Mason.“You didn't have to come here,” David snorted, sulking and rolling his eyes.I quietly drop the things I bought for him on the cabinet, pulling out a chair to sit beside him. Kai runs to him, climbing the hospital bed to straddle him, “Uncle.”He coos at Kai, cupping his cheeks, “My baby, I missed you so much. I'm sorry that you were hurt and Uncle couldn't help you, I'm so happy to see you well.”“Uncle,” Kai squeals, laughing as David begins to tingle him all over. I smile gladly, watching the scene.When they finally settle, David speaks to me again, “You didn't have to come here, Mason. I thought you might have returned to Bavaria City or that fuckface should be able to keep you safe. It's dangerous out here.”“Don’t curse David and Leo is not a fuckface.”“Whatever.”“How are you doing?” I ask him.“I'm not dead, the doctor says thankfully my intestines are safe, it wasn't that deep so I'm okay and recovering,” He shrugs tiredly, “I'm used to getting stabbed.”“It's nothin
Mason.“Where are you going?” Jason asks me, stomping his unfinished cigarette under his shoe.“Clubbing,” I tell him the obvious. Tonight I'm dressed extra. I wore my black leather pants with white puffy sleeve shirt, it's made of silk and it fits my body perfectly. I button down letting my chest show, my nipple buds are hard against it.I wore dangling diamond earrings that I haven't worn in a long while, my hair beautifully styled and I used a good amount of cologne. Since tonight is Andrew’s post birthday celebration, he sends the location of a private coterie. It's an expensive bustling hub in the middle of the city.I took my time to look extra attractive tonight, I'm clubbing as a free and happy man. Kai is with his nanny doing his homework, she will put him to sleep afterwards.“Leo never mentioned to me about you clubbing at night. Isn't that risky?”“Well, I don't care about what Leo thinks. I'm going out and you have a choice. Either you drive me there or you give me the ca
Leo.“The High Priestess will come out of her seclusion in two days. It's been two years of her absence, the elders are celebrating her return on the second day of the Blood Moon Festival. Here,” Auden spread a small old map in front of me, “This is where the hunting will take place.”“When will it take place,” I skimmed through the map. I'm here in the office even though it's getting late. I'm foreseeing every preparation for the festival, there is a lot to do.“On the third day until the fifth day, that is until the last day,” Auden explains, his tone in a serious work mode.It is easy this way, both of us are pretending that the discussion the other day never happened. Avoiding a ghost in the room is better than approaching it.That can ruin our friendship and we should move past that. Auden is my closest friend, he knows literally everything about me and it is mutual. He is my beta and he has an aura and power
Leo.I'm about to dispose of the wet towel when Mason grabs my wrists, “Leo, don't go please.” His eyes are closed and his face is morphing into sadness, like he is about to cry.“I'm here, I'm not going anyway.”Tears fell down the side of his face as he held me tighter, “Why can't you just touch me? Leo please touch me and take this feeling away, I'm hurting so much.”I settled down beside him, taking his hand into mine as I released a possessive aura, marking a territory with Mason inside. Making him feel my presence even though he can't see me, making him feel my touch but not with my hands. I lean forward to his scent gland, to the sweet spot on his neck and scent him, sniffing and licking him.I'm ashamed because I don't know if that will work on him as he isn't a wolf but I'm trying my possible best to keep him calm. To keep myself calm. My rut is fast approaching and being close to my horny mate is the last thing an Alpha like me should do.What if it suddenly happens and I ca
Mason.I woke up with a pounding headache, my vision still hazy with sleep. I snuggle into the soft pillow, groaning tiredly. Small shards of my memories coming to me, I blink my eyes open and the clock by the bedside tell me it's noon.I sat up immediately, wincing at how heavy my head felt. I rub my eyes with my fingers, my mind blank and well rested. I look around my bedroom, I'm alone… A sharp pain pierced through my forehead and an image of Leo came to my head.What did I do yesterday?Was Leo with me yesterday?Wait… didn't I go to the club yesterday?Kai…? I slid out of bed immediately, grimacing from an intense headache but I slowly made my way downstairs, rubbing my eyes to get rid of the itchiness.“You are finally awake, Mason.”I stop in my tracks at the familiar voice, my heart beating fast within my rib cage. I stare wide-eyed at Leo, “I wasn't dreaming?”He raised an eyebrow at me, and then looked away, frowning.He is wearing a white shirt with an apron over it, his le
Leo.“The bedroom, Leo,” Mason says into our kisses, his hands around my neck, his legs immediately swinging around my waist as I jerk him up. I don't stop kissing him as I take him upstairs.Soon I'm letting his back rest against the bed, settling in between his spreaded legs.“I'm taking this off.”“Yes, please.”I break our kiss, meeting his eyes. Amir purrs in my head at the fire and lust in Mason’s eyes, our mate. I pull his t-shirt over his head, swallowing greedily as my eyes wander on his body.“Holy mother, baby,” I whispered, salivating as my fingers began to trail on his soft skin, “You are so beautiful… You are so perfect. ““Leo…” “I want to see more,” I immediately pulled his pyjama pants out, leaving him naked and spread out under me, “You have no idea how perfect you are for me.”“Stop staring, Leo,” He whines, covering his face with his hands. I chuckled, unbuttoning my own shirt, slowly until his attention was back on me. I tease him before shrugging off my shirt.I
