The funeral was over. Now the grieving really starts. The packhouse was filled with pack members. Inside and outside. Everyone was sharing memories they had. But not me. Everyone has paid their respects for my brother's passing. But my mind wasn’t here. All I could think about was the wolves that have killed my brother. The anger was consuming me.
My fighters have still not found the wolves or their hiding spot. I keep thinking about strategies for how we can kill them and even capture one of them. I need answers. How is it possible that their claws have wolfsbane in them? What kind of witchcraft is that. I have never heard of it before. Not even legends.“My condolences Alpha," one of my pack members says interrupting my thoughts. I nod to him. I just don’t know what to say. I have been nodding and saying thank you. No other words seem to be able to leave my mouth. I can’t wait for this day to be over.POV KristyIt’s the next day. I told my father I have a school prI wake up, feeling like I am hit by a bus. My vision is blurred, and I try to blink it away. Where the bloody hell am I. I try t get up but feel I am chained up against the floor, with heavy steel chains both my arms and legs are chained up on the ring on the floor. Leaving me with limited room to move. I try pulling the chains, but no luck there. I am still weak from the wolfsbane they injected me with. When I finally can see something, I realize I am in the cells, by the looks of the concrete wall and the steel door I can tell I am still on our territory. My great-grandfather made these cells. They are located near the school in the forest. But why am I still on our territory? Who took me? And why?"Hello? Anyone out there?" I ask, but no one answers. The heavy steel door opens. My father steps inside followed by two men. "DAD," I say relieved, I knew it would not take long for him to come and find me. He walks over to the cell I am in, "Dad, someone took me. Why did th
POV Kristy.My head is pounding. Waking up from the punch that knocked me out, I rub the side of my forehead when I feel the blood drip down my face. I try to get up but no use to that. I am still chained to the floor in the cell."Are you alright there, love? Taking a little nap."When I look up I notice Matthias."You" I growl at him. "Me," he laughs. "I told you I was going to be your mate. You should have been nicer to me. It did not have to come to this Kristy. But, here we are. You have nowhere to go. Your father has given very clear orders. I am here to mark you. Claim what is rightfully mine. So maybe you should have thought about getting to know me a little bit better before lashing at me. Admit it, you like it. You like me, you are just too afraid to admit it. You love the way I chase you. My hot muscular body. You want me as much as I want you. I see the way you look at me in training." He says, slowly getting closer to the cell I am in."Yo
POV Axel. I rush to the pack's clinic with Kristy in my arms. I already mind-linked our pack's doctor. When we arrive at the clinic the doctor is ready for us waiting at the entrance with a gurney. I put her on the gurney quickly and the doctor and nurses rushed her to an emergency room."I already took out the bullet but she is not waking up.""We got it from here Alpha. We got her." The doctor tells me. I stand back and watch the doctor and nursers hook her up on an IV and examine her. "Please Alpha, go sit in the waiting room we got her. We will call you when needed." A nurse escorts me to the waiting room where I go sit down on one of the hard plastic chairs.I hope I made the right choice to not go to her aunt's clinic. I did not trust it. Not anyone at this point. Her own bloody father took her and even shot her with a silver bullet. How could I trust that someone from his pack would take good care of her? I just hope I made the right choice co
POV KristyI have been staring out the window in Axel's bedroom all day. Trying to wrap my head around what happened last night. My father kidnapped me, locked me up in the cells. He wanted to let Matthias mark me. A bloody jerk with no brain cells. When I was able to escape he freaking shot me with a silver bullet. Who would do that to their own bloody daughter? How did he even know Axel is my mate. I did not tell him. I did not notice anyone following me to the big old tree. I sure as hell don't think my aunt or Olivia would betray me. One of his men must have seen us there is no other explanation. A nice lady brought me some clothes. Ester was her name I think. Not exactly my style but better than Axel's clothes that are way too big for me. Although I love wearing his t-shirt, it's covered in his scent. It calms me down smelling him. "Here you go hun, eat something," Axel says while holding out a plate with food to me."I am not hungry.""You have to eat. You
"What do you mean that is not what happened?" I say confused. What does he mean? His father did not kill my mother? Then who did? "My father did not kill your mother, Kristy. Is that what your father told you? What exactly did he tell you?""Not much, that is why I asked. I still have so many questions about my mother's death. Every time I brought it up to my dad he would just get angry, so I stopped asking.""Alright come on let's go," Axel says and he gets out of the water."Go where? Why can't you just tell me what happened?""I can but you'll have a lot of questions. Questions I can not answer.""Who? Where are we going? please just tell me.""You will see," Axel says and he shifts back to his wolf form and runs back to his car. I get out of the water quickly shifting and chasing after him. I try to catch my breath when we arrive at the tree line where we left out clothes and put them on."Can't you just tell me?" I ask Axel when he gets
