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I could smell my captor and it wasn’t a rogue, but he was from another pack. I just didn’t know which one. I could feel he was a higher rank and his wound on his hand healed within a minute.I continued screaming as he laughed, “Girl, don’t you remember that these doors are soundproof.” I closed my eyes and took deep breaths, calming myself. While I continued doing this, I mind linked Jayla, “Jayla! Get in here! I’m being taken!”The man picked me up and started toward the balcony, when the door burst open. All four of my bodyguards ran straight for us and I started feeling fangs on my neck. I laughed, “I’m already marked, dumb shit. Who are you?”Jayla stopped everyone and I asked the guy again, “Who are you?” The man answered, “I am Alpha Roman Addams from The Blood Mountain Pack. I don’t care if you’re marked. Once I mark you his mark will disappear.”I shook my head, “Not going to happen asshole.” I stomped his foot as hard as I could. I heard bones breaking and the alpha yelled as
When Stone walked into Alpha Kenny’s office with a mountain of a man beside him, I smiled. For a man who was trained to kill an adversary in over one hundred ways, his demeanor was calm and caring but you could tell that he could easily turn deadly in a heartbeat.I looked into his mind and saw that he is a good man and knew nothing of his Alpha’s plans. I could also see that he genuinely cared for his pack and the people in it. I linked Alpha Kenny and Isaac, “This man will make an excellent Alpha. He has everything it takes to be a fair and compassionate leader.”Isaac nodded, “Thank you, love.” He then turned to the pack gamma and Alpha Kenny started, “Gamma, can I ask your name?” The gamma replied, “Alpha Kenny, Alpha Heir Isaac, I am Gamma Mateo with the Blood Mountain Pack.” Alpha Kenny nodded and explained, “Gamma Mateo, please take a seat. We have an issue that we need to discuss.”Gamma Mateo sat in a chair across the desk from him and Alpha Kenny began, “Gamma, your alpha and
I gathered my quartet of warriors along with the soon-to-be pack beta, Stone, and we all walked the short distance to our house. On the way there, I asked Stone, “Why are you on duty with me instead of Alex?” He answered, “Alex is currently busy in the dungeon. Unfortunately, Alpha Roman and his beta just ensured that he will be busy for most of the night.”I shook my head, “No, the council will be here soon, so their investigators will interrogate them before they die.” Stone sighed in relief, “That will be good. In the meantime, I am in charge of your safety. Therefore, when we get to your house, you will give me the key and I will clear the house with three of your warriors. I don’t want a repeat of the incident that you just dealt with.”I nodded, “I agree. I don’t want another episode like that.” When we got to my house, I handed the house key to Stone and he motioned for the rest of my warriors to come with him. Tayna stayed on the porch with me while we heard each person inside
When we arrived at the pack house, Luna Kyra looked at me with a sly grin and mind linked, “Are we trying to give my son a heart attack tonight?” I laughed in my mind, “No heart attack, but I heard a lot of growling.” She smiled, “Possessive. I like it.” I nodded, “Me too.”I cringed, “Is this appropriate for the dinner tonight?” She smiled, “It’s perfect. You will have the whole pack proud of their beautiful luna.” Isaac put his arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him, “Which is why she will be glued to my side the whole time.”Alpha Kenny laughed, “That’s my son. I would do the same thing. I seem to recall my mate wearing a dress somewhat similar to that one.” Luna Kyra laughed, “Because it is one of your great-grandmother’s designs, dear. Mine had slightly smaller cut-outs, but not much smaller.” Luna Kyra and I giggled while our mates growled.We walked into the dining room when we were tackled by an overly excited Abby. My mate’s cousin screamed, “OH MY GODDESS! I can’t wa
I could feel tears starting to well in my eyes and Isaac pulled me close to him. When Alpha Kenny went to sit down, Isaac and I stood and hugged him. I kissed his cheek and smiled, “I love you, dad.” He smiled tenderly at me with his eyes glistening from unshed tears, “I love you too, daughter.”There were loud howls in the hall and we joined in. When our dinner was served, we all started eating. I was having so much fun visiting with everyone at our table when I started feeling weird. Onyx chuckled, “Lady, someone laced our food with some extra strong weed.”I furrowed my brows, “This has to be humans. A wolf would know that weed doesn’t affect us like humans.” I tapped Isaac’s leg, “Do you feel weird?” He shook his head, “No, why? Do you?” I answered, “I do. Onyx is saying someone laced my food with weed.”Isaac looked at me like I had grown a second head. I laughed, “I swear, I’m not joking.” Isaac sighed in frustration and waved Alex to come over. When Alex approached, Isaac sugges
Alpha Kenny growled in irritation, “I will not have Zariah risking her life any more tonight. You two go to bed. Someone here clearly has a death wish to keep trying to poison you.”Isaac growled, “I agree. Dad, I would go to the cells with you, but…” Alpha Kenny shook his head, “No, your place is with your mate tonight. There is no need for you to be anywhere else.”Isaac kept his arm around my waist as we walked to our room, surrounded by warriors. When we got there, the warriors cleared the suite before we stepped inside. We had constant guards outside our door all night and Alex slept on the couch in our sitting room.Isaac and I went to our room and I grabbed a pair of shorts and a tank top, then went to the bathroom. Isaac grabbed a pair of pajama bottoms and joined me.As we took our shower, Isaac took my loofah from me and started washing my back for me. He then turned me around and started washing the rest of my body. He successfully conveyed his feelings for me through his ac
