Sinful Love

The next morning, Zaden walked into his room to find Selena buried under his duvet, still sleeping. He smiled at the view. He then changed his dress and went out for his usual run. Later, Selena woke up and went down to her room, taking a bath and getting ready as usual. She learned during breakfast that there is a meeting in communal room and her attendance is a must. She later walked together with Makeala to the communal room. Makeala seemed very nice and was very informative, willing to help the new comer. Selena also learned that she is the second beta, while Orion, her brother is the beta of pack, being advisor to alpha. Her job is to be helpful to beta. Sitka and Xavier are deltas, they take care of territory and the ill one in the pack. Makeala found her mate a few years back, one of the pack member as well, Nelson and she have a daughter named Dahlia. All 5 of them grew up together, in Mountain Manuka. Finally, they arrived at the communal room and opened the door. The alpha team, Mother Ruth and Grandpa Kai was already there, except for Alpha Zaden. Selena scanned the room looking for Zaden when she felt goosebumps on her back and she turned to look behind her. Her eye landed on Zaden, standing next to her, his chest touching the back of her shoulder.

“Good morning everyone, appreciate the punctuality” he said with a mild smile. The 3 of them walked into the communal room, till they reach the bar counter and the girls took a seat on the tall bar stool, while Zaden leaned on the bar counter with his back. Selena waved at Mother Ruth and she smiled with a nod in return. Grandpa Kai started briefing Selena’s issue and details regarding the manuscript

I am in pain, in great pain. I can feel my baby dying, his soul slipping off my grip every second. His heart beat slowing down to almost none. It has been days, my baby is suffering for days. An innocent soul who never committed any sin, have not even harmed an insect yet he is suffering a painful death. Why?

What sin did I do to deserve such a heartless punishment? I loved a werewolf, is love a sin? If so, God is the one to be punished for giving me the ability to love a beast. God, including your Moon Goddess are the one to blame, not me or my baby.

Mark my words, you will pay. You will pay for the slow death my baby and I suffering now. You will regret the minute you left me to die, tied up here, on this tree. I will reincarnate, somewhere in the corner of the world and I will come to find you

I will hunt you down, every single one of you. I will rise again from the peak of mountains, with my own army of loyal followers, raging with red eye. When I do, you are no longer the king of beast. Mark my words, your kingdom is no more yours. You will be spell bound and beg for death under my feet. Under my feet….

“According to Elisa’s manuscript, her killer is a werewolf because they worship Moon Goddess. Left her at the woods, tied up to a tree and according to The King Samrat’s tale, he left Elisa in a hut, deep in the forest. She also said that she will reincarnate somewhere in the corner of the world. My friend, Oz, has been travelling around the world for the past 200 years. I think its Oz who killed her, although I am completely confused why he would do that. He was madly in love with her” Grandpa Kai said, Zaden turned to look at Selena who is currently dangling her feet under her chair and sipping on a glass of orange juice.

“Now we have 2 choice. One, we can send her to Ozrain, which will benefit our pack” Selena coughed at Zaden’s word but recollect herself in a few seconds. Orion and Makeala seemed to be tensed at the idea as well.

“We can make peace with the Samrats, become one of their alias. There will be no more threat of attack and we may even move out of this valley for a better future. But Selena’s life will be at risk. We don’t know what Ozrain’s true intention is in finding her. In other words, we sacrifice her for the betterment of our pack.” Selena scanned everyone’s facial reaction, none of them showed any emotion. Of course, she is a newcomer and they have no attachment towards her and that freaks her out.

“Second option, we can hide the fact that she is a Samrat and continue to live the life we have in our hand now. Maybe, and there is a thin chance that maybe, she would be strong enough to defend us against the Samrat pack, but highly doubtful.” Not to mention the pack, Selena wasn’t sure she can defend even herself. Selena scanned the room again and the member’s face had a hint of relaxation.

“Now, I will give you all 30 minutes to rethink the choices and then we can vote. Think carefully, please.” Zaden turned his back to them, looking straight at the stacked bottles behind the counter. Selena leaned to the side, aiming at his ears

“Are you born with a nut loose or did you recently hit your head hard?” Zaden turned his head to her and glared her.

“I told you, don’t come back, it will be ugly. I’m ready to fight for you, baby girl but it’s not fair to drag the whole pack in. Besides, it’s a chance to see how ruthless my pack is” he whispered to her ears and then casually took a sip of coffee. Selena puckered her lips to the side with a sharp sigh, being annoyed with Zaden. She turned to Makeala and about to ask something when Zaden stretched his hand, held her cheek between his finger making her pout and turned her face to him

“Don’t you influence my pack with your Bambi eye. Shu…” he said seriously

“Then what am I supposed to do for 30 minutes? Think about sacrificing myself to Ozrain Samrat or maybe I should think how to defend myself, being 90% human?” she whispered back in irritation to him

“You know what my decision is, so I have nothing to do too…” he whispered back and this went on for the next 30minutes.

