LOGIN“You should hate me,” He said softly, his cold gaze searching her warm eyes. She just looked up at him, a tired smile on her face. “I'm done. I don't have the strength to hate anyone anymore.” “Then you'll learn,” He murmured. “I'm not the kind of man you survive loving.” ****** Yara is born without a wolfㅡ an outcast to her own pack. Betrayed by her own family, she is banished and falls into the arms of the one man she's never supposed to meet. The lycan king. The one who everyone fears. She's his second chance. He's her last. But fate has a cruel way of playing and the stakes begin to get higher. Will they prevail? Or will the truth tear them apart before they can?
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Beads of sweat ran down my body as my chest heaved up and down in exhaustion. I felt sore all over but when I noted that my fighting skills were improving with all the training, it all seemed worth it.
Unable to control myself, a large grin appeared on my face. Too bad it didn't last long.
“Who do we have here on such sacred training grounds? If it isn't the ugly freak of a wolf? Oops! I forgot that she isn't even a wolf.” A shrill voice rang out followed by multiple snide laughter and I immediately froze.
Fuck! Can't these bastards just leave me be for one goddamn day? Just one day to train in peace has now turned into a pipe dream?
My lips dropped into a scowl as I turned to face my new audience. Fiona and her minions stood there jeering at me with a mocking smile.
Can't they get past doing such a cliche thing? Who the hell goes around in pairs like this anymore. Tsk!
“Ah, What the hell is that?” I suddenly shrieked, covering my chest in mock shock and terror.
All of them flinched and began looking around warily to try and spot the danger.
“Oh, false alarm guys. Sorry. I honestly thought an ugly monster appeared. Thank the goddess that it's just Fiona or else we would have all been in real danger.” I said looking at them like they were fools.
At first, Fiona froze and then when she got my wordplay, her nose flared and her face turned beet red as she glared at me in hatred.
“You…” she spluttered looking like she wanted to pounce on me any minute from now.
Sadly for Fiona, not everyone in her gang was smart as one of the omegas there patted her chest and said, “You freak, why were you trying to scare us like that. Of course it's Fiona that's here. Who else would it be?”
I immediately spluttered in laughter at that.
The hell? How dense can someone be to not get such a clear jab.
Fiona glared at the omega, releasing her aura making the dumbo whimper and retreat into herself.
She then turned to me and began to walk in my direction.
I immediately took that as my cue to leave. “Well, I'll be off now. Have a nice day.” With that, I swiveled and began sprinting off the training grounds but I barely took ten steps before I felt my hair being yanked backwards.
Sharp pain shot through my scalp and I let out a shriek as my hand immediately flew to my head.
“Let me go!” I roared as I twisted frantically to shake her off but it was to no avail as her grip was iron like.
She didn't bother to speak anymore as with a growl, she dragged me back forcefully and threw me unceremoniously onto the floor.
I hissed. My elbows stung upon impact as I had tried to use them to break my fall. They had worked but were not in good shape.
Fiona didn't let me get my bearing as she was soon on me straddling me.
Obviously I was not going to let her have a go at me like I was a sitting duck so I struggled ferociously.
I screamed as I scratched and hit at her blindly like a crazy person. All my previous bravado and wittiness now gone only to be replaced with a strong will to survive and escape.
My efforts paid off and I was able to get a scratch onto her face.
Fiona froze as her face was turned to the side and her minions immediately gasped like I had done some sort of horrific thing.
Slowly, Fiona turned back to face me her eyes dark with menace and murderous intent.
I gulped realizing that I was screwed.
“Umm. I didn't mean….” I started in a bid to apologize
“You bitch.” Fiona let out a shrill scream and then her claws elongated while her eyes turned bright red as she glared down at me.
An alarm rang in my head and I sensed that if I didn't leave now, I would probably end up dead.
I pushed at her abdomen trying my best to get her off me but it was to no avail. Instead, she looked down at me with a sneer and before I could blink she raised her claws and brought it down hard on my face.
Sensing the danger, I tilted my head sideways and her claw missed my face by only a hair's length. I couldn't rejoice though because she suddenly dug it into my shoulder blades instead.
