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Chapter Twenty
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2024-10-29 19:42:56
Veronica Black Gear readers. I hope you are enjoying the story so far. Chapters are going to be a little bit longer as secrets and skeletons come pouring out of the closet. Thank you for your continued support. Your gems, comments, reviews and thumbs ups make my work easier for other readers to find and allows me to do the job I love. As always, Happy reading, VB xx
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Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Twenty-One
Zaine’s POVI try to hide my frown when I look down and see her skin stretching and splitting around me. It’s shiny and thin and painted red with her blood. When I try to pull out, I can see the head of my beast pulling against the tight skin holding him there. Her pussy has snapped tightly behind the rim of his helmet and the only way to get him out is to hurt her again.I shouldn’t have let my imagination run away with me. The thought of her gushing all over him was too tempting. When she said she left like she needed to pee, I knew what I could make her body do and I wanted to feel it. I needed to feel a connection with her beyond the feint sparks of the moon magic that tethers our souls. Something tangible.The only way I can make her pain less is to keep her wet, make her cum again and pull out quickly whilst she is distracted. It’s all I can think of to help her through this.She doesn’t look angry. She looks scared and in pain and the tears in her eyes make my chest hurt.“You
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Twenty-Two
Torrin’s POVI nod my head and watch as Alpha Zaine carries Sophia into the guest room and lays her gently on the bed. He stands over her for a few seconds, just looking at her. after bending down to give her a kiss on her forehead he pulls the duvet up to her chin then grabs a pair of bottoms from one of the drawers.I mind link Mrs Crook to let her know the jig is up and she needs to get herself out here to head off the beast before he comes banging her door down looking for answers. I knew we should have told him everything sooner. This is going to go down like a lead balloon. Keeping our secret would have been easy if she was fated to anyone but him, and our deception is not going to win us any favours with Zaine.“Mrs Crook will be here in just a moment Alpha. We should take this into your office, so she doesn’t overhear.” I look over his shoulder at the sleeping princess, then back to him. I can feel the tension radiating off him and even my wolf chooses to remain quiet in my he
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Luca’s POV I listen in disbelief as Torrin and Mrs Crook blow my happy, peaceful existence apart piece by piece. “Princess?” George chokes on the one word that is also stuck in my head. I remember when that night, when they all arrived. It was the women first, Mrs Crook, Genevieve and Sophia. They were soaking wet, covered head to toe in mud and their arms torn and grazed by the branches of the trees they had run through. Torrin and Sebastian came ambling towards the group of us who had gathered to help the women and find out what had happened. When it was just them, we thought perhaps they had fled their pack to escape abuse, but on closer inspection, the clothes they wore had been through the wars, but they were not the clothes you see an omega dressed in. Torrin and Sebastian shifted back to their human forms as they approached, I only saw their wolves for a split second, and until now I thought I had been seeing things, I was tired from a long shift on patrol and the pissing d
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Twenty-Four
Zaine’s POV “Alpha. The Luna is awake.” Torrin’s voice echoes in my head. I have only made it about half way to the southern border but my wolf puts on his breaks and all four paws dig into the dirt as we come skidding to a halt.“Is she okay?” I ask. I know I should be with her after what happened. I hurt her then left. I was hoping she would sleep long enough for me to at least deal with one of the two threats hanging over our head.My wolf wants to hunt. He reasons that the blue fuck hiding in the forest means she can never be completely safe on our land. The guards and Torrin have despatched his rogues within minutes of them crossing the border, but now that Sophia has her wolf Blue Blade is only going to step up his campaign. That is what I would do in his shoes.I want to kill him too. I want to see him laying at my wolf’s feet in a mangled and tattered mess. Not only for Sophia, although she is now the force that drives me, but for the men and women we have lost to this previo
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Sophia’s POV When Hattie woke me up to give me a hot chocolate then leave without saying a word, I was still half asleep and not sure what was going on or where I was. The last thing I remembered was being in pain with his beast stuck inside me, more pain when he pulled it out, then pleasure that completely took me over. I couldn’t breathe, my legs shook and stiffened and moved independently of my mind then I saw white.Now I’m back in the visitor suite with Beta Luca, Torrin, and Mrs Crook hovering around outside the door which has been left ajar. Nobody has said anything to me, but the worried looks on their faces and constant whispers and glances in my direction can’t be good. Mrs Crook never shows her concerns, she is the one who maintains calm and has always made me feel safe, even when I knew I wasn’t, not really.When I asked where Zaine was, Torrin said he had gone for a run but is on his way back. Did I disappoint him? I’m sure those other women could handle their Alpha, the
