MavenBennett sits across from me in my office as he flips through a folder that I gave him. I’m having to teach him all about the businesses that we run so that if I’m ever absent, he will be able to keep things running smoothly.The door bursts open and I see Bennett’s mate, Grace, looking frantic as her eyes flicker between us. Bennett stands up, alarmed by her sudden arrival, and he walks toward her pulling her in his arms as he asks, “What’s going on, darling?”She looks at me and says, “I’m so sorry to have disturbed you, Alpha. But Amelia isn’t back with Henry yet. She’s always back home by 6, but it’s 6:15 and I can’t get in contact with her. I’m scared something’s wrong.”Bennett says, “Grace, it’s only been 15 minutes. I’m sure it’s nothing.”Amelia has impeccable timing. Ever since that one time she has never been late unless someone was doing something to force her to be late. My wolf howls inside me, worried that something that has happened to our mate.I rush out of the
AmeliaI don’t know what made the rogues decide that it was time to release us, but I’m grateful with how fast it seemed to happen. Poor little Henry was so uncomfortable and upset because we had run out of things for him.We sit in the back of a van, and I hear someone snap at us, “Get that baby to shut up!”I roll my eyes, it’s not like I’m not trying! But I’m not his mother, I can’t just have milk for him twenty-four seven!They slam the breaks as they bring us to a stop, causing me to fall and hurt my shoulder from trying to prevent Henry from getting hurt. The back door opens, and I see Ross and he grumbles, “Come on.”I hurry to my feet and get out of the van. He brings me near our pack and tells me, “Just keep walking straight and you’ll be across pack lines.”I nod and scurry to move away from him, but he grabs my upper arm and says, “I’ll see you again soon, Amelia.”My face scrunches together in confusion and I face him as I ask, “Why? What do you want with me?”“I know you’
MavenRelief flooded inside me when I saw that Amelia was okay. There wasn’t a scratch on her and although she looked disheveled, she was still gorgeous. I needed her. I needed to hold her in my arms and know that she’s okay.I told her to follow me and listened to her footsteps as I lead her into my room. The moment she closed the door, I couldn’t resist kissing her.When our lips connect my wolf howls loudly inside my head, thrilled that I was finally doing this. She wraps her arms around my waist and my cock is rock hard from that action. She greedily returns my kiss, her hands tugging my hair, and it’s like she has been waiting for me to take this step.The tingles from the mate bond are overpowering and I want to mark her and take her right now, but my only hesitation is I don’t know if she can feel this. I don’t want to mark her without her approval. I can’t help but nip at her neck and she let
AmeliaMaven is my mate.How is that possible?I’m exhausted, all I want is to sleep, and I feel so comfortable with him. My body wants to rest, but my mind is unable to turn off as I’m still trying to process this.I’ve been at the Renegade Pack for months… I only recently started to feel the sparks with him and his scent is addicting. He’s got his arm wrapped around me and his head is nuzzled into my neck. All I can do is bask in his scent.He smells refreshing like peppermint. The scent relaxes me and makes me not feel so tense. What I don’t understand is… if I’ve been his mate this entire time, why didn’t he tell me?Maven mumbles into my neck, “Go to bed, Amelia.”I smile as I whisper, “Okay.”He lifts his head up and looks into my eyes as he says, “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you. It’s complicated and we can talk about it later. All that matters now is that I want you… okay?”I nod, “Okay.”He leans down and gives me the softest most loving kiss. After how aggressive he was earlier
Maven I can’t wait to surprise Amelia tonight. Maggie, Sophie, and Grace worked together to come up with the perfect first date and I can’t wait to pamper Amelia tonight. At 3:00 p.m. the girls came to my room and demanded that I leave so they can get Amelia ready. We wouldn’t be going out till 8 tonight, but I knew better than to argue with a bunch of women on a mission. Besides, this will give me an opportunity to do some of the work that I haven’t done yet because I didn’t want to do it around Amelia. The big thing is, I have a few packs I need to call and speak to. There’s something off with my pack and the way the Elders behave. My sorry excuse of a father taught me very little about how to run a pack and as a child he told me to never argue with the Elders and to always do what they told me to do. But my father isn’t around anymore, and I think the Elders are taking advantage of me because I haven’t known anything different. I grab my private cell phone and head to the hidd
AmeliaMaggie, Sophie, and Grace all giggle as they do different things to get me ready for the night. When they first came into my room, they demanded that I take a shower and take time to shave everywhere.I did as they said even though it took freaking forever, but apparently, I didn’t do good enough. Grace saw hair still on my legs and told me to get back in the shower.They’re acting like I’ll be having sex tonight, but even if Maven is my mate and I have the best night of my life, it isn’t ending in sex. I’m not ready yet. Not after what I’ve been through.I come back out and apparently, I finally did it right.Maggie and Grace both started recalling their first dates with their mates and Sophie seemed sad that she hasn’t met her mate yet. I know she will soon though and that guy will be one of the luckiest guys on the planet.After hours of them painting my nails, doing and redoing my makeup, and figuring out the perfect way to do my hair, Maggie walks out of the room. When she
