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ELLE Kade held the door for me, kissing my head as I passed. All eyes turned to us when we entered. The room was packed, and I blushed under the weight of their stares. I hoped that they had not been waiting long. This conference room had a very large table that could fit all of us. There were about twenty in all between our people and theirs. I made sure to tuck my nerves down deep so that I did not embarrass myself with first impressions and whatnot. “Join us,” my mother said with a soft smile and gestured to two empty seats. I sat next to Gabriel who sat next to Ansley, and Kade sat next to Apollo who sat next to Vienna. The four of them seemed happy to have found their mates. It was radiating out of them, and I did not even need Apollo’s gift to notice it. My heart was filled with joy at their pairings. Kade radically changed my entire life in the short time that I had known him, and I knew the same would happen for those two guys as well. “Food will be brought around soon sin
KADE My heart broke for my mate. I had never known a single person to face the sheer amount of tragedy that was thrust upon her. The heartbreaking anguish that flooded her body when she made the connection with the Alpha was enough to literally bring me to my knees. I had never felt something so raw and powerful before. I was thankful that we killed him, but I wished we had been able to give him a taste of his own medicine before we ripped the life from his body. Just when I thought that I had learned some of the worst trauma she faced, I learned even more. Faye explained to Tyre what happened so that we could understand what happened to Elle that night. I thought Dulaney and Elwyn had been the worst, but apparently I had been mistaken. To live with that guilt weighing her down … I had no idea how she was so fucking strong to keep going and continue living. She picked herself up from the ground each time she was thrown down. There had to be something that we could do to make sure t
DANTE One’s pack is more than just a group of people who lived life together. They were a family. An Alpha’s duty was to protect that family until they took their final breath. The bastards that attacked us had separated us from the rest of the pack because they knew who and what we were. My gift let me in on that little secret right away. We were their prize. How did they know about us though? That was a very good question indeed. My gift was a fucking nightmare that I hated but appreciated at the same time. It showed me what others hid within themselves. There was no switch that I could flip to turn it on or off. It was always on no matter what. Thankfully not everyone was a sadistic bastard like that Alpha was. His soul was as dark as tar and twisted in more ways than one. Another aspect of my gift that nobody else knew about was that I could access someone’s fears to use against them. I was seconds away from figuring out the Alpha’s darkest fear when I noticed wolves sneaking u
ELLE Dante was a pretty cool guy. I was worried that he would look at me differently knowing what he saw in the dream, but he did not. You could tell that he was already protective of me because he knew about me growing up. He personally looked for me and even came to this pack. That meant everything to me. “Who did you see when you came here?” I asked him as we walked back to the packhouse. “I think it was the Beta. Not sure what his name is though or if it’s the same one.” I laced him arm around his and hurried my pace. This was going to be funny. He just chuckled but followed. I never thought about what it would be like to have a brother, but it was pretty cool so far. ‘Baby, is Beta Oscar being kept in the cells?’ I asked. ‘Of course. It’s the finest establishment this packhouse has to offer. He and Dulaney are in the last cell. Want to go see him?’ ‘He’s the one that Dante met at the border, so I wanted to let the dipshit see how fucked he is,’ I purred to my mate. Kade he
ELLE Anger gave way to fury, bubbling up inside of me to a dangerous level. There were many times that I was furious in life but never to this extent. Why? Why did the fucking Alpha have to covet power that was never meant to be his in the first place? All he had ever done was take from everyone else. He did not gain a damn thing that he actually deserved or earned. “Please excuse me. I have to grab something from my room,” I said quickly and rushed off before I made a scene. My heart felt like it was breaking into thousands of little shards over what happened to my brother. I did not care what I suffered at all. It happened and was over now. I survived and never had to face that again. Dante had been significantly affected and suffered more than I did. It was a different type of suffering, but it did not matter. If I had been the only one to truly suffer then I would not have cared as much. It was never about what happened to me that bothered me the most because it was what happe
ELLE “How are you doing, darling?” Kade asked me once we made it back to the bedroom. His arms wrapped around my waist, pulling my back flush with his front. I could feel every hard muscle pressing against my back while warmth and sparks coursed through me. It was a delicious current that helped push away the pain from earlier. The knowledge of what happened would never leave me, but I had been able to dim the pain a bit. Time would begin to heal it though. That was something I learned in life. “A little better,” I admitted, leaning back to look up at my mate. I had filled Kade in via mindlink about what triggered me off. He had said that I was a better person than him because he would have just ripped his body apart piece by piece until his final breath. “Are you really giving him ten hours?” he asked. My mate’s light touches caressed my sides, invigorating my ever-present desire for the things that only he could do to me. His warm hand splayed across my stomach underneath my
KADE The fear she felt flooded into my body through the bond with each word Elwyn spoke. He stalked her since she was a pup. He utilized someone’s gift or gifts in order to walk right in and take what he wanted without fear of getting caught. I would find whoever helped him and murder them. I did not give a shit about what happened to my parents because the fury bubbling inside of me was directed at what he did to my mate. I wanted to slowly torture him until I learned all of his secrets, but that plan derailed the moment that his final question hung in the air. ‘Were all of those many times as good for you as they were for me?’ All I saw was red. It flooded my vision just like burning rage flooded my body. I grabbed him and threw him down onto the floor, losing count of how many times my fist collided with his face. The bastard just laughed despite the sickening crunch of his bones breaking. “You’ll never touch my mate again,” I roared before punching my hand into his chest and r
DANTE I would have lost my fucking shit with that bastard Elder if it had not been for my sister. Keeping her safe was my sole focus. The level of manipulation it required to sneak around like he did led me to believe that something else was at play here because it would require more than just a blessed wolf to accomplish. That feeling was only reaffirmed when a Zeltenea targeted her. Those fuckers were very rare. They would not be hired by someone or something unless given a hefty incentive in turn. We needed to figure that shit out fast. This was more than just the Alpha bastard wanting her as a Power Giver. He just genuinely desired her for that. The Elder was obsessive over her and had friends in powerful places. Then you have whoever hired the Zeltenea. Why though? There was something that we did not know but others apparently did, and that was the fucking frustrating part. Chris and Lindsey popped out of an opened portal. It startled everyone who was not used to it, making