DAVON'S POV: "Mom, I need to check on Leona. I need to make sure she's okay," I insisted, heading to my room to get some clothes. I had to make sure the werewolf who chased her did not follow her home. "Son, just stay here. Let Rupert check on her, please." Mom stopped me, she is worried sick, and I understand. She called Rupert on her phone. Instructing him to buy flowers and give them to Leona so he could have an excuse to visit her. She's probably in her apartment now and alone. The fact that she was on our property means that she didn't attend her duty today. Anyway, everyone knows she's one of the stockholders. Soon, we better announce so she could take the rightful position for her. I went to my room and decided to stay there to avoid Dad. He's been feeling better for the past few days, and my wound could trigger his tremors. I went to my room to change and to be alone to clear my head. "Son?" Mom knocked on my room while I was meditating about that alarming incident.
RUPERT'S POV:"Hold on. I'm going to my car. Can I call you back?" I said to Mariko. Leona was just around, and I didn't want her to hear our conversation. "I don't have time to explain. Before his thirtieth birthday, you must break the curse, or he'll be a werewolf forever.""But how? Hello? Fuck!" Mariko hangs up the call. I dialed her number, but she didn't answer her phone. I went back inside and thanked Leona for the coffee and cookies. "Are you okay, Rupert? You seemed upset.""Everything's fine, Leona. I need to go home to watch Aunt Sonia. Darren is not feeling well," I started to the door."Oh, what happens to him?" "Just feeling tired. I got to go. Take care, though, and secure the door. Bye." I left. Not waiting for Leona to say a word. For sure, she would ask more about Darren. On my home, I called Mariko repeatedly. It kept ringing until her number was out of reach. She must have turned her phone off. Annoyed by my call. When I arrived home, Darren was gone to his of
DARREN'S POV:My curse will be permanent on my thirtieth birthday. That was depressing. I'm turning thirty in two months. How are we going to find a curse by that time? Mariko isn't helping. She just flared up my aggravation of being a werewolf forever. A little advice from her on how to break the curse would be a relief. Not to mention my upcoming wedding. How am I going to marry Leona if I am still a monster? "Can you call her again?" I asked Rupert before we proceeded to Mariko's house. "It's now ringing! I couldn't contact her earlier.""Keep calling her. I hope she will have a conscience and answer it." However, I doubt if Mariko would answer out of conscience. She would have told us the curse. "Still no answer, Darren. I guess she's not going to help us. Let's just visit her place."I don't think so. Mariko knew everything. She just needs a little push. What worries me is that she doesn't want to talk. Is she hiding something?"Okay, let's go and hope she's back in her house
DARREN'S POV"Who's baby are you talking about? Am I adopted?" I concluded abruptly; otherwise, what baby was Mariko referring to? "For goodness sake, you are not! The baby belongs to Luna! Will you let me finish?" Mariko snaps back. It shocked me, and I wanted to answer immediately. "Sorry," I uttered timidly. Rupert glared at me for reacting. They can't blame me. A baby means someone else's child, and my Dad stole it. Mariko said the baby was the daughter of Luna. Other than that, she couldn't see any more information and suggested bringing my Dad to her so she could look into his memories. "This is freaking insane. Are you telling me a werewolf bit me because Dad took her child?"Mariko nodded. "That's it? I mean, that's not what I want to hear. I want to know how to break this curse.""If you are questioning what I saw, you might as well ask your father, who happens to be losing his memory, rather than searching me this whole time!" Mariko waves her hands and disappears. Rupe
DARREN’S POV“Pardon me, let me clarify this, so a mate is your partner for life? Like a wife? Although you are not married yet, but you are meant for each other?” I elaborated Mariko’s explanation for me to understand better. “Yes, that is how you call it,” Mariko serve the food in a snap of her finger, “Who’s hungry?” Fortunately, Mariko cooked some fried pork. The last time we’re here, the house smells fish. No offense but the only fish I love eating was salmon and tuna. But I prefer meat above all. “So, who set the mating thing? God?” I shove a large portion of fried pork in my mouth. I just realized I was starving. “I believe so, but werewolves praise the moon. They believed in deities. The God of the moon. A pack worship the moon that gives a werewolf the strength and heals their wound.”“Not surprisingly, wait, are you telling me that the moon could heal my wounds and everything?” “Yup! You just got to shift during full moon and showered under the moonlight.”“How come I d
LEONA’S POV“Leona!” Sophie giggled, “Finally! Darren is claiming you as his fiancé! Tomorrow, the whole world will knows about you. I’m so happy for you!” “Yeah, I was perplexed. What’s got into him?” “He probably hit his head somewhere. Congratulations, Leona. I got to go home. It’s late. Thank you for the dinner,” Andrei left grumpily, and I felt bad for him. It was unexpected. He was vocal about his feelings towards me.I called to checked on him, but Andrei was not picking up. I hope he won’t avoid me. He was such a good friend. Sophie urged to sleep for a beauty rest for tomorrow’s announcement. We are unsure if Darren would keep his word. Knowing he changes his mind and attitude really fast. The next day, when I was heading to my table, I met the stockholders of Flame Corporation. It was about the announcement. Darren might have called them. “Oh, Leona, you’re here. Here, bring this to the lobby,” Meriam handed me some files. I looked into it and it was the Muse Fragrance’
LEONA’S POVI caught a glimpse of Andrei in the crowd. He was standing near the entrance, staring at us. When I took Darren’s hand, he covered his eyes with sunglasses and exit the building. Darren followed my eyes where I was looking, but didn’t saw Andrei. It surprises me that he didn’t answer my call when he was here all the time. “Are you okay, Leona?” “Yeah, I’m fine,” I plastered a fake smile. But Andrei bothers me. His eyes, they were burning with anger. After the announcement, we proceeded to the conference room. Darren’s parents wanted to propose a toast and I also needed to sign some documents prepared by Amanda. We’re supposed to meet in the office about claiming my rights as Eldrich’s next heir, but it slipped my mind. She forgot it either.“Congratulations, Leona. You are officially the heir of Eldrich. How does it feel now that Darren finally change his mind?” Amanda asked softly, while others are celebrating with a bottle of champagne. “Strange. Quite a relief too.
