Ch. 71..80

Chapter 71

Koan held the bridge of his nose and let out a heavy sigh.

"I will end her if I have to see her again."

"You will have to go through me first then. She is my Luna so she’s my responsibility now."

"STOP calling her your Luna. I haven’t even given her the mate mark and that will only be possible if you shove my teeth down her neck and we both know that’s never going to happen."

"I don’t think that will be necessary. You will willingly do it without a single pressure from me or anyone."

Koan scoffed and ended the call.

He knew Raiden and when he was set on something, he never changed his mind. Convincing him not to being Nancy to his Pack was like convincing a mountain to move. It was pointless.

Raiden threw the phone aside and left the room. Luckily for him, he ran into the person he just wanted to see.

Talia.

She was walking hand In hand with one of the twins while the other twin sulked from behind.

"Talia!" He headed towards the trio and they looked up at him in unison. He stopped before her and she raised her brow, feeling the panic emanating from his eyes.

"I need your help," he looked at Jephthah who didn’t look like he was going to budge from her side. "Let me borrow her for a second, would you?"

Without waiting for a word of approval, he yanked Talia by the other hand and Talia gasped as she tailed after him. She turned to look at Jephthah but he was preoccupied with John who was dragging him off to his room to gist him all the juicy details that happened in his absence.

Talia looked back at Raiden and blushed when she realized she was still in Jephthah’s jacket and was barefoot but she had never see Raiden like this. What had happened?

"Isn’t this Alpha Koan’s room?" She began to ask but he threw the door open and her heart beat fast as she reluctantly went inside with him.

However, her jaw dropped to the floor when she saw Nancy who was sitting up at that moment, rubbing her eyes.

The sheets around her chest was slowly dropping and she was sharp to see she was naked underneath it.

Before it fell around her waist, she went behind Raiden and slapped her hands over his eyes.

Nancy yawned and rubbed her eyes before looking up to see the two in a weird posture.

Raiden had his eyes closed from behind by her best friend and she was staring at her in shock.

Ignorant of her nudity, she scratched her hair.

"Are we... playing a game?"

Talia sighed and whispered to Raiden.

"Is there something going on that I should know about?"

"Since Nancy’s awake, I think is better if she explains everything to you" Raiden coolly said.

"What?" Nancy looked as confused as Talia did.

"Did she hit her head or are you just lying because she doesn’t look like she has a clue of what you’re talking about."

"Where’s Koan, Nancy?" Raiden asked, sure she would remember by just his name and at that moment, Nancy looked down to realize she was naked.

Blushing, she threw the sheets over her body and Talia reluctantly let go of Raiden.

He turned to her and then his eyes trailed down her legs, she rolled her eyes and turned red.

"You two. Get dressed and be here in one minute."

He starts leaving after the order.

"Wait," Nancy starts leaving the bed, holding the sheets wrapped around her chest, the rest trailing on the floor. "Don’t you know where he is?!"

But he had left.

The two girls stared at each other and Talia helped Nancy onto the bed, noticing how fatigued she was .

"I’ll get you some clothes, okay? Just stay here. I’ll be back and you’ll tell me everything."

She saw tears pool in Nancy’s eyes and her heart ached.

"Did you see... him?"

"Alpha Koan?" She wondered why she wanted to see him so desperately.

Nancy vigorously nodded but Talia felt her heart shatter when she shook her head.

She left the room after patting Nancy’s hand and Nancy just stilled on the bed like a statue.

**

Talia rushed into her room and changed. She pulled out some of Nora’s clothes and left Jephthah’s jacket on her bed. She was thinking of giving it back to him but there was no time for that. Nancy wasn’t happy and as her best friend, she needed to know what happened. How could she be so clueless as to what had happened to her.

She rushed out of the room to see Raiden standing outside Alpha Koan’s room door.

"I’ll be waiting." He said and she nodded. After helping Nancy get dressed, Raiden came in and they all sat in a small circle. Actually, Nancy was still seated on the bed while Raiden sat on a chair close to the bed. Talia was standing, arms folded as she looked at Nancy worriedly.

"Talia," Talia turned to Raiden. "I think you need to sit down for this."

"You guys are making me nervous. Did something really bad happen? Did Alpha Koan do anything to you?" She asked, scared. Of course she will think of something like that. Her best friend was lying naked on Alpha Koan’s bed and the Alpha was absent.

"No," Nancy meekly said and just patted the space next to her. "Just sit."

Talia reluctantly sat down and Nancy sighed as she said, looking down at her fingers.

"I found my... mate."

She looked up to see Talia had stilled in shock and was just staring at her to Raiden, from Raiden to her.

"Oh My Gosh!" Talia suddenly leaned in and wrapped her arms around Nancy, almost crushing her. "I’m so happy for you!!!"

Nancy managed a smile but Talia knew she wasn’t happy about something the moment she even said it.

"What’s wrong?"

"Talia... m-m..."

"It’s Koan." Raiden said and the two girls stared at him in shock. "Her fated mate is Alpha Koan."

 

Chapter 72

Just as Talia wanted to scream out, Raiden predicted something like that would happen and leaned over, closing her mouth with his hands.

Talia’s voice was muffled as she said something, her eyes moving from Raiden’s to Nancy’s.

"No one except the three of us know about this and we want to leave it as it is." He said in a low voice and when Talia just gave a nod, giving her confirmation to his order, he leaned back, releasing his hand.

"How did you know?" Nancy asked him.

"Because he told me... and before you ask any questions, No. He is not here. He’s probably reached Crescent Moon’s pack by now. So he called."

"What?" It was Talia’s turn to react this time before a shocked Nancy could say a word. "But he’s well aware that his mate is here. In Dark Risers’s pack. I’m still lost here because I’m wondering why I found my best friend, naked in his room looking like she ran a marathon."

"That’s because she did." Raiden replied

"But..."

"If you will let me finish Talia then you wouldn’t be asking so much questions."

Talia was raging mad but she cooled down when Nancy held her arm and patiently listened to what Beta Raiden had to say.

"He tried to reject her..."

She wanted to say something but Nancy grabbed her arm tighter and she just held Nancy in a hug, not saying a word.

"And she ran. She shifted and she ran... that’s why she’s... in this condition. He shifted and ran after her and she got tired from running and fainted. He couldn’t reject her in her state so he took her here, packed his things and left."

