Uncontrolled Yearning for Her
~Orion~Four days ago, impatience consumed me as I realized the drunk maiden had vanished in the middle of the night. There was a sinking feeling that I might never lay eyes on her again. But that wouldn't deter me—I was determined to find her. Our night together had been something special, a spark ignited by a one-night stand, a night of unbridled passion.To my surprise, I discovered that she was a virgin. Knowing this, I felt a sense of relief and security. Unlike many of the promiscuous maidens that surrounded us, she was pure and untainted. But with her extraordinary beauty, a flicker of jealousy crept into my thoughts—other men would surely covet her, and I couldn't bear the thought of losing her to another.It was the heartbeat my father spoke of, the one that resonated deep within me. From the moment Freya spoke, to the moment we danced, and finally, when we made love—each passing second intensified the rhythm of my heart.I dispatched some of my men to search for this mysterious lady, providing them with a detailed description. However, despite their efforts, they returned empty-handed for two long days, bringing back countless women who bore no resemblance to Freya.Amid my frustration, Gabriel offered his assistance, knowing I had other pressing matters to attend to. One such matter was an important meeting with the council of elders regarding the escalating war between our town and Wolfshade. Kane, a thorn in my side, was silently invading my territory, destroying anything that belonged to me. Although we had managed to capture and eliminate his men on several occasions, a direct confrontation with Kane seemed inevitable, with the outcome likely to be fatal for one of us.Luck finally smiled upon us when Gabriel stumbled upon Emelda on his way to the town square. Instantly recognizing her, he wasted no time in inquiring about Freya's whereabouts, and just like that, we discovered where she resided.My certainty grew stronger—Freya was undoubtedly the woman I had been searching for all my life. I had patiently waited for this moment, for the fear and respect I commanded were not enough; I longed for an heir to solidify my reign. Yet, it had to be with a woman I shared a deep emotional connection with. I refused to rush into taking a mate, waiting until the age of thirty to consider starting a family. For now, my mother was the only family I had.Today, as I appeared unexpectedly in Freya's house, her shock was palpable. The expression on her face—priceless. I couldn't help but smile.Where did she think she could escape to? Liam stood in her path, preventing her from fleeing.According to her family, she had been sent on an errand. I refrained from revealing my true intentions to them, relishing the speechless and amazed looks they wore upon seeing me in their humble abode.I was resolved to wait. I wasted no time in stating my desires to her family. There was no need for needless formalities—I preferred honesty. While her father appeared agreeable to whatever I proposed, it was ultimately Freya's choice to make.Like a civilized man, I asked, without imposing myself upon their home and forcibly taking Freya away. I may have had a ruthless nature, but I was no caveman.To my astonishment, Freya did not protest; she agreed without hesitation. Did she feel the same inexplicable connection that I did? Did she sense the overwhelming emotions that coursed through us that unforgettable night?Happiness enveloped me, but a cloud loomed when a woman introduced herself as Freya's mother. Her words threatened to dampen my joy—Freya had never transformed into her wolf form. It was a pitiful revelation.The woman I intended to take as my mate, who would become Luna, had never experienced the transformative power bestowed upon our kind. I fell into a thoughtful silence, contemplating the weight of this revelation.However, I reached a resolute conclusion within myself. "Well, that's unfortunate. But it doesn't bother me, nor does it diminish my intentions. I will marry Freya just as she is. She's the one I want."Their stunned expressions mirrored my own surprise. Even Freya, whose countenance had faded after her mother's revelation, regained her glow.This unexpected turn of events surprised us all. I surprised myself, daring to defy convention and consequences. Freya's lack of transformation was not reason enough for me to reject her, not after the profound connection we shared. We would find a way to overcome this predicament. Just because she had never transformed before did not mean she would never.Expressing gratitude for their hospitality, I bid Freya's family farewell, instructing them to prepare for the upcoming wedding ceremony in a week. As I left, I made sure to share a knowing wink with my beloved, causing her eyes to widen in awe."Well, that went well," I murmured aloud.I and my three loyal men mounted our horses, riding back to the fort.