**I'm super excited to see these two. I love how Ares had a lot going on in his head upon seeing Alora. I'm glad he admires her and sees her as beautiful. I'm also glad that he's feeling a bit jealous, hehe. It shows some sort of feelings are already sprouting up for her and I can't wait to see it grow. I'm super pumped for the next chapter and I hope you are too. Sorry this came a little late. Let me know what you think of the chapter in the comments, your expectations for the Hunter's Moon Ceremony and the rues Ares is going to give Alora? Would it be something she can keep? See you all tomorrow (Friday) same time, Jane♥️
**This chapter is dedicated to Ashley L. for your support on my buy me a coffee. It means a lot. Alora. "Welcome to the Hunter's Full Moon Ceremony!" A loud voice shouted from inside the hall and my heart thumped so loudly in my chest that I feared it was going to drop at my feet. Bright lights shone from outside the hall as my jaw dropped at the sight of the entrance. Beautiful orange decorations were placed at the entrance, the different phases of the moon in glowing bulbs hung from different directions of the ceiling. A huge chandelier stood above us, casting glittering orange lights around us and the soft sound of music filled my ears as we neared the entrance. I suddenly started to feel nervous, touching my fingers as I bit down my lips. The sudden taste of strawberry lipstick filled my tongue and I released my lips, hearing Ares climb out of the car before standing beside me. Feeling his eyes on me, I turned to Ares. And once more I was taken aback by his dashing looks
**This chapter is dedicated to Ginny Williams for your support on my buy me a coffee. Thank you ♥️ Alora. "You must be the Alpha's latest bitch." A voice said from behind me and I resisted the urge to turn around as my heart thumped loudly in my chest. "What? Cat got your tongue?” The voice said again, and I knew it was a she wolf, her voice was a tiny irritating noise against my ear and I slowly turned to her. Standing before me were three she wolves. The one in the middle caught my attention as the leader of the group. She had black hair that she pulled into a ponytail, and green eyes that sparked hatefully at me. She wore the slutiest burnt orange gown I had ever seen, revealing the cleavages of her big round breast that was only covered by sparkling stones. Her gown hugged her perfectly and barely stopped on her thighs. Beside her were two other girls and I noticed they were twins. Blonde hair and bright blue eyes. They wore very revealing clothes too, their cleavages almo
**This chapter is dedicated to Bonnie for your support on my buy me a coffee. Thank you ♥️ Ares. Alora eyes glistened under the thousands lights above us. It was like a shade of purple only that it appeared like crystals had been trapped in them and as the bright lights passed through it, it splitted into different colors. Orange from the theme of the party, its color splashing from the room across her eyes, and a silver shadow in its wake. It was beautiful. She was beautiful. Like a sea of nothingness, I was lost in them. A space where nothing existed except her. Her face, eyes, hair and body. With her arms around my neck, heat radiated off me, a slick seat glided through the back of my forehead despite the cold air. But that wasn't the most beautiful thing about this moment. It was the way we moved in sync, our short breath slamming against each other as the dance made me breathless. I didn't see myself as a good dancer, but with Alora, every misturn was made into some perfe
**This chapter is specially dedicated to Racheal Blair who has been supporting me since the beginning of this journey. Words can't appreciate you enough for the love and support you've given me. Thank you from my heart♥️ Alora. I smiled as I picked wild flowers as i remembered Ares words. Why does he have to be so vile?! I blushed, storming my feet against the floor. My cheeks felt so hot as I grumbled, snatching the flowers a bit too roughly before I squatted, my dress flowing around me in a soft orange poodle. A warmth filled me as I heard the ruffling of clothes. The Run was about to start and I rose to my feet, turning to the direction of the ballroom. I noticed wolves going to the different rooms before coming out naked. I blushed again. Wolves really had no shame. I looked away and up at the moon that stood full against the clouds. Lana had been right, it was a bright orange. Very beautiful and full of so much power. "The Hunter's Moon is the most beautiful moon in
**This chapter is dedicated to a special someone for your support on my buy me a coffee. Whoever you are, it means a lot to me Thank you ♥️ Alora. The cold air ruffled my hair and my dress making it harder to keep up with Ezra's hurried and long strides. Despite looking very fragile and soft, Ezra wasn't anything but that. His grip was strong and fierce even with having slender and long fingers, his tampered manicured fingernails digging into my skin painfully. Ezra pulled me with enough strength to pull down a tower, his grip was just as powerful as Jax's or Ares' or even more. And I clenched my teeth as I staggered behind him. "Let me go!" I yelled, nearly stumbling against a rock with my high heels that didn't make catching up with him any easier. Deep throaty laugh escaped his lips sending chills down my spine as it echoed in the empty forest. It seems other wolves had gone back to change and continue the ball as no one was in sight. "You need to see who Ares truly is. He's b
**This chapter is specially dedicated to Sway for your support on my buy me a coffee. Thank you♥️ Alora. Ares' wolf was a whole different being. He was happy, cute and adorable. I noticed he liked to sniff at my hand as if checking I was still there. And he had done it about six times in the past minute. He was a whole contradiction to Ares. When Ares was apathetic, his wolf was passionate and When he was emotionless, his wolf was emotional. From his constant glowing red eyes that seemed to me fascinated with my violet ones. And his tongue ran through my face countless times. Ares' wolf was another shade of his host and I found myself drawn to him. I couldn't explain what the feeling was, it was new but beautiful. Like I could count on him to be there for me. A wave of familiarity hit me like a tidal wave and I found my heart reaching out to Ares who had let his wolf take over. A part of me wished I had a wolf too who could relate to Ares' wolf through animal instincts.
**This chapter is specially dedicated to Elizabeth Anne Sessions for your support on my buy me a coffee. Thank you♥️ Ares. I've never known pain in this manner. The pain I was accustomed to was the one that dealt with my body, tearing it apart as I bled from the wreck it caused to my physical body. But this kind of pain was different. It didn't attack my body like the curse did. It didn't make me scream while it tore my back. It didn't feel like a hot iron rod being smeared over my skin. Neither did it feel like a thousand needles piercing me at once. No. It didn't feel like any of that. This pain was different. Like someone was ripping my heart from the inside, off my chest very slowly and painfully. Like it was being squeezed out, taken and thrown off the floor. Like it was crushed under heavy boots, leaving its pieces all over the place. This kind of pain didn't leave an eternal scar over my skin. Instead it smeared my heart with so many invisible scars th
**Thank you everyone who is here, if you're seeing this. You're the best thing that's happened to me since I started this book. I appreciate you. And I'm glad you gave my book a chance. Your support has brought me joy, your patience, love and encouragement. I'm grateful to you. Xo. Alora. "Where are we going?" I asked Jax as he pulled me out of our room and down the hall. It's been a few months and while I had been locked in his room since I had arrived here, it's been lonely. Jax had gone on a business trip the very next day leaving me all alone in his room with only a few maids to attend to me by bringing my meals. I looked up at Jax, his long black hair touching his shoulders and bright cold green eyes staring ahead as his strong arms held my wrist with a brutal force that didn't give any thoughts of running away. I was happy to finally see him after such a long time. But how stupid a fifteen year old me was. Happy that the monster who owned me had returned. But in a few
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