"If he really wanted to reject her, he could have waited for her to regain consciousness," Talia said the first thing that popped into her mind. "Don’t you think there’s a reason he just left."

"If there’s a reason, Nancy will find out herself from him."

The two girls exchanged glances .

"So you mean.."

"Yeah. She’s leaving to Crescent Moon’s pack with me tomorrow."

"Really??? You’ll... Take me there?" Nancy didn’t think Raiden would. She thought he wouldn’t hesitate to leave her behind like Koan. It was obvious that he had probably told him not to bring her along.

"Of course. You’re my Luna from now on so you’re my responsibility," he turned to Talia who looked like she hadn’t yet soaked in the news. "There has to be something you must have cooked up to tell your brother and the others about why Nancy can’t join you. Nancy and I will leave very early before anyone wakes up so no one will notice anything suspicious about the two of us leaving together."

Talia looked at Nancy.

"Do you... want to do this Nancy?"

Raiden knew this was his cue to leave, so he got up and left the two girls, shutting the door behind him.

"Talia," Nancy held her two hands. "I don’t think I have all it takes to thank you for all the love and care and support you’ve showed me over the years. You’ve been a great friend and a sister and I can’t thank you enough. But I want to do this. I want to strengthen the bond between I and my mate. I want to have a family and have responsibilities to take care of. I want to prove to my father and my step mum and sister that I’m not useless and dumb as they think. I don’t want to be a burden to anyone anymore."

Talia cleaned the years rolling down her cheeks and hers and held Nancy’s hand as well, close to her chest.

"Nancy you have NEVER been a burden to me and neither will you be a burden to anyone. I’m still your best friend and I will support you all the way. And if this is what you want, then go for it. But know that whatever happens, I’m just a call away, do you understand?"

Nancy nodded and smiled and Talia smiled too. They hugged.

**

As Jephthah narrated everything with a flushed face, John’s eyes kept growing wider and wider until Jephthah pushed his face aside.

"Stop putting your face close like that."

"Jeph. This has to be the most epic thing you have EVER accomplished."

"That hurts in so many ways." Jephthah said with a frown but John just waved his words away.

"I can’t believe she was naked and you didn’t touch her."

"John!" He almost yelled, his face red.

"Seriously, when you two are making out, try going for the boobs. Like this..." he held up his pillows and grabbed the edge, tweaking them like nipples. "I’m serious dude, she would go crazy over you."

Jephthah blushed.

"H-How are you even sure there’s going to be a next time."

"Uh...because I’m not letting you sleep in here."

"You’ve got your own room. Why can’t I sleep in mine."

"I will lock my room and crash in here."

"Why?"

"So you can crash with Talia."

"You can’t be serious. W-What about Nancy?"

John just waved his words aside as usual.

"I’ll just share crash in here with her."

Jeohtah finally threw him a pillow.

"You’re just crazy."

But he didn’t realize just how serious he was.

But..." John held the pillow in his hand with a serious, thoughtful look. "Is this what you really want?"

Jephthah looked up from where he was finishing up a sketch of Talia and frowned slightly.

"What are talking about?"

John sighed and came close to him and Jephthah tensed up because his brother looked really serious. And when he did, he always had something really important to say.

"You want Talia to be your fated mate, don’t you?"

"More than anything in the world." Jephthah said without missing a beat, a light glinting in his eyes like stars. But they died down when he noticed John still had that serious look on his face.

"John? What’s wrong?"

"Jephthah," John sighed. "We’re twins... you know that right?"

Jephthah almost flicked his head at the stupid question.

"So?"

"And we’re like two peas in a pod. We’re each other’s half."

Jephthah narrowed his eyes at him.

"Do you think YOU might be my mate?"

John hit his head with a pillow this time.

"No!"

"Then get straight to the point, John."

"70% of girls who are mated to a twin usually are mated to..." he paused looking Jephthah In the eyes before finishing his sentence. "the other twin as well."

The pencil fell off his grasp, rolled over the sheet of canvas paper and dropped with a thud to the floor, the sharp pointy end of the graphite breaking off to fall next to the door.

"What?!"

 

Chapter 73

"Look, before you freak out, I said 70%. So there’s a 30% chance that that might NOT happen." John hurriedly said when he saw the panic rising up in his twin’s eyes.

John just grabbed his head and looked down, his eyes glancing over the sketch of Talia.

"What If... it happens? Please tell me this is a joke." Jephthah whispered.

"I also want this to be a joke but it’s true. Let’s just hope it doesn’t happen." John finalizes. He didn’t look the least bothered about it but John was a bit nervous.

"Okay..." John got off the bed and picked up the chipped off pencil. "Here’s your pencil and I’ll be seeing myself out now. I’m going to freshen up and lock up and like we planned, I’m crashing in here so freshen up before I return or you’re heading to her room like this."

Without a word, he just left.

John just sat there for while and finally chuckled softly.

"It might not happen." He echoed his twin’s words and went into the bathroom to shower.

**

Lebanon went to sleep for the night while Brittany went straight to Daniel’s room. When she tried to open the door, it was locked. She kept jiggling the knob around, sure that he was in there since he locked the door from the inside but he didn’t open up.

At that moment, Royce with Brittany in his arms carried her off to their room while Barton stretched his hands, ready to head in for the night.

He was just about entering his room when he noticed someone at Daniel’s door, vigorously shaking the door like he/she wanted to pull it down.

He rushed up there and on seeing Dora, he slid in between her and the door with a look of indifference in his eyes.

"What do you think you’re doing?" He asked in a cold voice and Dora was a bit taken aback by the tone he used on her. He was usually the type that’d use that smooth sweet voice on her but it seems that he finally realized who her heart was for and didn’t want to push it further...

"What’s your business?" She demanded from him.

"My cousin’s knocked out from spilling so much blood for the blood oath and he’s probably deep asleep. I can’t have you hovering around his door."

He knew just what his cousin had gone through tonight and honestly, he knew just how tired he was.

Dora just scoffed.

"That’s why I want to get in. I can be of help."

"I don’t think your help would be needed. He’s already asleep."

She bit her lower lip and frowned at him.

"Well, I’m not moving an inch from here."

Barton just sighed and moved to the side.

Dora just swished her hair over her shoulders and walked forward, ready to smash the door when Barton suddenly grabbed her, swiftly swung her body over his shoulders and made his way to her room without breaking a sweat.

