EUDORAI stood in the middle of the room watching the girls who like clockwork carried on their duties without paying any mind to whatever had just gone down. Like a young girl suffering from malnutrition hadn’t just been slapped silly and like I didn’t also get hit for trying to make the Luna understand that she had the wrong person. She already left the room and with her went all my energy that was drained by being struck in the face and being mistaken for who I wasn’t. I couldn’t help but ask myself how I got here when just this morning, I had eaten breakfast. When I had just been with the Alpha a few minutes ago. The way the events of the day spiraled down a crazy lane in just a few minutes made me dizzy and maybe because my head was still reeling in pain from being struck on the face. I swallowed the cry of pain that threatened to rack up my throat, mentally telling myself that crying wouldn’t solve anything. I needed to make sense of my situation first and then decide if it w
ALPHA REXIt wasn’t a mating ball. At least not entirely and I only discovered it when the guards who had suddenly showed up at the forest, took me with them to meet their Alpha as according to them, I was an intruder. Dramatic fucks. A Rogue had infiltrated their pack and they had absolutely no idea. It would have been an honor to inform them of their stupidity if I didn’t have to keep it a secret that I had met the rogue and we had talked. But then again, I couldn’t overlook the fact that the Alpha of the MoonBorn pack was one of Alpha Tauren’s close allies who would surely know whatever he was planning. The rogue appearing here shouldn’t be of any surprise to me. We did more than just talk and every single reminder of what happened had me boiling over. Especially when he mentioned that woman, my mother who was like an abomination to me, making it clear that the rogue knew more about me than he was letting on. And to add to my already spiked anger, I was taken into a waiting ro
EUDORA. Maybe it wasn’t real.Maybe it was a dream. Maybe when I close my eyes and open it, I wouldn’t find myself in the midst of this large crowd.Maybe the loud jeers and noise will all go away when I do so and I would be back in the serenity of Alpha Rex’s home, wondering what next I’d do to cause the grumpy Alpha to lash out at me.Maybe…just maybe it will all go away. Someone shook me violently with every intention of jerking me out of the reverie I had dragged myself into in an attempt to block out the loud noise that was threatening to drive me crazy. My eyes snapped open, and if the noise were echoes in my head before, they became more than that. I slowly looked around me again, my heart racing against time. It didn’t go away. No, nothing changed. I was really in the middle of an arena filled to the brim with wolves, all males! My eyes moved around recklessly in their sockets, making me slightly dizzy as I swept my gaze over them. Left to right…right to left—they were ev
ALPHA REX “Fine! I know only what I have been told, okay? I do not trust Tauren or this rogue of his yet unless I am going to get something out of it.” He finally confessed.“Now we’re getting somewhere. And what is it that you know?” He hesitated for a second, “Are you going to leave?”“As soon as I get what I want. I do not want to keep you away from the business that awaits you.” He sighed as if caught up in a corner. He was counting on his games going well and my presence meant the opposite of that could happen. “Tauren came to me a few days after his mate’s funeral and he told me about this…this project. At first, I thought him stupid to believe the words of a rogue but he’s a sly old fox, he had plans of his own in case things went south and so it didn't matter to me.”He paused only to continue a second later , “I only met the rogue recently…he had come here in search of an Omega.”“Wait.” I stopped him, “When?”Alpha Raule’s brows furrowed, “I do not remember clearly but
ALPHA REX. Nothing ever comes easy. I would know that because that was everything my whole life embodied and so I didn’t expect winning Eudora back to come easy. Not when a game like this was designed to break girls like her till they were without repair. What I didn’t expect was the list of players who chose her to rack up to the point where I’d have to be in a battle with— “Ten hunters?” Raule announced, taking the words right out of my mouth. “Wow, ten hunters have chosen the number 7 as their prey, how…competitive.” He continued. There were murmurs in the crowd and my eyes swept over them and the looks of excitement that crossed their eyes because of the prospect of the game being a deadly one now that eleven players including me, have their eyes fixed on the same prey. My fist clenched to the side and afraid that I might throw it in someone’s face, I dragged Raule to the side before he could go further with his announcement. Anger was boiling inside of me but I fought the urge
EUDORA.There were ten of them. Ten sadistic males—including Alpha Rex—who have chosen to hunt me down yet only one of them will turn out victorious after he has successfully captured me. Captured me…how sick. Bile travelled from my stomach, making a stop at my throat where it took all my willpower not to let it loose and draw even bigger attention to myself. My heart was beating madly against the barricade that was my chest, threatening to break through it. My world kept spinning around me, making me dizzy and aiding the bile lodged in my throat. Any moment now and I would make a mess all over the floor of the arena. The selection continued. It continued like they didn’t just place a death sentence over me. More males made their pick from the other Omegas while the spectators placed their best bets on who would make it back alive, who would be captured and by whom, who would die…dear goddess, it was a sick scene that had me holding on to myself dearly because that was the only t
EUDORA.When my legs were too weak to carry on, I fell to the ground beside a tree, my chest heaving and my heart squeezing tightly inside of it. My breath came out in short pants and the more I drew in, the harder it was for me to breathe properly.My face was no doubt tear stained and I’d only managed to stop crying after giving myself a pep talk that Laila was strong and she was fine. She was going to escape the hunter. She was going to survive this terror. Every second that passed with me in these woods however threatened those reassuring thoughts especially because with every step I took, came the cries of women in pain within a mile radius. Each sound made me wince while I will my brain not to conjure up the horrifying things being done to them that could cause so much pain. Tuning out the echoes wasn’t working. There was only so much my ears could ignore and so I sat there and just listened to the cries of innocent girls till I was able to catch my breath so I could continue m
EUDORA Either she didn’t realize it or she chose to keep it away from me, Laila didn’t show signs of pain till we were a safe distance away from the hunters. She was limping and it was what made me stop running coupled with the pained wince every now and then that I just couldn’t ignore anymore. “What are you doing? We can’t stop now.” She tried to hold my hand again so we can keep going but I crouched instead. She tried to shift away from me but I gripped her thigh to stop her. “What are you doing?” She yelled.I was hoping I was wrong, that it was just a limp from a bruised knee or chipped nail from falling over and over again in this dark woods but the blood dripping down and the glaring bullet wound on her left leg confirmed my fears. “You got shot.” I said, more to myself than to her. I looked up at her. “You got shot.” I repeated. Laila’s face twisted in pain, and I was just noticing the sweat of perspiration gathered on her forehead. She was in pain.I thought we escaped