Maya's POV.
The alpha had not mentioned a single word of what had happened to me yet.
All he did was ensure I had my clothes on and was properly invested in my bed before he left.
I could see him from the side of my bathroom while I changed into my nightwear checking for marks on my bodies. Scars, burns, anything at all. He must have peeped over a thousand times before I called his name to ask if there was something wrong.
“No. Nothing at all, get some sleep. Goodnight.” But then he left me and closed the door.
The moment his footsteps disappeared into the silence hallway, I adjusted out of my bed and sat up straight.
“Melissa.” I whispered. “Melissa, are you up?”
“Hey Maya, what's up? What's going on?”
“The coast is clear. We can talk now.”
Before the fire started, Melissa stirred within me. She tumbled, scratched and howled inside of me.
I thought of it as nothing, not until the fire blasted quickly and she took over my body without my control, shielding me off from the fire with a blazing fire of her own.
My eyes witnessed it for about a second before everything went dark.
“What happened?”
“I don't know.” She answered. “It just happened.”
“The fire. You were trying to warn me before it even happened, weren't you?”
“I'm not sure. I just felt uncomfortable and then the fire happened.”
I could feel the genuine confusion in her, she had no idea what was going to happen and had only shifted to save me.
To Melissa, I was grateful. My wolf saved my life, but that wasn't the case now. In saving my life, I was without a scar and that, apparently was the strangest feeling of my life.
Melissa had no explanation of what happened and neither did I.
It just happened…
“Go back to bed. From the look on the alpha's eyes, I can tell you have a lot of questions to answer.”
“You think he'll send me away?”
Melissa shook her head. “He looked more fascinated than he looked disappointed when you were coming out of the fire. He won't send you away but you have a lot of questions to answer. Get some sleep.”
My chest pounded in my chest while I laid back in bed, my thoughts far from blank, my eyes strained and itchy from lack of sleep as the memories of what had happened played in my head.
I was scared.
Not sure what I was scared of, but my pounding heart didn't let me get much sleep.“”””
Morning came quick, the sunlight filtered through my curtains and beamed directly on my face, long enough to wake me.
I got out of bed with a terrible headache. Probably because I hadn't slept much last night, I told myself before I rushed to the bathroom to brush my teeth.
The knock on the bathroom door jolted me from the remaining sleep in my eyes.
I threw water on my face to waken my nerves before I opened the door. “Luna.” A maid called. “Good morning Luna. How was your night?”“Fine.” I stepped forward with a smile. Hers shifted slightly to a thinner lip as she took a step back from me.
I noticed the slight expression but moved beyond it.
“Yes?”“The alpha asked that I come get you. A seer is downstairs waiting to have a look at you.”
‘Told you.’ Melissa’s voice crept into my thoughts.
“Alright.” I thanked the maids, maintaining where I stood before. “Tell the alpha I'll be done in a minute. I just need to get dressed.”
“I'll help you.” She looked uncomfortable with her expression again. “The alpha asked that I help you get dressed so we wouldn't waste much time.”
“Oh.” I paused, a little shocked. “You really don't have to.”
“No. The alpha insisted that I helped you.” She said once more and without a chance to react, I watched as she took off to my closet and started taking out what I was meant to wear.
The maid was helpful. She helped me heat water up, helped with a bath and brushed my hair. The royalty treatment wasn't something I was used to but enjoyed. In less than an hour, the maid and I were walking down to the living room where the alpha king and the seer were seated waiting.
“Good morning Maya.” Alpha Williams greeted me with a bright smile, “Why don't you have a seat right next to me?” he tapped on the vacant space between him and the seer.
The seer, a fragile woman with weary skin, dressed in sack clothings with hair that had not been combed for years, flashed me a bright smile.
“Good morning Luna.”“Good morning.” My voice turned into a whisper, goosebumps crawled underneath my skin.
“Good morning Alpha. Why is she here?” Alpha Williams eyed the seer before he shifted his gaze to me. “I believe the maid told you who she is. I brought the pack seer here to have a look at you. After yesterday, I wasn't sure what happened and so I called her to come visit. Why don't you have a seat and let her begin?”My heart dropped to my stomach as I obeyed the Alpha's command, my thoughts ran wild with what the seer would find. Would she label me bad and ask the alpha to send me away?
Her hands felt wrinkly and warm when she reached for the inside of my palms. A sly smile cornered on her lips and then she asked me to relax.
“This will only take a moment. Take a deep breath and close your eyes.”I listened and pretended to do what she asked as I lowered my back into the couch and shut my eyelids.
I felt her hand over mine, her heat spreading over mine and seeping gently into my body.
Melissa stirred within me, my wolf was uncomfortable with her presence near me. “Let go of her palm.”“Why?”
“Let go!”
I snatched my hands from her at once, clicking my eyes opened as I shifted away from the seer.
“What happened?” Alpha William question.
I turned to him, his expression filled with concern and curiosity.
But it was not directed to me. He meant to speak to the seer. His question was for her.The seer swallowed hard and then shook her head.
“This is way beyond us, alpha William…”What did that mean?
