Oliver tried to keep a stoic face as usual when he entered the school premises.
He had not wanted to come to school; it had only been a day since the incident happened with Mr. Elvis in class.On top of that, it was also a day before he felt Scarlett, and he was afraid she needed his help. He had tried to make his parents see that yesterday, but it seemed it was all for naught.However, his parents had forced him to go, his mother especially. She wanted him to act normal, go to school and behave like a normal 18-year-old teenager.He had tried to tell her it was not that simple, but she never paid much attention to that.His father has calmed him and his mother down and had informed Oliver that he had no choice about it, so long as he was undertheir roof. That was what made him agree to go to school, although he had to tamp down on the rebellious part of him who was angry at being forced to play a role that he was not fit for in the world.Therefore, as he entered the school that morning, he gave harsh glares to anyone who even dared look his way.He was definitely not in a good mood to act normal. Right, he scoffed internally. I’m being a normal teenager now, he thought.He felt a hand grab his arm as he walked down the school hallway, and he turned to see Eleanor smiling at him. As soon as he met her eyes, she fluttered her lashes at him, giving him a soft smile.“Hello, baby,” she leaned in to kiss his lips, but he abruptly turned slightly away from her, and her lips met his cheek instead.Oliver felt awkward, and his action to turn his face away from her made the situation even more awkward.There was a brief silence, and his girlfriend stopped walking, tightening her grip on his arm to make him stop walking as well.“What happened, Oliver?” she asked, her doe eyes looking a bit more glossy now. Great, he thought. He had made her upset.He gave a short, sharp, and definitely fake laugh, shaking his head at the expression on her face.“It’s nothing,” he responded and met her eyes. “I’ve just had a lot on my mind these days.” And he wasn’t lying about that. His mind now was on school and Scarlett.Scarlett, who he needed to make sure was alright. But back to his needy girlfriend, of course. He gave her another smile, trying to look a little less tense and awkward with her. “I have just been thinking about a lot of things. Family stuff,” he finished.She nodded, her expression moving from hurt girlfriend to one of understanding.“It’s fine, baby,” she patted his arm, “I understand completely.” Oliver could sense the lie in her words, and the way she smiled as if a needle had been stuck in her throat told him that it was not going to be as easy as he wanted it to be.Still, he remembered the vision of his best friend and his girlfriend. And that caused a shiver to run through him and down his spine as the duo made their way to their class. Taylor saw the supposedly happy couple as they walked in through the doors, and gave them a wave. Oliver only gave a wan smile to his friend, while Eleanor waved enthusiastically. Oliver fought not to roll his eyes at her antics, and tried to firmly push the vision out of his mind.She is your girlfriend, Oliver, he began to tell himself in that ‘no excuses’ tone that his father often got. Whatever the vision maybe, she is your girlfriend.Still, he could not help but sit just a bit farther from her with the excuse of ‘It’s closer to the board’ leaving his lips so quickly like he had planned it, instead of it being a spur-of-the-moment decision.His mind was full of a lot of things. Things that he did not want to think about.Then there was Scarlett.Oliver sighed, playing with his pen and lookingdown at his doodles on the margin of his notebook.As soon as school closed for the day, he got up with his book bag already packed and practically ran out of class.He did not speak to Taylor or Eleanor, who stared at him with gaping mouths and wide eyes as he exited the class.Oliver managed to get home in record time, his anxiety through the roof as he entered through the front door. Luckily, his father was right in the living room, and he called out to Oliver as soon as he spotted his son.“Dad,” Oliver greeted back, walking into the living room. He noticed that his mother wasn’t there, and with a questioning look on his face, his father told him that his mother had gone to the grocery shop.“Oh, alright then,” Oliver responded. He was a bit glad that she wasn’t there anyway, especially with the way that she had reacted when he mentioned Scarlett the day before. “Dad, I wanted to ask you if you have been able to reach out to Scarlett.”His father looked shocked a bit at the question, but composed himself quickly before nodding,“Yes, I spoke with Scarlett and Elder Quinn previously. They are both well,” he finished.Oliver heaved a huge sigh of relief at the news, and nodded, a smile now beginning to form on his face.“That’s okay then. Thanks, dad.”With that, the 18-year-old left the living room and moved up to his room to freshen up. He, however, was unable to spot how his father’s eyes had tightened as he told his son the lie.Oliver went on with the rest of his day, unbeknownst to him, his father was still trying and failing to reach out to Elder Quinn and his daughter, Scarlett.Chapter 92Meera could not believe what was happening in front of her. She had been watching the little play that she found amusing, she had to give it to them that the wolves indeed had a flair for the dramatic. The way they were all standing and looking like they had just received the biggest shock of their lives amused her to no end. It was almost as if they still thought they would be able to save her and even if they thought they did, it was just something that made her laugh even more. Scarlett had been destined for death the moment she had been captured by Meera and she had been smiling just a few minutes ago at the amount of pain that she was causing the wolves to feel.Then the Oliver boy had done something, she felt the thrum of magic from him and her heart lurched as she realized that she had made a very big mistake. She thought Scarlett was one of a kind, the only wolf with a special ability and even though she had been seeing Oliver around he even tried to attack her beca
