Chapter 31 – New AdditionsAfter training, Kayla helped an embarrassed Athena to the infirmary, and we made our way to the family dining room for lunch with our newly arrived guests. I was seated on Diesel’s lap and looked over at a smiling Payton who was happily seated on Max’s lap grinning at all of us. Max was over the moon and Alpha Knox was also beaming with pride.Megan was seated next to Max and we waited for the arrival of the Gamma couple and our Delta to join us. Megan had a quiet and thoughtful look on her face. Platters of food were being brought in and placed in the middle of the table. It smelled delicious; grilled chicken Caesar salads, panini toasted sandwiches and a lovely tomato basil soup.“Maximus, it’s so good to have you with us again, tell me, how are your parents doing these days?” Alpha Knox asked.“They’re doing well Sir, thank you. They’ve been traveling throughout Europe a great deal.” Max responded.“That’s wonderful to hear.” Alpha Knox smiled. “Megan my
Chapter 32 – LessonsDiesel’s POVIt was just before dawn and the flames in the fireplace flickered. I sat quietly in the armchair in our bedroom while Lucy was still sleeping. She seemed a little tired last night, so we went to bed early after dinner to give the newly mated couples alone time.I couldn’t have selected a better mate for my sister and was happy to have Max with us. They were the perfect fit for each other. I can’t help but wonder what Ranger’s reaction will be when he finds out. We haven’t always been like this. Growing up Ranger and I were close; we did everything together. On his eighteenth birthday, we got the same chest and arm tattoos, I was only sixteen at the time. After Ranger got his wolf, we grew apart and he became obsessed with the Alpha role he would soon inherit from our father.Once I turned eighteen and finally had Duke, everything changed. I was not only stronger than Ranger, but also discovered my elemental gift. Instead of seeing me as a strong asset
Chapter 33 – Double SurpriseThis man is going to be the death of me!Diesel just stopped in the middle of heated passion to tease me. He was resting his head on my stomach, not moving or making a sound. What is he doing? Taking a nap on me?I felt Lia stir inside of me and suddenly she was howling with joy. I looked down at Diesel and he looked up into my eyes with so much emotion, not the kind that says, I’m going to rock your world. Nope, this look was the kind that says, I love you so much.“Little one, is there something you want to tell me?” He asked.I wasn’t sure what he wanted to hear. “Umm, Thank you for the swim lessons.” I said.He let out a chuckle. “No, not that, anything else?”I wanted to ask why he stopped suddenly, but Lia was driving me crazy. “Lia, I can’t think with all the howling.” I told her.“Mate is so happy.” She howled back.“I’m sorry, Lia won’t pipe down and it’s driving me crazy.” I told him. “She’s probably just as happy about our pup as Duke is!” He sa
Chapter 34 – Arrangements“So ... Athena, you’re the traitor we’ve been looking for.” Diesel growled.“Oh, come now little brother, all’s fair in love and war.” Ranger said, then he looked at me. “Hello little mate!”“DON’T YOU FUCKING TALK TO MY MATE!” Diesel roared. “AND PULL YOUR FUCKING PANTS UP! I’M GOING TO HAVE TO BURN THAT DAMD CHAIR NOW.”I noticed coals in the fireplace that were dying down. “Allow me.” I waved my hand and the whole chair lit up in flames.“WHAT THE HELL?” Ranger jumped back.After the leather chair was charred, I waved my hand again and the flames disappeared.“You’re elemental too?” Ranger asked.“And if you come near me, I will not hesitate to burn you alive!” I said and could feel Diesel’s pride radiating.It was strange seeing him; I remember a time when the sight of him made me nervous and fearful. A time when I would have given anything for his love and affection. Not anymore. Diesel was everything Ranger could never be, even though they looked so muc
