Their downfall is here and she could not do anything about it.“I hate you and your fucking mother that I will forever curse your name until the end!”I can’t help but shed tears again knowing the dead cold body of my alpha prince is just in the other room in
ALANAI swallowed the lump in my throat when I realized what the alpha king was trying to tell.“Alana, you decide what you want to happen to him. We lost our son. The palace lost the next alpha king and that is our fault.”The alpha king took a long breath before staring hard at me. “Even before William told me, I already knew you were his mate and I knew your ancestry even before but you and my son could not happen. You and him should be spared from the pain of being with each other. It is not fair that you will both suffer from the sins of the past.”The queen luna caressed my back when my tears began falling. I had a hunch on it before but I did not let it dwell in my head because how can the alpha king let the grandchild of his enemy roam freely in the palace whilst not killing her?“And so, I decided based on what should be done but I failed to see the part where you both will fight for your love until the end.”The alpha king’s eyes began to turn red because of tears but he did
ALANAI blinked as my eyes widened in realization.“Francine!”I covered my mouth with my hands in surprise when I surveyed her body.I just really want to make sure that all I’m seeing right now is real.“You can move now and you can speak now…”I hugged her so hard in happiness. Somehow, it filled my heart with joy to the brim amidst what I’m experiencing now.With her being alive, I felt like I found someone to lean on and connect in these times.“Francine, you are back to your old self! How did it happen? Thank goodness!”Caressing my face, she smiled at me, reaching her eyes.“But not for too long, Alana. Not for too long.”My smile disappeared and my grip on her hands tightened.Is she going to leave me too? Is that what she meant by her words?“What are you saying?” I asked, panicking.I don’t think I would ever move on from William’s death. I don’t think I would ever afford to see another one of my most treasured people leave me.“H-Have you heard about what happened to W-Will
ALANACold and out of life, William remained in my arms for as long as I can remember. I just stared at his pale face emptily feeling nothing of his aura anymore.I did not let anyone near him. I would growl and snarl at every individual who might attempt to take him away from me.“I love you, William. I always will.”I watched as his life slipped away from him, taking all of my will to live too.Gathering up all that was left of me, I stood up and locked eyes with Zuleik’s dead face.“This is all your fault...” I whispered when I picked up the silver on the ground and ran towards his dead body.“This is all your fault!” I began stabbing his body using the silver, not caring if I am butchering him like a pig. “Because of you, William is dead! Because of what you did, I cannot hear his voice anymore! Because of you, we cannot make our promises for each other anymore!”The whole crowd stopped just to watch me kill Zuleik over and over again. I don’t care if I am literally butchering his
ALANAMy world literally stopped and time was frozen in my head. The only thing that registered to me is the cold body of William in my arms as I cried like crazy begging him to stay.“William, no… please no!”I saw how hard he started blinking hard to keep his eyes wide open so he could look at me.I gripped his hands as my tears began blinding me. I wanted to burst into more tears when I felt his hands in mine getting colder than ever.“William, you cannot give up now, okay? You are right. They are here now. The alpha king and queen luna defeated their enemies. You are right when you told Lucas that they are so strong together.”From a close distance, the werewolf soldiers are starting to overwhelm the remaining lycans. Headed by the alpha king and queen luna who are both in their magnificent white wolf forms, they quickly finished the enemies.I caught my breath when my heart began to tighten opposite of William’s essence that is already starting to be whisked away by the air. “Can
WILLIAMWe are beyond exhausted but knowing that we are fighting side by side brought so much hope to me.Shifting together never has been this fun. Killing together the enemies was never this justifiable.“Let me handle the back ones. Go attack the center lines!” she yelled at my back and I could only nod before shifting back into my wolf.I am the alpha prince who oversees attacks and war plans but being commanded by Alana felt so satisfyingly good.I just love it when she shows her alpha side to me.Just as she ordered me, I targeted the first line of defenses while she took care of the back ones of the never-ending supply of enemies.I am trying to get to Lucas who has that whistle in his neck that is used to control the lycans. If only I could get past these lycans and get to that fucking beta but their overwhelming number is making it hard for me to do so.Breaking their faces, biting their necks, throwing them at the ground, and killing them with my claws as I savagely growled
ALANAMy eyes connected with William and I smiled at him to assure him that I am fine. I got the attention of both the lycans and the werewolves which I really want to have to pass on a message.They may think that I am just pranking them but I trust that they know their history. Once I show them how I really look, they will listen to what I have to say.I gulped when I looked at William again. I trust that he will be there to calm me when I could not control myself anymore.Growling, I scratched the ground ready to get lost in the chaos. I just really hope that I could still recognize people although I know my wolf will always know it’s William.“Alana! No!” William shouted in worry as he jumped unto me and clasped my face gasping for air. “Do not transform! Not yet!”The second his hand landed on my skin, I instantly felt the trembling of his flesh.“Why? What’s wrong, William?”I was too confused because it’s the first time that I saw him react like this.He pointed at the horizons
WILLIAMI can still remember the first time that I met Lucas. It was in an orphanage. My father told me he is my cousin and beta according to our hierarchy, and that he will be there beside me as the second-in-command when I finally become the alpha king.I wondered why he was there and it was only two months later when I found out that his parents betrayed the alpha king during a battle so he was essentially a son of the traitors.As years went on, our brotherly bond grew that I forgot about it already. I love him as my own brother. I trusted him with all of my heart. I even thought of proposing to make him the alpha prince when I realized that my situation with Alana could get more complex and complicated.Despite that, why the hell am I hearing this from him?Why did he betray me this way?Why did he do that to Francine?Why did he covet someone that is mine?I scoffed and stared at him intently. I wanted to laugh hard but a grin only came out.“And why would I do that, Lucas? Why
ALANA“What are you doing?! Alana!”Sophia’s scream pierced into the bloody murderous night when she saw me approaching her with a burrow in my hand that I found in the corner in the middle of all this fighting.Her eyes widened and tears flowed down her cheeks when she realized what I was going to do.“Alana, please! No! Don’t do this to me! Help me! Free me, Alana! Please, take pity on me!”But I was too drunk with hate, too deaf to even listen to her words. I raised the burrow in the air and began plowing her hand with it.This hand who used to slap me, punch me, and pull at my hair should be punished.The first scream is pure agony while the rest sounded more of anger and loss of hope.She can’t move because of the steel slashing through her flesh. One wrong move from her and she would essentially get rid of her own legs if she tried to transform into her wolf.I never thought I could be violent like this. I never thought I could take pleasure seeing someone in pain.“Alana, stop