Share
090 | GONE FISHING
Related chapters
Alpha Ares 091 | THE LUNA'S DAUGHTER
“I went to speak to Alpha Ares.”Silence hung heavy in the air between us. Though I wanted to fidget, I held my ground. I would not bow before her. I would not lie. I met her gaze with something akin to defiance, my core burning with guilt and squeezing with anger.Her face twisted. “What do you mean?”I took a deep breath. “Alpha Ares is alive. I didn’t kill him. I just… I wanted you to trust me again.”“So you lied,” she said, her voice as flat as her expression. “Again.”I lifted my chin. “Yes. Because you had to listen to me fast, Mum. You didn’t believe that Greyhide were the real threat. I thought that if Ares was out of the picture, you’d see that it wasn’t him–”“You’re still bewitched by him. Stars, Haile,” she groaned, running a hand down the length of her braid. “I thought you were better than this.”“Mum, I–”She grabbed me by the arm. “No. You’ve said enough. You always trusted me before, Haile. You were the perfect Luna’s daughter, and I thought – I always thought that y
Alpha Ares 092 | REBEL REBEL
The room was dark and quiet. I squinted into the silence. I couldn’t believe Mum had left me here. Not only that – she’d had a bloody Omega come in and tie me to the chair. I’d let him, wanting to appease Mum sooner rather than later. If I’d fought back, she might have come back and tied me down herself. As it was, it had been almost too easy to slip free of the ropes – ropes, not chains, the fool – and stand up from the chair. But that didn’t change the fact that the door was locked from the outside. I cursed under my breath and stared at the handle again. Wiggling it would only alert the guard outside that I was free of my bonds. If only I could warn Ares from here. If only I could mindlink him, but he was too far away – And then it struck me. I couldn’t mindlink Ares, but I could mindlink anyone I liked in the Blue Moon Pack. Grinning to myself, I found the imprint of Nana Baspy’s mind and sent her a message. ‘Nana
Alpha Ares 093 | BEYOND THE DARK PASS
I didn’t know how long I had been unconscious for, but I knew three other things: the first was that my head hurt, the second was that dawn-light still painted the sky – had a full day passed, or no time at all? – and the third was that I was slung over someone’s back. Slowly, my memories pieced themselves back together. My puffy, bleary eyes sought of the colour of the fur beneath me. White. I couldn’t see his brown paw, but I knew, deep down, that it was Nazte I sat upon.Next, I turned my attention to my surroundings. I moved as carefully as I could, remaining limp across his back and using the momentum of the slow beats of his run to mask the shifting of my neck and head. As I lifted my head, I quickly understood why I had not fallen from him, even as a dead weight perched precariously upon his back. I was tied to him. I frowned. He wouldn’t have been able to do that himself. He had help. A companion.‘Ares?’ Still unable to pinpoint my exact location, I hoped and prayed and begg
Alpha Ares 094 | BLUE FIRE LAKE
I had only one thing left in my arsenal. My voice.“Mates?” I scoffed, wanting to hurt him. Besides – he was talking nonsense, anyway. He'd once said he might've respected me, in another life, if we were two different souls. But then again… Was this a way to buy myself some time? My opportunity? Could I convince Nazte that I felt something for him? I twisted my expression into something dark, something pained, which really wasn’t all that hard, and met his pale eyes with sad, unblinking ones of my own. “Maybe we could have been. Maybe… Maybe I’ve always thought so, Nazte. Maybe we fight because we are drawn to one another.”The words made my stomach curdle, but they gave Nazte pause. He arched a blonde eyebrow at me.I surged on. The more I talked, the more time I bought myself. “Yeah – yeah. The first time we met? I’ve never been pushed like that before. Never seen so much… Um… Passion.”He scoffed. “If there’s one thing you aren’t, Haile, it’s a liar. I tried to kill you. I wanted
Alpha Ares 095 | STARLIGHT TO STARLIGHT, SOIL TO SOIL
