I walked out and looked around. Olivia had been working on a magic circle in the middle of the clearing just above the ley line for days. She would go over it again and again trying to make it perfect. Painting it by hand in a mixture of herbs, white chalk and magic. At one point I had tried to help but she kicked me out of the clearing and said I couldn’t do anything.
“Where do you want us?” I stood behind her, kissing her head.
She was tense though and even the kiss didn’t remove the tension in her shoulders. Olivia was looking over the clearing. Taking a deep breath, she looked up at me and smiled.
“Alright! I need Ricky right here.” She pointed to the tip of the circle.
He skipped over and stood just outside the circle.
“Janet, I need you on the opposite end of Ricky. Imogen, I need you to the right of her.”
“Her right or yours?”
Olivia chuckled. “Hers. Thank you fo
“Honestly, those old farts are just looking for a reason to fling their power around.” Tatiana was sitting on our couch. Nat was sitting at her feet as Olivia’s mother, the Fey Queen, braided her hair. The two of them had gotten along surprisingly well. Liam was wary of her since Olivia had talked more about her with him but his curiosity won over. He was sitting next to her, the two of them chatting about the fey council.She had show up a day ago. Alpha Bucho and Luna Stacy were staying in a tent that they set up a mile or so into the forest. I excused Nat from school for a few days while Olivia was gone. It had been three days. Three days since she was taken by Ricky to the goddesses. If I wasn’t pacing in the house, I was kneeling in the middle of the clearing.While I knew she was still alive through our bond, it didn’t help me not to worry. Every time I tried to reach out, it was just
“Are you sure that’s how small you want the kitchen to be?”I rubbed my eyes. “It’s already double the size of the one at the pack house. I’m not feeding the entire pack here.”“I mean, you pretty much do now.”Glaring at Iggy, I shook my head. “You only say that because you don’t have to clean it.”“I think the kitchen is fine. We need to nail down the amount of bedrooms though.” Nat yelled from the opposite end of the clearing.“You, Liam, the boys, Ricky, Olivia and I, plus however many guest rooms you think we need.”“Eight?”I coughed. “Nat, we don’t need eight guest rooms.”“Look at how many people we are housing!”My fingers pinches the bridge of my nose. “Four. Four guest and one of them will double as an office for me.”“We are getting a theater room r
“Desmond.” Olivia cried into my chest. Her arms were wrapped around my neck and my arms were wrapped around her lower back, holding her close to me. One of the goddesses was rubbing my back, another was rubbing hers. I didn’t care about saving face. I cried into Olivia’s arm, finally holding her again. The sparks were there but her scent was dulled by the water. We both were soaking wet. “I told you he could do it.” “Yes yes. You told me so. I get it.” Olivia was shaking and I held her as tight as I thought she could bare. The bump of her stomach pressed against me and I stared to cry in relief all over again. “Never again, my love. Stop trying to leave me.” She nodded, not saying a word. “It’s been chaos without you. Your whole family has been absolute chaos. Your older brother and mother especially. But then add in my parents, my friends, plus our kids. Olivia, you aren’t leaving me alone with those crazy people again.”
Olivia was sitting one of the dining chairs and I leaned against the back of it. Across from me, Alpha Bucho was doing the same with his Luna. We had to pull up more chairs to the table. Janet, Imogen, Tatiana, Scott, Eli, Derek, Iggy, Liam, my father and mother, Alpha Claude and his mate Chloe, with his new Beta, Victor, Zeus and another witch by the name of Agatha were all now around the our table. Agatha was also a head which of a couple of the covens that had sought sanctuary when Tatiana was on her rampage. Now her and a few other covens decided to stay on my lands.Papers and maps were strewn out on the table that we had collected over the past few days. Most were from the Alpha King’s domain. Letters from werewolves and fey who were dealing with the massive influx of soldiers. Not to mention the persecution if anyone decided to speak out. We had maps of their camps, locations of their outposts. The fey were a little more quiet and we only had some notes jotted do
My eyes watched Olivia’s face. Her eyes were focused and she was biting her lip. It took a lot of effort not to smile. We were in a familiar position. She was sitting at the top of the porch, while I was a few steps below her, my head resting in her lap. Slowly and carefully, she was shaving the beard that had overgrown in the past few months. Her hands softly turned my head to the side and I closed my eyes, feeling the scrape of the blade against my skin.It was so quiet. For the first time in weeks, the house was just her, I and Nasir who was laying down at the far end of the porch. I hadn’t seen Ricky since the outburst at the dinner table. Olivia and Nasir also seemed more distant than usual. I was worried but every time I brought it up, she would ignore me or brush off the question. Now it was so bad, they were barely in the same room together.“Almost done. Just some final touch-ups.”I made a noise, acknowledging her but not moving
