“If you dare touch my mate again then I will kill you. I wouldn’t once care if you are my twin brother,” Cain growled viciously wrapping me warmly in a protective grasp. I had once again found myself in a familiar position than a few seconds ago but unlike the previous one this left butterflies in my stomach. ‘Mate!’ my wolf contentedly sighed, already overcoming her past loss of one mate as she found another, much more loving and accepting. Her feelings of love and affection coursed through my veins and I too felt hope blossom in my heart. ****** Asa Trine, an orphaned werewolf gets rejected as soon as she finds her mate only to find that her second chance mate is none other than her mate’s twin! Finding herself between two Alpha brothers and in their cold war to win the final title of the Alpha of their pack, she is in for a grind but that’s not the only peril her way. Unknown to her an entity is lurking in the shadows gripping the innocent lives of her friends and family. What will she do then and how is she going to deal with her personal problems while overcoming a greater tide that is endangering to sweep away everything that she has ever known dear to her? Th answer is simple, she will have to risk it her all! Even if it means that she will be jeopardizing her relationship with her lover, her mate.
View More“Be careful Asa,” Catherine Arius, our Luna of the Pack Blessed Moon kindly admonished me to stop me from banging right into her. Griping onto myself at the right moment, I looked up at her with a sheepish grin and bounced on my toes as I apologized, “I am sorry Luna I was just in a hurry to see my sister. Do you know where she is?”
Shaking her head at my excited stance she placed her hands on my shoulder to calm me down and with a small secretive smile on her face she asked, “Did you find your mate?”
Blushing as I realized that she must have understood the reason of my excited gait I pouted at her while trying to calm myself as I babbled, “Not yet but I am hoping to find him soon.”
At my words she gave me a motherly smile and then with a small kiss on my head she said, “Happy eighteenth Birthday, Asa. Your sister was called in early this morning for some Beta work. I am sure you’ll find her somewhere inside.”
The Pack house was huge and finding her here was going to take me some time but nevertheless feeling the excitement bubbling inside me I thanked the Luna and ran inside towards the Beta office where my sister would be with her mate.
Mate.
Just the thought of him, whoever he was, made me want to burst out into a fit of excited giggles to relieve my stomach from the butterflies fluttering inside.
Opening the room of my sister’s office I didn’t see her but instead a broad shouldered back greeted me and stepping inside, realizing who he was I asked, “Hey, have you seen-”
At my words he turned around and as soon as our eyes met, I cut my words off in the middle. We stood there frozen for a moment, my wolf inside me howled happily in my head and if I was in my shifted form, you could have seen my tail wagging behind me.
Clay Arius was my mate.
His blue eyes flitted all over my face, a turbulence in those calm seas. The once parted mouth that was open to respond to me was now closed as his soft pink lips was set in a straight line. There was a flush over his tanned skin and when he folded his arms in front of him, I could visibly see his muscles flex through the thin material of his t-shirt.
I had never before seen Clay Arius as a desirable man even though he had always been hot but now that I knew he was my mate the fog cleared in my mind. It was definitely true when people said that a thousand angels must have blessed him for him to be so good in all aspects of his life.
Both his looks and behavior.
“I can’t fucking believe this!” he cursed making me stumble on my thoughts of singing praises of him only to find that he was now pinning me with a glare.
Am I seeing this right?
“Mat-” I was about to ask him something when grabbing onto my arms roughly he knocked me to the wall adjacent to my sister’s table as he snarled, “Don’t fucking call me that!”
He had done nothing to lessen the force of his sudden gesture and with an audible banging sound the pain seared through the back of my head making me wince. The parts where his hand had been touching my skin was blissfully tingling and yet my mind was unable to make sense as two very different sensations caused by the same man took over my body.
Pain and pleasure regulated through me making me groan lowly, and as if to stop me from making that noise Clay’s grip tightened on my arms in a vice like grip.
