MIRACLE'S POV

As I sit on the chair opposite Olivia with her eyes fixed at me, I know what I am going to do.

Earlier, Selvia came to call me out and she asked me to have coffee with Olivia and her.

Regretfully, I agreed. I had to.

If I had ran away, Olivia and Selvia were going to be sure that I am a werewolf and before I knew it, all the members of the Red Moon pack would have been hot on my tail, to find me and then kill me.

I can't even take on Selvia, let alone a whole pack of Merciless killers.

That's why even after knowing what's going to happen, I still stayed. I have to stay to get rid of their doubts.

But, all of this doesn't help in easing my anxiety.

No werewolf ever wanted to be anywhere near wolfsbane. And drinking it? That is gruesome.

It will cause me a burn so strong that I will be twisting in pain in the blink of an eye. I will feel my own organs burning inside me and it will be.....Plain Horrible.

“ You creep me out. ” I blurt out to Olivia nervously, trying to provide her with a reason for the fast beating of my heart.

I know her suspiscions are strong. The moment I show a reaction after drinking the Wolfsbane, she is going to snap my neck. She is waiting for this to happen anyway.

“ I know. ” Olivia grins wolfishly, making me flinch.

She seems quite ready to snap my neck to be honest.

I wish I was not here in this moment. Sighing, I hear Selvia's footsteps but keep my expressions neutral.

She is coming. She is coming with the wolfsbane.

“ Here is your coffee. ” Selvia places the coffee mug on the table in front of me before placing Olivia's mug in front of her.

Now, the one pair of eyes has turned into two pair of eyes. Those two are watching me closely.

Their ears are picking up my heartbeat and their noses are picking up the smell of fear in the air. I am acting like a next level fool.

“ Thanks Selvia. ” I mutter quietly, my eyes fixed at the hot steam rising from the cup of coffee in front of me. I can easily smell wolfsbane and even from so far away, it makes my guts twist uncomfortably.

“ Drink up before it gets cold. You humans need warmth. ” Olivia's bitter voice grabs my attention.

Lifting my head, I stare at her, unblinking.

“ You HUMANS? What are you then? A werewolf? ” I joke, which makes them both stiffen up visibly.

If I am going to die soon, I might as well die after mocking them.

...Childish much, but that's how I am.

Whenever something serious happens, my mind makes me think about funny things.

Slowly, the wolfish grin returns on Olivia's lips. She leans in and I lean back instinctively, even if there is a table separating us.

“ I am a Vampire and a werewolf. ” Instead of being scared, she lets out the truth, laughing at me.

I end up bursting out in laughter, just like her. She is good at this, I must say.

“ You have a good sense of humor. ” Selvia interferes and I know, it's time to stop playing around.

Shaking my head, I pick up the coffee mug. Olivia and Selvia's eyes bore into my skull. I can see Selvia's fingers holding onto the table's corners, ready to dug into it.

The smell of wolfsbane makes bile rise up in my throat as I take the mug near my lips.

Oh the things peopl - I mean a werewolf like me has to do for survival. Tch.

Bringing the mug to my lips, I take a big sip and instantly place the mug down after that.

Okay. My fingers are holding onto the mug tightly so I do not start thrashing. A control measure.

I can feel my tongue and mouth burning and as the Wolfsbane slowly travels down my throat, I can feel everything burning. It's a hot-searing pain that blinds me for a second there. My head pounds, my heart beat picks its speed and the burn continues.

I feel like someone is slowly ripping my soul from my body.

It's like I am laying on a bed of silver nails.

It's the worst pain I have ever experienced.

Even if my wolf is not strong, I can still feel the vicious burn, the cruel intensity of wolfsbane burning everything inside me.

Blood rise up in my mouth and I gulp it down. The metallic taste makes me nauseous once more.

“ Miracle. ” Selvia calls out to me and I lift my head to glance at her. Her forehead is adorned with a frown. Her nails are slowly starting to dig in the table. She is ready to attack, she just needs a small confirmation to do that.

