I needed a drink, and a strong one at that. If I remembered correctly, there was a pub down on the other side of town, so that’s where I decided to take everyone, because we needed to come up with a plan. Isaac went and brought a burner phone. He dialed a number and waited for the person to answer. We ordered food and drinks and just waited. After no one picked up, I took the phone and called the hotel. It turns out that Jocelyn had hired out the penthouse and paid the fees for six months. My name was on the guest list, so we could go straight there.“It seems our Josie had planned this out well. We can go up whenever we like.” I told them no one had said a word since we got here.“We need to get your families to safety.” I told them.“They already are Alpha. We got them all out last night. They have gone to Night Shade. Alpha Eden agreed to take them. He has also agreed to help us when we take the kingdom back.” Mark told me. Well now, I am glad that we were on good terms with Alpha
JOSIEMy nervous were making me restless. I was pacing up and down the cabin because I thought they would have been here by now.“Josie, please stop pacing. They will be here soon. I can feel my mate getting closer.” Derek giggled at me. I was making the others nervous, but I couldn’t help it ever since Ethan told us that he missed us. You couldn’t wipe the smile off my face. Derek was quiet about the entire thing, but I know he just really wanted to see his mate. Weeks had passed since they had been together. Then Derek rushed through the door and ran down the track, which made me chuckle. I had never seen this side of Derek before. Standing on the porch with a smile that you couldn’t wipe off my face because Derek was in the arms of his mate, there was no better feeling than this.“Where is he?” Athena growled in my head. She was pacing, which is why I was pacing. Then we locked eyes with him and relief spread through my body. He looked at us with a shy smile and he looked visibly r
EthanJosie gasped in my arms, doubling over in pain. She let out a tiny whimper. I hold her close to me. The poor thing all she has ever done is feel pain. The pain passed. She looked up at me with fear and hurt in her beautiful eyes. I needed to fix this for her. Garrett and Sara were going to pay for everything they were doing, all the tears, all the pain. They would come to understand a life of pain. It seemed like all they did was fuck each other. Were they actually running the kingdom?“Come on, let’s go inside. Maybe you should go and have a shower?” I suggested to her, there wasn’t much else I could do for the moment. She nodded her head. She took my hand as I led her inside. All eyes were on us and they were visibly upset by the appearance on Josie’s face. She gave them a weak smile, going to the bathroom. I couldn’t help but sigh and run my hand through my hair. It was a habit that I had developed in my years as Alpha King because sometimes there wasn’t much else I could. Si
I wasn’t far from where he was. I told him I would be there by nightfall but that was still hours away and I know Bellonia would get there quick enough, but first thing was first I needed to see if the rogues crossed back. Why did he need to see Tanda? Did he not know that she wasn’t to be messed with? Tanda was the most powerful Seer we had seen in over a hundred years. But the thing that shocked me the most was he said he wanted her dead. He may be my brother, but he wanted to come onto King Darius’ land. I had to call him and find out.“Jess, my most favorite person. How is the scouting?” I don’t know why he always said the things he did.“Not good Darius, they have crossed over the border again. I am running along the border now to see if they have crossed back over to us.”“Fuck. That means more omegas are going to go missing. I don’t understand how they can just disappear like that. What the fuck is your brother going to think?” He sighed. I could tell that he would now be pacin
Josie I couldn’t believe that Jess was Ethan’s brother, and more to the fact that she had tried to find me after all these years. When she walked in the door to say it surprised me was an understatement. Athena was whining in my head again. He was at it again.“Why can’t we just reject him?” “We have to wait.” Athena whimpered. I was so angry. How did this all happen? Why the fuck did all this happen? If Jacob hadn’t of done this, I know everything would be different. But it was too late for that now. They would die, all of them. Garrett was mine, though. No one was going to touch him. He would feel all sorts of pain. How could we have so wrongly judged him? He was so caring when we met him and I was drawn to him more than Ethan, but why? Jess walked back inside, pulling me from my thoughts.“King Darius will meet us there. Now I am going to go and patrol the area to make sure that we will be safe tomorrow.” She looked at me with concern on her face. “Wanna come for a run, Jos? Let
Ethan Waking up with Josie in my arms was something that I didn’t think I would ever experience and I wanted this in my life every day, last night was the best night's sleep I had in forever, yes I know I was knocked out for a month but this was different, it was peaceful. Looking down at her, she was still asleep. As much as I didn’t want to move, I had to. There was so much swimming around in my mind. Shimmering away from her, there was coldness where she had been touching my body. This girl was making me fall hard for her, but I didn’t want to tell her if she didn’t feel the same. Pulling on some shorts, I go to the kitchen and Jess is in there already making coffee. “Want a cup?” She asked me. “Sure do.” I said back, taking a seat at the island. It looked like she had been awake for a while already. She placed the cup in front of me. “How was she last night?” Jess asked me, should I tell her what happened or would she be too upset with me about it? ‘Well, I saw a side of her l
