Just as they knew of the other creatures that the humans had long forgotten, the powerful Dragons that remained behind their protective shield, the stunning winged unicorns descendants of the mighty Pegasus, the Elves, Faeries, Witches and Warlocks who lived by the ancient codes of magic. All had once shared their lives with the Homo-Sapien race and believed they lived peacefully and helped their neighbours when needed. It was the humans who developed their strong beliefs in a higher Deity rejecting the world of magic and myth and turning against them viewing them as their greatest enemy.
They had simply stopped believing as they evolved and developed finding they no longer needed magic when science overtook the old ways and truth became greater than fiction. Humans could fly like birds, only higher and further, they had flown into Space, and they could swim like the fish only deeper and faster as they plundered the bounty of the seas. On land they bred at such a rapid rate they soon overtook indigenous populations and the Creator brought those remaining behind the veil that separated their world from all the other realms. The Goddess ordered her Species to become the protectors of the land, it was the duty of all Shifters to use their special abilities for the good of the planet and that included hiding away from the human population. They quickly became the stuff of all human nightmares, film-makers portrayed them as monsters and to keep the humans away from their Packs they used that fear to their advantage. As human technology advanced they finally reached out into Space, unaware their young planet had been watched for centuries by those who coveted its vast resources. Those watching saw the way the human technology raced to catch up with their own, in one century, a mere blink of an eye in the universal scheme of things, the little human parasites had gone from using the horse and cart to landing on the moon. Parameters had to be set, and a time limit introduced, simply put when human technology advanced to a certain point, when it could be used to destroy those vast resources, a meeting of the Intergalactic Council would be called.
Those pesky humans could not be trusted not to destroy their pretty little planet by constantly fighting with each other and that would not be allowed under any circumstance.
Alexis was the Snow Wolf Pack Alpha and he was utterly gorgeous, all six feet five inches of him, not an ounce was wasted, with his long ash blonde hair and ice blue eyes, toned muscled body, slender hips, powerful long legs and a devastating smile that made him every female's fantasy male. Needless to say, he had no trouble finding willing females to keep him warm during the endless winter nights that were the bane of his Pack life. Here in his snow-covered territory, the winters were long and harsh, a time to reflect on their effectiveness over the previous year, to do any repairs to their buildings and machinery and to catch up on friendships and study. The days were so short, by the time of the Winter Equinox they lasted a mere four hours, and as the Mating Moon occurred during this time the females in his Pack were kept busy organising the huge Ball that they always held to celebrate the many matings that occurred during this time. It was good for the Pack that by the end of the month almost all those females who had mated would be carrying cubs.
He was, however, unmated, whoever his fated mate was he had not found her yet and he was in no rush to do so he was having far too much fun to settle down. ‘That part of his life was in his future he was not ready to settle down yet.’ He had thought but this sexy young Alpha male was about to discover how little about fated mates he actually knew.
‘Good morning Alpha, you have a meeting later this morning. Would you like a coffee?’
Martha was his un-appointed secretary, she was an older she-wolf who had been widowed when another Wolf Pack had foolishly tried to overthrow the Snow Wolves. She was lonely as she had no cubs and had taken it upon herself to look after Alexis. He smiled now and nodded at the coffee before going into his office his parents had been killed in the same attempted coup as Martha’s husband, it had failed miserably because they had underestimated him. At just sixteen he had rallied his Warriors and driven the Rogue Pack off his land killing most of them in the process, including their Alpha. The Rogue Alpha had been so cocky and sure of himself believing that a young boy would be no match for his strength but Alexis was a blue-eyed pure-blood, descended from the original Siblings. He was stronger, quicker and possessed the kind of power the Rogue could only dream of. He had ripped his throat out with barely a struggle but unfortunately, the Rogues Warriors had taken his Father by surprise and by the time he realised what was happening his Mother was dead. His Beta, [Martha's husband Billy] had been mortally wounded and the Alpha himself was surrounded by blood fuelled murdering Rogues. They had all felt their Alpha bond break when his Father had been brutally killed but they had also felt a new bond forming with Alexis who had quickly stepped up and took his rightful place as the Alpha of the Pack. When he discovered his parents had been murdered Alexis had gone berserk not only killing the Rogue Leader but more than a dozen others in his angry rage and the need for revenge.
