My Dad is sitting waiting for us. I can tell from the expression on his face he is filled with unease and concern. Understandably so when I had told him his uncle had turned up at the funeral. The one they had been desperate to get rid of for years. Yet he had evaded punishment and managed to avoid them at all costs. How ironic he would turn back up now. Of course he would, he knew that there was another gifted wolf back within our mist. Within the family. He felt it was his right to take ownership of the wolf and do what he pleased with it. Well, he would be disappointed, because we would be doing all we could to make sure that did not happen. We would be doing all we could to make sure he did not get his grubby paws on Violet.Violet and her wolf, Azaria, would be keeping their freedom, I would make sure of that, even if it went against everything my other family members wanted. I would not be forcing anyone to give their freedom up over a gift. I had felt protective over this girl
“Right, is that all for the meeting Uncle?” I ask, not sure I can sit and listen to anymore. Today has been one hell of a day for Violet, and then made even worse by this disaster. “I think so for now, son, yes. We will be making a start with training tomorrow for Violet. As well as moving your things across to the Beta house as it will be easier to guard and protect.” He tells me. “Well, tomorrow I would prefer it if training is kept short please? As it is Violet’s birthday, and I would like to spend the day with her. I can do some training with her myself if you like? But yes, that is fine for moving. The sooner we can get that done the better, if you believe it is safer and easier to guard, then I am fully behind that.” I tell him. “Oh of course, pretty girl,I am so sorry! Your birthday.” Uncle Pierce says. “Well, unfortunately, we do need to forge ahead with all of this, get you protected as soon as possible, but if Tate wants to do your training tomorrow, that is fine with
Tate rushes me home, back to pack up our things, as he tells me we will be moving again tomorrow. I should be an expert at this now the amount of times I have done this in the last few weeks! But I can understand why we need to move. If the house is safer than the suite and easier to guard, then it would make sense if we lived there. Just wish we could wave a magic wand and have us already living there so we could miss having to do the packing and unpacking stages because I am really not up for doing all that all over again. Especially so soon after doing it to move in with Tate. Eurgh... “So doll, do you want to do anything special for your birthday? Unfortunately, we are now restricted to things within pack. But there are still things we could do”, Tate says, wrapping his arms around my waist, surprising me. "I would still like to make sure we celebrate your day." I jump at the contact, not having expected him to be there. But I relish his touch. The tingles across my b
I hug Violet once we are back at the Beta suite, her scent so strong and alluring right now, but I try to behave, knowing we have so much to do! We need to pack and get things ready to move tomorrow. We need to get into the Beta house, where they can guard us effectively. They think we can be better protected there, so I am happy for us to move there. Anywhere that my mate will be safer I am willing to go. No matter how hard work that brings, I am willing to do it. So when she moves herself away from me, I don’t take offense and assume that is why she has moved, because she too wants to get on and get things packed ready for our move. Though I look at the time and realise we will be needing dinner soon. So I offered to cook. Her response sounded so weak, vague, like she wasn’t with it, puzzling me a little. She had moved to the bedroom, so I followed her, to make sure she was ok. The sight I was greeted with worried me. Her eyes were stuck between hers and her wolf’s, her bod
I have to head back to the bedroom, finding Violet on the bed rubbing at her skin in discomfort. “Tate?” she is muttering. Well, at least she has woken up now. “Vi” I say. “I am here, doll. Are you ok?” “Why did you turn the heating up?” she asks, almost clawing at her skin. I quickly move her hands away, not wanting her to hurt herself, and placed the cool towel on her body. The heat is obviously driving her to discomfort. Though that was normal when a she-wolf went into heat. But Violet did not know much about it. So she may not know what to expect. “Violet, listen to me, I didn’t turn the heating up. The reason you are so warm is that you are in heat. Did you read anything about that? Or learn anything about it with Hattie?” I ask. Her eyes, still a combination of her own and her wolf’s, are almost vacantly staring at me, or through me it feels when I look at her. So I am unsure if she is hearing what I am saying to her or not. I know she is going to need me
I wake with a jolt. I am laid on Tate’s bed and my skin feels like it is on fire! My body feels like it belongs to somebody else and it is not a nice sensation. My mind feels disconnected from my body. And I don’t know where Azaria has been. “Hey you, you are awake again” Tate says, looking down at me. He is sitting next to me on the bed. He looks worried, I can see that in the way he is looking at me. My body feels uncomfortable. I look down, my body is covered with a damp towel and I am wearing nothing other than my underwear. What has happened?! What has Tate been doing? This feels very strange. “Violet?” he says, I can hear the concern in his voice too. “Yeah. Where are my clothes?” I ask, and I can hear the accusation in my tone when I speak. But I was dressed when I was awake last. Now suddenly I am lying in nothing but my underwear with nobody else here but him. It does not look good. It feels all wrong. Mate or no mate. I do not like how I am feeling. ‘
