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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
Alpha Ares 080 | PACK HOUSE
I barely had time to process Tymote’s words before he pounced.“Don’t kill him!” I shouted – to Ares. An Omega would be no match for him, especially when he was so fuelled by anger and arrogance, so it was not his safety I was concerned about.If he hurt Tymote, Blue Moon would never believe us. Ares would prove himself to be the vicious monster they thought he was.With a loud, over-dramatic sigh, Ares grabbed Tymote’s hands and wrestled them up behind his back. Tymote grunted, straining against his grip, but he had no chance against the infamous Alpha Ares.I breathed a sigh of relief. Ares had listened to me. We could go in and talk to my parents now, make them see sense – People filled the hallway. They spilled in from all different rooms; I turned around, and saw Warrior Wolves and Omegas alike leaving their homes to surround us. Damn it. What in all of Erandos was going on?My parents’ Gamma, Triss, was the first to reach us. She held her hands up and, for the first time ever,
Alpha Ares 081 | AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE
There was no way out. Even as I sprinted to Ares, letting teeth and claws graze me, barely feeling their sting, I knew there was no hope. He would die here, and I knew that, even with his death, I would not become the Young Luna I had once been. My parents had to accept him, had to let him live, else I would never be able to trust that they trusted me – as they always had before. ‘Don’t be sorry,’ I snarled down the mindlink to Ares. ‘Fight back.’‘I can’t. They’re your family.’‘You’re my family too, Ares.’I expected to hear Ares’s reply in my head, but another voice cut him off.‘Don’t waste your energy fighting. You need to run.’My head swung around, searching out her familiar face, and my heart leapt. ‘Nana Baspy?’‘I’m going to cause a diversion. You run straight to our cabin – the one by the lake. You run and you run and you don’t look back, you hear me, little wolf?’I glanced around nervously. Ares was injured; he’d barely had a chance to heal from Alpha Blare’s ministratio
Alpha Ares 082 | ROSEMARY AND CINNAMON
“So,” I asked, around a huge mouthful of bread, “how did you start the fire?” Nana Baspy grinned, looking up at me as she ladled spoonful after spoonful of extra stew into Ares’s bowl. “Nobody has seen my shifted form in quite some time, little wolf. When I heard the commotion outside, and I realised what was going on, it was easy enough to blend in with the fight – and grab an oil lamp in my mouth, and smash it against the Pack House in the midst of the brawl.” She shrugged like it was nothing, finally putting the ladle down when Ares’s bowl started to overflow. “And then I ran here, following a more direct route than you. I sent your Grandpa Attie over as soon as the fight started, in case I couldn’t make it back in time.” She beamed, proud of herself. “But I did.” I grinned back at her, swallowing a burning spoonful of stew. “I’m not surprised he’s so tired, then,” I said, looking over at Grandpa Attie and raising my eyebrows. She shook her head fondly, nudging him beneath the ta
Alpha Ares 083 | LIGHT FLARE
We spent two weeks in the cabin. Two blissful weeks of good, hearty food and comfortable mattresses – and the creeping feeling that I should be doing something else, anything else, other than waiting around for something bad to happen.The dawn sky was paling outside; misty, ethereal light spilled into the cabin, hitting the warm wood of the small dining table, casting everything it touched in its ghostly pallor. It gave everything a strange, dreamlike quality. That was all this had been: a dream. Make believe. Pretend.“You need to relax,” said Cendres, knocking his elbow against mine. His cheeks were round, full of food like a hamster’s, and crumbs flew from his lips as he spoke. “Alpha Blare is dead. Naz is… Well…” He trailed off, and his eyes suddenly found the floor incredibly interesting.My leg bounced under the table. “I am relaxed.”Annia rolled her eyes at me as she reached for a cinnamon roll. “You really look it.”“Doesn’t she?” joined in Ares. “The very picture of serenit
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