Novels by Ari Reynols

~~Dom When I found myself at our property line 3 days ago I could only watch. My little one was so close and I was so afraid of her being mad at me that I stayed in that spot. She looked small. She had lost a lot of weight. But she looked beautiful regardless. Her brown hair reached her ass now and her black rimmed glasses donned her face everyday now and not just when she was reading. The boys were huge. Blonde hair bounded through the fields, the flower beds, and the house. They were so loud. I heard everything in the house. I heard them laughing, their running, their screaming, their fighting, and the love they gave her. Then I would hear her. A soft voice when she needed to and then a firm scary mom voice when they were

~~Stephanie Time passes very quickly when you are a single mom. All your time and energy is put in to your kids, your job, and laundry. Laundry does not end. Especially having boys. As you can tell I'm still alone. Dom never came home. Theo and Gregory still check on me. They haven't been back lately though. Saying they were busy trying up lose ends from Dom's last mission with them. I have slowly gotten back to being me. Well as much as I could. I'm almost 21 now. No one ever found my mate. No word after the first year and a half slowly turned into Grayson wanting to do that plaque/funeral. I'm not going to lie. It helped me grieve. But it never took care of the feeling that I

~~StephanieI have been doing my Beta job for 4 fucking months. 4 months of mind numbing paperwork and people complaining. Yeah you saw that right.COMPLAINING.Complaining about everything. From the toilet paper in the pack house to the "annoying" cobblestone road in the middle of our small town.I rolled my eyes at the request of getting it removed. Freaking whiny ass people. No wonder Dom needed his poker face. I, on the other hand, have no poker face. When that lady complained about the toilet paper, I laughed.I laughed directly to her face.Grayson wasn't too happy, but at the same time he thought it was ridiculous too.

~~StephanieBecoming Beta Female was no easy feat. The first week was hellacious.Half of the male shifters hated me because I was a woman. A woman as a beta or alpha was still relatively a new thing. I mean the USA just got their first female vice president last election. Everyone is seriously behind the times.The Gamma is in charge of the training and when I try to set stuff up for the pack he completely ignores me. Grayson gets super angry but I tell him not to use his Alpha command on anyone because I want them to respect me and not his words.The boys are still in daycare everyday. I pick them up in the afternon and head home to take care of the house and the farm. I only eat at the pack house when Grayson and Marissa do.Today is a particularly busy day. I have to hold a meeting between our top warriors, our Gamma, and Grayson. Grayson is letting me take charge of this meeting so I can get a better handle on our fucking Gamma. Even worse our

~~Stephanie I stared at the two men in front of me. They had just exited the SUV after coming through my gate at the house. The two worn down men both looked at each other before turning their attention on me. "Theo? Where is he?" I asked softly. My voice getting louder with each word. "Oh sweetie." He whispered, his voice only holding sympathy in its tone. Both of them in front of me were marred with scars, a broken leg, and 2 broken arms between both of them. Huge gashes on both of their foreheads made it even worse. They were all stitched, bandaged, wrapped, and scarred. Whatever had happened had definitely not happened the way they thought it would.

A/N Some violent ~~Dom It was dawn and we were all getting ready to shift. I stood there staring out in the distance. Something's wrong. Yano growls in the back if my mind. I know. But she's in good hands. I roll my eyes at his antics. As time goes hy the mate bond suffers but my little one is strong. Not her. She will be ok. It's us. Yano barks out. Why us? We are almost done and then we can go home. I question him. Yano has been restless all night which means I

Chloris stood to the side as she brought out a small book with leather binding. I tried to get a good look at it but was distracted by her dress. it almost looked like the greens and blues of her dress were moving slowly. She was the most odd looking person I had ever met. Her white fluffy hair was long and almost to her waist. She had quick hands and her eyes were full of kindness and concern. I looked over at Deacon who stood in the corner. He stared long and hard at what was going on before his eyes finally landed on me. I couldn't decipher the look in his eyes but I didn't like it. I wanted him smiling at me, not looking at me like he was going to lose me. I smiled softly at me as he quickly came to me and kissed my forehead."Come back to me." his words came out so soft I wasn't even sure if that's what he said. But I knew it was. I wasn't whole. I wasn't who he thought I should be. I should at least try. Maybe I will remember and be able to break this curse that was placed amo

