Chapter 36: Marked by the Monsters
My day ended with a tired smile on my face.
My exhausted body is pretty obvious to the Alpha's sight..
Jason and Karlo's repetitive questions about the beach incident more than a week ago made my head much heavier.
"Are you okay now?" Karlos rubbed my back.
"Did they touch you during their original form?" Jason was much firm in squeezing me for answers. I just shook my head and he sighed with ease.
"This is the sign, Tyler-"
"What sign?" I immediately put Karlo's words to a halt. I know the setting sun is beckoning me now to walk my ass home and quit interfering with the wolves' patrolling during the night for those heart-wrenching creatures of the dark.
But curiosity, as always, kills a cat-or more like, delays the dogs for their appointment.
It was Jason who faced me. "That the event we fear the most has finally come to reality." "And that is?"
"The century feud of battle has commenced again."
"Again?" My brows met. Tyler pressed the palm on his forehead. I don't know if it's because of my undying thirst to know the unknown or is it because I'm going to spend dinner
without him again.
"Just go home, Elaine." Tyler's way of calling me by my first name instead of the nicknames he crafted for me tells my gut that I should obey him this instant.
"Okay," I replied with a forced grin. The mind-reading Jason touched my hand and patted my head as if to say, "Just follow our orders. This is for your own good."
Jason is this older brother that does not only care for his younger brother, but also to his sibling's future wife. I hope I was 'abducted' from the Rutherfords a little bit earlier, say when I was sixteen.
These folks-shifters are my family. I may be only an Alpha's bride, an Alpha's Luna as what the High Priestess said, but their worries are my worries. I share the same exact sorrow for not seeing their beloved tonight with them.
"Melissa and Gia already went home earlier at three. I called Jose, Tyler's right-hand and most trusted Beta to come and fetch you instead," Jason cupped my cheeks and the warmth from his palms made the coldness from my skin disappear.
Tyler, whose unwavering worried face already sent him to a fighting mode for tonight, refused to look at me. For he knew, we both knew, that each time he looked at me ever since an hour ago when he found out about me and the Hearteaters, a tear on his eye would unknowingly escape from his hold.noveldrama
I never saw a man like Tyler in my life. He looks so worried yet calm, so strong and muscular yet still can cry like a young boy who didn't get his cone of chocolate ice cream.
"Take care." Those words are meant for my Alpha. But it was Jason who gave me a tight nod instead, along with Karlo's patting on my jacket.
In fact, this jacket is actually Tyler's blazer. But because of my petite size, this looks more like a jacket, a coat even, since its length reached my knees.
As if the Trinity Goddess heard my prayer, Tyler came running towards me and gave me the tightest of hugs. "Be careful."
I hugged back, both of my hands pressing against his bare back. "I always will."
Tyler grabbed my waist to kiss and the cloth that kept me warm fell from my shoulders.
As soon as his lips parted from mine, Jason's eyes went wide. I followed his gaze and it lingered on my shoulder.
mind.
'Your birthmark...' That unearthly voice from that wretched creature played again in my
My birthmark always looks like a faint scar. Even Tyler would never notice it when I pound on top of him.
But now...it's as if someone or something cut it. It looks like a fresh wound. Yet, I cannot feel any pain. Not even a tingle or a sore sensation.
"What the fuck is that Elaine?!" Tyler demanded. His romantic, soft face shifted from a stone-cold one. His face is immensely pale despite his brown skin.
; Before I was able to answer, an approaching footstep made us all turn back towards the busy street of Moonburn.
"Here I am, Alpha Tyler!" Jose waved his hand at us playfully, oblivious to the serious atmosphere between the three Alpha of Stella's Soul and me.
***
"What took you so long? I called you an hour ago!" Tyler's angry voice made me distance a few paces from him.
"Look, Alpha. I'm sorry, okay?"
; Tyler's face changes. "Alpha? You are calling me, Alpha?"
I saw Jose's confused expression and just blinked.
"Never mind," Tyler waved a hand towards me. "Take Elaine safely in Stella's Soul. And I mind you..." Tyler towers over Jose, or maybe it's just because of my utter admiration to my fiancé that made me assume and swoon that any man always looks like a dwarf when standing next to him.
Jason threw another glance at my birthmark reddening. "The Hearteaters have marked you since birth." I willed myself to not gape or even shrink my presence. "It is a mark that signals if a Hearteater is nearby," Jason analyzed.
"But it is also a tracker," Karlos finally let his voice reverberated in the light of dusk.
"Hearteaters already know where we are whenever we're around her."
"They always know where we are," Tyler blurted. "At Stella's Soul."
"Karlos meant where we are at Moonburn every time we are not in Stella's Soul." The two
brothers' staring at each other is already a debate itself in silence.
Or maybe they are communicating through their wolves...
"That's why during that boutique incident where a Hearteater takes the form of her sister," the Shadow Pack's Alpha added. "Those creatures seem to know her personally." "Well, I—"
"It's getting late now," Jose intervened, stepping at my side. "I should take her now to Stella's Soul before the moon fully lightens up the sky."
I managed to give Tyler one last glance before Jose escorted me away.
"Be careful." I swear Tyler's masculine voice still reached my ears as if the wind itself whispered to my soul.
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