KATRINA
It took some minutes to get Kane to sit with the rest of us and we had to place him at the farthest seat from Alpha Adrian—us actually. Alpha Hades threw glances from his side to ours and I suddenly understood how he helped us with information about Lilith.It still didn’t explain how the Alpha of Silverclaw knew. I wanted nothing more than for my daughter to be here, safe…‘Who says she isn’t safe with Adrian? If you ask me, I think she’s better off with him.’‘Take that back, Mel!’‘What? I’m saying the truth, Dash was kidnapped in this very packhouse. Do you think…’“I have a theory and recently just discussed it with my fellow Zeta here in your presence, before our hosts arrived,” the Zeta of Silverclaw said as Charlie joined him on his feet.Kane scoffed at the word ‘hosts’ and I side-eyed him to behave himself.Alpha Adrian had gotten his sunglasses on and it was even more disturbing to not know whAURORAI wonder where Adrian hid them. Once I was able to slither away from Lizra—thanks to a wolfsbang situation that happened in the kitchen, which I am in no way involved with…‘So it’s also a coincidence that the main bathrooms exploded today?’ Evolet muttered as I rolled my eyes at her.‘It’s crazy that you think it’s me. You’re meant to know if I really did it since you are literally everywhere with me. I wonder what you do all day if you don’t pay attention to me.’ ‘I do when it’s important and correction, I have no choice but to be everywhere with you. It’s torture…’‘And it’s too early for this.’She groaned. ‘This is why you need a watch. It’s one pm!’ she added, trying to raise her voice but it was only a subtle attempt.‘I don’t need a watch if you’re here.’I spent most of yesterday, after the bathroom scenario, with Lizra and even told her all that happened because she said my temper had reduced, the Alpha’s mood had improved—I don’t know how she knows all these—and tra
AURORAA muscular hand held me down and the other pulled what was still in my hand away. The air in my lungs emptied when he growled and the anger in his aura enclosed me in fear. It wasn’t only in his raging aura that I detected arousal, I felt it behind me too.“Adrian…”His growl got louder and it had the opposite effect of terror on me. “Did. You. Read. It?”Adrian’s hard, livid, but steady voice made me realize I had crossed the line.‘You didn’t realize that before?!’“I…”“DID YOU READ IT?!”I gasped when his hold on my waist got so tight that I could feel his dangerous fingers through my flesh. I could sense them directly on my bones. “Yes but…”“How. Many. Did. You. Read?”My chest tightened. “Just one or two but…”“LIAR!”“I read a lot, okay! You’re hurting me!”Snarling, he freed his hold on my waist and threw the diary away, turning me to him. My knees grew wea
AURORA“Can’t you just go away, Lizra?”I groaned when she came closer instead, and decided to fling the rest of the sheets over my still-exposed body, letting only my head pop out. I couldn’t sleep on my back because my ass hurt, couldn’t sleep on my chest since my breasts hurt just as much. And it wasn’t like my sides didn’t sting, it was just more… endurable. I was in a skimpy purple satin nightdress that Adrian must have changed me into because I remembered him ripping the clothes I wore to his room into silvers. My memories of yesterday were fuzzy but I had a fuzzier feeling in my belly when I recalled the things I could still grab from the… interaction…‘I think destruction fits better.’‘Don’t say that, sheesh.’My throat was hoarse and even after a decent amount of coffee…‘You drank two batches for goddess’s sake!’…I was still so drained, hurting everywhere, and the last fucking thing my mental health
KATRINAHilda stayed quiet after I had updated her on everything we knew about this demon. It was just right I told her, at least it’d take her mind off constantly worrying about her brother. I knew how she felt, I knew how Kane felt, and I knew how everyone felt because the packhouse was impacted by all our shared feelings.The brightness was gone, even when eye-blinding light was lit everywhere. There were no more gossiping and excited chirps from the maids. No one had been able to keep a smile on for too long and Kane was avoiding the packhouse as much as he could.Everyone was trying to deal with my son’s disappearance and it took me the whole of yesterday night to eventually put myself together, piece by piece. It hurt more because his memories were still fresh in my head and sometimes, when my mind had wandered so far away that I didn’t even know where I was, I would have forgotten he wasn’t here. I would’ve even asked for him, traumatizing everyone all over again, but sulking w
AURORAThere was no way I was getting up from this bed if it meant I could miss another lesson from Lizra. She didn’t know that I was better and it was BETTER it remained that way. I wouldn’t be able to stand her lectures… just not today.She opened the curtains and I growled at her when the sun rays hit my face. “Rise and shine, Aurora.”“That’s so cliché,” I told her as she chuckled softly.“We have much to catch up on today and we’ll be talking about a very interesting topic that interests me. If you do well on this one, we’ll proceed to practice and if not, we’ll go on some more drilling till you get it right. Now I…”If only I was listening.I coughed as loud and sickly as I could but she didn’t hear because she kept on bickering about how this was her favorite and how much I would ‘enjoy’ it. I coughed again, so hard this time that my chest felt like claws had scraped it.Then she turned to me, her eyes widened as she walked over. “That doesn’t sound right. Are you fine, Aurora?
KATRINAMy 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 becau
AURORAIt’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