LEONA’S POV“Nah, I think I’m good here. You know I don’t dance,” Darren declined the invitation, and lean on me. “Fine! We’ll stay here!” Margaux whine and went back to her seat. Margaux was trying to prove something, and I’m so on it. If she would like to play with me and steal Darren’s attention, she will definitely have a piece of me. “Yahoo!” Brent stood and dance with the beat. The night was so young, but he already had a lot of shot of tequila. I hate to think that he would pick a fight again.Another set of food was served. It has cheese and chocolate. Darren noticed my eyes widened seeing the chocolate. That was one of my favorite food in the human world. He took some of it and handed to me.I quickly shove a piece of it in my mouth. It was so good. The bitter taste compliments with the strawberry syrup on top of it. “Hmm, you should try this Darren,” I was about to spoon-fed Darren when Margaux meddled again. “Oh, Leona, chocolate upsets Darren’s stomach. It gives him di
VICTORIA’S POV“Imbeciles!” I roared thunderously, “How can a pack of rogues outsmarted you?!”“Victoria, calm down. Your know how rogues think. They will do everything to get what they want. No one expected that,” Alpha Scott defended our guards. I wanted to cut off their heads and feed them to the lions. “How can I calm down when they have Leona now? Tell me!”Sooner or later Leona will recover and came back to help with the uprising. She needs to pay her debt. A life for a life. She killed my father, then I will kill her.“First, we must find their nest, retrieve Leona and pursue the execution day fast. The council will suspect now why we didn’t showed them Leona.”“Exactly. What are we going to do now?” I asked. “Attack first. Kill them all especially Leona and her boyfriend. I smell something’s fishy with him.”“Very well,” I send out my men to search the rogues hideout. Well see if Leona can escape again. When alone, I went to my father’s grave and reminded of myself my promi
DARREN’S POVWe used the shortcut that Ellen showed me. It was one of the fastest way for us to arrive in the pack. One of the spies informed us that Leona was taken out of her cave and now facing the whole pack for her execution. She was tied up on a poll and very weak due to beating. The spies would sometimes suck in the cave and gave her food and drinks to survive. Victoria ordered now to feed Leona to weaken her. “We are going to attack the pack that’s it?” I asked Ellen again for clarity. They will be a diversion while I help Leona to escape. Today, they will kill Victoria. “Are you nervous Darren? You’ve been asking the same question since yesterday, and I still answer the same thing.”“Yes, I am very nervous. I’ve been to a fight but not the whole pack. I’m afraid what would happen during the battle.”“Don’t be. Keep your head on this battle, and stay focus.”“Right.”Ellen joined Anna and the other Rogue while I will have to go to other wolves who camouflage as members of
DARREN’S POV“Drinking her blood. I am not sure about that. Our situation right now is very complicated. Leona needs my help.”“But your curse will be permanent on your birthday. Its up to you,” the healer walked away. Tomorrow is my thirtieth birthday. The day set for me to lift my curse, and Leona was still in the cave, lock in a silver cage, and fighting for her life. If I drink her blood, we will all end up dead in this place. No ones going to save us but ourselves and I’m sure Victoria deployed all their guards to tighten the security in triple. “Hey, what have you decided to do tomorrow? If you want to tell Leona about the blood, we could sneak inside the cave and tell her,” Ellen said. She took a break of polishing their weapons. “I have to save Leona. Maybe if we get lucky tomorrow, I could tell her about the blood and drink it before the day ends.”“In that case, braise yourself, and relax. You need your strength tomorrow. We need you.” Ellen went back to her chores. I was
DARREN’S POV“Did you sleep well?” Ellen checked on me in the guest room. I didn’t sleep well last night and kept staring at the moon while everybody was sleeping soundly. “Not really. First time in this place I guess.”“You have to get use to it. By the way, breakfast is ready. The Omega will come here later to serve your clothes and everything that you need.”“Wait, what? The Omegas? I don’t need their help. Just give me the clothes and I can take care of myself.”“Apparently, that is not how it works here. You are the Alpha, we all serve you.” Ellen left before I could even uttered a word. So that was what Leona told me. She was an Omega and her undying duty was to serve the Alpha and the future Luna. Without her knowing that she is the true Alpha. And as expected, the Omegas came with some clothes Anna picked for me to wear. Aside from that, they arranged my bath and asked to scrub my body which was too much. I totally declined. “I can take care of myself. Thank you,” I deman