It was only when Martha had pulled him into her arms and held him tightly that he howled his pain and stopped the endless killing and that had been eight years ago Martha had been looking after him ever since. She had moved into the Pack House to cook and clean for him almost immediately and it had not taken her long to become indispensable. She was his ‘Mother’ now and while he concentrated on running the Pack she took it upon herself to look after his home. He looked up as she came in with his coffee and a thick bacon sandwich,
‘Oh Goddess Martha that smells so good!’
She laughed heartily as he grabbed her and hugged her,‘I don’t often tell you how much I appreciate all you do for me.’He kissed the top of her head and let her go so he could pick up his sandwich and take a huge bite chewing contentedly,‘It’s nice to be useful.’She grinned and bustled off to his room to make sure the maids had finished his bed and put his clothes away properly and when she closed the door he mind-linked his Beta,‘Karl, bring the Warriors to my office in half an hour’He commanded,‘Yes Alpha, we’re on our way’Alexis stood looking out of his office window at the snow-capped mountain, finishing his sandwich. He felt restless and had a deep foreboding something was coming and it wasn’t going to be good.Aurora sat in her room brushing her long, rich red/gold hair, it was stunning, a myriad of colours from pale gold to rich crimson a legacy from her Mother she had been told many times growing up. Not that she would know, her Mother had died two weeks after she was
‘There is nothing I can do for you my Princess, your future is set but your daughter has the blood of both sides running through her veins. On her eighteenth birthday, she will inherit the powers of her Ancestors and the magic that runs in your blood that you have had to repress. She will stop the Hunters, including the man you love so much, and your people will be forever free.’Aurora was born at midnight on All Hallows Eve, the wind was howling and hailstones battered the castle as the wildest storm anyone could ever remember raged relentlessly overhead. She came into the world waving her tiny fists and shouting right back at the storm and as her Mother held her in her arms for the first time the storm broke. Holding her tightly the Princess took her to the window as a huge incredible moon appeared, it was blood red and all around it the clouds seemed to be on fire as the colour seeped into them.‘The Blood Moon, little daughter.’The Princess understood the Goddesses sign,‘It is f
Martha carried on,‘This is how they work, this ‘feeling’ is just the beginning. Slowly Pack members will become paranoid and start reacting to each other. It weakens the Pack so that when the Hunters attack it makes their job so much easier. Without the strength of Pack unity, we become easy targets fighting solo instead of together.’She stopped and looked at Alexis her face reflecting her sadness,‘I’m so sorry.’He moved across the room and hugged her tightly,‘Don’t apologise, Martha, none of this is your fault now please can you tell us what else you know?’It wasn’t much more but it was enough, Alexis turned to Karl,‘Go and find Morgana and bring her here.’He asked his Beta who nodded and left immediately.Morgana was the most powerful witch in the whole of the Vottovaara Mountain Region he had found her many years ago, seriously injured and dropped into a ravine just inside their boundary left to perish by her human attackers. He had been a young wolf, only just coming into h
A bolt of energy slammed through Aurora and she cried out closing her eyes as the room grew brilliant white and the fizzing in her body intensified spreading rapidly through her.The beautiful teenager began to shake and then she was lifted off the ground by a hidden force that spun her violently making her hair fly out around her until everything imploded and she dropped onto her bed like a lead weight her powers had finally been released,‘You are so like her, Aurora, and now you must confront him, show him that you are her daughter, not his. She walks beside you, my dear child. It is time to embrace her. You must take her hand and become the woman she knows you are meant to be.’The Witch touched the Princess's forehead and everything went black and when she opened her eyes again the Witch had gone, all that remained were a few rags on the floor. She turned and looked up at the sky gasping at the beauty of a huge blood-red moon just reaching its zenith in the night sky with the clou
Joachim did not live long enough to see Alexis' mother find her Fated Mate and leave his Pack because she left silently in the early hours when her mate called for her. She knew that to ask his permission would have meant certain death for her, he did not want her in his Pack but he would never have agreed to free her. When her mate had her safely far away from Joachim the Goddess intervened sending Constantine and his Hunters to find them and that whole Pack had been wiped out. Unfortunately, when Meredith’s Mother heard what had happened to her Pack it broke her gentle heart, even though he had rejected her and thrown her and their daughter out of his Pack she had never stopped loving her Mate. It destroyed her when she discovered her beloved daughter's Mate was the Hunter Prince, the man who had murdered them all, the man who had made it his life’s objective to destroy as many of their kind as he could, it was all too much for her. T
