KATRINA
I hadn’t moved from this position since I had gotten back from the search mission. As much as I wanted to be out there, scaling through the forest, barking orders at Sigmas, and doing everything I could to find my daughter, the truth was… that I had already done that.All day. Me, Kane, the Beta, and the Gamma led search troops and we searched everywhere. I searched everywhere. Yet, we found nothing and I forced myself to return because it was getting dark and rogues would take the chance to attack us.We were lucky to not encounter some in broad daylight but everyone knows that rogues like it best when the moon is out.‘How long have I been sitting here, Mel?’She sighed heavily. ‘It’s one am in the morning, Kat. We need some sleep.’‘Sleep?! I don’t know if my daughter’s sleeping now. She may be shivering under a rock somewhere in the middle of a rainstorm. She might be stuck in a ditch, crying out for help and I wouldnKATRINAElder Sesan has been trying to wear ‘normal’ clothes for the past few years but he was never successful in pulling it off. His baggy trousers and long-sleeved brown shirt were just… a terrible combination. He had tied his beard and though he looked older, it was not as obvious as if you knew Penelope almost ten years ago.Penelope was a woman now. A full-grown woman. She had long wavy coal black hair and her extraordinary confidence had never wavered. From what I last remembered, she had a harder voice and always held her head upright.She wore a small black dress and tied a matching ribbon around her neck. They walked forward and Kane stood beside me, folding his hands and flexing those muscles.“I hope you’re the only ones here. You know I don’t approve of the others,” I said, expecting to see the rest jump out.Dan died a year ago, but Fraser and that prick, Madeline, were still alive—unfortunately. “Of cour
AURORALizra dropped a humongous thing on my lap.“This is a history book with detailed explanations of the most famous and high-ranked Lunas that the territories have ever had. I made some small notes in most chapters and I’m sure you’ll find it useful.”Wait… it’s a book and… was she kidding me? “How many pages is this thing?” I asked, dusting and seeing nothing but the plain shabby leather brown cover of the thickest thing ever.‘Well, you haven’t seen a lot of books.’‘I don’t plan to.’‘That explains why Hilda is smarter than you.’‘I’ve blocked you off too many times this morning, Ev. Don’t make me do it again.’The cover had been recently changed—obviously. I wondered how many times it had to get new… clothes.“A thousand and three. You’ll be reading that after each of our lessons.” I looked at her with raised brows. Once again… she had to be kidding me. She turned away from the cup of coffee she
‘Oh, she’s sweet but a psycho, a little bit psycho, at night she’s screaming, I’m-ma-ma-ma out of my mind. Oh, she’s hot but a psycho…’‘Stop, you’re driving me insane with that song.’‘I thought you love that song.’‘Not if you keep singing it that way. You’re in my head, remember, and it’s been like an hour.’ ‘I sing it all the time. You’re just noticing because you’re bored and have nothing else to do.’I hissed. ‘Whatever.’The sun was preparing to set and the moon was warming up for duty as it was late evening now. I’ve been inside all day, it’s driving my insides as insane as Evolet’s singing voice made my ears squirm.‘Hey!’I mean, if it were Hilda in here, she’d find a book or two and wouldn’t mind as long as she was allowed to read. She doesn’t leave her room on most days in the packhouse—obviously when she isn’t in school. Dash would be able to cope if he had a computer with Internet access or a play
AURORA The Beta aggressively grabbed my hand and pulled me back with force. On impulse, I tried to twist myself free but his mind was somewhere else and my attempts weren’t making a difference to him. He faced the Alpha with what he ‘hoped’ was a remorseful face.“I apologize, Alpha, she…” Any excuse that included how I ‘begged’ him to let me out for a walk would sound stupid so I understood why his tongue was tied. The younger wolf was smiling and he somewhat reminded me of Dash with his charm and dimples. No one said anything as they were all waiting for the Alpha’s commands. I glared at Adrian and he stared at me. The anger that had once surrounded his prevailing aura was gone and it turned to arousal.Shit, I hadn’t used wolfguise. When the Alpha abruptly stood up, those seated with him—I proposed the older one was the Zeta and the younger one would obviously be the Gamma—did the same—and I’d always known Gammas to be tough and hug
AURORAThis explained why Adrian agreed to let me accompany him to find the antidote. Because he knew how uncomfortable I would be and how comfortable it’d be for him. I couldn’t think of a worse punishment.Imagine me in a giant cage. I know that sounds nuts but imagine a 5 foot 6 inches living person in a silver birdcage. No one alive could imagine my degree of anger when I discovered that I would be transported like this. Like an animal. A freaking animal!‘But technically, you are…’‘A word from you and I’ll block you off for a week.’Evolet never took this threat seriously until I did it once, for two straight weeks—the worst time of my life but I had to teach her a lesson. I wonder how humans cope without these annoying and clear voices in their heads. It’s hard to imagine living without Evolet even though she’s an annoying prick.When times for directions arrived, I hesitated to guide them because I wanted to bar
AURORAI had to blink twice to make sure I was seeing and hearing well. My parents were searching for me?! Of course they were, I’m their fucking daughter!Everyone was frozen and only Penelope was making smirk-ish movements. I wondered what was going through Adrian’s mind… what he was thinking… what he was planning? Two Sigmas behind Penelope had guns pointed at him. Every other weapon that Adrian’s Sigmas held was targeted at Penelope and her ‘army’.For once in my life, the goddess was doing something right and I wasn’t going to waste this opportunity. I haven’t been the luckiest person.‘That’s because you ignore the red flags and do what you like.’“What were you thinking, Alpha? Keeping the daughter of the Moonstone pack? You didn’t really think you could take her from them?”My poor eyesight made me realize that the cave had gotten darker. Everyone present was feeling Adrian’s anger but it looked like it was chok
AURORA My eyes were wide open yesterday but I barely remembered anything that happened. My memory was still fuzzy, even till this morning. The only voice, among hundreds, that I perceived was Adrian’s and there were so many unanswered questions churning in my healed stomach.I guess Adrian didn’t know I was a speedy healer because he looked so scared. I’ve never seen him that way before.Anytime I remembered my failed escape attempt, pricks would stab my stomach. But I should’ve known it was a failure from the start. No matter how big Penelope’s ‘army’ was, one of Adrian’s Sigmas was as good as five. Penelope… I wondered where she was. How could she just disappear? It didn’t make any sense. Was she able to escape, did someone take her away?All this thinking gave me a terrible headache but yesterday’s venture wasn’t a complete waste of time. Lizra informed me this morning that they gathered all the smokegeese and it would be enough for the presently sick wolves, and also for the prod
ADRIANI’ve spent the last few hours, trying to understand the logic behind yesterday’s… interaction. I’ve had sex with the best. I’ve fucked the prettiest whores the territories could ever offer. I’ve handled high numbers of women at a time, my highest being too extreme to say.Yet this pup—even after leaving some of my favorite things behind—made me moan. How? It’s never happened. I’ve never had sex so electrifying that I would continue to fantasize about it till the next day.I wanted to believe that it was the fucking mate bond the goddess created but… why did I feel like there was more to it.I heard a knock on the door and sat up, knowing she had arrived. But I kept her for a minute and broke open a bottle of tequila, pouring it into a glass. I was certain she heard the sound of alcohol flowing because she impatiently knocked on the door. When the foam was gone and only the poison was left, I decided to free her… She might possibly have some trouble standing. The iron door opene
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