Lilith couldn’t stop smiling occasionally whenever she thought about mating with Jayden tonight.
After lunch, Lilith took out the red dress she had chosen for the mating gathering. This dress caught her attention when she went shopping with Aria last week. She decided right then and there that this dress was perfect for this special event.
“Are you sure you don’t need help getting ready, sweetie?” Erica Venerelli stood in the open doorway leading inside Lilith’s room.
“No, thanks, mom.” Lilith told her mom. “Aria is coming over soon.”
“Are you feeling okay?” Erica asked for the umpteenth time today.
“I’m fine, mom.” Lilith shook her head, her long dark hair sliding across her shoulder.
“Okay then… Later.” Erica nodded before hesitantly leaving.
Lilith knew that there was something troubling her mom but she completely ignored it thinking that it was a parental thing.
Lilith never attended the previous mating seasons since it was forbidden to attend unless you are eighteen and above and you haven’t found your mate yet because of the danger that looms the forest on this specific day.
The werewolves present at the mating gathering would become mindless creatures subject to the moon’s whims. Driven by their lust and animalistic wolves’ instincts, they are forced by the primal need to find their destined mates.
As much as the mating season brought a fortune for the Blood Moon pack with a lot of unmated werewolves finding their mates, those who remain mate less, become wild and uncontrollable under the full moon. Only those with true alpha blood were able to rein in their wolves during that night.
There was no pledge that Lilith would find her mate tonight but Lilith hoped that Jayden was her destined mate.
It was between three and four in the afternoon when Aria came waltzing inside Lilith’s bedroom to get ready for the mating gathering. By this time, Lilith had already taken a bath.
“Are you ready to get banged tonight?” Aria exclaimed eagerly once she had closed Lilith’s bedroom door.
Lilith couldn’t help but cringe at Aria’s choice of words. It was undeniable that her parents heard Aria’s crude comment despite the closed door. Nothing could go pass a werewolf’s ears undetected yet this did not stop Lilith from responding.
“As ready as I can ever be.” Lilith winked at Aria who wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.
“That’s the spirit.” Aria squealed in excitement.
Lilith wrinkled her nose displeasingly when Aria neared her. The smell of sex and the scent of her mate were strong on her.
“Looks like you spent some great time with Chris before coming here. You stink!”
“Well, he just can’t resist me.”
“You’re such a slut.”
Aria gave Lilith a very serious look so she reciprocated it, but they both cackled before exploding in a fit of laughter.
Lilith started feeling feverish during the evening but she paid no heed to it. Instead, she sat down at her vanity table and applied some light make-up while Aria busied herself in getting into her dress for tonight.
Lilith smiled at her reflection when she was done. She had chosen to let her hair down since Jayden loved it that way.
It was nearing dusk when they both left the house.
The mating gathering was already in full swing when Lilith and Aria reached the area it was being held this year. The lights surrounding the dark dense forest was dimmed which created some shadows looming in on them.
They were used to the dark. Werewolves had heightened senses which allowed them to see perfectly well at night.
Feeling ecstatic that the day they both have been eagerly waiting for had finally arrived; Lilith dashed down the remaining trail and ran straight into Jayden’s awaiting arms once they locked gazes.
Jayden gave her a kiss before wrapping his arms around her waist which angered her wolf. Lilith was surprised when Lucy retorted with a string of incoherent words at Jayden’s actions.
Her wolf always preferred staying withdrawn to the back of Lilith’s mind whenever she would spend time with Jayden. She would never intervene apart from showing her hostility towards him.
When the first ray of moonlight descended on earth, the mating season finally began. A haze descended upon the forest, hanging low as Lilith felt the same heat she felt earlier increased tenfold.
Thinking that this was what this event brought to those present for the mating gathering, Lilith shrugged it off. Her eyes went wide open when Jayden murmured mate with his eyes firmly pinned on her.
Completely enraptured and basking in this great news, her heart dropped when something felt off. She was not able to say the same word to Jayden.
