Arya Pov"Welcome Alpha Jasper" the guards chorus with their heads bowed to the ground.I was in the kitchen when I heard those chanting voices of the guards. I rushed out heading to the front door to welcome the Alpha. My facial expression was filled with a captivating smile I couldn't hold back.The only person that brought so much joy to my heart was home, he filled those empty hollows deep down my heart.Just two feet away from him, it felt like I should jump into his arms immediately. His large muscular hands were spread apart to welcome. Just like I was about to sip into his arms she appeared from nowhere. Why didn't I see her face earlier? I was more focused on the Alpha and nothing else mattered again."Welcome my Alpha" Selena gave him a warm hug while she glared back at me with millions of lasers shooting through her eyes. I swallowed hard and placed my gaze elsewhere other than the Alpha and Selene.Isn't it supposed to be a 10-minute hug? Why does it take almost 20 minutes
Selena was rushed to the hospital to be treated while I was dragged along to the hospital too.My eyes were spinning when I looked up to see the person dragging me along. I found out it was Alpha Jasper. Did he leave Selene? Why did he come from me? My eyes were heavy and my legs couldn't carry my weight anymore then it gave up on me and it suddenly became dark, the last I heard was the voice of Alpha Jasper calling on me."Arya" then it completely went dark.I woke up to see so many tubes connected to my body. I began to feel the pain, then I wasn't concerned about whatever was thrown at me. My utmost priority was protecting my pup. I placed a hand on my belly and smiled to myself. I could feel the pup kicking already. I'm glad I was able to protect my pup all through those tough times. It seems like it wasn't ending anytime soon. The door cracked open Alpha Jasper and the doctor walked in. "You're awake," the doctor said."How do you feel today?" the doctor asked." I'm fine doct
Alpha Jasper povI was down on paperwork before my cabin cracked open."Alpha" beta Josh greeted with his head bowed to the ground."What do you have for me, Josh?" He cleared his throat before he began. I didn't look up to him after what seemed like 5 minutes. I didn't hear a word from him. I looked up to him with a raised eyebrow."Are you okay?" I asked Josh, who doesn't look like his normal self."Yes, I'm good. Just have some bad news." I nodded at him to let it out, giving him my full attention."The person responsible for the collapse of the bank has been found. '' I widened my eyes when those words hit my eardrum. Little have I forgotten about it. The person must be severely punished in front of the pack members. "Weldon Josh, I just knew I could count on you. Send the person immediately to me after we are done here and gather the pack members to witness him being punished." "How is the trade section?" I asked Josh, who narrowed his eyes."We have bad news. Our last produc
Arya Pov"You know you shouldn't be starving that little pup inside of you," Selene said with so much gentleness and meekness in her voice. When did she start caring for me? I turned, giving her full attention, the delicious aroma of the food carried by the maid filled my nose. Was she kind of pretending to? I can't fall into her trap again. "Drop the food on the table and leave," she told the Omega maid who came along with her. She bowed her head before leaving. I turned my gaze at her, giving her the look of What do you want this time? But instead, she smiled at me. She smiled at me with those genuine smiles I saw back then at the pack anniversaries. Selene is a beauty, I admire those deep purple eyes of hers. "Come here sweetie, I know it must have been hard for you" Now I feel she is mocking me. Alpha Jasper just threw me out of the master's bedroom and here she is being all nice. She is supposed to be the happiest woman on earth right now. She gently dragged my hands towa
Where are you heading to?" Alpha Jasper halted me in my tracks. His voice was behind me, and I froze at a spot. I squeezed my hand to the hem of my gown. My breathing accelerated while my heart raced like a moving car. How was I going to explain it to him? The scent became distant, and I couldn't see the blackness of the person anymore. He disappeared into the thin air.I knew deep down that person had the answers to all my questions. Questions that arched my heart. I took a deep breath, and my body trembled as Alpha Jasper approached further.Alpha Jasper's footsteps approached closer to me. I turned around to face him with my face down. I knew I wasn't going to run away from all these questions. There weren't any hiding places, and Selene's kindness momentarily distracted me.He looked at me with so much disgust in his eyes that it made my heart bleed with so much pain. He had never given me that look since I came to the pack. I guess he wasn't going to trust me anymore. Selena sho
Selene pov"She killed Dave; he is lifeless," Selene lamented to Beta Josh, who was beside him at the abandoned old house in the middle of the woods."What should we do?" She asked with a cracked voice; she didn't want to be caught up in her games.Dave, one of his assassins who does dirty jobs for her, was already dead. Selene feared that his death would be linked to her. She couldn't risk it."You know his mate knows. How was I going to explain to her that her husband is dead?" Selene moved her eyes to the dead body lying helplessly on the floor, his head ripped out of his body. She had quietly sneaked out of the pack house without anyone's notice to see the person she held captive, but what she saw befall her sent goosebumps to her skin.She had already escaped, and the man she put over him was already dead."What I am going to do right now—I can't risk being caught, and the Alpha will look down on me.The people will be disappointed in me."Selene's face was already pale, and she
