“This is called a car, but this is an S class, it’s model name is ‘Maybach,’ there are a lot of cars but different models and the better the model you choose, the higher the price,” Rasmus explained proudly to the nonchalant Edward that was standing in front of a sleek black Maybach. “I got this one for you because I know you would love it.”
Edward ran his slender fingers on the car, a little bit of interest revealed in his midnight blue eyes when he opened the door and saw the car interior and he could say he liked it more because of its dark color. “How is the speed?”
“Perfect,” Rasmus bragged.
“Can it go faster than me?” Edward asked as he sat behind the wheel.
“Well, we can only find out, my Prince.”
“How do you move it?” Edward asked, running his fingers on the wheel before turning it left and right. When nothing happened, he glanced at Rasmus with a raised eyebrow.
“First of all, you will start it,” Rasmus demonstrated by starting the car, “and you control the tires with this wheel. But before that, you will change your gear, R means reverse, D means drive, P means park and N means Neutral. The L1 and L2 means low gear, you can choose to set the gear on low and you will be able to use engine brake. But that’s not necessary because you won’t need it,” he shrugged. “Um…my Prince, if you can let me drive today and then tomorrow we can take lessons if you like it.”
“Why can’t I drive it now, you have shown me how it works.”
“It doesn’t work that way, at most, you will damage the car.”
“Then I will get another one.”
“Um,” Rasmus sighed, he was at lost for words but he definitely knew that the man cannot operate the machine without seeing him do it first. “I promise you, your highness, tomorrow or maybe later tonight, we can practice and then when you have learnt it, we will get a new one. Trust me, this machine is complicated and you will definitely not want to drive into the human town with a damaged car.”
Edward sighed, “fine, if it’s not faster than I am I won’t be needing it anyway,” he said getting out of the car for Rasmus to enter and he was in the passenger’s seat in a blink of an eye.
“Thank you, my Prince,” Rasmus said and put the car in motion. Throughout their ride into town, Edward paid more attention to the car than the tour he was giving him. At the end, they stopped in front of a mall to get him some clothes. As they climbed out of the car, all eyes were on them. They looked so striking and beautiful walking into the mall together: one black haired and one ginger haired, stealing the hearts of women without even trying.
“Do you want to go home now or do you want to go to a nice place the humans often hang out?” Rasmus asked when they got into the car again after their shopping. He didn’t want to talk about the man’s choice of clothing, everything he picked was black and he picked a lot of long coats with no single bright color other than gray, black, nude, beige and different shades of brown. He sighed, glancing at the man, noticing that he still looked dashing even with the dull colors. The man had refused to change from what he was wearing earlier, and he wondered if it would be nice to take him to a club with him wearing a long coat.
“What are we Rasmus?” Edward asked.
Rasmus smiled, “Nightwalkers.”
“And when do we move around?”
Rasmus chuckled, “at night,” he started the car and pulled out of the mall, “oh yes, the humans have a cooler name for us now. They call us vampires.”
“I see, and the Night Howlers?”
“They call them werewolves.”
Edward smiled, “interesting.”
***
“Please don’t tell me you are sneaking out again tonight,” Sean sighed, watching Aliyah who was making sure there was no one watching.
“Don’t be a grandma with dementia, you know I would,” Aliyah replied without looking at him.
“Have you ever wondered what would happen when your dad finds out?”
“At most, I would be caned, what else? Trust me, I can handle a few beating.”
“Aliyah, this is wrong, breaking the rules every night is wrong, and the worst is that you are dragging me into it. I don’t like this.”
Aliyah turned to him then, “what has come over you? You have been acting strange since morning.”
Sean scoffed, “listen, I can’t do this anymore, okay? As the future Beta of this pack, I should be protecting it, not indulging you in your recklessness.”
Aliyah stared at him dumbfounded, “what has come over you?” she repeated in the end.
“Nothing has come over me, I have just decided to uphold my duties and I am telling you that you are not going anywhere tonight.”
Aliyah scoffed, “try and stop me,” she hissed.
Sean sighed, “Ali, please, don’t make this difficult for the both of us.”
“Try and stop me Sean,” she repeated, her anger reeking from her body.
“Ali, don’t force me. I’m stronger than you.”
“I will like to see you try Sean,” she said, backing away towards the gate, “try and stop me.”
“Ali,” he sighed and ran his fingers through his hair in a frustrated manner, “listen, I won’t fight you okay, come on.”
Aliyah sighed, “I’m going to the human town.”
“What?” Sean was shocked, “no Ali, no, for goodness sake, how can you protect yourself should one of them figure out what you are? Come on, think, everyone knows the Nightwalkers mixes with them, what would you do when you bump into one or two, or even three?”
“Listen I can protect myself okay, I am not a weak wolf. I am the Alpha’s daughter, I know I will not be the alpha but some of the powers are passed down in me through birth. I’m not the average wolf females, you know that.”
Sean scratched his head in a frustrated manner, “for goodness sake Aliyah, go to any wolf clan but please, not the human realm. Nightwalkers feed on them and so they are mostly there, please, Aliyah, this is for your own good. Also, we both know that the punishment of going to human realm is quite dire. Why do you want to punish yourself like this?”
“You are not stopping me Sean, so you either take it or leave it.”
“You are not going to listen to me right?”
“I have gone to every neighboring clan Sean, maybe he is like me, maybe he is searching for me too or who knows, maybe he went to the human realm as well. Maybe we will meet each other there, you never can tell.”
“The only thing you are meeting there is nightwalkers, lots and lots of them. How good is your fighting skill?”
“Very good, you know that,” she smiled proudly. “Hey, I know you are worried about me, but don’t be, I will be in and out of their world before you know it. Trust me on this and if there is any Nightwalker, I will slit his throat before he could say a word.”
“Why don’t I trust you then?” Sean asked.
Aliyah chuckled, went up to him and kissed his cheek, “hey, I will be back before you know it and I promise you that I will come back unscathed.”
Sean sighed, “Ali…”
“Please Sean, please.”
Sean stared deep into her eyes and sighed in resignation, “please be careful.”
“I will, thank you,” she kissed his cheek once more and jumped over the fence before he could say another word. He scratched his hair, hoping his father won’t know of what just happened and left the place.
Aliyah hid behind a tree and undressed, tying up her clothes with a thread she often wears on her wrist. She dropped the tied up clothes in front of her and then shifted, the crackling of bones resounded around her as her body reset, taking the form of a snow white wolf with piercing blue eyes. She grabbed her cloth with her mouth and ran into the woods, keeping her mind blank so that her father won’t find her through the mind link.
When she approached the human town, she stopped and shifted back into her human form, putting on her clothes and walking out of the forest. She has been to the human realm only twice but she had gone those times with Sean and that was when he hasn’t found his mate and often joins her in her adventures with the hope of finding his mate as well. Now standing in the town, a wave of fear washed through her. She knew Sean was right, the Nightwalkers often dominates the human world at night, searching for a prey to feed on, she took a deep breath but there was no dead scent in the area and she knew she was safe for now.
The humans smell blank and the nightwalkers come with additional scent, like a dead plant or dead cell, it was how they always know when one was close by. Seeing that she was surrounded by only humans, she regained her cool and started walking through the streets. Sean had taken her to a club the first time they came there and if she wants to find an eligible wolf to make a mate, it would be best to start with the fun places since that is the only thing that would bring their kind to the human realm.
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
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