“Mate”
“Mate”
The same word sounded again and again, overlapping each other.
When she turned around, she found that all the male werewolves have turned towards her, dazed in a fit of trance.
All of them were lusting over her while repeating the word mate in a chant as they approached her, like predators eyeing the same prey.
Distressed, Lilith’s eyebrows furrowed deep in confusion while her eyes sparkled with unshed tears in the dark night. She sensed something strangely bothering when even Chris joined the chant becoming incessantly louder as time ticked by.
She alarmingly searched through the faces surrounding her and cried for help. A few female werewolves stood still, some confused while some totally astounded by what was happening. Aria was the only one who was down on her knees, crying and begging as Chris abandoned her.
Her heart raced in unreasoning panic when she caught Aria’s gaze. Aria stared at her with a demeaning look on her face as she angrily made her way towards Lilith. Instead of helping her, Aria pushed her away.
“What the fucking hell did you do, you slut?” Aria swore under her breath but it was loud enough for everyone to hear.
“A-Aria, please -” Lilith begged.
She couldn’t understand what was going on. She was as confused as everyone else but no one gave her a chance to explain. Neither was there any time to explain nor ask for an explanation.
“How dare you hypnotize everyone? You got them all under your spell. You didn’t even spare my Chris, you bitch!” Aria shrieked, her wolf forcing her to shift.
“H-Help me -” Lilith still begged but Aria smacked Lilith’s arms away.
“You’re better off dead!” Aria’s wolf exclaimed before she ran away into the woods.
Lilith gasped. Fear gripped her in its vicious grasp. Feeling overwhelmed, her heart pounded against her chest. She was breathless. With their eyes fixed on her heaving chest, excitement rushed through the male werewolves as their advancing steps turned urgent.
When they were close enough to touch her, Lilith was pulled out of the bewitching trance the haze had upon her and ran into the woods. Fierce growls echoed from behind her, sounding closer than she would have wanted. She kicked her legs to move quicker but it seemed like all her powers were gone. For the first time ever since she was born, she felt like she was a mere human being and that alone scared the crap out of her. ‘Lucy, are you there?’ Lilith asked her wolf when she felt her stirring anxiously. ‘Barely’ Lucy’s voice sounded weak. ‘What is wrong with you?’ Lilith’s heart sank as she realized that she was on her own in this fight against the male werewolves and the Moon Goddess. Lucy wouldn’t be able to help her at all. Lilith couldn’t comprehend why Lucy was getting weaker as time ticked by and why she couldn’t feel any of her powers. As a ranked warrior within the pack, she should have been able to fend herself despite her wol
Blaze Westbrook, the future Alpha of the Blood Moon pack, sat with his back against the trunk of an old maple tree at the foot of the cross mountain.It was not hard to see beneath the haunting of the full moon. The moon hung up high in the dark sky, bathing everything in a soft blue hue. The trees casted eerie shadows, looking ghostly but Blaze used his wolf’s eyesight to detect any movements through the dark forest.He leaned his head against the tree trunk as his mind wandered off to the conversation he had with his parents this morning. They have been constantly reminding him of attending the mating gathering tonight. Their wish was unwavering. Since he was the future Alpha, he had to attend the gathering to find his mate but it didn’t sound appealing to him.It’s been five years ever since he turned eighteen and he hasn’t had any luck in finding his mate during the past mating seasons held every year. Either his mate hadn&rsquo
How could his mate be in heat at this time of the year? No one had ever been in such predicament before, that too, during the mating season unless the one hundred year old myth about the sigma was true?Blaze did not want to believe something that was only known as a myth. Yet, he still couldn’t help but think why the Moon Goddess chose to degrade Lilith to being the pack’s sigma.If Lilith was the next pack’s sigma then there was no way his parents will accept her as his destined mate and the pack’s destined Luna. She could pose a threat to the pack. That meant only one thing; Blaze wouldn’t be able to accept her as his mate.It was getting hard for him to calm his wolf when his mate was oozing such a sensuous scent. His breath hitched before his breaths started to shake as he got another whiff of her heat.He clenched his fingers tightly. His nails grew back into claws and his canines extended. No matter how much he tried t
