The next day, we went to see the house. It was a huge house just as I had imagined. It was everything I pictured and ten times better; a beautiful and large house that I could already imagine my life in. I could tell a lot of beautiful memories would be made in this house and I was looking forward to it already. Holding hands, my mate and I walked to the porch. He put the key in the lock and it turned smoothly. The door opened and we stepped through the threshold and into the house – our future home.“You’re excited,” he said with a slight chuckle but he held my hand tighter. His voice echoed in the living room and my heart burst with anticipation to fill up this house and make it a home for the two of us and our kids.“It’s like – like,” I could not explain the many emotions bursting in my heart. A few hours ago, I wasn’t even thinking of a house but now, it felt like I’d been waiting for this moment my whole life.My relationship with Valens started unconventionally. There had been
It was the last day I had to spend with the Lunas from the packs under Valens and I had confirmed that these women were indeed wonderful people. All but one of them was older than me and I loved how they took me in. Although they still tried from time to time to create a distinction between us based on status, I much preferred being their friend than being treated like a boss of sorts. In the days since they came here, I managed to get solid insight into the other packs under my mate and I made friends with three of the women. Anna, who was old enough to be my mother, Beth who was only five years older than me and Kayla who was a year younger. All these women were wonderful in various ways.They suggested a shopping outing for myself and my baby and I was all too willing to oblige. Work piled up on my desk but missing them already, I was willing to drop everything to spend even a few hours with them.“Since we don’t know the baby’s gender, we should buy both male and female sets,” An
*JACKSON*Sitting in the middle of the bed that I once shared with my mate, the weight of solitude pressed down on me. The air around me hung heavy and the memories replaying in my head of all the happy memories I had with Chantelle in this room deepened my regret and sadness. I laid back in bed with a heavy sigh, scrubbing my palms down my face as if it could assuage the heaviness I felt in my soul.The room felt emptier today of all days, my life felt emptier. Chantelle’s presence which I had taken for granted now haunted me. Her laughter seemed to resound from the walls of this very room. Her scent pervaded my nostrils and I felt that if I blinked hard enough, I would see her, sitting at the vanity, doing her hair and asking me what I thought of the style. I closed my eyes but opened them quickly as the ache in my heart became more pronounced.It was as if I was torturing myself these days. Rather than trying to forget her, I found myself forcing myself to remember her, her smile,
My hands were shaking as I held the torn pictures when I heard the door unlock. My heart almost flew out of my chest and I moved as fast as I could to stand. Thinking of the worst-case scenario, I braced myself but then I perceived my mate’s scent and my shoulders relaxed. With the tension leaving my body, I felt like I could faint from the relief.“What’s the matter?” Valens was alarmed when he walked into the room to see me. I hadn’t known I was crying until he pulled out a handkerchief to wipe my face. “How did this happen?” He asked when he saw the ripped picture in my hands.“I don’t know,” I choked out. “Someone - there’s been a break-in and – and –“ I choked on my sob and buried my face in his chest.My heart was racing and my mouth tasted like ashes. Who would do this and why? It was a threat but why would anyone target my pups? Redville didn’t want me but I had never even done anything to them so why? Why this? Why would someone do this?It was just days ago I was having a ni
I woke up the next morning with a weird feeling. It felt like I’d forgotten something important, like a life-changing dream, but no matter how much I wracked my brain, I couldn’t remember a single dream I’d had the previous night so I chalked it off as one of those Déjà vu moments.My schedule for the day was packed and upon getting to my office, I met Daniel. He was the same glaring teen as usual. As much as Daniel hated me, he never shirked his duties. His family had been in charge of the pack during Valens’ absence so he had a lot of information on the workings of the pack, even more than Dahlia who’d been here for five years now.“Good morning to you too,” I said when he refused to utter a word as I entered the office. Even then, he refused to take the initiative to greet me. He kept his lips tightly sealed and handed me a stack of paper.It was a questionnaire he’d gotten the pack members to fill out about the state of the pack house. We’d made an online questionnaire but only a
*VALENS*There was a knock on my door and Lucian came in.“What are you doing here?” I’d taken on some of his work to make sure he spent more time guarding my mate. Although I’d assigned her warriors, none of them were as competent as Lucian or even as trustworthy.“I got some disturbing news just now,” he said. “It seems like Blood Moon is preparing for war.”“War?” I found myself sneering at the mention of Blood Moon. “They are gearing up for war with whom?” I asked and my Beta gave me a pointed look. “I see.” I laughed out loud.What the hell was Blood Moon and how did they think they could come at me? That bastard must still think my pups were his. Just thinking about him thinking of my mate made me want to bash his head in. Who the fuck was he to think he could have ever planted his seed in my woman? He was nothing but an impotent prick with sky-high delusion.“There’s a report of him meeting Alphas who you’ve fallen out with. In the past week, he has met about five of them so I’
*JACKSON*I’d become a stranger in my life. Things were happening but I could not keep track of any of them. Out of nowhere, Alphas started to present deals to me but not ones that helped my pack. They were all talking about bringing down the Cursed Alpha. I remembered the cryptic message I got days ago and it made me shudder. I’d thought it was a text from Chantelle but with the way things were going, I realised Chantelle had nothing to do with this.“As I’ve said, I can provide you with a hundred skilled warrior wolves. I won’t rest until I see that bastard buried six feet under and since his curse is broken, it should be easy.”I was nodding along to what he was saying but I couldn’t even remember his name. All that he’d said was that he’d help me since he’d heard I was going after the Cursed Alpha but I didn’t know how he got this information. I could only assume the person who sent me that cryptic message was working behind the scenes.Although grateful for them, I was still scep
*VALENS*I’d never met an opponent I could not take down. Some of them took more time than others but what mattered was that ultimately, I always won. There was a reason I was called a conqueror. Yet, for the first time, I met a man who was always one step ahead of me. It made me want to hit something, snap a neck. It was like an annoyingly incessant itch, no matter how much I itched, it never went away. I never thought that opponent would be someone as spineless as Jackson.This bastard once told me he’d not let me go for hurting the whore he called his mate and I’d laughed in his face because I’d evaluated him and he’d been nothing more than the many Alphas that thought they could scare me with empty words. He was not worth his salt and could not, on any given day, face off against me. Yet he was doing just that.I could not shake off the feeling that something was wrong but I could not determine what. It would be easy to say there was someone around me who was leaking my plans to h