Several thick layers of snow covered everything in sight, from the bare branches of the humongous Pines, to the jagged rocky lands and hill slopes, the solitary flowing river nearby too, was encased in frosty glass. The freezing cold vast stretches of the oddly aligned peaks, that were collectively called the Snowy Mountains, truly lived up to its name, providing a perfect set of conditions to ensure, that a werewolf either gets trained to its best abilities or dies of frostbite, and fortunately all the Alphas that were receiving the training currently, did not experience the latter. The special training camp for Alphas at the Snowy Mountains housed candidates from all places far and wide, almost all of them being absolute strangers to each other, but as the years passed by, most of the Alphas had formed a great bond together and despite being of a reserved nature, Adrian had befriended some amazing Alphas too. “Finally, we’re back, no matter how many times I do this, I’ll never rea

“Happy Birthday Elio!” everyone shouted together, the moment the Omega entered the doorway of his house, just as the joyous chatter of the small crowd, overlapped with the ringing chime of the clock that struck twelve. The hall was decorated brightly with Elio’s favorite pastel colors and sparkly balloons, and only all the closest people to the Omega were invited to their little, surprise party. Elio had a big beautiful smile on his face that matched with his friends and his parents, as the Omega looked at the decoration as well as the decorators, with his maroon eyes glittering in adoration. Maia and Alwyn grabbed each of the Omega’s hands and pulled him towards the center, where his parents stood with a delicious strawberry shortcake. “Thank you so much everyone!” Elio squealed in joy, while he received synchronized kisses on both his cheeks by the Alpha and Luna of the Calyx, and the Omega wiggled his eyebrows teasingly, looking at his father, who threatened to smear icing on hi

“Alwyn we only have tonight to find clues, tell Maia that once everyone goes to sleep, you both come meet me and Adrian in our backyard.” Elio instructed his friend in a low voice, who nodded and walked away to pass it on to his sister. The party was called off for the night, the huge bonfire had shrunken in size too, as a crescent moon glimmered right above it. The gathering had dispersed, but Alpha Fenrys and Adrian decided to stay the night, which made Elio more confident to carry out his plan, he told Adrian everything as they took a late-night walk around the fields, the suspected involvement of the Central with rogues and how Elio had purposely challenged Alpha Enrique, so they could find some solid proof. “You’ve become so brave, Elio.” Adrian complimented, with an admiring smile, to which the Omega giggled and looked at the Alpha with a mischievous glint in his eyes. “Talking about bravery, somebody kissed my hand in front of the entire gathering tonight, what do you have t

“This is definitely that Council member’s doing, he knew Czar would lose in a fair fight, and so he took my sister.” Alwyn spoke with gritted teeth, fisting the bedsheet on Elio’s bed. “We will have to find her, there’s still time till the afternoon, we can do it before that.” Adrian said, from where he was standing. “Yes, we have to, I’m sure they have her captive somewhere around, we all parted at almost daybreak, she must have been taken away after she went in her room to sleep, in the early hours itself.” Alwyn stated, restlessly standing up. “Right, the letter said that we are being watched, meaning they have someone spying on us too, we can’t take the risk of telling anyone else.” Adrian spoke, as he glanced at the Omega, who was leaning on the window sill silently. Elio had not said anything since the letter arrived, the Alpha could guess what he was thinking, while he walked towards the maroon eyed boy and gently took his hands in his, gaining his attention. “It is not you

“I was not like this a few years back, I actually quite detested my father for never loving me like a son and always forcing his decisions on me,” Enrique Czar spoke in a tired voice, “I didn’t ever object his behavior too, because I knew it was no use, my mother had abandoned us when I was too young to remember and I was thoroughly lonely for most of my life.” The Alpha let out a sigh. “But then one day, when I went for a casual run in the forest, I stumbled into the most beautiful Omega wolf I had ever laid eyes on, its alluring scent instantly enraptured all my senses and I couldn’t help but want to get closer, but the blue-eyed wolf ran away the first time.” Enrique recalled and Elio didn’t miss the way his lips quirked up in a small smile. “I daily went to that same place, wanting to see that cream-colored wolf again and after a few restless weeks I finally managed to catch it one morning, which is when I witnessed his human form; he was a male Omega,” The Alpha