AmeliaMaven takes me to a ballroom dance class. We learned these elaborate dance moves that I never could’ve imagined doing, but I guess sometimes all you need is the right dance partner. The instructor praises us for our chemistry and even recorded us so we could see how well we were doing.We looked like something brought out of a movie. With the fancy dress and how it fans out with almost every twirl or movement and how handsome Maven is, we looked breathtaking. Maven could be a movie star if he wanted to be, he had the looks for it and obviously had the dance moves that I could see him in a historical show.By the time we finally get back home we’re exhausted, but we’ve had so much fun together. I can’t bear the thought of being away from him, so when he asked me to stay with him, of course, my answer was yes.We kissed here and there, but most of our night was spent talking or cuddling. Suddenly, every bad thing I’ve ever gone through seems worth it. I’m just happy that I get to
Amelia It was weird seeing my dad. He hasn’t messaged me or anything again since then. I wonder if he thinks that I lied to him about Henry. Henry isn’t my child, but I’m sure seeing me with him, and Maven would’ve made it look like we’re a happy little family. Maven hasn’t brought up the meeting again and I didn’t say anything. If he had any questions, then I trust that he would talk to me about it. I sit on his bed as I wait for him to come join. Dinner ended an hour ago and he decided to go for a run before bed. Although my wolf has been more present in my mind, she still hasn’t wanted to come out much.A part of me is grateful for it, it’s painful shifting and I really don’t want to shift if I don’t have to. I twiddle with my thumbs, unsure of what I should do while I wait. I decide to take a shower, based off that one time that I showered in here, his shower seemed nicer than any of the others. I turn on the water and quickly undress, once I see the steam, I jump in. I gasp fr
Magnolia Knight I run through the pack as fast as I can as I try to beat Henry to the lake. He gave me a one minute advantage, but we both know that it will not be good enough. Not whenever he has his wolf and I don’t. Yet I still play the game. It’s fun, so why not play around with my best friend? His wolf suddenly jumps over me, making me gasp, and it turns around and looks at me. Its tail wags, indicating its playfulness, and I laugh at it. I swear his wolf acts like a pup and it’s one of the cutest things that I’ve ever seen!His wolf tips its head down at me and lowers its body down so that I can ride on him the rest of the way. My legs are burning from how fast I was running and I’m out of breath, so I’m not going to turn down a chance to relax for a minute. I get on his wolf and nuzzle my face into its dirty blonde fur, and I hold on. Once it feels me lightly tug on its fur, it takes off. I close my eyes and enjoy the feeling of the wind in my hair as it surges us forward.
Amelia We waited two years before we finally decided to get married. We wanted our daughter to be able to be a part of the ceremony and be our flower girl and we wanted her to actually be able to walk down the aisle. We picked out this big poofy and sparkly pink dress for her and she loved it because she loves all things sparkly and pink. We learned during the ceremony that her favorite thing to do was spin so that her dress would flare out. She spun around so much that we are lucky that she didn't throw up during the ceremony. I am so grateful for everything. I never could have imagined this in my life. And man, Maven cleans up good! The moment I saw him, all I wanted to do was take him to our room and make love. He had his dark hair combed back, his beard meticulously trimmed, his tattoos were covered by his navy blue suit, and all I wanted to do was grab him by his gold tie and pull him to me and kiss the daylights out of him. It was hard to wait through the entire ceremony
AmeliaI waited eagerly for Maven to return home.I was so happy when I got his call and he said that everything went smoothly. He told me about all the drama and I agreed with him. It sounds off. Cora made it seem like Kyle was this bloodthirsty maniac, but... he wasn't.It doesn't matter. All of this is finally over.I sit in our room staring at the ultrasound picture I got today. It turns out I'm further along than I thought. I'm almost halfway through the pregnancy. The baby is measuring and looking great. It is definitely a girl, just like Cora said!But the crazy thought is that it's only a couple of months before I give birth and our little Magnolia Jade will join us.When Maven gets home, I show him the ultrasound, and he cried, but by the next morning he went into a full on dad panic mode. He started doing everything he could to prep for her arrival.Three months passed.It was a long labor, but I finally gave birth the Magnolia Jade Knight. She looked exactly like her daddy.
