ANNALISE... With how long I have lived with pain you would think that I would be used to it by now only this pain is different, this pain is deeper, added to the fresh pain of grief makes it unbearable, so with tears in my eyes I sit back up and reach into my back pocket. I pull out the phone that Nicolas gave me and hand it over to him.I glance at the screen as I pass it to him and see that it is Nicolas. I look up at Randall as he looks at it, wondering exactly what he is going to do.Randall watches as the phone continues to ring. It stops and then starts again. When it stops and then starts once more, Randall looks at me and growls. “You talk to him, you make it sound like there is nothing wrong, that you are enjoying your day at the spa…” Randall then reaches over and slides his hand into the hair at the back of my neck and pulls as he growls, “You give him any sort of hint th
NICOLAS… I nod and then chuckle a little to myself as I think about my reputation, a reputation that I really haven’t been living up to when it comes to Annalise because if I had been living up to that reputation whether she was marked or not, after the connection I felt and then having sex with her at the dance club I would have taken her back to the pack and made her mine. I would have possessed and owned her. I would have made it so that she could never and would never want to leave… I growl low, bringing myself out of my head and making Alpha Cameron look at me with a frown before saying, “What’s wrong?” “Nothing…” Alpha Cameron shakes his head at me, obviously not believing what I was saying, but not questioning me any further. I growl at myself again as those thoughts and those actions would have put me in the exact same category as Alpha Randall and Beta Angus, who took her freedom of choice away from her. That was a
NICOLAS... With my anger and patience at breaking point, I move and push past both Douglas and Randolf, walking back down the service hall and out into the mall, I have only one thing on my mind and I don’t care who is around or who is looking as I walk straight up to Juliana and grab her by the throat turning her and walking her quickly backward until her back hits the wall behind her hard. Alpha Cameron takes a step toward us and I growl over my shoulder at him, just begging for him to say something, however, I know that as soon as he shuts his mouth, backs off and goes to his knee. That Raoul’s eyes are not just glowing gold in mine but are swirling with silver. I return my stare to Juliana and with Raoul’s Royal command lacing my tone; I snarl. “What did you do?”Juliana struggles against me as she whimpers, trying to fight the command, but she doesn&rsquo
RANDALL… I am woken by a pounding in my head and the sound of sirens going off around the pack. I open the link to my new Beta Francis and Gamma Cedric, “What the hell is going on?” “Reports of a small army of wolves have breached the Northern border, Alpha.” I smile to myself and slowly get out of bed and walk into my bathroom as I link back, “Stand everyone down and turn off the alarms.” “Alpha?” They both say confused. I chuckle to myself. “Trust me, they mean no one harm. Allow them entry.” I have a quick shower and then not bothering with a towel. I use Hugo’s heat to dry my skin as I exit the bathroom and walk into the closet. I pull on a pair of casual dress pants and a tight-fit black shirt before covering it with a light grey button-down shirt. I
RANDALL… I doze, keeping my nose in the crook of her neck so that I can smell the moment the antidote has removed all the sedatives from her body. Once it has, I then skim my lips up and down her neck, as I slowly slide my hands up and down the soft skin of her neck, her breasts, and her stomach, and then finally I slide them down over her thighs.I slowly thrust my hips against her as I continue to trail soft kisses on the back of her neck and shoulder. I then slide one hand up between her legs and the other up and down the rest of her body. I smile against her skin as I feel and hear the low moan that comes from her lips.I slide my fingers inside her private lips as I slide my other hand up to her neck; I wrap it loosely around her throat in just the right spot so that I can tilt her head back and to the side as I place a dominant kiss on her lips at the same time I use my fingers that are between her legs to guide my hard throbbing c
THIRD PERSON… Amity spends the next couple of days spending some time with her mother and stepfather. She also rang Randolf and told him the real reason she was there. Now, he understood, as it concerned witches and many werewolves don’t like or trust witches. He had known that she hadn't told him the truth, that it must have been important and she would tell him when she was ready, however, that didn't stop him from being upset at her and he had made it clear that he would enjoy just as she would the punishment he would give her when she returned. By the time Vixen has finished her potion, it is only 2 days until the full moon. She catches up with Amity and explains, “Now, Annalise will need to drink this, and if your Alpha does the Luna ceremony as it should be done, he will cut her hand as well as his. Now, this is very important. When he clasps their hands together, mixing their blood, he needs to mark her as his Luna as he rips t
