Author’s POV"Do you think she's sick?" Max asks, looking at Vivi.She just stays in the garden, in a shady swing, with her eyes closed, as if dreaming."No," Meredith said with a smile. “But I think that is the first time in her life when after so much time she is truly happy. Is good to see her like this. Francois only told me about Vivienne before the attack. Vivienne who was kind and calm. Vivienne who was shy. Look at her Max .. ”Meredith said.“I don’t know what to say, Mer. She seems sick. If you ask me now, I think I prefer the naughty and sassy Vivienne. ”They stay in Max’s office from the packhouse and just look at Vivi, and when they see Luke coming and taking her in his lap, caressing her inexistent belly, both of them felt a huge void in their hearts, but none of them said anything."When did James say he was coming?" Max asked, looking at his watch."He should have been here by now." and she looks again at the window."I want a baby too, Artemis," she said to herself. “
Author’s POV"Where the hell is she?" and Max almost punched James in the face. "How could you let her go by herself knowing that that bitch came after her?"“Son, calm down. I was there too and she just transformed and ran in the forest. She was very upset. ” Carter said while Lisa stayed near him and cries in his arms.“Do you think that something happened to her?” Lisa asked and all the girls in the room almost faint at this thought.“Is she wearing your grandma bracelet?” Grandpa Cruz asked after some time.“Shit! You are a genius, Grandpa! ” Max said and ran into his office, took his laptop and started the GPS tracker."She ..." Max said, looking at Grandpa Cruz."Where the fuck is she?" Cara asked, jumping up from her chair and holding her belly.“She is here” Max said and leaving the laptop he goes to the first window from where he can see what happens in the garden.“Shit! Shit! Shit! ” and doesn’t say anything else but runs in an instant, pushing those around him.James also
Author’s POVAs soon as everyone calmed down they gathered around the table, being late and already skipping over dinner because they looked for Meredith all evening. Auntie Jen since she mated with grandpa Cruz is not helping in the house anymore because the old alpha is just a little scoundrel and said that he does not have too many years to live on this Earth. He already lost ten years with her for being undecided and doesn't want to lose not even a second with her.So Auntie Jen now just stays near grandpa, just holding his hand at every step and she likes it so much that she didn’t even blink when Meredith told her that she is banned from the kitchen. The only one who reacted was Grandpa Cruz who just yelled from all his lungs:“I told you, Max! I told you that she is just perfect for you! ”“You mean for you grandpa!” Max laughs seeing grandpa so excited. "It seems to me that my luna is like your personal fairy and she fulfills all your wishes!"So tonight, they are just staying
Author’s POV“Max” Luke mindlinks him just after everyone went to their room to sleep. “Can you come to my condo? I am in deep shit!”“If Vivienne wants to try that three-shit that she was always talking about when we met, I am sorry but I am not coming!” Max said laughing.“She is pregnant, man! I mean she wouldn't have asked for that even if she wasn’t ,she was just fooling around with you to annoy you. But I need your help and I need it quickly ”Max just looks at Meredith, who exists the bathroom in a Lace Plunge Slip from Victoria's Secret, that is called Tropic Paradise, and he just stops and looks at her with his mouth open and he closed his eyes, catching the bridge of his nose and swears in his mind:"I swear I have the most idiotic beta and gamma on the Earth, Stark! If he is calling me for nothing I will kick his ass!” Max said and opening his eyes he looks at Meredith coming towards him smiling."What happened, darling ?" she asks and puts her arms around his neck, pecking
Author’s POV“Good morning my love!” Max said, taking Meredith in his arms and cuddling with her."It's already morning?" Meredith asked still with her eyes closed, pouting her lips at Max. He pulled her closer to him and kissed her lips immediately.“Yes, it’s already morning, but it’s already ten in the morning, '' he said laughing while Meredith jumped down from the bed.“What !!!?!?” she asks in panic, “I have an important meeting with a client in one hour” but seeing Max's face she just takes the pillow and hits him in the head."You are horrible, you know?" .“Come here” he said and signaled her to sit in his lap."Are you alright?"“I am, Max. I had a tough day yesterday but it is already a new day and I can only hope for better isn’t it? ” and she put her head on his chest."As long as I have you, it's still a good day" and she lifts her head just a little so she can look straight in his eyes. ""I love you" Max said "I love you with everything I have.""It's nice to hear you
Author’s POVAt the office things went smoothly because Meredith was just talented and modest and impressed with every project she had. Today someone sent by Mr. Smith from the contest came to make a deal with MaxLine , to provide him an exclusive collection.“The truth is that you were like a big investment” Max said, coming near her when everything finished with their new client."Excuse me?" Meredith asks, putting her hand on her chest.“Your scholarship in Paris, your friendship with Francois Cassel, you winning that fantastic contest as an employee of MaxLine… All this, darling was a fantastic investment”“If you say so” she said exiting the elevator while Max follows her and goes straight to her office.“Shit, I missed Cara, and Vivi is not here today because she needs to be pampered by Luke while I am staying here alone all day.""Stay with me in my office," Max said.“No. What will our employee think? That I am a jealous woman and that I follow you everywhere? “Max closes the
Author’s POV"Are you alright?" Max asks Meredith while he drives to the place where he planned to take her for the rest of the day.“I don’t know, Max. I think I am, but…”and she looks out the car’s window at how the landscape changes. "Knowing that my first family died because of their status, because they were like some trophy for those damned hunters makes me feel sick.""They were too special and too powerful for our world." Max said, taking her hand in his hand to help her calm. " But grandpa said that they were very good people and never disturb anyone. ”"Yes ... they were nobody's kings, in a world where there was no place for them anymore. Do you think that they suffered because of that? Because they couldn’t act like king and queen? ” Meredith asks, her heart being tormented because of a lot of questions.“No. Your father had your mother with him, and they’ve got you. I would do anything to be somewhere only with you, to escape from all my responsibilities. So if you ask me
