AVAThe three of us ran together, jumping over and into each other, all laughing over the mind link. We slowed to a stop when we reached the pack house and saw Callum and Oscar on the stairs.Once we stopped, the three of us shifted back, but not by choice. It was like something yanked Artemis back, leaving me (and Theo and Noah) face down in the mud.“Fuck,” I swore, rolling over and wiping the mud off my face.“Ava!” Callum shouted. “Are you okay?” He ran towards me, pulling me up to stand.I nodded, and when we touched, it was like a jolt of power moved through me into him. His eyes immediately flared gold, and he fell to his knees. “Ares is trying to shift,” he growled, fighting it.“Callum, don’t fight it, let it happen, baby.” I fell to my knees in front of him whilst everyone watched the display. Even Jacob and Alex were on the steps of the pack house now.He shifted, and he had completely changed. His wolf was now midnight black, the same colour as mine, his eyes gold, and on
AVAAfter dinner, my new King Consorts joined me in my parents’ living room with tea and cake. Mum and dad looked nervous, really nervous.I put my plate back on the coffee table, cake half eaten.“Mum, dad,” I whispered. “What’s going on?”“Ava… I’m sorry we kept things from you… but I promise, we’ll tell you everything now.” Mum was almost crying as she spoke.When they felt my aura start to suffocate the room, Oscar and Callum took my hands, calming me instantly.I took a deep breath, before sitting back and nodding for her to start.“The first thing, sweetie, is your name. When you came here, we started using a shortened version of your name to make it easier to keep you safe. You go by Ava Wright, but you were born Avelina Wroblewski.”“I knew that,” I whispered. “Artemis told me.”They didn’t need to say anything for me to know that my eyes were shining gold.“How long have you known?” Mum’s voice was quiet.“Since I was ten.”“Ten?! You didn’t get Artemis until you were thirtee
AVAThe faces of my Kings were all stoic, uncertain. “The Moon Goddess, Ava?” Noah asked.I nodded. “The short story is that I need to have mated and marked the four of you by the full moon, which is only a week away.”“Why that soon?”“Because that’s when the rogues will come for me, and if they do before I’ve got all the four marks, they’ll win.”“But we don’t have time? If we have to wait in between each one and we don’t know how long we need to wait, seven days isn’t really enough time?”“I will know when Ava is ready for the next mark, Noah,” Artemis said. “Ava is strong. I am strong.”I took back over from Artemis. “She’s right, Noah.”He sighed, nodding. “So how do we do this?”“In the order you came to me, so Callum, Oscar, you, then Theo.”“Don’t look so smug, Callum,” Theo growled, his aura flowing. Of course Callum’s flowed back, and as the two boys stood off against each other, their respective twins came to stand behind them, also growling.I stood in between them, lettin
CALLUMWe lay there attempting to catch our breath, and I could safely say, I had never felt better.Where my skin was in contact with Ava’s, it felt like sparks were flying along my skin. Her voice was almost musical, her laugh hypnotic, her smell intoxicating. I could lose myself in her body, stay there forever, and die a very happy man.It was at that point when a searing hot pain shot through my body, leaving me dripping in sweat and in unbelievable agony. It was like a first shift, but so much worse.“Callum, we need to shift,” Ares said, his voice sounding strained too. “I don’t know what’s happening, but not shifting feels like it’s tearing me apart.”I let go of my control, letting Ares take over and shift.Ava gasped when I completed the shift, and ran her hand along my wolf’s face. “Ares, Callum,” she whispered. “I think our marking unlocked some kind of magic.”Huh?I shifted back, confused. “What do you mean?”“It was like something tingling and shimmering around your body
AVAI shifted straight back when I got to the clearing in front of the pack house, not even paying attention to the crowd that had gathered, or caring about the fact I was as naked as the day I was born.Callum pulled me into a hug, pressing his lips to my forehead, before checking me over for injuries. He didn’t find any, and instead turned his attention to his mark on my neck. Gone was the bite mark, and in its place was a delicate pattern of the Aries constellation.“Beautiful,” he whispered as he teased his fingertips over the still sensitive flesh.I tiptoed in front of him, reaching up to admire my own mark on his neck. Gone were the teeth and in its place was a delicate tattoo of my wolf staring up at the moon.I pressed a gentle kiss to the mark, enjoying how his body shivered in pleasure at the feel of my lips on his skin. He groaned when my tongue teased over the mark, his hands ending up intertwined around my back.Artemis reminding me that the rogues were a very real threa
OSCARThe feel of Ava beneath me was something I’d never take for granted. She was all soft curves, passion and fire; and it was like every inch of her was designed specifically to drive me crazy with need.I wasn’t sure why I’d been blessed with someone quite like her for a mate, but I’d never take her for granted, and I’d always treat her like the Queen she is and deserves to be.At the first touch of my lips on hers, she moaned contentedly, melting into the kiss. She tangled her fingers in my hair, pulling me on top of her, gasping at the feel of my cock pressing against her core.I tilted my hips, rubbing my tip across her opening and clit, leaving her moaning with every touch.She broke the kiss to catch her breath, tilting her head to give me access to her neck. I obliged immediately, focusing on the spot above Callum’s mark where I’d be marking her. I teased the spot with teeth and tongue, and slid my right hand in between us, searching for her clit.Her eyes rolled back at th
AVAOnce we were sure neither Oscar or I were having any kind of immediate negative reaction to our mating, the three of us headed back to the pack house. As we ran, I thought I saw something in the woods; someone watching us. I slowed to more of a trot, Callum slowing down to match my speed.“Ava, you okay?” Callum’s voice through the mindlink was concerned.“I thought I saw someone,” I replied. “Someone watching us.”“Let me check it out.”“Not on your own, Callum.”“I’m literally your destined protector, Ava, I’ve got this.”“I told you that I will not let you shove me away from danger forever, Callum. I’m not hiding behind a tree.”Artemis hid our scent, and we crept forward into the woods, listening and looking out for trouble. There was the faint smell of a wood fire and meat cooking… Someone had set up a camp here recently. But they’d gone.Then… the smell hit me.“Rogues,” I growled through the mind link. “They know.”“Know what?!” Callum’s voice was frantic.“That I marked y
AVAAn hour later, my Kings, Jacob, Alex and I were all sitting around the table in my office. My coffee machine had even arrived and been set up! Jacob rolled his eyes at me, knowing that I’d been telling him for a long time that he should have one in his office. He drinks more than enough coffee to justify the expense.Once we were all seated with coffee and some of Paula’s orgasmic muffins, we got down to business.“So, Jacob, Alex. I’ll have to start from the beginning of this story.” I paused for a bite of muffin. “I was visited by the Moon Goddess in a dream.”They gasped.“The rogues will come for me on the next full moon, so we only have six days to avert this. One of the easiest ways for me to be safe is to have all four marks before then, however, I can’t necessarily have them that close together. With each mark, both the King Consort in question and I will gain new powers, but we don’t know what they are. When Callum and I marked and mated, as you all saw, things went a lit