80  "Mom!" Dashing inside the door, Zander went on his knees with an unconscious Reyne who was dripping wet in green sticky slimy stuff covering every inch of her body. "Zander, Ryley!!! What is this? Is that... Is that Reyne?" His mother was sitting on the couch with Milan by her side, teaching her drawing. But as soon as she witnessed her son and his best friend slump on the floor with an unmoving body of a fragile girl that looked awfully familiar, she left her spot and with a quick run, sat from across Zander on the ground. Her eyes were wide opened, mouth unlatching and latching again and again as she struggled to put her emotions in words. She was beyond petrified. Her hands reached out to touch Reyne's face behind that nasty thick layer of green liquid that had covered her skin while her teeth clenched together. "What happened to her?" Just four words were all

82   "Trust me, I never felt so dumb ever before in my life," Ryley remarked. "I mean... Uh, my father, my alpha father always knew what I had been doing all this while with Valen."   He and Zander had comforted themselves in the guest room as they enjoyed the cool breeze gushing inside the white themed room combined with light emerald color.   His was taken over... By his mate. Though it was not prohibited to walk in his chambers while his mate slept probably in nothing on his bed, Zander acquainted himself in the guest room with his best friend as they talked about the conversation that continued (after forcing it on them) after being kicked out of his room some hours back with their vile fathers.    "Neither did I. I feel like all my secrets have never been secrets but an open message." Zander, whose bare torso was loving the cold assault of twilight air instantly replied, sharing his own fee

84Sun crept up and its golden rays diffused over the horizon, welcoming yet another eventful day. Zander stretched his arms for a second and went back to controlling the steering wheel. He yawned as his sleep was not satisfied. Nor was his body with his mate's fragrance and touch. But here he was, with Wendy, his badass girl. They were off to Reyne's house to bring some of her clothes. Wendy hated it. Oh no, or should we just reveal that she almost kicked Zander to the ground when he called her over to his house for this. For helping him with her clothes. She was mad for disturbing her sleep. And for whom? That bloody migrant bitch who caused a whole lot of chaos between them. "Uh, Wendy, I was thinking of grabbing some coffee from Herman's." Zander spoke, but he must have forgotten that she was MAD at him. Her hard peripheral glare wiped off the layer of fog from his head and helped him reca

86 "How dare you!" Hari rose, his knuckles turned white as he clutched his fingers into a tight fist.   The colour of his face became scarlet. He tightened his jaw while his gaze shot dark glares at them. Between his anger, there was a hint of insecurity that screamed in terror. Terror of losing something precious.   The crescent moon mark on her back below her right shoulder was not known to anyone except for himself and Reyne. Not to forget her mother that delivered her to this world. Because she herself had one on her shoulder.    "Mr. Stark," Ryley interrupted.    He had had enough of the elders and their conversation. It was leading to nowhere but moving round and round. If they really needed to know the backstory then he was certain that this argument was not going to help it.   Someone had to drift the motion of their conversation elsewhere. It was him wh

88 "He was held captive by the old woman since he was a destructive demon who had slaved many girls and destroyed their lives. And the wise woman had caught him once when she went to treat an ill minor girl. She had found the ifrit in her body and after bringing him out, she fought him until he lost and seized him in a cave far away from the human dwellings in a place that was older than our existence. She guarded it with spells and stuff that would keep him locked inside for years until the mining companies and archeologists arrived at the place.    They dug it open and unknowingly released him in the process and he directly flew back to the old woman's place in order to kill her." It sounded like one of the stories taken from Arabian nights' Story book.    Zander and Ryley unquestionably stared at him with dropping jaws and eyes which never blinked. If they had been anime characters stuck in a world of perils or for that