Ch. 191..200

Chapter 191

"Louis" Naomi called out to her fox, her voice a hushed whisper as she closed her eyes in defeat. "I can’t do this alone. I need you to work with me here. We only have a few minutes before sunrise."

"You know we cannot do this without your mate, and yet you still came out here. This is your first time. Shifting without his prescence is almost impossible. I’m sorry Naomi." She sounded very apologetic.

"Your highness... " Axle yelled In fright when Naomi dropped to her knees, staring into space.

"What’s going on. Why hasn’t she shifted yet?" Brittany asked, worriedly glancing down to her friends.

"It’s been more than one hour now." Cardin grumpily complained, but he was a bit worried.

"Her mate." Hakura suddenly slammed her hand across her forehead. Sh*t. "Her mate."

"Are we supposed to just understand what you mean by that." Talia asked with alight frown.

"It’s her first time shifting," Hakura said. "This is one of the most intimate, priceless moment of a Kitsune, and an Iñari at that. She needs her mate."

Everyone exchanged grave looks.

"I don’t think he’s willing to come." Talia sadly shook her head.

"How could Daniel do this?" Nancy asked in an angry voice, eyes welling up with tears of rage and frustration.

"Naomi!"

Everyone turned, Including the ones standing atop the valley and Naomi’s face lit up immediately.

"Daniel." She gasped.

Everyone parted, watching with mouths wide open as Daniel raced up the valley, barefooted.

"I knew he’d come around." Barton claimed.

"Oh shut up." Brittany said, but she couldn’t help but smile.

As Daniel climbed up, Naomi’s hand clenched and unclenched around her dress as she stared at him apprehensively.

"Why... ar.. are y.. you... h... here" she stammered, and her heart stopped beating for a moment as he got closer to where she stood fidgeting, a smile on his face which caused her legs to turn to jelly. If he hadn’t grabbed her hands Into his, she was sure she’d fall off the top by now.

"Do you really have to ask?" Daniel said, his voice, hoarse from the tears; yet thick with so much emotions.

Naomi burst into tears and glanced down to the ground, her hand still buried in his, her shoulders racking and trembling at the effort of her tears.

Barton and the rest exchanged glances, yet they all kept mute, waiting for what would happen.

"Why are you crying?" He softly asked. He didn’t wipe her tears or tilt her chin up to look at her, he just wanted to know why she was crying. He could feel her guilt, and he wanted to know what she was guilty for.

"I... " Her lips trembled as she glanced up to meet with his eyes. "I never meant to hurt you."

Daniel smiled again, tears flowing down his cheeks.

"But you did. You never meant to, but you knew I’d be hurt if you did, and you did. You hurt me, Naomi."

She glanced down again, her hands turning to fists in his grip, tears dropping to the ground.

"I’m s.. sorry" She stammered due to the uncontrollable emotions she felt all at once. She sobbed louder and Daniel felt his heart shatter. "I’m. So. So. So. Sorry." She glanced up at him again.

Axle and Acella exchanged glances.

’How much time do we have left?’ Acella asked Axle, using the mind link.

There was a lost look In her eyes before she replied.

’Not much.’

They warily turned to the couple, but they dared not interrupt them.

"I know... I... I know you’ll find it hard to forgive me, and I deserve it. I deserve what’s coming to me. I really, really do deserve it, but... "

"I’m here now... " he finally wiped the edge of her eyes, wiping her tears away. "I’m here for you Naomi. You won’t want to let me down, would you?"

She shook her head and he smiled before his It slowly faded off as his gaze fell on her lips. Naomi’s eyes cleared up on seeing the passionate, hungry look in his eyes as he leaned in close ... close....

And their lips touched before he finally angled his head, deepening the kiss, cradling the back of her head with his hand, cupping it and drawing her close to him.

"Mm." She softly moaned, eyes closed as she felt his lips repeatedly crash against hers, completely overwhelmed by his scent and the sparks shared between them as their lips touched.

As they slowly parted, their eyes simultaneously peeling open to share a gaze, he whispered with a groan.

"Times like this, I wish we were alone. The things I’ll love to do to you."

She suddenly blushed and quickly turned away from him, drawing a stray strand of hair behind her ear. He grinned behind her, slowly raking his eyes over her body.

"Your highness." Acella persistently called; when she was sure she wouldn’t sound rude and intruding.

Naomi blinked before her eyes widened. She had almost completely forgot the reason she was here.

"What if I still can’t do it?" She turned to Daniel who stood right behind her, like her support, her anchor.

Her Danny.

"Then I wasted my time coming out here." He grinned and folded his arms. "You better prove me wrong."

She sighed and turned away, closing her eyes and redoing the same procedure Acella had taught her.

Koan joined the rest, and before anyone could say a word, he pulled Nancy in by the waist and crashed his lips against hers, titling his head the other way to get full access to her sweet mouth.

It was so unexpected that Nancy was left slightly panting when he pulled away.

"I missed you." He said and she managed a confused smile at him, and like it was a natural occurrence, their hands entwined.

"Now I’m thinking about Royce again." Brittany groaned, dropping her head against Barton’s who lovingly wrapped his arms around her like she was his little sister."Can you guys stop throwing dog poop at me."

Koan actually chuckled along with the rest.

"I can’t wait to head back home today. I miss Jephthah already." Talia whispered to Brittany and Nancy who bashfully smiled at her while she blushed when she realized what she said.

Cardin turned to her, and a look of hurt flashed across his eyes. His gaze was so intently fixed on Talia who hadn’t even turned to him that he didn’t notice Hakura staring at him, noting the hurt look that flashed across his eyes.

 

Chapter 192

A small flood of white and dark-gold colored light began enveloping her body.

Acella almost cried In joy.

"That’s it! That’s it Your highness... you’re almost close... now visualize your fox. Imagine it standing right Infront of you."

Naomi half-turned to her side and turned away with a satisfied smile when she saw Daniel still standing right behind her, watching her with sincere awe and admiration in his eyes.

She was in her half-kitsune form. Her hair looked wild, swayed behind her and disheveled, her lips were fuller and redder like her gem, and her eyes looked like sharp narrowed slits, beautiful and huge— to match the small snout on her face ardoned with sharp whiskers.

Standing there, Acella and Axle got nostalgic, feeling as though their former queen was standing before them in full flesh and blood.

Naomi sighed and closed her eyes, imagining Louis. She imagine a small fluffy reddish brown furry fox with a cute snout, fur peppered with some spray of white fur at the cheekbones and chest region.

"Louis." Naomi called out with a smile stretched on her face, seeing the exact fox she had imagined floating in the air, staring right back at her, its blue eyes, huge, slanted and narrowed into slits. There was a furry white bun on her head which served as a small tiara, something that differentiated her from all foxes in Foxtune.

Louis finally opened her eyes and if it was possible, she would have smiled back at Naomi.

"Princess Fiona." It said calmly, a twinkle in her eyes.

Danile felt his heart do flips and he subconsciously held his chest.

"Are you okay In there buddy? You aren’t being much of a chatterbox now." He asked, but he got no answer. He was scared a bit. Kevin always answers, even if it was just a snort, but it was quiet. Too quiet. He decided to wait till Naomi was done. This might have something to do with it.

As Naomi watched on, she sees a familiar large wolf with thick black fur and midnight blue eyes moving towards Louis.

"Daniel?" Naomi called outloud from her subconsciousness.

Danile turned to the other Kitsunes who blankly stared at him, clearly not knowing how possible it was for her to suddenly call out his name like that.

The wolf had its gaze locked into Louis’s, and they seemed to share some sense of connection as they got close to each other.

Before her very eyes, they rubbed their snouts against each other’s, and a ray of white light exploded in Naomi’s face, and she saw black as she closed her eyes.

The ray of light was so powerful that everyone shielded their eyes, turning to the other side as they waited for it to fade off, however when they turned back up, they didn’t see any sign of Daniel or Naomi or the Kitsunes.

"Do you think... " Brittany started but Barton shot her a look.

"Why is it so quiet?" Hakura curiously asked, wanting to go up there herself and check it out, but two figures began climbing down, and they soon came into view.

"Where are they?" Nancy asked worriedly. It was Acella and Axle and they bore smiles which cleared up a lot of things on everyone’s mind.

"Where’s Naomi?" Koan asked this time, impatient and worried.

"She’s right here." Someone said, and they all glanced up at Daniel wbo marched forward with a calm smile on his face directed down at a small fury thing in his arms.

