Ariana's POVThe girl walked towards me purposefully, her beautiful face dissolving into an equally beautiful smile. Her strides were long and confident and her whole pose echoed the confidence in her. She had to be from one of the families who were at the top of the hierachy in this pack. I wondered what she must be coming to me for but I dismissed the thought. Her face did not seem to be coming for trouble and I would learn the purpose of her coming when she reached my side.Finally, she got to me and took a seat opposite me on the table. She beamed like she just found a missing treasure and extended her hand out for me to shake it. Puzzled, but still determined to make a good impression, I took her hand and gave it a firm shake. She was still beaming when she released my hand so I looked at her in confusion."Hi, beautiful. I am Diana. What is your name?" she asked."My name is Ariana," I replied, still confused."Ariana," she said, testing my name and rolling it on her tongue like
Ariana's POVI was surprised at Diana's words, really surprised. I thought she had invited me just for today but I did not know that she had planned to include me in her friend group and also have me seat at their table. I was really surprised but grateful all the same. "Well," a pretty girl with red hair drawled. "I heard you are a rogue," she told me, the edges of her mouth twisted up in a cruel smirk.My eyes narrowed at the pretty girl with the red hair. She was beautiful but not as beautiful as Diana and her face was not as pleasant and open as Diana's. I could tell from the sour expression on her face that she hardly smiled and was mean. From all indications, the was the resident mean girl of this group that got away with tormenting and making fun of people. The red haired girl had thin lips and deep green eyes. Her hair was short and it reached her shoulders. It was a little curly and a little straight but the balance between the two was pretty and it brought out her pale thin
Ariana's POVAs Diana stood up from her seat and spoke, I did, too. After me, Sophie followed and then Charlotte, Emily - who had a hard time standing up because she had overstuffed herself - and then Claire stood up last before we all filed out of the dining hall. I had predicted that Claire would be the last one to stand up from her seat and my predictions had come to pass. I noticed that Claire carried herself with a type of inner laziness that seemed to amuse her. She did it intentionally but I noticed that it was already etched permanently into her being. Diana led the way as usual - being the leader of the group and all - and we all stepped out of the dining hall, being one of the first groups of people to leave. We chatted as we walked along the hallways leading from the dining hall. "So, I faked a charge and he swiped up to defend the strike, and that was when I made my real move," Diana was saying. "I charged in for the second time, this time for real, since his left side w
Ariana's POVI retracted my hand which was just about to insert the key and it fell limply to my hip. I groaned internally at the thought of seeing Alpha Derek again. There was something about his gaze that unsettled me and made me feel as if he was seeing into the depths of my soul. I could just be imagining it but still, I did not want to see the no smiling Alpha again that day. I had no choice, though. I just had to go.I stepped back from my door and walked the short distance to his own door. While there I waited and admired the main door of the Alpha's quarters. The door in front of me was beautiful but it was not as grand neither was it as elegant of the door of the Alpha's office. The office was his main domain, the domain of power from where he ruled over his subjects, made laws, rules and regulations, administered justice and meted out punishments to those thar erred him or others unlawfully. That was why the office had been designed like that. It had to reflect power, theref
The hot water washed over me, massaging the joints in my body and the kinks around my neck. I savored the feeling as I stood under the shower. It was blissful and comforting and I did not have to bother about the hot water running out. I was relaxed as I stayed under it, letting it drench me completely.As I enjoyed the hot water which I had kept more on the warm side rather than the hot one, I reflected on my time in Blue Moon pack. Never had I ever showered with hot water since my parents died. It was not as if I did not want to; it was that I was not allowed to. I was banned from using hot water to shower in my own pack.When I had the chance to take my bath back there, it was usually after my day's work when I would have been tired and fatigue,and would have weighed my whole body down. Instead of relaxing under a shower head with hot water blasting out of it to relax my muscles and loosen the tension out of them, I was left with cold water. It was not as if hot water was not avail
Ariana's POVI was surprised as I looked at the face of the person who had called out my name. I blinked and blinked my eyes in shock as I beheld the face of Diana. I was too shocked to speak because I was wondering what she was doing here, in the hallway of the Alpha's quarters of all places. I was certain that she had either come to visit me or the Alpha but my money was on the Alpha. She didn't know where I stayed in the pack house but she knew where the Alpha's quarters was situated.Suddenly I felt a hand on my arm. Diana was tapping me gently to shake me out of my reverie and talking. "Ariana, Ariana," she called out. "What is wrong?"Suddenly I was aware of my surroundings. Diana had succeeded in drawing me out of my thoughts. I looked at her and took in her outfit. Surprisingly, she was wearing a flowing summer dress just like mine but the only difference was that hers was red instead of yellow. On closer inspection, I saw that her own dress was a bit longer than mine but it w
Ariana's POVWow! I thought in sheer shock. How did Alpha Derek know that I knew Diana? How had he managed to find out? Well, the Alpha was no ordinary man. He had powers so there were some things he did not witness that he would know about, I concluded. But I was still shocked, really shocked. This whole pack was full of surprises and I hadn't even been there for a whole week but a number of surprises had already been sprung on me. Who knew what surprise I would encounter next? I needed to brace myself up for the surprises in this pack so that I wouldn't be stupefied when it happened and other people wouldn't have a chance to make fun of my shock because that was the norm where I had been before. I looked at my front and there was the Alpha, staring at me still waiting for a response. A response to what, I queried myself and that was when I realized that the question he had asked me hadn't been a rhetorical one but rather had required an answer. I thought about one of the Alpha's r
Ariana's POVAs soon as Claire asked her question, the other girls' eyes started to roam about us. Emily was looking at us with a look of adoration while Sophie was gazing at us with puzzlement across her face. Charlotte on her own just looked at us with no hint of an emotion displayed on her face while Claire on the other hand was staring at us so hard with suspicion marring her features."So you guys are just noticing our dresses now?" Diana asked with a broad smile on her face, trying to diffuse the tension that blanketed us like a thick cloud.As I looked around, other people from the tables near ours were staring too, and they were not making any effort to hide the fact. Clearly, they wanted to know why the most popular clique were standing around instead of going out and why two out of them were putting on the same clothes, albeit ones with different colors."It's not only the dresses that are the same. Look at the boots too. The only difference is in the color and the length. D