Share

Part Two

Author: BurntAsh3s
last update Last Updated: 2024-03-20 23:15:30

The moment Sarah had walked into the school, I was in love. At first, I was a bit dumbfounded. How could I be in love with a human? I knew she wasn’t a wolf. You could smell humans from miles away. She had this intriguing air about her.

We were fifteen when we met and life seemed uncomplicated and adventurous. That first week, I followed her home every day. I wasn’t stalking her, maybe a little, but not the dangerous kind of stalking.

I was fascinated by her and try as I might, I couldn’t get her out of my head. She came up to me one day during lunch and simply asked, “When are you going to ask me out?” That was how Sarah and I had started dating.

Sarah wasn’t a one-time thing for me, it wasn’t cheap. What we shared was special. When I first met Sarah, I wasn’t a wolf, meaning, I hadn’t yet shifted into a wolf. I was purely human, a special human, but nonetheless still human and so was she.

Before we turned sixteen, we would make out and hold hands. After my initial resurrection though, something else had woken up inside me. I felt everything more intensely, love, anger, lust, and hate.

She felt it too when we reunited after those three months. There was a passion between us and even though I had planned to break up with her at that first meeting, instead we ended up going a little further than usual. I tried to create a place for Sarah in my life where our relationship would be acceptable. I failed miserably.

At school we walked hand in hand to classes and it was obvious to everybody but us that we would date, even before we started dating. She was a cheerleader and even though I didn’t partake in sports, I was seen as a jock.

It was only natural that we would gravitate toward each other and become a couple. It had been obvious to James as well, but he approved about as much as Malachi did. I couldn’t blame him though, he was my Beta, and a stickler for following the rules.

In the cafeteria, the basketball and football team dragged five tables together and that was where we sat during lunch. The staff eventually just left the tables as they were and it became the table where we would sit every day of our high school careers. The cheerleaders joined us when Sarah and I started dating and after we broke up, they moved with Sarah to another table.

We were both popular at school and I had plenty of friends, some of them that would say I was with them even when I wasn’t. It became easier and easier to lie and say I was with someone other than Sarah.

I would drive Sarah home after school and most afternoons we were alone at her house. It would always end in a make out session of mutual exploration. I was her first serious boyfriend and she was my first serious girlfriend. I met her parents and they liked me. I had good manners and I was always respectful of them and of Sarah.

The first and only time Sarah and I had sex, was an unforgettable afternoon as we stumbled our way to her bed, fumbled with each other’s clothes and didn’t even think of using protection. In the heat of the moment we both just didn’t think.

We took our time and we kissed and touched. We weren’t shy and when she nodded her agreement as I hovered on top of her I was high on the intensity of our feelings for each other. Yeah, I was being a complete idiot, going against everything I believed in.

“I love you,” she said to me on that fateful afternoon as we lay on her bed naked and I smiled. We had gone all the way. It was a special moment that we shared.

“I love you too,” I said to her and we kissed again. It was true. I did love Sarah and I believed that she loved me too. That’s why I would be ashamed of my actions in the months leading up to and following her death forever.

I usually showered when I got home before I had to meet Malachi at the den for training. That specific afternoon was different. Malachi was in the kitchen when I came home late. I had lied to him and said I was meeting Sam.

It happened so fast and one moment I was looking at my father and the next moment I was fighting an Alpha wolf. He had smelled her scent on me, and carnage broke out. I was on the losing end of that fight and my father had lost his mind.

Facing a fierce Alpha in wolf form is no joke and I had no choice but to try and defend myself. Malachi was much larger than I was and he came at me ferociously. As I shifted I found myself pinned down and bite after bite rained down on me.

“Malachi!” Karani screamed at him.

Just as quickly as Malachi attacked, he retreated, and left me to lick my wounds. That surprised me because his anger towards me had been intense. It had threatened to choke me as I breathed his emotions in.

Karani hadn’t been pleased that her kitchen got ruined in the process of that fight. It was the first time I had seen Malachi as an aggressive Alpha wolf. To this day, it’s something that I can’t quite put together, the calm lawyer and the aggressive wolf that he could be when it was needed.

My wounds would start to heal but Karani cleaned them anyway. She shook her head sadly and I could feel her sadness in myself and see it in her aura. That was probably the moment that the realization hit me. I had hurt my mother.

Malachi had called me into his study. That was always where I got my lectures from him, but this time Karani followed me inside and went to stand at his side. That was definitely a first.

“You can’t keep seeing her,” Malachi said very calmly.

“She’s human and you might hurt her. That will cause problems for the entire pack.” He was right, of course, but how could I tell him that I loved her? How could I tell him that she was different from other humans?

“I tolerated your relationship with her before you shifted. Now, it’s just unacceptable,” he said to me and I looked down. He had known the whole time.

“Dad, I…” I couldn’t finish that sentence, the guilt was eating me up inside. The wolf guilt.

“Kiran, we love you, you know that. We just want what’s best for you, best for everyone.” Karani was looking at me intently.

“You’re a wolf, the next Alpha. This cannot happen again.” Karani had a way of getting her way and that was the end of that.

Even now I can still remember the look in her eyes, the smile on her lips as our fingers intertwined and how she felt in my arms. I don’t think I’ll ever forget, I can’t forget, and I won’t let myself forget. It was my greatest shame, and the most damning mistake I ever made. Regret came too late for me.