“Ahhh!.” I let out a scream of agony as Fiona pressed further into the wound she had inflicted on me. My mind clouded in pain and I struggled harder trying to get her to stop.
“I'll kill you. You bitch! How dare you?” She kept muttering with a mad gleam in her eyes as she dug further into my shoulder.
I could already foresee a long while for my healing as I didn't have the rapid healing that every wolf had.
Suddenly, she dug her claws out of my shoulders and then before I could blink, she wrapped both hands on my neck before squeezing.
My hands shot to my neck, desperately clawing at her hand as I felt my air supply being cut off. Added to her inhuman strength brought about by her half wolf state, I felt like a boulder was crushing my throat.
Spots filled my vision as my eyes watered while I wheezed and struggled. A loud ringing appeared in my ear too as all the sounds of the minions mocking laughter disappeared.
Was this how I was going to die? At the hands of Fiona who had made my life a living hell? At the hands of my bully?
No. I don't wanna die.
With that thought, one of my hand holding her neck dropped to the floor besides me and I desperately felt around for something… anything.
After searching aimlessly, I finally felt a small jagged stone on the floor and without a second thought, I raised it and jabbed it in Fiona's left eye.
Blood spluttered everywhere as Fiona let out an earth shattering scream.
“What the fuck?” One of the minions also shouted but I couldn't be bothered to care. I spluttered, wheezed and coughed violently in a bid to catch my breath.
I shoved Fiona who was too preoccupied with her now probably blind eye and then crawled to my feet in a clumsy and tipsy manner.
My vision was barely just clearing up but I couldn't slow down.
Relying on luck and help from the goddess, I ran - well more like stumbled pathetically - out of the training grounds.
I ran until I couldn't hear Fiona's screams anymore.
When I was sure that I wasn't being tailed, I finally looked around only to realize that I was in the pack woods. A place that was way too close to the pack border for my own good.
Still, this place was safer than staying back at the training grounds.
I walked to a large tree and then slid down till I was sitting on the ground.
Just a little while. I'll wait here just a little till I have to face reality again. Because I knew that I was going to be in deep shit for what happened to Fiona.
******
I expected to be punished but I didn't expect it to come so soon and for it to be so painful.
After a while in the woods, I finally mustered up the courage to leave and walk back home. I purposely took a detour which allowed me to avoid any detection.
Immediately I stepped through the foyer, I heaved a sigh of relief thinking that I was now safe but I couldn't have been more wrong.
Kraaak!
A loud sound rang out and before I could make out from where, my head from my toe, something hit me hard making me fall backwards hard.
I groaned and wailed as pain shot through my whole body. It felt like I had been sliced open and looking down at my now bleeding and bruised body, I realized that I had actually been.
I looked up in fear at my attacker only for my whole body to pale in terror when I realized who it was.
Holding a whip decorated with gruesome looking thorns was Beta Greta. The wife to the most respected elder of the Blackthorn Pack.
Another name I knew her as was….
“M..m..mother.”