It looked like it was sleeping; as its tummy rose and fell slowly.

Everyone, asides the Kitsunes who stood far off rounded him up immediately staring in awe at the beautiful fox which lay in Daniel’s arms, sleeping. Its eyes, though not open were huge and slanted. Two lines connected from the edge of both eyes accentuated down to a small, cute brown snout.

"She’s beautiful." Talia whispered.

"Yeah," Daniel still hadn’t broke his gaze from her sleeping figure. "I know."

"We should take turns holding her." Koan suddenly said, a bit jealous that Daniel was holding her for much longer and didn’t look like he was going to let them touch her.

Everyone agreed with him, except Barton And Cardin.

Daniel pursed his lips, a bit reluctant, yet he handed it over to Brittany who had her hand stretched out already.

Her eyes glowed in delight as she stared down at her.

"She’s so adorable!!!" She exclaimed, stroking her fur with a motherly gesture

She reluctantly handed it to Talia who also squeezed the life of the fox as she stroked her fur.

"And so soft... I wish I had my phone for an Instagram boomerang right now." She gushed.

"Why is she sleeping in the first place?" Barton turned to the Kitsunes curiously when it was Hakura’s turn to hold her.

"It’s normal for each one of us during our first time. She’s supposed to have woken up by now though." Acella explained.

"Look Cardin," Hakura suddenly said, still holding up the fox. "We can have a baby as cute and little as this one in the future."

Everyone chuckled, especially when they saw a rare scene of Cardin flushed red like a tomato.

When Hakura handed it to Koan, his hand turned shaky and he almost dropped her If Nancy hadn’t held up his hand, supporting him.

"Be careful with her." Daniel cautioned. "I wonder how you’re going to hold your child if you can’t carry a mere fox, Alpha Koan." He smirked.

"Koan will make an excellent father." Nancy cautioned Daniel and Koan smirked back at Daniel whose smile fell. The couple stared back at the fox In admiration and awe.

"Too bad you can’t shape shift into a cute little fox as this one. I’d cuddle with you all night." Nancy pouted as she stroked the fox’s fur.

"You mean you won’t cuddle with me because I don’t have fur?" Koan pretended to be offended as he said this with a look of mock hurt on his face.

Talia rolled her eyes.

"No. Of course not. You’re already cute and cuddleable."

"Cuddle what?"

Soon, the fox began moving.

"It’s waking up! She should be with her mate now." Axle said, and Nancy quickly handed it over to Daniel.

"Thanks." Daniel whispered before glancing down at the fox who had began moving in his arm.

"It doesn’t have a single tail. Why?" Hakura asked, curious.

"It’s only a matter of time. Like I said, it’s just her first times shape shifting. You’ll know, probably during her second or third time. "

"So what type of Kitsune is she?" Barton asked.

"A fire Kitsune." Axle replied with a grin.

 

Chapter 193

Daniel felt the air knock out of his lungs as his eyes met with the largest, bluest eyes he had ever seen. It was misty and glassy, and she looked so vunerable as she made herself comfortable in his arms after they had exchanged glances.

"She’s sleeping again." Nancy pointed out, leaning close to Daniel to stroke her fur again.

"She wanted to make sure she has her mate by her side before she goes into slumber again."

"What would happen if she hadn’t seen Daniel?"

"She’d throw a rampage and die." Acella causally replied and everyone stared at her in horror.

Axel sighed. "When a Kitsune shape shifts for the first time, it’s like giving birth. She’s like a baby who needs to replenish her lost energy while shape shifting or she wouldn’t be able to shift back into her human form. So she needs enough rest, and she wouldn’t feel comfortable If her mate isn’t around."

Everyone slowly nodded, finally understanding.

"Well," Koan slapped Daniel’s back so hard that he almost dropped the fox. "I’ll leave her to your care, the sun is already peeking out over the horizon, and we need enough rest before we leave."

With that, he headed back to the building with Nancy trailing after him.

Soon, everyone retired to bed just as the sun was slowly peeking put over the horizon, casting a pale orange color over the place.

Daniel’s eyes slowly closed up as he fell into a deep slumber in his room, cradling the fox who used his stomach as a substitute for her bed.

It was morning, the sun was fully out, and it was close to noon when Naomi slowly opened her eyes, her lashes fluttering open as she woke up from the sunlight peeking into her eyes.

She suddenly stopped moving, freezing when she realized she was lying over something hard yet comfortable.

Bracing her hand over the ’wall’, she glanced up and her eyes widened when she realized she was straddling Daniel, staring right back at his face in shock.

Suddenly the activities which occured hours ago flashed across her mind, and she couldn’t help but smile when she remembered how supportive he was, but the thing remained that she wasn’t sure If he wanted her. He wanted to be with her for sure, but was it because they were mates and he needed a Luna, or was It because he loved her for who she really is?

Had he truly forgiven her?

She didn’t realize she still had a small smile plastered to her face, not until he suddenly moved underneath her, and she gasped as their eyes locked.

"Were you thinking about me?" He asked, and she rolled her eyes.

"I wasn’t." She denied.

"Really?"

She gasped again as he suddenly flipped himself over her by grabbing her waist. Soon, her hands were bound up, over her head with his hand wrapped around her wrists while the other slowly crept down her waist as he straddled her.

"Then who could be making my mate smile this lewdly so late In the morning."

"Daniel!" She suddenly gasped, exploding into a fit of laughter as he tickled her with his free hand. Tears soon filled her eyes. "Daniel, stop please." She begged, but her wild laughter said otherwise.

He laughed as well, stopping before releasing her, laying back on the bed; side by side with her.

"This is a little pay back for those times you held me down and tickled me when I was too bummed to eat and you wanted to make me happy."

Naomi laughed.

"But it worked. You ate your meals, didn’t you?"

He turned sideways to look at her and she dared not do the same and only met with the ceiling, avoiding his gaze.

"I didn’t eat because you tickled me, stupid. I ate because it was you who told me to." His voice was soft, and she swallowed as she kept staring up.

There was silence as he kept looking at her, and she felt a bit wary before her eyes widened when he straddled her again, holding her hands down on each side of her face.

He leaned down, and she threw back her head, feeling a strange new surge of pleasure travel up her body when he kissed the nape of her neck, running his lips and tongue over it before pulling back to stare at her.

"Remind not to hold back after I mark you and claim you as mine, Naomi. I swear I won’t hold back," Naomi swallowed, feeling a throbbing sensation between her legs as she forced her eyes to remain fixed in his.

He leaned down and whispered dirty things into her ear, things which made her heart race in expectation while rubbing her thighs together, feeling the throbbing sensation turn slightly painful as her hunger grew.

"I will f**k you so hard you’ll beg me to stop. You’ll beg and beg Naomi, but I’ll tie you up and resume f**king you instead. I’ll take you in all positions and angles, and I don’t care if takes all night," Naomi sucked in a sharp intake of air, her lower back slowly rising off the bed, her teeth sinking down on her lower lip so hard she feared it might bleed. "You’ll be damned wrong if you think I didn’t think about you when I was all alone at Moon Howler’s pack. I knew you were dead, and I knew it was f**king wrong," She gasped slightly as he bit her earlobe. "But I didn’t care. I was a child then, but as I grew I began having fantasies .... about f**king you Naomi. I would Dream about you... about us like this. With you underneath me and underneath all my mercy as I ruthlessly plundered into you... as I did so many dirty things to you. And now we’re few days away from actually turning my dream into a reality... I can’t wait baby." He sucked the red spot on her lobe, sucking it softly before leaning back, smirking on seeing the flushed look on her face.

"I... I need to go to the restroom... " She pleaded, and he let go of her, watching as she ran off, panting hard.

’You’re a pervert.’ Kevin suddenly said.

"Where’ve you been?" Danile asked, getting off the bed with a grin, raking his hair backwards.

He suddenly groaned midway.

F**k, he had a boner.

He glanced to the restroom where Naomi had disappeared to.

 

Chapter 194:

Naomi panted hard, trying to catch her breath as she got into the restroom, banging the door shut and resting her back against it.

"I will f**k you so hard you’ll beg me to stop. You’ll beg and beg Naomi, but I’ll tie you up and resume f**king you instead. I’ll take you in all positions and angles, and I don’t care if takes all night"

His words came flooding through her mind, causing her lips to quiver as she slowly raked her hair off her face, her fingers trembling from what he said.

