Arya was shocked for a while, her brain circling round her statement as she stared into his eyes. She gulped down, her fingers playing on his chest as she looked down.“What did you say?” She murmured out.“I love you Srya. More than you can ever imagine, and I’m always going to protect you, even if it comes with my life.” He repeated, leaning in and placing a kiss on her forehead.Arya couldn’t say anything for a while. She was shocked, amazed and any other word that could be used to describe the unexpected. She didn’t expect he'd say that, nor was she looking forward to it. And it warmed her heart that he didn’t even like her because she was his mate, but because of her. She didn’t know if she was ready to say it back to him, or if he would be angry if she didn’t say it back.“I…” she opened her mouth to talk when he placed one of his fngers on it.“I’m not asking you to repeat it after me. Give yourself time, and say it whenever you want to.” He muttered to her before pulling her c
“Zachariah…” Alston called through his gritted teeth.“I’ve been looking for you. The whole pack is waiting for you. You didn’t tell me you were going there.” He said.“Where are they?” Alston ignored him as he walked towards the room.Passing through the back door, he could hear the shouts and echoes of their noises. After taking multiple breaths upon each other, he wasn’t a fan of meetings, a fan of all this crowd and calling the whole pack only meant one thing, a lot of people. Opening the door and walking in, all eyes went to him, the noise reducing as he walked to the chair that had been provided for him. Zachariah came into the room after some time, standing beside him.“This meeting was called by me, and It would be very brief.” Alston growled out.Murmurs went on in the crowd again, everyone wondering what he wanted to say and why he called a meeting. In the past five years now, they’ve not had a general meeting, and some people haven’t been opportune to meet their alpha.“I k
“He said that?” Ashlynnn questioned again with her mouth hung open.“Yes, he did.” The maid replied, bowing down before walking out on her boss.Ashulynn lips curled into a perfect smile for what was going on in her head. She couldn’t help but feel that their alpha was up to something, either about her late sister or about the new child that they haven’t even found anything about. She could feel it deep within her that something was about to happen and if she was not careful, she could lose everything she had worked so hard for.“Yvonne!” She yelled out.The same maid that had walked in to deliver the information to her walked into the room again, going on her knees immediately with her head facing the ground.“Go thr priestesses place, and call me Sabrina. Tell her I want to see her at this instant if she doesn’t want something to happen.” She said to her before the maid hurriedly nodded and ran out of the house.With her jaw gritted together and her veins popping on her head, Ashlyn
“What!” Alston asked, his eyes looking at them all one after the other.“Your highness..” another called out.“You’ve always been by yourself, not talking to anyone and always staying by yourself. So we organized a little day with you, and today, we’ll be eating breakfast, lunch and dinner with you. Tonight, the priestess will be joining us.”“You have us all at your service for today.” He rounded up as they cheered each of themselves up.To be shocked would be an understatement for Alston, his eyes went wide open and his mouth agape as he looked at them. They all continued to eat, chattering like a chatterbox without paying him anymore attention. He just sat there as the maid approached him, placing his food on the table and dishing it out for him.“Your highness..”He couldn’t believe they thought of this. Someone must have told them to do this, after last night's group meeting, someone must have forced them to do it.“Who asked you?” He spoke up all of a sudden, killing whatever th
Walking into his mothers house, the maids were moving back and forth and his mother, the devil in disguise, was standing in the kitchen supervising what they were doing.“Mom, I need to see you.” He called out as she turned and defaced him, surprising etching the corners of her face.Dropping the spoon in her hand, she walked out with a smile curling her lips.“What’s wrong?” She asked, her hand moving to cup his cheeks.“Why did you lock my beta up? Why were you asking for informations about me from him?” He asked her, his face clapsed into a frown with no room for smiling.“That idiot told you everything right?” She rolled her eyes, walking away from Alston as she sat down.Alston feet joined hers and sat down opposite her, staring into those deep cunny eyes of hers.“And you asked the elders to come eat with me. What if I wanted to be alone at that time, or I didn't want to talk? Or I just..”“But you’re not. That’s the point! I’m sure you enjoyed it too.” She cut him off, rolling
Alston was in his office, going through the things of the pack when he heard a knock on the door.“Come in.” He called out without raising his head up.The door opened and Zachariah walked in, closing the door back and taking his seat in front of Alston.“Thank you.” He started.“It’s nothing. What have we gotten?” He requested.“Nothing. I’m still on the lookout but I haven’t gotten anything. The guards are monitoring all of the corners of the pack and no one is allowed near the borders.“And who are the people you used?” Alston inquired.“Few of the guards I trust, they’re doing well, I assure you that.” He replied, his eyes peering to look at what Alston was doing.“It’s just the documents I need to submit to the pack council on this. They have to know what we’re doing before news starts to spread to their side.”“How do we know they don’t know already?”“That’s what I’m about to find out.” Alston replied, raising his head up as he smiled at Zachariah.Zachariah sighed, feeling tir