Arya pov"Arya, my child." I lay in one corner of a dark room with my head buried in between my knees while I used my hand to clutch my knees together.I raised my face when I heard my name. Why does she keep coming to me? This was the second time she was coming.The dress she wore shone brightly on the floor of the room, giving it a bright light. She had long hair that stopped at her bum and freely fell on her shoulder. Its strand was properly taken care of and evenly combed down without any tangles. Her face was glowing. She should be in her late thirties, but she looked young, like a twenty-year-old girl. What does she want from me?"You have to protect that necklace; it's your family heirloom," she continued. Who is she? How does she know about my family?"You know about my family; you know about my father and my mother," I asked with my eyes wide open at her. She only nodded at me. I stood up to my feet, coming close to her."Your mother was a great woman and a caring Luna; too
Alpha JasperI looked through my window at my champers; Arya was out. It seems a spark in the room was missing. I miss those giggles that she makes whenever we stand at the window with my hands wrapped around her waist. Those giggles fill the walls of my room.We usually hum to my favorite song under each other's embrace while we watch the sun hide under the clouds. It felt peaceful and fun. Even when we had pillow fights, I missed all those. I didn't just find a mate. I found my best friend. Selene didn't give me as much joy as Arya does, and it pains me like a sword pierced through my chest when I hear her moan under the arms of another man. Just that one day brought out the worst in me.What about her partner? He should have been castrated, but he was fast enough to sneak out of the room while my anger was directed at my mate.What an order for someone to enter my chambers to touch my mate! It would have been better if the person had never been born. I wasn't just thinking when I
Arya stood before the tomb, her body shaking with sobs as she gazed upon the final resting place of her son, Akira. The tomb, reserved for descendants of the alpha lineage, was a poignant reminder of the legacy that had once belonged to her family, but now rested with Damian.Luna Seraphine's gentle touch and soothing words offered little comfort as Arya's grief consumed her. The pain was suffocating, and the realization that she would never see her vibrant, full-of-life son again was a constant, crushing blow.Arya's heart seethed with anger towards Alice and Leo, her cousins who had orchestrated the palace attack. If not for them, Akira would still be alive, safe in her arms. The thought fueled her anguish, and she whispered into the wind, searching for the essence of her deceased parents, who had promised to always be with her.But their spirits seemed distant, and Arya felt only despair. The warmth and love she once knew were now replaced with an unrelenting sorrow. Even with Luna
The priest ran his hand through his thinning hair and let out an exasperated sigh. "Arya, I really wish there was something we could do. But the laws of our order expressly state that we must not interfere in conflict between brothers of the same kind. The consequences are dire. I'm sorry Arya, but our hands are tied," the man said somberly with his eyes closed.Arya thought to herself and knew there was no use trying to convince the order to go against their traditions. But there had to be a way to salvage the situation and stop her cousins from visiting evil upon the pack and perhaps, the whole earth. Just then, an idea flashed across her mind and she gave it no time to settle well before voicing it out."How about you train me to harness my magic and become powerful enough to stop the enemy. That's not something you cannot do, right?" Arya asked, hiding the pain and anxiety in her voice as she spoke.The priest squinted his eyes, deep in contemplation. He focused on a particular gr
Damian approached the house with a plastic bag containing their dinner, his eyes scanning the surroundings with a mix of caution and confusion. He had parked the van a few poles back, just as he'd done when he was with Anika, and walked the rest of the way, his senses on high alert. As he moved through the night, he swept his gaze from side to side, high on alert to spot any strange movements, his ears perked up to catch the slightest sound. Not that he expected danger to be lurking around, but one could never be too careful.A sense of foreboding and dread sat in his stomach, and he suddenly felt goosebumps on his skin, a rare occurrence for a Vis Wood like himself. His heart raced slightly faster, and his hand instinctively went to the pocket where he kept his dagger, a habitual gesture that had become second nature to him. These were odd behaviors for his wolf, and he could only wonder what was wrong. The house came into view now, and he looked to the side, ready to cross over th
