AURORA
He looked at me with mixed expressions and I found it hard to focus my eyes on him even though I was staring right at him. His orange eyes were as tiger-ish as ever and his midnight black hair was looking a bit pale.I was fast enough to put his diary/journal back in the drawer and close it, but not fast enough to get off his seat. If he caught me when I was jumping off it, it would be too suspicious.Adrian stayed at the door for a second more and walked towards me with a tiger’s grace. I took that motion as a cue for me to get off his seat and walk away. He took his seat back and I was on the other side of the desk, watching him.I don’t know why I asked but the things I read made me feel… different about him. “Are you alright?”He looked up at me and furrowed his brows, darkening his eyes. “Get out.”My eyes widened in surprise because that wasn’t the reply I was expecting. “Excuse me?”“The door’s that way,”AURORA “Who was the Luna that sacrificed her life for her Alpha so her pack wouldn’t fall and what were her last words?”I only caught a few of her words and pieced them together. “Er… wasn’t it, Malinda Ink?”She closed the book in frustration with a loud thud. “No, Aurora. It was Heather Brown and her last words were ‘May the goddess spare us all’!” She had refused to call me Arie but at least, Aurora was better than miss. I shrugged, slurping in more spaghetti. “You haven’t answered a single question right!”I rolled my eyes. “You woke me directly from sleep, pushed some spaghetti towards me, and expected me to answer all your fucking questions right! I’m not a fucking morning person, Lizra!”She sighed, wanting to say something but the door swung open and Lizra was almost frightened out of her seat. A Sigma walked in with the same uniform as the others.“Do you have some beef with the door?” I growled at him and didn’t bother reading the emotion on his face if he had any.“The Al
ADRIANAurora. Aurora. Aurora.It was the only fucking thing in my fucking mind. I was so tempted to pin her down and fuck her on the table, or on the grass, or against the wall. It’s been more than a week she’s been here and I’m surprised I’ve only gotten on her twice with how crazy my masculine senses have been setting off.She hadn’t sprayed wolfguise today. Her coconut scent was the fastest thing that could make my dick hard. Sometimes, I hated how she made me feel. Most times… I enjoy it.The meeting with the council had drained every concern to be worried about and I couldn’t take my mind off their threats. I kept convincing myself that they were empty threats. Anyone who wanted to threaten the Alpha of Silverclaw pack had to be fucking ready for it.Yet, she did so bravely, and that demon stench… that air, that tone… It wasn’t something I could have mistaken. I hadn’t met another demon in years but this one… I didn’t want to think
AURORAFor a discussion like this, I would have grabbed some popcorn and snacks or brought out a jotter so I wouldn’t miss anything but it’d be wiser not to provoke Lizra’s anger so she wouldn’t change her mind.She was somehow making coffee for us and though I was anxious, I said nothing and let her take her time. After a minute and a half, she turned back to us and handed me an espresso to me while she sat down with hers.I didn’t realize how much I needed it before I took a sip and she took one herself, dropping it and giving a deep breath before starting what I had been waiting for.“The Alpha, Adrian Frederic Storm…”I almost spat out my coffee… almost sprayed it on her. “Frederic?”She gave me a warning look and I fell back on my seat, keeping quiet. “You must not mention what I tell you today to anyone else or the next time you see my head, it’ll be on a spike.”My smile fell. “You can’t be serious.”She
KATRINA‘You better drop that beer, Kat. It’s the fourth one now.’Hilda was in school. Dash was at the company. Kane was finalizing the border’s security so maybe the rogue attacks would lessen and it would only be a matter of time before I got called out of this chair to handle my Luna duties.But it’d take anyone a while before they found me. The beer didn’t have much effect at the time so I was desperate to take in more and forget my sorrows. It was hard to remind myself that Elder Sesan was dead, and it was even harder to accept that someone killed him.How I wished the caller could speak clearly. I wished Elder Sesan could tell me directly what was happening. I knew something was wrong with him but I never thought it’d be serious enough to cause death.“Someone killed him… who could have killed him…”I haven’t said a word about this to Kane. There was already too much weight on his shoulders and I didn’t want to be the bearer of
AURORAI knocked on the great iron doors and knew that it was as dangerous as pouring fresh blood in shark-infested waters and plunging into it myself or running into a lion’s den and screaming at the top of my lungs.In this case, those two were better options but I wanted to know… after everything Lizra had told me… if there was a shroud of humanity left in Adrian. Adrian was a monster, an egocentric, infuriating, imprudent, wicked, vile…‘If you’re not still listing, remember we’re at the Alpha’s door.’I eyed it maliciously, wondering if he had perceived my scent already since I purposely didn’t spray that wolfguise on me. I took a last look at my white crop top and light short shorts that looked like they would flesh off if you pulled on the right thread and stretched it out.I let my curls fall half-down, half made into a side bun, and kept everything else natural. There were no shoes on my glad feet because I didn’t want to steal t
AURORA “You still do not understand him,” Lizra said, pulling her yellow knitting pins to each other as she knitted away, seeming to receive too much pleasure from just twisting yarns together and making what wasn’t needed.But who was I to judge if she was enjoying it? “When did our lesson become a class on understanding your beloved Alpha?”She shot me a look and returned her focus to her knitting, creating something I hadn’t got the shape out of yet. “You were the one who came to me.”“I had no one else to come to,” I blurted out, getting on my feet and falling into my bed. When I closed my eyes, I could still see his hungry, yearning, mouth feasting on my breasts. His tongue teasing my nipples and his finger… Even though his scent was far away from here, I would do almost anything to have him on this bed with me.But I’ve been getting too desperate and thanks to my stupidity, he realizes that I’m not the only one who feels sexual tension around him. I was all over him. I felt like
AURORAI was fast enough to look away and pulled my hoodie down as I walked toward him. He couldn’t depict the reason for my sudden change in directions but I zipped my hoodie away and he raised a brow of approval, that sex-wanting glint sparkling in his eyes.It didn’t take him long enough for him to find out my motives when I let the hoodie drop from my back.“Nice try… I’m not a Zeta but it’s obvious you want to brew trouble with the Alpha and me.”I grinned. “I like trouble.”I was close enough to place my hand on his chest and could hear his heart pounding… pounding fast. Perfect. Slowly, without him realizing it, he was moving back but he cleared his throat deeply when his back hit the wall and I gave him a deeper smile.“Step… back…”“You said it yourself…” I picked up his hard but delicate hands, gently rubbing it with my fingers. “…the reason you haven’t touched me is because of the Alpha…” I placed his hand on my left breast and that glint sparkled brighter. “…I don’t see him
AURORA“Drink.” A single word but yet, a powerful command. I looked at the glass of water-like liquid in my front and swallowed hard. I was seated in front of a dressing mirror that wasn’t mine, it was his. There wasn’t a fingerprint or a speck of dust on it and I wondered if he ever even used it.I would be surprised if he wasn’t because if I were Adrian Storm, I wouldn’t be able to look away from a mirror. The glass was so clean and the frame was so wolf-representatively beautiful in its clashing colors of orange and black. On his high dressing table, a bit too high for me, was a brush with some strands of his hair in it, another small hand mirror with a similar style, a box of unused cigarettes, and a bottle of tequila at the far side. I was afraid it’d fall if I shook the table even a little bit.But the most intimidating of everything present… was him, he was just behind me, grabbing the ears of his chair, almost pressing his body close to mine and I
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