Alora. Do I run away? I stared at the door as the thought filled my mind. A part of me wanted to, but there was a soft voice telling me not to. And that voice was Lana's. Reaching for the door knob, I twisted it and pushed the door open gently, peeking outside. A cold rush of air ruffled my hair and I blinked rapidly to see there were guards stationed everywhere. It would be hard to escape, so I closed the door and rested my back against the hard surface, sliding down the floor tiredly. Today was the first time I ever felt tired from working. Washing the dishes had worn me out so much because I wasn't used to it, I hadn't done it in years. The smell of food still lingered in my nose and I smiled softly when Lana had thrown a piece of food in my mouth asking if the salt was enough. I rubbed my arms against the jacket she had given me and my smile grew wider. For the first time, I was properly clothed, not naked like Jax had wanted or in see through nightdresses. The clothes
Ares. The moment I heard Alora's voice I stopped in my tracks, frozen in place with my jaw hanging dropping down to the floor. Her voice sounded like the simple flowing of a river, running swiftly over rocks. Every anger I had felt earlier melted away, my blood cooled and my veins turned into ice as I stared in awe at the girl in front of me. Tears ran gently from her fear filled eyes, rolling down round cheeks before falling to the cold floor beneath our feet. I couldn't move, couldn't speak as the words of the song rolled off her beautiful lips leaving behind the resonating sound of the most charming melody ringing in my ears. In all my twenty-nine years of being alive I hadn't heard such a beautiful voice. The only sound I had grown accustomed to was the piano and I could just imagine that voice blending with the melody of the piano. I suddenly wished I hadn't interrupted her while she was playing, I wished I had waited for her to sing also because it was the most beautif
Alora. The moment I closed my eyes, I was projected into my childhood, that same forest I had spent most of my time before I became a slave. Because I wasn't in school, I played a lot in the woods just where our house was and it didn't take long before I made a new friend. I couldn't call him a slave though, because he treated me like a child even when I knew he was just thirteen years old. Jax was rude and yelled at me very often, and while I wondered what he was doing in the woods every evening, I enjoyed his company. I didn't know if it was because he was the only company I had or maybe I genuinely just liked him. But either way, he was here again and I was excited as usual. "It's broken." Jax pointed at the piano I was playing. I chuckled, the sound of my laughter mixing with the steady flow of the river just beside us. Jax and I had taken a spot just beside the river, and I tried to make music with the piano and I was failing at it. "I know. But I like it." I said,
Ares. I laid on the bed, puffing out smoke from my lips when the girl closed the door behind her. She smiled at me seductively but I could sense her nervousness as she walked towards me. Her black hair was pulled into a ponytail and she brought her hand swiftly to it drawing back the string that held it together so it fell in waves over her shoulder. Suddenly, a different black hair swiping past violet eyes filled with tears flashed in my head and I looked away from her, grabbing the bottle of Martini from the bed stand. "I didn't know you would ever pick me, Alpha." She muttered, coming closer to the bed to draw my attention. "I needed a distraction tonight. And you caught my attention." I answered, pinning her with a black stare as she blushed, her pale cheeks staining red. "I'm honored. And I'll please you well, my Alpha." She said and I nodded absentmindedly. She took that as a response as she reached for her blouse. It was a dark leather crop top with zip at its front
Alora. The moment Ares grabbed my hair, I jerked awake from my sleep. I had been dreaming of my past, locked in this dark room and curled against the wood of the bed, scared until Ares burst in angrily. Loud noises scared me, mostly because whenever Jax was angry he slammed the door and threw things around the room making me cower in fear. Whenever there were loud noises, I associated it with fear. And I hated it. Fear brought pain. Ares grabbed my head, forcing me to look up at him and I was instantly taken aback by his red eyes, and his breath of alcohol. Was he drunk? He looked like he was as his eyes could hardly focus on mine, infact, the room was still dark so I could barely make out any of his features. I didn't understand his sudden burst of anger or what I had done. Was it still because I played the piano? I thought, looking up at him fearfully with wide violet eyes. "How dare you?" He asked before gripping my hair tighter and jerking my face towards him. I g
Alora. As I sat there, my head wrapped around Ares' palm with fingers caressing my cheeks, his other hand wrapped around my waist and his lips locked with mine. I was speechless. It was like my mind had run blank, my thoughts vanished into nothingness, every fear I had felt earlier dissolved, dispersing into the wind and leaving me emotionless. Ares' lips ran over mine and I finally started to realize what was happening. Ares was kissing me! The Alpha of The Blood Moon Pack, Ares Delgado, Jax's number one enemy, was kissing me! I was too stunned to pull away. To shocked to blink, I could taste the alcohol in his lips and the softness of those pink lips against mine. I had expected someone like Ares to be rough, but his lips on mine were gentle as if wanting to taste every part of them. Every part of me stood at alert and as much as I didn't want to react to the kiss, I could feel a heat growing inside of me, steadily and almost unnoticeable. And just as Ares had placed
