KIRA:“I don’t have a good feeling about this. Why would they ask us to wait behind when there’s nothing left for us to do?” I ask Kelvin who is standing with me as I glance through the number of heads that were with us in the hallway just downstairs in the school.“Who knows? Perhaps to inspect us in regards to the death that occurred yesterday. I don’t think the school has cleared itself of the incident. They only told us that just to get us back to school,” Kelvin responds almost too smoothly, making it seem like he knew the in and out of the school. And it made me glance at him with a peg of admiration for him before taking my gaze back to the crowd to make sense of what is going on.It is closing hour already of the regular school hours. And yes we should all be on our way back to our respective quarters. But the school management thought it was wise to delay every one of us with no explanation as to why that was fixed.There have been lamenting from all the students since this w
KIRA:The only thing I can hope for now is that whatever bad feeling that just found its way into me had better be simply a feeling and not something real.My heart rate has increased rapidly since I started to run off in the direction of the quarters which I was sure to arrive soon. I am suddenly scared that something bad has happened and not just anywhere but in my household.This had better not be what I am thinking, I tell myself inwardly when I arrive right in front of the quarters which I sight with the door opened ajar. It is the first feeling that something was totally wrong and instantly I barge into the apartment to want to know why the door was left open that way because that has never happened.Perhaps I should not have gotten in yet. Because I was not even prepared for what I am about to see. And the moment I come in contact with the sight, I instantly become weak to the knees.My father... My mother. They are both lying on the ground unmoving. And it was not just them on
KIRA:I lean against a tree with my hand. The aim was to rest my weary legs which have been going on and on for who knows when.“Where am I?” I ask myself while glancing around to make sense of my environment. And after a while of looking, I figured I have no idea of my location.The truth is that I do not have it in me to think about it as I push the thought of that to the back of my head and then plump to the ground with my back against the tree that I was initially leaning on.A brief glance around once more while seated and then I decide I should just stay put for a while until I figure out what next I need to do.I can’t believe it. I just can’t. I still want to tell myself that what I saw was a lie but the realization keeps hitting me over and over again.How can my parents be dead? How? What could have killed them? They were fine when I left home today. And it did not seem like I would be going back to meet the corpses. Who knew that nature had everything planned out already? E
KIRA:“What are you doing here?” At the same time, Alpha Reid and I throw the question at each other. Now it was left to who is going to answer first because this is definitely a situation I never anticipated.I have no idea how I am seeing him here. But the fact that Alexia already stated that I was not in the Green Dales territory means I could very much be in the Night Blaze territory. I think I might have trespassed again without knowing.Alpha Reid is the first to speak after that as he says, “This path has not been explored in a long time yet I find you here when I decided to check it out,” he pauses for a while as he gives me the rules of scrutiny which has me bothered. “Tell me, how much do you know about routes like this in my pack since you seem to have a thing for trespassing?”That was a question I have no idea how to go about. I was not sure about the response I have to give to him because he has put me in a position that I could not handle.How was I to explain that I di
REID:It doesn’t. But I was not expecting to be hit with such a statement. I could suddenly feel her pain and it was enough to know that she felt so miserable at the moment.“I’m sorry about that,” I say, finding it the only thing I could say as a means to pacify her.She does not say anything. But her emotions seem to go in disarray straight up. Looking straight into her eyes, I could suddenly tell that she was struggling to fight back tears. With, the condition she is in, I don’t think she’ll be able to hold it back for too long.As expected, tears start to stream down her eyes slowly. She looked to be at the point of a breakdown. I think she has been bottling up her emotions for a while now and perhaps it got triggered when I tried to console her with my words. I guess I shouldn’t have then.Seeing her the way she is now made me uncertain about what to do to make her feel better. I know I should console her but I don’t think it would be the right thing to do, knowing that she doesn
KIRA:“I’m sorry, alpha. I thought she was an intruder which is why I decided to put her down on the ground,”From a distance away, I watch as the already-risen wolf that has shifted to his human form apologizes to Alpha Reid. It was at that point that I realized the wolfling was a warrior.Alpha Reid runs his hand through his hair, looking a bit shaky. I don’t know why he was reacting that way but it was definitely different from how he has been since.“Don’t worry about her. She's with me,” Alpha Reid says to the warrior. “Now go back to doing your duty while I send her back to her pack, okay?”The warrior nods in response and then looks in my direction. He bows his head apologetically to me and then walks away from here, leaving Alpha Reid and me alone.I was not sure what to do in this situation because I could tell from Alpha Reid’s body position that he was not pleased with me. Makes me regret doing what I did initially. I guess I should have listened to him when he offered to h
REID:I saw how disappointed she was when she looked book to realize I had walked away without a word. But I hadn’t left. Instead, I was a distance away watching her leave my territory, just the same way I had been watching her from a distance before she almost got attacked by one of my warriors.I had to keep my distance from her this time around. It was for my own good because staying around her was making me act up in a way that I shouldn’t. It took a lot of willpower to resist myself from taking her by the hand and telling her what she is to me.I had to put that idea in the back of my head then because it was bad timing. No way it would make any sense for a girl mourning her dead parents. It would have seemed like I was playing on her vulnerability.However, it has dawned on me that I am taking too long in getting something done about this mess in both packs. I didn’t get to find out from the girl what caused the death of her parents. There was no need to, though, because it was
REID:I have no response to that yet as I cross over the bodies on the ground. The bodies are that of the warriors guarding the entrance into my quarters. They were still alive, though, because I could hear their faint heartbeats.“First, is this your doing?” I demand from Diana who is simply standing there with a somewhat pitiful expression etched on her face. I would never expect to see her in such a mood because the two times I met her, she had been one angry bird.“I had to,” is what she says in response. And before I could even demand to know why she what to go all out to knock out my men, Hunter had decided to take the stage.“You bitch! So it is you who has been giving us a hard time for the past hour! What the hell are—”Before Hunter could go any further, I quickly shut him up by raising my hand. He obviously recognizes what I mean by that because he goes quiet after that while I continue facing Diana who did not react to Hunter’s words.“Is it true that it's your doing?” I a