AIDEN
The excitement in her voice and the happiness on her face could not be missed. She had a huge smile on her face and was even jumping up and down not able to contain herself. All the while the only thing I was looking at, was my mother’s jade necklace that dangled in her long neck as she jumped up and down like a silly schoolgirl.
“Aiden, go to mate. Hug her, I want to feel her in our warm embrace.” I scoffed when my wolf said that. The girl rushed to me, I didn’t know what she wanted to do but I dodged, and she almost fell. I then glanced at my brother who had a shocked look on his face then I turned and walked out.
I felt suffocated in that room, and I could not sit there any second longer. “Aiden?” I hated my wolf at that moment. He wanted me to go to that girl, did he forget whose daughter she was? She was even shamelessly wearing my mother’s necklace; did she know how her father got it?
When I got outside, I felt like screaming to the heavens for the Goddess to hear and feel the incredible pain I was in. It felt like those people were mocking me. Memories of that night came rushing back. “Take this necklace and clean it. It’s valuable and it will be wasted on a dead woman. I told my daughter I will bring her something. This will do.”
That was what he said when he pried that necklace off my mother’s dead body. He came back and gave it to his daughter. The man had no shame! “Man, you have got to go back in there. The man thinks you are going to reject his daughter.” I scoffed. So, what if I did. It would serve them both right and make them feel some of the pain I felt.
Midnight whimpered not liking what I was saying. “She is wearing my mother’s necklace Zion, the one he took off her dead body after killing her!” Zion frowned. Then bailed his hands into fists. “To hell with this man, how are we supposed to contain ourselves then when he is this cruel?” Now he was getting where I was coming from.
A thought came into mind and a smirk appeared on my face. “Why are you smirking like that, don’t do anything stupid without telling me.” I smiled then turned and walked back to the office. When I got inside the monster was comforting his daughter.
They made me sick! “Boy don’t come to my pack and disrespect me like that. This is my daughter you are hurting here, who the hell do you think you are!” he bellowed, and I wished I could roll my eyes at how dramatic he was being.
Now that it was his daughter, he was going crazy yet when he went around killing other people’s children, he couldn’t careless about them. What a hypocrite. But I was going to show him, make him rip what he sowed.
“Alpha, as I said before, my brother doesn’t like surprises. Everything that comes as a surprise to him, throws him off. At least now he has come down a little and processed the news.” Zion answered the man before I could.
At that moment I had no respect for the man, I didn’t have it to begin with. His daughter lifted her head and looked at me with pleading eyes when she heard what Zion said. “Don’t worry sweetheart, you will get me and everything you deserve.” I thought looking at her with a smirk.
I don’t know if she mistook the smirk for a smile or what, but she smiled at me. The disgust I felt, I had never felt for anyone else before. I kept looking at the necklace hanging around her long delicate neck and I wanted to shake my head.
I didn’t know if I could go through with my plan while she was wearing that necklace. I was afraid I might just grab it and pull it right off her. “You have got to man up boy, my daughter cannot be mated to a weak man!” I glared at him; those were the words he said to my father that night. Calling him a weak man.
I fumed in anger, and I opened my mouth to speak when Zion beat me to it. “My brother might be anything alpha, but weak is not one of them.” I could tell he was getting angry too. “Father please, he is my mate, and everyone had the right to react how they see fit to things. He did not run away or reject me. He just went out for some air and to process. He is here now.” She said smiling at me.
I couldn’t even smile back, if she was anyone else, I would be jumping for joy at how beautiful my mate was. I was not blind; I could see her beauty but what I didn’t know was if she was really naïve or just acting like she was.
“Let us go young John and give this two time to talk. Your bother is shy I see.” He said standing up. “No need, let us finish the business we came here to discuss. Your daughter can go pack her bags; she will be coming home with us.”