Hello Everyone!!First, let me say I appreciate your patience with me! I 100% am fully committed to Alpha Desmond and I intend on finishing it in the next couple weeks here for you all! Let me apologize, for the late uploads and the radio silence.I had actually finished Alpha Desmond near the last time I updated. But when I took my hands off the keyboard I realized, I hated it. It didn’t feel true to the characters. It felt forced and rushed and just wrong to me as both a writer and a reader. These characters are near and dear to my heart and I want it to be genuine. I was frustrated and just burnt out.Mix that with my work, being unable to do anything for two weeks because I had stitches in my hand. It just continued to push me away from the story. I realized once I healed and was able to remedy my day job that I needed a pallet cleanser before I jumped back in, literally throwing 10-15 chapters in the trash that I had finished on Alpha Desmond. I wrote a Billionaire/CEO love story
***Olivia’s POV*** I watched Desmond leave and I pulled my shirt back down. My heart felt raw, the emotions that he spilled into me were hard to handle. I knew he had been holding things back since I came back, trying to be my strength but I didn’t realize how much. I felt bad that he had been trying so hard to be strong and then coming undone when he listened to Ricky. Anger bubbled up in me. We had the serious conversation at the dinning table before everyone had arrived. We didn’t even realize we were yelling at each other for that long. Not until he stormed off. Nasir was even mad at me. It hurt, not having him close anymore but I wasn’t going to bend. I told Desmond alright and I wanted him by my side for a long as I could have him there but I wouldn’t risk him getting killed. Turning, I opened up one of the kitchen drawers. Tatiana had left two of the plaques that matched the other ones on the kids doors. It was left blank for when we decided on the boys names. Taking them wi
My heart hammered in my chest. Chloe, Yvonne, and Stacy flittered around me. They were adjusting my hair and dress. We had decided that we would have the ceremony outside at the gazebo. Because the Luna ceremony dictated it to be on a full moon at night, lights had been strung throughout the entire town center which flowed through the window of the pack house. “Ladies, it’s nearly time.” Iggy called from the front door. Nat walked up to me and took my hands in hers. “Mom, don’t be nervous. This is just semantics. You already are loved and accepted by all of us.”I looked up, willing myself not to cry. “Thank you. It means the world to me.”“Where is my sister?” Ricky called out from the entryway.I smiled. He was dressed in a black suit with a black bow tie. His hair was tied up in a topknot. Freezing in the entry, our eyes met and he immediately started to tear up. “Fuck, Ricky, don’t you dare.”“You look…”Putting up a finger, I raised my head and took a deep breath. “Don’t.”“H
Hello everyone! I know it's been a minute since I've updated on the things going on. I just wanted to update those who enjoyed this story in particular to a new story I am writing called The Rogue Kings. It's currently being updated and I know fans of Alpha Desmond will also enjoy that story. It's a stand alone werewolf book, that will actually be in two parts. However, it won't be separated into different stories but all one. I chose to mark it as a more mature story since the themes and the things that happen within the story will be strong emotionally. I really hope you guys will check it out. I think it is one of my bigger undertakings, just like Alpha Desmond and has been a labor of love that I've been working through for a while. For those wondering what is going on with my other story The King's Alpha. I promise you I am still working on that one as well. I hit a bit of a wall and ended up throwing a number of chapters out the window. As I was going through that, I've been hi
I heard whispering in the background, and I peeled my eyes open. Xander had his arms crossed over his chest, while Zain whispered angrily to Olivia. All these years she hadn’t changed. She stayed by my side as we got older, even picking up her duties as Luna before Xander and Zain took over. We decided to wait until they were seventeen to fully transfer the pack over to them. They decided to work in tandem, handling the pack together. I was proud of them. What they had accomplished over the years. The wolves they had become. “Don’t you dare speak that way to your mother.” My voice shook. My time was coming to an end. My father had passed away when he was ninety-two, my mother followed not long after. Olivia said it might be that because our bond was the one tethering her to this world, my life had been shortened. It didn’t matter to me, though. I had spent most of my days with my mate by my side and I wouldn’t trade that even for twenty or thirty more years. “Dad, please. You can’
The air in the house was electric. For the first time in over five years, the house seemed full and happy. Olivia and the kids decorated a tree in the corner, and she even started to use a bit of fey magic to decorate the house. Liam and I strung lights inside and outside of the house for Christmas at the behest of Olivia. She said that we have been lacking on our excitement for Christmas and was determined to change that. Xander and Zain were ecstatic to be a part of it.Olivia and I tag-teamed in the kitchen for Christmas Day. We were making so much food, considering the amount of people we were having. Everyone was also bringing something, but to feed an entire house filled with werewolves, vampires and even a few fey, we needed more than just the normal amount. We had sat down the night before and scheduled out when everything needed to be put in the oven. It was chaos, but I couldn’t stop smiling.Her touch as we would pass by each other doing chores or cooking. Her laughter fill
