Rendall watched at a hidden corner in dismay at a beaten and battered Helia. He frowned. He had warned her about wandering into the community without an invitation, but she had not listened. She got beaten up because of her stubbornness and despite the pain the two burly men before her had caused her, she refused to kneel at their command on the ground before them. She stared at them defiantly instead.Furthermore, she stubbornly rushed toward one of the hefty men with her fisted hands pointed at him for the hundredth and for the hundredth time, he disappeared immediately she got to him to throw a fist at him and reappeared behind. Rendall winced as he watched the hefty man whip her back.Helia roared angrily. She spun around and went after the man who had whipped her."Leave this place," The other man bellowed."NO!" She roared, and he lunged at her and whipped her at the back again.She shrieked in pain at the impact, and she spun away from the previous man to him. She raised her

"What was your previous name," Rendall asked again. "Talk!""My previous name was O—" the spirit medium paused and smirked."O— what? Go on," Helia coaxed."Olivia," she answered and cackled when she saw the angry expressions on their faces. She had pulled their legs and she enjoyed doing so.Rendall grunted at her angrily and Helia glared at her."I told you the truth. Do you want me to tell you a lie?" She smirked and they frowned at her."Call on Nyx now!" Rendall commanded and the spirit medium raised an eyebrow."You seem to be an Alpha. Interesting, but I'm not a werewolf and I won't do your biddings because you're not an Alpha in the eyes of spirit mediums.""Just do it," Helia snapped."Don't you want to know my other name?""If it isn't Orenda, then we aren't interested," Helia scoffed and the spirit medium frowned."Begin!" Rendall commanded again and the spirit medium nodded. She took off the bag on her shoulders and brought her tools out of it. In no time, she was surround

On the weekend, Selene and Brient decided to have a picnic with Rendall and Helia in a park near their house. In their words, ‘it will help ease the tension that had ensued after Rendall and Helia had returned from Ocean Ville’.Brient and Selene watched Helia and Rendall give each other the stink eye as they sat opposite each other on the mat, and they both realized that the picnic was not working."Come on, the both of you should stop. I baked cookies," Selene said, pointing to the basket between them. "There are delicious cupcakes in the basket too. Everyone should eat and be jolly. There shouldn't be any malice."Rendall and Helia huffed, folded their arms around their chests, and looked away from each other."Enough is enough," Brient snapped as he saw that they weren't ready to talk to each other. "Selene and I won't talk to the both of you until you both reconcile.""Yes," Selene agreed. "We are both tired of the cat and dog behavior you both display. Brient and I will both lea

As she sat behind her screen, Helia glanced at Rendall's seat, expecting to see him seated, but each time she did, she got disappointed."What's wrong?"Helia jolted on hearing Dylan's voice and she craned her neck to see Dylan standing behind her. He looked concerned as he watched her keenly."Nothing's wrong." Helia feigned a smile as she glanced at him, but he looked skeptical. He shrugged and sat on the seat next to hers."Would you be available during the weekend? I wanted us to see a movie together.""A movie?" She asked and he nodded. Helia stared at his face and she saw that it pleaded for a yes. His eyebrows were knitted in worry that he'd get a no from her. "I—" she paused. Her head told her to say yes. Except for the space, Nalea was occupying, of course! Nalea was screaming a big no, and her heart told her the same word.Helia placed her right hand on her forehead as the contrast in her head increased. Nalea wanted her to refuse, but she thought that a date with Dylan wil

"This can't work," Helia said to a wide-eyed Dylan. Everyone present had taken their eyes off the screen to watch them instead."What the fuck is wrong with you?" Dylan was utterly shocked at her reaction."I have a mate," Helia announced, and afterward, she stood up from where she sat and walked out of the room. Dylan watched her go, trying to decipher and come to terms with what had happened.Helia sighed in frustration as she left the room. Tired of how everything had been going, she fell on her butt to the ground and relaxed on the wall behind her. She bowed her head and faced the ground. Helia let the tears she had been holding fall freely to the ground as she messed up her hair without minding what the people passing thought of her."I knew it'll end this way." More tears dropped as she heard the familiar voice."Why are you here?""I followed you." "Life sucks.""Death sucks the most."Helia raised her head and she saw Brient smiling down at her with his right hand stretched t