‘Adrian, you cannot make that girl your Luna!’ Selina said.‘And why not mum?’ he asked. ‘You saw everything that happened. I didn't plan for any of it to happen. It just did. This is the wish of the Moon Goddess. Who am I to oppose it?', Adrian asked rationally and then looking at his mother deliberately, added. 'Who are we to oppose it!’‘There’s nothing wrong with breaking the mate bond and choosing another mate for yourself if the situation warrants it!’ she suggested. ‘I have seen where fated mates don't make good couples while chosen mates do’.‘You mean like you and Dad?’ Adrian asked. ‘Were you ever happy with him? I mean we're either of you truly happy with his and your choice?’Selina raised her hand to hit her son on the cheek but he caught her hand. ‘That was an insult, a slight on me and on your late father!’ she said.‘I’m sorry mum’, he said, remorseful. ‘but I am now the Alpha and though you are my mother, I am not your little Adrain anymore and you cannot boss me arou
‘Iris’, Millicent called. ‘What were you doing with Blake’s son at the party?’‘What do you mean, mother?’ she asked.‘Were you planning on mating with him?’ Millicent asked.‘I heard it is called imprinting’, Iris explained patiently like she would a five year old. ‘I had no control over my emotions or actions. It just happened. He and I are fated. And oh, by the way, his name is not Blake’s boy but Alpha Adrian!’‘Don't take that tone with me. You are just a little girl who has just come into her wolf. What do you know of life?' Millicent asked annoyed with her daughter for acting so unmannerly. 'Don't forget your training. Anyway, you cannot accept him!’ Millicent ordered. ‘You have to reject him!‘I cannot do that mother!’ Iris said. ‘I have never felt this way before. I love him. I know I cannot feel this way about someone else’.‘What do you know about love at your age?’ Millicent asked angrily. She was not happy that the discussion was not going as well as she had planned it. I
‘Luna Selina', Roxy said, looking forlorn. ‘You know about my feelings for your son. I have loved him since the first day we were introduced and I have born it in mind that we were going to end up together. You specially promised my mother that it would be so. How come then that Adrian is set to marry Iris?’‘My dear daughter’, Luna Selina started. ‘I am as surprised as you. But rest assured I am not folding my hands on it. I am kicking against it in every way. I cannot allow the daughter of my husband’s murderers become my son's Luna! The Goddess forbid!’‘But the Moon Goddess has already sanctioned it!’ Roxy said bitterly. ‘Is she not the one who mated them? Goddess indeed!’‘Watch your mouth, my daughter so that you do not speak ill against the Goddess and bring her wrath upon yourself. We shall definitely come up with a solution to this stubborn problem. I shall see your mother and we shall talk!’‘Do something really fast because there's no time to dilly dally!’ Roxy cautioned.S
‘Alpha Adrian Blake, do you take Iris Sylvester Merryweather as your mate and Luna?’ the priest asked.‘I do!’ Adrian replied smiling.‘Princess Iris Sylvester Merryweather, do you take Alpha Adrian as your fated mate and Alpha?’‘I do!’ she replied smiling happily.‘I now pronounce you, Alpha and Luna of the Moonlight pack! The priest said, smiling at the happy couple. ‘You may now kiss your Luna!’Adrian placed both hands on her neck, pulling her close as their lips met in a delicious but short kiss, everyone present applauded.Roxy could not believe what had just happened. Iris had really had her way. She was married to the love of her life. The sad thing was that not only was Adrian madly in love with Iris, but his younger brother Andrew also loved Iris. No one seemed to love Roxy and she felt insanely jealous of Iris. Why did she get to have it all?Sadly both she and Selina, Adrian’s mother had tried to get in touch with Wendy but they had not been able to find her. She seemed t
'Roxy, wake up!’ Adrian spoke to her as she lay still. ‘Bring the smelling salt!’ he ordered.Roxy coughed after sniffing, and comes awake.‘What is this stunt you are pulling?’ he asked.‘Stunt?’ she asked looking around at all the people gathered. Adrian got the message. ‘Leave us, everyone!’‘Iris, you should too!’ Adrian said to the shock of Iris who had come to see how Roxy was faring.‘Adrian, we just got married. Whatever she wants to say to you, she can say in my presence. We have no secrets from each other!’ Iris said.‘Do as I command, Iris!’ Adrian said in a hard voice. He had never used such a voice on Iris before and Iris was very shocked and speechless. Today, they were supposed to be happiest and mating lovingly, Adrian was snapping at her as though they were foes or as though they were having a row’.‘Alright. I shall be in our room waiting for you’, Iris said, determined not to give Roxy the satisfaction of getting angry or having a row with her husband in her presenc
Andrew left Adrian in Roxy's embrace and went in search of Iris. He could just imagine how she would feel if she found her beloved Adrian in the arms of her step sister.'Iris, there you are!' he said cheerfully. 'I thought my brother has taken you away, far from our reach'.'Oh, Andrew!' she said, not too cheerfully.'What's wrong, Iris darling?' he asked going to her, holding her hands and looking deep into her eyes.'It's ... eh nothing', she said, smiling brightly. 'It's nothing at all!''It can't be nothing if you are feeling this restless', he said, vowing in his heart to give his elder brother a piece of his mind. How could he have such a treasure for a wife and still mess around with that witch? 'Anyway, where's Adrian?' he asked, pretending he had not just seen him with Roxy.'He is with Roxy. She fainted and your mother asked him to take care of her', Iris said, sadly. 'Can you imagine that? A man who just wedded and should be with his wife is asked to care for another woman
