Chapter 1

"Let go of me!" I said calmly but I made sure that every word of mine is enough to make them lose their breaths and stop their hearts from beating.

"You may be brave but you are just nothing but a woman who will cry after being hurt," a rogue chuckled and so did I. I almost forgot that they know nothing about me and I have to introduce myself first to them.

Lightning started to strike them one by one when they started getting on my nerves. How dare they think lowly of me just because I am a woman when I am much more powerful than hundreds of them combined? 

I love killing Rogues using the abilities that I have and one of them is to control lightning. That's what they get for laying their filthy hands on me. They deserve to be tortured, but they're lucky enough that I'm in a hurry or they'll die an excruciating death. 

I casually walked towards the man in front of me- the one who was watching me being captured by those rogues from the start. He seemed to be having a great time watching me turn those werewolves into ashes but I'm curious why there's something within me that's stopping me from killing him even though I know what kind of creature he is. He's one of them- a rogue. 

I then looked at him by the eye, those deep eyes that are deeper than the ocean that's as if telling me something. My eyes never left his for I seem to be magnetized by his stares and I just want the sensation that it's giving me. I'm getting addicted to this sensation to the point that my eyes can't leave his. 

His eyes are two-colored. Grey and green. It is the only eyes that managed to catch my attention somehow and now I'm drowning in them but I still want to explore more of how far his eyes can bring me and how magical they can be. 

Who is he? Why does it seems like I'm connected to him? Why do his eyes scream something I'm not familiar with but I know for myself that I'm longing for it?

He caressed my cheek the moment I reached him but I didn't even do anything to stop him. No man has ever touched me before- not even a strand of my hair except for my dad but when it comes to him... It seems like it's my body is desperate for him to touch me. Am I going insane now? 

"Goodbye, for now, my Luna. Our eclipse is still yet to come. That, I promise you," he said before turning into a large, grey wolf and running away from me.

I touched my cheek where I can still feel his soft hands caressing it and closed my eyes because of the new feelings that he introduced me to. Both his eyes and touch bewildered me and I can't wait to meet him in the eclipse of ours that he told me. 

In this world where romance was the last thing that everyone wants me to experience and witness, I've never thought that a complete stranger will awaken the fire within me- a fire that was long locked because they think the word "love" will weaken the power that I hold and stop me from doing my responsibilities perfectly.

"You will marry the Dark Wolves alpha." Those words from my father made me stuck in my place as if I was statued there right after I entered the palace where he was waiting for me.

Dark Wolves pack is our greatest enemy and as far as I can remember, they just waved war at us and all I thought was war is what I'm going to face which I am actually more willing to do. 

Why is he telling me these words now as if this is just a normal thing to do? 

"If you can make me," I answered back which made him grit his teeth knowing that my words are as powerful as his. I know I have my mother to fight with me and I also know who I am now and how my decision matters. 

"As my daughter, you know you have a responsibility to fulfill for this pack, Hermione! This is the only way for us to end our conflict with their pack and avoid the war that might kill hundreds of werewolves in ours! You have to do as I say whether you like it or not! That's an order." He walked away, leaving me those words that just made me loath him more. 

Responsibilities. Those are the only thing that they introduced to me since I was born. They showed me how I am responsible for everything that I don't wish for! I never wished to be a powerful creature! I just wished to be a normal one yet they made me see only the responsibilities that I need to fulfill. They gave me a new world instead of letting me live how life should be. 

Everyone thinks being powerful is the only thing that everyone can wish for but all I want is a normal and fair life, not a life that's surrounded by everything that I have to do whether I like it or not. 

"Try it if you can control me this time because honestly, I'm already sick of this game," I said even though I know he won't be able to hear it. 

If he married my mom for power, he won't be able to make me do what he did. I can decide on my own now. I'm not a little girl anymore whom they can control like a puppet. 

I can accept and do everything that they want me to except for this one. 

I want to make my own family not out of responsibility but out of love and I will make sure to not let my future children experience life like how my parents made me experience it. 

If I'll need to fight them, I will. 

They sculpted me to be a warrior without knowing that this warrior will be their greatest headache. 

"Milady, a visitor is waiting for you in the living room. His highness said he's the alpha that you're supposed to marry." A knock on the door ended my rest and the moment I heard the reason immediately made my blood alive in excitement instead of fear. 

"I'll be there in a few seconds," I answered with a smirk on my face, and with just a mere glance on me, one will know that I'm planning something that no one will like. 

If my father thinks I'll run away, then I won't. I'm not afraid to face that little devil. I'll gladly face that alpha that he's talking about to know how far his patience can go and how I can cut it. I love messing with anyone's patience and that's what I'm good at. 

I am now walking with a smile plastered on my face and it turned into a serious one when I reached the living room where my father and the alpha that my father is insisting me to marry, talking and laughing as if they were friends for years now. No one would've thought that their packs were actually each other's enemy. Pathetic. 

"Oh, here she is. Craige, meet my daughter, Hermione," my father immediately introduced me politely but I never let my face show any emotions. He was looking at me as if telling me to not do anything stupid. Well, what I'm going to do isn't stupid at all. 

"It's such a pleasure meeting such a gorgeous lady," he said before kissing the back of my hand and I didn't bother stopping him from doing so, rather, I gave him the sweetest smile after his gesture, showing him how delighted I am meeting him, too. 

"And it's a pleasure meeting such a coward alpha who preferred to marry me just so he could escape a war which I know he's afraid he might lose from us," I said those words while still smiling sweetly, letting him know that I am sincere but I saw how his smile fell just a few seconds after. 

"HERMIONE!" I heard my father shout. "No, that's not what she meant, Craige, my daughter can be playful sometimes," my father explained desperately but I'm not planning to take back what I said. 

"Oh, no, Craige. I meant what I said and I know you're aware of that, right?" I saw how his eyes turned bloody red while looking at me as if he were a predator looking at his prey but my smile never left my face to insult him more. I am not afraid of him and I will never be! Everyone knows me and how I can easily end his life but I can't do that now or I will face punishment. 

"How dare you disrespect me!" He shouted in rage, making his servants alerted and ready to fight us and so as ours. Disrespect? If he feels disrespected, then so am I. They have no right to decide whom I'll marry without even consulting me just for these shits! 

"Hermione, shut it! Craige, please. Let's talk. I know this is just a misunderstanding," my dad almost begs but I know that kneeling won't be his thing. I know he will fight Craige once he makes a wrong move and he's just trying to control the situation. 

"No! This talk is dismissed and I will meet you in a war instead!" He said in rage with finality in his voice before turning into a werewolf and leaving the palace in mess and leaving me there, smirking at my father who's now looking at me as if he's done.

"I can't believe you, Hermione! How dare you disobey me! You do know what the consequences of what you did are! How can you be so selfish?" He shouted at me, still controlling his temper but I know that he will lose it just in a few seconds. 

"I told you, Dad. This time, you can't me do whatever you want like your puppet! And selfish? Can't you see yourself in the mirror? You are the selfish one! All my life I did what you want but I don't think I can still obey every word of you... You won't be able to control me just like how did all my life! If you want to disown me, then do it, because honestly, I'm sick and tired of this life dad! Oh wait, did you even become a father to me? Because honestly, I never felt it." This time, I'm the one who left him there without letting him say a word again.