ZENA “You’re going to get me in big trouble one day.” Logan said as we both snuck out of the house through the secret back door that I’ve always used. Just this time, I wasn’t sneaking out of the house entirely. I wish I could roll my eyes at him and how dramatic he was being. “Keep your voice down.” I warned as we both walked towards the greenhouse. It was late at night, really late. I made sure everyone was sound asleep before I found Logan, woke him and dragged him down here with me. I almost didn’t make it out here because for some reason, Rex chose to sleep in the living room today but I had to find a way somehow. It’s been days since me and Logan went in search of my mother and I’ve been trying hard to keep things low so I don’t draw Rex’s attention. Not like he cared much anyway. He seems to be even more preoccupied with Eudora these days. Something was going on but I’ve been too caught up in my own world to care. Logan continued to grumble as I led the way to the gree
EUDORAI couldn’t sleep that night. And because I couldn’t sleep, nightmares didn’t come and because they didn’t come, I didn’t feel Alpha Rex’s warmth. I must be stupid, to still want his touch and attention after what he had done and my wolf seemed to be rejoicing triumphantly while I was in deep pain and hurt. Was I wrong about the whole situation between me and Alpha Rex? Was I being delusional all these while? How could he just switch from cold to hot and then from hot, back to cold again. His words cut so deep inside of me that I buried my face into my pillow and cried until I couldn’t anymore. He called me pathetic. He said I was worth nothing but a tool for men’s pleasure. He has never called me names. Never said such hurtful words to me and I just couldn’t tell what changed. It got worse when I saw Leticia in his room, on his bed. She had showed up out of nowhere after so long and he still let her on his bed. He made me leave the room for her and I couldn’t tell what hu
EUDORA My legs spun around quickly as I realised I almost walked into two wolves groping each other in the ladies room. It was bad enough that they chose to do this in the ladies room and still didn't have the courtesy to take it inside one of the bathroom stalls but rather right in front of the mirror in the ladies room. If they noticed me, they didn't show it as they seemed to be lost in each other. Both their putrid arousals hit my nose and made it sting. It was one of those days when I hated the baggage that came with being a werewolf with a strong sense of smell. Even though I was disgusted by them, I couldn't hide my envy. The aura surrounding them both made it obvious that they were mates and they must have been one of the lucky few who found their mates on the last day of high school which was today. I attended Alliance Pack high, a school that’s a mixture of high, mid, and low rank wolves from different packs and , just as I turn 18 in the next hour at midnight–was the
EUDORA “Mate!” No. I never thought I would hear that word. Not now. Not ever. Hearing it made the world around me spin and I swear I was dizzy for a second. So dizzy that I could slump to the floor right that moment and it would not be a pretty sight for someone like me to fall like that. It’d be like an elephant crashing to the floor and causing the birds on nearby trees to fly off because of the huge thud that rocked the forest. Now I was thinking about Elephants? I must be totally messed up.I was thinking too much. My thoughts were going haywire and my mind was a mess because this was one part of my life that I never prepared or rehearsed for. Maybe it would have been better if i didn’t know who just said that word to me. Maybe I could have handled it better than freezing on a spot, fish-eyed and jaw slacked. I hadn’t seen him in years and him showing up out of nowhere just to call me his mate had to be the craziest thing I have experienced. It was insane. Almost impossibl
EUDORAWhat exactly were the odds that your childhood best friend and crush was your mate? What were the odds that this minute, he was joking about it and the next, it became real? So real that no matter how many times I blinked, we were still standing here like this. Nothing changed. It was as if he was waiting for something so he could head over to me. He looked like he was about to snap at that very second. I don't know what gave him the signal that it was now okay to come to me as Conan now bounded towards me while I was rooted to the spot. His body called for mine in a way that I couldn't understand. I have heard stories about the mate bond and how it affects mates including newly found ones and I think I was experiencing all of that and more. Inside my head, I was screaming really loud. Conan IS MY MATE! Conan IS MY MATE! I was screaming so loud inside of my head because my mouth had run dry and not even a word was able to slip out of it. When I looked into Conan’s eyes, I
EUDORA. Please…please don’t say it. “I Conan Crawford, reject you Eudora as my mate.” Pain. The kind of one that makes me clutch my chest. It gnaws at my heart and eats deep into the depths I never even knew my heart possessed. This. This must be what it feels like to be rejected. This was the pain books I read on lycanthropy in the library out of curiosity went on and on about and took half of the pages of each book to describe. Different books gave it different meaning and I suspected that the writers of each book had either gone through it and relayed each of their experiences differently or they had a really wild imagination. If i was to write about mine, I'd write in vivid detail how I stopped breathing momentarily. How it felt like there was an imaginary hand gripping at my throat and forcing the air out of my lungs. I’d describe how my heart stopped pumping blood and the result of it was the stiffness of my body. How my thoughts froze and how I cried out when the pain
