Lilith's POVThe past morphs back to my own memories, the images rolling through a memory I do not care for nor see if any importance but it rolls anyway as I grit my teeth at the memory of such jealously that took me under its wing like not other…My night is disturbed again, Lora waking frequently to feed whilst my eyes droop with the tiredness that the lack of sleep is causing me.If I had match sticks, I'm sure I'd be using them to hold my eyelids open, though I'm sure my eyes would roll into the back of my head to find whatever sleep they could.This morning Theo is having me walk the pack lands with him."It's bout time I introduced you to some important people within the pack," he had said whilst I was drink a gallon of coffee and eating porridge.Okay, that's a little far fetched but I did have one cup of coffee.And yes, the doctor has already stated not to drink to much.Caffeine can be problematic with Lora and my milk apparently but even so, there's no way I'm going to get
Lilith’s POVMy mind morphs once again turning form my own thoughts and memories to Theo’s and though I shy away from his stance on my jealously I have no choice in the matter of watching his thoughts and memories play out before me…~~~I never expected for my previous endeavours to affect my mate.I hadn't thought I had a mate so the choice of being with other women never seemed relevant to think about but now I'm sitting in my office brooding about the fact I hurt Lilith.I took her to meet the medical staff but I never imagined that Delta would be covering for her father.I'm out of the loop, my lack of attendance within the pack proving that I need to dive right in the deep end to know who's where and why.And I suppose my open familiarity with Delta didn't help the situation in any stretch of imagination.But what was I suppose to do?Stay celibate for my late teenage years through to my thirties?Would any man, any wolf or witch or any of kind decide to stay true to a mate that
Lilith’s POVI’m repentant as I lay with Lora in our bed whilst feeding her.Khai watches me and notes my emotions are sour and potent so much so he can feel them them as if they were his own.And under that repentance is sadness and anguish. A lace of feeling betrayed.He’s unsure what has happened and despite the fact that he had plans to be out on the training field with the rest of Theo's warriors he had actually decided to l stay here with me. Standing at the entrance of the bedroom door, staring at me in confusion as I mutters to myself about stupidity and anger and how neither work alongside each other."What did he do?" He asks me after standing awkwardly for a long time.Growing angrier by the second that Theo has hurt me in any way making him walk into the room to join me. To investigate the situation at hand.If he's... he thinks, his thoughts pungent to me. He looks to me guiltily, making him halt his thoughts right there."What did he do?" He repeats "I haven't a clue
Lilith's POVAbyss, I’m not sure how much more of this I can take. I feel weak. My head is killing me! I sulk my headache splinters down my spine.Literal shooting pains exit the base of my head like iced fire through my nerves. Not long now, Lil. Our souls are separating. I feel it, I know you do too, she says sorrowfully. Is that what that is? I ask her.Let’s concentrate on something different. That day, Lil. Go back to that day again!So I do, summoning that day in the kitchen with Khai as he tried his upmost to distract me. The distraction of making dinner seems to be the key of making me forget that I started this silent argument between Theo and I.Lora lays in her little basket crib on the counter whilst Khai and I work together to prepare the ingredients to make dinner.We laugh, cuddle and brush against one another.Khai cannot seem to keep his hands to himself and I'm all for it.It's precisely the distraction I needed.And that's how Theo finds us, Khai kissing me from
Lilith’s POVExplain, Abyss, I demand. What was that, why was her skin marking black? It wasn’t like that the following morning. I state angrily, whilst searching back to dressing her the next day.Sure enough her skin was it’s usual milky colour, reassuring me I hadn’t ignored the obvious twice.But then again the previous night I had been sleepy, waking from my slumber to feed her. Images fill my head as Abyss summons a set of memories that I had never imaged I be part of. Damian’s dark and depraved mind and inner voice alerts me to whom I’m watching first and then I see things through his eyes, looking at the witches that he keeps for company.“My mate is alive once more,” he hushed their way, walking around the witches whilst scaring the hell out of them.I watch eagerly, not wanting to miss anything Abyss feels like showing me. “I need you to bond us, ensure we come together when she comes of age,” Damian states.“Do you have her blood, hair… clothing,” one of the witches asks
Lilith's POVIt feels almost as if I passed out, coming to groggy and heavy minded. Yet aren't I already in some sort of state where I'm out of it?I'm essence, Abyss notes. Her warmth seeping into my coolness.What was that? I ask her.Your reserves are depleting but there's so much I need to show you, for this will be the last time I can help you. She tells me.Why do we have to part again? I ask. Hating the thought of losing her, of being wolf-less with no one in my mind to talk to.You do not need me anymore, Lil. You've outgrown me. I must go home, Celeste is calling for me. She answers coyly, avoiding the question it seems.We must go back again, Lil. Recap that day after. Remember the conversation you had about Lora.I do exactly as she's asked, recalling the day after Lora woke in the night...That next day Theo called a meeting between the three of us, Lucas, Andy and Dominic.I pace the office worriedly, cradling Lora to my body awaiting whatever he brought us in here for.A
