Chapter 16: Chapter Fifteen

Lilly

Energies of the world? What is Lucas talking about?

Is he talking about those colors?

"Energies of the world? Do you mean those faint glows of different colors?" I curiously asked him.

Lucas had me sitting on his lap and his arms are wrapped on my back. My chest is almost touching his torso and his face is inches away from my face. I can feel his hot breath on my face.

I feel my cheeks grow hot because of our position. And also, because of the fact that he is holding me like this in front of his whole pack. True, most of them are sitting crossed legs with their eyes closed. But, we are also under the shade of the oak tree which is on top of the small hill in front of the pack. The pack members only need to open their eyes and they can see us in full display.

I lightly push Lucas away but he is not having any of it. Instead, he pulls me closer.

"Yes, tell me about it." He asks me.

Tell him about what?

Oh yeah. Those faint glows.

This position of us and the hot breath of my face almost made me forget what we were talking about.

"Yeah, I can see some of the pack members are emitting some faint glows of different colors. Most of them don't have it, though." I tell him. Then, I remember what happened last night.

"Oh. Last night when you were fighting against those "wolf-likes," you also had a red glow on your palm. But it is so much bigger than those around the pack now."

Lucas gives me a long and hard stare before he breaks into a full, megawatt smile. Wow. I think this is the first time that I see him smile like this. Lucas always looked calm and expressionless before.

However, right now, his eyes twinkle with amusement and his lips are stretched out, leaving his straight and white teeth in full display. His beauty almost knocked the breath out of me. I almost feel like I'll start hyperventilating.

"You, my mate, are more than incredible." He says while his face starts to lean on me and I start to panic.

Is he going to kiss me?

"Are you going to kiss her?"

I hear a small voice beside us. I whip my head to my side and see a cute little boy with super curly hair and a deep set of blue eyes.

Behind him, I can see that some of the pack members were startled by this young boy's voice and are curiously looking at us.

I think I can die with embarrassment.

Lucas, on the other hand, is unaffected.

He calmly looks at the young boy and nonchalantly nods his head.

"Yes, I was about to." He isn't content with his nod that he even verbally tells him his answer.

"Are you mates?" The little boy asks.

This time, Lucas only nodded his head.

"Are you the alpha? You were a bit scary yesterday." The little guy accused Lucas.

Again, Lucas only nodded his head. His face never betrayed any emotion.

The little boy seems fed up with Lucas' lack of verbal reply so he turns his face to look at me.

"Are you Luna?" He asks me.

"Yes." Lucas answers for me.

Suddenly, the little boy breaks into a smile. His deep dimples could be clearly seen.

"My name is Andrew. My mom's name is Annie." The little boy says. Beside me, I noticed Lucas' raised his brow. But again, he didn't say anything.

"Hello, Andrew. My name is Lilly." I tell him. Andrew nods with his little head numerous times until he laughs merrily because he became dizzy.

"Luna Lilly, the older sister told me to give you this basket." He raised a small basket with his tiny hands. I reflexively hold out my hands to receive the basket from him."Umm, thank you Andrew." I tell him.

"You're welcome, Luna! Alpha can continue kissing you again." He turns around and runs into the pack house. I notice that there are numerous pre-teenager girls who are looking at us and squealing.

I feel a hand on my chin and I look at Lucas who is intently looking at me. "The little guy said that I can now continue kissing you." Lucas gently said. In my state of panic, I put the little basket the little guy gave me on my lips.

Lucas' eyes darken a bit but he still proceeded to kiss me. However, what he kisses is my hand holding the little basket. I gasp when I feel his tongue on my fingers and his teeth gently nip me. Then, I see him straighten his back and look normal like he didn't just bite me.

Lucas glances at the pack who have their attention mostly taken by us. He looks at them calmly, like he did not just flirt with the girl on his lap while his pack is working hard on their training.

"Can you tell me who are the ones with whom you can see the colors?" He softly asks me, his eyes are still trained on the pack members.

"Ah, yeah." I don't want to turn my face to the pack members right now, but I guess I have to do this.

I survey the crowd but the colors that I was seeing earlier are gone. I knit by brows to double check but I cannot see the colors anymore.

"Lucas, I can not see colors anymore." I tell him.

Lucas eyes meet mine then he gives me a small nod before standing up and helping me to stand.

He then takes my hand and leads me in front of the pack members. Right now, the pack members are glancing at us curiously.

I can also see my sister Analise who is looking at me with a pout. She is clearly unhappy.

"Start meditating again." Lucas orders. The pack members obediently follow his instruction.

After a few while, Lucas tugs my hand. "Can you see it?"

I glance at the crowd once more, but as before, I still can't see the faint glows.

I bite my lip as I try to concentrate. Was I only imagining things earlier?

I take a few breaths and stare at them intently. After a few minutes, I still couldn't see anything.

I glance at Lucas and find that he is watching me. Seeing that I failed, he grabs my shoulders and places a kiss on my forehead.

"It's ok." He softly told me.

A feeling of disappointment surges inside me. So, I am still the useless, wolf-less girl who is as weak as an ordinary human.

My family kicked me out for being a huge disappointment. The whole pack felt disdain over me and treated me like a trash because I am worthless.

Now, I found my mate. He accepted me but I still can't stop myself from being a disappointment. Am I going to be like this for the rest of my life?

*Feel the wind.*

Suddenly, I hear a voice inside me. This is the same voice that I heard at the time when I met Lucas. Every time I hear it, it is giving me instructions. I can always feel a sense of trust in this voice and decide to do what it tells me to.

*Feel the wind. Feel the energy in the wind.*

I close my eyes and try to do it. Wind? I can feel some air blowing into my body. It feels very.. comforting? While I am busy with this thought, I feel a hard thump in my chest.

*Open your senses.*

Open my senses, is it like accepting the wind that blows into me? I relax my body and willingly permit the wind to make contact with me. Suddenly, I feel a small gust of wind on me and I feel warm all over my body. It starts in the pit of my stomach and spreads to every part of my body. Inside my chest, my heart is thumping furiously. And I can clearly feel the air around me. Some of them are surrounding my arms and legs, some are embracing my torso and the others flow on my face and carry my hair.

It feels warm and cool at the same time. It feels really comfortable.

A few moments passed and the thumping of my heart as well as the warm feeling inside me lessens. However, I can still clearly feel the movement of the wind.

Then, I open my eyes. What I see are different hues of bright colors radiating around me.