I stood there in shock for a few seconds, and then he moved backward, scratching the back of his neck nervously. "I have no idea why I did that. Please forgive me.” “ What were you thinking? Why would you do that?" I found myself taking steps away from him. "I came here with you because I was hoping that I could trust you, and you –“ I trailed off. This was one of the reasons why I didn’t like to be with strangers. “Why would you do that?” I sighed again. “I'm so sorry. I just don't know why I couldn’t control myself.It's never going to happen again. I promise." I couldn't believe what he just did. I shook my head and turned to leave, “Come on, let's just go.” He held my hand to stop me. “I'm so sorry, I mean it, I've never done something like this before. I feel like I was just overwhelmed by your beauty and somehow got distracted." He said. I took his hand off of mine, "Never do something like that again." He nodded and raised his hands in defeat. "I promise." We headed bac
"Okay, we need to know the things that you can do and can't," Clyde said, standing behind me, taking a few steps back."Can you try to clear this tree from the way?""What?" I raised my eyebrow, accenting my confusion."Well, I just think it's something." He scratched the back of his neck. "Yeah, that sounds dumb, but I don't know. I feel like if you're a witch, like they claim, we need to understand why the moon goddess would make you one. I mean, you're a complete werewolf, right?""I am, I think?""Okay, so clear the tree from the path."I tried to think about the tree moving away from its position, but it didn't make any sense. I stared at it for a long period of time. All of a sudden, I caught something in my grip. It was a blade of a dagger. I looked behind me to see that Clyde had been the one who threw it at me. "What were you thinking? I could have gotten hurt!" I said, throwing the dagger to the floor and stared at my bleeding palm."I think I figured it out. Your senses are
I didn't know if it was because Clyde didn't hear me, but he was still attempting to attack the wolf.I immediately pulled him back by holding his clothes, so he stopped. "That's someone I know," I said, stepping forward. "Alpha, what are you doing here?" I asked him with furrowed eyebrows.He didn't stop. He was still growling at us, and it made me confused. Perhaps he saw Clyde as a threat. "He's not a threat. He's my friend," I quickly made it known to him, but that did not stop him.He was going to pounce on me when Clyde pulled me back. "Are you crazy? Are you sure that's your friend?" He said, raising one eyebrow as he scanned my body for injuries. "Are you hurt? Did he do anything to you?""No, I don't think so," I said in surprise.The wolf was still growling at us and was attempting to move closer to us when Clyde picked me up.I caught a whiff of the scent of the wolf and realized that my delusions were taking over my mind completely. It was just another black wolf.He did n
By evening time I felt like I knew everyone in the entire village, and there was a gathering that they all said we should meet for together.There was no distraction, no problems. I got back to the bedroom and saw that Emily had dropped a new sack there.This time it was filled with clothes that fitted my size. I smiled at them, slliping one of them on. By now the moon was starting to show up.I left the cottage, since no one else was there, and decided to explore the rest of the village by myself, surrounded by a lot of trees. I never thought something like this would exist.I thought about the fact that my parents would have loved it here. That was all I wanted to have, my parents, my mate, and I, without having to deal with the regular hierarchy in our werewolf world.My wolf was within me, mourning the loss of our mate, and she was not talking to me, but I was fine. I knew that she would get over it, especially because I had gotten over it.I went towards a lake and sat there on t
Four years later.I could hear their giggling sounds, but I tried to ignore it.If I pretended like they were not there, they wouldn't say anything to wake me up. But it seemed they caught on because they immediately began to poke my clothes.“Mummy, mummy, wake up,” my son, Leo, called.I turned my head from both of them. “Mommy, please, I'm hungry,” my daughter, Leah whined.Giving up, I sat up in bed. I rubbed my eyes. My back was still hurting from last night's training and hunting. I just wanted nothing but to rest. My schedule for the day was cleared, and now Clyde had dumped them with me."Why don't you two go and meet Uncle Clyde and see if he has something for you?"They stared at me, their lips pouting."I heard he got you guys some chocolates from town."That did the trick for them, and they both left my side, hurrying to find their Uncle Clyde. I sighed in relief and rested my head back on the pillow, going straight to bed.The twins were the most hyperactive I had ever met
“Kira,” it wasn’t until he called my namethat I snapped out of my stupor. I saw disbelief in his eyes as he scanned my features, almost as if he thought he was in a dream. Clyde finally managed to catch up with me, his hands on his knees, trying to catch his breath. "Did you find them?" he asked, panting heavily. He looked between Damian and me, sensing something was wrong. I was still stuck to my feet, unable to process anything until Damian took a step forward, when I found my voice. "Stay away this instant," I raised my voice to unleash on him. I never thought I would see him in my life again. Everything was going on smoothly, and I had moved on from him, or at least I thought. But now that I was seeing him in front of me, I was not so sure anymore. My heart was beating so fast, and I didn’t know if it was because I was still in shock or the remnants of feelings I still had for him. "Kira, who’s this man?" Clyde tried to whisper in my ears. "Mommy!" Leah called, hiding behind