In the darkness, there remained spots – sparkles, glittering sparkles – of light, which shone silver as the stars. I brushed past them, uninterested in their beauty. I had suffered so much. Was this not my right? Was peace not more than I was allowed?And then I heard a voice. Real or hallucinated, I didn’t know. But the voice drew me close, pulled me into strong arms, arms that smelt like snow and woodsmoke and pine, and I could taste wine on his lips, and the voice inside me grew louder.‘Don’t give in, beautiful. Don’t give up.’It was a voice I knew even in death, and I clung to it. It was gravel and honey, sin and sorrow, beauty and pain and good and evil and whimsy and smirks and sardonic and oh, how I loved it.How I loved him.The past and the present separated. Memories untangled, leaving behind the raw, rasping sound of my throat as I screamed for help, as water – cold, icy cold water – rushed over my head, rushed down, down, down into my lungs. But that was the past, and I
Alpha Ares 096 | AN OLD FOE
I shoved myself up – only to wobble on my still-chained legs and stumble back down onto the sand. I slumped down; there was no strength in my arms, and I struggled to haul myself back up into a sitting position. To their credit, neither of my grandparents rushed to my aid. I knew the offer of help was there, but I’d never been one to enjoy being mollycoddled. I would get myself up.“He got away?” I grunted, brushing my sandy hands on my sandy, chained thighs.“We were lucky to find you, little wolf.” Nana Baspy’s creased face twisted with sympathy. I met her gaze, hating the pity I found there, and nodded.Then everything else that had fallen to the back of my mind hit me, all at once. “Shit,” I muttered, looking between them with wide eyes. “Mum – has she left for Winterpaw?” “Not yet,” said Grandpa Attie, and the knot in my chest loosened slightly. “Your dad has been holding her up, for as long as he can.” A smile played at the corner of his thin, lined lips. “He’ll get himself loc
Alpha Ares 097 | FOR HIM
Despite my protests, I spent two nights recovering at the cabin. Nana Baspy and Grandpa Attie stayed with me, certain that they would not be missed while the Warrior Wolves prepared to march on the Winterpaw Warrior Pack.I was restless, which my grandparents took as a good sign – as a sign that I was healing, that I was recovering from my most recent ordeal. Of course, they didn’t wake with me when nightmares pulled me from my sleep, or when the gleaming, clear surface of my bathwater suddenly became dark and rippled. I shoved these things down, preferring to focus on what I could do, on the future I could change, if only we hurried up and damn well left this lovely, warm, cosy cabin behind.I’d not heard my grandparents mindlinking me – but I had heard Ares. I still had no idea if that had been my own subconscious trying to wake me, desperate for me to get a grip and swim to the surface, or if, somehow, Ares had found a way to communicate with
Alpha Ares 098 | WE RUN HARD
‘So,’ I mindlinked to Dad, running beside him in his huge dark-furred wolf form, ‘tell me everything I need to know.’I relished in the steady thud thud thud of my paws against the hard soil. For the first time since I’d run with Annia, Cendres, and Ares, I felt like I was part of a team again – damn it, like I was part of a pack. Dad had cried when he'd first seen me - actually cried - and I was unashamed to admit that, well, damn it, I'd cried too. It had only been days since I'd last seen him, but it felt like months. Years. Decades. Everything was blurred, made hazy by the residual tang of fear tainting my mind and my memories of the last week.We were curving up around the western section of Blue Moon’s border, staying well off the path and using the trees to mask our journey. With Mum and her wolves a day ahead of us, a fact that still made my blood boil and my heart clench with fear, it was unlikely tha
Latest chapter
- Alpha Ares 141 | EPILOGUE
- Alpha Ares 140 | COME TOGETHER
- Alpha Ares 139 | KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
- Alpha Ares 138 | SURRENDER AND SACRIFICE
- Alpha Ares 137 | BATTLE OF THE MOUNTAIN
- Alpha Ares 136 | THE END OF US
- Alpha Ares 135 | BE AMONGST THE STARS
- Alpha Ares 134 | HAUNTED
- Alpha Ares 133 | ON THE WINGS OF FATE
