NADINE
I couldn't stop laughing.Was I that excited about the prospect of Eden City becoming a reality that I was really dreaming about it? Because this must be a dream.I was dreaming about Eden City and this ridiculously hot male because I'd been starved of men and the subconscious part of my brain was reminding me of what I was missing in my dream.He was still looking at me with that piercing eyes of his that almost seemed like he was undressing my soul with his eyes and my laughter subconsciously trailed off as I straightened up."So... Urhmm, we're in Eden City, right?" I asked him when he obviously wasn't sharing in my humor because he wasn't smiling, just looking at me blankly."Yeah."Another laughter bubbled up my throat and I had to bite my lower lip to stop the laughter from deepening."So, we're in a city that's not on the map, a city that doesn't even exist yet, a city that just exists in my head and on paper."With that, a muscle ticked in his jaw, and an expression I couldn't decipher crossed his eyes."You know what? Lemme just go back to sleep, there's no use explaining to a hallucinated character in my dream when all these..." I pointed to the room and to him and once again, I was confronted by the bizarre fact that they all felt real and detailed to be a mere dream.Especially him.I had to resist the urge to give in to check him out again, "when this is all a dream, I'll just go back to sleep because the earlier I'm out of this dream, the better."I turned back to walk to the bed but a strong hand encircled my wrist, stopping my movement and stopping my senses.I gulped as intense sparks sapped through my entire body at the contact and I looked at where his hand was holding my wrist before daring to look at his face and an involuntary gasp left my mouth again.There was a dark, almost feral look in his eyes, and with the way his jaws were tightly set, I could swear he was gnashing his teeth together.What the fuck?He dropped my hands."I understand that this is ridiculous and bizarre but you're not dreaming."I'm definitely dreaming."This Eden City is real but it doesn't exist in your realm, it's a supernatural realm that looks like a normal forest to the human eyes."Okay, I wasn't dreaming but I was locked up with some deranged hot guy who was sputtering rubbish because what? Supernatural realm? Human eyes?Why was he talking as if he were an alien?"I know you're confused so I'm just going to explain everything to you clearly so you'll understand."I said nothing, I just kept staring at him."The forest that you want to develop into Eden City in your realm is actually a natural habitat for werewolves."Werewolves? He was definitely crazy."I know it's unbelievable but it's real, you're in a werewolf realm, I had to kidnap you to bring you here because once you start that development, our world will disappear, I'll cease to disappear, and all those people you see outside..." he pointed outside the window and I followed his gaze to see people on the streets, cars driving around and just people existing and the world going on."They'll all disappear, they don't deserve to have their lives upended just because humans want to create a city."He stopped talking and I just stared at him.He stared back."Where are the cameras?" I finally asked, looking around for cameras and expecting people to burst out of their hiding places with their phones because yeah, this was a sick and elaborate joke and I'll always be in awe of whoever was creative enough to think of this."It's not a joke, Nadine, it's real.""Of course, it's not real, can you listen to yourself? Werewolves? Supernatural realm? This is not some teen wolf or vampire diaries shit, that ridiculous thing is not possible in real life.""Nadine...""So what? You want me to believe that you're a shape-shifter, that you have paws and claws and long teeth, and that you're an animal," laughter bubbled out of my mouth at the ridiculousness of everything.And the more I said it out loud, the more absolutely ridiculous it becomes."You know what? I'm done with this shit, I'm going to carry my bag and leave this room and you'll let me go, okay?"I was going to leave to figure out if I was going crazy or if this was an elaborate dream or a prank or something.I moved towards the bed and this time, he did not attempt to stop me. He just kept observing me with the calm interest of a scholar observing his topic or specimen as I fetched my bag from the bed and I started to walk to the door.I passed in front of the floor-to-bottom window and a movement that made me stop and made my throat jump into my mouth caught my eyes and I stopped before daring to turn to the window fully.I gulped, my bag dropping to the floor at the sight in front of me.It was right there in the street, a group of men turning into animals.Into werewolves.I gasped loudly at the same time I heard a loud curse behind me as the curtains fell closed and I felt his presence behind me.I turned back to look at him slowly, dread pooling at the bottom of my stomach and he was standing right behind him, a look of unmistakable anger in his face and his eyes...His eyes that have been brown or black all this while were now red, deep, fiery red. I moved back, my body pressing against the window as my eyes dropped to his hands and I could see that his fingers were now long, longer than normal with sharpened edges that looked like claws.Claws. Werewolves.He followed my eyes and he cursed again before his fingers went back to normal right in front of my eyes and his eyes changed back to black-brown.My legs gave way beneath me and everything turned black as I collapsed into what seemed to be waiting hands.KAIA day later, I was in the council of elders again.They've been asking for my presence and calling for a meeting since I brought Nadine to Eden City but things had to be done properly. I couldn't just attend to them when I was yet to explain to Nadine what she was doing in Eden City.And God! That explanation had unfolded in a way I wasn't expecting it to at all. I know it was going to be ridiculous, telling her about the werewolf world that'd cease to exist if her project was commissioned but saying it out loud and watching all the expressions on her face had made it much more ridiculous. I knew she was going to believe me that easily and the plan was to let her slowly come to terms with it but those kids just happened to be shifting right there on the street in broad daylight and as if seeing them was not enough, I was just stupid enough to let my anger get my claws out and changed my eyes color and the minute she saw that, she paled completely before she took a step back from
