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071 | GAMMA WOLF
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Alpha Ares 072 | DAYLIGHT
I leapt to my feet. “Try,” I snarled, “and I will kill you, Cendres.” My hand reached uselessly for a knife that wasn’t there, but I shoved my fingers under my cloak and clenched my hand into a fist, making a lump beneath the fabric to create the illusion of a weapon there.He held both of his hands up, palms facing forward. “I have no intention of doing as he says. You can trust me. Why would I come all this way to patch up Ares’s wounds if I was just going to kill him anyway?”I huffed. “I guess.” Lowering myself back to the ground, I kept my narrowed eyes on the Gamma the whole way down. I still half expected him to shift and rip Ares’s head clean from his shoulders, but I had to give him the benefit of the doubt. For now, at least.“I know he wants me dead,” I said flatly. “Me. But not Ares.”“Like I said – I look at Naz, and I don’t even see my mate looking back at me anymore. He’s gone. Losing his parents last year changed him, but not… Not like this.”The memory of the matching
Alpha Ares 073 | VALERIA
I stilled, my body locking in place as I stared down at her. And then she groaned.I crouched down beside her. “Valeria?” I whispered, twisting at my waist and searching the pathway for her attacker. They had to still be close – too close. But there was nobody, not along the path or on the rocky outcrops above. I was hyper-aware of sound and movement as I brushed my fingertips over Valeria’s bloody muzzle. Her eyelids fluttered.She squeezed her eyes shut, her face contorting in pain, and then she shifted into her human form. “Ares – needs to – initiate you – into the – pack.” Her breaths sounded wet. I kept my gaze fixed on her face, purposefully ignoring the steadily growing pool of red spilling out from beneath her. “Not being able – to mindlink – is a real – pain.”My lips twitched. Valeria had been one of very few wolves that I’d been able to train with back in Winterpaw Warrior. Everyone else had wanted to kill me, and our fights have ended up bloody and brutal every time. But
Alpha Ares 074 | FOLLOWING A TREMBLING STAR
We raced across Greyhide’s snow-slick terrain. As we’d agreed, I sprinted with Ares on my back, never once looking behind me, letting Cendres and Annia fight off any attackers we faced on the way. I wanted to help them, but keeping Ares safe was my priority.I’d never been so damned excited to see a canyon before. Hoping to the stars and sun and moon and everything in the world that Cen and Annia would catch up with me, that they would both meet me when we were in safer territory, I surged along the side of the canyon. The sun rose and fell, and still I ran.‘You need to rest, beautiful,’ came Ares’s voice through the mate bond.‘Not until you’re safe,’ I replied, every time.‘You were hurt, too.’‘Not badly. Even the knife wound is healed now.’‘Yeah.’ His mental voice was thick with disbelief. ‘So you say.’It was true. Mostly. ‘I’ll stop when we can. But we’re still well within Greyhide’s borders.’‘Even Winterpaw Warrior territory won’t be safe. You were attacked in Blue Moon bef
Alpha Ares 075 | WARPATH
For the first time in my life, I knocked on the door of my own family’s Pack House. It felt wrong, but as the silence swelled, deafening in its potency, I felt like I had to. Rather than entering my family home as I always had, suddenly the idea of pushing open the door and just walking in felt like I was intruding. Like I was an outsider.Part of me expected to find nobody. Another, darker part of me expected to find bodies. I blinked away images of Valeria, of the wolves that had been piled on top of her, and shuddered. I could hear the ever-present lapping of waves in my right ear and Ares’s laboured breathing. I strained my hearing; had I imagined that groan of wood just inside the door?And then the door creaked open.“Mum?” I breathed, squinting into the hallway. She peered around the thin crack she’d opened it to, her eyes widening as she saw me – and then narrowing as they fixed on Ares.She yanked the door open so fast I didn’t react. I couldn’t. “You bastard,” she snarled,
Alpha Ares 076 | FOREVER CHANGED
I drifted through the familiar rooms, traipsing away from my parents as we reached the long dining hall that the wake was being held in. None of the places or people looked real to me. It didn’t even look like my Pack House anymore. People greeted me, but not as their favoured Young Luna anymore. Not as the bright and bold child, or the sharp and smart young woman, that I had been to them before I’d gone to the Winterpaw Warrior Pack to be with Ares.Five wolves were dead. On top of the ten already killed. Aliana had told me about six; another four had been taken in that time. I traced their names in my mind, picturing their faces, mourning each and every one of them. My eyes glazed as I stared at different parts of the room, seeing plates of finger food and steaming mugs of tea and coffee and half-drunk glasses of berry wine, glancing over them without taking any of it in. Families clutched each other and cried. People spoke loudly of their memories of the wolves that had died. Four
Alpha Ares 077 | THE NIGHT SKY
I didn’t care that we were with my parents. I didn’t even care that, right now, they hated him – and that they probably hated me a little bit, too.I kissed him. I flung my arms around his neck and pulled him down until his lips met mine. The kiss seared me, inside and out; feeling the pulse of his emotions, of his love, through the mate bond, along with the physical press of his flushed mouth to mine, tasting the sweet red wine on his tongue, was heady, intoxicating.No. It was simpler than that.It was everything we’d both wanted to admit for so very long, now.It was love. And that, it turned out, was the brightest star of all – the trembling hope that resided not in the dark swathes of the night sky, but within me. Within us both.And then gentle hands tore us apart.“What–” I gasped, only to be interrupted by my mother’s snarl.“It’s the mate bond, Haile! You’ve said it yourself. We had a plan, remember? You were so determined, so sure of yourself. He’s convinced you that he is w
Alpha Ares 078 | ENEMIES TO LOVERS
Already embarrassed by my meltdown, I shifted back into my human form and tried to gather myself before replying to Ares’s mindlink.‘I’m okay,’ I told him. ‘I’m sorry for leaving you with them like that. I’m in the first wildflower meadow – you can come and find me. I think we need to talk.’His relief, heady, giddy, dizzying, swelled through the mate bond. I pressed my palms flat on the grass, the rush of it overwhelming me as my anguish drained from my veins, leaving me hollow.‘I won’t be long, beautiful.’I undid my braid and combed my fingers through it, almost as nervous to see Ares as I had been the first time we’d met. It was like walking up to the front door of his mountainous Pack House and knocking, with so much left unknown, uncertain, on the other side.“Hi.”I looked up. His bicep bulged as he lifted his arm to scratch the back of his neck; he shifted his weight from foot to foot. Everything as yet unsaid hung thick in the air between us, darkening the twilight sky and
Alpha Ares 079 | EAGLE EYED
I froze. ‘Ares,’ I hissed through a mindlink, catching sight of two shadowed figures lurking in the darkness of the woods, my lips hovering less than an inch from his, ‘there’s somebody there.’He gripped me tighter. ‘Someone might have followed us. Pretend you haven’t noticed them.’Part of me – a part I really didn’t want to analyse too deeply – was flushed with excitement over the prospect of an attack. I was brimming with emotion, with anger and hurt, and fighting at my mate’s side seemed like the perfect remedy for the lingering knot of pain that had settled deep within my heart.I pressed up onto my toes, pretending to kiss Ares’s neck while my eyes darted across the darkness. He shivered lightly at the feel of my warm breath on his cool neck.A twig cracked underfoot. Even with the roll of waves in one ear, I heard it. The two figures froze – they knew we couldn’t have missed that sound, as sharp as the splitting of a bone.“It’s them!” Cendres shouted, his voice rising in volu
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