LOGINOn the other hand, Kaira was called by the Alpha. She came back from the hospital and got the message that the Alpha was calling her. After eating a snack, she changed into her casual clothes and came out of her house.
A very warm smile spread on her face watching the little pups playing games. They waved at her and smiled looking at her, she waved back. After walking for twenty minutes in this beautiful and peaceful territory. She stopped in front of the pack house. The house of the Alpha, his family, and some superior advisors of the Alpha. Kaira took a deep breath and knocked on the door. "Kaira, come in…" She heard the familiar voice. Kaira turned the doorknob and with a smile on her face, she opened the door, walked inside, crossed the doorway, and saw her father sitting in the lounge, Beta Lucas was sitting on the sofa working on some papers. She came and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Hello, Dad!" She greeted him. "My beautiful, good evening, how was your day?" Her father asked her with the same warm smile and grabbed her hands. Kaira came and sat beside him. "Dad, it was fine, because I am leaving the hospital in two days, Dr Timothy is not giving me much work." She told him the details. Beta Lucas nodded his head. "Hmm, next time when my daughter comes back to the pack. She will be a doctor. Kaira, I am so proud of you." Beta said and kissed the side of her head. She smiled. "Thank you, Dad, it is all because of your support. I love you, Dad!" She said in a polite tone. He hummed. "I will miss you, Kaira..." He said. Kaira saw the worry and sadness in his eyes. "Dad, I will miss you too, but please don't be sad. Your daughter can take care of herself." She assured him. "That I know..." Beta said and kissed her forehead. "Take care of yourself." He said. "Evil eyes off, I didn't want to interrupt this moment. But my young warrior and my daughter are here…" Kaira heard a voice from her back, she turned around to see Alpha Farris standing in the hallway. A proud look on his face. Kaira smiled, she got up and went towards him. She bowed to him. "Good evening, Alpha, I got your message." She said then looked at him. He smiled and Alpha Farris grabbed her hands in a fatherly manner. "I told you many times not to bow in front of me, you are my daughter and I know you respect me so much, it is not important.” He said. "Alpha, I know that, but I like to do it. You will always be my Alpha and my Mentor.” She said with such politeness and respect. “Haha, okay, come sit with me, I want to discuss something with you,” He said. She nodded her head. They both walked back towards the sofa and sat opposite each other. "Kaira, when will you leave for the city?” He asked. "In two days, Alpha, my classes have already started, but I wanted to complete my work here, so I stayed a little longer..." She said, Alpha nodded his head. “Kaira, I heard that you were looking for a hostel room?” He asked. A blush came upon her face. She nodded her head. “But, we have a Pack House there, you can go live there…” He said said. Kaira took a deep breath. “Alpha, Dad also advised me that, but I don’t want to disturb Luna or anyone else… And I want some personal space.” Kaira said. Alpha Farris thought about it for a second. "Kaira, I want you to be in the pack house. I have my reasons, it is for your safety. I am going to tell you the exact reason, and I want you to live closer to the pack members.” Alpha Farris said. Kaira looked into his eyes, there was something that they were worried about... "Okay, Alpha, I will not worry you or Dad, I will go live with Luna, don’t worry, and what is it that you both are hiding from me?” She questioned without any hesitation. Alpha Farris and Beta Lucas exchanged looks. “Kaira, we are going to tell you, listen carefully to what Alpha is saying...” Beta said. And she understood his stares. “Kaira, now you are going there, I know you will work hard and study well. But we have a favor to ask you…” Alpha Farris said, looking towards Beta Lucas. “Alpha, Dad, you both don’t have to request, you can order me.” She laughed. Alpha Farris told her what was going on and what she had to do… They both explained everything. At first, her expression went pale but then she thought about it. “Alpha, I will try my best…” She smiled. "Be careful, okay?" Beta Lucas said in worry. "Yes, Dad, don't worry." She smiled. “Don’t hesitate if you have to use force or if anyone tries to harm you. I am permitting you to break their jaw. I will handle all the matters afterward.” Alpha Farris said. She laughed. "Haha, okay…” She said, "And please kick some sense into my son's head. Look after him and I need details on everything he is doing, Kaira I know it is too much. But I know you always fulfill your responsibility." Alpha Farris had all the trust in her, she smiled and nodded. "I will try my best..." “Now, both of you please excuse me. I have to pack.” She said and got up. They both gave her permission to go. “Kaira, I have told Darren to pick you up from the airport. So, don’t worry.” Alpha Farris said. And she just didn’t retort that his son would never come to pick her up. And she didn’t want to see his face or go with him to the house. She could manage it by herself, that stupid boy would always be trouble for Kaira. She just nodded and walked out of the hall and then out of the pack house.Kaira had not slept in two days.She told herself it didn't matter, that sleep was a luxury the pack couldn't afford while an army gathered somewhere beyond the dead forest, closer now than it had been a week ago. But the truth, if she was honest with herself, was that sleep meant stillness, and stillness meant thinking about Darren standing on the training grounds, telling her he was done letting fear decide what he did about her.She had given him no answer.She still didn't have one.So she buried herself in the one thing that had never failed her — work, evidence, the patient unraveling of a mystery that refused to explain itself — and told herself that finding the truth about the enemy mattered more right now than finding the truth about her own heart.It was almost enough to believe.---She found the first real thread just after midnight, buried in a stack of border reports she had already read twice.A trade caravan, three years ago, had reported an ambush near the northern pa
