{ Oryn }
Her fear had eased through the connection. It seemed to lessen slowly until it was gone all together. But for reasons I couldn’t explain, this didn’t ease my worry. I felt that she was still in danger, that she needed me and maybe even my protection.
“She’s moving,” My wolf told me.
“She feels the same to me, what direction is she going?” I asked him.
“West…” He mumbled.
A small unexpected smile played at my lips. She was headed right towards me.
“I don’t think she is alone, but I also don’t think she is in danger,” My wolf told me.
“We will be to her soon enough, just focus on her pull,” I told him and he nodded to me. We held our steady pace, closing in on her.
After the one idiotic patrol we ran into, I was att
{ Vynetta }I asked Codyn to take the lead again as we ran through the path since I didn’t know exactly where it lead. I told him which direction my mate was and he nodded and told me we were on the right track.We ran for a few more minutes and I felt my heart speed up when we realized how close we were. I could feel him, his heart beat, his emotions, his worry. He was worried about me. He was trying to find me.I saw what looked like the end of the thick bushes and trees that we were hidden under all at once. And as soon as I saw it, I saw something blocking the exit of the path. I looked to Codyn and saw him glance down at Scar and before I could warn him he barreled straight into whoever or whatever had been there.I watched as two bodies went flying across the forest floor and both men groaned from the pain from the contact. Scarlynn immediately ran to Codyn. I watched as she called on her
I nodded and then I listened. I listened as she told me of who she was, born the Earth Goddess, hidden away, and how her life had been the same up until a few weeks before her 18thbirthday when she learned she would become a wolf. She told me how she could speak to the Earth Goddess and of the day when she spoke to both the Earth and Moon Goddess’ who explained about her shift and what would come. She told me of wolves, the new line of wolves that would turn from the moon itself, born of love and peace, not the curse which Kayden’s wolves were born under. I could tell she was minimizing some of the parts that had to do with me to protect me but the more she spoke the more I wanted to know, so that I knew everything we were up against.When she finished speaking of mates she was looking deeply in my eyes waiting for my response. I wasn’t sure what it was she wanted and I was struggling to form sentences because as she spoke of o
“Ok, tell me about your village.”“Well, it’s small, very small. Relatively exclusive actually. There are people from all over the world there, so many different languages and cultures in one place, yet none of it seems to clash. There are people of all different descent there too, like your fairy friend. I’d sensed a fairy in the village before. And a witch at one time. Even a vampire a long time ago. Thornbridge was always bustling with people, but rarely wolves. It’s one reason my parents hid me so well and my father taught me to conceal my aura, I had to be protected from everyone, even my own village.”With every word he spoke my heart raced more and more. It can’t be. It’s impossible. There was absolutely no way this was the truth. He was from the same village as Scar, which wasn’t the most shocking part. He was from the village I visited a year ago. He could sense other peopl
{ Codyn }As soon as we saw the Alpha barreling towards us and towards the exit I saw Scar push me up and tell me to follow him. She gave me a non-optional fairy push with her magic and I obliged, it was already damn near impossible to say no to her.I followed the Alpha out of the cave and paced myself behind him a couple steps. He knew I was there, but he didn’t say anything. We ran for a few minutes until we came to a dense part of the forest. He was shaking his head and while I couldn’t sense his aura, anger was radiating off him at alarming rates.He turned and swung his fist straight into a tree. It left a fist sized dent that went 6inches into the tree. This man was strong, stronger than any wolf I’d ever seen and that was saying something. I didn’t love the idea of being under someone else’s command after everything that happened with Kayden, but I could already tell this was differe
{ Vynetta }I smelled them a moment before Codyn entered the cave looking frantic. Kayden’s men. They were close. They had found us.“We have to go, NOW,” Codyn told us, grabbing Scarlyt’s hand and leading us outside. I saw Oryn waiting for us and he reached out for me and took my hand before we sprinted into the woods.“Where do we go?” I asked him as we ran away from the scents of the warriors following us. They could smell Codyn and Scarlyt, they could track us. I attempted to block Scarlyt’s scent but I couldn’t manage to do Codyn’s and decided it was useless unless I could do both.“We need to shift so we can run and fight them off if they get close,” Oryn said glancing every direction looking for wolves.I sucked in a breath, I didn’t want to. They would know. What if they didn’t know? What if the
