Lilith’s POVI hate to be up to here on the pretence of needing to be away from my place.I hate to be here in Celeste’s home when I know she’s condemned my child, her grandchild, to the same fate she doomed me to.She’s supposed to love her own.Isn’t that what they say about a mother?That they should love their child unconditionally and protect them with their whole life… even if that means dying for said child to protect them.Celeste has never been a good mother.She made me knowing I would go down to earth to live the life I have.She planted me down on earth herself, knowing it would be days, if not weeks, before her ‘Hati’ would come for me.I don’t remember much of my young childhood, but I do have the two crying nightmares of rolling around in a car through the woods as the metal warped and crushed in on itself around me.And him, I remember Damian.Always him, he was always the one there whenever I didn’t need him.I’ve long since stormed away from Celeste. Too angry to be i
Celeste's POV"You need a new Wolf, sweetheart. This one will bring sadness to your life," Lilith speaks down to the tiny purple soul in her palm.She rolls the soul around, poking at the edges, trying to find a way inside, and she becomes frantic in her movements when she finds nothing.Because there is no seam unsewn, her daughter's soul and that of Aspen have matched so perfectly that I wonder what will happen when she dies.Will Aspen return to my pool of wolves, or will she die with my granddaughter?Lilith ends up crying out in frustration. Her angst is loud for anyone to hear, and it’s only then that I note Khai standing against the pool of wolves. His face looked down at the souls below him. But he flinched, looking up, which is what alerted me to his presence.Lilith screeches out in unhappiness, her face controlling, and instantly, she looks like her father. Looks like Theseus when he, too, doesn’t get his own way. "It was worth a try," I say, walking into the room to stand
Lilith's POVI storm from the house in a fit of pure rage as I think about the disappointment of not being able to pry my daughter's very soul from that of the wolf that will ruin her life.I find a hanging swing bolted to a tree not far into the tree cover, so I sit on it.And as soon as I do, a vision comes unbidden to my life.Theseus is working in a small workshop, sawing down a tree to make the very seat I'm sitting on. His craftsmanship is fine to the detail as he cuts and sands the seat to perfection.It takes him days to make the seat and only seconds to hang it out here, and Celeste is watching along with a small child in her arms.Perhaps that was me before they decided to rid me down to Earth to live a life of service to Celeste's demands.I shake the vision, hating that it came of its own accord and I had no choice of experiencing it.As if fate or whoever sent me the imagery wanted me to see another side of Theseus and Celeste.I frown down at the very grass at my feet as
Theo's POVTheseus takes us back to his home, and despite feeling nauseous again, I’m better able to control the urge to want to vomit.Everything spins before me in a whirlwind of colours as I travel through the vortex of teleporting, and before I know it, my feet hit the ground in the yard behind the large glass house that Theseus calls his own. Calley falls to the floor, holding herself up as she reaches, and Arlo doesn’t fare much better. His eyes seem to spin, and he holds onto the nearest trunk to hold himself up.But I’ll give the twins their due; they both push off the impending feeling of sickness to stand and assess their situation. One turns around to the right, the other to the left, and they have each base covered as they take in the surroundings around us.Arlo holds Calley’s hand, bringing their backs together as they do their special thing.Calley throws her aura out to envelope the pair of them. Protecting them from any danger willing to come their way, but she soon
Khai's POVLilith submerges herself under the water of the hot spring with the guidance of my hand on her shoulder.I ensure she's covered up. That none of her is on show to prevent Zeus from coping a look at my mate in her unacceptable nakedness.I didn't expect anyone to be here inside the small pool that’s naturally hot.Even Obsidian is feeling somewhat territorial over Lilith. His low grow is sitting at the back of my throat, begging for escape even though Zeus has done nothing offensive. Yet. He helps me move before her to obscure her remaining skin on show, even though the moment I sit, her neck and face will be bare for him to see.But to my amazement, Zeus's eyes follow my every move in amusement as if he finds my territorial claim on the she-wolf before him amusing.How do they handle such things here, I wonder?They aren’t all of the same species, and indeed that must cause problems when one man likes another’s mate. Or whatever it is they call their female love interests.
Five Years AgoDamian's POVI work my way through the paperwork, and I mingle out with the pack.The majority of them are scared of me, the children petrified, and there are no guesses as to why that is.I’m an awful man, and even worse when Onyx has control.The potion has been making me sick, yet I’m gulping down more than four bottles per day.It’s been almost three days of having control, and Onyx is still in a sleep-like state in the back of my mind.I can still feel him, hear him softly snoring.Once I would have enjoyed knowing his company way near. That I wasn’t alone despite the fact, he was in slumber but now…Well, now I detest his very existence.I’m travelling out to the witch's grounds again today. I’ve run out of the potion that Gretchen had made me, and we’re also going to try and create that stone.Unfortunately, a sacrifice will have to be made. The innocence of a child needing gifted to create the purity of a stone.I wish it could have been a consenting adult, but
Theo's POVI can feel them out there in the distance, so I leave the confines of Theseus's house to go find them.They both seem happy and content as I walk down through the wooded area.It's serene here, much like home. The trees cover the majority of the mountainside.Greens, browns and a smattering of colour where random wildflowers have grown.It isn't hard to follow Khai's scent, his being the more potent of Lilith and him.I wonder why that is... surely it shouldn't be, but it is.His scent almost devours hers. He is overpowering her to redirect anyone's desire to follow along to find her.It's quite the weapon...A large man brushes past me, my thoughts distracting me from the fact that another person is walking towards me.Our shoulders meet as he hisses his annoyance at me, but I cannot fret over his words because a torrent of images overtakes me.The man is much the same, yet he seems younger somehow.He's walking amongst people, wolves, I believe, whilst dressed in a long
Lilith's POVI'm sure I experienced a flashback.Isn't that what they would call a vision of the past?The vision depicted a conversation between Damian and Zeus, though Damian wasn't Damian.Well, he was. It was his body, his face, but his eyes were deep black, and his voice was the voice of my nightmares.I think I was the child his Damian's hands, but I didn't have time to assess whether I was because the vision morphed into another.Snippets of Zeus talking to a godly woman. Her skin was bronze, and her face angelic.He was talking about me, about how I am trapped in one of his disciple's grasps whilst Celeste and Theseus are non-the-wiser. The vision morphs again.Zeus is watching me play in the woods. My hand inside Khai's. I remember that day. Damian had allowed me to go play with the other kids.Khai, Andrew, Tipper and I were running around the woods, grins on our faces as we enjoyed the freedom of being children.I hadn't known someone was watching me. I hadn't felt him w
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