It took Diana a good five-minute sprint before she reached the area. As she became closer and closer to her target place where Soleyah and the others were, the snowy ground she traveled past was littered with broken trees and bushes.What stood out for her were the remnant footprints on the snowy ground!There were wolf prints and a massive unidentified print that brought Diana’s heart into a frenzy.‘This is not good.’Diana’s wolf howled, begging to be let go. It was agitated by something Diana did not know.Clearly, the closer she was to the location, the greater the damage the area was.Next, there were scattered remnants of blood. Sniffing the air, Diana immediately recognized the bright red blood. A frown cracked her grim face when she smelled the dark-colored blood.‘Shananel, what have you done? You really dared to mess with the natural order of the world? Are you not afraid of the gods and the goddesses who created us? Damn, what were you thinking?’Diana screamed her questio
“Please, I beg you…” Alpha Adrian laid Talia gently beside Soleyah. His eyes were staring at Diana as if she was his last saving straw amid the malevolent storm brewing in his heart. “Please, save her. I can pay the price! No matter what the price is, just save her.”Adrian, as an alpha who had participated in the massive witch hunt years ago, knew of the greatest spells of the witches that would enable them to create miracles in exchange for something. He had heard of a witch pulling someone from death’s grasp in exchange for the vitality of that dead person’s loved one’s vitality.With this, Adrian still held on hope in front of Diana—the last known witch he knew aside from Talia.Being the recipient of such hopeful eyes, Diana felt that something was blocking her throat, preventing her from telling Adrian the cruel truth that hope was nearly impossible in this moment. But Diana could not say it, because she herself wanted desperately to hold onto hope no matter how tiny it was.Dia
“Soleyah!”“Talia!”As soon as two pairs of trembling eyelids opened up, the men crowded the two patients immediately.Diana, who had her energy depleted to its last percentile, swayed. Her vision dimmed for a fraction of a second. “Are you alright, Luna Diana?”It was Alpha Rhys’s dark gray eyes that welcomed Diana as soon as she stabilized her footing. On instinct, her hand found its way to her belly, caressing it as she checked for her unborn child. Though she was pale already earlier, the ashen look she had right now was way worse than a few moments ago—she was that scared for neglecting her child.After all, what Diana did was a gamble. It was her desperate attempt against Shannanel’s calculations.Though she succeeded the fear of losing her child and not knowing how to face her mate hit her late.Swallowing the clog in her throat, Diana stood up straight and took a step away from Alpha Rhys while maintaining a polite smile. “Talia is fine aside from exhaustion. Her external woun
Two silhouettes lingered amid the darkness.The moon was now covered with clouds, leaving nothing but sheer darkness between the two. Although they were alone outside, there were hundreds of pairs of ears listening attentively inside the heated hut—giving the two the so-called privacy on the surface.Diana and Talia did not care. After all, there was no conspiracy between them, but brewing emotions accumulated for two lifetimes.Diana’s head throbbed ever since she saw Talia’s toothy grin. Like a fog being dissipated in front of her, the veil slowly disappeared. The faceless ‘witch friend’ in Diana’s memory finally had a face.It was Talia.It was her all along.“Why?” So many words left unsaid. No matter how much Diana wanted to express her swirling pit of emotions, she could only come up with one question: why?Why tell her now?Did she also forget about Diana?Was
Soleyah was the first one who broke the dead silence in the cottage by clearing her throat. Scanning the crowd, the six alphas had a somber mood. Soleyah was not stupid by all means. In fact, she had a vague understanding of what Talia and Diana talked about outsideThough she may not know Diana and Talia long enough, she could guess that Diana met Talia in her previous life (?)‘I don’t know.’ Shaking her head, Soleyah decided not to dig deeper into it. After all, everyone had their fair share of secrets. What was important right now was to regroup with the Blood Claws Pack and the Black Ridge Pack.Only then could they implement Plan A.On cue, Soleyah remembered the disgrace that she had encountered with her wolf when fighting that hybrid. Just imagining the enemy to have an army of that beast was enough to make her skin crawl.Soleyah’s wolf, Aria, growled at the back of her mind. It could not accept that its prestige was tarnished because its human counterpart was feeling the ico
It was not only Diana who noticed it. Talia, whose perception ability was recovered, heard it too.The two witches, who could sense the slightest snap of a twig beyond any alpha’s sharp senses, froze and looked sharply at one direction with a second interval between them. The rear wolves, especially Jaxon and Liam who were keeping an eye on the ladies, noticed the sudden change of posture immediately.‘What is wrong?’ asked Alpha Liam through the mind-like between him and his mate.Talia’s emotions were immediately ‘felt’ by her six mates. Her emotions were that strong to be able to bypass the isolation spell she cast on herself to temporarily block the bond while they were still in a dire situation. Though her nervousness only lasted a couple of seconds, it did not prevent her mates from knowing her feelings.It was safe to say that after Talia almost crossed the gates of hell, the six domineering alphas of the Night P
Alpha Adrian released his first order through a reverberating howl which was immediately echoed by Alpha Dustain of the north side, Alpha Fin from the east side, and Alpha Jaxon of the south side.When the army of mongrels and hybrids entered within the hundred-meter radius, the two inverted echelon formations changed into an inverted triangular formation with three major forces led by Alpha Dustain and Alpha Soleyah to the east. In contrast, Alpha Adrian and Alpha Liam led the west side.Alpha Jaxon and Alpha Cameron were guarding the south point of the inverted triangular formation while Alpha Fin and Alpha Rhys were now in close proximity to the two witches. The latter two alphas would be in charge of guarding the two witches, acting as the last defense while the others focused on defending.‘You alright there, darling?’ asked Alpha Rhys. His tone was in a teasing manner, but there was a clear swirl of worry in his gray eyes.Talia, who was still looking up above the cloudless and
EASTERN SIDEHybrids were relatively larger even compared to the alpha bloodline of werewolves.Yet this fact did not hinder Soleyah Haynes, Alpha of the Woodland Pack, from biting off the neck of a hybrid after seconds when the two groups met halfway.Soleyah used her smaller stature as an advantage by fainting an attack only to dodge to the side and attack its vulnerable spot—its inner throat.Upon the fight between the hybrid and the alphas last time, they discussed during the meeting about the weakness of the hybrid that they noticed. Like snakes, these hybrids had three weaknesses namely: the stomach, the eyes, and the throat.The throat was the most fatal part, but it was also the trickiest since the specific location of the weakest spot of the hybrid was within the inner part of the throat.But who was Soleyah? She grew up and fought in the Human Continent. What’s so sinister in that continent? Human heart was deep and the