Ares. "Alpha, are you listening?" Seth asked, and I nodded, tearing my gaze from the window and turning to him. We are currently in my office, my meeting had ended a few hours ago and Victor and Seth had followed me right to my office. My head banged in pain and I was almost sending them both out so I could take a nap. But as usual Seth was bugging me about the pack ceremony that was coming up in a few days. Every month, we celebrated the newly mated wolves as they marked themselves under the full moon. It was a ritual I had grown tired of but as usual, the elders would be there to make sure everything went right. "I am." I answered through gritted teeth, snatching the bottle of water on my table and taking a huge gulp. "The full moon is coming also. Would you be able to bear it this time?" Seth asked and I fell silent. The full moon was indeed a few days away, the same night as the ceremony and I knew what to expect just when the moon formed the perfect circle. "Don't
Ares. I unlocked the door, taking out the key from the keyhole as I pushed the door opened. It was evening so the setting sun casted bright orange rays of light into the room, making it almost magical as my room was mostly dark and uninviting. I scented Alora immediately and I turned my gaze to where she was shackled to my bed. Her violet eyes were fixed on me, fear filled them and I suddenly grew tired of the scared aura that radiated off her. Her legs were pulled to her chest shielding some part of her body from me, I ran my eyes down the scars on her hands as they were lifted above her head chained to my bed in a discomforting way. Her black hair looks greasy and I suddenly felt the urge to see them glow once more when she washed them. There were eye bags underneath her violet eyes, leaving dark circles around them. She said nothing as I walked into the room, closing the door behind me and taking a step towards her. Her fear intensified, almost choking me and I saw how emba
Alora. “I finally have you!” I heard a voice behind me as I stood in my bathroom in my towel, my red hair dripping wet as I stood in shock, staring at the face of the monster I had lived with for years. Jax stood at my bathroom door, he was wearing a dark suit, his shirt unbuttoned revealing tan skin and a series of tattoos running down his chest. His long legs closing the distance between us. He pushed his long black hair away from his face revealing an evil gleam in those green eyes that put the garden outside to shame. “H—how did you get in?” I asked, my heart thumping loudly in my chest as I took a step back even Jax grabbed me, pressing me against his chest as he smiled, his eyes fixed on my lips. “It was easy.” He drawled, his fingers circling my waist as he held me still when I tried to let go but Jax was powerful, he wasn’t the Alpha for nothing and I feared him. “Ares let me. He let me get to you.” He told me as he smiled when I froze. I shook my head, unable to proc
Ares. “Why do you want to be Alpha?” I asked Seth as he stalked down a rabbit that was a few feet away from us. His grey eyes turned to me sharply, raising his finger to his lips to silent me. “Shut up,” he said, looking at the rabbit that sniffed around and followed the scent of the carrots we had laid as bait for it. The rabbit was small, dark brown and a part of me was sad that it would fall into our trap and our stomachs later. But we were hungry, we hadn’t eaten for days except fruits and berries, and we were tired of it already. “But the Alpha is the strongest in the pack right?” I asked Seth as he rolled his eyes at me. It wasn’t difficult knowing who had power in a pack, and what positions they had. If Seth was a better teacher then I would have learnt faster, but he was mean and cold towards me. “Yes. And I want to be the strongest. I want to rule over everyone and my father said I would.” He told me, his eyes flashing with anger as he ducked behind the tree when the r
Alora. “Lana said I’ll find you here.” I heard Isabel say as I sat up from the couch. After Lana had left, I felt so alone in the house. Camilla and Carmen had gone to the mall and Raya was busy cleaning out a room for Alex while Lana went about her duties. It was starting to get hard being locked up here with nothing to do. Ares didn't even let me go even out of the estate doors as my encounter with him this morning had made me sad, his tone and his cold eyes reminded me of Jax even though I knew Ares would never hit me. I wasn’t in a much different situation from when I was Jax’s slave. I didn’t know what freedom was back then, so I never felt bored locked up in his home. I felt empty. But here, I had experienced the outside world and I wanted to be there. Always. “Are you ok?” Isabel asked as she looked around the room. “It’s weird being here, since I started working with the Alpha this room had always been locked. It’s funny how you were the reason he opened it.” She said
