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A New Dawn

Author: Monellawrites
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-02 23:37:30

Aria

On returning home, no one really said much. The loss of Liam hung heavy in the air and in everybody’s chest. His sacrifice was very much to deal with but something came out with it, and that was change.

We were back at the estate and in the council hall. It was full. Bodies pressed shoulder to shoulder, quiet as they waited for the next shift in power. No guards stood by the door like they usually would. No warriors in armour posturing at the corners. It was just the pack. Unified in mourning. Waiting for something to hold onto.

Elder Sorah stood at the centre of the hall. Her face was pale and as wrinkled as her dress. For once, she didn’t look composed. She looked… tired. She stepped forward and cleared her throat.

“I have served this pack for longer than many of you have been alive. First as an elder, then as temporary Alpha. When I took that title, it was not out of pride or ambition. It was because I thought our people needed caution. Structure. A steady hand in uncertain ti
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  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   A Familiar Tune

    KolI was already in my study that morning. All over my desk were reports, invitations, but I really was paying no attention to it. Elias, leaned by the bookshelf with clenched jaws and crossed arms, lost in thought.“We would have to prepare a room for my boy at the west wing of the estate.” I said casually. “It’s the quietest part of the estate. Close enough to keep watch. Far enough from the council rooms.”Elias nodded slowly. “You sure you want him in the estate right away?”My eyes flicked up to him. “He’s my son. He’s not a secret I’ll keep locked in some simple home.” I paused, letting the weight of it settle. “But I will protect him.”Elias exhaled, stepping closer. “You know how this will look. The pack has barely recovered. And now a child? Lira’s child that happens to be yours as well?”I grinded my teeth not because he what he said was wrong but because what he said was right. All the soldiers, every elders, every pair of curious eyes would look at Emory and wonder. Wonde

  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   Let It Be Ours

    AriaI woke up to the sound of nothing.Our room was quiet, almost like it was untouched. The sheets beside me were cold. Kol wasn’t here. He had probably gotten up too early.The ache in my leg throbbed. But it had dulled down now. To me, it was a reminder of how fragile I’d become. Or maybe of how much I was still trying to carry alone.I wiped my hands across the sheets, brushing the place where Kol had slept. I remembered his face from when I first told him about Emory. The confusion. The storm behind his eyes. And then, when he saw Emory, the light that broke through it all. The way he looked at that little boy… like something long lost had found its way back to him.I didn’t know what to do with that image.Rising up, I wrapped myself in a robe and limped slowly through the hallway, passing the door to the study. I paused as I heard Kol’s voice, low but firm.“...We’ll need to organise another visit to Anna’s. I want to bring him home properly, but only if Aria’s truly ready. I

  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   A Murderous Legacy

    Kol“Ah!” I groaned. The whiskey I had downed burned as it slid down my throat. I stared down at a carved wooden wolf lying on my desk. I picked it up, getting reminded of the memories these craved creature held.I twisted it in my hand slowly, breathing in deep. I leaned back, letting my head rest against the chair. The leather creaked, and the silence around me deepened.“Memory always had a cruel way of creeping in when you least wanted it.” I said to myself.I was maybe five when he first hit me. I don’t even remember what I did. Knocked over something, probably. Shattered a glass. Forgot to bow when he walked in. I just remember the sound of my father's voice, loud and booming and filled with disappointment. Not anger. Disappointment.“You’re not some useless mutt,” he’d barked. “You’re going to be Alpha one day. Act like it.”I’d cried, back then. I cried a lot. When he left the room, my mother would always find me. I’d be in the hallway, curled into a ball, or hiding in my clo

  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   Kol’s Emory

    AriaKol was kneeling before Emory, using a tender and impossibly soft voice to speak to him. It was the kind of voice I had only heard when my mother told Lira and I bedtime stories. But this time, it wasn’t for me. It was for a child. For his child.I was standing right outside of the door, with my arms folded and trying to get ahold of myself. Even though I was happy to see Kol smiling, I felt fear and jealousy and confusion, all of the things I did not want to feel, all of the things I did not want to accept. This child was a miracle, a ghost, a question which had no right answer.And Kol… he looked at Emory like he was seeing the past and the future all at once.“How old are you, little boy?” Kol asked gently.Emory puffed his chest, proudly lifting up three fingers. “I’m four. But Anna says I’m almost five if I count winters right.”Kol smiled. “Almost five. That’s very brave of you to count winters.”Emory grinned, then held up an almost crumpled paper that was probably folded

  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   Her Confessionals

    KolWe were both in the room, as quiet a pin drop, yet the words that Aria had spoken was louder than the silence. They hit me as sharp as a knife would.“You have a son.”I blinked. Once. Twice. The syllables didn’t register. They couldn't. Because the only person who could’ve said something that world-ending… was Lira.My voice was low, unsteady. “What did you just say?”Aria didn’t flinch. I could see in her eyes, when she was about to speak. How she braced herself for the burden of the weight of what she needed to tell me. Her eyes were placid, not cold.“I found a locket in Lira’s possession,” she began. “There was a folded piece of paper inside. Coordinates. An address.”I couldn’t breathe. My lungs weren’t cooperating.“I went there,” she continued. “There was a house. And a woman. Her name is Anna, she said she was a nurse, a caretaker… someone Lira trusted. And there was a child. A boy.” She swallowed. “He called me ‘mummy.’”Every piece clicked together in my brain too quick

  • The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake   The Distance Between Us

    KolI woke up to silence. Again. The bed felt too big without her. I instinctively reached for the space beside me, hoping by some miracle she’d returned to our room in the middle of the night. But the sheets were cold and untouched.She had refused to come back.I sat up straight, slowly, allowing the soreness I had been feeling in my chest grow, until I was engulfed by it. I couldn’t understand the distance between us, how we could still be together despite the war and deceptions, but fall apart in the aftermath of it all.As I passed her door, I paused. My hand hovered just inches from the wood. But I didn’t knock. Because this wasn't something that could be fixed with a soft knock and a “can we talk?” This was something deeper. Something broken.I fought a war for her, I thought bitterly. I hunted down her sister. I bled for her. And now, she wouldn’t even look at me.Agatha’s voice resounded at the back of my mind: “You’re both scared. But she’s going through a lot and you’re too

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