{ Oryn }Codyn recognized one of the wolves and managed to get to me that we needed him, I didn’t know why, but I put my trust in him. We had finally trapped him and taken him down. I told him to shift, allowing my aura to slip on accident but surprised to see him immediately shift and submit. He turned to me and said in a sovereign tone, “Alpha.”I quickly walled up my aura but I looked to Codyn to see him doing the same thing. He was kneeling with his hand over his chest. When he stood I saw his wolf’s eyes until he shook his head and his own eyes returned.I turned back to the wolf in front of me and told Codyn to bind him. He did as he was told and then I looked around and I felt my entire body ache, oh no. I couldn’t see Vynetta. I couldn’t sense Scarlyt. We had went way too far to find this man. When I looked back at his face I saw a smirk playing at his lips and I realized we ha
{ Kayden }“Well well well, isn’t this a pretty little wolf,” I whistled when they brought forward the wolf they managed to capture.She was a spunky little thing, and as soon as I sensed her I knew she was a mix-breed. I growled when I felt her fairy side, but thankfully it was suppressed from what I could tell so I didn’t immediately rip her to shreds. The originals disgusted me and I’d done what I could to eliminate them from my world. This one had apparently stayed hidden but I was currently more curious how it was possible she was a wolf, since she was the first female wolf I knew of. I’d need answers to that before I slit her throat.“Who was she with?” I asked my men who brought her in.“Three other wolves. Two we couldn’t sense the auras of,” one of my generals told me.“What about the one you could?&
I had an inkling who she was fighting and I was desperate to go help but there were 15 warriors surrounding them including one who was giving off an incredibly strong aura. I looked over to Codyn who was staring intently at the other end of the deck. My heart started racing when I saw what he was looking at. It was 4 people, huddled together, all bound and all bruised. Codyn was staring lovingly at Scarlyt, but my eyes locked on the man of the group who looked pissed beyond belief as he watched Vynetta fight. I had never seen my father so angry.We needed to get to them. I could tell from here that one of the women was not doing well and the other one was beside herself with worry over her. I looked through and saw some stairs near me, we would have to be silent, and we would have to be fast. I waited a beat to make sure everyone’s attention was on the fight and then I grabbed Codyn and we went up. We made it up and then we weaved through the door and into
I didn’t even register the other 4 sisters screams echoing all around me. I focused only on his aura and on Mari’s. I closed myself off and followed them. He blipped with her to the hill across the field and then he was gone again, the next time I sensed him it was far enough way I couldn’t pin point his location and then just like that, he was gone. I shook my head and I could feel tears brewing under the surface but I swallowed them down.-She’s fine- Juno told me calmly and I focused on her voice.-Elaborate- I told her firmly.-We need to speak with an elder wolf from the area. There are two who are close still. Have Oryn call to them.- she said instead of answering my actual question.“Oryn,” I called out, still trying to push away the worried yells and words from the sisters around us.“Yes? Did he touch you? Are you alright?”
With one swift whirlwind I push Codyn out the of the way and the second I see the knife soar past his shoulder I simultaneously call on the Earth surrounding the man who threw the knife. Vines appear through the snow, despite the terrain and gasps come from the wolves surrounding him. Within just a few seconds vines have wrapped his legs and arms, making him completely immobile. I don’t let me guard down yet though, and I see that my mate has the same thought.Codyn is now standing defensively in front of Scarlyt who has her hands out, no doubt thinking she would have to once again heal her mate. Oryn moved faster than I even realized and was in the same stance as Codyn in front of me. I gently stepped to the side of him, but not in front of him and addressed the wolves.“We are not your enemy,” I boom out this time, using every ounce of my Authority.“We are not Kayden, we are not here to make yo
“I love you,” she said out loud as she kissed my jaw. “Baby, you are my everything,” I told her breathlessly. “I can’t imagine my life without you, I would still be so lost.” I moved inside her and she moaned at the sensation. I chuckled as I pulled myself out of her and got a towel to clean her. She laid there with one hand on her hip and the other above her head and I felt myself already getting hard again. I handed her a towel and she smiled to me, cleaning herself off. I watched her carefully and something occurred to me. “Baby, how do you feel about kids?” She glanced up at me and the sweetest smile grew on her face as she said, “I want them.” “Lots of them?” “I think so, yeah. I was an only child because that was the way our bloodline worked but that isn’t the case anymore so I’d love to have a house full of babies. Little us’s.” She giggled