Was it trembling from fear, expectation or desire? She didn’t know, but she was already fantasizing about them together.

"Argh! Focus Naomi." She reprimanded herself, blushing furiously when she realized how much of a pervert she was becoming.

"Are you okay in there?" Daniel asked, knocking on the door.

Naomi’s eyes widened and she reflectively turned to the door, holding onto the door knob and pushing it back, preventing him from coming in.

"Y... Yeah. I’m fine." She stammered.

"You’re stammering."

"I.. I’m. N.. Not."

"You do that when you’re nervous," Her heart flipped when she heard him chuckle.

"Everyone stammers when they’re nervous." She pointed out without thinking.

"So you admit you’re nervous. Is it because of ... "

"It’s nothing." She abruptly cut in.

He chuckled again, finding her Incredulously cute.

"I’m coming in." He turned the knob but he realized she was holding onto it on the other side. "Come on. Let me in."

"What do you want?" She asked.

"This is my room and restroom," He chuckled again. "I can come in and leave whenever I please."

She bit her lip before letting him open the door. When he did, her eyes instinctively dropped down to the visible buldge between his legs and her breath ceased once again before she looked away.

"I’ll leave now... " She made to run out; through the door as he got inside, but suddenly she gasped, feeling his hand clamp down on her shoulder and pull her back in.

"Daniel." She gasped again when she felt her back hit the door shut before he cornered her, this time, pushing his head down the nape of her neck, grinding hard against her. "Daniel." She whimpered, her hands wrapping around his neck as her eyes slowly closed, slightly grimacing.

"Look what you’ve done to me. I’m so f**king hard, I could hammer in nails with my c**k."

She whimpered again when she felt his hardness grind against her.

Moaning as he began sucking a particular area on her neck, she did the same to the nape of his neck, nibbling and sucking to ease off the unwavering pain between her legs.

"F**k." He whispered, bringing down his hands to carry her up, her back still against the door, his fingers digging into her a*s as she wrapped her legs around his waist.

Pulling back, he rammed his buldge between her parted legs and she cried out before he crashed his lips on hers, grinding hard and mercilessly against her.

The door slightly shook with the effort of his thrust while she kept moaning into his mouth; each time his buldge connected with her parted legs.

If he could just pull down his pants and slide her panty to the side...

She wasn’t satisfied with this. She wanted to know the feeling of actually touching without clothes. She was so f**king impatient, but she knew he wouldn’t give her the satisfaction of f**king her now.

Brittany suddenly walked into the room, having knocked for a while but apparently the couple were so absorbed in the heat of the moment that they hadn’t even heard when she entered.

"Daniel?"

The two froze and Daniel quickly put a hand over Naomi’s mouth, still grinding and ramming against her, their eyes locking in pleasure and horror when they realized who was at the door.

"Daniel... "

"I’m kind of busy." Danile huffed, increasing his pace while Naomi softly bit the hand around her mouth, muffling a moan, her arms tightening around his neck to prevent the door from shaking so much.

"Everyone’s prepared to leave already. I thought Naomi would be here."

Naomi’s moan was muffled around his palm as she thrust out her lower back to meet with his thrust, wrapping her legs tighter around him, bouncing up and down slowly, making sure not to make so much noise.

The excitement and thrill of what they were doing just a door away from Brittany heightened the heated moment between them, and they increased their paces, panting.

"She left some minutes ago. Did you check her room?"

"She didn’t open up when I knocked so... "

"Maybe she’s still asleep. You know how she is..." He rammed into her, very hard, and tightened the grip he had around her mouth as she let out another moan. "She can sleep through anything."

Naomi glared at him and bit his palm very hard, but he dared not pull his hand away and silently bore them pain by biting down on his lower lip.

"Okay... well... you better hurry, there’s breakfast." With that, she left.

Once the door shut some distance away, Daniel suddenly pulled back after a groan, and Naomi felt a wet warm sensation flow from him before they parted.

She wanted to know what it was, yet she saw her chance to leave and quickly ran off when he was preoccupied.

He grinned at the shut door, chuckling to himself.

As he got into the shower, he stood there, fully bare, staring into space as the water rushed down from his hair to his chest, down his body.

Again, he thought of her, tied up on the bed with each hand and ankle bound to a bedpost as he did naughty things to her, ignoring her cries and pleas for him to stop.

"Naomi... " He softly murmured, grabbing hold of his throbbing length only to realize he had gotten hard just by thinking of her again. "Ugh!" He grunted, forehead to the wall, one hand braced against it as his other hand wrapped firmly around his length, moving back and forth in fast motions, imagining how she would look underneath him, his length f**king her mouth, exploring all sides and depth with his tip, deep-throating her several times, hearing her muffled groans and gwaking sobs and she took him in several times.

He sighed, his hand motion increasing as he imagined exploding into her mouth, leaning back to watch her drink him in before she leaned closer to lick his c**k clean of any c*m.

Groaning, he threw his head backwards, under the showerhead as he released onto his hand and to the ground, sighing after.

 

Chapter 195

Marcy was in Daniel’s office, helping him to sort out some documents when there was a tentative knock at the door.

"Come in." She answered without glancing up.

The door squeaked as it opened up and soon it was shut close.

"What do you need?" Marcy asked warily, raising a brow while scrutinized something on the table. However when she didn’t get a reply seconds later, she finally glanced up, only to see ...

The chair screeched back and some files fell to the floor as she leaped into the arms of the man standing before her, the tears she’s been holding back, pouring out like waves, down her cheeks.

"It’s okay. It’s okay." Royce cooed, rubbing her back.

Marcy leaned back, scrutinizing him now, trying to convince herself that it was her son-in-law standing right Infront of her.

"I thought... " Her eyes suddenly widened and she pulled back, glancing to the door where he had just walked in from.

"Where are the others... " She stared back at Royce. "When Luna Luan arrived here, she told me everyone was present at Ruby Stone’s pack." She explained.

Luna Luan had come looking for Naomi, but she got some information from her before she left. Daniel, Brittany, Barton and so many others were somewhere south fighting for their lives and she could only pray to the moon goddess to keep them alive and safe.

"Well, all you need to know now is that everyone is safe and alive in Moon Howler’s pack," Marcy’s smile broaden but fell as he concluded. "Except Dora."

"W- What do you mean?" She stammered, her voice trembling in fear.

Royce held her shoulders and sadly shook his head.

"She didn’t make It."

"How’s Luna Ciara taking all these in. First her husband, and now her only daughter." Tears dripped down her cheeks. "I feel for her."

"Hey. Hey. Hey." Royce rubbed his thumb over his cheek, his eyes sadening when he viewed Marcy’s features and it reminded him of Brittany. He just hoped he was right about everyone being fine.

He just hoped.

"Now’s not the time to get sad. The time of sorrow and Mourning has passed. Now, is the time we all come together and celebrate and thank Selena for guiding and protecting us."

Marcy sniffed, wiping the side of her cheeks before she smiled up at him.

"I’m so happy you’re here. I missed you all."

Royce pulled her in for a hug.

"I missed you too."

*

"Mrs. Diego." Lizzy glanced up from where she was chopping somethings on the chopping board with a confused look on her face.

Why did that voice sound so familiar.

Her eyes suddenly widened as she saw Liliana and Raiden standing there. Without realizing, she moved the blade of the knife a further inch to the left and let it down.

"Ouw!" She groaned, dropping the knife and stepping back to fling her finger In the air.

"Mum!" Liliana rushed in with Raiden behind her, but she surprised them by wrapping her arms around them, pulling them up for a big hug.

"Mum your finger .. "

"I’ll heal. Just shut up and let me hug you like this. It’s been so long, I thought I lost you all, yet I believed Selena would protect and guide everyone of you." She leaned back and Liliana’s heart clenched on seeing her bloodied finger.

"Where’s Koan... and Nancy. How’s everyone." She quickly asked, holding Raiden’s hand.

Raiden grabbed her shoulder.

"Everyone’s fine Mum. Really. We actually came to personally invite you to the celebration party were holding at Moon Howler’s pack."

The woman had a calm smile on her face as she held her chest in relief before she finally saw the similar silver rings glinting on their fingers.

Her smile broke into a grin as she stared at them.

"Did I miss something here?"

Raiden and Liliana just snuck glances at each other before looking away with bashful smiles.

*

"We’ve run out of decorating supplies." Jephthah approached John who was standing side by side with an Omega, signing a paper to accept transport of alcohol to the party.

