It was dark, and 2 pairs of footsteps were crashing through long grasses, rampaging through the fireflies.
“Zaden, wait. Why are we running?” Selena said with panting breath
“I need to talk to you before your wolf comes out” Zaden
“Then talk, don’t run” she pulled her hand which is in Zaden’s hands and halt him. She then grabbed her knees, trying to catch up with her breathing. Zaden thought for a while, frowning at the fragile Selena.
“I’m sorry…for what happened this morning…” he finally came out with his words. Selena stood up slowly.
“It’s fine…no big deal” Selena shrugged her shoulder
“No, it is. Orion was right. We have been… no…I have been pushing you really hard” his voice softened as he walked closer to her and she smiled with a wink at him. Satisfied with her consolation, Zaden carried on.
“Your list of questions to you’re wolf? I get the feeling that you swallow some midway. What was it?” he asked causing Selena to be agitated. After a moment of thinking, she flustered pulled out her locket from the depth of her chest
“I had or have a dream crush…I wanted to ask about him.” She said, pondering on the locket
“But why? He is just a dream, I suppose?” Zaden crossed his arm over his chest with a cocked eyebrow.
“I haven’t had a chance to meet him or precisely dream him after you left me at my dad’s house. I was first depressed, then I came here and…”
“Wait wait wait!!!” Zaden blinked a few times
“You were depressed after I left or after we left?” he tilted his head down a bit to face her, biting his lips in anticipation. Something is brewing, he can tell by the way her eyes flickered on the ground filled with grass before she grabbed her skirt and ran away from Zaden, as fast as she can.
“Selena!!! Wait!!!” Zaden shouted before he followed her
“Faster, we are late” her voice came from far.
She just realized in the past minute that she actually missed Zaden the most, even more than the dream crush. She has been pondering on the crush, just to cancel out him from her life. The day at her house, when she was stuck between Orion and Zaden, she was more provoke by Zaden than by Orion. Zaden’s lips, his warm breath, and his soft tongue is the one that made her came undone, not Orion’s passionate kiss. They both care for her, probably love her too but she leaned a bit more towards Zaden.
“Selena!!! Answer me…” Zaden was able to catch up with her.
“I miss Grandpa Kai the most, ok?” Selena said with a playful smile. Zaden bent down as soon as he reached her and lift her up, in his arms with little effort.
“Hmm…I wonder what that old hag did to you to the point you missed him so much? You ran away from your father and climbed a mountain for what, 8 hours? ” she nodded
“8 hours before you found the brick house…What?” Zaden stopped when he saw Selena’s face turning confused
“I passed through the camping zone, maybe somewhere next to the trap pit, and walked another 5 hours before I got to you. How come no one detected me even after I passed the pit? Grandpa Kai said the passage was spelled, not the whole mountain. And even if the whole mountain was spellbound, how come I didn’t get detected when I left the seventh mountain?” Zaden paid attention to every word she just said. There is something on the seventh mountain that made her undetectable by the territory patrol pack. He was deep in thought, staring at the lake when a gentle finger ran from his temple to his jawline. He snapped his head to see Selena in her black eye. His heart fluttered excitedly as his wolf threatening to push through but he didn’t let his wolf take control
“What? I can’t have my mate now?” she slid off his hand and asked in the most seductive, husky voice.
“I have some questions and I need to stay focus and… oh god…” she leaned forward and kissed between his chest with her tongue tracing an S right in the mid, successfully shutting down Zaden and bringing out his wolf.
“Go on… ask me…stay focused…I dare you…” she whispered as she traced her tongue straight up till it hit his throat. She had to tiptoe, making her butt extra firm to touch.
“Remember…I’m not obligated to answer your questions. I’m here to shift and release pent-up energy. You have to ask the right question” Her fingers were fiddling with his shirt buttons, undoing one at a time, till his shirt came off.
“Selena…” he whispered very low with his eyes closed
“Hmm…” she replied as an indication for him to carry on.
“She wanted to know about her dream boy…” Zaden said low and she giggled before moving down, planting kisses all the way till his lower abdomen, kneeling on the ground. She then unbuckled his belt
“What about him that I would be able to tell?” she unzipped him, lowering his pants.
“It’s not like I know who he is” her eye darted back to his eye
“Or whose amulet is that hiding in my cleavage all the time except during sleep, do I?” she took in his erection into her mouth, making him throw his head up, exhaling slowly at the sensation her lips fire through him
“No, you don’t…” Zaden whispered. She slipped out his full length with a pop and started licking him. Her hand came up, holding the base of his shaft, gently massaging.
“Then who knows it all? Tell me…” she took his length back in, looking up at his face. He slides his hand through her hair and caressed her head gently, not pushing nor pulling her away, simply enjoying her every movement
“I do…” he said and she let out a deep moan. Her tongue expertly swirled around the head without slipping him out.
“It’s mine… I lost it in the waterfall and she…” he swallowed his saliva “She found it…I made her wear it and invade her dream through it, every day until she got too intimidated and took it off…” again she let go of him.
