Following Alpha Campbell's capture, Noah and his brother Alloy were captured and brought to Howling Pack. “How is he?” Asher asked that morning after Alpha Campbell was tortured. “He has refused to say a word aside from the usual thing he has been saying,” Ethan replied. Asher sneered. “He must be playing the loyal dog.” He glanced at Ethan. “Any hope he will speak soon?”“Are you asking that I increase his torture rate?”“I don't have all the time, Ethan. We finally found a link to Silas. We must get him to confess as soon as possible.”“Noted.”Asher clenched. All Campbell had to do was give him one name. Give him one fucking name! What was it with dogs trying to be loyal to their masters even at the point of no hope for themselves?He hissed. He guessed he would never be able to understand why anyone would want to cover a man like Silas Darkthorn. “You and Lucas question his two sons. They should know something.”“Right away, my Alpha.”Ethan questioned Noah while Lucas handled
“Oh, I'm sorry, Scarlett, I don't think you should go up there right now.”Scarlett Davis came to an abrupt halt at the foot of the stairs. A frown creased across her forehead as she casted a confusing look at her boyfriend’s sister, Saddy Campbell. Saddy was almost like a sister and heck she loved her but wasn't up for her games that moment. “Why? I have to see my boyfriend, your brother. Noah is up there, isn't he?” She looked past Saddy up the stairs. Legs itched her. She couldn't wait. Saddy lashes blinked but she said no words. Scarlett drew in a deep breath. Her patience was growing thin by the second. She tried to sidestep Saddy but Saddy was quick to stand in her way again. Another exasperated sigh. “What is wrong, Saddy? You need to get out of the way now. I can't keep Noah waiting.”“I don't think Noah wants to see you now, Scarlett,” Saddy blurted. Her lips tightened into a thin line. Scarlett’s eyes pinched. Saddy was always like this when she wanted something. “Ok
Scarlett felt several eyes on her as she curled herself into one of the seats in the bar. She ignored their dirty looks and continued to gulp down her drink. The night was cold and sad. Like her heart. Her throat burned at each gulp but her soul craved for more and her hands continued to pour. She was done crying. Now she was going to drink until her brains would blackout. “Look at her drinking herself to stupor.” She heard one of the girls in a table of three say. “Poor thing. I think I feel a little pity for her.”“Pfffftttt! I feel no pity for wretched bitches that don't know their place!” The first girl spat. “How dare she think she can get to be with the Alpha's son? A worthless Omega’s daughter marries the Alpha's son? Isn't that laughable?” The third girl cackled. “Fool. How she didn't know she was only being used. Noah is really smart. Worthless girls like her deserve endings like this one.”The other two laughed. “So, who is Noah's new bitch? Heard he is planning to mar
“You are very beautiful and even if your boyfriend really did break up with you today, you please my eyes. What do you say? Let's have some fun. Drinks on me.”A hiccup left Scarlet. She blinked. Before she could get a chance to refuse the strange yet tempting offer, the strange man was already walking into the club. She snapped back and after him, she ran. True, she could use some drinks. Her steps quickened as she tried to match his long stride. “Who are you and what is your name?” She asked again. He didn't stop nor said any word until they were inside the club. “Fuvk out of the way bitch!” A completely wasted guy barked at Scarlett as he growled past her. Tall man pulled her out of the way. “This way. You don't want them squeezing you in here,” he guided her out of the people packed hall towards a slightly wide and long corridor. A drunk man poked his head out of one of the rooms and began to puke. Tall man lifted his palm and covered her eyes, stopping her from seeing the
HOWLING MOON PACKTHE LYCAN ALPHA RESIDENCEThere was no way he could get rid of the memory of her no matter how much he tried. A tinge of regret washed over him. Somehow, her scent still lingered in his brain. Her long dark hair that always found a way to her face the entire night occasionally flashed in his mind. And her moans still rang in his head. He sighed regretfully. He had never intended for it to happen. But the attraction was a lot. She was so pretty when she stared up at him. Not many women dared to do that. And heck when she had bluntly asked if he wanted to sleep with her, he nearly lost his mind. Perhaps it was because he hadn't laid any woman for too long a while. He hated himself more because there seemed to be no guilt in his heart. The thought of his first mate crossed his mind. His wolf leapt ready to judge him. Asher sighed and shook his head. Not now, wolf. He rubbed his tired eyes. “Who is she?”“Who is who?” Ethan sauntered in casually. Asher jolted, gav
“Miss Scarlett Davies. You must follow us now. You have been selected as one of the women to be taken to the Howling Moon Pack.”Two of the uniformed men reached forward and grabbed her. “What?” Scarlett shrieked. “Father! You can't let them take me away!” Scarlett cried. Davies lunged forward in attack but was grabbed and held down by one of the Alpha’s guards. “Not my daughter…. unhand my daughter now…!”“That we can't do Mr Davies.”A voice came from the door. Scarlett swore she recognized that voice. And right she was as Noah entered. Her jaw dropped. “Noah? What are you doing here? Don't tell me you did this…”“I had no option, Scarlett. My father trusted me with this and I needed to make him proud. Besides, you are without a mate and still a virgin.”“You cheating lying bastard!” Scarlett charged. The men held her. She fumed glaring at Noah. The Noah she didn't recognize anymore. Had he always been this way or was she blinded by love she didn't see.“Easy now Scarly darli
