Days after the incident with Alpha Adrik, I was let off on some heavy jobs that I had been doing. I know that I should be glad and even grateful for that but you know what they say about dining with the devil. One has to use a long fork to be prepared for when he decides to suddenly tear your throat out from your neck in the middle of dining. I was worried. I worried that by the time he decided that I must have been healthy enough to start the tasks again, he would increase it to three times whatever I used to do. Honestly, I’d much rather continue at this pace. But how can I stand against the almighty Adrik’s decree? I decided to take a little walk around the garden of the manor to clear my head because it was a little fuzzy. All my plans to leave this place have fallen through and from the hard-faced warriors that I see at every corner of the manor, I just knew that escaping this hell is not a reality anymore. A tiny kick in my belly suddenly rooted me to a stop. I gasped in surpr

Her gaze was harsh and certainly not friendly. Sincerely, if not for the seriousness of the moment, I probably would have cracked out a wheeze because she looked sourer than a lime. She walked towards me, her eyes taking in my appearance from my head down to my toe. I internally reminded myself not to try this one’s patience. Witches are not my favorite people in the world. I remember when I was around 12 years old before my stepfather sold me out, a witch had cursed a family to never be productive and she died before she could undo the spell. Now that family has a long generational curse in their lineage with no one to break it. And I know what you’re thinking. There’s always a loophole. I agree, but for close to eight years now, that loophole is yet to be found. So, no; I do not want to get into her bad books. You can call me weak or spineless but I do not think there’s a need to be spine-ful or strong if I’m dead. “I see that Adrik has taken a fancy to you. So you’re his new play

“We will wrap this dinner up for tonight here”. Adrik announced. “I’m sorry I’ve got a rather interesting development to attend to. Hopefully, we’ll be able to gather together once more when everything has calmed down. Thank you all for honoring my invitation”.He yanked me up immediately after he was done with his speech and trotted out of the room, Chad following on his heels. He stopped immediately we got out of the hall and faced Chad.“What the hell did you say happened to my men?”“We were attacked while watching the perimeter. And this letter was found on one of our men who was strung up on a tree”.Adrik snatched the letter, tore open the envelope, and read through the content. Whatever it was that was inside must have been very bad because his eyes turned fiery red and his breathing got shallow.“It’s that stupid Lucian. I know he’s the one behind all of th

“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~“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-