(Siobhan’s P.O.V) “Do you want to talk about what happened last night?” Artis asks as we are driving to her sleuth to interview the cub’s parents. “No, I really don’t. Though, thank you guys for being there and staying with me.” I murmur. I never want to talk about my nightmares, they are always so vivid and they take a lot out of me emotionally. Artis and Preston don’t push the issue, they know it won’t do any good to try and pry the answers out of me. We pull up to the gates of the sleuth’s territory and the werebears at the gate allow us entry after confirming with their Alpha that we were welcome on the territory. “I will be escorting you to the family’s home, so please follow me.” A tall and burly warrior says before shifting into his bear and running ahead of our vehicle. We make our way through the expansive territory, covered in beautiful lush forest and the smell of pine was everywhere, soothing my mind and emotions. The warrior makes his way into a
(Siobhan’s P.O.V) We reconvened at our hotel suite with Camilla and Anders, and it didn’t come as a shock that they didn’t really find much at the crime scenes they had visited today. When Preston explained what he felt at the Johnson home, Camilla and Anders were shocked to say the least. “I need to go back to Eferhile and ask King Bayard for access to the royal archives. I know there are documents there that would have the information we need.” Preston says. “Okay, we’ll get you to the portal at Hallowed Manes. It’ll drop you in Màni but I know that Tiernan can get in touch with either Luna Queen Morrigan or Alpha King Rian to let them know that you will be coming through their portal.” I state, picking up my phone to call Patrick. “I wish there were more Fae clans here in the Human Realm, it would be so much easier to portal right into Eferhile.” Preston pouts. “Not my fault you Fae are so in love with the Lunar Realm.” I say with a laugh. After a few ri
(Siobhan’s P.O.V) I get the call from Patrick that Preston has permission from the Alpha King to use the portal to Màni. He’s seriously acting like a teenage girl when he found out the Luna Queen Morrigan would be escorting him to Eferhile because she wants to visit her family. Seriously, this grown-ass man squealed like a teenage girl finding out that she was going to a One Direction concert or something. Patrick sounded super weird on the phone though, speaking softer to me than he normally does and was actually sort of polite too. I’m not looking forward to taking Preston to the pack because my parents asked me to have lunch with them. We are taking, some downtime with the investigation until Preston comes back with information for us. Camilla, Artis, and Anders were just going to lounge at the hotel and be lazy, but I get to go have a super awkward lunch with my parents. Tala? Do you want to go for a run? She doesn’t answer. I haven’t felt her
(Siobhan’s P.O.V) I couldn’t sleep last night even after my intense workout, I just couldn’t shut off my brain—anxiousness surrounding having lunch with my parents, Preston going to the Lunar Realm, and my mate. I couldn’t feel Tiernan, nor could I feel his wolf Steele, it was like he was gone but not dead. If that makes any sense. So, waking up this morning at 6 in the morning meant that I needed coffee, lots and lots of coffee. Grabbing a mug, I pour myself a generous helping of the beautiful bean juice that gives me life. Taking a sniff, I let out a sigh. “Going to make love to your coffee mug?” I hear from behind me. Turning around, I see Anders standing in the kitchen with his arms folded across his chest and an amused smile spreading across his face. “Contemplating it.” I laugh out. I call down to room service for a breakfast buffet for everyone before we get our day going. Preston is literally bouncing around the suite, excited to see th
***TRIGGER WARNING*** (Siobhan’s P.O.V) Someone grabs my arms as my knees hit the floor, and I started striking out and kicking not knowing who it was. ”LET GO OF ME!! STOP IT! LET ME GO!” I scream, so loud the house shakes. I couldn’t see anything, I was blinded by the night in his dorm room: Wyatt, his friends, not being able to move or scream. My leg connects with a body part of someone, I hear a grunt of pain and I’m released. I curl in on myself and scream. It’s all I can do to protect myself…scream, someone will hear…scream, and someone will save me. “WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!?” I hear someone roar. The stomping of heavy shoes on the floor reaches my ears and, taking a breath, I smell him. Whiskey and campfire. “Tiernan,” I whisper. My screaming stops and I break into sobs as sparks spread through my body as I’m picked up and held gingerly to Tiernan’s broad chest. I try burrowing myself into him, wanting to be as close to
(Tiernan’s P.O.V) After escorting Preston to our portal, Steele and I began to feel Siobhan’s panic and fear which was odd considering she was just going to be having lunch with her family. I decide that I’m going to check on her just to make sure that everything is okay and when I pull up to the house all I hear are her screams. I run into the house to see my mate curled into a ball on the floor, screaming, trying to protect herself. My scent and our skin contact calms her down after a few minutes. She burrows into me like she couldn’t be close enough to me, and it makes Steele preen in my mind. When Siobhan calms down enough, she tells her story, Brian throwing a bar stool at the wall, everyone growling and sobbing. Then Lily had to go and open her fat fucking mouth, victim-blaming Si, and causing her to leave the house and go, Goddess, knows where. You better punish this bitch before I take control and rip her fucking throat out and spit in it. “Lily, you will be spe