“ How is the coffee? ” Olivia asks and I turn my head to give her my attention.

“ It-It's good. I have never drank coffee which tasted so good. It's like I can die peacefully after drinking it. ” I force a smile up my lips as the intensity of wolfsbane brings tears to my eyes - tears that I have to hold back in order to not end up giving myself away.

“ I am glad you like it. ” Selvia mutters, her grip loosening around the edge of the table.

If I was a werewolf, I would be writhing in pain on the floor by now - That's what they are thinking.

But guess what...I am a weak wolf. I don't feel the burn that much, because my wolf has died, but it's still alot of pain.

Their suspicions have died down for now but it has caused me pain - immense pain. I am bleeding internally and I know it, so I have to be away from them before I end up vomiting out blood.

Suddenly, the bell on the front door jingles and I inhale deeply. Xavier - The Beta of Red Moon Pack.

I know it's him after smelling his scent.

Just as he steps in, he takes a whiff of the smell in the air. I crane my neck to look at him and find him looking back at me. His eyes darken and the golden hue threatens to take over his eyes, but he pushes his wolf back to stay in control.

“ Come with me Selvia. You too Olivia. ” He lets out and I turn my head around.

Olivia is still glaring at me and I realize that she is not convinced even after this. She suspects me deeply and she doesn't like to be proven wrong.

Seliva rushes to Beta like a lost puppy and Olivia follows shortly after. Xavier takes them and then leaves, saving me from further agony.

And finally...

I get up from the chair slowly and sprint to the kitchen in a lightening speed. I run past the kitchen and out of the back door, which leads to an empty alleyway.

Stepping out, I bend over and empty my guts by vomiting blood - that's alot of blood.

The pain pushes me to drop on my knees as I try to grasp something desperately to keep myself up on my feet. My eyes water up and I sniff, shaking my head. Black dots appear in my sight and I open my eyes wide to push this haziness away.

This is not a good time to drop unconscious. Selvia and Olivia will be back and they will suspect me.

Pushing myself up on my feet, I wipe my mouth with my sleeve. They can smell blood on me too. Shit. What am I supposed to do now? I have to think quickly.

“ What are you doing there sweetheart? ” The voice coming from behind me grabs my attention and I whip my head around to find a pale looking boy standing behind me. He was wearing a black hoodie and his half face was hidden under it.

Then the scent hits me and I stumble back.

A vampire. He was a vampire and a...Wolf? A hybrid? What is he doing here?

“ I can smell wolfsbane on you. ” Smirking, he raises his head and I see his eyes which suddenly takes on a red color.

He smelled blood on me.

Sighing dramatically, I push my hair back.

I swear I don't find trouble...Trouble always finds me.

Blame it all on my curse.

“ What do you want? ” I ask, my posture stiff.

Then, it hits me. Another shit well.

Wolfsbane burned everything and I threw up everything so yeah...The effect of potion is gone now.

I did another mistake after that. I took my eyes off an enemy and before I know it, I am pinned on the wall.

His hand is on my throat as he raises me up, my black scrapping against the wall harshly.

My hands reach out to grab his hands as he pushes his hoodie down to reveal his face. His red eyes go to the remnants of blood on my lips and I smirk.

He is a newbie at this vampire thing. A werewolf turned Vampire. He is Dangerous but stupid. He does not know how to get over his hunger and he acts impulsively.

But...what is he doing in Red Moon Pack territory? And why is he not caught?

“ King wants you...But I can drink some blood before delivering you to him right? ” His eyes glaze over as his teeth elongate.

This is shit multiply by hundred this time.

MIRACLE'S POV

“ King? I don't know anyone by that name. ” I mutter, before bringing up my knee and ramming it roughly against his rib, breaking two of them instantly.

Howling in pain, he doubles over and drops me on the ground. Not wasting any time, I grab his neck and twist it harshly. His body drops down on the ground, hitting it hard, his neck still twisted at a weird angle.

He is not dead. I don't need to worry about that. He just fell unconscious for a while - a day to be precise.

