Valen’s POV
“Oh man, come over here and see this. I think his girlfriend is cheating on him with some other dude! I told you didn’t I? He busted my face for this shit man!” I look up to see the boy I beat up during the full moon ceremony calling his friends who were passing by I was so annoyed. This is what I have been reduced into? A laughing stock? “I can see you need more beating!?” I growled at him and his friends. I saw him clearly now. I recognized him- he was the boy with the strange accent. The boy whose rogue mother eloped with a human and pleaded her way back into the pack after ten years. He was lucky to be fully werewolf as human genetics are usually strong. If not for the mercy of the moon goddess, he would have been half human, half wolf and that could have made him an omega “You want me to burst your face the second time!?” I growl at him, taking a dangerous step towards him “No man, I’m aigh’t,” he chuckles alongside his friends. “ You embarrassed me in front of my mate the other night, fam. I guess your and whore mate is acting up now on your was was cash cannot save you, innit?” he roars with laughter I clenched and unclenched my hands furiously. I was trying to control my wall. I didn’t want to get into a street fight- that would embarrass my father and myself. I needed to avoid conflict as much as possible. I decided to introduce myself to him even though Dada told me that the idea was stupid. I thought otherwise though. I thought if I introduced myself, he and his friends would respect me So I started. I took a few steps till I was face to face with him. When I got to him, I looked him straight in the eyes to achieve maximum effect- to make him scared of my alpha eyes. “Young boy,” I began. “I will save you the trouble of sleeping in the dungeons for several nights because of your disrespect ro me, and I will introduce myself to you,” I growl, making sure to sound intense. “I am Valen, future alpha of this pack!” I stamp my leg on the ground to show dominance and ownership. “ I am the soon to be successor of the alpha throne, so you better watch your mouth Before I make your life a living hell!?” The boy went quite just staring at me for a while, and for a moment I could have sworn that he was scared and shaking. But just when I thought that I had asserted dominance, he said, “You are so close, you want a kiss little princess?” With that, he busted out laughing so loudly in front of the gathered pack that I felt like the ground should open and swallow me. “Man wants a kiss,” he and his friends roared in laughter “He wants his old man dead too!” another one added “I will deal with you!” I screamed on top of my voice. “All of you!” “Chill out man, you started it first. You didn’t apologise. You beat me up the other night and you threw money at me,” he chuckled in my face “You are a dead man!” I growled at me “I am a citizen of the human world. If you raise even a finger on me, they will come to war with this pack. So if I were you, I’ll be careful man! You cannot do anything to be! Your just a daddy’s boy! Tell me about ‘future alpha?’ Rubbish!” “You will beg me to have mercy on you tonight, but I will feed you to my dogs instead!” I growled He doesn’t even spare me a look anymore, he just turned to his friends and said. “Come on fam, let’s bounce. We need to get to the party at my crib” I had to watch them leave, laughing at me as they walked. I felt utterly powerless. I just looked at them and fumed. As I was standing, accessing my situation and dealing with Dada’s silent mockery, Gina walked up to me, touched my shoulder slightly and whispered in my ears, “You are the future alpha, you should not have let them treat you like that and leave without consequences. This disrespect will make other people disrespect you too…” “So what do you think I should have done?” I cut her off sharply. Sometimes, she seemed to irritate me in ways I could not comprehend “You should have shown them that you are the future alpha…” “How!?” I snapped again “By making sure to break their bones in front of everyone,” she whispered smoothly in my ears “And risking war with the humans !?” “We are stronger than the humans… and ” I turned to look at her properly now, and I interjected sharply.”Sometimes you are outrightly stupid,” I said to her and she backed off slightly immediately. I continued. “So we should waste resources on war because we are stronger?” “I… I…” she stammered “You are just so dull, if it was Veyra she would not be asking me silly questions!” I saw tears begin to well in her eyes, but it got me even more irritated. “If your tears drop from your eyes!” I warned her. “ If you embarrassed me by crying her right now in public, I will smother you period now get out of here!” She immediately ran away from me, composed herself secretly from the shock she just received from me and went to meet Veyta who a crowd had formed a circle around to console As soon as she got there, Veyra faced her. “What do you mean by your statement before?” she looked angry. “Telling everyone here that I an mentally unstable…?” she suddenly broke down crying. “What did I do? What did I do? What did I do to deserve all these?” she sobbedValen’s POVHer lips touched my lips and I couldn’t move. I was very shocked. I knew I had lusted after her for a while, but I didn’t expect her to make a moveI had a whole lot of emotions going on in my head until one particular emotion settled in my chest. It was lust- the very emotion that’s made me hold her to the point where she kissed meI found myself kissing her back, wanting more of her. I could taste the mint chewing gum in her mouth. I liked the way her lips felt in mine.It felt good that somebody who will not lie to me wanted me and kissed me so passionatelyI didn’t realise until that point that I had been so lonely since everything happened with Veyra. Kissing? I had almost forgotten that that word existed. I didn’t even think of kissing anybody any longer. There was only one person I used to kiss and that one person betrayed me. I had forgotten about anything like affection. Maybe it was my brain trying to protect me from whatever was happening. I hadn’t even realis
Valen’s POVI couldn’t sleep well the previous night. I just kept going through my phone- all the pictures I had taken with Veyra, our texts, the voice recordings of her singing or just acting goofy, the videos of us together. They all broke my heartI even came across pictures of her with that man in bed, naked! I was so angry! I immediately deleted all of them. I didn’t want to ever come across those pictures in my lifeI decided to check the internet-social media- and see if the small crowd had actually listened to Gina. I first of all checked the hashtag that Gina had told them to create and I saw that people had actually created them.Under the hashtags were pictures of Veyra in her vulnerable moments and comments highlighting people’s opinion about the whole thingI decided to read the comments“Poor girl," someone had written . "Who knew she was an addict”"It's a shame that they have broken up. They used to be the power couple. True love indeed, lol”I felt my chest tighten.
