“How…how would you even know that?” She hadn't mentioned it before, she had only told me that I had been coming to her in her dreams.She chews on her bottom lip, her eyes not quite meeting mine.“That’s how you appeared to me in my dreams. It was after you shifted, you came to me for help!”I blink in disbelief.“Did it hurt?” she asks, adding that she had seen a shift, but she had always wondered what it felt like. Not a normal thing for hunters to ponder over. They only cared about putting a bullet through us.“The most horrendous pain I have ever felt!”“It makes sense, your bodies go through a hell of a transformation.”“You could say that.”She tilts her head in my direction as Daryl links me“Are you at that humans house again?”I don’t answer him, instead I focus on Tasha, not quite meeting her gaze.“I don’t look like a normal wolf.”She freezes, blinking a few times, was she having some kind of seizure?“Hello... Tasha?” I wave a hand in front of her face.She shakes her hea
I think it was the fastest that I had ever moved, I hurl myself back into Tasha’s house, crashing through the front door, preparing myself for the worst.I was too late.Tasha was already out cold; Lucian was wiping her blood from his lips. He stares at me, his brow furrowed with annoyance for interrupting him.“Isn’t this what you wanted sister? For me to be with my mate?” He carries Tasha's body to the sofa and carefully lays her down“He knows what he is doing!” Daryl’s deep voice comes from behind me. He had followed me in to the house, wondering why I was panicking.“It’s a risk!” My eyes are wide as I start shaking my head. Yes it had worked in my visions but so much was different, so much had changed."No it isn't. Yes it's rare but its not unheard of!" Daryl looks at me like I've lost the plot“She will be fine, sister!”I look up to meet Lucians amber eyes“How can you be certain?”His lips twitch into a smile.“Listen to her heart, it is steady, rhythmic. I told you dear sis
Daryl knows immediately that it isn’t me. He steps forward, grabbing my shoulders and I hear his hands hiss, like he had been burnt. Even though I have a top on, I was somehow still burning him.I felt hot, but surely I wasn’t that hot!He grits his teeth, trying to ignore my growing temperature and stares me down.“Reaper, let me talk to Ash!”I feel her shift uncomfortably. Her wolf backing down under his command. She really was weak to him, but I had to figure out a way to stop her coming forward without my knowledge.I don’t know how Daryl knew the difference between us, but he always did. The smell of burning flesh entered my nose, Daryl couldn’t hold on to me for much longer and his hands drop.“Fuck! What the hell is happening to you?”I look to Lucian for an answer and he just smiles at me.“Welcome to being mated to a Royal!” He picks Tasha back up, her head snuggles into him as he rolls his eyes at me. “Are we going home or what?”Tasha looked oddly comfortable on Lucian’
My bliss was quickly replaced with complete darkness.I was in a room, there was nothing here but me, a fully clothed me. Everything was black as my feet moved across the floor, searching for anything.“Daryl?” I call out but I am met with silence which only panics me.Before there had always been someone. The tall man, who I didn’t even know. Ambers dead body. Even Ambers men, but here, there was no one, even Reaper wasn’t here with me.“Daryl?” I call out again, desperately hoping that he could hear me, even through a mind link.There was nothing, just my own annoying voice.My bare feet move across the cool dark floor. Each step getting quicker and quicker as I continue to search.“What are you looking for?” The high pitched voice was followed by laughter.I couldn’t see anyone, I was completely alone.“You are not looking properly!” The voice sounds irritated.I don’t answer, I continue to move. I had to find a way out of this vision, I had to get back to Daryl.“I know what you a
“Amber?”Christian clears his throat.“Queen Amber!”“I’m not calling her that. She is the one who brought me here, into her mad fucked up world!”The men look at each other and I see their eyes glaze over. How were they talking to each other, they were from different packs?When their glaze fades, Daryl grabs something from the bed side table and immediately jams it in my mouth. I try to force it out and he reassures me that he is just checking my temperature.“A little high, but nothing abnormal” he mutters to Christian.“Rudina, do you know where you are?” Christian asks and I let out a growl.“STOP CALLING ME THAT!”Christians eyes close and he takes a deep breath.“Rudina, it is your name. It is what you have always been known by. I am your mate; we have been together since your seventeenth birthday.”He attempts to touch me and becomes annoyed when I pull my arm out of his reach.“Go away!” I glare at him while wondering where the hell Reaper was.“You must have some sort of con
I don’t squeal from the pain, I wasn’t going to give Christian the benefit of knowing he had hurt me.His eyes are ablaze as I glare back at him. I clamp my jaw shut so not a single sound escapes my lips.His hand squeezes mine more and I was certain I was going to be left with a mangled hand as more bones cracked.“Christian, are you mad! Queen Amber is going to be pissed at you!”I was relieved to hear Daryl’s voice, but it doesn’t stop Christian, his hand continues to squeeze and I feel my thumb pop out of its socket.“Christian, you have to stop this. It’s not her fault that she cannot remember you!”Daryl’s hand was on Christian's arm now.“You are making a huge mistake; you know how much Amber cares for her sister!”Even the Daryl in this world had been manipulated in believing that Amber cared.Amber didn’t care for me, not in the slightest, this was just some prison that she had created. A way to trap and torment me.“Christian, you have to let her go. If she ends up in the ho