"Hey!" She began yelling. "Put me down this instant! You can’t just carry me like some sack of rice!!! Do you know who I am?!"

"You’re a spoilt brat. Now shut up or I’ll throw you down from up here." He snapped at her and she gasped.

"What did you just call me?!" She began yelling again but he had carried her inside her room and shut the door so no one would hear her yells.

He reached the bed and just as he was about to toss her onto the bed, she flipped herself around him and he found himself lying below her weight on the bed.

She was straddling him by the waist with her hands sprawled on his chest when she had regained her posture after flipping him.

He was shocked at how flexible and fast she was but just as she made to leap away from the bed, he grabbed her wrists and flipped himself over her in a second, putting half his weight on her body, careful not to crush her.

Their faces were close without them realizing it as they panted, breathing in each other’s faces.

"You... You’re heavy." She suddenly complained in an irritated voice.

"I just carried you in here and guess what? You weigh like a baby elephant."

She gasped and he could see her face turn red at his words.

"A...Are you saying that I’m fat?!"

She pushed his chest hard with her two hands and he rolled on her side, lying beside her on the bed. She panted from pushing something so heavy off her chest and sat up, raking her hair off her forehead.

She turned to Barton who just lay there looking at her. He was wondering how someone so beautiful could act so devious, rude and spoilt.

She turned, ready to hop out of bed but he grabbed her by the waist and she froze, her eyes suddenly twitching.

"You are trying to step on my tail, Barton. And do you want to know what happens when someone dares to do that."

"Yes," She gasped as he suddenly pulled her In by the waist and she fell back on the bed. He towered over her, blocking her sides with his hands fisted on the bed beside her head, his hot gaze on hers. "Tell me Dora. What happens?"

Dora gulped, looking into those honey colored eyes that had flames rearing up in them like a fire which had never been out out for long.

"Y-Y...I-I..I." she began to stammer, unsure of what she wanted to say as those eyes of his held hers captive.

Suddenly she froze as he brought forth his hand and cupped her cheek, enchanted by emerald green eyes. She softly sighed against the warm hand and subconsciously leaned in to his touch. Barton stared at her every move and suddenly moved his head down, close to hers.

Dora held her breath, eyes widening, forehead creasing with lines as his hot breath which fanned her face got hotter and hotter as he moved closer and closer.

Just when their lips was an inch apart and her eyes was tightly squeezed shut, she slowly opened it when she didn’t feel his lips on her hers and her eyes locked with his. She squealed at how his eyes burned. Burned with passion and desire.

Suddenly, he leaned back, cursing as he got out of the bed. Confused, she sat up, her head looking rough from all the bed flipping and her face, flushed. She had her palms on the bed to support her weight from behind as she watched him leave the room without sparing her a glance.

She didn’t realize she had been holding her breath the entire time and released a shaky breath, raking her hands through her hair and she rushed into the bathroom to have a cold shower to calm the searing hot feeling she felt inside.

 

Chapter 74

Naomi arrived at the party venue to see Aunt Marcy and the other Omegas cleaning up.

"Naomi." The woman called out in relief. "Honey where’ve you been?"

Naomi managed a smile as she let Marcy hug her before pulling away with a worried look on her face.

"I just went home to drop something off."

"Did you participate in the blood oath?" She curiously asked and Naomi felt her heart plummet as she nodded, lying to Marcy once again.

"Did you eat anything?"

Naomi shook her head at this, not wanting to lie anymore. But honestly, she didn’t feel like eating anything after all that ensued tonight but for Aunt Marcy’s sake, she ate some left overs from the party before joining to clean up the party venue.

As she cleaned up, she would sneak glances at Marcy who was ordering the Omegas to do some work.

She smiled sadly as she looked down.

She would miss her.

**

All the guests had gone back home and were already in bed, having gotten full from the delicacies from the party and were tired from all the dancing.

Marcy and Naomi were the last two to retire and Naomi felt hesitant to sleep before she finally slept off.

This time, she didn’t have her usual dreams or visions. It was almost like she was transported somewhere.

She saw herself in what looked like a throne room. There were two heavy-like looking thrones on a levated platform. One was huger and had more beautiful intricately carved designs while the other was smaller.

She looked about her and finally looked down, noticing her foot was buried into the softest rug she had ever come across.

She felt a presence and looked up. Her eyes widened and her heart plummeted on seeing who occupied the large throne in the room.

She had never seen any man who was as handsome as he was. He kept his mouth in a thin line and his hair- a bright chestnut gold color brushed to one side of his shoulder trailing down to his chest having being bundled up into a pony tail to reveal his forehead. His eyebrows were thick, bushy and bristle. His nose was sharp and straight like his well defined cheekbones which accentuated down to a sexy concrete jaw that had an arrogant proud jut as he sat there on his throne.

One didn’t need to tell her this was a man of power. The aura exuding off him was strong enough to make anyone bow to him at first sight.

His eyes were focused on something other than she and her gaze moved to the crown sitting on his head which was beautified which several stones and jewels.

Who was this man?

Suddenly, just when she thought the man had not noticed her and probably won’t, his eyes moved from her side to focus on hers and she flinched and staggered back slightly when a pair of eyes focused on hers.

They were a metallic blue color bearing flames of sovereignty and a conquerous spirit.

Can he see me? She thought in bewilderment.

For some reason, he looked so familiar, almost like she had seen him before but before she could dig into her memory, the man suddenly got up and walked towards her.

He moved in slow measured steps. He moved with a lion-like grace, almost like he was nearing his prey. His eyes never left her even as he circled her.

She shuddered under his gaze, feeling as though he was circling his prey, about to pounce on it.

He finally stopped, coming to stand before her.

She didn’t dare say a word, neither did she make eye contact and she waited for him to say anything... do anything. She felt so confused and lost and she felt like this cold king held some sense of familiarity.

"Fiona..." He breathed out... his hot breath fanning her face. It smelt of sulphur and smoke and when she looked up, his eyes weren’t those fierce blue but were dark gold with an intimidating looking black slit in the middle.

She gasped and stepped back.

"W-What did you just call me?"

He raised a brow and step forward but paused to frown when she stepped back.

He didn’t look like he liked the fear in her eyes and when the slit in his eyes narrowed In anger, she turned away from him and ran. She burst through what looked like curtains which served as doors.

As she ran, she found herself in what looked like a dead end. Just when she was figuring out a way to go over the wall, she felt a presence before her and a loud growl following after which almost burst her ear drums.

