Silver Moon by hima (best management books of all time TXT) 📖

his room. She saw the room empty, she remembered her past experiences in the room.

“memories of past…?” Ilene was surprised to see Joy, she gave a quick hug to her. Ilene always felt guilt and uneasy to be around them, she knew how they all hated her for breaking their alpha’s heart but never once they showed it on their face. It’s like there are weaker threads of bond between us and one gentle pull at them will ruin our relations.

“Where is Conan?” I asked. Conan cleared his throat making his grand entrance… Ilene face lit up with joy… It’s been years since she saw him, he always avoided her but she knew that it is not true and she knew exactly why he was doing it.

Seeing him after so many years elated her joy, she ran to him and gave him a hug and tender kiss, Conan knew it was just a friendly hug but the beast inside him told him not, It wanted to grab her and never let her go. Ilene unwinded her arms around him and smiled. Conan grumbled internally, his face lit up as he saw her alluring smile.

“I wanted to talk to you…” something in her voice made him know it was really important. He walked her into his living room where Ula was sitting with a book in her hands.

“Kid…Joy wants you in kitchen.” He said. Ula gave a quick galnce between them, a frown formed on her face when she saw Ilene, standing right next to him.

Ula went out of the room as Conan shut the door behind her. He waited patiently for them to talk, she was sure that something is up.

“Kid… Are you going to just stand there?” Conan’s voice grumbled. Ula sighed and ran frustrated that she didn’t get to listen.

Ilene left after what seemed to be hours of talking with Conan.Conan sounded upset when he joined the pack at dinner, they all knew what had happened but none had the gut to ask what was it about? Ula stayed silent too her mind full of various thoughts.

It hurt Ula to see Conan upset, She knew how much Conan liked her sister. She silently sneaked into his room when everyone slept, Conan was in deep sleep, she sat there gazing at him. Every since she was two, Conan had been her hero, she grew up with his images always playing in her mind, she admired him, he is a friend, brother, guardian, well-wisher.

She cuddled closer to him, it always felt safe being with him to her. He held on to her in her times of need, he cradled her in his arms like a kid when she thought she lost her sister too. Conan’s relaxed breath was in harmony with hers. Conan unconsciously pulled her closer, a warm current passed through her body, her skin pricked as he held her close.

“I’ll keep you safe no matter what…”his voice was raw and filled with pure determination. Ula pecked him on his cheeks which surprised her very much later.

Her body burst with hot flashes, the world around her froze and images of Conan flashed through her mind, smiling friend, crying shoulder, controlling husband, overprotective boyfriend, She shook her head involuntarily and her mind became fazed with all his bursting images travelling at 30 frames per second, the world spun around her and halted on single picture where she lay in his arms and him looking at her with loads of love.

“Ilene…”Conan jump started out of the bed…He took quick breaths as she saw silhouette of a girl.

“What happened?” Ula cried as she felt weird. She was hurt that Conan was far away from her only an arm’s length gap but even that gap seemed so long to her. She cried as it hurt her a lot… she could literally feel the pulse of her heart going down slow…

Joy ran into Conan’s room and found Ula crying sitting on the floor, she rushed to her.

“It pains…” Ula said clutching her chest. “What happened?” He shouted. Conan stood with eyes wide open, he is not even sure what happened.

He tentatively walked across his bed, Ula reached out for him crying, she enveloped her hands around him while he still looked baffled. Surprisingly, her cries died down so was her pain in the heart.

“How does it feel?” Joy asked, her voice shaky. “Better…”She mumbled. Joy snapped her head as realization dawned

“Joy…What is it?” Conan shouted. The whole pack gathered around them soon.

“She imprinted on you…” Her voice came croaked.

“No, that can’t be…” Conan jerked out of her entwined hands… Ula fell on the floor eyes brimmed with tears.

“You are hurting her…”Joy shouted. Conan slumped on to his bed catching his head,he could never imagine someone in Ilene’s place but could he hurt Ula for something she had no control over, Why did the fate had to be so cruel?

Ula slided over to him and clutching his arms. “What happened?” She said with eyes full of innocence that tore Conan’s soul apart.

“Back to your room’s…”Austin commanded and the pack slowly made their way into their rooms whispering about the rare thing that happened.

“Are you sure?” Conan asked eyes distant. “Positive…” Joy looked at Austin for approval.

“What is it?” Ula asked getting a grip over her overwhelming emotions.

“You imprinted on Conan…”Joy said with a mischevious grin, She was happy that finally her brother is going to have a future.

