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Leia’s POV
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Because of the enormous pain that I was feeling, my human lost consciousness, but I was still awake. I wished even I would have been that weak like humans. But nope! I wasn’t.
The stronger I was, the more pain I was feeling.
I wanted this pain to go away, but just something happened to me because of which I could feel nothing but numbness.
Stephen made me sit on the co-pilot seat, and then closing the door, he walked toward another side to grab the driver’s seat. When Aleena had mentioned that Stephen rarely looked at her, she was absolutely right. He hadn’t looked at my face. Otherwise, he would have realized that it wasn’t Aleena but me.
I blocked my mind so that even if Aleena would woke up, she wouldn’t hear or see what was going on near me until I gave her the control.
Was I that powerful?
Yes, I was.
I had a slight amount of Lycan’s blood in my blood, which made me different from the rest. I was an Alpha female but being a Lycan’s blood in me made me a little more powerful than the other Alpha.
‘Does Aleena know about it?
No, I haven’t shared so many things about myself because she is evil, and I don’t want her to misuse my power to bully the weakling. I didn’t know how I had Lycan’s blood in my vein and how I was different from others until I felt the familiar and stronger power just like me, coming from Eva. I could feel the bond between Ivory, her Lycan, and me. That was a totally different story that I had no idea about how everything was interlinked with each other. And talking about Aleena, I doubt that she had even an idea about it.
Why?
Because we didn’t share a good bond.
Couldn’t I just die or leave her body?
Nope! Moon Goddess said that I was chosen to be Guardian. Guardian of whom? No idea. Chosen by whom? No idea. Why this evil human? No idea. Why that dickhead as a mate? No idea.
Immediately, my chain of thoughts was broken when I heard Stephen’s voice, “Seatbelt.”
“Where are you taking me?” I asked. Immediately his head turned toward me in shock or said surprise because he was not expecting to hear my heavy voice, and my one golden eyes and once blue eyes would have shocked him a little more.
“Do you still want you go shopping?”, He asked, ignoring my question so that he could decide accordingly where he had to take me.
“Shopping is not my thing.”
“Then where do you want to go?” he asked. Good question, but I had no idea where I wanted to go? I wanted to go somewhere where I didn’t feel this pain. But I knew that was not going to happen. “I think I know somewhere you will want to go.”, he answered on his own. “Buckle your seatbelt.”, he said, pointing toward the seatbelt.
I did just like he signaled. Though the AC of the car was on, I needed fresh air, so I opened the window beside my seat and let the fresh air hit my face. I felt chilled over that area of my face where my cheeks were wet whenever air hit my face.
“Here!!” I heard Stephen speaking. I turned my head and found him giving me his handkerchief again. I wondered why Aleena hated him so much, and I meant he wasn’t that bad. He was just ….. Reserved. I took his handkerchief and wiped my face because, obviously, I didn’t want to frame him for making me cry like a human. After the drive of thirty to thirty-five minutes, he pulled the car near a pack border which was neither his brother’s nor my father’s.
“This is the most beautiful pack and the smallest pack in the entire state.”, he said. “Snowfall pack. You can run and enjoy the sceneries of this pack.”, he added.
“And the Alpha won’t say a thing? They might lock me in the cell for trespassing.”, I pointed out.
“Don’t worry about that part. The Alpha of this pack is my friend, so he won’t say a thing because I have already informed him about it.”
“Thanks.”, I muttered, unbuckling the seatbelt and then hopped out of the car. “You can leave. I will return back to the pack on my own.”, I added, looking at him through the window. Then I looked at the warriors allotted on the pack border. They bowed their head, sensing my aura. I nodded before shifting, and I walked for a while toward the forest, wondering the way where I should run?
Immediately I turned around, sensing someone behind me. I saw Stephen in his wolf form. He came near me and then pushed his forearms a little more forward and hind legs a little back. I understood what he was trying to single. He wanted to run and compete with me. I took the same position as his, and soon we started running together. It looked like he was familiar with the route, and that’s why he was leading between us while I was behind him, observing everything around me.
