*VENUS's POV*  "How is this any fun?" I scrunched my nose in annoyance. After Seff told me he'd show me somewhere 'fun', he immediately led me to a night arcade inside a landmark. Of course, since I've been to places so many times before, I was very much familiar with how things go from here.And believe me, not once I felt the word 'fun' from experiencing it at hand."Don't be such a killjoy and try it once, here." He says and picks up the toy gun from the wooden tableThere, a guy in the booth clapped as he anticipated our participation in his game. It was named 'Pop a balloon.' All you need to do is shoot three same balloon colors consecutively to get a pr

 The moon began to show from behind the pine trees, a fresh, dewy mist began to rise, and stillness reigned over our surroundings. While Seff left with no other words left to say, we all stood there and watched.Something's wrong, but I can't seem to see it.I furrowed my eyebrow. This is the first time I've seen him so speechless. He'd usually get over it by saying a joke or something, but to think he'd leave so silently like that.Easton comes up to me, "Alpha, what happened? What did you say to Alpha Seff for him to make such a face?""Nothing, just something he needed to hear.""You should've beaten him alpha, that guy is too cocky," Noah complains.

His hesitation didn't last long. After he checked if there were no people around us, he quickly walked up to me and grabbed my arm. He was frantic. He kept looking at the bodies and the blood that dripped below my mouth, and it was apparent what he was thinking.I'm not really one to care, but for some reason, I did at the moment.I feign a smile. "Are you surprised because I'm naked or because you know that I ate their bodies?"Not minding my question, he took off his big grey shirt and went ahead with putting it onto my body as if he was helping a child. My eyebrow furrowed in confusion."Don't talk. We have to get out of here first." He says, his eyes filled with worry.After that, he quickly picked me up bridal style before we ran off to the woods. I wasn't sure what to do, so I just went along with what he wanted. As soon as we reached a safe distance from the dead bodies, he finally carefully let me down. For some reason, I felt the mask goin

{"Do you know a woman named Carmilla?"} {"Ha...Carmilla had an offspring? Then that just means that she had long died, right?"} My eyebrow furrowed in confusion. I wondered why my memory was showing the witch's words. Yet more than what she was saying, I was even more bothered at how her eyes almost displayed anxiety and grief. {"I don't know why fate has let us meet, but I surely don't want to be associated with a traitor's daughter."} That word again, 'Traitor's daughter'. Just what did my mom do for her to be bad-mouthed like this by other witches? Still bewildered, my hand carefully tried to reach the stranger in front of me. I knew it was all just was a memory, so why is the witch suddenly saying things I've never heard before? {"What will you do when you realize the consequences you had to take because of your foolish mother?"} What? Just when I was about to answer, I felt my whole body wake up, and my eyes shot open. I p

SEFF's POV "Life is really cruel, don't you think?" I muttered, almost a whisper to the passing air.It hasn't been that long since I started to connect the dots concerning Venus's intentions in Crescent Moon. When Derek said he knew that the assassin who came to his bedroom was his mate, questions began to fill my mind.Like, for instance...Why didn't Derek know his mate was in front of him all along? It was already strange that Venus knew beforehand yet still tried to kill him. I'm starting to wonder, did Venus really try to hurt Derek? My forehead knitted as I tried to think of other reasons.I gave out a huge sigh of frustration.No matter how much I tried to ponder about i