She turned and her eyes widened on seeing the largest black dragon she had ever set her eyes on staring right at her, as if piercing through her soul with its eyes.

She shivered when it blasted hot fumes at her from its enlarged nostrils and growled, her hair spiralling around her, her eyes shut tightly.

Just as it came close to her, a throaty, mighty growl resounding from its pursed lips, she reflectively dodged it and ran again. She heard another loud growl, this one was so loud that she staggered on the shaking ground, almost to falling but she regained her posture and kept running.

She didn’t know where she was running to but as long as she was getting away from that hideous beast who looked like it wanted to devour her whole, she was fine with it.

She felt something wound round her waist and she looked down In horror to see the scaly skin of a dragon’s tail wound round her waist.

Before she could move, she was thrown to the sky and she screamed and as she landed on her side, a loud thud reverberated in the entire place, dust rising in the air as she rolled to the ground, her entire outfit and hair turning golden brown from the dust.

Breathing hard, she tried to stand up but ended up bowing to the dragon which landed on the ground. She managed to look up as a dark mist surrounded it. In no time, the king she had seen previously seen was standing in the same place the dragon had stood on previously.

Her breathing turned hard with fear as he walked towards her with his eyes narrowed coldly. He grabbed her chin and jutted her face up, forcing her to look into his eyes.

He seemed to be scanning her face for something and when she pushed his hand aside and made to turn away, he grabbed her wrist and forced her to fall on her knees before him again.

"You will not run from your father, Fiona!" He yelled at her with a loud throaty growl and she flinched.

 

Chapter 75

Talia helped Nancy out the room and into theirs, making sure she was tucked in in her bed before placing a tender kiss on her forehead. She sighed at Nancy’s sweet innocent face and swore to kill Alpha Koan if she learnt he had hurt her in any way.

She hears a knock at the door and opens it with a frown only to see John with panic stricken eyes.

Surprised, she stepped out, shutting the door behind her.

"What’s wrong?"

"I don’t know... It’s Jephthah... he..."

Before he said a word, Talia had disappeared towards Jephthah’s room. John raised a brow.

That wasn’t as difficult as he thought.

He got into the room and went straight to Talia’s bed. Glancing over at Nancy to ensure she was tucked in well and fast asleep, he collapsed on Talia’s bed and began snoring.

**

Talia rushed into the room, slamming the door behind her before glancing around like a mad woman set on fire.

"Jephthah?!"

Suddenly the door opened and Jephthah stepped out, ignorant of her company. He was clad in a towel from the waist down and was wiping his hair with a smaller one.

"Jephthah!"

The small towel fell to the ground as he turned and Talia bit her tongue, blushing as she subconsciously scanned her eyes over his glistening body with slightly parted lips.

Seeing him more clearly under the light, she took note of his herculean toned chest, ripped muscles and glistening abs. His torso was jacked. Overall, he looked like a delicious ice-cream laid out over a plate waiting for her to devour him.

Jephthah was ready to explode especially when she kept looking at him like she was fantasizing about things she wanted to do to him.

"D... Do you need anything?" He innocently asked, snapping her out of her thoughts. She blinked and held her head as if trying to remember something.

It didn’t look like Jephthah was in any sort of trouble. Why had he tricked her into coming her? Was it possible that he and Jephthah planned this?

But Jephthah looks like he knows nothing about it. Now she would look like a pervert running in here without a valid reason and just when he was stepping out of the bathroom.

"I..." She hurriedly said when she saw he had paused to watch her as if he was sure she was slowly loosing it. "I... came to spend the night here!" She said the first thing that popped up in her mind.

"What?"

"Is there a problem?" She pretended to take offense to the look of shock on his face, something she did to emotionally black mail him.

"N-No... N-No of course not!" He hurriedly said and ran Into the wardrobe, grabbed his clothes and ran into the bathroom. Talia almost bent over laughing at his adorable getaway.

She fell back on the bed and dimmed the lights but left it on to view the sketch on the paper. It was the unfinished sketch of her which looked like he had been working on it recently.

Jephthah stepped out a minute later, redenning on seeing her smiling at the sketch.

"Don’t...." He suddenly reached out and grabbed the paper from her hands. "It’s really stupid so please stop looking at it."

She looked up to see he had changed into the same night shirt and matching pants John had worn.

She yanked the paper back and Jephthah turned redder when she kept staring at it.

"But I like it. It’s so beautiful. Did you... take a picture?"

"I’ve been watching you so I drew it just by thinking... of you." He blurted it out before he realized what he just said.

Talia blushed but she suddenly leaned over and dimmed the lights lower before turning to grab Jephthah, swiftly pinning him underneath her.

She was in one of her oversized T-shirt and she wasn’t wearing a single thing underneath it.

As she straddled him, this time above the waist, she threw the sketch aside and sprawled her hands over his chest, running the two hands down his hard abs, lower and lower and lower until Jephthah stopped breathing and grabbed her wrists.

It was very dark In the room but they could gaze into each other’s eyes by standing just anywhere in the room.

Jephthah wanted to tell her to stop but no word left his lips especially when Talia leaned down to whisper in his ears, the scent of her filling his nostrils, her hair tickling his nose.

"Kiss me."

She leaned back to lock eyes with him, A daring look in her eyes, a brow raised dauntily. Without hesitation, he grabbed the back of her head and smashed her lips against his, savoring the taste of her once again. His rough jaw scratching against her chin, his arm wrapped around her waist and supporting the back of her head, he dove dip into her mouth, searching for her tongue with his.

Talia placed her hands on either side of his body on the bed and took control, kissing him hard and passionately, not letting him breath as she deepened the kiss, leaving him panting when she pulled away some minutes later.

"Do you feel sleepy?" She meekly asked him as she sat up, straddling him once again with her hands still fisted on the bed at either side of him, her face hovering above his.

He wanted to know why she asked but his curiosity chased the sleepiness causing his upper lids to drop.

"No." He said, almost shaking his head.

"You sure?" She asked.

"Yes I’m... sure."

He watched as she raised her hand up, brushing her hair up with her hands, some stray strands coming to fall by the sides of her face. She pulled a band which she likes wearing on her wrist and put it around her hair, pulling it up into a pony tail.

He watched her in anticipation, admiring how sexy she looked, bent over him, straddled, while doing her hair.

