“So, what is going to happen at Halloween tomorrow?” I wiped my mouth with the napkin and looked at Daniel after dinner. Alessio and Daniel had returned home together. Instead of having dinner at the packhouse, both of them had arranged for the dinner to be at our house. Lara had already come to meet me in the morning and had stayed. Alessio extended a cupcake in my direction to which I shook my head in a no. I was already full. “Last one. You didn’t eat much.” he handed me the cake before standing up and kissing my forehead and walking off with the dirty dishes to place in the sink. “Ew… stop being so mushy already!” Daniel grunted in disgust to which Alessio just shot a smirk as a response. “Like you don’t do it with Lara secretly?” I teased. Daniel made a face at us and turned to me, “It is all going to be a glitters and glam show on Halloween. I have brought everything at the packhouse and preparations have already started. It’s a fucking France dress up saga on Halloween
I clenched my teeth tightly, give him a glowering death stare. “Tell me one thing, will you?” I seethed, “you know EVERYTHING about me. EVERY FUCKING THING. Then why am I the only one who is shamed for not knowing something about you?”“What are you talking about?!” he snapped with frustration lacing his words.I clenched my teeth, not really in the mood for explanations but then snapped, “Who is the man with green eyes and brown hair? Same height as you?”A flash of recognition slipped into his eyes.“Many of your pack members saw him today and they looked at me like I was crazy or weird for not knowing who he is. You know him, don’t you? Why does he look at me like I did something extremely bad to him?” I ranted out everything at once, not having even an ounce of patience inside me any longer.He remained silent for several seconds. His gaze withering with a contemplation.“Forget about him.” he muttered. “It is best for you to not bother about insignificant things, alright?!”I ke
Walking back home, I could not get out the sour feeling covering my chest. It was almost dinner time, and Alessio had insisted that we always have dinner together, but the way things had shifted between us since Halloween night, I wondered if we could even sit in front of each other without getting into a fight. By the time I came out of my room after changing into night clothes, dinner table had already been set and Alessio was waiting for me with the fork in his fist while staring blankly at the table. I took my seat, served food, and started eating. The silence was deafening than any sound I had ever heard. Throughout the dinner he did not make any attempt to talk to me, and neither did I. Both of us were focused on eating but the food going in my mouth appeared tasteless. Just as I drank water, and started standing up, he looked up to stare at me, “How did the Luna training go?” I lowered my body and sat back down. My firsts clenched in my lap as I tried to tame down the ange
“You have a brother?!” I shouted in shock. It was no wonder that all those people stared at me like I was pitiful or mad. My mate has a brother and I don’t recognize him?! Does that make any sense at all?His face contorted with stress immediately when he saw the look on my face. “I did not tell you because our relationship is not the way you think!” “What do I think, Alessio? Tell me. Come on.” I urged with deathly silent voice.He exhaled deeply, pushing the hair out of his forehead and then hissing, “Like the lovey dovery brothers who share each secret. Or the brothers who live under the same roof but just don’t like each other. We are nowhere like that.”“Oh, you got it all just from my silence?” I raised my brows at him questionigly, “you are a genius, Alessio. Now you can just guess immediately what I am thinking about others before I even say a word?”The glare in his gaze intensified, “Don’t talk to me like that, Mia.”I gritted my teeth. I was angry at him for hiding such
I ran through the halls quickly, trying to find Lara at the packhouse. The halls were buzzing with people and everything looked so over the top that I wondered if this appeared more like a grand wedding event instead of The Alpha's meeting. Due to the busyness of all the ongoing preparations of this event, I had only seen Lara run from here to there to make sure everything was perfect. She was helping me handle all the things, and god… it was SO HELPFUL. I don’t think I would have pulled this event off without her help at all. The moment I caught her rushing toward the kitchen I grabbed her by her shoulder and pulled her toward the dinner table, “Come. It is dinner time.” I peeked inside the kitchen, found Nia and whispered, “You will handle from here, please?” Nia grinned and showed me an ‘okay’ sign with a wink. I blew her a kiss and then gave a shove to Lara’s shoulder, “Get to the dinner table already. Daniel has already started giving me death stares thinking I have enslaved h
