The club wasn’t hard to find, Aliyah could see the humans hanging around and some waiting in line to get into the club. She saw the men that Sean called the bouncers and knew they would want to see her ID before she would be let into the club but she didn’t come with that and then she remembered the trick Sean had used the last time they were there. Being a wolf, she can be very stealth, so creating a little distraction; she slipped into the club without the bouncers noticing. She chuckled at how smart she was and followed the music till she got to the open room where sweaty bodies were dancing against each other.
The music was louder than she could remember and it wasn’t helping if her wolf senses made the music louder than necessary. She felt her wolf was distressed with the music but there was nothing she could do; after all, she was the one that made her come to the human realm in the first place. She walked over to the bartender and flashed him a smile, she had forgotten to come with money and really hoped someone would buy her a drink. She felt her wolf reject the idea but she rolled her eyes at that, there was no way she would be refusing a free drink.
She didn’t have to wait for a long when someone whispered in her ear, “hey there beautiful,” she smiled; she had sensed the human coming and didn’t mind the approach. She turned to him and flashed him her most beautiful smile. He wasn’t that handsome, but he could be considered good looking with his sandy brown hair and gray eyes. “Mind if I buy you a drink?” he leaned in to whisper and she wished he knew he didn’t have to. If Sean was there, she could still hear him from across the room without him raising his voice but then she has to remind herself that he is human and doesn’t share in her abilities.
“Of course not,” she raised her voice for him to hear.
The man grinned, “great,” he said and turned to the bartender, ordering a shot of tequila for her. Aliyah wished for his sake that he shouldn’t try to drug her because one, the drug would be slow to work on her and two, it can only affect her for some minutes which mean she could kill him before it takes effect on her and she would be able to walk home safe and sound in the minutes that comes after.
Before the drink can be served, she felt her wolf suddenly giddy about something, she frowned, it was hard for something to interest her wolf and she turned around to know the reason for her excitement. She glanced around but there was nothing out of the ordinary until her eyes set on him. He was sitting on the sofa in the other end of the room and was listening to what the handsome ginger haired man with him was saying. The more she looked at him, the giddier her wolf became. The strangeness of it all intrigued and excited her. Her wolf has never reacted like that over a man, not even to Eric when they were dating. At most, she often resigned on her own whenever she was with Eric but this man was able to excite her. Who is he? She wondered and then he looked up and their eyes met and she was held spellbound by his midnight blue eyes and so was her wolf.
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The moment they stepped into the club, Edward had disliked it but for some reason, he had chosen to stay. He felt compelled to the place but yet he hated it. The extra loud music and the sweaty smell of the dancing humans only but made it worse. He would prefer being able to perceive their scented blood than the purging scent of the alcohol and the sweat that was covering their natural sweet scent. He wasn’t thirsty but he would like to surround himself with that natural sweetening scent.
“Right here, you will meet different types of humans but I won’t advise feeding on them when they are intoxicated. You won’t like the taste of it in their blood, trust me, I know,” Rasmus shuddered. “But, here, you can be able to find the extra sweet ones, hmm, like the one I had last week,” he closed his eyes, relishing on the memory.
Edward had stopped paying attention to what he was saying when he felt a pull to look up, he did and was met with a pair of blue eyes. She appeared different from the rest of the women in the room and with one look, he could tell she was quite young, very young. He had caught her looking at him but she didn’t shy away neither did she invite him with her eyes like most of the women he had caught staring at him in the room did.
She didn’t move though, she just stood there, holding his gaze and then he saw the man beside her handing her a drink. Are they together? He wondered, his gaze shifting briefly to access the man. He was just an average looking man and he noticed something amiss, there was something about her, something that tells him she could end the man’s life with just a flick of her finger. But why, isn’t she a human like him? He tried to get her scent but the heavily coated intoxicated scents that surrounded them made it hard for him.
Without thinking, he stood up, wanting to go closer to get a better scent of her. “My Prince,” Rasmus stood up as well, “is everything okay?” he whispered but Edward heard him loud and clear.
“Stay here,” he said and began making his way through the dancing bodies.
Aliyah turned around immediately, chanting ‘he is coming over’ in her mind and her wolf became restless again, wanting her to turn around and keep looking at him. She took the drink from the man with her and sipped from it, hoping it would keep her calm, as well as her wolf as she wondered why a human man could captivate her interest so badly. His blue eyes flashed in her mind and her wolf shivered in pleasure. The man with her was saying something but she couldn’t hear that anymore as she concentrated her mind to hear the sound of his feet in order to know when he was close.