****"What! How can you possibly marry a woman who has never transformed? This defies our customs," one of the elders exclaimed, annoyance evident in his voice."She is not blessed by the wolf goddess. She cannot be Luna. Look for another suitable mate," another elder interjected."Isn't this an ominous sign?" someone else remarked."She's not the only maiden... There are other candidates...""Enough!" I bellowed. I refused to entertain the noise they created."I am telling all of you that I have found the woman I want as my mate. I am not seeking your permission. The purpose of this urgent meeting is not to debate her eligibility as Luna and my mate. I called you all here to inform you that we have a wedding to prepare for in five days.""But, Alpha, you must reconsider your decision.""This meeting is adjourned. Thank you," I declared, cutting off any further objections. I would not let anyone dictate what was good or bad for me.The only person I would heed would be my mother, and I had already discussed this with her. She gave me her blessings and encouraged me to follow my heart.Murder in the Fort~Freya~ I sat on my nuptial bed, contemplating the whirlwind of events that had unfolded in my life over the past two weeks. It felt as if I had been swept away in a dream, where everything had transpired at a breathtaking pace. From that fateful encounter with Alpha Orion at the tavern to his subsequent visit to my humble home, and now, here I was, wedded to him. I am his wife, his mate. The ceremony had been grand, a joyful celebration attended by Papa, Emelda, and Klaus, who genuinely reveled in my happiness. However, the presence of my stepmother and Sophia was a mere obligation, their disapproval of our union unmistakable. But they could no longer hold sway over me. I was finally free, unshackled like a bird. Uncertain as I was about what awaited me in this new life, I couldn't help but feel it would be a vast improvement from the torments I endured at home. Despite the apprehension that gripped me, I couldn't deny the flicker of hope within my heart. Alpha
She is the One for Me~Orion~"Alpha, we have fixed the ship. Though there is no gold on board, it seems the pirates have carted away with the gold." Seth comes into the room addressing me after he nods his head to show respect."What pirates? Are you serious right now? Are you saying this not to piss me off? Because If you are, then stop because you are pissing me off even more. You all know who the pirates are damn it!" I yell at Seth.I told him to leave because I wanted to be alone.I was so angry. This incident had made a new groom who was supposed to be a happy man leave his new wife and mate back at home just to attend to this stupid emergency.I am here suffering the damage incurred on my men and my ship. Just when I had finally succeeded in making Freya mine. I was happy and looking forward to having another time with her alone. The thought of us together was heavenly. Just the two of us!What I feel for Freya is magical and powerful. I can feel it. After that night at the ta
The Bad News~Orion~It's been twenty–four hours since I've been here. We still haven't found the men missing aboard the ship. I had already decided that if the situation remains as it is, I'll give it until the end of today to see what happens. Whatever happens, I'll be leaving tomorrow at first light.The impatience was building up more and more. I had to go be with Freya and perhaps while I am home and happy, I can have enough time to think about how to deal with Alpha Kane for creating this mess. He had hindered me from spending a special time with Freya on our wedding night. I am pacing around my room, I feel like just closing my eyes and finding myself at home. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would act in such a way because of a woman–one I just met. I'll swear that for me to behave as such then I might be under the influence of something or might have brain damage or probably I was cursed. No wonder Gabriel still doesn't believe that something is wrong with my head.Y
Protecting His Luna~Freya~If only I wasn't in the room at that moment maybe I would be able to prove my innocence. But whatever I say will only make things worse.And not to mention that my sister was the one who called the guards on me. I know she doesn't like me. But I could not believe she would go this far. You know you are doomed when your family decides not to support you in times like this. Sofia was so nice to me that nightly knew it was a facade and the next moment she was handing me over to the guards. She didn't see me kill Hannah, so why would she do that to me? Only my father and Klaus had come to visit me, then Alpha Orion's mother. I could tell from the look in her eyes she had her doubts, she knew I wouldn't do something like that but at the same time, she looked disappointed. "I didn't do it. Believe me, I didn't. She was lying right there already stabbed to death when I got to the room. " She only looked at me pitifully when I said this to her and she left. My o
Taken Away From Him Again~Freya~Surprisingly, Alpha Orion had told the maids to arrange a bath for me and a delicious meal. He truly is my lifesaver. I was so famished. The scraps of grains and crumbs of dried bread given to me in the prison were something I could not eat. Thinking about the prison made me sick. "Thank you," I told Alpha Orion softly after he offered me a bowl of hot broth. He told me to drink it as it was nutritious and would help me get rid of the cold. I looked like a ghost in prison. "Drink up before it gets cold." He whispered, pulling the blanket over me tightly. I still do not know why people see him as dark and ruthless. If he was all those bad things he would not be so sweet to me. They were all wrong. They hadn't had a chance to know him. I am no one, I had nothing to give this man but yet he treated me with love. "Why are you so nice to me?" I asked him, raising my eyes to meet him but I quickly looked down because his gaze was like he was looking righ