{ Carolyn }I felt a rush of cold as I used the snow to disappear and go back to our cabin. My little snow portal settled to the ground around me and I shook off what remained. I looked ahead and really took in the cabin I called home.It’s logs were cut from the woods that surrounded us. My mother was an incredible woman. She was handy, sweet, she could cook up a storm in the kitchen and she somehow managed to raise five little witches all by herself. We all knew we were a handful, our powers grew each day yet she took it all in and managed to make us disciplined and precise, she taught us the value of our magic and the value of life around us. She told us often the story of Luna, her eyes always holding hope when she did of one day not having to hide, one day allowing us to live a free life.My heart was racing as I stepped closer and I was bombarded with sweet memories. Our life here was quiet and ca
{ Vynetta } As Oryn was shaking hands with the Elders I felt it. As quick as Juno and I registered it it was gone. An aura in the mountains near us. A man, a hybrid Juno said, but having only sensed it for a moment she struggled to determine his origin. He was an original without a doubt, he was also strong, and clearly hidden. I hadn’t sensed him during the meeting of all the wolves and he was already long gone by the feel of things. I stretched, searched, my eyes remaining closed as I forced out mine and Juno’s power as far as I could. I heard the sound of my mate’s voice but I was deep in concentration and couldn’t make out the words he said. Finally Juno heaved a deep sigh and assured me that the mysterious aura was in fact gone, leaving us with more questions than answers. I took a deep breath and opened my eyes to the sight of a very distraught mate. I felt a small smile on my face as I took my hands out and place
“I think your mate was a tad distracted and didn’t hear quite everything,” One of the elder wolves says. Well shit, I Wasn’t only busted by my mate this time either. I clear my throat as a small blush creeps up my neck but I shake it off. If there is anything I will always own up to its the way my mate affects me. “You would be right, I am easily enthralled by her beauty and her voice,” I admit to the elder wolf who gives me a sly smile. “I was telling them about how we are mostly done here….” Vynetta tells me softly, giving me the cue to pick up after that. That’s all I needed. “Yes, thank you all for your patience and your kindness again.” One of the wolves covers a laugh with a cough and now I’m positive that Vynetta already said that same thing so I continue while shaking it off, “We look forward to seeing all of you next week in your own territories with more good news. As of right now,
I immediately held out my hand and called out, “Scarlyt will you please come here.”She gently made her way through the crowd and after her first few steps they seemed to realize she was the one I was calling to and made a path for her. She crossed the snow giving a soft smile to her mate who sighed a breath of relief. I made a mental note to apologize to him for not calling her back to us sooner.She stood next to me and took my hand in hers. I felt the power of our pack work through us as she was my Mona. I turned my head back to the wolves in front of me and most had their eyes narrowed At Scarlyt trying to figure out why they sensed she was different.Release your aura, all of it. I told her in Mindlink.She did as she was told. Her aura held power, but it was not overwhelming in the least. What her aura held more than anything, was proof. And it washed over the wolves in one sweep an
{ Vynetta }The moment that my aura reached the furthest corner of the tundra and the wolves all boomed out respectfully I felt an insurmountable pride radiate from Juno within. Everything had been nothing short of chaos recently and while I knew who I was, and what was coming, this was the first time I ever felt like what I was, a queen. Looking over thousands of wolves who awaited the right words, the right orders was intimidating, but having my mate beside me lowered my anxiety greatly.His aura washed over me and his scent wrapped itself around me once again as my knees went weak, Goddess what that scent alone does to me. I watched him carefully as he nodded gratefully to the wolves to stand and then I gave him my full attention as I waited for him to address them as well.“My name is Oryn. I am a descendant of Tellus, and I am proud to stand before you today as the Alpha. I was like most of you. I was born dif
{ Oryn } I stand with Vynetta beside me as wolves funnel in and slowly fill up this icy cove-like area that we chose as the spot for this first meeting. We are positioned among the wolves, Vynetta looking like a simple family member of myself to the incoming wolves, a few of whom I notice also bring with them members of the family. Mostly men, but I spy a couple other women in the group as it grows larger. Codyn stands in front of everyone with a scowl etched on his face, his stance wide and his arms crossed as he radiates power. He is more powerful since he became Beta of our Pack, but we were able to work with him on suppressing this in his aura for these meetings. From where we and the wolves are standing, he looks like a pissed off and intimidating general for Kaydan’s army which is exactly what we were aiming for. There is a few silent minutes that go by when no more wolves are entering the area. I see Codyn n