***I was gasping for air, running so fast in the middle of the woods, avoiding every tree, big or small, blocking me ahead. I didn't know why, but it seemed that someone was chasing me.   I kept on running, even though I didn't know where I was heading to, why I was running and who was hunting me.   Then a powerful voice said, 'You should stay alive, Blaze.'   My heart raced! I ran even faster, afraid to be caught. However, he had overtaken me and blocked my way. But to my surprise, the one who's running after me was a... white wolf?***

  **** FLASHBACK ****   My dad went home three days after his important trip.   "Dad!" I exclaimed as I excitedly ran to him when I saw him coming into our house.   He smiled as he bent and opened his arms, ready to give me a warm hug.   I happily encircled my arms around his neck. Then he carried me up in his embrace. After a while, he sat down on the couch and let me sit on his lap.   "How's my mira (daughter)?"

 My dad walked towards me. His powerful temperament being an Alpha earlier became soft as he moved near me. Then he hugged me so tight. It touched my heart. He's still the loving father I used to know. Then tears filled my eyes as I felt how much he missed me through his warm hug. And I missed him as well. My dad withdrew his arms from me. Then he asked while wiping the tears from my cheeks. "Ayira, why did you run away? Do you know how worried I was when you left?" I knitted my brows. Then I shoved his hands away as anger rushed through me as I remembered what he did to me and what he did fifteen years ago.

  Ayira's POV   "From now on, never leave my side, okay?" Blaze whispered in my ears while I was in his warm embrace.   Almost every night, I dreamed of that scene when Blaze told me those words. And it was almost every night I would wake up with tears in my eyes.   Like now, I woke up in the middle of the night crying.   I got up off my bed and walked towards the window and opened it. Then I rested my arms and chin on the stool and looked up at the waxing gibbous moon with melancholy in my eyes.

  My heart was racing in my chest as I marched down the aisle because I had a lot of mixed emotions about this marriage, knowing that it was not my destiny to marry Evan.   I knew very well that I was destined to be with Blaze, my mate. That's why I couldn't understand why destiny let me meet him or I should rather ask why we became mates, if, in the end, we would not be together. If in the end, we would only fight each other.   Sigh. I shouldn't be thinking of Blaze anymore. It's not right. But what could I do? I couldn't help myself thinking of him as my heart was shouting, firmly opposing this marriage.   Nonetheless, my mind won over my heart as I already accepted that it was my fate. I had no other choice but to embrace it wholeheartedly.   Because sometimes the more that we fight for our destiny, the more we hurt ourselves, the more we suffer in misery. Thus, I let myself go with t