Leo.“What is going on here,” I ask Auden, who is trying to separate Zena from a fight with one of the oldest elders.The pack is in total chaos.I haven't been in the Pack for only one night and everything has turned upside down. It took me more than an hour to get into the Packhouse because there was a protest going on just outside the gate. The guards are doing everything to keep the place safe and let them have peaceful protests.Zena is still yelling at the elder oblivious to my presence or my thoughts.“That's enough,” I cut them short, the room going silent. Zena shakes Auden's hands off her as she walks towards me, I could see my mother sitting with her hand over her face, frustrated from the situation.“Where have you been,” Zena is angry and her tone is not friendly, “When there is a literal chaos going on in the Pack you are always unavailable. Sometimes I wonder if you are Alpha enough to protect this Pack because this is all your fault.”“Zena!” I growl at her, warning he
12 Hours Earlier.Andrew.“Why did you send for me?” Auden rolls his eyes as he steps into my apartment.I had invited him over after I left the club. I need to take the next step for my plan.“Can't I invite an old friend for a drink?”“I'm not your friend, Andrew. If I remember very well you hated my guts, let's not pretend.”I chuckle embarrassingly, “You need to calm down, it's not that serious. At least now we are friends aren't we? And we are working together now.”“I'm not working with you. Even though I responded to your call, I made sure Mason left Alpha Leo’s house and I also gave you the secret paperworks of the mercenaries' consumers. It doesn't mean I work for you, you can't just disappear many years ago and appear again acting like the messiah.”“Don't be difficult, let's have a drink. This is the best on the shelf,” I pour him a glass of Macallan whisky, tak
Mason Two Days Later“How are you feeling?” Doctor Raphael asks me, eyeing me suspiciously as if daring me to lie.“I’m alright, just bored and I hate hospitals,” I complained, wincing as he came close to me with a syringe again.“Sit still.”I nod as he gives me an injection on my shoulder, “When does it end?”“Luckily that’s your last dosage for now.”“For now? But I feel alright.”“Yes, you’re recovering very well but I’m not discharging you anytime soon, you will have to deal with it. You still need bed rest and you are still under observation and moreover you can start eating on your own from now on with limited choices of oatmeal and rice, banana and apple but I don't recommend you moving around yet. Just keep your head elevated as much as possible.”“Thank you.”“Hmm, I will take it that the number you gave me to call will provide you a caregiver?”“Yeah, David. He is my bodyguard, he is close like a family.”“I haven’t seen that mysterious handsome guy around, I
Mason“I’ll be waiting outside, Mason,” Leo stands up from his seat as the doctor steps through the door.A bitter laugh escapes me knowing I will never have Leo’s full heart. This guy takes me for a fool, Leo is fucking with my intelligence, he is stepping on my self eesteem. He is making all of my life into a bitter joke.The way I feel, I don’t dare to look at myself in the mirror.“Leo, if you walk out of that door. It’s over between the both of us,” I solemnly said, feeling terrible and deeply terrified.Terrified because I know Leo can choose to walk out of that door and everything we have been through together will mean nothing, it will suddenly just end. I feel terrible, it seems my big body reduced in size to a smaller version of myself at how Leo’s physically shivered at my statement, his eyes are wide, piercing through me.I don’t dare look away, I look back at him, my eyes sharp. It is now or never. I need to get Leo to tell me the truth, there is no way Andrew would appr
Leo.“He will surely be ashamed of how you’re handling things now and I would love to tell him that I was right. You’re not as strong as you look, you can’t handle a Pack like the Crescent Moon. Not to mention how you have neglected the rules. Should I start from the part where you had a human being live among your Pack members?” Marcelo smiles contentedly and turns to the Elders.“It’s like asking us to exist with vampires, can you guys imagine that?”“What happened here was an accident and I have taken care of it, I guarantee you. And whatever decision I make in my life, a happy one or a sad one, it is for the interest of my Pack so I don’t appreciate your accusations, Uncle. Please excuse me,” I bowed to him and walked out. Jason immediately follows behind. “I don’t like him I swear,” Jason says as he catches up to me, “He doesn’t have good intentions about you and I swear I will kill him with my own hands.”“Just stop it Jason, shut up even! Do you know what you caused back ther
Leo.I take a step back as Nolan groans, his eyes turn red and his fangs drags over his lips as he spreads his hands open. Rolls of black smoke-like shadows discharge from his body, forming into human figures with skull faces. However, they immediately disappear. Nolan coughs out blood and almost falls on his back. With my speed I immediately stop him, holding him gently as he sits on the floor. I don’t move away because of curiosity, “What the fuck was that? What on earth are you?”Nolan stares at me and chuckles, his mouth still full of blood, “Trust me you don’t want to know.”“You’re hurt,” I tell him, my hand still wrapping around his shoulders as he leans in towards me, his head resting on my chest.“I will heal, slowly. You said I should do something about the landmines. I did just that,” He says, shutting his eyes.“I can see that but what will they do?”“They will locate the landmines, remove them and destroy them then return back to my body. Easy right?”“Nolan, what are yo
Nolan/Andrew“I don’t believe you,” I shake my head in disbelief. “I’m sorry, Nolan. But when I woke up it was as if you never existed even until date, without all these coming to light I would never have thought you existed. I’m sorry.”“Stop apologizing,” I tell Leo, closing my ears as the voices in my head have become bothersome. They’re loud, telling me not to stop, telling me not to listen to Leo, telling me to kill Leo and then kill myself. They are telling me not to believe Leo because he is mocking me, he is laughing at me because I’m weak, I’m a big fool.He is trying to get me to believe him so he can abandon me again. I know this feeling, I always dream of it every night. Infact for years I have always considered it a nightmare, a moment where Leo apologies and I forgave him. He said he wanted to give me a piggyback ride across the ocean but when we were in the middle of it he dropped me and dispersed, leaving me to drown. I never thought I would see Leo kneel before me.
