[ Celeste ]I slowly opened my eyes when the bright sunrays couldn’t let me sleep more. I found myself in the room where I have been staying since I arrived at this pack.I recalled the moments of last night and immediately heat rushed to my cheeks and neck. I felt hot and shy when the memories flooded back. It was a surreal experience that I lost hopes of living. Darius made love to me till early hours of morning until my body gave up due to exhaustion but I had the most peaceful sleep in years. I could feel his scent, his touches and the ache in my muscles, especially my core. It was the evidence of the night.But how did I end up here? I looked around the room but there was no sign of my mate. I felt a little disheartened but he is the Alpha and he can’t just cuddle with me all the time.I found clothes on my body. A smile crept on my lips. He must have brought me here before anyone could see and made me wear some clothes because I don’t smell any other scent around me.“I still ca
[ Celeste ]Soon the evening rolled in, I spent the whole afternoon meeting with pack members who were very excited and happy to see their Luna and I didn’t disappoint them. I also took training session of the girls who turned fifteen to see their fighting skills.But deep down, my anxiety was growing. Kyra was also restless for her mate, it had been tougher for her to stay away from our mate more than it was bothering me. An unknown fear, a hollowness slowly creeped its way to my heart because I noticed Keith and Julia also in some distress which they tried to hide when I asked them.My patience finally wanned away and I decided to ask Julia straight this time. She is the kindest to me but my mate is the most important person for me.I knocked at her room and waited for her to open. Many questions were running in my mind.“Celeste, my dear. Do you need anything?” She asked me sweetly.“Mother, please tell me where is Darius? I know something isn’t right. I am afraid now.” I said look
[ Celeste ]“Darius, what is it?” I dared to ask him even though the answer was standing right in front of my eyes.Yet my heart was asking me to confront him.“Darius, do you have any idea what have you done by bringing this human at our pack?” Desmond growled at his son.“Father, calm down. I know what I am doing and I am ready to answer everyone’s question. I am here to explain everything. So, I want everyone to keep patience and do not try to hurt her again. As your Alpha, it’s my order.” Darius said looking at me.My vision was blurred with fresh tears. This betrayal hurt me more.He was stroking her back affectionately but he couldn’t see that I was also hurt. My rib hurt by the force he pushed me on the floor, my emotional wounds were even deeper.“You all know about Elena. I love her ever since I met her.” He said and I closed my eyes to let his words slice my heart cruelly.“Nonsense! This isn’t love, Darius. Our world doesn’t allow us to love someone other than our mate. Hav
[ Celeste ]“I, Luna Celeste Miller, reject you, Alpha Dar-” I couldn’t finish my sentence as he grabbed my neck and pinned me on a tree trunk.His hand was on my neck and I was pinned on the tree but he made sure that I wasn’t hurt.“Have you lost your mind, Celeste?” He whispered yelled at me, his eyes were still golden.“No, I have come to my right sense of mind, Alpha. I admit my mistake that I misunderstood your words last night and thought it was love.” I said, my tears again ditched me.“Celeste, do not make it difficult for us. I made myself very clear and I stick to my words. You have the right to be my Luna. The Goddess has chosen you. Loving Elena is my choice. You know we have no control over our feelings. We don’t choose whom to love. I met her in my lowest time and she accepts me despite knowing who I am and she vowed never to reveal our identity to her world who thinks we are fictional creatures.” He said.It broke me to listen those words for another woman. He is suppo
[ Darius ]I felt like my head would split. Knox wanted to kill me for hurting our mate, my family is giving me a cold shoulder for brining Elena on the pack land which is breaking the first and foremost rule but I had no other choice. I found her unconscious in her apartment when I reached there.Her stepbrother wants to kill her for the property as she holds equal shares. I couldn’t leave her in the city where he might hurt her again so bringing her to the pack was my only option.Celeste has locked herself in her room since I brought her back to the packhouse. She didn’t say another word to me and somewhere it made me uneasiness and mostly guilty for not telling her beforehand.She deserved to know the biggest truth of my life yet I hid it from her. We marked and mated with each other. No matter how much I try to shake my mind off from the vivid memories of last night, I failed. I felt drawn towards my mate which is natural but Elena holds my heart.“Alpha, I think you should head
[ Celeste ]I couldn’t sleep throughout the night. The pain of betrayal which my mate accepted boldly. He wasn’t even feeling any remorse. I was mentally strong but Kyra, she was in great pain and I had to consol her throughout the night.It was around three forty when I felt Darius’ presence outside my door. I smelled his scent. He was right outside my room’s door and a flicker of hope rekindled in my heart that maybe, he wants to be with me than his human lover.But as soon as this thought crossed my mind, I heard his retreating footsteps, he was walking away. My heart sank, I came back to the packhouse last night because it’d be suicidal for me to leave at night time but it doesn’t mean that I will silently watch my fate playing this ugly joke on me.I didn’t want to go out and see him but I wanted to breathe into some fresh air before I lose my mind completely. So, I slipped out of the bed and silently made my way out of my room. I was in the corridor when I heard hushed whispers
