Henry's POV.- Up all night once more, I’m so dim and dead right now as I remain sulking gloomily over my desk and groaning in pangs of hunger. Not until two people come storming into my cave and snatching my arms from beneath me. In alarm, I raise my head as my two best friends grin unpleasantly at me and pick me off the desk. They hurl me into my seat and Drew nods at Steven before letting go of my arm. Steven grabs it and they strap me to the chair while I struggle weakly in defiance. “H-hey!” They don’t pay attention to me and next I know, a whole bucket of lukewarm water comes drenching me from head to toe along with the chair. I cough out, underneath the continuous pour of water as I continue to struggle against the restraints holding me back, making them begin to snap. I lift my voice to shout at them but my head suddenly jerks back by a brute yank of my hair. “Steve, don’t pull so hard. He’s already beaten up much enough,” I hear Drew groan and Steven mutters a quick sorry
Henry's POV.- "Fuck!"It’s out of my lips before I know it. Rage, defeat, regret, and pain. My frame begins trembling with anger and dysphoria. I didn’t expect they’d take it this far. To directly threaten my title as Vice-president of the Alpha Union. Charles joins the menacing group with a nasty look on his face. He comes daring me with his next lines. “And if things go otherwise…you might be kissing your throne goodbye to the kid over there”. He gestures with his head towards Harvey and I see red. Talon charges up once more, twice more agitated than before and I clench my jaws so hard that I draw blood, just to tame him back and retract my claws. I strain myself to the tips of my fingers to force a muzzle down on my enraged wolf as veins pop up on my skin. How dare he?! Charles sees the effect his taunt has on me and deliberately mocks me more with the content look on his face as he folds his arms. Daring me to let my wildness loose and speed up my end myself. Adams clears h
Yumi's POV.- ‘You will come to me…crawling on the floor and begging me to accept you, to take you over and over again till you can scream my name no more’. “AH!” I bolt up, off the bed with a scream, my hands flying to hold both sides of my head. I feel around it and notice there’s a bandage wrapped around it. “Ha…what h-happened?” I glance around and find no one. This is not my room, must be at the Pack doctor’s. I push the blankets off my body and tap my feet carefully on the cold floor. I’m so hungry and thirsty. Standing up, the door knob twists open and in walks a familiar figure. “I’ll just quickly check on her and I’ll come back. I’ve missed this baby for so long, you know”. He’s talking to someone outside the door and I pout. “When will you acknowledge the fact that I’m no longer a kid, huh, Moses?” Freeze. That’s what happens to him as his eyes enlarge so wide and so does his mouth while his neck slowly twists to bring him to face me properly. I cross my arms over my c
Henry's POV.- I throw the empty bottle against the wall and it shatters into many tiny pieces, spreading across the floor. My body drops down heavily as I drag my arms across my table agitatedly, swiping everything off of it to shatter and skitter across the floor noisily. It burns. It freaking burns! Yet…I can’t stop it. I can’t bring her back…I can’t reach my hands out to her. She’s not by my side and I’m at my limits. I can’t handle this pain anymore. “Yumi, please.” Clutching my chest till my knuckles go white, I fall to my knees, wishing I could just dig my heart out and get rid of the pain. I begin jerking my head back against my desk over and over with my throat clogging with all the things I really meant to say to her that day. Why…why does it still hurt this much? The pains of rejection feel even worse than being eaten alive. I search around in the dimly lit room with tired blurry eyes, maybe to find a symbol or sign of comfort. I’m all alone here…spilling my broken hea
Henry's POV.- “The girl in question, where is she? I heard she declared rejection on you. How are you coping? Locked in and bawling your eyes out all day and night?” Henry chuckles humourlessly and I meet his gaze and show him a rueful smile. “Seems you’ve finally hit rock bottom. Good thing I’m here. I was gonna have Hatori tag along, but he couldn’t. His fiancée had to leave for South Korea sometime back,” He begins to say, walking towards the porch with me by his side. “Something about the adaptation of her novel into a W*****n series, so he’s been there with her.” He frowns, trying to recollect something. “What was the title again? Paper Hearts, was it?” “Hatori’s fiancée…is Yue Sama?” I ask with surprise. This is crazy. Henry nods with a smile. “They’ve been together for over five months and he’s been hoping to propose to her. The series is almost done so, probably after that.” “That’s that,” He dismisses. “Now, I’m here for you so let’s drop that”. I recede into silence a
Henry's POV.- I wipe my smirk off and wear a look of disappointment as I resume my stride, walking towards his direction. His warriors snarl up close and I spare a moment to Talon’s intimidating growl, having them back down reluctantly. "I hope you don’t regret this,” The Alpha exasperates as we come to stand side-by-side. “I definitely won’t be as stupid as to pick a fight with you”. “I won’t forget this favor.” I wouldn’t want to look any more repulsive than I do currently. Having the grime and awful smell clinging to my body and clothes. I might just chase her away with my horrendous look. That doesn’t sit well with me and I stop and turn around to impose a request on the Alpha. “Can I request for clean clothes?”- I arrive at Amador at midnight. At least I look more presentable and won’t risk having her bail on me upon sight. Now that I think about it, I’m quite anxious. What will her response be? I know she’s still mad at me and might even throw something at me when I show
Yumi's POV.- Coming to Mexico is half an excuse. Even while it is true I’m here for a friend’s daughter’s first birthday party. Then again, it’s good for a little time away from all the ruckus with Henry. Somewhere I won’t have to see his face and have him clouding my judgement. I need a clear head to decide what I want to do from now on. The taxi halts just outside the ‘Dark Stone Pack’ territory and I get out of the back with my single luggage and backpack. After paying the driver, I hold a smile as I adjust the sling of my backpack while looking at the winding road with a lush array of tall trees lining either side at a stretch. As I grab the handle of my luggage to wheel it along with me, a figure steps out from the line of trees to the left. Standing about 5ft, 8 inches. Dark-brown buzz haircut, and ashen bright eyes that light up at the sight of me. “Yumi, you came.” Caden walks towards me and I smile back. “Couldn’t miss it for anything”. He helps with my luggage as we cha
Yumi's POV.- “Alpha Drex-” “No! It wasn’t intentional!” He suddenly barks my way and I shriek, moving away with the startled kid. I pat her back while muttering soothing words to her to calm her down. Martha presses her head against my chest and fists my sweater in her tiny hands. “Like you said, it was a mistake. Besides, you met another, right?” I try to cheer him up nervously. That seems to have him calm down, but the sadness remains tainting his features and dimming his colour. “Alisa…was my second chance,” He says monotonously and breaks into a cold sweat at the cold aura he’s leaking. “I killed her…myself.” He what? “Hey…maybe you’re still blaming yourself for what happened to Rosalie-” I try to convince him otherwise, but his icy orbs fix on me with such intensity that I march back to bring more distance between us. “She just had to eavesdrop on a dark secret…and wanted to rat me out to Henry…so I had to do it and lied about her being attacked by rogues…” Henry? Did h