Love Breathes In Hate Too

Accident?!

Rose

I swear one of these days I will get myself killed because of my smart mouth. Seriously, I expressed my shock internally, but somehow my stupid, my utterly stupid mouth betrayed me. Everyone looked at me and I bit my lip as Sir Beta's daggers landed on me.

"Sorry, please continue" I mumbled softly. From the corner of my eyes, I could see the smirk on Bryan's face, the image of punching him played in my mind.

He continued "So as I was saying, tomorrow will be Xavier's 21st birthday and on Sunday we will hold his crowning ceremony where he will take a blood oath and become Alpha of the pack”. Everyone howled in happiness and was extremely pleased with the news, Luna was almost in tears. She has been waiting waiting for this day for so long.

I don't know why but just his mere name always gave me chills down my spine. I didn't miss the change in the tone of Sir Beta when he mentioned the latter part.

“Ro” Sophia tugged at my dress, calling my name softly. I looked down and she asked me “why is he taking Sir Beta's position?” I looked around and found everyone was discussing the ceremony. Taking Sophie on my lap, caressing her hair, I started telling her the story my Pops told me,

“Baby he is the son of an Alpha, sooner or later he will be going to take that position. As you know Alpha William has been in a coma for 10 years and at that time Xavier was a kid, so he couldn't take the Alpha position. Plus he had to study as well, so Sir Beta came forward and took the responsibility. But now Xavier has come of age, he can take the title and the responsibility that comes with it.” Sophia was listening to everything attentively while sucking her thumb.

“But my friend Mike said he is bad and he is cruel,” she whispered.

When I joined the pack I didn't even know that the Alpha had a son. When Pop told me about him, he never mentioned him by name. Only after some years when we started hearing about his achievements, his power, and anger, did I get to know his name, and every time I hear about him I want to know more.

Why? I don't know, maybe because I've never met him and heard so much about him.

“No sweetie, we will not tolerate his bad behavior and if he does something bad, then we will punch his nose.”

Upon hearing this she giggled. “Yes we will, we will” she raised her hand in the air and made a fist. I shook my head and chucked her under the chin thinking it was just the beginning of the day.

“Nobody is allowed to leave the pack as there is a lot of work to do, so everyone will be helping Luna and Madam Stacey with the arrangements for the ceremony” Sir Beta ordered everyone.

"Yes, Sir Beta" everyone said simultaneously.

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“You did what?” I shrieked.

“You know what? The man on the moon couldn't hear you” she glared at me.

“Sorry, sorry” I mumbled, biting my lower lip “But seriously you didn't do that, right?” I inquired and this time in a low voice.

“Hell yeah!! What else could I do? She was not saying anything nor doing anything and that guy was there so…" she shrugged her shoulders and added “I wondered, why not just make her jealous, I kissed him, and guess what? It worked” she chirped while clapping her hands.

“Yeah and that poor boy got a punch from her,” I remarked sarcastically. “Hmm poor him but who cares, she marked me right there, and then we had some 'activities' or rather I should say 'heavy activities' and oh girl! I should truly make her jealous more often.”

She showed me her mark and winked at me. A shimmering royal blue colored wolf was imprinted on her shoulder. I am happy for her. Sometimes I think she is not 18 but 5. However I love her no matter what, and I don't know what would have happened if she hadn't been here for me. Elena was always there for me and stood against my bullies. She is a lesbian and when she turned 18 three months ago the same day she found her mate.

Fortunate isn't it?.

Her mate Sandra who is 21 was already aware of her being Elena's mate but refused to tell her because she wanted her to feel the same excitement, but even after Elena's birthday, she refused to mark her as most mates would. She thought Elena was quite young but Elena being Elena, she tried a trick and it worked. I bet if she used this much of her brain in her studies she would get better grades.

“Now you tell me girl, what do you want to say?” She asked me while wiggling her brows and I was surprised.

“How do you know that I want to say something?” I queried, making her smirk. “You are like an open book cupcake,” someone laughed and when I turned around, Sam was pulling up a chair to sit with us. I have no idea why all the people on earth decided to surprise me today.

