**This was so painful to write and we are finding more about Ares. The piano reminds him of his brother Zeus and it's painful because he's dead now and Ares doesn't want to hear the sound of the piano anymore. Now he's pissed. What are your thoughts on this chapter? Do you think Ares is just as scarred as Alora? What do you hope for these two? What do you think of Alora's song? Let me know in the comments, drop a review too if you want more updates and please vote. See you all on Monday, Jane♥️
Alora. I smiled sadly, keeping my eyes closed as I played the piano, its melody leaving a sudden calmness in my heart, making me forget everything that has happened to me. It removed every pain, hurt and every emotional scar within me, even while my physical ones couldn't be cured, music cured the ones within me. But my little moment of bliss was suddenly interrupted as a loud bang sounded in my ears and I snapped my eyes in surprise. Ares stood in front of me, his blue eyes dark and dangerous as they glared at me, he towered over me like the monster he was radiating power and darkness. I immediately snatched my fingers away from the piano, rising from my feet so quickly that I stumbled against the chair, falling flat on my bum and leaving a dull ache. "Get up, you're coming with me." Ares said in a deadly voice causing shivers to run down my arms as my heart sank, filling its void with fear. "Why? Don't speak to her like that." The older man stood forward, a frown on his
Ares. Alora's tear filled violet eyes haunted me. I hated it. It was a weird feelings that made me feel weak. But at the same time, it felt like I was finally capable of any emotion other than hate and anger. I sighed, running my hand through my hair as I ended the call with Seth who was already covering up for me for the meeting I was already late for. I shoved my phone into my pocket as I continued my way down the hallway. My mind was clouded with the thought of Alora's melody and the sound of her tears and her tired sad eyes. Fuck! Why do I always feel this way when she cried? It was obvious that she wasn't playing the piano to get on my nerves. If anything, Alora did anything she could to not make me angry. She hated being yelled out, loud noises and it was no wonder she enjoyed the piano. It was soft and alluring. Just like.. I shook my head. Whatever. The piano angered me and it wasn't my fault I didn't want to hear what reminded me of my past anymore. Guilt f
Ares. I gently pulled Alora out of the car, breathing heavily as the pain in my torso intensified and I staggered. Looking down at Alora, she was still asleep and I started her scars. Her arm was showing off her scars and I heard the sound of footsteps drawing closer to the front door. Isabel and the rest would be here any moment and it was obvious Alora had hidden her scars from them. It was something she wasn't proud of and I knew she didn't want anyone to see it. Growling painfully, I knelt against the hard concrete floor, resting Alora on the floor as I started to take off my suit jacket. I winced in pain as blood seeped past the wound and I took deo breath as my vision became blurry. I was losing a lot of blood and I was going to pass out anytime soon. So I managed to quickly take off my jacket and place it against Alora. I took her arm and passed it through my sleeves as I buttoned it to hide away her arm and some parts of her stomach. But something caught my eye at t
Alora. Before I woke up, I was floating in a sea of nothingness. There was only darkness, so thick that I could feel it clawing at my arms and feet. I was suspended in the air, falling deeper like I was being pulled into it with a rope. But I couldn't move, couldn't struggle to stay afloat. I couldn't save myself and I closed my eyes, accepting my fate. And soon there was a bright light in front of me, I could sense it from my closed eyelids and when I opened them, I was on the beach. The sky was blue, a very bright blue and birds flew above me, squalling happily and I turned to the sun. It shone brightly, a bright yellow and it was hard to make out the outline from it. And when I looked ahead I saw the ocean. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Since it was my first time seeing it, my mouth opened in awe as the waves came crashing around it. Water splashed around, drew closer to my feet. Making it cold and warm at the same time before it retracted back to the
Alora The hug lasted for another second before Ares tore away from me, stepping back quickly. He suddenly hissed, clenching his torso as a gasp escaped my lips. "What's wrong?" I asked worriedly as he looked away painfully. "Cameron shot me." He said, breathing heavily as he pulled the robe away to inspect the bandages wrapped around him. "I'm sorry. I didn't know he was a bad person and I know you warned me earlier but I didn't listen. I'm-" I started to say but Ares cut me off. "It's ok. Get some rest." He said before walking away from me to the door. I stared after him as he pushed the door open, stopping briefly as he started to turn back to me before he shook his head and left the room, closing the door behind him. Ares acted differently and I wondered why. He has been nothing but cruel and mean to me. So why had he suddenly hugged me from the blues. Was it because he felt I was in danger and he was unable to save me? Or had my words gotten through him? Either way,
Jax. It was hard to sleep. Think or even do anything. My mind was a constant mess, filled with thoughts of Alora, her scent, her skin marred with scars created by me, her violet eyes. The mere thought of her was making me go crazy. It's been more than a month and there was a trace of her anywhere. In the neighboring packs that I owned nor in the human community. It was like she had vanished into thin air and it raised my anxiety to even think she was with someone else. Another man. I growled, slamming my phone against the wall as I could feel my beast clawing at my chest, begging to be let out and go on a killing spree until Alora was found. The glass shattered against the wall, falling in broken pieces on the floor and I ran my hand through my hair that had gotten longer, sweat filled my forehead and I paced around my room like a wolf in a cage. Where the hell was she? I thought. I owned one of the biggest CCTV security companies in the world and there was no trace of her a
Ares. Time seemed to pass by slowly as I waited in my car for the elder to come out of the airport. My heart thumped loudly in my chest in expectation for him. Victor had called me that he was going to be coming today instead of tomorrow and worst of all, he was studying in my home at the estate. A thousand thoughts ran through my head as I wondered what was going to go wrong even though he was around. The elders were constantly watching my pack, waiting for one single mistake to punish me again. They wanted me to fuck up and wanted my downfall to strip me away from being the Alpha of Blood Moon Pack and I couldn't allow that. It didn't help that they hated me to their very cores. My phone vibrates once more in my pocket and I knew it was Seth calling for the third time since I left the house. His paranoia was getting to me and it was only a matter of time before I smashed the phone against the floor in anger. Ignoring my phone, I ran my hand through my torso, the pain fr
Alora. After Lana and the girls left, I quickly took my bath and noticed my hair had changed back to its original color. As I admired myself in the mirror, I noticed something about my eyes. They had gotten a tiny bit brighter. They used to be a dull empty shade of violet but now they shone a little bit. When I finished, I joined them in the kitchen, according to Lana the elder was coming and everything had to be in place. But I was barely enough help for them in the kitchen, and Lana said there wasn't enough time to teach me right now with the elder just a few miles away. So I had been left behind watching them run about, eventually, I got bored and decided to explore the garden when I noticed the roses were blooming under the bright sun. I picked some and decided to take them to my room when I met with Ares and someone who I figured was the elder. The elder had a powerful aura around him despite his small frame. He was tall with bright green eyes and long straight white hair
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