After Amber had left the hospital, she sent Torque to keep an eye one me.While Daryl remained, Torque didn’t speak, he just watched me from the corner of the room. I was desperate to ask him questions, I needed to know what he meant by asking why I was here. He had made it sound like I didn’t belong, that I had only just appeared while Christian talks of me being his mate.Daryl eventually leaves and Torque takes his seat, edging closer to me, his eyes quickly running over my face.“You are not Rudina, who are you?” it wasn’t an accusation, it sounded like a genuine question.“What did you mean by ‘I don’t belong here’?” I shoot a question straight back.He looks around, making sure we are alone.“Rudina has a red ring in her eyes, you do not, they are pure amber. You are not Rudina!”“I am, but not in the way you think.”“Please explain!”“This is all a creation by Amber, this isn’t where I live. Amber brought me here because she knows that I will one day…”“One day what?”I couldn’
I was wrong, the pain only intensified as I ignored her, sending shock after shock through me.“ANSWER ME!” Amber screams at me as she stamps her foot like a small child.I would rather take this pain than tell her the truth. The book falls from my hands as I pull my knees up to my chest and lay on my side. I would ride the pain out, no matter what it took.“You would rather die?” she asks, looking puzzled.I still don’t answer as the pain keeps coming. It seemed like someone was stabbing me in my stomach, over and over again.She really was sick and twisted.Amber finally realises that I wasn’t going to say anything and storms from the room, leaving me in peace.The pain eventually subsides, but I didn’t understand. She brought me here, why not just kill me? Instead she was getting a kick out of torturing me.Standing up, I stare at the empty door. I wanted to go after her, question her more about why she is doing this, why she is holding me hostage in a place that wasn’t created for
A few months has passed since all the craziness with Lucian. Things had settled down massively, well, apart from being thrown into motherhood and raising triplets. I was just glad I wasn’t doing it on my own.Daryl was still getting used to having a smaller pack. Although he had already been out trying to recruit other packs that were smaller than ours. Some had accepted whereas others had told him where to go. The pack was still much smaller than the average wolf pack with less than a hundred people now after many had lost their lives in the fight against my brother, but he was certain he would make it great again. After all, he really wanted to pass on an almighty pack to Daryl Junior, the eldest of the triplets.In just a few months the three of them had grown quite quickly, instead of being like three-month-olds, they looked more like eighteen month olds and certainly liked to keep me busy and on my toes, especially since they were already walking and running. I assumed they were
More bullets come as I keep low, the stench of Lucian’s blood filling the air as he hovers above me. With each bullet, I am splattered in his blood, but it continues to do little more than slow him down.“You have not learnt a thing!” he roars at me as his claws wrap around my neck, lifting me from the ground.I should have been afraid, scared for my own life as I faced death when he suddenly stills. My feet dangling in the air at least ten inches from the ground. His deep amber eyes staring into mine, but he was quiet, no sound was coming from Lucian and yet everyone around us was yelling.His claws pierced the skin of my neck, my own blood trickling down over my cool skin as I watched Lucian’s nostrils flare. He was enjoying my scent, like it was something he had been longing for. This was not in my plan.His teeth sink into my shoulder as I let out a scream, and I see people charging towards Lucian. Daryl was shouting out something about protecting the Luna.Lucian’s jaw refuses to
“I will stop this.” I try to reassure the tiny beast in my arms, but I still didn’t know if I could even kill him, if it was even possible.“She will never be yours!” Lucian’s voice howls around us making Natasha’s little beast cling to me harder. Her tiny claws piercing my skin as they dug into me, her body trembling as his voice echoes around us.“Drop the spell.” I whisper to the small beast. Lucian was using her to put the spell around the dungeons, to stop others from getting any closer, but she was still a baby, could she even understand what I was saying? Could my reassurance be enough?Her small furry body continues to tremble against mine until it suddenly stops, momentarily scaring the crap out of me. When I hear soft snuffles coming from her and gently turn her head. She had fallen asleep on me. She had gone from a terrified little beast to one in a deep sleep, she had needed me so much more than I had ever known, and I feel a shift inside of me. The need to protect her, no
