Megan I lay on the floor the body of my year-old son next to me. I am losing blood I can feel it draining out of me. I am welcoming death to come. Then I can be with my mate and son. Tears slowly fall as I look at my son. I can’t move. I don’t know where the body of my mate is, but I know he is dead. I felt the bond painfully break the moment they killed him. I tried to hide with my son only for them to sniff me out and find me. They grabbed my son Gabriel from my arms and in front of me broke his little neck, killing him instantly. I heard a woman’s scream and knew it was me. I couldn’t stop the screaming and knelt next to my son’s body and sobbed. In my grief, I didn’t hear the footsteps behind me until I felt the rogue's teeth clamp onto my left shoulder piercing the artery on my neck and making me lose a lot of blood. I collapsed on the floor unconscious. I don’t know how long I was out but when I opened my eyes next, I was next to my son’s body. I only had strength enough to r
Nathan “Over here.” I heard my beta yell as I look around at the carnage of what used to be the Running River pact. We received a distress call from them and came as quick as we could only to be too late. I step over bodies and walk towards the room my beta Jonathan called me from and saw him kneeling next to a woman. “Nate, she is still breathing but barely.” I walk over and the scene before me is heartbreaking. The woman is holding the hand of a small pup. Looking at the woman she is pale and has lost a lot of blood. I rip my shirt and wrap it around her wounded neck to slow the bleeding. “We need to get her to the packhouse quickly.” I carefully lift her in my arms not caring that blood was getting all over me. My main concern was to keep her alive. It is the least I can do for not arriving on time. I hold the woman on my lap in the back seat of my car while my beta drove. I look down at the woman. She has dark hair that fell to her waist and is small in stature, especially in m
Megan Everything is dark. I can’t see anything. Is this what being dead is like? I was hoping to see my mate, my little son. Where am I? Moon Goddess, you can’t be this cruel to keep me away from my family. Why is it cold and dark here? Suddenly I am reliving the death of my son. I feel him being pulled from my arms and the cruel look of the rogue as he held my son and twisted his little neck. I screamed and screamed as I watched as he dropped my pup’s body to the ground. I couldn’t stop screaming as tears fell from my eyes as I crawled towards my son’s body and took his little hand in mine. I sat up screaming in pain and agony. Suddenly there were a strong pair of arms around me. Holding me as my screams turned into heavy sobbing. “My son. He killed my son.” I kept crying over and over again. “I know.” I hear a male voice speaking softly in my ear. The arms and voice were oddly comforting as I sobbed my heart out. I suddenly come to realize I am not dead after all. Why am I not d
NathanI am in my office going over the details of what happened to the Running River pack. I know it was a rogue attack, but I have never heard of them hitting a pack this big. What was the reason? What was going through their feral mind? How is it they left my mate alive? Or did they believe she was dead? So many questions and no answers. I have assigned a few of my best trackers out to find out just what did happen, and I have a few warriors still at the Running River pack gathering info as well as taking the bodies down into the cells until we can give them all a send-off service.I made sure the child’s body that my mate was holding was brought back. I also have them searching for her mate so we can give them both a proper send-off for my mate. I am hoping that it will help with her healing. I can tell she was the Luna of her pack, and her mate was an Alpha. So, it should not be difficult for my men to sniff out her mate. I have files from their computers and reading her file now
MeganIt has been a couple of days since I woke. I have been wandering and exploring the Packhouse of the Blue Lake Pack. Julie has been great and keeping me company. She is the only one I know who seems to understand what I am going through. I have seen the Alpha around, but I have been trying to avoid him. I just don’t understand that the same day my mate is killed that I find my second chance mate. It is unheard of.Julie informs me the bodies of my mate and pup have been brought here and that Alpha Nathan plans an Alpha send-off for my family. I still cry myself to sleep at night and it is tough getting up in the mornings but with Julie encouraging me I get up.Today is the day of the send-off and I am grateful that there were clothes and dresses in the closet of my room. I also discovered I am on the fourth floor the Alpha floor of the packhouse. I guess that was Alpha Nathan’s doing. I bathed and changed into a simple black dress and black pumps with my hair down. Julie comes by
