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“Where is she?” I yell.
“We don’t know. She disappeared after they were killed.” My beta says.
“How fucking hard can it be to find a 14-year-old girl?” I ask.
“Seriously, she has no scent, and being the hybrid she is it makes it almost impossible to find her.” He replies.
“Goddammit, I want her. They promised she would be mine after her damn parents were dead.” I growl out.
“I know. If they would have done their part to keep her there with them then we wouldn’t be in this situation.” He adds.
I fall back into my chair and slam my hand down on my desk. Her damn great aunt and older cousin promised that they would hand her over to me once her parents were out of the way. They had promised her to me the day she was born. I look out my window at my pack. We aren’t technically a pack since we are all rogues. We have all banded together, and I became the alpha 14 years ago. That’s when all this started. I wanted to have the biggest pack in the state. She was going to be my secret weapon in making that happen. I wanted her mother, but she rejected me as her true mate. I had rejected my true mate for her. No, she had to go and play house with her true mate. That made me sick since he was a hybrid. She should have tainted herself with that trash. Cyreena’s true mate was half warlock and half werecat. She was the daughter of the fae king. Both of his lines were the purest and strongest being from the goddess that had created both of those species.
“We know she was last seen in the fae realm. That was only a couple of days ago. I have men watching to see if they see her there or leaving.” My beta Cal says.
“Ok, keep them there. I need to know where she is.” I tell him.
“Has anyone spotted her yet?” My gamma Drake asks.
“We think she is in the fea kingdom right now,” I say.
He takes a seat on the couch and the three of us discuss how we are going to capture this girl. She belongs to me and I will find her if I have to follow her all over the world.
Emerald (6 years later) I step off the plane and suck in a breath. A smile spreads across my face. I am coming back here after two months of being over in Europe. I had been backpacking across the country and mostly ended up staying in the Mediterranean area. It is so beautiful there. I had debated on just staying there, but something about this town in Southern California keeps drawing me back. I remember the first time I came here. __FLASHBACK__ I had just turned 13 two weeks earlier. I was with mom and dad, and we were driving to visit a friend of theirs. He is the alpha of one of the largest packs in the state. I think I had met him before, but I was really little, like 3 or 4 years old at the time. I remember a nice man and woman. “How much longer?” I ask. “About ten more minutes. We should be pulling up to the house any minute.” Dad answers. I look out the window as a huge house comes into view. There are so many people walking around. I see a wolf run by, an
Devon Nate and I are hurrying back to the packhouse. We ran into town to grab some food for this meeting between dad, the fae king Marcel, the werecat king Samuel, Rich who is the grandson of Marcel, and Helm who is Samuels grandson. Helm is his nickname. His real name is long, and honestly, no one can pronounce it. Rich and Helm are picking up their cousin, who is the main topic of this meeting. The two of us have known Rich and Helm since we were 14. I have no idea who this cousin is or why he is so important. “I caught that scent last night while I was out patrolling,” Nate says. “Seriously, did you see her?” I ask. “No, by the time I got to the place where the scent was the strongest she was gone.” He states. I bump my head against the headrest of the seat. The two of us have been trying to find her for years now. We know she is out there somewhere cause we catch her scent often. I look at Nate, and I can see he is thinking the same thing we are. I remember the
Samuel I had a feeling this was going to happen. I remember Tyrone telling me that a few weeks after they had visited Jason last time, Luna Renee told him that her boys had told her that Emerald smelled of chocolate, coffee, and almonds. The two of us thought that was strange since Emerald had no scent. Neither of us paid much attention to it until she turned 14, and so far, she had not found her mate. She did tell me when she was 16 that, for some reason, she felt drawn to this town, but she couldn’t explain why. I have a feeling that it was because of the twins. “Ok boys, what is going on?” Jason asks. “We found our mate,” Nate says. “Our mate?” Renee asks. “Yes, our mate. We are twins and we have shared everything. We also share a mate.” Devon explains. This is not unheard of in shifter communities. I know several sets of twins that share a mate. Identical twins are one that is split into two, so it makes sense. “Wait it’s Emerald isn’t it?” Renee asks. “Yes
Nate It’s been three days since everyone showed up to discuss everything. Since then, Devon and I have hardly seen Emerald. I couldn’t believe how beautiful she had become. She was already so pretty back then, but now she is absolutely stunning. I have cough glimpses of her, but she has been avoiding the two of us like the plague. I thought I would lose it when Samuel and the others explained what happened to Emerald as she grew up. How dare those bastards to tell her shit like that. I could see her fighting with herself during the meeting. I would see her start moving like she wanted to come over, but she would force it down and stay in that damn chair. We were all sitting down to eat breakfast when Emerald walked into the room. The only chair left was between Devon and me. I smiled internally because I didn’t want to frighten her. I could see the internal struggle on her face. Emerald huffed out a sigh and sat in the chair between the two of us. “Can you please pass the
