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Six Months LaterI woke up that morning feeling like I had been hit by a truck. Lena’s fighting skills are on another level. She and I sparred last night because we weren’t sleepy. I have never come so close to having my ass handed to me. Only six months of training, and we are almost equal in fighting strength.I laid in bed and stretched, groaning as I felt every single sore muscle. I reached to the other side of the bed and found my mate was not there. I did, however, smell coffee. Like a lifesaving elixir, I was drawn to it. But, first, I needed a shower and to get dressed.After taking my shower, brushing my teeth and putting on a white tank top and light blue jeans. I put on my Nike trainers and went to the kitchen.I poured a cup of coffee for myself and went to the living room. I walked out the front door and sat on the porch swing, with my coffee in hand, lost in thought.Isaac stepped onto the porch and sat next to me. He put his arm over my shoulders and pulled me close, “Wh
As we finished eating breakfast, I noticed that Lena had a faraway look in her eyes. I nudged my mate and mind linked, “It looks like our daughter is having an oracle moment.” I put a notebook in front of her and a pen in her hand. I asked, “Would you like to write it down?”Lena gripped the pen and touched it to the paper. She started writing, still in a trance-like state. I watched as she continued to fill three pages of paper, then it was all over. She silently read what she wrote and her face became pale. She lowered her gaze and I watched a tear fall from her eyes and land somewhere in her lap.I asked, “What is it, sweetheart?” She shook her head, “Mom, I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you or dad. It has to do with your future and I am not allowed to tell you anything that will change your destiny. I want you both to live a long and happy life with me and my brothers and sisters.” I gaped at her while my mate chuckled, “Are you saying we will adopt more children?” She smiled and nodde
Delphine sneered back at Queen Winnie, “Winnie, I should’ve recognized your work. Nice job controlling my rogues.” Winnie laughed, “That’s child’s play. Move and I will sic the whole lot of them on you.” She smiled, “You know you will not stop me from getting what I want.” Winnie shrugged, “I will do everything in my power to make sure you won’t.”Back in the safe room, Lena and I were watching the events unfold at the gate when the movement on another camera caught my eye. I looked more closely and found that we had more witches approaching from the forest behind my house! I sent a mind link to Kenny, “Kenny! Isaac is at the gate with a dark witch and we have more approaching from the forest behind our house.”Kenny was about to answer when I watched as the witches being levitated and carried to join Delphine on the other side of our gate. Our daughter carried them to the area and lowered them to a reasonable distance off the ground and dropped them roughly. They landed with an “oomph
By the time all of the morning’s events were over, it was nearly lunch time. I sighed, “Half the day is almost over. Ugh. Why don’t we all go to the pack house for lunch? I’ll make steaks for supper tonight.” Lena smiled, “Let’s do that. I want to see pop anyway.” I turned to Isaac and Winnie and laughed, “She knows pop watched what she did with the witches.” Lena blushed as she put her Nikes on and we all left for the pack house.When we walked into the doors of the pack house, we went straight to the dining room and started filling our plates. As soon as we sat down, we saw Kenny and Kyra fill their plates. Lena stood and waved them over and they nodded in acknowledgement. Kenny sat next to Lena and gave her a one-arm hug, “Great job on those witches this morning, kiddo.” She smiled, “It wasn’t just me. Mom was a badass too.”Kyra laughed, “Oh yeah, she is. I really liked the Delphina-cube.” I laughed, “It shut her up. That’s all I wanted. I knew she was trying to stall to make sure
Alex POVWhen the truck hit my side of the SUV, I knew this was intentional. I saw the two SUV’s ahead of us stop and reverse, then I heard the ones behind us get in battle position. Two of our warriors immediately shifted and jumped into the open windows of the truck, ripping out their throats, but not before our SUV was flipped onto my Luna’s side.I watched as she slammed her head into the window and went unconscious. I mind linked Isaac that we were hit immediately on impact, so he should be on his way here. I was trying to stay in the vehicle to protect Zariah until he got there with our ambulance and more warriors.A dark witch approached us and suddenly I felt the SUV floating. I had to grab onto Zariah to prevent her from falling out of the broken window. When we saw a bolt of lightning and then a ball of ice hitting the witch, I knew my Alpha was there. Our SUV floated back to the road and Isaac ran to us.He yelled, “Alex! Is Zariah in there?” I nodded, “She is. She was knock
Zariah POVWhen everything went black, I honestly thought I was dead. The only thing that reminded me I was alive was a pounding in my head. I couldn’t hear anything anymore. I must have fallen asleep, or something, because it didn’t take long for the Moon Goddess to show up in front of me with absolutely nothing around her this time… only black.She gave me a concerned look, “Hello Zariah.” I must have looked confused because she laughed lightly, “It’s going to be okay, my child. You and Alex were in a car accident. Everyone is mostly okay. Your injuries were the most severe. I am here to keep you calm and to ease your pain while you heal.Your head hurts because you shattered the car window with it. You have a couple other injuries, but Onyx is healing those quickly. Your head injury is bad. The doctors are going to perform surgery on your head to ease the pressure on your brain. I will stay with you to help you through it.”I asked, “Was this the work of the dark witches?” She nodde