King? Who was he talking about? I wonder but push past him to go back in the cafe. I have caused some serious trouble.

Sighing, I stop by the door and look back at the body.

I was weak. Emphasize on that WAS. I acted weak when I had the power to defeat everyone else. I showed them mercy when I was powerful, but now...

It was merely for survival and when you are in that survival mode, you find all those weaknesses disappearing one by one but, I still don't kill any creature.

I can rip this newbie's neck off and then burn him to hide my tracks, but I choose to leave him alive and...

Running away from here.

Yes. I need to run away.

Olivia suspects me, they might smell this vampire's scent in the air soon and they are going to come. The first suspect in this is going to be me again, because my scent is all over that newbie's body now.

Shit.

Inhaling deeply, I try to think while the pain only makes me want to double over and cry out.

Running away it is for sure, by the way.

**********

Getting home as soon as I could, I open the door and rush to my room without stopping to scold Liam and Bella for doing it on the couch again. They never listen to me anyway.

“ Miracle! Is there something wrong? ” Bella's worried voice catches my attention, as she barges inside my room to find me pushing my clothes in a bag.

I need to run. That's all I can think about. I just have to cross the Red Moon Pack territory before tomorrow morning.

“ Miracle! I am talking to you. ” Bella's hand appears in my sight when it grabs my wrist to stop me.

“ Nothing. Nothing is wrong. I am just going on vacations. ” I pry her hand off and continue pushing my clothes inside the bag.

Bella stays inside the room, staring at me confusedly while I pack everything up in the bag and swing it over my shoulders.

“ Don't worry. I will be back. ” I feed her a lie and she smiles at me.

“ You never go anywhere so I was worried when you started packing. ” She sighs out and goes out to Liam who was standing outside the door.

“ She is just going on vacations. ” She tells him and he nods his head.

How wonderful...They don't know anything about me yet I know everything about them.

I stroll to them and pull both of them in a hug one by one, before bidding my goodbye, knowing I will never return. They were good friends to me. But I have to leave now and I can't bring it in myself to tell them that I will never return.

Perhaps, I will be dead by tomorrow and I will not even have to answer their calls. Who knows!

Leaving the apartment building, I go to the cave in the forest. I have already planned a way to escape in case I ever had to run and it turns out, I do ended up having to run in the end.

Sitting in the cave, waiting for the night is never easy. The fact that I am spending my eighteenth birthday here...is even worse.

Besides, Wolves are more active at night. There is the problem of Border patrol too at night, but the thing is...

Those werewolves out for the border patrol don't know me and as I have now taken the potion again, they will think of me as a mere human.

That's why I am running away in the night. It will prevent any stumbling upon the people I knew.

When the night comes, I sling the bag over my shoulders and step out of the cave to inhale the fresh forest smell. It's heavenly. I have always loved forests.

My eyes go to the full moon in the sky and I sigh out. “ Help me Moon Goddess. Don't let me die before meeting him. ”

I don't want to die before ever meeting and knowing my mate.

Determined, I make my way inside the forest carefully. When I get close to the border, I heave a heavy breath. I am close to freedom.

As I breath in relief and try not to think about the pain in my organs, I see a silhouette in the distance - A huge outline of a man.

My eyes narrow down to see him clearly, but my vision blurs out. The effects of wolfsbane. I am weak right now.

Shaking my head, I continue on my way. I just have to cross their border and I will be fine.

When I take a whiff, I realize he is a werewolf. My body freezes and I stop on my spot.

Shit.

His scent is not familiar though. It's sweet. He smells like the forest specially rosewood. Intoxicating. His scent intoxicates me and I start walking to him without even realizing.

The closer I get to him, the faster my heart beats. My palms start sweating profusely.

Who is he? I want to know. I NEED to know.

There is like a thread pulling me to him. My body acts on it's own and I feel strangely excited.

What's happening to me?

Before I realize, I am standing in front of him. He is huge. I only come up to his neck.

His broad shoulders are illuminated by the moonlight and his gray sweatshirt is doing nothing to hide his strong build.

