~ZIRA I stared at my reflection in the mirror and a smile covered my face as my wolf spurred within me. I was clad in a perfect dress that hugged my chest and flowed freely down my legs to the ground. They showed off the curves I was said to possess. The dark dress brought out the stormy gray of my eyes and my chestnut hair which was usually a rebel agreed to be tied behind my head in a low ponytail. I felt good and I hoped I was pretty enough to impress the man of my dreams and allow him to accept me as his mate. My wolf stirred at the thought of Arden Blackstone. He had always been around since I was a child. He was my playmate and I grew up to love him. The only person who was a pain was his twin brother. I hoped that Kael would not bother to show up for my mating ceremony. Yet, even as I thought this, I knew it was impossible. Kael would always be by his brother's side. As if on cue, a knock resonated on my room door and I spun just in time to see my mother walk in. She wo

~KAELIn the end, the Alpha died right before my eyes and there was no way I could ask him for the real truth.Arden and Father's laughter filled the room. Father brought out another bottle of wine which had not yet been tampered with. He poured us drinks and handed them to us."To victory!" He announced."To victory," Arden answered but I could not bring myself to say a word. I found myself stuck in a trance. The dead Alpha's words continued to replay in my head. My wolf stirred with uncertainty and nervousness.What real truth was he talking about? What was the true story? Or was he only saying that to get to me? He was a man on the brink of death. What would he gain from telling a lie when he was dying anyway?"Kael? Won't you drink with us? What's wrong? You shouldn't be looking down like this! You should feel alive and celebrate! We won! We have completed our revenge!" Arden exclaimed as he shook my shoulder. Yet, all I could do was stare up at him but without any emotions.Fa

~ZIRAThere was darkness everywhere.Yet there was light in the darkness, like stars in space. This allowed me to see what lay beyond. Yet even with the privilege, I could not see what was at the end of the space.It stretched on for eternity. The darkness was endless, like a void that only brought emptiness. I felt so small within it as if the darkness would consume me.I was standing in this space or perhaps floating, I could not really tell. I tried walking, the darkness did not seem to move. I was the only one moving. So I broke into a run but no matter how hard I ran, I could not find the end of the void. So I gave up and just stared around.I blinked multiple times as I tried to remember how I got here. I looked down at my dress and saw that I was still in the outfit meant for my mating ceremony.That was when it all started coming back to me. I had chosen my mate and suddenly, he was telling me that he had killed my parents. In the end, he killed me too.Pain sliced across my

~ZIRAI navigated my way through the bodies moving with enthusiasm in the hall.At one point, all I wanted was to shove them all out of the path so that I would be able to get through. These people had no real understanding of the world except for the fact that they were here to have fun.I succeeded in reaching the end of the hall. I shrugged the thought of the dancing werewolves away before looking straight ahead at the corridor before me. There were bright bulbs illuminating the space and I could not find Kael anywhere, so I resorted to using my nose."What does he smell like?" I asked myself.In all my years of knowing him, I had never really paid attention to his scent but I knew that I would recognize it. So all I had to do was step into the corridor and keep walking until I identified it.At first, I caught nothing but I did not give up. Suddenly, the mixture of wet earth and the forest hit my nose. It made my wolf spur to life with full force and I felt the pull again, tugging

~ZIRAAs I raced to the grand stairway, I noticed one thing.Both Arden and Bella were gone from the hall. This did not make me feel any better. If one thing, it only made my wolf twist with a mixture of concern and worry.What if Arden and his girlfriend were already with my father? What if they had overpowered him?But they still needed my father to hand the Moon crest over to be able to pull that off, right? Yet my heart kept pounding as if the worst had already happened.I pushed the dancing werewolves out of the way angrily and I heard complaints get shot at me but I did not care. My dad's survival was on me and I was the only one capable of saving him. That was the most important thing.I reached the stairs and began to run up the steps, taking them two or three at a time. My body started trembling uncontrollably and the rhythm of my heartbeat had long become foreign to me.Sooner or later, if I did not die at the hands of the Blackstones, then I would probably die from a heart