"Are you okay?" Axel asks when he pulls my hair out of my face. "No, I am not okay. I want to go home." "Okay, we will go home" He hands me a glass of water and I take a big sip. washing down the taste of my vomit."Know that you are always welcome. When you are ready to talk I will be here." My grandmother says while she rubs my back. We get into the car and drive back home. Once we arrive home I immediately head upstairs to Axel's bedroom. I go lay down on the bed and stare at the ceiling.All this time I thought Axel's father was the one who killed my mother. But it was my father. He killed his own mate when he was the one at fault. He cheated on my mother and killed her when she found out. My stomach turns again at the thought alone. How could he? His own mate. I knew my dad was strict and wanted his way. But I never knew he was a bloody monster. This is too much. I don't want to think about it, but it is all I can think about. It's like I never knew
I wake up the next morning and see that Axel is still asleep. I walk over to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I look at my mark in the mirror. I touch the red mark on my neck underneath my ear. It is kind of like half a moon but just one outline in dots. This mark makes me officially a Luna. Bounded with Axel. But that's not all. Now that he marked me, he will introduce me properly to the pack and we will have a ceremony. This only occurs when an Alpha finds his mate. The ceremony is to combine our bloodlines. It's is an old ceremony it's a tradition. hundreds of years ago different bloodlines were different packs. These bloodlines had different capabilities. For assemble one bloodline would have the ability to shift whenever their wolf wanted, others could only shift on a full moon. Other packs would have great strength when others would have speed and so on. Over the years pack members combined. When there was a mate from a different pack to an Alpha they would do a ceremony
"Axel? Axel? Where are you?" I walk in the front door of what Axel calls the packhouse. I need to tell him to cancel everything. I can't do this. "I am here. Why so loud? You know that we can hear better than humans can right? Everything okay?" Axel comes rushing out of his office rubbing his ears. When I realize the house is filled with pack members getting everything ready for the ceremony. I can feel my cheeks heat up from their eyes staring at me."No, it's not okay we need to talk." I know whisper to him, not that there is a point to it now that the whole house is looking at us. I walk up the stairs to our bedroom away from the staring eyes. "Kristy, are you going to tell me what is going on?" Axel asks running after me. I shut the door behind him."I can't do this." "What do you mean you can't do this? I know you are not a dress person but it is just for today""It's not that""Then what is it tell me. Did someone hurt you? Need me to kill
Kristy POV. It is almost dark when I hear Axel's car pull up in the driveway. My grandmother is still here. I have been nervous all day. I am pregnant. I don't know how to tell him. I don't know if I have ever been this scared before. What if he doesn't want it? We have a lot on our minds right now. I wish my mom was here or Olivia. I don't feel like I have anybody here. I know I have Axel and my grandmother. I am grateful for them, but it is not the same. The pack members are family, but I don't have any friends here. I don't have anybody to turn to. Not like how I can with Olivia. She would always cheer me up or distract me from all the shit that is going on. I miss her so much. Now we are divided. I did not imagine that I would ever be without her. We were supposed to share everything. When the time would come that we would have children, they were supposed to grow up together and be best friends, just like us. I would have been the first female Alpha of the pack, and she would
Axel POV I wake up in the middle of the woods. It is still dark outside, I have no idea what time it is. I look down and I am completely naked covered in mud. Onyx must have had his fun in the woods. I look around and notice that I am close to home. I feel drops falling on my face. It is starting to rain, of course. It starts with a few drops, the leaves on the trees hold back the rain a little bit. I look up and regret it instantly because it starts to rain as if the gates have opened and someone threw a bucket of water on earth. I make a run for it and quickly get inside. I go to the first level, to one of the bedrooms. I don't want to wake Kristy up. I turn on the shower and quickly hop in. After washing myself I walk over to the laundry room. Luckily there are some clothes in the dryer. Jeans and a sweatshirt but no socks. Do I risk going upstairs and potentially waking up Kristy? No, I guess no socks today. I quickly get dressed and go outside back to the clinic to get my car
Axel POV.It is currently still dark. I wake up from someone shouting my name. I look next to me and Kristy is fast asleep. I walk up to the window but I see nothing."Axel" I hear again. I look over to Kristy but she has not moved an inch."Alpha!" Then it hits me that I am being mind linked. I rub my face trying to wake up."Yes?" I reply still standing in front of the window."I have something. I needed to contact you when I found something in Hunter's blood. Can you come to the lab?" Now I realize that it is Dr. Spine that is contacting me. What time is it? I walk over to my side of the bed and grab my phone to look at the time. It is 4.30 A.M. "Dr. Spine do you have any idea what time it is?" "I know Alpha and I apologize for waking you up. I would not contact you if it could not wait until the morning. I have been working all night and finally found something. You need to see this for yourself.""Fine, I am up already now. I will meet you in the lab." I close the link and put