He didn't stop running until we were back in the woods. He finally sent me to my feet. With all the strength I had, I pushed him away from me. He was still much stronger than me, but at least it made him nudge a little. He raised one eyebrow, clearly surprised by my strength but closed the distance between us. "It is really you Kira.” He stared down at my face, not taking his eyes off me for even a second. He lowered his face, taking my chin in between his index finger and thumb, tilting my head a few times. This was it, my chance to let it all out, but instead, just the touch of his fingers on my chin was enough to send goosebumps coating all over my skin. “Do you know how long I had to search for you. You left the Kingdom without telling me.” He said and that did it for me, I shoved him away from me. “I left the Kingdom without telling you. Have you lost your mind." I raised my voice at him. All these years I've been training, and a part of me knew that it was because of him. I
For a moment, being pressed like this against his back made me forget all my pains and worries. I had almost forgotten the comfort that came with being in the King's embrace. I closed my eyes tightly. It was going to take a lot of self-control to not just sink into his hands and let out all my anger, crying against his chest. I didn't want him to let go of me ever, but I knew that I was going to relapse if I let this happen. I gently took his hands off of me. "Don't ever touch me like that," I said firmly. "The woman that you used to know, she's gone for good. I’m Valeria, now... And as you can see, my mate is probably looking for me. We don't want him to find you here.” I tried to sound as threatening as I could. “That lanky man?” He mocked, “ I would take him down in seconds." "That's not the point," I reminded him. "Just please stay away from my life and away from me." I turned to leave once more, but he stopped me again. "I'm not going to leave until you tell me that you no lon
IThe king finally set me to my feet. After a long time of arguing, it felt like we had been walking for miles and miles. I completely lost my senses at one point, but I kept going because I was the one who insisted on coming here. We got to a cave, and it was huge. It was hidden in the mountains, and it could take all the warriors that were present. They only created a separate space for Alpha because he was the king and did not want to share all the space with everyone. He held my hand."What do you think you're doing?" he raised one eyebrow at me. "I'm going to settle in with everyone. I guess we all need to sleep before the big battle tomorrow." I shrugged at him. "Have you lost your mind?" He took me, pulling me closer to him. "Why would you sleep with all these men around? Come on, you're going to stay in the same cave as me.""But do you think that is disrespectful? I'm not your maid or anything. Everyone would get upset.""Nobody's getting upset, trust me. Everyone just w
IThe king finally set me to my feet. After a long time of arguing, it felt like we had been walking for miles and miles. I completely lost my senses at one point, but I kept going because I was the one who insisted on coming here. We got to a cave, and it was huge. It was hidden in the mountains, and it could take all the warriors that were present. They only created a separate space for Alpha because he was the king and did not want to share all the space with everyone. He held my hand."What do you think you're doing?" he raised one eyebrow at me. "I'm going to settle in with everyone. I guess we all need to sleep before the big battle tomorrow." I shrugged at him. "Have you lost your mind?" He took me, pulling me closer to him. "Why would you sleep with all these men around? Come on, you're going to stay in the same cave as me.""But do you think that is disrespectful? I'm not your maid or anything. Everyone would get upset.""Nobody's getting upset, trust me. Everyone just w
IThe king finally set me to my feet. After a long time of arguing, it felt like we had been walking for miles and miles. I completely lost my senses at one point, but I kept going because I was the one who insisted on coming here. We got to a cave, and it was huge. It was hidden in the mountains, and it could take all the warriors that were present. They only created a separate space for Alpha because he was the king and did not want to share all the space with everyone. He held my hand."What do you think you're doing?" he raised one eyebrow at me. "I'm going to settle in with everyone. I guess we all need to sleep before the big battle tomorrow." I shrugged at him. "Have you lost your mind?" He took me, pulling me closer to him. "Why would you sleep with all these men around? Come on, you're going to stay in the same cave as me.""But do you think that is disrespectful? I'm not your maid or anything. Everyone would get upset.""Nobody's getting upset, trust me. Everyone just w
