AURORA
For a discussion like this, I would have grabbed some popcorn and snacks or brought out a jotter so I wouldn’t miss anything but it’d be wiser not to provoke Lizra’s anger so she wouldn’t change her mind.She was somehow making coffee for us and though I was anxious, I said nothing and let her take her time. After a minute and a half, she turned back to us and handed me an espresso to me while she sat down with hers.I didn’t realize how much I needed it before I took a sip and she took one herself, dropping it and giving a deep breath before starting what I had been waiting for.“The Alpha, Adrian Frederic Storm…”I almost spat out my coffee… almost sprayed it on her. “Frederic?”She gave me a warning look and I fell back on my seat, keeping quiet. “You must not mention what I tell you today to anyone else or the next time you see my head, it’ll be on a spike.”My smile fell. “You can’t be serious.”SheKATRINA‘You better drop that beer, Kat. It’s the fourth one now.’Hilda was in school. Dash was at the company. Kane was finalizing the border’s security so maybe the rogue attacks would lessen and it would only be a matter of time before I got called out of this chair to handle my Luna duties.But it’d take anyone a while before they found me. The beer didn’t have much effect at the time so I was desperate to take in more and forget my sorrows. It was hard to remind myself that Elder Sesan was dead, and it was even harder to accept that someone killed him.How I wished the caller could speak clearly. I wished Elder Sesan could tell me directly what was happening. I knew something was wrong with him but I never thought it’d be serious enough to cause death.“Someone killed him… who could have killed him…”I haven’t said a word about this to Kane. There was already too much weight on his shoulders and I didn’t want to be the bearer of
AURORAI knocked on the great iron doors and knew that it was as dangerous as pouring fresh blood in shark-infested waters and plunging into it myself or running into a lion’s den and screaming at the top of my lungs.In this case, those two were better options but I wanted to know… after everything Lizra had told me… if there was a shroud of humanity left in Adrian. Adrian was a monster, an egocentric, infuriating, imprudent, wicked, vile…‘If you’re not still listing, remember we’re at the Alpha’s door.’I eyed it maliciously, wondering if he had perceived my scent already since I purposely didn’t spray that wolfguise on me. I took a last look at my white crop top and light short shorts that looked like they would flesh off if you pulled on the right thread and stretched it out.I let my curls fall half-down, half made into a side bun, and kept everything else natural. There were no shoes on my glad feet because I didn’t want to steal t
AURORA “You still do not understand him,” Lizra said, pulling her yellow knitting pins to each other as she knitted away, seeming to receive too much pleasure from just twisting yarns together and making what wasn’t needed.But who was I to judge if she was enjoying it? “When did our lesson become a class on understanding your beloved Alpha?”She shot me a look and returned her focus to her knitting, creating something I hadn’t got the shape out of yet. “You were the one who came to me.”“I had no one else to come to,” I blurted out, getting on my feet and falling into my bed. When I closed my eyes, I could still see his hungry, yearning, mouth feasting on my breasts. His tongue teasing my nipples and his finger… Even though his scent was far away from here, I would do almost anything to have him on this bed with me.But I’ve been getting too desperate and thanks to my stupidity, he realizes that I’m not the only one who feels sexual tension around him. I was all over him. I felt like
AURORAI was fast enough to look away and pulled my hoodie down as I walked toward him. He couldn’t depict the reason for my sudden change in directions but I zipped my hoodie away and he raised a brow of approval, that sex-wanting glint sparkling in his eyes.It didn’t take him long enough for him to find out my motives when I let the hoodie drop from my back.“Nice try… I’m not a Zeta but it’s obvious you want to brew trouble with the Alpha and me.”I grinned. “I like trouble.”I was close enough to place my hand on his chest and could hear his heart pounding… pounding fast. Perfect. Slowly, without him realizing it, he was moving back but he cleared his throat deeply when his back hit the wall and I gave him a deeper smile.“Step… back…”“You said it yourself…” I picked up his hard but delicate hands, gently rubbing it with my fingers. “…the reason you haven’t touched me is because of the Alpha…” I placed his hand on my left breast and that glint sparkled brighter. “…I don’t see him
AURORA“Drink.” A single word but yet, a powerful command. I looked at the glass of water-like liquid in my front and swallowed hard. I was seated in front of a dressing mirror that wasn’t mine, it was his. There wasn’t a fingerprint or a speck of dust on it and I wondered if he ever even used it.I would be surprised if he wasn’t because if I were Adrian Storm, I wouldn’t be able to look away from a mirror. The glass was so clean and the frame was so wolf-representatively beautiful in its clashing colors of orange and black. On his high dressing table, a bit too high for me, was a brush with some strands of his hair in it, another small hand mirror with a similar style, a box of unused cigarettes, and a bottle of tequila at the far side. I was afraid it’d fall if I shook the table even a little bit.But the most intimidating of everything present… was him, he was just behind me, grabbing the ears of his chair, almost pressing his body close to mine and I
AURORAMind-links can only be formed when two wolves—they don’t have to be blood-related or mated in any way—have formed a bond with each other. It makes the brain comfortable enough to form speech without movement between those two wolves. If it works well, you can connect with more than one person, as long as you all know each other, and once the bond of friendship, love, siblings, is broken, so is the mind-link.I spent the next two tiring hours searching the entire forest for wildflowers. Though the forest wasn’t as thick and bushy as Azonos—with my feet feeling the soft safe fresh grass unlike rustling of leaves or hard ground—it was still hard to navigate. Another security measure.I climbed trees to get a better view, dug through bushes, went through the forest twice, and had already seen everything in here at least twice… I got so desperate that I searched under big rocks and logs of wood but there wasn’t even any other flower with a hint
HILDAI’ve never been strong like my siblings, especially not Aurora. I have a lot of non-academic trouble at school and it takes very little to break me. I’m not bold like her and it’d be a miracle if I don’t collapse and cry at least once every two weeks.I don’t share everything with everyone and mask my pain behind a smile. Aurora doesn’t see what I have to hide inside, she hides nothing and lets all her feelings out, but I keep and bear. If only she knew… how much I adored her as my sister.I wasn’t sure how to feel about her anymore, when she said those words to me. I tried not to but I fall into tears anytime I hear them. I wished I could hate her for it, I wanted to, but then I thought about all she must be going through back there. I’ve heard awful things about that Alpha and it’s only ill fate that Aurora ended up as his mate. I didn’t want to tell mom and dad about the call because it didn’t make much of a difference but then… I was being selfish because it might give me an
AURORA“You must have learned at least one thing from our last week of studying Lunas so I suggest now is the time to study yourself and see what makes you stronger or weaker as a Luna.”I gave a weak nod. Sometimes, I had to remind myself that she was sitting anterior to me, teaching and training… my only hope was for her not to ask me what I recollected from everything she’s said in the last hour.The room seemed brighter than I liked this morning and my sunny dress wasn’t helping either. My hair had been pinned up in a ‘delightful’ style and decorated in jewels that some maids had also taken ‘delight’ in fixing. Even with my disapproval, I knew it was pretty because they had used the stubbornness of my curls to their advantage and tucked in complementing ornaments that gleamed with a slight shift of sunlight.Maids had been coming in to prepare me more and more often, and though I wondered why, I appreciated that it was now rather than when I first came here. They would’ve freaked t