Novels by Mallow Jefferson

Jacke's POVAs I continued showing Pete around the basement, answering his questions as they came, I realized that I had come a long way since the times when I first placed these items here. If you had asked me a century ago if I would be willing to show this room to anyone outside my family, I would've choked you with your own hands for asking a stupid question. Yet, here I was, showing Pete these artifacts from my past as if I had known the man my whole life. We continued going through the room with many questions asked and answered, and finally arrived at the most recent artifacts I had stored down here."This is the sword that belonged to a nobleman I had killed a decade or so ago, he had a significant bounty on his head, and I was bored that day. I grabbed two of my family members, got in one of my trucks, and flew out to Europe; He had been abusing his money and political influence to further his ends, without any care in the world for how it had affected his 'subjects'," I said

Jacke's POVI woke up the next day with Alex holding on to me with an iron grip, it looks like I wasn't getting out the easy way this morning. I grabbed her hand and kissed it trying to loosen her grip on me so I could stand up and start my day, but she wouldn't budge. With a little struggle, I turned around to look her in the face as she started waking up."Pup, it's early, go back to sleep," She groaned when she saw me looking up at her with a stupid-looking grin, I knew it was early in the morning but I had way too much energy to just sit still."I don't want to go back to sleep though, I have too much energy to sit still, Alex," I said as I wiggled around trying to get free, to no avail. She wouldn't let me go as easy as she did yesterday, even if it were so she could sleep in."You're not getting up anytime soon, you're going to sit here and accept my love, Nerd. Besides, it'll be more peaceful for food if we let the morning crew get their grub first," She said as I cuddle back i

Alex's POVWe made our way back home hand-in-hand, cracking jokes and talking about what would change in Jacke's life now that he was my Luna. It wasn't anything groundbreaking, but he needed to know that he would need to be more careful about his lifestyle; Acting more in the shadows and not trying to cause a scene everywhere he went. He took it shockingly well, going so far as to explain that it wouldn't be difficult to make those kinds of changes with the decades upon decades worth of resources he'd built up."It won't be a drastic change, from the sounds of it, it would just mean that I'd have to do less of the leg work and live a more peaceful life by your side," He said squeezing my hand, and I would've been lying if I said that my heart didn't skip a beat."What did I ever do to deserve you, Pup?""Do I need to make a list? I think the most potent reason would probably be that you exist," He said chuckling as we made our way up the trail back home. It took a lot of willpower to

Jacke's POVAlex took hold of my hand as we left home to go out on a walk, and followed the trail leading to where we hoped to find Mallow still there. We walked hand in hand with my music playing on my phone, I was more or less pestering Alex into telling me what her 'surprise' was but she wouldn't budge. She insisted that she wasn't going to spoil the surprise no matter how many times I asked, and I took that as a personal challenge. So, I did what I do best, and tried to tease her with a small whimper, but that didn't do anything but make her smirk."You keep making those kinds of noises, and we'll see who's really in charge here, love," She said looking at me, smirking with a look on her face that screamed 'Test me'."You're lucky I love you, Alex," I said trying to ignore the blush that was creeping on my face. I don't know how she did this, taking the stone-cold attitude I usually had, only to cast that aside to reveal my shy side without any issues."You're right, I am quite lu

Alex's POVI woke up later than I usually do to notice two things seemed off: One, Jacke wasn't in my bed, and Two, It was peaceful and quiet. With everything that was going on something smelled fishy, so I got up, got dressed, and left our room to head downstairs. Pete was in the kitchen drinking a cup of coffee, so I grabbed one myself before taking a seat next to him."Morning, Alex, what's going on with you?""Have you seen Jacke? He wasn't in bed when I woke up," I asked before taking a sip of my coffee and trying to not let my nerves get the best of me."Jacke? Yeah, we had a conversation earlier about the speech before he left to go find Mason, I presume to have the same kind of conversation.""Fucking hell, have mercy on me I just woke up. Did the conversation at least go well with the two of you?""Oh yeah, I think it went phenomenally. He got straight to the point and was very kind, all-be-it concerned about having to give a speech to the pack as a whole. He told me about ho

Jacke's POVThe following morning I woke up early, at the crack of dawn, and got out of bed as carefully as I could to not wake Alex up and let her sleep in. I left the room and walked out and downstairs into the kitchen to see it was empty, leaving me all the room to make some food. We split and Jake took a seat while I grabbed a carton of eggs from the fridge, an onion, and a roll of ground sausage. Browning the sausage in one pan while I diced the onion to make some breakfast burritos, Jake sat staring into space deep in thought."What's on your mind, Bud?""Just thinking about how we're going to go about talking to Pete, and Alex's Beta. Pete seems like a nice dude, but I don't know how I'd be able to play nice with Alex's old bully," He said before I handed him a drink, "Thank you. I mean, is it just me? I feel like it's almost a test for us not to just deck the guy after what he put her through.""Under normal circumstances, I would agree with you one hundred percent, however, t

