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ALARICAfter grabbing Kael by the collar and telling him to shut the fuck up, I stormed away from him and went straight to my study instead.Kael was losing his mind more and more by the passing days. He was emotionally weak, and everything inside me kept screaming that he was becoming unfit to be the Beta of this Pack.Sighing, I called over Dante, the Pack's Gamma. He usually managed the companies and acted as the financial manager for everything we owned.This arrangement worked. I, as the Alpha, made decisions for both the business and the Pack. Kael was supposed to manage the implementations in the Pack, while Dante performed the same duties for the business.But now, this arrangement was no longer working. That’s why the Gamma had to return to the Pack.Unlike Kael, Dante was not my friend from childhood. Instead, he was the son of a low-ranked border patrol guard. When we were in training, Dante surpassed all the children of the patrol guards, then warriors, and then even the s

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ELARAI hummed a soft, familiar tune while sipping on the hot chocolate I made for myself in the kitchen. Sitting on this bench in the garden brought me a rare moment of peace that I had been craving for a long time.I took in the setting sun and the purplish, orangish lines in the sky, a strange ache spreading in my chest. My mind circled back to the woman in the lake, and in my visions, wondering if I was just remembering the lost bits of my childhood.Perhaps I heard the name Esme in my childhood. Maybe she was my friend, and I forgot about her after I lost my memories? But why did everyone get so spooked whenever they heard this name? Even I got spooked, as if my unconscious mind knew something scary about her but just couldn’t freaking remember.My eyes narrowed as I took another sip of my hot chocolate. Before I could drown in my thoughts again, his voice sounded from behind me.“ What are you doing here? ” Alaric came to stand behind me, his hand landing right beside my shoulde

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ELARAWe both stood right in the same spot, staring each other down, waiting for the other to give up. My eyes narrowed on him while he continued to glare at me as if he couldn’t wait to dissect my brain and know everything I was thinking.Judging from his reaction, telling him the whole truth wouldn’t bring me any good consequences. If I told him that I saw that girl in dreams, and it seemed like I was inside that girl when I was seeing those dreams…I didn’t know how he would take that.I couldn’t give that piece of information up until I knew who actually Esme was and what happened to that girl.“ Fine. ” I nodded slowly and took another step back. “ I will tell you how I know about her, and in return you tell me who she is. ”“ You will be honest. ” He whispered.It was not a question, but a statement, as if he believed I would be honest. I nodded again, but for a moment, I couldn’t look into his eyes.I couldn’t be honest with the man who was holding me captive. I was not a fool

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ALARICI was telling her a lie, but how could I admit to her that my father had done something utterly horrible to a mass group of innocent people?That truth was buried deep in the ground after the war, and no one ever spread that story. People who were born after that massacre didn’t even know that it ever happened.I intended to keep it that way.No one should ever know about this story and never speak of it again. As the Alpha of this Pack, I now shouldered the responsibility to make sure that this stayed buried.“ Alaric… ” She whispered, her eyes wide as if she couldn’t process what I was telling her.I looked straight into her glassy eyes and added. “ The girl was born a hybrid, and it was rumored that she had some special abilities. Her mother, who was a witch, didn’t like the fact that she had birthed a hybrid child. So she killed him. As a punishment, the woman was drowned in the Faeralac lake, and it’s now said to be cursed with her spirit. ”“ The lake I almost drowned in?

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ELARAThe omegas just kept coming one by one. Some would come to leave fruit. Some would come to leave different dishes. Some would just come to ask if I needed anything.I wondered if Alaric had told them to take extra care of me. But then, I saw a strange gratitude swimming in their eyes that made me frown every time it was directed at me.What did I do to make them revolve around me?I was sure I had not done anything out of routine so it was irking me out by the night and I was already finding a corner to hide from them.Or maybe that was just an excuse. I was unconsciously looking for Alaric because I kept thinking…If he was not coming to his room, where else was he sleeping all these nights?Was he spending these nights with Stephanie?That question alone made my eyes burn, and my head spin painfully. I kept trying to make myself understand that Alaric had always just loved Stephanie and was trying to soften me up with this affection trap…but something inside me kept burning to

