Lilith's POVMy 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 through the morning without something to help me stay awake.So we're driving in the car towards the centre of the pack where it's built up into a small community.There are houses and a few large buildings.A few small shops that sell
Hati's POVThe days are blurring into one mess of disappointment.I'm no closer to finding Aspen yet her tantalising smell is around to tease me at any given moment.My heart aches for her, my howl sitting at the back of my throat in an eternal need to find and claim her.But I must push through, despite the fact I feel like giving up.My duties call to me and they must be completed.So I sweep through the northern packs one by one. Ensuring there's no newborn unseen and I move forth with the pretence too.Making sure the packs have indeed stuck to the rules regarding their packs and how they are run.Of course, and unfortunately, I find nothing wrong with them. Not that I would presume that the packs would stray from the guidelines they are given.But it would have proved exciting if the opportunity were to have rose to make a show of the pack.Perhaps it could have even been an opportunity to take more land to add to my own, though this far out would Royce difficult to keep it.I'm
Theo's POVI 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 never seemed to come around?I don't think so, not at all. But that doesn't mean my infidelity, if you can call it that, doesn't hurt to realise.How stupid of me, and how insensitive to take her somewhere that I knew could po
Khai's POVLilith's repentant as she lays with Lora in ned whilst feeding her.Her emotions so sour and potent that I can feel them as if they were my own.And under that repentance is sadness and anguish.A lace of feeling betrayed.I'm unsure what has happened and despite the fact that I had plans to be out on the training field with the rest of Theo's warriors I have stayed here.Standing at the entrance of the bedroom door, staring at Lilith in confusion as she mutters to herself about stupidity and anger and how neither work alongside each other.“What did he do?” I ask after standing awkwardly for a long time.Growing angrier by the second that Theo has hurt her in any way I walk into the room to join her. To investigate the situation at hand.If he’s…She looks to me guiltily, making me half my thoughts right there.“What did he do?” I repeat.“I haven’t a clue of what your talking about,” she lies.And she knows I know she’s lying.So I have no clue why she’s so upset.What is
Hati's POVMovement, that's what I hear from one pack in particular.The original pack, the pack that I despise.I used to belong to that pack, I used to run it back in the day.I taught Celeste's people everything I knew about being a alpha, pack member and Wolf.They knew nothing of hierarchy, Wolf business and hunting. They knew nothing of how packs worked or the internal dialogue that transpires between us.They were clueless, if that word is an acceptable one to describe their idiocy.Anyway, we are travelling higher, making our way through the packs like a boat through water and apparently the Anachronistic Super Moon Pack will be refusing my entry.Now this is worrying, and I presume that perhaps that’s where I’ll find my Aspen.Which would be weird, considering I’ve been smelling her near my pack, near my base.I’ve just taken the last day to myself, ensuring that I have enough time to feed, to fuck and eat.So I chose my next victim, a small girl. She’s nothing special, her g
Theo’s POVEven with guidance, something to follow in regards to Lilith’s upset I still avoid going home.There’s something about upsetting her that doesn’t sit well with me.I think I never thought I’d be here, I never knew I had a mate out there.I had presumed that because of my heritage Celeste had chosen for me to be mateless.It isn’t unheard of, rare indeed but not unheard of.But now I know Celeste had given me a mate much later in life.A mate that she bestowed upon me to protect.Her own child.And now, having Lora myself, I understand her choice.She must have seen something within me, chosen me for some quality she had been looking for, for her child.What she saw and how she expected me to use it has not clicked yet but I know one thing.As a parent, she chose who she thought best.She gave a life to me that I never imagine running.Conflict, anger and angst being the prime emotions stuck to my life path.Lucas has long since left me to deal with my own problems. Telling
Celeste’s POVMy heart splinters as another wolf dies.It happens every time, the sorrow. The pain.And despite the fact of not knowing my wolf shifters personally I still mourn them as I would Theseus or Lilith.After the pain subsides enough to move from the gardens I were walking in. I head back to the house and upstairs to the pool of wolves to figure out who came back to me.It isn’t hard to see. After all I’ve had nothing to do but sit in this room waiting on making new pairs.Little Aref a young female wolf had come back to me.I sent her out only but a six or seven years ago.Her human counterpart being an alphas daughter.I wonder what happened. Was she ill?Did some thing u toward take her?Maybe she was running around, hit her head and had an untimely death.I supposed this is my downfall, not knowing just how my pairs die.But then again if I knew each and everyone I’m sure my heart would break even more.I pick up Aref, cradling her in my hand. The wolf is sad, much as yo
Lilith's POVThe 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 behind. My head turned to the side for him to reach my lips.A smile is plastered on both of our lips as his scent alerts us to his presence."Finally, how long did it take you?" Khai asks Theo.He walks into the kitchen with a few bags in his hands that he places besides the crib before picking Lora up to cradling her close.I watch him smell her, a sense of ease washing over him as they bond through touch."I was ashamed," he notes.His eyes finding mine as he talks solely to me.His confession something I never knew