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~ Cleo ~ I’m not home twenty minutes before I hear my parent’s car pulling up outside. I’m pacing the floor of my bedroom, the toxic mixture of both guilt and anger threatening to erupt out of me. She caught us, his own mate caught us together. My lips could still taste his on me, even n
Just tell them Cleo, tell them who the real father of the baby is… “You’re acting Mum as if my baby is an issue, you said yourself that the entire pack was behind me…that you didn’t care about the baby’s father.” “Human or not, you are still having a baby without a mate…” Her words are like a hu
~ Jace ~ “So this is where you are hiding?” An overly aggressive kick to the stomach wakes me with a start. Josie… “What do you want?” I growl out, my eyes reluctantly opening to the bright morning sunshine. A pain in my neck informing me that I hadn’t slept on a bed. I hadn’t made it back t
“I’m not using her.” “Then what are you doing, because you can’t have them both.” “I don’t expect to have them both, she left last night, I didn’t go after her.” My lack of action in chasing after Cleo has sealed our fate. With that and ghosting her after the hotel night, I’ll be the last person s
~Jace~ I let the icy cold stream of water wake me back to my senses. With the smell of alcohol being washed out of my pores I feel fully awake again. I would leave immediately, with Callie and head on to the Clear Waters pack. She will need to spend time getting to know the pack, getting used
I had hoped to leave whilst they were still asleep “Jace?” Mum pauses in the hallway, her eyes looking towards the bags at the front door before looking up at me. “Callie and I are heading to the Clear Waters pack.” I smile out. “So soon?” Mum’s eyes look between Callie and I, before looking t
~ Cleo ~ I spent the night asleep on the side of the road. It must have been easily 2am or 3am when I left the Red Thorn pack, I hadn’t thought past getting away from Mum. Hadn’t even realised what time it was…I just knew I had to leave. I pulled the car over when anger started to turn into hu
~ Cleo ~ He’s waiting for me, standing outside the front of the alpha house…I know it’s early but I’m surprised he is the first person I have come across since driving through the pack gates. It’s quiet, a little too quiet, even for me. A soft smile forms upon his lips as I turn the ignition o
“No Cleo, they live for you and Ares.” “Perhaps, I also didn’t want Ares’ alpha title to be affected.” I sigh out, truths were being spoken that should have been said a long time ago. Death creating a time to ponder on the past, on the mistakes made. “Is that what you think of us, that we would
~ Cleo ~ Mum was just tired and for some reason being here wasn’t good for her. Just like she would sometimes struggle when we returned to the Dark Phantom pack..or when Dad wasn’t with her. Yes it was her family pack…where she grew up but even then it was like a darkness took over her. The sa
This isn’t the first time Rosa has lost control of her wolf and Cleo has had to pick up the pieces, had to protect Ares even as a child. We were all grieving, we were all exhausted…but we don’t let our wolves take on full control and block out the human side. I let my aura roll off me and direct
I was never meant to have the Clear Waters, I was always meant to take on Dad’s original legacy…the Amber Desert. With Cleo by my side. We would be close to her family pack, which is important to Cleo…she is extremely close to her Dad and brother, and she would want to support Ares in the years
~ Jace ~ It was vitally important that we plan out our next steps. I couldn’t afford to make a mistake. We were all gathered in the living area, it can’t be past 3am. We were all still awake, Mum refusing to leave Alora’s side…it won’t be long before cars from Clear Waters arrive to take her home
~ Cleo ~ I move his hands off my face…I can’t look him in the eyes. My mind was spiralling and I couldn’t stop it. Freya. Borders. Alora…. Supplies. My mind was making lists of things that need sorting…things that would keep me going right now. If I stopped for a second I fear I would crumble
I know exactly what she is thinking, how she is blaming herself for everything that has transpired just now. She is blaming herself for Alora’s death, for his death, for me being the new Alpha. “Cleo…” “I should go inside…” “No…” I grunt out, only for her to turn to look directly at Knox. “Ca
~Jace~ “You all need to go back into your homes. I’m setting a curfew until tomorrow at 10am. My warriors will patrol the grounds tonight. There will be no training at dawn, nothing until I say so. Anybody…and I mean anynbody caught out will be imprisoned …do I make myself clear?” I open the pac
Jace I’m toying with him, I could have killed him by now. But that would be too easy, he deserves a slow…painful death. A death that has come from him losing…from being defeated. I want him to bleed each drop of blood before I take his life. He dared to think he could have what was mine, to ta