~Lucian~
“Alpha, your guest has arrived and is currently waiting to see you”.
Elsie’s voice brought me out of my reverie. What time was it again? It must be noon already if the lady has gotten here. I’d almost forgotten that I was expecting a visitor today. A new girl who might turn out to be my chosen mate if everything goes well and as planned.
I should be excited.
Scrap that. Why should I be excited that a girl is coming to share my space? She should be happy that I’m even granting her the privilege to look upon my face. I swung my legs off my bed and strained my arms, running my hands through my hair after doing so.
Another knock sounded on my bedroom door, this time more insistent. “Alpha?” Elsie’s voice rang out again from outside.
“Thank you, Elsie. I’ll be with her shortly. Please make her comfortable while I prepare to join her soon.”
I step
“What is the problem?” I asked, throwing another sword to Marcus. Sparring while talking about whatever was going on in the pack was the best way to get our points through. Ever since we were just pups, Marcus and I have always sparred our way through things. Like when we fell for the same girl before we hit adolescence, or when I got mad at him for taking a decision without consulting me first; even though he tried to make it clear that he had to make an emergent decision to save my mother. I remember giving him a deep cut on his left arm; a scar which he still carries with him till this day. “Alpha Adrik”, he replied and caught the knife mid-air. Just the bastard that I can’t wait to tear his throat off. “What has he done this time?” I asked and brandished my sword at Marcus, lunging at him with the swiftness of a tiger. He countered my attack just in time and swung at me, barely missing my jugular. “I got word from the spies that we sent out that he is planning a full-on attac
~Amara~ A few days after the sudden end of the Friday dinner, it felt like everything was back to normal again. Not the usual ‘good’ normal because there would never be anything good about this Pack, but at least no one was scared of any werewolf getting murdered anymore. Adrik hasn’t made any stupid advances towards me too and I’ve been on my lane, just doing the daily chores that were meted out to me while trying to find a way to escape. I was sure that Elsie would have gotten contact from her cousin and by now would know that I’d been missing for weeks. I suddenly grazed the floor so hard that the skin on my knuckle came off. In frustration, I dumped the washcloth that I’d been using to scrub the floor and stood, inspecting my now bloodied knuckle. I tried to wipe the blood with a finger but immediately regretted that move. Pain shot tingles into my brain and left me frozen for some seconds. I never realized that the abrasion was so deep. “Oh, fudge. Why would they even give me
~Amara~“Oh, goddess! You scared me”. I gasped, holding my chest.Katherine uncurled herself from my rickety bed and walked up to me, a look of disgust flashing in her eyes.Surprisingly, I was not as much faltered by her presence as I used to be. If it was before, I would have been internally vibrating from all the energy that she pulled off but now, I just stared at her like a troublesome child who likes to disrupt their mother’s nap time.“Why are you here? Last time I remember, you’re supposed to be in Adrik’s chambers attending to his primal needs while also being his dog. Don’t tell me that he has relieved you of that duty?”I couldn’t stop the words flowing from my mouth. It’s like when you’ve had enough of something and it starts to turn your belly so bad that you need to get rid of it in the toilet.Katherine has been under my sleeves for a long time and I had been condoning her because of her witchy powers; I mean, I don’t want to be turned into a cat- not that I hate cats-
Amara~I walked around the pack house, looking around for some sort of savior that the moon goddess will send to me.Yes, I know that I have made it a habit seeing that Katherine was always on my case and Adrik had his hawks all looming over me. I’d already accepted that getting out of this place was impossible; at least not alive.Maybe I should just accept my fate and stay here in submission to Adrik. I don’t even know why I kept on disturbing myself about Lucian. No matter how much I try to lie to myself, I knew that I really wanted to see him again. And maybe he would get to know that I am his mate when he finds me again.I wondered why Katherine wouldn’t use her witchy powers to compel Adrik to love her. Why put out her frustrations on me when I detest even the air that he breathes?I exhaled deeply and turned over to the wing overlying the Pack house. Maybe I should try to train a little to build up my endurance. I got to the training ground and met Chad training some of the you
~Amara~“I know that you’ve been trying to escape for a long time now and it has been almost impossible for you. I’ve been waiting to see if you will ask me for help concerning it but you haven’t been forthcoming with it; probably because you feel that you cannot trust me”.My mouth hung open at the possibilities of what might have happened since he managed to know about my plans. Has he gone to Adrian with that knowledge or does he still plan on doing that? My brain raced with the possible lies that I could come up with to defend myself.“I can help you”, he continued. “I can help you escape from here”.I blinked severally to make sure that I was not hallucinating or hearing things that were not real. Was he trying to test me? To know if I will succumb to whatever scheme he might be planning with Adrik so that they will have enough reason to eliminate me?But I looked at him, and his eyes didn’t feel like there was deceit in them. They looked sincere and the way he gazed at me told m
~Amara~ The few days that passed in a blur had Chad treating me so sweetly and making me feel so desirable. I knew inside of me that what I was doing was wrong, not just because I was pregnant with my mate’s pup, but also because it was a dangerous affair. Maybe that was what added to the intrigue of it all. I hadn’t allowed him to possess my body completely yet, not because I didn’t feel the urge, but because I was still trying to keep a little bit of respect for Lucian until perhaps he figured out where I might be and came to save me. Yes, I know that I might be delusional for thinking about a man who had abandoned me and who might be rolling about in his sheets with another woman right now, but I just felt that I would be better if he just rejected me after finding out about our bond. A small smile lit up my face as the thought of Chad crossed my mind. Was I throwing away my chance at happiness by not agreeing to run away with Chad? During one of our stolen brief moments, Chad h
~Lucian~Due to Marcus insisting that I meet with Adrik to find out what he wants and why he had to be so violent with his mate to get his message across, I finally agreed to accept Adrik’s invitation to what he called the dotty cocktail party. It had taken a lot of persuasion and push for me to accept to go to his pack.I knew that there was no way that alpha Adrik would be seeking peace without a fight. He was the most cunning and probably most dangerous werewolf in the kingdom and he never had denied the personality. I knew that his inviting me to this so-called peace-seeking party had some evil agenda attached to it, but of course, there was no way I’d go back there without a backup plan so I placed some of my warriors strategically around his pack, waiting for a sign from me.Immediately I’d stepped into the party room, my body tensed and the hair at the back of my neck stood. I felt eyes watching me and I scanned the perimeter out of character but I couldn’t find anyone specific
~Lucian~It may have seemed like decades since I heard that voice but it’s been haunting me in all my dreams. I see her every time and I listen to her talk all the time. It was like she had taken hostage of my dreams.I slowly turned around, still scanning the party, my eyes lingering on any long curly black-haired woman in the crowd but she wasn’t there. The only person who was there was Lily, her eyes wide and smiley and her unwavering clench in my arm tightening. “I was asking why you didn’t introduce me properly to Alpha Adrik. Shouldn’t he know that I’m not just one of the women who you fuck when you’re bored?” Lily asked, still holding onto my arm.I hated the sound of her voice. How dare she contaminate the most memorable sound that I’ve heard in a long while with her squeaky voice? I disengaged her hand from my arm a little roughly and pinned her with a deadly glare.“And who are you to say that you’re not here just because I’m bored? You must think so highly of yourself to w