The silence after he spoke was absolute.You will not see Aiden.The command hung in the air between us, heavy as iron. He was still standing by the fire, his back to me, his bare, scarred skin gleaming in the flickering light.I lay in his bed—his massive, fur-piled, scent-saturated bed—my body a tapestry of fresh bruises and old scars, my re-set shoulder a deep, liquid throb of agony.I should have been terrified. I should have been planning escape, rebellion, something.Instead, I was just... empty.The fight, the brutal, agonizing training session, the humiliation of being carried like a broken doll... it had scraped me hollow. I was a husk. A shell.And he... he was a shadow by the fire, a dark god who had just declared absolute dominion over every aspect of my existence."Why?" I whispered. My voice was a dry, broken rasp.He didn't turn. "Why what?""Why can't I see him? He's... he's your brother. He just... he recovered. That's... that's a miracle. He should be celebrated, not
The Enforcer's words hung in the dead, silent air of the arena.He's asking for Yara.I was still on my knees, my breath a ragged, painful gasp, my entire being consumed by the twin agonies of my dislocated shoulder and the memory of Ares’s embrace.Ares, who had been a creature of pure, primal instinct, went rigid. The heat, the possessiveness, the... something... in his eyes vanished. It was gone. Snuffed out like a candle.In its place, the Alpha returned. Cold. Absolute. And furious.He didn't just turn his head. His entire body moved, a slow, lethal pivot, until his silver gaze was locked on the Enforcer."What," he said, his voice a low, vibrating growl, "did you just say?"The Enforcer, a man built of stone, actually flinched. He dropped his gaze, bowing his head."Alpha. Lord Aiden is... he is walking. The healers are calling it a miracle. He... he requests an audience. With her."Ares didn't move. He didn't speak. He just... looked.The silence was so heavy, I thought the sky
My world was reduced to the space between us.His bare chest, gleaming with a fine sheen of sweat. His silver eyes, black with a possessive, primal fire. The scent of him—pine, and cold air, and the sharp, metallic tang of his exertion.He had lunged.I had no time to think, no time to run. I was still on my knees, my hand gripping the staff, my heart frozen in my chest.He didn't hit me.He landed over me, a predator's pounce, his hands slamming into the dirt on either side of my head.I was caged.Trapped beneath his body, my back to the ground, his shadow blocking out the sun.I shrieked, a high, thin, animal sound of pure terror.His face was inches from mine. He was panting, his breath hot, fanning across my cold, dirt-streaked skin."You... hit me," he growled. It wasn't an accusation. It was a statement of... awe.I was trembling so violently I couldn't speak, my good hand still clutching the staff I’d used to strike him.His eyes dropped. He looked at my hand, then at his knee
I didn't move. I just watched him.He was a bare-chested god of war, all scars and shadows in the firelight, and I was a prisoner in his lair. He'd claimed my body, he'd claimed my pain, and now he was claiming my space.You will lie in my bed... in my scent... and you will... ache.It was a curse. A threat. And a promise.He didn't move to the furs. Not yet. He walked to the massive glass wall, staring out at the kingdom he’d just shown me. He was giving me a choice. A non-choice.I could take the floor. I could curl up on a rug like a dog, and he would win.Or I could get in his bed.And he would win.My heart hammered, a wild, trapped bird. My skin was still on fire from his kiss, my lips swollen and stinging, my blood tasting of him.I would not be a coward.My legs were shaking so violently I almost didn't make it. I walked to the massive bed. It was a fortress of carved black wood, piled high with furs that smelled...Of him.Pine, and snow, and that sharp, wild, male s
I was a broken, filthy thing, and he was the god who had broken me.Ares didn't offer a hand. He didn't show an ounce of pity. He just turned, his back to me, a silent, imperious command.Follow.I had to. My body was a universe of pain, my re-set shoulder a deep, sickening, liquid throb. But my pride was a harder, sharper agony. I had begged him. In front of his entire pack, I had been reduced to a weeping, broken creature, and I had asked.He had won.I pushed myself to my feet, my good arm shaking, my legs trembling so violently I could barely stand. The arena, which had been a wall of sound, was now a tomb. A hundred warriors, silent as the stones they stood on, watched.They watched me, the freak, the wolf-less, bloody, and dirt-streaked... thing.They watched him, their Alpha, the monster, the king.And they watched me limp after him.The Enforcers, those two stone-faced guards, didn't follow. He was my keeper now. He didn't need them.I stumbled across the training gr
The arena was a vacuum. A hundred warriors, frozen, their breath pluming in the cold air, their eyes locked on the scene.My scream, my desperate, furious, "I'M ASKING!" still echoed in the sudden, ringing silence.Ares’s smile.That slow, cold, utterly satisfied smile. It was the most terrifying thing I had ever seen.He had won.His silver eyes, blazing with a victory that was ancient and absolute, held mine. He pushed off the railing.He didn't just jump. He dropped. A fluid, twelve-foot descent, landing on the packed earth as silently as a panther.Every step he took toward me was a hammer blow against my heart.Valerius, the mountain of a man who was still crushing me, looked up. His bloody, broken-nosed face, which had been a mask of rage, was now a portrait of pure, dawning horror.He was still pinning me. His hand was still locked on my arm, my shoulder a universe of white-hot, grinding pain. But his grip had gone slack."Alpha..." he stammered, his voice a wet gurgle of blood






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