“Wow, thank you for that advice. I cannot believe you came up with that.” Max sarcastically said.“Listen, honey..you are a wolf by nature. Wolf blood runs through your veins. Not just any ordinary wolf blood---a hybrid blood.”“I now wish that those words of welcome and vote of confidence will help me stop my mother from shredding me.”Max took a couple of steps inadvertently backwards because her mother is slowly advancing. Teresa was taking her time. Giving Max all the time in the wold to call on that power she had displayed yesterday. In real battles, such things do not take place. Fighting is a swift and often unbelievable. Wolves have the agility and the speed of lightning. Sometimes, faster than the blink of an eye. “What are you waiting for, Max? Waiting for the grass to grow? I will not hesitate to hurt you.”“Max. You can do this. You did this yesterday.” Hera was more friendly now. For Max, every one seemed to be testing her patience. Whether they were doing this for her t

Borris LaRue was among the spectators. Unlike the rest who fancied being noticed at all times like the insufferable Manny Raven,he liked to stay on the sidelines. He valued his privacy and loved lurking in the dark, away from the crowd because that was where you can observe best. Personally, he did not like hanging out with them. He liked watching the kid in the shadows. Like when they first came in Haven. It was amazing how much a little untraceable potion from one of the underrated healers can do. No one managed to rack his scent when he was always there watching. The healer got a hefty compensation from him and promised to keep her mouth shut and also would love to do more businesses with him in the future. He dislike those type of wolves, so cunning and think of themselves as wise. He might come back again and maybe kill the healer. He did not trust easy. If there was one thing that gave him enough reason to be out in the open like this--was to see Teresa in action again. It had

Teresa was in a very compromised situation and if Max will not be stopped, whatever she will do, one thing is for sure, Teresa will be a goner. She was sprawled in the ground, fur matted on the shoulder because of blood pooling in that area and Max was about to give her another deadly claw. The claws shimmer in the daylight. It looked too sharp and could flawlessly slice thin paper. “Max, it is time to stop. Max!” Hera roared.Max stopped. It was her wake up call. Bless Hera!Everyone was on the edge of their seats. Waiting...“Oh!” Betty screamed in relief.For a moment, Max was disoriented, her body felt like it was not hers to control. And then she looked down, her mother was down and bleeding and slowly transforming back into her human form. The healers from the shack are now headed in their direction. Some went to Hesther and others to Zayn who were both passed out. “Slowly. Transform yourself back, you have proven your point,girl.” Hera once again calmly suggested. Her voice

“You drool.” Hera whispered even if I knew that no one can hear her. “Hey.”“Max, I am telling you now, that boy is mighty fine.”“I know.” Max was still absentmindedly staring at the door where Zayn stood. She had been smiling like an idiot for a long time and none really cared to wake her up from whatever hallucinations she was under right now. She had met Zayn at Haven High School for days now and even went to the training arena a couple of times now and she felt really stupid for not noticing what a fine specie of human slash wolf he was. Looking good like that should be illegal. “Is she alright?” Zayn asked Elsa when he saw my blank as a blank canvass face.“Right, she is, are you not, miss?”“Better, never been better.”Elsa had to cough to ease the hanging silence. Max was nervously pleating and repleating the neatly folded infirmary blanket out of tension. Zayn still stood there, he was waiting for something or wanting to say something, Elsa and Max surely have both no ide

He had been staring at the ceiling for several hours and he still cannot sleep. Zayn was confused and furious that he was behaving odd whenever Maxine Shepard is around. His phone vibrates. “Sup, man?” Aron was grinning his boyish smile. Aron was requesting for a video call. This good friend of his was not very fond of phone calls, he takes pride and joy with seeing the person he is talking too. It annoys him but he knows that Aron won't take no for an answer. He accepts it and stares into his phone’s camera. Aron is perfect in timing, he was about to lose his freaking mind thinking. His good friend was also in his bedroom now. Zayn recognized his wallpaper of space and astronauts and stuff that involved the solar system and the universe. Aron had a huge interest in anything that is, directly or indirectly associated with astronomy. “Hey. How are you guys?” “Whoa, you look like hell.” “Hell is an understatement. You should come visit one day.”“In the Black estate? Duuude! Anytime