“Murderer! Alpha Killer!” shouted a man. I shivered and stumbled back.
“She killed him. She killed the alpha!”
“Sinner!” a woman spat with disgust.
I looked at the man standing in front of me. Alpha Alessio. My newly found mate. My new Alpha.
“Don’t listen to them,” I whispered.
I did it for the greater good. I did the right thing!
His eyes glowed chilly blue. The adoration had disappeared from his face. The love, the longing, and the happiness, all faded within those few seconds, and sternness and suspicion took their place.
I was terrified. The drastic change had taken me by shock.
I wanted to go back to when everything was fine. When mom and dad were still alive.
A man walked forward and grabbed my hand in his. I looked up at him, “Liam.” I whispered.
He loved me since we were kids. The beta of our pack. He is the one who risked everything and sacrificed everything for me. But there is nothing I can do about it. I don’t have a choice.
My gaze shifted back to my mate who stood in front of me, Alpha Alessio. His eyes were now cold and hard. His jaw clenched tight.
I don’t like that look. I don’t want more hatred. Especially not from my mate.
I begged the heavens in my heart to let me go back to the time when everything was fine. When my life was simple. When no one had betrayed me.
It felt like just yesterday when Olivia, I, and Liam used to be best friends. Five years ago when I was the alpha’s daughter, when mom and dad ruled the pack, Olivia always laughed at me for being too naive. “You are the luckiest girl in the world. The world is literally at your feet, Mia.” she said, grinning happily. “I know.” I smiled delightfully, “the only one missing is my mate. He better be strong and handsome. I want to fall in love with him at first sight.” I giggled. “And good in bed,” Olivia smirked. She can be crass sometimes, nasty to others, and mischievous. But she is my best friend. I will love her and protect her as she is. You don’t try to change the ones that you love. Everything was good. So happy and playful. But then one night changed everything. I remember mom wearing a yellow, flowery dress and bending down to kiss me goodbye. Mom and dad were going out to do their annual inspection of the pack territories. But they never came back. Wyatt, our beta, retu
Opening the back door of the dungeon, I climbed up the stairs to enter the packhouse. My steps were quick and fast but I was not running. When I reached in front of Alpha's study, I grabbed the handle, inhaled a deep breath, and pushed it open. The first thing I saw was a strong body shivering on the ground with ragged breaths escaping his mouth. Alpha Wyatt. Liam was lying right next to him on his back. The empty bowl of dessert lay on the ground. Liam must have taken a bite out of the dessert to convince the alpha it’s not poisonous. Alpha Wyatt’s green eyes shot to me, his mouth opened, trying to say something but nothing came out except a struggling moan as if he wanted my help. But then his eyes gradually became clearer, recovering from the madness. He knows. I slowly walked toward him, my heart beating fast and loud in my ears. I could not tear my eyes away from the scared look in Alpha Wyatt’s eyes. As I got closer, Alpha Wyatt gathered enough strength to speak, “I am goin
Alessio “Mate.” I found myself whispering. My whole body had gone still in shock. All emotions faded in a few moments as I stared at the girl standing in front of me with a transfixed gaze. My wolf jumped in happiness in my chest. I felt like I had never even experienced a moment of this feeling before. It was different, the world suddenly felt like a brighter, more beautiful place. My whole world changed within those few seconds. My coldness and frivolousness had faded, and warmth had taken over my face. My hand suddenly lifted up in the air to touch the side of her face. She closed her eyes, leaning close to his touch without even realizing it. As soon as my fingers touched her skin, I felt like my skin was on fire. Her scent had surrounded my whole body like I was in a valley of flowers. Her scent surrounded me, making me feel protective and loving of her and all the thousands of emotions that I had never experienced before in my whole life. “You are mates? Mia is your mate
