MasukRitaTheir expression was the usual smugness, but except this time, it was rooted in something deep and intense that I could only swallow down, what was hooked up in my guts as I stood to stare back at them.Isabella was the first to speak, scanning the group with her eyes dropping venom. “Mrs. World Heavyweight Championship of the Year,” she sneered. “You probably would be proud of your evil accomplishments, raising your head up high like the champion who had succeeded in winning the competition no one ever entered for you.”“You took away our best friend and Luna, you stole her mate, and as if that wasn’t enough, you manipulated her with your witchcraft into loosening her mind and jumping off the cliffs. How pathetic and evil could your hatred be?”I swallowed hard, looking at the three angry women before me. They had grown a hundredfold in their hatred and fierceness toward me since the entire incident, and I don’t blame them. Losing their friend was hard to take in, just as it had
RitaIt has been hours, or maybe even an eternity, since that bell rang, with a series of unease creeping and uncreeping down my spine. I’ve been frozen in this spot ever since the healer left, my mind spinning with what could be happening in the packhouse.The room is unnervingly still. Even the little air that slips into the space has been calm too. Not too tense, but still fighting with the unease in my guts. And worst of all, I didn't even want to stand up from this position, not because I couldn't or because of fatigue, but due to the fact that I didn't know what to do or what would happen next if I stepped out of this room.My thoughts spiral uncontrollably. If what I fear has happened, it might have been easier to lie down here and never wake again. Because if my worst suspicions are true, Alpha Philips wouldn’t even tolerate the death of his only son and heir. If any harm had touched him, there would have been no escape, no mercy.My heartbeat rose as those thoughts kept growi
Marvin “I still don't know what happened. I can't even put them down or make any sense out of it. When I dropped on the floor, the entire air felt alive, like a hum in my skin. It was real, and then the silent hum of voices came. I didn't see anyone, but I felt their eyes on me, I felt their presence. The spirits were ready to lunge into me, and then I tripped over something hard. And when I looked down, it was her body, laid and smeared with the mud and dirt.She was still, and when realization dawned on me, I screamed.”“I was broken. Completely lost in that moment. I held her, shaking her, hoping she would move, hoping she would breathe. Then I shut my eyes tightly. But when I opened them again, I wasn't in the fog anymore. I was standing on the forest path, the very edge I had jumped down from.”I finished speaking with a certain bitterness in my chest. Just recalling the memory sent a faint tingling through my body, especially when I remembered how I had carried Becky's lifeless
MarvinHe dropped the files one after the other onto the office table before speaking.“Your dad would have kept you updated on the severity and importance of these files,” he began, his tone calm but firm. “But since these past few days have been rough, and with the Luna’s health complications, he instructed me to walk you through them.”He opened the first document, the pages rustling softly.“These concern the four surrounding borders of the pack.”He went on to explain details I already knew, how income flowed into the pack from different sources. The health care facilities. The schools. And most importantly, the mines.He hinted about how the wealth was distributed to maintain the affairs of the pack, mentioning the steady flow of income and the growing prosperity of Silvermoon.After about two hours, he pulled the last document. As he pulled it out, I caught the faint trace of a smug expression on his face before he began.“This one concerns the mines,” he said calmly, though th
MarvinI'm on the roof as I get to see my mum for the last time until I get to meet her again. Tears stung my eyes as they met with her pale eyes that weren't fully closed. She wasn't asleep. She was just… weak. Heavy. Fading.The sight tore through my chest. No matter how many times I prepared myself, I could never get used to seeing her like this, trapped in a body that had betrayed her, surviving on fragile hope when she should have been healed by now. Four years. Four years of darkness. Years of being confined to one place, and only hoping to get well again.And now, I get to say a partial goodbye, which I’m not sure if it would be the only goodbye I ever get to say to her.Her eyelids fluttered faintly. Her lips trembled as though she wanted to speak, but no sound came out. She didn’t have the strength. She could only look at me, and in that look, I saw sorrow. Regret. Apology.This was never the life she had wanted.My mum wasn’t just a mother. She was Luna. A woman adored by h
MarvinI had been staring at that silver blade for a long time, different thoughts sprawling wildly through my head like vines I couldn’t cut down. I didn’t even know what had gotten into me, but by the time my door burst open and two guards stormed in, I dragged my gaze away from the sharp, gleaming edges and lifted my eyes to meet their troubled stares.Normally, I didn’t care in the least; I would have looked away. If it was Rita they had brought any news about, then I’m in no mood to get any more upset than I already was.“Alpha, we are sorry to intrude, but it’s a matter of urgency, and your dad ordered that we get you to his room with immediate effect since you have blocked him out over a couple of times.”“What could that be?” I asked. I didn’t like the way blood was rushing up to my head as they still knelt low on their knees.“It’s about Luna, your mum, she’s…”“What about my mum?” I was already tearing through the door and sprinting in the direction that led to Dad’s room.B







