KATRINA
My palm rubbed her head smoothly as I watched her sleep on the couch. She was unhappy that she wouldn’t be able to go to school until this matter settled but I cheered her up a bit and got her a private lesson teacher… for now. She had mixed feelings about it but thanked me anyway.It was only a few hours since the teacher left that Hilda slept while doing homework assigned to her, and it’s been a pretty stressful day for everyone. Protective and preventive forces, stronger and better—well, according to Charles anyway—were set up and letters were sent to Alpha Hades and Alpha Adrian. They needed to know. Adrian sent a return letter with more information on the Rhokuins but it really wasn’t an addition to what we already knew about.He gave updates about Aurora and said she was fine but Kane took the letter from me and saw that on the last line, Adrian wrote he fucked Aurora ‘til she fell sick. Literally. The thought of that punched my stomach becauAURORAIt’s been hours but anytime my mind wanders to it, I just mouth ‘wow’ and shake my head. I should be ashamed for forgetting that there were more than just three elements. How could I forget about earth? The very fucking thing I stand on. Why didn’t we ever bother to search for the wolf with the elemental power of earth?The answer was quite simple, really. It had been centuries before elemental gifts returned to the territories, finding three was so huge that they forgot everything else and straight up began calling us The Chosen Three…‘I still think they could’ve thought of a better name.’…when we should’ve been The Chosen Four all along.It felt guiltily good knowing that Lizra had trusted me well enough to tell me this and for the first time in a long time, I felt… wanted. It was a lot to take in, no lie, but I was certain it was even much more for her to have born all this time.She said that because rogues took her wolf away from her, her powers were dormant and weak. Tha
AURORA“It’s very petty of you to be harassing our poor old Zeta,” Dylan’s voice reverberated in the room, his traveling finger almost reaching the top of my shoulder.My eyes darted to those russet eyes and I sent him a kick in the shins, which he was quick to avoid. Too quick. There was only one person in the territories that could move that fast… and he was dead.“Says the Gamma who has his hands on our Luna.” I heard the Beta’s deep voice and when I turned to him, to see just how hard he had gripped me, there was no one there.No, I mean someone was holding me. I could feel it, sense it, scent it… but I couldn’t actually see Roger. “What the bloody hell?” I muttered under my breath as they both released me, walking over to the quietly staring Zeta.It was at this point that Roger suddenly appeared out of nowhere, like he had been there all along but we… invisible. It was either that or he teleported and the Gamma ran so fast around th
AURORAMy heart leaped and I was quick to hide the sketch under the jumper I recently removed, breathing fast as I turned to him. Goddess, I almost died back there.“There’s something called knocking!” I reminded him, getting off my chair and side-eyeing my sketchpad unnoticeably to see if it was properly hidden.Adrian.My attention heightened when I saw him wearing a red crimson top and shorts, something my dad would wear when playing golf with his fellow Alphas—which rarely happens. My room lights were at the brightest and even with my poor eyesight, I could see him so clearly now.His skin, even with his age and all he might’ve gone through in his rule, was like a baby’s own—if you overlook the mouth-watering tattoos and few scars—and so much of his leg muscles, along with his hand muscles, were exposed so don’t mind me if it takes a lot of time to… process it.His midnight black hair was so long now that it was bothering his face and I could tell it reached the back of his neck.
ADRIANTerrified was an understatement… I couldn’t explain the raging feelings blasting inside of me but I knew that something had definitely shifted in my body, and I was feeling a wave of emotions I hadn’t experienced in a long time. It was taking me longer than a normal person to adapt to them.In my twenty-four years as the Alpha of Silverclaw, I’ve never feared anything. Nothing. And that’s not my fucking ego speaking, everyone knows the Alpha of Silverclaw fears nothing and if I did it all, it would be the safety of my pack. Not this little pup that made me feel like ripping out my hair every time.The fear messed with my entire format and I had equally never been so confused. Her parents might’ve already explained what to do, and how to do it, but it only made me nervous because in real sense, their instructions were to do nothing and listen. Do nothing!How the fuck could I just sit down and watch her like this? It drove me insan
AURORAUnnoticed by everyone else, I was at the entrance of the packhouse, surveying the grounds from above the stairs but the Alpha has never been like ‘everyone else’ so it was no surprise when I discovered that his eyes were already on me—like he’d been waiting for me to walk out the door all this time. Smirking, his eyes unconsciously trailed my body, studying me as though it was the first time he was seeing me in Claw Leather. But when I think about it, he always looks at me like it’s his first time.Just to further delay my arrival here, I let the maids work their ‘delightful’ magic on my hair and despite it being nothing like what I had described—I asked for something to match my uniform—I couldn’t say it wasn’t beautiful.They made me look princess-y with a royal pin-up, my curls dangling from an exotic knot on my head like trinkets of a crown, and eye-matching gleaming sapphires which gave light to the darkness.I still looked b
