Lia howled in the air before attacking the rogue that stepped back at the sight of my figure. Through Lia’s blue eyes, I could see the rogue’s confusion about my change. He looked like he still wasn’t able to process what just happened to me. That I turned to my wolf form. But without wasting time, I leaped through the ground again and let Lia’s now larger paws smack the rogue down on the floor. He was still too preoccupied to move and I took that as an opportunity to sink my teeth into him. But the moment I did, I also felt a scratch on my back, and that familiar burning from the last time I encountered the same kind of rogue came back to my senses. Biting back a groan, I continued yanking at his side, making sure to finish this off no matter what happens. With his bloodied appearance, he might have already taken out some people along his way. And I wouldn’t let him continue on. I won’t let him get further inside Eden. The marketplace is so nearby and a lot of children and o
I woke up so many times for the rest of the night, but I couldn’t recall anything. All I knew was I was in immense pain, and yet I couldn’t do anything. Right now, though, I could feel my fingers moving as the pain I felt faded. It was still there, but it has now been isolated in the area of my body where my skin was cut.Cut…The word made me think why I was in pain in the first place. It felt like all throughout the hours I was waking up from immense pain, I couldn’t remember nor think of anything other than that. I couldn’t even recall why I was in pain, or why I was lying down in this place when I was supposed to be training.Driven by curiosity, I pushed myself to open my eyes. Slowly, my lids lifted up, feeling a bit heavy as if every muscle in my body got exhausted from enduring such scorching pain it felt for hours.My eyes immediately spotted the cream walls that surrounded the room. I was in the middle of it on a small bed. I looked to the side and saw that I was alone i
“Hey,”I turned my head to the side when someone called. I was just about to leave the clinic, all thoughts regarding that brief confrontation with Lana still running around my mind.“Sebastian,” I mumbled, quite shocked that he was here.Leaning on the hallway’s wall wearing a plain white shirt and jeans, the Beta looked like he was still modeling for some sort of magazine.“It’s been a while,” the charming man said and waved a single hand at me with a small smirk.I sighed and just smiled back. It’s been almost a month since I saw him. And to be quite honest, seeing Sebastian felt good. Relieving.“Yeah,” I just said and completely closed the door to my room. Those blue electric eyes of the Beta went to it.“I heard Lana was your doctor.”I looked away from him and heaved a deep sigh. That made the Beta chuckle.“Had a word with the pseudo-fiance?” “More like a rant with the fiance,” I said and started walking along the hallway of the clinic.Just like the headquarters, Eden’s cli
“Don’t worry about the changes that might happen when people find out about your relationship with the king. I know it will be a transition.” The Beta shifted topic once more. I couldn’t help sighing at that. 'Transition' might be an understatement for what’s about to come. “We’ll be there along the way.” He tapped me on my shoulder. “You will basically be a Luna and Queen that is also mated to the king.” Hearing those words out loud, I couldn’t help feeling nervous. Luna. Queen. I’ve never imagined hearing those words being associated with me. And to be honest, I don’t know how to even feel about that. As of now, I just want to be with Titus. My mate. And after knowing how he truly is as a person, considering how huge his responsibility is, made me appreciate and feel deeply for him even more, not just because of our matebond. “Did Lana confront you?” My attention snapped back to Sebastian when he jumped topic for the nth time. He looked very intrigued and curious about it.
People watched us as we all took our bags down from the truck. I helped some of the cadets with me unload our things.What was supposedly a few more days of training before going back to Vamos for the Choosing Ceremony, turned into a half-day trip when the king decided to make us all go back to Vamos.“Too bad we had to get back. But people were hurt.” One of the trainees said as we continued unloading the truck.Packmates who had friends or family from the trainees started coming in, making the place quite noisy and a little bit welcoming with all the greetings. But one could not mistake the tension that was in the air.I was made to follow the warriors and the Council when Titus called me. I thought he was going to be with me along the way home, but they all gathered us first for the official announcement of the shortened training and what we were dealing with as of the moment.That what they all thought was a mere rogue incident, became a spark that could light a big fire that coul
Benjamin chuckled as he led me inside his office in the infirmary.“They for sure had barely any idea what they signed up for. I’m pretty sure the king and the Council won’t have much of a hard time picking the top 14, considering they wouldn’t have much of a choice once they start backing out.”I smiled as I sat on the chair in front of his table. He took a stethoscope and some other things he needed to examine me for the day.“You think they’re backing out?” He asked, despite already observing some things amongst the cadets.“Maybe some. But some may also have strengthened their resolve because of that. It’s either they get motivated with the challenge or back out from it.” The doctor immediately nodded at me. “True, indeed. I can see you’re at the latter part of it.”I smiled. “This would prick a little,” he said as he took a large needle to get blood from me. He chuckled as he placed the needle on my arm.“But I doubt this pain would affect you after you’ve been through those bi
I didn’t know what to say nor feel.I felt numb and my mind was going everywhere, going through so many questions all at once. It was the same way with my heart. It went through so many emotions that it couldn’t pick up which to process first.“All your vitals are good and there’s really no trace of venom inside you even when it has just been 26 hours when you were injected with it.” Ben nodded to himself as he finished with everything he needed to do for his monitoring of me.“That’s great. But are you fine, my dear? You look… a little unwell.”I stared at him for a while, processing his words as my mind still couldn’t grasp everything I just heard.“N-No, I’m fine.” I shook my head and forced a small smile on my face.“T-Thank you, Ben,” I continued and sat up. My chest was starting to constrict and get heavy as I controlled whatever emotion I felt inside. I felt heavy, and yet my mind was blank, unable to register anything at the huge dump that I felt on me.“Okay,” the healer s
“Sabrina,”I looked behind me when someone suddenly disrupted the silence that filled inside the kitchen of the Omega house.Helen was standing at the doorway of the dirty kitchen, holding a couple more dishes from the dining area after the people ate for dinner. She just stood there, looking at me, shocked.“I didn’t realize you still need to do that.”“I still live here,” I just told her. This is my first time seeing her since she was hospitalized after that rogue attack in the market. She just continued watching me with her dark eyes, not moving from her spot. I reluctantly smiled at her, forcing the act out to be polite, when she didn’t say anything more and just turned my back and opened the faucet.The sound of the flowing water immediately occupied the place and I rinsed off the bubbles on the plates. I did that for a couple of minutes. I didn’t have dinner yet, but I voluntarily did the chore just so I could take my mind off of things and calm down. “I…” Helen suddenly spoke