“It’s the most tragic turns of event.” Maga, the chief elder exclaimed. “We are so very sorry for taking so long to respond to the letter you sent, Lycan. Oh, dear Leia,” he held out his hands to her. “You must be so devasted.”“Thank you for your concern.” Leia smiled, but avoided his hands.Velkan watched them silently from his seat at the head of the dining table, where his mother had insisted on hosting the members of the Elders’ clan that had decided to grace them with their presence that afternoon, after about two weeks of them ignoring the letter, he had sent about Aiden’s death and Chanda’s burial.“I can’t imagine living under the same roof and dining with the same wolf who killed your loved ones.” Maga withdrew his hands but still focused on Leia, completely ignoring everyone else. “That is just pure evil.”“It was.” Leia shifted in her seat.Serves you right for wanting to host them, Velkan thought. He knew that the chief elder had a thing for his mother and that it annoyed
Chanda stood in the middle of the ring, hovering over a panting Mariam.“I said train me a little not plan to kill me.” Mariam complained.“Not my fault you punch like a girl.” Chanda jested, remembering when Marim used to taunt her for being weak. “You know for our next practice, we could run around the pack, build up your stamina.”“Now you are just being evil.” Mariam scowled. “Haven’t you seen how big the area is? That will be signing my death sentence by myself.”Chanda laughed and sat beside her on the ground.“So… How did you become a rogue?” Mariam asked.“You ask questions a lot. Don’t you?”“I didn’t mean to pry or anything. You seem so strong, like warrior level kind of strong. So, I assumed your pack would have loved to have you as a female gamma.”“Hmm.” Chanda hummed.“You don’t have say anything if you don’t want to. I completely understand.”“I was kicked out of my pack. For being weak.” Chanda lied. “A weak omega was not good enough for my alpha. So, when I started li
“You cannot be serious.” Velkan tugged his hand away from his mother’s hold. “Let go of me, Mother! I have enough with the demands of these…”“Velkan, that’s enough.” Leia pleaded with him. “Don’t attract more troubles to us. I beg of you.”“That’s why you are here. So, you can say this to my face.” Velkan fumed. “You really have no fear of what kind of hell I can reign on you all.”“I understand your anger, my Lycan.” Maga spoke calmly. “But we are only acting under tradition. Secondly, our decision to gather together and meet with you personally was done out of respect, your grace.”“My dead luna has not even been put in the ground yet and you are telling me to marry another already.”“That won’t be our fault now, would it?” Hati asked.Velkan picked up a plate next to him and threw against the wall. “You piece of –.” He picked up another, but his mother stopped him before he could haul it directly at Hati’s head.“You need to calm down, my son.”“How can you tell me to be calm? Are
“I…” Chanda froze as she turned to see Velkan standing in front of her. She thought he was still in the room where he had walked out of sight. “I -I was… I-” She couldn’t form words as he leaned down to her face.“Are you dumb?” His eyes blazed with fury. “What are you doing?” Why couldn’t she speak up? Chanda wondered. There was no way she still feared him, especially since he didn’t know who she really was. It had to be the feeling of him so close to her. It was … messing with her head. She stepped back to put some distance between them, but accidently tripped over the tree and fell to the ground.“Lycan!” Snow walked into the hall. “What happened? We heard you a crash from inside. Is everything… Serafina, what are you doing in here?” Snow sounded surprised to see her.Velkan grabbed her right hand and hauled her to her feet. “Serafina,” He echoed her name. “Who sent you to spy on me?”Just like him, Chanda thought. Always assuming everyone was out to harm him. Well, he wasn’t wro
“I am the Lycan Alpha of the West Region. No one dares me.” Velkan stormed into his office, and slammed the door.“That you are.” Snow blocked the door before it shut in his face, walked in and closed it gently. “Please accept my apologies for Serafina’s behavior. I will personally deal with her myself.”“Don’t touch her.” Velkan blurted. “I mean… there is no need.” He said when Snow arched an eyebrow. “It was not intentional like the maid said so don’t worry about it. Besides we have a bigger problem than a defiant female rogue.”A female rogue that should have been sent to the prison and tortured for daring to speak against him, Velkan thought, but he just couldn’t bring himself to harm her. Instead in that moment when he had held her close, it had felt… familiar.“As you wish, my Lycan.” Snow said. “So, what do you want to do?”“There has to be a way to avoid this stupid law.” Velkan sighed and sat on his chair. “Those old wolves think they can order me around and I will just bend
“My Lycan.” Sera looked scared. “It’s not what you think, Alpha.”“Please enlighten me then.” Velkan tried to get up but his mother held him still beside her. “Tell me that you are not here on the directives from the Elder’s clan. Tell me that you are not happy that your former maid, my luna is dead. Tell me you didn’t jump at the slightest opportunity of having your daughter named the new Lycan Luna.” His words were laced with disgust. “Tell me.”“My Lycan.” Sera seemed lost for words. “It’s not…”“It’s exactly what you think, Lycan.” Mia interrupted her mother. “Even though Chanda did a horrible thing just to become your luna, we are not happy she died. She was a dear maid to me and I cared for her very much, so much that I was heartbroken when she betrayed me and brought shame to my family. But I would never wish death on anyone, not especially in the manner she died.”Mia got up and knelt before Velkan. “But life goes on, my Alpha. You need a new Luna and I know very well, that I