Chapter 35 – ReadyToday was finally here!Diesel and I slept in this morning, we had breakfast served in our room. I wasn’t really hungry and felt nauseous. Diesel rubbed circles on my back, and I waited for the nausea to pass.“Should I ask Dr. Ross to come check on you? Maybe he can give you something for the nausea?” He asked.“I’m okay, it should pass.”“Would you like to sit in a warm bath?” He asked. “Only if my favorite lifeguard joins me.” I smiled.Diesel added more wood in the double sided fireplace and ran the bath. We slipped into the tub and I rested against his back. “This reminds me of the first night I spent here.” I said.“The first night you almost drowned in this tub.” He chuckled. “I knew I wanted to slip this on your finger the moment I laid eyes on you.” Diesel said and held out an absolutely stunning blue sapphire and diamond ring.“Oh Diesel!”“Werewolves don’t traditionally exchange rings and wedding vows, but this ring belonged to my father’s mother and then
Diesel's POVChapter 36 – CeremonyShe looked breathtaking! My own Goddess and Luna. Duke was howling in my head with such pride and adoration for his mate. I don’t know how I got so lucky or what I did to deserve her. Claudia started the music, and everyone turned to watch them walk down the aisle. My father was beaming, I can’t remember the last time I saw him so happy and he couldn’t wait to be a grandpa. Lucy was going to be a perfect addition to the pack and a wonderful Luna.My father mind linked me and told me that he scented the fresh cut grass and oak. That whoever it was, was here tonight in the crowd. I started looking around for anyone that seemed out of place. What a brazen move, to actually be here tonight blending in with our guests.“It’s actually not a bad idea.” Duke told me. “Trying to scent someone in a crowd is hard. If anyone gets near my mate I will rip their throat out!” He snarled and started pacing.“Let’s get through the ceremony and when Lucy takes the pack
Chapter 37 – RexIt’s been almost an hour and Diesel is still nowhere to be found. “Something is wrong, mate needs us.” Lia said anxiously.I tried to mind link Diesel again. “Diesel are you there? I’m worried, where are you?”Nothing.“Please Diesel, answer me.” Still nothing.Payton had checked his office and was going upstairs to our room to look for him. “Check the astronomy observatory as well.” I linked her. “Will do, stay with my father, we’ll find him.” She linked back.Max and Zeke had slipped out of the ball room to check the perimeter for any signs of him. I linked Sam our chief tracker. “Sam we can’t seem to find the Alpha and he’s not responding to the mind links. I need you to track him.”“Yes Luna, I’m on it.” He replied.“Lucy, have a seat, I’m sure he’s okay, all this worrying can’t be good for the pups.” Alpha Knox told me.“But what if he found Ranger and something happened?”“Ranger is no threat to Diesel without his wolf. Even with Rex, he was never as strong as D
Chapter 38 – CousinDiesel’s POVI opened my eyes and the room was spinning. I could hardly hold my head up. I could feel Duke, he was weakened. What the fuck did he inject me with?I looked around the room to try and figure out where I was. It definitely wasn’t the coat closet. I was in a rocky dungeon or cave. The only light came from a single torch on the wall. My wrists were burning from heavy silver. I heard someone moving and felt a kick to my ribs.“Look who’s finally awake.” I heard a gruff voice say. I recognized that voice and his scent, his scent was fresh cut grass and oak.My eyes focused and his face became clear. “YOU! IT WAS YOU?” I growled in disgust.“You can call me cousin.” He said and punched me in the jaw.“Uncle Titus didn’t have any children.” I said as I struggled against the silver chains he had around my wrists. I wanted to rip his fucking throat out.“Funny, your brother said the same thing before I killed him.” He laughed.He killed Ranger? If he had kille