CANDACE… I let out the last breath of my rant with a sigh. I then hear him chuckling on the other end of the line as he says, “That is understandable. You are not being jealous or even selfish as no one wants to share their mate with someone that’s not their mate…” The line goes quiet for a moment before he comes back on and says, “Okay, I will be there tomorrow morning to collect her…” “NO… You can’t…” I say a little loud and with panic in my voice. “What? But you just said?” Nicolas growls at me again. I look at the door and take a deep breath, letting it out when no one comes in to see why I was yelling, as the door wasn’t quite closed, making the room soundproof. I then say, “I know what I said but please Alpha Nightmoon, if you turn up tomorrow Randall will know that I told and I can guarantee that you will not be able to do anything but kill him… Please, you are going to have to wait until closer t
CANDACE... Without being able to move off his lap, I lower my hand from his shoulder once more and then fiddle with the stick for a moment before bringing it up so that he can see. With more tears slipping from my eyes and sobs from my lips. A smile spreads slowly across his face as he says, “You are? We are? Is this why?” “Yes, please, Randall. Call off the challenge, let Annalise leave. Let us be a family…” “Listen, I will make a deal with you. I can’t just call off the challenge, but if I leave Annalise here and go to the King’s castle, the challenge is forfeit if he can’t produce her anyway, and then when we return, I will set her free. I will allow her to leave. This is the best I have and can offer at the moment.” I nod my head as I know that what he just said was what he was going to do anyway, except there was no way in this lifetime that
ANNALISE - FLASHBACK CONT’… Amity gives me a sly smile as she sees what I did. She then turns her attention back to the coming of my pups and says, “Now Luna… Annalise, I need you to take a deep breath and push with the next contraction.” I do as she says and follow her instructions as she gives them. After what seemed like forever, I slump back against Nicolas after my last push and our first daughter slips from inside me. Amity pulls out a small set of scissors and cuts the cord and then picks her up as she says, “Congratulations. You have a daughter, an Alpha female.” She passes her to me as I relax into Nicolas. When she opens her eyes, I smile and I don't know how I knew she was his as look back over my shoulder and say, “Our beautiful Danielle.” Nicolas smiles and closes the small gap and places a soft, short kiss on my lips. When he pulls back, Dominic approaches very slowly and says, “If I may, Luna?” I look at him, confused, until another wave of pain shoots through m
5 years later…ANNALISE…The years have been good. Anyone would think that being the Luna of two packs and the Queen of a kingdom would be hard and tiring, however; for me, it has been busy but fun and rewarding.Like now, I have a little quiet time, so I am sitting on the swing out in the backyard of the castle, sliding my hand over my swollen belly while watching Fredrick and Nicolas going through some of the playful training moves they came up with. It was the only way they could convince our daughters to pay attention to each of the lessons they tried to teach them.As I watch them, I remember the night that they were born…The night of the Full Blood Moon Eclipse…**FLASHBACK**I had been feeling a little off when I had squirmed and crawled out of bed early this morning. I just couldn’t stay sandwiched between my two mates any longer. I feel a small ache in my lower back and give it a slow rub as I walk into the bathroom and set the shower going. The warm water of the shower and
ANNALISE... I smile as he then pulls me into a tight hug, and I hear two low growls from the males that step back up beside me. As Fredrick pulls me in tight to his side, he says, “Back off Father… Annalise, as you have probably guessed or known, that is our father, Chase.” I giggle again as Chase bows to me and grabs my hand, placing a kiss on the back, earning him another growl. He straightens and chuckles as he returns to his seat. Fredrick then says, “And this lovely female is my mother, Nicolas’s stepmother. Katreena.” I look over, and my eyes go wide as she says, “It’s nice to finally meet you, Annalise. You ran off so quickly the day I visited Nicolas, he didn’t get a chance to introduce you…” I lower my head and whisper, “I…I… I was nothing but a slave then…” Tears fill my eyes as I remember that day and how I had thought that she was his girlfriend or lover or mistress with how they had walked down the hall so close to each other and then had eaten privately. It wasn