Tate lays alongside me, pulling me close to him. “So beautiful, are we going to see if we can make you feel better?” he smiles, before lowering his lips to mine. His touch feels even better than normal against my skin today. Almost cooling to the touch. I need him so badly. My whole body is craving him. Wanting him to fix the heat pulsating through my body. His lips met mine in a passionate kiss, our tongues entwining with one another. I move his hand down my body, wanting his touch to explore my body, cool the heat that is spreading all over me. If he is the cure for the way I am feeling, then there is no denying he is what I need. His fingers tease at the peak of my nipples, making me groan against his lips in pleasure, arching my back slightly to his touch. He had mentioned me being more confident, yet he seemed more confident in himself this time too... Before one hand continues to move downwards, fingers tickling and teasing at my skin gently, creating so many amazin
I looked to Violet, and she had fallen asleep in my arms. Though, I am unsurprised, being in heat is meant to be tiring, and it is only going to get worse as it goes along for her. So having a sleep now would not necessarily be a bad thing for her, bless her. I could do with resting too, but my wolf Odyn is restless, making sleep an almost impossibility. I think he was wanting to take care of his mate, it was like he was keeping an eye on her after she had passed out earlier. I knew it had made him worry as much as it had me. I pulled Violet into my embrace as I hoped feeling her steady heart rate and peacefully sleeping may settle Odyn too, to at least allow me to rest a little. I lay staring at the ceiling. Pondering over the fact things have changed so much in recent weeks. Gone from being a single Beta of a pack. To now having a mate, a beautiful mate, who had come into my life so unexpectedly. With not a clue about life as a werewolf. We had so much to teach her still too. A
Dear Diary… Well, how can life change in the space of a year? By a crazy amount when you learn your parents lied. Or perhaps not so much lied but kept secrets from you. Secrets do nothing but make life difficult. Make life twisted and they hurt when they are finally revealed. But the secrets in the end brought me the happiness and life I was meant to have. Could the secrets have been part of the fate that led me here? Who knows? Having learned the things I have about being a werewolf, and how the beliefs are, fate plays a big part in our lives. Perhaps the path my life took was all a part of fate's plan... A path that brought me to the Autumn Moon Pack. To Tate. The handsome, mysterious Beta. The sweetest, kindest man I had ever met, that I was able to call mine. All because of a goddess I had never heard of until I learned of my heritage as a werewolf, blessing him as my fated mate. My fated mate. My love. My future. And now the father to the little one I am carrying inside my
I wake up wrapped in the warm embrace of Tate. His head is resting on my shoulder. “Good morning beautiful” he whispers. I found myself chuckling. “Good morning to you too” I whispered back. “You know I am going to have to get you up and out of bed shortly for your training.” He says with a sigh. “Euurrgghh!” I grumbled. “But the bed is so warm and comfy!” Training has been going on almost each day since we returned to pack six months ago. Lachlan was relentless. Though I can’t blame him, Azaria was just as unrelenting too in her necessity for me to refine these gifts of mine and in her need to make me as strong as she could, both physically and mentally. “Oh. You mean you don’t want to stay in bed because of your handsome mate?” Tate huffs, flipping himself, so he was suddenly on all fours, leaning over me. I find myself smirking at his playfulness. We had most definitely refined our relationship and our gifts… “Perhaps I was just coming to that…” I teased,
The doctor leads us into Damien’s room. He is not looking good. Though what would I know? I am not a doctor. But he looks like he is at death’s door. And it scares me. But he is in the right place. Tate had told me this hospital had some good doctors, and I am sure Lachlan would do what he could to make sure he got the best care possible. Pierce led the rest of the family into the room. All looking equally shocked by the state of my grandfather. I doubt the doctors would allow us all to stay in here together for long before trying to throw us out. “What has the doctor said?” Adam asks, I am surprised he is here, expecting him to be with his son, though I can only assume his mate is there, as I have not seen here since we arrived. Lachlan looks up from where he was standing by the side of the bed, his grandfather not having moved since we walked in here. His eyes not having moved from his brother in the bed. “The doctor said he is stable now. Though he is badly injured. He
