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
Hati’s POVMy search has me crossing the border into Canada. These packs are only under us through a mutual agreement.Their rules are their own, mostly.But ultimately they must work with us to ensure that our race abides by the procreation of time.Mating is something we honour, finding out fated and coming together seems to be the thing Celeste has always wanted for us and us as sheep followers we do just that.I understand, the bond being so potent that we cannot deny it.Not without pain and discomfort.That’s what I find at my next pack.They are all men, men that chose to ignore of kill their mates. I’ve never passed through such a depressing and dire pack.And though I should report them, I have no cares of their goings on.My main concern is to find Aspen and as quickly as possible because this aching in my chest is not something I’ve ever had to live with, nor do I want to live with it.But as we get closer to the very northern borders she is nowhere to be found. Something
Lilith's POVThe next day Theo calls 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.And I don't have to wait long."The pack knew you were pregnant, it's useless trying to pretend Lora doesn't exist," Theo explains as we all look to him."They've never met her son, we could feign a loss," Dominic argues immediately. Having probably already thought somewhat on this.I must admit I hadn't, I had never factored in that we would come home here to Earth to hide our child.I suppose that Theseus challenging Zeus gave me hope that we were returning to normality but that wasn't what we came home to.It's a shame, but perhaps we were never meant to hide her.Protect her, yes but hide her away from the world, the pack?I'm starting to think it is cruel amongst other words to do.Our pack will start to feel betrayed, pushed aside with being kept out of the loop.This isn't how we are s
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