"Master, I don't think he will come," this was coming from Arlo, who is throwing small rocks at the river.
"You want me to kidnap him, Master?" Saye chirps as if that is something someone should do, but she's a demon. They don't care what they do, but since I'm their Master, they must listen to me.
"Don't even think about it, Saye," I warn.
"It's just a suggestion." She shrugs, then says, "but Master, I never knew you lived in a werewolf pack. You aren't a werewolf."
"Yeah, I was shocked as well," Arlo said and threw the last rock.
"I guess I'll tell you the short version of it," I cross my arms. "That pack's retired alpha found me. I was raised by them and fell in love with their son. I learned I'm wolfless. But because unfortunate events occur that involve me, everyone hates me." I don't particularly appreciate talking about my past. Now that I'm reborn, I don't want to mention primary outcomes when it involves me being accused of murder and dying at the hands of the man I love.
"So, I left," I continue. "I broke up with their son, left the pack, and here I am."
It's a fairytale story, but I didn't want to tell the extended version. Saye and Arlo stay quiet, and I look once more at my watch. Ten minutes before one hour is up, I give it up.
"Well, I expected much," I stretch my arms over my head. "We need to head to Japan before sunrise."
"Yes, Master," the twins say in unison.
Before we can teleport ourselves to our next destination, I hear a twig snap, and that sweet scent fills my nose. I turn my head to find a dark figure hiding behind the trees, but my eyes glow red to prepare for an attack until I swallow his scent.
My heart stopped and my mind went crazy. The alluring scent I had smelled earlier is coming off from him.
No...no...no!
My inner thoughts are screaming in my brain that is about to explode by this sudden startle.
Oh, fuck!
Dominic appears before us as the moon shines; his greatness makes my whole body want to respond to his presence.
Oh god! What the fuck is going on?
Seeing Dominic after one year makes my whole body tremble with delight. My heart is racing, and my entire body is getting warm. Besides his alpha aura presenting himself before me, it's just his wholeness before my eyes. I couldn't help but stare at him.
After one year, Dominic has become the man I've been dreaming of ever since our first encounter as kids. My dream of being his perfect mate had come true but with consequences. In my past life, I achieved my imagination, but in reality, that dream was shattered.
Did he grow a bit bigger, or did his muscle?
I glance down at his pants, and I pinch my lips and feel my face heat.
"Master, you're turning red," Saye whispers in my ear. I cringe and clear my throat.
"It's been a while, Dominic, or should I say Alpha," I straighten my back and sound serious, not wanting to be intimated by his aura, incredibly how fucking hot he got.
Stop, Lippy!
"Malik told me you came by and needed to talk about something urgent," his tone is that of a leader, but behind it seems he doesn't want to see me. He glares at the two demons behind me with no trust in them.
Go figure.
No 'hello Calliope' or 'how are you, Calliope?' or 'how's life outside the pack, Calliope?'
Nope, he has gone straight to the point.
Asshole prick.
I dig through my jacket pocket and throw the item at him. He caught with a reflex. He opens his hand and looks down at the necklace.
His brows furrow, and he knew he recognized it. "Where did you get this?"
"Answer mine first, What was Wallace doing at the swamp?" Ignoring his question.
"I don't know what he does. I don't keep track of his every move."
I scoff.
Such a prick.
"You need to warn your pack not to step foot at the swamp," I explain. "The swamp is clouded with the miasma that anyone close to it will become a feral."
"Feral?" He questions the word. "What are you talking about?"
Did he or anyone in the pack live under a rock?
"Have you not known what is going on for the past two months?"
Judging by his handsome facial confusion, I guess he doesn't know.
I groan and rub my face.
"Wallace and whoever he was with went to the swamp. They all turned feral" before coming to the Blue Moon Pack territory, and there was a campfire and empty beer cans. It seems Wallace and his friends were having a peaceful night, not knowing the miasma lingers there. By the time I got there, three of his friends were mauled. As if they were butchered with so much anger.
It was gruesome.
"Inhaling the miasma turns them feral," I explain.
"Okay, so where is he? Why do you have his necklace?" Going back to the first question he asks from the start of this conversation.
"He's...dead, and so a few of his friends. I don't know where the others are, but my guess is they are roaming around the forest looking for their next victim."
That part is actual. Telling him that I killed him would make it much more worst. "I know how you and Leah are together now, but her brother should not have gone near the swamp just to party."
"We are not together," Dominic declares, his jaw clenched and his fist tightening by his side.
"What?"
"I said, Leah and I aren't together." He made it loud and clear as if I didn't hear him the first time.
Part of me is relieved, but the other part doesn't care who he gets together with. He can fuck somebody I don't even know for all I care. Though my heartfelt swollen for a bit.
But I left him and the pack three days before the Blood Rite. I assumed he had marked Leah as his mate and Luna, but it seems that didn't happen.
Why do I feel so relieved?
"Master," Arlo walks up behind me. "We must go."