[ Celeste ]“Good job, girls. Just make sure you look in the eyes of your opponent and try to read their next move, their intentions. Psychological win over your enemy is more important and rest is your ability and strength to knock down your enemies. Do you understand?” I instructed the teen girls whom I trained after a two hours long session.“Yes, Luna, we understood.” They all said in unison, they looked very excited to receive training from me.“Good, we’ll meet at the evening. I’ll see if you have learnt it or we need more sessions on same skills. We’ll go on a daily basis run which starts from tomorrow at dawn. Be prepared girls, I want to see you standing equal to males.” I said with a confident smile and they dispersed after I allowed them.These two hours made me forget about my life’s problems and I found myself engrossed in my duties. It is a better way to distract myself as long as I can.“You’re their hero now, Luna.” Elena, who was watching me from afar said when I made
[ Celeste ]I forgot to breathe for a moment when I stared into his golden eyes. He was annoyed but what made him this mad at me?Doesn’t he want space from me?“What do you want me to do then?” I asked slipping out of his grip and contoured my face with coldness again.“I want to make things better and tolerable between us, Celeste. Stop doing this. I know you want me to feel guilty which I am actually feeling. You don’t need to push this any far.” He said.I chucked dryly, “I am doing this to make things better and tolerable between us, Darius. You want me to be your Luna. I think I am doing my job. I’ll treat you as I should treat my Alpha, with due respect and fear. I am giving you space so you can live peacefully with your lover. I don’t find any problem in this.” I said, pretending my best to sound normal.“This isn’t helping, Celeste. You know this too.” He said, his jaws were clenched.I sighed in exhaustion, “Darius, it is you who is making this more complicated for us. I don
[ Celeste ]I tried to open my eyes but my head felt heavy and I couldn’t feel my body. There was only silence, eerie silence around me, only a faint voice, whispering something incoherent reached into my ears which forced me to open my eyes.I blinked my eyes a few times to see my surroundings, I saw a cave and hardness beneath my body. Suddenly, everything rushed back to me in bits and pieces. I was on a run with Darius and then some men came, they did warn Darius, white fog and I didn’t recall anything after that.My eyes jolted open and I looked around. I was indeed in a cave, a faint light was coming from the entrance. I tried to move but they had tied my feet and hands.“Help!” I screamed and tried to wiggle. It shouldn’t be difficult for me to break free but I screamed in pain as the silver shackles burnt my skin.“Whoever are you, my mate is going to hunt you down and he’ll give you the most horrible death.” I yelled in anger. Tears rolled down from my eyes because I had no id
[ Celeste ]“Umm…please..Darius.” I moaned and knotted Darius’ hairs to pull him more closer than we already were. He was moving inside me on a slow pace.“If I go faster, I fear I would hurt you or the baby, mate. Only I know how I am holding myself back.” He said looking into my eyes and removed my sweaty hairs from my face.His eyes were changing their colours from golden to green. Both Knox and Darius were trying to be with us. It was a very intimate moment for us, both physically and emotionally. He kept thrusting into me carefully and also pleasured my body in other ways so my desires could be satiated without going wild.“Fuck! I can’t get enough of you.” He breathed out once he finished inside me and rolled down on my side.I laid limp, heaving and still feeling his touches and how tenderly he made sweet love to me. our bodies were drenched in sweat.“Do you want to go for a run?” I asked him because I felt a surging energy inside me and I wanted to release it.He turned his f
[ Darius ]“I am pregnant.”As soon as these three words left her lips, I thought someone had poured a bucket of icy cold water over my head. I stared at her blankly as my mind was still trying to process what I just heard her saying.“Wh..what?” I stammered. I still thought that I misheard her.“I am pregnant, Darius. I am carrying your pup.” She added with a wavering tone. I could trace fear and uncertainty in her eyes.She thought I would reject the idea of having a pup with her.“Say it again?” I asked trying my best to keep my voice levelled.My heartbeats rose and mind still warning me not to believe.“You heard me right, Darius. I found out a few days ago but I didn’t tell you right away because I wanted to figure out my own mind first. This comes as a surprise to me as well. This is unexpected and unplanned.” She said, her eyes were everywhere but at me.I cupped her face and crashed her lips over mine. I poured all my emotions into that kiss. The kiss was full of passion yet
