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Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 131: Nick's Declaration
CHAPTER 131: Evan~ “Amber,” I say with shaky breath. “What’s going on?” she asks me without looking over, fiddling with something on the floor next to her. “They found him. They have Nick. He’s okay,” I exhale and sink down to the floor. One hand on the bar in between us. Amber turns to look at me for a moment. “That’s good, I’m glad,” she says, a small crack in her voice. I can smell the tears swelling in her eyes. She turns away from me again. Why did I come here? You know why, Xavier pushes again. “They, uh, ended up taking a vampire back. They’re going to be putting him down here,” I go on, not knowing what else to say. She nods without looking over. I wait a few more breaths but she doesn't move. She doesn’t turn to face me. She doesn’t move closer to my side. She stays in her corner on the cot on the floor. My body slumps in response. I feel like I’m disappointed, but I can’t give a reason why. Why would I expect more? What do I want from her? Why won’t she face me? I
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 132: Developments
CHAPTER 132: Ally~Nick’s mom’s hands gripped the armrests on her chair.“It is. I was there when they realized they were mates, months ago. Evan also witnessed this. This is very true,” he responds patiently.“What-” her voice breaks. “Months ago?”Nick inhales deeply, taking a strong inhale of my scent while my hand involuntarily clutches his shirt.“Yes mom, months ago,” he affirms. “One of the best moments of my life.”I can’t watch any of this. I can feel Jake’s empathy, Nick’s love for me and his anxiety over what will happen next, his mom’s pain and shock laced with anger. It’s a lot. And while I have practiced blocking out auras and emotions, several werewolves and their super intense feelings wasn’t something I had much experience with. They feel so big, so much.Nick holds me steady and bends slightly to kiss the top of my head. He can likely feel some of this and is trying to calm me through the bond. It helps, but I still feel like someone at the bottom of a well feeling
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 133: A Battle Approaches
CHAPTER 133: Kyle~ Two weeks go by. They are excruciatingly the same. I almost ask the Fae Goddess to let The Collective attack again just to break up the monotony. “Dude, can we watch anything else?” Nick whines from the other couch, his arm around Ally. I throw the remote at him with force. He catches it without even looking.Yeah. It could also be because I’m really over having Nick live here with us. Well not ‘live here’ but yeah. He lives here. Ally’s mom thinks he goes home but no, he wolfs out and sleeps in the garage downstairs. And I pretend not to notice him creeping into Ally’s room every night and staying there until just before dawn. He’s quiet, sure. But I’m not stupid. Every day now goes like this. School, home to practice, Jake comes by and takes Rachel home, Nick stays with Ally until nightfall, then Nick pretends to go home. All of our training is really starting to go nowhere, which doesn’t help the frustration I’m feeling about just about everything. Mates, w
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 134: First Wave
CHAPTER 134: Jake~ The tension has been building for hours. The sun moved slowly through the sky. And while I was thankful for all the time to prepare, it was almost too much time. I’m an overthinker as it is. All this build up didn’t help that. I heard movement coming up the stairs and picked up her scent right before she spoke. “Jake. Come here,” Rachel said softly. I walked slowly and we met in the middle. I’d come into my office again to freak out a bit without any witnesses. She wrapped her arms around me and I held her tight. “Breathe,” she said into my chest. I did. Long slow breaths, taking in her calming scent and her touch. It lowered the pressure that had been building inside me, like letting a little air out of an overinflated tire. I felt my shoulders come down, my heart rate lowered, Aamon seemed to breathe out too. “It’s going to be okay,” she said, muffled into my shirt. “Well, it’s not going to be easy. And we’re probably going to lose some people. But
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 135: Unleashing Amber
CHAPTER 135:Evan~No, I send to Xavier.Yes, he sends back. Do you want them to break in there and kill her? Mate can’t defend herself in that cell.I leap over another body and head to assist a wolf who is on the ground, a leg twistedthe wrong way. I rush in and knock them over just as this guy turns to face me. The look on his face is one of surprise. But I don’t think about it twice as I sink my teeth into the area I targeted and tear with all my force to the side. There’s a scream in my ear for a minute but then he’s silent. I shake my head violently left and right until I hear a clear crack. I dropped him, and his body thuds on the earth. I rush back but the wolf I assisted is dead. Goddess. I was too late. I saw another witch battling three wolves and her hair reminds me vaguely of Amber and I look around for a second, taking in all the chaos. I see a vampire that blazes past fights and he breaks through. He’s heading for the packhouse. Amber. I take off and chase him down
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 136: Shadows Appear
CHAPTER 136: Ally~ I was starting to break a sweat. Where did they get all these people? How was one guy really convincing all these people to join his cause? Why were they following him into this massacre? They had the numbers, but overall, we were putting up the better fight. I’d seen twice, if not three times as many of them go down than our side. But they still just kept on coming in, like a swarm. I was able to patch the shield a few times to slow things down, but it was too hard to balance that with attacking the people in front of me. Nick stayed by my side the whole time, popping in out of the shield I threw around myself. I could feel it each time he came in, and it assured me he was still doing okay so I could stay focused. I’m hitting again, making a vampire bend over in pain when I see a bit of blond hair. It’s her. Maxine. I move forward and head right towards her. “Max!” I yell, my anger coming from the depths of me. She turns and her expression is one I can’t nam
