DARIUS ALFONSO. ‘Dear Moon Goddess, please write Athena Becker in my fate.’ I fucked up badly with my prayer. The prayer I made before I found Blue. There was an intolerable pain in my chest. It miraculously happened for the second time, I was blessed- or should I say- cursed with another chance. “Are you alright, Alpha?” Rue asked, checking my wound, treating while I held a stoic expression on my face, only in my trousers. But from inside, I was burning with a fiery fire. “Hmm?” I released a questioning hum, not lifting my devoid gaze from the ground. While I was lost in my thoughts, Julius furiously came, holding his forehead in disappointment. But I was too lost in pain to notice anything else. “Seriously, how many times are you going to let that woman pierce your skin? First your hand and now look at this wound.” He growled, coming closer, inspecting how badly she wounded my arm. And that was my question- Why? “Why do you let her do this to you?” He sighed, curling h
ATHENA BECKER. ‘I am a human, I shouldn’t feel that way. It was wrong. It shouldn’t occur in the first place.’ Two weeks passed but nothing could soothe the storm in my soul. “Dammit! What should I do?” My mind was not functioning properly. I failed to focus on anything. The sensations in my body were growing wild and I had no idea how to subdue them. ‘What do I do about these feelings? How can I stop or control them?’ And with these thoughts afflicting me, I failed to perform my duty properly and ended up killing the rogue I was supposed to capture. “Athena?! What the hell are you doing?! You were not supposed to kill him!” Jax yelled at me, mouth gaping when I killed him. Looking down, I bit my bottom lips, failing to hide the distress gleaming on my face. “I.. am sorry. I didn’t know what I was thinking.” I sighed, rubbing my temples and converting my dejection into rage. He opened his mouth to yell but thankfully did and sighed, shaking his head in disappointment. “I w
The unwanted day had arrived, I was supposed to apologize to him before everyone and swallow my pride. But if he’d be in a dungeon, that would drive me insane.And I wanted him to get hurt.I was pacing around with a scowl lingering on my face as everyone was gathering in the royal hall. “Are you sure, Athena?” Jax asked compassionately. Stopping in my tracks, I nodded, “Yes.”He narrowed his eyes on me and came closer, whispering so no one could hear it. “Why are you bothering to lie and creating an ordeal out of it, Athena? Why bear such humiliation?” He asked, which brought a hollow look on my face.I was not sure whether I should tell him about the tribulation I confronted or not. I opened my mouth to reply but the King who held serious interest in my life came to increase the dread I was experiencing. “Exactly, Jax.” We both turned and King Hadrain was there. Since everyone was coming, he wore a black shirt and a fancy waistcoat with two buttons open and arresting features.
“I, The Red Huntress, Athena Becker, reject your rejection, Alpha Darius Alfonso.” With a stern tone, I rejected his proposal which could solve our affliction but I didn’t allow him. I won’t allow him to end the chance fate had given me this easily. “What the- You can’t do this, Athena.” He growled, narrowing his eyes in fury. We both had a glaring competition and with the ache in my body by the ruckus we created, I rose from the ground. “Why not? I believe that the rejection of mates is a mutual consent and you don’t have my permission to break this bond.” Holding my head high, I folded my arms at my chest, curling my lips upward from one side while he was frowning deeply at me. “If you think you can make a decision of this cursed bond yourself then you are wrong. I won’t let you.” Shrugging my shoulders, I acted to discard his rage and enhance the upheaval he was hoping to bury. “What the hell is happening here?! Such blasphemy in our land?!” An Alpha from the community y
DARIUS ALFONSO. ‘She wanted my heart to break and how could I tell her that my heart was already broken the day I found out she was not my mate?’ Rejection was our only option. Else, what could manifest in desolation? Our destruction- that is the only thing which could occur and that was what she wanted. “You will regret it. You were already heartbroken once, do you want to go through the same pain again?” I muttered. This won’t only hurt me but her too but she was determined to shatter herself once again in order to break me apart. “I don’t care. At least seeing you hurt too will be satisfying.” She scoffed. “I see…” After reaching no specific point, having a pointless discussion, we returned where everyone was waiting for us. If it had ended, that would be better but to no avail. Everything was ruined! “What did you talk about?” Jax asked, rushing to her side. Distress formed over his face, scanning her with worry, knowing things had turned terrible. “Nothing much.
ATHENA BECKER. ‘Why was I so desperate to make him feel what I did?’ My mind questioned me. “I don’t know.” ‘Was it because… I wanted him to realize what he did and… return to me in the end?’ After he left, I was sitting on the balustrade, looking out at the courtyard with a scowl lingering over my face, suppressing the tears glistening in my eyes. “No, no, no,” I whispered, shaking my head in denial, covering my mouth with my hand. The constant feeling of him being hurt was pissing me off. I didn’t want to feel how he felt or thought. I resented what I was feeling, what I was going through. “Tsk, dammit.” I muttered under my breath with rage emitting from me. And to enhance my state, My Lord came to me in a mocking tone with his demeanor was dire. He was not amused this time. “So that was the way you were talking about?” His stern tone came, standing next to me. I was sitting on the balustrade, looking out and humming in response. “Yes.” He chuckled dryly, shaking his h
Breathless, shaking from misery, my lips, my hands, my whole body felt vulnerable before this painful imagination. “Do you think my emotions are a fucking joke?!” I yelled and burst into a few tears. “Mind your language, Athena. You are before The Elders.” My Lord warned me with a frown, pointing his finger at me to stop the disrespect. But have they thought about my misery? My feelings? “Can you feel the extent of how much I ‘don’t’ want you?” I asked breathlessly, voice cracking, turning to Darius who was looking with a dead look. “Now you are realizing that?” He scoffed, returning a dead smile. Turning back to My Lord, I held my heart, tears gleaming on my face which staggered him to find tears on my face after a devilishly long time. …He tried to make me cry many times and a single thought of loving Darius made me cry…. “My Lord, my feelings are my own. No one holds right over them. Not even your mate bonds. Only I can control what I should feel. I don’t need a fucking pat
‘Who am I to you?’ I thought sorrowfully, drowning in the depth of inebriation. I had countless questions but I couldn’t speak, my heart was pounding rapidly, my voice tightened around my throat. He held a fiery passion. “I swear, Athena, I will.” He breathlessly continued his declaration but this was the extent everyone could hear. This conversation and argument had gone beyond control. “Darius!” Emitting a maddeningly strong aura which hitched both our breaths, we both froze when King Hadrian rose from his seat, pointing his finger at him to stop him from threatening ‘His’ huntress. “And then you say you guys have nothing.” Darius whispered in disappointment, in a feeble voice so only I could hear and it pricked me. He refused to believe we were not on an intimate level. “We are not.” I whispered back quickly. “Don’t lie.” He growled, pulling away roughly from me but it rushed a sudden depression into me. It hurt. How could he mistrust my purity? “Control your wo