登入QUEENETH'S POV.
The door opened and the person at the door was not seen.
“My pretty, please check who's at the door.”
I nodded and went to check.
It was Alpha Collins.
“Is Reuben still at home?” he asked
“Yes, he is.”
I wanted to go to the training with Reuben, but as he was already dressed and Alpha Collins showed up at his house, they may have a duty to attend to, which automatically changed my plan.
“Goodbye, Reuben and Success. I'm running late. See you later.’
Reuben smiled at me and Success gave me a cold stare. Bitch.
I walked out of the living room and off to the training ground.
As I was walking down to the training ground, a lot was going through my mind.
I already had a crush on Reuben. The way he takes care of me as though I were his family member made me fall in love with him. Sometimes I wish he would be my mate. We would be great together, and something in me tells me he loves me, too, although he always says that to me anytime we meet.
We never dated or talked about it, but I knew it was going through his mind the same way it's going through my mind. If not that in my pack, it's forbidden for a female wolf to make advances on a male wolf to tell him her intentions, I would have done that to Reuben.
In our pack, it's instructed that everyone keeps themselves for their mate. Sex with other pack members is highly prohibited in our pack. Other packs do it openly, but not in our pack. If caught, it calls for severe punishment. But my instinct kept telling me that Success had already had sex with Alpha Collins, which gave her so much assurance that she was going to be the Luna.
Reuben is the same age as Alpha Collins and has not found his mate. So maybe he is mine and I am his. I’ll not be happy to know that he slept around if he's my mate, but I don't want to hold his past against him.
As soon as I got to the training ground. I saw Reuben's younger sister, Aisha. Aisha is a year older than me. She shifted lady years but has not found her mate. I must confess that she is prettier than I am. She's such a good soul in and out. I’ve watched her on different occasions for years now and she has proved to be a good soul. I love her just the same way I love her brother, and she doesn't joke with me. She takes me as her younger sister she never had.
As soon as she saw me, she rushed and hugged me.
“Good morning, my pretty, in my brother's words,” she said and laughed.
“Good morning, the only one prettier than my pretty.” I snapped and joined her laughing.
She pecked on my forehead.
“I’ve been waiting for you. Why were you late?” she cautioned me just the same way my mother does her rebuking.
“I'm sorry madam.”
“I thought you would be coming with my brother. Where's my brother?”
I let out a short smile.
“I'm I your brother's keeper,” I said, smiling.
“Well, he was the one who delayed me. I went to your house to wait for him but Alpha Collins came visiting.”
Aisha shook her head.
“I thought as much. We’ll have to wait for him to arrive.”
“So Queeneth, what's the preparation for your birthday and first shift tomorrow?”
I hesitated.
“No preparation. I'm just anticipating but bothered at the same time.”
“What is bothering you?”
“I don't know whether I’ll find my mate by tomorrow. I wish I could after meeting my wolf.
Aisha held my waist and pulled me closer gently.
“Don't worry, you'll find your mate. The Moon Goddess will help you and we'll also be with you.”
I felt so much encouraged because I knew Aisha was not mincing words when she said that. If not for her and her brother, I don't know what my fate would be.
We waited and waited for Reuben, but he was not coming forth. The three of us train together. He teaches us a little bit about what they do in their own department during their training session. Both of us trained without her, and after an hour and a half, we were done with our daily training sessions. Reuben was still not back, and we knew he wouldn't be coming again, so we would meet him at the dinner we always went to.
I went home to shower and prep for dinner. I quickly showered and changed into something lighter. I dried my hair and allowed it to fall to my waist.
When I came to the dinner, Reuben and Aisha were already sitting at our usual booth.
“Hey, my pretty,” you look amazing.
I blushed as usual.
“Thank you,” I smiled. “Not as amazing as you do.”
I quickly went and hugged Aisha, who was sitting close to her brother.
“There's something I want to say.” Aisha started.
We all turned towards her direction.
“Something is going through my mind. I'm thinking that Reuben will be your mate, Queeneth and we'll be family.” She said with a big smile on her face.
Immediately, Reuben bowed but didn't say anything. Aisha went close and tapped him.
“Won’t that be beautiful, brother?” She asked.
Reuben raised his face smiling.
“It’ll be beautiful. I’d like that.”
I felt on top of the world and was so surprised that the one I am crushing is also crushing on me, but didn't want to talk about it.
Reuben quickly changed the topic.
“Hey girls, what are we talking about?” he asked.
“Mates,” Aisha said with a huge grin on her face.
