I quickly fumbled for my phone.
“Bryan.”
‘Coffee work?’
“He just left.”
‘What?’
‘I…I…” I stuttered still in shock as I looked out the window. “I had my music on and I started to sing. I didn’t realize it. But halfway through the song, he pulled over. He just threw it into park, opened the door, and just left. He took his wolf form and disappeared into the forest.”
‘You’re sitting alone in the car right now? He just left you alone?’
“Yeah…”
‘What the hell?’
“It was a rough day. A lot happened with my family. He was livid but I don’t know what to do. Do I go after him?”
‘No. Get in the drivers seat. Continue back home. I don’t want you alone in a vulnerable spot. You’re in between territories and a Luna is fair game from a lot of enemies. Shit. What the hell is he thinking?’
I unbuckled my seat and crawled over the center console. I got into the driv
I looked at Bryan. “You know, funny enough we are. The ass just left me in the car on the side of the road. Alone. I need to kick some sense into him.” ‘Well, he looks like he’s had an interesting go of it today. My boys found him passed out in the forest. Butt naked.’ I sighed and turned the stove off. “Is he at the club?” ‘Yeah. He wasn’t too far away so we figured it would be best to bring him here.’ “My stupid mate. The things I have to do.” “I think I’ll stay behind for this one.” I looked at Bryan, a little confused and hurt. “Fine. Look after the pack. I’ll be back.” I grabbed a granola bar from the cupboard and headed out the door. I jumped in the Mercedes just because I knew the seat was where I needed it. I munched on the cereal bar as I drove like Morgan had taught me. It only took me four hours and was about 11pm when I pulled up. I tossed the keys to the valet and Fr
***Logan’s POV*** I bolted awake only to be met with a splitting headache. Looking around, I was lying on the living room couch. Bryan was sitting across from me in the recliner, his tablet in his lap. “Morning cupcake. How you feeling?” “Like a herd of elephants just ran over my head.” “Damn, Luna has a hell of a right hook.” A smiled played on his face. “What?” Bryan closed the case on his tablet and leaned forward. “Let’s play a game. Its call the ‘Lets See what Alpha remembers in the last 24 hours’ game.” He seemed annoyed, almost angry. “What do you remember about yesterday morning?” I squinted my eyes. “I remember….waking up next to Auri. I had a phone conference in the morning. So I got up, got dressed, made coffee, and had the leftover sandwich Auri made.” He clapped enthusiastically. “One point! You’re already doing better than last time we played.” Sarcasm was dripping from his words. “What’s ne
***Auri’s POV*** Over the next few months, we dealt with the increasing rogue attacks. None of them were as big as the one the day of Ty’s baby shower, but they were still exhausting. Logan wouldn’t let me out though to help in the field. Instead, I took up my place at his desk in taking care of all the pack and business paperwork. I had become well versed in everything that had to do with his businesses. He trusted me now to just take care of it if I felt comfortable doing so. But as the months went on, I felt increasing anxious about Morgan. The High Council was not fun. They were a collection of overseers, or they liked to think of themselves as protectors of the peace between supernatural beings and even humans. They liked to make decisions, thinking that they were making them on behalf of their entire race. But corruption was deep and you had beings who were over a thousand years old. It just created a lot of headache for everyone. Not to mention
“No Auri. I’m not letting you go without an escort.” Hector was standing in the corner of the room, Bryan in the other. I was leaning against the front of Logan’s desk and he was sitting in his chair behind it. We had already had the discussion about leaving for a week a couple days ago. It was met with some pushback but now I was hitting a roadblock. “Logan, I’m going to be more protected there than I will be here! We don’t even need to worry about rogue attacks there!” “Auri, I’m not changing my answer.” “Logan, you have kept me under surveillance for five fucking months. I gave up complaining about it. I am asking you for one week. With my Papa. Surrounded by vampire and werewolf guards. I’m not pulling Hector or Bryan to sleep on the couch for a week while I’m trying to take care of Morgan!” Logan pinched the bridge of his nose and it ticked me off even more. “Auri, you aren’t under surveillance. We are doing it to protect you as my Luna.
I was pacing in the suite. Papers were strewn about on the dinning table. A few of them were being held down by an ashtray that long since needed to be emptied. Morgan sat on the other side of the dinning table. His head was in his hands, a cigarette still burning between his fingers. “Okay, let me go through all of this bullshit that has been served us.” Morgan just nodded some of the ash falling onto the paper below. “The BloodHunter Coven has been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Keeping the ideals that humans were meant to feed them and they are the next in the evolution. They kill without thought and it wasn’t until they have taken over three major cities across the US that the High Council is requesting help.” I turned on my heel and paced back the way I came. “We have, from an unknown source, that there is compound out in the middle of fucking nowhere. It’s currently housing an Elder as well as his ‘son’ who is currently
I unhooked the first grenade and tossed it into the compound. It exploded and the heat from it made my eyes water and burn. Damn these things were potent. Jumping, I cleared the 10ft wall cleanly and tossed another grenade on the incoming group of vampire. I watched this time as the vampires bodies disintegrated into ash. Those who only were partially hurt were screeching. The entire compound was in chaos now, just as I wanted. Fucking hell it was hot though. 'Auri, toss one on the other side of the compound! So they think there are multiple people!' I nodded and lobbed the grenade over the main building and waited for a moment before the ground shook with the explosion on the other side. Adjusting my angle, I threw another one more west of the last one, still lobbing it over the main building. More screams and the smoke billowed up into the sky, blotting out the sun. There were a few vampires still standing i
I attacked when he was mid shift. He managed to swipe me me away though with his changing hand and I flew back, slamming into the wall. I coughed up blood as I tried to catch my breath. My knives had fallen out of my hands and I just took a deep breath before standing back up. “Shit. You’re an ugly fuck.” Elongating my claws and teeth, I attacked again. Dodging his swipe, I went in for a bite at his arm membrane. It tasted as gross as it looked but he yelled out in pain. “Fucking wolves, you’re a damn abomination.” I jumped back away from him. “Obviously you haven’t looked in the mirror lately.” We locked in battle in the small room. He threw me around a few more times and I got a few bites into him. I realized I wasn’t getting anywhere with him. 'Time for plan B.' 'What's plan B?'Kai asked. 'Use what we got left.' I ducked and dodged my way toward him and grabbed his feet with m
*** Logan's POV ***No one really prepares you for a mate. It’s hard to explain the mate connection to someone who doesn’t have it. And to someone who has found their mate, they already know and you don’t have to explain it. But what they don’t talk about is the relationship struggle. Your soulmate, chosen by the Moon Goddess, that you literally just met and laid eyes on. Building that relationship is not as straight forward as it seems. More than that, the connection you two share. The emotional, physical, and mental connection that comes with the bond. It’s far different than the connection with your wolf. So vastly different but at the same time, still a piece of you.Auri was a handful. When I was out on patrols or missions, the guys would talk about their mates. And sure, Auri’s cooking was sublime and even the boys whined if she didn’t pack a lunch for everyone but it was more than that. They talked about the submissiveness of their mates. Auri was always on fire. While she had s
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