by Eli Lowe
Love Grows In The Dark
Eli Lowe
four hundred M
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Contents
Prologue
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
Episode 16
Episode 17
Episode 18
Episode 19
Episode 20
Episode 21
Episode 22
Episode 23
Episode 24
Episode 25
Episode 26
Episode 27
Episode 28
Episode 29
Episode 30
Episode 31
Episode 32
Episode 33
Episode 34
Episode 35
Episode 36
Episode 37
Episode 38
Episode 39
Episode 40
Episode 41
Episode 42
Episode 43
Episode 44
Episode 45
Episode 46
Episode 47
Episode 48
Episode 49
Episode 50
Episode 51
Episode 52
Episode 53
Episode 54
Episode 55
Episode 56
Episode 57
Episode 58
Episode 59
Episode 60
Episode 61
Episode 62
Episode 63
Episode 64
Episode 65
Episode 66
Episode 67
Episode 68
Episode 69
Episode 70
Episode 71
Episode 72
Episode 73
Episode 74
Episode 75
Episode 76
Episode 77
Episode 78
Episode 79
Episode 80
Episode 81
Episode 82
Episode 83
Episode 84
Episode 85
Episode 86
Episode 87
Episode 88
Episode 89
Episode 90
Epilogue
Prologue
Is it wrong to be strong even if I am a girl?
Is it wrong to be powerful even if I am young?
Is it wrong to have goals even when I was warned every day not to?
What if I am not like every other normal girl out there... But it’s still me. Isn’t it?
You must be wondering what the shit I am talking about.
Well, this is pretty much my story.
And those are the questions that I have asked myself countless times until now... But do you know what answers I have got for all those questions every single time.... ?
Hell No.
But little did I know that things are not exactly what we can see from outside.
I can say that... Cause I knew myself.
You see...
Even though I am physically strong, but only I know how fragile I am from the inside.
Just like that...
But what I didn't know was that life is going to change soon, drastically. I didn't know that finding my mate will also make me change my views that I had believed my whole life.
I didn't know that not only me but also my whole world will be ripped out of its own mask and stand in front of me with its bare ugly face that I could never accept.
Neither could I imagine that my whole life was nothing but a lie.
It's like I kept falling down and down,....deep into a never-ending pit of darkness.
But,
What if?
What if love grows even in the dark?
Yeah,
Welcome to my story. I am Summer, a seventeen years old girl...and I am a werewolf.
Yes.
We exist.
Episode 1
Summer's P. O. V
'Adrian..! Adrian..! Adrian..! Adrian..! Adrian..! Adrian..! '
I looked around only to see that the entire playground of our Valcom Valley High School was filled with the students' cheers. The students who were shouting out only one name from the gallery around us... 'Adrian', the most popular boy in our school. To be precise, a playboy.
Yes,
The one standing at the centre of the crowd with a sword to fight against me is Adrian. It is not at all embarrassing to acknowledge that he is indeed handsome and attractive... at least to all the other girls of our school. He is as tall as six feet or maybe more, with a well built muscular body. And he definitely got the look of some model as his complexion is fair, which is indeed complemented by his dark blond hair and the seductive hazel eyes. And on top of that his masculine ego never stops to ooze out with his every move, every word he speaks.
He was nothing but a male chauvinist pig to me.
Well, actually not a pig but a werewolf he is. A next in line beta of another pack.
In fact, we all are... Because this is the only school for all the young werewolves of the neighbouring packs around, to train them in every way possible, like wrestling, sword fighting and other things.. Just like the one we are in right now.
Yes, the sword fight... between Adrian and me.
And me?
Well,
I am Summer, and people hate me for no reason. Maybe for the strength that I possess is a girl. A girl who stands as high as only five feet seven inches to be exact, which is not an uncommon stature for us the werewolves. Like every other ideal girl, I don't have long hair to boast about but instead, I have mid-length light brown hair that is tied up into a messy bun most of the time.
Yes, I am not like an ideal girl of our school or rather I don't want to be one. Physical beauty never seemed appealing to me, when I could see how ugly and tainted their hearts are from within.
It is nothing but a bitter reality.
I could see no real faces but only masks that they cover their ugly hearts with.
“Don't tell me you are scared now. Are you?” Adrian scoffed at me, pulling me out of my thoughts, as he kept circling me, holding his sword down on his hand. His sword emitted vicious noises every time when its tip came to contact with the ground as Adrian kept moving in the same circle around me.
