Potion, Connection, and Transformation
ALANA
William’s room felt eerily silent from outside even when I was told that my mate had been waiting for me for our dinner together.
Is he already asleep while waiting for me? Guilt washed over me when I realized that I hadn't spent much time with William.
Aside from the fact that the queen luna is strictly supervising my education, my knowledge about my identity and the harm I could cause to William sometimes held me down against being together with him.
Sighing, I raised my hand to knock but someone already opened the door for me. Smiling, I pushed the door open thinking that William must really love pranking me only to get shocked when instead of seeing William, it was Sophia standing before me in an act of coming out.
Behind her are some men carrying William, obviously unconscious.
In an instant, I entered the room, closed the door behind me, and glared at everyone.
“What do you think you’re all doing?!” I roared, feeling a heat rising through my spine.
They gasped as they slowly set the alpha prince down on the bed while Sophia gulped and stepped back a little, a bit intimidated by being caught.
“Did you just drug the alpha prince?!” I asked, looking at Sophia. “Did you know what kind of punishment this would entail?”
Sophia held her head high in an attempt to save herself. “I’m not doing anything wrong! The alpha prince invited me to be here!”
“Really?!” I jumped up to her and seized the bottle from her hand that she kept on hiding from me.
It’s already half-empty meaning she had successfully made William drink it.
“What is this for?” I held out the bottle in the air. “Isn’t this the drug that you use on him? Should I ask the alpha king to look into it?”
“No!” Sophia shouted in panic. “Don’t you ever do that!”
I looked at the werewolves behind her. “I bet you don’t want to be here so if I were you, I am going to spill the truth before the alpha king finds out. You know that when it comes to his son, the alpha king does not spare anyone.”
Sophia hissed at them with widened eyes. “No! Don’t you dare!”
I scratched her throat with my claws out and hitched her collar. “Say another word again and I will cut your tongue out just like what William did to Killian!”
She trembled in my hands and bit her lips in fear.
I looked back at the men again impatiently. “Tell me now!”
“Ms. Alana, it’s a potion to make the alpha prince think that Lady Sophia is his mate. He will feel things and make a connection that only mates feel with another once he wakes up,” one of the men answered. “The alpha prince is temporarily asleep because of a relaxant but if you make him drink the rest of the potion, he will wake up.”
I paused and looked at the clear solution in my hand before putting it in my pocket.
“Thank you for answering. Now, you may go out.”
Without asking, they hurried out of the room leaving me and Sophia whose shirt is stained with blood from her throat.
“Get out because I will still figure out what I am going to do with you.”
Clutching her neck, she went out of the room moping because of her failed plan.
I slowly sat on the bed and gazed at my mate, the things that Georgia told me about coming back to me.
“For once, I want to feel what it’s like to be your mate, William,” I whispered while taking out the bottle from my pocket and popping off the lid. “I want to be whole, my mate. I want to feel the kind of connection they are talking about.”
Without hesitation, I emptied the bottle into my mouth and gulped it down before reaching for William’s hands.
The effect is instant. My heart beats erratically and sweat breaks out of my head. Gasping for breath, I marveled when my heart beats in tune with William.
I even have access to his beating heart! I can stop breathing and he will stop too. I can make my heart race and his heart will even do the same!
I could even count the number his heart beats!
The feeling is glorious that I don’t want this to ever end! Oh, how splendid it would be if I get to feel it every day!
I cried both in happiness and sadness. These are actually the things that I am missing out. These are the things that I am blocking William from feeling.
That put a sense inside me.
“What am I doing? Why am I doing this knowing I will hurt William?”
Feeling guilty because I am literally taking advantage of William’s condition just for me to feel connected to him, I ran to the bathroom and forced myself to throw out every bit of the liquid that I consumed.
Crying, I kissed William and hugged him to sleep.
“I’m sorry, William. I really do. That was very stupid of me. I won’t ever do it again to you.”
I woke up in the middle of the night when I felt a queasy feeling in my stomach. Is it still the effect of the potion?
“Alana…”
Someone is calling me out into the woods but it’s not the voice of William.
I looked to my side and William was still sleeping. Fighting off the urge to go to the voice calling, I covered my ears with both of my hands hoping it would stop.
“Alana…”
A sweet scent filled the entire room, enticing me more.
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I tried to shake it off but his scent is so fragrant that I can’t help but let my body move on its own.
I jumped out of the window and crossed the backyard towards the forest illuminated by the bright moon above us.
I want to smell his scent… I want to take the scent and forever sniff it!
I stopped in the clearing, moonlight bathing my face as I came face to face with a shirtless Lucas on the verge of shifting.
“Lucas…”
And suddenly, all the things that I felt in the room after I drank the potion came back to me in ripples holding me hostage.
It hurts me knowing the fact that the things I want to experience with William is I am freely experiencing with Lucas.
“Alana, don’t try to ignore me,” Lucas said and stepped towards me. “I know you want me too.”
“No…” I shook my head trying to fight off my feelings.
It’s wrong to feel this attracted to him. I already have a mate and that is William. I will take no one else!
Lucas held my hand and planted a kiss on it. “Come on, Alana. Let go. Accept it. I am your true mate, not the alpha prince.”
I felt my bones breaking, my back itching as something crawled out of me. When I looked back, it was white fur finally spurting out under the full moon.
My tears fell as I tried to suppress the transformation.
If I transformed into my wolf while being under the presence of Lucas, then that would mean I am accepting him to be my mate.
That would mean I would be rejecting William in the process since a lycan like me takes no more than one mate at the same time.