~LEVENA~‘You can’t just up and leave Jade. You need to calm down and think this through.’ I tried to reason with her as she started peeling off the shirt.‘There’s nothing to think through, Lev. I thought I blocked you out already.’ ‘You can block me out when you barely have any control over yourself. Leaving is a bad idea if there’s any chance that our pup is still out there.'‘He is fucking dead. He's gone.’ Jade yelled, cutting me off. I stayed quiet, watching as another sob wracked through her body. ‘Stop trying to make me have hope, Lev; he is gone,’ she whispered in between sobs.‘And what if he isn’t? If there’s a chance that he’s still out there, you’ll cost us our one chance at ever finding him. We won’t survive out there, Jade, not this time. Reign can keep us safe; he can help us find him, and we can’t keep running. We won’t survive another week out there,’ I reasoned with her but she shrugged like it didn’t matter.‘That’s the point, Lev; I know we won’t survive out ther
~REIGN~I noticed the shift in the air as soon as I walked into the suite, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Then I walked into the bedroom and saw her. For some reason, Emerald had changed from the previous polo shirt she wore, and she was now wearing my shirt. I had hoped I’d find her asleep when I returned because dealing with Father had ruined my mood.There was something different about her, and I stopped at the doorway, scanning her entire frame. Nervousness rolled off her in waves as she toyed with the button of the shirt. The sound of a heartbeat rang loud in my ear, and her scent seemed stronger than usual yet strange. The usual hint of lavender in her scent had faded and her pheromones carried the scent of sandalwood, which was also strange.I remained rooted in the doorway while her eyes ran all over my body. It was confusing because this was unlike her; she’d barely looked at me for more than two minutes in the past hour, and now she couldn’t take her eyes off me. Everyt
~LEVANA~Reign’s fist clenched as he paced the room. I saw the change in his demeanour the minute I said those words to him. I could’ve lied about it and told him something different. If I had told him I was present because I wanted to meet him, that would be true, but it wasn’t the exact reason I was present and Jade wasn’t, even though I had been eager to meet him ever since we opened our eyes and I knew he was our mate. Reign deserved to know the truth, even if he isn’t taking the news in a good light, but I couldn’t lie to him about Jade wanting to leave and I’d hope telling him might make him see that he needs to make us trust him and convince her to stay.No matter what I say to dissuade Jade, even if she stays back now, it is only a matter of time before she starts having doubts about him again. Despite how well I understand her concerns and share most of her worries, I also know that we cannot be alone, we cannot find our pup ourselves, and without a pack, we would be as good a
~REIGN~It was too good to be true and I should’ve known better. I was ahead of myself these past few weeks, acting like a good Alpha, a loving and understanding mate. Even if I didn’t have a grasp on what that entailed, all my life in this pack I’ve watched mated wolves and learned how to behave and as soon as Emerald came into my life, it was easy to follow my instincts. And all my Alpha instinct wanted to do was keep her here with us so I could protect her, provide for her, and make her happy. Even if I didn’t know what I was doing half the time, because I had never been in a relationship nor did I ever tried to earn the love of a woman, I still tried my hardest to be the best I could for her, and that was never something I did for anyone.Although I should’ve known that the moon goddess wouldn’t be so kind to someone like me, the fact that the moon goddess gave me a mate. It was done to mock me, not because the goddess thought I was finally deserving of love; no, she knew quite we
~REIGN~She wiped her teary eyes at my words and I knew she understood what I was driving at. Despite how angry I was, I couldn’t help but feel something else for her right now—those same feelings I felt around Emerald that I couldn’t quite explain because they were foreign to me.“I can convince her; I just need to convince her that she can trust you and that you are good for us.”“Am I?” I also had to ask myself that question. Was I really good for them? She doesn’t even know the real me; just earlier today, I slipped and almost hurt her. The monster lurking inside me slips out when I least expect it and I can’t even guarantee that I can protect them from it when it does slip out.“You’ve been good to us; you’ve treated us with nothing but kindness; you’ve been trying to help us find our pup, and no other Alpha would’ve done that for us. You have to understand that we’ve been hurt badly due to the things that happened to us; she just can’t trust blindly. We did once and it burned us
||*JADE*||I awoke to a numbing pain in my limbs, a headache threatening to split my forehead open, my eyes aching as I rubbed them open to an unfamiliar ceiling. Confusion slowly set in as I rubbed my eyes a little more to get rid of the blurriness in my vision while staring at the unfamiliar ceiling again.It’s impossible that I am dreaming at this moment, or suddenly do not recognize the ceiling of my home. I’ve been waking up to the ceiling in my bedroom for two years and I am certain it is definitely not painted this absurd red colour with a ridiculous chandelier hanging down from it.My body cried out in protest as I pushed up on the bed, eyes trailing off the ceiling as I took in the unfamiliar sight of the bedroom. My mind rang with different questions, while I try recollecting my memory from last night, how I fell asleep, when and what I was doing in a strange room.Nothing quite made sense, until I heard a deep groan beside me and my head snapped to the side with so much spe
~JADE~ I am not sure why I didn’t move, even though it was quite obvious that Hunter had lunged for an attack. That’s a lie. I know quite well the reason I didn’t move. My body had frozen in place when I saw him lunge, and a part of me thought my mate wouldn’t exactly attack me. It was just impossible that Hunter would want to attack me, given how he has never raised a hand at me for the past two years that we’ve been together. But I was deluding myself. Maybe the reason he never hit me for the past two years was because I never gave him a reason to, and now. Now I very much gave him every viable reason to want to hurt me, but I still tried convincing myself that he wouldn’t. Realisation dawned on me too late, before I could get my body to move out of the way, Hunter came barreling forward, his hand outstretched, palm striking me in the face and his claws cut a deep wound across my cheek. My head swings sideways, echoes of sounds rung repeatedly in my ear. My hands moved out of
~JADE~ Everything else happened in a blur. It all felt like a nightmare and I so badly wished someone would wake me up. Hunter had dragged me out of Arya’s place naked, and I had no will to protest against his iron grip. He didn’t think I had any decency left to preserve, I couldn’t even bring myself to ask for something to cover my shame as he pulled out of me, tucked himself back in and practically hurled me out of bed. I didn’t have it in me to look at Darren or Arya’s face, my mate had fucked me right in their presence. Humiliated and degraded me beyond words, dragged me through the streets naked and left me on the front porch of my parents house with a warning that I would never return to our home. I had crawled inside my parents house shaking and crying. Despite how many times they asked what happened my mouth wouldn’t budge, all I could do was weep as I sunk further into the shame enveloping me. “Is this true Jade?” Even now, as I sit here in the presence of my parents an