Azura“He is my cousin, Ryker. He is the only family I have left. I can’t be selfish enough to leave him alone when I know that he is in danger,” I tell him, removing the damn wig from my head. Perhaps it was the wrong decision to come here in the first place. I should have stayed with Elias in his pack. “Let me remind you if you’re forgetting, he is my friend, too,” Ryker spits icily, standing before me with folded arms and a stone face, his steely gaze fixated on me as he studies my expressions. I know that I’m panicking but I can’t help it. After reading that creepy note and learning about the rogues’ constant attacks on his pack, I can’t just stay here selfishly while he fights for his pack, and what if something happens to him… I’ll never be able to forgive myself. At this moment, nothing matters more than my cousin’s safety and well-being. If those bloody creatures can break into the Academy’s security system and kill an Alpha, it won’t be hard for them to attack Elias. “Yo
Ryker“Can I ask you something, Alpha Ryker?” Ethan asks as I go over the images of the candidate who was found dead on his phone. I have come to his office to know more about the attack that happened in the Academy. Surprisingly, there is no CCTV footage of someone entering the Academy or going out. It’s as if someone appeared from thin air and disappeared in the air again because there was nothing that could be found on the CCTV footage. Ethan asked for the footage when I requested it, wanting to go through everything by myself and make sure that I found something. “Sure,” I reply and zoom on the image of his dead body. How can his body bear the marks of someone attacking him when no one can be seen? His ribs are open and torn, blood spurting out from his heart. Whoever has killed him was a monster, he has killed him brutally, mercilessly. “You know, your Mom and I were best friends, right?” Ethan seeks, looking up at me with a puzzled glance.I ignore the emotions that come for
Ryker“Trust me, you’re going to learn a lot of things about your Mom,” Ethan states with a wide grin on his face as my hands caress the locket of heart-shaped in my hand. His words make me feel uneasy, I’m not even sure why I accepted it from him. Is it right to have something which you think belongs solely to you? “Elias isn’t leaving the Academy, you will protect him, right?” He raises his brows, bringing me out of my reverie. I hum and nod my head, taking my leave. I had left Azura in the Mess area and prevented her from getting up from her chair until I returned. No one will attack her in public and the dining area will be the most crowded place. When I reach the Mess Hall, I look where I had left her but she is not there. My heart thunders, anticipating the worst as I scan the dining area but she is nowhere to be seen.My legs trot in Nicholas’s direction before even I can try to think where she might be. That bastard must be involved in this, I have this bad feeling…“Ryker
Azura“Are you kidding me?” I ask, shaking my head in disbelief. Is he serious? He can’t be, right? My wolf begs me to let him sleep beside us, she is so desperate for this and I feel my throat dry as he stares at me coldly, making me realize that he is adamant about it. “You can’t possibly think of me sleeping with you in one bed, right?” I giggle as he simply folds his hands and glares at me with his cold brown eyes that are missing their warmth. “You’re not assuming that I’ll guard your bed while you take your beauty sleep, huh?” He cocks a brow at me, sighing loudly and I feel his hot breaths caressing my face which had awakened me in the first place. “You can do that, I don’t mind,” I shrug and turn to the other side. “But I do, Azura Riverstone,” he spits in his deep husky voice that makes the swarm of butterflies alive in my stomach. The next thing I feel is my bed dipping as he makes himself comfortable on my bed. I turn to tell him to get off my bed but when I turn my
AzuraI wake up to the squealing sound of my alarm. My hands fly to my mouth when I realize that my hand is lying on his chest, and I’m practically sleeping on him as my head is on his chest.My wolf yelps, enjoying the proximity much to her liking. I immediately get off his chest and run to the bathroom to get ready for today’s schedule. The cold water runs on my naked body as I have stripped out of my clothes. I stare at my hands with a coy smile on my face. I can’t believe my hands were lying on his naked chest a few minutes ago. The foreign feeling of having touched his chest in my sleep is provoking a tingling rush of delight that floods my senses.“Be quick, or the breakfast might get finished before even we reach there,” Ryker’s voice booms, followed by a couple of knocks on the door. After drying myself with the towel, I put my bathrobe on and got out of the bathroom to get ready in my room.“Thank Goddess that you have decided to get ready in the room and not in the bathroo
Ryker Dane is following her around like a puppy, which makes me want to rip his heart out. Can’t he just understand my words and leave us alone? He doesn’t have to eat with us, and I don’t like sharing the table with him. And Azura loves to get under my skin. Sometimes, I can’t help but feel regret for choosing to help her and even for making her my roommate. I should have chosen a male, but I didn’t want to talk to anyone else, and since men make the place dirty and untidy, which I hate, so I thought that Azura would be a better option.“Line up, boys,” the officer shouts as everyone reaches the ground of the sports area. I know what he is going to do next, so I pull Azura’s hand to keep her next to me, but Dane holds her hand to force her to stand next to him in the fourth row as the boys make four rows, and I’m standing in the first one while they are standing in the second and third, respectively.“Your skin is so soft and smooth,” he states, gawking at her hand in shock. This
AzuraIf I have to meet the Alpha King and ask him for help, I have to make it to the third round, at least. I make a mental note to myself, running with Ryker, or should I say dragging my feet to match up his speed?You got this, Zu. I'm your strength, and they will see that you're the strongest Alpha in the country. My wolf encourages me, which I should say is being delusional.I'm not an Alpha, silly. I giggle at her, and she puffs her cheeks, looking cute. She is missing roaming into the woods, and it has been a long time since she took a run and let her furs feel the fresh air. You might not be, but I'm an Alpha wolf, she boasts, not minding to have a reality check. I have never felt this week before. I always considered myself a strong she-wolf who could easily take on two or three wolves, but while running lapses, I realized that I'm not that strong. “Faster, A… Elias,” Ryker snarls, pushing me to my limits. He is not used to calling me Elias, but I'm grateful that he's smar
RykerLogan took the whole day, training us hard and making us skip our lunch as punishment, and the rest time because a few Alphas were being dick to him. He isn’t as strict as Alex, so not everyone takes him seriously, but he is good at teaching us the tactics and tricks to handle our strengths.As a powerful Alpha, it’s not hard for me to train hard, but restraining myself from using my strength and making sure that Azura doesn’t get hurt is a bit of a struggle. I will need to work on that part, as I can’t be so obvious about protecting her, or else everyone will know that I’m trying to protect her, so she took some blows when I couldn’t manage my strength.Logan dismisses us when the sun is about to set, teaching us a lesson and showing us what true power means. He didn’t use his words or even lift a finger to make sure that all of us got what it meant to mess with an officer. He has killed us with his kindness. “You better shut your mouth, Nicholas,” an Alpha shouts at that fuck