“It’s not that simple is it. I may have some magical abilities, but he still has years over me. Years of training, years of knowledge, years of planning what he calls his redemption.”“But there is something he possibly didn’t account for. A mother’s love, a mate’s love. The fact that a whole pack will be right behind you.”It just didn’t seem true. Maybe I had been looking at this all wrong and it wasn’t just my fight anymore.“Then how am I supposed to make myself stronger?”“You already know Ash, look at the things you have been capable of. Personally, I don’t think you give yourself enough credit.”I was completely soaked from the heavy rain as I stared up into his amber eyes, the blue flecks shining brightly through the storm. It wasn’t just me that had changed but it seemed like he had too. His once sulky and moody self had mellowed out.“What ever happens Ash, you have three babies that need you.”I slowly bob my head, he was right, but I had still left them to check on my best
No one stops me, no one even comes after me as I race through the forest towards her house. She had to be here, it was where it had all started.As I break out of the forest, I see it, her small house sitting on the opposite side of the road. A trail of blood leading up the few steps as the door sat open. Anyone could walk in here, anything could have found her.Creeping towards the house, I knew the trail of blood belonged to her. It was dry though and had been sat here for a while, but it didn't remove her scent.“Tasha?” I call out her name as I step in through the front door, hoping for some kind of response but I was met with silence and what was worse is the trail of blood ended in the middle of the room. There was nothing, no body, no pool of dried red, but more importantly there was no sound.The floorboards didn’t creak like I was used to, no weird smell from all the herbal teas she had scattered around.“Can you hear her?” I mutter to Reaper. I didn’t even know why I was ask
The omega keeps her head low, not speaking as she remained in the room. She was our biggest risk right now; she was the only one to know that I had had a third baby and I couldn’t have her revealing that information, not to anyone.“You can’t say anything!” I plead with her, hoping that she would understand.“They need to be checked over.” She mumbles back at me and Daryl shakes his head“Kiera, you cannot tell anyone, you cannot share the news of Ash having a third child. Do you understand?” He was using his Alpha tone, a tone that I was only to familiar with.The omega gulps, her eyes wide as she slowly nods her head.“I need you to say it Kiera!”“I won’t tell anyone, but how are you going to hide her, what if she is a poorly pup?”Daryl looks between me and the omega as I gently rock our little girl.“Kiera, you will become Ashley’s personal maid. You will do nothing else in the house except for helping Ash and tending to the children and monitoring any changes in them!”“But the
“For you!” Lucian punches the stone wall of his cell, splitting the skin on his knuckles which heals instantly.“I don’t understand”“Of course you don’t sister.” He laughs manically as he tries to pull the bars apart. I was glad Daryl had reinforced them.“You weren’t to know I was going to have children.”He looks at me from the corner of his eye. I was so stupid, I had told him of the vision, the one where I was left alone with twins, the one where Daryl was not in the picture. How could I have been so stupid?“You told me that not all visions were correct that some were just created in my own mind!”“Yes, but I saw that vision too, sister. Getting into your head was much easier than you trying to get into mine. Any time your wolf was dormant, it left an opening. A chance for me to see everything!”“Just kill him Ash” Daryl links me"Whicjh is why you wanted Amber to trap me?"He starts clapping."About time you figured that out."“You would never have found me without Daryl!” I ye
The omega hands her to me, she was much smaller than the boys with tufts of dark hair that matched Daryl’s, bright amber eyes peeping out under her eyelids.I still didn’t understand, the doctor had shown me the monitor, pointed out the two boys, how could he have missed a third baby or even a third heartbeat.Silent tears run down my face as I look at the three of them, how could I protect them? How could I protect my daughter from my brother? He was so set on taking her.“You did well.” The omega smiles at me as she drapes something over my legs, but I glance at the door. I had a bad feeling growing in the pit of my stomach.“He’s coming.” I mutter.There is fear on the omegas face as her eyes widen and her body stills.“You’re scared of him?”“Every omega is.” She sits next to me.“You know I’m not talking about Daryl, don’t you?”She nods her head and mutters Lucian’s name back to me.“What did he do to you?”He didn’t have anything to do with the omegas.“You don’t know?” she que
It was strange after experiencing Amber's world!Being able to run through Lucian’s mind with his beast chasing me was something I had never considered happening, nor did I think it was even possible and yet here I am. To be in someone’s mind was almost disgusting, you never know what they might be hiding and it was apparent that Lucian had been hiding alot.I had never bothered to ask the name of his beast, but something tells me it’s up there like mine. Reaper, another name for death and she certainly did have a dark side.“Tell me where she is!” I scream as I continue to run.“Give us your daughter!”“I have already told Lucian, they are boys, no females.”“You lie! I can smell it. You are carrying a girl!”Here I had no bump, if anything my stomach was flatter than flat. Was this how Lucian really saw me?He chases me through the greyness of Lucians mind. There was no colour, like he only saw things a certain way. Anytime I get a chance to grab something to throw, I do. Lucian con