She noticed his gaze and smiled at him and he looked away coyly. She let down her pony tail and without warning, swooped down and dipped her head lower, catching his lips with hers and kissing it hard, deep and long, pulling away for Jephthah to pant again.

 

Chapter 76

He sucked in a sharp breath of air between his clenched teeth as her hands slowly glided over his torso, up to his broad chest.

Her eyes never left his face but his eyes was close, his forehead creased with the lines, heart beating faster as he anticipated what she was about to do.

She swished her ponytail over her shoulders and face palmed the bed on either side of his body, lifting her weight and changing her position over his body.

This time, she wasn’t sitting above his waist but directly on the huge buldge threatening to burst out the confinement of his clothes.

When she lowered her weight, slowly and seductively, his eyes flew open and their eyes locked.

She placed a finger to her lips just when he was about to spring up and he just lay there like a hypnotized man, unable to move but only react with his eyes.

From where he lay, she looked like a sex-goddess sprawled over him ready to give him the best experience he had ever felt.

Talia sighed and bit her lower lips hard to suppress a moan. She wasn’t putting anything on so her naked core was lying against his, the linen of his clothes the only barrier between them. He could feel how warm and moist she was and she could feel how hot and big he was.

The room suddenly turned hot and their pants began ragged as she began to move, rocking her waist sensually against him.

Biting his lip, he shut his eyes and threw his head backwards, reflexively grabbing her waist and pulling her close to him, grinding her harder against him.

Once in a while, she would swish her pony tail behind her as she increased her pace, moaning softly as she got wet and he grew harder underneath her. Her face was flushed and beads of sweat broke out on her forehead as she increased her pace. Their breathings were uniform and ragged. The room was silent but for their heavy breathings.

She moved her hands from the bed and sprawled them over his chest, increasing her pace.

Her sweet soft moans was a huge turn on for him and his hands wrapped around her waist tightened, almost wounding her down to him. Her waist was whining seductively over him, her breathing hard as she grinded her lower body over his.

He groaned, moving his hip up to meet with her grinding, thrusting his huge buldge over her wet core. She squealed in shock but before she could regain her compusure, the wolf in him was suddenly out of control. His breathing was hard and when she met with his eyes, he had those flames of passion and boundry-break spiralling out of control in them.

She gasped as he grabbed her and flipped himself over her. She turned left and right before looking up to realize she was underneath him this time. She could see the pain in his eyes as he fought his wolf back in, forcing himself not to do anything rash to her.

Her eyes filled with panic, suddenly softened when she saw the desire in his eyes. He was suppressing it. He had never felt this for anyone else so this was new to him and he was finding it very difficult to fight it.

"Jephthah," She whispered, her hand shaking as she reached out to touch the side of his face. "Look at me."

Jephthah reluctantly did and when he met with her eyes, he buried his face in her chest, a loud snarling growl erupting from his chest up to his throat.

Her eyes widened. She had never seen this side of him. He seemed to be in a debate with a wolf and his wolf was taking a huge toll on him.

She grabbed his face, sandwiching it between her two hands and smashing his lips against hers before he could pull away.

He growled again and she deepened the kiss, reflexively wrapping her legs around his waist pulling him closer, feeling his hot hardened member grinding hard against her.

Her arms slowly went past the wet strands of his hair from his sweat and wrapped them around his back, her nails slowly digging into them as he began to grind against her, hard but slow and sensual.

She felt that she would almost explode and didn’t bother to stiffle her moans anymore. Her face was red from being flushed so much and her lips were swollen from the kiss they just shared now.

Suddenly, she gasped again when she felt his hand crawl under her T-shirt, coming for her naked breasts.

"Jephthah." she whispered sexily into his ear, her voice sounding drawled like she was drunk with the touch of him.

Her legs wrapped tighter about his waist when he felt his hand wrapped firmly around her left breast before his thumb went up to swindle round her nipple which was pointed and hard and had been straining against her T-shirt to be touched.

She arched her back and dug her nails deeper into his back, bucking her hip up to thrust at his core. The sides of her head was beaded with her own sweat which got the few strands of hair around her forehead wet and stuck to her face.

"Talia." He suddenly called and her eyes flew open. He had called her name with so much difficulty. His voice was throaty and his eyes had those flames of undying passion when hers locked with his again. He closed his eyes and placed his forehead against hers, breathing in her face. She breathed against his face, soothing him by running his fingers against his back.

Jephthah had never realized this part of him existed. Lying above her right now, he was fighting the urge to devour her and f**k her till there was nothing left of her again and another part of him didn’t want to. He didn’t think she’d handle him for a minute with how brutal he was thinking. He had little to no control over his wolf and since this concerned Talia and how she would feel if he hurt her, he was willing to shatter his mentality to push his wolf back into the darkest part of his mind.

It was difficult especially when Talia kept releasing the sweetest sound he had ever heard underneath him but he was able to subdue his wolf before rolling off Talia, not wanting it to be too late.

Talia just lay there, side by side with Jephthah, flushed and panting hard. She felt her head and saw her palm glisten under the moonlight that snuck into the room from the mirror with sweat.

She faced sideways and met with Jephthah’s pitiful eyes.

"I’m sorry." He meekly whispered, aware that Talia knew what he was passing through but she turned to cup her hand again his cheek.

"Don’t apologize. It’s not your fault."

He held her hand against his cheek and closed his eyes.

"I kind of... liked that side of you." Talia said and his eyes flew open but she had already turned away to sleep, hiding a smile.

He blushed and faced the other way but after a while, he felt like something wasn’t right. He turned to Talia and got into the blankets with her, slowly wounding his arm around her waist.

He heard her sigh and lean into his hold and he finally slept, spooning her from behind.

 

Chapter 77

Nancy stretched as she got out of bed. All night, she had been having dreams about Alpha Koan and honestly she felt giddy about meeting him again.

She went about packing her things, wondering when Talia started snoring in bed. When she was done, she thought she’d wake her up but she realized she’d probably be too tired from the events last night and besides, she already knew she’d leave this early and they had said their goodbyes last night.

She left the room quietly, shutting the door behind her without making a single sound. She made her way straight to Beta Raiden’s room, careful not to wake the others up.

She quietly entered the Beta’s room and snorted on seeing Raiden still alseep, hand flung across the bed carelessly, his hair shielding half his handsome features.

She shut the door behind her and threw her bag against the sleeping man.

