Even pack members, even family can betray us. It was never my intention to make you feel any different, to make you doubt me. But you are different Red, you have a moon gift and I’m now starting to understand what your Dad might have had to do to keep your Mum safe all these years.” As soon as I
~ Josie ~ I was all about today. Today was going to be the best day. Today, I was returning to work at the hospital and I couldn’t wait. I was awake even before warrior training, leaving Knox still asleep in my bed…his arms reaching for me in his sleep as I quietly slipped away. I wouldn’t be
~ Josie ~ “Woah, Josie what did you do?” Jace spots both Knox and I, and heads towards us, with that teasing glint in his eye. “Nothing…why?” My eyes are locked on the front door, intrigue overwhelming me as I want to go inside and put an ear to the office door. It would be pointless, the alpha of
“I can’t always be what other people need of me.” He mutters almost to himself but I hear it. There’s a sadness in his voice, something that I wouldn’t expect from Jace. “I get that, but next time stay and tell us…rather than giving us all the cold shoulder.” My head whips to the front door as I
~ Josie ~ “All fighters to the meadow…NOW!” Dad commands through the pack-link, his aura thick and heavy. I move, taking a step closer towards the location of the scene, towards my family, to Lobo…who needs me. Hopefully, it is one or two rogues that have penetrated through the borders in a desp
My sight, with my wolf now, is clearer. I can see everything with clear vision, even at this distance. My heart sinks when the naive hope that it was a handful of rogues disappears. It’s a swarm, an invasion of fully kitted gun bearing hunters. Our wolves are taking them down but not quick enough…b
~ Josie ~ I can hear they are close by, at least one of them in the dining room. Keeping crouched down low, I move behind the furniture, using it as a source to hide behind until the very last moment. They made a mistake coming here, this was my home. I knew every part of this house, every co
~ Knox ~ The bullets were not silver…that at least was something. I watch in horror as a bullet hits Kaia, knocking her to the ground. Images of me holding a weeping Josie flit through my mind. How am I going to tell her…how am I going to break her heart. Only for relief to quickly wash over
I move towards Callie wrapping my arms around her shoulders and placing a kiss on the top of her head. She was mine, I had to act like she was mine. The distant ringing of the telephone from the Alpha office is heard, Mum leaving the kitchen to answer it. Her soft joyful tones at the caller no lo
~ Jace ~ It felt good to be in wolf form, liberating. Not having to watch my back, be mindful of being seen…here, I could be free to roam the fields and woodlands of the Dark Phantom pack lands. I could shift as many times I want without fear of being seen by a human. I had been on border pa
But as soon as Jace finds out he is the father, then all hell will break loose. The relationship between the Varon’s and us will become strained. Which will isolate my brother as alpha. That is a risk I cannot take. “Cleo?” Concern is edged upon my brother’s face, his brows furrowing as he moves
~ Cleo ~ Jace has found his mate? The words that leave Mum’s lips are like a thousand knives being stabbed into my heart. My heart…not bleeding out, no that would be far too easy. Instead it feels as if my heart has been torn into a million tiny pieces…then set on fire…just to really make s
“I mean, did somebody force you…” “What, no Mum, of course not. Why would you say such a thing?” Why would she ever think that, what a thing to say. “Well whose is it…somebody within this pack?” “No…” I close my eyes. Here we go. “Okay, so another pack…which one?” “Mum..can we not do thi
~ Cleo ~ “I don’t think I can do this.” I felt nauseous with the nerves that were crippling my body. Telling Dad was one thing…I didn’t actually tell him, Doctor Sophia informed him as the Alpha. But to say the words out loud to Mum….I don’t think I can muster the courage. “I’ll be right ne
I may not have been the one that caused Josie’s attack or the attack on the pack but I had been silent. I had ghosted my entire family…who had been through hell. Who had clearly needed me. Shame washes over me. “Look had I of known I would have…” “Stayed? I don’t know why the fuck you left for
~ Jace ~ “I knew you shouldn’t have come.” Josie turns to Knox, removing his arm from around her just as I push my chest into his. “What the fuck is your problem?” I growl out, my eyes now inches from his. He might be pissed at me, just like the rest of my family, but what gives him the right
“Yes, well he is the future alpha of this pack. Each time he takes away responsibility from Dad, his muscles expand. Once he is full on alpha, he’ll be like a brick house.” “I don’t think he likes me.” She sighs out, moving to the mirror above the sink where she checks her slightly smudged mascara