I was in the passenger seat and Bryan was driving. The windows were rolled down and my arm was hanging out. We had taken the Jeep just in case I managed to pick up her scent. At this point though, we were four hours into the drive and I hadn’t even picked up a whiff of her. The patrol also was checking in but said she had left the territory a couple hours ago.
“I can’t believe she’s that fucking fast.” Bryan mused as he wove through traffic. “She’s the damn wind.”
“It just means we might catch up with her in the city.” I looked out the window. “If she makes it that far.”
There was a silence for a while. Most of the ride had been. Bryan was still fairly mad at me and even literally kicked me into the passenger seat. He had the radio on for a bit but after hour two, they started to play the same songs and he turned it down. I just focused my eyes out the window.
“I got to hear her sing.”
My eyes snapped to him, he was looking ahead, both hands o
I was leaning against a tree, waiting for Bryan to come down the road. I was exhausted and so was Cato. I felt myself hanging on by a thread. The snapping and pull of the mate bond had only gotten worse. Especially when Cato had finally picked up her scent in the early morning hours. We looped around and followed it. It stopped at a payphone about an hour from where Bryan had dropped me off. But then the scent just disappeared. I figured she had used the payphone to call a ride and the scent disappearing into the vehicle. I was frustrated enough to destroy the payphone but I had looped back around. I looked at my watch and rubbed my eyebrows. Bryan was taking his sweet ass time. It was already 9am and I had called him an hour ago to pick me up. I could feel the darkness under my eyes imbed itself deeper and I just wanted to sleep. It wasn’t until another half hour passed before I heard the Jeep come down the road, turning off the road. The front door slammed shut and
I slept restlessly. Either I was wake, feeling the twinge of the mate bond or the feeling of being alone or dreaming of her. Dreaming of reaching out to her as she left out my door but she was always just out of reach. Bryan and Hector took turns watching me. When I woke up from the last time, both of them were dressed up. “Alpha, we can go without you if it would be easier.” I shook my head and sat up. Rubbing my eyes, I stood up. Went to bathroom and splashed water on my face. I looked like shit. Getting dressed, I took a deep breath. Weakness had crept into me and I felt as if I had aged twenty years, feeling as though my arms carried 50 extra pounds as I lifted them to button the cuffs of my shirt. We pulled up to the club just after 9pm. We were a little late this time. The bouncer in front wasn’t leaning against the podium but was standing holding the list. His eyebrow raised up he watched the three of us walk up.&nbs
***Auri’s POV*** The moment Logan walked in I was acutely aware of him. I didn’t need my eyes. The mate bond, my ears and my nose picked him up immediately from when he walked in. Bryan was with him and a scent I hadn’t smelled in years. I knew I had run into his pack before on one of my odd jobs but it made me smile that one of them happened to come with them. Morgan ended up escorting them personally to the lounge and made me laugh. He was probably trying to intimidate them. I wondered if it worked. Max and I finished the song and we started up the next one. I closed my eyes and let myself be taken by the song. 'Auri, can I talk to Cato?' 'Kai, you can do whatever you want. I would never stop you to speak to Cato.' 'I just didn’t know if we were giving them the cold shoulder or not.' I laughed at her. 'Oh, we are. But you don’t have to give Cato the cold shoulder.' We continu
I smiled at Logan. I was right when I figured Hector would tell him about me being the Huntress. “It’s not a story for now. Maybe later. When I’m drunk. Very drunk.” Logan looked at me with puppy dog eyes and rolled mine. “Not gonna work on me. Not even an Alpha rolling over and begging. Like I said. Lots of alcohol.” Pulling him up off the floor, I looked him over closer. “You’re weak…” I let my words hang in the air. “I couldn’t eat really…or sleep…” He trailed off. “Well, we will have to just make sure you fill back out again. I’ll make you chunky again.” Logan raised his eyebrows. “Again? Mate, there is nothing that was or is chunky about me. I am a lean mean fighting machine.” “Sure, sure. Whatever you say.” I turned from him but he grabbed my hand and spun me to him. “Where do you think your going?” He growled as his lips met mine. At first it was tender, sweet, and innocent, but as soon as I kiss
I cursed as I fumbled with the back of my dress. My hands were shaking and I was nervous. I couldn’t hold onto the zipper in the back to pull it up. Stretching my arms more, I tried to reach it again, closing my eyes concentration. My heart leapt into my throat when I felt the electrical touch of Logan’s fingers run down my arm. They also ran down my back and my shoulder blades shifted as his soft touch trailed down to my open zipper. His fingers played with the zipper before finally pulling it up for me. I looked at him and my breath was taken away. He was gorgeous, his light blue eyes shone against the midnight blue suit. He was wearing a silver shirt, the top two buttons undone. His hair was slicked back and his eyes were shinning as they looked at me. “I think if I saw you in the forest like this, I would think I was being visited by the moon goddess.” Logan was breathless as he kissed my mark and made me shiver. “Logan, you aren’t supposed to be here.” I
