Grayson looked stunned at the woman standing in front of him. He
couldn't believe his eyes, shock filling his features.
This female was the same one his Alpha had been searching for, for the
past three years he had been on a hunt, and here she was standing
infront of Grayson in all her glory.
His Alpha had been relentless in the search for her. As the days passed
on, he got more angrier, and lashed out at smallest of mistakes. People
in the pack were scared but they respected the man, for he had been
keeping them same from an exterior threat for so long. Putting his
pack's safety before his needs.
They have been walking in eggshells around him, fear of setting him off
anytime clouding their minds.
Everyone in the pack knew about her, after all she was going to be their
luna, that was until she decided to run away.
Flyers with her face on it were distributed in the beginning to let the
pack members know who they were searching for. He vividly
remembered the females face from those flyers that were handed out
all those years ago.
He still remembered how the Alpha had called an immidiate meeting to
announce the news of him finding his mate, only to realize that she had
ran away from him a mere hours later.
After ordering a cup of black coffee and croissant, which was delicious
by the way. The heavenly scent lingering in the air around the whole
cafe of baked goods.
After devouring his breakfast, he pays for the meal and continues on his
way. He had come to Winston to do some business, having to deliver
something and go into the city.
He didn't visit the the town so often during his visits to the city, maybe
also the reason why he had failed to notice the female his Alpha was
looking for was living right under their noses all this town.
Getting out, smoke appearing in the air as he breathed in the cold
surrounding brought forth by the month of December.
Slipping his hands inside his pant pockets he brings out his phone.
Dialing the one number everyone in the pack had with them, to report
any emergency or something else directly to the Alpha of their pack
himself.
Pressing the phone to his ear, he waits for a few moments as the phone
rings and its picked up after a few second.
"Alpha Adryan Romano speaking, who is this?" A deep voice speaks
from the other side.
"Alpha, it's me Grayson. I have an important news to tell you.â
"What is it?" He asks directly.
Grayson pauses for a second, thinking about how he's going to bring
up the news to the Alpha.
"Iâ 1 think I just saw your mate, Alpha. I think I know where she is".
The only think he received was a few moments of silence, then he hears
his Alpha's voice again, speaking.
"Where?" He asks without missing a beat. Grayson could hear the
desperation in his voice. It was rare for him to hear his Alpha speak like
that since Alpha acted stoic most of the time.
"Winston, Alpha" Grayson replies.
2 days later
Jade looks at the figure in her arms, a smile graces her features as she
looks at her two year old son. Sleeping peacefully in her arms. She had
been sitting in the rocking chair that was placed at one corner of her
bedroom.
Every night, she would take Adonis into her arms, and sit on the rocking
chair until he fell asleep to the movement of the rocking chair. Some
days she would even sing him a lullaby.
She loved how he would look up at her with admiration shinning in his
big sea green eyes, it was moments like this that she was so thankful to
the moon Goddess for granting her with eyesight.
Her fingers move through his soft midnight black hair, moving away the
long strands that have gotten over the period of time to the side. His
head was on her shoulder as soft breaths left his small parted lips, while
one of hands were around her neck.
Standing up from the rocking chair with his little body in her arms, she
moves towards the crib, big enough to fit in his two year old body.
She softly and slowly places him inside the crib, careful not to wakeup
him up from his slumber. It was a long day for both of them today.
Jade had taken him to the park today, Adonis loved playing outside in
the nature. He had been running around the park all the time they had
been there, kicking a small ball and running as much as his little legs
could take him, Jade would watch him play, sometimes reading a book
in between.
A tired sigh leaves her lips as she started feeling sleepy, as she walks
towards her own bed. Sitting down on the soft mattress, she was
getting ready to go to bed when a the sound halts her movements, the
sound of her door bell going off startls her out of her sleepy state.
Her eyebrows scrunch in confusion, looking at the alarm clock beside
her bed, kept on her night stand. She checks the time.
12:07 am
âWho could it be at this time of the night ringing her doorbell?â She
wondered to herself, it definitely wouldn't be Scarlett, since she was out
of town visiting one of her relatives.
She could feel her wolf stirring within herself. A familiar feeling building
up inside her. Getting up from the bed she pushes the feeling down.
She leaves her bedroom, moving past the living room which led to her
front door.
She stands before her front door, thinking about her actions. She turns
around quickly, bringing back a wooden baseball bat with her.
If it was a thief she wanted to get herself ready before hand, but one a
second thought a thief wouldn't come announcing his arrival by ringing
her doorbell.
Tightening the hold on the wooden exterior of the baseball bat, she
heaves in a breath in.