I asked, “Is he still alive?” Isaac answered, “He is. I wanted to see if you could get more information from his mind.” I nodded, “Onyx is telling me that we both need time to rest and heal some more. Probably a few more days. I really think I need to listen to her.” Lena agreed, “You should rest, mom. Dad and I will be here for you and there are guards outside the door.”I smiled and lightly squeezed Lena’s hand, “You are so sweet, but you both need to be doing other things. The Moon Goddess visited me while I was out. I need both of you to really start practicing your abilities and start coming up with strategies for fighting the dark witches. It won’t be long before the attack we’ve been dreading. Sweetheart, I need you to practice your abilities with Queen Winnie.”I turned to Isaac, “Love, I need you to practice your abilities too. When I get out of here, I will do the same. You might also want to talk with Abby and Damien. Selene said they are preparing for a war with dark witche
I chuckled at Queen Winnie’s bluntness, “Hello, Queen Winnie. How are you?” She laughed out loud, “Oh, honey, I’m okay. I’m sorry to just barge in and start making demands. I’m just almost in panic mode.” I furrowed my brows, “What’s wrong?” She answered, “I spent some time with your friend in the cells and was able to extract some thoughts.”I asked, “Did you find out who the mole is?” She nodded, “I did, but I have no idea how this person is getting the information that they needed to find you.” I asked, “Who is it?” She answered, “Her name is Katrina. She is a kitchen omega.”I sighed and shook my head, “I left the pack that day to order pork from a human hog farm and beef from a local beef ranch. The lead omega in the kitchen mind linked me to let me know we only had a few days’ supply of each before we ran out.”I suggested, “I would be willing to bet Katrina was the one who told the lead omega we were running very low. Our lead kitchen omega is really good about letting me know w
Two Years LaterI was helping Aadi with refreshments when I heard Lena yell for me, “MOM!” I rushed to her room, tires squealing as I turned the corner into her room, “What’s up, sweetheart?” She was standing there, at the foot of her bed in nothing but her bra and panties with a huge pile of dresses on her bed, “I can’t find anything to where and they are going to be here in less than an hour!”I chuckled because we go through this every time Alpha Doug and Luna Kathryn come down for a visit, “Okay sweetie, let’s see what your options are. We don’t want formal because that’s just too much, so take all the formal gowns out.” That reduced one foot of the pile.I sighed, “Okay, are you feeling any particular color for today?” She shrugged, “I don’t know.” I suggested, “I would love to see you in something that highlights your eyes. You have beautiful eyes and he needs to see that.” She giggled, “He already has. He’s always told me I have beautiful eyes.” I smiled, “Then we need to show h
The following month, Alpha Doug and Luna Kathryn brought their two boys and one girl to visit our pack. The poor girl, Elizabeth, was stuck, in age, between both of her brothers, with no sister to have her back.Their oldest son, Lucas, was fifteen and held himself as a future alpha but he was also trying not to seem unreachable. He kept staring at Lena in awe, but it almost seemed as though he was afraid to approach her. I chuckled, “It’s okay if you want to hang out with Lena. Just stay where we can see you.”He let out a breath and walked up to her, “Would you like to take a walk?” She answered as she blushed a bright shade of pink, “I would love to.” As they walked away, I couldn’t help but notice the awestruck look on his face as he kept his eyes on her. I smiled at Isaac knowingly and Isaac nodded in acknowledgement. Aadi chuckled, “We may have a pair of mates.”Blaine approached Elizabeth, “Would you like to take a walk?” Elizabeth agreed and she started walking next to his whe
Within minutes, there were at least one hundred snakes covering his body, biting him, while he screamed in pain and terror. Blaine nodded and all of the snakes stopped biting and started climbing the wall to leave the same way they came in.He was still conscious and yelling obscenities at Blaine while our son laughed, “I’m glad you’re still awake, Devlin. If you thought that was bad, wait until you see what is next.” He nodded at the guards and Heather withdrew the tree roots.We all walked outside and the guards roughly dragged him outside and just let him drop, face up onto the ground. He looked at Heather and she smiled, “Happy to help, brother.” The tree roots started winding their way up his arms again.Devlin asked, “So what now?” He smiled, “This is going to be better than expected. You are going to see your end coming and feel every bit of the pain. Rot in hell, Devlin Thorn. You deserve no less.”We all stepped back and watched as two panthers approached him. He screamed like
