Sinful Love

Weeks has gone by, 3 weeks and 2 days to be precise. Nothing has changed much, as the 3 of them had hoped. Selena didn’t attend her graduation, she took the certificate from Dean Pete and continued working at Wildlife Research Centre. Her mood doesn’t seem to change much. Every day, she will go to work, come back home, eat and sleep, living a robotic life despite her friends effort to cheer her up. The career that she loved once doesn’t give her joy anymore. It looks like the moment Grandpa Kai asked her the promise, the same moment her life fell apart and a dark curse engulfed her.

It wasn’t any better at Mountain Manuka. Zaden and Orion rarely talked and Makeala became the second beta to substitute her big brother during his absence. Zaden kept himself locked up in second floor room most of the time, no one is allowed into the room, even cleaning is not allowed. Most of his essential belongings have slowly shifted to this room. He keeps minimal contact to anyone including his mother. He comes out to run his business, attend to villagers need and then goes back into the room. He didn’t shift to his wolf in these past weeks, making him grow weaker and weaker. Grandpa Kai and his mother Ruth often get together to basically sigh, thinking about their alpha.

Orion, on the contrary, never shifted to his human form and roamed the Mountain, following wherever his feet brought him to, hunting small animals when he is hungry and sleeping by the waterfall where he first laid his eye on Selena. Xavier and Sitka will come looking for him once in a while, try talking some sense to him but all they get is silence.

One rainy afternoon, Selena was sitting in the porch swing alone, wrapped in a blanket, staring blankly at the spot where the 2 jeep drove away last time. Leonardo came with 2 cups of hot chocolate. She refused at first but Leonardo insists. They worked sip by sip through the cup

“I don’t like you like this” he started a conversation. Selena looked at him in confusion

“Selena, you aren’t happy anymore. Something is taken away from you, isn’t it?” Selena remained silent

“Go back to the Mountains, baby Bambi” Selena stiffened her back

“What?” Leonardo nodded

“Zaden said I won’t be happy there…” she said low

“And I didn’t like Marine Biology. That didn’t stop you, did it? I didn’t like you hiking unknown mountain, did it stop you? I didn’t think it was safe for you to go to gun shooting ground, that didn’t bother you, did it? “ he made Selena think

“Baby, you are the one that should decide what makes you happy, not me or Aaron or Zaden. You can be happy scooping cow dung as long as you like and decide to do it” Leonardo

“But I want you 2 to be with me” Selena

“This house is the last memory of your mother. But if I’m ever ready, I will come there, be with you. Plus, we don’t know if you would want to stay there forever now, do we? Just solve one issue at a time and we will see where it leads you to” Selena eyes dropped to floor, thinking every word her father said. He stood and sighed

“A bird’s nature is to fly. You don’t expect it to do so, sitting in a cage. You know what a wolf is? It is nothing but a grown puppy let to run free. Its time to set you free” He pinched Selena’s nose making her smile. She took the whole night to think and got ready the next morning. Aaron was rebelling the idea but Leonardo made him understand.

10

was 6pm when Zaden was sitting by the window looking out at the garden where a the dinner is being served when he noticed a figure walking fast behind the tall tree hedging. He narrowed his eye, a glimpse of black curly locks caught his wolf eye as it widened noticeably. He ran out of the room, down the staircase

a woman walking through your territory?” she threw a sharp glare at Zaden and walked pass

came to stand next to Makeala while Sitka already ran to get Orion. Makeala just opened her mouth before she got

there didn’t notice me passing through your territory.”

She slammed her bag to the single bed and clutched her

hours, before I realized that I have been walking in a circle. It could have been avoided if only your guards did their ‘JOB’ properly. Do you

did I do?”

out order to never mention Selena, Alpha Zaden! That’s why the patrol team didn’t inform her arrival” Makeala said while she crossed her hand over

attacked by a bear?” Xavier isn’t helping at

storming footsteps diverted her attention. Sitka and Orion came to stop in front of her door, panting for breath. Orion looked so dirty with mud

the same fume. Before

bitch on forest floor?” holly shit, she shouldn’t have said that. Zaden crossed his hand

“Lock her up” Deja-vu

he walked over, carried her over his shoulder and walked out of the room. Selena punched

don’t like to be manhandled. This is against human rights and god, when did

before Orion took the first step on the staircase. He froze and turned around,

said with a smile and Orion obliged. She neatened her shirt, chin up and stumped her feet

get a bath Orion, you smell like wet dog!!!” They all got together at the same rocky corner they used to gather, only Jeffry,Jewel, Oliver and Noah are missing. After weeks, Zaden and Orion is almost back to normal in eating and speaking that made

later went to the room on second floor. Although Zaden tried to force her to more comfortable room at third floor, she insisted. She noticed the room was a bit different with man’s clothing and toiletries. She slowly turned to glare at

me in this room” she stated the obvious. Zaden rubbed his palm over his

cleaned up” Selena gave him a

came out with wet dripping hair and a

the door a little and peeped out as her eye landed