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Theo's POVLilith is mentally fragile at the moment, and that shows because the whole pack has been suffering. Her abilities are multiplying in tenfold, but one specific gift she holds is baneful.Her emotions filter out through the pack bond, making everyone suffer with her flitting feelings. Theseus has stated that he cannot teach her how to control her emotions, but something needs to give; otherwise, the whole pack will suffer whiplash from her feelings.Andy had mind-linked me earlier this afternoon in worry.Lilith had been walking just inside the borders as they were doing their patrol. They all ignored her presence as I had asked them to so she didn’t feel on edge to introduce herself, but he reported she seemed in deep thought, so they had gravitated to protect their Luna, and they found themselves falling down with the emotion at her feet.She hadn’t reacted, staring at them with a vacant look before she had left them there, suffering from her sadness. That’s when she ha
Ten Years AgoDamian's POVLilith loves running through the grass.She holds her hands out beside her as she lets the long tendrils brush her palms. I think she enjoys the sensation of the grass blades, but I cannot be totally sure because she is rather stoic with her emotions.She's nine now, and tonight we will be visiting the witch's hut out in the wooded area on the east-facing borders where I allow the coven to live.Her wolf is waking up, and I need to prevent her from coming forward for a bit longer. Lilith is destined for many things, including living a gifted life, but I need her under my control, under Onyx's control, so that he doesn't kill her during a raging fit when she inevitably finds her mate.I had hoped that it might have been me, that the weird sense of belonging whenever I am around would have been because of a mate bond, but she is not my mate... I killed me, mate.I am hoping her mate doesn't live here in this pack. It would be unlikely, considering she doesn't
*Continued*Damian's POV "No more hiding Lilith. Let's walk out to coven; we will see Gretchen again.""For my medication?" She asks innocently."Yes, that would be correct, Lil. But also because the witches love you.""I like them too, especially Tabitha. She can show me things..." she trips over her words, sucking in a sharp breath as if she realised she had said far too much.I wince for her, knowing if Onyx were awake, he would punish her for keeping secrets from him.I know the witches hold powers of their own. Most of them do, and most living here keep their abilities a secret, so Onyx doesn't get wind.Tabitha is a young witch bred here on my land. She's fourteen and gifted. That much is obvious.She is constantly zoned out, her eyes bleeding from blue to white, and she's unresponsive. The witches keep her in the coven, refusing for her to go to school with the others. Refusing to have her mingle.The poor child's only friend is Lilith, and she rarely sees her.I guess I get
Lilith's POVI wake to movement inside of me. A little knock against my lower stomach and a slither up top. My stomach rippling as the child within me moves around.The alarm clock reads five-forty am.Today is the day we go to the pack doctors to see this little one to make sure she is okay and growing as expected. Apparently, they have a special scanner that enables them to see the baby or pup, as Calley calls it.I'm excited, nervous... anticipation churning in my gut, causing me not to sleep all night soundly despite being safe and in between my boys. I'm still so unused to the idea of having a being growing within me, yet I can feel the warm love that our child has for me and hear the odd occasion musing of love and contentment. Khai and Theo are both lying beside me, sleeping soundly.Khai's hand resting on my thigh that's between his legs, and Theo's face in the crook of my neck as he breaths softly against the skin there.We'd made love two more times in the waterfall before
Theo’s POVLilith had some type of epiphany back in the bedroom.I could feel her trying to work out something as we dressed, but I had left her to it; knowing what we it was, she would tell us if she needed her help.But then she gasped aloud, asking to see Tabitha despite the fact I feel she doesn’t get along with her all that much.Her request confounded me, but I’ve gone along and asked Lucas to have them over for dinner tonight.If her musings are that important, then I guess I should accommodate her and make the meeting happen sooner rather than later.We still need to eliminate the threat of Damian, and maybe Tabitha has the answers to how we do that because I’m sure a shit that he will come back for Lilith.She escaped him, even if with the help of her father, who is the god of witch kind.But I won’t obsess over this now. Not when we drive into the hospital on the pack grounds to see our child.It’s been around five and a half weeks since Lilith went into heat, which would mak
Khai's POVI knew, even before the doctor asked if we wanted to see the sex of our child, what she was. Lilith is holding our daughter. The cursed child.I had tried to avoid this, tried to keep away from Lilith in Damian's pack.I guess you could say his presence made that easier. His distaste for our mated bond scared me into not touching her or consummating our bond sooner. Though the fate was always to have a fated tri-child.Tri, a triple genetic child, would be the first of her kind. You see, although some have been fated to more than one, none have ever survived the intensity of a jealous craze that ends up killing the less dominant lover. Maybe that's where Theo and I get along. He wants Lilith, and for her to be happy, I feel guilty about wanting Lilith and ultimately wanting her to be happy. So there's our medium, our get-out. I'll admit, when I feel the pair of them together, I do get jealous but not the raging ordering jealous. The jealous where I want to join in, li
Celeste's POVI sulk the time away in the house as I live with being human once again.The incessant need to eat, to sleep and to take bathroom breaks plagues me.When you're a goddess, these things do not bother you as they do when you are human.It's unsettling sitting around this big ole house by myself with no one to talk to, no one to keep my company.How is Theseus? Is he successfully teaching Lilith to use the powers we know she houses?Have they uncovered any more abilities she may have that we hadn't already known about??The questions are never-ending, the need to know what is happening to my loved ones taking me down the path of stir-crazy.You could call me privileged for having the ability to see what is happening with anyone I choose to search for in the pool of sight, and I have become reliant on using it to check up on those I keep dear to my heart.That's why I'm finding this terribly hard.Usually, I have Theseus here with me. I have his company and do not have to w
Celeste's POVContinued..."I've come to give you back your Goddess aura," Zeus announces loudly the very moment I place my cutlery on the plate."Already?" I ask before I can stop myself."I've seen the error of my ways. I understand you cannot make Theseus come home. It is him that I should be punishing.""Oh," but that isn't what I want."Come?" He summons me, standing from the table with his glasses of wine.He nods to mine as he walks past, so I grab the glass to follow behind him.We walk through the downstairs back to the living room."Play me a song, Celeste..."The piano sits grandly before us, beckoning me to play him his favourite song.The one he always has me play.I sip my wine, drinking the deep red with enthusiasm, and then I place the glass on the sideboard to sit on the bench.Zeus smiles at my obedience as I start to play his favourite song. My fingers dance on top of the keys as the music fills the house with its melancholy.I finish the first piece, moving into th
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