Alessia is getting stronger!
We collected Eli and Dustin and headed into the city. When we arrived, Liam took Eli to a store to get some clothes and a backpack before buying him a bus ticket. “Where do you want to go? The next bus is heading north to Asheville.” “That works.” Eli responds. Liam gives him an envelope with money in it. “This is enough to get you back on your feet and started in a new life. Good luck Eli.” After he thanks Liam, Eli boards the bus, and we watch as the bus leaves the station, heading north. I’ve never been in a human city. It is big and loud, lots of tall buildings and cars honking, moving in every direction. It’s very overwhelming for me and I am glad that Liam is holding my hand. When we get to his building, he takes me up to his apartment first. We brought a change of clothes and some things to stay overnight. When I walk in, I’m amazed at how beautiful it is. Everything looks new and the floor to ceiling windows give an amazing view of the city. “Wow.” I say. He comes up be
I can’t believe the girl I’ve been searching the entire country for has literally been right under my nose for weeks. I’m thankful that we found her, even if her being mated to Dustin causes complications. It’s at least one thing I can take off my over-full plate of things that need to be done.My mind is reeling with the changes I need to make for her to continue working from the packhouse, setting her up as a permanent resident within the pack and wondering how I’m going to break the news to my Beta that his mate was horribly abused by a vampire, even more so than my mate was.I’m not sure if that’s why I didn’t notice the smell right away, but when Angel calls my name, her voice full of desperation and fear, the scent hits me. The elevator doors open and three vampires walk into the foyer of my office.I watch as the one in front lifts his nose in the air and sniffs. “Ahhhh, there she is, my tasty little treat. How I’ve missed you.” He looks directly at Sarah who is shaking uncontr
I watch as Liam walks away, then I turn to the kitchen. My mate is overwhelmed with work and I added to that this morning by shifting everything around in the kitchen. That, at least, is something that I can help correct. When I walk in, the Omegas bow their head in deference to me. The one who must be temporarily in charge comes over to me. “Luna, can we get you something?” She asks me. “Yes, first what is your name?” I ask her. “My name is Olivia, Luna.” “Olivia. I’m Angel. I know you were thrown into this today, so why don’t I give you a hand?” Two hours later, I have an inventory of all the food currently in stock, we have a meal plan established for the next week, and a grocery list started. We’re working on a roster of rotating shifts for the Omegas and I’m enjoying the camaraderie of being in a pack again. It’s been a long time and it feels good. “What’s going on here?” I hear Liam ask from behind me and the relaxed atmosphere that I’ve been working at creating deflates f
I knew my conversation with Dustin would be rough. No one wants to hear that their mate has been through the horrors that his has been through. But, as his Alpha, it’s my job to make sure that he knows and that I’m the one to tell him. When he knocks on the door to my office, I tell him to come in and have a seat. I go to the bar in my office and pour us both a bourbon, coming to sit beside him. “That bad, huh?” He asks me, taking a sip of the amber liquid. “Dustin, you know what it was like for Angel when she first got here.” I say, watching as he looks into his glass, looking for answers that he won’t find. “Yeah.” He says quietly. “Angel told me about Sarah. Sebastian, the one that came for her today, didn’t just feed on her. He abused her daily for the seven years that she was his prisoner.” He puts his glass down, standing and walking to my wall, punching a hole in it. He leans his head against the wall, pulling his hand out of the hole he created. “I knew it was bad. I kne
I was really upset with Liam at first when he made those statements about my father. So, when I fought him, I didn’t hold back. I was surprised that he was able to stand against me. Alessia has a lot of knowledge about fighting that came to the forefront of my mind while we fought. When Rik wanted to spar, I was no longer angry, so I was able to focus my attention on finding his weaknesses and taking him out. I was pleasantly surprised when it worked. After Liam suggests that I spar with all the warriors starting tomorrow, I have an idea. “You should bring Cara and Clint to training tomorrow too.” I say to Rik. “Why?” He asks me. “Then you’d have three Guardians to spar with the warriors.” “No. Cara is pregnant and Clint, well, how would that work?” He asks, referencing Clint being in a wheelchair. “First,” I tell him, “No one will get close enough to Cara to touch her. Alessia knows her daughter and this is a fact. Second, Clint may be in a wheelchair, but if you think that man
I continue to be amazed at Alessia’s power. I’m not sure if she always had these gifts, but they just keep manifesting. My little mate is the most amazing woman I’ve ever met. The Moon Goddess really blessed me when she mated me to her. I spend the rest of the day preparing for Angel’s Luna ceremony. My Alpha ceremony was not a happy occasion, and it wasn’t a celebration. I intend to change that for Angel. The entire pack and many of Rik and Cara’s pack have been invited. I met with Olivia this morning to make sure that she had enough help to prepare and feed nearly 1000 werewolves tonight. Since Dustin is out of commission, working with Sarah, I have Jackson get the music, dance floor and lighting set up. While Angel is with Clint, I take the time to go out back and see that the warriors are setting up a stage and the lighting and speakers for the music are being set up around the back of the packhouse. I take a moment to breathe in the fresh air and enjoy that fact that Angel wil