NathanI left Megan in good hands with Julie last night and I went to my office to contact my best trackers and inform them to continue searching for any rogues and I want at least one alive to question. We need to figure out the reason for them to slaughter a whole pack.After sending out the messages I went upstairs to take a shower and go to bed. After a long-troubled night, I lay in bed looking up at the ceiling thinking about my mate. I promised myself to give her time. But this damn bond I am with a constant hard-on. I already released myself in the shower last night while thinking of my lovely mate. Yet I woke up with another damn hard-on. I don’t know how long I can stay away from my mate as each day the bond continues to grow.Since I can no longer sleep, I get up and shower again and dress in jeans and a button-up shirt with the sleeves folded to my elbows, and head to my office to get a little work in before breakfast.As I am working, I hear close to my office door a soft
MeganI was walking around and getting acquainted with the pack and discovered they have high respect for their Alpha. I also have noticed how they address me as Luna. I am not sure I am ready to be a Luna for another pack as yet, but with them being so kind to me I haven’t the heart to correct them. Nathan seems like a nice enough man but the loss of my mate and son is just too raw right now.It feels good having time to meet the pack and explore the packhouse. It is huge like a giant mansion or even a palace. This pack is one of the biggest and strongest there is. My old pack was not as strong or as big. That was the reason we needed allies to help. This pack was the closest but by the time we were alerted to the attack, it was too late when we got the message out to Nathan for help, thus his getting there too late.I do not blame him I blame the rogues. They were the ones who killed my family and pulled my son out of my arms. The memory of that moment will be forever etched into my
Nathan“About the Luna title.” She says which puzzles me.“What about it?” I asked taking a bite of my ham.“I am no longer a Luna. I lost that title when my pack was killed.”I frowned, “But you still are Luna being my mate.”“But it is not official. I am still grieving my family and friends along with my Pack. I cannot take up the mantel of a Luna yet.” Then she lowered her head, “It’s too soon.” She whispered.I sighed, and as much as I want to argue I will give her this and the time she needs to grieve. I made a promise I wouldn’t push her, and I won’t. “Alright, I will speak to the pack. But in one condition?”“And what is that?”“You allow us to get to know each other. And no, not in a sexual way either. Just the old fashion way of talking.” I give her a hopeful smile.She stared at me for a minute, and I can tell she is thinking it over. Then she nods yes, “Okay, I will give you that. We can take it slow and get to know each other.” Taking a deep breath she adds, “But no promis
Nathan (POV)I couldn’t be any happier than I am right now. I am going to be a father. Our family will be complete. After the doctor left, I placed my hand on my mate’s stomach and smiled at her as I leaned down and kissed her forehead.“Our pup,” I whispered in her ear. I was ecstatic. I couldn’t keep the smile off my face.I looked deeply into the eyes of Megan and that is when I saw it. Concern, dread, fear. I frowned as I asked, “Are you not happy, Love?”“You have to remember what all I have already been through,” She spoke in a tight voice.“It won’t repeat,” I say as I realize her big concern. “I promise you. It will not happen again. All three of us will be ok.”“I just can’t live with the thought of losing another mate and a child. I just can’t.” She broke down and sobbed, as I took her in my arms and held her.‘Goddess, I promise with my life there will be no repeat of what happened.’ I vowed to myself in my head. She has been through enough. I won’t let anything happen to m
