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
Chapter 39 – Rescue“Your uncle Titus has a child?” I asked Ranger.“Apparently no one knew, Jordan Monroe is Jordan LaRue.” He said as he struggled against the silver chains.“I’m going to shift, close your eyes. Once I shift, I won’t be able to communicate with you. I’m going to pull the chains down and you can ride on my back.” I told him.“I don’t want to hurt you.” He said.“Oh, trust me, you can’t. Now close your eyes.”I shifted and moved to the silver chains on the walls. Lia grabbed the chain and yanked the bolts right out of the rocky wall. We’d have to figure out how to get them off his wrists soon, they were slowing down his healing.Ranger was unable to use his legs at the moment and crashed to the hard stone ground. He looked up at me and struggled for words as he took in the sight of Lia. “What the hell?”I barked back at him; I really didn’t have time for this. I needed to get moving to find Diesel. Lia picked up the lighter in her mouth and lowered us down so Ranger c
Chapter 40 – Code RedDuke and I descended down the mountain with Ranger still on my back. The full moon’s light was bright, and I could see what looked like a thousand wolves rushing towards us. In the front leading the wolves was a large black Alpha wolf with blue eyes. I instantly recognized Kruz, Alpha Knox’s wolf. The other wolves came to a halt as many set eyes on Lia for the first time, they lowered their heads. Kruz walked up to Duke and nodded his head, then he turned towards me and sniffed the air.“What happened to Ranger? Where have you been?” He asked us through the mind link.I looked at Duke and his eyes glazed over; his Alpha voice rang through the mind link to every pack member. “Attention Crescent Moon, we have found the traitor! Earlier this evening, Alpha Jordan Monroe, attacked your Alpha and Luna. He has gathered rogues just outside our territory who planned to attack our most vulnerable pack members first, the elders and pups, while the pack took their tradition
Chapter 41 – War“Who’s going to tell Payton?” I asked as we walked over to the infirmary.Alpha Knox and Diesel exchanged uncomfortable looks as if trying to decide how to tell her. I know that Payton had taken the rejection very hard. Ramos had rejected her on sight, because she was Diesel’s sister after Diesel challenged and killed Titus. Ramos was one of the best warriors Crescent Moon had at the time. His blind loyalty to the previous Alpha had turned him into a rogue.We reached the infirmary; Dr. Ross was going to have a busy night. We walked by the first room and I could smell Ranger. I could hear whimpers coming from the second room, Vannica was still in labor. The third room had a great deal of commotion going on, Dr. Ross and nurse Nelly fluttered around the room stabilizing Athena.Payton stepped out of Vannica’s room. “The pup is almost here.” She said smiling.“What’s wrong?” She asked noticing the uncomfortable glances she was receiving.“We have a situation.” Diesel sa
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