Angela's POV
Why would I want to have anything to do with such a ruthless man as my mate? I can't accept such! He's a monster who doesn't seem to have any form of compassion for anyone. Who doesn't know Alpha Syrill, one of the most brutal and ruthless alphas of the most dreaded pack around..? Hell no!
And how the hell did he get to notice me? Lillo gave me a new face to cover up my badly injured face with. Oh, now I know… it's the mate bond.. He perceived my scent.. now I understand better…
Reminiscing on my experience, standing right behind a tree in the woods, a voice calls out to me and I gasp.
"Mom..?"
The sound of that name is something I wouldn't want to ever hear in my head, but what can I do? I still love mom, but this attitude of hers always straining the life out of me, always gives me goosebumps all over.
I pick up the polythene bag I placed on top of the dead leaves on the ground, and then become so busy twisting it around my fingers as I hurriedly return back home. We live in the woods. Father built a mini mansion inside the woods so many years ago when he was still hale and hearty, doing his profitable business that yielded us so much wealth. Until he fell critically ill.
My eyes are now well up in tears, ready to spill any moment. I stare and halt quickly as my eyes rest on our roof top. Mom had taken off a piece of zinc from the rooftop of my room, letting in the heavy downpour of rain into my room each time it rains. Since dad left the house for the hospital, it's been one terrible torture or the other coming from mom, and I keep wandering for answers which no one is ready to profer to me.
I feel so sick and tired of this life, and I feel giving up everything would be the best for me at this point. But one reason still keeps me afloat… The last time I was about to drink up the mixture I prepared, a mixture of dad's pesticides and other chemicals which he was using to treat the trees in our surrounding, I was happy and I thought that would be the end of me 'cause I actually drank it, not knowing mom already used everything up and cleaned up the cans, leaving them filled with just water, salt and sugar. She came cackling as I just finished taking up everything.
What a mother! As if she knew.. I hate her so much! But dad's request still keeps me alive and hoping for a better tomorrow.
"Dad.. I know you can hear me.. I promise I'll make you proud as I promised earlier. Angela won't disappoint you in any way, dad." My lashes flap, letting go of some tears that streamed down my cheeks.
'No point breaking my head over this, it's not worth it.' I think as I take some quick steps to the back of our building, and sit on a tree stump standing beside the rickety stairs.
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Syrill's pov
The environment was quite a cool one as we entered. Rowan and I look into each other's eyes, lifting an eyebrow as our eyes roll back to the door in front of us. Just right as I am about to place a knock on the door, it burst open.
A fair looking, young woman in her thirties I guess, steps out.
"Hello, you looking for something, or.. someone?" Her eyes travel down to my pants right after she questioned, flicking her tongue like she just tasted a sweet wine from the royal jar of the Alpha King.
"Hi," I respond, taking my time to study her expressions. She seems like her mother, and the girl I just saw looks so much like this woman I'm seeing here now. "Is your daughter in?"
She quickly bow her head before me, shaking like something bad just happened here. Beads of hot sweat streamed down her face, dropping beside her like she just had her bath without wiping off excess water from her body. It's glaring she notices I'm the new alpha of Silver Moon Pack. But no one can take in my scent. The scent of an alpha of Silver Moon Pack cannot be perceived by anyone outside his pack, and not even by those in his pack. But not until…
"I'm humbled to have the honourable alpha of the Silver Moon Pack right in my house. Please come in for entertainment."
I guessed right. But how did that happen?
I hate it when people tremble at my feet all because I'm the alpha of my pack. I want everyone to feel safe and secure in my presence, and not the other way around.
I glance around us.. then to Rowan. And lastly, I rest my eyes on her. lifting her head up to face me, I just could not wait to find out more.
"I just asked a question. And there's no point repeating myself here."
The shivering woman manage to speak, "I just sent her on an errand, alpha. She'll soon be back. You can wait here while I go get her for you." She takes a step to leave but my tone restrain her steps from quickening.
Her tone was laced with firmness, and I sense something is off about her but I just can not place my hands on anything. The look in her eyes seem to be that of terror laced with fearlessness. I take a deep breath.
Suddenly, my mate appears from behind their house, with a bag in her hand. And as soon as she sees me, she takes some quick steps out of there, immediately, but Rowan gets a hold of her and brings her back before me. One thing I love about Rowan's speed for.