Emerald I successfully avoided the twins for two days after the meeting. I knew as soon as they walked in that they were my mates. I immediately started to freak out internally. I saw grandpa Sam look at me, but I ignored him. Rich said something, but I violently shook my head to stop him from finishing his sentence. This could not be happening. I could feel them staring at me once everyone else sat down. I was able to keep myself from looking at them for most of the meeting. When I finally did, my heart stopped. I thought they were cute when I was 13, but now they looked like reincarnated Greek gods. Nate stood up, and shit, he had to be at least a foot and a half taller than me now. They both still had their wavy sun-kissed blonde hair and bright pale sapphire blue eyes. Devon smiled at me, and I gave him a soft smile, but it dropped as I turned back to face Alpha Jason, who was talking. “Emerald are you in there?” Grandpa Sam asks. The knocking at my door brought me
Scott I knew that if anyone found out that I had told Emerald what I told her, I would be thrown into the dungeon. I really don’t care. This had been our plan all along once we realized who she was. I had been talking with my cousin Ryder, and he told me about the girl his father had been looking for for years. Ryder had become his pack's alpha after his father died when he was 17. He is now 24. I was there when my Uncle Connor died. He had been searching for this girl since she was born. I knew Emerald was different and special when I first saw her. I knew immediately that she was the twin’s mate. They acted way too protective over her for her not to mean something to them. “Well did you show her the video and tell her what you know?” Ryder asked. “Yes, I told her that they are my friends and then showed her the video. She held it together well, but you could tell that it broke her.” I tell him. I actually felt bad doing this, and so did Ryder. We needed her off t
Helm Emerald was not present at breakfast this morning. I instantly got a back feeling in my gut. I could tell she was upset last night at dinner. She sat between the twins but kept her distance and wouldn’t touch them. I know that Rich went to her room and tried to talk to her. I also know that he didn’t get anywhere with that conversation. It was now almost noon, and I still had not seen Emerald. The twins and their father were not present at breakfast. They were in a meeting because some of the patrols also found rogue prints and picked up their scent. “Have you seen Emerald?” Lyra asks. “No, have you?” I ask. “No, and she was not in her room when I went to check on her.” Lyra states. “Her bag wasn’t there either,” Leena adds. I look over at Rich and see a concerned look on his face. Her bag is gone, which means she has left. I hear footsteps coming down the stairs, which means the meeting is over. The next part of this conversation is not going to go well.
Devon I have never been this scared in my life. All I want is to find Scott and kill him for telling Emerald all that shit and showing her that video. It has been six hours since I got here, and she is still sleeping. The doctor was in here checking on her about half an hour ago, and it appears that she is starting to heal. I am not sure what made her stop fighting herself long enough to let herself heal. She is not healing as fast as I or any other wolf would, but she is healing faster than a human. I think the fact that there is nothing I can do is what pisses me off even more. “I want her to wake up,” Nate says. “I do too, brother,” I reply. The two of us had not left her side since we got here. We have been sitting here on each side of her the whole time. I stand up because my back is starting to hurt from leaning against the top of the bed. I am also starving. I can hear Nate's stomach let out a very loud growl. We decide to go get something to eat. We walk out i
Epilogue 2 Chris “Are there any more children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren we should know about?” Aphrodite asked. “No.” All the men say. “Thank god.” Athena states. “What about all you women? Any of you have any offspring we should be aware of?” Poseidon asked. “Nope.” They all answered as one. I watch as my sisters roll their eyes. After the recent events and all we, the three of us, decided that a family meeting was in order. This is the first, and I am sure it will be the last time that my sisters willingly schedule a family meeting. Mykayla and Emerald are both here as well. It has been a year since all that shit went down, and the three of us decided to take a journey to all the realms and make sure everyone was behaving. We visited the dark fae, and let me tell you; they were scared shitless. While my sisters take a great thrill in scaring people, I don't, but after this, I even enjoyed scaring the dark fae. The three of us have pretty much left the
Epilogue Devon It’s been six months since that day and everything has returned to normal. Well as normal as this pack can get. I guess Dustin was right when he said crazy shit happens within this alliance. I look down when I hear a small cry and smile. I am holding my one-week-old daughter. Emerald was pregnant when she took on those fuckers. She had no idea since she didn’t have any signs or symptoms. In fact, she had no idea she was pregnant until we rushed her to the hospital a week ago and she gave birth to our second little princess, whose name is Katyryia. She has mine and Nate’s eyes and hair the colour of the night. It is also extremely curly. I have no idea where she got the curly hair. A few of the guys joked that she wasn’t ours, but Nate and I know that Emerald would never cheat on us so we aren’t concerned. “I would still like to know where this dark curly hair came from.” Mom said. “That’s easy from me.” A man says. We all turn around to see the triplets
Malachi I had no idea what we should do. We had a dozen women, not including Payton, Pytheria, and Violet, from several different species in the truck. I knew we needed to get to the main part of the complex now but we also couldn’t leave these women. Not with what they had been through. “Well take them, go help, Emerald,” Jailynn yells. Jailynn, Daniylla, and Leah had appeared and were dealing with the women. The five of us started running towards the complex. I knew with everything happening that they wouldn’t even notice us coming. I knew that Emerald’s powers were starting to come out when the weather started getting shitty. The air was getting more electric as well. I look back and all of them are gone. As we get closer the air around the place complex becomes thicker and colder. I also noticed that the ground was getting soggy. I smile because I know that Emerald has an affinity for water. I am not surprised that she is making the ground melt and become soggy and