KAIAs expected, all of them fell quiet and they all turned to me with expressions full of disbelief. Even Levi sat up straighter as he looked at me with an expression I couldn't decipher. "What do you mean she's your mate?" Denis asked, his tone incredulous. "Exactly what it means, she's my mate, my fated one, the one I've been searching for all these years."There were collective gasps and their expressions mirrored shock and disbelief. Those two were an understatement to what I felt when I discovered that she was my mate. It was the least expected thing, something I never thought could be possible but the minute I stepped out of my hiding under the rain, the first thing that assaulted my nose was the divine and heavenly scent that was coming from her. I knew it was impossible for someone to smell that good alone and my wolf senses immediately picked up the fact that she might be our mate. Everything about her felt magical and divine and out of this world that I could see lit
KAIThe first place I showed up when I got back home was in Nadine's room and she was still out with the physician sitting on a chair in her room. I then went to the kitchen where Mama Teresa was cooking one of her delicious recipes to drink water. "The council must have been very happy," she said softly as I drowned a cup of water. "Happy is an understatement to what they felt when they realized that finally, there's a way out of the impending doom.""Yeah, I can imagine, after all these years, the Moon Goddess finally answered our prayers."After all these years indeed! Since the curse and prophecy were revealed to me after my eighteenth birthday by Father and the rest of the council, I initially thought it was ridiculous because we were in a modern world and mates were a thing of the past but as I grew older, I realized how dire the situation was. The existence of the entire werewolf race was solely dependent on if I found my mate. As the 21st generation of the Alpha bloodline
KAII reached her room in less than a second and Nadine was kneeling on the bed, screaming at the top of her voice and throwing everything her hands could reach to the physician. "What's going on here?" I demanded angrily, my eyes focused on the erratic lady on the bed but my words were directed at the old man."Did you do anything to hurt her?""Of course not, Alpha," he answered, "I'd never. She regained consciousness and I was still checking her vitals when she suddenly start to scream at the top of her lungs."That was expected.I started to walk towards her and she threw a pillow that I barely felt at me."Get out!" she yelled, "you spineless disgusting animal, leave me alone!""Y'all should get out," I ordered the physician and Mama Teresa and Sara that had followed me here and they all obeyed."You need to calm down, Nadine, I promise I'm not going to hurt you," I raised my hand in surrender but that didn't stop her shrieking. "You're not going to hurt me?" she asked incredul
NADINE“YOU MUST BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!”I screamed at the top of my voice but the fucker didn't even as much blink. “You hear me, you must be a joker to tell me that? What? I'm your mate? Mate? What’s that even supposed to mean?”He opened his mouth to talk but I held up a hand to stop.“You know what? I'm not interested, you just have to let me go right now. And I mean right now!” I started to sidestep him to get to the door but of course, he grabbed my hand and successfully stopped me from walking away.He pulled me back and he had an almost apologetic look on his face as he bite his lower lip slowly as if he was feeling nervous. My eyes latched on the movement of the tip of his pink tongue as it swept over his full lower lip and I felt my body heat up as my thoughts suddenly started going haywire. Jesus Christ! What's wrong with me? Why am I noticing that about this animal-man that kidnapped me and brought me to God knows where?“Listen Nadine, I know this is all shades of rid
NADINEI paced back and forth in the room before finally collapsing on the sofa. There was no way out of this misery and it seems like I was really locked up by that deranged psychopath. While I was sitting and thinking of what I can do to get myself out of this mess, an idea popped into my mind and I quickly fished out my phone from my back intending to call one of my teammates and alert them of my dire situation but to my utmost surprise, there was no network, no even the slightest one and it wouldn't pop up no matter how much I jumped around or what surface I climb. I tried to check the date on my calendar but it seems like all the apps on my phone were barely functioning again and the thought that I was really trapped in an alternate universe dawned on me again. But was that really possible? Another world with a werewolf race? How ridiculous does that even sound? I wasn't even sure how many days have passed since I was brought here and I could only imagine how they would be
KAI"She still isn't eating anything," Sara announced from the door of my office and my head jerked up from the document I was going over. "And at this rate, she might even pass out before you get anything done."Something ticked in my jaws and my fists clenched. I understand why she was acting up and I hated the fact I was the one that put her in this situation but acting like a child and intentionally starving herself wasn't it and I wasn't going to condone it. When Sara first told me that she wasn't eating anything yesterday, I had waved it off that she was going to come around but it seems she wanted to see it to the end. I pushed my chair back and stood up. "Is there any food with her now?""Yeah, I just dropped her dinner off.""Good! I'll take care of it."I walked out of my room and started walking towards her room which was on a floor below me and instinctively, I paused when I got to her door and took in deep breaths. The thought of seeing her again...I pushed the door
NADINEAll my thoughts turned to mush when he pulled me into his lap and for the briefest minute, I couldn't process a thing. When the enormity of what was happening dawned on me, I started squirming and clawing to get off his lap which proved to be an impossible task because even though he just had to hold my wrist with just his hand, I couldn't break free. "You have to let me go," I told him, trying go sound as stern as possible and to ignore what I was feeling with being this close to him. He didn't reply immediately and when I turned back to him, he seemed to be in some sort of physical distress with how his jaws were tightly clenched and his eyes were darker than normal. What the... what's going on? "Open up," he ordered gruffly, an edge to his voice and my core clenched as my brain interpreted what he just said in another context entirely. "I'm not," I replied him, crossing my hands over my chest defiantly and when his eyes followed that movement, I noticed just how wrong