“What happened?” Dylan felt the pain before he could even recognize his surroundings.It was not him who was feeling this unbearable pain. It was his mate!“Diana?” Dylan, though butt naked, stood from the bed. Sniffing the air, his chest reverberated from the growl that escaped his lips. “Diana?”His wolf was on edge. It was asking to be let out.To protect his mate. To destroy what was hurting her. These thoughts occupied Dylan’s mind as his eyes shone with predatory ferocity.He swore that if he did not find his mate right after feeling her pain, he would flip the entire pack house if needed.Bang!The door of the comfort room opened.In a flash, Dylan engulfed Diana’s petite and trembling body in his arms. For a moment, his tensed muscles relaxed as his canines retracted. Dylan was able to stop himself from going wild with his wolf – he was so close to giving in to his primal instinct.Speaking between hiccups and sobs, Diana delivered the gist of the story.“M-My family… the link
Diana sensed the dread before she saw the gore laid before her like a mocking dye of red and black. She foolishly thought that the silence cloaking the entire residence of the Crescent Pack’s beta family was the worst, but she was proven wrong by the sight in front of her.“What is happening? What happened?”Though Diana screamed those words in her mind, they only came out as whispered words from her tittering mouth. Her jaws locked and her tongue numb. Countless possibilities ran through her mind and all of those were not a good thing for the residents of the bed chambers.The calm before the storm ensued beyond the premise of the cabin walls. All of a sudden, the looming storm hovering over the entirety of the Crescent Pack was gone. The horizon stirred with tranquility, so daunting that even the wolves sensed their hackles raising with a warning.Heavy steps resonated inside the chilling, silent bed chamber of the beta male and the beta female. The sound of splashing followed as a
As the beta’s daughter, who was born from a strong bloodline, a bond was made with her wolf to the hundreds of wolves in the pack. Growing up, Diana felt that the bond connecting her to her pack mates was both a privilege and a burden to bear – especially those who were related by blood to her parents.It was a privilege to sense the thrumming lives of the people inside her core, but that privilege came with a price. For every death of her pack mates and relatives, the snapping of threads that connected her to them was like a stab of dagger in her heart.One death was like a fleeting stab and Diana could barely felt it back.But now, she discovered in her rebirth that there was another feature. She discovered it when one of the girls she killed during the Tribute was a distant relative of hers.The lingering pain was followed by a sudden sense of knowledge and a memory which only lasted for a fraction of a minute – enough for her to know who died and in what manner the relative died.
“No! Please, no! Mother! Father!” Diana screamed her lungs out as she shook her head in a frantic, the attempt to deny the genuine fact boring inside her cursed mind. Clutching the blood-soaked blanket to her chest, imagining them close to her as she closed her eyes, she sniffed the last of the lingering smell of her parents. Not entirely believing what she was seeing even if the truth was already glaring at her. “Come back, please! I will be good from now on! I will follow Father’s arrangements for me as a beta’s daughter, I will do it with open arms so please! Please! Don’t leave me here alone…” Tears cascaded, endless anguish-laden tears fell to the blanket she was hugging. Kneeling on the floor with her hunched back as she hugged the remnants of her parents, Diana did not mind one bit that the blood of her parents was soaking her like a second skin. A torrential tornado popped right in the middle of the Crescent Pack. Its fierce winds flipped the roof of the houses near it wh
“It was you,” said Diana. “All this time that you’ve been good to me and my parents, you are a serpent in a wolf’s clothing! And now you want to arrest me?” The corner of Diana’s lips curled up into one sinister grin. She continued. “Think again.” The next thing they knew, Diana was gone. In a matter of a second, Diana’s white tail was the only thing they had witnessed and she was running fast as the wind. One should not underestimate a mad wolf with a beta’s bloodline – especially when it had the blessings of a nature witch. Anger. Raw and scalding anger. It was all that Diana could feel as she leaped away from the bed chambers of her parents. The loss and the betrayal were too much to bear for her. To think that it happened a day after she had mated with Dylan. Upon the mere thought of her mate, her subconscious immediately shoved the name at the backmost part of her mind. She was too busy entertaining her rage. Diana failed to realize at this moment tha
Hackles raised, Diana’s wolf jumped up to the branch above the clustered hunting team. Ironic, that they were called the hunting team, the best among the best since they were trained by the great Elder Shananel, but they were now the ones being hunted by the white-furred wolf. The darkness within the forest and the ensuing storm hovering over the entirety of Crescent Pack’s territories did not help the hunting team at all. The rain washed the scent of the white-furred wolf and the pungent stench of death from the headless wolf of the tracker masked the lingering smell and intent of Diana’s wolf. A werewolf was two things, a human and a wolf. It was known that mercy was found in the human side while the lethal animalistic side could be found in the wolf. But without the mercy of the man, the primal instinct of the wolf was unstoppable and a force to be reckoned with.For newly awakened bloodlines for alphas and betas, it was double the primal instinct. The thin
Seymor wanted to tug his hair out, but he could not bring himself to do it, especially not in the presence of a restless alpha. He did not know what would happen next to his Alpha. Seymor could vividly remember his Alpha’s declaration of braving the storm, saying that he would bring his mate back! ‘Now? Our future Luna is gone.’ Seymor grunted in his mind. “Alpha, may I know what is our next move? We cannot stay here undetected forever.” Seymor, who could not take it any longer, finally opened his tightly closed lips. With the heavy rainfall hitting them, weighing them down, he could not let themselves wander any longer. “And do you think I care? We are not using our reconnaissance yet, but they can’t even detect us! They call them elites? Werewolf Committee is a bunch of weaklings!” Seymor could not contain it anymore. He released a snort to which his Alpha responded by stopping dead in his tracks. Biting his lower lip, his canines prot
SEYMOR’S FOOLISH THOUGHTS of enjoying the union of his Alpha to his witchy mate were long gone.After lurking in every nook and cranny of the back alley, his soaking wet clothes and his grumbling stomach were the least of his concerns. In fact, he did not think about it until now. Instead, he was bombarded by the maddening thoughts of thousands of different scenarios of his conclusion should they find Diana Ritchell heavily wounded, captured, or worst… dead.A crazy alpha was a disaster, but a mad crazy Alpha Dylan Cain? That was simply a premise for the end of the fucking world. Alpha Dylan’s clenching jaws were a telltale sign that his beast wanted to last out. With the connection blocked and her scent was covered by the heavy downpour of rain – it was not looking for their search party of two.His fists that were clenched as well that Seymor had to maintain a safe distance in order to avoid being the recipient of his Alpha’s veined fists. Veins started to protrude along