“Form a circle now.” She commanded us. We did as she told us. “Jos, stay by my side, no matter what.” I said to her, but she didn’t say anything, her and Athena were already looking around trying to find the threat.“Jess, where are they coming from?” Athena asked her.“All around us. Maybe fifteen. Don’t move on them until I say.” She ordered, that’s when we heard them finally come out of where they were hiding. “Well now, what do we have here? A pack of wolves and our very own gamma.” The Lycans’ voice sent shivers down my spine. He was bad news, whoever he was.“What the fuck do you want, Charles?” Jess’s beast was getting inpatient. Whoever this was, she didn’t like him.“I heard we had the Alpha King amongst us. So we wanted to kill two birds with one stone.” He laughed as he said this and that’s when Athena had moved so silently no one had heard her, all you could hear was bodies dropping to the ground one by one in a few seconds until there was only Charles standing, who had
King DariusOnyx kept pacing in my head, making it hard to concentrate on what we needed to do. It is never easy for us to leave the kingdom, especially since there was a rebellion going on. I still couldn’t help but think it was too much my fault for this, but the way my father had ruled the kingdom needed to change. “They have to know they need to change their ways.” Onyx sighs.“I know, but some of them are still stuck their old ways. We have to get ready to leave soon, so I need you to stop pacing.” “Something doesn’t feel right. We should have gone with them to the border.” My phone rings as I was about to say something to him.“Jess, how are things going?” I asked her.“Darius, just pretend like we are having a normal conversation. Charles and his men circled us, trying to take us out. But Athena took them all out before the first body hit the ground. But the thing is, Charles said that they bugged your office and room. That is why they knew where we were going to be.”“Well n
Darius’s POV Since, when could our mate show someone the memories of what had happened? Seems we didn’t know too much about her powers, but that was to be expected, I guess. It was hard to just sit there and watch her show Jolon and me not comfort her. But it was always her choice. I would never force her. She seemed to have a plan with Jolon. I trust her judgment. “We will only step in if something happens to our mate.” “I agree buddy.” Trying to calm my inner beast, because we both knew if he couldn’t stay calm, then how was I ever going to? Josie had placed her hand on my lap, rubbing little circles on my thigh with her thumb as if she could sense my tension, which if she could, then I needed to reel it in. “Jolon, do you think you will tell us your story?” She asked him in barely more than a whisper. I looked at Jolon, hoping that my old friend was still in there somewhere and he wasn’t too far gone, that we couldn’t bring him back. His face was full of sorrow, looking into he
Josie’s POV“Darius, what about Jess?” The question had been eating me up since I had let the others become part of the bond. I was sitting on the bed as Darius was finishing a few things on the computer. I would be his tonight and he would be mine, but I wanted a clear mind of everything first.“I don’t know. I can honestly say this is the one time I am unsure of Jess and her motives. We need to go and see Jolon first before anything is decided, but I want to do one thing first.” He wriggled his brows at me. I almost forgot about Jolon, with everything that had just happened. Wiggling my finger at him indicating he should come over to the bed, he stalked over to me slowly. “Are you sure you want to do this now, my little mate?” his voice was husky, making my core throb. After everything I had been through, my heart was telling me this was right and the timing was right. “I am Darius. After what happened to me, I didn’t know if I would ever be ready, but I have a feeling we need to
Jocelyn’s POVThe scars that lined Xavier’s back were the hardest. It seemed like his skin had been torn apart. The mental scars these scars left on him ran so deep I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to heal him.“Athena, I need your help.” I whispered to her.“Jos, they run deep. If we take them, they will not only scar us mentally as well, but it will be physical.” She whispered as well. She was crying from the pain Xavier had suffered.“We have to Athena. I know we have to do this.” As I told her this, the memories he held of what happened entered our mind. So much pain because he wouldn’t give his sister up. She doesn’t know he suffered this because of him. The claws ripped through my back. Screaming, I fall to my knees, but I wasn’t done yet, they others approached me but I shook my head no. Instead, they gave me their strength, but it meant they would all bear some sort of