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ELARAPain exploded through my neck the second her teeth broke skin.I gasped, my whole body freezing as something far colder than blood loss dragged through my veins.She was sucking my blood and pulling something else too…it was like she was drawing out more than just the liquid keeping me alive. My vision blurred instantly, the room tilting sideways beneath me.I tried to pull back. My hands pressed weakly against her shoulders, but whatever strength I had left drained out of me faster than I could summon it, and the room went dark before I even hit the floor.Then I was somewhere else entirely.Trees blurred past me at a speed no child’s legs could have ever kept up with on their own. I was not running.I was being carried, my small body jostled hard against a chest that smelled like crushed herbs and fear and…blood.I clutched at the torn cloak covering us both, my tiny hands fisting into fabric that was already damp, though I didn't understand why yet.“ Hold on, my love. ” My m

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ALARICThe whiskey burned less than I wanted it to. I had been sitting behind my desk for the better part of an hour, staring at the same page of Fenwick's journal without reading a single word, when the door slammed open hard enough to rattle the shelves lining the far wall.“ You lied to me. ” Elara stormed inside, her eyes red-rimmed, her whole body trembling with a fury I had not seen from her before. “ You lied to me about that girl's story. You lied, Alaric! ”I set the glass down slowly, forcing my expression into something calmer than what was actually churning underneath it. “ How do you know that? ”She didn't answer right away, and something in the way her jaw tightened told me she was choosing her next words carefully, deliberately leaving something out.“ I had another vision. ” She said instead, her voice shaking. “ Wolves hunted that girl and her mother through the forest. The mother didn't kill her daughter, Alaric. Instead, that mother drowned herself trying to save h

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ELARA“ If you are so mad at me that you want to kill me, Alpha…then it’s better that I leave this Pack! ” The girl steps ahead and whispers, her eyes glinting with a maliciousness that stayed hidden from Beta Kael.It didn’t take long to guess what was happening right here. Beta Kael was slowly turning against Alaric, and somehow, the woman behind him seemed to be adding fuel to the fire. On the other hand, Alaric cared about Beta Kael too much to let him slip into this madness.I tilted my head and observed the scene, my mind still spinning from everything I found out in a single day.“ Alaric, she is right. ” Beta Kael spoke up. “ It’s better if Sarah leaves the Pack… ”My brows lifted at the sudden change in his demeanor. How did he agree so fast? There had to be some twist coming.“ Kael… ” Sarah turned to him.Beta Kael took another step ahead, his eyes filling with disappointment as he addressed Alaric and ignored the girl. “ But she won’t leave alone. I am leaving with her. So

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ELARAThe image wouldn't leave me. Alaric's fists, again and again, blood on his knuckles, Kael refusing to raise a single hand in his own defense.I had seen Alaric angry before. I had seen him cold and calculating in ways that terrified me, but never like that. Never so completely lost inside himself. And yet…Underneath the horror still churning in my stomach, I couldn't stop replaying the look on his face when he was beating his friend.It was not triumph or satisfaction. It was just devastation, raw and unguarded, like he had just watched something irreplaceable shatter in his own hands.He had been hurt. Genuinely, deeply hurt, by the man he had called his best friend for twenty years choosing someone else over him.That didn't excuse what he had done. But it made it harder to hate him for it the way I probably should have.I reached my room and shut the door behind me, my back sliding down against the wood until I hit the floor, my knees pulled tight against my chest.I couldn'

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ALARIC I had hardly put her to bed when I realized another trouble awaited me. Kael…left the Pack with Sarah after he impulsively rejected being the Beta. I could understand what Sarah wanted by pulling this move. She must have wanted me to relent, accept to sleep with her behind Kael’s back, then she would convince him to come back. But she was an idiot for thinking that I would fall for this form of blackmail. Instead, I found myself sitting on the couch in the corner of my room for a long time. After crying for some time, I had managed to bring Elara back to the room, and now she was sleeping in my bed. I had decided to show her my monstrous side, become an absolute asshole with her after everything she had done to ruin things for me, but when I found her in the garden… She looked so fucking lost. It was like she was not herself. Her eyes were unfocused, and her body kept shaking. Seeing her like that…I felt my chest splitting open. I couldn’t bring myself to be harsh with he

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