Continue to read this book for free
Scan code to download App

Latest chapter

  • Resurrection   Epilogue

    I heard the car pull up to our house. A few seconds of silence and then a car door opened and closed. I wasn’t particularly worried, more curious at what I smelled; it was Robert outside and he was afraid and nervous. I had become very attuned to the emotions of other people around me, even people I didn’t know.The doorbell rang and I opened the door for him. He was pale and very worried. I asked him inside and wondered what this could be about. I didn’t have the energy for this. I had been on my way upstairs to sleep. The ceremony had been very taxing on all of us and the pack didn’t linger afterwards.“Evening, Officer Jones,” I said to him and showed him to a seat at the kitchen counter. He was not wearing his uniform so I could only assume he was here in his personal capacity.“Kiran, I’m so sorry for the loss of your mother,” Robert said and I thanked him. I thanked him because it was the polite thing to do and Karani would want that.“Thank you, Officer Jones,” I said.“Call me

  • Resurrection   Part One Hundred

    The house was eerily quiet and dark. I sat down at the counter and knew that on any other day, Karani would be in front of the stove. She would have something baking in the oven, bacon frying in a pan, the coffee maker would be filling the kitchen with its aroma. She would be smiling, and I would kiss her on her cheek.I broke down again. I cried and just let it out. It came out as a mixture of a scream and a growl. I couldn’t contain all of this. My soul felt empty although it was bursting with emotion. I was exhausted physically and emotionally. I just had to get through this day. I wanted to die.I shuddered as I remembered the last time I walked into this church. It was the day we buried the Goldman’s and before that, Sarah. Today was my turn to sit in the front pew. I wanted to turn around and run out, but Malachi put his hand on my shoulder, and I had to keep going.We sat down and I looked at the coffin in front of me. I could smell her there. I didn’t want to be here but if I

  • Resurrection   Part Ninety-Nine

    I was unconscious for three days following the emotional pain I took from Malachi. It had been accidental. I hadn’t meant to take all his pain. While I was subdued, Karani came to me in both her wolf and human form. I held her and cried for her. She held me and cried with me. She soothed me, and we talked for hours as Death sat nearby and watched me with keen interest.The pain from Malachi’s soul was so intense that my body needed that time to recover. I still carried that pain inside me, and I could barely function on my own. Everything hurt, from my soul to my skin and the thought of opening my eyes felt like too much of an effort.Buried deep in Malachi’s soul was a secret. It was a secret that hurt so much that I couldn’t grasp the reality that surrounded it. My mind was playing tricks on me, I was sure of it. Then again, I did see him with Karani. She had smiled as her image drifted away from me.“Kiran, you have to try to eat something,” Adara said to me.“Just leave me alone,”

  • Resurrection   Part Ninety-Eight

    Adrian Peters switched the television on and settled himself on the couch. The rest of his house was in darkness. It had been a week since his last killing and the news station was showing only highlights of the murders in Seward. He turned the sound up and listened to the news anchor describe his handiwork.“This is now the third home invasion in Seward that has ended in the brutal murders of the families residing at these locations,” the woman said and the television showed the outside of the houses with the bright yellow ‘do not cross—police’ tape cordoning off the area.“The first victims were Marrick and Susan Goldman and their four children, Jackson, Rupert, Sumari and Kyle. Two of the children died from poisoning while the rest were shot at close range. Nothing appeared to be missing from their home. The second set of victims were Peter McPherson, his wife Tanya and their daughter Michelle. Michelle was strangled to death but Peter and Tanya were shot at close range just like t

  • Resurrection   Part Ninety-Seven

    At the house, Adara concentrated on Edna. It was as if she could communicate with the illness itself, identify it and she instinctively knew.“She has pancreatic cancer,” Adara said softly.“How did you know?” Robert asked her in wonder.“I don’t know, it’s like I can see it. Can I try something Robert?” Adara asked him and he nodded.Adara placed her hands on Edna’s abdomen and started concentrating. She was whispering to herself, but her words made no sense to me. I was enamored with what she was doing. I could see a shift in Edna’s aura.“It’s working, Adara. I can see her pain shift. Keep going,” I encouraged her. I could sense Adara’s power rising, her aura started to glow, a deep bright white with a yellow tinge. It started turning light red.Thirty minutes later Adara slumped from her kneeling position and supported her body with her one arm. Her aura glowed a bright red, but she had done it. She had taken all of the cancer from Edna’s body, her aura throbbed and returned to it

  • Resurrection   Part Ninety-Seven

    “Adara,” Juniper said after we had all gone upstairs and left Ramos alone in the cell in the basement. Adara looked at her with no emotion.“I…I’m sorry, I didn’t know,” Juniper said in a small voice.“I told you!” Adara shouted at her so fiercely that I went to stand next to her in case she went for Juniper. Juniper took a step back at the ferocity in Adara’s voice.“I think it best if you just left Juniper,” Shoran said to her while leading her out the door and closing it in her face.Adara sat down on one of the chairs. “I’m sorry. I just…I don’t want anything to do with her,” Adara said, her soul exhausted at the ordeal we all just went through.“Adara, you never have to apologize for feeling the way you do about her,” Malachi said and then he surprised us all by hugging her.Adara broke down and cried in Malachi’s arms. I took that time to phone Karani and told her what had happened. She was crying and then told us to get back home immediately.“Malachi, Karani said to get home i

More Chapters
Explore and read good novels for free
Free access to a vast number of good novels on GoodNovel app. Download the books you like and read anywhere & anytime.
Read books for free on the app
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP
DMCA.com Protection Status