Call of freedom (rewriting-slow updates)
Chapter 17

Previously on the Alpha's rogue

"You need to have a little more food before that. You need to be well built not bony...You'll get injured easily."

"Sweet Alexia. Alright, I'll go, the cookies should be taken out in around 10 minutes. Don't let them stay longer than that or they'll get burnt."

"The rogue was a female..."

"I'm here to listen." He softly said as he rested himself at the head of the bed, setting me on his lap.

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Landon's POV

"When I was younger..."

She stopped as the tears began to descend from her sad dull eyes.

"Since I was born, I used to live the greatest days of my life. My mother from a French family and dad from an English one, They did everything they could to let me have the finest childhood anyone could ever dream of.

They made every birthday a fairy tale. They would always go on a shopping spree to buy everything for my birthday parties. They were the best parents anyone could ever ask for..." She choked at the last part.

"I'm sure they were..." I whispered as if I was too afraid she would break in hands. But the question is, Is she really fragile?

"As always, They went shopping a week before my birthday. They got me everything I wanted." She said with a ghost smile on her lips.

"Hours before the party, I spent a couple of hours with one of my so called "friends" as she wanted to make some cookies with me despite that my parents had already have everything we needed but as they would say, The more, the merrier.

Everything was ready for the party, all what was left was for me and the children to get gathered. Simple, right?

And we did. We all gathered at the pack house.

They sang the birthday song for me. I wished my birthday wish and blew the candles. It turned out pretty well at first, we started eating the cake and cookies and everything we made. Everything was fine until my dad got poisoned.

The cookies I made with my friend turned out that it had a strong dose of wolf's bane."

At this, I felt my blood run cold. How was it possible that the cookies had wolf's bane? It's harmful. Extremely harmful and deadly for any werewolf to have it enter his system. Just like the cobra poison.

How did that happen?

"As soon as he started coughing blood, We started to hear howls from a distance. Rogues invaded our pack. Every member of our pack went to fight while the she-wolves or elders who were looking after the kids or weren't fighting, went to hide. As I started to run away with the other pups, I was tackled to the ground by a rogue. Do you know who saved me? My mother.

She clawed at the rogue's eye and yelled at me to run away but I couldn't. I just couldn't, my legs were frozen; too afraid to leave her, the one whose possibly my last family member.

The already shifted rogue growled at my mother vigorously then lunged at me, almost killing me but my mother..."

She stopped for a while, probably recalling the horrible events.

"My mother saved me...By sacrificing her life.

She died protecting me because I was weak. After the rogue killed her, he turned for me but was killed by one of the pack warriors.

Her body was almost unrecognisable. I kept crying as some of the pack members were sobbing with me. Some angry, some shocked and some started blaming me. I stilled beside my mother's corpse till the girl who made the poisoned cookies with me came, she said the most confusing words ever; "Save me Alexia."

Just as she said these three words, she fell to the ground, lifeless. Everyone was confused from what happened. What I felt that day is something I never felt again.

It was as if magic was tossed upon them. A part of the people who loved my family suddenly started to blamed me and were strongly against the idea of me staying at the pack. They wanted to banish me away from the pack as I was a "bad omen" to them.

Only because the Luna was against my banishment, I was kept at the pack.

Because many of them believed that it was a rash decision to keep me, I was being mistreated but the Luna was kind to me and that was all I needed. She made the Alpha himself who despised me promise her that he shall not banish me no matter what.

The Luna also thought the same thing. She was almost sure that Black magic was used.

A month later, The Luna..." Her tears falling endlessly like a river.

"She mysteriously died. She wasn't poisoned nor murdered but I believe that someone used the black magic to do so."

Black magic...? Didn't the witches stop using that magic as it was forbidden?

"Why would you believe that it was black magic?"

She fixed her gaze at me, and sadly smiled.

"The Luna was in perfect health Landon and We were the nearest pack to the woods where the ancient black magic witches lived. If many of the pack members were displeased with her decision of keeping me, then without doubt they would seek help from them. Besides all of that, When she was found dead, not even one mark was found on her body. It was definitely magic."

Her eyes, they resembled all the sadness in the universe as she had that melancholic smile plastered to on her. She stared at me as the deadly silence rested upon us.

Alexia's POV

"No one will ever hurt you again. I'll protect you.

I wish I was there when you needed me. I was too late but now, I'll never let anyone hurt you ever." He said as he planted a kiss on my forehead, hugging me tightly as if I'd disappear and leave him.

The kiss lingered on my forehead than I'd normally like but right now, I want to stay close to him. I don't him to leave me as if he's the only thing that I have.

He wasn't but he was the most important thing to me.

"Do I annoy you, Landon?"

"You annoy me more than I ever thought possible. But I still want to spend every irritating moment with you. I will always love you."

I lightly punched his bicep to which he returned by sticking his tongue.

"Are you two making out already?" Emma's high pitched voice yelled behind the bedroom's door.

This is so embarrassing even though it’s just a misunderstanding.

"God Emma!" Landon growled at her as she laughed, probably walking away as her voice got lower and lower while she talked to us.

"The weather is nice outside. Why don't you two go for a run?"

"Can we!" I beamed as I straddled Landon, not paying attention to the almost no space between us at this moment.

"Pretty please, I want to go for a run, I haven't ran since ages ago!"

"How long has it been since you last shifted to your wolf?" He smirked, probably thinking that I was exaggerating.

"A couple of years ago? I don't really remember."

He looked shocked at my answer. So shocked that he ran outside using his werewolf speed.He held me as I had my legs wrapped tightly around his waist while my arms around his neck.

"Let's shift and go for a long run." He said as he put me down and started removing his shirt.

"Don't change in front of me!"

"Don't be shy." He smirked.

"I'm out."

"Where are you going?"

"I'm changing behind the tree. Don't. Come. Before. I. Tell. You."

I gave him my best threatening look to which he kept his stupid smirk.

"Don't be late, or I'll come and fetch you."

"Just forget about the clothes, Let's just go for the run now!" Cara excitedly howled and took control of my body.

She shifted quickly. Forgetting about the ripped clothes and half-naked mate watching me, I welcome the intense pain I haven't felt for years.

Every single bone in my body breaking. Veins, bones, muscles and organs all getting rearranged and reshaped from the beginning as if I'm getting reborn as another creature which somewhat is it.

My skin started sprouting my unique semi-thick coat of grey fur; covering my skin.

Aside from my unchanged green-eye colour, everything has been completely changed.

After accepting the painful yet joyful sensation, Cara started stretching our wolf-body after years of not shifting. Not paying any attention to our forgotten mate, she let a loud howl of pure glee, something definitely expected after years of not shifting.

"You look so beautiful." Landon said as he approached us.

He crouched down and started running his hands in our semi-thick fur.

I took control back from Cara. I closed my eyes as I felt my mate's hands running through my fur. After a couple of minutes he let go; and started to take off the rest of his clothes to which I trotted away behind a tree from embarrassment.

As I heard bones breaking, I came from behind the tree to once again meet his beautiful midnight black wolf.

I haven’t seen him shift since I ran away. Such nice memories. (please note the sarcasm :D)

“Ready to run?”

He asked through the mind link but obviously, I was too excited that I started to run before him.

We began running through the woods.

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I replace this chapter boring tbh...

Your thoughts please?

What do you think about Alexia and the diseased Luna’s suspicions?

So I really want to thanks @kiley (hopefully will see this) for the idea of posting the photos of the dresses or any photo I want to on my wall. Honestly, I haven't thought about that before and it's a great idea so I'm gonna post the three dresses I had described in a couple of chapters before.

M.D.M.❤️