She did not want to be like him and had taught herself to anticipate and respond to his moves instead, practising for hours alone in her room. Now she faced him and put her knowledge into practice, he moved with speed and accuracy and she blocked him and retaliated every time. She toyed with him, wearing him down, he was not as fit as her and was soon panting heavily. No one interfered as she sent him to the floor time and time again, instead, the Warriors stood back watching closely The silver daggers slid across the room out of his reach as she knocked them out of his hands one by one and with a speed and strength that shocked him she broke his wrists. He grunted in pain as she spun him beneath her in a stranglehold squeezing his neck strangling him, he began to turn blue as he fought to breathe,Now his Warriors stepped in and picked up the daggers,‘Release the Leader Aurora’His Second came forward with his two grown-up sons behind him,‘Release him and go back to your room and no
He smiled reassuringly but that night when everyone was asleep he slipped out into the forest, shifting quickly he ran mile after mile until he reached the very outskirts of his boundaries. Leaping onto a large boulder he stood gazing across the land his eyes brilliant golden orbs, the wind lifted his snow-white coat but he remained still searching for something. When he found it he startled the green-eyed beauty who was shocked to sense him looking through her eyes at her reflection in the mirror. She was not afraid of him staring challengingly back at the beautiful white Wolf and a seed was planted in each of them. He stepped back from her mind and lifted his head howling into the wind and standing by her window in the palace she heard him and her heart quickened as she gazed into the night,‘MATE!’She whispered and heard his reply,‘MATE!The next morning Aurora woke with a start and a stiff body, she had fallen asleep on the throne, sitting up she looked around her and her stomach
Lifting her head she stared at them waiting and was not disappointed when the same Leader spoke,‘It is our sworn duty to Hunt the Shifters and destroy them’The Councillor said watching her carefully,‘Is it?’ Why? Who made this law? Show it to me.’Her sarcasm was not lost on him and he looked at the others but they just shrugged,‘Nothing is written down you know that Princess’He said quietly and she nodded again jumping to her feet‘Just as I thought, so I have arranged for this to be written down so future generations will be able to follow all my rules correctly’She handed around the paperwork she had prepared with her laws and although they tried to protest there was nothing they could do, she was the Leader and her word was law. It had all been written down by the Royal legal team and she had missed nothing.‘Go home’She told them,‘This ends now’As she waited she saw the fight go out of them, she was their Leader and she could make whatever rules she wanted. Sensing their
He scooped her up and carried her back to their bed and got in beside her holding her tightly, 'Talk to me little Wolf.' He whispered against her hair, they had been getting on so well that he had finally at her down and explained everything to her she understood now what her role was, and everything that would happen when she became fully integrated into the Pack. Apart from him, the one person who had helped her adjust and finally settle into her role was little Catelyn, she adored the Luna and had become her faithful shadow slipping her small hand into Auroras and breaking through the barriers she and the Pack had set up. No one could resist that cheerful chattering little girl and when she was with their beautiful Luna they made an adorable sight. Now she snuggled into his strong arms trembling from head to toe,
Aurora had decided to stay and fight for her place as the Luna of the Pack, when she had returned from university they had gone out of their way to apologise for the preconceived ideas of her and begged her to give them a second chance. To help her decided Alexis had gone on an all-out charm offensive and she found him irresistibly cute, he took her out on dates but not the old-fashioned wining and dining that bored her rigid, he took her to theme parks, adventure parks, jet skiing, climbing, anything he could think of that was different. It did not take him long to figure out that when she got excited and the adrenaline kicked in she also got horny and if there was a risk of getting caught it aroused her more, she stopped wearing underwear so he could push up her skirt or tug down her shorts and ram into her needing to be quick in case they were caught. It was very risky and very exciting he loved the challenge of finding places he could take her, behind a dense shrub with people wal
Her frustration was because she was denying it, they were alone in her rooms, and his two Gammas stood on guard outside while he was supposed to be talking to her about returning to the Pack because they now loved her. His amusement came from the fact that she could not take her eyes off his cock. Granted he was naked and as was the norm for him, the sight of his beautiful mate dressed in leather had aroused him so his shaft stood out hard and proud making it very plain what he wanted to do to her. Aurora kept telling herself not to stare at his huge engorged cock, she was used to seeing him naked after he had shifted but she could not bring herself to lie, Alexis had a magnificent shaft, it was long and thick with a bulbous tip the purple veins running down it made it look so pretty. 'He was so fucking handsome, even his cock was a thing of beauty.'