John glanced up from where he signed the paper just as the Omega left.

"You can drive down to the nearest store and get some. Have they started arriving?" Jon asked, referring to the guests.

"Yes," Jephthah replied as he took the keys from his twin’s hand. "I just hope none of this is in vain."

"They will come."

"I hope so." Jephthah said, his heart clenching in slight pain as he remembered Talia. He didn’t know which hurt most. The fact that he might never see her again or the fact that Talia and Cardin were together.

He trusts Talia not to fall for him, but he didn’t trust Cardin to keep his hands off what was his.

*

"Is the food good?" Koan softly asked as he stabbed the fork through the steak he had cut up on her plate.

Nancy wiped the side of her mouth as she blushed slightly, nodding.

"Stop staring at me like that."

She was feeling insecure as she had just woken up. Times like this was when she looked like her face was run over by her truck.

Her hair was a mess, almost like it was roughly blow back with a hair dryer. Her face was completely bare of any make up, and her eyes were huge.

Koan fed her again, this time smirking.

"But I like staring at you like this. You look so beautiful." He said, his eyes glinting with genuine love.

Nancy cast her eyes down.

"My step mum said I look like a pig when I wake up."

There was silence as he just stared at her while she kept her face down, twisting her fingers around one another.

Nancy clearly remembered the day she had woken up from her slumber and was heading downstairs to drink a glass of orange juice when she ran into Luna Angela.

"And where are you off to you pig."

"Pig?" Nancy froze in her steps.

Luna Angela smirked.

"A Pig. That’s what you look like" She snapped at her and Nancy squealed as she shielded half her face with the linen of her shirt. "You shouldn’t punish people like this by showing your face around like this. I suggest you go bury yourself in a hole and die."

All her life, this went on, and she truly did believe she was ugly, especially when she just woke up.

~Back to the present.

Koan leaned close and tilted her chin, so that their gazes locked. He saw tears in her eyes.

"Nancy... "

"No." She pulled his hand down and held his fingers in her grip. "I know what you’re going to say. You’re going to tell me I’m the most beautiful woman in the world, and you’re going to tell me that you love me just the way I am and... "

He suddenly grabbed her hand and pulled her up from the bed taking her to where a mirror stood, 9 by 9.

Once they got close, he made her stand before the mirror before standing behind her, cupping his arms around her waist and pulling her close.

"Koan." Nancy sighed in protest, but shuddered when he kissed the nape of her neck, trailing his tongue over her mark before kissing it again.

"Who do I belong to?"

She tried to move but he held her back.

"Me. You’re mine."

"And who do you belong to. Look in the mirror. Tell me, who do you belong to."

Nancy squinted as she stared right back at her face in the mirror, but when she saw her reflection, she quickly glanced down.

"You. I’m yours."

"That’s right, and Nancy Maguire, you are mine, so I have the rights to decifer if you’re beautiful or not, and you are more than beautiful... Nancy look into the mirror."

Nancy forced her eyes back up the mirror.

"You have the heart shaped face of a goddess," As he spoke, he trailed his hands over the side of her head, trailing it down to her chin. "Your brows are thick and beautiful, especially when you frown." They chuckled together when his fingers creased her brows before trailing down to her nose. "You have a perfect nose... tall, pointed... cute."

She blushed and tried to glance down again but he cupped her face and made her look at herself.

"Your lips... it’s like they were crafted by the hands of the goddess herself. So full, so pink, so deliciously pouty," he spinned her so that they were face to face, and he slowly leaned down to kiss her. Instinctively she responded, tilting her head up.

"Your eyes are the rarest color of pink... the only reason your mistake of a step-mother bullied you so much was because she knew that in a million years, neither she nor her daughter could be as beautiful as you."

"You think so?" Her voice was in a hushed whisper due to the year filled eyes as she gazed up at him when they pulled away.

He picked a lock of her hair and placed it behind her ear.

"I know so."

 

Chapter 196

Every single person you’d ever know in the entire Werewolf territory was present.

Luna Ciara, who was the co-host of the part represented Moon Howler’s pack.

Luna Tessa, along with her people represented Crimson Moon’s pack

Alpha Joseph and Luna Luan, along with their people represented Shadow Slayer’s pack.

Everyone who were able to make it arrived from Blood Moon’s pack, Alpha Cardin’s pack along with Aunt Stacey.

Aunt Marcy arrived with Royce and people from Dark Risers’s pack.

Lizzy arrived with Liliana and Raiden, representing Crescent Moon’s pack with their people.

Luna Angela arrived with Pamela and her people, prancing in all her mighty, fake ardor, representing Ruby Stone’s pack with her husband, Alpha Henry.

Alpha Kris who had returned the day before arrived with his people, representing Silver Pack.

Everyone was lively, and children were kept at a particular corner, because If they mixed up with the crowd, they might get lost.

There was a levated platform, and on a lined table with several chairs on it, sat all the elders and shamans representing all the packs, and sitting along with them, was the oldest Alpha In the werewolf current existence, Alpha Joseph.

They were making small talk while people have begun gathering, standing before the levated platform. They were all excited, impatiently waiting for their ’Heroes’, who had taken a risky journey to an unknown land to protect their existence.

Just beside the levated platform, before you began climbing up, John was ordering some Omegas to set up another long table at the end, meant for the rest of the Alphas and Lunas.

Liliana ran up to him.

"I just finished making sure all the kids were safely in their corner. Drinks and snacks would arrive soon."

"Okay Great. How many drinks are... " John started to say when Alpha Kris, A.K.A, his father strode towards them.

"Alpha Kris." Liliana acknowledged, but she almost broke a sweat when she noticed the tense atmosphere between the two men as they silently gazed at each other.

"You’re Alpha Koan’s cousin, aren’t you?" Alpha Kris turned to her, his sharp eyes berrating her with curiosity.

"Y- Yes Alpha."

"You’ve been quite close to my son during the entire event planning. I’ve been watching you two," His eyes narrowed at John next. "You do realize she’s Alpha Koan’s cousin? She’s related to one of the most ferocious Alpha ever is."

John turned irritated.

"Dad... She’s already married. You shouldn’t just assume things like that."

Alpha Kris’s brows rose before he dipped a hand into his pocket, his diamond encrusted wristwatch glinting under the sunlight.

"My apologies." He turned to Liliana who waved it off with a slight red face before he glared at John. "You should blame yourself that I thought you were adding her on another list of your escapades."

"Dad... I’m busy." He spoke through clenched teeth.

"Of course you are," He inclined his head to the crowd. "You do realize that there are over a thousand members of the werewolf territory here. An easy way for a rogue to blend in and cause a ruckus without being noticed. Ever thought of positioning pack warriors around the crowd, especially at the kids’ corner?"

John’s eyes slightly widened in realization before he mumbled.

"I didn’t think of that."

"Well, iif Jephthah wasn’t too busy, he would have remembered." Alpha Kris coldly uttered before walking off while John stared hard at his back before glancing away.

Liliana bit her lower lip, feeling a bit awkward for standing in between them during their little verbal argument, yet feeling a lot bad for John.

Why hadn’t his father seen he has been working hard? He was literally the planner of this party. Was she missing something here?

*

Talia just woke up, her hair adorning her beautiful face, her eyes huge and sleepy. She was just stretching, still in bed when the door suddenly burst open, and she snapped her head up to see Cardin staring at her, standing at the door with a smile on his face.

"Cardin." Talia sighed, hiding a smile as she pulled the blankets further up to cover her legs.

"Come on. Breakfast in bed." He leaned down, dropping the tray, before sitting next to it.

"You didn’t have to." She said with half closed eyes.

"Talia... don’t be like this. It’s like old times, remember?"

"Most of the time I’m the one barging into your room with breakfast since you were too lazy to get your a*s up early in the morning."

Cardin laughed, leaning down to cut his steak while she stabbed her fork through hers.

"At least I let you have some."

"It was one time," She looked and sounded so cute since her voice was muffled by the food in her mouth. "Most of the time I got you breakfast in bed, you made me watch you while you ate it all."

Cardin chuckled while she just shook her head with a smile, leaning down to eat.

"I’ve missed this." He said, his gaze not leaving her face till she glanced up. They locked eyes before she glanced down.

"What’s there to miss? It’s not like we’ve stopped joking around like this."

"We have. It hasn’t been the same between us since... "

She glanced up again.

"Jephthah?"

