Lahat ng Kabanata ng Prince Alpha's Rejected Maid: Kabanata 151 - Kabanata 160

In the dust that settles at the end of the world, where the only light is the dimness of the dawn, an endless army fights. Magic against teeth. Magic against flesh. The magic has corrupted the leftovers of souls. In the very same dream, a dream within a dream, two small girls, ponytails swaying to their running forms, they sit cross-legged in the field when tired, climb trees like it's the easiest thing to do. Their parents are nowhere to be seen. But they have no care of going supervised or unsupervised. They both look new at this friendship, tentative smiles, offering each other big pieces of food instead of fighting over one, that'd come but much much later. In a dream state like this, Vanessa trained herself to be aware. She knows the story is limitless, nothing but an implant for him to explore her mind. There is a reason her wolf is cross with her. The shield animals naturally build, especially shapeshifters is not only to provide dead ends to external simulation, it is also so

"No. I don't think so. Why go to so much trouble for all the lies?" He was so deep in his thoughts he didn't realise he was covering her body with his, the act instinctive, like they weren't fighting a minute before."Neither do I. But if she really is Ashley...." Oh hell. She was going to cry. She looked like her. She won't be. The same skin, same eyes, only taller. Still like the gangly, tall-limbed kid who is never graceful until one sees them playing sports. Her upper lip thinner compared to the lower one. It'd be weird to have noticed this in a best friend, especially when five years old but she remembered because it was love. A platonic kind but still love. Having sensed the shift in her emotions, Noah kneaded her shoulders."How can she be alive?" Vanessa had asked it the third time. He hated he had no possible theories but false hope in these times was a perfect weapon. His wolf was too sharp to fall for it, she wasn't. "Vanessa. The bastard is using her against you. Don'

Vanessa bit her fingers on the way to infirmary, to stop herself from crying. Ian was shifted from the main in-built hospital to the small infirmary with other children. She stopped to peek inside- glass windows clear enough with blinds drawn back. He was with Noah. It didn't shock her. Her shields were tightly jammed, she didn't want Calvin roaming the streets of her psyche, so she didn't let anyone pass. Noah was still fighting her over this. Infact, everyone was. She'd thought Evan would understand, and when they met with sentinels of Serene pack, he'd have her back but he walked out of the room- any room, even kitchen- when she walked inside. She had to smooth her temperament, Ian picked on emotions very quickly. And he had the habit of picking them apart with a pair of tweezers. But the sight was very wistful, of Noah showing him a coin trick, that she was detected. She stood there long enough for two pairs of eyes to look at her and smile. One unabashed in its happiness, othe

"Let's move." She felt red, hot anger coursing in her veins. Thunderous at the suggestion, she snagged her book, left a hot tip under the cup, at least an over tired worker will benefit from her anger to see him wear his glasses with same slick neatness he did everything else and start walking in an opposite direction. What the...Follow him? Or keep her pride and move in other direction? Since the suggestion was hers, shouldn't she be the one leading them? He did know the place better.... "Turns out Jodie. Jodie. Yes. Is that your real name?" No. No it wasn't. She didn't know what her real name was. Issa had told her she was Jodie to them. Wistful, determined Jodie with blondest hair Issa had ever seen. She didn't have any collateral to refuse the suggestion with. What else could she say? Mija had reincarnated her in a way. Created a fake body to leave her old life right where it was. Under the snowshelled mountain, in a silo, deathly pale. That's why death never scared her. She ha

"Where are we on the comms?" Communication centre for their backups on artilleries had been the first target. There was no way to figure out whether further inside the den territory, someone had sneaked in. If not for Vanessa, they couldn't have. Noah's wolf worried on the front that she was shaken up. She kept pulling herself inwards, preserving her body heat. An hour ago, the thin line between death and life had been real. Way too real. Enough to jarr him into anger. Sitting at a conference table, Rhys, Evan, Selene, Selene's Beta Carlos, her strategist Falkner and Silas har their attention drawn to the techie- a young woman, younger than Vanessa, who replayed the clip of the attack. "You are saying it was aerial?" Wolves were rich. The whole race richer than humans but a small attack smack in the face only to prove a point must have costed millions to whoever carried it out. Who had that kind of money lying around? Aerial defence was Selene Pack's weakness. The city relegated