LOGIN~ASHFORD~ “Step out of the car! Put your hands where I can see them!”“Shit! Shit! Shit!” I walked out of the car. I had just hit the car in front of mine. The impact from the hit pushed me hard against the steering wheel. I panicked, wondering what it did to the affected car.I raised my hands up. My panic surged. Did I just kill someone? Oh fuck! I should not have gotten into the car! I shouldn't have had the drink.Immediately the cop's eyes landed on me, his strict demeanor changed. His sterness reduced.“Sir,” he said with a bow even though he was way older than me. I ignored his overcompensating attitude and rushed to the car. I needed to see that the person was alright. I had to make sure I did not hurt anyone. I could not live with myself if I hurt someone.I knocked on the door of the car, the windows were tinted so I couldn't see through. The back of the car where I had hit was pretty much destroyed so I worried that the person inside would be unconscious, given that they
EPISODE 88: THE FIGHT FOR HAILEY.~ASHFORD~The first time I met Dario Valdriss I was five. My father owed him money. My father could not pay. My father, the town's drunk. The wife beater. The malodorous bully. There was no way that he would have been able to pay the huge amount of money he owed Alpha Dario. Dario knew this when he “lend” the money to my father.Alpha Dario had no intention of getting the money back. He wanted something different: me.This was a long time ago. A few decades away. Dario's most trusted soldiers, his right hand man Ryan Cooley had just betrayed him. Ryan set up an entire army, which consisted of Dario's own soldiers.Ryan's army (which was formerly Dario's army) had one mission: kill Alpha Dario so that his second-in-command (Ryan Cooley) would be the next Alpha.The attack was brutal. Everybody at the palace claimed that they saw Dario in flames. They saw him burn but somehow he survived. Somehow he came out of the attack unscathed, ready for revenge.A
~HAZEL~“What is going on here?!” Father. He is here. Hailey looks away from him. I am supposed to. I should stare at the ground in reverence of the Alpha but I couldn't bring myself to do that. I do not respect this…man.“It is m… Luna Valencia. She's hurt,” I said, staring at my father who gave me off to a stranger so easily. The tears fell from my eyes, behind the lace.If he noticed my insolence, he did not seem to care. He rushed into the room. We all followed, tradition was thrown.Shivers ran through my spine when my eyes fell on the sight of mom. She was chained to the bed like an animal. She looked thin and pale and unhealthy.She looked as white as death.I cried. Not even caring to mask my whimpers. Nobody seemed to care anyway, they were all focused on reviving her.“Call the doctor!” The man that I used to call father yelled.“Valencia! Valencia! Please don't do this to me! Please wake up!” He yelled in fear as he tried to resuscitate her. Have you ever had that feeling
~HAZEL~I had a tray balanced in my hand, followed closely behind Hailey who expertly weaved through the many doors and crevices of the last floor to get to the elevator.She stopped a lot of times to greet some of the other workers around. They all seemed really close to her. They all seemed to love her a lot. Even the one that looked stern, the one that had not been smiling, cracked up a huge smile immediately he set his eyes on Hailey.She floated through the downstairs building like a light with a big smile and appealing politeness plastered on her face.However, that smile faded immediately we got to the front of the elevator that would lead to the royal floor.“Listen to me,” Hailey said sternly.“Whatever happens at the royal floor stays at the royal floor. If you see something sketchy happening don't say anything if you want to keep your life.”Hailey reached for my hand. She let out a small empathetic smile.“I know this job is hard but I promise, I will protect you as best a
~HAZEL~“Mom is here!”“She's alright! She's here!”“Wait, why did she not bother to look for me?” “In her last text to me, she said she knows where Zander is. She said she was going to save him. Is he here too? Are they all together: mom, dad, Zander and Nick? Did they all decide that I was too much trouble. That they did not want me in their lives anymore? Was that why father sold me to Ashford as easily as he did?Are they trying to start a new family without me?The thought of that crashed my spirit greatly. I have never felt like I belong here. I don't know how best to explain it but even though my father, Alpha Dario Valdriss, is obviously my father, I have never actually felt like his child.I feel more connected to Valencia and She's not even my biological mother.It has always been very confusing for me.Madam Rosa studied me with a scowl on her face. This immediately Jerked me back to the present.“Have you gone mute little girl?!” She snapped at me. Oh shit! I must have mi
~HAZEL~“I cannot go in!” My breath came out in struggled wheezes. I placed my hands on my chest. It felt like it was closing in on its. It felt like everything was closing in on me. Like I was in a tiny hallway and the walls were moving in closer, threatening to close in on me.“I'm so. I'm so sorry,” I cried. The panic attacks increased.“I cannot even do my part. I have failed without even trying,” my chest burned. I did not expect the next thing that happened. I expected some sort of adverse reaction from Ashford not a hug.“Shhh, it's alright,” he hugged me. I hid my face in his cologned shirt. For some reason, breathing him in started to calm me down in ways that I did not know it would.I hugged him closer. He stood there, as stiff as a board. His hands stayed by his sides, he did not hug me back but he did not move away either.We stayed like that for a while. I focused on my breath. Focused on breathing him in until I started to feel a little bit better, then I pulled away fr
~VALENCIA “Please don't,” I said and struggled to sit up. Sheila paused with the syringe still in her hand. She turned to me with a smile playing on her lips.“You never leave, do you?” She said with a sinister smile.“No matter what I do you just keep on coming back like a sleezy rats.” She did n
ZANDER She is not that easy to miss. It is like her eyes follows me everywhere and I thought I would be able to escape it since this is not school, since this is the weekend, and we are at a random party that we probably shouldn't be in.I am not allowed to leave the palace, I know this but I stil
VALENCIAThe tension around us could be cut with a knife. I froze in my steps. My hands stayed stiffly by my sides as my mind worked through the horrible things that would follow regardless of the decision I make.I cannot leave Zander out there. I don't even know if he is safe. My poor baby could
-KIARA- There are many things that remain unexplained no matter how hard I try. There's the thing with my mom which I am doing my best not to think about. There is the thing about me keeping her secret even though I should be well on my way telling it all to dad. He does not deserve this. My fat







