A sigh escaped faded pink lips. Charcoal eyes gazed into the mirror as their owner,
Marietta applied the makeup given to her by the elders on her face drawing lines acrossher cheeks. Marietta's shoulders slumped slightly, her third time, to make it right. Gainher wolf and leave the pack grounds, she did not care if she was going to be declared aRogue omega as long as she distanced herself from them.She dusted her hands after drawing the last of her makeup and turned to attend hernext big task, making up her hair; Opening the drawer, she took a black ribbon andwrapped it around her blond, curly hair to form a neat bun. .“That's about it.” She puffed her cheeks out in pride, for a self-made job she had done asplendid job making herself look presentable.Marietta wore a blouse that came up to her knees, the blouse had a low V-cut aroundher neck reaching her chest exposing her well-endowed assets slightly. The dress hadstains on the hems around her knees, a sign that it was not cleanly washed.She looked at herself in the mirror, her charcoal eyes lost their gleam, staring back ather was a lifeless version of herself; how she, was feeling, her true self appeared in themirror as if it was judging the mask she had adorned.A knock on the door alerted Marietta. She turned from the mirror and hurried to openit. “Yes?”The door swung open and standing before her, was a woman with short wavy black hairand black eyes wearing a white and black maid uniform. “It's time to go,” The maid said,every word sounded like cold water poured on Marietta's shoulders.Marietta nodded. “Thanks for coming to get me Roxy,” She expressed her gratitude forthe woman in front of her with a smile showing her fangs slightly.Marietta left the room and made her way to the main hall.She entered the main hall and walked on the red carpet on the floor, she glanced aroundat the other shifters. She hung her head shielding her eyes with her hair. Their snickersirritated her, she wanted to clutch her ears with her hands, her fingers twitched as sherefrained from the impulse to do that and took the stand beside the others.She slightly elevated her eyes to look at the podium in front of them. She lowered hereyes instantaneously avoiding the glare from the red eyes belonging to their soon-to-bealpha, Silas William Laufey.You know pup, that's not the way to look at her. Silver said disturbing Silas.Silas rolled his eyes and clicked his tongue. She was like all the beta females in the pack,
but something about her made him loathe her, You won't understand Silver
But I do understand, you harbor loathing for her because of something she cannot change.
Shut up Silver! I don't need you pitching in.
One way or the other, you can feel the pull she has on you, it's undeniable. She will soon be
your mate.
Silas chuckled. That's rather stupid to say, how could she be my mate? She doesn't even
have her wolf. There's no way she would be the one destined to spend eternity with me.
Mark my words. Silver's last response as he receded into the subconscious of Silas, his
blue eyes flashing in the darkness briefly.
Silas clicked his tongue again, he tightened his hand to a fist. Silver was unwise, did he
truly believe that he was going to settle for someone not off Alpha bloodline? Fat
chance.
A man with faded black hair and blue eyes stepped forward, his elderly gaze glanced at
the partakers of the ceremony before leaning to Silas, then back to the pack. “Esteemed
pack members, once again we are gathered here for the upcoming ceremony, where our
young ones will be full members of the pack.”
The shifters went silent as the compulsion from their Alpha compelled them. The hall
fell silent.
Reed looked at his pack with a critical eye, the participants of the ceremony were under
his scrutinising eye; especially Marietta, this was her last time trying to awaken her wolf.
If she did not awaken, he had to do what was best for the pack, release her from his
protection.
“Under the moonlight, the elders shall begin the ceremony! Let us make haste.”
The doors leading to the foot of the mountain were opened. The fresh musky breeze of
the woodland washing into the hall.
Marietta held her breath. The path before them was a path she dreaded to take.
Thinking about it made her stomach churn with displeasure, distaste rolling on her tongue making her want to barf.