“Tsk. Tsk.. You don't have to worry about me... Save that for yourself later. I promise...you will need it so badly after I am done.” I stood straight on my spot, not bothering to look where he was, as I tightened my grip on my sword with every passing second.
As if the wind has stopped too to witness the moment.
The loud cheers from the sur
rounding soon faded away just when his sword collided with mine causing a loud clank, announcing the beginning of our match.
He kept coming on me as his sword moved ever so swiftly to cut me through.... but no, it is not that easy, man... You shouldn't have taken me for granted.
You see...
I am not some inferior girl like any other...
I have the alpha blood in me.
My strength is something that you can not dare to compare.
I dodged his every attack while my sword prevented his strength with some equal force. The shrill clanking noises filled the air as the crowd went silent, as their bones went cold seeing such a fight before their eyes... They couldn't even afford to blink their eyes even for once but kept their gaze straight on us...
Soon the surrounding tensed up...
Minutes passed but still, Adrian couldn't even make me move from my ground, no matter how much he tried... No matter how much force he used... But still all in vain..
I guess, it was enough reason for him to feel all frustrated and aggressive, as he started moving his blades clumsily, showing how impatient he became, how hurt his masculinity was... and of course, giving me several chances to take him down in the meantime, without even realising.
Which I didn't let go, obviously.
Cause I have shown enough patience for today.
But, not anymore.
With a few moves, swaying my blade into thin air, I successfully made Adrian step backward in a blink of an eye, while he kept struggling to hold back the attacks that now I have only started.
His huge body, his manly strength, and all his fighting skills were still not enough to win against me.
And I will definitely make sure that this male chauvinist Adrian could never forget, even in his entire life that...
I. Am. The. Strongest.
That a girl can be stronger than him.
It didn't take me long to disarm him in an instant with one quick move, as he fell on the ground while his sword came flying, right in my hand.
The whole crowd gasped in shock..
A chilled air blew past us... making me realise that this time not a single word came from the crowded gallery.
“Show's over.. I guess.” I gave him the smirk back.
Anger filled in those hazel eyes in an instant, as if he couldn't take the fact that he had been defeated... and that too by a girl like me.
Huh...
As if I care.
I threw his sword to the ground in front of him, as soon as I turned my way to retreat to the class, as there was nothing to stay longer.
But no.
I was wrong.
Another sound of metals clanking came from behind just before I turned around again, as quick as possible...
There I saw Kaith, my one and only best friend, holding back Adrian with all his force, preventing him from attacking me from behind?
Seriously?
Now, this little, you are Adrian?A rat?
My blood started to boil inside me as I swayed my blades again cutting the thin air and was about to clash,
Just when I heard..
“Enough.” An earth-shattering roar caused us all to stop in our tracks.
Episode 2
Summer's P. O. V
We all shifted our eyes to where the voice came from, and there was he, standing the one and only Markus, with his perfectly toned body of six feet two inches stature, the biggest bully of our school.
His seductive blue eyes were busy scanning me from head to toe in some mocking way.
See.. That's why...
That's why, I didn't need a reason to hate him, in fact, I hated his whole gang only for who they are actually. The heartless fellows.
“Don't you know the rules, Sam.. My boy?” Markus scoffed at me arching one of his eyebrows upwards, as if I am at fault that his beta Adrian had lost the match to me.
Ahh,.. You men!..
I sighed.
“No. Tell me.” I dared him to say further, so that I could tease their insignificant masculine insecurity in front of everyone, so they can see how fragile they are all. At least it will be fun. Isn't it?
But, I guess he didn't get me, as he dared to do what he wasn't supposed to.
“You don't show your back to your enemy, bro... And if you do, you need to be prepared for the next hit anytime.” Again he laughed, along with Adrian this time.
Just what I had expected.
Kaith was going to say something to them but I stopped him from doing so...
Cause, you see..
Kaith was going to ruin my little fun that I had planned to have.
So I had to stop him, only to begin..
“Ouch!!...your broken pieces of masculinity is so sharp, that it just cut me.” Yeah, now it's my turn to scoff at them.
The smirk on their faces fades away as soon as they had heard me. So I step forward a bit in an imposing manner only to open my mouth again to cut their egos to bleed.