But a shocking thing happened then. No matter how hard she listened, she couldn’t hear the sound of his feet. At first, she thought he wasn’t coming again and turned to check but she saw him walking up to her in ever slow and steady movement and she still couldn’t hear him. A sudden scent wafted into her nostrils then and she froze. It was a dead plant scent, a scent she had been made to learn through school to be wary off but there was something else in his scent, something like a sweetener, pulling her in.
She didn’t need to think again to know who he was or rather what he was. She glanced up at him, her horror making way to her face and she noticed he had stopped moving as well, his eyes locked on her as she saw the realization in his eyes. He had figured out what she is, probably had perceived her scent too. The place wasn’t safe anymore, not when a nightwalker was staring at her. she finished her drink in a gulp and passed the shot to the man, tendering apologizes but not staying to know whether he had accepted as she made her way to the exist.
Edward had been drawn to the woman but the closer he got to her, he was able to perceive her scent, a scent he knows all too well. Rusty smell that reeks off those damned Night howlers. He had been frozen in shock, not expecting to bump into a howler or even to be attracted to her. He was still cursing himself in his mind when he saw her going towards the exit and without thinking, followed her. There was no way he was letting her escape tonight especially now that he knows of her origin.
Since he can’t have her because of what she is, then there is no need for her to still be alive. He knew he would be breaking the treaty by killing an innocent howler, but then again, no one would know. Furthermore, it’s been a long time he had been in a fight and he would love to have one, except that she doesn’t look like she could survive a single strike from him. But that’s okay, he would be easy on her to let her live a little longer before killing her.
Getting outside the club, he saw her running down the streets and scoffed before giving a hot pursuit.
Aliyah kept running in the streets, she wanted to transform but she couldn’t do that with the humans walking around. She glanced behind her a number of times and she couldn’t see him but she knew he was chasing her because his scent was lingering around and her wolf was still reacting in that strange way to him. When she finally saw the woods coming up, she sighed in relieve and increased her pace, she knew the only reason he hasn’t caught up to her was probably because he was trying to avoid the human stares as well. Everyone knows that nightwalkers are pretty fast and there was no where she could outrun him with her human legs.As she ran, she wondered why he was chasing her in the first place, she didn’t cost him any trouble and the treaty clearly states that if there was no problem then there was no reason to attack. She had figured out what he was and had minded her business by leaving the club for him, what does he still want with her now? Immediately she approached the woods, s
Aliyah shut her eyes and raised her hand that had shifted into a paw again, ready to strike him once more in defense at how swiftly he came to her and how tightly he was holding her but he grabbed her paw before she could even lay damage on him this time. He glanced at her paw and then at her, “haven’t you figured out already that your little claws won’t do a damage on me?” he whispered in soft tone that messed with her mind and her body reacted violently to it. His voice was soft compared to the anger held in his words. She opened her eyes and saw that he was staring at her neck but rather than react in fear knowing that a nightwalker only stares at people’s neck when they want to feed on them, she was actually expecting the bite, wanting to feel his fangs on her.She gasped in shock, her eyes revealed her fear as she wondered what the man was doing to her. She has learnt about the compelling spells of the nightwalkers, how their beautiful face and sweet voice attracts their prey. Bu
“So, why didn’t you answer my call earlier?” a red haired girl licked her lips while pushing the boy softly to fall on the bed. She climbed on top of him and licked his face softly, “do you know how much I have been missing you?” her hand slowly went down his chest to his groin.Sean sighed and grabbed her hand to stop her, “Monica, please, I’m really not in the mood for this.”Monica looked up at him with a frown, “what is wrong Sean, first you refused to answer to my mating call, then you didn’t answer your phone. And now I’m here, you still don’t want to look at me.”“I’m sorry okay, I just have a lot in my mind right now,” he tucked a tendril of hair behind her ear and made her sit up on his lap while he sat up as well. “I just don’t know what is taking her so long. She should have been back by now.”“God, don’t tell me that this is about Aliyah again. Sean, I’m your mate, I’m the one you should be worried about not her!”“I know, I know, okay and I worry about you, I love you. Bu