HILDAI appreciate my parents for everything and I know everyone is doing all they can to find Dash but I can’t help feeling like they’re not trying hard enough. Sadly, I tend to think that way a lot lately.I couldn’t focus throughout class today and I’m not someone to usually mind-wander at lessons but when your dearest brother gets kidnapped by a demon who has a grudge against your family and your sister is in the hands of the most feared Alpha in the territories, anything’s possible. Oh, and I’m the next target so don’t expect me to be fine even when I look sane.The only thing good about the private lessons was the temporary freedom I had from that school and all the pain that came with it. I bit the thought off my mind and tapped into more important things like… opening the doors of the library.Anytime I visited here, I’d always find Charles in so it was a surprise when I walked in today and found it eerily… empty. Shrugging, I sl
AURORAIt’s been a few days since the training lessons and it amazed me how all the hours just passed by in a blur… I can’t account for how exactly I spent my days. It feels that way when Adrian and I haven’t talked in a while. Or seen each other for that matter.The coward’s been hiding ever since we sealed the deal to take me to the pack. I couldn’t let him change his mind after me, Lizra and his aides had celebrated it with another evening talk outside—including some good sketching, stories, and drinking.And also me secretly fantasizing about how Silverclaw must be at night. I’ve heard good things about it. Today was Saturday and the only thing that’s more fun than a Saturday night in a club is a Friday night.‘Do you think Adrian would ever let you in a club?’I rolled my eyes at Evolet’s pessimism again. ‘Dylan said…’‘What Dylan said doesn’t matter? Adrian’s the Alpha and your mate, he technically rules the pack.’
AURORAOne second I was in his arms, watching him rub my fluid all over his dick—that turned me on in unimaginable ways—and in another second I was tossed on one of the revolving leather chairs, the force making it spin gently, only giving me seconds to piece my senses together before Adrian stopped the spinning chair and turned me to him, never failing to make heat rise as his eyes suspended over my body.“Undress.”I sat up, my thighs intuitively clenching to each other, as I gazed at him thoughtfully. “What?”Purple leaked to my cheeks at the thought alone.The bar room of brown and purple had turned into a blur of colors because all my eyes could take shape of was Adrian, and that humongous thing in his hand. I can’t believe I’ve survived having that thing in me more than once, his reverse albert piercing glinting in the dim lighting.His cinnamon-ginger scent had stolen the show but with detectable traces of smoke, leather,
KATRINAI leaned on the door, checking my surroundings for anyone around because a Luna eavesdropping on her own Alpha was not the kind of news I wanted to be spreading in the packhouse for the jobless busybodies to be gossiping about.Checking to see if his door was unlocked, I opened it by a soundless crack and set my eyes on him, the most handsome man I’ve ever met, sitting with his back faced to me on a chair similar to one from his office, and a table laid in front of him like a gift from the gods. The reading room was not very different from his office, he didn’t have a lot of style—I could confirm that—but there were custom-made shelves of books stacked over each other in this god of a room. The Alpha uses every free time he gets to read, and the only thing that’s hotter than watching Kane reading was staring at him lovingly, when he was over me, with that dark, insane, animalistic look in his eyes as he was about to… When was the last time we even made love? The heartache of
AURORA“Mom went too hard on the code. She was meant to make it impossible for everyone but me! Dang it!”I admired the space we all dropped in when we first came down and thought it had to be the best part of the mansion because it looked like somewhere you would travel to in a good dream. It was a large roomy area that looked like an apartment, the lights were so bright that you would’ve had a problem differentiating day from night, and in this case, it was already pitch dark outside. The cream-tiled floor caught my eye first with interesting and innovative designs that made me think of walking on the ground and the large equally tiled walls of matching grace drive you to reminisce of the sun. If it was a bit cooler in here, I would rethink returning to the surface—it’s not like anything better is happening up there—but I still didn’t understand how this was a mansion. It’s just a… looks like I was wrong because the best and better parts were yet to come.There were MORE floors and
AURORAAdrian wouldn’t stop reading the letter. He’s been devouring it. I needed to know what was in it. I had to because, without me, we may have never even found the golden statue. We didn’t know where we would end up so letters were secured in the mouths of all the Silverclaw emergency mailboxes. They have that on every mountain both in and out of their territory, they are protected under The Dark Alpha's law. I thought it was a smart move, for unfortunate emergencies like this. I wished we were able to leave messages for them too, tell them we were safe but I think the empty mail post is enough proof of that. But making the eagle statues gold wasn't the smartest choice since it attracted the kind of people that they didn't want near it. Is he trying to show off?Adrian loses points for that. If it wasn't him who designed it then, I was sure it would be Dylan. That crook. Gosh, I can't believe I miss him. I missed all of them. I missed the packhouse too and I missed my motherly