We can’t go in?” Chanda asked with a puzzled look on her face Her excitement was cut short upon getting to the guest house, when Snow instructed them to stop at the front of the gates.“No, you can’t. You two will guard the house from the outside while they,” Snow pointed to the other warriors standing beside him. “Will stand guard from inside the compound.”“But-.”“We can’t afford taking any unnecessary risks now,” He eyed Fang. “Can we?”“But-.” Chanda repeated.“Don’t argue with me on this, Serafina.” Snow shut her down firmly. “I will be on my way.” Snow nodded to them and walked away. The two other guards walked into the compound and shut the door, leaving behind a stunned Chanda and an annoyed Fang outside.Thirty minutes later, and Chanda was still complaining, much to the determent of Fang.“Will you please stop whining?” He groaned.“No!” Chanda slid to the floor. “This is not fair!” She banged on the gates, loudly.“Why do you even want to go in so badly?” He eyed her. “Ar
Velkan hadn’t slept a wink throughout the night. He had been tossing and turning in his bed, as his thoughts had continuously drifted between how much he missed Chanda, Aiden’s last words and surprisingly enough, Serafina.He couldn’t understand what was so intriguing about a mere female rogue wolf, that he felt so drawn to her. Or was he just attracted to the lowest kind of females, like Chanda?He has a beautiful Alpha’s daughter, a true royal blood, throwing herself at him and he had rejected her without a thought, under the pretense of respecting Chanda’s name. But he was almost certain, if Serafina was the one being offered to him, he would not have said no so easily, no matter how much he missed Chanda.That was what bothered him the most.“F***!” Velkan cursed, sitting up on his bed. Even though his room was pitch black, he could tell it was morning as the alarm had been blaring a few minutes ago. The maids should come in any minute now, to prepare his bath and set out his clo
Chanda gasped. “The Oro blade really exists?”The Oro blade was the sword used by the Klana leader. The sword was rumored to have made by the guardians of the underworld and that the Klana leader had his soul entwined with the sword. “I guess those stories about us were very detailed.” Snow smiled. “Yes, the Oro blade exists. When my father was killed, the sword was stolen from him.”“But if the myth is true?” Chanda said. “Anyone who touches it becomes possessed with some evil spirits. How could Velkan’s father had easily taken it and not be affected?”Snow reached into his pocket and brought out a small green crystal. He held it up in the light and it glowed brightly. “This is the stone that gives the magic power to my father’s sword.”“Wow.” Chanda mumbled, enchanted by the beautiful glowing crystal. “Its magnificent.” She instinctively raised her to touch it but Snow slapped her hand away, bringing her back to her senses. “Sorry.” She murmured.“I can see the stone still has the
“He wants you to become a maid?” Mariam almost screamed at Chanda when she told her of Velkan’s punishment. “Are you sure you heard him correctly?”“I’m not deaf, Mariam.” Chanda playfully threw a garment at her face and continued packing up her things. “But I do think it is strange.”“Of course, it is strange. There are a lot of maids in the pack, why would he want you as his personal maid?”“Maybe he wants to keep a close eye on me or maybe he just wants to humiliate me, I don’t know.” Chanda shrugged. Velkan’s decision was definitely unexpected, especially after Snow claimed he had earlier decided to not punish her at all. But she would gladly take being a maid over death, anytime and any day.“What are you even doing here at this time of the day?” She asked Mariam. “Are you not supposed to be with your mistress, tending to her every beck and call?” “I was in her room with her and her mother, when they mentioned that you were becoming a maid so I rushed down here to confirm if it
“This is completely outrageous.”Mia was perched on the side of her bed, getting ready to take the bath that her maid, Mariam, was preparing for her while her mother paced around the room, angrily.Mia had always wondered why the woman couldn’t just sit down and complain or at least stand still. Why did she think she had to move around just to pass her point across? Just watching her was causing Mia, a headache.Still, she had to be the reasonable daughter and calm her mother down.“What exactly is outrageous, mother?”“This is not the time to be making jokes, Mia.”“I am not joking, mother. Why are you upset?”“Are you being serious right now? Were you deaf when the Lycan decided to make that thing…” Sera paused when Mariam dropped a bottle of soap on the ground.“Sorry, it slipped.” Mariam muttered, slowly picking the bottle up.“Are you maids ever good for anything? Even in this pack, good maids are hard to find.” Sera snapped at her. “Just a bunch of good for nothings.”“Please,
