I have woken to Tate clearing the bedroom. We have made a real state of it the last few days. Barely leaving the bedroom or the bathroom, so they have been strewn with discarded clothes and towels from the many times we have been back and forth between the shower and the bed, easing the symptoms of the heat. He is a hero, I swear. He has brought food and drinks to keep us going in between the hot flushes. He has made sure I have been looked after, made sure I was able to rest. When he had to be just as tired as me if not more so bless him. “Hey sleepy head.” he smiles at me. That smile, even now, gives me butterflies and automatically makes me smile back at him. “Hey to you too.” I reply. “How are you feeling?” he asks. “You think we got through it now?” “I hope so, day three now. Don’t think my body can take anymore!” I tell him. He pretends to sulk. “Aww, am I that bad?” I giggle. “Oh no, you have been amazing.” Then I begin to blush, realizing how tha
Violet’s eyes rolled in her head, yet she was still sitting in bed. She was twitching like she was reacting to something. I saw tears begin to trickle from her eyes. My skin went cold, and had goosebumps across it. I did not like what I was seeing. “Vi” I tried to shake her gently to wake her from what I was assuming could be a vision, but there was no response from her. Then all of a sudden, there was the most deafening, high-pitched scream coming from her lips, the worst sound imaginable. It sounds in pain, almost a tortured sound. And Violet’s eyes flash open, and they are wide open, staring into space, her pupils wide to the point they are almost taking over her eyes. She looks haunting. “Violet?” I say, gently touching her arm, to try to make her aware I am there without scaring her. Her head swivels to look at me. Her dark, wide eyes now focused on me. Her breathing is rapid, I can see her chest moving up and down so quickly, it looks unnatural. She seemed on e
I see a frown cross Tate’s face as he quickly stands, and he is dragging his hand through his hair. He looks anxious. “Tate?” I ask. “We need to go to Lachlan’s” he says. “Vi, please don’t panic. But..” he begins. “Hattie isn’t at home is she?” I said. I know this instinctively. We are in trouble. He closes his eyes and shakes his head. “She has gone to town to get her nails done and pick a few things up. Devin is at home with Lach. He is expecting her home soon.” I don’t think she is coming home. “We need to go to town”, I tell him. “Lachlan needs to go to the nail place. Be there to meet her.” I say with urgency. “He is already sending his Dad and hers too. He is staying home with Devin and waiting to speak with us. So we need to go.” Tate tells me, taking my hand. Well I guess that is something, the former Alpha is going to meet her, and her own Dad. That has to be a good sign, right? It isn’t us, and it isn’t Lachlan, but it is somebody. Somebody
Violet tells me of her vision. At first, I think it has been that she had misread it. Or perhaps mis-seen it. There would be no reason why Damien would take Hattie. But then she is telling me the details, and the moment she begins to describe the clothes Hattie was wearing in the vision my skin feels cold. I feel terrified. She has described the exact clothes Hattie left home in this morning. How she had her hair too. That was too accurate. She had no way of knowing that. She had been in the Beta suite with Tate. My heart has dropped. It feels tight. It is racing. Is my mate at risk? Why was she in the vision? Not just in the vision, but so precise in the vision too? None of that makes sense to me, but it terrifies me. If that bastard has my mate, I would kill him! “What?” I feel myself stuttering, looking up at Violet, my eyes barely able to focus. I can feel my hands trembling too. Is Hattie safe? I need to call my Dad. Would he have had a chance to get to town yet? I coul
It was my regular pampering session, a chance to have an hour or so to myself and a chance to relax. Usually, to get my hair or my nails done, occasionally, if I was super stressed, then Lachlan treated me by booking me in for a massage too. I have to keep looking super fine for my handsome man. But today I had got my nails done, looking all glam and gorgeous again. They will be good for clawing at Lachlan later, hehe.Now to get that extra present, I wanted to pick up for Violet for her birthday before we got to go and stuff our faces with birthday cake at Ros’s. I cannot wait, I have been so good by not eating treats all week, knowing that I would be getting birthday cake with it being Violet’s birthday and knowing Ros’s cake was worth pigging out on. It will be good to see Vi again, seems to have been ages since I saw her, though it has only been a couple of days, bless her. Heat is a bastard. I remember mine. I thought I was dying, I was sure I was. I have a feeling Lachlan l
We are sitting in the lounge all having our coffee. It simply feels like we are killing time. But the fact we know Uncle Pierce and Alex are now trailing Hattie's car has somewhat settled our nerves a little. She should be safe now, I would think. We can get her home and then make sure she is guarded like Violet and not give those nut jobs from that pack a chance to get their hands on her for whatever their sick purposes had been. The vision had to have happened or a reason, a warning, I believe. It gave Violet a chance to let us know, so we could get to Hattie before it happened. To protect her before they got hold of her and potentially hurt her. I mean, I assume that was what they would do. But in truth, we don't know what their intentions would be with her. Would they use her to manipulate Lachlan? He would do anything for his mate, so that had to be their likely motivation in hindsight...I looked across the room. Lachlan was anxiously pacing the floor so, despite knowing Hattie
…I am woken as I am being dragged along the floor, my skin grazing painfully along the floor as whoever has a hold of me pulls me along behind them. The bag is still over my head. I am pulled to my feet now, they have a tight hold of my arms, I am likely to have bruising they are being that rough. Which sick bastards are these? And why? Are they trying to bribe Lachlan? I am thrown onto a chair, ow! I moan in pain and I hear a chuckle. Whoever has me finds this amusing. They have a sick and twisted sense of humor. I didn’t get a look at them when they got hold of me, as they came at me from behind, and when they were in the car the windows were tinted, so I have no clue who it is. Not to mention, they put a bag over my head and then fucking knocked me out! I wonder if it is a rival pack, Alpha? They have been known to kidnap Lunas as a declaration of war or bribing the Alpha. Is that what this was? We had had no inclination th
Hearing those words makes it feel like my entire world is crumbling around me. They have my girl. My mate. My wife. My everything. I am going to destroy that fucker! “Follow them” I say, but the voice is not my own, it is the voice of my wolf Cade pushing through. I can feel his anxiety as much as my own. He is struggling to hold himself back from pushing forward to the point of shifting and racing over to their pack to kill them all in a murderous rampage. Cade is a formidable, powerful Alpha wolf. He takes no prisoners when it comes to fighting, especially when it comes to protecting his pack. But he has never had to protect his family like this, and the feelings it was forming within not only the wolf, but me too, were alarming. Both Cade and I were protective of our family, especially our mate and our son. But the fact somebody had dared to lay their hands on our mate was causing feelings that were on the verge of wanting us to turn into a slaughtering assassin, ready
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