SCARLETTI looked behind my shoulder. It was the girl from the vehicle. Where had she appeared from again? “You…” I gasped. She steadied me. “Get a grip, girl. You don't want to be singled out on your first day.”I swallowed back the rest of my words. The Lycan Alpha was nearing where I stood and my heart was pounding hard. I dipped my head. He stopped before me and lingered. Dear moon goddess, make him go please…“Look up,” he ordered and I froze. Seemed I prayed too late to the goddess. Slowly, I raised my face. His eyes pinched. He tilted his head and regarded me. I kept my face plain, ready and determined to quickly deny if he so much as brought up the night at the club. As long as everything was concerned, that night never happened. Then he spun without another word. “Take them to their quarter,” he commanded. Together with the Lycan elders, he strode off. Huh? Didn't he recognize me?Perhaps I was too early to think the moon goddess didn't answer my prayer. But h
Asher’s face rumpled. He had been at it for over a few minutes The girl at the club and the girl that surely would be at the werewolf quarters by now were the same. The very girl that had occupied her mind the past few days. He was definitely sure about it. He was so certain she was the one yet couldn't understand why she acted so different. But why was she amongst the werewolf women?He paused and envisioned all over again her face and her reaction when he asked her to look up. He kept on wondering why she acted like she had never seen him before. He should have asked her right there and then but the elders were watching. And he clearly saw Elder Conor’s eyes on her. His jaw tightened. Those greedy elders…He knew what they would have been planning. He saw through their lustful eyes. Unable to hold back anymore, he called Ethan in. “I need you to bring one of the new werewolf girls to me.”“A new werewolf girl?” Ethan was surprised. Then his face broke into smug grin.“You know
Following Alpha Campbell's capture, Noah and his brother Alloy were captured and brought to Howling Pack. “How is he?” Asher asked that morning after Alpha Campbell was tortured. “He has refused to say a word aside from the usual thing he has been saying,” Ethan replied. Asher sneered. “He must be playing the loyal dog.” He glanced at Ethan. “Any hope he will speak soon?”“Are you asking that I increase his torture rate?”“I don't have all the time, Ethan. We finally found a link to Silas. We must get him to confess as soon as possible.”“Noted.”Asher clenched. All Campbell had to do was give him one name. Give him one fucking name! What was it with dogs trying to be loyal to their masters even at the point of no hope for themselves?He hissed. He guessed he would never be able to understand why anyone would want to cover a man like Silas Darkthorn. “You and Lucas question his two sons. They should know something.”“Right away, my Alpha.”Ethan questioned Noah while Lucas handled
Freya received a notice of Silas’ invitation as she was leaving to meet with the charm woman. “He thinks he can order me around just because he made me his fake daughter,” she hissed.She contemplated which to do first. Get the charm or visit her fake father first. But she knew how Silas Darkthorn behaved. He was always hungry for more power and more control. As he called her to come home, he was expecting her to show up as soon as possible. He didn’t care if she was doing something important or not. She could already sense why he wanted to see her. He may be his fake father now but she hated seeing him. To her, he was just a means to get to Asher. A means to her dreams. But still, she knew she had to tolerate him somehow and it made her stomach churn each time she was reminded of that fact. She sighed wondering how the other members of his family would look at her this time around. The first time Silas has brought her into his home. His wives never breathed a word to Silas but ins
“Alpha Campbell was arrested early this morning! This is unbelievable!” One of the elders expressed shock. The elders were gathered in Silas Darkthorn's house as soon as the news of Alpha Campbell's arrest spread. “Asher has no fear!”“When did he grow such balls?”They shook their heads and their shoulders rose up and down. “I am afraid. No one knows what he is planning anymore. Especially to us. You know how much he has been wanting to get rid of us,” one of the elders said and sighed. At that moment he regretted being in Silas Darkthorn's gang. If only he saw this coming, he should have quickly switched sides.“Afraid?!” Another elder snapped at him with fiery eyes. “We are his elders and he will not act rash towards us!”Silas Darkthorn sat in deep silence. He neither ordered nor contributed to what the elders were saying. After a while he stood up from his seat and walked into his private chamber. None of the elders questioned where he was going or why he was silent. That day
