phere. "Odessa, what are you doing here? You should be resting inside." "And you should be watching me. Well that makes two of us." Elara carefully held Odessa as she attempted t

adow of the dark they would tease themselves with no ulterior motives except they were childhood friends and nothing gave them more joy that act awfully shameless around each other. First it was a weak thump then it became a strong sensation. That night it was already past midnight and the full moon was up, her disillusioned heart had made peace that Luca would be absent. He didn't return her calls or respond to any of her text messages. She had retreated on her luxurious bed when the silent creak from the window woke her up. "Hey, I thought you won't be able to make it?" Odessa puffed as she moved towards him. He looked like a star that had lost his shine. He was her friend since grade one and even with her eyes closed she could tell when he lacked his shine. "Odessa, I can't take it anymore!" He expressed, retreating on her cozy rug. He loved it. He said it reminded him of his young days when he was still mastering his wolf form; when his father and trainers mounted restless trainings for him. "Hey, what is it?" Odessa sat by his side with her soft palms carefully placed on his. "Alpha Tharros wants me to be..." "You mean your dad!" Odessa interrupted. "Odessa you don't know him. He is not that sweet uncle that you meet whenever you come to the house. He relates with like a monarch would relate with his subjects." Luca cried. The pressures of being the heir of the Tharros dynasty was weighing on him; robbing him of any extracurricular activities. His father forced him for council meetings, imposed laws on him to be perfect on all aspects. "He is still your father." Odessa reiterated. "You won't understand. Every family is not like yours, mine is a raging tornado. Lyra refused to be married to commander Nath's son and I have to face the consequences." "I like Lyra, she is your father's greatest roadblock." "I like her too but you are missing the point, since she insists on getting married to her heart throb, I have to be paired to Vynessa and not just that, I have to go to Havenstead to enact my father's authority over the provinces with my wife." Luca whined. The last thing he wanted was the kind of power that his father wielded. The type that he had to exercise authority by being extremely diplomatic at that the expense of what he really wanted. "But if you ask me, I don't see anything wrong with going to Havenstead. I heard it's peaceful there." "And what about the getting married part?" Odessa's heart dropped at the realization of Luca's marriage to Vynessa, not because she had any claim to him but something inside of her felt broken. "Vynessa is the most priced jewel at the academy hence I'm sure you would be lucky to have her." "What are you talking about? That's not how it works in my world. In my world you only have one mate you could have other omegas on the side but only one mat