MavenToday is finally the day. My group and I already left home and we are on our way to the White Fang Pack. We will meet with the other groups and invade. We are going to try to request that Aloha Kyle concede. But the likelihood of that happening is slim to none. More than likely there will be a lot of bloodshed. But unfortunately, that’s a necessary part of war. When we get there, I am overwhelmed by the amount of people backing us. We are well over two times the size of the White Fang Pack. This should be easy. The three other Alphas, Alpha Marco of Aztec Moon, Alpha Alfred of Red River, and Alpha Jared of the Golden Pack, were all waiting for me so that we can walk up to the borders togetherI take a deep breath, ready to shift at a moment's notice, but then… nothing happens. No one is here. They should at the very least have a patrol out here, but there's absolutely no one.I press my lips together. This isn't normal. We walk slowly into the pack with our warriors behind u
MavenThings are finally turning up. All the packs I spoke to were willing to help me. It turns out that Alpha Kyle has burned quite a few bridges during his short reign as Alpha. Thankfully, that works in my favor.I try not to talk about it too much around Amelia. I know it stresses her out when I mention the White Fang Pack, and I don't want to cause her any unnecessary stress in her delicate state. Almost all of our pack members are back home. We're giving our warriors two days to rest and then half of them will be coming with me for the attack while the other half stays here.After talking with Bennett and Grace and them agreeing that our idea about Ross and his group was a good one, Amelia spoke to our architect and is working to build a house for them. We don't know when we'll see Ross again or if he and his group will accept our help, but we want to get started on this. I'm just grateful that Amelia is so happy and that she is keeping herself busy. Now that our pack members a
AmeliaIt is good to be able to go back home so fast.Cora seemed closed off for most of our trip, but she enjoyed watching us. I noticed her eyes were always on one of us and she spoke with Maggie a lot.It must get lonely for her living out there all by herself. Although her home is beautiful and large, it must be incredibly lonely. I make a mental note for us to invite her to visit more often and not just because we need something. She has helped us out so much that I view her as part of our family and I want to treat her that way.As soon as we get back to our pack, Maven tells me and Maggie to stay in the car and I watch as he and Bennett walk into the pack house. It doesn't take long before two wolves come bursting through the door and both Maven and Bennett's wolves are right on their tails as they scatter.Maggie shakes her head and says, "Oof, that was not a good idea on their side. What makes Kaden and Veronica think they could outrun an Alpha and a Beta?"I shrug, "In Kaden
MavenAmelia and I lie down in the bed snuggling one another. She looks up at me and says, "Are we on board for the name Magnolia? Or should we do something different?""I like Magnolia, we should focus on the middle name.""I think a shorter name would be good. Like Magnolia Ash or Magnolia Eve or Magnolia Jade. What do you think?""I like Magnolia Jade, it seems like a little bit of sweet with a nice edge to it."Amelia rubs her hand over her stomach and says, "Magnolia Jade Knight... I love it."I ask, "How are you feeling about everything?"Her lower lip puckers and she says, "I don't know. I don't know how I'm supposed to feel. It's weird to me that the White Fang Pack is attacking because of me, but it's not like I knew Alpha Kyle that well. I just knew how he and his Luna were together and his Luna was an insanely jealous person.""Well, at least we know what's going to happen and that helps us have the element of surprise.""What packs are you contacting?" She asks as she play
AmeliaIt didn't take long for Maven and I to pack and once we were done we knew that it was time for us to go. I look around our room with a hand on my stomach. I hope that we won't be gone for too long. I want this place to be our home and I want to prepare our child's nursery here.As if he knew what I was thinking, Maven came behind me and hugged me, rubbing his large hands on my stomach and he says, "We'll be back before you know it, love, and we can decorate and do whatever you want for our little one's room."I breathe out, "I just hate to leave."He kisses my cheek and says, "I know, but we'll be back in no time."He grabs our things and we walk to the staircase and I see Maggie and Cora waiting for us. I take a deep breath and gather my courage. Everyone is okay, everyone will be safe, we have to do this.We all walk out to the car and then Maven drives and Cora sits in the passenger seat so she can easily tell him where to go. Maggie grabs my hand because she can sense my an
Amelia Cora looked concerned as she walked into our room and says, "I need Amelia to come with me, tonight."Maven sputters, "Wh-what?"She comes to my side and says, "I know this is sudden. I know you don't want to leave Maven, but please, listen to me and trust in me, okay?"I look at Maven and then back at Cora and ask, "What's going on?"She breathes out, "A girl just came in through the door and said she's back. Her name is Sophie-" my eyes bulge out of my head and I question, "Sophie's back?!"Cora nods and says, "From the sound of your voice, it sounds like she's a friend, but Amelia, you can't trust her. There's something off with her aura. You can't be near her. I don't even want her to touch you. Please, come with me."I look over at Maven, and his eyebrows are furrowed as he is processing. Sophie was one of my closest friends before she just randomly left. Of course I want to see her. But we should trust in Cora... shouldn't we?Maven says, "Amelia and I need to talk. Are y