Author’s POV"Where the hell am I?" Meredith asks, looking around the room. “This is not a hotel even if it is very luxurious, it seems a private property” she said to herself looking at the decorations around her. Everything is very expensive and very refined.Suddenly she hears footsteps and the door open and immediately puts her head on the pillow and pretends to be asleep."Shit, what am I going to do?" she asks and starts to think of a way to run from here."Whoever put me here has a lot of money, but who would bother to kidnap someone like me? ” he asks herself.Feeling that someone entered the room, Meredith pretends to be asleep and almost can't breathe in fear. The footsteps are getting closer and closer, and when she thinks she has finally managed to deceive her captor, she suddenly hears a hearty laugh."I understand now why he wanted you. I have to admit, you're funny, "said a man's voice."Open your eyes, there are cameras in the bedroom and I already know you woke up."M
Author’s POV"Did you track him?" Max asks James."No, but he's in White Rock for sure." James said.“We need to find her tonight. I am afraid knowing that she is with Castellano. He is too unpredictable. “Landon Quinn said, still looking at the map.And they keep looking at the map trying to find something leading them to Meredith."Did you find anything?" Lori asks as she enters with Cara in the room, and brings some coffee in her hands. But no one says anything.“This will help you to focus, my love” she said putting a cup of coffee in James hand."I don't understand, where could he keep her? This place is full of tourists in this period, he will attract attention over him so he must stay in some hidden place. ”Cara looks at the map that stays lying on the table.“Sometimes the best hiding place is in sight. What is in this area?” she asks, seeing a very large land with a house in the middle of it."It's a private property." Sam said. "A rich man from America has a house but he ne
Author’s POV"Let me take her!" Landon said as he was trying to take Meredith out of Max's arms but Max simply looked shocked at him."Are you nuts?" he asks Landon. ”Why should I let you take her. I need to take her in my pack so that a doctor could see her. ”"No way!" Landon said. "I will take my daughter to my pack, where she belongs, so that a doctor can treat her wounds.""No!" Max says threateningly, hugging Meredith to his chest, shocking them all."Son," Carter said. "It doesn't matter, let him take her , it's important that Meredith be seen by a doctor." but Max doesn't even blink."My doctors will see her!"“Max, we need to take her now to a hospital. She is still bleeding, Please let us bring her to.. ”but Max motions for Sam to open the door of his and asks Sam to get behind the wheel as he climbs into the back with Meredith in his arms."You won't take her from me!" he said through clenched teeth. “Do you think I don't know what you are trying here? You want to steal my
Author’s POVMeanwhile, in Meredith's hospital ward, Carter Cruz and London Quinn look at her worriedly, not at her physical condition, but thinking about of Max's interest in her."What are we going to do?" Carters asks Landon. "You know I adore Meredith and she's always been the only daughter-in-law I've ever wanted."“Carter you are my friend, but she is my daughter. That son of yours doesn't deserve her, "Landon said, coming to Meredith's bed and stroking her forehead lightly."He is her mate, so the gods believe something else." Carter said blowing the information in the air."What?" Landon asks almost falling off his feet. "Impossible!""That's what we said too, but that's perfect, don't you think? What didn't work out for us seems to work for the gods and our kids will eventually be together in the end, just as we wanted from the beginning. “Carter begins to say, rejoicing in happiness.“The Moon Goddess will bring my daughter-in-law back. Exactly where she belongs”But Landon
Author's POVAs soon as Carter and London left, Lori enters her ward."You look better," she said, sitting on the edge of Meredith's bed.“I feel better. Did the doctor say anything about this? ” she asks pointing to her wounded and bandaged thigh."No, he just sewed the wound but he didn't come to visit you after those two alphas occupied him all afternoon." And she starts to giggle."Are they still outside?" Meredith asks in shock."Glued to the door!" Lori stats to laugh.“Bring them in, please. This must stop, it makes me feel bad even if I didn't even do anything. "And as soon as she said that the door opens and the two of them rush to the door."No need, we heard you, we are here!" they both said looking at each other with threatening looks."What's going on with both of you?" Meredith asks very annoyed. Whatever it was between her and Max, James and Max were friends. She will never let them lose their friendship because of her."We are fine!" James said approaching her and smi
"What was that?" James asks as soon as Max comes out of his ward talking to himself."That was Maximillian Cruz, who else?" she says laughing."No, what did you do to him?" James asks."I told him that if he wants me to accept him as a husband he must make me love him." Said Meredith looking at Lori."And that brat went crazy?" James asked laughing."He thinks the bond is enough, isn't it?" Lori asked."Of course he thinks so, he is just a scoundrel!" Meredith said, and then smiling she continued "a very good looking scoundrel, but this is the second part.""Do you like him?" James asks.“He is different now. And the fact that he wants me, even for some wrong reasons, but he wants me, I have to admit that makes him attractive. ” Meredith said."This is fate, Mer. You two are mates and you were meant to be together from the beginning. Even out parents wish the same thing as the gods did. Maybe you should give him a chance. ” Said James."I am already doing it, James. But I will never a
Author’s POV"Do you think we should wake them up?" Meredith hears someone talking near her bed but she's too tired to open her eyes."At least wake Max up. Your friend will kick his ass when she will find him in this position, ”a man said.“Position?” Meredith asked herself. What position? And she immediately opens her eyes and she sees Sam and Cara by her bed, but she doesn't even turn her head and she sees Max next to her.He was sleeping with his mouth open, snoring slightly completely parallel to what was happening around him. It was the best sleep of his adult life.One hand is over Meredith's breast and another on her ass."This scoundrel!" she said. "It's not enough that he slipped into my bed last night! Now he has to touch me too! ” and looking at Cara she said.“Will you help me to go to the bathroom please? I need to wash my face and decide what to do with this… this… perverted alpha! ” but as angry as she is, so amused is Sam."Why are you laughing?" Cara asks, annoyed by
Author’s POV"Where are we going?" Sam asks as he sees Max coming out of the hospital very angry."Home!" he said, actually smoking."Your home or Meredith's?" Sam asks completely innocently but immediately Max turns to him and tells him with a very harsh voice.“My home, because it is more than clear that the human tries to provoke me. I know what she's doing! ”"You know?" Sam asks, trying to figure out what Max knows because he has no idea what he's talking about. Women are too unpredictable for his mind. Until he met this new Cara, he thought he knew everything about them, but Cara turned his life upside down.“Yes, I know. She wants to catch my attention. I just realized that she is fooling around making me lose my control, only to make me get closer to her. It’s her tactic! I am sure of this! ”"Max, I think you're drawing the wrong conclusions." Sam tries to tell him. “Since she came to MaxLine all she did was to ignore you. You are the one who keeps getting into her life. ”"A
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