Blaze leaned closer, their faces drawing near, and he could feel the heat of her breath mingling with his. He closed his eyes when he got a nice whiff of her delicious scent. His jaw ticked in anger. It drove his wolf insane that he couldn’t touch her that he couldn’t tell her why he had to stay away from her. Lilith’s belly churned with different emotions, fear, anticipation and desire, desire? She resisted that strong emotion, wanting nothing to do with it. Lilith’s eyes glistened with unshed tears and her lips trembled in fear. Bash whined and reluctantly let Blaze gain control, his eyes changing back to his normal silver color. Realizing that he reacted impulsively, Blaze backed away. “We’ll have to wait till dawn. That’s when the mating season usually ends.” Blaze said, avoiding her eyes. Hearing this, Lilith quickly put his jacket on to cover herself despite wanting to throw it back on his face. She wasn’t looking forward
At her parents’ side, Lilith trembled uncontrollably. She was so distraught she could not speak. Their shoulders shook with silent tears. They couldn’t bear to see their daughter in this state. “Let’s get inside.” Erica advised. They guided Lilith inside the house and sat her down on one of the couches. Lilith tightened Blaze’s jacket around her shoulders. She fisted the material in her hands. She heedlessly breathed in his scent which was strangely soothing. The mate bond was still affecting her emotions. But, my wolf died! Lilith thought. “Lucy is gone, mom! She left me.” Lilith broke down. She was devastated by the loss of her wolf. “What is a sigma, dad? What are they talking about?” Choking back her tears, Lilith asked. She couldn’t control her emotions. She was miffed that the Moon Goddess chose to mess up her life when everything was going accordingly to her plan. “There hasn’t been a record of one in almost one hundred years. People began sayi
Lilith was enthralled by the looming trees as she followed the trail to the great valley. The Blood Moon pack ground encompassed a large forest area, two huge mountains and some valleys with the great valley belonging to the Venerelli’s. The great valley stretched away ahead of them for miles, a valley with grass of a rich green, well-timbered, but more as a park is timbered. Winding lines showed here and there revealing the courses of streams and far away, the high masses of hills were visible. The continuous line of the trail was lost amongst clumps of fine tall trees, but odd stretches of it remaining visible showed it angling down until disappearing south-west, towards the pack’s south border. The Blood Moon pack would often use this ground for pack training in werewolf forms since it was the biggest of all the other valleys. Reaching the great valley, Lilith’s mind wandered over to her childhood. She would spend majority of her time training under her parent
Lilith woke up to her mom’s low and urgent voice.“Beta Travis is asking for you at the pack house.”Lilith groaned before nodding with a sigh. She got up and rushed inside her bathroom to get ready for the day.She hurried downstairs once she was done but her mom refused to let her go without having some breakfast.Lilith was aware that her parents were pretending to act like everything was normal. The tension hanging around the house spoke differently. There was less than a week time before she would have to leave the pack. Once she left, there would be no chance of her ever returning.She smiled at her parents while joining them at the kitchen table. She wanted to cherish the little moments she had left with them.She felt nervous when she entered the pack house to find the living room area filled with some pack members. The omegas were running to and fro in a frenzy, trying to keep up with Beta Travis’s list of wo
Lilith smiled at her work when she was done. She turned to talk to one of the omegas but the girl was already running towards the kitchen area. The omegas were supposed to prepare tonight’s feast. Lilith was instructed to help them. So, she got to work since dusk was falling rapidly. Lilith has not seen Blaze after she last saw him on the terrace. She actually did not want to cross his path ever again but her heart begged to differ. She rolled her eyes as she felt the mate pull when she thought about that cold-blooded egoistic jerk. Lilith was starving. She regretted not having more of the pancakes her mom made this morning. She gulped down a bottle of water to quench her hunger. She still had to serve snacks and drinks to the pack members. She glanced at the clock. It was just seven o’clock. She wondered how the omegas were still going around doing their chores in their hunger state. She hadn’t seen them eat lunch or anything. She really hoped they a
