"Hi, yes you aren't dreaming, it's the chubby Kelly," I say inwardly as I see the unhappy face expression of Jason who is disheartened. The guests laugh at us. They call our couple all sort of names. "The prince charming and the pancakes' eater Kelly" is one I can sadly remember." "I, Jason Bentley of the South pack, reject you Kelly Thompson as my mate and the Luna Queen," he declared fiercely. *** Kelly Thompson, an eighteen-year-old curvaceous and wolfless she-wolf, has been quietly admiring Jason Bentley, the heir apparent to the throne of the dominant South pack, for a number of years. Unfortunately for Kelly, she doesn't get the same attention in return from Alpha heir Jason, as the handsome daughter of his old father's Gammas, Betty Nord, is already the love of the pack's future Alpha. But, the plump Kelly has an advantage over the skinny Betty because of a strong vow made by Jason's father, the Alpha King Don Bentley, that his son will marry the daughter of his Betas who gave their lives two years ago in a fight against the North pack's fiercest adversaries in order to preserve the life of the Alpha heir. But clearly, nothing goes as smoothly as Kelly imagines.
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Oh moon goddess, I can’t help but feel so attached to him, yet it’s heartbreaking that he’s never once looked my way with those dangerously attractive blue eyes. No, instead, his thoughts and affections are glued to that annoying girl, Betty Nord. Ugh, it’s infuriating!
But honestly, why am I even bothering? My parents, loyal betas to Alpha King Don Bentley, made the ultimate sacrifice two years ago during the deadly battle against the North pack to save his son, Jason.
In acknowledgment of their bravery, the Alpha King boldly declared, “The daughter of the Thompsons will marry my first son, the Alpha heir Jason Bentley, on her eighteenth birthday, once she’s awakened her wolf.”
I have to admit, I loved every bit of that speech at my parents’ funeral for one big reason: I had a secret crush on Jason, but I never had the guts to tell him.
Of course, Jason was already smitten with that girl Betty. He’s like a lovesick puppy chasing after her just because she looks just like his late mother, Jane Bentley, who died giving birth to him. Ever since, the Alpha King has been alone.
Jane was this tall, slender blonde who was also a Luna Queen. Her light green eyes sparkled like emeralds, making her look like a goddess among humans.
Now, me? I don’t resemble her at all. I’m eighteen, standing at 1.65 meters and weighing 85 kilograms. With my black hair, brown eyes, and pale skin marked by generous curves, I guess it's safe to say I’m a proud, chubby werewolf gal.
The big issue? I still haven’t gained my wolf, and that’s beyond frustrating. Even that unbearable Betty has already gotten hers and left our pack to train as a nurse in the East pack school, our ally.
So, this morning, I found my way to the pack’s temple. I lit some incense sticks and prayed to the goddess for my wolf.
Not sure if she heard me, but when I got back to my room, I got the shocking news that I’m supposed to marry Jason.
I found out that the Alpha King had gone straight to his nineteen-year-old son and told him it was time to marry.
Unsurprisingly, Jason wasn’t thrilled about it and even had an argument with his father. But the Alpha King, using his royal authority, got Jason to agree to the plan.
Jason even asked the ruler of the South pack to pick a date for the wedding.
“Tonight at midnight,” the Alpha King declared, his voice booming.
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11 PM (ONE HOUR UNTIL THE FULL MOON)
Jason is waiting for me, looking bored, while I can hear the other young werewolf girls behind him gossiping about me, the bride they’ve dubbed “the luckiest ugly girl in the whole world.”
Suddenly, the choir strikes up a beautiful melody to signal my arrival. I catch Jason glancing at his watch; it’s 11:30 PM. A faint smile creeps onto his face, probably because he thinks this nightmare is finally coming to an end.
As I step in, I feel my face going paler; I have no clue what to expect from my groom.
“Hi, yes, you’re not dreaming, it’s the chubby Kelly,” I think to myself as I see Jason’s disappointed expression.
The guests are laughing, tossing around names for us. "The prince charming and the pancake lover, Kelly" is one that sticks with me.
I stand next to Jason, and he doesn’t even look at me. I can feel his embarrassment as we both turn to the priest, Dan Tommy.
The Alpha King locks eyes with me and asks how I’m feeling.
“Great,” I say, forcing a smile.
“Are you ready for what you know?” he asks.
I’m confused.
Just then, the clock strikes 11:59 PM, and a small light in the star-filled sky starts to grow. With each second, it becomes brighter until, at midnight, a full moon hangs above. I can feel my body starting to quiver. This is it—my first shift.
My fancy wedding dress rips apart as my bones shift and snap, fur sprouting all over. My face elongates and morphs into a terrifying snout, completing my transformation into a massive wolf. Guests scream in panic and start fleeing.
The Alpha King remains disturbingly calm and tries to restrain me, but I accidentally crash into a curtain, getting hopelessly tangled up. I fight against the fabric, but soon weariness takes over, and I collapse. The guests breathe a sigh of relief as I shift back into my human form.
“Hello, Kelly,” another voice echoes in my mind.
There she is! I finally have my wolf, Sherry.
But my excitement fades quickly during the hurried wedding ceremony as I notice Jason’s indifference. He doesn’t even recall our wedding night. To drown his sorrows about this forced marriage, he drank heavily from the mini-bar and passed out. It’s been an awkward silence ever since.
Before I know it, I realize I’m pregnant with his pup.
“I promise we’ll take great care of him; he’s ours,” Sherry says enthusiastically.
Yes, our baby pup.