Cardin suddenly leaned in and cupped her cheek, pulling her close, their lips almost a hair’s breath apart as his gaze fell on them.

"You don’t realize just how much I love you, Talia," She struggled out of his hold but he increased his grip. "How much I’m willing to sacrifice for you. Jephthah has nothing."

Talia gasped at the sudden closeness before pulling away.

Pah!

Cardin glanced away for a second, his hand still on the burning sensation stinging in his cheek before he turned to Talia who stood there, chest rising and falling as she glared at him.

"How dare you?" He suddenly yanked her wrist and pulled her up to her knees before pulling her forward, causing her chest to crash against his. "How dare you hit your Alpha?"

His aura caused her head to bow to the ground such that her chin was caressing her chest as she did.

He pulled back and glared at her, but he froze on seeing her shoulders tremble as she whispered.

"I didn’t hit the Alpha of Blood Moon’s pack," She raised her head, and he could see how her tears had made her eyes glassy. "I hit my best friend because he was behaving like a jerk." With that she climbed up the bed and shoved him hard.

"Talia." He reached out to hold her, his voice pleading and soft, and but she had already gone into the bathroom. "Talia I’m sorry."

No reply.

He got close to the bathroom door and knocked on it. Once. Twice. Several times.

"Talia... let’s talk okay? Look, I’m sorry."

No reply.

"You just don’t know how difficult it is ..

how hurtful it is to love someone who loves someone else already. What am I supposed to do?"

There was silence for a full minute, before the door finally opened and right before him was Talia, staring at him with a small frown on her face.

"Remember when we were little, you had a bloody nose from rescuing me from those bullies in highschool? Do you remember what we promised each other?"

"To always stand by each other and support each other." He told her without missing a beat.

That was the first time they had actually met. Talia was usually the centre of attraction for bullying because of her hair and huge eyes, but the last straw was when three boys tried to gang up on her, and she was all alone, vunerable and defenseless. Not until he came. Cardin. The Alpha’s son who was usually so reserved and considered snobbish even.

He had rescued her and ended up with a bloody nose, but it was all worth it for her safety, and for the start of a beautiful friendship.

"And I’ve always stood by you, haven’t I?" She asked.

"Yes you have." He replied in a hoarse, hurt voice.

"And I’ve always supported you in whatever decision you made, haven’t I Cardin?"

"You have Talia."

"Then why can’t you support me for the life I’ve chosen with Jephthah... just this once."

"I really do want to," He looked away. "But it’s not easy."

"You will find love Cardin. You’ll find someone who will love you the way you want to be loved," She shook her head sadly. "But that person is not me."

She leaned in close and grabbed his hand, enfolding it in her small ones.

"I’m sorry." She had a sincere look of hurt and genuine sympathy. "You don’t deserve this, but then again, you’re my best friend. You should support me, instead of always fighting with Jephthah."

Cardin managed a chuckled.

"Jephthah huh?"

"He’s sweet and nice if you get to know him. And I want my boyfriend and best friend to get along. Okay?"

Cardin sighed before smiling at her, his lips pursed together.

"I’ll try."

Brittany suddenly poked her head inside.

"Whenever you guys are ready, we’re about leaving." She disappeared once she said so.

"Oh sh*t, I haven’t had a bath." With that, she starts heading for the bathroom while Cardin stared after her with a small smile.

 

Chapter 197

All the Kitsunes had gathered in the front yard of the royal palace to witness the departure of the new royal family. Some were floating off the ground while some were standing, all with curious gazes.

"I will be back." Naomi whispered to Acella and the woman bowed.

"... I will gladly take care of things here till you do. Until then, Axle will guide you like we discussed." Acella bowed again. "Safe journey your highness" She bowed to Daniel as well.

"Let’s go." Hakura whispered, already impatient. Like Talia and Brittany, she was unhesitatingly urging to go home, but unlike them, it was for a different reason.

"I hope you’ll take our pack as your home, just like I’ve taken Foxtune as mine." Naomi said to Axle.

She bowed.

"I will Your highness."

"It’s Naomi" She frowned a bit. "You’ll learn to drop the formalities when we’re at the pack."

The young woman managed a tight lipped smile, clearly not comfortable with calling the Iñari by her name, yet she couldn’t defy her orders.

They all stood there, at least three feet apart, in a circle, Axle in the middle.

She began forming a small dark circle between her fingers which grew bigger and bigger and bigger until she had to use her two hands to control the large whirlpool of darkness.

It looked like a black mist.

They all had one thing in mind. They were clearly interested in knowing her elemental powers.

As it grew bigger and bigger, Acella stepped back. The darkness covered every single person standing in the circle, slowly, slowly, until they were completely hidden by the darkness.

Soon, there was a shrill siren sound, and the darkness suddenly disappeared, travelling up the sky like a black smoke.

In the place of the royal family and their accomplices, along with Axle stood a black smouldering smoke lingering from the black spot on the ground.

They had gone back.

They had gone back home.

*

"You know... we aren’t sure if they’re arriving today or anytime this year. Why did we literally invite the entire werewolf territory and give every single one of them false hopes if we’re not sure they’re going to come." Jephthah said, dropping to the bed, devastated.

They were in a room in Moon Howler’s pack, and it was almost evening. Everyone had been waiting for so long that they had begun asking questions.

John had to literally run into a room and lock himself up, until Jephthah joined him, forcing him to unlock the door.

John sighed running his hand through his hair as he glanced down.

"Even if it takes all year, I won’t say we’ll wait here forever, but we will keep coming back to this spot, and when they return, we will celebrate. We have to wait Jephthah."

"But the others... "

"Why does Dad hate me?" John suddenly asked, and when Jephthah turned, he noticed John had tears in his eyes.

His eyes widened. Clearly, he haven’t heard or witnessed what had happened between them today.

He moved close to him and sat beside his twin on the bed, putting an arm around his shoulders.

"Dad doesn’t hate us."

"No," John pulled out from his hold to look at him. "Dad loves you. He hates me."

"Don’t say that. Dad doesn’t hate you. He’s just being harsh on you because... "

"Harsh? He made you Alpha of Silver fur’s Pack." John growled. "There’s no use referring to us as Alpha Twins when I’m not even going to be an Alpha."

"You said you didn’t care. You said you wanted to take over dad’s business on the OTHER SIDE."

"You should know me by now. I always say I don’t care," The tears finally dropped down his cheeks and Jephthah glanced away with pain in his eyes. "But I do care that my father doesn’t love me. I do care that he’s taking away my rightful position in the pack."

There was a pin-drop silence as he just cried while Jephthah just sat there, staring into space. John could only turn weak and vunerable Infront of one person and that was him. Aside him, he didn’t trust anyone to cry to or vent out his frustration on.

Slowly, Jephthah stretched his hand and grabbed hold of John’s, causing the young man to turn to him.

"You’re my brother. My twin. My other half. I’m incomplete without you, because we came into this world together... we literally share a heart. If Dad won’t make you Alpha, it means he’s also depriving me of my rights as Alpha too," He squeezed his hand. "If Dad hates you, then I don’t want want his love. If he hates you, then he hates me too."

John sighed and squeezed his hand too, closing his eyes.

"Thank you. You’re pretty much less of a weirdo in my eyes now."

Jephthah pulled away and punched his shoulders.

"ow!"

"Grow up."

*

There was rustling of bushes before Nancy crept up the bunker.

"He’s not here." She had a pensive expression on her face.

"It’s like there was an explosion here. I doubt anyone’s would be around. Maybe we... " Talia was suddenly cut off by Nancy.

"What If they were around during the explosion." Her voice was shaky.

"No... " Brittany turned shaky as well. "No. No. No. It can’t be. They ... are alive. I know they are... "

"We have to head to Ruby Stone’s before we conclude what had happened here." Koan ordered and everyone exchanged weird glances.

"O- Okay" Talia agreed, nodding with a dry throat just like everyone else, scared and terrified.

As they went along, Axle strayed behind for a few seconds glancing around in awe. This was literally her first time here in the werewolf territory, so she was still in shock and amazement.

After a long while, they finally arrived at the pack.

"It looks deserted." Daniel noted.

"Let’s go further. I see the Alpha’s mansion up ahead." Nancy whispered to the others.

"

There were Omegas littered around the pack, cleaning up the mess of the war. One suddenly perked up on recognizing Alpha Koan.

"They’re here!!!" One screamed and everyone turned.

