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
SOPHIAI watched in rage as the alpha prince and Alana passionately kissed on the blanket in the middle of the park. I wondered why the guards were securing the area so I sneaked in before they could see me. It turned out that they were guarding both of them.“Shit Alana, what did you do to be able to kiss the alpha prince like that? And why does he care for you so much?! Why does it have to be you?! I am right here in front of him but why is he only seeing you?!”I am seething both in jealousy and anger. William always rejects and doesn’t look at me twice but he always has his tended eyes on Alana.“Alana, why do you keep on taking things from me?! Your life, everything that you have, that should all be mine including the alpha prince!”I breathed heavily when William withdrew from the kiss and smiled at the woman. I should have been her! I should have been in her place, not Alana!I left crying out of the park back into the mansion where my mother found me in my room tossing and thr
ALANAI woke up that morning with a freshly picked bouquet of flowers and a note from William saying he’s going back into patrolling the borders. With a satisfied smile on my face, I prepared myself and went to work with an infectious kind of vibe that Lucas and Francine cannot help but notice.When I arrived at the office, I called one of the maids assigned to me to inquire about Ana. I brought the girl with me when I chanced upon her selling fruits on the sidewalk.“Did you see Ana? I was told she’s here in the office already. Where is she?”There is an unmistakable concern in my face knowing that she is not used in the mansion. She must have been lost in the woods.The maid bowed before me. “I am sorry, ambassadress, but Madam Sophia called her to be in her quarters. She said she had something to make her do.”My brows arched. Sophia? Why would she specifically get the child that is under my care?“Sophia? And can you tell me what are the things she wanted an 11-year-old to do for
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
WILLIAMI smiled proudly at Alana when I saw her extremely handling her temper well and controlling her urge against Sophia. She took several breaths and dealt with her abuser like a brave woman that she is.My girl is having fun over there with Sophia so I am not going to spoil her parade and I will give her all the sweet moments she needs.“Alpha prince, do not be too happy with that,” Zuleik interrupted with my happy thoughts while spitting out blood from his mouth because of the punch that I landed on him before we stopped to look at what’s happening with the women. “Aria is a mix of a normal werewolf and lycan. She is also cursed. She could very well handle it now and then burn the entire palace the minute after.”“Alana is her name and she is my mate,” I said firmly.Zuleik laughed and opened his arms to the sky. “She is no longer your mate! You fucking rejected her! And even if you did not reject her, your mark on her neck would continue to melt until nothing of it is left. Loo
ALANAI huffed out air from my nose and shook my head trying to keep my mind clear. Even when I am in my beast form, I should still be in my proper mind. I should not let my killing instincts take over.“Alana,” William pressed his head on mine, looking at me intently in the eyes, “We can do it, okay? You can control your urge. If not, then I will always be here with you.”I just licked her face as my way of assuring him that I am listening to him before I faced the army of lycans frothing in their mouths while William transformed into his wolf to challenge Zuleik.William is leading his own small packs of werewolves because a big number of them went with the alpha king and queen luna who were outside the palace to conquer a big rebellion war in the northern borders.They left the palace for William to protect.But now it all makes sense to us that this is just a ploy by Sophia and Lucas with the lycans to seize the main seat of power.I roared into the approaching lycans and bit thei
ALANAI woke up in the middle of the night feeling a bit too cold even when I was under the thick blankets.I can sense that something wrong is in the air.Smelling the air, the hair on my back stood up when I smelled blood just a few kilometers from the palace.“Goodness! William!”Running towards the door, the only thing in my head is William. They are definitely lycans under the guidance of Zuleik. And there are many! So many that I easily lost track of their numbers.And I know what they want! They are after William so bad!I opened the door to leave only to step back in the room when Sophia greeted me with a snarl from her half-shifted form. Her whole body is already in its wolf form while her upper part is still in human form. Her eyes are filled with dark veins proving that she will turn into her wolf at any second now.She grinned when she saw a frightened look on my face.“Where are you going at this hour, Aria?” she asked sinisterly, closing the door behind her using her tai
ALANAThe days after our conversation with the alpha king happened, we tried to live our lives as happy and as carefree as we wanted to be five years ago while not forgetting to take our revenge against those who wronged us.The alpha king ordered a decree for Lucas to immediately produce an offspring- a move that got Sophia kneeling her knees before me and kissing my feet despite her whole system being disgusted.“Please tell the alpha king to withdraw the order. Aria, I am begging you! I cannot do it! I cannot sleep with Lucas!”But I just cruelly laughed at her and stomped her hand with my heels.“Why can’t you have sex with the beta? Just think that it’s just another night with the alphas that you have slept with, Sophia. I bet that is not a hard thing for you to do. After all, you are used to selling your body just to have what you want. What makes it all different to do it now with Lucas?”She gasped in shock upon hearing my words. “Are you hearing yourself? Why are you so cruel
ALANAMy heart swelled with so much happiness with how much I am hearing pride in his voice. It felt like William had given me the key to his life. He trusted me that much.I smiled at him before squeezing his hand grasping mine. All of my fears and doubts before the alpha king are gone now as long as my alpha prince is here by my side.“Alpha king, can I ask why you called for me? Please, I want to know,” I said, finding my voice firm and whole. William just boosts my energy all the time.The alpha king leaned back on his throne as he asked for a piece of paper from one of his men at the back.William and I looked at each other with our eyes reflecting our determination to stay together no matter what.“A lycan pack attacked my garrison last night. They’re telling me someone from the inside is leaking it.” He stared at me intently. “You are a lycan, Aria. You are not just an ordinary lycan. You are a former mate of the lycan prince, Zuleik.”I gasped deep inside as tremors of danger