“Auri! Are you in heat?” Logan asked again. I couldn’t answer him. I didn’t know what he was talking about. All I knew is I was on fire. I heard him curse again and he started to take off his jacket and then his shirt. My cheek rested against his bare chest and it was like I was leaning against a piece of ice. A sigh escaped me as I placed my hands on his abs, feeling the coolness of his skin. Logan picked me up and carried me through the forest. “Hold on, Auri. You’ll be alright.” A calm washed over me, helped me breathe as Logan kissed my head. Logan opened up the kitchen door and slammed it shut with his foot. He carried me up to our room. Placing me on the bed, he pulled away and I screwed my eyes shut as the fire came back. “Hold on, my love. You chose a hell of a night.” He mumbled and I heard slamming of drawers and the bathwater running. I couldn’t think. My skin burned so bad. It was on fire. I elongated my claws and started scratchin
My heat had lasted for a full week. Logan took off another three days after, and the two of us rested. We were both exhausted but he still held me tight as we rested. But today, I got up and Logan was already gone from the bed. Sighing, I sat up. To say I was sore was an understatement. I felt like I needed to stretch for days but no relief came. 'Well, you did exercise for a week straight.'Kai chuckled. 'I don’t wanna talk about it.'I groaned. Getting up, I took a long shower. The hot water steamed up the bathroom and I felt my muscles relax a little. Turning off the water, I took my time as I blew dry my hair and combed through it. Braiding my hair, I dug around in my closet for some sweats and a t-shirt. I only paused to listen to the house, it didn’t sound like anyone was home, so I just walked out without a bra. Bryan and Hector did come back to the house after my heat but I guessed they were out. Which was kind of unusual t
“Hector, I’m bored.” I was pacing the living room. Hector was leaning in the chair, reading a local paper. I had already done all the paperwork in Logan’s office, cleaned the house, reorganized the refrigerator, and finished a book. Logan was gone most of the time, along with Bryan. Between the businesses and the pack, we really only saw each other in passing or at night when we were in bed. It had been a few weeks but I got the distinct feeling that I was being kept in the house but it was starting to drive me insane. “Hector!” I whined and he flipped the page on his paper. “I’m here to protect you Luna, not entertain you.” He smirked Huffing, I left the living room and stomped up to the bedroom. I sat on the edge of the bed, arms crossed. 'You know, he was giving you a hint.'Kai popped up. 'What do you mean a hint?' She chuckled. 'You can do whatever you want, he’s only there to protect you. Which
Hey everyone. I can't believe we are here. We made it. This is truly the end. This journey has been an epic one and I am both happy and sad all of you could ride this crazy ride with me. It took a long time to get here. Much longer than I wanted, felt needed to, but here we are and it's done. The King's Alpha has finished. I'm sure everyone has the STRONGEST of opinions on my choices of where to go but in the end, I think, I always knew where it was going to end up. And it was here. It just was a struggle to find the right roat to get there. I want to say thank you. To all the mad ones. To all the sad ones. To all the happy ones. To the ones who have stuck by me and given me notes of encourangement through this. To the ones who have left comments telling me that they won't ever read anything of mine again because I haven't finished this story. I thank each and every one of you. Because it means that at some point, my story made you feel something. Made you fall in love or hate
I sat on the balcony overlooking the plains and forest behind it. I’d taken a liking to getting up early, smelling the morning dew as the world slowly woke up. A shot of cappuccino and a bowl of yogurt with fruit and just a drizzle of honey was on the table in front of me. My tablet also was sitting but there wasn’t much in the way of news to capture my attention away from the view.Rowan had called me yesterday from Egypt. He moved there after he found his mate. At first, I thought they might want to both step up as Beta, much like AJ and Jax did back in the day but they started to follow their own paths. Rowan was far more subdued. Taking after the bookworm side of Vale and maybe my introverted side. Reagan didn’t. Reagan was a fists first fight the world kind of girl. She stayed with Golden Moon, though she dragged her poor mate with her wherever she went.She was the Alpha King Nathan’s, Beta and had been for many years now. I had four grandkids and I got to see them as often as I
“Mom!” Syf and Freya both threw their hands around me and I held them close.Týr stood but didn’t say anything. Logan stayed seated next to him, his eyes unfocused as he looked ahead. I wiped the cheeks of my two girls and smiled.“Come on, Vale would be mad that we cried this much over him.”Freya chuckled. “He would say we are being over dramatic about it. Or that we were thinking of other stuff so we would tear up and make him feel better.”I nodded. “We all know it was you two who made him cry most of them time.”“I…we…” Syf looked at her twin before the two of them chuckled. “You’re right.”“I know, I’m right. I’m your mother.”Freya snorted. “Not looking like that you aren’t. I can’t believe you’re de-aging. That’s crazy, Mom. If I didn’t see the effects in you and Hector I would say you were lying.”I tried to smile but it just couldn’t get there. Admitting how much pain I went through wasn’t something I was going to dump here and now. They didn’t need to know. It was the same