“Get under him. His strength will probably fail him as soon as I put it back.”I walked around Olivia and held Bucho under his right arm, Liam got his left. We braced for his weight to fall. She carefully closed her fingers over the flower before turning and placing her hand over his chest again. Her hand slowly slipped in and she turned her wrist before her hand came back out, now empty.As soon as her hand left his chest, I watched Olivia hold herself up against the counter. I felt the mate bond flicker for a moment, but before I could go to her, Bucho’s full weight fell on Liam and I. Liam grunted and I also groaned as we held him up.“What the hell does he eat?” Liam coughed out.“Take him to the couch, boys. Let him rest for a second.” Olivia chuckled. “His soul literally had an out-of-body experience.”Nat snorted. “Mom, what the hell?”With Liam, we carried Bucho over to the couch and placed him down gently. Stacy came over and sat next to me, holding his hand as he stirred. I
My anxiety was through the roof. Multiple times Liam had a hand on my shoulder to calm me down. Aamon was pacing. He had been relatively quiet this whole time. Now though, he nearly pushed forward, trying to force me to go back.“Dad, slow down.”I looked at the speedometer and thanked the goddess silently that we weren’t in the city. I would have been pulled over so quick that I might have ended up with a misdemeanor with reckless endangerment. Liam chuckled as I slowed down.“Sorry.” I mumbled.“Nat would have linked if there was an issue, Dad. Don’t worry.”I nodded absentmindedly. Looking at the clock, I saw we had left later than I wanted and took a little longer than anticipated. There was paperwork I wanted to grab from the pack house so I wouldn’t need to leave again until after Christmas. If anything, I could have Scott take the paperwork back with him on Christmas.Pulling into the dirt path, I pulled up and smiled. The boys were running around in the clearing, trying to tak
I leaned against the counter, sipping tea Olivia had made. She didn’t seem to need to sleep but was happy to sit on the couch as I fell asleep with my head on her lap. Her hands brushed through my hair as she hummed different songs that lulled me to sleep. My alarm went off at 5 a.m. to get ready for the day, but I didn’t know what I was going to do now. I was worried about letting her go, wanting to take Olivia with me, but if her guess was correct, she might not be able to stray too far from the ley line. She was standing in the kitchen with me, smiling at me as she sipped some tea as well. Changing out of her dress from last night, she was now wearing jeans and a band shirt. Both were hilariously big on her, but she looked much more normal.“What if only I can see you? Everyone will think I have gone crazy.”Olivia chuckled and lifted the mug to her lips. “I think it might be too late for that.”I scoffed. “I’m serious, Olivia.”“I think you worry too much.”Shaking my head, I lif
“Dad! I’m going to head to bed. The munchkins are already down.”I looked up from my book on the couch and smiled at Nat. She kissed my cheek and headed up to her room. Liam plopped down next to me, putting his feet up on the coffee table.“It’s nice to be back home. If I have one more person call me Dr. Wright, I think I am going to quit school.”I chuckled. “You’re on the road to becoming a doctor. You should get used to it.”He shook his head. “It’s nearly as bad as Alpha.” His face scrunched up and I shook my head.“You are welcome to become Alpha anytime, son. Those boys will be the death of me already. Being Alpha at this point is just another nail in the coffin.”Liam glared at me. “Don’t say that. You still can beat everyone’s ass. Even the most advanced newbies can’t even come close.”“Have you tried wrangling those two alone? I think they would take out the whole training group if I let them loose after a single glass of juice.”Liam threw his head back and laughed. He had g
The grey wolf stopped for a moment; his head cocked to the side. My heart started to pound in my chest.“Nasir, that can’t be…”His head cocked to the other side this time, making his ears flop. The boys laughed and Xander, who was in front, scratched behind his ears. The wolf continued his circular path around the clearing.'Dad, tell me you are free right now.''I’m at the store, what’s up? Something wrong?'I bit my lip, unable to wrap my head around what was happening in front of me. If Ricky or Nasir was still alive, if he was still here, then Olivia would be as well. He was her pact. If she died so did he. But if this was him then it meant she was alive, too.'I need you to come over right now. Please. Hurry.''Heading out now.'I shut off the mind link and just sat, watching. After about ten minutes, the wolf laid down and flopped over. The boys laughed as they tumbled off his back and started to play around him. At first, they ran around in circles but when that got old, they
“Dad! Dad!”I looked up from my desk to see Xander and Zain barreling into my office. They still had their backpacks and shoes on. Pushing back in my chair, I turned to allow the both of them to jump into my lap. Smiling, I helped them sit on my lap and ruffled both their heads.“Did you boys have a good day at school?”They both nodded furiously.“We made drawings! Look! Look!” Zain pulled at his backpack when Xander shook his head.“No! Mine is better!”“Nuh uh! Mine is better!” Zain whined at his brother.Sighing, I shook my head. “How about we just see these drawings?”“Kay!” They chimed together and I chuckled.They were twins even if they weren’t identical. I was thankful that they weren’t. They were mischievous enough as it was. Xander was a carbon copy of me when I was younger. If you put my four year old photo next to him now, you would think we time traveled. Zain, though, looked so much like Olivia. Her bright eyes and hair. Even his mannerisms sometimes shocked me, seeing