When the door opened, I jumped out and studied my surroundings. The driver was standing there, watching me.“Hello,” he said.We were in a small town. There were barely any people in the streets, and it was fairly quiet. Most of the houses lining the streets had their inside lights off.“Thank you so much,” I told the man. “Where are we?”“Huntswood,” he said. “It belongs to Black Moon pack.”“How close am I to Bryson Miller’s pack?”“It’s two towns away but I can’t go there now. Why did you run away from Midnight Pack?”“They were going to kill me,” I lied. I couldn’t tell him I was the woman his alpha and his friend were talking about. The one who had got Jackson King’s mind twisted for a second. If he knew that, he would realise that I would soon be highly wanted. I knew that Jackson was going to put a huge price on my head when he found out I was gone whoever was going to return me would get something good out of it.“Were you a slave?”I nodded. “Yes. Why did you help me?”“It se
I clutched the edges of the starched sheets as I sniffed harder, trying to see if I could recognise it. The scents were unfamiliar but that did not reduce my worries. When the banging and rough knocking stopped, I heard the muffled voices of two men. Had the man who saved me sold me out to Jackson? Why would he save me only to hand me back to the enemy? I decided to stay still and silent, hoping the men would go away.“We know you’re in there,” one of the men said out loud. I glanced around the room for anything I could use as a weapon in case the men decided to break in but there was nothing. I glanced at the bedside drawer. Maybe I could throw that on one of the men. “Open the door and we’ll be easy on you.”I didn’t say anything. Slowly, I sat up. Making sure to avoid making any sound, I slid out of bed and went to the bathroom. I looked at the window. Unfortunately, it had metal railings which made it impossible to escape through. Sighing, I returned to the room. There was a white
Jackson.“Alpha Jackson!”Opening my eyes, I nearly recoiled when I saw the slave on my bed. She looked so peaceful as she slept, and beautiful. If she was asleep, who had called my name? A knock on the door made me sigh.“Alpha Jackson, please open up.” Francesca said. “I need to tell you something.”“Give me a minute,” I said out loud. This awoke the woman who had been sleeping next to me. She looked up at me with a smile on her face. Knowing the kind of things she was capable of, that smile made me feel a bit uneasy.“Good morning, alpha Jackson.” She said, reaching out to touch my cheek.“Good morning, Mia.” I said while turning to get out of the bed. I figured I must have been really drunk to bring that woman to my bed. She was a psychopath and that disqualified her from being my type. There was an amount of psycho I was willing to handle, for example Francesca’s. Mia’s was too much for me. Wrapping a towel around my waist, I stepped out of the bedroom and crossed the living room
After hearing the voice in the darkness, I quickly opened the door and ran out. “I don’t mean any harm,” the voice said, making me stop a few metres away. I turned and watched as a man emerged from the church. He walked slowly which meant he was weak. The moon light was not so bright but I could tell the man was middle aged. “We can share the church today,” he said. “I’m homeless so I live here. I promise not to touch you, but if you’d prefer I can sleep outside and you take the inside”I shook my head. “No, I can’t do that to you.”“Then come in.”I hesitated before going closer to him. When I reached him, I noted he reeked a bit but he had a friendly face. He also looked too weak compared to me. After analysing him and feeling satisfied that I could defeat him in a fight, I accepted to go in with him. He closed the door. I was scared so I didn’t sleep a wink that night. Fortunately, the man kept his word and didn’t bother me at all. When I left the church the next morning, I gave
There was very small difference between Bryson and Jackson when it came to size, but Bryson looked bigger. His face was even sterner than Jackson’s, making him look more intimidating. He was seated behind his desk leaning back in his chair when we reached the door to the office. I paused when I saw him. He sat up straight.“Here she is,” the guard said, pushing me into the room. I walked in cautiously, staring warily at the big man watching me. I sat on the chair across from the terrifying alpha.“I hear you have information about Jackson King,” he began. “Before I listen to you, I wanna know who you are.”“My name is Kelsey Arlington,” I began. “I’m originally from Blue Moon Pack, but was sold to Midnight pack a few months ago as a slave. I got close to him, but things went wrong and he turned against me. I escaped last night.”“So why do you think you have something I might want to hear. As a slave, I don’t think you were privy to many issues. I don’t think you know anything I could
“Why don’t you be my mistress instead?” Bryson asked casually. He was leaning on the couch, his long and sturdy legs on the coffee table before him. I was on a small couch next to the one he was on. We were in one of his living rooms watching television together. Bryson was true to his word. He had set me up in one of the best guest rooms in the pack house. That did not mean I was happy being there, though. Bryson had a wife and kids who lived in the pack house with them. Although I had no interest in him, they didn’t seem to like me very much.“I’m not interested,” I told him, taking a sip of the orange juice in my hand.“Why not? I could make your life better than Jackson can. I’ll even help your family. Besides, I have more power, money and I’m better looking than your mate.”“I don’t care,” I told him truthfully. “You’re not the type of man I’d ever want to be with and I have no interest in taking second place in a man’s life. Have some respect for your wife and kids.”He sighed.