Emerald Seriously this still looks like the same dump as last time. The whole area looks like shit. Well, that is what they want anyone who comes snooping around to think. I know it is a bunch of bullshit. I close my eyes and say a few words then open them. Just as I thought, they were using magic to conceal the fact that they have rebuilt this facility and what they are currently using it for. I roll my eyes. As if their magic works on me. Please not even close. I sit on a rock that overlooks the whole area watching what is going on. I have been here since last night and noticed that they seemed to disappear once they got close to the broken-down fence line. That was their shitty magic at work. I have decided to watch them for a few days and see what they are up to. There are several of those creatures lurking around as their guard dogs. Of course, none of them knows that I am here. I also know that they have recently moved the girls to a new location at the centre of
Pytheria I feel like shit and have for the last two weeks. That is how long that Payton, Violet, and I have been locked in this fucking place. They are moving us today for some unknown reason. I had seen Vincent and his wife when I first arrived so I knew what I originally thought was true. I also noticed that she and the head hybrid were exceptionally close. I have a very high suspicion that she and Vincent weren’t really mates. I think she cast some sort of spell on him to make him think that she was his mate. I noticed that Payton has been looking pale the last week as well. I am beginning to think that the two of us might be pregnant, but until we can get out of here and pee on a stick we won’t know for sure. I don’t want to bring this up to her. I also don’t want any of these slimy fuckers even thinking that we might be pregnant. Who knows what they would try and do to us then? “What if they come back?” Violet asked. “Then they come back. They can’t touch us for wh
Emerald I knew once I got them back in Europe this would be easy. I have spent enough time here that I know his whole continent by heart. I have been to every little town and corner, from coast to coast and north to south. There is literally nowhere in Europe I haven’t been. I knew exactly which compound they were talking about the minute Zavian described it. I had followed a few guys that I had seen slinking around France back to it. I had noticed them watching one of the local packs and covens closely, so I knew they were up to no good. I was right. They tried to kidnap the alpha’s daughter and the coven leader’s, son. I stopped it and followed them back to the compound in Russia. I knew they were supernatural creatures back then, but I couldn’t figure out what kind. Of course, that was when I was 18, and I had no idea that elves were even in our realm. I had heard some terrible sounds coming from one of the smaller buildings, and I am guessing that was where they were m
Nate I should have known she was planning something but with everything going on this last week or so. Looking back now nothing was out of the norm for her to do. She was taking care of our three little terrors and running the shop along with Nalena. Devon did make the comment that she and Nalena had been doing a lot of shopping lately but I thought it was for the shop. I sit here looking through the credit card statements but there is nothing. She must have paid with cash for anything she bought. “How long has she been gone?” Ryan asked. “We all went to bed last night. I hadn’t seen her this morning after getting up before her.” Devon says. “We thought that she was just at the shop. When Tyler came back and asked where Emerald was we both thought he was crazy. We figured that she was in the back doing something and that he just didn’t see her.” I add. “I only noticed about an hour ago when I went looking for her in our room that her backpack was gone. I also found a
Jax These last 24 hours have been a total shit show. First Payton, Pytheria, and Violet were taken. Then we received a letter stating that they would be returned if we gave Emerald to them. This of course pissed off Devon and Nate. I mean we are all pissed that they are trying to negotiate with us. We will get the other girls back without handing Emerald over to them. “How fucking stupid do they think we are?” Nate growls. “They must know that there is no way in fucking hell that we are going to negotiate with them,” I add. “They think they have the upper hand because they have three women that they know we will do anything to get back. Remember they wanted Violet from the start and Payton for who her mother was and where she comes from. I still can’t fathom why they want Pytheria. She really holds no real meaning to them.” Xindi points out. “That is not true,” Marcus says. We all turn and look at him. He has his computer in front of him and is typing away. “I did
Dax Emerald is up to something. She has been acting weird for the last week ever since Zavian was here. That meeting was hilarious. I kinda felt sorry for Zavian, but I can admit that those two scare the fucking crap out of me. Rye even told me and Jax that was just a sample of what they can be like when they are pissed. Chris and the guys told us about and showed up what can happen when his sisters are pissed. We saw what happened to those fuckers that kidnapped Jordyn, Dominick, and Xaydyn when they were little. Those assholed deserved everything they got but to see it made me realize that there is a very valid reason to be terrified of those two. I watch as Emerald hands the three terrors off to Tylynn as she and Nalena leave for their shop. “Do you think she is planning something?” Jax asked. “Yes, I do think she is planning something. I wouldn’t be surprised if Nalena knows what is going on.” I answer. Jax nods his head in agreement. After several long talks Emera