Jay cursed his luck.He was in the woods again, having decided to take the trail path through the forest and see whether or not he could find someone - anyone - who would know where his daughter, Scarlett was.Now, it was evening, and he was trying to make a fire using the firewood he had gotten. Luckily, it was summer season and there had been no rain for the past three days, so he could find dry wood to use as kindling.However, he was trying to recall the last time he had made a fire like this, which had not been for a very long time. In fact, with Jay being a wealthy Alpha, he had barely utilized any survival skills in his time, especially since he had built his family with Skyler, and had to take care of Oliver and Scarlett.He tried once again, rubbing the sticks together and bemoaning the loss of his lighter. How had he not remembered to bring it? It was just his luck, then, that after a few minutes of trying, he was able to produce a small spark, which he fanned generously unt
Things were really getting out of hand.Jay sighed, not for the first time, as he shifted from foot to foot. He was now tending to the fires that were slowly dying, trying to keep it up for much longer as the nighttime was all around him. With the sunset, had come the loss of warmth, and also the sounds of the forest waking up.The weary Alpha, still searching for his missing daughter, put more kindling into the fire, feeding it and tending to it. He needed to make the kindling last until the next hours as he rested for a bit, and before then, this fire could not under any circumstance, go off.Once he was fairly certain that the fire was not going to be dying anytime soon, Jay sat back on the log of wood he had been occupying for the past few hours.The sounds of crickets chirping and the nocturnal animals waking up caused Jay to mutter under his breath.He never had been very comfortable with staying out in the woods in this way, and he tried to avoid it at all costs before. Now, ho
Meera was trapped, and she hated it, loathed it with every fiber of her being. The anger in her body flowed off her in waves as she watched the Elders of the Sacred Court of Hades surround her, and stood upon the podium as if she was on trial.How had things gone so damn wrong in the blink of an eye? How had the one thing that stood between Meera and that she-wolf caused such a commotion, and brought chaos to her plans in such a way?Her mind whirled as she flowers at the faces of the Elders, thinking about what had happened in the past hour.The battle right at the gate had been fierce and had used up more of her magic reserves than she had ever expected. In fact, it had been one of the worst fights that the witch had been in, in her entire life.And that was saying something, given that she always had the upper hand, even with her battles with werewolves, many of whom she had their skulls decorated on a shelf in her coven.She was ingenious, and a bit of a trickster in battle. Her m
Jay frowned, as he felt his muscles shift in the way that he knew to be a tell-tale sign of his shifting.This was the third time in the past hour that he had felt such a thing, and it was getting worse.Why was this happening?“What’s going on?” He asked his wolf, but no quick response came brought, making him more frustrated.More strange things just kept happening as of late, that befuddled the Alpha seriously.And it had nothing much to do with his shifting or Scarlett.Things were just off, for some reason.Jay found that as he kept moving deeper and deeper into the forest, his senses were picking up the scents of another pack nearby. Was that why his wolf kept wanting to come out and making his muscles shift uncontrollably?“What is the problem?” Jay asked his wolf, but no reply came quickly once again.He growled in frustration and kept on moving towards where he sensed the edge of the forest was.He had too many things in his mind for the presence of another pack to be threate
“What about the barrier? Can the guards get through it?” Oliver whispered to Leia, who shrugged.It felt like hours since Oliver woke up in the dungeon of Hades. He had not been able to tell what time of day it was, because he could not see daylight through the walls of the cave where he was imprisoned in.The repetitive sounds dripping of water from somewhere in the cave now left a vague frustration and resignation in the 18-year-old‘s mind. He hated the sound more than anything right then.Currently, he and Leia have been trading ideas on how they could escape from here. Mostly, the ideas had come from Oliver himself, but that seemed to be because how Leia did not believe that she would even be able to escape from here.There was a resignation in her mind about the idea of even getting a chance to escape.“I haven’t seen any guards able to pass through the barrier, but I suspect that they can,” she whispered back. “Why do you ask? Do you think that they can help us escape?”“I think
Back to the cityEleanor frowned at the giggles of the students. Oh, how she wished she could throw them all off a cliff! Or at least, that she could run away, very far away from all this racket that they were making.However, she had to manage to withstand their happy-go-lucky acts for now, because she was currently on a school bus with the rest of them.The previous day, the principal, a sweaty old man named Mr. Payne that made her skin crawl, had come into their class and mentioned that there was a friendly meet-up between students. A sports competition, of course, of which Eleanor knew that she was one of the star students in / track, volleyball, and tennis - and they would be picking some students to go on the impromptu trip the next day.Eleanor watched as other students murmured amongst themselves, querying why the principal had announced this news this late, especially amid all the chaos that was going on and fear being spread in their city like a virus.She had smirked in her
Jay had finally got up from the bed. He had been unable to sleep, despite all the comforts around the bedroom they had given to him - a large bedroom that Jay suspected was the previous Alpha’s.It was comfortable- or as comfortable as he could be. But it was difficult for him to even relax, even though days had passed.The members of the pack had treated him like a king - like their Alpha.It scared him and saddened him at the same time.After all, he knew that he could not be the Alpha for them. They had to find someone else, anyone else who was more suitable. But the last time that he brought that up, he got saddened smiles from everyone, and the Pack Elders fell to their knees begging him to take their pack and become the Alpha.Jay felt conflicted, and as he padded around the bed to find the pitcher of water that was kept there not too long ago, he began to think of his dear daughter. She was the only reason that he was even in this packed house, in this large and comfortable bed
Chapter 44:Oliver and Leia continued to run through the forest, not once looking back.But after a while, Oliver stopped, and the girl did the same.“They should not have spotted us right now, right?”Leo’s nodded, her voice sounding desperate as she replied, “You think so?”Oliver hummed in assent, and the two of them began walking some ways away.Without even noticing, the two linked their hands together. Oliver kept himself alert - after all that had happened to him so far, it only made sense to be this paranoid.He couldn’t allow himself to get complacent.“Is everything alright, Oliver?” Leia asked, having noticed his jumpiness. “Is anyone following us?”Oliver shook his head, but just at that moment, he heard a voice from far away, from the direction they had come in.“Find them! Now!!”The voice sounded furious, in fact, more than furious - murderous.Oliver froze and he felt Leia do the same as she gasped beside him.“Follow me,” Oliver finally said, trying to figure out what