Akira woke up that next morning with a resolve to win. She was scared going toe to toe with a werewolf;a jealous one at that but that didn't matter, she was not going to back down.She walked out quietly out of the room to avoid detection by Kai.What she needed to do did not need his interference.“Rune!” She called, knocking repeatedly at his door. He responded after a few minutes,his expression was filled with irritation.“What are you doing up so early?” He asked.“I need lessons, how do I win Eliza in this fight?” Rune rubbed his eyes and let out a wide yawn, “it's three in the morning….”“The earlier the better…”“Go back to bed, we still don't know anything about the time and venue for the Shadow dance. I think we should hold on for now.”“If you won't help me,I'll ask one of the guards to do that for me.”“Just go to bed.” Rune answered drowsily.She walked away and headed down to the main hall in the pack house. It was quiet and chilly, after all it was still three in the m
Kai had let his temper get to him so much so that he forgot he was dealing with Orion.“Just get on with it, whatever happened here should be none of your business if I say so myself.” He said."You had better start talking,what happened here?” Orion asked.Kai remained silent.“Fine,you do not have to tell me what happened, but I would like to know how your plan went.”Kai sighed, Orion was too good with whatever this was. He was not going to give up. Not until he gets this information from him at least.“She refused to call off the challenge.” “And why is that ? Did you try asking her nicely? You do know that being polite is a game changer when it comes to requests.”“I did!” Kai barked.“Not with that attitude.” Orion retorted as he took a seat, "I don't even want to help you out anymore with that tone”“Oh stop it!” Kai said as she sat opposite Orion, “this is more serious than we thought. Eliza is out to kill Akira.”The smile wiped off Orion's face. Not if he could help it.He
“You may return and tell the alpha that I have gotten his summons if that is necessary.” Eliza responded to the messenger who had come bearing the message.She waited till he shut the door tightly behind him before she did a little victory dance.“Took him long enough.” She muttered as she composed herself, “he had better be sensible with whatever this meeting entails.”She rushed to her dresser and pulled out a drawer containing various shades of lipstick.She took careful glances at all of them as though she was about to diffuse a bomb and picking the wrong shade might just set the entire pack house on fire.After careful consideration she settled for one out of the many shades and applied it generously on her lips.“Either he marks me tonight or I do,one way or the other someone is leaving with something”…………….Kai pondered hard on how he was going to go about the entire situation. He could use force but that would be as futile as trying to boil stones till it's tender.There was
“What in the name of…..oh,.Kai?” Orion muttered as his eyes fluttered to get accustomed to the light.“I had no idea when you all came in. hHow long was I asleep for?” Akira pulled out her phone and handed it over to him.“Oh my!” He gasped as he got out of bed,the heavy ceremonial robe which he slept in last night made it a whole lot harder.“How tired were you last night?” Akira asked.“You do not want to know.” He answered as he made his way to the dresser as they all waited.“Really? I would love to know, you slept in your shoes Orion and not to mention….”“The barrier!” Orion gasped.“That.” Akira said she smacked her lips and has a seat in one of the sofas present.Orion stepped out wearing a plaid shirt and plain pants. Pretty casual.He took one look at all of them and he knew that something was amiss and he didn't need divinity before he realised how hard it would be for them to speak up.“So?” He asked, “is anyone going to speak up?”No one answered.“Is this about the m
Orion dragged himself drowsily to his bed. It had been a really long day for him and everyone in the pack house but for him especially.He nearly missed his bed when he tried to jump into it;he was that tired.He was still clad in his ceremonial robe and his shoe.As much as they hurt him he was too lazy to take them off. He was a perfect example of “that's tomorrow's problem” at that moment.The neon light from his bedside digital clock told him it was way past midnight.His plan was simple: sleep till he was assumed to be dead.It took not more than a minute after his bodily contact with his bed when he slept off, his snores louder than ever.“Knock knock!!!! ORION” someone called while knocking at the door.He muttered curses under his breath at the disturbance, he could have sworn that he had not slept for more than thirty minutes and now he was rudely awakened from his sleep.“Knock knock!” came the annoying sound again.“Go away!” he said, his voice barely louder than a Whisper.
“You look tired…” she muttered as Kai walked into the room.He has been away the entire day with Orion, she could not help but imagine how Orion was crashing into his bed at the moment.Her heart felt sorry for him.Kai, who noticed that his weakness made Akira sad, tried to put up a front.“Well, I am not, what do you need me for? Is there a monster you'd like me to slay? Is there a jar you're having difficulty opening or?”“Or?” Akira asked.“Do you want me to touch you?” He asked as he pulled her closer by the waist with his free hand tilting her chin.Akira chuckled, This strengthened Kai who planted a kiss on her lips.He could tell what she had for dinner,fruit salad. Funny but he observed she wasn't into heavy eating at night.“Kai,you do not need to do anything for me,today drained you. I know you're tired too. I just hoped that we would have time to go out on that date.”Kai sighed as he broke free and went straight to taking off his clothes.“Well? How did it go?” He didn't