Jocelyn The last thing I was expecting, going into my third-period class, was to get a panicked text from my brother. Even less than that was for me to read the names, Astrid and Mason, in that exact text, making me walk into my next class with one of the fakest smiles I've ever worn. The third period usually was the class that went by the quickest, and held my attention the best, however, with the text from my brother my mind was wandering. Before the class started, I opened my phone to re-read the text and respond to my brother so he knew I had read what he said. 'I've got good news and bad news for you sis, good news is I told Mason our theory on who he is to us...The bad news is that on my way to Gym, Astrid caught up with me and asked about him.' 'This wasn't the best thing to hear going into an English class, we'll talk during lunch, wish me luck at not having a mental breakdown.' 'Good luck, Sis,

Leo I still have no idea if there's a word to describe the amount of regret I felt when I saw Mason's face shift. What started with him looking like he was curious about my answer shifted to him looking terrified and even more confused than before. I immediately wished I hadn't told him anything and left the talking to Jocelyn, she was a bit better with words than I was. He looked like he was questioning his entire reality before he opened his mouth again. "What do you mean 'You didn't even know would be a possibility? And explain more, please," He said with a mild stammer. "We didn't know it was possible for two wolves to share or have the same mate, we were told our entire lives that it was a one-to-one type deal. As far as the explanation, I can only wish you good luck in getting one, we still don't know if Jocelyn's hunch is true or not." "So it's just a hunch? You'd think that you'd know if I was that important to you two." "You'd think, but we have no clue, ev

Mason "She did what now?!" "I'm going to take that as a no," Leo said through a low chuckle to avoid ticking off the teacher, "She told me that it was okay, even though I don't entirely have a reason to have it." "I didn't understand why she even wanted it in the first place, I said it before and I'll say it again, I'm a nobody from nowhere and I'd like to keep it that way." "Look, I'm sorry to say this but good luck with that, you've got my sister's attention and some of mine, somehow, and that isn't something easily given away." "And here I thought I'd have a normal school year," I groaned aloud before returning to my writing. Even if I spent a good chunk of my classes writing stories or doodling in my notebook, I managed to pass all my previous schools with mostly Bs and Cs. My father never cared about my grades, so long as I was in school and not bothering him he didn't seem to care, whereas my M

Mason I woke up the next day early enough in the morning that the sun hadn't started rising, and went downstairs to grab some breakfast. Mom was getting her lunch set up as I got there, she hugged me and wished me good luck at school before leaving for work, and I grabbed a couple of granola bars before walking out to the bus stop. I had my earbuds in listening to music while waiting for the bus when my phone buzzed, taking it out of my pocket the notification was a text from Jocelyn.'We'll see you at class, Leo says hi.''Tell the hulking sheepdog I said hello.''I showed him your calling him a hulking sheepdog and I couldn't describe the look of confusion on his face even if I wanted to.' I put my phone away as the bus pulled up to the bus stop and got on before taking a seat in the back. I had always sat away from other people at the previous schools I attended, I didn't like social inte

Mason After talking to Jocelyn and giving her my phone number, I caught back up with my mom as she gathered food for the week. We were getting stuff to make chimichangas and guacamole, snack foods, and some sodas before heading to the front to check out. Mom kept asking me questions about how school went and what I thought of the school as we checked out. We got out to the car and I loaded the groceries in the back before sitting down in the passenger seat when my mom gave me a look. "So, are you going to tell me who that girl was that you were talking to? Or is this going to be one of those things that we silently acknowledge?" "I should've known you would've seen her," I said through a nervous chuckle at her comment, "I don't even know how to explain it, Ma. I was told by a friend that I met on the bus that I should try and avoid them altogether, they own the school or something." "They must b

Leo "Would you believe me if I told you I had no idea?" "Considering that she was just standing beside you?" Dad said with an eyebrow raised, "No, no I would not. Where'd she run off to?" "Up that aisle to go talk to someone," I said while pointing up the aisle that Jocelyn ran up, "Though I couldn't advise going up there, you might embarrass her and all that jazz." "Goddess knows I would be just heartbroken if I embarrassed my daughter," He said as we continued shopping, "Do you know who she's talking to?" "It's the guy she was talking about from our school." "If she went to go talk to him, why didn't you join her? Does he make you shy or something?" I looked at my dad in disbelief that he thought that was a possibility, and resisted the urge to roll my eyes. We continued through the store, picking up some snacks and food for dinner the next few days; Before long, Jocelyn caught back up with us carr