IThe king finally set me to my feet. After a long time of arguing, it felt like we had been walking for miles and miles. I completely lost my senses at one point, but I kept going because I was the one who insisted on coming here. We got to a cave, and it was huge. It was hidden in the mountains, and it could take all the warriors that were present. They only created a separate space for Alpha because he was the king and did not want to share all the space with everyone. He held my hand."What do you think you're doing?" he raised one eyebrow at me. "I'm going to settle in with everyone. I guess we all need to sleep before the big battle tomorrow." I shrugged at him. "Have you lost your mind?" He took me, pulling me closer to him. "Why would you sleep with all these men around? Come on, you're going to stay in the same cave as me.""But do you think that is disrespectful? I'm not your maid or anything. Everyone would get upset.""Nobody's getting upset, trust me. Everyone just w
I remembered her name. Instantly, I knew that she was his previous mate, he had never fully told me the story of how she passed away. And so, I furrowed my eyebrows together, staring at him with a lot of confusion. "What do you mean, Libianca?"He suddenly bowed his head as if the memory of a person was taunting him. “It was like a situation like this too. We were going on war. She was a warrior this entire time. I knew that I should not have asked her to come on that journey, and I knew that she was not strong enough. But my selfishness, because I couldn't stay away from her for even a second. Was the reason why I convinced her to come to the war and I lost her, I'm not about to do that with you too. You're too weak for this kind of work. I'm telling you that I might not even survive. And you think that I will let you come along? What about the children?"“I already spoke to Locks about it and he's willing to take care of them under his protection.”"What.""Yes, that is how determin
The next morning, I was awake before it was even five in the morning. The king was still sleeping in bed, and so were the children.I had made up my mind, and I knew what I wanted to do. I got to my feet and I crept out of the door as quietly as I possibly could. I went to find Locks in the room that I thought belonged to him, and I was surprised when I knocked the door, and he was still in charge of this room.His eyes were heavy with sleep, and when he opened the door as if he wasn't expecting it to be me, he widened his eyes in shock and slammed the door in my face.I flinched, taken aback, wondering what was going on. He reopened the door a few seconds later. His face was washed, and he had packed his hair up. I couldn't help but smile. I wondered why on earth he was trying to look good for me."Hey, I wanted to talk to you. I'm sorry to come and barge into your room so early this morning.""What did you want to talk about?""So I know that you discussed with me about the King's W
I was shocked by Clyde's love confession. "What? What are you talking about?""Yes, that's the problem. I was also wondering why I was being so dramatic until I saw you with the king. The way you were smiling with him. It reminded me that the first day I saw you, I loved you from the start until you gave me that boundary, and I was going to keep it until the very end. But I didn't realize how jealous you've been with somebody else was going to make me so—-“ he groaned. "Trust me, I would still do it again if I havethe chance to.”“I'm not interested in all this nonsense that you're going on flapping about.” “I know it seems like I’m saying bullshit but as long as you're with the King, I will not back down, and I won't give up." I stood to my feet. "Clearly, you've gone mad, and I'm going to give you the chance to heal before I release you. Don't worry, I'm not going to be in this dungeon forever. It's just until you learn your lesson and learn that there are some things that you ne
I was still trying to process what he had said when the children started to cheer they had already heard what he said. "Yes Mommy, please let's stay in this big fancy room." They both started jumping on the bed, playing and giggling at the big bed. I turned to look at him."Why would you say that in front of them? Now I can't say no," he whispered in my ear. "Are you sure you can't say no because of them or because you don't want to?" I found that in the end, he was right. I could easily change my mind if I wanted. A part of me wanted to stay in this room with him. "Fine, but only because the children want it," I told him. "And don’t hold me like that in their presence." I warned him."You two must be very hungry." I turned to face them with a smile. "Yes, Mommy." "Okay, I'll go make you something to eat. Don't worry. You don't have to stress about that, I'll ask One of the guards to prepare something for them to eat.""Hell no I can't trust anybody in this palacs especially wi
"Where is he?" I asked them on top of my lungs, running away from them as if I knew where they would be.They ran after me, trying to keep up with my pace. "They are in the King's room with the king and a few guards."I increased my pace as if my life was about to end.I burst into the King's room, and I saw the children sitting on the bed.The king was still partially in his wolf form. His claws were still his wolves, and his body was still covered. His eyes were struggling, a very bright red. I wondered how the children were not terrified of his image.As soon as they saw me, they jumped to their feet, from where They were sitting and ran into my arms.I crouched to their height as they both came so hug me. I began to cry, checking their faces and inspecting them for injuries."Oh my goodness, my babies. How have you guys been?""Mommy I've missed you so much." Leah beamed."Me too," Leo said, showing off his shirt that the King gave to him."Oh my goodness." I turned around to look