Third person’s POV
After the mating ceremony was over, the Alpha king was filled with rage. He had never been angry towards his sons like he was this way since their mother left.Ever since she left them to chase her career in another city, living him in the most excruciating pain he had ever felt in his life which was due to him getting separated from his mate, he put his all into raising his children the proper way.But tonight, they embarrassed him. They proved to be mannerless in front of the whole pack and disgraced a woman. That was the one of the things he frowned heavily upon.What annoyed him the most was that the lady was no one other than the daughter of the woman he loved.Alpha Damien had always had a crush on Sierra Coleman, who was Andrea’s mother. When she got pregnant and banished from the pack, he was heartbroken because he planned on divorcing his already pregnant wife for her.His wife was not a good woman. She was his mate too, but she cheated on him at every chance she got. He wanted to divorce her, and he knew he would get in trouble with his father for that, but Sierra was worth it to him.Then had planned a lot and fell in love, but she ended up making a mistake that spoiled their future. When his father died, he knew he had to bring her back to the pack and keep her near him where he could see her every day.The both of them have aged, but they found out that they were mated recently when they couldn’t leave the sight of each other.Alpha Damien decided that he was going to marry her. It might be late in life, and their kids might have grown up but he would be damned if he let his only true love go.He wasn’t going to allow her to slip away just like that.Alpha Damien was shocked when his sons got mated to Andrea. He decided to tell them all that he was going to marry Andrea’s mother after the mating ceremony, but then that happened.He was so filled with rage. The look on Sierra’s face as her daughter ran away broke his heart into pieces. He loved her, so her pain reflected on him too.After the ceremony, he called his sons out to the corner alongside Sierra who was fuming with anger.She was never going to live his sons, and he knew that. No mother would be nice to the people that treated her daughter that way in front of the entire pack.“What the hell is wrong with the both of you?” Alpha Damien thundered, glaring at his two sons that were standing before him.They had never thought their father would ever raise his voices at them but yet, it was happening. He was right in front of them, looking like he wanted to snap their necks.“What did we do, father?” Lucas asked, his voice shaking.Alpha Damien scoffed and looked away. He ran his fingers down his hair and licked his lips, then turned to face Sierra who now had tears in her eyes.“That poor girl. What has she ever done to the both of you? Why would you reject her that way?”The twins glanced at each other before they started simultaneously, “We don’t want her.”“I should go and check up on her.” Andrea’s mother sniffed, her chest tightening.She couldn’t stand seeing her entire world being spoken about that way. She was always convinced that she raised the sweetest daughter, but yet all she had ever received was hate in the pack.Before Alpha Damien could speak, she had already reached the door.“Listen, the both of you. Pray that Andrea is not gone or your punishment is going to be severe.” He threatened, meaning every word he said.“What are you going to do?” Damon crossed his arms around his chest.“I am going to send the both of you to a boarding school in the human world.” He replied almost immediately.That was something that he had never considered but if they stood in the way of him finding his true love, he wasn’t going to think twice before doing it.They were both adults and were past the age of pampering.Lucas scoffed, “You can’t do that father. I am the future Alpha. There is no one to succeed to the throne but me.” He shrugged.Alpha Damien took a step forward toward his son. He towered over him, intimidating him with his sharp emerald eyes that looked feral.But Lucas didn’t falter. He wanted to whimper at the sight of his father standing in front of him, but then he didn’t.He was an Alpha too, and aspired to be an even greater lycan king than his father.“Watch me try. I could give Beta Aaron the throne to succeed. If you think I won’t do it, then just watch.” His father replied.Lucas knew his father could do it. He never goes back on his words. He could take them to the human world and dump them, where it would just be them against the world.Everyone in the pack was told stories about how cruel the human world was and even at their age, the twins still feared it.They couldn’t imagine living with people that were defenseless yet filled with the most vile thoughts in their heads that were even more dangerous than what the supernatural’s could do.They have been told about a human poisoning their partners, or a child killing their parents. In the supernatural world, those were unimaginable sins.So, Lucas stepped back.He didn’t want to go into any unnecessary fight with his father.“I’m sorry.” Lucas apologized, humbling his ego because he knew more than anyone who had the upper hand here.“But why are you doing this father? Why do you care about this girl?” Damon shot his father a questioning look.Alpha Damien took a deep breath.