“I can't wait to revisit that topic tomorrow.”
Reuben said and winked at me.
We spent the rest of the day talking, laughing, and gisting.
It was late when I got home, I quickly showered, put on my pyjamas, and got under my covers. I can't wait to see what tomorrow has for me.
QUEENETH’S POVI found Success where I least expected her.The old training grounds had been abandoned since the eastern attack. Grass had grown between the cracked stones, and the wooden posts stood crooked beneath the trees.She was sitting on one of them.Waiting.I stopped several feet away.She didn’t look surprised.“You took your time.”My fingers curled.“You knew I was coming?”Success smiled.“I knew you’d come eventually.”There was no weapon in her hands. No guards nearby. No sign she intended to run.“Why are you here?”“Waiting for you.”“Then you know what I want.”Her smile faded.“Who was your master?”For a moment, she looked amused.Then she laughed.“You still think there was only one?”I stared at her.Success slid from the post and stood.“That’s your problem, Queeneth. You’re looking for one person behind all of this. One mastermind pulling every string.”She shook her head.“There wasn’t one.”“Then who gave you your orders?”“Different people.”My stomach tigh
QUEENETH’S POVI remembered the letter.It had been sitting in the back of my mind for years, tucked beneath everything else I had been too afraid to understand.Hilda’s letter.I remembered this letter. I had seen it once before, back when everything between Hilda and Collins had still been buried beneath secrets I didn’t understand.I had read enough to know it concerned Collins.Not enough to understand why.At the time, there had been too many things happening around us. Too many lies. Too many people hiding pieces of the truth.Now, every time I thought about it, one question kept returning.Why had Hilda written it?I found her old belongings in a locked storage room beneath the eastern wing.The room hadn’t been opened in years.Dust covered everything.Broken furniture.Old clothes.Boxes filled with documents that no one had bothered to sort.I searched until my fingers were gray.Then I found the box.My heart started beating faster before I even opened it.The same worn woo
QUEENETH’S POVI found Collins near the eastern wall just before sunset.He was alone.That was becoming unusual these days.There was always someone looking for him. A pack member needing an answer. An elder wanting to discuss the next patrol. A warrior waiting for orders.But tonight, he stood at the edge of the trees with his hands resting against the stone wall, staring into the forest.He didn’t hear me approach.Or maybe he did and simply didn’t turn around.“Collins.”His shoulders moved slightly.Then he looked over.For a moment, neither of us spoke.There had been a time when silence between us felt comfortable.Now it carried too many things we hadn’t said.I stopped a few steps away.“I need to ask you something.”His expression changed.“About the curse?”I nodded.He looked back toward the trees.“I wondered when you’d ask again.”“Then you knew I would.”“I hoped you wouldn’t have to.”I folded my arms.“I’m done accepting half-truths.”That made him look at me.Somethi
QUEENETH’S POVI couldn’t sleep.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Aurelia.Her wrists in chains.Her blood in the silver pool.The crown she never wanted.The people who had taken her story and twisted it until generations of wolves believed she had been chosen by the Moon to rule them.But there was something else I couldn’t stop thinking about.The bonds.Reuben.Collins.Dante.Three names.Three different bonds.Three different moments when my wolf had reacted as if something ancient had recognized them before I ever had the chance to decide for myself.I sat on the edge of the bed, staring at my hands.“How many times?”Amy stirred inside me.“What?”“How many times did they do this?”She didn’t answer.My stomach tightened.“Don’t.”“Queeneth…”“No. You don’t get to do that anymore.”I stood.“You told me about Aurelia. You told me about the bloodline. You told me people had been writing my destiny before I was even born.”My voice cracked.“And now I’m supposed to believe the
QUEENETH’S POVThe old archive smelled like ash.Not the fresh kind that still clung to clothes after a fire, but the stale scent left behind when something had burned so completely that even the walls seemed to remember it.I stood in the doorway, staring at the shelves.Most of the records were gone.The ones that remained had been damaged by time, water, or deliberate hands. Pages had been torn from books. Names had been scratched out. Whole sections of history had been reduced to loose pieces that no longer belonged to anything.And now I knew it had not happened by accident.Someone had been trying to make sure I never found the truth.I stepped inside.My fingers brushed over the spine of an old law book.Aurelia.The name still sat inside my head.Amy had said it like a warning.She was my Queen.Then she had told me the truth about my wolf.An ancient memory sealed inside me.A bloodline someone had tried to erase.The people who wrote my destiny.I pulled the book from the sh
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