"Right, we have to go," I lost track of time.
"Hey," Dominiboomedom his voice at, specifically at Arlo. "Calliope and I are talking. Who are you to touch her so freely? You stay as far away from her." His eyes flash a glow of red, presenting that he is alpha.
"I only listen to Master as I serve her," Arlo then hugs behind me, making Dominic angrier, which got me confused as to why he's angry. "You are a stranger and the one who hurt my Master. You are lucky I didn't chop you up in pieces." I can feel his anger rising and his magic emerging. I saw dark blue illuminating his body.
I know Dominic is alpha now and the strongest among his pack, but if he were to take on a demon who lived longer, the results wouldn't do any good.
"Arlo, stop, leave him alone," I demand, it made him subdue his magic, and he pouts, but he will never let me go. Dominic looks like he is ready to attack Arlo.
"Alpha Dominic," saying his proper title, "I'm sorry for my attendant's behavior towards you. He only did that because he is very protective."
"Where did you meet such a guy like him, Lippy?" My body flinches, and my heart skips a beat from the nickname he gave me when we were little because the name Calliope was foreign to him.
I can't believe he would call me by the nickname he has given me. What is he trying to do? Give our relationship another shot?
I shake my questioning thoughts away. "Warn your pack about the swamp. It's not just wolves who will turn feral. The results are the same if any human gets in contact with me. Until I find the source, no one steps near that swamp."
"Find the source? Are you leaving to go wherever you were supposed to go? And why do you have to do it? Isn't it dangerous for you too?"
Why does he sound so worried?
He never acted like that before in my past life.
"First of all, I can give you one full answer. I'm the only person who can go near the swamp." I start to explain and brush a strain of my hair back. "As you already know, I'm wolfless. That is because I have demon blood in me. A demon caused the miasma so, I can't get ineffective."
His eyes grew wide, now understanding why Saye and Arlo are by my side.
"A demon?" He whispers the word.
"More specifically, I'm a fox demon. Shocking isn't it. I didn't know myself until I found these two. They are also demons and told me what I am." I state, pointing to the twins behind me. Dominic had his eyes on me the whole time as I was explaining. "Anyways, I was in denial at first, but it explains why I couldn't shift though not to a wolf, but I'm not going to show you."
Is he just standing there, not saying anything? Well, it's hard to believe, but Saye and Arlo are living proof.
I sigh.
"Until I find whoever releases the miasma, you and the pack stay out of the swamp. It's not my concern if they don't listen to me, but if to you, after all, you are their alpha," damn, I sound like the bitch he knew. "But if you don't want anybody to become inhuman monsters, I suggest you listen to my warning."
I know he won't believe me, but at least he should try and be convinced.
I turn my back to him.
"I know you won't trust me because of our history. But that necklace is proof of that predicament. Let me know if any one of your packs is infected. My farmhouse is near Big Lake. I must go." I turn to face him. Saye waved a flirty goodbye, and Arlo glared at him, giving him the finger. "Goodbye, Alpha Dominic," I say my farewell, the same from the day I left him speechless.
Looking over my shoulder, I unleash a wave of my magic, the color of black and blue flames swirling around me as I teleport out, leaving Dominic to himself like before.
"Saye, what is that you want me to see-" I say as I enter but pause with wide eyes and back hitting against the wall, shocked. "What the hell is that?" One of the boys, the youngest, has some one-eye creature. It's like a dark gooey substance paste, and someone just glued those plastic eyes for arts and crafts. Its round yellow eyes look around frantically. I feel a chill running down my spine, seeing how disgusting it is. "In the Demon Realm, these are called Carcurus; they are low-level creatures that find a victim and stick themself on a host sucking the life force out of them." "So, they are like you and Arlo?" "Sort of, but once the host loses its life energy, the carcurus will use it as its body like a puppet." That's fucking creepy. "How the hell did this happen?" "My guess, even though these boys only took a whiff of the miasma, it didn't have the chance to turn the boys into ferals. Those hunks got there on time." When Saye says hunks, she is referring to Dominic and M
Once night emerges, I stand in the middle with my arms crossed and eyes closed, waiting for my package. I had Saye and Arlo return to the farmhouse since Camila and the others would be coming by.A wolf no older than us rushes past me from where the entrance gate is and approaches Dominic."What is it?""T-there...there..." the teen pup stuttered and seemed surprised."What?" Dominic asks with a demanding tone making the boy flinch."There is a huge monster at the gates."I hear everyone gasps and talk among themselves about the monster on the other side of the gates. I know who it is judging by the reaction of that wolf."He's here probably for me," I say with a smile. "Open the gates."Dominic wanted to ask but didn't. "Open the gates.""But alpha-""Open the gates."Without questioning his alpha, the young pup ran to the gates, and with another guard there, they opened the two large doors. Takkar enters the pack base pulling a wheeled cage meant for a large animal; beside him are K