For the first time, a sense of hope for the future washes over me.
**Kelly Thompson's POV**The forest isn't a forest anymore.It's a *museum*.Trees stand petrified, their bark replaced by veins of obsidian and quartz, leaves fossilized into shards of jagged glass. The air smells of burnt sugar and rust, the ground crunching underfoot like shattered bone. The Silence didn't just retreat-it *curated* this place. A trophy room for the apocalypse.Eden's absence is a phantom limb. The static in me is quieter now, a distant hum where there was once a roar. I don't know if it's fading or if I'm just learning to ignore it.A sound slices through the stillness-a child's laugh, high and bright. It's coming from a clearing ahead, where the trees part to reveal a cottage. Not the cabin we burned, but something older, its timber warped into unnatural angles, its windows glowing with a sickly green light.The door creaks open."You're late," says a voice.A girl sits at a table inside, her back to me. She's pouring tea into cracked porcelain cups, steam rising
**Kelly Thompson's POV**The shore isn't a shore-it's a *threshold*.Black sand shifts like living static beneath our boots, each grain humming with the residue of dead timelines. The army of echoes crawls from the depths, their bodies skeletal amalgamations of every version of us that ever fell: wolves with Eden's face, storms with my hands, fragments of Kael and Lila stitched together in mockery. They don't attack. They *watch*, hollow eyes tracking our every breath.Eden's hand trembles in mine. He's colder now, his pulse sluggish where the Song once roared. "They're waiting for something," he murmurs.The sky answers.It splits like rotten fabric, spilling a viscous light that doesn't illuminate-it *dissects*. The air curdles, thickening into a syrup that coats my tongue with the taste of iron and forgotten words. From the fissure drifts a child, her bare feet dangling above the sand. She's no older than ten, her skin translucent, veins glowing with black liquid. Her eyes are pool
**Kelly Thompson's POV**The storm isn't a storm-it's a *mouth*.A vast, yawning chasm splits the horizon, its edges lined with jagged teeth of obsidian and starlight. The air hums with a subsonic growl, the ground trembling as if the earth itself is being digested. Eden staggers, his scars now blackened fissures leaking a viscous, iridescent fluid that hisses where it strikes the soil. The melody in him is no longer a hum-it's a *drone*, a dirge that makes my teeth ache."It's not the Maestro," he says, voice fraying. "It's... hungrier."The chasm exhales.A stench rolls over us-decayed meat and burnt sugar. Shapes writhe in the darkness below, too large and too many-limbed to name. Eden grips my arm, his fingers slick with that strange fluid. "We can't fight this.""We don't have to," I lie.A bridge forms from the chasm's teeth, slick with saliva that glows faintly green. At its center stands a figure, humanoid but wrong, its limbs too long, its head a faceless orb etched with rune
**Kelly Thompson's POV**The storm isn't a storm-it's a *reckoning*.The sky fractures, shards of light and shadow raining down like glass. The ground beneath us is no longer solid; it shifts and writhes, a living thing made of whispers and static. Eden stumbles, his scars flickering faintly, the melody in his veins a ghost of what it once was. He grips my arm, his breath shallow, his eyes wide with a fear I haven't seen in him since he was a child."It's not the Maestro," he says, his voice trembling. "It's... something else."I nod, my own pulse quickening. The air is thick with the scent of ozone and something metallic, like blood but sharper. The horizon is a jagged line of broken light, and from it emerges a figure-not cloaked in shadows or crowned in lightning, but *woven* from the fabric of the storm itself.Its form is fluid, shifting between human and wolf, storm and void. Its eyes are twin voids, its voice a vibration that resonates in my bones.*"You have broken the symphon
**Kelly Thompson's POV**The coast isn't a border-it's a wound.Saltwater foams crimson where it meets the shore, the tides clawing at cliffs pocked with caves that hum in discordant harmonies. The sky here is a sickly silver, the stars blotted out by a haze that isn't cloud or smoke but something *older*, a residue of the Veil's decay. Eden walks the shoreline ahead of me, his shadow fractured by the void-and-lightning scars webbing his arms. The storm I absorbed thrums beneath my ribs, restless as a caged thing, its voice a static-laced growl. *"This place reeks of her."**Her.* The Weaver.But the Daughters come first.They descend at twilight, riding comets of starfire that crater the beach, their silhouettes etched in violent light. The tallest steps forward, her hair a cascade of dying constellations. *"Last chance, sister. Surrender the storm. Or we'll unmake the boy to reach it."*Egen's laugh is a rasp, his fingers flexing as obsidian brambles erupt from the sand. "You're wel
**Kelly Thompson's POV**The silence isn't silent.It's a vacuum, a pressure that gnaws at the eardrums, leaving behind a phantom tinnitus-a high-pitched whine that isn't sound but the *absence* of it. The Valley of Echoes stretches before us, its jagged obsidian spires clawing at a sky stripped of color. Eden's breaths are shallow, deliberate, his hands clenched to stifle the faint hum still leaking from his scars. The Cantor's melody is quieter now, but not gone. A sleeping beast, not a dead one.The Maestro's presence lingers here, heavier, as though the valley itself is his instrument, waiting to be played.Eden signs to me, hands sharp in the dead air: *No sound. They'll hear.*I nod. The Dirge's warning hangs between us-*The Maestro will finish your song.* But the valley's rules are clear: a single footfall, a gasp, a heartbeat too loud, and the Requiem will find us.We step onto the glass-like rock, its surface etched with fractures that glow faintly, like dormant veins. The pa
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