Asher glanced at her sharply. The question was never one he had expected from her or even asked himself. Their eyes locked and he tried to see what could have prompted the question from her but all he saw were clear beautiful hazel eyes. Seconds ticked by before he answered in a whisper, “I don’t know. I have never been in love, so…” he licked his lips softly, his eyes traveling to hers. “To reject your mate, you have to be feeling a bond stronger than the mating bond with someone else, otherwise, there is nothing stopping the mating bond from claiming you the first day.”“Never been in love you said,” Naomi whispered.“Never ever.”“Does that make you a virgin?” she asked, her face coloring over with her question as she chided herself in her mind.Asher chuckled, “that word is very far from me.” The look in her eyes made him laugh softly, “it stopped applying to me from my sixteenth birthday.”“So you are like a playboy?” she raised an eyebrow.Asher smiled and shrugged, “that’s one
“What happened then?” Gideon asked.His father heaved a long sigh, “well, the remaining alphas guided and led the rest of the wolves here, to the Eastwood. Here, they settled and since they were still three alphas left, they all couldn’t lead under one alpha and so, they divided themselves to make their own packs. The mates of the two alphas were to join in any pack and when their sons were born, they were allocated lands to build their own packs as alphas. However, after the escape from the human’s clutches, it was discovered that every pregnant wolf then survived. No one knew why they survived since they should have been the first to be killed since pregnancy reduces the strength of she-wolves. It wasn’t until the first of wolves put to bed and the pups showed difference from the normal pups they have known that they began to suspect something was wrong or in this case, different.”“What difference?” Gideon frowned.“Not only are they not affected or deformed as everyone had feared
Naomi walked to school feeling a little happier than usual. Thinking about her new found friendship with Asher uplifted her mood in so many ways she never thought possible and the fact that she would be seeing him soon made her want to fly to school. She had dreamt about him all though the night. Even she was surprised at why she was feeling so giddy about him but she just knows that she was. She could still remember how he would often stay at her lips last night and bite his. She knew he wanted to kiss her but what she didn’t know was why he didn’t. She had looked forward to it at some point last night but he didn’t oblige.Not letting it dampen her mood, she had prepared for school happily. Since her father’s slaps last night didn’t leave any bruises coupled with Asher’s words, she decided not to wear a hoodie to the school today and had spent nearly twenty minutes thinking of what to do with her and had ended up settling a messy bun. It didn’t make her look beautiful but it gave he
Gideon and Jasper went to the woods surrounding the school to meet with a warrior they had there waiting for them so that they can take news back to his father. They appeared in the woods but they soon felt like someone was following them and turned sharply only to meet the same boy as earlier. His blue eyes were staring at them like he could look deep into their soul. Gideon frowned, he couldn’t understand his feeling with that boy and why he feels fear whenever his eyes landed on him. “Is there a problem?”Asher glanced from one boy to the other, and his eyes went back to the black haired one. “I was about asking the same thing. Who are you?”“We are the freshmen, everyone knows that. Unfortunately, we did not expect to resume on the day they would be two deaths. Why?” Gideon asked. If in the morning, he thought the boy was just a curious human, now he is thinking he is a suspicious one. What if he was the one that killed the innocent girls and now its on high alert to know what any
“Excuse me young man?” Cage asked staring at the young boy who ignored everyone else in the room as he walked over to Naomi and place his hands on her shoulders. “Hello?”Asher ignored him and looked Naomi in the eyes, her tears burning him in his heart as he could feel the power threatening to take control while he fought to control it. “I couldn’t listen anymore, your sobs hurt my heart. That’s enough, no more,” he said, his voice calm but authoritative and it slammed into everyone’s heart.“Master Alexander the third, you are not supposed to be in my office,” the principal said, hating the boy’s attitude immediately. “You are supposed to be in your class.” Everyone glanced from the principal to the boy who pretended to not hear him as he was still preoccupied with the girl. “Asher!” he yelled this time.Asher ignored him as he wiped away Naomi’s tears and pulled her into his arms. Having him hug her seemed to have broken Naomi’s resolve as she started sobbing hardly this time. Ashe
Naomi still can’t explain it, one second, it felt like Asher was going to kiss her and in the next, he jumped away from her and offered to take her home or back to school. She had been in shock that time that she had said school and before she knew it, they were back in the woods and he was telling her he would see her later and vanishing almost immediately. And just like that, two good weeks had passed without her seeing or hearing from him again and neither had Anita showed up either.She had never stopped thinking about that faithful day and what would have happened and what that stopped it. No matter how hard she thinks, she still can’t figure it out or why he had not shown up in school for the past two weeks. The sound of the bell woke her up from her thought and she started clearing her stuff. She still have to thank him though, whatever he did to the cops and Trisha and Rebecca’s parents, along with her father and the principal worked. None of them has ever brought the accident
Asher ran to the back of the dungeon and sat crying, the look on everyone faces flashing in his mind. He was sure he even saw fear in Anita’s eyes and to top it up, he hurt his mother, his sweet loving mother. Why, why would he hurt her and most importantly, why can’t he remember hurting her? Why is it that he doesn’t remember when he hurts people? What is inside him that is always taking control whenever he was angry? He sniffled and wiped his tears away forcefully.“There, there, child, don’t be too harsh on yourself,” he heard and turned to see a woman standing a little far from him. She had long curly black hair with beautiful black eyes. She smiled and took a step towards him and paused, “should I come closer child?”“Who are you, I have never seen you in this pack before?” he asked, wiping away his tears. The last thing he wants was a stranger seeing him cry.“Oh but I once lived here, trust me. I used to be a famous healer, in fact, I still am and I know what your problem is,”
“I tried to wake up early but yet, here you are, the very first,” a voice said as Asher was training with the punching bag. He turned and saw Anita in her training gear walking up to him and he gifted her a smile. “Let me guess, you have already had a run round the woods.”Grinning he answered, “thrice.”“No fair,” she groaned, “do you ever sleep?” she asked, walking over to the spear rack and picked up two, tossing one at him which he caught effortlessly. “Let’s have a spar, perhaps I stand a chance at winning now because you are obviously tired.”Asher chuckled and twirled the spear in his hand before he beckoned her to come over which she did with force but he easily evaded her attack. She tried again and again but never succeeded in landing a blow at him and he wasn’t attacking, just defending. She turned to him, panting and wiping off the sweat on her face before attacking again. “Too fast,” he said, “slow down your pace, stalk and then attack,” he pointed out, easily avoiding he