“Are you joking?” I stare at Lucian like he had lost the plot.“I am most certainly not! After everything, how are you surprised that this could be a possibility?”“Mates, at the same time?” I needed him to be clear that it was what he was suggesting.“You were mated in your visions, correct?”I nod my head biting my lip, trying to remember everything.“But I rejected Daryl. I know there is a second chance mate, but at the same time? It just doesn’t seem right!”“It may not seem right, but it would appear you have something in common with Amber.” He shakes his head frowning.“Amber has more than one mate?”“Yes, though she has five.”“Five mates?”“The last I had heard. What’s the matter with your hip?”I glance down, not noticing that I had been massaging it. The wound from Christian had healed but it still ached.“Nothing.” I tut, dropping my hand.Lucians eyes narrow as he tilts his head.“I cannot protect you if you do not tell me sister.”So now he wanted to play the big brother
“You want to mark me? Why?” I wasn’t trying to sound like I had an attitude, it was just how it came out.“Why?! Don’t you want to survive, don’t you want to live your life?”“I didn’t mean it like that. I mean why now? Before, the wolfsbane made it impossible. Since it has been out of my system, you haven’t even tried, so why now?”“It may not seem like, but I don’t want to lose you again.”Daryl was constantly sending me mixed messages. I never knew whether I was coming or going with him.“How will marking me save my life?” I didn’t think a mate bond could be that powerful.“It is rumoured that a mate can draw on their partners ability to heal. Reaper doesn’t seem to be able to help so let me. I won’t force you Ash, this is your choice.”I sit staring at him, not quite sure how to process his words. If I was truly cursed, could he help me heal? It didn’t seem likely, not if Reaper couldn’t stop the curse. Plus Daryl had his own curse to worry about.Daryl watches me carefully.“You
Unable to answer him, I lean my body against his chest. It just didn’t make sense. If I was dying, how was I having visions? And what did that man say? My mate was Christian? “You’re okay Ash, you are okay!” His arms tighten around me, his cheek resting against mine as he held me close. “For the moment.” I hear Lucian groan. I flash my eyes in his direction and he raises an eyebrow at me but keeps his mouth closed. The cold water continues to run over Daryl and I. His chest rising and falling in the same rhythmic pattern as my own. From here I could see my arms, the purplish bruising on my arms was blackening and I wriggle my fingers to make sure I could still move them. “A cursed mate marking another cursed mate.” Lucian tuts “Did you find who it was?” Daryl questions Lucian, but keeps his arms around me, refusing to let me out of his grasp. “No, but I believe my sister may already know who it is that has cursed her.” “Huh?” I turn my head properly to look at him. "How could
“You are telling me that this curse, that the reason I am dying is because of Amber? Because she is scared that I am going to take the throne from her?!”I try climbing out the bed, but I was weak. The curse was winning.Lucian puts his hand on my shoulder."I'm sorry.""Sorry for what? Sorry that I am dying, sorry that you cannot help me or sorry that I am female!""All of it!"His answer surprised me."Every female in our family go through this. The female always feels threatened and will take out any female siblings.""You cannot be serious. That is fucked up!" Daryl retorts."Then why are you trying to save me Lucian?""Because you dear sister are the rightful heir, she is only a half sister. She only carries our mothers genes. You sister, well you carry our mother's and our fathers. The throne is rightly yours!"Shaking my head, I tell him that I don't want it. It was and is how I will lose Daryl.I try again to climb out of bed but it was like my limbs were uncoordinated and wou
Lucian was wrong, but maybe not completely.My blackening skin wasn’t a result of a curse, my body had slowly been readying itself for this moment.The bed cracks beneath me as my body continues to shift. Every single thing hurt, it was so slow and painful, like a punishment for being this way.My legs continue to lengthen, my large feet sticking out at the end of the bed. I see the fear in Daryl’s eyes. He hadn’t seen me like this and yet as I glance at Christian, he is all smiles.By the time my body had finished shifting, Lucian had appeared. He was confused by my appearance, demanding to know why I had shifted, but I had had no control over it and neither did Reaper.“It feels so good!” Reaper mutters, stretching us both out, the bed completely collapsing beneath us.“What the actual fuck?”He looks up at me as I stand, my body towering over his, my head brushing against the ceiling.“I should have mentioned, our beasts are not the same as yours.”“No, shit Lucian!” Daryl groansI
“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’
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