She hated the fact that she hadn't thought about having a peephole on
her front door before. It was rare for people to visit her, mostly it was
by Scarlett and her husband Joe, sometimes Jade's neighbor Mrs.
Johnson would visit too, bringing along with her home made recipes,
which smelled and tasted heavenly.
Normally Jade was able to smell the person's natural scent and tell if it
was someone she knew or a stranger, but now that she thought about
it, she couldn't smell anything. Infact there wasn't a smell at all.
Tightening the hold on the baseball bat, she swings the door open
Just as she swings open the door, her emerald green eyes meet a pair
of ocean blue eyes. It felt like time stopped, as she stared at the
stranger, she could feel her wolf stirring within her. She could also feel
the mate bond, which had been dormant for three long years crackling
again.
Her heart beat sky rockets as she stares at the man who was her
supposed mate. The wooden baseball bat dropping to the ground as
shock enters her system. Her hands start trembling.
The addictive scent of vanilla entering her nostrils like a breath of fresh
air. Luring her in.
He had midnight black hair, it wasn't too short nor too long, the perfect
length for it to be swept back from his face, still a few strands dangled
carelessly in front of his face. He had a five'o clock shadow on his face,
a result of not shaving for a few days maybe.
His stormy ocean blue eyes, staring at her with an unknown emotion
swimming in their depths. He was tall, well fit with muscles with how
the t-shirt he had on clinged to his body like a second skin.
She could feel him drinking in her features as well. His gaze burning a
hole through her.
She manages to shake off the effects of the mate bond, and when she
realizes the situation she was in, her natural instincts take over.
Stepping back, she shuts the front door. In his face.
It was just then that the panic set in. The fear slowly creeping into her
body. She rushes into her room quickly.
Why was Adryan here? She knew that one day he would find her, but
not so soon. Oh God, Adonis. What happens when Adryan comes to
know about Adonis. She needs to leave as soon as possible. Somehow.
All these thoughts run inside her head. She looks at the crib to see
Adonis sleeping peacefully inside it. She rushes towards his sleeping
figure, lifting him into her hands.
Just then a noise resonates around her apartment, a sound of
something hitting wood.
"Jade" a deep voice calls out. "Open this fucking door right now, or so
God help me, because I will not hesitate in breaking this door and
dragging you out myself." His voice was gruff and filled with promise,
she knew he wasn't bluffing.
His words only set off the panic to rise inside of her.
"Jade" the sound of his fist hitting into the wood of her apartment door
sounds out loud into the silence of the night. She could feel her
heartbeats in her ear now. Loud as well.
His voice send chills down her spine. Panicking, looking side to side, she
spots a blankie on her bed. Adonisâ blankie to be exact. Rushing
towards her bed, she picks it up an covers his body that was in her
arms, his head on her shoulder still sleeping soundly.
She could heard the large thudding noises, it kept increasing with each
second. It felt like he was ramming his body into the door, she knew
that the door couldn't handle much. It would break eventually.
Rushing to the open window in her room, through which she looks
down, she realises that the size of it was too small for her and Adonis to
fit through.
A large noise reverberates around the apartment just then, alerting her.
The sound of her front door breaking into pieces was loud. Dread fills
her body as she hears footsteps heading towards her door.
She knew this was it, she couldn't escape him any longer.
Her body moves back, her body flat against the wall of her room,
clutching Adonis in her arms, she presses back as much she could.
Trying make her body look small but her tries were obviously futile.
She could feel him now, inside the room. He had opened her bedroom
door with ease as she had forgot to lock it when she panicked and
rushed inside, which she regretted now, not that it would make any
difference.
She feels him move closer, his body heat emiting off of him. Tingles
appear on her body with their disappearing distance between them.
One of his hand comes to rest beside her head, half caging her in as he
moved closer.
She feels his touch on her face, she had her eyes closed, breathing
heavily through her nose, as her chest heaves up and down.
He moves her hair back which had been covering a part of her face,
pushing back the light red strand and tucking it behind her ear.
"Open your eyes Jade" his deep voice held power, he was using his
Alpha command, to make her do as she wished. But she tries to fight
the command as best as she could. Trying to close her eyes which as
much force as she could, willing herself not to open her eyes no matter
what.
"Open" it was as if his voice was like a sirens call for the sailor to come
closer, her eyes open on their own accord, her green eyes meet his
stormy ocean eyes. The one that resembled the ocean, as the waves
crashed against each other during the storm, rain falling and mixing
with the sea
His eyes move towards the small figure clutched in her arms. She felt
like her heartbeats had stilled for a moment.
His gaze burning as he looked back at her, with anger and sadness
mixed in them.