REID:Abrupt silence takes over the study immediately after I denied the allegation thrown at me. Fortunately for me, I was perfect at being aloof whenever I wanted to be so it was enough to mask my emotions.“She isn’t?” A while later, Hunter questions me while still staring at me suspiciously.I take my time before responding, “Of course not,”“Then what was all that about?”My brows are raised questioningly. “What do you mean?” I ask.“Why did you have to be so easygoing with her? Everything she did today was totally wrong and yet you let her go just like that. Don’t you think that makes you a little suspicious?”“I was only fulfilling a duty—”“A duty?” Hunter cuts me off. “What duty would make you act so soft toward a girl that deserves to be punished?”“Would you rather I put her behind bars? Is that what you want?”“Maybe even more than that,” he says, a little eerie vibe oozing out from him. “That’s why you’re the Alpha. Decisions like that are what you’re supposed to take.”I
KIRA:“What makes you think I would want to go through that door with you?” I start to eye him suspiciously as I ask him that. Although my insides are telling me to go with him, I cannot help but think that he has an ulterior motive. And the thought of that was scaring me.He leans against the door. “Isn’t that why you came here in the first place?”“Of course not,” I deny. “I already told you that I came here to clear my head. That’s what I came here to do,”I watch him tug at his brown hair with his left hand, and almost at the same time, the wind blows in our direction. Perfect timing to look cool, I guess.“So,” he starts to say, “of all the places to clear your head, it just had to be the back way.”“It was a simple coincidence, trust me,”“Then why is your palm red?”I look down at my hand immediately to notice how red my palm was. Obviously, it was from trying to handle the locks then.“Well,” I try to maintain composure as I speak, “I actually burnt myself unintentionally whil
REID:I completely back away from the door, keeping my guard up as I fix my focus on it. Why can’t today just be an absolutely normal day for me?‘Are we safe? Am I safe?’ I ask Bryan who hasn’t said a word since he instructed me from moving further to the entrance.‘I don’t know,’ is his panicky response which is starting to affect me as well. ‘What I do know is that we are surrounded by something that is out of the ordinary which is why you need to be extra careful right at this moment,’A knock on the door again. And then another. And then another. This sure doesn’t look good.The scent has completely been masked now. No way to figure out if it is someone or just a thing out there.The instance a knock comes through again, I ask Bryan using my voice, “Don’t you think we need to make a run from this?”‘And risk your safety?’“So you mean I should stay in here all day while some maniac out there continues to taunt me? Is that what you want me to do?”Bryan scoffs. ‘Put down your ego,
KIRA:“Glad I found you here, Kira,”As I was seated on the ground, I have to lift my head from my arms which were resting solely on my knees to see Bradley standing in front of me. Strange that I didn’t feel his presence when he arrived.“It’s you,” I say in a sort of whisper before putting my head back on my arms, burying my face in between my legs in the process.Instantly I feel Bradley join me on the ground where I’m seated. Even though I wish to be left alone, I didn’t feel uncomfortable that he was with me now. Perhaps I needed company without knowing.“Was surprised when your mother told me you were behind the house. Never thought I would actually meet you here,” Bradley lets that out in one go. “Are you okay?” I hear him ask after he sighs.“Yeah, I guess,” my voice probably comes out muffled due to the little or no space left in between my legs.Then silence ensues. Bradley doesn’t say anything to me for quite a long time and neither do I bother to strike up a conversation b
KIRA:“Why not?” Bradley, who seems rather enthusiastic about the annoying thought he just laid down, asks.I lash out in return, “Because that’s so stupid to even think of. Pretty much stupid that you could even say it to me. Why would I want to be mated to someone from our rival pack? And on top of that, the leader,”“But I don’t see anything wrong with it,” he says as he attempts to defend himself. “If you think about it, it works well. Alpha Reid is a young alpha without a wolf and you, you are a young female wolfling. A good idea I must say,”His enthusiasm was the most annoying thing out of everything he was doing or saying at the moment. It was the reason I was getting more and more infuriated from hearing him speak. And trust me, it was pushing me to hit him square in the face.“Do you know what you’re saying? Are you even listening to yourself at all?” I have to ask. And at the same time, I start to shift away from him again. I guess he was not totally in his right senses tod
REID:As the tapping sound of the Elder’s cane resounds in my ears, I start to arrange in my head the words that would enable me to have a smooth questioning with the old one.I didn’t entirely prepare myself to be here. Only decided to when I fell into a hallucination again. This time I could not take it and so put a message through to Hunter who decided to go with me to the base of the Red Legion.“Elder Griffith,” I start to say, swallowing a gulp swiftly to maintain composure, “is there a way you can make us understand the situation the pack is going through? The last time we were here, you mentioned something about a prophecy but neither my beta nor I understood what you meant. All we need now is a clearer understanding.”The moment I was done speaking, the continuous tapping on the floor stops, putting a brief stop to the pressure on me. I have no idea why I am so tense around the Elder when I wasn’t even close to that the first time I was here.The Elder’s husky voice takes ove
REID:“Do you think it even makes sense?” Hunter asks once we got outside the shapeless structure of a building. “Why would he instruct us to settle the rivalry we have with the Green Dales pack? You know it’s not going to be possible,”“We might need to push sentiments aside and focus on whether or not we will be able to get it done,” I respond to him, seeing him all ready to flare up at nothing. “If you listened to the Elder, he made it known to us that it is the only possible solution to our predicament. So are we now going to focus on a so-called rivalry or the solution?”He still looks skeptical even though I tried my best to make him see through the issue. “I don’t know, Reid,” he says. “It still makes little to no sense to me. I don’t see why there cannot be another solution. Why must it have to be this one?”Before I could say anything to him, we sight someone fast approaching us. It looked like we were about to be lunged at which is why I quickly put my guard up.A closer vie
KIRA:I inch back a little even with the distance I have away from him. I was mostly startled by his voice which was what causes my reaction.“Uhm, hi?” I pretty much sound so nervous. No way I could hide it from him.He starts to walk up to me and it only increases my tensed state that I start to feel like I should get out of here. My legs wouldn’t budge as I literally find myself rooted to the spot.“Your curiosity brought you here, isn’t that right?” he says while still making his way slowly to me.“Was it the same for you?” the words were unplanned but they came out of my mouth. Felt like courage that I didn’t know I have stored in me coming out.I see him give me a stare that seemed menacing due to the amount of pressure overflowing with it. I hold on to the pressure that came with it because the last time I needed was for him to see me as a weakling.“How did you get to convince your folks that you wanted to leave your quarters?” he asks me, stopping briefly before continuing to