DARREN’S POVEllen and I waited at the end of the cave. Indeed, Victoria visits Leona after sunset. She was pleased to captured her and tortured her. I wanted to intervene, but Ellen stopped me. I am no good to Leona dead. “What’s your plan? It better be a good one,” I walked out of the cave so as not to hear my beloved Leona’s scream. I cannot bear to witness her suffering.“We will save her on the day of her execution. In front of the whole pack and the council.”“Why not right now?! What if Victoria kills Leona before that day comes?” “She won’t. It is her pride to kill in font of the entire pack the true Alpha of this pack.”“Huh? What do you mean?” “Come with me.” Ellen led me to jungle. Out of the packs domain. We need to stay hidden especially her. She was an outcast now. A rogue. Victoria caught her but was saved by other rogue werewolves who oppressed the current Alpha. They had been trying to remove Alpha Riley and now Victoria on the throne. But none of the council lis
DARREN’S POVWe were waiting at the Eldrich’s property impatiently. Nothing shows up. Leona was out there somewhere in the forest.I packed my bags. I can’t stay and let the hours passed by. Leona’s life us at risk. “Bro, you can’t go out there and search for Leona. God knows what was waiting for us there. It's not safe!” Rupert stopped me. “I need to do this. Leona is out there fighting for her life and what am I doing? Nothing. What if no one come huh? Who’s going to save her?”“But Mariko said someone will come. Have faith, bro.”“You can stay here if you like,” I continued packing. No one could stop me. Not even Rupert. When suddenly, someone was at the door, knocking loudly. Rupert opened it and was taken aback. A werewolf entered the house. “Darren!” I face the werewolf and was about to shift, but it shifted back to human form and mentioned my name. I quickly told Rupert to go to Leona’s room and check some clothes for the woman. She was panting and fell in my arms. I cove
LEONA’S POVMy only lite was the torch left by the guards. I screamed as loud as I could, but no one hears me. And the silver cage suddenly makes me weak. My head was throbbing with pain. I’m losing focus. I’m not supposed to get affected by it because I am a human. Why am I feeling weak? Why do I feel like my skin was burning?“Darren, if you could hear me, help. Help me!”I tried calling Darren inside my head. Since he was my mate, I was hoping he could hear me though I am a human. He might not noticed my call because being werewolves was all Darren know.*******Meanwhile, news about Leona’s captured circulated the pack like virus Ellen discovered her best friend’s returned and investigate. Ellen asked her friend guards and confirmed the news. “Can I see her?” Ellen asked the favor. The guards gave her fifteen minutes to talk to Leona and then leave the exit passage of the cave. She couldn’t let her come back in the entrance. It would cost her job and life. Ellen agreed and s
DARREN’S POVSophie handed me a letter from Leona. She was followed by that Alpha Scott and went back with him to Manhattan obediently. “No, no!” I quickly loaded my things in my car and was about to leave when Rupert and Mom stopped me.“Bro, what’s going on? Why are you such in a hurry? And where is Leona?”“They took her! I must save her before they execute her!”“What? Hold on son, who are you talking about? Can you stop for a while and talk about this?” Mom demanded an answer. Mon urged me to go back inside. Desperate, I went back inside and decided to tell them Leona’s story. It would be hard to believe, but some stories are true. “Are you joking? Because this isn’t a good joke Darren!” Mom admonished, feeling shocked. “I wish I am, Mom, but I am not. Leona grew up in the world of werewolves. She was their slaves.”“Oh, God, that is horrible! Are they going to execute her now?”“Hopefully not, Mom. I need to go there and save her. Besides, the lost daughter of Luna Aurora is
MIA’S POV“I’m not crazy! He is a monster!” We heard Margaux shouted to the townsmen who mocked he, “I will get you Darren and the whole world will know about you! I swear to God!” Margaux threatened us before leaving. Swearing to exposed Darren and me. I felt her determination, and I know this isn’t the end. “We better keep an eye on Margaux. She will be back,” Darren said drinking a lot of water. “And that is the reason why we need to leave this place and move somewhere safe, away from the people,” Madam Sonia chimed in. Darren doesn’t like her decision and rebuke the conversation. “Oh, Darren!” Don Rafael came to him, crying like a child. He was worried about the townsmen and brought up the thought of leaving. Like a child, he asked Darren to moved out and knows a place where he would be safe. “Where? I don’t think there are place in this world where werewolves are accepted in the society.”“There is I~I forgot where,” Don Rafael scratched his head, digging deeply in his brai