One by one, the partakers of the ceremony left behind the Alpha and his son, Marietta
closed her eyes again as she began to move in a line with the others.The sharp stones pierced her foot as she got outside, she was barefooted unlike theothers who were given shoes. She bit her lip to occupy her mind from the pain pulsingthrough her right foot. She kept repeating ‘ it was going to be on.’ over and over in hermind as she made her way to the summit.She looked up at the sky suddenly, the bright silver moon looked like wax melting in hereyes, the starry midnight blue sky gave her heart solace; she stopped for a second, hereyes staring at the moon, every second that passed the moon drew nearer to her..One of the pack members in the ceremony with her bumped into her, snapping her outof her trance. Marietta mumbled sorry and proceeded up the mountain, the dread shewas feeling gone.The pack made it to the summit and Marietta along with the other young adults took astand in a line before the pack elder.The elderly woman walked forward, in her hand was a small bowl with a substance thatlooked like darkness. The slush within the bowl would casually shake with her steps.She started with Marietta who was at the left side of the line. Her long nails dipped intothe bowl and she brought her hand back, pressed a nail on Marietta's forehead and slidit down between her eyes to the bridge of Marietta's nose blood mixed with the goorolled slowly from the path the elder woman made.With the initiation done, she went to the next one beside Marietta and did the sameprocess. The result was instantaneous as the 18 year old beside her let out a howl; ahowl so loud the trees reverberated with its intensity. He got on the ground andtwitched as his body started to morph, the joints changing to match that of a canine.Howls of pain followed after the second one and the rest aside from Marietta began towrithe on the ground in pain.Marietta closed her eyes, a tear escaped her closed eyelid. This was it, she had failed toawaken her wolf yet again.Her heart felt heavy, and constricted. She gasped for air as the sorrow from her brokenheart tore through her mind sending signals to the lungs that she cannot breathe.Calm down child.
A voice brought Marietta to her senses, she snapped open her eyes and gasped once
more as oxygen flooded her lungs allowing her to breathe again.Her frightened eyes danced around her vicinity, the elders, the alpha they were gonefrom her sight. She was standing on top of a lake, the water below her had petals ofcherry blossoms and she could see the bottom.“Who is there?”It is me pup, your wolf. The water slowly rose to a height just a bit above that of anormal human. It dissipated and in its stead was a wolf with white fur, red eyes andblack paws..The wolf howled and wiggled its tail. Why did you take so long to get here? I've waited fortwo years for you to reach out to me.Marietta's eyes were wide as saucers, she could not believe her eyes. She had a wolf, sheactually had an inner wolf. That meant she was not a failure, her dreams were slowlybeing recognized, she was a step away from leaving the cursed place.I see you are still stunned, my name is Monica pup. Monica hopped over to Marietta andsnuggled against her.Instinctively, Marietta rubbed her fur, her hand melted into Monica's fur. “Why didn'tyou wake up that day? You must have known how I felt.”Monica nodded and sat down on the water. You see, it wasn't that I didn't wake up thatday, I did wake up but the moon goddess had restricted me from appearing to you. I wasnot ready to awaken.“Why would the moon goddess do that? "I don't know myself but it has something to do with your lineage, you are special.Marietta chuckled bitterly. “I'm anything but special, I'm a disgrace. I have no parents, Idon't know who they were or if they wanted me. Maybe I was just a mistake?”Monica licked her face. You aren't a mistake, what you seek is not there but here.She placed her paw on Marietta's chest to emphasize her point and what she meant.It's time you go bwck, don't worry I'm with you now. Monica said as she nudged Marietta with her nose.Marietta opened her eyes and looked at the elder who was staring at her.