Raiden sprang up from the bed reflexively, ready to attack whoever it was that dared sneak into his room, unannounced. When he saw who hovered over him, he sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose.

"What are you doing here?" He demanded in a tired voice.

"Aren’t we supposed to be on our way?" She asked.

Beta Raiden dropped on his pillow and reached for his phone lazily. On checking the time, he groaned and tossed the phone aside.

"Nancy? It’s 2:00am!"

"You said we had to leave before anyone else woke up."

He groaned and made himself more comfortable on the bed.

"I didn’t say this Early."

"Well, I’m already packed and ready to go and I think you should do the same."

"I still need to sleep for like an hour to regain my strength for driving."

"Raiden..." she whined in that her babish voice and he groaned, realizing that this was his future Luna he was ignoring like this. If she wasn’t as humble as she was, anyone else would have flipped him over the bed and tossed him out the window.

Groaning again, he rubbed his eyes and scratched the side of his face as got into the bathroom to change.

She stood there and patiently waited as he packed his things. It didn’t take up to twenty minutes before the duo left the mansion, heading to his car.

Male low Ranking Gamma guards were standing outside the gate when the car drove up the gates.

Raiden put down his side of the glass window and on recognizing him, they opened the gates.

They felt he was leaving a bit too early but he was one of the guests so it wasn’t their choice to keep him in here.

They did a thorough search at the back of his car and let him go. Nancy had a blanket over her head at the Passenger’s seat of the car and they assumed the figure was Alpha Koan sinsce they recognized who Raiden was.

It was twenty minutes after they’ve driven out did Raiden really start to feel tired and sleepy. Nancy kept looking out the window in awe, her heart thumping in excitement from having to see him.

However, when she turned, she realized how sleepy Raiden was. She bit her lip, feeling guilty for dragging him out by this time.

"I think I’m feeling a bit sleepy from having to wake up this early. Why don’t we rest at a hotel since we’re long gone from the mansion."

Raiden yawned.

"Really?"

"Yeah..."

He knew she wasn’t a bit sleepy and was suggesting this for him and he was a bit touched. He willingly agreed and they found a hotel in no time and secured a room for themselves.

He honestly didn’t want to share a room with her but did so after he learnt that Nancy couldn’t sleep in a room alone. It explained why she had to share a room with Talia back at the Pack.

He reluctantly agreed but crashed on the floor, spreading out the blankets to make a bed and taking a pillow from the bed. Nancy was satisfaied with whatever decision he made on where to sleep as long as she didn’t have to sleep alone in the room.

**

Alpha Koan was in bed, his one arm draped over his eyes as he slept in his room. No one was aware of his arrival except his cousin, Liliana and her mother Elizabeth who he called Lizzy. He took them both as family and let them live in the Alpha’s domain with him.

Liliana wouldn’t stop pestering him to tell him all that had happened during his stay in Dark Risers’s pack and always asked where Beta Raiden was. He got sick and tired and irritated as she hovered around him, buzzing like an annoying fly. If Lizzy hadn’t chased her off to bed, he wasn’t sure he’d be lying here in his room.

He sighed and groaned, suddenly not feeling sleepy anymore. He was thinking about Nancy coming here. That would be Two ’Lilianas’ giving him High blood pressure every single day and he would never hear the end of it if his cousin found out he tried to reject his mate.

If someone told him to describe Liliana In three words, he would say,

Annoying

Nosy

And Stubborn

But if she suddenly happened to run into trouble in a life or death situation, he’d rather die than let anything happen to her.

She was like the annoying sister he was sworn to protect as long as he lived and he had grown a soft spot for her after many years of living together.

She was 17 and extremely beautiful. Her lips were the first thing you’d notice about her facial features. They were heart-shaped, full and sensuous looking. Her hair was dark brown and her eyes were blue like his. She had this thick eyebrows that knotted at the middle of her forehead when she frowned. She was very jovial and had to be the strongest she-wolf he had ever seen. She was the type of person who would get along with Nancy on their first meeting. He just hoped she distracted her long enough for him to plot a strategy to banish her from his pack.

If she weren’t his cousin, he’d make HER his mate.

 

Chapter 78

The scent of fried eggs and slightly burnt toast was like a refreshing alarm clock in the entire Alpha’s mansion.

Everyone was up in no time and after several minutes of packing up after which they freshened up, they all went downstairs, anticipating the delicious meal that wafted through their nose from the kitchen.

When everyone was busy packing up, Jephthah was slowly opening his eyes, his brows creasing as he frowned from the sunlight that seeped into his eyes from the window. He shut them immediately.

He groaned softly and wrapped his arm around whatever he had it around. It was soft, comfortable and warm against him. Suddenly, his eyes flew open and he saw Talia looking at him.

Eyes widening with his face as red as a tomatoe, he sprang up from the bed looking like he just saw a python lying next to him. His movements startled Talia and she sat up on the bed, staring at him in shock.

"What’s wrong?" She was terrified. Had he seen something to frighten him so much this morning.

Jephthah bit his tongue, wondering what to tell her. He had completely forgotten about the events of last night and how she had ended up on his bed until now but earlier, he was shocked on seeing her. He wasn’t used to waking up to a beautiful woman on his bed like this.

His face flushed as the events of last night played in his head like a porn movie. The way Talia’s face looked flushed underneath him and the sweetest sound he had ever had spilled out like beautiful tunes of a music from her mouth. He could still feel the sting of her nails digging into his back yesterday and it was bliss.

Raking his hand through his hair, he managed to say,

"I’m fine... sorry for startling you."

Talia got off the bed, putting on her flipflops.

"I’m going to head back to my room and change for breakfast, okay? You should pack up too."

He forced himself to look her in the eye as he replied,

"O-Okay sure."

She moved close to him like she wanted to do something but he reflexively stepped back, regretting it at the last second when she just smiled at him and left the room.

Groaning, he grabbed his head.

"I’m such a stupid person!"

**

Once Talia was sure no one was in the hallways, she crept to her room and went straight to Nancy’s bed. She placed her hand on the bed and only grabbed the soft linen of the sheets.

She bit her lip in guilt. She knew when she had left for Crescent Moon’s pack but she wished she had been around to see her off. She turned to her bed to see John snoring on her pillow.

"You f**king as*hole!" She hit him with each word, right across his face with Nancy’s pillow.

John juted out from sleep and reflexively grabbed Talia’s wrists, pulling her down to fall against him.