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Torrin’s POV“Welcome back Abe.” My welcome is met with a grunt and nod of his head. He looks tired and battered from his five day run through the mountains. We won’t be getting anything more than out of him until he has had a rest and got some warm food in his gut.I have missed the sullen fuck since Zaine sent him out again, and hadn’t expected his return until spring at the earliest. When he announced his arrival as he came back onto pack land, the lead weight in my gut lightened ever so slightly. Whatever we are facing from the Blue Bastard to the south, as Luca has taken to calling him, and Blue Moon to the north, it will be easier to hold our own and maybe even come out on top with Abernathy on our side.He and I are the pack’s oddballs. We are both not born of this pack and found ourselves thrown together by a rolling ball of circumstances neither one of us could avoid. We both prefer solitude and to work alone, but surprisingly to both of us, we work well as a team.Don’t get
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Abernathy’s POV This shit storm sure crept up on me. How have eighteen years flown by so quickly? Torrin has no idea how much I know, or what plans and redundancies have been playing out around him unseen. Alpha Theo and King Sebastian left nothing to chance when it came to the princess and her future. I’m not sure how much he has learned about my past or how I came to be Beta of Scarlet Moon all those years ago, but now that one secret is out, I doubt it will be long before all my shit is laid bare. I wanted to tell him back then, after seeing him suffer so much loss I wanted to tell him he was not alone and that I knew the pain he lived with day in, day out. Theo swore me to secrecy the day he told me who our new pack members were, and insisted I teach Torrin everything I know. I couldn’t tell him who I was, where I came from or that I knew anything about him and his past. It was hard at first, but as I got to know Torrin I could see a bit of myself in there and knew how to reach
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Twenty-Eight
Zaine’s POV “I know it’s a shock. Tell me what you’re thinking sweetheart. How can I help you deal with this?” her silence is scaring the shit out of me. I thought she would scream, or cry, or laugh. Any reaction would be better than this. Even the continousl hum of our bond seems to have frozen, which sends a chill down my spine.“Come on. Let’s get you dried off.” I talk to her as soothingly as I can manage, even though I don’t expect a response. When I look into her eyes, the lights are on but nobody’s home. Her hand is cold in mine as I wrap her in a towel and lead her into the bedroom. Is this what actual, physical shock looks like?“This doesn’t change anything Sophia. You are still mine and I am yours.” I reassure myself as much as her. “If you don’t want to act on this, then we won’t… but your wolf might feel differently when she is unbound, and I want you to be prepared for that. Sweetheart, please say something.” My nerves are shot to pieces. It feels like I’m losing her. H
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Sophia’s POV It would be impossible and maybe even foolish to try to please everyone. I doubt there is a single person here who isn’t owed a pound of flesh by the monster. Ari constantly reminds me that as the Queen, there will be times that I cannot please everyone and that my duty is to do what’s best, not what’s easiest or sits well with my own ideals.Of course I want blue moon to heal, and part of that healing process is giving the wolves the justice they seek. After this we can move forward. It’ll take time, and the two packs merging is likely to keep everything up in the air for a while, then there is the matter of what to do about the humans and other people Acheron has been holding in his dungeon.Torrin means well and he has a point. “Honestly, the thought had already occurred to me that this plan could be a perfect opportunity for someone to kill me. The thing is, I know there will always be people who want me gone, it’s the story of my life, but I cannot hide if I want
Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Seventy-Three
Torrin’s POV Well strike me down where I stand. The old codgers family lives. Seeing the pure delight on Sophia’s face was indescribable. Everyone around us saw it too. They saw the true heart of their queen. There will have been doubters amongst them, no matter how encouraging Wayne’s reports to Sophia have been. The reports I received were less... censored. I told him not to make the queen aware of the men who threatened her life before fleeing Blue Moon altogether. I have no doubt in my mind that the traitors will regroup and return, intent on continuing the usurpers reign of terror. There was even talk of some of the men challenging her for the throne. As ludicrous as that would have been, I have no doubt that many people here have lost their wits from living under Acheron’s rule for so long. I know that Sophia would grin and bear it, if she knew about the threats, but she already has the weight of the world on her shoulders. We will cross that bridge when we come to it.
Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Seventy-Two
Cronin’s POV My chest might explode. The instant my eyes settle upon her face, I’m sure my heart stopped beating. I can’t breathe, the air is too thin to sustain me.The world around me grows muffled and I’m barely aware of Torrin and Luca stood either side of me. My guts bubble with disbelief and I fear I may throw up right where I stand making even more of a spectacle of myself.All this time I stayed away, unable to face the pain of returning to an empty home. Years of my life I have wasted and all this time it was a lie. They are alive. Adriana and Beth are alive. Jackson swore blind that he had seen their bodies swinging from the gate when he and some of the others came back one night to attempt a rescue. If I had set foot back on this land the king would have known and killed them for sure. So, I entrusted their rescue to the only person I could.He didn’t spare me any details upon his fruitless return, even down to the description of the moonstone necklace I gave Beth whe
Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Seventy-One
Sophia’s POV Is this what my life has been leading me towards? The murder of my parents? The pain, the hunger, the hopelessness of my late childhood? Part of me knows everything happens for a reason, the other part is angry that so much was lost to get to this point.There was pain in the eyes of the people who attacked our convoy on the outskirts of the city. Well, pain and distrust. Wayne has been keeping me apprised of everything happening in the city centre, but he never once mentioned the unrest near the border. Maybe he doesn’t know. I imagine he has had his hands full, but it doesn’t seem like him, to have overlooked those who have obviously suffered the most.I will be sure to send some of our people back to the run down, outlying community, to bring food and resources whilst we do what we can to undo the damage done by Acheron and his men. As our car rolls through the castle gates and into a massive courtyard, I get my first glimpse of where I was born. Of course I have
Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Seventy
Zaine’s POV It wasn’t even a decision really. I have known for some time that my pack and I would end up in Blue Moon. I hadn’t dared to hope we would be here, and at such an advantage, so soon. We have been planning for a hostile takeover, stocking supplies, preparing for the worst whilst praying for the best.Thank heavens none of the visiting Alphas or their people were harmed, and they took their leave with very few questions. Sophia really showed herself as the Queen she is, by reassuring everyone that their questions would soon be answered, but for now they should return to their pack and assure their people that all is well. She was obviously disappointed that the celebrations had to be cancelled and that she wouldn’t be able to meet and get the measure of our guests. I’ll surprise her with the ball to end all balls once we have sorted everything here. It looks like we will have a lot to do, and the reception we got from the outlying town doesn’t inspire much hope.“What are
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Aggie’s POV My body is being jostled about and my old bones can’t take much more. I don’t remember how I got here, or even where here is. I think I’m in a car. The light keeps changing on the other side of my closed eyes, flickering between light and dark like a strobe. “How long do you think it will be until she wakes?” I hear Torrin’s voice beside me.“How the fuck should I know?” Abe snaps back. “Will you two pack it in, we have a long drive, leave her to rest.” Soph sounds just like her mother, oh how I miss her. I can only imagine how Abe must be feeling. When I told him that my body would grow weaker the longer all those souls were crammed inside me, he only hesitated for a minute or so before sticking his blade in my side and releasing the building pressure.I’m glad. I underestimated how much of a strain they would put on me. If he had waited, even a few hours, I doubt I would have had the strength to heal. I know, it sounds dramatic, but I really nearly died. That is not
Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Sixty-Eight
Sophia’s POV I am so unbelievably ready for this to all be over.When I woke up and felt the change inside of me, I knew there was only one way this shit show would end. Alcmene was strong, there is no doubt in that , but my new wolf, my true wolf, is different. She is strong but not in the maniacal way her predecessor was. My true wolf, Lia, is ready to burn it all to the ground and begin again. I think I see her point. There is so much poison, fear and hatred festering amongst our people. I just can’t allow the innocent to suffer along with the guilty. Some people do terrible things to survive, does that make them terrible people? I don’t know.“Blue Moon must be cleansed Sophia. It is the root of the evil.” Lia pleads with me to see her reasoning.“Blue Moon is my birth pack and where this all started. My parents were not evil, their kingdom is not evil. Acheron is the root, not the innocents who lived under him waiting for the axe to fall. I will not punish them Lia.” I hate tha
Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Sixty-Seven
Acheron’s POVThe musty stench of dirt and mold is familiar to me. It stinks of decay and death, just like my own dungeons. I can’t sense my beast. What did he do to me?“What have you done? I am your king, you will die for this.” I scream as anger floods me. The thick iron bars between me and the arsehole betas is all that stands between me and vengeance. They took my wolf. How the fuck did they take my wolf?What is Cronin doing here? That fool was killed by my pet rogues years ago.“You are no king of mine. Our queen will decide your fate after the party, and I... can’t... wait, to carry out your sentence myself.” George comes close to the bars and snarls his threat in my face. He has no idea what I am capable of. My men will follow their orders, I have no doubt of that. If taking Zaine and his little bitch down is the last thing I ever do, it will be worth it.“Your Queen,” I snort, almost chocking on laughter. “Your Queen is weak, just like her father. Weakness has no place on t
Alpha Zaine’s Rejection Chapter Sixty-Six
George’s POV“Where is Alpha Zaine?” A purple vein pulses right next to Acheron’s temple as he demands to know Zaine’s whereabouts yet again. If I didn’t tell him the first six times he asked, I have no idea what makes him think the seventh time would be the charm.I do know that whatever Aggie is going to do, is not something Acheron should know anything about. I sent Frankie to keep my pain in the arse and her meddling sidekick in their rooms and out of harms way. Maybe they will give him a little taste of what I’ve been putting up with. More than one man here has found it amusing, watching me pull my hair out over the little Imp and her antics. To be honest I was close to throttling her myself more than once, but now that there is real and present danger on our land and in our home, my mind is on her more than I ever thought it would be.Acheron’s rancid breath warms my face and his canines elongate in front of my eyes. Luca looks as if he wants to pull the crazy off me, but a subt