She needed him. Now. No waiting. “Blaze,” she moaned his name, urging him to hurry up. The broad head of his dick pushed at her, and she hooked her other leg around his waist, opening herself to him more fully. With steady pressure, Blaze worked his way in, his eyes never leaving hers. “I love you, Lilith.” “I love you, too, Blaze.” He began to move, slowly at first, then more aggressively, until she was forced to grip the edge of the mattress. The bed squeaked, an erotic chorus to their small sounds and whispered words of love. Reaching between them, he found her clit and strummed the little bundle of nerves, gently at first and then faster. Her orgasm rolled over her and dragged her under. She couldn’t see, couldn’t breathe, couldn’t hear and didn’t care. Wave after wave of pleasure rocked her as he refused to let up on the pressure on her clit until a second orgasm took her and she cried out. He followed her over the edge, burying his face in her neck to muffle his shout.
Aria hugged Lilith for one last time before she stepped back. “Thank you for everything, Lilith.”“Shush,” Lilith shook her head at Aria when she sensed her about to start crying.Aria was leaving the pack forever but she wouldn’t be alone. Chris would be with her.She glanced at her mate with a weak smile when he slipped his hand in Aria’s right hand, interlacing their fingers.Chris squeezed her hand tight to reassure Aria that no matter what happens, he would be with her, always and forever.Aria wasn’t sad that she was leaving the pack except for the fact that she would miss her mother and Lilith. She was looking forward to a new start.This was also a way for her to repent. She couldn’t even look at Lilith in the eyes after what she did to her.Alpha Blaze was nice enough to spare her life after all the crimes she committed.The moment she crossed the pack borders, she felt her bond with the pack sever. It was so sudden that she jerked in reaction.Chris wrapped an arm around her
His mother walked inside the awfully smelling cell and looked straight at Aria who was shackled to the wall.If there wasn’t any remnants of his mate’s scent, Blaze would have puked at the disgusting smell.“Got anything else out of her?” Ignoring the odor, Blaze asked Eric, the warrior who had been assigned for the questioning.“All she kept saying is that she would kill our Luna. She even dared threaten the Luna herself while she was interrogating her.” Eric replied.A chill embraced Blaze as he heard those words.“How come no one was aware of her planning an attack and her escape? How did she even get a weapon when she was imprisoned, and the poison?” Blaze questioned.Eric shrugged, “We suspect it must be someone from her family unless one of our warriors is a traitor.”“None of our warriors know Aria. You might be right about her family. It must be someone from her family but who?” Blaze wondered.“I know who it is,” His mother interrupted.Blaze quickly looked in her direction a
The night before, Mary got a dream about a she-wolf being imprisoned in the dungeons.She knew that the she-wolf had a connection to her in some sort since she got a glimpse of a person dressed in a black cloak passing something over to her through the metal bars.She couldn’t see their faces. He had her back to her and was blocking Mary’s sight of the she-wolf.That she-wolf was planning her escape and this man would help her get away.Mary felt her heart literally stopped when the man walked away and she got to see who was imprisoned inside. It was Aria.She woke up with a start. After a while of just sitting there, she glanced at the clock to see that it was already six in the morning.She hated that she was a soothsayer.Most nights, she wasn’t able to get enough sleep because these dreams would come to her. She would get glimpses of events that would come her way through her dreams. But, she only got the ones which related to her as in to her physical form.Why would she dream ab