“And whose fault is it, that she got intimidated? You raped her in her dreams?” she pulled him down and kissed him in his lips passionately, till their breath mingled before pushing him to the ground and straddling on top of him.
“I didn’t mean to…I got too enticed by her that day…argghh!!!” She already made him enter her while she was at the top, now moving up and down slowly as he groaned.
“That is wrong Zaden…you shouldn’t rape a woman at any cost…unless” she bends down to nibble his earlobe, whispering dangerous words
“Unless she wants to be rough with you…understand?” he nodded like an obedient boy, biting down his lips, eyes still closed. She is moving too slow, driving him crazy, punishing him for his demeanors.
“Selena please, baby I need you…” her butt clenched at his words, making her even tighter than before and they moaned loud. He then grabbed her hip and started smashing up into her. Every hit ripples through her body till it hit the top of her head. Her body shook uncontrollably. She screamed and moaned his name to the point where their lust diffused across their surroundings, enticing any other animals that could be there. They both came undone and he flipped her to her back, lifting her shirt and laying on her stomach.
“She also wanted to know if she is really Elisa Mitkoi reincarnation or just a long-lost bloodline?” Zaden asked, too tired that he could fall asleep anytime now. His mate-bond and alpha duty have taken a toll on him.
“Of course she is a rebirth of Elisa Mitkoi. Or else, where did she get that beauty from? Why she still can’t feel me within her? It’s Elisa, she is the barrier between us. She is preventing her from fully transforming into a werewolf.” Zaden snapped his head up at her
“You said the energy bottled up is the cause she can’t stay awake when shifting?” Zaden confused
“Yes, but I didn’t say whose energy it was. It was Elisa’s energy, trying to suppress me from coming out. At full moon, when I radiate 5 times more, the energy Elisa puts out to suppress me is greater and Selena takes the hit.” She said
“So, basically you two are battling within her” she nodded with a gentle blink although, with that black eye, it looked scary as hell could be.
“Elisa’s last breath was on eclipse night, so she doesn’t show up that day. I hope I can connect with Selena and break the chain. But Zaden, you might not like that Selena, the one where both of us are combined…” she giggled. Zaden fall back to her stomach and huffed
” I can wait!!!” he said sarcastically.
“Why now? Why after skipping so many generations?” Zaden added.
“Alpha, I think you are asking too much information without properly gratifying me,” she said with a growl, and with newfound energy, Zaden jumped up, grabbing her hands and pinning them to her side before he devours her beauty, a little rougher then preferred
“Be gentle…she is suffering from sore and bite marks every morning…” her wolf complained
“Ya, I know but can you be less beautiful to facilitate me into being gentle?” with that he continued his assault to her beauty, sipping every drop of honey she could offer until he is panting for breath. He cuddled back to her stomach only this time, she is naked.
“It wasn’t a skip, Zaden. We tried reincarnating before, but failed as the elements we needed didn’t match exactly” she said with a hint of sorrow in her tone, running her fingers through Zaden’s hair.
“What elements?” Zaden
“A father, a mother, a brother, a mate that would love her till the end of the world. It’s Elisa. She wanted to relive the life stolen from her, Zaden…”
“Wait, what happens when the 5 don’t match together?” Zaden is terrified with the possible answer
“We die…as a newborn itself and our human counterpart continue to live…” a drop of tear fell from her eye, hitting her ears. The tough wolf has dissipated as hundreds of year’s worth of pain resurfaced. The wolf soul dies, again and again, waiting for the correct moment to be reborn. Zaden climbed up to her, hugging her into his chest
“Shu…I thought you are different from your human. Turns out you both carry a bit of each other in you”
Selena fell asleep on Zaden’s chest. He recalled how Orion burst earlier today, that she isn’t getting enough rest. He had to agree with that. They stay up until 2 or 3 in the morning, wake up again at 5. 30 or 6 am, walk back home, and get ready for the training session. He wanted to give her a few more hours of rest, so he carried her, all the way back home, with her sleeping in his arms. Thankfully she was dressed. She weighs almost nothing to him and little weight that was felt, remedied by her beauty that Zaden gazed upon the whole walk.
Back at home, he took her to her room and placed her on her bed. She stirred to her comfortable fetal position. Seeing that he recalled how her wolf told him they died as newborns 4 times before finally finding the perfect condition for her rebirth. Is that why she is so childish? Reliving 4 generations’ worth of childhood? Was he her mate too on the last birth or was he the missing portion of Elisa’s perfect concoction? Only Elisa Mitkoi could answer his question and she is sleeping peacefully now. She had suffered so much to be reborn and relive her life. If only she had done it in another body, out of Samrat’s bloodline, she would have lived a much more peaceful life. A burden fell on Zaden, he is not only protecting his mate. It’s the thirst of a woman, basic rights and desire to live happily with her beloved. It is unbelievable that her portrayal of true love is actually the person who killed her as well.