Lyra’s POV
"Are you there? Hello?" I could hear someone's voice as I opened my eyes carefully. Weirdly, I was on something very soft and comfy. From the feeling, I noticed it was a bed or something and not on the hard grounds of the castle.
"Hello , Can you hear me? I looked up to see a girl, blue-eyed, with a round face and cheeks as big as eggs. She still had her hand waving over my face when I jumped away from the bed, looking at the surroundings. I was in someone's house.
"Oh, finally, you are awake." I gazed down at my body to find myself in clothes just barely enough to fit me.
"Who are you? Where am I? What did you do to me? How long have I been asleep for?" I questioned while shouting like a mad one, heading backwards, trying to find a gasp in the situation.
"Calm down with the questions, Miss. First, I would really appreciate a thank you instead of the questions."
"A thank you?"
"Yes"
"Why would I thank you for what I don't even know about?"
"Are you always like this?"
"Like what?"
"Not being appreciative of things?"
"I don't even know you, and you expect me to thank you. I demand an explanation of how I got here !!" I reverted back. With my hands clenched at my sides, I was on high alert. From the palace grounds to an unknown room. Nowhere was safe for a weak werewolf.
"I see," she said as she walked towards a chair at the other end of the room. Opposite the chair was a table the length of the chair, holding a handbag on its surface. She turned the chair around to face me and sat down.
"My name is Sasha Copperman."
"Copperman?" I murmured bluntly while nodding. I don't know why.
"Yes, Copperman, my family was part of one of the most blessed packs in the whole of Oceania."
"I am really sorry to abrupt you during this whole copper thing, but that's not what I asked you. What am I doing here? Am I dead? Is this the afterlife?. "
"I am really sorry. My apologies. I tend to get distracted sometimes. The chief maiden said to attend to you, and when I was done taking you home, I didn't know where you lived, so I brought you here. You were out cold, all curved up like monkey tales, and no, you are very much alive," she said with a chuckle.
"The chief maiden?" She was the one who knocked me out in the first place. It's very obvious that this girl was lying. She would never do something like that. Care for a weak one.
"Seems so."
"I don't believe you."
"No one would; even I myself couldn't believe it when the chief maiden asked me to take care of someone like you. Well, from my analysis so far, I have discovered that you are unable to take the werewolf's form or the final form."
"My head fell as she said those words. "You examined me?"
" Yes. Apparently because of how weak you are. Your regenerative cells are really slow. The force of the attack broke most parts of your body, especially your spine. If she had left you there to heal, you would have died before you even started healing. Without her, I don't think you would even be alive, standing right here, standing opposite me.
"She was the one who put me in that position in the first place! She should have just left me to end this miserable life of mine!! " I shouted as I dropped tears. The weak ones meant nothing to the pack, so ending it was the solution.
"I know all about it; she told me everything. Just seeing you, I know what you have gone through. You expect to see a prince charming at the ceremony, right? You kept talking about it in your sleep.
I threw my head up, immediately wiping my tears. I wouldn't want to miss my own mating ceremony; no one would. "The ceremony... Omg, I am going to be late. I haven't even picked a dress yet. I looked down at the little oversized dress I had on me.
"My maid's dress. Can I have it back?" I had to finish business with the mysterious Sasha quickly so I could head on to the ceremony. I didn't even know the time. Now that I had calmed down, I could see the room more clearly. It had the structure of a hospital ward, only having a bed, a set of tables and chairs, and no windows. I couldn't check what time it was.
"Oh that? It wouldn't be necessary anymore. You will find out why soon enough. Do you really want to get a mate that much?
The maid's dress was something I had always had to wear in the palace; losing it could put me in even bigger trouble. Her telling me that it was necessary didn't make any sense.
"Can I ask why it won't be necessary anymore? I need it," replying, not answering the question about my mate.
"You will know soon enough, Miss," she replied calmly as she rose from the chair and walked towards me. Her eyes have changed in color.
"Right now, all I need from you is..."
I didn't wait to listen to the rest as I raced towards the door.
"Stay still, miss. It's not going to hurt you." No one had to tell me she was planning something with those words. Passing by the edge, I made my way to the door.
"Just a little more, almost there." It felt like my mind was running on a hot volcano. I couldn't understand what was going on. She helps me. And now her eyes change, and she tells me to stay still. No one in his or her f*cking mind would want to wait after seeing and hearing that.
I stretched my hand, grabbing a hold of the handle, and used my shoulder to push my weight on the door. The door fell off with a huge crash, dishing out a lot of dust.
It was quiet. The dust cleared, and I could smell the scent of people around—the werewolf scent. I was in luck. I stood up, wiping the dust off my body, ready to run again, when I was presented with the whole town looking at me.
I was in the palace and in the very center of the ceremony.
"It has been chosen; she's the Alpha's Luna."