Kristy POVI wake up to an empty bed. I reach for my phone on the nightstand and look at the time. 1 P.M. SHIT! It is already noon and I am still in bed. I rush out of bed to my closet and grab the first thing I see. A pair of purple leggings with a blue sweatshirt. doesn't really match but who cares. I rush downstairs and notice the Alpha house is completely empty. Axel is not in his office and not in the kitchen or living room. I put the kettle on to make some tea. In the meantime, I try to mindlink Axel but he blocks me out. I walk up to the refrigerator to grab some milk when I notice a note stuck on the refrigerator. "I will be back before dark xx" I sigh, take the note off the refrigerator, and put it in the trash can. Is he for real? A note? What is he up to now? Why so suspicious 'Will be back before dark' What is that supposed to mean? Why not let me know where he went? How long has he been gone for? My own mind is starting to drive me crazy with all these questions I am as
Jack POV. I feel lost. I want my daughter to be save. I want to be in control of her safety. She doesn't know half of what is going on in this world and I don't know how to tell her. I tried everything. I really thought she would have stayed. She came by herself against the will of her mate. She is strong. No one can go against their Alpha's orders, not even a mate. They outrank each other, An Alpha's order overpowers a Luna's order and her will. She has no option but to obey. But somehow she did get away. I sit in my office thinking about everything I did to get her back. Thinking about other ways but I am out of ideas at this point. Maybe, just maybe she changes her mind. I hear a knock on my door and look up. My Beta Rick is in the door opening. "Am I interrupting? " "No, come in. Sit down" I point to the empty chair in front of my desk and he sits down. "Any word from Kristy?" "No nothing yet. It has only been a few days." "Have you tried contacting her? Their Beta has chang
Kristy POVI wake up and rub my eyes when I notice that it is dark. How long have I been asleep? What time is it? I grab my phone from the nightstand, and my screen's brightness blinds me. I squeeze my eyes trying to lower the brightness but I can barely see anything. I swipe left and right hoping I get it right. Finally, I get it, that is so much better even though I still see stars. I look at the time, 1 AM?! I have been asleep all day. I look next to me and see that Axel has joined me in bed and is still asleep. I get up and notice I fell asleep in my towel. I walk to my closet and grab some underwear and pajamas to put on before I go downstairs. I walk to the kitchen and turn on the kettle to myself some tea. My stomach starts to growl. I haven't eaten all day. I open the fridge and look for something to eat. Nothing, at least nothing that I am craving at the moment. I open the pantry and look around, but also nothing. The kettle starts to whistle and I grab a cup and a tea bag o
Axel POVI watch her leave and wait until I hear the car drive away to make sure she left. "You had something you wanted to discuss with me, Alpha?" Dr. Spine asks."Yes, Kristy's father said something about the wicked wolf not recognizing anyone but his maker. Have you read anything about that in the books?" "Not that specific no, but I will look into it. The pack of Alpha Theo has a big library I will try to get in contact with them to see if they can help provide any books that might help. With your permission, of course, Alpha.""Yes, do that. We need all the information we can get. Also, Jack showed us an empty syringe with a needle. He injected Hunter with something to turn him. Is there a way you can maybe find out what he was injected with?""I can take some of his blood and run some tests to see if it is still in his blood, try to find out what was in it." I nod in agreement and Dr. Spine walks over to some cabins behind the surgical table in the basement and opens a drawer
"Dad?" I slide down from Onyx's back to face my father. My heart is pounding in my chest not knowing his next move. Is going to take me back? Or is he going to kill my mate and Hunter? Or both?"You seem a little surprised to see me?" He says with a smile on his face. Onyx growls and shows his teeth, making my father laugh harder."Ooooh," He says laughing in Onyx's face." Do you think I am afraid of you? Ha, look around you, Axel! LOOK! You are outnumbered."Onyx growled again and I could feel his and Axel's rage through the bond. I quickly go to stand in between them before they rip each other's heads off. " What do you want dad? I thought you said" I stumble over my words. He said he loved me and now he is laughing at my face. A feeling of betrayal runs over me, it makes me feel sick to my stomach."I meant what I said, Kristy." He says turning all his attention towards me."But really Kristy, not once you have stopped to think to yourself it was a little too easy to get away? Do
Kristy POVI wake up to something licking my face. Argh, I don't want to get up. Let me sleep. I turn my face away. My whole body feels sore. Why do I feel so sore? It almost feels like I went to boot camp or run a marathon. Then the licking continues on my stomach. Oh, my goddess that tickles! "Make it stop!" I giggle out loud trying to turn away."Kristy we have to go. Get up." I hear Axel's voice through the mind link.I instantly open my eyes. "Axel?" I say out loud in disbelief and then it all starts to come back to me. The heat the se."Yes now let's go. We don't have much time. I am taking you home." He says through the mind link interrupting my thoughts. I look up at Onyx who is standing over me and has his giant face 2 inches away from mine. Impatiently waiting for me to get up. He pushes his nose against my shoulder. "Well, you will have to get off me Onyx if you want me to get up. I can't get up with you standing over me you are in my way." I tell him while waving my ha