EUDORA. I was blatantly naked and Conan was still standing by the opened door, hand on its Knob while he looked at me. I didn't know at first–that I was naked, since my thoughts had been preoccupied with the distasteful sight of my wolf. I didn't know it until Conan snapped his head to the side. “Shit!.” he raised his hands in surrender, “I didn’t see anything.” It was then that I looked down at myself and I yelped in panic, covering my bare parts with my hands as a first instinct. It barely enclosed the revealed flesh. My second instinct was to run behind the drapes by the window and hid behind them, wrapping the soft silk around my body while my heart was consistent on beating like a drum. I cussed in my head. At my wolf for leaving without a warning and at myself for letting my guard down in the presence of Conan. I’d forgotten that the most important part of being a shifter is knowing the point when you would shift back into your usual shape and preparing for it. I didn't ma
EUDORA It’s only been a few hours since I clocked eighteen and things have already spiralled out of control even before dawn. I have come to realise that clocking eighteen was only a ceremonial welcome to the hell that is my life from now on. No wonder I dreaded this part of my life so much. I was expecting every single thing–rejection, a near future as either a breeder for an Alpha or his toy and a life of torment. What I did not expect is those things, coming from the person I trusted the most. I never imagined what I would do in a situation like this because Adolf was never my case study. It was meant to be a random boy I'd probably meet at prom and get humiliated by him in front of the whole school. For some reason, I felt like I could have handled that one better just as I handled all of the bullying and assault all through middle school to high school. I could have made it through and I didnt think I would ever say this but I would have preferred to be tossed off to another
EUDORAI couldn’t sleep that night. And because I couldn’t sleep, nightmares didn’t come and because they didn’t come, I didn’t feel Alpha Rex’s warmth. I must be stupid, to still want his touch and attention after what he had done and my wolf seemed to be rejoicing triumphantly while I was in deep pain and hurt. Was I wrong about the whole situation between me and Alpha Rex? Was I being delusional all these while? How could he just switch from cold to hot and then from hot, back to cold again. His words cut so deep inside of me that I buried my face into my pillow and cried until I couldn’t anymore. He called me pathetic. He said I was worth nothing but a tool for men’s pleasure. He has never called me names. Never said such hurtful words to me and I just couldn’t tell what changed. It got worse when I saw Leticia in his room, on his bed. She had showed up out of nowhere after so long and he still let her on his bed. He made me leave the room for her and I couldn’t tell what hu
ZENA “You’re going to get me in big trouble one day.” Logan said as we both snuck out of the house through the secret back door that I’ve always used. Just this time, I wasn’t sneaking out of the house entirely. I wish I could roll my eyes at him and how dramatic he was being. “Keep your voice down.” I warned as we both walked towards the greenhouse. It was late at night, really late. I made sure everyone was sound asleep before I found Logan, woke him and dragged him down here with me. I almost didn’t make it out here because for some reason, Rex chose to sleep in the living room today but I had to find a way somehow. It’s been days since me and Logan went in search of my mother and I’ve been trying hard to keep things low so I don’t draw Rex’s attention. Not like he cared much anyway. He seems to be even more preoccupied with Eudora these days. Something was going on but I’ve been too caught up in my own world to care. Logan continued to grumble as I led the way to the gree
ALPHA REXThe situation I met when I followed Logan back to the house wasn’t exactly the way he described it. Saying Leticia was dead drunk and didn’t want to leave was putting it mildly. She was making a huge scene in front of the house and my men were trying hard to keep her from coming in. I didn’t know how she managed to escape the morons at the borders when she didn’t even seem like she could stand on her own. I watched from a distance first as she fought off the men who were trying their best and failing miserably not to handle her with force. Her hair was disheveled, her make up ruined and her feet were naked. In all, she looked a total mess. She was nothing like the calm and composed woman who left a few weeks ago, accepting the fact that there was no place for her in my life no matter how hard we try to make it work. Leticia had handled our parting pretty well. I had driven her out of the pack myself, asked where she would want to go since she detested her twisted father