“But..” the priestess opened her mouth to talk but Sabrina cut her off immediately.“But what! But what! We go to him and tell him she’s not the child of prophecy uhn?” She yelled out with widened eyes.“And the chief priestess knows nothing about what happened and it was just a plan between ourselves and her twin sister or what!” She added.“No! Don’t just keep quiet on me, tell me what you want us to do now in this situation!” She yelled out.It was at this juncture that the door opened and another priestess walked in.“What’s wrong?” Sabrina eyes dated to her with raised brows immediately.“I just got to hear from one of your guards that tje highness mom is with him and they’ve been talking for a while.”“And?” Sabrina questioned.“You told me to tell you..”“Leave now!” Sabrina cut her off, the priestess bowed down before she walked out, closing the door.“Does she?”.“She knows nothing about it all, you don’t have to worry about that. Now that your mouth is ready to use, what do
Ashlynn and Caitlyn were twin sisters from birth, Caitlyn coming out before Ashlynn which made her the oldest and because of that Ashlynn has always been jealous of her, mostly because they made her look so important to her. She had bolted it all in her, not saying anything and not even making it obvious until they grew up.They both had the same powers, both signed up for the priestess thing but only Caitlyn entered and in a span of three months, she had become everybody’s favorite. When the late chief priestess died, she told them all that she wanted Caitlyn to be her successor, nobody else than Caitlyn. This infuriated some other members but they had no say in it.Ashlynn had greeted her like it was a normal thing but deep down in her then, she was angry and boiling. in no time, she let it go and kept the malice all to herself. Not until it was time for both of them to start finding their mates. They would talk about it all together, discuss what they’ll do and be happy together. A
After making rounds and checking everywhere of the pack, Arya's mind was at ease at how she was welcomed amidst them all. She smiled to herself as she laid back on the bed, thinking about the little kids she saw and how happy they were when they saw Alston.Once she thought a world like this never existed, until the world turned out to be hers and she kept on enjoying it. She smiled in her pajamas, rolling back and forth with a lot of thoughts going on in her head.“Arya…. I’m ready.” Alston called out as he walked out of the bathroom.They were going to her house to pack her clothes, if not, she would soon be walking naked in the pack.“You know, I can just keep on wearing your clothes, we don’t have to do this.” Arya called out.“We’ll, we have to. The way you’re stealing my clothes is now quite alarming.” He replied to her, rolling his eyes at her as he walked out of the room.Arya fumbled out of the bed, muttering some incoherent words to herself as she stomped her foot on the flo
“Aren’t you ready?” Alston called out for the umpteenth time.After proposing to Arya and alerting the whole pack about it. Arya had begged him to release the elders since they didn’t know anything about it but not after giving them an earful of instructions. The priestess that were involved in mapping out her mothers death were demoted, stripping them off their titles and making them ordinary maids of the pack while the others were also released.Mrs jenkins and mr jenkins moved back to the human world. Mrs Jenkins was never a fan of being confined to a single pack, and so left immediately after giving Alston a handful of instructions.Alston wanted to take Arya through the pack, show her every nook and cranny of it and yet she was taking the whole day to dress up, or the maids were doing so.“I’m done.” He heard her say as he turned his back to look at her.His eyes roamed her body, his wolf growling underneath him as he begged to rip that dress off her. Even though he proposed and
Arya and Camilla walked a lot of miles through the pack, things were still bubbly, probably because they just left the square not too long ago, Camilla said. Taking her to different places in the pack, and showing her different things of their pack, Arya enjoyed the walk that she didn’t want to leave, and yet her sole purpose of walking still became a void in her heart.By the time they returned home, everywhere was dark already, and eerily silent.“The alpha asked you to sleep in his room, I’ll lead you there.” Camilla said, bowing as she walked in front.Arya smiled to herself, following her gently and quietly as they arrived at the front of a big room.“Good night, your highness.” She said, walking away fast as she could before Arya could even say anything.Arya shrugged her shoulders as she opened the room, her eyes dazed at the sight in front of her. She smiled at the thought of the flowers Alston brought to her the other day, so he was a keeper of flowers himself.“He must have
