HAERAI think I already expected it when Erylis spewed out Gennora's name out of fear. I might have also expected her to say something about the princess since she happened to be the closest of all the maids to the princess. She used to be the princess's personal maid before I replaced her and since I had another duty, she was back there again. And she had spewed everything she knew about that day. The day I resumed to the Alpha chambers and the day Balfour died. "That day...the day you came for me to tell me the princess requested my presence; you were there before you even entered, weren't you? You listened in on our conversation and went to tell someone. Who did you report to?" I had asked, going straight to the point. This was my reason for seeking her out and shifting to my wolf in front of her to scare her. I remember hearing footsteps retreating that day before she came in. I remember I and Balfour sighing in relief because we had thought someone was eavesdropping but I guess w
HAERA. I was lost for words, staring into the eyes of Alan as we both stood there in silence. He was the one waiting for me with a cool expression, waiting for me to absorb his words from earlier and to interpret it however I choose to. I had a lot of questions to ask him but my mouth just hung open and my head thoughtless. How did he know? How could he have figured it out when even Alpha Zachary had no idea and got deceived. "How did you know?" I finally was able to say looking into his eyes for an answer that explains it all. "Is that important right now? Aren't you supposed to think of how to get to him now? " "It is important. I need to know how his Beta knows and he doesn't." I insisted. He looked at me for a while before he sighed in resignation. "The signs were all over the place. You were the one who delivered his food and I saw you clearly. When you came the next day--" "Wait... the next day?" I tried to think of any chances that I visited the Alpha the next day but it was v
HAERAHow possible was it to freeze all over again when your body was already frozen and rigid at a spot? Well talking from my current experience, I could tell how very possible it was for someone to freeze for a second time. My body was already frozen right before he even growled at me. The fact that he toppled me over and laid on top of me like that very night already had me frozen to the bones. And when I looked into his eyes, it only made me want to remain that way for life. And then he growled. He literally growled, baring his teeth at me. It was then that I was able to decipher both of the looks in his eyes as something other than anger and confusion. Yes they were there but it was more of him fighting his wolf as the black and grey fought against each other. "You." He said again glaring straight at me. It felt like he wanted to say something but his wolf was making him lose control. I wondered how he was able to keep his wolf in control and if he was as crazy as Dezra was. I tr
HAERAI was going to die. If he held on to me too tightly as he did now, with his eyes whirling with unspoken rage. I could really die. It was how quick my head switched from whirling with uncontained shock at what we were doing to the whirling sound of a danger I should run far away from but it was too late. He was gripping me by the throat. I felt my lungs tighten and almost dry up at how held me. He was big and powerful enough to hold me up against the wall with just a single hand of his and I fought with my own hands against that single hand but be wasn't having it. I felt tears well up in my eyes and clouded my vision. "What did you do you me?" He growled again. I couldn't talk and it wasn't only because he had his hand held to my throat so tightly alone. It was because I didn't know want to say in response. My brain went numb. What did I come in here to do before I got in bed with him? What were the words I planned to say to him.? How exactly did I plan to convince him that he w
ALPHA ZACHARY The bells from the high tower rang and for a moment, I thought I was back at my pack and back in the nightmare that keeps me up all night. I jerked off my bed, eyes wondering around to get a hold of my surroundings and with the light from outside the window flooding into the room, familiarity set in and I knew just where I was. I didn't have a nightmare today. I stopped having them after I met her, my mate, back at my pack and it suddenly felt like she was the missing piece of the puzzle in my life. But I started having them all over again. After winning the duel, after becoming the Alpha and after coming to this pack, the Moonstone Pack to perform the ritual and take my mate with me. I started having those nightmares again. I started jerking up from my bed with sweat sticking to every part of my body like slimy leaches. The nightmares kept me up all night while Serge whimpered on and on about something that seemed to hurt him. He was just as confused as I was and there
HAERAAs dejected and as overwhelmed as I was the next day, I still woke up and went to do what I loved doing in the kitchen and maybe because it was required of me to be there. I knew today will be more hectic as it was the last day of the ritual. The one I failed to stop and the one which will end tonight with the mates marking each other. I've thought it over all through the night and I still couldn't stop thinking about it. Yet I was helpless with nothing to do about it. I tried. I really tried but I still failed. Alpha Zachary didn't believe me and he called me a low class maid who was trying to seduce him even if I could see the attraction for in his eyes. I felt it in the way we both rocked on the bed the night before and the way he sniffed around me. Why was he fighting it? Why can't he just see the truth and believe that I am the true owner of that scent and it was stolen from me just as he was stolen from me? He couldn't read through the lines and there nothing more I could