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 137: The Tides Turn
CHAPTER 137: Maxine~ Goddess my head. My arm. I blink until my eyes refocus. In trying to stand up, I realize my leg is twisted the wrong way. “Ah!” I scream out and fall back to the earth. I hear fighting and screaming far off. Flashes of light far ahead. And clouds of smoke - the Soul Eater demons. But no one is around. They’ve all left me here to die. My mom, my sister, Callum - no one would care if I died here in this field right now. They would say it was a noble death. A death for the cause. And they would move on. Like they did for the witches who died in the last attack. I openly sob. I want to blame it on the pain. But I feel pain everywhere. I lay there for a long time, just listening to everything happening far away. But I sit up and prepare to get back into it. Because what else am I going to do? Where else could I go? I have no one else. I focus on my leg and use the little bit of earth element I have to pull four long twigs over to me, and a fist fu
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 138: The Switch
CHAPTER 138: Jake~ We’re losing this. Right when I thought things were going in our favor these Soul Eaters appeared. And they are next to impossible to kill. I knock one down, and it just comes up again after some recovery time. And it just takes so da*n much to get that much done. I just can’t figure out how to destroy them. They just don’t burn like other things. They don’t get hit by other things. I throw everything I can and it's barely enough. I know if it weren’t for Rachel with me - I wouldn’t be knocking them out for this long. My team leaders report that they can't even knock them out. They just try to hold them off as much as they can and they’re barely doing that. So we keep pulling back, closer to the packhouse. I’m trying not to panic but we’re running out of ideas. We weren’t prepared for this. Witches and vampires? Sure. Maybe a handful of Soul Eaters? Probably. But we had no idea there were maybe a hundred of them. Aamon was in the driver’s seat for most of this a
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Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 147: Epilogue
CHAPTER 147 - Rachel~ I dreamed about the moon. Like I have a hundred times now. But this time it was full, and lit up everything around the forest. I recognized the area, it was our packlands. But parts were slightly different. We didn’t have a lake. I ran over in wolf form to see a lovely lady by the lake. I recognized her right away. Selene. “Rachel! Angeline!” She greeted us. “It’s been a while!” We padded over and sat next to her. “We’re all so proud of you and the pack. And I’m especially excited for your little one, she’s going to be a strong, strong wolf,” she said gleefully. I let out a surprised sound. “Yes! Sorry to spoil the surprise, I know it’s very early. But yes, it’s a girl. And you both are going to raise her to be tough and caring like her mom,” she said with pride. I rested my head on her arm. She got quiet for a while and I looked up at her after a few minutes, seeing an odd look on her face. “I’m sorry - I wish I was just meeting you with som
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 146: The Angel Swoops In
CHAPTER 146: Rachel~ My skin was itching to get back to Jake. Knowing they were likely out of their cells and making adjustments to our plan gave me some hope, but every touch from this disgusting being made me want to scream. Alright, on my mark, I heard Jake say. Wait. What? I looked around and confirmed Jake wasn’t around. And his voice sounded like it was coming from… in my head? Paul drags me along further and starts unlocking a door. We’ve got to be getting closer to wherever they’re keeping Meg and my mom. Could I- could I be getting some connection to him? Like how the others link? Jake?, I ask the ethos. There’s nothing for a minute. Rachel?, Jake asks back. Woah. How are you doing that?, he asks. I don’t know, I just heard you, I explained. Paul hauled the heavy door open and I gasped. My mom and sister were on the ground in a heap like forgotten laundry. I fell forward and reached into the cell they were in, trying to grab my mom’s hand. “Dove, g
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 145: Dove
CHAPTER 145: Jake~ As much as I think this could work, Aamon is absolutely livid that Rachel is about to be out of sight. Things have been working as she planned so far. Simon screaming down here brought Rosalind down as thought. I have to give it to the guy - he played ‘seizure guy’ very well. Then in the middle of things there was some shouting up top. Likely from the fire Elise set. Which meant that Kyle was pretending to surrender himself and if Rachel was right, Paul wouldn’t be able to fight the urge to have groveling at his feet. Which left Sophie. She was right outside my cell, watching Rosalind move Paul around in this cell, trying spells to stop him from freaking out, not realizing Ally had thrown him something he now had in his cheek like a squirrel that would ward off unwanted magic. “They’re kind of a mess, aren’t they?” I say beside her. “I would have expected more from a Luna in training…” She turned to face me with a look of defiance. “Desperate times…” I t
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 144: Luna Rising
