Bride For My Werewolf Boss (5 page)

"Wolf Form?" Jessi asked with surprise rise in her voice.

"Yeah, my child, you're a werewolf. There was a war between the Poachers and wolves when I found you. I believe your parents wanted to save you. That’s why they left this note with you."

“I did not know what to do and I really wanted to help. I understood that you are an innocent child of god and I did not want you to get hurt. You looked so innocent and lovable then.”

Mom handed her with a note, on which it was written in blood "PLEASE KEEP HER AWAY FROM WOLVES.”

Today was the busiest morning for Teresa. Stephen was already up and he wanted the house to be clean and pleasant for Jessi.

“Oh! What are you doing?” she scolded a wolf wiping the floor, “don’t leave the floor wet, someone can slip on it.” He was moving to and fro in the house, inspecting everything.

The wolf grunted and again started wiping the floors.

“Are the flowers ready Teresa?” asked excited Stephen.

“Yes, sir, blue roses as you asked.”

“Yeah, she’d like them. They all like it.”

“Yeah Master Stephen, lady wolves can’t resist blue roses,” she said “I wish I was gifted one” she thought to herself. Stephen ignored what she had said just and continued, “Great, I need everything to be perfect. She’s coming here for the first time I want her to remember this day forever.”

Stephen was very happy. He got back to his room and opened the drawer beside his bed. There was a small black colored velvet box. He opened it and looked at the Red Diamond ring his mom gave him. Tears start flowing from his eyes, he recalled the day when his mom died.

“
Mom, mom you’ll be fine mom. You’ll be fine. The priest is coming.
”

“It’s, okay son. It’s my time. This was to happen sooner or later.”

“No mom, no, no,” he said crying.

“Steve, Steve hold yourself together son. You need to know this. This is very important. His mother even on her death wanted him to know the most important truth of life for a wolf.

Young Stephen wiped his tears and looked at his mom.

“You remember my bag where I keep all my stuff. The large black one?”

“Yes.”

“Just bring it to me, please.”

Stephen ran inside the room and brought the bag.

“Open, it… you’ll see a something wrapped in a green cloth.”

“Hmmm…”he nodded.

“Take it out and unwrap it.”

Stephen opened the cloth wrap to discover a black velvet box. He opened the box and there was a ring in it with a red stone on it.

“It’s a ring, mom, what about this ring?” he was confused completely.

“It’s a scared Red Diamond Steve. Your grandma gave it to me. You give it to the girl you love and it will tie you in the strongest bond of love, for eternity.”

“But-”

“Please listen to me Steve I… I don’t… don’t have much time” she said breathing heavily.

Steve kept listening to her.

“This is important. Only you can save the clan. You’ll have to find and marry the Alpha’s daughter.”

“Alpha’s daughter?” Nothing was making sense to the young boy. All he cared for right now was that his mother should get alright.

“Yes… It was… prophesied on your birth that you’ll save the Wolf Clan in Howling Valley. The hunters… they’re out there. We need a savior. You… you can be the one… but you need to be the Alpha to lead the wolves… And for that you’ll have to marry his daughter.”

“But the Alpha-”

“Is dead, yes, I know, but he had a daughter… the priest will tell you more… my time has come son,” mother said in a voice that was fainting too.

“No mom!!!!!!”

“Goodbye my child, be strong.”

Stephen kept the ring inside the box and wiped his tears.

“I wish you were here to see this mom” he said in a heavy voice, trying to keep his emotions from coming out in the open.

“Finally the-” *the clock rings* “Oh! It’s 9:00. Time to get the Queen now.”

Stephen took his car and went to Jessi’s house. She was standing there outside the door already. He stopped the car and waved at her.

“Come on lady, I hate my workers to get late.” He smiled at her and was very excited to see her.

Jessi smiled and got in the car. All the way to Stephen’s home, he kept talking, but Jessi remained silent.

“What happened to my Queen? Are you okay?” He was trying to figure the reason for her to be sad.

Jessi looked at him for a while, “I’m a werewolf Stephen.”

Stephen suddenly stopped the car.

“I told mom everything about last night and in return she told me why she forbade me to go near wolves.” The truth was out there and the cat was out of the bag.

“I think we should discuss this at my home” And drove as fast as he could.

Jessi and Stephen are sitting at Stephen’s home.

“Tell me now Jessica, what did your mom tell you” He wanted to know each and every detail.

“She had told me that I was adopted when I was 12. Since, then there’s been a bond of trust between us. Sooner or later we tell each other the truth. Today in the morning when I told her about us, she got really scared. And that’s when she told me” Jessica was worried about Stephen’s reaction. She thought Stephen loved her due to her simple, human form. Why would he like her as a werewolf? He would have been with such girls all his life.

“
I found you in your wolf form.
”

“Wolf form, what do you mean Wolf form?”

“I haven’t talked to her since. I don’t know what to say.”

Stephen took a deep breath and said, “Well, Jessi, I must confess… I knew this. I know all about what happened to you real parents.”

This reply was totally against what she had expected.

“But why didn’t you tell me??”