Darius POV“Ok.” She pulled me out of the room, because there was so much to do and I was feeling guilty I hadn’t told everyone yet. Dinner was going to be delivered soon. Everyone was looking at Ethan and Ava like they wanted to kill him. They needed to understand about everything. We couldn’t be divided, especially now, we would be stronger united.“There are things that have happened you all need to know about. Now that you're awake, Ethan, it will make it easier with a plan of attack.” This had their attention. I motioned for them all to sit at the table, which they did.“This entire time, we have been looking into and paying attention to the omega attacks, but I think this has been a distraction. I had a prisoner that just showed up and I now know is the mate of the rogue king planted here as a spy. The things she has done are unspeakable. She is Jocelyn’s birth mother. She was the Luna of the Berserkr Night M
“GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY OFFICE NOW.” I roared at her, vile was building in my stomach. I would kill her. How fucking dare she do is. How the hell did she even get into my office? Helga got up to see who I was talking to. She looked like she might faint, but what she did next surprised even. She pushed past me and grabbed Katie by the throat.“How dare you sneak into Alpha’s office and dress like the slut you are? He has a mate now and if she was here and caught you. Goddess help you Katie.” She hissed at Katie, whilst Katie was clawing at her hands to let her throat go. After a second she throw her to the ground. Katie grabbed her robe and ran out of the office before I could do anything else.“Fuck, I am so sorry, Alpha. I didn’t know. She must have snuck in when I wasn’t here.” She spoke really fast. I placed my hand on her shoulder.“Thank you Helga, for what you just did. I know you would have never have let her in.” I gave her shoulder a squeeze, she gave me a nod, then walked ou
Darius’s POV I hated to leave my mate, but my gamma really needed me right now. Josie gave me a look that I knew she understood that Jess needed me. Her mate had betrayed her, had cheered on Jolon to beat her. I mean, what kind of mate does that? His true colors started to appear. Jess was distraught. Never had I seen her cry, but here and now she was sitting in my office with a drink in her hand, crying tears over someone that didn’t deserve her. She looked at me. “How could he do that? I know you always had your doubts, but I am his mate.” She sighed as she downed her glass of whiskey. It was hard to become drunk as a Lycan, but not impossible if you lace your drink with wolfsbane, then you would be a goner. The burn of the liquid going down your throat was mostly enough. Jess had never had more than a few drinks, and she was now at her limit. I would let her have. “Because he is a fool, Jess. Jolon has him fooled like he had me fooled. Bane is an idiot and doesn’t seem to know w
“Just ahead in the clearing. There is a scared waterfall that allows one to heal their mind if they are in need of it.” Norris explained to me. Leaving them behind, I blocked out their thoughts, putting up a barrier between us and the world. Athena went into the clearing. The waterfall twinkled from the sunlight that seemed to dance on its surface. It was like thousands of diamonds in the water. The rocks that surrounded the waterfall were littered with flowers. It looked like a rainbow. The water was clear, even though it looked deep. Athena entered the water. We felt a tingling coursing through our body as we went further into the water. She swam around as whatever magic was held in the water worked on Athena.“Your turn now Jos. Just go with it.” Athena said to me. I could feel the calmness from her. Shifting back, deciding to float on my back as the water washed over my body, clearing my mind of all the hurt I had ever felt. How is this working? I thought to myself. Feeling the pr
Jocelyn POVComing into view was a rock formation that would have once been a cave from the looks of it. There were four people waiting out the front for us. Two were the guards, and the others were Derek and Isaac.“Luna, Xavier. I thought you had knocked off?” The more burly guard asked Xavier. “All good Norris. Turns out that Laila is mates with our Luna’s friend.”“Holy shit, Lai found her mate. Wow, that’s incredible.”“See, I knew Alpha was right in wanting to open up the kingdom to the wolves. You don’t know what you have done for us Luna. Maybe I will find my mate as well.” He walked over to me and pulled me into a hug, which made me squeal at first, but I returned the hug.“Sorry Luna, I am Norris, and this guy here is Fred. We normally are guards down in there, but today we decided we wanted some air.” Fred smacked Norris.“Sorry about him Luna, we aren’t slacking…”“Fred, honestly, if I had to send all my days down there as well, I would want a breather. But please call me
Jocelyn“Jess, what happened?” Darius asked her.“I was training with one of the warriors and that idiot decided he was going to attack me from behind. So I showed him that he couldn’t touch me, but the more concerning thing was Bane didn’t stop him. He was cheering him on.” “Jess, let’s go and talk.” Darius said to her. They looked over at me and Jess had a saddened look on her face.“Jocelyn, did you and Wes want to come with us or stay here and train with the others show them what you and Athena can really do?” He was giving me a choice, but the look on Jess’s face I know she needs to be with just him. Jess and I are friends, but when it comes to matters with your mate, sometimes the fewer people know, the better. Looking at Wes, he nodded his head that he wanted to stay and train.“We will stay.” And with that, Darius and Jess left to go talk. Wes looked at me like he wanted to say something, but he stopped himself.“Well, if it isn’t the whore of a she-wolf that thinks she has a