“Looking for me?” Lilith jumped, turning so fast her hair flew around and over her shoulder. Ruzek grinned at her. Lilith smiled back at him. “Hey,” she waved. Ruzek mimicked, finding it adorable. “About the work you said we had to do…” He trailed off when he noticed Lilith glancing around them with searching eyes. Lilith suddenly remembered what she had to do. Find Blaze but where was he? “Yeah,” she looked around, “what about it?” “I won’t be free during the day.” Ruzek said with a frown as he tried to discern what Lilith was searching for or whom she was actually searching for. It must be Blaze, Ruzek thought as he caught the Alpha talking to his Beta. Lilith turned to look at Ruzek, but his eyes were fixed at something behind her. Before she could turn to look, she felt Blaze. She felt his presence, her skin prickling with an invisible force of attraction towards him. It was the mate bond doing its magic and not to forget, Lucy was siding with the mate bond as well thes
New energy and optimism strived inside Lilith as the bells rang. The sun peeked brightly through the thick clouds. Pack members stood in line, cheering and hooting names as Ruzek, the nine men and the omegas were asked to come forward.It was the day, the day Lilith had been anticipating with anxiety but great expectations. She was sure the omegas would make great efforts to accomplish deserving respect for themselves.Lilith trained them for two consecutive nights. It was hard but it was not impossible.Her parents came over to help her. Together, they tried the technique both Lilith and Ruzek planned out and it worked out.It was finally time for the battles which Cole had organized for the omegas and rogues. It was to determine their new ranks within the packs.Lilith could feel the nervousness radiating off the omegas while the rogues just appeared indifferent and ready to fight for a higher and well-earned rank within the pack.Jenny, on the other hand, seemed a little bit nervou
A few days had gone by. Lilith got three more missions which she accomplished in no time. The training was going well. Ruzek, Jenny and the nine other men were ready for the battle which the former Alpha prepared for them. The omegas needed to be trained some more. They got a lot better in self-defense but their fighting techniques still needed to be improved. There were only two days left though before the week would be over. Worried and tensed, Lilith glanced around the great valley and went through all the specific trainings she gave them. She wondered where she went wrong. Deep in thought, she didn't notice Ruzek approaching her until he spoke. "What are you doing here all alone?" He looked up at the sky. The sun had dipped below the horizon, the last gasp of beauty before the death of the day. Lilith took a moment to look at the setting sun before saying with a shrug, "I've just been thinking about a few things." "Like what?" Ruzek asked out of curiosity. "I’m worried I
“It’s great to see you all here. We’ll start by running twenty-five times around the valley but in your human forms.” Lilith began by pointing at the running trail that surrounded the boundaries of the great valley. “I’ll see who can run all twenty-five rounds. The ones who give up after a few rounds can come stand in this spot. The ones, who complete it all, will do the next task.” Lilith explained further. She thought there would some complaints from the omegas but they were all ready. They seemed determined to complete all twenty-five rounds. Ruzek, the leader of the rogues and the nine other rogues were the first to head over to the starting point. The omegas soon followed them. “Come on!” When Lilith blew the whistle, they started running at a slow pace. Lilith looked at them with satisfaction. The great valley was the largest training ground in the Blood Moon pack. It stretched away ahead of where Lilith was standing for miles. The continuous line of the trail was lost amo
The rogue's eyes flashed with rage. It seemed like a wild beast was standing in front of Lilith and not someone who was once an Alpha. He clenched his right hand and swung his arm at Lilith, but she blocked his punch at the last second. Lilith wasn't there to kid around. She had to complete her task and be done with it by this evening. He narrowed his eyes down at her, pissed that he wasn't able to hit her. "Surprised?" She raised an inquiring eyebrow at him while her lips tugged up into a smirk. He pulled his fisted hand free before sneering at her with anger lacing his tone, "You got lucky, you bitch!"In a snap of moment, Lilith’s power leashed at the leader and she grabbed him by the neck before slamming him into a wall. "What did you say?" How dare you call me a bitch?" Lilith's jaw contorted with anger as she seized him by the throat, stifling his screams and pleas. His expression darkened, and the color drained from his face as he realized that he made a grave mistake cha