I look into her eyes, "why are you running away from me? Am I a monster?" She just continues to look down below, with the plans of uttering not even a word, but just keep blinking like there is an evil lurking around her.
"Please let me go... I'm not your mate.. I can't be your mate! I don't want to have anything to do with you!" She screams her lungs almost out, shedding tears like she just got beaten with one of my whips.
I turn to look at her mom, but she is nowhere to be found.
There is no other option left for me at this moment, and thinking of what to do, refuse to cross my mind. My grip just keep rooting so deeply on her, and letting her go for just even a second is something I am not ready nor prepared to risk for anything.
"What's going on, mate..? Why don't you give me a chance..?" I continue to struggle with her, trying to see if there's a way I can at least get her attention, but it seems no tactic of mine is working.
"Come on, Alpha.. why not take it by force since she isn't ready to comply?!"
Rowan is eager, but I feel that isn't the best way to go about this. I want her to love me genuinely from her heart, and I don't want to be like those other alphas out there who intimidate their pack members just to get what they want. I want my mate to live peacefully and joyfully with me in her life, and always bless our moon goddess for gifting her with me to be a mate of hers.
"No, Rowan… Just chill.."
"But you can't continue to have a subject of yours acting like she owns you, right..? Alpha!" His tone is laced with impatience now, as he stares at my mate at intervals.
"Please let me go… I don't want to be your mate! I'm okay with the life I'm living here, so please… leave me alone… After all, I'm not the only shewolf around in your pack! I even wonder why you had to come over to this place to look for me. Please let go of me… please…!"
She actually thinks she's strong. I smile as I stare in her eyes, gripping her so firmly to my partly bare chest, with a few buttons of my shirt apart.
"Tell me just one reason why I should let go of you right now?"
"I don't like you!" She's blunt in her words, no sugarcoating anything.
"And I love you!" I reply as she threw those harsh words to me. And what's the point hating her when I've been waiting for so many years now to get her into my arms? "I love you so much, even though you hate me!" I plant a hot kiss on her forehead and all of a sudden, she wriggles out of my arms yet again, and off she goes.
"Let me get her for you, Alpha!" Rowan slaps my arm gently as he says, going on his heels. But,
"Let her be, Rowan! I'll sort things out with her. Not by force!"
He halts and stares back at me.
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Angela's POVRunning into my room, I slam the door shut behind me, panting so heavily as I feel a little or no life left in me anymore. Slumping to the ground in-between my bed and my study table, I rest my back on my wardrobe, staring at my messy room. Obviously, mom was here again. I furrow my brows, biting my lip, as I remember how she usually does whenever I'm not home. And after a long hours of cleaning my room and the entire house before leaving for my usual hustle, I'll still return back to a messy environment. I feel so exhausted and disoriented as I am now. The streams of tears flowing down my cheeks, interpret the anguish in my heart. I throw my eyes to the ground, wondering when all these would end. The face of Alpha Syrill came flooding my head, reminding me of the glances I took at him, flashing at different points. I honestly can't deny the fact that he is a handsome guy, and every woman, I guess, would die to have him right in-between her thighs, sucking her like I
Alpha Syrill's povThe smell of her hair as she came closer to me, felt like the dew from the fresh morning weather, which leaves you hunting for more. And the rate of her heart beat as it sounded in my head, left me with no other option but to feel the heavy weight of a burden she's carrying. And for how long now? Is what I'd like to know, so I can help my mate out with the best kind of life she could ever get. I just can't let her suffer when she's got me, Syrill, the new Alpha of the Silver Moon Pack, as her mate. Never!I planned on asking to know her name, and probably find out more about her, so we could get to know each other better, and get along well.. but she wouldn't let me. Could it be that she's just being stubborn, or is she just trying to protect herself? But from what exactly? I don't bite, you know…Taking a quick glance at Rowan as I turned, the blazing fire shooting from his eyes was nothing short of destruction. 'You don't have to let Rowan's issues distract you,
Angela's POVStanding at the gate of Lillo's compound, everything about her father rush into my head. "Should I go in, or should I just go back home instead?" Confusion washed me down as I glance around the compound filled with lots of trees springing out their fruits, with that lovely bungalow sitting in the middle of the compound. I don't like coming to this compound, for it reminds me of so many things that I wouldn't want to remember, but for my friend, Lillo, I just can not restrain myself from coming here just like that. Lillo has been an exceptional and accommodating confidant to me since our childhood days, and she has been of great benefit to me since then. And even that very day my dad was hospitalized, Lillo came around, and stood by me all through those trying moments, abandoning most classes of her studies, just to keep me warm and assured that all would be okay again. Going to school was the last thing I could ever think of at that time. The heart-wrenching death of