EUDORAAlpha Rex wasn’t joking when he said he was going to train me to figure out what else I was capable of. I had no idea why he believed there was something about me that needed to be harnessed and he didn’t seem like he planned on letting me know too. I didn’t know how else I could let him know that there was nothing special about me. I was ordinary. I’ve been that way all of life and people have reminded me repeatedly and I believe nothing has changed. The cut he made on my palm took days to heal. It didn’t make sense how my blood was instantly able to heal a cut on Alpha Rex’s wrist while I was doomed to go about with a bandaid on my palm. I ignored the fact that it healed his own injury and focused on the fact that all in all, I was still an Omega and whatever that blood stunt was doesn’t count. I kept denying that I was something more than an Omega but I could only tell myself that because Alpha Rex was past caring or listening. I’ve been training rigorously in the past
EUDORAI opened my eyes and they met with an unfamiliar ceiling. I could tell that was neither my room nor Alpha Rex’s room from the dark and sombre shade of the ceiling. There was something depressing about its colour that made my chest tight and my heart ache. Waking up to this kind of ceiling everyday would have to be the most terrible fate ever and I desperately wanted it to disappear. Since I was laying on my back, I decided to roll on my sides so I can have a less depressing view. I rolled on my left side but it did not give me the result I expected.Instead, it shocked me so much that I sat up quickly on the bed I’d been laying on as I realised that the ceiling wasn’t the only strange thing about where I had suddenly woken up. The bed I was on was only one out of the many beds arranged in rows in a narrow room. The beds were so tiny and the room too small for them so that it felt like the walls were closing in on me. Where in the world was I? Why did it feel so strange and
EUDORA“Woah.” Logan. He’s been having a field day with my hair ever since Alpha Rex left and put him in charge of looking after me. Now, it appears he is doing more of looking at me than actually looking after me. He doesn’t hide how stunned he is by my hair and he does it in a way that doesn't make me uncomfortable, no. I couldn’t tell if this new found confidence in my hair was because of the way Alpha Rex kisses it and tells me it is beautiful every chance he gets but it felt good and the attention it draws from Logan was just too amusing for me to feel less of myself. Well, that and the fact that he doesn’t seem to believe that I was born this way. It was almost hilarious. When he first saw me this morning, he hadn't really taken notice. He just passed by me saying, “Nice hair.” and then stopped halfway to the kitchen only to turn back and look at me with eyes as wide as saucers. I’d laughed but Alpha Rex didn’t seem to like the way Logan was looking at me and told him to
ALPHA REXI shattered completely. My vision slightly blurred while my grip on the frame got hard enough to actually break it into two. Number 7. It’s embroidered on her chest, big, red and brighter than her entire appearance in the photo. She was young. Pale. And her eyes, pained.“Your father and I had an agreement. That no one should ever know that she became his Luna. That no one knows your mother’s past, including you.” He continued to speak but I could barely hear him above the roaring of blood in my ears. She was all I saw. All of my memories of her–good and bad–tainted one after the other by what I am learning about her now. How had she felt? What were her days and waking moments like? How had she survived? How much pain was she in? Did she wish to die? Did she try to?“I do not know why the rogue sent such a warning to me. Why he asked me to tell you the truth about Lunita but I am afraid that your dead mother might be in some way related to the disappearance of the Omegas,
ALPHA REX'S POVWeak. She makes me weak. Even when she’s been unashamedly gone for so darn long and I have learnt to move on from the pain of her keeping me in the dark even after I gave her another chance, my mother still makes me weak. The weakness she stirs inside of me can be the only reason I regarded Alpha Raule with my attention despite how much I despise him. The weakness she instilled in me can be the only reason I agreed to go back with him to his pack with him so I could learn this truth he speaks of. This tale about my mother that I have craved for so long to know about and the one he claims that I can only understand if I come with him to his pack. Of course, I asked questions. Questions of how someone like him knew anything about my mother. For a promise to help him, he traded my silence till we got to his pack and I didn’t ask anymore questions after that. There was no need to as long as the truth he was trading for my help was worth it. I left with him reluctantly
ZENA*A FEW HOURS EARLIER*( In the same Timeline as Alpha Rex’s encounter with the rogue) “You’ve got to stop doing that.” Logan said, no doubt referring to me shifting and ruining my clothes in the process. I had just walked out of the corner where I’d been changing into the new set of clothing Logan managed to get after I ruined the last ones by shifting and jumping to attack our stalker who is now waiting at my behest, after saying the words that had me stunned for more than a few minutes until Logan lifted me off the man. Logan didn’t seem pleased about a lot of things but him having to run around to get me new clothes seemed to top his annoyance chart. I sidestepped him, more concerned about the man who claimed to know my mother than I was about my situationship with Logan at the present moment. He didn’t argue, he just fell into step beside me.“Where is he?” I asked, now fully dressed and heading back to the alley where I had attacked the man. We were already at the entran