[ Celeste ]“This one looks good on you, girl. Oh My God! You are looking a bombshell.” Lenna exclaimed and I stared at my reflection in the mirror.I wore a black dress which Lenna picked for me. It had off shoulder sleeves and a bit loose on the stomach so my belly could be hidden. It ended just above my knees. I paired it with black pumps and kept my makeup minimal. My hairs were styled by her.I felt confident because I indeed looked pretty. I never took efforts to get ready if it wasn’t for an effort because I wasn’t treated by a date before.“I hope this night will end without any drama.’ I sighed and picked my purse and phone.“Don’t worry, I’ll handle that wench. I talked to Darius and assured him that I will look after his rotten spoiled mistress without any violence and he agreed because he is actually looking excited for his first date with his badass mate.” She said with excitement.Her words caused my stomach to flutter again but at the same time I cringed when she called
[ Celeste ]“Do you really think these silver chains will lock me up here forever?” Jesper barked at me but he yelled in pain in the next moment when a guard slammed a silver whip on his bare back.He couldn’t be recognized as he was smeared in his own blood, his skin peeled out due to the beatings he received, his face was swollen, yet he wasn’t ready to surrender.“I guess you are waiting for your master to save you but let me tell you, Lucian doesn’t give a shit about his own son who is rotting in the cell next to yours. You are nothing but a pest for him, Jesper.” I laughed seeing his hope.He growled and spat blood.“You and your mate will regret this, Celeste. You want to play this game. Enjoy it as long as Lucian isn’t coming for you. Once he comes, I bet there won’t be a single strand of your hairs can’t be found. He will finish you and your pack’s existence from the map.” He gave me empty threats.“Well, I am waiting for him, dear Alpha Jesper. But sadly, you won’t be alive t
[ Darius ]“Gentlemen, I have put my condition before you all. We’re at the brink of war with Lucian, the rogue who had taken many lives brutally. He is a slayer who destroyed many packs. He plundered my pack a decade ago and left nothing to start over. He is coming again for us, all of us.” I addressed all Alphas meeting.I could see sweat on everyone’s face.“Apha Darius, we agree with you but he is only invading the small packs and hasn’t dared to come across bigger packs. It proves that he doesn’t have balls to attack big packs.” Alpha Max said.“What do you think, Alpha Max? He is attacking the small packs so big packs like ours relax and he’ll have the opportunity to plunder us. Their numbers are in thousands. They capture slaves from defeated packs and force them to fight for him.” I explained him.“But he is the problem of north. The south territories are safe from him. we have no records of him attacking or sneaking in southern packs.” Alpha Max added.“Alpha Darius, you have
[ Darius ]“Why didn’t you tell me about it?”I tried to break the silence in the air. Celeste’s back was facing me. She excused herself once Miller family left and went quiet which was unbearable for me.“I prefer to bury past in the past. Not every story is meant to be shared. Some are meant to be left in the closed chapters.” She replied in a distanced tone.I sighed and placed my hand over hers which was resting on the railing of the balcony. The pack looks very beautiful from this height.“I would never judge you on the basis of your past, Celeste. It was your past you were the victim of their greed and wickedness.” I said what I felt.She tilted her head slightly, I could see sadness on her face and my heart clenched seeing her like that. She had gone through a lot that she would never tell me.“But I judged you.” She said and I felt honesty in her tone, “It is our natural feeling, Darius. You looked at me differently when you got to know that I once had another mate. I saw into
[ Celeste ]“Celeste, I am pregnant. Can’t you see? My baby’s life is in danger. I can’t go back to Jesper. He doesn’t give a shit about me and the baby. He thinks that it’s not his baby.” Melissa cried but her pleads didn’t melt my heart.“It was you who wanted him desperately. You did everything in your power to make him yours and when you finally have him, you have regrets. Oh, come on, Melissa. Grow up. I am tired of your tantrums.” I threw my hands in the air. “Celeste, don’t speak to your pregnant sister like this. Mistakes happen. People do make mistakes. You also made mistakes, a lot of times. She is your sister, your own blood. Can’t you forgive her?” My father reprimanded me.I scoffed in disbelief. They were standing at my pack and they had the audacity to question me and my previous life.“Excuse me, Alpha Miller. Talk with respect, she isn’t your daughter but the Luna of Black Shadow Pack and you are talking to the Luna. You are alive until now because I don’t want unnec
[ Celeste ]“Calm down girl, you are eating like a mammoth.” Lenna who was stuffing her mouth with roasted chicken smacked my hand when I picked a piece for myself.“Hey, you ate most of it and you are calling me an ugly animal.” I glared her and she stuffed my mouth with lettuce leaves.“Eat more fibre.” She grinned and ate the last remaining piece of chicken from my plate.“Come on, my body also needs extra nutrition, Lenna.” I rolled my eyes.“Then go and find more meat in the kitchen. I was craving roasted chicken and my baby will come out soon so I won’t be able more spicy and fried stuffs.” She said rubbing her swollen belly.“Do not use your baby as the excuse to eat extra, Lenna. We all know that you are crazy about chicken.” I said and filled my plate with red meat. I need more nutrition to keep my baby healthy.“Let’s finish our lunch with some sweet yogurt.” She said licking her lips.“Fetch me some blueberry flavoured.” I said and she gave our desired order to a maid.“Whe