The stare from the elder made her quite uncomfortable and she asked a questionquietly. “What's the matter,”“Impossible…” The elder whispered, eyes wide open as she stared at Marietta .Marietta raised an eyebrow and looked at her feet. It was then she saw what the elderwas seeing.A rose petal, the size of a basketball drew itself on the earth, the moonlight gentlyclandestine her body showering her with luminescence, making her glow.The glow made Marietta take a step back, her eyes flashing red. She was assaulted bycrystal clear sight, the darkness in the trees fading away making night turn to day.“What's happening to me?”The elder's shock turned into excitement, she reached for Marietta's hands and herwrinkled epidermis was reverted back to its healthy shape as soon as she made contactwith the moonlight. The elder looked at her hand, the moonlight had restored it.“Don't be afraid child,” She soothed Marietta with her soft vocals and kind words. Herhand held Marietta's and she slowly walked back, allowing Marietta to come to her tothe altar.Marietta resigned to her situation, the vision, the hearing, the sensory devices thatflooded her sensory senses were all new to her. She had anticipated her wolf awakening,dreamt about it days on end. But now, she was more scared than excited,Every step she took, her legs wobbled as her joints tried to reconfigure themselves tomatch Monica but they couldn't.Marietta and the elder stopped on the altar, her feet on top of the clan crest.The moonlight radiated intensely as the clan crest resonated with her presence, thewolf crest hidden by the sand glowing crimson and manifesting to the others.This was truly a one of kind phenomenon, one not seen in centuries.Silver who was observing to the ceremony through Silasʼ eyes howled. That's her pup!! I told you that she was our mate and you didn't believe me.Silas gritted his teeth; for the love of the moon goddess she could not fathom such
thing, it made his stomach twist in disgust, she was not of noble blood, did not belong tothe consort of the alphas as well and their beloved goddess choose her, the worstcandidate to be his mate.She was plain looking, had no redeeming quality, was always pitiful and dirty covered ingrease and grime even as he was looking at the spectacle that had ensnared everyoneinto watching.“She will never be my mate!” Silasʼ growled unaware that his voice not only gottransmitted to Silver in his ear but to his father and mother.His eyes bled charcoal like Silverʼs, his fangs grew a bit and in a blink, Silas was at thealtar, having covered the distance between him and Marietta on the altar in a heart beat.His charcoal eyes bore into Marietta's and he licked his lips, the corners of his mouth tugged upward into a smirk."She's finally awakens! but it's unfortunate".
Marietta's breath hitched in her throat, her nostrils were assaulted by the fresh scent ofthe river stream, a musky mud odour and the ambers of a burnt oak tree. In her mind,she could hear Monica whistling and howling to the top of her lungs, Marietta got animage of a cub dancing around, tail wiggling in the air and tongue out of her mouth.A shadow covered her vision, she looked up and a tint of red covered her face, from theleft to the right. The scent she had smelled earlier twice as strong. She raised her eyesslowly; taking in the person in front of her, from his semi-buttoned up blue shirtexposing his chest, to the small but visible Adam's apple, to the his hair which was darkas the darkness around them. His sharp jawline, thin lips curved into a smirk and thosetwo onyx orbs that bore into hers.Marietta saw the world through those eyes, she was stuck in place, her mind and bodyresigning to the domineering presence of Silas. His words sounded like melodies to her.He's he
Marietta Halls, as the alpha I. Silas William Laufey the III reject you as my chosen mate.”Marietta watched with wide eyes, she sank to her knees, her hand around her chest asSilasʼ words repeated in her mind. She let out a blood, curling scream of agony. Blooddripped from her mouth, ears and eyes as the consequences of the mate bond beingsevered hit her.She fell forward into a pool of blood her eyes stared at Silas and Lolla who were laughingat her, her body went cold and slowly her eyelids closed.*Dream end*Marietta jumped from her bed with a scream. Beads of sweat dripped from her foreheadmaking her hair stick to it and the nape of her neck.“it was all a dream.” She glanced at the clock on the bedside, it was 1 am in the morning.Sighing knowing that she was never going to return to sleep, Marietta got out of bedand got herself ready.Ever since she awakened her wolf two weeks ago, she had constantly had the samenightmare. Silasʼ breaking their mate bond and subjecting
Chapter 4: PAIN 2Reed raised his eyes hearing Marietta he got to his feet as the young woman approached him. “Sorry for dropping by unannounced but I wanted to speak with you.”“It's alright Sir, want to come inside?” Marietta opened the door and walked into the house.Reed walked behind her, he closed the door on his way in and took a seat around the table. He glanced around the house, the oak wood that made up the walls was as healthy as he remembered, the cabinets had little specks of dust on the tops, the floor was sparkling clean he could almost see his reflection. The house was cosy, he found himself enjoying being in the house.Marietta went to the kitchen and prepared them coffee. She came back after several minutes placed the cup of coffee in front of Alpha Reed and took the seat across the table. “You said that you wanted to talk to me about something Alpha Reed, what was it?”Reed took a sip from the coffee, he looked inside the cup and then at Marietta as a burst of flavo
“ Do you know who she is?" Monica asks floating in the air, blue smoke emerging from her body, glaring daggers at Silas. It took a while for Silas to recover from the shock he was in, blinking a few times before letting his pried talk for him. “ Do I look like I care?" Monica fell in rage and the smoke immediately turned to blood red. She launched at him, attempting to kill him but Reed stepped in front of his son causing Monica to stop in her tracks. “Please, forgive my son, he is foolish and prideful, I failed to reach him properly." " Indeed, you have, he has the power and the authority of an Alpha but he is prideful and doesn't think about the consequences of his actions.” Silas felt angry at his father for pleading on his behalf, he attempted to push his father aside but Reed didn't move. “ Who…who are you and how did you come out of that child?” Thalia asks, still in shock at the whole drama. Monica looked at Thalia and the once blood-red smoke returned to its blue form.