Bryson.At first, I thought Jackson King’s mate was a very smart woman. As time went one, I discovered she was just all other women. They couldn’t think clearly when emotions were involved. One small punishment from her mate had sent her running into the arms of his enemy, thinking she was better off that way. I laughed hard as I stared at the map in my hand. That stupid woman had jumped from the frying pan to the fire. I couldn’t wait to see her reaction when she found out that all I cared about was what I wanted not what she wanted.I wanted to destroy Jackson King, bring him down to his knees and take away everything he had including his fated mate. I was going to make him go through so much pain before finally killing him. Contrary to what I had told Kelsey, it was not easy to get information from members of Midnight Pack. I don’t know what Jackson gave them but his subjects were extremely loyal. You could torture them for weeks and they still wouldn’t reveal anything. In fact, w
Jackson.There were three attacks on my pack that day. At first, there were only two so I sent some of my men to defend the farm while led others to defend the town. I made the mistake of leaving the most important place of my pack with minimal security. And that was how everything collapsed.The truth is, I had never expected Bryson to launch a full blown attack on my pack. I never expected anyone else to do it as well. So when it happened, it was a shock, something I’d not prepared for. We had relaxed and had not thought of what we’d do in case of a battle.For a long time, I had been the one launching assaults on other packs. Since most of the packs around me were weak, I never actually thought they’d attack me. When I heard that Bryson had already taken over my pack house, I sat on the nearest seat, an abandoned metallic chair that belonged to the restaurant we had turned into our base.The attackers had retreated right before I was informed of the new development so there was no
“What are we going to do about her?” I asked Jackson thirty minutes after he kicked out Francesca. I shuddered when I remembered the madness in the woman’s eyes. It was clear that she would never accept that Jackson wasn’t hers. I used to think she was just obsessed but it turned out she was also delusional. Something wasn’t right in that crazy brain of hers. Jackson poured the water into the glass and gave it to me before putting the jug back in the fridge. We were standing by the kitchen counter.“I don’t know,” he said. “What I know is she’ll be leaving the pack house today. I’ve asked them to take her to a secure place as I plan on what to do. “I can’t have her here because she’s a danger to you. I’ve always known she didn’t like you but didn’t think she’d go to the extent of wanting to kill you. I cannot tolerate that.”I went and hugged him. “Thank you so much. Truthfully, I don’t think I can feel safe with her around.”“I know.”I heard those words in my mind. With narrowed ey
I smiled when I felt the hand move from my wrist to my waist. His other hand joined the first one. A wave of delicious heat travelled from my waist to my core, and I felt my nicker getting wet. I moaned as I looked up. Jackson angled his head to the side and kissed me on the lips.“Hey,” I said when his lips met mine. I looked around and saw that people had moved further from us. He was hugging me from behind and I just wanted to collapse in his arms. My heart was beaming with joy as my wolf danced around in my head.“Let’s get out of here,” he said.“Sure.”Jackson took my hand and we walked out of the yard, several eyes staring at us. We entered through one of the side doors and went straight to the elevator. He didn’t wait for the door to close. Jackson pushed me against the wall and kissed me. The kiss was rough and fast, a testament to our starvation. As he kissed me, one of his hands went down and pulled my dress up as he touched my core, rubbing in rough circles. By the time we
I spent the next two weeks avoiding Jackson. I had returned to my room in the servant’s quarters and asked Francesca to give me roles that didn’t involve serving the alpha directly and she obliged which made it easier to avoid running into Jackson. Jackson did not also bother to look for me so the distance between us grew each day. Thankfully, I never felt any mating related pain which made me happy. At least he was not sleeping with Mia or any other woman.Kat left the day after the celebration. I’d never seen her so happy. She promised to help me repair the relationship with my parents and she fulfilled it. Two weeks after Kat had left, my mother arrived at Midnight Pack and asked for me. We hugged for what seemed like hours by the swimming pool, crying and talking about how we missed each other. “I’ve tried to talk to your father,” she said. “He’s coming around but you’ll have to give him some time. Losing Edmund took a toll on him. Edmund had been prepared to be the heir. He may