Seven years laterEpilogue“MOM! Uncle Niko ate the rest of my moussaka!” Kyros pouted.“Uncle Niko has a habit of doing that. He doesn't like perfectly good moussaka to go to waste.” I laughed.“Are you going to finish yours or should I take care of that for you too?” Niko asked me.“Touch my plate and you might lose a few fingers.” I growled and shoveled the rest of the food in my mouth.Dimitri chuckled and kissed me on the side of my head. “Don't mess with a pregnant woman's food Niko, you shouldknow better by now after three pups of your own.”Kyros was our oldest, Damien followed two years later, they both looked just like Dimitri. Our twin daughters Alice and Anabeth, looked just like me with the strong LaRue familygenes. I was currently expecting pup number five in about two more weeks.“How's baby Lukas doing?” Clair asked me.“He's kicking a lot, hopefully he won't try to break out beforeLevi's mating ceremony this weekend.” I told her. We had found out the gender of the
Chapter 42 – News“Wake up little bird, the plane just landed.” Dimitri stroked my back to wake me up. I had fallen asleep in his lap on our flight from Greece to Canada.My father had sent the LaRue Enterprises jet for us. We have two mating ceremonies to attend this week. Knox and Rocky's ceremony is tomorrow. Then we will travel to Dark Moon for Peter and Mandi's ceremony. I was excited to show Dimitriwhere I had grown up, have some Chinese food in the village,show him Crescent Point. I’ve also missed my younger brothers and couldn’t wait to see them.It’s been two weeks since Dimitri and I found out about the pup.We haven't told anyone and wanted to do it when we were alltogether. My parents had returned back to Crescent Moon withKnox and Rocky last week to get ready for the mating ceremony. They would officially become Alpha and Luna of Crescent Moon after the ceremony.My parents plan to travel back and forth between packs; but willspend the majority of their time in Greec
Dimitri's POVChapter 41 – Finally“Relax, I just want to meet your little Raven.” He said with a sick smile.“He knows about mate.” Dom growled at me.“We need to make sure and end him this time.” I told Dom.He turned his head to the bird’s nest. “What a suitable place for a raven, in the bird’s nest! Tell me son, is the bird’s nest bullet proof? I can't seem to remember if we made it bullet proof when we built it.”I mind linked Spiro, “tell me you had the chance to line the bird’s nest with another layer of steel?”“I did Alpha, but they won't be shooting regular bullets. We've never tested it against silver bullets!” Spiro linked back.“You have ten seconds to surrender the pack to its rightful Alpha before we turn the bird’s nest into Swiss cheese!” My fatherdemanded.I was about to unleash Dom and lunge at him when an earthshaking growl, with intense power, ripped across the land andshocked everyone. Greeks were taught from a young age to fear and respect the power of the Go
Chapter 40 – Attack“Be a good little bird and stay in the nest. Don't come out for any reason, understand?” Dimitri told me.“Okay.”“Keep the door locked from the inside. Don't open it for anyone. If you set one foot out this door, before I come back for you, I'm going to spank your bottom red!” He crashed his lips into mine.His kiss was hungry, demanding, and filled with emotion. The promise of another spanking sent an exciting quiver down my back. I couldn’t wait until this was over to spend time tangled up with him.“Please be careful.” I whispered as we broke away.“I'll be back as soon as this is over.” He said and closed the door to the nest.I was standing inside of a closet sized metal box, that wasperched on top of the roof of the pack house and looked out over the pack lands. The fire pits were burning bright, if someonedidn't know any better, they would just assume the fire pits were there to light up the grounds for battle.“Let's test the reach of our element.” Rae s
Chapter 39 – RaceThe sun was setting as we raced back in the Jeep to our territory.Dimitri was at the wheel and his eyes kept glancing in themirror at the occupants in the back seat. Odessa was seated in the back, between Alec and Hades. The tension in the car was thick.“What the hell happened Odessa? I thought Georgios was your mate?” Dimitri asked and a low growl came from Hades at the mention of Georgios.“It's kind of a long story.” She replied.“We've got time. No one is leaving this car for a few hours.” Dimitri said.Hades spoke first, “My mother was originally from Georgios’ pack, Zeus's Howlers. When my father claimed her as a chosen mate, she switched packs and joined Moon Warriors. He wasn't very good to us and took little interest in me. Growing up, Ispent a great deal of time visiting with my grandparents at theirpack. Georgios’ father had the pack then, he was good to me, let me come and stay whenever I wanted to. My grandparents were wonderful people and I enjoyed