I watch her. Doing whatever it was she was doing. Speaking as someone else through her body? She is unreal. How did she manage that? Her eyes shifted, to a deeper blue. She looked like she was from another world for those few moments she spoke. An aura radiating off her that gave that otherworldly glow. The voice coming from her was unrecognizable to me. But the look on my grandfather’s face changed instantly. Color draining from his skin. Eyes wide open as he looked at her, and I could see tears in his eyes. ‘What the fuck?’ I mindlink Tate. ‘Not a clue. I thought Azaria was going to talk, she can do that like most of us can. But that is not her voice. That voice is not Azaria's. I do not know who that is.’ Tate says, yet his eyes have not left his mate. He looked fearful for her, not knowing what to expect. All these gifts are new to us. We don’t know how she will be with them. During them, or after them. What effect they could have on her. But Azaria clearly felt the
I stood watching Lachlan walking away from me. My skin turning cold hearing my brother’s name echoing through my mind. How can they seriously expect me to want to help him? He killed our mother. Kidnapped her. Then tortured her to the point of her death. No. Have they lost their damn minds? I look to Pierce. His eyes are dark, but he is watching me. A sad smile on his face. He knew of this? I find myself struggling to speak. No. Have they lost their damn minds? I can hear voices surrounding me, but they are not registering in my mind. This is madness. This made no sense. They had brought my brother back here. To the pack we had him exiled from. What the hell was Lachlan thinking? Was he even fit to be an Alpha of our great pack? Does he not know what this man was capable of? Suddenly, a hand is on my shoulder, snapping out of my angry mind wandering. I realize there are many more unfamiliar faces surrounding me now. Unfamiliar. But yet they have a hint of familiarit
I stand waiting within the pack hospital as requested by my grandson. Things seem so hectic in the pack. My son dashing off here and there. I hate being old and not quite so able to help anymore. That used to be part of the role of Alpha I loved the most, the drama… the action. And I have to say it was something I missed as I got older, as I handed down the role to my son. Lachlan’s call was unclear. The signal was not good, and the reasoning behind him wanting me at the hospital was not quite explained. He just asked me to be here, saying I would be the best candidate for a blood donor if needed. I am not going to decline that, if somebody needs my help, it is there, no matter how old I am. I may feel like an old and decrepit man most days, but if I am still capable of helping, if it is needed, then I will be there. I may not be able to do much as a former Alpha and I miss that role and all that came with it, but if I can help, then they could rely on me. I had got here as quic
I watch as they drive away with my grandfather in the back of the truck. Fear is filling me. He looked dead. I was pushing toward him, trying to get to him, wanting to try to heal him. But Tate was mindlinking me, telling me to stand back, to not try this for the first time on him, not to risk his life further when I am not sure of what I am doing. Lachlan is taking charge. The voices are just a blur to me. I hear Adam saying that my grandfather’s wolf is dead. How can that be? He has been suffering, and nobody seemed to know other than his son. How much pain had this man had to endure? “Violet, come on now, we need to go.” Tate is leading me to a waiting car. I can only assume we are heading back to Autumn Moon. Azaria seems to have retreated once more. She is meant to be a gifted wolf yet seems to spend most of her time hiding in the outer edges of my mind. Though my lack of experience of how to deal with her maybe doesn’t help. My body was in a daze. Nothing around me reg
I feel my wolf pushing through and shifting once more, my body adjusting and altering of its own accord, turning into Rye, the dark gray form of my wolf. He seems to have pushed me right to the back. I can sense his anger. I don’t know what happens, but he is suddenly moving toward the two wolves still fighting alongside us, and before I know it, and because they are so engrossed in attacking one another, Rye pounces… Bringing his jaw down on the neck of the Alpha, clamping his teeth into the neck and sinking them in before twisting. The Alpha realizes what is happening and tries to fight back, but the grip Rye has is too tight and the way in which the Alpha is moving is only making the situation worse for himself, as I hear a galling snap as his neck breaks, and he falls from the grip of Rye before Lachlans’s wolf takes him and attacks him once more, making sure he is dead. Aggressively dropping him to the floor once he is done with him, before his human form is suddenly pu
I check on little Alfie. He is still snoozing, his little eyes tightly shut as he is swaddled in his blankets tightly to protect him from the outside elements, as well as having been in the protective embrace of his parents as we have alternated in carrying him since leaving the hospital. He has slept so soundly since we left, and I am glad. Hopefully, he will stay that way until we reach this new pack. I did not expect all of this, but deep down I have to say I am glad. Our pack never offered us much, and the hospital did not have much in the way of options for our little one. We feared we would lose him. Hopefully, our new pack may be able to give us hope for a future for me and my family. My mate and our little one. The pain of losing our firstborn tore us down, but we worked through it and decided to try again. We were overjoyed to discover we were expecting another pup. Our beautiful child. The creation of our love and happiness of being mates. Only to discover he too had th