ANNALISE… She smiles as she turns the screen to face the three of us so that we can see the two images. Tears sting my eyes as I then turn and look at my mates. A small smile tugs at my lips, seeing the shock on their faces. My attention is brought back to Amity when she asks, “Would you all like to know what you are having?” I smile and say before she can, “Daughters. We are having daughters.” Amity looks at me with shock as she says, “That’s right. Annalise, how did you know?” “Amity, I am not stupid. I did a research paper at school on my family history and found that there were only females with the occasional male born to the 2nd or 3rd daughter of each new generation. So now that I know that I am a descendant daughter of the Moon Goddess, I realised a few weeks ago that any pups I had would be daughters... Would be females.” I turn my head and look over at Fredrick and Nicolas, as I don’t know if they have thought about this. Tears sting my eyes as I whisper, “You do rea
ANNALISE… I couldn’t believe that they had included a nursery/reading room. With the teddy still in my hand, I walk back over to them and wrap my arms around both of them as I try not to cry. Fredrick places a kiss on my shoulder and whispers, “Come, we haven’t finished yet.” I pull back and they both step back. Fredrick slides his hand into mine and leads me out of the nursery and over to another door. He stands in front of it as he says. “Now we know that there are going to be times when you have had enough of our overbearing presence, so we made this chamber up for you. It is for you and you alone. If you decide to invite one of us in well, then that is your choice. Otherwise, it is off-limits to me and Nicolas.” Fredrick then steps to the side and opens the door, allowing me to walk in. True to his words, they both stand outside the door as I move and look around the chamber. Nicolas says once again from the door,
ANNALISE…When he pulls his head back, we are above the surface again. I look into his eyes and he is laughing; I hit him on the chest as I giggle.“You bastard, you scared the shit out of me…”He continues to laugh as he says,“Sorry sweetheart.”I wrap my arms back around his neck and place a kiss on his lips. When I pull back this time, I look around and say,“Where is Fredrick?”I let out a surprised scream as two hands grab my waist and pull me back out of Nicolas’s arms. The hands turn me as his voice rasps into my ear.“I’m right here, sweetheart.”I giggle and hit his chest, as I did with Nicolas, before placing a kiss on his lips. Sparks flood my body as he growls low and wraps his arms tighter around me and deepens the kiss. When he pulls back, he leans his forehead to mine and whispers,“I love you.”I smile and whisper, “I love you, too.”I then look over my shoulder before turning in Fredrick’s arms just a little, allowing me to see both my mates as I say,“I love both of
NICOLAS… I feel a shiver run through Annalise as she tightens her arms around my neck. I tightened my arms in response, still with my attention on Fredrick, knowing that this was bad. I whisper, “How?” “The dungeon guards alerted us to trouble. When I got to the doors of the dungeon, I could hear fighting and growling coming from the cells. I all ran down, only to stop dead at the cell. The fighting had stopped, and you were just standing, but we couldn’t believe what we were seeing. Douglas, Arnald, and Vlad joined me just after. We were brought out of our shock when Annalise screamed. I had Vlad take her to her room and told him to keep her there. We then tried to enter the cell, but as we did, you turned on us. Raoul had shifted, and his eyes were glowing pure gold with a significant swirl of silver running through them. I tried the link, but it was blocked, and every time we made even just the smallest of movements, Raoul would growl low
ANNALISE… I place my hand on his cheek, and it isn’t long before his eyes snap open, and I am staring at the gold, silver, and red swirl of Raoul’s eyes. His chest vibrates with the primal growl he lets out before wrapping his arms around me, one going to the back of my head, the other around my waist. He pulls me into a hard, dominant kiss. I let out a surprised squeak into his kiss as he flipped us in the bed. When he pulls back, we are both breathing heavily. He leans his forehead to mine and whispers, “I would never intentionally hurt you…” I smile and bring my hand back to his cheek as I say, “I know. I love you, and I understand now what you were trying to do. I came back for you.” I close my eyes and allow Misty to come forward and share control. Raoul lets out another low growl when I open my eyes, and I know that they are mixed with Misty's violet colour. I feel Misty extend our canines, and I smile as I watch as R
ANNALISE… I don’t know what made me do it, but he had saved me, so I felt the need to save him from whatever they were doing to him. Almost as soon as I removed the IV, he began to stir. I smiled as I reached over and placed my hand on his cheek. I then jumped when his eyes snapped open and locked on mine. He moves quickly, getting off the bed, wrapping his arms around me, and walking me backward until my back hits the wall behind me. I whimper a little at the impact, but I can’t take my eyes off the golden glow with the silver and slight red swirl. He slides his hand into my hair and grabs it, pulling my head back just that little further before he smashes his lips to mine in a hard, dominant kiss. Even with the slight twinge of pain, I melt into him. He soon breaks his kiss and trails his lips down my neck, making me shiver. I close my eyes and let out a low moan as his fire spreads through me. His