Valen’s POV“No, no, no, don’t cry,” Gina rushed to her to hold her. “I only meant that you are unstable , that is what the doctor said”"She's not thinking clearly because she's a liar. I mean her own boyfriend just said it!” someone in the crowd muttered."That's wrong,”" Gina suddenly faced them off with a stern look. "Who are you to judge her. Besides, like I said before, this is a private matter!”A few people nodded in agreement. Some walked away murmuring“My friend has just been through a lot lately,” Gina continued. "So she needs our compassion, not our criticism, judgements and side talks”I watched as Gina worked the crowd, and something about it felt off. She was defending Veyra, but somehow she was also making her look worse. She was making it sound as if Veyra is fragile, unstable, not to be trusted- which she actually is, but did she have to tell the public like that?I shrugged. It didn’t really concern me. This thing was between friends, and besides I figured out tha
Valen’s POV“Oh man, come over here and see this. I think his girlfriend is cheating on him with some other dude! I told you didn’t I? He busted my face for this shit man!”I look up to see the boy I beat up during the full moon ceremony calling his friends who were passing byI was so annoyed. This is what I have been reduced into? A laughing stock?“I can see you need more beating!?” I growled at him and his friends. I saw him clearly now. I recognized him- he was the boy with the strange accent. The boy whose rogue mother eloped with a human and pleaded her way back into the pack after ten years. He was lucky to be fully werewolf as human genetics are usually strong. If not for the mercy of the moon goddess, he would have been half human, half wolf and that could have made him an omega“You want me to burst your face the second time!?” I growl at him, taking a dangerous step towards him“No man, I’m aigh’t,” he chuckles alongside his friends. “ You embarrassed me in front of my mat
Valen’s POV"That's a good idea," I found myself saying after saying no to Dada. "You need to keep her drug abusing self in check”“Valen!” Veyra screamed in protest, pulling away from Gina slightly so she could get a proper look at me. If somebody has ever told me that a time will come when you reject me this way, I would not believe it. We have been together for so long- so so long, Valen- why is it so difficult for you to believe me? Have I ever lied to you?”“Yes you have!” I replied sharply. “You acted like the best thing to happen to me, meanwhile you have been whoring around and sniffing drugs. I never knew that you were about that life”"Valen, please. I don’t do drugs and the last thing I will do is to cheat on you. Just give me one more chance to explain.""You have said that over and over again. I have heard you." I said firmly. "Go home. Rest. You know what? We need time away from each other so we can heal and move on with our lives. It is over, Veyra. And I hope you get
Valen’s POVGina is such a beautiful soul. Even after everything that happened, she still open her arms for a hug for VeyraVeyta on the other hand started screaming. She didn’t even care to acknowledge that her friend wanted to hug her. "You set me up! What have I ever done to you!?" Veyra shouted, advancing at Gina as if to beat her up.Gina just froze for a second. She looked confused.“Don’t just stand there and act as if you are innocent! What have you been telling Valen?”“Veyra… are you alright? I can’t see that you just woke up and you might be confused.”“Shut up! You are so ungrateful! After all my parents did for you!? I took you as a sister. How would you go to Valen and lie about me cheating on him!?”“Veyra…” Gina was speaking, but Veyra cut her short“About the night of the full moon, what happened!? Was it you ghat set me up?” She cried“You weren't even supposed to remember… it was supposed to be a smooth operation, yet here you ate, alive!?” Gina flips suddenly, but