We stood gathered on the Italian countryside. It was cloudy but there would be no rain. For the first time in a long time, everyone stood together. Werewolves, witches, vampires, and fey stood side by side to pay their respects to the Alpha King. Vale was encased in stone now. A sarcophagus that stood on the hill of the memorial spot we had chosen. It was carved with running wolves following the one wolf, their king. People came forward and spoke. Spoke of how Vale touched their lives in some way or another. Not just for him though. For Jax, for the wolves we lost in the battles and the ones who went back to their own packs. For Wendy and in my heart all the ones who had lost their lives to Oran’s sick and twisted desires.Hector was sitting on my right, his hand on my knee. Both my hands though were clasped in Zeke’s. Reagan and Rowan were sitting behind us with our kids. Luckily, all four of them made a complete recovery. Only certain things came up, sometimes being alone in a dark
Hector and I stayed by Vale’s side for a while. He held me together as I threatened to fall to pieces. After a long time, I finally spoke. “Oran is dead. Vale incapacitated him and I dusted him. He’s ash in the wind.”“He’s gone. For good.”“But at what cost, Hector? Was the cost worth it? Jax is dead. Wendy is dead. Vale…my son…my king…”Absently, I leaned down and moved a hair out of Vale’s peaceful face. My jaw clenched as I held back another wave of sobs, trying to keep myself together. My body started to shake and Hector turned me away from my son. I looked at him, his eyes as dark and stormy as the clouds above, raining tears down his cheeks. It broke me. Broke my control and I cried out.He put both hands on my face and held me, my hands covering his. It was my fucking fault. It was my fault. My Vale was dead. Our Vale, was gone. Joining the list of ones I loved who left me alone. Absently, my mind thought to the pain of living painfully long and outliving your family. I had co
*** Auri’s POV ***I had killed nine of the monsters that Oran kept in the arena beneath the castle. Nine of them, each one as mutilated and grotesque as the next. They were powerful though and it had taken me too long to kill them all. Too long put them all out of their misery as their minds begged me over and over again to do. Uriel had reached out to me and told me that he had the pups and had left the castle. All that was left was the battle Vale and Zeke were currently fighting.Running as fast as I could, I slid down the hall. I knew the High Council intended that Vale was going to rule inside the castle with them, but I didn’t know they had already built the throne room for him. When Vale first mind linked me about the room and that Oran was waiting for them, I wasn’t necessarily surprised. He was, if anything, a dramatic asshole.I stopped in front of two huge doors that were on the north side of the castle. Using my power, I touched the wood and it turned into a pile of wood
I wiped the blood out of my eyes, trying to focus on the where Oran was in the room. Vale was standing near the center of the room. He didn’t look nearly as bad as I did but that wasn’t saying much. Oran was playing with us but we still couldn’t compare to his strength. Holding up his broken sword, Vale parried Oran’s knife but was thrown back with the power behind the hit. Staggering up, I ran, only shifting my claws since I couldn’t shift my whole body anymore. I caught Oran’s arm as he was making a stab for Vale. My claws dragged across his skin and he dropped the knife.“Well, aren’t you the useful little mate.”I put up my arms to cover my face, sensing an attack either by his fists or foot. Vale though, grabbed the knife and me, pulling us back away and out of reach of the strike. We both were breathing heavily and on our knees. “Vale…we need…”He nodded. “I know. I know, Z. Just hold out a little longer.”Vale lifted up off the floor before brandishing the knife as his own wea
The castle looked empty. At least walking into it from the now ridiculously large exploded hole. Auri, King Uriel, Vale and I stepped over the rubble and the dead bodied of the witches to enter it. Everything was eerily quiet, as though no one had been in here at all. Had all the forces emptied out the different exits just now? Or were they lurking somewhere deeper?“The castle has an underground area as well, correct? If I saw the building plans correctly.” King Uriel looked at the three of us.Vale was the one who answered. “Correct. It has a full underground stadium area and most likely where they are keeping the pups. Or in one of the catacomb areas. It’s a huge labyrinth down there.”He hummed. “We should split up.”Auri frowned. “I don’t know. We don’t know what’s ahead. What we are up against.”“I think he is right, Mom. I think we need to do this. Uriel, if you would take the upper floors. I have a feeling there will be more witches and some other vampires who are able to deal
As expected, the wolves came first. Their snarling and pounding of their paws drowned out every other sound in the forest. Our side had quieted as we waited for their attack. Auri stepped up though, out of the line. Her fur rippled like water as an immense flow of power left her, filling the forest. She barked out a single command and all the wolves we could see coming towards us shifted to their human forms. The sound of their bones assembling back into their body on a massive scale reverberated through the forest.Hector raced forward ahead of her, chomping the closest wolf’s, now confused human’s, head off. It was all that was needed. Our forces surged forward and around us. Vale started to go with them but my paws were planted firmly in the ground. Stopping and turning, Vale looked at me with his gold eyes.‘Can you do this, Z? It’s okay if…’My eyes widened as a wolf came from behind, leaping right at Vale as his back was turned to me. I stepped forward, one step, then another. S