ANNE “ Spar? ” A girl rushes off to me when she sees me standing by the tree near the training ground. I look back at her and shake my head. I have been watching the young girls and boys training in the ground for a while and by the looks of it, no one here is of high status. Everyone is the son or daughter of Patrol guards or lower ranked warriors. I shouldn’t be wasting my time with them. “ Haven’t seen you around before. Who are you by the way? ” She asks curiously instead of leaving me here. “ Did you come with our new Luna? ” She adds, her honey eyes sparkling with excitement. At least, the pack is happy with getting the Luna. The news travelled too fast around the pack though. I bet it’s Ryker or Zio’s doing. “ I am your Luna’s friend. ” I shrug my shoulders and look behind her. A new girl has come in the training ground. The amateur fighters give her way. There is reluctance in everyone’s stance and the aura of respect can not be ignored. “ Really? ” She steps closer to

NATALIEI am burning. That’s all I feel and sense.But it’s not the usual kind of I—am—feeling—hot burning sensation. It’s more like My—body—is—kept—on—an—ice—block kind of burning sensation.I am itching to get off this block or control this sensation somehow.Lost in the abyss of my own battling conscious, I see the silhouette in the dark. A raven haired woman stands in the distance, her back facing me. As I watch her, fire starts licking her long fingers, spreading to her palms, engulfing the sleeves of her gown.I gasp but find myself unable to move, to talk, to reach out.The fire brightens everything, the darkness hides away like a scared child. She turns around, her soft features coming into my view. Gradually, the corner of her lips turn up. The gesture makes me uneasy unlike the expectation.The icy burn becomes worse. The surroundings become suffocating. I suck in huge breaths, trying my best to keep myself alive, less suffocated.But it all disappears. I break out of whate

NATALIEI inhale slowly and hold my breath in to calm myself down. Ryker assesses me, waiting for me to burst out on him and pour everything out.“ Take me home. ” I utter after a while. I can’t lash out on him in the hospital when so many of his pack members can hear us fighting. Even if I feel like killing him, I can’t bring myself to let others know that we are fighting, that there is a rift between their Alpha and Luna. It will damage his image and mine too.Ryker understands my point and starts walking out of the room. I get up and follow him with small steps.The same car is parked outside the small hospital building. I make my way to the passenger seat and settle down. Ryker starts the engine and drives the car away from the hospital silently. “ Babylove. ” He calls my weird as fuck nickname he has given me when I don’t say anything for the longest time.I breathe heavily and shake my head. For some reason, my heart refuses to believe he can be this mean to me.The brutal ma

NATALIEA lump lodges in my throat as I find myself lost in his eyes. This is so fucked up. He is hurting. I am hurting. We both are hurting from inside. And now, we are hurting each other.“ Ryker. Please. This is not what I want… ” I trail off, lifting my hand to touch his face. “ This is not what I want at all. ”Ryker grips my hand right when my fingers come in contact with his smooth skin. “ Then what is it that you want from me? Tell me! Tell me so I can do it and end this headache screwing me over all the time. ” Ryker seethes, his eyes flashing between colours.The weight on my chest becomes heavier, deadlier. His grip over my hand tightens until it starts hurting.“ I want you to tell me that I am important to you. Or — or that I am not just some thing you can use. Or I am not here with you to become a child birthing fucking machine for you that you are planning to dump as soon as you are done with it! ” Tears leak out of my eyes again, disappearing in my hair.Anger flares

RYKER“ And why is that a problem exactly? ” My Little miss pesky, the dumbest little headache I have ever come across scoffs at me sulkily.I sigh, raking my fingers through my hair. If I accuse her best friend, the one which she might even get ready to die for if the need arises, then our crumbling fucking relationship will be destroyed in a mere moment.I don’t have any evidence. Just a conclusion at this moment. It will be a stupid move to reveal the truth to her.“ I shouldn’t bother asking any question, right? You won’t answer. As always. ” She huffs when I remain silent for a while.After snapping out of the daze, I stare at her. How is she going to feel after finding out about what her friend had been doing to her all this time? I can tell she thought those two useless women were her support system, two pillars keeping her upright when everyone was out to get rid of her or either force her into killing herself. I haven’t thought about so many things in a while. I had only o