His eyes finally widened and was completely cleared of sleep when he saw her mad face hovering above his, flushed.

"Oh sh*t" He pushed her away and she fell on her back, lying side by side with him on the bed.

Before she could recover from the fall, he already leaped up from the bed and ran as fast as he could, out the room.

Her face burned with embarassment and anger as she sat up, frowning at the exact spot on the bed where he had ran out from.

Royce gently placed Brittany wrapped in a snow-white colored robe on the bed. Like him, her hair was wet from the bath and stuck to the sides of her face and ears. Her face looked flushed and her lips was rosy pink. He covered her up to her waist and held her hands in his big ones, leaning close to leave a kiss on her forehead.

Brittany closed her eyes and leaned in to his kiss, sighing softly as his warm lips made her feel a bit better. He leaned back and kissed her cheek before saying, looking into her eyes,

"I’m going to bring in breakfast in bed, okay? Don’t just go anywhere. We can postpone going back home if you’re not in the right mind to leave." His soft brown eyes was filled with worry.

She solemnly nodded and arched her head up when he kissed her on the lips, supporting the back of her head with his hand. She moaned softly, raising her hand to curl around his hair, depending the kiss.

When he left, she brushed the strands of hair across her ears and pulled out her phone staring at a picture of Naomi. She almost chuckled painfully. Just like that, Naomi was gone?

A tear dropped from her eyes down to the phone screen which slid down to the bedsheets.

When Royce stepped out, Naomi was coming downstairs from freshening up after she had made breakfast and was heading to the kitchen to dish the food since everyone had begun to arrive at the dining table.

"Um... Naomi, right?"

Naomi paused and turned, almost sighing in relief when she recognized him. Brittany’s mate, Beta Royce.

"That’s me..." she nervously said, wondering what he wanted.

"Brittany’s not doing too well," He noticed Noami’s nervous look turn to one of panic and worry. "Can you bring us breakfast to our room, please?"

"S-Sure. I’ll do that now." She hurriedly said. Her heart was beating fast, wondering why Brittany was suddenly In such state. Was it because she thought she had gone?

"Thank you." With that, he went back into the room.

As Naomi turned to rush into the kitchen and get breakfast for the couple, she winced on connecting with a powerful broad wall which had been behind her.

Holding her forehead, she looked up to notice it wasn’t a wall. It was a chest. A broad hard chest of a male. The sharp scent of wine and lemon suddenly flooded her nostrils even before she looked up to see who she had hit.

Gulping, she trailed her eyes from his chest up to his neck to his face. Her eyes widened and her hand slowly dropped from her head.

Daniel.

 

Chapter 79

She flinched on meeting with his cold gaze emanating from the metallic blue colored eyes and stepped back.

"I..."

He cut in before she could say anything.

"Why are you here?"

She blinked in surprise. She knew that for some reason he was mad at her but he didn’t even look surprised that she had returned. It looked like he wasn’t even happy to see her.

She saw Dora coming downstairs and she locked eyes with her before she backed away from Daniel.

"Excuse me." Without waiting for a single reaction from him, she left to prepare breakfast. As she went downstairs, her eyes met with the cold ones of Dora.

Daniel just stood there, hands fisted by his sides unable to believe who he’d just seen. All morning he just had this feeling that she wasn’t as far gone as she thought and just before he had seen her backing him while talking to Royce, that scent of her had brainwashed him and led him to mindlessly stand before her.

It was when she had slammed Into him, did he regain his senses and asked the first thing that came into his mind. But one minute, she looked like she was dumbfounded and another minute she was ready to leave his prescence.

"Before you jump into conclusions and make rash decisions, maybe you could listen to why she changed her mind about returning." Kelvin quickly said just when he turned to grab her hand.

Daniel sighed and watched as she hurriedly went downstairs, his gaze not even falling on the girl beside him.

"Danny," Dora folded her arms with a frown. "I demand to know what you were so busy with last night that we didn’t even get to share a single moment at the party."

Daniel’s lazily looked down to see who was talking. He was anything but willing to talk to her. However on trailing his eyes down her body, he asked in a cold voice.

"Why are you still in your pyjamas."

Brittany scoffed and swished her dark hair over her shoulders.

"Because I choose to be in it. Besides I can shower later."

She smirked at the irritated look on Daniel’s face and folded her arms.

"You don’t think I was joking about staying here, did you?"

"Do you really expect me to believe that sh*t. About staying and me making you my Luna?"

"What other choice do you have?"

He threaningly stepped forward and her hands dropped, eyes widening in panic as she stepped back.

"I could kill you." He didn’t look like he was joking and she almost passed out at the shades of blue swirling fiercely in his eyes.

She suddenly folded her arms and stepped forward so that they were squared off facially, their faces just inches apart. He was taller than her by a head but she raised her chin up to meet with his eyes.

Her green eyes lowered, staring at his lips for a while before it raised to level with his eyes which was boring a hole to hers.

"Then maybe, I should just expose your lover’s secret to everyone and see what happens after that."

"You’re the most immature person I have ever come across." He hissed at her, his hot breath fanning her face, his eyes filled with irritation and hate.

Dora just smirked and raised a hand, running it down from his shoulders to his chest, spreading her arms over it before grabbing the colar of his shirt, pulling him closer so that their lips were almost touching.

"Well, you’re about to make this immature person your Luna."

He wrung her arms off his shirt and after glaring at her, he turned away without a word.

Dora just smiled before heading back to her room. As she did, she saw Barton coming downstairs and held the other side of the railings, pretending not to see him.

Barton feigned ignorance as well and they successfully passed by each other before releasing the breaths they never realized they’d been holding ever since they saw each other.

Barton squeezed his fist. He had heard the conversation between her and his cousin and could never had imagined she would stoop this low just to be his Luna.

He headed straight for his twin’s room.

He peeked his head inside to see Royce packing while Brittany sat on the bed, smiling a bit at something he said. When she noticed him, he finally walked in.

Royce was startled to see him but after exchanging pleasantries, he went into the bathroom to check if they were missing anything, deliberately leaving them alone.

"How are you?" He asked as he sat next to her on the bed, leaning in to hug her.

He leaned back and they stared at each other. It was like looking into the mirror except one had longer hair and a more feminine look to her facial features while the other had a chiseled jaw and an air of masculinity around him.

"I’m fine. What... about Daniel and Talia?" She asked. She was so devastated last night that she had forgotten about them.