Syrill's povIt's been two days and I still haven't set my eyes on Angela. Where could she be? She hasn't attended the training for days now, and that's my major reason for going out into gatherings, to see if I could find my mate. Now the moon goddess has been so kind enough to make our paths cross, but fate still wouldn't let us be. I just hope she's fine wherever she is. The thought of my missing mate makes me lose more concentration than I thought, to everything I do. And as it seems nothing else matters more to me till she's found. I understand my father doesn't want me to have anything to do with the outskirts of our pack, but I don't think I can ever adhere to such orders for now, even though it's coming from the head Alpha. I'm now the new alpha of this great Silver Moon Pack, and I can't take orders from anyone, except my father. His reign back then was a great blessing to our pack, even though he didn't rule with his Luna very close to him. I need to correct that impressio
Nella's povThat stupid step daughter of mine, I curse the day our paths crossed! She's always been a thorn in my flesh, a piercing ache deep down in my heart that has refused to go away, and I hate her with so much passion that I've got left in me! The day I lost my very own flesh, was the very same day I vowed never to make her happy and even let peace reign for a second in her life! She's complaining that she doesn't know why I hate her that much, and I say, that's just but a tiny prick of what I've got in store for her! Her life would be the very worst of the worst!"Come on, Nella… why not stop pacing around already?!" My friend Jenny says, standing up from her rocking, woven, cane chair. That very chair was my stupid husband's best when he was still here. And each time my eyes transport to that areas, I just feel even worse than ever. The sight of it reminds me of my late daughter's last sit on it before she was shoved out the door by her evil father, rolled down those old fa
Angela's POVChilling and seeing Barbie series on Netflix in the living room, a chilled bottle of freshly made fruit nectar which I made some couple of hours before I left for my training, is resting nonchalantly on the table, coupled with a bowl of wafers and cookies I prepared some two to three days back, lying helplessly in a bowl. I take a bite from a piece of my cookie, relishing the milky taste as I take my time to chew, gently, and a soft knock comes on the door. I love eating snacks, but my step mom never allows me to. She knows I can make them pretty well, and she always likes asking me to make 'a whole lot for the house', that's her statement, but I'll end up tasting not even a bit from any of the different designs I'll end up making. But since I've been here at Lillo's house, everything has been going excellently. Thank goodness her dad travelled and isn't going to be back any time soon. I return the glass of my juice back to the table, as I stand up to take the door. A g
Alpha Syrill's pov"Did you find her there?!" "No, Alpha. Her friend, Lillo says she left here a couple of hours ago.""Left.. to where?! Ask her! Fiind out!""Yes, she has told us. She's back at her home already, Alpha." "What?! Her home..? Get the fucking hell out of that place immediately and go to her now! Don't you dare waste even a minute more where you are!"I can't imagine staying for the whole of today without settling my eyes on my mate. I can no longer handle this. I need to have her close and keep her to myself, make her happy and make sure she's safe at all times. And even when I'm not around her, I should still be able to protect what the moon goddess has blessed me with. She's a treasure to behold, and I just can't wait to have her and be between her thighs always. Shortly as I pace around in frustration, a very strong feeling wash me down as my wolf, Syrillan begins to act all restless. "My Mate…!" My heart bleeds…I know I'm trying so hard to protect myself from b
Angela's POVI've always watched movies on how young men treat and pamper the women they cherish in their lives, but this, is certainly not what I've ever seen. Everyone in our pack who finds a mate is always very happy, and the glow all over would send a straight message to all who care to understand. And this I'm feeling with my mate, I feel so different and, should I say special? The different ways he treats me and shows me so much affection gets me worried most of the times, making me wonder if I'm actually letting him do too much for me each time he runs up and down for my safety, and worries too much about me. I've seen dad and mom do things together before, but certainly not in this unexplainable manner which I'm experiencing from my mate. The way he looks into my eyes sparks up the lightings of affection in me, and it makes me want to be even closer; but I'm still scared, 'cause I don't want to get hurt like I hear most girls say their mates always do to them. Lillo even told