Chapter 37 – Progress“I'm Lucy Michaels LaRue, Luna of Crescent Moon Pack. As a golden wolf of the Gods, I now claim Zeus's Howlers as myown. We are not enemies with Alpha Dimitri Theodorus. Our daughter Raven LaRue, is his mate and the new Luna ofOlympus Blood Moon. We believe this will be a strong alliance for both packs and Zeus's Howlers will grow stronger andflourish.” My mother said.Applause and joyous howls erupted from the crowd. My mother stood in the middle of the field wearing nothing but my father’s shirt after she shifted back. Dimitri and I stood with my father as my mother addressed her new pack.“Beta Onassis, please step forward.” She called out. The crowd became silent and some exchanged nervous looks. “Some of you may have already heard, our oldest son and heir of CrescentMoon, Knox LaRue, is the mate of the Beta's daughter. This will now connect the packs in more ways than one. We are honoredto have Raquel Onassis, from Zeus's Howlers as the future Lunaof t
Dimitri's POVChapter 36 – Claiming“He's going to be okay, won't he Dr. Vovos?” Niko asked.“I've known Kosta since he was a pup, your Uncle is one of the strongest wolves I've ever met.” Dr. Vovos assured us.The pack clinic was a mile down the road from the pack house. It was morning, we had to wait until Dr. Vovos had stabilized Kosta before we could see him.He was connected to machines and tubes, he looked pretty bad.“How long until he wakes up?” I asked, I really needed to talk to him. Find out who did this. He was badly beaten and shotwith a silver bullet. The silver should have killed him, it's a miracle that he even survived.“He's stable for now, but he's not out of the woods yet. It could be a few days or a few weeks. We don't even know the status of his wolf yet.” She said.Shit! We don't have that kind of time to sit around and wait. Ineeded to get going, Georgios’ pack was five hours northeast ofhere. I mind linked Alec and Spiro to meet me in my office in twenty
Chapter 35 – Patient“If he's done something to my sister, I can't just lay around and do nothing. I need to find her. I’m going to kill him myself.”Dimitri growled trying to stand up.“She's our sister now too. You won't be helpful to anyone if you don't allow that to heal.” Knox replied.“Dimitri please.” I tried to calm my mate down. “She's his mate, he won't hurt her.”“Unless one of them rejects the other, then he will.” Dimitri said.“He wouldn't be that stupid, he knows she's your sister and doesn't want to make an enemy of you.” I told him.“Maybe, but Odessa might reject him first, she's obviously not happy about this.” He said.“My parents are with Georgios; they know something isn't right.We’ll find her, we just need you to heal. Dr. Vovos should be here to check your wound and change the bandage one moretime for the night. You can speak to her about your progress.” I said.“I need to get to Georgios, if Odessa is still in his territory, I can find her.” Dimitri said.“W
Dimitri's POVChapter 34 – Blast“Kosta should be landing with the helicopter in about tenminutes.” I informed Diesel and Lucy. We stood at the northern peak of the island waiting for Kosta. Lucy was insistent aboutreturning to Alpha Georgios pack right away.“I'll see if I can speak with Odessa alone first. I'll call Knox when I've spoken to her, so he can update you. We'll letGeorgios believe that Knox has returned to Crescent Moon with Rocky, and that we've remained in Greece because Alpha LaRue isn't convinced that Raven wants to be with you. That he'sconsidering taking your head for stealing our only daughter and forcing her to mate with you.” Lucy told me.“Mother!” Raven protested at the idea of forced mating.“We'll see if Georgios will lead us to Stefanos or if he letsanything slip. If we hit a dead end, I'll light Georgios up and send him straight to hell.” Lucy said.“I can position my warriors just outside his pack territory tolead an attack and help if things get st