It has been four days since I left the Blue Moon pack. A lot has happened and my intervening with them wasn't part of my survival plan. I should have left them to deal with the ferals. But my heart told me I should act as I did in my past life. I didn't want to get involved with them again, especially with Dominic.That day, he looked at me as if he didn't hate me; instead, he had some doubts. I mean, we did date, and I was somewhat overly in love with him that I would do something crazy to be with him.I was stupid back then, and dying from my past life gave me a wake-up call.Now I need to find the primary source of the miasma and get rid of it for good. I had the twins scout the area, hoping to find anything to give us a chance to destroy it. I know it came from the demon world, but who would place something like that in the forest.I look through all my notes and sources from where I've been and where the miasma had spread. So far, the miasma has appeared in Brazil, Japan, Scotlan
As I learned when I lived in the Blue Moon pack, before the war ended 500 years ago, when the Elders had run out of luck and lost a lot of their people in an ocean of blood and corpses when all hope was about to be lost, a mysterious woman in white appeared. In one move of her power, she wiped out a whole army of demons in just a night. The adults had said that the woman in white was none other than the Moon Goddess.No one has seen the Moon Goddess except the Elders and the people from 500 years ago. The Moon Goddess is who they called and worshiped because she wore and blended with the moon like a beautiful maiden from the moon.I sigh."Alpha, it would be inconvenient for me to go," I tell him calmly. "Firstly, I'm not a wolf; it's not my place to say something to the Elders. I'm a demon, and they won't listen to me. They will kill me the moment I step foot in their territory. Secondly, only leaders of their clan, along with their mates and two commanders, can only attend. You are
Feno's arrival had me wondering why a wood elf came by and introduced himself. And how does he know where I live?I don't think anyone knows me apart from the Blue Moon Pack. I didn't have many friends when I traveled back. The only friend I wanted was...Now, why am I thinking about Dominic? Since our earlier encounter, I don't think it's the right thing to have him back in my life. I promised myself to avoid the guy at all cost, but somehow fate wanted to be a pain in the ass. I should hate him. I want him to die after he killed me that night for being framed by that bitch Leah. I know she killed that young wolf to have the whole pack, especially Dominic, loathe me more.But I couldn't have the heart to do so. Hating Dominic and getting revenge on the pack I grew up with isn't what I wanted. I didn't have the heart, and instead of being a public enemy to the werewolf community, I left.I return my sense to the tiny creature sitting in the middle of my couch. I never expected a guest
Once the door shuts behind me, I feel a little dizzy and almost drop, but I use the wall as support. "Lippy?""I must be cruel, right?" I ask Camila, who stays silent as warm tears run down my cheeks. "I must be born a villain to be cruel to innocent people like Feno. After all, I'm a demon. Demons are meant to be evil and merciful. But..." I clench my fist on my chest as if a sharp pain stabs me in the heart. "I couldn't bear to show any cruelty. I wanted to help him. He came here for my help, and I made him lose hope."I exhale a shaky breath. "I don't know what to do. I'm so useless."I let my insecurities get the best of me as I put myself down with all the major flaws of being weak. The thought of someone asking for my help always makes me happy. But dealing with miasma, I know the results. Everyone like me wants to survive and be strong. I practice my powers every day, I do my best to solve the miasma problem, and I won't quit when I do. My old self would've given up, but I'm no
I gaze through the window of the private jet studying clouds as each one passes by as we are on our way to Romania. They take forms of different shapes as I count each one in my head."Lippy, are you still not talking to me?"I scowl and advert my eyes on Dominic, sitting across from me, with his sad wolf pup face. This was the tenth time trying to get my attention and feeling apologetic."Dom, I said don't even bother," Malik tells him as I scowl more at him. "Taking her with us will only cause trouble.""Want me to start off burning that face of yours?" I threaten, flashing my blue flames. "Because you are this close to having this plane crash into the sea.""Want to have a go?" Malik tenses up and clenches his jaw."Easy, the both of you." Clayton tries to get between Malik and me.Malik hates me. Being here makes him on edge, but he can't complain to his alpha because I could ride with them to Romania. So, he can't do anything to kick me off the plane. He can try, but that will ma
I closed my eyes, and seconds later, I opened them, frantically panting, my heart beating wildly and sweating."Lippy?" I look up at Camila, who looks pale. "Are you okay?"I continue to pant and remember where I am. Everyone was looking at me, either oddly confused or worried. Kaze, still on my lap, whimpers with concern. I brush my hair back and exhale sharply. We are still on the jet. I rub my face and inwardly curse myself that I dreamt something like that. I thought I died...again.I noticed Dominic had a worried look but did not budge to move because of that one person blocking him. At the same time, Malik and Clayton had their head in my direction with expressions of curiosity."Here, drink some water," Camila hands me a bottle of cold water. I took it from her and immediately drank till it was halfway."Thanks," I wipe my mouth. My heart starts to slow down its pace enough to relax a bit. "How long was I asleep?" I ask."You only shut your eyes for five minutes."Only five?Bu