Ares. My door burst open with Victor and Seth strolling in immediately with Isabel’s brother behind them, tapping furiously at his iPad as I shut my laptop close, hiding any evidence of me watching Alora. Victor didn’t look very well, he wore a black suit with his tie loose and shirt unbuttoned as his eyes lacked any emotion as he rushed to my desk with Seth beside him looking angry as usual compared to how I had seen him a few minutes ago. “What is it?” I asked casually as Isabel’s brother, Zach worked in my I.T department, walked forward first as Victor stood behind him peering down on his iPad. “Someone sent a video to the company’s email and is trying to breach our servers.” He said and I frowned looking at Seth with disinterested eyes. “We get that every time. How is this any different?” I asked as Seth sighed before stepping closer. “This is from Jax.” He said and I frowned, rising to my feet. Zach stepped back from me. “What?!” I growled angrily. In all the years th
Ares. “So I’ve narrowed down the schools that offer adult education,” I heard Isabel say as I looked up from my laptop as she walked into my office holding an iPad. She wore a weird shirt with an anime character and short tennis skirts. Her blonde hair was pulled in a ponytail and her big round glasses reflected the lights from the screen of her device. “It’s quite surprising that many pack schools have adult education in their curriculum. And I was able to find a few close to us.” She said as she bowed at me. “Alpha.” “Didn’t you find any in the pack?” I asked curiously as Isabel shook her head. “The two pack schools don’t have adult classes and there’s no one experienced enough to teach Alora. The only pack member who had taught an adult is away for his PhD and won’t be back until another year.” “So where are the schools?” “I found one just close by. It’s in the Moon River pack.” I frowned. The Moon River Pack was a small pack that was just about thirty minutes drive a
Alora. I ran to my room, slamming the door behind me before running to the bathroom and splashing water against my face. My hands trembled as I washed my face before I looked at the mirror. My reflection stared back at me, my orange hair from its root as if I had been born that way ran through my face and back, falling at my waist. It had grown longer over the days and my violet eyes were scared and confused. Looking down at my hands, I wondered what had happened earlier. One minute I was looking at Ares’ curse mark, and the next minute I was touching it and blanking out. Even going to the past and seeing what had happened. I didn’t know what to think, nor what to do. Every time I took a step with Ares, something drew me back, something about him didn’t make me trust him fully. Finding out he killed his parents made me look at him differently. And the look he had given me when I had called him a monster, those cold blue eyes stared back at me with hurt for only a second. I s
Alora. The feeling of someone hands on my cheeks woke me up from the deep slumber and I fluttered my eyes open meeting Ares cold blue ones, but they had some sort of emotions buried beneath all that icy blue. As quickly as I felt the touch, it was gone and Ares snatched his hand away, coughing awkwardly as I smiled softly at him. “Hi.” I said quietly as Ares nodded, starting to get off the bed when I clinched to his arm and giggled. “Don’t leave yet.” I told him as he looked down at my hands wrapped around his biceps. I blushed as his muscles flexed a bit before he nodded. I didn’t know why I was suddenly brave around him, but after knowing Jax was lurking around ready to pounce on me when Ares wasn’t looking, I wanted to be around Ares and his protection. A part of me ached to tell Ares but another part of me was scared. He hadn’t been fully kind to me when we first met and he hated Jax. I couldn’t imagine what his response would be when I told him. “Why do you hate the
Ares. I looked in the rear mirror at the boy who had fallen asleep in the back seat, his hands clasped under his head as he snored silently. I drove carefully and pulled up at the estate gate before driving in. Looking at the house, and at my watch. It was already past twelve so I figured Alora was already asleep. Coming down from the car, I walked to the back seat and pulled the door open before reaching for Alex who mumbled and reached for his thumb before sucking on it. I forced the smile off my face as I pulled him to my chest and he rested his head against my shoulder. “Make sure the gates are locked properly.” I said to a guard who nodded as he came to get my car keys to take to the garage. I went to the house, pushing the door open before closing it behind me. It was dimly lit inside and Lana always left the hallway light to the kitchen turned on so I didn’t trip on my way up the stairs. Alex slept peacefully and I turned to the chair where Alora usually sat and watched
Ares “Alpha, you can’t do that.” Seth said as I signed on a booklet one of the pack nurses gave me and I returned it back to her before turning to look at Seth who was fuming behind me. “It’s late. We can’t leave him here.” I told him as Seth growled before running his hand through his hair and turning around before facing me once more. “Then we can just give him to one of the pack maids. They can take care of him. Taking him to your home is a bad idea.” Seth told me and I shook my head. “He is alone. He just lost his mother. We can’t leave him at the pack house.” “It’s even better there, he can be with other kids.” “When I lost my mother, I didn’t want to be with other kids and then I met you. I wanted to be alone, grieve and not be surrounded by people who would take pity on me.” I said and Seth sighed just as Doctor Kunle came to us. Seth turned to him as Isabel’s father frowned at my Beta clearly disapproving of him since he basically kind of rejected Isabel. Doctor K