(Siobhan’s P.O.V) And now I’m in heat. Fucking awesome. I couldn’t believe that I forgot that my heat cycle was coming up so soon and now here I am, begging my mate to touch me while I hump his leg. Oh well, could be worse I suppose. “No, kitten, I can’t touch you like this. Go get in the shower and turn it on cold.” Tiernan says through gritted teeth. “Goddess damn it, Ty! Just fuck me already!” I scream. You don’t want our mate remember? So why would he do you this favor? Shut up Tala! I don’t want to hear it. She was right though, I had all but rejected him so why would he be obliged to touch me and relieve this need. “Ty, I’m telling you, giving you consent, whatever the fuck you need to just fuck my brains out!” I yell as I strip myself of my clothes. Tiernan inhales sharply looking at my naked form, he runs his hand up my waist and to my breast, tingles shooting through me making me moan. “Ah, fuck it.” He growls as he crashes his lip
(Preston’s P.O.V) Using the portal at the Hallowed Manes Pack to enter the Lunar Realm in the Kingdom of Màni was going to be a highlight of my life because I get to meet the Luna Queen and Alpha King. I couldn’t help the giddy feeling and the almost girlish squeal that left my lips when Luna Queen Morrigan, belly round with their heir, greeted me with a warm smile and a handshake. “Oh, my apologies Your Majesty, I forget myself,” I state as I pull my hand from hers and quickly give a bow. “No worries, Preston, and please no formalities, it’s really annoying.” She giggles. “I’m so honored and humbled that you would be willing to escort me to Eferhile, it’s been a few years since I was last there,” I state as I offer her my arm, to walk up the stairs from the portal. “Oh please! I’m just excited to go back home and see my family. Between you and me, Rian has gone absolutely ape shit with this pregnancy.” She whispers conspiratorially in my ear. “I heard that mo grà.” A
Hi readers! Thank you so much for reading my work, I'm truly humbled! I will be adding book two about Artis and Alpha Brock to the end of this book per the recommendation of my editor. I will be starting that book in the next month or so when I finish up the sequel for "Ice Princess". So the status of this book will remain as "Ongoing" until I finish Artis and Alpha Brock's book. Thank you all so much for the support and love! I have no title idea's yet for Artis and Brock's book buuuuuut I'm sure I will think of something soon! --Sydney
(Artis’s P.O.V) Day after funeral pyres Sitting in the car with my mate, Alpha Brock Malone, was pure torture with his scent surrounding me, nearly suffocating me. He smelled delicious, leather and pine. It had been over a year since I had seen him. A year since I had spoken my official rejection. A year since he had softly said that he did not accept that rejection. Orsa, my bear, and I were slowly dying. I was having difficulty shifting and when I did, it was agony. Orsa stopped talking to me, I rarely heard from her and when I did, it was usually something snarky. I didn’t blame her though; I had taken her away from her mate. Brock hadn’t been doing much better, according to my brother, who happened to be his Gamma. He was angrier than he had ever been, his temper out of control to the point that the sleuth was beginning to fear him for all the wrong reasons. This was worrisome considering Brock Malone was a giant teddy bear, and I’m not saying that becaus
(Tiernan’s P.O.V) 5 months later “Come on, kitten. You can do it.” I murmur in her ear, as her grip tightens around my hand. She’d been in labor for the last day and a half, it was finally time to meet our baby. I had tried talking Siobhan into finding out if we were having a girl, but she wouldn’t budge on wanting to be surprised. Though we did pick out names for each sex: Imogen if the baby is a girl, and Cian if the baby is a boy. Her pregnancy had actually been relatively uneventful until she started having contractions at her last doctor’s appointment. He had timed them while we were there and he told us to check into the hospital. It took awhile but her water finally broke about an hour ago and she’d been pushing for the last half hour. I proposed to her a week after her Luna Ceremony, and of course both our families were there when it happened. It didn’t take long for my mother and Shelly to plan the most outrageous wedding. Siobhan wasn’t in the mood to even off