Meredith’s POV“If I ask you will you come with me for a run?” I ask Max. I am not afraid of anything but after the last run I don’t want to be alone while Artemis is in wolf form. I feel exposed. My wolf is pure white and is very unusual even for humans to see me.“I will come with you even at the end of the Earth. You don’t need to ask me ”Max tells me and he starts to take off his clothes. On his yacht we changed our clothes into something more comfortable and he came prepared with warm clothes, because here the weather is more cold. As a wolf we have no problem but as humans we need thick clothes.He just stays naked in front of me, grinning and he stretches out his hand to me.“I know that you like the view” he tells me “but you asked for a run and now Stark can’t wait for it. So if you want to have me during the night you must allow him to stay with Artemis during the day time. ”"What kind of deal is that?" I ask him and I start to take off my clothes and when I am also naked i
Elias left his own party and as soon as he was outside, his mate's fragrance became more subtil.“Can you find her, Kan?” and his heart is small like a flea.“Yes, I am the best tracker , I will find her no matter how much time it will take.”“I am scared,” he said. “I was more than sure that I will not find my mate tonight, it seemed so impossible to me. I fuck up royally, man”“We both did.” Kan said “Let me focus” and he looked to the shore area and started to walk after her.“Elias!” suddenly one of his whores called him and jumped in his arms. “I have a gift for you!” she said and tried to touch him in his intimate parts, but Elias caught her hands and pushed her a little without harming her.“There is no need.” And he looked around .Suddenly this girl's smell makes him feel sick.“Did you find your mate?’ the girl asked. “ Whoever she is, I can be better. I can offer you more”Elias just watched her .“Why did I sleep with this girl?” Elias asked.“Fuck me if I know.” and Kan w
“Hey, dickhead!” someone yelled in the middle of the training room;“Holy shit!” Kan, the sexiest wolf ever in the royal pack, growled.“I am going to kill her!” Elias said and turning around he sees Theo blinking at him and he almost falls from his own feet.Every time he is trying to woo a girl, miraculously Theo and Bella appear and ruin everything. He loves Bella with all his heart , being his twin, but Theo brooked her head.Yes, that’s what he is saying daily. If she wouldn't be such a good friend with Theodora Cruz , he is sure that she would have been a perfect little girl. But no, she had to have as bestie the one and only: the princess of the werewolves, the absolute perv and scoundrel girl that ever existed.“She’s just like that great grandfather of hers, man!” Kan said, gritting his teeth.“No wonder she didn’t find her mate, and who'll be able to stand her?” and he looks at the sky and raises a prayer.“Thank you Goddess, because you protected our race and left her matel
(One week later)“Holy guacamole!” Vivi yelled and jumped in Luke’s arms.“Will you stop, Viv! You are pregnant for the goddess ‘sake! “ and he ran to catch her because as soon as she put her foot down the helicopter , she sprinted to the Royal Packhouse as if there were some Christmas promotions and she won't find anything if she doesn't hurry up.“Vivienne Navarro!” Luke yelled seeing her like that.“Cassel” Francoise said ,coming from behind, while he was holding hands with Leia.They had their alpha and luna ceremony, to the shock of the entire pack , that is still processing the fact that Max is not their alpha anymore.“What?’ and Luke keeps an eye on Vivi but he can’t stop from looking at Francoise as well.“She is still Cassel, if you forget that. You didn’t marry my sister, and I'm really glad that she forgot about this, because otherwise I will need to search for a beta.”Luke just stays there and watches Vivi as she hopping around when she met Cara and Meredith.“Shit!” and
Author’s POVAs soon as all the alphas left, Max gathered everyone in his condo, in his private living room. Even the girls are here , wondering what is going on.The boys are serious and no one speaks.“Who died?” Vivi asked but the girls just looked at her while their mates continued to stay mute.“I don’t want this. I didn’t ask for this.” Meredith said in the end.“Mer” James whispered. “It’s your destiny!”“No , James . Is it not” She said with tears in her eyes.“I can build my own destiny, with my own thoughts and decisions. I don’t need a gang of alphas to come and tell me that suddenly I am their queen and that I need to live somewhere else. They don’t deserve me! They abandon my family!” and she bursted in tears.“WHAT?” Cara asked, jumping from Sam’s lap and almost dropping the babies on the floor.“What queen? No, you can’t leave us!” and she starts to shiver, scaring Sam.“Take the babies!” he shouted and Leia and Francoise jumped from their seats and grabbed Elias and Be
Author’s POV“Sweetheart” Carter mindlinked Meredith the next day in the morning. “ Can you take Max with you and come to the training room? Your father is here”“What?” she asked and jumped from the bed.'What’s going on?’ Max asked grabbing her arm and pulling her back in bed, making her sit over his naked body.“My father is here,” she whispered. “Something happened.” and her heart almost stopped saying this.“What do you mean he is here?” and Max helped her to get out of the bed and both of them ran to the closet and took something on them, without taking a shower.“Max ,” and Meredith already has tears in her eyes. “What if this madness is not over yet? What if we made plans for nothing,” and she touched her lower abdomen closing her eyes.“Hey, look at me” and Max pulled her to his chest and lifted her chin and kissed her lips.“You have me, no matter what's going on, you have me and you will always have me no matter what. I am yours forever. Am I clear? We are together in this.