HAERA How could you? I was really tired of hearing those words from my wolf in my head over and over again as I pushed past the crowd at the mate bond ritual to get to my room. Away from the noise, the celebrations...away from the pain. Away from it all as if leaving there would actually do anything to numb the pain and heartbreak my heart was going through. And of course,Dezra had to make it words by growling at me about how stupid I was to just sit there and not do anything about it. But she knew. She knew there was nothing we could do about it. She knew the things that were at stake because if not considering how violent and impatient she was, she would have taken control and raged her way towards the two mates who had just finished marking each other and had left to further consummate the Union. I cringed at the word when the Alpha said it but cringed harder thinking about it myself right now. How he would sniff around her the way he sniffed around me. How his breath will feel ho
ZACHARY "Her. I want her." I announced confidently which was surprising because right before Alpha Jarvold's offer, I had no intention of taking her with me. My eyes remained on her and they only left her frame due to the massive wave of surprise that reached my nostrils or should I call it shock? My mate's shock at my request was more prominent. Probably because I already marked her and my eyes soon connected with her questioning gaze. "I didn't know you found my mom's company indispensable. Who would have thought you wanted her to leave her pack for yours?" Ilvira spoke out. She placed her hand on my lap as she giggled at her attempts to crack a joke. Only it didn't sound like a joke to me. "I knew I told you you can request for whatever that pleases you but I can't give you my Luna, Alpha Zachary." Alpha Jarvold retorted, Supporting his daughter's misinterpretation of my words. The family laughed at their assumption but I cleared the air immediately. "No offense to your Luna but I
EPILOGUE. HAERA.(A year later)Where in the world is he?I paced the length of the room with frantic and erratic steps. Up...down.Up...down. Just like that. My covered feet made tapping sounds on the ground with how I took more than a step in a second out of worry and fear that something might be terribly wrong somewhere.Opaline was behind me and probably looking at me with more worry than I felt now. In her arms, was my days old baby boy whose traditional naming ceremony as a new pup born into the werewolf clan was today. My little son came as a bouncing little blessing to me and my mate. It was just what we needed to complete our perfect family and our perfect life. Life over the past year has been nothing short of that for the both of us and even the people of the pack at large–perfect. With Tybalt gone and the peace of the pack restored, all I and my mate had to focus on was our duties as the leaders of the pack. I was officially the Luna and I never imagined the acceptance
ALPHA ZACHARYThat kiss was different.To be candid, everything was different when I was doing it with my destined mate.The marking process, the ritual, the coronation ane every damn thing in between was special.But the kiss was different in a good way.Why wouldn't it be when it was our first kiss. The very first kiss we shared as destined mate.It was our first even though it wasn't my first.Saying I regretted every moment I spent with Ilvira would be an understatement and even though I was at fault too, I couldn't stop myself from hating her and her biological mother for coming in between Haera and I.They came into my life to ruin this.I should have been enjoying this bliss ever since I became Alpha but Gennora just had to ruin it.I decided it was time to stop thinking about my past and what I had missed with Haera when she moaned into my mouth during that heated kiss. A kiss that left me hungry for my mate.For my Amanisa.I loved her new names but it was Amanisa for me and
HAERAThis kind of news was great but at the same time unbelievable. Before the arrival of the news, Basil had been complaining and whining about how he felt useless by staying with me."I thought he was jealous of our relationship. Why entrust your safety with me?"Basil had complained as he termed "protecting me" as "babysitting me". I kept hitting him on his back to shut him up but what harm could my fragile hands do to him?"He doesn't like you but he trusts you to protect me."I had tried to clarify but Basil gave me a silly response regardless, earning himself another slap on his back."Will you feel safer when you kill me, your supposed protector?"Basil had barked at me and I was close to hitting him again but Alan's arrival saved him from me. I wasted no time showing my worry and also asked Alan about the situation."Everything is under control, Princess Haera."Alan responded without a hint of what actually happened. His face was void of emotions which made it difficult for