Sorry, I came here unannounced again." “Again?" Marietta looked at Alpha Reed with confusion at why he said ‘Again’ when he had never been to her house except now. “Oh, sorry. I forgot you lost your memories and didn't remember anything until a year ago.” “It's not a problem Alpha. Please come inside.” Marietta said and unlocked the doorknob, inviting the Alpha into her home. Marietta was glad she had arranged her home earlier that morning because if Alpha Reed had come a day before or yesterday, she would have wished the earth would open up and swallow her whole. “Would you like a cup of coffee, tea, beer, juice, or water?” Marietta asked walking towards the kitchen. “Don't you think that I'm too old to drink coffee, beer, and juice?” Alpha Reed asked with a smile. Marietta felt stupid immediately he replied to her question and the thought of hiding in the kitchen for a while, pretending as if she was making tea ran past her mind in a flash. “So, tea it is?” “Tea, it is.”
“Miss…miss are you okay?” The stranger asked, looking at Marietta with an emotionless gaze. Marietta looked at him with shock in her eyes and whispered to herself, “Was I daydreaming? I can't believe I was daydreaming.” The unknown man looked at her suspiciously before asking, “Is your leg okay?” “My, my leg?” Marietta asked, snapping her eyes away from him and looking at her wet leg. “Oh, it's okay, I'm fine,” she said, scratching her head and smiling shyly. “That's good.” The unknown man stood up and looked at her with a lazy eye. “My name is Harley Montgomery, I'll pay for the damage I did to your Snickers.” “My snickers, what happened to my shoe?” she asked and looked at her foot to see her shoe already drenched in coffee. “You don't need to worry yourself, it's okay, I have another pair of new sneakers,” Marietta said, searching through her bag and suddenly remembered that she left it at home. “You know what, I'll just go buy a new pair in a nearby mall…in an hour or tw
Chapter 8 Memories It's been two weeks since Harley and Marietta met. It was past midnight and ding was heard in a silent room. Harley was on the balcony with a glass of wine in his hand. Went into the room, picked up his phone from the table, and went back to the balcony. He looked at the message that was written and who it was from. “Why hasn't she slept yet? It's past midnight. Hm, I didn't know she was a night owl.” “:I couldn't.” He hummed and told her not to worry about it and switched it off. He was about to dip it back in his pockets when he suddenly thought about something. “Why not have a little fun.” He said to himself with a smirk. : “We only met two weeks ago and you keep trying to talk to me at every chance you get, you know that's called trying to act clingy right, or do you want me that much?” **** Marietta stared at the message on her phone and was dumbfounded. She didn't know what to say and kept repeating the words in her head. She dropped the phone on th
“You have to come with us to our pack and you can't refuse,” Harley said standing up. “Pack your things, but only the important ones, leave clothes out of it so no one would suspect you left.” “Your pack and my pack have been rivals forever, why are you helping me?” “You were taken out of the pack, so you are no longer a member of the Laufey pack. Does that answer your question? If so, let's get going.” Marietta looked at Zack in shock but he didn't look surprised so she decided to do as Harley had instructed, he's the Alpha after all. **** Three hours later, Marietta, Harley, and Zack arrived in front of the Montgomery pack. Marietta sighed, “ I'm back here. I didn't know your pack was this beautiful.” “That’s because you never left your pack,” Zack said smiling childishly at her and both Harley and Zack started walking towards the pack house. “Hey, wait for me!” Marietta yelled, running after them. Catching up to them and panting, “Goodness, I'm…I think I'm out of…of breat