Author’s POV“I should punish you!” Grandpa Cruz said, pointing his cane to Meredith.“I am sorry, grandpa” she said and went to him and took the old man in a warm embrace.“You even took off the bracelet I gave you!” he said, pouting at her and making her smile.“And you know exactly why” and this time he looked him in the eye. “I thought that I was protecting you doing this”“Protecting my ass!” Vivi cried out. “We almost died here having a stroke because of you!”“I am sorry, sweetie,” Meredith said, smiling at her.“Don’t smile at me Meredith Cruz!” Vivi cried. “I was so stressed. If my baby wolfy will be agitated when he is born it will be all your fault!”“And let me guess” Max said laughing “You are the embodiment of calmness and tranquility.”“Of course, I am,” Vivi said, blinking her eyelashes and making everyone laugh.“Look,” Meredith said “I am really sorry, but at that moment it seemed the only option. I promise that I will neve do something like that and looking at Grand
Author’s POV“Where is she?” James cried like a baby as soon as he arrived at Crescent Moon Pack. ”Where is Lori!” but he was stopped by Landon.“Will you calm down!” he said, catching his arms. “In this state you will scare the poor woman.”“You don’t get it dad!” He said “She was alone, she suffered and I could have helped her, holding her hand at least, to calm her wolf but I just missed the most important moment of our life.”“It’s my fault” Meredith whispered, coming closer ”I am so sorry James.” but seeing her like this and hearing her Max stepped between them.“Will you stop victimizing yourself?”And he is damned serious.“You!” he said commandingly and shocking everyone.“Lori loves you and you didn’t miss this because you were drunk in some bar , you were saving your sister's life. “ and turning his face to Meredith said in a more calm voice.“And about what you just said, darling. You have nothing to blame yourself for.” and caress her face with the back of his palm.“But”
Author’s POV“What the hell was that?” an alpha asks looking slack-jawed at Meredith.“Holy goddess!” that’s not possible. “We came here to fight and kill that jerk, who hunts our brothers all over the world and she just killed him with two punches?” another one asked Max.“That’s my mate!” Max said with a lot of pride and he ran directly to Meredith and lifted her in his arms, forcing her to put her legs around his waist in front of all these alphas.“I love you, Meredith Cruz!” and he is not waiting for her response, he just kissed her, he kissed her with passion.“Will you forgive me for being so stupid to talk with you like I did yesterday?”“No. I will not” Meredith said calmly. “Actually” and she just watches his reactions.Max’s heart stops.“You can’t leave me!” Max said in a very commanding way making everyone around to laugh, and an alpha from Europe just says with a very funny accent:“Leave him, please! And choose me!”But Max has no sense of humor and he wants to leave Me
Author’s POVIt was all like a click. You know what I am telling you about? That moment when the world stops moving around you and the movements freeze , everything disappears and in the center of everything is only you. You just stay there , like a very bored spectator analyze everything.Meredith just looks around her and she can’t ask herself:“Artemis, What the hell is going on?”“I will honestly say that I have no idea!” and Artemis activates all her senses fearing that there is some magic around.“Max...” Meredith whispers remembering that he is wounded and she runs directly to where he lays on the ground, helped by Sam and Luke. He is looking in her direction and he just stays like a statue. His eyes are so scared that it breaks her heart.“Oh.,..Max” she said and tears started to flow down her face. “I am here, don’t be scared, everything will be alright "and kneeling near his wounded body she kissed his lips.“Please, just get well” and she looks around again. Everything is s