“Sierra, son. She was my first love. She’s my mate, and I want to get married to her.” He deadpanned.Silence. Pin-drop silence. The twins felt numb. They couldn’t believe what they were hearing.The mother of the girl they had tortured their entire life was the woman he wanted to marry?A werewolf?“No, father.” Damon shook his head, not believing what he had just heard.Just then, Sierra Coleman rushed into the room frantically, breaking the thick silence in the room.“My daughter. Andrea is gone, Alpha Damien.” She stuttered, panic painted all over her features.“Goodness.” Alpha Damien gasped.“What am I going to do? She could be killed by rogues. Oh my God.” She started to sob.Alpha Damien would leave and search the entire woods for Sierra’s daughter. He could do more than that for her.But he couldn’t leave. He had a lot of responsibilities that he couldn’t leave behind.“The both of you,” he sternly uttered. “You are the reason Andrea left the pack. You are going to go and search the woods for her and bring her back to Sierra. If not…” He gave them a look the twins immediately understood.He was going to do exactly what he said he was going to. They had no choice.“You’re making the wrong choice. Getting married to this woman.” Damon spat, taking a disgusted glance at Sierra.Alpha Damien growled, and his son whimpered in submission. He knew his father wouldn’t tear him up for saying that, but he still felt intimidated.They strolled out of the room and headed out toward the border.“Are we really doing this?” Damon growled.Lucas, who still had rage in the system, shrugged.“There is nothing we can do about it. We just need to find the damn girl we rejected.” He replied to him.Just then, he picked her scent from afar.“We could tell him that we didn’t find her,” Damon suggested.“Are you crazy?” Lucas turned his neck, annoyed by his brother. “We are lycans. We smell everything. I literally have her scent and I’m sure she is very far from here. Let’s be going.” He gestured at his brother.Lucas shifted, the upper parts of his clothes ripping off him. He let out a growl before he started to trot toward the direction of her scent.His brother shifted too, then let out a howl before he caught up with his brother. Lucas was significantly bigger than Damon.Even though they were twins, their lycan state looked different. They kept traveling until they got to the border of a pack where her scent was oozing the most.“She’s here,” Lucas growled.He didn’t waste time before he got in. It was the full moon, which was the most vulnerable time for werewolf packs.There was no one at the border because they were all shifted. They headed towards the scent again, taking time to marvel at the beauty of the pack.When they got into the pack quarters, they walked in right when Andrea was about to take the pack link ritual.“No,” Lucas said, announcing his appearance.The both of them turned to look at them, and the horror on Andrea’s face was unmatched.If he wanted to get his rightful place as the Alpha, then he needed her to come back to the Shadow Moon pack as its citizen, not the citizen of this rather peaceful-looking werewolf pack.Andrea’s POVThe twins. They were right in front of me, and were stopping me from joining another pack. For fuck’s sake, isn’t it what they wanted? Why were they now trying to stop me from joining the pack?They were so confusing.But I didn’t want to stay back to hear what they came here to say. All that I knew was that I was seconds away from joining this pack, and no one could stop me.“Let’s go ahead with it, my Alpha,” I said to him.His blood was dripping down as he watched between me and the lycan men that were standing at the threshold of his office, not knowing whose words to take.“This is an Omega from my pack,” Lucas started as he shifted back to his human form.I watched as his bones crack, forming back into his usual human shape. I wondered what it would be like if I could shift whenever I wanted.It would be so nice, and I won’t have to go through all of the pain werewolves go through before they shifted, if it wasn’t the full moon.“She came here, with the request of jo
Andrea’s POVI felt an incredible amount of rage course through my veins like lava. It felt like betrayal. My mother made them bring me back here because she wanted to get mated to the Alpha. Maybe she had forgotten all the hell I went through because of the royal family. Maybe she had forgotten how they had banished us because she made one mistake in her teenage years.They were not our people and they sure as hell didn’t love us. Or maybe she had forgotten that they were lycans and we were just the low Omega werewolves that weren’t even citizens of the pack because we were refugees.Albeit that, she still wanted to get mated to the king. My chest tightened, because of how selfish my mother was. How could she do this to me?I trotted back to the palace to face her. There were tears in my eyes from all that was happening to today. This was the birthday that was supposed to be the best in my life as it was going to introduce me to the life of adulthood, yet it is just filled with pain
