I worried if dad was lucid from all these years of being alone and in the wild and through the trauma but the truly horrifying part was… he did not look lucid. He appeared to be completely sane. “Come with me.” he grabbed my hand, practically dragging me with himself, “now that you are finally here, I can finish the damn ritual. It has been so many years. I had to sacrifice so much for it.”“What ritual?” I asked blankly. My mind was not even processing what was happening.“Well, you know your mom and I were very happy together, right?” he turned his head, a soft smile gracing his lips. “I loved her and I loved you too. But it was not enough. I was the alpha of just a small pack. I was powerful, but not powerful enough. I kept telling your mother that I needed to breach other territories, fight wars to win others but your mother was a big softie. Didn’t want people to die. So I had to find something else for help.”“Dad, what are you talking about?” I whispered. His hand was so tight
“Ace! Can you hear me?!” I called out desperately but the only thing I received was silence. Dad tied Alessio right next to me. I tried to reach out my hand to touch him but he was too far and the bark behind me was too hard. There was no way for me to squeeze my hand out at all. And then at this moment, I realized that these were probably my last moments alive. I was going to die here and I was taking my mate with me.Maybe all that shaming, all those insults were the truth. I was a bad omen. I was the reason Alessio was in this place. I brought death and I brought bad luck upon those that hurt me.“I am sorry.” I whispered quietly. “I am so, so sorry.” The rope was burning through my skin already. It was coated with silver.“Let’s finish this up.” dad walked back to Jeisha, “I don’t want them to suffer more than necessary.”“Gladly.” she smiled at him, “just this ritual holds you back. Once it is finished, you can rule the werewolf world and I will be standing beside you as your c
The tears on my face had gotten mixed with the rain water. I could barely keep my eyes open because of how heavy the rain was. We were completely drenched. My feet hurt terribly but the skin had started to regenerate. I took several deep breaths as my sobs started to subside. There was sound in the rain. Splashes, and wind. Faster running. But nothing was in sight. It was like there were several people moving through the air. And something strange had surrounded us. A chill was running down my spine.“Who the fuck is it?” the witch shouted.I blinked, there was a sound of someone moving through the wind and the moment I opened my eyes again after blinking, Jeisha had disappeared.What…?My spine straightened in fear. My gaze fell upon my dad whose face had become extremely pale.His eyes came to me. “What have you done?”Me? I am literally tied to a fucking tree almost burnt alive!“Whom did you call to save you? Tell me the truth.” dad asked again.I remained silent. For some strang
“Confinement.” Liam muttered, and punishment for the crimes they commited.“Do they torture people?” I asked, afraid of the answer.“No. Not severely, at least.” Liam’s gaze flickered to the unconscious body of Alessio, “are you sure you want to live with him?”My gaze followed Liam’s, watching as Alessio’s eyes flickered a bit. He was coming out of unconsciousness.“I am.” I whispered, turning to Liam with tearful gaze, “thank you so much for saving us. I am going to miss you a lot.”Liam’s hand slid up to the back of my head, and pulled me closer. His lips touched my forehead, leaving a lingering, gentle kiss, “I have always loved you with my whole heart, Mia. I want you to know that.” he whispered. When he pulled back, there was a soft smile on his face, “Don’t tell anyone about what happened today.”“What?” I scrunched my brows, confused to the core.“About me. About Shadow Clan.” seriousness covered his gaze, “you are the only one who should be aware of us because I chose to put
“You used to live here?” Alessio roamed his gaze throughout the dirty walls of the room that I had spent my last five years in.“With twenty other girls.” I nodded and turned my head to him, “most of the packs don’t give omegas their personalized or even live- worthy rooms.”His face showed the expressions that I hated to see but it was important. His face was unpleasant and angry. When his eyes turned toward me, he muttered, “this is horrible. More horrible than I would have ever imagined.”His gaze then turned toward the wall that was covered with dark splashes. There were broken pieces and long, deep cut like marks, “How did that happen to the wall?”My fingers tightened in a fists. I did not want to remember, but the past was not easy to forget. Even harder were the moments that I remembered begging and writhing on the ground in pain and asking my tormentor to have mercy on me.“Wyatt.” I whispered, my gaze tracing the marks on the wall, “he beat me and other omegas here in this v
Alessio’s jaw clenched tight as he breathed hard as if contemplating to tell me or not. “I was not there when you needed me.” he finally said out loud, his hands clenching into fists, “I was not there when everything turned to hell for you and you were left alone to save yourself and me! What kind of pathetic man am I? What kind of mate am I?!”“You were unconscious!” I walked over immediately to get closer to him, “I don’t blame you at all! You should not-”“You can keep saying this but I would still hate myself for leaving you in such a situation alone. You were almost burnt to death, for fuck’s sake!” his hand slammed down on the railing behind him, “god damn it. I left you alone to die! How can I be unconsious when you cried out in pain? How can I lie there like a fucking dead man when you faught those people alone?!”“Alessio-”“And the worst thing is that when I was not with you, Liam was there. He took care of you and he saved you. And he saved me. Do you know what it feels li
By the time winter came around again, I and Alessio had forgotten about most of the things that happened to the both of us just a few months ago. Although our past had left scars on us. It had hurt. And we had bled. But when our world was surrounded with soft words and togetherness again, we had tried our best to not let our past define our future.“Luna? The quarters are already ready to shift in now.” Nia came running, beaming, “I can not believe I am going to have my own little house with my family! My parents always used to talk about how they wished they could live in a house. Now when their dream is coming true, all we can think about is how we are going to decorate our corners and walls.”“It is exciting, isn’t it?!” I beamed, pulling at Nia’s hand to bring her out of the pack house and go to the quarters. Blue walls, nature wallpapers, surrounded by trees and plants. It was not big, but it was enough to live very comfortably. My eyes twinkled with delight as I saw the new buil
“Ouch! Hey!” Lara shouted in frustration, pushing at Daniel’s arms to get free that had wrapped around her midriff. “Shut it.” Daniel muttered and bit her earlobe. Jake, the poor soul with sad puppy dog eyes, his mouth had dropped the smile already as he looked away from them. “Come on, Jake,” I wrapped my arm in his, pulling him toward the pack house, “tell me, how is it that I have never seen you train but you ha- Ow ow ow!” A hand grabbed the back of my nape, flipped me around and snatched me back. My hands fell on a cold, naked, hard chest while my face got buried in the side of a very intoxicating neck, “I don’t want to punish you. Stop tempting me.” his voice echoed in my head through the mindlink. My eyes widened as I gulped hard. Alessio’s head was lifted up to meet Jake’s gaze, saying in a gruff voice, “Go on now. Be with your cool kids tribe.” I could not see Jake’s face, but I was pretty sure he was frowning. There was a sound of fading footsteps, and the hand on
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