LOGIN“Is that all you can do?” A squeaky but not-so-sweet voice halted me from throwing more punches.The thought of my father and his hideous attitude and actions evaporated from my thoughts. I pivoted to the voice’s owner. He’s one of the pups that are still gawking at me. “Excuse me?” I breathed. I was panting, actually. I'm on the last day of my monthly bleeding and I'm doing exercises out here in the middle of snowy grounds and chilled air. The floor's concrete and solid beneath my feet, but it didn't help the fact that it's crusted with frost.Even when the magic of belonging to a pack makes you immune to the cold and such, I can still feel the cold deep in my bones, deep in my soul, just by looking at them. “You’re the Luna but it took you a dozen punches or so to knock down a scarecrow made of hay?!” said the other one. “Perhaps you should work on that, Luna.”I think these little ones are colder than any winter breeze. I marked the subtle disple
Even I gasped at my mate’s cold question. In fact, I'm the only one who gasped in the entire room. Beta Fionn and the other guards remained stoic as if seeing my mate bestow punishment was just a normal thing for them to witness.My father’s breath became an icy mist of sight to behold. “Your Majesty, please!” His pleading voice was strange to my ears. I never heard the great Alpha of the Moonflame Pack ever beg, not so much as plead. My mate shook his head. His silver hair, like strands of iridescent moonlight, swayed when a cool wind passed by. “Answer.” My father’s throat bobbed. “My head. I choose my head. “Ah,” Kallias chuckled. “So you value your life before your pride, after all.” He glanced at me, but there was no trace of my mate in his glowing golden eyes. Only the Alpha King that the entire country feared. Only the Alpha King who declared eternal winter when he could have chosen spring, like the father and Alpha King before hi
“Alpha Marcus is coming...here?” I didn’t dare address him as father.Geneva groaned. “His sudden interest in coming to the Nightblood Pack without prior asking for permission is not a good thing.”“You can convince your mate to just dispose of your father, you know. Give an example to other Alphas on what happens if he ever dares to hurt his mate or anyone he cares for,” Beta Caesar suggested.I shook my head. “Answering violence with a violent threat from a violent person does not need to be questioned. That’s absurd and not my kind of personality!” I hissed.Both of my friends chose to not speak for the rest of our breakfast. It was...kind of awkward, but they respected my silence and need for being silent. They talk to each other about the Blackwind Pack and the hot Betas. Geneva obviously made sure I heard how Alpha Vance, my mate’s right-hand Beta who he now appointed as the new Alpha of the Blackwind Pack since Kallias’ takeover and the former Alpha’s running away and inciting
I woke up to the scent of lavender and jasmine beside me. I blinked. There's only one person who smells like that. I’m now on the bed, arms and legs sprawled and hair untangled. I remember falling asleep last night on the chair beside the fireplace... “Rough night?” Kallias wiggled my nose with his two fingers. I yawned. “Just another horrible memory.” My mate sighed in despair. I blew out a breath in response. “I told you to forget your family and their abusive acts.” “You know it’s not that easy, Kal. I can be happy with you and with the Nightblood Pack, yet there are still times I’ll remember and look back on my past once in a while.” “Times like this?” he waved a hand to my womb, my period now flowing smoothly. Thank the Moon Goddess, my womb has not warred against me again. “Times like this.”He twirled a couple of strands of my hair around his finger. “I’ve also carried you to our bed because you
My period came the night later, the same day Kal gave me a lesson about traitors.Blood relentlessly poured out of me and into the makeshift pads that Farra helped me wear, made from cut-out fabrics. My womb hurts, obviously, as if I haven’t had my periods for months when in fact I have them regularly.Good thing my mate instructed the Healers to give me tea that will calm it down and relax my body.I just changed my third set of clothes of the day due to the immense sweat I was experiencing on the first day of my period when my loyal Omega servant entered the infirmary suite. “Thank you, Farra,” I murmured as the Omega set down the teacups and the teapot just beside the table where Kal and I had dined last night. The snow is falling tonight, the moon a waning figure in the night sky. I had my dinner alone since Kal is away in the Blackwind Pack again for pack matters. Finally, I was able to move my left hand. I realized it earlier in the afternoon. My wolf’s h
“Traitor.” That was the first word I heard from Kallias the next morning. He was lying beside me, his head propped with one hand as we faced each other side by side.“You crawled into bed without me!” I snickered. “It only took me to go to sleep for half an hour after we ate at midnight. It took you more than an hour to fall asleep thanks to that book of yours.” I crossed my arms. Kallias kissed my grumpy face. “Rise, my winter sunshine. Let’s both take our morning bath.” “Both?” I gulped. And then it occurred to me: it will be the first time Kal and I share a proper bath. The lovely encounter we shared in those steamy hot springs flashed before my eyes as if in warning, as if in motivation. “But I still want to be in bed with you—” My mate hauled me from the bed by lifting me to my hips and set me down on the floor without breaking a sweat. I can’t believe it with my own eyes. “You’re...you’re fine now? Your wound