Daniel, Lara, Beta Neil and Alpha Jay burst out in laughter openly while I felt Alessio shaking right next to me. Afraid if I had angered him by saying anything wrong when I turned my glance towards him, he was grinning openly. His body was shaking because he was laughing. In fact, several other people around the people were laughing hysterically. I felt proud. I had done good. Before I could bask in the glory of my self victory, alpha Derek burst out furiously, “Do not cross your line. Sitting next to someone powerful has made you forget the place you had here when Wyatt ruled? Ungrateful and disrespectful wenc-”“Try and finish that sentence.” Alessio said in a deathly calm tone. The amusement from his eyes had disappeared within a matter of few seconds.Alpha Derek seethed heavily. He was clearly not someone that accepted defeat easily, but to his defence came the middle aged woman sitting next to him that was perhaps his mate, “What is wrong with hearing the truth, Alpha Alessi
“Finally.” Alessio grinned as his palm offered me help climbing up the stairs to enter the hall. There was a really pleased look on his face and the grin the widest one I had seen recently. He had been so busy in these past couple of days, now seeing him in front of me made me realize how much I had missed him even though we had only been apart a few hours. “How do I look?” I teased. “Just needing a prince beside you to complete the look,” he smirked shamelessly. I slapped his arm, laughing hard, “Wow, look at the self assurance you have!” “And here I had thought that I was going to be the centre of attraction.” he grinned dramatically and put his hand on the back of my waist, guiding me inside the hall. I turned my head, staring at him from the top of his head to the bottom of his shoes. His gelled hair set in place, the white, italian suit paired with a black shirt and tie, and the gold cufflinks on his wrists made him look like a prince out of fairytale books. His god-given s
Alessio… The Same Day“I am not hoping for any special favors, but let’s not forget that this part of negotiation will be beneficial for us both.” The old man grumbled, gulping down the fifth glass of expensive whiskey that the waiter had just served him.I forced a small smile, nodding my head, and turned around to walk away. Half of the alphas’ meeting was filled with arrogant idiots who could not manage their own packs for shit. And then alphas’ meeting becomes their ‘negotiation ground’ to boast about stuff that is out of their hands instead of telling straight that they are in need of help.Well, such a damned centuries old tradition to save the face.
Five Years Later…“Not going to work out.” I mumbled, stuffing the file I had in my hand in the drawer.“It is going to work out.” Nia frowned, “I gave him a kiss.”“On the cheek.” I tried to hold back my smile, “you kissed him on the cheek. The situation required a minimum of a blowjob, girly.”Nia leaned against the couch, sipping her coffee. Since we had gotten a bigger office because now we were making changes to all the packs that Alessio owned, not only Bloodmoon, the workload had increased. Nia had been helpful since the very beginning though. Diana had moved out, and gone to the city to have a new life with her human partner who had had werewolf- human parents. They had met at a grocery shop one day, somehow hit it off, started dating secretly and the next thing I know, we are getting a surprise announcement from Diana saying she is getting married again.We met the dude though. There was no way we were going to handover our sweet Diana to a total stranger.Turns out he was f
Alessio drove us home in his car.He was silent.I was silent.I was feeling a good deal of relief. There was the distinct possibility that my life was going to go back to normal. I’d never been a fan of normal, in fact, I avoided it at all costs, but now it sounded really good to me.I kind of wanted to ask Alessio if it was truly all over but I could tell Alessio didn’t feel in the mood to talk. I could tell this because there were scary “not now” vibes bouncing around inside the car so I figured talking about this later would be better.Lara was in much better shape than me, thankfully. Since they did not have any use of her, they had just dumped her in a dungeon far away from the main house and gave her food every two days. I was pretty sure that it was not by choice though. Seth was overly cautious of not letting Alessio find him at any cost. Hiding Lara in a dungeon and leaving her there must have been the part of his plan because Lara is a warrior, much stronger and smarter tha
MiaWhen the dust settled down, I saw Daniel standing right there, his gun in his hand and it was smoking.Thank… you… God.It might seem terrible that I was thanking the good Lord that someone got shot but if divine retribution came in the form of Daniel and his silver revolver, I was not going to quibble.Before I could react, or look around to see where Alessio was, I heard from behind me in a voice I did not recognize.“Step away from the girl, and get down on your knees.”It wasn’t Alessio.It was a man with yellow eyes, holding a gun directly to Seth’s temple.Wow.“Take him back, Jacob.” Daniel said and Seth and yellow eyes moved back several steps.Daniel came forward, gun pointed at the man on the floor who was rolling around, hands holding his thigh, blood seeping between his fingers.I stared in horror. I wasn’t really good with blood and there seemed to be a lot of it.“Is he still alive?” I asked in a trembling voice. The man that Seth had abused, he was still alive!Dani