“I am Snow Klana”That can’t be true, Chanda thought. She didn’t which was more absurd, the fact that Snow claimed to be the son of the Klana’s leader or the fact that the Klana Clan still had existing members. The whole thing just felt like a big trap to her. A trap that will come back to bite her if she didn’t thread carefully.But even if it what Snow said were true, is her hatred for Velkan that huge, that she would be willing to side with group of dangerous wolves known to be feral killers. These wolves had made packs extinct due to their attacks.Was she willingly to take the risk of unleashing possible terror to both regions just to get her revenge?“Am I talking to myself here? Hey Serafina.” Fang snapped his fingers in Chanda’s face to draw her attention. “Where did your mind wander off to again?”“Hmm. You were saying?”“I was giving you, ideas on how to approach this hearing and to make sure you don’t get in more trouble.”“It is not a hearing.” Chanda picked up her bucket
The tomb was dark and quiet as usual, so Velkan didn’t understand why he thought coming here in the middle of the night would bring him some sort of… solitude.A guard walked up to him at the entrance with a torch.“Lycan.”“Stay here. I will be out soon.” Velkan took the torch from him and stepped inside the tomb. The light of the torch made the tomb bright, so he moved his hands along the walls, tracing the carvings of the names of all the former Lycans that had come before him. His hands stilled when he got to the last one.Odon Goda, it read. Great father, and leader.“He was an okay husband too.”“Mother.” Velkan wasn’t even surprised at her presence. “Are you following me?”“I went to your room and you weren’t there. I checked the cliff, you also weren’t there. So, I figured you will be here.”“Is there a problem, then?”“With me, no. But I think there might be one with you.” She took the torch from him and stared walking further down. “Let us keep moving, her casket is still fu
Chanda wasn’t sure she had heard what Snow said correctly, so she voiced out the words slowly. “You want to kill Velkan, the Lycan of Goda Pack?”“Yes, I do. I want Velkan Goda dead.” Saul passed a thread through a tiny needle, and started stitching up her cut. “And you, Serafina are going to help me.”“You want me to help you kill Velkan Goda?” Chanda repeated, not paying any attention to the pain on her shoulders.“Yes. Heavens, stop repeating yourself. It is annoying to listen to.” Snow frowned. “And why are you so shocked when you already planned to do it yourself? You did fail, but it was nice attempt.”“Is this a joke?” Chanda pushed his hands away from her, leaving the needle dangling from her shoulder. “Is this some kind of test or something, uh? I get it.” She pointed at him. “Your Lycan wants to test just how loyal I am, right? If I say yes to your request, I will get charged with treason, then he will have a valid reason to drag me to the middle of the pack and cut off my h
“My shoulder feels like it’s about to fall off.” Chanda whined as Fang, assisted by a guard, laid her down on a sleeping bag. “It hurts badly.”“Of course, it hurts, you dummy.” Fang lashed at her.“I would go get the doctor.” The guard walked out.“Tell me, Serafina.” Fang started pacing the room. “Was that stunt you pulled part of the plan or have you gone completely nuts?”“Stop yelling at me.” Chanda groaned. “I am in pain and you are making it worse.”“You haven’t seen pain. Thank the goddess, the Lycan didn’t sink that sword deep into your neck.”“Leave me be.” She pleaded. His voice was causing her a headache. “Go away if you won’t help me.”“The doctor is coming.” He said. “But really, how could you do that? Just because you have won a few battles in the training against some of the weak warriors doesn’t mean-”“I have won against you too.” Chanda murmured.“Doesn’t mean,” Fang continued, ignoring her jab. “That you can go challenging the Lycan to a one-on-one match. He could
“Velkan, wait.”Velkan turned back to see his mother, Mia and Sera running after him.“Slow down, Son.” Leia called out to him, but he just fastened his pace. He badly needed a drink to cool his anger. He barged into the house and headed for the bar, taking out a bottle of whiskey, but Mia was fast and she took it from him.“Let me pour you a glass, Alpha.” She smiled. Velkan just nodded and moved aside.“Son, are you okay?” His mother finally appeared beside him.“My lord.” Mia offered him the glass. He downed in a gulp. “Another.” He said, handing the cup to Mia.“No. You shouldn’t drink that much.” Leia took the glass from him. “Come, sit.” She led him to a chair. “Talk to me. Are you okay?”“How would he be?” Sera erupted in anger. “Can you imagine the nerve of that… that female? Daring to challenge her Luna to be, my daughter in front the pack like that?”“Mother.” Mia warned.“It is absurd.” Sera snapped. “Who knows what would have happened if the Lycan hadn’t defended your hon
Chanda stood in the middle of the ring, stalking his every step as Velkan climbed into the ring.“You want to battle the Luna?” Velkan’s voice echoed around them.“Yes, Lycan.” Chanda responded, determined to hold he ground. He wasn’t going intimidate her now. Not when she was so close getting payback. “This competition is meant for we the slaves to show loyalty to Goda. Surely you would except such loyalty from your bride?”“She isn’t as trained as you are.” Velkan stood so close to her. “Would it be a fair fight?”“One would think after your marriage to the late Chanda,” She challenged him. “You would want a brave luna by your side this time around.”Chanda couldn’t explain it, but she could swear his eyes darkened as she mentioned that name. Did he still hate her that much? “Fine.” Velkan whispered and stepped back. “Since this is about proving loyalty and showing bravery, then I will grant your choice of a change of opponent.”Yes. Chanda glanced over to where Mia sat. Payback ti