*Definitely a beautiful moment for these two! Gosh! I can't wait to see them grow and start having feelings for each other and admitting it. What do you think of Ares' mom appearing to Alora at the beach? What do you think of her hair turning red? Have you figured what it means now? Also in the last chapter we realized Jax has a brother, what do you think happened to him? Let me know all your thoughts in the comments. See you very soon probably at the normal update time, not too sure, Jane ♥️
Ares. It's been more than fifteen years since anyone came into this room and played the piano. I vividly remembered locking this room and anything that reminded me of him. The piano was Zeus' and he cherished it greatly. And anytime he played it, it reminded me of the pain I had passed through, that vulnerability and my innocent self. The sound of the piano reminded me that I once had a time where I was defenseless. My heart ached at that. So why had I allowed Alora to play? I knew she was great at it, I've heard her play twice, each time different from the last. The first time she played was more of being curious, remembering the keys and while I felt a tingle it wasn't as compared as the one in my heart right now. The second time she played, I could feel her heartbreak, her fears, anger and sadness. For some reason, it was a pain I could relate to. But this time, the melody was different. The sound of each key floating against each other brought a peace within me that
Ares. I woke up with a start, breathing heavily from the nightmare I had. I rubbed my eyes, sitting up as I adjusted to the bright lights from the sun seeping through my windows and dark drapes. My eyes adjusted to the bright room and I sighed glancing briefly at my bedside clock. It was past six and I sighed, jumping out of bed as I walked into the bathroom. Staring at myself in the mirror, I had huge eye bags under my cold blue eyes and my face was pale with sweat covering my forehead, even my dark hair was wet. I sighed, running a hand through my hair tiredly as I looked down at my torso from the mirror. The blood stained bandage was still wrapped around my stomach. I had accidentally opened the wound last night and was too tired to change it. It wasn't like I could change it anyway. I made a mental note to visit the pack hospital today since I had banned Isabel from the house. A pang of guilt surged through me as I remembered Alora's tear filled eyes from last night. An
**This chapter is dedicated to you! For still being here, thank you♥️ Alora. The moon was bright outside and I had stepped out of the bathroom, my hair was wet, pressing against my back. It was red now, having changed last night as I ran upstairs after Ares had given me the concert tickets. I smiled, tucking my towel under my arm as I reached for the tickets on my bedside table. But even though I couldn't understand what it meant, it still managed to bring a smile upon my face. Drying my wet fingers on my towel, I held the paper in my hand, a grin filled my face and my eyes watered for a second before I blinked them back, blush filling my cheeks as I remembered how I had thrown my arms around Ares last night. I hadn't meant to. Infact, I had been so angry, staying in my room all day, not even listening to Lana when she called me, saying the girls had gone to the mall to get dresses for the pack ceremony tomorrow. I remained in my room all day, watching the garden pool, as th
**This chapter is dedicated to Amy for your support on my buy me a coffee. Thank you ♥️ Alora. Today was the Pack Ceremony. And as I walked out of the bathroom, I stopped to admire the sun outside my window. It was bright outside, and considering it was autumn, I could see some fallen leaves in the garden. Retying my towel around my chest, I rubbed my wet feet against my bathroom doormat and headed towards my bed when the door to my room opened suddenly. I froze at the sight of Ares entering my room. Ares was devilishly handsome in a black suit and black shirt that he had loosed the top buttons carelessly, exposing his hard muscular chest. His suit jacket clinged to his biceps, leaving me with only an outline of those strong arms that had grabbed me a few times. His black hair was carelessly tousled around his head, like he had just woken up and didn't bother caring to brush it leaving it a beautiful mess. His dark blue eyes were tired as they stared at me coldly, before the
**This chapter is dedicated to Sharmaine Martin for your support on my buy me a coffee. Thank you♥️ Ares. "Send another scout to the northern borders." I said, making Seth look at Victor warily. "Alpha, we already did." Victor responded and I sighed running my hand through my hair tiredly. "And the southern borders?" I asked again and Seth nodded. "Yes, Alpha. You've been paranoid all day. You can be rest assured. Everything will go fine tonight. It's past four, you should be heading back home to get ready for the ball tonight." Seth said worriedly and I frowned, looking at my phone expecting a text from Lana saying she has gotten Alora's dress. But I got none, making me sigh angrily. "Are you still taking Alora for the ball as your escort?" Victor asked and I nodded. "Yes. I asked Lana to get a dress for her. She should be heading back by now. I should have sent someone else, she probably has a lot to do." I responded, dropping my phone on the desk as I growled under my
**This chapter is dedicated to Vanessa Cruz for your support on my buy me a coffee. Thanks ♥️ Alora. "Well..I'm going with the Alpha as his escort and his lover." I said, watching four pairs of eyes widen as their jaws dropped. My cheeks flamed red at having said that. Obviously, the girls hadn't realized that Ares and I had somewhat gotten closer and I had been drawn into his plan to get Ezra off his back. Raya recovered first, walking towards me with her eyes squinted as a frown filled her lips. "Was that why you both were holding hands yesterday?" She asked suddenly and I blushed harder, raising my hand at her. "What?! No!" I said a little too loudly, making Camilla frown as she stepped forward to join Raya. "Hold on, they held hands?" She asked surprisingly as Carmen followed after her sister, coming to shake my shoulders. "You held hands with the Alpha?" Carmen asked, her face filled with confusion as Isabel shook her head and came to pull Carmen away. "Yes, and they
Alora. Camilla and Carmen sprinted out of the kitchen with the speed of light to meet their mother who I could hear closing off the sitting room door, breathing heavily as if she had been running to catch the girls. "Wait for me!" Camilla shouted as she followed behind her sister, throwing off the kitchen door as they vanished from out sight. "They are really looking forward to the ceremony today." Isabel giggled, pushing her glasses up her nose as Raya nodded, looking at the door with a smile on her face. "It's their first event so far and they get to see their friends who attend the same human high school with them since they didn't resume at the start of the term." She said and my smile fell at the thought of being the cause of it. It seemed like everything I did was only to cause the girls sorrow when they did nothing else than make me smile and take me out of the shell I buried myself in. I made a mental note to talk to the Alpha about uplifting their punishment. It has been
**This chapter is specially dedicated to Jae_Ash for your support on my buy me a coffee. It means a lot ♥️ Ares. I left the jewelry store, adjusting my dark sunglasses over my eyes so no one recognized me as I made it to my car, slamming the door shut. Because nothing screamed pathetic like the Alpha going to buy a jewelry for a slave. Throwing the glasses, I started my car, dropping the small jewelry box on the car as I headed back to the estate. It was already past seven and I had to pick Alora because the Hunter's Moon Ceremony had already started. Quickly, Seth and I had to get suits, changing immediately and while Seth had gone to style his hair, I left mine in a heaped mess having run my fingers through it a thousand times in a few hours. Pack ceremonies weren't my thing, and knowing my curse was going to be hell tonight didn't make me look any further into it. I sighed, pulling up in the estate to see the rest of the maids leaving. They had gotten changed already as t
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