The cottage was in the middle of the woods. Walking out of it, we saw a few pack guards playing cards under a small tree in the compound. They didn’t say anything as we walked into the woods. I was about to ask when, as if reading my mind, Kat told me that one of them was her boyfriend. Kat told me more about the pack as she led me deeper into the woods. A part of me wondered whether it was a good idea to trust her, but I decided to ignore that. Kat was the only connection I had to my past and it would do us good if we stuck together.“The inner border is here,” Kat said. If you didn’t believe in the supernatural, you’d think there was nothing special about the boundary. It looked just like the other parts of the forest except I could feel strong energy there. “Come on.”I followed Kat to the side with thick shrubs and some elm trees. “These are herbs,” she pointed to a certain plant. “We’ll pick them so if someone finds us here and asks what we were doing, we’ll say we came for the
“Come with me,” he said.“Are you sure about this?” Kat asked. “These men can be cruel.”I smiled. “Trust me, I know what I’m doing. This man is going to regret whatever he plans to do.”“Stop gossiping,” the man yelled.Kat was still giving me a worried look when I turned to follow the man called Commander Augustine. The forest was quiet and still, the evening breeze blowing fresh air over my face as I trudged on behind the big man. As we got to a thicker section, my heart began to beat faster. The man was extremely huge compared to me. He could flip me over like a pancake with only one hand. As we went deeper, I began to think I had made a very bad decision. I was relying on the mate bond between Alpha Jackson and I to save me. The problem was, would he feel saving me was worth it? Would he even get the signal? First of all, we had not yet mated. To make matters worse, I had rejected him and had lost a small connection to him but not all since he had not yet accepted that rejection
Some time as he carried me, I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I found myself in an unfamiliar room. All it had was a bed and table. The beddings were very clean, soft and smelled nice. I remembered the pill and realised I was feeling better, like my normal self. Even though the curtains were down, I could tell it was morning due to the kind of light coming through. Sitting up, I stretched hard. I spotted a folded piece of paper on the table and leapt out of bed to get it. It was a note that said, “Good morning. The dress is for you. You can take a shower in the bathroom, everything you might need is in there. J.”I rolled my eyes, then glanced at the folded flowered dress on the table. “Really?” I said, shaking my head, a smile etched on my face. Did he really think I was the type of girl who wore white dresses with big bright pink flowers on them? I held the cloth up and chuckled, imagining myself in it. It looked so weird, with colours I’d never be caught wearing. There was ev
Jackson.Red Moon pack had the best grazing grounds in the region. The grounds were close to a lake and that made them ideal for rearing animals. Having it would also make it easier for us to catch the big forest animals that were lured by the water. I had been wanting to have those grounds for a very long time. That was the reason I got extremely angry when I was informed that the men I had sent to captured it failed.“How did this happen?” I yelled at the commanders of the operation. My beta Alexander had led the operation alongside Commander Andres. “We have captured so many places in the same fashion. Red moon pack is very small and does not have the capacity to resist even a quarter of my men. What really happened?”Secret operations had always been the most effective for me. Most of the packs did not have a lot of security forces. Even when they had, they were not always keeping watch which made it easy for us to ambush them. I could not believe the incompetence this time.Midni
Jackson.Unfortunately for Francesca, I was not able to rise again. I could not give her what she wanted so she had to leave. As she walked out, I wondered if she ever felt any shame. Well, that was her problem. I never forced her to do anything. She came to service me willingly, and could stop at any time. Standing up, I zipped up and left the office to go take a shower in my room.Andres and alexander had organised a security meeting that included not only the guards but also a few men and women to represent other members of the pack. Since I had nothing better to do, I decided to go check on them to see if any progress had been made. The meeting was drawing to an end when I got to the conference room. Everybody stood up and bowed as I made my way to the front and sat next to alexander. A young woman was speaking at the time.“Do you want to speak?” Alexander asked me.I shook my head. “No, I just want to know what’s going on.”A number of people spoke after but there was no serious
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
“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