“What!?” Alpha Campbell blurted, sitting up. “Chief’s orders.”He shot up. “Wait wait… this may be his orders but this is clearly impossible. The men are not ready. They just started training two weeks ago!”“I'm only but a messenger.”“Damnit!” Campbell growled when the man from Howling left. He clenched and unclenched. Kicked the sofa and fisted. He'd been drawn to the edge yet again by Silas Darkthorn. First he made him start an illegal training now he wanted them to fight when they were far from ready. “Dad.” Noah came in. “Was this the big picture you have in mind?”Alpha Campbell stopped pacing and glared at his son. “Don't look at me like that! I'm doing this for us, for you and your brother! You should be grateful, you ungrateful jerk!”“Me and my brother?” Noah shook his head. “Father, you can't trust that man. He may be a powerful man but men like him are snakes. I have done a lot of bad things but this is evil, Dad.”“If you will not do as Father says then stay here and b
“My Alpha, an elder from Howling Moon Pack, is here to see you.”Alpha Campbell’s face creased. What was an elder of Howling Moon coming to his house for? His frown deepened. He'd just sent in more werewolf ladies, what else did he want from him? “Which of the elders?” He asked his man. “Elder Silas Darkthorn.”Immediately he sprung up in his seat. “Silas Darkthorn?” He muttered as he hurried over to the window and from there he peeped. Truly Silas Darkthorn was in the frontage of his house.“Let him in! Let him in immediately and have the maids prepare the best dishes and bring the best drinks!” He ordered the guard before he hastily began to change into his official outfit. A few minutes later he strode into his meeting room where Silas Darkthorn was already in. “Chief elder!” Campbell hailed. “When I heard you were in my house, my amazement knew no bounds.”Silas Darkthorn managed a tight smile. He rarely smiled. Whenever he eventually ever did, it was a tight one. But that al
Asher stood behind the window in his office. The blinds rolled all the way up. Although his eyes looked but they took no notice of what was happening. His mind had strayed away. He released a sigh and allowed the memories to overpower him, the thought of Scarlett the center of it. A year ago, Scarlett was declared dead. But not for him. He saw the signs that she was still alive. He knew she was alive. That she had faked her own death.But it had been over a year already. A year he hadn't seen her face again. Over a year and he still couldn't figure out why she did what she did, if she was still alive and if she ever thought of him. “You have a letter, my Alpha.” A guard announced and he was jolted back to the moment. Without changing his position, he stretched his hand and the letter was placed in it. As he held the letter in his palms, he did not open it immediately. There was no excitement or urge to see what was inside of it. What complaints and curse was he going to read this
SCARLETTWith her nose crunched, the woman snatched the fabric from Eli's hand, looked up at me and said, “I am the first wife of the most powerful man in this Pack.”Then, I thought of it. Of all prominent mens’ wives, there was one I never saw her picture no matter how hard I looked. Silas Darkthorn's first wife. “You know the most powerful man in this Pack?” She added, glancing at me cockily. “Ma'am?”“You don't know?” Her eyes flew wide. Honestly, I was annoyed. I already knew which man she was about to mention. She publicly called her husband the most powerful man in the Pack when he wasn't the Lycan Alpha. Throwing the ill feeling aside, I feigned shock. “Wow! You are the chief elder's wife, ma'am?” I swore her shoulder pad increased a notch. “His first and real wife,” she explained. She may not have spoken the words out loud but her face said something about the others being fake. Mae Darkthorn. Silas Darkthorn's first wife. People referred to her as Madam Chief. She had
ONE YEAR LATER.“That shouldn't be there!” I yelled at Eli, one of my workers. Eli flashed an apologetic smile and began to push the plosh sofa away. I was intending to use it to rest in between long working hours. I pointed her where I would prefer it to be. Samuel Wolfe had forced me to take a worker because he believed the workload I would be getting would be much. After several searches and brief interviews, I finally settled for Eli. So far Eli had proven to merit it. She worked hard, learned easily and was tight-lipped. I tested her on this. It was the opening day and we were still arranging the shop. There was so much to do with very little time remaining. Soon people would start trooping in and the shop was far from being set. I hoped. Oh shit. I groaned. I should have listened to elder Samuel Wolfe. He told me not to rush but it was already long overdue. For one year, one whole year, I had locked myself in training hard and learning fashion. I couldn't wait to start my rev
SCARLETT “Leave my house. I cannot help you,” Samuel Wolfe said and started to head in. “I am dead!” I burst out. It was something I had said thoughtlessly but it worked. Samuel Wolfe stopped in his tracks. He looked at me like I had lost my mind. “You are a ghost then?”“Ghost?” I blinked in confusion. Oh right I just said I am dead.” I couldn't help not smiling. That had really gotten his attention. “Please if you can listen to me I will explain everything.” He looked at me a while longer. His expression softened and he returned into the center of the room. “What is your story?”“I–”“Sit down.” “Oh…Thank you.” I settled into the cushion across the one he sat. “Actually, the truth is Alpha Asher did not send me to you,” I confessed. “I only wanted to get your attention.”He didn't react and instead he said, “I am aware.”My brow cocked. “Did you ask him?”“No. Because he has guards, a Beta and a Gamma to send on such errands.”“What if he wanted it to be a secret?” I opened my