After his parents death, he never gave up on finding the real killer, having a whole lot of things to do to them and has mapped out for them, and now finding who they are, his head was nothing but a blank page, filled with hurt and emptiness.“Throw her in the fire! Throw her in the fire!” The people of the pack yelled out, making him clench his jaw.They never did the fire killing, they never killed people with fire in the pack. But since they found it as a nice option to kill his mate, he had helped them, while they had to take the first death, it has become something he was going to take up.“Your highness, please, please. Do not do this! This isn’t a wise choice.”She pleaded on top of her voice, tears dropping down her face and falling like the ocean.“Please. Please!”She continued to plead.Alston signaled to the guards,‘matching forward as they dragged her towards the fire, her wails and screams echoing through the area. One of the children of the murdered priestess entered th
The guards pulled each and every of the priestesses and elders out, not minding the way they handled them because that was the instruction the alpha had given them, bringing them out without caring whatsoever. It was Zachariah and one other guard that matched to where ashlynn was placed and brought her out.The bell had been rung for all the pack to know that there was an emergency already, all of them hurrying towards the square and forming a circle, waiting for anything that was to come.The elders and priestess were thrown in the middle of the circle as they brought them out one after the other. Alston appeared after a while, he had sent a guard to Mrs jenkins and mr jenkins, asking them to come to the square if they could come but also not leaving Arya alone in the house.“The reason why we called this meeting here is because the real perpetrator has been caught and now we can all fully rest and be fully aware that my mate is not the child of prophecy. And everything you’ve been t
“Where’s.. wheres.. the alpha.. I.. I..need..” the priestess stuttered, mustering all her energy to say the words that came out of her mouth.“I’ll advise you to save the energy for when he gets back and rest well now. A whole lot of things are happening in this pack that we don’t know yet.” The pack doctor replied, walking away from her as he rolled his eyes.The priestess raised her hand, trying to call him back but he was long gone.•••••••••Zachariah continued to delve into the forest, following the scent of Alston he had for himself to trace him. His pace increased as he felt himself closing in on him, not minding the paths he passed through as he kept jumping on each of the branches.He saw Alston wolf from afar, standing all alone and lonely at the poisoned river. He reduced his pace, walking to him slowly with fear thumping on his heart.“Your highness.” He called out as he shifted to his human form.Alston did not bother to reply to him even though he heard him, staring deep
“Don’t you want to know about it? What you’ve always wanted to know all this while? Don’t you want to know about it now?” Sabrina questioned with a smirk at the corner of her lips.Alston clenched his jaw as he stared at her, wondering if he should believe her or not. His eyes focusing on her at the same time with gritted teeth,“And what would you know about it? Except you’re the killer, which I for some reason, won’t believe you.” Alston said, scanning her and every of her reactions.“You have so much faith in me, your highness.” Sabrina retorted with a small smile.“I was the one who poisoned them, not because I wished to, but because they deserved it.” She added, falling back to her butt as Alston stood there, shock evident on his face as he stared at her.All this while, all this time, he had known his parents death wasn’t natural and someone had to be behind it, almost saying it with the priestess when the killer was right amongst them, sitting there and acting as their leader.
“Miss me?” Samantha asked with a growl as she walked down to meet Alston.“Find Zachariah and you’ll find Alston. I have more pending matters to deal with now.” He added.Two guards dragged ashlynn towards him as he scanned the crowd.He looked at the floor for the stabbed priestess but she has been dragged away already. All he could hope for was that nothing should happen to her.“Throw her into the deepest cell. The deepest cell where nothing can work, either her claws or powers. We’ll await the recovery of the other priestess to know what’s happening.” He said to the guards.“And I want each and every of the elders thrown into the cell, each and every of the priestess thrown into the cell.” He added as he stormed away.He walked yo where his mother was seated on, looking as brutally beaten than he could ever imagine. Yet her lips curled up as she saw him,“Get me the pack doctor!” He yelled out.“He’s treating the other woman!”Clenching his jaw, he carried her angrily and turned t
“And to what do we owe this honor our honorable alpha that leaves his pack for almost a week and is coming back now?” Sabrina asked as she approached him.Alston eyed her before walking to where Arya was placed, noticing she had fainted out of what they’ve done to her as a growl slipped his mouth. All of them whined slowly, bowing down to him till when he stopped growling.“Who did this!” He yelled out.When no one answered, all of them looked at each other without saying anything. He clenched his jaw, gritting his teeth as he tried to bolt his anger in him.“I said, who did this!” He growled out again.“I did it your highness, and the elders were in support of it. She walked..”“And who gave you the permission to do that! The beta! My mother or who!” He growled out again.Sabrina gulped down in fear, taking some steps back away from Alston who kept on approaching her.“All the priestesses and elders would be punished greatly for this!” He shouted at all of their hearings.“And you ha