The warriors surrounded Vlad while others went to lift their alpha and quickly carried him away. Vlad turned his attention to the guard holding the torch and made him fall to the ground. Suddenly, he was invisible which made it easy for him to escape the guards. He returned to where we were and told us to hold his hands. We did and started running towards the outer boundary. We hit it and stumbled back.“Shit!” Vlad said. “This seems to have been reinforced since Bryson took over. That bastard.”“They’re going to try to escape but won’t be getting anywhere. Michael, run to the pack house and get more torches. Suddenly, we heard two distinct howls and the guards all went down on one knee, their faces adopting sombre looks. My eyes widened.“Bryson is dead!”Vlad smiled. “Yes. I knew he would die. I added black magic to that silver bullet. It had to take him down.”Forgetting about us, the guards started running back towards the pack house.“We need to get Jackson!” Vlad said and let g
“Let’s go into the woods,” Maran suggested, running from the yard towards the back yard.“Okay,” I said, following him at a high speed.“Get AJ right now!” Bryson yelled and guards started running around in different directions. Running while holding another person’s hand made things complicated but we managed to reach the wooded area quickly.We did not stop until we were over five hundred metres away from the pack house and deep in the woods.“I think we’ll find Vlad in the caves,” I told Maran. “Let’s go there.”Suddenly, a portal appeared in front of us and Vlad stepped out of it. “It’s really you!” Maran exclaimed. “I’ve read a lot about you. I couldn’t believe it when I heard you had come back to life.”“You’ll have enough time to worship me later,” Vlad was still as cocky as ever. “Do you know how to reverse the Xiang Xiang spell?”“Anna Jiang taught me,” Maran said. “But I’ve never done it practically. All I know is the theoretical part.”“That’ll have to do,” Vlad said. “Now
I let Bryson do whatever he wanted with me for two days. I stayed silent and pretended to be unmoved while planning my next move. Quietly, I studied Bryson and the new staff in the pack house. I had no idea where Francesca and Kat were but was glad I didn’t have to run into them. By the third day, I was ready to set Maran free. I chose to do it on that day because Bryson was around which meant that his guards wouldn’t be watching me like hawks.I failed to get my hands on a good weapon so I settled for the small dagger I found under Bryson’s bed. The only decent thing Bryson had done was not sleeping in Jackson’s bed. Of course he didn’t do it out of respect but because he found Jackson disgusting. As if! While Bryson dined and wined with his loud mouthed friends in the living room at 4pm, I snuck out of my room. The main hallway of the second floor was empty and so was that of the first floor. It was almost too easy. It made me wonder if I was being set up. What if Bryson had someho
The person’s scent was familiar but I couldn’t place it. All of a sudden, he let go of me. I thought I was about to come face to face with Bryson or one of his guards. To my relief, it was Vlad.“How did you find me?” I asked, trying to study him in the dark cave. My super eyesight was enabled me to identify him but I couldn’t see him very well.“I’m one of the most powerful witches in the world,” he said. “I tracked you.”“What do you want from me?”“I want you to surrender to Bryson Miller.”I gasped. “What? Do you want to get me killed?”He shook his head. “No. Bryson won’t kill you. If he wanted to kill you, he’d have done it already. He wants to use you to make Jackson jealous and made. That’s all. “That man raped me,” I said. “I can’t go near him again.”“I’m sorry that happened to you, but do you have an idea how many women he’s raping now? The man even undergoes for minors. Do you understand now how important it is for him to be stopped?”“Yes, I do and I wish to stop him but
Thankfully, the information had not yet reached the motel. Betsy the girl who ran it was shocked when I decided to check out at night. I refused to reply her questions and told her to keep the money I had already paid for that night. I didn’t find a taxi so I ran to the high way and began walking along it. About ten minutes later, a truck appeared. It was going the opposite direction so I crossed the road and stopped it. “Hey, where are you going?” a man looked out of the window.“Midnight Pack,” I said.It was the safest place for me at that time. I didn’t intend to give myself up for Bryson but to hide in the one place he wouldn’t think of looking. Bryson knew that I had run away. He also knew that the people of Midnight Pack would surrender me if they found me. Therefore he wouldn’t think I’d do to hide there. Running to other packs was more dangerous for me. When I arrived at my pack, I paid the kind truck driver and alighted near the forest. Stepping into it, I ran as fast as I
For the first time in my life, I was truly alone. The whole world had turned against me and I couldn’t think of anyone who loved or wanted to be with me. My family and pack mates had watched in silence as I was banished from home once again. The first time I left, I had a plan but this time there was nothing in mind. I had no idea where to go. I walked towards our small town. I was about to reach when I met my cousins Hans and Jerry.“Look who we have here,” jerry sneered, standing in my way. I was in no mood to talk so I tried to move out of the way but he grabbed my wrist. “What are you doing here, you killer?”“I’m not a killer,” I defended myself.“You probably killed Edmund and lied about it,” Hans said.Hans and Edmund were 17 and 18 respectively. I wasn’t about to let them disrespect me. “Could you please leave me alone? I’ve been banished from the pack and vie got to get out of here.”“What do you have here?” Hans asked, ripping my bag from my hands.“Hey, give it back!”He ra