Leo.His harsh words are beginning to get to me, “You are being very unreasonable, Andrew or should I call you Nolan? Auden said that was your real name.”“Don’t you dare call me that, my name is Andrew now.”“Look,” I run my fingers through my hair frustratingly, “You have problems with me, why are you involving other people? My Pack people are innocent, they are going to be teenagers joining the hunt. You are going to be taking hundreds of lives and for what?”“I don’t care, trust me it doesn’t measure up to the tragic death I want for the whole of your family, Leo. You’re playing pretends of not having memories of me? I hope you keep playing that game until the end when I take Mason’s life in front of you.”My heart skips a beat at the reality of such agony and my brain automatically makes sure it doesn’t come to that.I let out a deep sigh, “You won’t believe me but I don’t have any memory of you. I swear to the Moon goddess that I want to, I want to remember everything about you
Leo.“We’re here to see you, call them off,” Auden mutters to the figure that has his back on us.I have a lot to say about this mansion, it feels creepy to say that every decoration and architectural design feels like my idea. The white and gold couches in the living room, the vintage paintings, the white ceiling with diamonds chandeliers. It was a young dream of mine to own a mini bar, made with the most lavish wooden stools and a long table.Everything in this house feels like a familiar plan of mine. Maybe Auden is not wrong, this Andrew guy might have been someone very close to me.“I can see that,” Andrew doesn’t call off his henchmen who are blocking us from approaching him, nor does he turn around to look at us. He is in the mini bar, taking forever to pour himself a drink. I can’t tell what he is thinking, I can’t even get any energy from him.This mansion feels as ordinary as any normal guy out there could own. Maybe it's all a facade, someone that dares kidnap my mate shou
Leo. “Alpha.”I heard the voice loud and clear but I didn't pay attention. I’m still looking in the direction of the High Priestess’s quarters, wishing her doors will open and she will invite me in and help me with a solution.Why did I ever think I could have it easy in my life? If the High Priestess doesn’t know how to help me with my problems then who will?What is the point of doing all this?I’m left to fend for myself again, my father did the same thing. I was only a teenager when I took on the responsibility of leading a big pack. My age mates were still in high school while I sat on a throne. One I wasn't ready to sit on but I had to because my father decided to get murdered.Now I have a human mate and I don’t know what to do about him! I don’t know what to do!I’m afraid of my story. Alpha Leo’s history won’t end well. It will be one the next generation will frown upon, a leader nobody cares to remember.“Alpha.”I listen to the voice calling me and tears escape my eyes. “
Leo“Your sister doesn’t seem to like me very much,” Ethan beckons, his spirit dejected as he lazily chooses clothes that should fit him. “You shouldn’t worry about that,” I tell him, tired of the maid in front of me whose hands are shaking, “You can’t fix a common tie?” I scolded her.She immediately goes on her knees, “I’m sorry Alpha, forgive me, please.”“Let me fix it for you, Alpha,” Ethan offers. I nod, waving my hand in the air for the maid to leave my presence immediately.“Do you like anything, Omega?” The tailor asks and Ethan shakes his head, concentrating on my tie. I stare at his lips, the taste of them recoiling on my tongue.I looked away and said, “Richard is my favorite tailor, you should give him a chance to design something for you. You won’t regret it.”Ethan smiles brightly at me, “If you say so, Alpha.”Seriously I try not to stare at Ethan too much, he looks so freshened up, a good bath, his long hair has been trimmed and styled yet it still logs on his should