"Talia is okay... but ... Daniel..." He hesitated, unsure of whether to tell her or not.

Brittany frowned, seeing the familiar look in her twin’s eyes. He looked like he was contemplating on telling her something.

"What about Daniel? Barton talk to me."

Barton looked in the direction of the bathroom. Even though Royce wasn’t the type to eavesdrop, he wasn’t certain about telling her, especially since werewolves hearing ability was top notch.

"Daniel’s fine but there’s something I got to tell you later,okay?" He inclined his head to the bathroom while talking and she understood why he didn’t want to tell her here.

"Okay."

"Aren’t you coming downstairs to eat?" Barton asked, holding her hand in his.

Brittany shook her head.

"Royce won’t let me. He asked an Omega to bring in the food."

"Okay."

"Just tell Mum, I’m a bit tired from all the partying and I couldn’t get much sleep so I’m sleeping in. I don’t want her coming upstairs to find me like this. What if she asks about Naomi?"

Suddenly the door opened and Naomi casually walked in with a tray of steaming fried eggs, toast and a jug of orange juice.

Brittany froze, unable to believe who she was seeing.

"N-Naomi?"

Chapter 80

"I don’t understand," Brittany threw the blankets across her legs and swiftly moved to sit at the edge of the bed just next to her twin. "... I saw them take you away. You were willing to follow them... W-What are you... Kitsune!" She suddenly yelled, realizing the only explanation as to why Naomi was standing before her holding her tray of breakfast like she didn’t see her leave with the Kitsunes just last night.

This was obviously an impostor sent here to kill them all!

Royce almost flew into the room from the bathroom.

"Babe?!" He had heard her scream and had rushed out in time to see Barton holding her down on the bed.

"What’s going on here?"

Talia, John and Jephthah who were heading downstairs for breakfast heard the yell and rushed into the room as well.

"Naomi?!" Talia looked as shock as Brittany did but she wasn’t overreacting as she was. She just looked visibly surprised.

Barton held Brittany further down and hissed at her.

"What would a Kitsune be doing here in the first place?! If you keep acting like this, the entire household would know what’s really going on."

With that, she calmed down but she still glaced at Naomi from the edge of her eyes, warily.

Naomi calmly dropped the tray of breakfast, feeling embrassed as everyone stared at her now.

"Thank you." Royce said to her casually with a small smile, taking the tray from her and going to sit on the bed, next to Brittany.

"Guys, I want to talk to Naomi. So can you give us some privacy?" Barton said to the twins and Talia who was sandwiched between them.

Talia glanced at Naomi again before twisting her hair behind her ear.

"Sure. Sure."

With that, the three left the room.

Barton led Naomi out the room after they’d left and they went past the room to talk somewhere secluded.

"Start talking or I might just believe Brittany’s insane theory about you being an impostor."

Naomi bit her lower lip as she said everything in one breath.

"I asked the Kitsunes to grace me one week here and then I’d leave for good."

Barton blinked. He didn’t think she’d be so straightforward so he was still trying to comprehend what she said when she held his arm with a pleading look in her eyes.

"I know you probably hate my decision but you have to understand... The longer I stay here, the more danger the entire pack, the entire werewolf territory is in. I’m doing this for everyone, and Daniel... I just wish..."

"Listen," he sighed before he said. "I understand, Okay? I Know what’s going on. I’m not blind. But Daniel’s not me. He doesn’t like to read between the lines or understand the expantiativity of anything. He just wants things to go his way. And I know my cousin. If you leave him, he will be devastated for life and hate you."

"No. You don’t know Daniel as much as I do. Daniel rejected me without a second thought... and wouldn’t hesitate to force me to reject him now we know how it really works. He hates the fact that he’s mated to someone like me."

"No he doesn’t. He cares about you."

"He cares about himself. If people find out that I’m his mate, it will be bad for his reputation and his pack."

"T-then why did you come back?"

"I came back because I just couldn’t get over the fact that I have to leave Dark Risers’s pack behind. This Pack’s been my home for as long as I can remember and leaving it, leaving so many years of memories behind was so difficult for me. I had to beg to come back. I want to say my goodbyes. Just for one week."

Barton sighed .

"You’re back now, we can stop them from taking you again."

"No. It will only end up getting you guys hurt again and I don’t want that to happen because of me. I saw what they did to you. I won’t bear to see you guys get hurt again."

"Naomi you can’t just leave!"

"I don’t have a choice! And it’s not like anyone is willing to answer my questions. Like who exactly I am? I Know I’m a Kitsune but why do they want me so bad? Where exactly do I come from? I have dreams, Barton. Right from when I was little, I had dreams that no one could interpret to me. I have all these questions to ask and I need my answers."

"You do realize that if you go there, you will never come back."

"I know that... but..."

"What about my mum?"

Naomi looked away

"What about my sister?"

A tear rolled down her eyes and she quickly wiped it off with the back of her hand.

"What about Daniel?"

"He doesn’t even want to look at me."

"You’re not letting him SEE YOU."

"You," she turned to him. "You don’t mean..."

"He has to know."

"He hates me already. If he finds out who I really am. He’ll kill me."

"Naomi do you realize how happy he’s going to be once again when he realizes that his supposed dead best friend is Alive?"

"That would probably be possible when he was still little. Barton, it’s been more than a decade. If he realizes that all these years he’s been hurting, mourning over my death while I was still alive, He. Will. Kill. Me"

"I think he has to know how his mate looks like. Don’t you think part of the reason he’s not really into you is because you hide your face behind that mask?"

"Imagine when he find out his long time dead best friend is not only alive but also a Kitsune. Yeah. I’m really looking forward to his reaction." She sounded pained and sacarstic.

"Well, since you’re still adamant, I think you should know what’s been going on."

On seeing the curious lost look in her eyes, he continued,

"Dora’s been threatening Daniel to expose who you are Infront of the entire Dark Risers’s pack so he could make her his Luna."

The news was like a vase crashing onto her head. She stilled.

What?!

"W-What is he planning to do?" She asked, her heart beating.

"To make her his Luna of course."

Naomi stiffened and her expression turned blank just as Barton dipped his head down so that they could be of the same height.

"You know why? Because he cares about you so much that he’s willing to scarfice his happiness rather than let you get killed. You might be a Kitsune but you’re unable to use your pworres. If any one find out who you are, you’ll be ripped into shreds in less than a minute."