“Are they…I mean Samrats…attacking your village?” he nodded and she rolled her eye with a sigh

“Have you forgotten how to talk or the cat swallowed your tongue?” she whispered, earning another glare from Zaden

“When Samrat left to look for his baby, Queen Aira was in-charge of the pack. She was doing fine until one day, she fell sick. Apparently, Ozrain rejected their mate bond, kind of like divorce but for werewolf, like I told you before, it gets really painful and most wolf will die in the process. So, to save her, the elderly of the pack decides to mate her with their beta, Epsilon. He forcefully marked her when she was in her death bed, automatically making him the King” Zaden paused when Selena opened her mouth to question

“What is forcefully marking?”

“It a bite mark on your neck, without the lady’s concern” Selena eye widened

alerting other males that she is taken and no one would dare to approach her after that. It

humans won’t. That’s why Ozrain didn’t

you know why a Samrat is the king of werewolves?” he asked

can be alpha to any pack…” she answered

girl” he pinched Selena’s cheek, she swatted

and Selena thought for

so, Samrats have only one child, right. So, there is

So, how did other packs accept him as king?” she has no clue now and shrugged her shoulder with

1, making them the strongest of all other packs but he didn’t use any threat or force to achieve that, it was mutual. Epsilon used this pack strength as a threat, if needed, attack other packs to make them bow to him. So that he can fused more packs together and keeps expanding his strength” Zaden stopped to walk to minifridge, took an ice-cream from it, came

and no one will rebel him being the king?” Selena

hidden from outside world. If Ozrain returns, he would become the king and we

more diplomatically?” she ate the spoonful of ice-cream. Zaden had just done thrusting a spoonful

until he finds his

manuscript, there is no guarantee he would take care of you. There has been a…prophecy…from a sorcerer in Samrat’s pack. An heir will emerge from under the mountains, take over the Samrat pack and vanish the king. Since then, they have been searching nooks and crannies

no...” she jumped off her chair and everyone’s attention was on her now.

you and your pack suffer because of me. I can simply go back to my father and this whole

that before…” a sarcastic

you out of a pack, you and your family are at danger. You don’t know him, he is fierce and will do whatever that is needed to get what he wants” Grandpa Kai stood up from

how is she supposed to defend

be trained to be a normal wolf first, control her wolf

we keep her?” Makeala finally broke the silence, making Zaden smile. The others followed

used to treat her like a small girls

her training?” Zaden asked and they were bombarded

her with shifting, Makeala will…” Zaden was distributing each of their responsibility when Selena cut

shifting” He turned to look

look. Shifting involves momentary nudity and he is not comfortable with someone else teaching her that but

I will be building her stamina, Sitka will be in-charge of fighting skill. Grandpa Kai can assist in discovering her abilities. Makeala and Xavier, please teach her to hunt and on

since he is pissed off. She didn’t

Again, that night, Zaden came to her

he wanted to brainwash her into choosing at least Makeala to teach her shifting. Only one flaw in the plan, he doesn’t know how to begin and was cornered when Selena came to a conclusion that he can’t sleep. She sighed and took a few step out of the door, walking past him. He grabbed her wrist making her jerk back. He pulled her to the door, looked sharp at her while leaning on the door frame. She imitated him and leaned on the opposite side, staring back at him. Zaden is a very strict, not so talkative, rarely smiles and can be ruthless when situation comes along. He is well respected for that and no one in his pack, including the other 2 on the other side of mountain would dare to challenge him. But this little fox in front of him was different, she takes pleasure in irritating or challenging him and that normally makes him chuckle in amusement. They stared at each other for a while before Zaden gave

my room and mess

order. Unfortunately, I am not your pack member to follow blindly” she said as she wiggled

her reaction softened as her eyes trailed to the

get to question?” she asked, making Zaden hung his head and let

as he gently pushed her inside. Orion who came to visit Selena with another chocolate bar, saw Zaden pushing Selena inside and closing the door behind them. His eyes blurred with tears. He stormed out of there, shifted to wolf and let a painful howl that send a shiver through Selena’s spine. She

He had been doing that a lot lately. A screeching howl of pain. Are you scared?” His last words were very close to her ears as his warm breath tingled her ears. She rolled her neck, trying to knock off the sensation his breath