“Okay, that man is seriously smoking hot!” Tina says as she walks in. “And you, my Luna, are a lucky woman.” “Yes I am.” I tell her. “And so am I.” She says, looking at me with a glint in her eyes. ‘Why is she looking at us like that?’ Alessia asks. ‘I don’t know, but it can’t be good.’ I reply. “I’ve been dying to get my hands on your hair since you came into the salon and I couldn’t believe my luck when Alpha Liam called. I cancelled all my appointments for the rest of the afternoon so I could spend hours getting you ready. You, my dear Luna, are going to be the most gorgeous Luna in the history of Lunas!” Tina says excitedly. Her increasing level of excitement is a direct correlation to my increasing level of anxiety. What in the world is she planning to do to me? I have visions of Effie Trinket in my head. In the end, I have to admit, it was much better than I thought. Having Tina work her magic on my hair was very relaxing. When she was done, I looked amazing. I still looke
My Angel is the most beautiful woman in the world. When she steps outside for her Luna ceremony and I see her for the first time, I feel like my heart is going to stop. Everything disappears and it’s just the two of us. She is everything. Everything I’ve ever wanted and everything I never thought that I would have.When she says the words that will make her my Luna and then drinks our blood, I wait to see if our large pack will overwhelm her. It’s an incredible amount of noise to take on 800 voices inside your head at once. It takes my perfect mate no time at all to assimilate all the voices and she’s officially part of the pack.I walk her around, showing her off really. I want the pack to meet her and get to know her, but I’m so proud that I feel like a peacock flashing its feathers every time I introduce her. Finally, when I can’t take it any longer, I pull her on to the dance floor. I just need a minute to myself with my sweet angel. The night has been everything that an induction
Three years later It’s amazing how much changes in three years. Two days after Sarah and Dustin officially adopted Sienna, Sarah found out she was pregnant. It worked out okay because her pregnancy was very difficult. As expected, she was on bed rest for most of her pregnancy. Dustin would take Sienna with him to his office or I would keep her with me, having set up a kid’s play area in my office. Sometimes, Dustin would carry Sarah to her desk when she got too stir-crazy and needed a break from sitting in her bed all day. At least being in the packhouse, he and I were always close and could monitor her. The doctor told her she’d have to have a C-Section because her internal scarring was too severe to allow for a baby to pass through the birthing canal. And five months after adopting Sienna, they welcomed baby Jackson Dustin Roberts into the world. They named him after our previous Gamma, since he had given his life protecting Sarah and the others who were in the bunker that day. Ca
Three months later To say that being a father has changed my life would be an understatement. You don’t know how much you can love another person until you hold your child in your arms for the first time and your heart aches because it’s so full of love. The mate bond is one thing, that is a gift given by the Moon Goddess and nothing could ever compare to that. But being a father feels like the greatest achievement of my life. My son is perfect, of course. All ten fingers, all ten toes. He was born with soft fuzz for hair that has started to grow in now and he definitely got my golden, curly locks. However, every time I look into his gray eyes, I see his mother. Angel says his eyes are the only thing he got from her and that we’ll have a mini-me walking around very soon. Works for me. I figure our little girl will look just like her mother. I hope so, it means she’ll be beautiful. Yes, it means I’ll have to go all Alpha on any male that looks at her but having a miniature version o
After the terrible week of funerals, the pack began the slow process of rebuilding. We had to fix several homes, the back of the packhouse and the bunker. Liam refused to let me assist and he also refused to allow me at training, so instead, I started training with Sarah. Since werewolf pregnancies are much shorter than human pregnancies, five months instead of nine, I only have a couple of months before my stomach will be too big to do anything. I went with Sarah to see Dr. Phillips. After letting Dustin mark her immediately after the war, she wanted to know if she could have his children. She had extensive testing and Dr. Phillips decided that any human would struggle with the shorter gestation of having a wolf pup. The scar tissue would cause problems with getting pregnant, during the pregnancy and delivery, but since she would put Sarah on bedrest anyway, it should be possible. Sarah had told Dustin that they could have pups but that she would have to be on bedrest during the ge
When the doctor told me that Angel was pregnant, I was concerned that she had kept it from me before the war. I was happy to learn that she hadn’t known until her strange walk with Clint who apparently brought her back to me. I’m not sure what that means or why it happened, but I’m forever indebted to him for bringing my Angel back.Dustin had prepared the funerals and pyres for our pack members. He had talked it over with me while Angel was unconscious, and we had agreed to have three days of funerals. There was so much sadness and pain among the pack members, but each of them deserved to have their time to say goodbye to their loved ones.I had spoken to Rik about the loss of his pack members. After Cara’s show of power, I wasn’t sure how many in his pack had survived. He lost nearly 100 pack members after losing the mates of those lost in the war. Thankfully, Cara’s power surge only seemed to knock their warriors out, not kill them as it had the vampires.Her strength was chilling.