I woke up the next morning to an empty bed. I sat up and looked around only to find a note where my mate had slept. It read, “I hated to leave you alone this morning, but dad needed me in the cells. Alex is with me, but Tayna is on the couch while the rest of your warriors are scattered from outside our door all the way to the end of our floor.“It looks like we are going to be super busy today. Just know that I will do my best to be by your side as much as possible. In the meantime, please don’t go anywhere at all without your guards. I couldn’t live with myself if anything happened to you, love. I love you with everything I am, Isaac.”I smiled and gushed as I held the note to my chest and put it in a safe place. I wanted to keep it forever. I got out of bed and went to the bathroom to take my shower. When I was done, I put on a cute sundress and a pair of sandals, then brushed out my hair. Since I washed it last night, I decided to leave it alone today. I put a small, tight braid on
We all sat down on the sectional sofa in the corner opposite my coffee bar and we visited and killed time before getting ready for the ceremony. I got comfortable and told Luna Kyra about my visit from the Goddess. She sighed, “Well, it’s nice to know that there won’t be any issues during the ceremony. That has to be a relief for you.”I nodded, “It is. It looks like we have a while before the dark witches will be here. Isaac and I need to work on strategies and practice our abilities after tonight. If we are going to be successful, we really need to perfect our abilities and learn how we can be the most useful.”Luna Kyra suggested, “Of all your abilities that I’ve seen to date, I really think your ability to control minds is your best one. You need to get better at controlling minds and controlling larger numbers of minds.” I nodded, “I do too. I really think that is where I will be most useful.”We sat in my office until it was time for me to get ready. As a treat, Luna Kyra hired a
I shook my head, “There is absolutely no way that could happen, son. You guys are just as much my real children as the unborn ones are. I have never had a favorite child and I will never start. The pack knows this too. That means, Blaine, no matter what sex our future children are, you will still be the Alpha heir. You are the one the Goddess wants leading this pack.”Blaine shrugged, “Then I guess I’m all in.” I smiled, “Thank you, son.” Isaac smiled, “I’m really proud of you both. Your mom was super worried about hurting your feelings. We even agreed that if you were not okay with us having a baby, we wouldn’t even try.”Heather furrowed her brow, “Mom, why would you do that?” I shrugged, “Because I want you two to feel like you are part of our family, even if it means not doing something I want. But that’s what parents do all the time.”Blaine gave me one of the most serious looks that I have ever seen and I even felt a little alpha aura come out, “Mom, don’t ever sacrifice your hap
I gasped, “Are you serious?” Doctor Spink answered, “I’m very serious. There is a lot of scar tissue, but it hasn’t started affecting your uterus or ovaries. We may need to have you take some hormones to be able wake up your ovaries. Are you still having your periods regularly?” I nodded, “Yes.”She smiled, “This may not be so hard on you. The recovery from your surgery can be painful, but I can give you medicine for that.” I suddenly heard Onyx in my head, “If she can get rid of all that scar tissue, I can prepare our uterus and ovaries. No hormones necessary. They will just make both of us moody.”I asked, “How soon can we do the surgery?” She asked, “Have you eaten or drank anything other than water this morning?” I answered, “No. I figured you would need fasting blood work.” She smiled, “Good. I would like to have your pre-operative blood work today and schedule your surgery for ten days from now. Does that sound good to you?” I nodded, “That will give me time to prepare for it.”S
Three months LaterAfter three months of going to Iced Moon Pack to see our grandbabies and to help Lena and Lucas settle into their new roles as parents, we finally had a little more free time. It’s hard enough to adjust to the new life with one child. I couldn’t imagine how it would be with three. They have already started sleeping through the night, so I felt better about less frequent visits.Once we were able to stop going up there so often, Isaac took me to see a special OB/GYN surgeon in Saint Louis. He led me to the office and he checked me in. The receptionist gave me a clipboard with a questionnaire to complete and we went to the waiting room. I finished completing the form just in time for the nurse to walk out and call my name.Isaac pushed my wheelchair as we followed the nurse to an exam room. She shut the door and turned to us, “I’m Julie. I am Doctor Spink’s nurse. I just need to go over some information with you and I need to take your vital signs.” I nodded, “Okay.”A