“What do you mean?” I asked slightly hesitant when I realized that his blue eyes that I had found to be endearing and sparkly like jewels before had been ablaze with a hateful fire. It was hard to believe that the man who had been the mascot of calmness and levelheadedness in this pack was actually capable of these expressions.
“Get this clear through your head for once and for all, I don’t want you as my mate,” he bitted out harshly, moving away, letting go of me harshly while combing a hand through his silky brown tresses. He didn’t’ even bother making eye contact with me when he said this and by the small curl of his nose, I could make out that the very sight of me was disgusting him.
But why? Wasn’t he, my mate? Shouldn’t he love me and cherish me?
I wanted to cry, my wolf inside me was slowly breaking apart at her mate’s hurtful words. She tried connecting with the wolf of our mate but nothing she did worked in her favor.
Clay didn’t want us at all.
A tremor rose in my throat and my eyes moistened as I felt my heart plummet but taking in a silent deep breath, I steeled my voice and asked, “May I know what is the reason for you to reject the bond that Moon goddess has blessed us with?”
I could see him flinch a little at the coldness in my voice as I tried my best to hide the withering parts of me behind a strong façade. I would never let him get the satisfaction of knowing that he had been able to break me.
His gaze lingered on my closed off expression this time around for a second longer and then scoffing at me in a derogatory manner he jerked his chin at me as he laughed, “Have you seen yourself? You frankly don’t deserve to stay by my side. How did you even dream of being my mate with those looks and no set of skills at all? Do you think you would be worthy of being a Luna when I would become the Alpha of this pack?”
My heart stopped for a second at the austerity of his words and I whipped my head away to avoid looking at him in fear that my eyes would reveal the true extent of my pain that was heavily coursing through me.
It wasn’t a wise move because I directly met eyes with my own reflection in a polished vase kept on the table. It wasn’t a clear image but I could make out my raven black boring hair flowing down my back in a tangled mess because I hadn’t bothered to comb it this morning in a hurry.
My green eyes which I had come to love, a color that I shared with my deceased dad also seemed to be shining dully. I looked nothing extraordinary with that moss like color and for a second, I couldn’t help but believe every word that Clay said.
‘My precious, you are so beautiful.’
My dad’s words echoed in my mind and shaking myself out of my slump and with a burning rage I looked at Clay as I gritted, “So you are defying the will of the Moon Goddess just because I don’t come up to your sick beauty standards?”
He looked taken aback a little, again and for some reason even slightly disoriented but a known calmness took over his features as he cockily nodded and said, “You are right and also, I don’t receive any political power through you. You are an orphan with no influential background that could potentially help me. Not to forget that your skills aren’t even the best in this pack then how could you even dream about standing with me?”
It pricked when he emotionlessly mentioned about my parents in a languid manner. Did he realize how harsh those words were for a person who lost their parents at the mere age of seven?
This person right in front of me was not who the pack knew him to be.
He wasn’t an angel that everyone made him out as but a twisted devil who had only one thing in his mind and that was to gain power. I am sure his good boy act was just to put up a show in front of the people to win their trust and to get to the seat of the Alpha a step closer.
I had just been ready to curse at him when a small creaking voice garnered our attention towards the door and looking at it, I could make out a petite blond figure nervously glancing between the two of us.
“I am sorry to disturb you,” Sofia Ignis, a friend of mine said as she shifted tensely on her feet, ready to leave. She must have sensed the tension in the room and seeing her face I felt guilty for a second.
She had forever had a crush on Clay who was now unfortunately mated to me.
“No, you came at a perfect time Sofia. Please come here,” Clay called out to her with a smile and though I could see her visibly perk up at his attention she hesitantly moved towards him. There was an anxiousness on her face and I wondered if she had heard our conversation before to be reacting this way.
When Sofia had been in Clay’s vicinity enough for him to reach out to her, he grabbed onto her at once. My eyes that had been sharp in gathering our mate’s actions immediately noticed the gentleness with which he handled Sofia unlike us and a dull pain started clogging my airways.
