“We have to go.” Alston said for the umpteenth time to Zachariah.“And why exactly do you need me this early morning?”“It’s almost afternoon, Zachariah.” Alston cut him off.“Yeah. That’s it. It’s almost afternoon. All the pack is on alert now, if they see us leaving the pack, we’ll be doomed.”“We can’t be. Is this the first time we’ve been sneaking out? And I just feel it, she’s in pain..”“Or she’s just sad..” Zachariah cut him off.Alston sighed as he stood up from his chair and walked towards the door.“If you’re not going, you can stay here and watch over the pack. I’ll go check on her, I’ve forgotten..” Alston said, opening the door, his hand on the knob and his head slightly tilted towards Zachariah.“She’s not your mate. She’s mine.” He finished before dashing out.Zachariah sighed before moving towards the door, shifting to his wolf form and rushing to meet Alston.“Your highness..” one of the guards called out.“Not now.” Alston growled at him before dashing away.Zacharia
“What’s going on?” Alston questioned with his eyes glancing at the circle they’ve all formed.“How about you tell us that? Because we’re here in the dark, and now you’re just there.. so please tell us…” one of the pack elders said again, his brows raised as he stared at Alston.“Armani, what’s going on?” Alston asked and moved towards him.“That’s exactly what we need to know your highness. What have you been looking for and going to do in the human world without any of our consent?” Sabrina stated, moving out of her line and walking towards Alston.Alston's heart sank as he heard this but did his best not to let his emotions show. They couldn’t know, they would never know.“Your highness?” Sabrina called out again.“Are you questioning me?” Alston turned the tables.“Nope. I’m just trying to get an answer that most of us want now. You did not take the other guards with you, you were not searching. So why were you in the human world?” She questioned again.“Because I’m the alpha and I
“Can I see you for a moment?”Mrs Jenkins said as Alston came out from Aryas room.Nodding his head at her, they both walked to the passage, her hand folded to her chest while Alston kept his eyes on the floor.“I’ve been doing some thinking, and now Arya just showed me her mark, it’s very nice.” She started.“She wanted it, and I did too. It was a mutual agreement.” Alston replied.“I know. I really know about that. But what if something happens? Do you think someone is not going to find out one day where you’ve been sneaking up to, or why they can find you one time and why they can’t find you anymore?“ she asked.Alston pulled his eyes from the floor and looked at her, a sigh escaping his lips.“That’s never going to happen.”“But what if it happened? What are you going to do about that? How do you want to do it?” She questioned him again.Alston clenched his jaw, his eyes darting towards the stairs before looking back at Mrs jenkins.“I’m going to run with her if something happens.
“Alston!” Arya yelled out as her mum dragged him into the room.“I don’t know. I don’t know what happened. He just showed up here and with..wi..” she started but couldn’t say anything.Crouching beside him, and her hand touching all the marks on him, Arya felt a tight squeeze on her heart, rendering her speechless as tears formed in her eyes.“Mo..:mom…” she managed to say, looking up at Mrs jenkins who looked away before their eyes could meet each other.“What the hell!”“Let’s carry him, we have to clean him up.” Mr Jenkins said as he crouched beside Arya.“This is a pack attack.” He muttered, looking up at his wife who avoided his glance too before dashing into the house.“How? He’s the alpha, he’s the leader, how?” Arya stuttered as the tears flowed down her eyes.Gulping down, her hand moved to her face, wiping the tears off of it and taking Alston by the hand.“We have to take him in.”“Arya..Arya..” Mr Jenkins called out.“We have to call the nurse….we have to treat him….He’s n
She remembered the last time she was here in the dungeon. Caitlyn has been asked to come and torture answers out from one of the rogues that invaded their pack and has brought her with her, teaching her the ways at which every prisoner breaks.And now she was here, because of this same Caitlyn duaghter that the alpha had betrayed them for, and to torture his beta on the answers they needed for her.“Hello Zachariah..” Sabrina said as the guard that was on duty opened the door for her.Zachariah was at the corner of the cell, curled to himself with his chin resting on his knees.“We just want answers. I know you were following his orders, if not, you would have reported him to the pack, just some answers and I’m out of here.” Sabrina started as she took the first step into the cell.“But if you decide on taking it the hard way, we can also do it that way also.” She added.She could see the bites and claws on his body, the other pack warriors hadn't gone easy on them, and she didn’t wan
“Mum, he’s not waking up at all.” Arya said as she walked out of the room.“Arya, I don’t know about it. I don’t know why he’s not healing or why he’s acting that way.”“And what do you think we should do?” Arya asked again.Mrs jenkins sighed as she turned to face her daughter whose mind has been occupied on her mate healing than focusing on anyone else.“That’s what I’m trying to do. Can you see?” She said, widening her eyes as she showed her the medicine she was preparing.“What’s that?” Arya asked, approaching her with furrowed brows.“That’s some medicine that he can use, I’ll apply it to the wounds for them to heal up and then we can discuss the rest if he wakes up after that or not.”“Thank you mum.” Arya said, wrapping her arms around her mum.Mrs jenkins lips curled up at her touch. She couldn’t even remember the last time Arya had hugged her, or the both of them had one of their fun time conversations.“I’ve missed us.” She muttered.Arya leaned her head to her back, closing
“You know, I really didn’t mean to kill her. All I wanted was just a little experiment to see if she would pass or not but she’s just so weak.” Ashlynn spouted, eyeing the dead corpse on the floor.“She’s your daughter!” Sabrina yelled out.“No. No.” Ashlynn said, crouching down and smiling at Sabrina.“There’s something I’ve always lied about, to myself and also to everyone..”“….I never gave birth to her.” She said, a smirk tugging the corners of her lips down.“I didn’t want the girl. I never gave birth to her.” She added.“…you know, after taking my beautiful sister's husband, and rendering him useless.” She started, standing up and turning her back to Sabrina.“I decided on giving him what he had always wanted, because he has always complained about wanting a child so badly.”“….so I decided on giving him one, I called my favorite witch who gave me this pitiful thing you’re looking at on the floor.” She said, turning back and eyeing the girl with contempt in her eyes.“I couldn’t
Arya woke up with her back aching more than she expected. She had already known something like this was inevitable when she went ahead to sleep, sitting down and aching her body to make her head rest on the edge of the bed Alston was laying down, but she hadn’t thought it would be this painful.“Ahhh..” she groaned as she stood up, aching her back forward as her bones cracked out.After doing this multiple times, it relieved her a bit before she rushed to Alston's side again. His wounds were healed up from the drug her mom had applied on them. And she has slept off after eating. Worry laced the corners of her face again, seeing his eyes closed with nothing to do. She sighed heavily as she carried the tray and walked out of the room.She clenched her jaw, not wanting to let anything that’s going on with him affect her. But she couldn’t lie to herself, she was much more affected with what was happening. Why wasn’t he waking up? Could there be another thing apart from the wounds or did h
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