We all went into the pack house and I asked if they would like some lunch before we go to the dungeons. Luna Kathryn asked, “Are you planning to go to the dungeon?” I nodded, “Blaine has a rather unconventional execution planned. We can go in Isaac’s office and tell you about it.”We sat in the lounge area of his office and Isaac started, “The first thing you need to know is that the prisoner is Blaine’s biological father. He kidnapped and raped his mother multiple times before she was able to escape. Not long after Blaine was born, he found them and tried to kill Blaine because he didn’t want kids. That’s how Blaine became paralyzed.”Luna Kathryn gasped, “Oh my Goddess! You poor child. You are so lucky to have survived.”Blaine spoke up, “It was the Goddess’ will that I survived. I have spent my whole life following Her path for me and I will until I die. Dad and I spent the last year looking for him so that I could get my justice. I’m just glad my biological mother kept track of him
One year later, I was at my desk in the office at the pack house, working on the books for the pack. I took a deep breath and sat back in my chair, thinking back on the past year.The kids have improved by leaps and bounds. My mind went to Blaine’s breakthrough moment.FlashbackShortly after I came home from the hospital, I had been resting on the couch because I wanted time with my family. The girls had gone to the kitchen to make a snack when Blaine approached me and laid his head on my chest.He asked, “Mom, can you tell me the whole truth about my father? Isaac is my dad, but I need to know about the guy who got my mom pregnant.” Isaac smiled and nodded at me. I looked at Aadi and she nodded also.I explained, “Well, your mom told me that he was a terrible man who had kidnapped her to sell her to some traffickers. He raped her multiple times before she was able to escape. I don’t know his name though.”Aadi added, “She told me that his name is Devlin Thorn. When you were a tiny ba
I gasped, “Three weeks?! What the hell was wrong with me?!” Isaac started trying to soothe me, “It’s okay, love. They were able to fix it. You had a brain aneurism. It burst just as you got here to see the doctor. They were able to stop the bleeding and fix the aneurism through your carotid artery.”I sighed as Isaac continued, “If you hadn’t been here, in this hospital, when you passed out, you could have bled out and died. They called me and told me to get to the hospital, and I jumped out of bed and ran for the hospital.”I furrowed my brow, “I remember you telling me that they were doing surgery, but I was out again before I could ask why.” He smiled, “I’m just so happy that you are still with us. The kids will be so happy that you are awake.”The doctor walked in and I shrugged, “I’m back, doc.” He laughed, “Yes, you are, Luna. I’m very happy to see you awake. I need to check and see if there are any neurological issues. Aneurisms can do that.”He checked the strength in my arms a
When we got home, Blaine had a huge grin on his face. Isaac lifted him out of his chair and put him on his lap. I asked, “So, sweetheart, how long have you been able to control animals?” Blaine blushed, “Since I was three. I can’t talk to them, but I can control what they do.”I smiled, “That is a really cool ability. Can you do that with humans?” He shook his head, “No. Just animals. But I can control their wolves after they shift.” I smiled, “Now that’s awesome. We make a perfect set. I can control humans.” Blaine’s eyes lit up, “Really?” I nodded, “Really.”Heather smiled, “Wow! That’s really cool!” She then put a somber look on her face, “Just do me a favor?” I asked, “What, sweetheart?” She sighed, “Just don’t do it to me?” Blaine and I laughed, “We wouldn’t even think about it.”Blaine explained, “I used to play with small animals when no kids would play with me. The staff would get mad at me for having a rabbit or a squirrel on my lap. When they would start saying hurtful things
Thirty minutes later, the guards were bringing the prisoner out of the dungeon and chaining his hands and feet to a large pole. Isaac and some warriors found a clearing in the forest that was just large enough to have the sun beat down on him the entire day.I growled as I watched him being pulled by a chain attached to a silver collar around his neck. I was quite pleased with the amount of silver attached to him. Just knowing his skin was being burned at each area made me smile.I asked Isaac, “Did you mind link Aadi to let her know where he is?” Isaac nodded, “I did. She linked the hospital staff to let them know.”My mate’s eyes glazed over as he received a mind link. Then, when his eyes cleared, he turned to me, “Our son wants the very last blow. He says he doesn’t need to be here. He wants to make the last one hurt the most.” I furrowed my brow, “I wonder what he is planning on doing.” He smiled, “It seems that our son has an ability that we know nothing about.”I nodded, “You are
When we reached the pack house, Isaac gave me a kiss and smiled, “I’ll see you at lunch time, love. I want to make sure you eat today.” I nodded, “Okay. I’m sure I’ll be starving by then. Did you want to start the interrogations this afternoon? We have a few to do.” Isaac ran his hands through his hair, “I forgot all about that. Yeah, we should do that this afternoon.”I spent my morning on the pack books and entering receipts. I was so glad that I was done with that part by nine a.m. and I mind linked Isaac’s dad, “Kenny, would you like to take some time to talk about the pack’s investment portfolio?” Kenny answered, “I would love to, Zariah. I’ll be there shortly.”After nearly three hours of discussing existing investments and then choosing a few new ones, I suggested we start looking for some real estate to invest in also. He agreed with that idea and said he would look around. We agreed to meet again in a couple weeks.As we finished our meeting, my brain started hurting and I was