Taking a deep breath again to stop myself from bursting out into angry and hurtful tears I saw Clay hug Sofia from behind as he smirked over her shoulders and with a glint in his eyes he said, “She is perfect to be my mate.”
Sofia unable to make sense of the situation gasped and was about to move away when Clay dug his hands on her waist and wrapping one around her abdomen in a tight cage kept her close to her causing my wolf to go insane.
Every touch and breath that they shared was painful to look at and finally placing a soft kiss on Sofia’s nape Clay fixed his eyes on me and said, “I, Clay Arius, the future Alpha of my pack Blessed Moon, reject you Asa Trine to be my mate.”
*ASA TRINE* “Come on, hurry up Devin, you can’t be this slow!” Leia scolded him and the sound of it came all the way up the stairs making me stifle a laugh. “You look beautiful, miss,” Ross said gaining my attention as he helped me with my skirt that had wrinkled below. “Oh no, Ross please don’t do that I don’t want you hurting your waist,” I said as I tried to stop him, but it was no use the old man had been so used to taking care that even after giving him retirement from all his work he would still find something to do. “Michael! That’s not right! The cake should be here!” she shouted again as I heard Michael shuffling around and again I tried to stop my laughter from filtering through at my sister's frustrated antics. “Its time to go down, Miss,” Ross said as he smiled at me and hooking my arm around his I took his help to carefully step down the steps as I saw Cain standing there at the end of it with little Kiara in his hands. She looked adorable in her frock that she had b
*ASA TRINE* “You called us, dad?” I asked peeping in. Nodding his head at me he motioned for us to sit down and filtering in I noticed that Luna had also been there looking through some books as she smiled at our presence. “I am sorry that I am late,” Clay’s voice filtered in but he stopped soon after when he saw the two of us already seated there, “I swear I haven’t done anything this time.” “We know that you haven’t done anything Clay, we are not here to complain about you,” Cain said huffing at his brother but a smile slipped on his face and I wondered if it would be right to separate these two brothers when their relations had only just started improving. “Well then what is this family reunion for?” he asked as he sat down on a chair beside Cain looking at his dad with a questioning look making Cain and I fix him with that same gaze. “Can’t I just miss my children?” Alpha asked as he looked at us and when we remained adamant in our gazes he laughed and said, “Fine you caught
*ASA TRINE* “No, wait, did you bring the bag of chips that I had kept on the table?” I asked stopping Cain as he looked at me and shaking his head in negative, he said, “Just give me a minute, I’ll be right back!” It had been two days since we had gotten back and thankfully the crowd had started straying away from us a slight bit for us to decide on going on a picnic today. Another thing that had been something really good was Cain’s carefreeness. He had been smiling more and he didn’t look like he had to be on his toes every moment of his life. I think a huge credit goes to Clay and I rejecting each other. This weird phenomenon had also seemingly improved his outlook of his brother as he didn’t seem to be worried about his presence around us anymore though it didn’t mean that he became any less possessive. Looking back at our home I waited for him to come back but it was taking him longer than I had thought, and I wondered if I had actually brought the chips with me. Looking
*ASA TRINE* “That’s enough Leia, please!” I begged as I tried to escape her aggressive hits that she had been raining down on me. After seeing me she had almost ran up to me and the first thing that she had done was to hit me with all the force and energy that she had in store. “Hey, that’s enough, please if not anything then think about the baby,” Michael tried to intervene and taking the opportunity I hid behind him feeling my head almost about to burst from the built up stress. I loved my sister and I knew that she wasn’t the cause of this but I was moments away from shouting at her. “She hadn’t been feeling well too Leia, please go easy on her,” Devin pleaded my case making Cain sit up straight as he looked at me and asked, “What? What happened to you?” I had wanted to speak to him the first thing when I saw him return but he had come back with the rest of the family and I couldn’t find a moment to take him away from them as the Luna showered him with love and Alpha pra
