Celeste's POVI excuse myself from the kitchen and my guest to go upstairs to the very top floor where Theseus's pool sits waiting for me.Swirling my hand in the liquid I summon my husbands. Watching his movements as he stands before Theseus's looming mansion.Lilith is inside, that much is clear between the conversation Theseus and Khai are having.Well, actually, they are more like arguing because Khai wants in and Theseus has taken them as far as he possibly can.You see the thing is Zeus has a spell binding his land to himself and without his explicit permission no one is able to pass the boundary.He must have wanted Lilith to visit, hence she's inside. But why?What does Zeus want with Lilith?I stand at the pool watching for an age, noting how anxious Theseus is.His behaviour of late had been strange, and at first I thought perhaps the little mishap with Zeus had caused him to become distant. But that isn't it.There's something more going on, his mind overwhelmed, I think.
Lilith's POVIt seems Zeus was waiting for me to drop by, a platter of lunch is served and he's sitting in a grand throne in nothing but a pair of white trousers.His chest is bronzed and bare and as are his feet.“Dear, Lilith. I hadn’t expected to see you so soon after the miracle birth of your young pup. Where is she?” He asks, looking around me and the warrior that accompanied me inside.“With her fathers,” I spit his way angrily.“Why do we need these men guarding Celeste’s home?” I get straight to the point.“They aren’t guarding Celeste’s home. They are guarding your daughter… I thought you might want some protection after those horrid bears escaped and attacked the three of you.”His words sound sincere and the simple smile he has plastered on his faces begs to fool me but I know better.Of course he isn’t protecting my child.He has another motive in putting his men around us but he isn’t willing to share and I mustn’t conclude when I have next to no evidence as to what his m
Zeus’s POVLilith disappears immediately, her need to tend to her young heightened because she’s been away.Her guilt smells flavoursome and her mates jealously is laughable.Theo follows along behind her like a lost puppy dog whilst Celeste tries her best to distract me.“Zeus, please… come in,” she states walking for me.I appraise her with my eyes, remember just what’s below those clothes she uses to cover her body.That night still plays out in my mind. The way I made her worship me at the table. How well my elixir worked to help me bed her.The feel of her soft skin below my hands.The sweet taste of her lips on mine.Victory… the victory of finally taking the one goddess I had never had because of that stupid promise I made to her mortal father.“Celeste,” I grin, “where Theseus?” I ask despite the fact I know he’s outside my home waiting for the opportunity to enter with Lilith’s other mate.“You should know better than I, after all, he went to your home to find our daughter,” s
Theo’s POV‘What was you thinking?’ I start our conversation through mind-link, hoping that Zeus is not a spectator to our conversation.Lilith has already attached Lora to her breast and Lora has calmed enough to feed successfully. I note Lilith’s breasts are swollen and sore and I wonder whether she realised how long she was actually gone for.She left me and Lora without any method of feeding our newborn pup. For three hours she left doing god knows what.I walk to her, a low growl in the back of my throat as I smell the crevice of her neck.I’m not sure why I do it, what causes me to believe she may have done something undesirable whilst she were away but my jealously rears it’s ugly head and here I am, smelling my mate as if she’s done something formidable.I smell nothing but cheese and strawberries, maybe even grapes on her and the smell of her milk which is the strongest scent she carries at the moment.So she ate but…‘I don’t want the guards outside, they creep me out. We’
Lilith’s POVI wake to the room is disarray and our bags packed.It’s early evening, the sun setting in the sky outside the window and it’s chilly.Lora is sleeping beside me soundly and I’m unwilling to move.I stuffy her. Her dark hair fluffy now, her eyes closed yet moving. Her nose is small and defined and she had full lips with a shapely cupids bow.Her skin is milky like mine yet she takes after her fathers mostly.She’s beautiful and I’m in awe of her and how she came to be.We made her, my body made her.She grew inside of me and for that I’m proud.I never thought upon having children or the logistics of how a child is to become.Yet now that she’s hear I realise what a miracle pregnancy is.What a miracle she is.I laze around, staring at her for the longest of times.Memorising every part of, submitting how incredibly gorgeous she is to memory so I never forget this moment.A small and quiet moment between her and I where I’ve taken the take to step back from the things aro
Present DayDamian's POVSomething deep pulls within Hati.His soul calling to move, to search and find.It's causing him to go haywire, his anxiety through the roof and his anger matching that.Everyone's suffering because of him and my chest hurts.My heart beating erratically for him yet even he doesn't understand this weird pull that's controlling him.I think that's precisely why he's so agitated. How can one feel so emotional when nothing untoward has happened. He hasn't lost a love one and he doesn't give a damn about the children or the pack.So he's using his anger in the only way he knows how.The oldest child he has here at the moment. A young boy call Coop. He's fifteen and he's irresponsibly stupid. He purposely pushes button, stretching his boundary way past that of what's acceptable.He's the one who pushed Hati past the point of no return and now... Well let just say it isn't nice ti watch Hati use my belt to teach the child a lesson I'm not sure is for him.Two hou
Khai's POV"We are going home tonight, once Lilith's up and ready," I tell Theseus and Celeste.They are standing shoulder to shoulder in the kitchen preparing food as we speak.They’ve migrated to become a unit once more, the distance that was flavourful now dispersed into unity.Celeste regards me with wide eyes, eyes that transpire fear and discomfort. She doesn’t want us to leave, she doesn’t think it wise and something inside me asks to listen to that. To stay here on the god realm but the rational part of myself knows it isn’t safe here either.Somethings amiss up here, something I have no clue of yet it’s there, lingering and threatening to take shape in the form of danger. Theseus continues his task, grating whatever it is he’s grating. But his eyebrows do shoot up and that is his only reaction that I have to react to.I open my mouth, about to argue with both of their distastes but he beats me to it, saying three words I hadn’t thought he would grace me with.I stand stupef
Theseus’s POVI wish they didn’t want to go. I wish I could keep them where in this guilted cage of a house where I can protect them but I cannot.I move through the house and I decide to visit Lilith.I find her staring down at her young, love and awe in her eyes at how miraculously beautiful the small child is.I agreed her child is beautiful. Much as she was.But they don’t stay babies and the world tars them.Look at Lilith.My more child has been through more than her fair share of sadness.And I’m to blame.I didn’t stick up for her, I didn’t try to make Celeste see the wrongs we were choosing.I have realised that I can do that now, that I have grown and educated myself on the sadness of the world and our choices as beings within it.But Lilith is an adult now.I want to demand she stay. That they all do.I’ll be able to protect them, give them a place of solace.A home they can be happy in.But I can feel it from the three of them that they want to leave.They want to go home
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