ADRIANThose words echoed twice in my head before I mustered the strength needed to pull myself away from the enchantment Aurora’s lips had me in, a trap that I’d happily stepped into and didn’t regret because it had been so long since I had a taste of my mate’s addicting lips. She backed away from me as soon as I let her go, glaring like she’d kill me, before walking out of my sight and heading to whatever thing she’d seen that made her declare we weren’t alone.Those were dangerous words to say on this mountain and whatever she’d seen could not be good.‘She’s going too far away, boss.’Fucking Fox, at least he was saying something meaningful for once. “Aurora,” I warned, turning around to grab her by hand, glad that she had not gone too far away because I wanted her glued to me every second of the day, and held her still…. I couldn’t lose her again. I’ve already taken too many chances.“Let me go, Adrian.”This beautiful, sexy nightmare would be the end of me. “Don’t expect to sur
AURORASnow, snow, snow… in every freaking place. I was sick of it. Why couldn’t we have landed on the better side of the mountain? ‘And what makes you think this isn’t the better mountain?’ Goddess, not Evolet drilling me with questions now.‘Have you seen our luck, Ev? Have you seen how bad things are? I’m a hundred percent sure we’re in the worst place possible on this unbearable hump of snow.’We packed the tent as soon as the night died out and set off for the letter we were meant to find. I had wanted us to go as soon as he brought it up but he said I was tired and needed rest. Like he knew what I wanted! How many times do I have to remind him that he doesn’t own my body and can’t tell me what to do?‘Forever, because it doesn’t look like he’ll ever listen.’I hissed, clutching my frozen fingers. ‘Not another word from you, Ev.’ I couldn’t sound any angrier than that.He made sure I ate but didn’t bother eating himself—what a hypocrite—and when I told him to at least grab one o
So sorry guys for bailing on you. Delaying this for so long was NOT part of the plan and I really missed my way. ಥ_ಥ It will be unfair to keep you amazing people waiting another month so I can gladly say that the break is officially OVER and I'll start publishing chapters as soon as they are done, so be expecting them. We can finally continue Aurora and Adrian's story!Thank you to everyone who hasn't lost hope and is still with us on this journey. I've forgotten how much I've missed writing this book but I'm back ᕦ(ಠ_ಠ)ᕤ Hope we can get back on track! And I saw each of your comments, you guys have every right to be mad at me ⊙﹏⊙ I don't abandon books (that's not in my code) so let's finish what we started...
AURORAMy body and senses shut down as we prepared ourselves for what would be a devastating car crash. I promised myself that if I survived this, I was never entering a car again. The first time I was in one, we almost exploded along with it—you know how the story goes after—and the second time, well… we’re about to fucking crash!I covered my head with my arms and awaited the impact, a scream ready to be torn out of my throat, bones prepared to break, heads set to crack, metal waiting to dismantle, fire about to lit up…Just waiting for all that havoc to wreak on us but… the collision never came. My body jerked out of my nightmare as my eyes popped open, and my breathing escalated when I tried to look around me. There wasn’t much I could see except for the blinding blue sky so I tried to turn my neck but the pain made me feel like the nightmare wasn’t so bad after all.With difficulty, I pulled my heavy right hand up and trie
AURORAAdrian didn’t give two shits about the creature in front of us that was emitting nightmarish screeches because he only made the car move faster and drove us right into it. I screamed when it sent the thing over the car, its screech still scarily audible even with how swiftly we were moving.My body jerked back when Adrian pressed down the accelerator like our lives depended on it—our lives actually depend on it—sending us faster than we were anything should ever be able to move. It felt like my face was going to peel off and I was going to fly out but the seatbelt kept me in check, and Adrian continued rushing us down the dirt path with those... things... behind us.'Since there is a lot of fucking things I don't know, can you please start with... WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!'Seven more of those things were chasing us… and gaining speed. And I wasn't sure if I was hallucinating, but those things appeared organized... like they were p
KATRINA“Ice cream, calm down, you’re not making any sense.”'I can't say I don't agree.''Shut up, Mel.'I had called an impromptu meeting and gathered everyone that mattered here because it turns out that Hilda must have gotten her genius genes from me since I was able to unlock a discovery of my own.I’d spent nights trying to solve it, hoping to find the missing link—that Edward Ryerson couldn’t before he died—in his book, and if the man were alive now, I’d give him a gold medal because he’s given me the solution to everything and as much as it was holding me together, it was also tearing me apart.Everyone here was expecting me to start with the reveal of the blank page of the Book of the Undead—which was extraordinarily useful—but I had to chip this in first... and though I didn’t believe I was saying half of the things I was now, if it was going to help me find my kids, then fuck beliefs and fuck sanity.I growled at Kane and he raised a cautious brow. “Tell me to calm down agai