(Tiernan’s P.O.V) Siobhan was absolutely beautiful, dressed in gold and black, and looking like a Goddess damn snack. After we grasped hands and built that pack connection for her, I kissed her as if my life depended on it, and that’s when I smelled it…the subtle change in her scent. Her wildflower and honeysuckle scent had a hint of something else; cinnamon. She’s pregnant! Our mate is pregnant with our pup! Steele roars out, strutting around in the back of my mind. I don’t think she knows. She hasn’t said anything about feeling any type of nausea or anything like that. She needs to take a test, now. Before we go to the reception. How did we not realize the change this morning? Because you were too busy getting your dick wet and Tala was being a tease to me. Makes sense. We walk down the dais, hand-in-hand, making our way back up the aisle and into the packhouse. I pull her up towards our bedroom, and she gives me a puzzled look. “Tiernan, we don’t h
(Siobhan’s P.O.V) Day of Luna Ceremony I woke up with a moan, and the feeling of a hot tongue flicking my clit and two fingers in my pussy. “Good morning kitten,” Tiernan says, pulling his face away from my pussy for just a moment. “Good morning, Alpha.” I moan as his tongue goes back to working my clit. His tongue is drawing figure eights against my clit and his fingers are pounding into me, helping me reach that precipice of pleasure. Then he stops. I growl and glare down at him. “Who said you could stop?” I growl out. “Oh, is little kitten in charge? I don’t think so.” He says, before grabbing me around the waist and flipping me over. He grabs my hips and raises my ass right into the air before his hand comes down repeatedly on my ass. The pain eventually turns into pleasure and on the final smack, I cum. Hmm, who knew a spanking could get me off. I think to myself. “Now that that’s out of the way.” He growls, before slamming his cock in
(Siobhan’s P.O.V) Several days later Walking down the hallway towards the top of the stairs, I couldn’t help but look back on the last few days. Patrick and Camilla are now fully mated and marked. He admitted to being an asshole and jumping to conclusions about what Camilla would have wanted. Anders and High Priestess Winona are back at the Coven of the Crystal Rose, and Artis went back to her sleuth with Alpha Brock. There’s something about Alpha Brock though that makes it difficult to be around him for long periods of time. Like his presence is oppressive, suffocating. Artis doesn’t feel it but I do, it feels like when Tiernan gets angry and taps into his Celestial magic, his presence becomes oppressive as well. Preston and Julia have settled into life as a mated couple really well in Virginia. Julia is beyond ecstatic to be in the Human Realm learning things about our way of life, though it’s not much different from the Lunar Realm. She got a job working in the archive
(Siobhan’s P.O.V) After packing all up my apartment, Tiernan talked me out of calling my brother and told me it was best that I wait to talk to him in person. He said that Camilla coming back with us may put this whole situation to rest. So now we are on a private jet, heading back to California with Artis, Anders, Camilla, and Cat Cobain. Tiernan did his best to try and talk me into rehoming him, but that wasn’t going to happen. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone hate an animal so much in my life, but it seemed that the feeling was mutual with Cat Cobain. Tiernan had one of the warriors come and collect us in one of the pack’s SUVs. The ride back to the pack territory was full of tension, mostly because of Artis and Camilla. We pulled into the pack territory, where Winona was going to meet Anders and stay for the funeral pyres. Artis tenses next to me and I look through the windshield of the car to see Alpha Brock standing next to Patrick. “You okay?” I whisper to her.
(Siobhan’s P.O.V) I was going to kill Patrick! Here he was, bitching about me rejecting Tiernan and he goes and does the same to Camilla! “I’m going to kill him.” I growl out. “Woah, that’s premeditation right there, Siobhan. Keep it to yourself.” Nerina says. “Who does he think he is!? Rejecting his mate but coming at me all types of ways when I was rejecting Tiernan!? That mother fucking weasel!” I shout. “Okay, this meeting has come completely off the rails. Agent Williams, you need to calm down, now. We will finish the meeting then you can pick a spot in the rose garden to practice your…gardening.” Nerina says, using air quotes for the word ‘gardening’. I couldn’t help but go quiet, only blinking in astonishment. Did she just tell us to practice murdering our brother? Um, honestly? I have no idea and that scares me. “Now that everyone is calmed down, I will be reaching out to the FBI field office in Northern California for three transfers. I assume
(Siobhan’s P.O.V) We arrived in Virginia and when we arrived at baggage claim, there was a driver waiting for all of us. “Did you order a car for us?” “No, I ordered a limo for everyone. No point ordering separate cars, that’s just a ridiculous expense.” Tiernan answered. He greets the man wearing a suit and holding a sign that says “Hathaway/Williams” and tells him that we will have half a dozen bags of luggage. Once we all piled into the limo, we were off, dropping everyone at their various houses saving Camilla and me for last since we lived in the same complex. I was excited to see Cat Cobain, getting pictures from my neighbor Doris just wasn’t the same. If Steele eats Cat Cobain, I’m chopping his balls off and turning them into a coin purse. He won’t touch Cat, and if he did, I’ll help with castration. I was anxious to see Tiernan and Steele’s reaction to Cat Cobain since basically all werewolves, except for myself and Camilla, had issue