Mia As soon as the breakfast ended, Beta Daniel had announced that it was time to commence the Pack Bond Ceremony to connect Bloodmoon Pack to Silver Lining pack and Alpha Alessio. Everyone had gathered in the packed field. Beta Daniel was almost the same height as Liam. With his dark skin, light stubble, military-cut hair he looked like someone very serious but that constant amused smile on his face betrayed his appearance and showed his playful side quite openly instead. With the heat down on us in the ground, even though it was still a bit chilly, he wore a black west and black cargo pants with white sports shoes. Most of the pack members stood on the sidelines, Beta Daniel stood on the stage. I was standing on the other side of the ground, leaning against a pillar, away from everyone. There were eyes on me, and whispers, but I kept my eyes on the ground and remained silent. I could see the excitement and nervousness on their faces, anticipating the process of pack binding. Th
The next day, the whole hall was filled with excited whispers among the omegas. I did not know what was so exciting that had their eyes lit up and talk about it constantly. I touched the bandage that covered the mark on my neck, making sure it’s still there and then went into the crowd. As I go to wash the dishes in the sink, I heard two omegas who are cooking food whispering quietly, ‘Will you be going? I am excited!’ ‘Of course! Stay with me the whole time, okay? I would be scared alone there. I can’t help but think how generous it is of the alpha to make it a rule that now all of us omegas are compulsory to attend school! We can train like other pack members from now on!’ My hands stilled on the dishes, my body in shock. I kept staring at the wall blankly, trying to process what they had just said as they continued chatting excitedly. ‘Alpha Wyatt always told us that we were only allowed to do house chores and sleep. I feel like it is a new beginning for us.’ ‘It is. All our
The wolf had ice blue eyes that burnt into Olivia’s trembling figure. There was no scent emitting from him for us to recognize, perhaps it was just an animal wolf instead of a werewolf? But it’s freaking HUGE. It had its eyes pinned on Olivia as it jumped down from the edge. The fear was clear in her eyes, she was much smaller in front of it. The wolf could open its mouth and tear her head off at once. Olivia stumbled back on shaky legs, noticing that the animal was only staring at her with bared teeth. In her attempt to get away from the wolf and flee fast, she grabbed one of the boys that had come with her and threw him towards the wolf as a distraction before making a dash for the stairs. The wolf jumped as well, throwing the boy aside, and pouncing on Olivia, pinning her to the ground with its massive body. It looked like it was starving and was ready to eat her alive. Olivia cried out for help, but all of her friends stepped away from the wolf, petrified. The wolf had Olivia
The moment our lips touched, I felt like I was on fire. I could have melted right then and there. I hadn’t planned the kiss. In my moment of agitation, I had just acted on my impulse. I don’t think he had either. It was as if our lips had collided in the silence, like we’d both been waiting for it without knowing it. The second our mouths met, I felt like I had been struck by lightning. My hands were gripping the edge of his t shirt, and my feet were arched up to keep my lips on his. It was the most intimate moment of my life. Not a single word was spoken, just the sound of our breathing and the beating of our hearts. I could feel Alessio’s heartbeat against my chest and his warm breath on my neck. I closed my eyes, the world had faded away. *CLAP* *CLAP* *CLAP* The sound of clapping made me snap my eyes open. Alessio’s gaze was on me, intent and intense and burning. “That was awesome! You go Mia!” A girl's loud and enthusiastic shout shook me from inside, bringing back the remin
While preparing the dinner, Diana came to the kitchen, her fingers shook and a fearful expression was on her face. I was worried instantly. Has someone bothered her? “Alpha Alessio,” her voice trembled, her hand shot up to wipe the sweat off of her forehead, “alpha has just given a new order.” “What order?” Nia, one of the cooking girls asked worriedly. What did he do now? Oh god. “Well, he has ordered that all the omegas have to arrange the dinner at once and place the food on the dining table,” her gaze swept at all of us, whispering in a hushed tone like she was about to spout a blasphemy, “...and then he wants all omegas to sit with other members from now on. Have dinner together.” “What?!” Nia dropped the pot that she had in her hands, thankfully empty, her mouth open in shock. I bit my lip, my mind running through all kinds of scenarios and thoughts and the most prominent of all was wondering what the hell was running through Alpha Alessio’s mind? When he had come here, an
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