Hard Decision~Orion~"You fool!" I yelled immediately I reached Tristan's chambers hurling the door to his room open."Are you crazy? What did you do? Why didn't you inform me before doing what the elders asked?" I hauled Tristan."Alpha calm down, please. I was only following orders and doing my duty. It's not like I want her there too?" He said defensively."Oh really, and you couldn't wait until I returned huh? I was only gone for a minute. Whose side are you on anyway?" I replied to him, waiting for an answer. I had to get my answer because Tristan was becoming annoying lately. He is my cousin and my Beta for crying out loud, he is supposed to be on my side. But he was acting the opposite!He has always been one to fear and respect the council of elders. Unlike me, I did respect them but I do not fear them. Rather they should be the ones weary of me! I had left Freya still sleeping when I took off to see my mother. I planned to go back immediately. Last night before I dozed off,
Dark Sorrows~Freya~My end is near. Alone and abandoned. My mistake was being too hopeful, too daft to reason and defend myself to my last breath. Ever since I was thrown in prison for the second time, I hadn't set my eyes on Orion. I feel worthless. I was brought out of the prison and held in chains like a criminal, I could do nothing but look straight ahead, accepting my ill fate. I heard the maid whom I had met at the maid section to ask for Hannah on that fateful day had denied ever seeing me. I felt betrayed and pained. But this only taught me to trust fewer people. I don't think I need that advice now as I was dying soon. I could see the ropes hanging already. It saddens me that my father would be left to grief over the loss of a daughter.The only regret I have is that I wish it was Sofia I killed. Yeah! That evil girl! If I did that, it would make it one less evil in the world, I'd be doing the world a favour by making it a better place. I felt intense pain caused by a sto
Good Or Bad News~Freya~It's been three days since I was captured and we had been journeying. We were only fed once a day and worse, treated like animals. The women had their torture way easier though, we weren't whipped as the men were but any woman who angers any of the slave traders was forced to lay with them for the night. None of us wanted that, so we never fought them. My body ached all over. I felt sick, weak and miserable. I almost wished I had just died on that precipice back home. I wished I wasn't saved. How much worse could my life get? Honestly, I am beginning to think that I am cursed, how can I go through this series of hell; from having an unhappy childhood where I am stuck with an evil step-mother and sister, to being wolfless since birth, to being accused of murder and now kidnapped by slave traders. When we reached the "slave harbour" as the master rider of our carriage called it. We were all told to come off the wagon and join the other slaves who were whipped a
Epilogue OrionAfter I answered, Kane walked away silently. He ruffled his hair in the process. What was he nervous about?I thought he had gone until he returned with Nyx. "Do it!" Kane ordered her. "Are you sure? What if he isn't the one?" She muttered, looking worried. "Just do it!"I decided to ask rather than stay quiet and wonder what this was all about. "Do what?" "Trust us," Nyx replied. Nyx says a spell. She takes a knife and cuts Kane's palm first. Then mine. As blood pooled on our hands. She placed my palms on top of Kane's, clasping them together.Nyx began to explain. "If you are his lost brother. Both cuts will heal. If you aren't related. The cuts will not. This spell will work on you if you are long lost brothers because your mother is a witch-Luna." This was crazy. Kane, my brother? She said the spell, then ordered us to look at our hands. When we withdrew our hands. There was no blood, no cut and no scar…Without a word. Although surprised as well, Kane embr
The lost childOrionTo my surprise, I realized the man who had Freya in his arms was Ryan. Wasn't he supposed to be dead? I felt jealous when Freya hugged him. I didn't want to view Ryan as an enemy but the fact remained that he was a potential rival. No matter how many times I try to make Freya and Ryan's relationship look normal or harmless. There's this fear I have that Ryan is almost the perfect man for her. He will always be my rival. At last right now with him, she is safe. I focused on Kane. As Kane inhaled the substance unaware of Damian's attack, he struggled. Damian began slicing Kane's skin, tormenting him by creating injuries on him. I and Gabriel kept fighting Damian's men as they continued to come hard on us. Damian uses the opportunity of Kane's weakness to strike him on his chest with a sword. Kane was too weak to dodge or stop it. Damian began to search for the remainder of the Lycan stramonium in his pocket. I wasted no time swinging my sword and cutting Damian
Hidden AffectionFreyaI must be dreaming. How was he here? He carried me in his arms after warding off Damian's men. "Hi, Selena," He said, calling me by the name he first knew me with. It was nice to hear someone call me by that name again. "Or do you prefer Freya?""Ryan! They said you were dead." I continued to stare at him like he was a ghost. He gently puts me down. "I can't die so easily.""Weren't you poisoned?""I and Alpha Kane planned everything. He knew I was going to be poisoned, so he told me to fake my death. We already knew what Damian was up to. Alpha Kane listened to my warning and soon realized Lomy and Damian were plotting something behind his back."I hugged him. "I am glad you are alive. I hated myself after hearing of your demise. I would have treated you better, Ryan." "You being okay, is fine by me."I turned to look in the direction Alex and Xandra were held hostage by Damian. But they weren't there. "Where are you going?" Ryan called out to me. "I can