Alexander’s POVA Day Before The CeremonyI looked into the mirror, admiring my handsome self. “I hope that delusional goddess gives me a strong mate—a mate not as strong as me, though.”“From the rumors, you should be feeling the bond between the two of you a day before the ceremony." My beta Jasper, who was also my right hand, replied to me while standing by the entrance of my door. He was always beside me, ever since I became the Alpha."Do you feel a bond with anyone, Jasper?""I did feel a sensation when I woke up," he said, looking at me with a smile on his face."Why do I feel like you are not talking about something relating to mating?""What are you insinuating, Alexander?" We both burst into laughter. Even if he was my beta, he had always called me by my name. He was the only one permitted to call me without saying "Alpha.".We were the best of friends through the lowest of lows. We didn't have wealthy parents. My father had died during the last war between another pack, whi
Alexander’s POVBecoming the alpha that day became the biggest change in my life. I had people bowing down whenever I passed; I could have any maiden of my choice. The life of the Alpha was something I wouldn't give up until I died. Who would? This power was something I had always longed for...........A few months passed, and I had gotten used to the royal life. To my utmost surprise, I was informed that Jasper was still conscious. They had found him breathing when they went to retrieve his body. His wound had been healing slowly but barely enough to heal him completely, so they had taken him to the healers mountains to get him back into shape."I thought it was a fight to the death. You could have left him there to die.""The main elder ordered to save him says he's going to be useful to you, my Lord." The messenger who was assigned to deliver the message had his head down. Who would look the Alpha in the face?."Oh, really? I really regret not delivering that final blow. I was a f
Lyra’s POVI had crushed the doors of the room to find myself at the ceremony; how is that possible? I turned around to find the room where I had come from, surprisingly. It was the room where the chief maiden had almost beaten me to death. No way!! I was just running away from Sasha a minute ago. I had so many questions running through my mind.I had to run away to get away from whatever Sasha had planned to execute on me. And some way or another, I ended up back at the palace after breaking through the door. Was it a dream? It felt like my mind was playing with me. I prayed it was just my mind playing with me as I decided not to think about what happened with Sasha and face the problem at hand.I finally left my thoughts to find everyone looking at me. Everyone, including the main elders and the chief priest, It was very obvious that I had disturbed the ceremony, as everyone gave me that look. I never wanted this kind of attention. "I am really sorry, hehe. You can continue, she sa
His words rang loudly in my ears like a constant echo that I had begun to see the words boldly written on that face of his.Who did he think he was to reject me just because he was the Alpha? My tears poured on my cheeks like rain, and my eyes hazily ran through my drawers, searching for my clothes. The room was too dark to see anything, not even myself. Crashing hard on the ground in frustration, I screamed into my palms over my mouth. It would have been further embarrassing for anyone to hear me cry. I doubt they cared that much anyways.Looking up at the half moon reflecting on my face, my hoarse voice bitterly complained. “You really do not give me a choice for anything, huh? Not even about my mate? Are we not all equals to you too?”, My voice broke with each fully formed sentence.“Why did you have to take me so high up to make me crash? In front of them, in front of him!”, My anger had turned into pleas and grieviances.“There is no place for me here, moon goddess. I have to
The sun rays flowed through the silk curtains, landing directly on my shut eyes. Groaning in annoyance, I rolled over, turning to the other side, when it suddenly hit me.Pressing my body into the soft texture of the bed, my eyes instantly flew open. I slowly blinked them, trying to adapt to the strange environment. This was definitely not my room. Staring into nothingness for a while, it all began to flood back into my head. I had gone to drown myself in a bar…and I had met a man. My eyes rolled down to my uncovered body, which laid fully unclothed.Right. I had sex with a stranger. Not just any kind of sex. But my first time at that.I stretched out my wobbly feet on the carpet, going straight to the bathroom. There, I stood motionlessly in front of the large mirror, admiring the hickeys on my neck. Although the memories from last night still played hazily in my head, which was a different kind of pain. Especially the man. I could not recall how he looked like. The only thing that
If death was a person, then it would definitely be him. The fun fact is, he was here…in my room.His icy gaze penetrated through the thin covers, where I lay, pretending to be asleep. He could always go back the same way he came. I would not deliberately ask for death.“Your lips are quivering, little girl”, his cold hands grazed my thin lips, making me jump in fright.How did he get so close to me already? My heart flipped over a million times as I wearily stared at him, from the door where my back was glued to.“Why so scared now?”, his voice sounded as faint as a whisper, which was more dangerous to my ears.The pressure in the room increased the weight of the silence, crushing me from the inside out. My lips were unable to form a word, so I wisely kept my mouth shut, with my eyes still stuck on his imposing frame.“So, I learnt of your disappearance throughout the night, until late this morning”, he made himself comfortable, leaning on the half-collapsed table beside my bed. “What
'Dear moon goddess, I had never lived my life wrong! How could this happen to me?’, Lyra inwardly wailed, staring into thin air, without blinking. Alpha Alexander's fists turned white as they clenched the arms of his chair with mixed emotions, but all screaming rage. There were no words to save herself from this mess. She deeply regretted not being the first to know about this.“Do you know the gravity of the disgrace you have caused me?”, His voice thundered uncontrollably, still echoing in her ears even after a minute had passed.“Speak up girl! You didn't strike me as a mute person the other night”, She shivered uncontrollably, with tears glistening in her eyes. Her life was already this bad, and she was going to bring a child that would meet the same fate as her? All these while, she had held resentment towards her mother for throwing her into the hands of people who did not care for her, but the realization seemed to hit her now. “I did not plan for such a mistake, my lord”,
By the time they arrived at the huge manor, the sun had begun to rise. Before she had a chance to say anything else, she was already surrounded by several maids.“They'll show you to your room now my lady”, he kissed the back of her palms with genuine affection, before leaving her gaping at his disappearing back.Soon, she was ushered into a room, almost as big as Alexander's courtroom. She could not get to see much as her torn clothes were taken off her body by the maids, brushing her skin clean in the huge bathtub. About an hour later, she was gently tapped by one of the maids, informing her that it was time to put on her clothes.Her eyes instantly cleared up, as she reluctantly got out of the bathtub with an inward sigh of regret.It took another whole hour before she could finally see her reflection in the mirror. Her lips were slightly parted open at her own self, Including the maids as well.This was the first time her fair skin shone brightly since all her years alive. The si