Lucas was exactly where he'd promised to be, seated on the low stone wall outside the library doors, patient in a way that made Darren's chest ache with something close to gratitude. He rose the moment Darren stepped out into the morning light, his eyes moving quickly over him, searching for whatever damage the library might have left behind."You're pale," he said."I found what I came for." Darren's voice came out rougher than he intended.Lucas studied him a moment longer, then simply nodded, and started walking, matching his pace to Darren's without asking him to explain himself before he was ready. They walked in silence through the overgrown path, the pack grounds slowly coming back into view beyond the trees, and Darren found himself grateful, again, that Lucas had never once been a man who demanded answers faster than they could be given."It's not my wolf," Darren said finally, when the silence had stretched long enough to feel safe. "Whatever's been living inside me since I
The library stood at the edge of the old pack grounds, half-swallowed by ivy and centuries of silence, a building so old that most of the pack had forgotten it existed at all. Lucas led Darren through the overgrown path in the pale light of early morning, neither of them speaking, the weight of what waited inside pressing down on both of them long before they reached the doors.When they finally stopped before the entrance, Lucas turned to face him, his expression graver than Darren had seen it in years."This is as far as I can take you," he said.Darren frowned. "What do you mean?""This place does not open for everyone." Lucas placed a hand briefly on his shoulder, steady and warm despite the solemnity in his voice. "It has stood since before either of our families held this land, and it has always answered to one law only. Only the one who seeks the truth may cross that threshold. Not a guide. Not a companion. Not even someone who loves you enough to carry the weight for you, if i
The days after his wolf's slip of the tongue passed differently for Darren, though nothing about his schedule had changed. He still trained with the warriors each morning, still sat through his father's meetings, still walked the same corridors of the pack house he had walked his entire life. But everything felt heavier now, weighted with a suspicion he couldn't shake and didn't know how to voice, and he found himself watching his own reactions the way a stranger might watch them, waiting to catch himself doing something he hadn't chosen to do.It had started small. A flash of irritation during a training exercise that felt sharper than the moment warranted, gone almost as quickly as it came, leaving behind only the uneasy sense that it hadn't fully belonged to him. A flicker of something cruel crossing his mind when one of the younger warriors stumbled through a drill, a thought so unlike anything he wanted to think that he'd flinched away from it before it could take shape into word
Darren had noticed the way Kaira looked at him in the war room that morning, the split second before she caught herself and buried it under duty.He hadn't said anything.His wolf hadn't let him forget it either.---*Don't.*The word came sharp and sudden, cutting through Darren's thoughts before he'd even finished watching her leave the room."Don't what?"*Whatever you're thinking right now. Stop thinking it.*Darren frowned. His wolf had never bothered warning him away from a thought before — it usually pushed him toward the worst version of himself, not away from it. This was new. This felt deliberate in a way that unsettled him more than he wanted to admit."I wasn't thinking anything."*You were thinking about her.*He didn't answer that, which was answer enough.*She is not someone you get to want,* his wolf said, low and certain. *She is a distraction. A weakness. You have spent years building whatever strength you have left, and she will unmake it in a season if you let her
Kaira told herself it was exhaustion.That was the easiest explanation, the one she repeated to herself every time she caught her eyes lingering a second too long on Darren across the training grounds, or the war room, or the corridor outside his father's study. Exhaustion made people careless. Exhaustion made old feelings rise to the surface when there was no energy left to keep them buried.It had nothing to do with the way his voice had softened lately.It had nothing to do with the way he actually listened now, in meetings, instead of staring past everyone like the words weren't worth his attention.It had nothing to do with him at all.She told herself that every night, and every night it became a little harder to believe.---It hadn't always been complicated.There had been a summer, long before any of this, when Darren was simply the boy who waited for her outside the training hall because he liked walking home the long way, past the river, so he could throw stones and pretend
Kaira was relieved that she could now face Darren without any fear. A smile came upon her face as she thought about the shocking expression that was on that arrogant boy's face when she gave him a beat. It was all because of her continued training over the years. She was very intelligent, but now
Darren paced back and forth in his room, frustration and anger coursing through his veins. The news he had just received from his father left him in shock. He couldn't believe what he had heard. That girl is coming to live in their pack. Darren's mind raced with conflicting emotions. The thought
Not only Kaira, but everyone in the pack had suffered because of him. Darren had made life miserable for those around him. He was a bully—always looking for an excuse to start a fight, always ready to prove his dominance, and being the Alpha’s son gave him a sense of untouchable power, and he used i
In the hope of a new beginning, she hoped for something good, something that finally gave her peace. Kaira Moon wanted to start a new life, a new journey where she could live freely and happily, without the weight of responsibilities and expectations pressed down on her. It was not her age to carr