Lilith’s POVThat stay sticks in my morph as it continues to play out.We sit in the warm air on the blanket just big enough for the three of us, eating the food Calley has prepared for us as I watch them intently. I’m impressed because she made the sandwich spreads this morning, the fresh bread last night. She picked fresh fruit from the farmers market just outside of the pack because, why not?The flavour of the strawberries and oranges areamazing, and it never ceases to amaze me how different they taste to store brought fruit. We talk about how much life has changed, what the upcoming Luna ceremony will do. The dimension it will created within the whole pack.I’m nervous because I do not believe I’m good enough for the role of leading our women and children: Believing my lack of involvement with my pack will disable me from forming the bonds that are needed between a Luna and those I will be guiding.But Theo undoubtedly believed I could and he was right. His reasoning was tha
Lilith’s POVI feel troubled that we, the three of us, have seemingly missed important signs that Damian, or his wolf, has been practicing dark magic on our daughters soul. It upsets me that we’ve missed that, makes me feel awful as a parent that my eyes weren’t open. And I think that’s why I’m intent to concentrate on the background things as I recall that day the Luna ceremony happened— the need to look at Lora is rife.Theo had ensures everything was ready, the yard being transformed into a pretty vision of twinkling lights, tables and a stage in the form of the deck without the railings. He’s ensured there’s room for every pack member that's chosen to come to the ceremony and the efficient from the high court has already arrived.When he woke me not an hour ago and he’d given me my Luna gift, a small necklace that matches a bracelet for Lora. And though he hasn’t told me, I heard his musing over the fact that both embodying a tracking chip in the event that the in-formidable ha
Zeus's POVThey say evil rules the world, and I'd like to agree wholly especially as I watch Hati finally take the child that will soon become the queen of the earth realm.Theseus died some years ago at my hand as we fought for the title of god. I took his wonderful wife in as my prisoner, indebting her to me at the promise I would let her child, and the grandchildren live peacefully.But I did no such thing. Bringing Theo, Khai and Lilith here to the god realm to be my prisoners with their dear children as they also live out their lives locked within the house they cannot leave.Most believed Theseus would win, that he would take over from me, including his family.But love weakens you, and Goddess Adophen aided me in his demise.She has the gift of projection, and she distracted him easily as she projected herself as his wife and then daughter, taking his concentration and that love that is not a man’s best friend.I'm thankful for her, and I promised her that her daughter and son
15 years LaterHati's POVThe time has come, my beautiful Lorrie has come into her wolf, and I can feel the mate bond calling for her.She's been feeling it too, and though I've kept myself away for the last week I cannot stop the inevitable for much longer.Belle has given her blessing, she's taking the other kids, all five of them, out to the other house for the weekend to give me time with Lorrie alone.It's time for me to claim my mate and create the Luna our pack deserves.So I have Calley cook us dinner, stopping her twice to take her in uncompromising positions as she mutters her disapproval very loudly.And then I lock her down in the cells below the house for the remainder of the weekend intent on making sure she knows her place within this pack.Soon she'll have to answer to Lorrie instead of Belle. She'll have to bow down to her luna's disappointment and she's already made a distant enemy of Aspen over the years."Bring me the luna," I demand to Belle as she gathers our chi
Hati's POVTrue to a wolf pregnancy Belle is only pregnant for around nine weeks, her belly swelling fast as she grows my pup within her.And one fateful night as the wind howls and the rain falls she starts her labour as we lay our son to sleep.Lorrie refuses to go down and starts to get in the way as Belle circles on the floor through her pain as Lorrie tries to hold onto her mothers hands."Mama, up," she cries asking for up as she outstretched her arms up to Belle who looks to me for help as she winces once more."Calley," I yell out, intent on having Lorrie away from this ordeal, knowing I have no one else I'd rather trust with the child.Yes she might well have an ulterior motive, but I have no doubt that she would die for this kid. Anyway, I don't want to scar the child, I don't want her to remember her mother in pain when I want her to have only good memories of her.It takes Calley a moment but she comes, knocking on the door in her pj's as she looks at the vision before he