Aliyah curled up on the ground wincing softly in pain. Turned out it was a hunter after her kind that left the trap because now there was poison in her wound. Only wolf hunters poison their traps so that it would stop them from healing fast and running away. She was already drained off strength and knew that if she doesn’t get home soon and have the poison detoxified, she will be too weak to fight off the hunter when he comes or even be dead, judging by how weak she was now.The drug’s effect had worn out a long time ago and she really wished she could go home but if she should shape shift with how weak she was, the poison would spread faster and if she doesn’t get treatment soon enough, she might die. So being in her human form helps to conserve a little energy to endure and wait for help to come. She tried using her mind link to reach home again but like it has been doing since, it bounced back, reason being because she was wounded and far from home. The mind link getting blocked wh
Edward ran home and refused to think of the stupid thing he did. Not only did he kill the human because of her, he also stayed and guarded her till she was claimed by her people. Is he growing soft or what? How could he seek revenge for a howler and also protect her? That was impossible. He hates them to the bones, he hates their ancestors. Although it has been so long and he hardly remembers most of the things that happened when he was human, he has still not forgotten the hatred that burns deep in his bones. So no matter the form they take, he hates them and he will always hate them. So why, why did he do what he did tonight?At first, she had hurt him and rather than kill her, he helped pried open the teeth of the trap for her. And as if that was not enough, he killed an innocent human because of her. No, he shook his head, he didn’t kill the human because of her; he killed the human because he was taking advantage of innocent women, that’s all. He only wanted to rid the humans of
Aliyah opened her eyes and groaned to the stinging pain that rushed from her leg throughout her body. “You are okay, you are okay,” she heard Sean whispered as he grabbed her hand. She tightened her hand on his and her eyelids slowly fluttered open. He smiled at her seeing she was awake. “How are you feeling?”“Like a lorry ran down on me,” she replied huskily.Sean chuckled. “Well, considered what you have been through, to a human, it must surely feel like they have been run down by a lorry.” Aliyah smiled and tried to sit up but Sean held her down, “not yet, you are still too weak.”“Come on Sean, what am I, a human?” she rolled her eyes and insisted on getting up but when she moved her leg, a sharp pain shot through her and she shivered in the pain. Sean rushed and held her, helping her to lie back down. “It was a dangerous poison right?” she hissed due to the pain.“Yes, but don’t worry, Catherine is doing her best to detoxify it. You will be good to go in no time.”Aliyah nodded
“Aliyah, come on, you are stronger than you know,” Sean said seeing the fear in her eyes that she was trying so hard to hide.Aliyah nodded. “I know, it’s just…,” she sighed.Sean smiled and kissed her forehead, “hey, don’t worry. I promise I will make it up to you later.”Aliyah glanced at him with a furrowed eyebrows, “make it up to me, how?”Sean winked and leaned closer to her ear. He whispered, “you know how. Maybe, when you are completely healed, both of us would go to the same human realm and club with them.”Aliyah’s eyes brightened immediately and she spanked his chest playfully, “bad boy.” Then she said with the mind link, ‘I can’t believe you want to take me back to the very same place I’m being punished for.’Sean grinned and replied, ‘you only get punished if you get caught,’ he winked.Aliyah shook her head while smiling, ‘ah Sean, why do I love you so.’He ruffled her hair with a light chuckle and then helped her out of the bed, “let’s get this over with, okay?” She nod
“She can’t take anymore,” Sean whispered when he saw how frail Aliyah was looking. He rushed to Alan immediately. “She can’t take anymore, Alpha,” he said to him.“Sean, step aside please. The punishment clearly said it would be two hundred whipping; now it is already one hundred and fifty. She only has to endure fifty more,” an Elder said to Sean.“But she can’t take anymore, look at her. For goodness sake, she hasn’t fully recovered from the Garuda poison and you are putting her through so much stress. She would die,” Sean said.“Beta Aton, please control you son,” another Elder said.Aton sighed, “Sean, rule is rule. She broke the rule, she would take the punishment.”“I am not against that, but can’t you tell when one has had enough? Look at her dad, one more whip and she would be done for.”“Sean,” Monica rushed and grabbed his hand immediately, “let’s go Sean,” she tried to pull him away but he pried his arm away from her.Sean stood, glaring at his alpha, “fine then, if you won