I brush off her comment about earth, but she thinks this is hot? Werewolves definitely run hot, but this would be considered comfortable weather for us. I shake my head and blow out a breath as Roman starts to walk over to her and my father, pulling me along with him. I then see a small outdoor table next to the pond, nestled behind a couple trees. The trees at least looked similar to what I was used to. A little taller and wider, with darker shades, but still obviously trees. We all take our seats, Aylin at the head, me next to her, my father opposite of me, and Roman next to me. No one says anything as a couple servants sit a pitcher in the middle of us. Aylin is the first to reach for it, pouring her own glass and saying thank you to the servant who bows before walking away. The same silver-y liquid fills her cup and she passes the pitcher to me.
"So, this is your mate I take it?" Aylin says eyeing Roman"Yes, this is my mate, Roman, he's Alpha of Ivory Moon pack back hThe rest of lunch was nowhere near as intense. We made small talk, my father mostly asking about Roman's upbringing and childhood, how he runs his pack, his family...and really just all details about his life. Nosy bastard my father was, but it still warmed my heart nonetheless that he was so interested. He was growing on me, I suppose. I had asked about Azrael, to which Aylin said he likes to spend time in town. She had said it was important for the royal family to be involved with town life, and Azrael took it upon himself most of the time. Afterwards, Aylin showed us to our rooms and told us to meet her back in the throne room in 15 minutes and she would show us to the training arena. That was 10 minutes ago.I was unpacking my clothes and changing into my training attire-just a sports bra and high rise yoga pants that went to my knees, when Roman came up behind me and pulled my back to his chest. One of his hands went to my throat and the other circled my stomach right above the
We trained for a good 3 hours, mostly just perfecting my aim with magic and quickening my movements with it. I had a few moments of doing something I didn't know I could do, one of them being that I accidentally took away Aylin's sight and hearing. It took me a couple minutes to figure out how to give them back to her, at which point she magically threw me across the field and threatened to rip out my esophagus if I ever did that to her again. I had wanted to go watch my dad kick Roman's ass but I was too caught up with my own training.Aylin was a badass, it seemed like she was trained in everything-hand to hand, magic, and she was a boss ass bitch with her dagger. I practically begged her to train me with a dagger and twin blades. I did get the upper hand on her once or twice, but both times she managed to get her dagger and held it to wherever she would have stabbed me. I guess I should be proud that she has over 250 years of experience on me and I held my own.The two of us plus
The next morning, the rest of the gang is finally awake enough to join us for breakfast. I'm buzzing with excitement. My father will start off with magic training, and then I'll be with Aylin for physical training. Azrael wanted to spar with all the guys, so they won't be bugging me during training. After that, I plan to explore around here with the girls. I tried to convince Aylin to come with, and after the third "absolutely fucking not" she reached for her dagger and I portaled behind Roman. He had the good sense to stay quiet, but he stiffened, and I swear to Selene I saw him pale slightly.The girls, unable to hide their blatant curiosity, decide to tag along with me to the training grounds. As I'm sitting on one of the chairs while Azrael shows everyone else around, Aylin comes and sits next to me. She places two wooden boxes in my lap."These are for you. I had the blacksmith make them." is all she says to me as I look up at her.I look back at the two boxes, the one is long
The second Amara, ever so gracefully, portaled us back into my territory, everyone except her landing on our asses in my office-if I might add, I was met by a wide eyed Aston, standing behind my desk. I've known this man my entire life, and I knew when he was about to say something I wouldn't like, and what he was about to say would make me want to turn an entire forest to dust. That much was evident as he stuttered over his first words."Al-Alpha Roman. I'm glad you're back. We have information on vampire movements" he says, meeting my gaze but I can see the worry in his eyes. Instantly, I'm on my feet and next to him."Talk." I say, my cold, no bullshit exterior immediately falling into place."They attacked the Red Moon Pack. If they knew she wasn't still there and attacked them to send a message, then we're in deep shit. The Alpha and Luna were killed, and they wiped out over half their warriors before The Allies could get there and neutralize them" he says with a
I watched as everyone dispersed, and I would be lying if I said I didn't feel all warm and fuzzy. I definitely expected there to be outrage that I was the reason the pack was under imminent attack, but not one single word of defiance came. Everyone was on high alert, yet no one even looked worried. I knew Roman's pack was powerful, but standing here now, watching his pack-our pack-move about the territory, I realized, I have no idea what numbers he has. Honestly, I don't know the first thing about how this works beyond we kill them, they kill us. But, I suppose I'll find out pretty fucking quick.I didn't realize I'm still staring out at them as Roman wraps his arms around me and pulls me to him."What are you thinking?" he says"I'm thinking I don't know the first thing about war, or even what your army looks like, and everything feels so real now you know? Before I was only your Luna in theory, we only had to worry about this attack in theory..." I say and tr
The second Aylin and I cleared the treeline, every single vampire turned their head to us. I smiled wickedly as the distraction cost some of them, their throats getting torn out before they could even process they found what they were looking for. To their credit, not one single wolf looked at us, refusing to be distracted. Making sure my mental shields were in place, I let loose any hold I had on my power as it surged to my fingertips and the vampires that remained, fell to the ground writhing as I focused on all their nerve endings. They were all dead in an instant as their opponents ripped them to shreds.There was a split second of silence before I felt the vibration of feet on the ground. We all braced ourselves, and then a herd of vampires cleared the borderline and jumped right onto us. Black tinted the edges of my vision and I didn't fight it away this time. I knew my eyes must have been completely black because the battlefield before me took on a dark tint. I spared my
*Trigger warning: There are mentions of rape and a detailed memory recounting the rape that will be portrayed. There will also be detailed torture.* I will put a recap of this chapter in asterisks at the end, so those who had to skip know what happenedWe showered and got dressed in a heavy silence. Neither of us had anything to say, and the only way we communicated was through touch. The majority of our shower Roman held me, and I held him back. We washed up quickly, and when I heard Aylin approach the door, I opened it, and instantly portaled us all to the dungeon in silence.The two vampires we kept alive were in cells on different floors, so they couldn't communicate. Aston and Seth took the one on the second floor, who appeared to have been just a standard warrior, and left this one to the three of us. I recognized him as the one that led the second wave of vamps to us. So, he must be some kind of troop leader then.He jumped, straining against his chains as we p
"So...you gonna explain what that was?" I ask Amara as we land in our room"Well, it seems as though I taught myself how to use my mind reading trick" she says, shaking her head as if she wanted to shake whatever she saw out of her head. Couldn't say I blamed her, I wouldn't want to see what went on in that thing's head"What did you see?""A bunch of flashes of things that didn't make sense, but they have five thousand vampires left, they started off with ten thousand but it seems they lost half of them actually finding me, and they undershot their attack here, sending less of them than they had been sending to the other packs. I still don't know what our numbers are like" she says, she sounds a little shaken."Not five thousand. Half that, maybe a little more" I say and she nods, honestly the numbers were the least of my concern at this point. I needed to know what their actual plans were, numbers alone don't win you a war. Surely it helps, but it's all s