CHAPTER: SIX3RD PERSON’S POVArya’s father was suffering from Carcinoid Syndrome, and since the cancer was already widespread when they found out, the doctor recommended a treatment to shrink the tumors, and that was what kept Mr. Wayne going a few months after he lost his wife.The bills and responsibilities were piling up, and he was stressed, so he passed out while at work and had to be rushed to the hospital again for the third time that month.“Dad, have you been drinking again?” Arya asked her father after she was allowed to see him, as that was also a reason why he would have passed out.“No, why would I go drinking when bills are piling up plus, I know my health; there is no way I would do that, but don’t worry, I just passed out and they rushed me here; otherwise, I am good; I think I was just stressed.” He told her, reassuring her that everything was fine.“You know when I got that call, I thought maybe something bad had happened to you. I was worried.” She said so, and her
CHAPTER: SEVENALPHA LEO LANCE“I can’t believe she took the job; why didn’t she just come to me?" Leo ranted as he paced around the living room; it was a day after Arya started working at Kai’s restaurant, and he was losing his cool.“Why would she refuse to take the job, Leo? You do know that you are just overreacting, and there is no need for this, right?” His mom was trying to calm him down, but Leo was having none of that; he was mad at everyone, at himself for relaxing, and at Kai for taking advantage of Arya’s situation to manipulate her by trying to get back at him.She was just not a pawn in his game; she was in his pack, and he was the one that found her and brought her to their pack and begged his father to let them stay, but all Kai wanted was to piss him off; he wanted a war! And he was going to give him one for as long as he stayed away from her.“You don’t understand, Mom, this is a war between Kai and me; he asked for it, and I am going to give it to him.”“I don’t thin
CHAPTER: EIGHTARYA'S POVI took the job because I needed it and because the pay was good, no lie; I had to help my father, but when I met with Emily the following day, I was shocked to learn that Leo knew about it and that he was mad. The question is, why was he mad at me for taking the job?I wanted to call him, but I was skeptical about it. What if I gave him a bad impression of me? So, I focused on reading for my final exams and waiting for him to call. I hadn’t heard from him for two days, and it kind of felt weird that I hadn’t. I was highly hoping he would call after the moment we shared, the gift, and everything that happened since my birthday.“Are you okay, honey?” My father asked that evening as we watched TV together.“Yes, I am a good dad; why would you think otherwise?” I asked obliviously.“I don’t know, the look on your face and that frown say it all; you know you can always talk to me about anything, you know that, right?”"Yes, Dad, except I am good; I am just exhaust
CHAPTER: NINEARYA WAYNE“Are you okay?” His voice rang in my head. I was lost in my world until he touched me.“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am totally fine; I just zoned out,” I said this while trying to hide my discomfort.“Okay, I am sorry; I got a visitor. I would like you to meet him. I hope you don’t mind?” He asked, and since I was not yet ready to meet him, I didn’t want to make Leo suspicious of anything.“Of course, I don’t mind at all; I didn’t know you had friends.”“No, I don’t have a lot of friends, but I have a friend; he is downstairs; you will just say hi to him and then go to sleep; I know it is too late right now.” He said as I followed him downstairs.“Dylan, this is Arya. I know you two have never met, but this is an opportunity for you two. Arya, this is my best friend, Dylan. I know you haven’t seen him around, but he is from Alpha Kai’s pack." Leo said, and I almost chuckled.Dylan: "So his name is not Steve anymore; what else is he hiding?” I asked myself.“It is nice
ALPHA LEOThe look on Arya’s face when she saw Dylan meant something; the two either knew each other or she knew him and was trying to hide that from me, except she forgot that I could also read her mind. I just wanted to hear it from Dylan; there is no way he could hide anything from me, so I waited until the next day so I could talk to him about it.I asked him to meet me at my office, and later that day I got a call from my PA: “Alpha Leo, Dylan is here to see you.”“Please let him through,” I said and hung up.“Hey man, I am here.”“Yes, I can see that. I wanted to talk to you. You and I both know why I want to meet you, right?” I asked as I looked up from my computer, and he exhaled sharply.“I don’t know what you are talking about; maybe you make me understand.” He claimed he was attempting to play hard on me.“You do know that I can read your mind right now, right?” I asked, and he stuttered.“I don’t know exactly what you are talking about... I don’t know man.” He said, and I s
3RD PERSON’S POVThings went well between the two, and Arya was more than happy. She was over the moon, and even though she was trying to forgive her brother for hiding such information from her, Dylan gave her time to get over it. All he wanted was a relationship with his family, especially with his sister Arya.Elsewhere Kai was having a meeting with his parents, and his father had different thoughts about the whole dating thing, but his mother had a different opinion, always siding with Kai because she thought her son deserved the best.“Son, I am sorry, but I don’t think it is a good idea for you to force the girl to be yours; I don’t approve of that.” He said it in a firm tone, and Kai sighed then turned to look at his mother for comment. He might have had respect for his father, but he was a mama’s boy, and his mother was always supporting his decisions.“No, that is not a good idea. What is the point of my son waiting all these years for his mate, only for you to advise him to
3RD PERSON’S POVEverything was going well for Arya; she forgot about the fight between Alpha Kai and Leo and focused on her end-of-semester exams, which she completed, and on running the job; she still had the card Leo gave him and was still contemplating using it or returning it to him.“I think we need to talk about your job, honey. I don’t like it when you work for Alpha Kai from the other pack and we were taken in by Leo’s family; it will cause wrangling between these two packs, and you know what will happen after that.” Alfred said to his daughter one week later, after she met with Dylan.“Dad, I can’t just quit, and he just gave me the job, plus I am helping you pay up the bills.”“And that is the main reason I want you to quit the job; I am not telling you to choose anyone’s side, but it is going to get both packs into one hell of a fight between these two packs.” He said he was trying to reason with her, and she shrugged before she spoke.“I am not trying to cause any fight be
ALPHA LEO“You have a secret basement in this house, and I never got to know about it," Dylan asked as I opened the door to the basement.“That is why it is called a secret basement, Dylan; it is for a reason, and not just anyone is supposed to know,” I said as we walked to the room. I didn’t have anything to hide, but I did have a few guns that belonged to my late grandfather, who loved hunting.“Do you even know how to use that?” He asked as he pointed at the guns, and I chuckled.“I don’t have to know to own them but don’t worry, I fight and I don’t use guns; these were my grandfather’s; I am not here to use them, though; I just wanted to show you a plan I have; how long has it been since we last fought with your pack?” I asked just to be sure, and Dylan shook his head thoughtfully.“I don’t know… maybe three months…two… I don’t recall, what does that have to do with anything though?” He asked as he perused through the notebook.“It has everything to do with it; your sister is about