However much I tried, I couldn’t forget about the kiss with Jackson. It was on my mind all the time. I thought about him when I woke up, and when I was about to sleep and the time in between. It reached a point I wished he could just accept my rejection so we could move on with our lives. Sometimes, I wanted to withdraw my rejection. During those times, I was blind to everything except the things he had made me feel. When I remembered my brother, I felt like grabbing a knife and stabbing Jackson right in the heart. Kat and my new friend Keith were doing a good job at making my life at Midnight Pack bearable. Keith was a slave who had been there for three years. He preferred being a slave at Midnight Pack instead of being free in his own because his pack was one of the poorest in the region. Life was so terrible that being a slave at another pack was welcome. Keith and I had finished out work for the day and were seated on some logs in the backyard chatting about our lives. I had not
Jackson did not say anything to me as he took me to the slave residence. He forced me into a car and drove off to the pack house where I was taken back to the dungeon. That man had tricked me into confessing. I was still going over the conversation, trying to think of a way I could have prevented this from happening. My heart was heavy I wanted to cry but there were no tears. My eyes were dry. I realised I was scared of how Kat would react. She was going to think I had betrayed her.About thirty minutes later, my worst fears came true. Kat Stevenson was led into the dungeon by two guards. Her hair was dishevelled and her clothes were torn in certain places. There was some blood on them as well. The men pushed her into the dungeon and locked the door. “I’m so sorry this happened,” I said, standing up.Kat was glaring at me. She didn’t say anything, but just kept moving towards me like a zombie.“Looks like something interesting is about to happen,” one of the guards said. He grabbed t
“What do you want in return?” I asked.“Nothing,” he said. He leaned against the window sill, placing his muscled arms on the sides. I stared at his perfect body and wondered why he had to be so evil. Had he been a normal nice guy, I would have accepted the mate bond without thinking twice.“Are you serious right now?” I asked.There was a knock on the door. Both of us glanced at it at the same time.“Come in, Angie.” Jackson said. The door opened and a young woman of my age entered the room. She was wearing a dark blue maid’s uniform that ended right above her knees. She was petite and had a friendly face. Her name suited her. “Angie, please take Miss Arlington to her room.”I frowned and turned to ask Jackson what was going on but he was already gone.“What?”“Hi Kelsey. I’m Angie and I’ll be your personal maid from now onwards.”“Personal maid? What the hell is going on?”Angie smiled widely. “Aren’t you happy? You’re no longer going to live like a slave.”I sighed. “I don’t under
I turned to look back and saw something disappearing into the ceiling. I had not realised the place had traps. The door to the stairs opened and I saw Angie standing there. i was not surprised at all. Standing up, I started walking towards her. “Do you know why Alpha Jackson put me in charge of you?” she asked. “It’s because I’m the best at what I do. Stop trying because you won’t succeed in anything without my permission.”“Let me guess, my room has cameras too? I should have known this was too good to be true. That pervert probably wanted to catch me naked, but guess what, it won’t happen.”“Don’t be dramatic. Your room does not have surveillance cameras. There are cameras in the hallway, though. You can’t leave the room without me knowing.”“So basically it’s just an improved prison?” I said, stepping out by the door she was holding. She followed me out and closed it.“No, you can go to other places, like the backyard, the pool etc. I won’t come looking for you if you go to those
Jackson. I had never wanted to be so close to a woman before. Even though Kelsey Arlington had betrayed me in the worst possible way, I still wanted her. As soon as Angie brought her to my suite, her scent wafted into my nostrils, making me euphoric as I tried to sniff as much as possible. I wanted to bury face in her hair, take in all of it. I wanted to have her lying on my bed. Thinking about that made me horny as hell so I stood up and went to straighten my suit. I had dressed up just for her. I impatiently waited for Angie to get out before taking a deep breath and walking out. No woman had ever made me feel nervous before, and that was one more reason for me not to let go of Kelsey. She was playing with a lock of her hair when I entered the dining room. “Good afternoon, Kelsey.” “Good afternoon, Jackson.” A jolt of energy swept through me. I liked how my name rolled off her tongue. It sounded so good, so refined. I went and took a seat opposite hers. Her eyes narrowed. “Wh
For the next two days, I was able to avoid Jackson by staying indoors most of the time. I also tracked his scent, and made sure not to get out of my room when I could sense it around. I had picked up a number of books from the library and spent most of my time binge reading them. In my pack, we barely had any books, and I’d read most of the few we had in our old and dusty library. Sometimes when I looked out of the window, I could see Jackson. Every part of my body would ache to go down there and be with him but my brain would say no. Meanwhile, I was not making any progress in my revenge mission. I began to wonder if that was Jackson had brought me to the pack house. In the pack house, I could not interact with many people which limited my access to information.When I was not in my room, I was in the library searching for good books to read. I realised that staying in the pack house wasn’t such a bad thing after all. For the first time in my life I could relax, I didn’t have things
“What the hell!” I yelled at her as I moved towards the side of the pool. “Delete that right now.”“Make me,” Angie said, laughing out loud. Jackson’s brother moved towards me and hugged me from behind. “Get away from me you freak,” I yelled and tried to turn so I could push him away. He placed his hands on the wall of the pool, cornering me from both sides. Angie was laughing loudly as she recorded, as if that was the funniest thing ever. “Stop it!” I continued to try to get away in vain.“Say please,” the man said, breathing down my neck.“Please let me go, I beg you.” Thankfully, he let go and I swarm out of there as fast as I could, before climbing out of the pool. By the time I got out, Angie had disappeared. I grabbed my towel and tied it around my waist, then headed to the building to find her.“Angie,” I yelled as I rushed to the building. I searched through all the floors and wings except the alpha’s but Angie was nowhere to be seen. I was pretty sure she was behind one of
Still in Jackson’s arms, I smiled at Francesca. She turned and stormed into the house. Immediately, I tried to untangle myself from Jackson. Although it felt good, the show was over. He let me go and smiled. “Thank you so much. I really needed that. Had a rough day. How was yours?”I thought of my day, unsure whether to tell him about the possible plot against him. After some thinking, I decided it was best to leave it for another day. “It was fair,” I said. “I have to go now.”“Where are you going?”“I need to take a walk,” I informed him. “I have some things I need to think through.”I knew Angie and Ken were very smart. If I spilled their secrets, they’d probably have a way of excusing themselves to Jackson’s satisfaction. I was sure Angie thought through everything she did. Ken seemed careless. If Angie got discovered, I knew it would be because of Ken. If I revealed their secrets now, Angie would find a way to make me look like the villain. It was probably one of the reasons she
“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