Tracing his body, my eyes land on his face. He has a chiseled jaw, his lips are plump - cherry in color, his nose is straight and his eyes - those silver gray eyes...

It's like my breath is knocked out of my lungs. All the hair on my body stand up. My heart beat slows down rhythmically.

Something pulls me to him again and I stumble forward, feeling the tingles rising on my body. The feeling makes me feel like I am drunk.

“ Mate. ” The whisper spills out of my mouth, before I could even register it in my mind.

And then...

I hear another female voice in my head.

“ RUN! ”

MIRACLE'S POV

“ RUN! ” The familiar female voice which screams in my head, shocks me to my core.

G-Gia? Is it Gia?

All my focus shifts to my supposedly dead-wolf from my most awaited Mate.

“ Gia? ” I speak in my mind, hoping desperately to hear her voice again.

What if it's my imagination and Gia is really not here? The thought makes me sad and I look back up at my mate.

His silver gray eyes are staring me down intensely. An aura of power is radiating off him.

I don't understand the emotion in his eyes at all.

Why is he not coming to me?

Why is he not making any move?

I stumble forward as confusion takes over me. He sets his lips in a thin line and before I can take even a step more closer to him, Gia screams in my head once again.

“ RUN! ” This time the intensity of her scream in my head makes me nauseous.

All my senses heighten as I look around and I realize it was really Gia. I suddenly feel complete and not just a pesky werewolf without the wolf.

“ Gia? Is it really you? ” I try to communicate with her but as a reply to my question, I feel my eyes starting to burn.

Gia is pushing herself out of me to take control over me. I have not felt this feeling for a long time. All my body tingles and the silence of my mate is not helping my situation.

Failing to control myself, I fall down to my knees and my clothes start ripping apart as Gia pushes past the barrier to take control of my weak body.

The feel of having all your bones snapped and then shaped again to turn into a wolf turns out to be too painful for me as I have not shifted for a long time.

Raising my head, I grit my teeth finding my mate still standing on the same spot. His silver gray eyes are glazed over as he stares me down, lost in his own world.

He looks shocked, angry, bored and I don't why he looks like this. Is he not happy? Can he really not feel what I am feeling right now?

My head hangs low as all my bones snap into shape and Gia completely takes over me. My white wolf starts running as soon as I shift and I don't know what's happening.

I am not even sure if it's a dream or reality. I found my mate, my supposedly dead wolf just took control over me and now I am running away from my mate.

“ GIA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ” I mindlink my wolf, as I try my best to stop running, but she is in control right now.

I want to stop and go back to my mate. I know he is still there. I can feel his presence.

I want to go to him.

I want to know him.

I want to ask him about the mark on my neck.

I want to love him and I want him to love me.

He is the only one who can never abandon me...Mates can never abandon each other.

I want to do all of these but my wolf - Gia has something else in her mind. She just runs and runs, carrying me away from my mate.

My mind freezes the moment I detect the chilly fear radiating off Gia.

She is scared. No. Not scared...She is scared out of her mind.

That's why she is running.

“ What's wrong? ” I ask Gia who is still running through the thick - dark forest.

No reply. She refuses to reply me. Why? I don't know but I know for a fact that she is not answering me deliberately.

So she broke the mindlink with me on purpose? Why? No wolf had ever done this with their human before.

But then again...I am no ordinary werewolf.

I am the one who was born marked and who was cursed since birth.

Everything aside, What is Gia scared off? Her fear is getting to me too now. I can feel myself losing all control over myself.

Shaking all thoughts off, I focus on the forest in front of us. Running wildly, Gia has reached the edge of the mountain under which there is a huge lake. My heart thumps against my ribcage as she runs along the edge, her feet only inches away from having us both drowning in the deep lake.

Suddenly, I hear the loud growl in the forest. All sounds stop and everything goes still after that.

The loud growling of the wolf was so powerful and eerie that my hair rise up on their ends. All creatures seem to have run away the moment that wolf growled.

Is it my mate?

I force Gia to turn and see only to meet endless forest and darkness behind us.