“It is your broken manly ego speaking. Isn't it? Who just couldn't accept the fact that a boy like you guys can be lost to a girl?” I smirked, looking at the tips of my fingers, as if they were nothing in front of me. And the fact was,... Yes, they were nothing.
“And that's why you always choose to come from the back, just like a little scared rat. Right? Tsk tsk tsk...
I really really feel sad for you kids.
Maybe next time.. Try not to hide behind your stupid excuses and be man enough to fight from the front. Will you dear?” With my words, Adrian became pale with his injured ego, and Markus?
Well, he became red, as he couldn't speak a single word, just stood there fuming in anger internally.
See, that's what you get when you mess with the wrong man.
Oops,... A woman.
You see, in between the hassle of my life and fate, sometimes I even forget too, that I am a girl at the end of the day. But I don't regret much for being like this, cause this is who I am. And I don't need a mask-like them to hide behind.
Even if I am a bitch to everyone, still I am proud for being me.
Now,
Coming to the boy Markus. He is the same kind as Adrian... The male chauvinist psycho but the only difference is that, Markus is more powerful than him, as he is the next in line Alpha of Rose Bay pack. Unlike Adrian, I have to acknowledge that he doesn't attack from the back but knows how to fight from the front like an alpha. But that doesn't make him any better, cause at the end, they are all the same... hurts others for no reason, boasts for being a man, fucks girls every day only to throw the last one and pick up the next to get into bed. They are nothing but fuck boys. Yeah, they each have looks like some Greek gods, but if... only if the inner self could reflect in ones face, I bet.. I bet they all would be the ugliest creatures on earth.
“Are we done?” Kaith asked, breaking the awkward silence that was surrounding us...
The whole ground was still quite and shocked to see their most popular boys fucked up this time.
“Yes, until next time.” Markus went back taking Adrian along with him, while grinding his teeth in rage.
I must say that in this whole school no one is stronger enough to beat me in a fight, cause I had my dad's training from a very young age of my life until...until I became an unfortunate orphan girl. Yes, that's why none is a good fight for me, except one,...
Markus.
And I can say that... Even though I and Markus didn't get to fight matches very often, but whenever we did, indeed he gave me a tough fight always. Among those, few I got to win and few I lost miserably. And he knows that too...
He knows that I am a tough fight for him as well.
Other than him, I had never lost to anyone with whom I got to fight a match till now.
Yes, that's it.
You can say, it is also why we hate each other.
“Don't make me wait long, kids.” I shouted back at them in an attempt to make them hear me, making Kaith laugh out loud for my c
hildish behaviour.
So I returned his laugh with a smirk.
“What are you laughing about? Let's go... We don't want to miss a class.” I hit his abdomen lightly with my fist, asking to run along with me to the class.
“You are amazing. You know?” Kaith said with his amazed eyes on me.
“What? I didn't know that.” I joked, acting all surprised, making him laugh awkwardly.
With that we ran to our respective lockers to put back our swords and to grab our books for the next class.
Well,
Let me tell things about Kaith.
He is an amazing character, you see... Cause there is not many whom I don't hate, and he is the best one of them. Yes, he is my one and only best buddy.
He is my dad's beta's son... I mean.. when my dad was alive and was the alpha of our pack Lunar High.
Anyway... he was the only one who stayed by my side, even when everyone turned their backs on me, after... after the incident of the night, a few years ago.
It was the darkest night of my life.
The night when I had lost everything... Lost my mom and dad.
Lost myself too.
Only to emerge as the one, what I am now.
Episode 3
Summer's P. O. V
You must be wondering who I am... Well, let me take you back to this morning.
.
.
“I can do it. Only I can do it. I have to do it.” Standing in front of the mirror I kept repeating myself, early in the morning.
You must be thinking about why I had to say such words...
Well, because... I had to go through another day of my life with the same routine all over again. I am getting tired day by day.. but even so, I am not allowed to rest, even if it is just for a moment.
No, I am not allowed.
At least when things have changed in our pack a few years ago. I am coping up each and every second with all my losses and also the fact that I have to survive alone. So I must not get weak. I must not let the fear overtake me. I must not let the injuries of my past be the reason for another pathetic one.
Okay...
Without confusing you all, let me start from the very beginning.
There was a time when I was the most loving daughter of the alpha of our Lunar High pack.