Soon, they began cheering and screaming and going to and fro, and Koan and others could only stand there and watch them in confusion.

*

There was a knock on the door, alerting the twins.

"I’ll check who it is. Wipe your eyes, you look like a devastated bride." Jephthah cautioned with a whisper.

"Gee. I didn’t know." John sacarstically said, but he quickly cleaned his eyes.

When Jephthah opened up, It was Liliana.

She suddenly hugged him and when she pulled back, there were tears in her eyes.

"Liliana what’s wrong?"

"They... they’re... they just called."

"Who?" John joined the two at the door.

"Koan and the others. They’re here."

"What?!" The twins yelled at the same time.

"Here? Now?" John began moving out but she held him back.

"No. An Omega called from Ruby Stone’s. They’re there now, but they don’t know anything about the party. I suggest we bring them back here." Liliana explained before suggesting.

"Okay... I’ll stay here. You two can go pick them up." John also suggested and the two nodded before leaving, Liliana gushing all the way, clearly excited.

Once they left, John went away to inform the others to await their arrival when he bumped into his father again.

"Where’s Jephthah?" He snapped at him coldly.

"He just left a minute ago," John replied gruffly. Alpha Kris looked like he wanted to say something but John cut in. "Excuse me"

Alpha Kris’s jaw fell slightly as he watched his son walk past him without glancing back.

*

Jephthah rubbed his hand across his tired face as he drove straight for Ruby Stone’s pack with Liliana in the Passenger’s seat.

"Jephthah?"

He turned to his side.

Liliana bit her lip slightly, in thought before she said.

"I want to ask you a very personal question."

"Um... " he seemed a bit reluctant at first, but he didn’t want her to feel bad either. He focused on the road. "Okay. What is it?"

"What if... you and Talia aren’t mates?"

Jephthah kept his eyes on the road, his gaze unwavering before he finally cleared his throat.

"To us, we already are... I," he flushed red. "I love her, and she loves me, and if our love isn’t enough sign for the Moon goddess to make us mates, then I don’t know what is."

Liliana smiled, looking away before she whispered.

"You two are that confident, huh?"

"Love makes people do crazy things after all." He chuckled. "I don’t know how I’ll live when she goes back to Paris."

"Paris?"

"She was supposed to travel some days ago. She’s a model, so she’s got a full year contract with a world wide modelling agency in France."

"Oh my gosh!!! No wonder she looked familiar. She’s Ta-Lyaxoxoxo on Instagram."

"Yeah... "

"I can’t imagine staying a year without Raiden." She sighed and looked at Jephthah with a sympathetic look.

 

Chapter 198

Alpha Koan and the others were sitting outside the Omega’s quarters. The Omegas had informed them that their friends would be picking them up, so they patiently waited in the balcony.

Nancy was lying against Daniel’s chest while playing with her nails, while he played with her shiny blue hair while Naomi had her head laid on Koan’s shoulders, his arms wrapped around her.

Talia, Brittany, Barton and Cardin made the environment a bit lively by talking about their last experiences in Foxtune, Hakura chipping in once in a while to tease Cardin. Axle just watched everything with interest, knees pulled up to her chin, arms folded around them, politely declining their request to join them.

Later on, the Omegas brought them snacks and other refreshments. They were dying to know how they made it alive and conquered the Kitsunes, but they were not in the position to demand anything from them.

"What is this?" Axle asked, holding up her can of coca-cola, staring at the weird ’container’ in interest.

"It’s coca-cola in a can." Danile replied, almost chuckling at her expression. It was hilarious that she didn’t even know a basic thing as a simple can of drink. How would she react to a moving car?

Axle glanced up at everyone who was opening up their drinks with a sizzling sound and felt lost. She turned to her can and tried the same, but it looked like she hadn’t watched properly since all she did was futile and didn’t even make the same sizzling sound as theirs when it opened up.

Following her instinct, she began biting the can, gnawing on it. Naomi stiffled a chuckle and moved to help hee, but Barton had already beat her to it, stiffling a chuckle as well.

"Let me help you." He softly chuckled as he stretched out his hand. Axle slowly pulled the can out her mouth with a bashful look on her face before handing it to him.

"You hold this part up," He began explaining, and the others around, Koan even, almost chuckled outloud at the serious expression on her face as she listened to the simple process of opening a can of drink like she was learning a chemistry formula. "Then pull back, and... "

There was a sizzling sound as he did it and Axle almost bounced where she sat, excited to witness such a strange process.

"Here." Barton stretched his hand and she took it. He decided to sit next to her while sipping his own drink to keep an eye on her.

Axle snuck a glance at him, and noticed he tilted the can up to his lips to sip the contents, once In a while reaching down to grab hold of a golden brown colored snack to eat.

She turned back to her can and tilted the can up to her lips as well, and her eyes widened on feeling a cold soothing feeling run down her throat before she leaned down and held the can some inches away from her face.

"What? You don’t like it?" Barton asked her.

"I love it! What is it really?"

Everyone chuckled outloud this time, and she didn’t feel embarrassed or anything, she actually felt she could be herself around them. Maybe staying here won’t be as bad as she thought.

*

There were crickets chirping around when a car pulled up Infront of the Omegas quarters.

"I guess it’s our friends picking us up. Let’s go." Talia groaned as she tiredly got up the floor, feeling a bit sore from sitting at a place for so long.

"I wonder who? All of them couldn’t have come." Brittany mumbled hoping Royce was the one driving.

Axle remained on the ground, her eyes fixed on the car with the bright headlights, interest dancing in her eyes like the dazzling stars reflecting in them.

"Come on, Axle." Naomi said before Koan pulled her.

Axle got up and turned, only to realize they had left their cans lying on the ground. She stared at hers cupped in her hands.

"You coming?" Barton asked.

"Can I brink my coca-cola with me." She said, stressing every vowel in the word ’Coca-cola’.

Barton couldn’t help but grin with rolling his eyes. She’s so cute and she doesn’t even realize it.

"Sure."

With that, he began leaving while she trailed after him, tilting her head once in a while to sip her drink.

Jephthah and Liliana simultaneously climbed out the car.

"Oh my gosh!! Guys!!!" She screamed and ran forward. She leaped on Koan, hugging him tight while sobbing, all the fear she had been bottling up that they might die finally turning to tears of joy.

"It’s Okay... I’m alive... you big baby." Koan groaned, but he still hugged her back.

Liliana pulled away, clearly not noticing anyone else, but Koan now. She finally saw Nancy walking side by side with Alpha Daniel.

Nancy smiled, already expecting her hug, but she didn’t expect she’d fall to her back to the ground when Liliana flew towards her, smouldering her face with kisses.

"Where’s Royce?" Brittany asked, lower lip stuck out.

"Jephthah." Talia whispered, seeing a dark figure edge closer to them.

She wanted to be sure she wasn’t dreaming, yet standing right Infront of her was him. Jephthah.

"Talia."

She rushed forward and wounded her arms and legs around him, leaning her head in for a kiss before she parted. He was red, but he managed to form a string of words as he panted slightly.

"I’m so happy you’re here. I’ve missed you."

"You think I don’t know? I missed you more." She said before hugging him again. As they did, Jephthah caught the eyes of Cardin. Like previously, he didn’t glare at him he just looked away with a small smile.

Jephthah smiled but Cardin didn’t see it. Only Hakura did.

"Where’s my baby." Brittany suddenly whined, almost wailing. Cardin and Barton rolled their eyes.

"They’re all at Moon Howler’s pack. We’re heading there now. So everyone, get in." Liliana explained, still wounded up around Nancy.

With that, everyone moved towards the car while Liliana quietly inquired about Naomi from Nancy who began explaining in a low tone.

When Jephthah kept staring at Naomi as she made her way past the two, Talia still curled up around him like a bear, she suddenly turned to him and smiled.

Before he could turn red, Koan grabbed his shoulder, and stretched out the other hand.

"I’m driving."

"Sure thing... um... it’s in my back pocket." He said.

Koan roughly tapped Talia.

"Get the keys from his back pocket."

Talia glared at Koan for interrupting their moment together before pushing her hand down; into his back pocket, Jephthah turning another shade of red before she pushed the keys into Koan’s hands.

"Now leave us alone." She glared hard at him again before curling her arms and legs tighter around her man, turning from vicious to vunerable in one second.

Koan bit his tongue, preventing him from saying something that would make her lash out at him or cause another verbal argument.

Cardin was going in with the others when he realized Axle standing there, her can between her hands as she stared at the car in awe.