Maya's POV.“What are you…what are—The words stopped midway, my throat tightened, I could barely breathe. My knees buckled and my vision, it blurred for a second.“Why?” I managed to whisper.*What do you mean by “why?” Sarah rolled off the bed. Her heels clicked gently as she swayed her hips gently, her walk seductive and slow. The lingerie she wore was made of red lace everywhere except for the nipples that were marked by a bold ‘X’Sarah’s thighs were bare, her cleavage deep and exposed, her hair flying free and lush on her shoulders. She had on her lips a red cherry lipstain with a bright smile.“I came to see you.”“W-what do you mean you came to see me?” My lips quivered, fear dancing through my body.Sarah stopped right in front of me, her shoulders did a little dance forward like she was trying to show me her boobs. She dangled them long enough to her satisfaction before she stopped and then laughed.“I can't believe you actually thought I would be leaving you. I told you, I
Maya's POV“That's the reason why you and the alpha couldn't have mates. You were meant to be together. You both are meant for a greater cause.”The seer's words kept repeating over and over in my head, echoing in my memory.“Greater cause.” I scoffed. “Greater cause and he brought a woman here.”The gossip from the maids didn't add to what I already knew.Whoever the guest was, ‘it’ was a ‘she’. She was not related to the alpha and he was having her stay in his room.“This is all your fault.” My wolf, Melissa warned me, but I paid her no mind.For all I knew, I did nothing wrong but test the alpha's commitment to me. “I am not about to throw myself into the arms of another man and get rejected again.”“You pushed him away and bruised his ego, of course he's going to reject you.”Her words became too loud, they drowned out my confidence and invoked more fear in me.“I'm sure I have nothing to do with this.” I affirmed my stance, my fist tight as my fingernails dug deep into my palm.
Maya's POV.“A joke?” The alpha got in front of me on our way out of his living room.“A joke? Is that seriously all you have to say?”I swallowed hard, greasing my parched throat for the rest of the words to come.“Yes.”“Why?”‘Tell him it's because you have trust issues.’ Melissa whispered in my thoughts. ‘Tell him it's because you were rejected before.’I moved my lips to speak but the words rolled to the back of my throat.“Speak!” Alpha William grew impatient.“The seer says we were destined for each other. Do you really believe in that nonsense?”“Nonsense?” He raised an eyebrow. “You call that nonsense?”My stomach sank. My words weren't intended to be as deep as he was taking them.“No one was made for another. Werewolves don't have soulmates.” I answered.“The seer is trying to fool us.”Alpha William looked at me one last time before he nodded and walked away.I watched as he continued, not a single glance at me until he was at his door, then, with a sharp pull at his doork
Alpha William’s POV.“Give it to me straight. What is wrong with her?” I told the seer after I had made the guards take Maya to the next room.“What did you mean by ‘this is way beyond us’?”The seer, a fragile old woman whose physical appearance had been that way since I'd known her, stared at me straight in the eye before she looked away momentarily.“Nothing is wrong with her.”“Okay? So why did you say it is way beyond us.”She hesitated with an answer. “Her wolf… it's not regular.”The walls of my stomach tightened, “Is she cursed?”“No! Far from it. She's not cursed. She is just…just so…”Her words trailed off before she had the chance to complete them which made my anxiety skyrocket through the roof.I had no control of my body and had no idea when I grabbed her arm tightly, glaring at her. “Tell me!”With horror reflecting in her eyes, she parted her lips and the words came flowng down.“Her wolf is the strongest wolf I have ever seen.”Interesting.My grip on her arm loosened
Maya's POV.The alpha had not mentioned a single word of what had happened to me yet.All he did was ensure I had my clothes on and was properly invested in my bed before he left.I could see him from the side of my bathroom while I changed into my nightwear checking for marks on my bodies. Scars, burns, anything at all. He must have peeped over a thousand times before I called his name to ask if there was something wrong.“No. Nothing at all, get some sleep. Goodnight.” But then he left me and closed the door.The moment his footsteps disappeared into the silence hallway, I adjusted out of my bed and sat up straight.“Melissa.” I whispered. “Melissa, are you up?”“Hey Maya, what's up? What's going on?”“The coast is clear. We can talk now.”Before the fire started, Melissa stirred within me. She tumbled, scratched and howled inside of me.I thought of it as nothing, not until the fire blasted quickly and she took over my body without my control, shielding me off from the fire with a
Alpha Williams’ POV.It was minutes after I had just witnessed what was before me and yet, my mouth lips wouldn't join.“What in the hell…”Justin murmured from underneath me. It was his voice that dragged me out of being lost.I looked down to see he was still pinned on the ground, nearly strangled by my grip but his eyes were in the same direction like mine, confused by what he was seeing.Just as I was.I loosened my grip on him, letting go of his collar so I could stand up to approach Maya.The untouched Maya.“What…what happened?” I was still in shock as I approached her. My Luna, May was untouched by the engulfing fire that had now burnt my Library into ashes.Everything had been burnt to ashes but yet, Maya had looked like she had been hidden in a compartment somewhere, shielded from the furnace.Even her dress was untouched. The hair on her head was untouched, her skin was shining and her face, beautiful.I reached for her arms, turning it side to side, just to make sure but