The Blood Sisterhood were a secret sect of elite female warriors who paid allegiance to the Luna alone. They were part of the hidden tradition of the pack, a secret passed down from one generation of Luna to the next.Luna Seraphine took a deep breath, gathering her strength. "Sisters, I need you to go and ask for help from the Order of the Sun, the coven Arya's father belonged to during his lifetime. Tell them a daughter of theirs is faced with the threat of death at the hands of wicked people."The forewoman spoke up with a hint of hesitation in her voice. "This thing you ask of us, it totally goes against all that we represent. It is against our ethos to seek help from the witches." She stated gently but firmly.Luna Seraphine's voice came barely audible above a whisper. "Unless you're up for a battle against hell itself, I suggest you do as I have just requested."The woman argued, "We shall fight till death then. Our pride as a group supersedes the need to ask for help from the l
"There's no chance that would ever work!" the witch cried immediately after Leo told her what he needed her to do. She gently extracted herself from underneath his piercing gaze and walked over to the other side of the room."And why is that?" Leo asked, his voice cold and impatient."You see, the only reason why your sister could call you back up from the underworld was because she had at least a part of your dead corpse. And the head especially, makes things easier. If you don't have her body with you, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to help," the old witch explained, feigning confidence and busying herself with arranging spices on a shelf in the corner.Leo flashed to her side using his heightened reflexes and hoisted her up in the air by her neck. "I'll go get her body. If you are not here when I return, I will find you, and I will kill you," he threatened through gritted teeth."I'd also have to wait for a full moon," the woman's desperate voice pleaded."I don't care! You'll
Damian consoled Arya over the loss of her child, but he couldn't seem to comfort her enough. She was a wrecking ball of sobs as she held baby Akira's dead form in her hands, even as Damian held her to his chest. What the bastards they had just killed did to the baby was heartless. Even in death, Akira looked like a beam of peace, his lips and skin now taking on the grayish pallor of death."I wish I had the words, my love," Damian found himself saying into the air, even though he was addressing Arya. It hurt him to see the woman he loved in such a state.Tristan and the other men from the elite command that had come with Damian to rescue his mate stood akimbo around them, at a loss for how to console both their alpha and his mate.Suddenly, Arya let out a loud gasp and began crumbling to the ground, struggling to breathe. Everyone was too stunned to do anything at first, until Damian snapped out of his shock and held her up firmly, struggling to contain both her weight and that of the
Damian sat in the backseat of the van, lost in thought. He was confident that after asserting his dominance in the Silver Crescent pack, Jasper and his followers wouldn't dare trespass again. He adjusted his new jacket, provided by Tristan, knowing his previous clothes would be ruined after his transformation.As they approached the Ember Moon pack, Damian's keen sense of smell detected something strange. He exchanged a concerned glance with Tristan, who nodded in agreement. "Kill the engines," Damian ordered, and the driver complied without question.Damian jumped out and crept behind the wall, motioning to Tristan to follow. "Break the men into groups," he whispered. "Take the secret side gates scattered around the fence. We need the advantage of surprise." Tristan nodded and relayed the orders to the men, dividing them into four groups to cover the North, East, West, and South wings of the premises.Damian led his group of six, including Tristan, towards the West wing. As they appr
Arya and Luna Seraphine sat on their seats, their senses on high alert. The sounds were getting closer, and Luna's voice was laced with urgency as she turned to Arya and said, "Quick, go to Akira. I don't like these sounds."Arya's heart sank into her stomach as she remembered her dream and recalled that Akira went missing in the dream. She never found him. If that were to happen now, she'd kill herself. She was sure of it.She ran as fast as her legs could go, her pace fueled by adrenaline. She turned into a side door to climb into a corridor when a body was tossed out of the corridor, and she stopped dead in her tracks. Her wolf instincts, though rarely active, screamed danger. The corpse was dressed in palace guard attire, partially shifted into its wolf form, badly disfigured, with a gaping hole where the left eye should have been and another in the chest.Slowly, she lifted her eyes to look into the corridor where the body was flung from. Her skin crawled at the sight before her.
Damian strolled into the garden, his eyes scanning the area for his mother and Arya. He recalled his mother inviting Arya to tea the previous night and smiled, remembering the closeness they shared. He had finally made up his mind to sire Jasper's child, and his thoughts were filled with Arya.As he approached the umbrella-shaded table, he beamed with a wide smile. "Top of the morning to you two, beautiful ladies." He kissed his mother's forehead and took Arya's hand, lifting it to his lips. His eyes locked onto hers, and he heard her subtle gasp."Hello, Arya. I trust you slept well?" Arya replied shyly, "Yes, alpha. Thank you."Luna Seraphine playfully rolled her eyes. "Yes, I slept well too, thank you." Damian chuckled and said, "I was going to ask you that, mother." He turned to Arya, his smile lingering.He noticed the tea on the table and teased, "I see you've both decided to have tea without me, then." He picked up his mother's cup, and she protested, "Put that back down, sil