“I still want to hold on to my heart, you know,” I said to the beast as I prepared my lightning-fast feet for a Flash-like run. And just like that, I run. Without waiting for any signs if I should. ‘Run, Elaine. Run!’ My chant seems to not work when the entity becomes hellishly terrifying. It leaped on top of the huge rock to where I just puked earlier and gave me a chase. I refrained from looking back and forth and focused my eyes, my feet, and my whole body to just freaking shit run. ‘Just run.’ I told myself, the beast on my tail. I ran faster and quicker than I ever have as if my life depends on this. Well, my life—and my heart—do depend on my running, on how fast I could run. I was running for goddamn I don’t know how many minutes when I reached the spot to where a couple was having sex earlier. Well, the couple is still here—but they are no longer having sex. Blood stained the white sand of this beach. To b

In Elaine’s Dream…I don’t know if this is a dream but this felt good. Very good. He strode down the stone steps until he reached the bathtub, until his body touched the water. I smiled at him as we sat us both down in the golden tub, its edges glinting in every strike of moonbeam. I pushed him off to sink further beneath the surface, filling us with water up to our chest. Tyler picked up a bar of that rose and vanilla soap and handed it to me. “Clean yourself first, before we get dirty.” I could listen to his voice for an eternity. But it was his wink that made me freeze and released. “I could come just by listening to your voice…” I do not know why I said that but I did say that. And I did come. “So, technically, we are now bathing in your come. Your sea of release…” Tyler touched my flesh. My purr of pleasure is a brush of air against his ear. He moaned to my cry that I unleashed, heating the water with more of

“His name is Cerberus. He’s just an ordinary black wolf.” I turned around and found Tyler on my back, chest glinting and muscles tensing. His face is tamed and smiling. “He usually surveys newcomer mortal women here.” Cerberus walked towards me and stopped at my feet. “He’s just a pet wolf here in Stella’s Soul, particularly the Shadow Pack’s pet. See?” Tyler patted the wolf’s head and it wagged its tail like an actual dog. “How do I know if one’s a pet and one’s a werewolf?” I asked. “This.” He hoisted a jewel around Cerberus’ neck. “See this pendant? That’s the symbol of Stella, a waning moon.” I reached for Cerberus’ head and patted it as well. It barked then wagged its tail cheerfully. “He likes you,” my cheeks turned red when he said that. I glanced at the bathtub and my dream last night played again—the moans, our naked bodies, the candlelight… “Do you want to meet Cerberus’ brothers?

“Let’s begin with the different kinds of packs,” I suggested. “I think it is better if I tell you the history on how these Shapeshifters came to find their abode in Moonburn, Washington first.” I nodded my head and noticed Hades trying to lick my hand. We passed to a place I had only seen today in my life: a sea of red grass swaying to every movement of the wind. The sound of male fighting with bare chests and females kicking and grunting reverberating in the scarlet field. “The women you are seeing now are werewolves too. Though, as if the Trinity Goddess have reserved them only as warriors, they couldn’t bear children to their male werewolves.” “Why?” I asked. “It’s a mystery even to the Alphas. Though contrary to werewolves in England, women here are treated nicely even if they're Omegas.” “What’s an Omega?” Melissa and I walked through the red grasses, its length quite tall. “From the Latin word wh

Elaine’s POVI didn’t know that the Lodge is just a few minutes walk away from Selena’s Wall. I didn’t notice that it was the first building that I first saw since I came here. Well, that was dark at that time anyway and my frail body was quivering in coldness. I looked up at Selena’s Wall. It’s so tall, perhaps as tall as the Great Wall of China and it extends to I don’t know where or for how long. All I know is that it separates Moonburn from Stella’s Soul—from the humans to the inhuman. “Elaine!” When I turned to my heel, I saw Melissa treading towards me, Rowena at her side. “How’s the Lodge?” “Well, it was fine. She just informed me the do’s and don’ts of being a Luna.” “Really?” “Yes!” I beamed jovially. “Well, the High Priestess did ask me when I met the Hearteaters…” Rowena and Melissa’s faces were flabbergasted. “What?! You met them?” Rowena asked with a cro