"I don't know what your problem is, Leah," Aiden sighed once again as he tossed the pouch back into his pocket, "You asked me to pay and now, you are not accepting my payment. Can you see how indecisive you are?" "You're the indecisive one, you fool! Just so you know, you might show up with shiny golden armour and force everyone to bow to you, but you can't stop anyone of us from seeing you for what you really are: a worthless wolf who is cursed by the goddess. That's what you are, Aiden, and that's who you will continue to be." "Leah!" Her mate looked so horrified, especially when he saw Aiden's brow furrowed in anger. He took a step back when Aiden took a step forward, but Leah remained in her position, trying to hold Aiden's gaze so he would not think she was scared of him. "I'm not in a good mood, Leah," Aiden's voice was low and grave, "so I'll advise you to watch what you say." "And if I don't?" She held her chin up. "I won't hesitate to treat you like those bunch traitors t
No one was meant to be in the throne room when the alpha was not there. Aiden could only go in because he was the mate of the alpha; he had the right to go in and out without being questioned. But Calix didn't have such a right so why was he in the throne room and why was he there alone? What had he come to do in there?So many questions were running through Aiden's head yet he could do nothing but gape at Calix who also had the same shocked expression on his face. It was as though he had not been expecting to see Aiden standing before him and Aiden wondered why."Em. . ." Calix cleared his throat as he struggled to get out of his shock. "I was just. . .I came to . . ." He stuttered but soon composed himself and cleared his throat again. "I came looking for you." He said in a much clearer tone and Aiden raised a brow at him."Why will you come here to look for me?""Because I couldn't find you anywhere else. You were not in the training field. I didn't know where you were.""I shoul
But one thing Calix didn't know was that he was wrong. Aiden was not as foolish as he had thought. The moment Calix left and the door closed, the smile that had been on Aiden's face fell off. His expression moved from a smiling face to a stony glare as he gazed at the shut door. Something was not right; it was so clear Calix was hiding something. Aiden could tell all this from his weird behaviour, yet he had decided to pretend like he hadn't suspected anything. Now, he could not tell why he had not called Calix out directly on his game — perhaps, he wanted to be very sure because he would hate to wrongly accuse his friend — but whatever the reason was, Aiden knew with so much certainty that something was wrong. He moved to sit on one of the stairsteps below the throne, his elbow resting on his lap as he propped his palm under his chin. He was still in a daze and nothing he could think of made sense as to why Calix had been alone in the throne room. He was trying to make up excu
It was Aiden's other friends: Andrew and Jamal, and the two men paused when they noticed that all eyes were on them. "Are we interrupting something? We can always come back some other time." Andrew said, turning around to leave but Jamal held him back. It was obvious from Andrew's behaviour and expression that he had been dragged there so he was simply looking for an excuse to leave and that was why he said what he had said. "Why the long face, Aiden? What's up?" Jamal asked instead, bowing a little to Alpha Velvet before turning his gaze to Aiden. In his haste, Andrew had not noticed that Aiden looked downcast and now that Jamal was bringing his attention to it, Andrew discovered that Aiden did not only look downcast but very troubled, like a man whose business had collapsed in one day. Seeing Aiden that way erased the anger he had been harbouring from the argument some hours ago. "Is anything the problem?" He asked, his eyes moving from Alpha Velvet to the couple standing by the
It suddenly felt like he had lost his identity and didn't fit in anymore. Now he understood why Leah called him a stranger. If even his friends could change this much, then who did he know in the Blood-Moon pack? Who could he say was for him? Was he simply a tyrannical beast who had come to usurp power in a place he was not needed? Hadn't Jamal and Andrew said they had been waiting for his return since? So many questions, yet no answer. He was feeling so heartbroken like a werewolf who had just been rejected by his mate — in fact, that was not even enough to describe his pain. He lacked words to describe his emotions and as he stared into the faces of the men he loved so much, his eyes became misty. Had he lost these ones too?"It's fine. The Blood-Moon pack is also our pack and we want it to be safe too. If Calix is planning something, then we all need to act fast." Jamal sighed heavily, face-palming himself in the process as he chided himself for not being more patient. He should
Aiden was nowhere to be found when she came out of the throne room. Though there were many questions to ask the guards at the door, she only asked them where Aiden had gone and they told her he went straight ahead. Trying to mindlink him to know where he was, she walked straight ahead, looking from side to side to see if she could find her mate, but there was no sign of him. And he was not responding to her through their special mind link. Not knowing where to begin her search for him, Alpha Velvet stood at the end of the hallway, both of her arms resting on her hips. She kept asking where he was through the mind link while trying to catch his scent by shifting to her wolf's nose.In our room.She finally got a reply and she heaved a sigh of relief, turning around to go to their bedroom where Aiden said he was. Somehow, she felt he would be lying to her because the bedroom didn't fit into the possible places he could go to when he was upset but she decided to go there anyway and to
Alpha Velvet reached out and tucked some of these locks behind his ear. Then she lifted his chin with her fingers so he could look at her. Her heart constricted in pain when she saw how red and swollen his eyes were and the sadness on his face only shook her heart further."Aiden. . ." She trailed off, now lost for words to say. Seeing him that way had broken her heart so much that she lost what to say."I'm a fool, Velvet. I'm a very big fool. I don't know if I've been bewitched or cursed. Why do I always trust the wrong people? Why do I allow people to do this to me all the time?""You're not a fool, Aiden. You're the wisest person I know." Alpha Velvet tried to comfort him but he only sniggered at her words, shaking his head a bit as he laughed."That's the biggest lie I've ever heard.""I'm not lying. That's how I feel about you." She frowned at him."Then why do I do stupid things all the time? Just look how I trusted Calix so blindly. Just see how I allowed him to use me right u
In the middle of the night, when everyone was fast asleep, that was when it happened: The long-planned war Jared had looked forward to. It had begun with a chaotic noise that had woken Alpha Velvet up. She had always been a light sleeper but had become a lighter sleeper after that dreadful night her pack got attacked and her family killed. Ever since then, she woke up at any slight movement and it had taken Aiden some time to assure her that everything was fine now and she need not be alarmed by every noise. Though Alpha Velvet had managed to calm down with Aiden's assurance, this noise had woken her up and that was because it was quite strange and very chaotic.She turned to Aiden who was still fast asleep despite the noise and she contemplated leaving him be while she go check for herself. Perhaps, it was nothing and she was just being paranoid as usual. She would hate to disturb Aiden's sleep for nothing. It had taken quite a while for him to fall asleep because he had retired