The Reinforcement OrionIn no time, some of Damian's men came in troops to restrain me. It took a lot of them to hold me down. I fought them until I couldn't anymore. "Now watch your family suffer for your stupidity. Seize them right now!" Damian ordered. His men huddled them up as Damian had instructed. I could see it for myself. He did have an army and they were ready to do his bidding. The men I saw were unfamiliar, they weren't the men who served me when I was Alpha. I wondered where he got these men from. He must have brainwashed them to have them form an army for him. "Lock them up. He would watch them die, one by one. Starting with his half-witch mate." Damian pointed at Freya. "Fetch the twins too."He told his men to line Tristan and Freya up to be executed. Damian forced me to inhale the Lycan Stramonium. I could do nothing but watch. He forced the others to watch how the execution was going to go. The twins were brought. I could hear Alex's and Xandra's whimper. I s
In The Enemy's Liar Orion"Good job Biloza." Damian commended, his smile spread from one end of his face to the other."I told you to leave it to me. I could handle them," Biloza said proudly. "I must say. You predicted well. You said they would be here soon. I didn't think it was going to be this soon. And how stupid of them to travel together, right.""Uhmm," Biloza responded. Damian crossed his left leg over his right leg as he sat on a chair that was brought outside not too long ago. "Where are my children?" I growled. "They will be dead if you keep acting like a hero." Damian Snarled. "I am tired of seeing that. I despise your kind. Why do you think you Lycans are better than the rest of us?" "Despicable wolves like you are not meant to lead. You don't even have the wit." I replied. This gets Damian very angry. "Oh. It's about wit now, huh." He turned to Biloza. "Bring Tristan here."Biloza does as he is told. Damian squats before Freya. "Freya. Do you know your mate is th
The trap: Battle for Control Freya"No! I am going with you," I argued. Orion was adamant. He wanted me to stay back while he faced Damian alone. He promised to bring Alex and Xandra back home. Orion lifts my chin to face him. "Please Freya coming with me will be a distraction. I need you to be where I can find you. Damian has proven to be cunning, dangerous and —." "You need all the help you can get. There are rumours that he is forming an Army to force every town to bend to his will." Nyx said, interrupting Orion. Lauren stepped forward. "That power-hungry bastard! I am so stupid to have fallen for such a man. I was blind. Indeed sometimes I hear him speak of an army.""Where do you think this army of his would be? I very well know they can't be in Wolfshade town," Orion said. I gave my own opinion. "I think it will be Moonstone Haven. That will be the base of his army. Tristan is his ally. It only makes sense because that's where Biloza is taking the twins." I kept a straight
BilozaFreyaEveryone in the room was smiling and having little talks, like nothing between me, my father and Nyx ever happened. I couldn't take part in all the talk, pretending as if nothing happened.I continued to breastfeed Alex and Xandra. I am still hurt from finding out the truth about who my mother really is. My father looked happy though. He should because I could guess that since I was a baby and my mother left, he has yearned for love. He married Sofia's mother, Mira, because he wanted someone who would care for me as a mother. He didn't marry her because he loved her. Unfortunately, she turned out to be a tormentor. We weren't expecting to hear a knock. No one was supposed to find the house, talk more of knocking. The spell was to be active for three days. We all stilled. The knock came again. Klaus stepped forward to check who it was but Orion stopped him. Gabriel motioned him to get back. The knock came for the third time. Orion walked to the door and slowly opened
ForgivenessOrionNathan called Nyx by another name. Lily. The surprise was a shock for Nyx. She gets to meet her husband and daughter on the same day."Where have you been all this while Lily?" Nathan glared at her. She said nothing. Her head bent, looking at her feet. Nathan continued. "I thought something bad had happened to you when you never returned after the purge. I waited for you. We both waited for you. I and Freya. You left our baby without a word to me. Did you think that stupid letter you wrote would suffice or explain better about where you were leaving to?"Nyx cleaned her tear-filled eyes with the back of her hand. "I came…back—" she said. Her voice was barely audible. "And you want me to believe that because you say so.""Believe me I did but I couldn't find you and our baby, Freya, in our house?" She stepped forward toward Nathan. He holds his hands up to stop her. "I thought something bad had happened to you two. I heard rumours that those related to witches we
Twist of Fate OrionI stood watching the most complicated relationship ever. Nyx is Freya's mother! Fate has funny ways of making our life pretty good at one moment and then messed up at the next. Freya was speechless. She already knew the truth before Nyx revealed it to the rest of us in the room. We were surprised Nyx went to the book after it had fallen just to go to the middle page to confirm something like she had seen this particular book before. We later discovered her name, Nyx was inscribed at the left bottom of the right page. No wonder she wanted to know Freya's father's name so badly.Freya didn't resist Nyx's hug but she didn't hug her back. When Nyx released her. Freya gradually stepped away from Nyx and left the room without words. I understood she was hurting and didn't know how to react to this revelation. I immediately went after her. "Freya," I called, but she kept on walking. "Freya stop! Wait. Where are you going?" I increased my steps.She didn't answer me.