Ula’s frown demanded an explanation. “I thought Conan marked on Ilene…” she said tentativley.

“Mark and Imprinting are two different things… Conan had marked on Ilene but it requires Ilene’s consent to mate with her but imprinting is totally different you have no other choice but to be together.”

“I’ll be back in few seconds…”Conan ran into the forest finding solace in the darkness.

“It hurts…” Ula said catching her heart. “You’ll get used to the feeling, it happens when your mate is far away form you…” Joy smiled.

“So we are stuck together forever…”Ula asked. Joy nodded.

“Does he still love Ilene?” she asked.

Joy shrugged, “I can tell this someday you’ll have him all for yourself…”Austin replied.

Ula heard a howl in the night and it wrenched her heart, she jumped onto the window sill looking for him. Joy grabbed her hand and Ula growled at her, Austin stood in between them as Ula glared at them viciously.

“Let her go…”Austin whispered to Joy, Ula ran into the forest following the thrumming heart of her mate.

“I’m sorry…” She said as she saw Conan sitting on the peak of the wolves creek. His eyes were distant.

“It’s not your fault…” he said. “Do you know that when you imprint on someone, if your mate dies, you die too…” Ula frowned, she didn’t know that but him saying it so suddenly surprised her.

“That is another difference between marking and imprinting?” She humored. Conan gave a weak smile, Ula could feel his inner turmoil and she could hear his every thought, It was like she had a direct contact to his mind. He was thinking about how he would work this thing without hurting me.


<Ilene's POV>

"Sissy..." Mitrik scurried towards her as soon as he saw her returning from the woods.


"What is it?" I knew that something is up by the way Mitrik looked at me. Did anyone get hurt? Or...


"Ula imprinted on Conan..." He quickly said before I could think of the possible worse.


"What...?" I said staring with wide eyes at him.


"Finally..." Mitrik grinned.

Mitrik was having this vision since years but it never happened so finally it happened today out of all days... I shook my head, whatever... I'm happy for both of them. It always hurt me to see Conan, I knew how hurt he was when I chose Keetes over him, he was still brooding over it instead of moving on like I thought. Ula is a nice girl, she would definitely win his heart but it would definitely need some time.


"I wish everything will be fine at least for them..."I sighed.


"What did he say? Is he..." I cut off Mitrik as I felt the presence of Keetes somewhere closer to us.


"What...?" Keetes scowled at Mitrik when he saw him drop the sentence in mid.


"Did you know that Ula imprinted on Conan..."I said pulling him down beside me.


He wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me onto his laps.


"Is that the reason why you visited Conan?"he asked, his minty warming up my neck.


I nodded leaning into him and resting my head on his chest. I didn't want him to see my face, he would know something is wrong.


"Why do I have the feeling that you are worried about something?" Keetes lifted my face up to meet his eyes.

"I was worried about Ula..."I lied of course I'm worried about that too but there are far more worse things I should be worried about now but I can't tell about it to Keetes.


"She will be fine...Conan would never hurt her in fact someday she will make him happy." He said cradling me in his arms.


Mitrik cleared his throat and for the first time that I remembered that he is in the same room with us. I jumped out of his laps and sat shyly away from him.


"Ilene...There seems to be a problem with Vampire Knights..." Quint said and tagged along Pearl with her usual contagious smile.


Vampire Knights are a group formed by me when I took my charges as a Queen, the knights are for one sole purpose to find and eliminate rogue vampires.


"What is it?" The great hall is where we conduct every meeting related to the administration of Night world.


"We lost five knights, my lady. Last night we had an an unexpected on our coven, there are all together 15 rogue vampires that are working together..." I cut him off because I didn't want to hear the gore details of the fight.


"How did it happen? I mean rogue vampires live isolated..." Quint thought out loud.


Yes, He was right about that. Rogue vampires never worked together except.


"We suspect that there is someone behind this..."The knight took the words right out of my mouth.


"There were even reports from the other covens saying that there are similar attacks and they lost men too... My lady."Another one standing right next to him spoke for the first time.


"Take all the men you need, I want all the rogue vampires dead and the person behind this captured..."I ordered.


They curtsied and left.


<Ula's POV>

I watched Conan as he paced in the room, He is worried about something but he wouldn't share with me. He called for a meeting in the early hours and the meeting went on for an hour, none of the female were's are allowed to the meeting. None of us had an Idea of what is really going on but I could sense the tension in the house.


Austin took a few men with him and left as soon as the meeting ended.