Really? Am I that predictable?

“Did you hear the news?” I doubted they would know as both of them were missing from the table this morning, so I asked them in a hushed voice, ensuring that nobody was listening. I looked at Elena and she rolled her eyes and stated.

“My girlfriend is going to be third in command, of course, I knew that before it was announced, but forgot to tell you as you know I was busy with my plan, and besides all news spreads like wildfire in this pack." It was my turn to roll my eyes and Sam snickered. We are currently sitting in the school canteen and this is our last year. But back to the topic.

She further continued “you know what, Sandra also told me that Xavier is very strong, everyone in boarding school is afraid of him. Once his gang broke a guy's legs for scratching his car. So full of himself and cruel. And don't even start me on girls. He never sticks to one girl. Sometimes it's difficult to be in a room with him as his aura is extremely powerful. But everything is overlooked because he is extremely gorgeous. He has grey eyes, abs, amazing fighting skills, intelligence, he is the full package. When Sandra went to meet him, she observed everything.” She spoke pensively.

Huh? Is he seriously like that?

“Woah oh, girl!! Get a grip! You are a mated she-wolf now." Lake said amusingly while walking towards our table, and we all just giggled at her remark.

“Yeah yeah, I know but there is no harm in just talking,” Elena replied while fake gagging. Sam and Lake just looked at each other for a couple of seconds before averting their gaze.

Elena is an extroverted girl, she is genuine and has no filters. She is beautiful inside and out with her ocean blue eyes and dirty blonde hair. A little firecracker but is a little slim from my liking & short in comparison to me. I am 5'6 while she is only 5'2. As for Sam, he is the golden guy at school whom all the girls throw themselves at and fall for his charm except for Lake and me. He is 5'10, has dark blue eyes, slightly tanned skin, and looks so good in specs. Originally he was also my bully, but one day I helped him with some homework, and from that day onwards he became my other bestie. Speaking of Lake, she's the shortest of us, with hazelnut eyes and honey brown skin, curly hair, and sweet nature. She recently joined our pack and we all became good friends with her.

After lunch today there are only two lectures left - Economics and lastly, English, and I will be free as a bird for the rest of the day. The best part about today is Amanda and her minions bunked off school. Well, I should go----suddenly the bell rings indicating the lunch is over and we parted ways for our classes.

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It's summertime and the weather is nice today. I was walking back to my house as it was just a 15 minute journey. I replayed the conversation I had with Elena during lunch. What is he actually like? Everyone says he is cruel, a playboy, etc. Is it safe to give him the responsibility of the pack? I mean, I have no doubt he is strong and better than others in his school, but he is hot-headed too, which is not good quality. Plus everyone says he is cruel. Is he really as people say?

Or is he misunderstood by everyone?

“He is gorgeous, grey eyes, abs, full package” I repeated her words in my mind. Does he look the same as what she described, or was she just exaggerating?

God. Why am I thinking about him so much? He is not here, yet he is completely occupying my mind. I pulled myself from my thoughts and smiled when I reached my house. Home sweet home. It was a rule made by Sir Beta that on Sundays's the whole pack will have lunch and dinner in the packhouse and most of them will stay there as well. It's his way to connect with every pack member. Nice right?

Well, I honestly loved the idea because it was mine. Hehe.

And it worked out really well, I mean, some of them permanently moved to the packhouse, and their houses are now used as PGs or rented houses for new pack members. The advancement of the pack majorly depends on how the Alpha uses the income for the development and growth of the pack. The Black family is very wealthy. They own several businesses throughout the country.

I made my way to the house. As I opened the door I expected an empty house but ..... Steve and Bryan were in the kitchen making something. Pops was sitting on the couch. Why is everyone at home at this hour?

“Hey pops, Steve, Bryan”

“Hi sweetie, how was school?” Pops asked while Steve and Bryan just waved at me.

“It was good but you didn't go to the pack clinic? And Steve, why didn't you go to college? And Bryan, what about your training?” I frowned.

“Well, sweetie, your Granny had an accident today, we just got this information and we were waiting for you. We need to leave, like now"