The head of hades saw that they were indeed taking their time to consider what their options might be. He was here, waiting, while they discussed if he was trustworthy or not. He felt he had made the right choice by changing his appearance, if he had appeared to them as his normal self then they would have never even looked at him twice talking less of considering what he was proposing. He got the feeling that they were also the recipients of one of Meera's bad actions, from what he heard she had kidnapped the daughter of these wolves and that was something that he did not understand. Why would Meera be interested in the daughter of some wolves, it must mean that there was something else that he was not seeing here. There must be something about the girl that Meera felt interesting, and to be sincere, he only knew one thing that would make Meera even stress herself to abduct the daughter of two alpha wolves.There was something different about these wolves though, the boy that was st
Scarlett woke up to find Meera staring at her. Eleanor was not in the room and she didn't even realize that she had been so tired. The ordeal she has passed through these past few days made her feel like she was made of concrete and everywhere ached in her. She wasn't even sure what was what anymore, her leg felt numb, and the fact that she didn't sense Meera's presence when she came back in meant that she was also tired mentally too. She felt even more exhausted after the small chat she had with Oliver and the fact that she slept on the floor wasn't helping either, and now she had to deal with Meera looking at her like she was some unsatisfactory product.Meera already knew what she was there for. She had come to pacify Eleanor a bit and the little witch had asked for some permission to go out. She wanted to go to a mall. Meera sent her out with two guards, she was the ruler of the court of hades now so she had them at her beck and call, and she hoped that Eleanor would take an inter
Scarlett had just heard something that she considered unbelievable. She was sure that something was off because Meera just called herself someone's grandmother. She had actually been thinking that Meera was Eleanor's mother, all the acts of love and the fact that Meera looked so young, too young to be anyone's grandmother if she was being sincere, she could see that something might have happened at the court they went to. Eleanor seemed impatient for the power that she was promised to her and Meera also looked like she had a major headache and she didn't have the time to tolerate whatever insolence Eleanor might want to display.She also made a very shocking revelation right now, she was a grandmother but yet she looked like someone in her early thirties, a very young face and aura emanated off her and Scarlett could tell that wasn't normal. It was something to make yourself look young but Scarlett doubted that was what Meera was doing.She must have stolen someone's body. Meera was a
At the moment some issues were transpiring in the pack house. Jay and Skyler seemed to have gotten into a big fight and they were busy arguing with one another.Jay kept on insisting that Skyler return to the city to oversee the affairs of the huge pack house and businesses they had there. It would be unreasonable for the both of them to abandon the affairs of the pack for so long, but Skyler was adamant. She swore never to return until she saw her daughter again. She could not even believe that Jay was asking her to abandon the whole matter and go back to the city. She knew that what Jay was saying would be the right thing to do, the pack was as much as a family would ever be to them. They were the leaders of the pack and they needed to be there for the pack but she was not going to abandon her family again.While they were in the midst of their arguments, Oliver ran to them panting. He had left the room for some fresh breath earlier and now this."What is the matter?" both Jay and S
The rest of the pack including Ian finally arrived at the pack house, the heavy atmosphere that they carried along with them was evident in the way they all sat with their head bowed and lost in thought.Oliver could not believe what had just happened, he felt guilty for thinking that Meera wasn't a threat and that Scarlett would be safe no matter what happened, to him, all that was going on wasn't just fair. First Scarlet got tortured in front of them and she gets taken to heaven knows where after that. He felt they should have attacked Meera all at a go the minute that she dared to work her foul magic on Scarlett and that was something that he resented not doing.Leia sensing his anger tried to touch him so he could calm down but he yanked his hand away and went to a corner of the room and he started pacing."Are you really going to act like this?" Leia asked, looking at him and for the first time, she saw anger in Oliver's eyes. It was not like she hadn't seen him angry before, jus