"Aren’t you coming in?"

"Oh? Me... " She looked a bit lost, but rather than ask questions, she meekly followed him from behind.

"Talia. You can get off me now. Everyone’s waiting for us" Jephthah whispered, making a move to let her down, but her legs curled tighter around his waist. He blushed.

She said something, but it was muffled. He had to ask her to repeat herself.

"I said we can go in like this. Jephthah... why do I sense another scent all over yours?" Jephthah began moving towards the car as she continued ranting. "Just what have you been up to when I wasn’t around. You thought I had died, didn’t you? So you were planning on moving on weren’t you, huh? Who is she? Tell me. Is she prettier? Does she kiss better than I do? Jephthah, you’re not saying anything, I’m beginning to think I’m actually right."

He suddenly glared at her and she stopped, stiffling a chuckle.

As they all got in, Koan began driving. There was silence in the car Except the soft whispers of Barton explaining some certain things to Axle in the car, satisfying her hungry curiosity.

Liliana bit her lip as she stared at everyone in the car before staring down her hand. This had to be the right time to tell them, or she’d never get a chance like this.

She Inhaled and exhaled slowly before clearing her throat.

"Oh. I forgot to tell you guys... " Liliana waved her hand with a smile. The silver ring glinted on her ring finger from the moon light. "I’m married now... sooo.. "

Screeeeeeeeech!

"Sh*t" Koan cursed when the car skidded to a halt after he stepped on the brakes abruptly.

Everyone turned to Liliana, some in shock, some in disbelief, some in horror, some in surprise, some in confusion, and she bit her lip In guilt.

"Bad timing?"

 

Chapter 199

Crash!

Bam!

Naomi cried in pain as she rolled on the ground after being tossed around like a ragdoll, dying in her own pool of blood.

She glanced down and saw the familiar feet of the person just inches from her face, inch deep buried in her own blood.

"P- Please... " Naomi whispered, heart pounding, lips shaking, blood spurting from her mouth. She forced herself to glance up and saw her face. Destroyed and deformed, like her face was run over by a truck and stabbed with a knife several times.

Despite that, she looked so familiar. An old foe. Someone she pretty much thought was dead. How was she alive???

The woman, her hair down, concealing her features, throwing a dark shade to her face, raised a huge sword and brought it down with a sinister smile.

*

Naomi abruptly sat up from where she slept on Daniel’s shoulder, panting hard.

"Your highness!"

"Highness?! What’s that?"

"Naomi!"

"What’s going on?"

"She probably had a bad dream!"

Screeech!

"Sh*t."

Everyone turned to Naomi, and she bit her lower lip in guilt and embarassment, leaning her head closer to Daniel’s shoulder, hiding her face.

"I’m sorry guys... it was just a bad dream."

"What happened?" Liliana inquired but Naomi shook her head.

"It’s.. Okay. It’s not a big deal. Please let’s just keep going."

Daniel clasped his hands around hers and pulled her in to wrap his arms around her body, signalling to Koan to start driving.

As he did, everyone reluctantly turned away and Talia leaned her head back on Jephthah’s shoulder’s, wrapping her arms around his neck, teasing him once in a while by blowing into his ear when she was bored.

"Are you okay?" Daniel whispered into her ear before nuzzling her hair with his nose. She nodded, clutching at his shirt before closing her eyes.

She pretended to fall back asleep, but no one except Daniel knew the bad feeling she had buried deep in her heart, but like everyone, he didn’t know the reason.

*

In seconds, after they must have alighted from the car, there were hugs, kisses and shedding of a few tears which left everyone chuckling and crying at the same time to be reunited once again.

There was also a few ear pinches from the aunts who declared how worried they were about their absence, but all in all, everyone was happy to see them. The crowd was ready to throw themselves at them, already hooting and cheering them on, but Luna Luan led them up the levated platform before joining the rest of the Lunas and Alphas on the high table.

Naomi was all smiles the entire time. Though Marcy was more than happy to see her, and she truly did miss Aunt Marcy, she avoided most of the questions relating to her disappearance. She was set on revealing her true identity now, but she dreaded their reaction.

Would they hate her? Would they try to kill her? Would they accept her for who she is? Will Dark Risers’s pack want a Luna like her leading them?

Her smile slowly faltered when everyone began turning to her and Axle with curious looks. She couldn’t tell if it was the strange clothing they had on, or the fact that they didn’t recognize them. After all, here in the werewolf territory, to them, they were of no importance.

Standing there, facing the crowd was Alpha Koan. Everyone knew him as the popular loner wolf of Crescent Moon’s pack with his hot taunt jaw and dreamy blue eyes. Cold and ruthless.

His Beta, Raiden was present alongside Alpha Koan’s cousin, Liliana.

Alpha Cardin of Blood Moon’s pack was standing along with his Beta, Royce and his Beta’s Mate who everyone knew as Brittany. Talia, his sister was also standing there, and almost everyone knew her as the famous France model.

Alpha Daniel of Dark Risers’s pack stood along with his Beta, Barton.

The Alpha Twins of Silver fur’s Pack were also up on the levated platform.

Nancy, Alpha Henry’s daughter was present as well. Currently, it was only her friends and father that knew she even had a mate. But quite a number of people around knew of her disorder, and of course Mirabel who was amongst the crowd had gotten to hear of it.

(P.S: Mirabel is the chic at the club who posed as a threat to Nancy’s Mate)

Hakura, Crown Princess of witches was present on the levated platform as well, returning everyone’s stare with a cool glare.

"Who is she?" An elder on the table asked, staring blankly at Naomi. He was also curious about Axle, but Naomi piqued his interest just like the others. Apparently, her aura could not be hidden.

Naomi turned to and fro before glancing at the people. The entire place was quiet as they waited for her reply.

It was obvious from the medallions in the elders’ hands that they were about awarding their brave heroes for relentlessly risking their lives to save their existence, but what did she do?

Did she even deserve to stand up here when her existence was the cause of everything that happened?

She swallowed and turned to the table sitting beside the platform to see Marcy staring at her with a sincere loving smile on her face. There were other Lunas and Alphas sitting there, waiting like the rest for her answer.

"You’re not a werewolf." A Shaman suddenly said from the table and Naomi backed away when the crowd began murmuring. She turned back to Marcy to see her smile falter and her expression turn to one of confusion.

"Who are you?" An elder growled menacingly and she could see the apprehensiveness in their eyes as they sized her up, clearly acting on their animal instinct since her scent gave her away.

Axle eyes suddenly turned dark gold and she instinctively moved behind Naomi to protect her, glaring hard at the particular elder that growled at her highness.

Naomi whimpered and moved away. She planned on running but Daniel suddenly pulled her back.

"Let me go... please." She whispered to Daniel but he held her in place.

"She’s my mate." Daniel turned to the elders as he said, and the next moment, Marcy fell back, into a Luna’s arms, eyes wide open. She was clearly shocked!

The murmurs got louder, and it had to take the elders to order peace and quiet before it all went calm.

"Alpha Daniel... this... creature can’t possibly be your mate. There must be a mixup somewhere."

"They are true mates. There is no mixup. Are you indirectly insulting the Moon goddess?" Nancy suddenly snapped at them and the elders close to her quickly bowed their heads.

"Of course not." One quickly said. "We were just implying because... "

"I’m not a werewolf... I know that." Naomi suddenly said and everyone turned to her. She sighed and squeezed Daniel’s hand still clasped around hers.

"Then what are you?" A Shaman asked.

"I’m... " She turned to Daniel and it looked like they just communicated with their eyes before she pulled her hand from his grip and stepped forward.

Axle eyes widened when she realized what she was about to do.

"Your highness... ar.. are you sure??"

Naomi managed a small smile as she nodded.

"Mm."

Axle bowed her head before she stepped back, staring to and fro, making sure no threat was close to her highness before calming down a bit.

Marcy slowly got up, holding her throbbing head as she stared at the scene before her, still In shock.

It took a while to resorb her internal energy before she was concealed by a ray of white light which caused everyone to glance to the side with their palms shielding their eyes.

Once the light dulled down, everyone turned back to Naomi.

Standing in her spot was a slightly furry woman. She was other worldly beautiful and had huge dark gold colored eyes to match her silky black hair that had its length double down to the back of her knees.

Her lashes and brows were brown like her furry skin, and there were suddenly tails swirling and twirling behind her.

There were lots of them, uncountable even.