It was early in the morning I remember and it was about mid 1850s. At that moment of the day that I can clearly remember we were laying naked in a pasture a few miles out of town. We had just made love for the first time in this era and we were breathing heavily next to each other.We were a scandal in our small part of the town. Her father had tried to force her to marry a man in town and she of course wanted nothing to do with it. The moment she fought the arranged marriage, is the moment she started to seek me out. She was leaving at all times of the night and searching through small towns that surrounded her. We found each other in a market of all places in one of those small towns. She was bartering a local baker about some bread and I walked up beside her. At first I didn't even realize who she was until she turned to look at me. My heart beat uncontrollably. I was enthralled with her beauty once again.Our eyes met and we were overcome with joy. We made sure to carefully plan o

I knew it was her. I knew it when I met her, in 54 BC. The rest of the soldiers I was in charge of were coming back to Greece after another battle. I saw her walking across a cobblestone road with a rather large brown vase in her hands. It was like her heart had beckoned to me and I answered its call. I fell to my knees in front of her, ready to give her my world and everything I had. To my dismay, the look on her face was of one of pure annoyance. She called me every name under the sun and basically told me I was being an idiot for falling to my knees. Then immediately told me to meet her at the fountain in one of the town squares in the dead of night. When I met her there under the bright moonlight her eyes glowed from the light shining down on her. Her hair long and clightly curly and it hung to the side. Her white gown draping over her body just perfectly. We spoke all night about what we were. To find out Agapitos was extremely rare and sometimes our Agapitos was not an immort

"You ready to talk yet?" she asked me and I nodded, grabbed her hand, and walked out the back door to the porch. The dogs were playing outside under the moonlight. Evangeline had left after the last phone call from the Council because now things needed to be put into action to try and fix whats wrong. But we needed some other people to help out to see if we could find out what was wrong with her. I could see her thoughts churning in her head as she came out back with me. I tried to pull her to me as we say on the porch but she sat in her own seat and sighed softly as our friends surrounded us. "Ok guys. I need answers. I don't want vague details and talk of thousands of years ago because I don't think I could stand another headache. I want answers on to what the hell is going on." she explained trying to remain calm but her voice was shaking at the end. "Did Deacon explain what an agapitos is?" Bridgette asked and she nodded her head looking at me. She had to feel the pull, other

Bridgette stands next to me in the kitchen as I try to breathe and count down. Trying to calm my nerves and not flip my shit in front of everyone in this house. There has to be a logical explanation for this woman in my house. I didn't want to be stuffed into a room with 6 people, the dogs, and then me. I needed to breathe for a second and not be around everything. I open the fridge to grab myself a beer and when I close the fridge door I scream loudly. The goddess lady from outside was standing right there. "Hello Stephanie." she said brightly. Fuck she even sounds like a goddess. "Hi." I said evenly and raised an eyebrow. "Oh! I'm so sorry my name is Evangeline." she said smiling. Her perfect teeth showed an honest smile. "Ok." I said wondering why she was coming to talk to me and why she couldn't just stay out there. I took a long swig of the beer in my hand knowing I would need another in about 2 minutes. Especially if she kept talking to me. "I am apart of the Council tha

After he left I felt sort of numb from the lack of his presence. I wanted to bask in his presence at every chance I get. Not to sit on the sidelines, and wait for him to notice that I'm not happy that he left me here. I should have said something and just gone with him. Now I sound crazy, I barely know this man and I feel like I would go to the ends of the Earth and back for him. I feel insane that I have already told him I loved him, I'm taking care of his dog, and I even spent the weekend with him. Isn't this going too fast? Am I overthinking it? Probably, but its what I do. I am constantly overthinking everything. I'm actually driving myself insane by just sitting here and thinking about when he will be coming back. I have heated up my coffee 3 times in an effort to try and finish my first cup of the morning. Hell, Its already noon but I didn't sleep last night. Deacon said its probably for only a day but a huge storm rolled in to New York as soon as they left. But something a

~~Stephanie The day lagged on. Math tests were passed out, English pop quizzes were taken, homework was doled out and it was just now 303 PM. I was headed down to get Adaline and then head to the supermarket to grab dinner for tonight. Eggplant Parmesan is an all time favorite of ours and the meal we ate on our first date to the local Italian restaurant in the human town not far from here. Adaline was tired from her day so hopefully she would sleep in the cart at the super market. I'm headed to the grocery store. I'm grabbing dinner. Do you need anything special? I mind-linked Jackson. No answer. I tried again but he blocked everything. Ugh that man. What could he be doing anyway? Maybe he's with the rogues and doesn't want me to hear whats going on in the background. I shuddered to think of what could be happening. As I walked in the grocery store I couldn't help but feel like I was being watched....I glanced around like I was looking at the spaghetti sauce when I realized there