“I wanted you to know from your mom that you’re a werewolf. Only then I could tell you everything. I could take you to the wolf clan.”

“Please Stephen, please tell me, are you telling me the truth. Is it possible? Take me to my people. My mind won’t be at peace until I know everything.”

“Okay!!”

Stephen went inside and brought out the black velvet box. He showed the Red Diamond ring to Jessi.

“What’s this?”

“Before, I tell you about this you need to know something else.”

“Hmmm…”

"The Wolf Pack Poachers are not ordinary people. They are what we wolves call the Hunters. Long ago, the wolves were not just limited to the woods. They used to rule all over the valley. The survival for human beings in these areas was almost impossible. Those who did, lived in a constant fear and threat to their lives. But as the time passed, a small group of people decided to take it against the Wolves. They formed packs and slowly started killing the wolves one by one.

Before our people could even realize it, we had lost a large number of wolves. Worried that all the wolves will die, the king of the wolves, called the Alpha took the rest of the wolves with him into the woods and placed a spell around it so that the hunters cannot reach them. But the leaders were stubborn about killing the wolves, so the leader came up with a plan. The Alpha used to come outside the woods at night.  One night the Leader sent his daughter Melisa to the Alpha. Melisa was really beautiful, Alpha instantly fell for her and proposed her to be his queen. She lied to him and told him she was an orphan. Alpha fell for her lie and brought her inside the woods. This is where the downfall began. Alpha married Melisa and impregnated her with his child.

The leaders plan was about to be successful. Alpha's child would be half werewolf and half hunter with the blood of both, the alpha and the leader. If such a child becomes the leader of the hunters, or marries one, then hunters would be unstoppable. Same was the case for Werewolves. If the child becomes Alpha or marries one, then Wolves will be able to live freely without fear inside or outside the woods.”

"So, then" Jessi was listening intently, she was thinking a lot of things together, but she did not want to interrupt Stephen or jump to conclusions too quickly.

"The Alpha soon came to know about the plan. But he waited for the queen to give birth to a child. He too had thought of a plan. It was full moon night, the maiden told the Alpha that he has been blessed with a daughter. Alpha ordered his spy to take away his daughter and hide it somewhere. He did as commanded. The queen was weak so she couldn’t defend herself. The king feeling victorious went to her room.

He found out that the queen was no longer there. He looked around and found out a cradle lying in a corner difficult to be seen by someone not looking for it. The king understood that the queen had given birth to two daughters. He commanded his men to find Melisa. Melisa ran away to her people. But she knew that the wolves would follow her there. So she left her daughter on the edge of the woods on the opposite side of where her people were waiting for her. Then she ran towards the other side where her brother was already waiting with his people. The Alpha’s army came there and there was a huge war and both the Alpha and the leader were killed in the war. Melisa killed herself before the wolves could get their hands on her."

“So, I-I’m an Alpha daughter, tha-that makes me a princess,” Jessi guessed the end of the story by now. And all the puzzles in her head had found an answer to the questions that were circling her head.

“Yes, you are indeed a princess.”

“And what about the other daughter?”

“Her whereabouts remained unknown to anyone. They found that the spy was dead a few days later.”

Jessi went silent for some time. The new mystery: who was her sister? Where was she and was she alive or not.

“A-and the Poachers. H-how Ricky Summers became the leader?”

“Ricky Summers is a bastard son of the old leader. Melisa’s brother.”

Jessi could now put the things together; she’s been a part of a great conspiracy. Ricky and Stephen don’t love her, but her blood. They both wanted to be with her for power. And that is the reason that everything she thought was her good luck, was actually her something else altogether.

“So you people just used me,” She said with a disgusted expression.

“Oh no Jessi, don’t say that. That’s not true.”

“Of course it is, first Ricky and then you.”

“What do you mean by that, did you… sleep with… the leader?”

“Yes, does that make you angry? Do you want to kill me now? Like you killed that Poacher guy last night?” Madness and anger drenched her voice. She wanted to kill herself there and then and put an end to this age old battle between the two clans, due to which she was being punished.

“No, I killed him because he attacked my people.”

“Attacked? But the spell-”

“Would only if the Clan has the Alpha, this was something the hunters didn’t know, but someone from the clan committed treason, someone told the Poachers about the spell. Last night some of them entered the forest. Luckily I was there so I fought and killed them. But the clan needs an Alpha now” Desperation was very easily visible in his voice and he wanted to be with her too.

“Why don’t you become one?”

“To become an Alpha either I must be an Alpha’s child or their life partner. I’ll have to marry Alpha’s daughter so that I can hold the Alpha Sword.”

“So you need to marry me to become the Alpha… or find my long lost sister.” Jessi said in a mocking manner.

“I don’t love your long lost sister Jessi. I love you. Look, I have nothing against the hunters. They can live the way they want. I just want my people to stop living in fear. I want our people to move freely in the valley without the fear of any hunter threatening their lives. Just the way they used to earlier. If fear is what they want for peace then fear it is. I just don’t want war any more. I’ve lost my dad in the war. I know the feeling of loss, the feeling of emptiness” he started crying.