“How are you feeling?” I asked, concerned about Ari’s health as I watched her struggle to sit up as she had rejected my offer of assistance.“What do you think,” she grunted out, “I know I said not to help me but for God sake do help me.” She muttered as I quickly rushed to help her.The moment George brought me back to the pack house, I rushed to find Silver pack clinic because that was the only place Ari could be. Her injury wasn’t only on her arm but on her torso; she fractured her rib and it was more serious than I thought, kind of surprising I didn’t notice it immediately.It has been two days since the whole escapade and I didn’t dare leave my room unless I wanted to visit Ari, I haven’t seen Asher since that day and I hope it stays that way.“Damn, this hurts way more than I expected it to.” Ari glanced at me with drooping eyes as she adjusted herself more comfortably.I smiled at her, “Well, I dare to say I understand your pain.” I raised my bandaged hand as proof of my unders
It was pointless.Ari said nothing to me, she ran out immediately. I confirmed we were attacked by warlocks; probably to go find Asher. I sighed as I walked through the woods. I was beginning to like the open air here more than I expected.I couldn’t stop pondering hard about what the whole warlock thing was about and why no one was willing to mention it. It wasn’t a secret that the Silver pack was in chaos for three years, but what exactly happened during those three years nobody aside from them knew.“Hey.” A silent whisper came from behind and I spun around to take a look; I came face to face with Silver pack’s beta; George. We were standing too close and if I moved my head a little, I would kiss his neck.Although I knew we were standing too close, I didn’t move back for reasons best known to my hormones; perhaps I enjoyed the close proximity.“What brought you to the woods?” His breath fanned my
expected the time I spent in George’s place to be brief and quick, but it wasn’t. He had somehow cooked a large dish giving off delicious scents.“Eat while it’s hot,” he instructed as he headed back to the kitchen to dispose of his apron. Might I add that he looked hot in it and I didn’t want him to take it off.“I hope this tastes as good as it smells,” I couldn’t help but add as he reached to fill my plate for me.George smiled wryly, “It does, which is fortunate because it rarely is.”“Rarely? This tastes heavenly,” I couldn’t help but say after tasting the crab dipped in soy sauce, “this is just so good, I may be stopping by for more than just a cup of coffee next time.”“Even better, I’ll get to hone my skills to perfection.” George said, his voice tingling with excitement of some sort.I smiled at him, “I can’t picture you with the guy Ari described you as right now, like the George she described is not in any way close to the George in front of me.”“How so?” George asked, “D
Ari kept her gaze on the ground as she retold what happened four years ago, her hands clammed together; most likely sweaty from all the friction too.“The relationship between the Silver pack and warlocks has never been good, we have been jilted out of something important and the relationship grew sour,” She looked at me. “Although the relationship had yet to become one where we will be brandishing claws and ushering spells, but it was still okay, everything went sore four years ago.”Four years ago? That was the year before the Silver Pack stayed away from the public eye, their territory completely sealed off from everyone else.“At that time, everyone was happy and in a good mode because our Luna, Melody, was near her due date and it was also the Ort season. You know what Ort season is right.”I tried to show an at ease smile while I replied but it wasn’t coming fort. “Isn’t that something that only happens in the western packs?”She nodded, “Yeah, it comes every ten years and we us
The hair at the back of my neck stood as I got up to have a clearer view of my surroundings, the air was damp and the water dripping quietly from the ceiling at a corner was all the evidence I needed to confirm that this was underground; an underground prison. There was no furniture in sight except the iron table smelted into the ground that held different sizes of what I could assume were torture tools. Most of the ground was covered in dried blood, my face scrunched in disgust from the mere thought of how I laid on the ground before. I looked at Mr. Prisoner, he sat comfortable on the dirty floor like it was home and didn’t care about the rat in the corner eating from his food; stale food. “You led me here on purpose?” I didn’t want to stay here any longer. My eyes kept looking at the back of the cell where his make-shift toilet was. “I should have done it earlier but it looks like you have been busy,” he still had a smile on his face despite his embarrassing situation. “No
I can’t believe I swooned over a man I didn’t know. Remembering how the one I swooned over and called mate turned out differently, I kept my enthusiasm to myself.Dave’s face changed upon seeing him, “I guess my story ends here for now, Emily.” His gawp on me intensified, “Do stop bye again… unfailingly.”“You shouldn’t have led her to this place,” the exotic man who just walked in spoke.Dave shook his head, “Then you should have made a better circle of enchantment,” his hands gestured to the ground and that’s when I noticed the washed off drawing on it. “You could do better than this, Ray.”“You still haven’t answered my question,” I watched as he redrew into the darkest corner of the room after dropping his piece to Ray and didn’t bother answering my question.At this point, I was already on my feet out of annoyance for ignoring me, “Hey, don’t act like you can’t hear me, you kept hovering over me relentlessly, so why are you quiet now?!”I reached for his cell gate when I felt a h
I sat on my bed and stared at the wooden floor as sunlight gleamed through the open curtain. I was preoccupied with the thoughts of the missing necklace and who could have entered the room without my permission. Although I was just a guest here, this room was mine for the meantime.While I was preoccupied with the thoughts of who could come in here whenever they liked, someone walked into the room without knocking and I raised my eyebrows as Ari walked into the room with a smile on her face.Someone who could come in here whenever they liked? I shook my head to avoid sowing seeds of distrust in my head. I returned her smile with an even brighter one.“So you were here,” her voice was energetic, as if she wasn’t the one with me the previous night. “I didn’t see you when I woke up.”“I decided not to disturb your sleep and came back alone.” It was half the truth. I suppose.“How did you find your way back?” Ari’s eyes fixated on mine. I averted her gaze. Do I tell her that Ray sent a pa
Asher finally got to where I was and my heart was beating rapidly as he stood in front of me with his hands in his pocket, he began to talk in an uninterested tone, “ I found someone who could help us out of this situation. We’ll be going to visit a shaman who will know what to do about it.”“What do you mean?” I was absolutely confused at what he was saying.“Alpha,” he corrected me with wrinkled brows, “You refer to me properly.”He went on, “The thing between us shouldn’t have happened, I believe I told you before.”Oh. My heart tingled, I had completely forgotten the words he said to me for the first time in his study without even a smile on his cold face. “I see.”To be honest, I was completely disinterested in what he had to say as all my attention was talking to Ray at the moment.“We are leaving at sunset. It’s hard to meet the shaman, so we shouldn’t miss this opportunity. Be ready when I send for you.” The command slid off his tongue like he was accustomed to it. I wanted to