~REIGN~My blood simmered to a boil as I listened to Father and Alpha Jete’s discussions like I wasn’t present. The stupid daughter of Alpha Jete sat close to her father, leaning slightly on him with a smile on her face as she listened to their conversation. What the fuck was she smiling about? Did she even know that her father brought her here to be slaughtered?I pushed down the growl, threatening to break free, clenching my fist as I cleared my throat to grab their attention. “I have better things to do; did you call me here to waste my time?” I ground out.Father placed the glass of wine in his hand on the table, turning to me with a frown. “There is nothing more important for you today than this; take a seat and get to know your father-in-law more,” he demanded, pointing at the chair before his desk.“He is not my father-in-law, and I already know enough about Alpha Jete and his cunning ways.” I tried not to snap as I replied.“Will you ever learn manners, boy?” Alpha Jete eyed m
~LEVENA~‘You can’t just up and leave Jade. You need to calm down and think this through.’ I tried to reason with her as she started peeling off the shirt.‘There’s nothing to think through, Lev. I thought I blocked you out already.’ ‘You can block me out when you barely have any control over yourself. Leaving is a bad idea if there’s any chance that our pup is still out there.'‘He is fucking dead. He's gone.’ Jade yelled, cutting me off. I stayed quiet, watching as another sob wracked through her body. ‘Stop trying to make me have hope, Lev; he is gone,’ she whispered in between sobs.‘And what if he isn’t? If there’s a chance that he’s still out there, you’ll cost us our one chance at ever finding him. We won’t survive out there, Jade, not this time. Reign can keep us safe; he can help us find him, and we can’t keep running. We won’t survive another week out there,’ I reasoned with her but she shrugged like it didn’t matter.‘That’s the point, Lev; I know we won’t survive out ther
~REIGN~I noticed the shift in the air as soon as I walked into the suite, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Then I walked into the bedroom and saw her. For some reason, Emerald had changed from the previous polo shirt she wore, and she was now wearing my shirt. I had hoped I’d find her asleep when I returned because dealing with Father had ruined my mood.There was something different about her, and I stopped at the doorway, scanning her entire frame. Nervousness rolled off her in waves as she toyed with the button of the shirt. The sound of a heartbeat rang loud in my ear, and her scent seemed stronger than usual yet strange. The usual hint of lavender in her scent had faded and her pheromones carried the scent of sandalwood, which was also strange.I remained rooted in the doorway while her eyes ran all over my body. It was confusing because this was unlike her; she’d barely looked at me for more than two minutes in the past hour, and now she couldn’t take her eyes off me. Everyt
||*JADE*||I awoke to a numbing pain in my limbs, a headache threatening to split my forehead open, my eyes aching as I rubbed them open to an unfamiliar ceiling. Confusion slowly set in as I rubbed my eyes a little more to get rid of the blurriness in my vision while staring at the unfamiliar ceiling again.It’s impossible that I am dreaming at this moment, or suddenly do not recognize the ceiling of my home. I’ve been waking up to the ceiling in my bedroom for two years and I am certain it is definitely not painted this absurd red colour with a ridiculous chandelier hanging down from it.My body cried out in protest as I pushed up on the bed, eyes trailing off the ceiling as I took in the unfamiliar sight of the bedroom. My mind rang with different questions, while I try recollecting my memory from last night, how I fell asleep, when and what I was doing in a strange room.Nothing quite made sense, until I heard a deep groan beside me and my head snapped to the side with so much spe
~JADE~ I am not sure why I didn’t move, even though it was quite obvious that Hunter had lunged for an attack. That’s a lie. I know quite well the reason I didn’t move. My body had frozen in place when I saw him lunge, and a part of me thought my mate wouldn’t exactly attack me. It was just impossible that Hunter would want to attack me, given how he has never raised a hand at me for the past two years that we’ve been together. But I was deluding myself. Maybe the reason he never hit me for the past two years was because I never gave him a reason to, and now. Now I very much gave him every viable reason to want to hurt me, but I still tried convincing myself that he wouldn’t. Realisation dawned on me too late, before I could get my body to move out of the way, Hunter came barreling forward, his hand outstretched, palm striking me in the face and his claws cut a deep wound across my cheek. My head swings sideways, echoes of sounds rung repeatedly in my ear. My hands moved out of
~JADE~ Everything else happened in a blur. It all felt like a nightmare and I so badly wished someone would wake me up. Hunter had dragged me out of Arya’s place naked, and I had no will to protest against his iron grip. He didn’t think I had any decency left to preserve, I couldn’t even bring myself to ask for something to cover my shame as he pulled out of me, tucked himself back in and practically hurled me out of bed. I didn’t have it in me to look at Darren or Arya’s face, my mate had fucked me right in their presence. Humiliated and degraded me beyond words, dragged me through the streets naked and left me on the front porch of my parents house with a warning that I would never return to our home. I had crawled inside my parents house shaking and crying. Despite how many times they asked what happened my mouth wouldn’t budge, all I could do was weep as I sunk further into the shame enveloping me. “Is this true Jade?” Even now, as I sit here in the presence of my parents an
||*JADE*||I stood in the living room, unsure of what to do with myself. We were back home, and for the first time in two years, I felt like a stranger in my own home. I never knew a time would come when I'd feel like an absolute stranger in a place where I once found comfort and love.I am taken back to the first time I stepped foot in this house, the day Hunter brought me here as a surprise to show me our new home. The house he built for when he finds his mate, with the hope that they'll both make it their home, I remember the feeling of contentment and comfort I felt when he walked me into this very living room, the pleasant smile on his face when he said the words, “This is our home now, your home, for as long as you’ll have me."And in that moment, I felt like the most important person on earth; all the memories from when I was in Manila had become less painful. Because Hunter had given me a place I could call home in the first few months of meeting him and knowing he was my mate,
||*JADE*|| Days blurred into nights, and night into day. Hunter stayed true to his words by taking my things out of our bedroom. There was nothing I could say to change his mind, not even the fact that I was pregnant with his child.I had tried to make him go to the pack clinic with me, or even at least call the pack doctor over to confirm that I wasn’t lying, but he didn’t even care.He doesn’t think it’s his child because he believes I had to have slept with other men aside from Darren that he didn’t know about, and he is convinced that if I am truly pregnant, then the child belongs to one of them.But the child was his, even though he didn’t believe me. I know I should’ve told him before this happened, but I wasn't sure that I was pregnant because getting pregnant as a beta was almost impossible. Unlike omegas, a beta wolf like myself isn't always lucky to be blessed with a child. I'm not sure what the goddess has against us, but a beta’s chance of reproducing was almost next to no