He was right. This pack was indeed too beautiful. Not to forget, this pack had a small waterfall that separated this land from the other. I wondered whether the other land would also belong to this pack? I saw Stephen’s wolf taking a turn from there, and that movement already answered my question. Now, he started jumping on the small hills near the waterfall, which led to the ground or, say, a river. All of a sudden, he disappeared. I looked for him and looked into a river. In case he would have jumped in it, but instead, I was pushed into the river from behind, and I landed in the river.
‘Damn! The water is freezing cold.’, I thought and started acting like I was drawing. Immediately Stephen’s wolf looked excited for a moment ago and jumped into the water to save me. I tried to save him, but I hit his head with my paw. He realized that I had tricked him into bringing him into the water. He hit his paw in the water with force, and I squealed lit when a lot of water fell on my face.
Like seriously?
Well, both could play these games. I did the same to him, and we started playing in the water until I decided to went out of the water. Even he followed me. He knowingly shook his body near me, throwing a ton of water droplets coming out of his fur to me. I glared at him and pushed him into the river again. I didn’t wait for him to return and started running straight into the forest, enjoying the greeneries of the forest and listening to the sound of the other animals. I even grabbed a small rabbit between my paws, and he looked at me, feeling sacred of his life. I was not hungry, so I let that little animal go and then kept running. I could feel the slope of the forest was taking me higher back to the high of the waterfall.
I turned around to check where Stephen’s wolf and because I couldn’t hear the sound of his paw, just a smell was nearby. I looked around again, and this time, he attacked me as if I was his prey, he would have pinned me down if the slope had been plain, but instead of that, we started flipping on one another for a few seconds. We started returning back to the place near the river because of several flips. In the end, I was the one who pinned him down, placing both my paw on his chest.
I removed my paws from his chest and stepped aside, looking at the river and everything around. I couldn’t thanks Stephen in my wolf form for this, but I would be grateful to him always for changing my mood. Even his wolf sat behind me, doing the same thing which I was doing, or maybe I misinterpreted that part too soon because the next moment, he licked my face.
My eyes widened, and I looked at him in surprise. He was looking at me with admiration and licked me again.
This wasn’t right. He shouldn’t be licking me like that. Licking the opposite sex was almost like kissing in human terms. This was not right, getting closer to that wolf whom my human hated the most. I stepped backward, shaking my head. But he covered up the distance between us and nuzzled his head near my neck. This was not good. I knew that.
But for the first time, someone was showing affection toward me, and I wanted to be greedy. Just a little. I couldn’t help and nuzzle my head near his neck in his grey fur. We broke our little hug and licked each other’s faces affectionately. He tried to lick me one more time, but I pushed him away with my paw and walked toward the river to drink some water.
I felt him following me, he better not push me into the river again, or I would kill him, but instead, he stood there looking at my reflection or, say, looking at our reflection in the water.
I was a black wolf with a mixture of white on my paws and tails, while he was a pure grey wolf.
And then, we laid down on the grass, looking at the sky, and seeing the birds returning back to their homes. With that part, I felt my human trying to wake up from her deep slumber.
Before she realized the fact that I had trapped her, I had to return her the control. I quickly stood on my paw and saw Stephen’s wolf raising his head. I licked his face for one last time and started running toward the car.
Just after a few seconds, I felt him running beside me, for the one last time, maybe?
I knew his wolf was in control right now, and Stephen would have been in the backseat of his mind. And I was certain that he was going to scold his wolf for sure. Maybe this was the first and last time we were together.
‘Leia?’ I heard Aleena’s voice.
Damn it!
I couldn’t even say a proper goodbye to my ______. Just like all the time, I had no idea what to call him; I shifted quickly and sat on the co-pilot seat, buckling my seatbelt; I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep, giving her the control of her body.
She opened her eyes and closed them immediately to adjust them as per the light. The moment she opened her eyes again, she found Stephen wearing his clothes, and then she looked around to analyze the situation. Then she checked her phone to see the time. She cursed herself because she was out for fucking six hours.
“Where are we?”, She asked Stephen when he settled in the pilot seat. But neither did he look at her nor answer her. I could sense his irritation. I wondered what the reason behind his irritation was; his wolf did something which he shouldn’t have done, or I left without saying a proper goodbye or the fact that he hated the human of that wolf whom his wolf liked.
I sighed and disappeared into the darkness, which was my place for the last four years.
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#TBC