*ASA TRINE* Clay had disappeared away as mysteriously he had come and right now my brain had been combusting at the possibility of what was happening. Why did I feel those things that I would have only with a mate? What did it mean? “Asa? Are you alright?” Devin came in soon after Clay had dropped me off at the entrance of the pack house only to hide back into the crowds of people. Looking around for him I tried to see those same blue eyes that had once been the reason of my tears and later the cause of my determination to solve this mystery. I wonder what he must be thinking right now and whether he had been okay. ‘What is wrong with us Asa? I can feel a connection to Clay just as much as I can feel a connection to Cain but I feel as if my body is being torn apart in both directions,’ Xara panted in my head making me aware of my own body’s condition. Now that she said I had been feeling a slight pain in my chest since i got off the car and this must be the reason behind it. ‘Th
*ASA TRINE* “Are you excited to go home?” Cain asked looking at me from where I had been sitting in the passenger seat of the car while Devin now occupied the back seat. “Did you even need to ask me that, of course I am!” I said looking at him to find that his eyes had been looking deeply relaxed as they flitted over my face. There seemed to still be some anxiety within him but he was assured now that he wasn’t going to lose me. But he wouldn’t let me away from his eyesight for more than two minutes. So maybe he wasn’t completely healed yet but at least he was on that path. “I am so glad that everything turned out as it did and that nothing happened to you,” Devin sighed from where he was sprawled on the back seat looking as if the life had been drained out of him. Right now he looked older than what he was and I gave him an apologetic smile. “Sorry that you had to manage and meet all the people who had wanted to meet me,” I said remembering the hordes of people who had been
*ASA TRINE*“No...”I said for the first time in a while as I felt my voice return to me. I knew that I wasn’t conscious and that part scared me more for if I wasn’t consciousness then I must be dead for the goddess to visit me.She didn’t look anything extraordinary as I stared at the bright mass of light that had been blinding to me before. This light unlike Ephialtes had taken a much proper shape like that of a human and had long wispy hair of light floating all round her being. Her yes had been white as well but again unlike Ephialtes they didn’t look soulless they looked full of life.I felt blessed to have seen her but just the thought of what would it mean to be to see her meant made tears spill out of my eyes as I fell to my knees in front of her. None of my wounds hurting anymore and I wished for them to pain and hurt me again, anything that would tell me that I had been alive.“Please Goddess, let me live, please id don’t want to die just yet,” I pleaded pathetically the fac
*ASA TRINE*And as I said this I went towards Ephialtes who dodged me at my first try using all his effort to move away from me.“No! Don’t do this to me!” he shouted but as the sun’s rays started pouring over his body more and more he started disappearing and growing lighter in color as would happen to a shadow.“I need to do this Ephialtes, you have tortured many innocent people and I only hope that next time you wouldn’t walk on the wrong path,” I said this as I started slashing at whatever black misty body part I got making his body disappear and grow smaller and smaller.It was surreal to watch Ephialtes have nowhere to go as he started circling around me trying to continue to build himself up but the sunlight was making it impossible for him. His white pale eyes that usually stood out in its ghastliness didn’t seem as scary as they depicted his fright.“No, I remember now, this- this is how I was put to sleep all those years ago and now again,” he let out a groan as Cain and Dev
*ASA TRINE* His raspy voice almost instantly made all the hair in my body stand up and looking at his soulless eyes I wondered if he could see through my façade. The air had significantly dropped down around me and if Ephialtes had not been present here I would have been much intrigued to observe such a sudden change in my surroundings “Why? Aren’t you going to say something to me this time?” he asked swishing slightly to the left and the right making me flit my eyes to make sure that he hadn’t been able to sneak up an attack on me. “I don’t want to waste my time talking to you, let’s get on with the fighting,” I said hoping that reverse psychology would work on him as well as I noticed him pause and stare at me while I forced my face to stay impassive. “I don’t like that look in your eyes,” he gnawed out his words narrowing his pathetic pearls to look at me as he continued, “I quite like it more when they had been shut closed scared to even face me.” I wanted to look up at the
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