ZIONI was praying the whole way to the Moon Pack for things to go well. For Aiden not to lose his temper and confront alpha Harold for killing his parents. Never in my wildest dreams did I think he was going to find his mate there and that the mate was going to be alpha Harold’s daughter. I didn’t know what the Moon Goddess was playing at, but I felt she was being cruel.Aiden lost his family in the hands of that man, and she turned around and mated him to his daughter. What kind of fate was that? Did she maybe do that to give Aiden a chance to punish alpha Harold without having to kill him? I saw how much that man cared for his daughter. He was ready to kill when Aiden dodged his daughter’s hug and walked out.I had to calm him down telling him that Aiden was not good with surprises. That he went to cool down and he was going to come back. He ordered me to go get him, I wondered if he was still outside or if he was long gone when I left that office.I wouldn’t have blamed him if he
TINAI had just come back from the garden, and I was going to the kitchen to get myself a snack. But when I got inside the pack house, I picked up a scent. One that was foreign to me. It smelled like the soil after the rain, and it had some woodsy touch to it.Nina, my wolf came to life when we caught it, we forgot about the food and followed the scent all the way to my father’s office. I was shocked that my father would have visitors as no alphas came to our pack. I didn’t know why but my father always told me that they respect him too much to bother him with nonsense.Imagine my surprise when I caught a foreign scent right inside our pack house and was now following it like a dog after a bone. I budged into my father’s office without knocking. I couldn’t contain myself. The scent hit me so hard that I got dizzy for a moment. Our eyes locked and I could not help but admire him.He was tall, broad shoulders, chiselled jaw, long blond hair tied to a man bun. Green alluring eyes and I f
AIDEN“Why is it that I can’t visit my daughter, what are you planning boy?” The disgust I felt for the man was something else, I didn’t want him visiting until the day his daughter becomes a shell of herself. Then I would invite him to come and see the fruits of his labour. “No alpha. It’s like you refuse to hear us. We told you that we will be taking over as leaders of the pack and that our alpha is leaving. Where do you think we will get the time to be organizing dinners?”Seriously though, what was wrong with the man? “Also, I don’t like what you are insinuating about me, if you don’t want me to take your daughter with me then you can just say so and I will leave her behind. I do not have time to be second guessed by a man I don’t know. Your daughter is my mate but if you don’t want her mated to me, then tell her that and we can leave.”I glanced at Zion, and he looked like he was going to pass out. I had no respect for the man, and I was showing it. What pissed me off even more w
AIDENThe fake smile on her face disappeared and she closed the distance between us. Which I found very interesting. She looked me dead in the eye glaring at me and I returned it. We stared at each other for what felt like a minute before she opened her mouth and spoke. “Look here young man, I don’t know what game you are playing but if you hurt my daughter then I will have your head!”I crossed my hands in front and chuckled. “I asked you a question before and I am still waiting for an answer.” She looked confused. “What question was that?” I shook my head. “It looks like you people are not fond of listening. Or at least listening to understand then respond but you are good at listening to respond.”She continued glaring. “Very well, I will repeat myself. The question was if you don’t want me to take your daughter with me. Why don’t you keep her?” she looked offended by what I said, and I didn’t care. They needed to know that I didn’t care about them or their daughter. “Enough now my
AIDENShe shook her head in denial. “No, my father wouldn’t do that. He is not capable of that.” I chuckled mockingly. “Is that so? Let me tell you how he….” Zion cut me short. “Aiden, no! this is not the time for you to do this. Not now brother.” I clicked my tongue and sat back properly on my seat. It didn’t matter if I told her or not.What I said was enough to give her something to think about. “No, let him say what he wants to say, tell me how you think my father murdered your mother and took this necklace from her. Because I will have you know that I have had this necklace since I was eight! There is no way it’s from your mother!”I fumed in anger when she said that and bailed my hands into fists. “I suggest you keep your mouth shut because you don’t know what you are talking about. I don’t know if you are naïve or what but what my brother is saying is the truth and if I were you, I wouldn’t anger him right now.” Zion warned her.I was holding on by a threat, the girl was drivin
TINAI could not believe that he choked me like that, he almost killed me, and he scared the living daylights out of me. I just couldn’t let it go, could i? but how was I supposed to let it go when he was accusing my father of such horrible things. The man has been nothing but good to all of us in the pack. He was a good leader and was well respected.How could he expect me to believe that he took his very necklace off a dead woman’s body. Not just any dead woman but my mate’s mother and after killing her. No, I refused to believe it, my father would never do something like that. But then again, why was he so angry at me?The man did not act affectionate with me since the moment we met. There was no love in his eyes, nothing. He didn’t even want to touch me or asked my name for that matter. But he took me with him, maybe a part of him wanted to be with me but his anger got in the way. When he asked if I wanted to go back, I thought about it and It sounded like a good idea.Back home n
ZIONI looked at her when she called for help. When the car rolled it landed on it’s top and now, she was upside down. I figured she was stuck and that was why she couldn’t get out. I looked at the car and there were sparks flying and my brother just stood there watching her. The cold-hearted bastard was enjoying the whole thing.He even had a satisfied smirk on his face. I didn’t know how deep my brother’s hatred was for alpha Harold until I saw him standing there with a smirk on his face while his mate screamed for help. I knew the car was going to blow up with her inside if she didn’t get out.I glanced at my brother one more time and the man shoved his hands in his pockets and continued to watch. His behaviour scared the shit out of me. I didn’t know he was that heartless. I clicked my tongue then rushed to the car. “Are you stuck?” I asked as soon as I got to her. She nodded with tears streaming down her cheeks.I started pulling the car doors and ripping them off the body of the
TINAI did want to keep my mouth shut and mind my own business, but I couldn’t. I was still angered by what my mate did, he stood there and watched me struggle to get out of that car. Which made me wonder if he would have helped me if his brother didn’t come to my rescue.It was clear that he hated me with a passion and would be happy to see me dead. I wondered if I made the right decision staying with him. The man was cold towards me and has laid his hands on me. What was I signing up for? A truck arrived and stopped next to us. A man jumped off and looked at me then at Aiden and Zion.“Do we take in strays now? You went to negotiate about land, not pick up stray.” His words pissed me off. Mostly because they sounded so true, I was like a stray in a way as my mate has been treating me like something he picked up from the side of the road.“That is Aiden’s mate, Jake.” Zion answered and that Jake guy’s jaw dropped looking between Aiden and I. “Please don’t tell me she is the daughter