Lea:I walked inside, choosing to ignore the fact that I knew that my Alpha was going to die outside today. I didn’t want to admit it, but it wasn’t something that I was upset about; but I knew for fact that it was not something that I wanted to see.“I am surprised to see you inside,” Luna Claudia said, breaking my attention. My chest tightened and my stomach churned, but I knew better than to move away from in front of the woman. I was afraid that she would end up sending me to her son’s room here and now, especially when I knew for fact that she would be more than pleased to know that the Alpha that died was MY initial Alpha.“I couldn’t handle seeing blood. I was excused by the Alpha.” I said, and she raised an eyebrow.“You are a wolf, are you not?” She asked, and I nodded. “Blood is in our nature. That is no excuse for you to try and give me.”“I was forced to watch my father’s head being hung at the arena as it rotted. And though many would have claimed that I was a fool for no

Lea:To say that I froze was not going to be a lie. I didn’t even know what to think of saying at this point, and I knew that Diego understood that.The fact that someone, just one person, was willing to be there for me regardless of the circumstance, was something that I didn’t expect after my father passed away.And the fact that he was my ‘mate’ only made this harder for me to stop myself from admitting to him that he was my significant other. The man that did not even feel our mating bond in the same way that I felt toward him. And regardless of that, the idea of him being willing to help me when he was an Alpha. I was nothing more than an omega, the lowest rank of the pack members, and the idea of that was one that made things all the more special for me.We walked toward the pack door where Zenith growled the second that he saw me. His eyes met mine, and the Alpha wrapped his hand around my arm, pulling me back behind him. I looked at the pack’s beta, knowing that he would be m

Lea:If anyone would have told me that the Alpha standing up for me would bring a bright smile to my face, I would have shut them off and told them that they were lying. But I couldn’t help the smile that formed on my lips, and has been since I got inside the car.“Keep only what you want from the bags, I doubt that you would need much. We are going to buy you new things as time goes.” He said, watching as I opened the door to walk out. Giovanni and the others were in a separate car, and it was only the two of us. My father’s head was in a box, and I knew that I would be lucky to give him the grave that he deserved. “I can’t afford to pay them back. I am yet to get my salary…”“You have a job?” He asked, stopping me. I nodded, and he frowned in confusion. “Experience is important and money is another thing. I took a few weeks off, I could afford that much, after losing my father. But I should be getting back to work in a few days.” I said, and he nodded. “May I ask where I am to bu

Lea: “It was done,” Diego said, making me frown in confusion as I tried understanding what he was referring to. He showed me a picture, and there, in the middle of the cemetery, was my father’s grave alongside my mother’s. It barely had anything on it to identify who was buried by her side, but the words Bartolomeo Auditore and Isabella Auditore made my stomach churn as my air tightened. “You can visit him when you want to. The two of them, actually,” he said, and I nodded in thanks as my lips quivered. His mother, Luna Claudia, was standing by the stairs as she looked at the two of us, and it took everything in me not to cry. However, I was thankful for the woman who walked toward me, her eyes softening as she put her finger under my chin. “It is good to let them out while you can. There would come a time when mourning would be harder and you are going to be tired and exhausted because you chose to block your pain in when you had the chance to let it out.” She said, her voice t

Lea: I took deep and slow breaths as I sat on the edge of the bed, waiting for how things were going to end up going. I knew that challenging the pack’s Luna, the Alpha’s mother, was not going to be to my advantage, but I also knew that she had to understand that I wasn’t like the other girls within the pack. I wasn’t going to let her decide what I wanted or didn’t want to do. It wasn’t going to be something that I allowed, and as long as her son knew that I was going to work, I doubted that she should be making a fuss out of it. The bedroom door was knocked, and though I caught Giovanni’s scent, I couldn’t help but jump in surprise before I calmed myself down. I walked to the door, having made sure to lock it before I sat, I knew that the man wouldn’t be able to get in. That, of course, depends on whether or not he decides to break the door down. “You remembered to lock your door.” He stated, and I crossed my arms over my chest, not saying a word for a few seconds. “Is everything