LOGINlpha Chester's POV My chest was hurting badly. I could hardly even breathe. No, it wasn't the injury. That was mostly healed now. But it was the desolation that came with knowing I caused my mate's pain. Again. Her screams of terror kept echoing in my head, I could feel her heart beat as if it was inside me. That wasn't even the worst pain. The pain I felt knowing she absolutely hated it here and hated me for keeping her here was terrible. I knew what I had to do yet I couldn't do it. Yes, I was selfish. Yes, I was afraid of living the way I had the past decades. Yes, I wanted my mate by my side. I shut my eyes and dived down the cliff, into the blue-green waters below. There was a grotto waterfall close to the fortress I was always took a swim at. I hadn't been here since I came with Icelyn and was going to show her this place after her first assessment test. But I was here alone. “You know you can still catch a cold even as Alpha, don't you?” I heard the keeper's voice outside
Icelyn's POV Somewhere no one would look? Somewhere I specifically will not look?I could recall the Alpha had said we were only going to train around the marked perimeter and was blabbing on about territories and safety. I didn't really pay attention that night as I was half dozing. But if he expected me to have heard him that night, and to believe that he would take his word for it. Then he might have hidden the artefacts outside of the marked territory. No, really. No one would suspect he would go outside his territory to hide stuff. What if it got stolen since that place wasn't under his watch? People would think he would hide stuff under his nose where he could watch them. Well, not today. I wouldn't think that. “I think he has hidden them in the mountains,” I boldly declared, proud of myself. Now, how to search those mountains? I definitely couldn't scale them and I doubt he'd hide artefacts on top knowing I couldn't get there. ‘Wasn’t that the point?’ Oh he better not h
Alpha Chester's POV Something happened while I had my eyes closed. I was meditating, breathing in the icy air from the mountains around us and listening to the rustle of the leaves as they moved to the direction of the wind. When I saw her. She was right there in the fields with me, though I had never been here with her. She was wearing her signature colours. Black. She said she loved it even before it reminded her of me. She wore a headband around her straight dyed black hair and in her hand was a gun. I couldn't believe my eyes. She had never come to me all these years. So many times, so many nights, so many days I cried and begged her to at least show herself so I wouldn't lose memory of what she looked like, felt like. Yet she never came. She turned her back once and turned it forever. And yet here she was. Twenty years down the line after I had finally moved on from her and was on my way to finding fulfilment again. “Rave,” she called, her voice deep and cranky. Her voice
Icelyn's POV I couldn't understand my body's reaction to him. It was like it had a mind of its own. There were so many times I literally craved the Alpha like he was my favourite meal. Back at the pack house, I would wake up in the middle of the night and curl on my side, grabbing tight unto a pillow and sometimes even screaming into it just to forget how my entire body was crying for his touch. Just one touch. A slight touch. Heck, just his scent would do me good. He smelled so good, like pineapple. Did he know he smelled like pineapple? Or was I the only one who could smell it. Was I weird?Right now, those cravings I usually had for the Alpha's presence intensified. I couldn't control the way I wanted him to touch me more. To hold me longer. To dip lower than just my neck and collarbones. Some parts of my body were weirdly calling out for him. Would be touch me there? Should I let him touch me there?I groaned and rubbed myself against him as he sucked the space between my collar
Alpha Chester's POV I returned from the woods with fresh kill ready to make some meat broth. Some hot soup would help her feel better and stronger. I was a little scared that she wouldn't wake up until three days later as is her custom. But I was so glad when I returned and saw her talking with the keeper. I took in a deep breath and approached them. “You awoke,” I said and laid my kill over the table. The keeper scurried to take it and clean it up. Icelyn looked at the venison with a wild expression. “What...what...” I looked at the venison and wondered what was making her look so shocked. Then I remember my mate grew up in isolation. Not everyone who even grew up free had the privilege of seeing stuff like that. Except in our worl and that was a very different case as we were taught basic hunting from childhood.Icelyn screamed and jerked as the keeper lifted the kill by its hind limb, its bloody head dangling from the floor. I sped to her side, grabbed her and turned her the
Icelyn's POV The cold wind slapping across my face as Alpha Chester sped through the night with me was exhilarating. I loved it so much I couldn't stop screaming into the night. I held on tight with both my arms and legs wrapped around him and I let myself enjoy the moment. Sure, a few thoughts of reasoning tried to sneak into my mind. What if he's taking you where he's gonna kill you? We were in the woods now and it was quite dense but he managed to dodge every tree, every branch, every rock. Nothing touched me but air. If he was gonna kill me. Then this was a good way to die. I held him tighter and lifted my chin so the air could hit my face better. I laughed with all my soul. This had to be better than a rollercoaster. I didn't even want to try rollercoasters anymore. This was better. He finally slowed and reached a stop. I was breathing so hard and my arms were shaking from all that tight grabbing. He was breathing just as hard as he slowly let me down to my feet. I stagge
Icelyn's POVMy entire body hurt as I stirred on a bed and tried moving my neck. Everything hurt, including my eyes as I tried prying them open. Thankfully, the room was not too bright so I managed to squint a little. If it was too bright, I'm afraid I would have left them closed considering my rel
Icelyn's POV“Tell me more about this rejection thingy,” I requested and edged closer, my chicken soup still warm in my hands.Rosa exhaled and cleared her throat.“We are a people with two phases to our soul. We can appear human-like, but we are, in fact, wolf shifters. Meaning we have wolves with
Icelyn’s POV My throat felt extremely heavy by the time I woke up. It was like I drank lava and it had cooled down along my throat. I opened my eyes and looked around the ceiling. An unfamiliar one this time. How many times have I woken up like this since I arrived this place? I was losing count
Icelyn's POVRosa had spent the rest of the day telling me a thousand and one reasons nobody liked Lady Azul in the Pack House. She was bossy, acted like she owned the place, downgrading and too egoistic. She wasn't even 'that' pretty. “From what I've heard, she had her face done in the human worl