One Year LaterHati's POVLorrie has turned into a funny little thing. She's walking and talking in toddler gibberish and I fall in love with her more everyday as she fills our life with fun and happiness.I can see why Celeste matched her soul to Aspens. She's spunky, confident and happy just like Aspen has always been. We ended up relocating around three to four months ago, coming out of hiding, leaving the continental US.Now we live in the very green Scotland, in the rainy United Kingdom.We've decided to try and blend in, whilst living in the middle of nowhere.It's been an adjustment weather wise, but we really don't come by people often, and the home we brought is surrounded by acres of green forest which is perfect for us to shift.And shift we must, because the lack of shifting causes aging, and that brings problems regarding healing one's self because our bodies resort to being only human.And I have a surprise for you, something I never imagined or cared for but equally was
Khai's POV"Aaah!" She screams as pain radiates through her mid region. I hadn't expected her to wake from her nap in pain, I also hadn't expected her to tell me we won't be finding Lora but she did that to and despite knowing she probably has the gifts to see such things, I deny her allegations and pretend that we will find her. To say she took me off guard would be an understatement but all I could do was call for Theo Lilith has gone into labour a whole week before she's due but I think that's normal for multiple pregnancy but no less scary as she freaks at the pain and wails into my shoulder.She labours in bed, standing up and even in the shower.The whole time crying for Lora, feeling as if she might be replacing her with the children coming out from within her tummy.Sadness fills the room and the three of us did not enjoy the birth process at all.Our sons entered the world screaming loudly, clearing their lungs within minutes of each other and though Theo and I wanted to c
Lilith's POVDane is adamant that Damian isn't dead and equally as adamant that I can use my memory to summon where his whereabouts.Apparently the witch side of me can teleport, and that's a given because I have done before but never have I teleported to a person specifically, only a place.But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.Of course it does, if I can summon a place, then I can summon a person, right?I just have to practice, apparently. It still astounds me how much he knows about me when most know nothing about me at all.And it just so happens that I feel closest to him out of anyone I've met.I'm having a bad day today, pain is radiating along my back, a sharp stabbing pain accompanying it whenever I stand for to long.I think it's the twins, my boys that are currently safe within me.I miss Lora.I miss Calley.Heck, I even miss Lucas.I can only hope that one of them with with my baby girl, that they are doing everything in their power to protect her from
Hati's POVA further two and a half weeks have passed as we live in this humid and small place in hipster being on top of one another. My men have broken all the agreements I even made with Gretchen, her witches becoming the slaves they are used to which had disfavoured the respect the witch have held for me. But needs must and all that.Even I and finding it hard not to play outside of Belle.Take yesterday for example.Calley had been caring for the child as she has been for over two weeks, ensuring Lorrie remains quiet and happy to limit the time the child spends with Belle.I'm not stupid and I had noticed how she would try to prevent any crying coming from Lorrie.The child has grown far quicker than I thought possible, her growth excelled.She's standing against furniture, giggling and eating some solids, but that's just a trigger for me.I've told Calley she must feed from Belle and she's purposely ignoring my request. Ensuring Lorrie skipped three feeding sessions yesterday.
Theo’s POVThe days have passed in unimaginable pain as I mourn the theft of my child, and I also watch my mates do the same thing.I feel like an utter failure, and as I sit and ponder the reality I then realise I lost my best friend, beta and Calley and Arlo in one foul swoop.How did such a thing happen so easily?Especially when we trained to prevent such a thing.Even Danes members failed miserably and he’s travelling here today, his communication less than moody.I’ve been sitting alone in my office pondering life and the atrocities that have amounted to this very day and I see all of my failures. Can count them precisely.I suppose that’s why I’m avoiding everyone.What type of Alpha fails his people?!My computer pings with an email, giving me a welcome distraction as I jump out of my own mind to concentrate on something other than the trashy surrounding me.It’s Dane, he’s crossing the border. Warning me incase the pack decide to attack.I feel awful, despite being down two t
Three Weeks Later Hati's POVWeeks pass as we adjust to living here below the burned pack-land of Leo.I cannot believe he's still alive, but then again what more can I expect from these peasants and their ability to slip through my fingers?The child, Lora. Or Lorrie as we've been calling her has settle very nicely. She's sitting by herself now, rolling around and has become very content within this smaller pack of mine, and everyone loves her. Worshiping their lunar even in this childish stage of her life.And the girl, Calley, keeps a very close eye on her.That day was quite something when we tied our blood in a bonding agreement."Eko, eko, azarak. Eko, eko, zomelak. Bagabi lacha bachabe, Lamac cahi achababe. Eko, eko, azarak. Eko, eko, zomelak," Gretchen had changed as she created the bond that would be undeniable."Repeat after me, girl. I, fill name, solemnly swear to bind my blood with Hati in agreement for servitude. Bonding our blood forever more as I lay my life down at