Lilith's POVThe pack house and the gardens that are backed by the forest are full of people, hundreds of wolves not only from here but from two other neighbouring packs.The garden has been transformed with tables and chairs dotted throughout, there’s a stage off to the side where Theo had greeted everyone before he disappeared leaving me alone with all these people I don’t know. I’ve had a few weird looks and some smiles but I don’t recognise anyone and it’s making me feel anxious. "Theo invites other packs because not all of us will find our mates otherwise" she explained when I came down the stairs in the tight figure-hugging glittery silver dress. She made me twirl as she approved of mygown.It hits the floor with a side slit up my left leg right to my thigh. It’s tight on my chest revealing ample cleavage and I'm scared that if I move too quickly I might show too much of my body. I've been quiet and reserved hiding on the back wrap-around porch near Andy, apparently, he isn't
Theo's POVI find myself scrubbing blood from my body in the shower for the second time in as many days without many memories of how it got there. The water runs down my body onto the white tile spoiled with red. Rex took full control pushing me into the recess of his mind blocking me out so I couldn't remember his lack of control.I know Doug's dead but I don't know how he did it or what he did with the body.Delivered back to its Alpha. He tells me sleepily.Great so now we're in disagreement with the Amethyst pack, good on Rex. Fuck. We might have needed them to help and Gregor was a friend you fucking idiot.He shouldn't have touched what is mine, I'll kill any bastard that touches her. Now cool your beans and go see if she's awake yet. Rex pushes me away so I can no longer hear him. Good ducking riddance.He's right about one thing though and that is I need to check in on Lil.I also need to tighten my borders because obviously, people are after her.Then there's this intense nee
Lilith's POVI wake with a pounding headache and Theo sleeping at my feet again.I groan as I move my limbs pushing oxygen around them as pins and needles hurt my whole body. "Good, you are up" Lucas mumbles towards me from the door. "I am.""Get out of bed, we need to talk," he tells me.I extricate myself from the bed as quickly and efficiently as I can without waking Theo and I dress in black leggings and a tank top before finding Lucas standing outside the room in the hallway waiting for me.He grabs my arm dragging me along with him down the stairs, through the kitchen and out the house. He drops my arm once we're on the grass but he snarls for me to follow him. So I do."Where are you taking me?.""For a walk" he throws back over his shoulder.Walk we do, all through the forest. Alongside the river and up a few hills. He brings me to a waterfall, something I may have found if I had chosen to walk in the opposite direction than I did that day I woke in the river that day. "Yo
Theo’s POVWeeks go by as Lil integrates within my pack.Only a few select people know she’s my mate and our future luna of the pack but everyone has accepted her as if she were born here.She makes friends everywhere she goes and there’s something about her, something that glows when she’s around my people. I decide to keep the fact that one day she will be our luna a secret until she decides for herself but something deep down inside me knows she will be part of us, another part knows he will come for her and that she won’t choose. Don’t ask me how I know, it’s just a feeling that sits deep down inside of me. The borders are monitored by my warriors twenty-four-seven and we’ve had many breach attempts. No doubt every one of them is coming for her, for Lilith. I’ve warned her not to go into the woods, to stay near the house and even though she wants to explore our land she’s agreed, still shaken up from being taken from the mating ball. I’ve been refusing contact with Gregor becau
Lilith's POVThings become harmonious and I start to feel as if I belong as the weeks flash by within the blink of an eye.Some memories come back to me, little images here and there of the people I think are my parents. It happens out of nowhere when I'm doing something that triggers a memory.Like the other morning when I was flipping pancakes I completely zoned out remembering the person I think is my father doing exactly the same thing whilst I sat at a kitchen counter waiting for the pancakes he was cooking.Or just yesterday when Calley was braiding my hair I remembered the woman I think is my mother doing the same in a bedroom that was decorated in pinks and purples and whites.Things have also been going swimmingly between Theo and me. We don't cross paths during the day much, he seems to be overly busy with protecting his pack and training his warriors. He even does boundary checks himself.He's truly a big part of this pack and takes his role seriously.I'm not sure I've co
Theo's POVThings become chaotic very quickly.The wolves not only breach my borders but kill three of my men without any second thoughts. My pack members howl out their pain as the loss filters through our link and I have to fight the enormity of the sorrow I feel and ignore the fact that tonight I'll be visiting three mothers and fathers to report their children died because of me and my need to protect a girl I haven't even claimed as my own as of yet. I race with Lucas and Andy towards them strategising a plan on how to prevent them from reaching their target, from reaching Lilith at the centre of my land in the house that I've made a fortress. 'We'll use our numbers to push them back. Attack them just before the borders then leave them over for their pack to take them back. Make an example out of them' I shout as we race through the woods.'Yes alpha' everyone shouts back to me. 'Circle around and come back through the southern woods, protect the house. Lock it down' I demand t
Lilith's POVI wake groggy with a pounding headache and the stench of something dark wet and woodsy surrounding me, my nostrils burn with the smell only adding to the tension within my head. My lungs tighten at the smell and Abyss’s feelings let me know it’s not only me that the smell is totally unappealing too, but it’s also making Abyss uneasy. It's almost as if I can feel her pacing inside my mind, her anxiety mixing with my own making for my unease to fill my stomach with dread at the mere smell. ‘They're going to hurt you, make it so I can't heal you’ She's been muttering as I fight with my body to open my eyes. They’re heavy as if lead weights are holding them down, I presume the men who took me used something to drug me after I screamed blue murder as they ran with me through the forest. One had shoved me over his shoulder when they had found me in my room at the house, he floated to the floor after jumping out of the window with me in his arms, I say floated because we didn’
Theo's POVLilith's been missing for three days, gone without a fucking trace. Even though I've had each of my warriors out multiple times to follow any and all scents from the house to borders. My borders are tight as fuck, every single warrior is on rotation and only has twelve hours or less for breaks.I want to feel bad, I do but I can't not when my girls are out there with god knows who god knows where.There have not even been any whispers in the spies I've got in the other packs which are worrisome.She's underground maybe in all sense of the word or maybe figuratively but either way, I'm worried and that's making my judgement less than perfect."Three of the warriors collapsed today, they are starving, dehydrated and tired Theo. I think it's about time we pull them back. Give them a break" Lucas chides me as I sort myself out a sandwich, even buttering the bread and slapping ham between the two slices reminds me of her. Her sandwiches are much nicer, worrisomely nicer."No, 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