ALPHA ZACHARY. That feeling was clear and certain. I sat in front of the mirror, looking at myself and my features, the changes and the parts that didn't change as well in the past few days. I was reminded of this moment by that feeling that tells you you have been in a place before with only a few things being different in the situation of things. The last time I sat in front of a mirror like this; with that somber expression on my face, was the day of the duel months ago. The very day that changed my life and my fate. I recognized the look on my face that day as that of a man who wasn't willing to fight. I didn't need anyone to tell me and I didn't need my wolf to remind me even if he took it upon himself to do so. I remembered how the maids prepped me up and prepared me like I was attending some ball and not a battle that would determine my faith. I was simply like a ram that was being taken to the slaughter; fattened and all dressed up for my blood to be spilled. All the feel
HAERAWe were stuck in the wilderness and in time as well.This place is the perfect definition of timeless and unchanging. Except for the usual nightfall and daybreak, there was nothing that signifies the time of the day. It was morning again and to be honest, I have lost track of time.The first few days were traceable but I got tired of keeping tabs on the number of days and nights that we had spent in this strange place when there were other things to worry about.Perhaps it was the thought of how Alpha Zachary and I would escape this open prison that made me forget how many days we had spent walking, searching for a new way out, going around in circles, and being each other's strength.Or perhaps it was as a result of the growing bond between my mate and me. Either way, it was all Tybalt's fault.I must commend his quick thinking though. He found a way to make sure Alpha Zachary and I never get out of here alive if we manage to survive the fall like the other time.My mate had b
HAERAThe anger boiling inside of me as I yelled at Zachary was one whose reason was unknown to me;not entirely unknown but just strange because I was angry about a lot of things yet relieved at the same time. It was dangerous for him to have followed me and then try to save me by jumping in. It was stupid and even though it reminded me of my own self, it didn't make me less angry. He never listens to me and does things his own way, that's the only reason he could have tailed me all the way to the cliff. How the hell did he even do it? My relief was only from the fact that he was right there, in front of me, safe and looking confused as hell. I had thought of the worst after Tybalt drugged me and had me brought down here but seeing him out of danger and safe was what made me feel relieved. But I wasn't near done yet. His presence might bring me relief but still, it was dangerous for him to have followed me. "Why the hell did you come all the way here with me?huh? You never listen! You
ALPHA ZACHARY The light but severe weight on my head was crushing my skull painfully. I wasn't fully conscious of my environment but I could bitterly sense my discomfort in every part of my body. My eyes were clenched tight as I groaned out in pain due to everything that felt painfully out of place. Naturally, I tried to reach for my wolf as I rubbed my head but I couldn't feel Serge like I was supposed to. My mind was blank of every other emotion that wasn't pain and uncertainty. I wanted to keep my eyes closed and remain in the same position but I was uncomfortable due to the rocks that were pricking my back. I changed my position slowly but without gritting my teeth in pain. The process was slow but thankfully, I was able to control my arms which had been laying limply beside me. I used my hand to reposition myself into a sitting posture as I fluttered my eyelids with caution. All of my other senses as an Alpha seemed to be failing me because I was unable to sense the scent of my
HAERAI pried my eyes open but it was still dark all around me like I still had eyes tightly closed and like I was still back in that darkness that consumed me when I fell to the floor and the one I've been in for longer than I can remember. I knew I was knocked out for a long time because of how weak and rigid my body felt. I closed and opened my eyes a few times, trying to assure myself that I was really out of the blackout moment which time frame I had no idea about. It was all the same, no matter the number of times I opened and closed my eyes. Nothing changed and I was convinced that it had nothing to do with my eyes. It has to be where I was huddled at. The thought of it brought about my next question. Where was I? The memories of my last moments before now haunted me and echoed in my head, making a sharp pain that I had paid less attention to, sear through my head. It made me wince and try to sit back but I couldn't even move a muscle. Not because I was weak and tired but becau
HAERA Shouldn't it be a crime for news to affect living creatures' emotions? The annoying part is that the word "news" has been subdivided into good and bad which are usually out of our control. As much as I understand that some things just have to happen, I still didn't like the news I received a few seconds ago. Why couldn't we always get those things we wanted? Everyone knew that the best news that I wanted to hear at this moment was about my mate regaining his memories but that didn't happen. I was standing in front of my Papa, forcing myself not to show him how much his information affected me even though I wanted to act like a child...his child. "Are you with me?" My papa questioned when I didn't react to his announcement. He just told me that he has to return home because something urgent came up even though I still needed him here...with me. He was an Alpha after all and Alphas shouldn't stay away from their pack longer than necessary. "Yes, Papa but do you have to leave toda