When I wake, it’s in a dream state. I’m walking in a forest. I can hear small animals moving around, but nothing else. It’s very quiet here. Beautiful, but lonely. Where is everyone? “Hello? Liam? Alessia?” I call out loud. ‘I’m here.’ Says an exhausted sounding Alessia. ‘Where are we?’ In my head, she lifts her head off the ground, looking around. ‘I know this place.’ ‘Where is it? Are we near the pack lands?’ ‘No.’ she says, just as Clint steps out of the trees in front of me. “Clint!” I run to him, throwing my arms around him. “I thought you were dead!” “I am sweetheart. It was my time. But why are you here? It’s not your time.” I look around me again. “I don’t know why I’m here. I woke up here.” I turn to look at him, horrified. “Am I dead? Where is Liam?!” I demand. “Can you hear Alessia in your head?” He asks me. “Yes. I can hear her.” “Then, you’re not dead. How about we look around and try to figure out why you’re here.” He puts his arm around my shoulders, guiding
The blast threw everyone into the air and off their feet. When I get my senses back, I realize two things. Angel is unconscious on top of me, and I hear a keening sound in the distance that makes my heart hurt. I sit up, holding Angel in my arms, looking around. There are fae warriors and werewolves around me, shaking their heads trying to figure out what happened, just like I am. I follow the sound of the keening and realize it’s Cara. She’s holding her father’s lifeless body in her arms, rocking him back and forth. Oh no. Please tell me Clint isn’t dead. I see Rik, picking himself up off the ground, going to Cara. He pulls her into his arms and begins rocking her, trying to comfort her. I know the sound a person makes when they lose someone they love. That’s the sound that Cara is making now. It’s the sound of your heart breaking into a million pieces. I know that Clint is dead, and Cara’s heart is broken. What I thought was a bomb going off must have been a power surge from Cara,
When Keenan sends his first wave, there are hundreds of vampires. The power that Cara, Clint and I have together can only hold for so long. It drains all of our energy. We are able to wipe out the first wave of vampires, but the second wave mostly gets through. By the third wave, we break off and begin fighting individually. We stay together as long as possible, and I see Rik and Liam throwing vampires to Clint to take out. He’s a machine. He always was. Alessia remembers him from his younger days. He’s stronger than an Alpha, so powerful. Even now, in his revised wheelchair, he’s taking on more vampires than most of the wolves on the battlefield. I wasn’t expecting to be able to feel the death of our pack members. I’ve never been a ranked pack member and it’s hard to concentrate constantly hearing the howling of wolves in pain and then feeling their death in my mind and heart. Thankfully, my Guardian instincts kick in and I’m fighting like my Guardian spirit has fought for centurie
I snarl at Keenan’s comment to Angel. I wasn’t sure which one was him, but I knew it had to be one of the two pompous looking leeches. And now I focus my attention on him. He’s mine. For everything he did to Angel, I will kill him. Angel and the power of the Guardians, give them pause, but only for a moment. They must give a signal that I miss, because suddenly, hundreds of vampires are heading our way. Angel, Cara and Clint push out their aura, Angel making sure it’s directed in front of our line of werewolves and fae. A second wave starts almost immediately after the first. The first group runs right into the Guardian aura and are instantly turned to dust. The impact is taking its toll on them because the second wave starts getting through and another wave is right behind them. I see several vampires heading toward Angel and Cara and I jump into the fight. Cyran bursts through at the same time Kai, Rik’s wolf, does. We begin tearing through the vampires. Remembering what they sai
When I get back to the packhouse, I call the leaders of each safe room. “Are we ready? Is there anything at all that is still needed? War is imminent.” After making sure that we are set, the leaders of each room and I begin going around to make sure that all pack members know that the rooms are open. Anyone that may need some extra time to get to their safe room or bunker can head over now and get themselves set up. We have one she-wolf that is on the verge of delivering her pup. I have assigned a doctor to the safe room where she will be. We have also made sure that any other pack members that may need medical assistance during the war are in this same room. I’m just finishing up and getting the older, slower pack members settled in the safe rooms when I get the mind link from Liam. “Angel, where are you?” “I’m finishing getting the elderly and pregnant into the safe rooms.” “They are coming. They will be here at dark tonight. I’m headed back. Start getting ready. I’m about to se