Andrea’s POVIn the morning when I woke up, I looked out through the cracks of my windows that light was peeking through and sighed. I barely slept throughout the night because all I could think of was my new life.For the first time in my life, I was going to be alone and responsible for my life. I wasn’t going to do it knowing I had my mother to fall back to. I would be a full adult, making her own life decisions in this cruel world.I rolled off the bed and stood up to my feet then stretched, my bones making a satisfying crack. I had to start arranging my clothes into my bags before it was time for me to leave later.I headed towards the wardrobe and opened it up. I didn’t have many clothes, because most of them were torn and worn out. It was the courtesy of the twins who loved to tear my clothes and humiliate me for no apparent reason.Thinking of them alone brought my blood to a sizzling boil. I will finally be away from all of that. I couldn’t wait. I wished I had a way
Andrea’s POV After dinner, my mother dragged me back to our room. I expected her to be happy that I was staying back by instead, she looked worried. When we got inside, she banged the door behind us before she pulled me until we were close to the bed.“What was that?” She spoke out. “You really want to stay back, Andrea?” “Don’t you want me to?” I raised a brow in confusion about why she was even talking to me about this right now. I had a life to start as royalty here. It felt surreal. It would have been a different thing if the Alpha didn’t propose that I get the same treatment with them. But since he did, there was no way I was passing on this. Maybe sometime in the future I will leave but just not now.“Of course I did sweetheart. But you wanted a new life, and you’re staying back solely because of those boys. You are staying because you want to get revenge on them.” I didn’t even try to hide it, “Of course.” I nodded. “Baby. I don’t want you to be sucked into this bitterne
The look on Damon’s face was what I assumed death would look like when it was standing right in front of me, ready to take me with it. My limbs were shaking, knowing that he was going to hit me.He was going to hit me so hard my neck would break.“You sick little fuck. Are you crazy?” He bellowed, and I flinched.It was his fault. He shouldn’t have spoken to me about all the women he was shagging in the room that was going to be mine because I didn’t ask for that details. I certainly didn’t want to know. “I am sorry,” I apologized. I needed to get in and wash my body. The entire room was smelling of puke, which made me want to puke even more. Maybe it had to do with the fact that my body wasn’t used to eating this much in the morning.The only time I ate like this was by chance, or when I stole from them. Eating all of it now comfortably made me feel weird. Very weird.“If you puke on me again, you are going to see a very dark side of me.” He snarled, taking a step back from me. Th
Eva encircled both of her hands around me, and I nearly choked on her perfume. It was her signature perfume that could be smelt miles away when she arrived somewhere. I always seemed to wonder how she managed to walk around with that much perfume, despite being a lycan with a heightened sense of smell.“How are you?” Her lips were plastered with a fake smile.I wasn’t going to entertain her. I thought she was going to come tomorrow, because I wasn’t ready to see her after all she did to me. I could remember how she was laughing at me vividly when I got rejected. But now because my mother got mated to the Alpha she suddenly wanted to become my friend.I scoffed. I was going to get back on all she did to me. She and her little minions, and the twins. I wasn’t going to forgive a thing they did. I couldn’t wait to repay all they did for me.But for now, I needed to act like a friend. I was going to destroy her life from within so when it was about time for us to graduate, she was going
“Wake up, Pumpkin.” Someone jerked me awake.I let out an inward groan as I raised my head to look at who it was that interrupted my sleep. I nearly rolled my eyes when my eyes set on Eva. How was she even here this early?I yawed my gaze to the clock, and I realized that I had overslept. This time, I didn’t stop the groan from escaping my lips. This wasn’t how I wanted to make an appearance in school.“Thanks for waking me up.” I dragged my body off the bed, blinking away the sleep in my eyes.“You are welcome. I’ll be coming up here to wake you up whenever I have to. That’s the fun of bringing neighbors, right?” She wiggled her brows.She lived in the pack house with her father. The palace was in the pack house, where people of the higher ranks stay. It also had accommodation for people that didn’t have homes to live in, but it is barely used because everyone preferred to stay home.The higher ranks didn’t seize to bully anyone they came across. It was one of the reasons why no one
After the twins were done eating, we headed out of the house. I could still hear my mother talking to me through the mind link, but I tried to block her out. She was trying to tell me how it wasn’t going to be so bad riding with the twins to school, even though she knew that it was going to turn out to be. “See you later kids.” The Alpha bid us farewell, and we headed out of the house to the garage where the cars are kept.The silence between us was heavy as Damon got into the driver’s seat, and Lucas got into the passenger’s seat. Lucas was always the one that drove them back to school, and Damon always drove them there.Bitterness settled in my neck when I remembered how I used to get dirty water splashed on me every day on my way back to school. It was either them, or Eva, or the other bullies in my school that had cars.I took a deep breath as I remembered why I was here today. I chose to get revenge, and even though it was way less scary when I imagined it in my head, I knew I j