We got a big surprise. Well, Heather wasn’t surprised, but she kept it a secret. We have three new grandbabies! Triplets! Lena had two boys and one girl. Blaine was so excited to have two nephews and a niece to spoil. Isaac and I were over the moon.The first baby born was a boy, Joshua Douglas, weighed just five pounds, six ounces. For a triplet, that’s a big boy. The next baby was a girl, Isabel Zariah, weighed just three pounds, ten ounces, and was in an incubator for a few days. They wanted her to gain at least one pound before she left the hospital. Finally, Kenneth Isaac weighed four pounds, twelve ounces and also spent a little time in an incubator to get him to gain a little weight.Isabel and Kenneth got to go home four days after Joshua. We were so excited to spend time cuddling with each of them before we had to go home. As I held each of them, I started wishing I had been able to have a child of our own. I started to get depressed but talked myself into putting that energy
Seven Months LaterI pushed my wheelchair as fast as I could from our bedroom to the living room and yelled throughout the house on the way, “Is everyone ready to go? We need to get to Lena!” Isaac, jogging behind me, started chuckling, “Slow down, love. The babies will come whether we are there on time or not.” I sighed, “But I want to be there as soon as they are born. We need to go.”Blaine’s tires squealed as he came to a stop in the living room, “I’m ready to go. We’re just waiting for Heather and Aadi.” Aadi joined us, “Franco will join us outside. He already got someone to cover his patrols for the next couple days.”I smiled, “He has been a real advantage for our warriors. We need more bird shifters.” Aadi laughed, “I got really lucky. He’s a very good mate. He loves all of you because you are my family.” I gushed, “Aw. He’s already part of our family too.”Heather rushed to the living room and yelled, “Okay! I’m ready! I even remembered my presents for the babies!” I asked, “W
Six weeks laterThe past six weeks have been an adjustment period for all of us. Blaine and Elizabeth have been looking for reasons to see each other, driving us all crazy. We have finally resorted to letting them take turns, every other weekend, taking our packs’ private jets to the other pack. We told each of our pilots they were not allowed to go anywhere else.We felt Lena’s absence each time we sat at the table to eat dinner and each time we loaded up in the truck. Blaine and Heather loved having the extra room in the back seat. Heather was very vocal about her opinion on Lena’s absence the first couple weeks. Thankfully, she has let up on that. Now my heart can heal and let my daughter live her best life.Isaac and I have felt her absence a lot. She always had such a different way of thinking about solutions to problems that we looked forward to getting her input. Heather, however, has another way of finding solutions. Her oracle abilities allow her to see the best solutions or t
We were almost done eating breakfast when Heather walked into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of juice from the refrigerator and a banana from the fruit basket. She started to walk out of the kitchen, but turned around and smiled, “I’m going for my run. It’s a ten-mile day. The girls are on their way. Also, I do not want to talk about the stuff I heard last night.”We all laughed as she ran out of the house to meet her friends. I smiled, “She is so much like me. I did the same thing. My friends and I got up to twenty-mile days. She’s doing very well at seven years old. She will get done with her run, attend warrior training, allow four hours for Luna training, then two more hours for Beta mate training.“Then she goes to our home gym and meets her Uncle Axle for Gamma training and more fighting style training. She wants to be prepared for everything. She doesn’t stop. She has asked to be homeschooled so she can do it on her schedule. She is staying caught up and getting straight A’s.
The next morning, I woke up a little later than usual, but still earlier than everyone else, aside from Aadi. She is always on top of everything. After I finished my morning routine, I went to the kitchen and found Aadi finishing up breakfast.Aadi smiled, “Good morning, Zariah. How did the run go?” I sighed, “Lucas recognized Lena as his mate and accepted her.” Aadi asked, “So does that mean she will be leaving us today?” I nodded, “I think they are planning to leave today, after she packs her things.”Aadi sighed, “I’m not ready for her to go.” She sat my coffee in front of me on the table and continued, “I’m going to miss the hell out of her. She helps me a lot.” I nodded, “I know. She is a big help to the pack, but that means she will be an amazing Luna for Lucas. That’s what I’ve been training her for. It’s all I can ask of her; to be the best Luna she can be. I’m so proud of her.”That was when Alpha Doug and Luna Kathryn walked into the kitchen. Alpha Doug asked, “Are you talkin
For the last two years, Blaine had known that Elizabeth was his mate and it had been making him crazy. He still had another two years before her first shift. Instead of making himself crazy over that, he had buried himself in school and Alpha training.He had also been working on training his wolf. The warriors were shocked and amazed at his solid black wolf with amber eyes that glowed. They were also shocked that his wolf could run and fight when his human form couldn’t move from the waist down. They were also jealous that his clothes stayed intact when he shifted.He and Lena had been looking forward to seeing their mates every two weeks. We had been taking turns with Alpha Doug and Luna Kathryn on travelling to one another’s packs. I was just happy our packs had private jets to use, which greatly reduced travel time.Lena had been spending the past two years in Luna training with me. It gave her a big distraction from the mate bond and she was happy to bury herself in it. She had be