Her claws were long and intimidating, and only her presence exuded such an aura that caused everyone, including Daniel and the others to turn speechless and immobile for some minutes.

She sighed and turned to the elders and Shamans who stared at her in horror before turning to the others before her.

"I am... a Kitsune."

There was a pin drop silence as everyone just stared at her. Some in horror, some in shock, some in awe.

Well...

Was that it?

Were they going to kill her?

Would they banish her?

Would they accept her?

"Please say something... anyone. Anything please." Naomi whispered with a shaky voice.

"Before anyone says anything.... I just want to let you all know.. " Koan went round and grabbed Naomi’s hand before staring at every single one of them.

"That she is my half-sister."

Marcy finally fainted.

"That means... " An elder starts.

"Yes... I’m a hybrid." Koan cuts in.

 

Chapter 200

"What is this??" An elder harshly demanded, almost coughing up blood. "What do you mean?"

"If it was any harder for you to comprehend earlier, then I’ll make it clear to you," He turned to the crowd with those dark Intimidating eyes of his. "... and everyone here, that she is my sister. Naomi is my sister. She’s the rightful royal ruler of the Kitsunes, and she is his mate." He was referring to Daniel this time.

"You can’t possibly believe all she must have you told you." Another said accusingly, and the two ears, standing tall at the tip of Naomi’s head fell at their words. Her heart clenched like a crumpled piece of paper hearing the doubts in their voice and she feared she might not take it any longer and burst into tears.

"She and her kind and the ones who even started all these ruckus that almost wiped us all out of existence. The Kitsunes and Werewolves have been enemies for so many decades... "

"Why?" Naomi suddenly asked, turning to face the elders and Shamans.

The elder who said this turned speechless before he finally found the audacity to speak since before her aura, he was like a little dog she could trample on.

"Excuse me?"

"Why?" She stepped close. "Why are these two species enemies? Do you have a reason... "

He turned speechless again before he starts stuttering.

"Our generations have... "

She smirked bitterly.

"The Kitsunes are willing to sign a treaty with us all and let peace reign between us once and for all... "

"Us?" An elder began but Koan glared disdainfully at him.

"They think we are a threat... just as we do." Koan explained. "If we can sign this treaty and call a permanent truce between them, and show them we are ready to make peace, there won’t be any more troubles... "

"Can we trust her... " The previous elder who had growled at her spoke up before his gaze moved to Axle. "Can we trust them? Alpha Koan, with all due respect, we acknowledge you as a full blooded Alpha of Crescent Moon’s pack, and if truly, you are a hybrid as you claim, then we have no choice but to put you in the category of people.. " He turned to Naomi. ".. who we can’t trust."

"You can’t do this!" Talia suddenly growled, feeling as though the elders were taking matters into their own hands.

"We all risked out lives to save your sorry a*ses, and now you won’t make peace with them? Do you want to die?" Hakura snapped at them, a cool expression on her face.

The elder lowered his chin before scrutinizing her with his dark gaze.

"You should be lucky we were able to even let you grace this event with your prescence, so I’d advise you to keep your mouth shut during matters like this, Princess." He called with mock humor.

"An event which I planned." John abruptly spoke up. "This was not how I thought it’d turn out."

"Everything was going fine until she showed up," Naomi swallowed and Daniel’s eyes showed shades of blue swirling fiercely in them as he restrained himself.

Ripping heads out In front of little children was not his idea of taking care of things now.

"Fine. We can sign the stupid treaty, but she has to go back where ever she came from... Princess or not, she doesn’t belong here."

Koan’s eyes darkened.

"Who said anything about leaving? Are you forgetting she’s my mate? Or do I mark it to your foreheads with my claws?" Daniel threatened.

Surprisingly, Marcy spoke up.

"Let her mate decide if she should stay or not," Everyone turned to her before Naomi slowly shifted back to her normal form, an appreciative smile on her face. "Before we even found out she was a Kitsune, she has been living with us for more than two decades, and I can vouch for her. She would never hurt a fly. Kitsune or not."

"Thank you, Aunt Marcy." Naomi whispered with a smile, her lips trembling as she held back her tears of joy...

Daniel turned to the elders who were visibly shaking with anger, about to reprimand them, but someone beat it to him first

"You heard her... " The elders turn to Alpha Joseph who had been sitting at the head chair, waiting for the right time to talk. "Alpha Daniel makes the final decision... "

"But... "

"And that’s that," The elders reluctantly start sitting down one after the other. "If you don’t feel comfortable with them around, then maybe it is you who should leave and join the rogues..."

The elders burned with rage when Hakura snickered at them.

Alpha Joseph turned to Naomi and smiled.

"Maybe it’s not a bad idea to sign a peace treaty with them... " He turned to the crowd. "We have never had a tangible reason to even turn them to our enemies. I think it will be much better to have a good reason to make peace with them, don’t you think?"

There was a drop of silence in the crowd before one person In the crowd starts clapping.

"Kit-Su-Nes."

"Kit-Su-Nes!"

"Kit-Su-Nes!!"

Soon, people began joining to clap and shout the word "Kit-Su-Nes" while hooting and cheering.

Naomi’s tears finally fell and she turned to wrap her arms around Daniel and Koan. Axle was so happy, her grin almost stretched past her face.

"Thank you." She whispered.

"I think it’s time we gave out the medallions so we can celebrate at full moon." A Shaman said, and after several seconds, the entire place was quiet before Alpha Joseph got up, the medallions, sparkling under the moonlight as he held them in his hands.

Everyone had dazzled, proud looks on their faces as they stared at their ’heroes’ up in awe.

"I want to be like them when I up mummy... then will I get the necklace with the round shiny thingy??" A little girl no less than five tugged on her mother’s hem. She had her chocolate brown hair in pig tails to match her curious, round, cookie brown eyes.

The woman chuckled and raised her up to cradle her In her arms.

"Of course Bibi my darling. Now shush... no one’s talking."

The girl obediently pursed her lips to listen.

"You have all been brave, relentless, strong, consistent, diligent and agile during these days, and it’s an honor, that the only reason we are all standing here today is because of you all.. " As he spoke up, Luna Luan confidently got up to help him hold onto the medallions.

"Most importantly, you didn’t give up, and you deserve more than these medallions, but now, they represent the worth of your work. Gold." She concluded and the crowd behind them clapped, not able to cheer since they were filled with so much emotions which they could barely contain.

Some began to shed a few tears.

Luna Angela felt her heart squeeze as she stared disdainfully at Nancy who stood there with that stupid smile plastered on her ugly face. Just what did she do? Why was she even up there? And why was Alpha Henry looking up at her with pride? This wasn’t right at all!

Well, she tried to calm herself up by remembering that she had already secured her position In the pack with Pamela, her daughter, as the female Alpha, so she had nothing to worry about.

But seeing Nancy accomplish something left a bitter feeling in her heart which she wasn’t able to hide in her expression.

"Is something wrong Luna Angela?" Alpha Kris asked. Luna Tessa turned, along with Luna Ciara and her co-Lunas.

Instinctively, Alpha Henry turned to her as well, and she plastered a fake smile to her face which almost faltered when Alpha Henry asked.

"What? Are you not happy to see your daughter up there?"

"Of course I am. It must... be the wine... I shouldn’t have drank all in one go." She tried a nervous laugh which died down once the Alphas and Lunas looked away.

’Daughter my foot! That disabled imbecile can never be my daughter. She doesn’t even have a mate yet and it doesn’t look like any man would be interested in her.’ She thought as she stared at the platform, watching as Nancy smiled at something Luna Luan said as she put the medallion around her neck.

Suddenly, her eyes narrowed into slits when Koan just received his medallion from Alpha Joseph and turned to clasp his hand around Nancy’s, giving it a light squeeze.

Nancy smiled back at him with a loving look in her eyes before leaning up to meet his lips with hers, pulling down immediately with a bashful expression.

The entire crowd went wild with murmurs on seeing the scene, which of course, no one failed to miss.

Why was the daughter of Alpha Henry coozing with Alpha Koan. The popular loner wolf.

This was definitely news!!!

Mirabel wanted to explode. She wanted to climb up there and rake her claws through Nancy’s eyes and tell her every single thing she thought about her, but someone already beat her to it.

"What is going on here?"

Alpha Henry saw the familiar figure of his wife up the levated platform, and just to make sure he wasn’t dreaming, he turned to his side, but the seat beside his was empty.