Aries

Chapter 12.1

Hello there! This is a bonus chapter, meaning you can skip it if you want. But if you want to know about all the characters, reading this is advisable.

Enjoy while it lasts!

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Even though she had been a late bloomer, she was loved by her pack. The elders constantly supported her and the Alpha and Beta pair stood next to her as though they were her parents.

She did not know whether they were genuinely kind or it was because she was the youngest child of the Gamma. She did not care about it. She was living her life and waiting for her mate. Life was simple for her.

But it was not so simple for her friend Ione, the Alpha's second child. She had gone with her parents to the Winter Pack on a business trip. There she had seen their Alpha, Alpha Rhett and had fallen in love with him. Lusted him.

It was possible considering the fact that Alpha of Winter Pack was one of the Great Four while Alpha of Southern Pack, an Alpha of Less Four. But she had never expected Ione's obsession to cross her limits.

"B-but I love him!" Ione protested to her brother, Fane.

"He is mated, Ione!" Fane shouted back. "Why can't you get that through your thick head?"

"You are saying I have a thick head?" Ione gasped. Then she raised her voice further. "Mom! Look what Fane is calling me!"

At times she wondered how she had even befriended Ione in the first place. Ione was everything she was not. While Ione was demanding and used to have everything in her way, she was more like a chameleon, always adapting.

Seeing the siblings fight, she could not help but sigh. Next to her, her brother rolled his eyes.

She sure is a piece of work, Neo said vis their pack link. No wonder Alpha Rhett never gave her another glance.

She withheld her snigger. She had not gone for that meeting, but the way her brother explained, she had imagined how it would have gone.

Save me, Fane begged them. Save me from her. I will owe you both for the rest of my life.

"Mom!" Ione called.

Alpha Rose came out with a tight expression. "You challenged Alpha Bria for Alpha Rhett? What were you thinking?"

"I love him!" Ione said. "I want him. How can that bitch Bria stand against me? I am the daughter of an Alpha. Bria is just a warrior's daughter."

Rage flared in Alpha Rose's eyes. "You stupid child! Luna decided that Alpha Bria was worthy for Alpha Rhett. You dare disrespect a mate bond?"

Ione screeched. "You called me stupid!"

"Ione," her mother reprimanded. "What will you do when you meet your mate?"

"Unless he is Royal, I will reject him for Rhett," Ione said with dreamy eyes.

"I hope you lose in the challenge, Ione," Alpha Rose sneered. "You are no daughter of mine if you want to take someone else's happiness. You would even stoop low enough to break a mate bond and force yourself on a male who doesn't want you. I am ashamed to give you my name."

With that, Alpha Rose went inside their house, slamming the door behind her. It was then, she realised that Alpha Rose, as much as she lived to her name of being beautiful, bright and soft did have thorns that could hurt.