~~StephanieToday at school dragged on. No one would listen and all my classes were full of rambunctious students that couldn't get over the attack last night.They were going crazy with questions and some even stared at me with a weird look in their eye. One of my students in the back called me Luna and I shushed them before anyone else could hear it. Or maybe no one heard it because no one was listening. It was one of the royal guards' kids. Iknew it wasn't their fault and people wanted answers but I was not ready yet at all. Especially since in the back of my mind I was still harboring doubts.I didn't want him to introduce me to the pack and him leave me again. Am I really afraid of that happening again? I can't let Adaline get hurt. She gets attached so easily because of her age and no one has ever hurt her little heart and I would never let anyone do such a thing. She is my main priority no matter what.I headed to her daycare that was on the 1st level of the school on the side

~~StephanieMy heart pounded as I screamed as someone kept pounding on my safe room door. I had no clue who they were and I didn't recognize their scent. They kept screaming that I need to let them. That they needed to see the new Luna. I'm not the Luna. Jackson's mom is still the Luna. Jackson and I aren't even together. Barely talking in all honesty.If this is what being a Luna is, you can count me out. Adaline would get hurt. I look at Adaline and she is kicking back at the door telling the person on the other side of the door to go away. This girl is her father through and through.All of a sudden there was silence followed by two huge crashes. I hear glass breaking and growling. Jackson is here. I could smell him. I could smell blood too. I knew it wasn't his because I would have felt him get hurt. I just felt anger from his side. Chance was there....I knew it was him the way he growled and walked through the house. A knock came to the door as we both screamed again."Jackson?

~~Stephanie I opened up the beers and grabbed 2 more and walked outside. All I wanted to do was get to know him all over again. We would take this at a snail's pace. My snail. Not his snail. We sat down on the porch swing overlooking the backyard. Lightning bugs filled the backyard and the stars illuminated just enough to see each other. His arm slung around the back of the swing as it creaked along with our swings. I loved sitting out here. It made me feel at peace and calm. Especially after a long day at work or if I ever needed the quiet. "Do you wanna talk about anything in particular?" He asked softly looking at me at the corner of his eye. "I am kind of afraid of the answers. I want to know everything. Why you never came back, why you never called, why you never came back for Adds, literally everything." I answered. He sighed and nodded. A few minutes ticked by. I knew he was getting his thoughts in order and I let him be. This wasn't going to be easy and my big mouth wasn

~~Stephanie"Want a beer?" He asked me. His deep voice shot tingles up my spine. All I could do is nod. I was so afraid to speak. I felt glued to the floor."Wildflower. Its ok. We are just talking." Jackson whispered."How can you be ok with this? After all this time?" I asked, my voice cracking."Its not ok. I'm not ok. I haven't been ok in years. The last time I know I was ok was your 18th birthday in that fucking cabin." Jacksons voice steadily got louder. "I have been fighting Chase since I got back. Hes been pleading with me to jus to take you home with me and force you to stay in the house and to never let you out of my sight." By the end he was growling."Let me talk to him." I softly cried. He looked surprised by my command.He sighed and grabbed my hand, he looked up at me and his eyes were completely black."Hey Chase. Long time no see." I trailed my finger down his cheek."My mate. I have missed you. I stopped talking to Jackson. He hurt you. You are mine. I am yours. No o

~~Stephanie"How dare he come here?!?!?!?" I screamed as Shawn sat on the arm rest of the couch. He didn't answer. It was just silence.A silence so deafening I could only hear my heart beat and his. I let my wolf hearing attach to Adaline as she was in her room taking a nap."Steph...he is your true mate. This was going to happen sooner or later." Shawn broke the silence.I jumped at the sound of his voice as my hand trailed my neck to Jackson's mark. I sighed knowing what had to happen."I can't just let him back in. He broke me. I can't let him do this to me or Adds again." I sniffled."My sweet love...." Shawn whispered. "I can never compare to him and I love you but we both knew this might happen. Especially if I ever meet my natural second chance mate."His words went straight through my heart. I let the tears fall down my cheeks. I didn't want to be alone again. This is not how I pictured my life. I would be alone yet again and then Adds would find her mate and then what would