RONAN
Since childhood, I’d never truly known what desire was. Anything my eyes lingered on, my father would place at my feet. From gilded toys to brand–new cars, everything I could ever want was always waiting within reach.
When I came of age he began lining women up in my room, noble–born Alpha daughters, alluring Omegas with flawless smiles. Yet stripped bare, they were all the same just flesh and bone, with no spark behind their
eyes.
None of them stirred me. The rut was never as agonizing as watching those women throw themselves at me, each one predictable in her intentions, either chasing Luna’s title or desperate to be knocked up, hoping to claw their way higher in the pack hierarchy.
It was all so painfully transparent. Irritating, even. In twenty–four years of life, I had never met a woman who
could hold my attention, much less someone I’d want to call my princess.
Until I met her.
“You have won, princess.”
She was the one that made me taste what an actual desire was. The one I had been craving from the moment I saw her.
The melodious rhythm of her heartbeat was the sweetest sound I had ever heard. Her wolf abruptly pulled in by Verkas was motionless in front of him, but did not get violent when we actually crossed the line that she had drawn between us. Instead her wolf let Verkas stay.
Surprised or perhaps even caught off guard by her own reaction toward me, Seraphina averted her gaze and stood up before I could glimpse her reaction even more.
My fingers itched to tilt her chin toward me, to crush my lips against hers, to taste the defiance that laced her very being. Instead, I strangled that impulse the moment it bloomed in my mind.
“REED!” Cassius bellowed, sprinting to his best friend’s side. He dropped to his knees, gripping Reed’s shoulders. “Are you okay? Open your eyes!” His voice cracked with panic as he shook him, but Reed lay limp and unresponsive.
Every Alpha present had their gaze locked on Seraphina. Some conflicted, few hesitant, and most wary. Except Finn and Asher who had been handsomely smiling at her.
From the corner of my eyes, I saw her smiling‘ back at them. And Ryker…he had a slight smirk playing on his lips and Seraphina’s eyes had been flicked in his direction a few times. Verkas slowly growled inside me.
“Yay! Seth Darven won!” Grace’s cheer shattered the tense silence among the Alphas, her voice ringing with triumph in the charged air.
Alpha Jude allowed the faintest flicker of a smile before schooling his expression.
“Hmmm? Is fun already over?” Healer Aran came in the clearing lazily with his hands into his pants.
“You are late,” Alpha Jude groaned.
“You should have requested my appearance earlier, before this fun started,” Aran chuckled, looking between me and Seraphina for a moment fonger before he squatted down.
“Both hands and legs are broken,” he sighed, touching and unconscious Reed’s limbs and looked up at Seraphina, “you increased my work load,” he smirked.
Alpha Jude stepped forward and announced, “This challenge ends here Alpha Seth is the victor, and Alpha Reed is hereby expelled from the Lupine Academy”
Chapter 138 Friends?
The shocked murmure of the Alphas filled the clearing.
“No! That’s not fair!” Cassius roared, “It wasn’t an official trial! This expulsion is completely…”
“Alpha Reed accepted the challenge fully aware of the conditions and consequences,” Alpha Jude interrupted smoothly, his tone cutting through Cassius’s protest. “He was the one who started this nonsense, mocking another Alpha’s appearance and physique. He wanted to prove his strength because he boasted about his… large dick, but in the end, he was humiliated by the Alpha he dismissed as weak simply because he had a face too beautiful for a man,” Alpha Jude’s voice hardened as he stepped forward. “The Lupine Academy stands for fairness and justice. By those principles, Alpha Reed is expelled immediately.”
Cassius’s face paled as panic gripped him. He shot to his feet abruptly. “Reed made a mistake, Alpha Jude! He was just playing with Seth. We’re all friends-”
“A mere challenge between friends should not be grounds for expulsion! And I believe you can stop this, since it wasn’t an official trial,” Cassius pressed, his voice tinged with desperation.
“It was between Reed and Seth, Alpha Cassius,” Asher cut in, his tone like a blade. “Alpha Jude is simply announcing the result as the supervising instructor. Official trial or not, the fight was real and both Reed and Seth accepted the terms without objection. If there’s anyone with a say in the matter now, it’s Seth alone.”
A low, humorless chuckle escaped me, dark and sharp enough to cut through the air. “Friends?” I echoed, my lip curling. “How about you drop the act before I rip that lying tongue right out of your mouth?” I growled, the threat rolling off me like thunder.
Verkas roared in my head the moment I saw their hands touch. Break it Rip it off. Do it now. My neck strained, veins throbbing, every muscle in my body screaming to shatter his bones But if I did, people would notice something was different between us Even worse, she might hate me for it.
VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABEL
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The True Alpha of Lupine (Seraphina and Ronan)