My forced action causes Gia to stumble over a branch and she turns her head around as her right paw slips down the edge.

Whimpering, she barely manages to bring her paw back on the forest ground. I sigh in relief only for Gia to start running once again.

“ STOP GIA! ” I fight for control, her wild actions beginning to scare the hell out of me.

What is she so scared off that she is risking our lives running away like this?

She does not listen to me and keeps running aimlessly in the forest when something huge jumps over us and lands right in front.

Trying to stop herself on time and not collide with the huge black wolf which now stood in front of us with it's side facing toward us, Gia fails miserably and ends up sliding right into his body.

Our side meets the gigantic figure and I hear the loud sickening sound of the bones cracking, which echoes in the silent forest.

Pain courses through my body - A hot-searing pain, which makes me close my eyes to get myself out of this painful trance. My breath is knocked out of me and when I try to breath, I realize that I have broken my ribs...Two of them, I think.

Without waiting for a moment, Gia pushes us away from the black wolf who turns his head toward us.

I notice his red eyes just as Gia tries to run again.

His eyes - A hot glowing red color.

Forgetting all my pain, I find myself lost in those glowing red eyes when the realization dawns upon me.

He is...

He is the Alpha King - Cain Reyes.

Only he has a black wolf and those red glowing eyes. I have heard everyone talking about his wolf in the cafe.

Shivers of dread run down my spine. Everything clicks in my mind now.

Alpha King is going to kill his mate and then make Olivia, his mate.

Mate...

I notice other things too now. Aura of Danger along with Power was oozing off Cain Reyes but in my hazy mind, I never registered it.

He was dangerous. He IS Dangerous.

He is going to kill me. Gia realized this, before I did.

All hopes shatter as I try to deal with the shock that hit my mind hard.

I waited for him. I loved him even when everyone believed that his mark on my neck is a curse. I still wanted him, still wanted this mark if it was what connected me to my other half, my soulmate, my mate.

I thought he will come and everything is going to be fine, but it turns out, he brought death and heartbreak with him.

I want to think about something funny and deal with this pain of heartbreak, which is worse than the physical pain he caused me just now.

To think about it, his wolf blocked my path like this even when he knew Gia wouldn't be able to stop.

He did it on purpose.

Suddenly, I feel someone trying to mindlink me. This was forced and it hurt like someone was slicing through my brain.

“ Submit! ” His voice sounds in my head and I realize it was him.

The pain in my head causes a loud ringing in my ears.

I know Gia still wants to run but she knows we can't. He is an alpha - No - He is the Alpha King.

She whimpers softly and then hangs her head low to show her submittance. This fills me with a sense of hurting my own self-respect.

His aura only grows more dominant, more powerful after that. It is deadly.

I mentioned it before right?...

Alpha King only hurts when he wants to hurt.

He wants to hurt me. He is here to kill me. The moment I turned eighteen, I found the one I was looking for, but he is not what I was looking for.

“ I finally found you Mate. ” The Alpha King's hateful and deep voice penetrates my mind once again and Gia drops down on the soft muddy ground.

Gia starts to shift back as it becomes unbearable for both of us to resist Alpha King's suffocating aura and demand for submission.

Now I lay naked, vulnerable and dirty in front of him. I am unable to protect myself. I hate this.

My teary eyes move to his red glowing eyes and my heart yearns to see his silver gray orbs, before he decides to end life for me.

Blame it all on Stupid mate bond.

He moves closer to me and I curl up in myself, after closing my eyes.

Everything hurts...

It hurts so bad, but the pain in my heart is thousand times worse than the pain my body is experiencing.

What is there left for me anymore?

I lived for him until now. It was the hope of meeting him which kept me alive and pushed me to fight for survival but now...

It's all gone.

He does not want me either. I am really cursed.

No good feeling is for me.

No happiness. No peace. No harmony...

No love.

Before losing my grip on my mind, I feel the mark on my neck burning furiously and I hear his deep voice in my head for the last time.

“ The curse must end now, Mate. ”