His arrogance was his downfall, Aurora had been debating with herself about what to do with him, he was undeniably attractive as all these damn Shifters were and it might have been once being the girlfriend of the Captain of the football team. 'Why did they all have to be so fucking arrogant.' She thought angrily even as her body was responding to his when he deepened the kiss teasing apart her lips and plunging his tongue into her mouth dominantly he was clever before she knew it he tipped her onto the chair and had her pinned beneath him his kisses becoming more aggressive. Aurora wriggled beneath him and pushed her two hands against his powerful muscled chest pushing against him ineffectively,
Her answer incensed him, she was dismissing him like a child but he was twenty-one and would be leaving in the next semester to take up his post as his father's number two. When she went to move away he slammed his hands against the wall caging her in and brought his head down to hers, 'Non sono una brava persona per farmi un nemico della piccola principessa. Fidati di me, mio padre non sarebbe in grado di darti questo.' [I am not a good person to make an enemy of little Princess. Trust me my father would not be able to give you this.] He pressed his hard length into her and she had to admit it was very impressive and his dark very Italian good looks were attractive hi scent told her he was very human and not a Shifter and she had no intention of getting involved with the Mafia in this country. As if on cue two taller and much broader guys strolle
University was an eye-opener for Aurora, she loved it, for the first time that she could remember she could be her age, going from class to class laughing and joking with the other students, with no responsibilities, and no duties it was heaven. Her rooms were peaceful havens where she did her homework and slept, it was a male-free zone, it wasn't that she did not get offers, nearly all her male classmates hit on her within the first month and she refused them all. The last thing she needed was to get entangled with any of the male humans if word got back to Alexis he would kill them without a second thought, but she was not the only Shifter at the University, Cole was the only son of Alpha Graham, Leader of the Dark Night Pack, a small Pack of Panthers that lived a few miles from the Snow Wolves. The first time he scented her he was intrigued but she managed to evade him and he had to attend football practice as he was the Captain of the University team, he had no doubt she had scent
The hospital let her go home later that day, the body cast had only been a precaution until her Wolf took over her healing, all her broken bones had fully healed and the internal injuries she had sustained were almost repaired, they took a little longer than her bones. The Consultant told her to be careful for a few more days and rest as much as she could to allow her Wolf to complete the healing process she sat in the back of the SUV gazing out of the window a smile playing on her lips, it was times like this she was so glad to be a Wolf. Back at the Pack House, she went straight up to their rooms without a second glance at the Members sitting around eating their dinner she did not see the love in their eyes for her but as far as she was concerned nothing had changed. She had showered and pulled on a pair of soft silky, pyjamas that consisted of a tiny pair of shorts and a loose t-shirt style top in a rich emerald green the same colour as her eyes, not bothering to dry her thick red
He hissed but could do nothing as she moved slowly forward her slender body stretched out along the branch distributing her weight evenly she balanced precariously but her eyes never left Catelyn, 'It's okay little one, don't be afraid I won't let you fall.' Her voice was gentle and calm as she held out her hand, 'Come to me.' She smiled at the child gripping the wood so tightly it gave her splinters, 'I can't move. I'm too scared.' Catelyn whimpered her eyes filling with tears,
Looking up at him her eyes glittered swirling like a tornado she smiled wickedly, 'If you believe that Beta then I pity you.' She held her palms together and the blue light and formed the blue light into a ball tossing it into the air a few times and then sending it whizzing toward the Beta who ducked out of its way, there were gasps of shock when it hit the opposite wall behind the Beta with a loud bang when the smoke cleared a large hole had appeared. 'Still want to play games Beta?' She cocked her head to one side looking incredibly cute but it did not reach her eyes she