'What plans do you have for us?' Iris asked Adrian. This was coming a month after their wedding. Four weeks of sexual abuse. She had tried to initiate the mating, touching him on the shoulder once. 'What do you think you are doing?' he asked flinging away her hand. 'If you touch me again without my permission, then you shall live to regret it!' he threatened. 'But I am your wife and mate', she tried to reason with him gently. 'I have a right to your body as you have to mine!' 'You have no right whatsoever to my body?' he shouted. 'Be grateful that I made you my Luna and that I suffer myself to touch you!' Iris' ideology about what her marriage to Adrian would be was shattered. She hadn't known what a real lover's touch was since they got married and she was tired of waiting patiently, hoping that he would soon overcome his anger and bitterness towards her and mate with her the way a true lover should, rather than like an angry person taking out his anger on a prostitute. Usi
'I am fine, Andrew', Iris said, touched by his care and concern.'Honest!''You do not have to endure anything. If Adrian is treating you badly, let me know and I'll take you to a place far from here, where he cannot to touch you anymore!' he vowed.Iris would love nothing better than that. At least till Adrian came back to his senses. She still loved him and hoped he would realise he was making a mistake by treating her this way. But she quickly recalled Adrian's threat that morning. She did not want her siblings to have to pay for her impulsiveness.'Take me far from my loving husband and pack?' she laughed incredulously. 'Andrew, I know you have feelings for me but you should realise that I am now your sister - in - law and squash those feelings to death. I do not want to lose your friendship!''Neither do I, but you do not have to suffer in silence', he said, his eyes imploring her and it brought tears to her eyes. Why couldn't her husband be as caring and compassionate as his you
'Dear Iris,I do not know what my life would be when you get this letter. I may have died or become a rogue, a wanderer. But whatever I become, I know you will not make it your business because I do not deserve it. But once more find it in your heart to forgive me and my family. I wish you all the best.NB: I have accepted your rejection, you must have felt it the instant that I did. And attached here is the divorce papers I have duly signed.Once more, I wish you the best!'Adrian B.Iris got this a week after her lengthy discussion with Adrian. She shed a few years. It was sad really. They had started well, at least so she had thought when they met. She had been so sure theirs was going to be like the love her parents shared that had stood the test of time and survived against all odds, but it was not meant to be.'Iris, what is the problem?' Millicent asked, when she saw tears in her daughter's eyes.. She just came to check on her daughter after having a steamy mating session with
'Iris, could not find it in your heart to forgive me?' Adrian asked. 'I thought you loved me?' This was coming three months later and when Iris had recovered enough and agreed to see him.'Loved' being the operational word here, darling. Right now, I do not even hate you!' Iris said, smiling at him. ' Hating you takes alot of energy I do not have to expend. The eighteenth months I spent being your wife was not all a waste. It thought me about self preservation and how fickle minded some beings can be!''I hoped you would forgive me for the pain you had to go through as my wife. I can't blame it all my mother but if I had had the right guidance, maybe I would have treated you better'.'Andrew is younger than you are and of the same parents', Iris said laughing amusedly. 'If anyone should act irrationally, he would have been my best bet but your irrational behaviour is unrivalled. I begged you to allow me go and stay with my parents till the pups were born but what did you do? Most prob
'Yes, please have Selina Blake ushered into this place at once!' Alpha King Sylvester said.'Mum, I know that I lost the baby from the heavy shove Roxy gave me, telling me it didn't matter if I lost my baby since she was going to give another to Adrian and make him a better wife than I', Iris said very weakly. 'But Wendy gave me a kind of brew that made me feel fat worse. It may have contributed to aborting the pregnancy as well because I felt an unbearable pain after taking it. As he also did not call for the doctor when I asked her to!''Wendy will be taken care of, don't worry. She signed her own death warrant when she messed with you my beloved daughter!''You got here so fast, I did not know if the mind link I sent mother went through before I passed out!' Iris said.'It did and we rushed to this place as soon as we possibly could!' Millicent said kissing her frail hands. 'Now you must go to bed, the rest will be said outside so as not to disturb your rest. I can see you are drow