Alessio“I can’t risk getting wrong info about this, you know that, right, Jacob?” I questioned the bounty hunter in front me.Jacob cocked his to the side, raising his brow, “When have I ever disappointed you?”I thought about it for a second. The number came to zero. That is exactly why I had chosen him to trace Mia. “This is about my mate.” I replied quietly, taking the tablet from his hand to scroll through while keeping my eyes locked with his yellow ones, “I can absolutely not risk any wrong information for this case. If anything goes wrong, I am gonna have your neck on the table before I burn everything to the ground.”Even though I trusted Jacob because not only he was smart, young, and almost as fast as me when it came to fighting and hiding his traces, it was hard for me to put Mia’s life into someone else’s hands. “I am aware of that.” Jacob straightened, his serious gaze transfixed on me, “I already double checked everything, you don’t need to worry.”***“Come at me.” J
The Next Day…My body hurt in places that I did not even know could hurt. There was nothing but agony filling my whole being as I washed hundreds of scattered dishes that were thrown in front of me to clean after breakfast.I had not healed at all. My body was still wrapped up in bandages and some wounds were still leaking a bit of blood. My face and neck were severely swollen, and I had become unrecognisable. Seth did what he had said while accepting what I was desperately hoping for.I was out of the dungeon, out of the hospital room confinement, but Seth made sure to inject me with a scent hiding potion, and a potion that entirely made me ugly and an old age woman instead of myself so that even though I lived here, no one would recognize me as Mia. There were about ten men in his clan. All of them were strong, buffed up people with dangerous looks in their eyes. Scars covered them, and they were just letting Seth take the lead because Seth was smarter and more ruthless than them.
Harry looked like he did not want to, but then seeing the ‘no- negotiation’ look on Seth’ face, he turned around and walked out of the room.Seth walked up to me, his eyes going from my bandage-wrapped forehead to my severely swollen face which had a huge tape stamped on the one side of my cheek, my neck, down to my arms, wrists, and legs which were also in the same condition. Not broken, but heavily injured and wrapped in bandages to stop the bleeding.“Harry did a good job on you, it seems.” he smirked, laughing a little as he sat down on the chair next to my bed, “oh Mia… when are you going to learn?”“Learn what?” I croaked out, even though it hurt my throat and my face like shards of glass were digging inside my skin.“That anyone in this clan or anyone outside of it can break you into tiny little pieces and throw your body to the dogs without blinking twice.”“Are you worried about me?” I mocked.Seth smiled, “Of course. Don’t you see me crying tears of blood here, my sweet sist
Mia‘Misha…?’ I croaked through the heavy slumber.Again, there was nothing but silence.‘Please, Misha.’ I whispered.Disappointment and anger were filling me now. I could not move at all. My helplessness was perhaps showing even on my face as I fought to stay conscious even through the pain that was engulfing me completely.If only I could come in contact with Misha, I could shift, fight my way out, or at least, get better faster with my wolf healing powers. I could also try to mind link with Alessio. But like every other damn time, Misha had betrayed me when I needed her the most.But it was probably not her fault. She must be suppressed by these assholes already so I don’t fight back.Plan A was to wake Misha up by putting my own life at risk. Failed. Just got injured badly.When lives were threatened, our wolves usually come out to protect the human form as wolf form is stronger. But there was no sign of Misha until the very moment I fell unconscious.Plan B, try to get in touch
Alessio’s POVFor a few moments, my mind went blank. All the commotion faded in a deafening silence and the bad thoughts rushed in. The past flashing in front of my eyes became my new reality, and the same things happening to Mia with her being helpless and no way to find a way out sent shudders down my spine. I closed my eyes tightly to block everything that was trying to swallow me like a black hole. I could not think about all of that right now. Mia…I opened my eyes again, my eyes turned blue as my wolf rushed to the surface. The only thing that stopped it from fully taking control and rushing to find Mia was the sight of fire all around and the little bit of sense of responsibility that I had left inside me to save all these people.The sounds came back and the silence faded slowly. The visions of past blurred and fire took place in my eyes. People were still screaming, shouting, murmuring. I looked at Daniel, “Find a way out. Call the territory guards.”“You don’t need to pret
My head throbbed in tension and pain while the terrified feeling in my whole body made me shudder. The room started to leave goosebumps on my skin as the coldness of the wall increased with each passing second.Worry for Lara’s safety was eating me alive from inside. All I could think about was what must be happening to her right now? Would she be okay? Is she hurt? In pain? What if Seth does what he told me? I could not stay here tied up like this! Lara had done everything from me! She did not even know who this bastard is! I could not let her be in danger.I kept on twisting the ties on my wrists until I could hear the sound of each drop of my blood falling down on the ground bit by bit. I had been screaming for hours for guards. I did not know what excuse I was going to use, but I only needed one of them to com