CHAPTER 144: Rachel~ “Sophie,” I say the name with charged disgust I can’t hide. “You couldn’t just leave and go find something else to do, huh? You had to stick around and try to take what’s mine.” “Yours?!” She screeches. “You mean what you stole from me! I’m supposed to be Luna. Me! I lost my mom and then my dad, and what? You just waltz along and get what’s mine? NEVER.” “So what? Trying to hurt me before by hiring Max wasn’t enough? Now you have to get some more help to do what you can’t handle? Typical Sophie. Can’t do a da*n thing by yourself. You have to wave daddy’s money around to get anything done. Pathetic,” I sneer. She sputters unintelligible words. I’m getting under her skin. “Enough,” Vance’s mom says, her voice cutting through everything. “You can play around when we’re done with our deal.” Sophie bares her teeth at me then turns. At the same time the door down to the dungeon opens again. Who could possibly be joining in on this nonsense? There’s two sets of s
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 143: Luna Day
CHAPTER 143: Jake~ It’s the Luna ceremony today. Rachel started getting into the spirit yesterday. She glows around here. And the pack members love her. Even those who were vocally against cross-species interactions. They know what she did out there that day and what she gave up without expecting anything in return. While a few left, including Tiffany’s family - which was expected anyway since Evan’s rejection - things were very different than I had thought they’d ever be. After she came back we all had made plans to leave and start our own little pack, but everyone surprised me. Now here we were. A pack pioneering acceptance of all kinds of love. We even had two newly mated couples join us from up north. A witch and a wolf, and a wolf and a vampire. The last one was nuts to me, but Jeanette had a totally clean background and a highly trusted wolf for a mate. If we ever grow to the point of needing a Delta, I have my eye on her mate, Juniper. A knock comes to the door and
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 142: Finding Normal
CHAPTER 142: Rachel~ One Month Later It’s moving day. The thought hits me right when I open my eyes. It makes me smile right away in the early morning light. I guess I was too excited to wait for my alarm to go off. I look over and see Meg asleep in her bed, her head to the side, mouth open, and a soft snore coming out when she exhales. It’s all going to be different now. My phone lights up to my side and I don’t even need to read it before I know it’s from Jake. He likely feels that I’m awake. We’ve been getting more in tune lately. I think the bond is on hyperdrive for us. I’m not even a werewolf but I seem to know things too. I know when something’s upsetting him even if I am outside with the pack pups and he’s in his office, and I know when he’s anxiously pacing in his room even if I’m in the kitchen entertaining a visiting pack. We’re still learning about our bond. And he hasn’t even marked me yet, so who knows how much could change. When I came back to life after Th
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 141: Goddesses Meet
CHAPTER 141: Rachel~ It felt like nothing. No. Warmth. Dark but warm. Cozy like being wrapped up in my favorite fuzzy blanket at home. Like I’m huddled in warmth on a stormy cold day. “Rachel,” I hear a lovely voice saying my name slowly, like the lyrics of a song I know. I stir. It’s just so cozy here. Can’t I rest just a little longer? “Rachel,” the voice says again. This time there’s a hand on my arm. The feeling has me trying to wake before I can make the decision to do it. “Rachel,” it says once more. It’s dark but warm. But I have to go. I start to stir, to look for the source of the voice. Who is it? Light surrounds me and it feels just as cozy and warm as before but its so bright. My eyes try to open but it’s just too bright. Then a shadow appears, making it darker. I open my eyes and they adjust to see- Oh, it’s not a shadow. It’s a person. I know this person. My mind is groggy like I’ve woken up from a deep stage of sleep. I’m slow. My synapses
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 140: The Wake of Destruction
CHAPTER 140: Evan~ I kept expecting her to wake up in Jake’s arms. That somehow, his tears would bring her back. But she just lay there, like a ragdoll, in his arms. If it weren’t for how strikingly pale she looked, I would have told anyone she was sleeping. But she didn’t wake up. It’s hours later and Nick was barely able to get Jake inside. We cleared the field as best we could, bringing in the injured and putting the dead together. Amber had removed all traces of The Collective while we had sat there with Jake. I don’t like how shell shocked she was. She didn’t seem to be actually experiencing all of this and I worry for when those feelings will surface. I know she didn’t like those people. But they still raised her. She told me about jokes and kindnesses that she received in little bursts along the years. She’s basically just lost her family. But she doesn’t want to talk about it. She hasn’t even cried about it. And I can’t say I don’t understand that. I can’t even im
Dark Alpha Rising: Dreams and Nightmares Ch. 139: Cleanse the Earth
CHAPTER 139: Kyle~ I woke up next to the red wolf. Everyone was screaming or howling. It was chaotic and loud, which made everything that much more disorienting. What I saw next killed me. Rachel out on the field alone, with all the shadow Dementor things charging at her. “Rachel!” I’m screaming but no one can hear me. I look to see Jake crawling towards her from too far away. He won’t get there in time. How did it get this bad? How long was I out for? I flail about, my arms and legs pushing to move but I’m not coordinated or strong enough to get anywhere. “Why is no one helping her?!” I scream again, my voice cracking, my throat raw. The red wolf just tugs on my shirt again, trying to bring me inside the packhouse. I have barely any magic left but I send it to the wolf trying to drag me away. “Let go!” I scream. “We have to help her!” I look around frantically for anyone I recognize. Where is Ally? Evan? Nick? There’s so many wolves and people rushing back, I can’t