Millicent fastened a metallic chain on Wendy. 'I came prepared to take you down should you be responsible for my daughter's predicament. This metal chain will drain you of all your powers and make it impossible for you to do the disappearing acts for which you are known!''Ha, ha, ha, ha!' Wendy laughed. 'I told you when we met that the war between us was not over yet. I am glad that I took your daughter's happiness from her. She was guarding that pregnancy jealously. I killed three birds with just one stone!' she mocked. 'I had thought it was just one baby but it was actually three. Ha,ha,ha,ha. This is poetic justice!''You shall be so severely punished that you will beg for death but it shall be slow in coming. I shall make sure to kill you ever so slowly, you won't forget it in the afterlife!' Alpha Sylvester swore.'One more thing', the doctor strained his voice to be heard above all the noise. 'May I see the Iris' parents and husband in private, please?'Three of them followed h
The screams had not gone unheard. Adrian had been having a meeting with his guards when he heard it. He rushed towards the sound to find both Iris and Roxy on the floor, unconscious and Wendy crying. There was blood everywhere!'Doctor, Adrian screamed. 'Come here quick!There was a flurry of activities as the ladies were laid down on the bed and the doctor started treatment immediately.'Do all you can to save my baby!' Adrian commanded. Tears were in his eyes. There was just so much blood and Iris was looking as pale as death. He could not afford to lose his baby and he realised with a pang that he did not want to lose Iris as well.Andrew rushed in. 'What's going on?' he asked when he saw the two females on the bed unconscious.When no one answered, he went to Adrian and shook his shoulders. Adrian was still in a state of shock. 'What happened, Adrian?'He was still shaking him when Alpha Sylvester and Millicent rushed into the room.'What happened here?' Alpha King, Sylvester bell
Adrian could not understand what the problem was with him but it was as though he was at war with himself. He realised that a part of him wanted to continue punishing Iris while the other part wanted to treat her with the love overflowing in his heart.But he kept maltreating her.Iris was surprised at the reverse in Adrian. I thought he had changed, he seems to have grown worse these days, she thought.'Adrian, you did promise me, you would think about my request to go home to my parents till the pup is born!' she asked him one day, after he eased out of her. The encounter had been very rough and inconsiderate of her feelings. She had been scared for her baby all through the time he kept thrusting savagely into her, as though in renewed punishment for something she had done,not unlike previously. She could take it before but not now that she had something to lose.'Are you going to force me to give you an answer now?' he asked furiously. 'In short, I have changed my mind. You are no
Iris dared not hope that the change in Adrian was as a result of a change in his feelings for her. If he would say the three magic words, she knew she would forget all that he had done to her in the past. But though she sensed a slight change in him, he did not act towards her like he lived her. He paid more attention to her stomach and she knew he was just interested in the pup and not in her!‘I better enjoy this reprieve while it lasts be ause after the birth of the pups, he might retrogress back to where they started. Not for the first time, she wondered what kind of future she would give her baby with a broken home and the hatred her inlaws except for Andrew of course had for her. Would such hatred be transfered.Two days later, she was resting on the bed, when Wendy, Roxy's mother came in to see her.‘Iris, how are you enjoying your marriage?’ she asked mockingly.‘The goddess be praised!’ she replied smiling. She knew why Wendy had asked the question and she was not going to gi
'Mum, is this really you?' Roxy screeched with joy. 'You were gone for so long!''A lot happened to keep me away', Wendy replied, slumping in a couch. 'I was determined to get here no matter how late it may seem and that's why I am here!''I was beginning to wonder what was keeping you, dear friend', Selina intoned when she came into the room to join them. I tried to stop them marrying, I kept postponing it till I could postpone it no longer. But I believe you have a plausible explanation. Tell us your story and how we can remedy this situation!'Wendy smiled. 'I knew that by now, Adrian would be married to Iris. I had hoped you might have come up with a way to stop them but you did well by stalling them'. Her face became serious. 'I had set out into the fields to get that rate plant for the potion I told you about but I was caught unawares by some rogue wolves!''Rogue wolves?' Roxy and Selina exclaimed, simultaneously.'Yes!' She confirmed, nodding. 'I just got to the field where I
Adrian went into their room after speaking with his mother and found Iris sleeping.He stood looking at her for a long time, thinking that she was indeed a lovely girl. His gaze shifted to her stomach and his heart twisted and he vowed he wasn't going to allow any harm befall his pup no matter the situation between him and Iris.He walked away from the door and went towards the bed Iris was lying in as though in a trance. He knew Iris was out and wouldn't wake easily due to the drugs she had been given.'I have given your Luna her medications.', the doctor said. 'She should not be disturbed. The drug will put her to a deep sleep, though a mild sedative because of her condition, it will still make her sleep deeply because of her injuries and the stress she's been through!'He touched her stomach, 'I'll let no harm befall you, my darling pup', he said as he kissed the stomach. He felt close to his pup and strangely drawn to Iris the more. He saw a lock that had escaped down her cheek a