Megan (POV)When the secret wall opened, and I saw Nathan running in giving an all-clear he spotted me and ran to me as I ran into his arms. I was so scared that I would lose him like I did Jason. I wouldn’t survive losing another mate.Nathan kisses me then kisses my forehead before saying, “The other Alphas are leaving us with four hundred and fifty of their strongest warriors, so along with ours we will not be caught off guard.”I breathed a sigh and nodded, “I am glad they came to help. I will forever be grateful.” My arms hugged him tightly, “And I am so glad you are ok. I don’t know how I would survive if anything ever happened to you.”His arms tightened, “Nothing will happen, my love. We have good friends and allies and now extra strong warriors.”“Still if any…”He cut me off, “I promise you nothing will happen to me.” As an afterthought, he added, “Or you.” He leans and kisses me sweetly as we hold each other.We stood there for a while just holding each other as we heard pe
Nathan (POV)So now we know who is behind all this. The question is how did he get rogues to work with him?After what Megan had told me I called for a meeting with my Beta and Gamma.“And this Kevin is behind all this?” Asked my Beta Jonathan. After I told him what Megan told me.“It has to be. Who else would want my mate?”He nods his head in agreement. As I continued, “But the question we need to figure out is, how is he getting rogues to cooperate with him?”“I can look into that for you,” Gary my Gamma suggests to me.Gary is a great tracker and has warriors under him who are skilled in finding things out. And I know he is devoted and quite loyal to me and is protective of his Luna.I nod, “Okay, just remember we are on a time crunch before they fall through with their threat.”“Over my dead body, Nate. No one will ever get our Luna. We have waited a long time for you to find her. We will all protect her with our lives.” Gary says standing from his chair.Before he leaves the roo
Megan (POV)I am in our room watching our son play with his blocks on the floor as I sew one of his favorite stuffed toys that had a little hole in it. I am smiling as he laughs in his play. I hear the door and my mate walks in.“Hey, little guy.” He says as he bends down and picks up our son and lifts him high and flies him around like an airplane. Making our son laugh hard. I laugh along with them and feel happy. I have my son and watching his father play with him warms my heart.He kisses our son’s cheek and puts him down to finish playing with his blocks. He then walks over to me and kisses me on the lips as I put the sewing down. “And how is my beautiful mate today?” He asks me.“I am doing well and quite happy.”He smiles at me. “I am happy too. You and our son are my life, and I will do everything I can to protect you both.”“I know you will. Let’s hope it will never come to that,” I say touching his cheek lovingly.Just then a knock sounds on the door and my mate gets up to an
NathanI watched Megan walk down towards the stage and my breath caught in my throat. She looked radiant in a royal blue off-one-shoulder evening gown. I still have a tough time believing this woman is my mate. She is everything I have ever desired in a mate. I couldn’t help the smile on my face as I reach my hand out to help her up the last two steps to me.Once on the stage, I announced in a clear voice, “We are here to celebrate my finding after all these years, my fated mate and Luna. Megan McQueen soon to be Megan Williams, my wife.” She smiles at me as I kiss her hand before taking the dagger and pacing her hand over the silver bowl. I slice her hand then sliced mine and join our hands as our blood joins and drips into the bowl.I feel the power surge flow from me to Megan as we both lift the bowl first to my mouth for a taste than to hers. I can tell exactly when the link to the pack opened to her thoughts as her eyes widen.‘You are the Luna of the Blue Lake pack now.’ I say i
MeganI liked Kat right off the bat. I hope the two of us can become friends. I watched as she gave instructions for our warmups including a three-mile run as well as push-ups and jumping jacks. I had not realized how out of shape I was, yet I was determined to give my best.Kat seemed pleased I was able to keep up and smiled as I ran passed her.“You are doing great, Luna.” She said as I was on the last mile around the track.I was actually surprised I wasn’t the last one. I was the fifth out of twenty beginners. After we were finished, Kat walked up to me. “Luna, you are catching on fast. I can tell you are going to surpass a few in this class.”I smiled, “Really? And please call me Megan.”She laughed, “Alright, Megan, and yes really.” She says patting my shoulder as she walked inside the circle we created.“Alright now. I am going to demonstrate a few basic maneuvers that I want you to team up in twos and try. Luna? I would like you teamed with me.”I nod and walked to stand next
Nathan She came to me. I can’t believe she came to me wearing a sexy nighty. Then the way she looked up at me with desire made my heart speed up in my chest. I know she felt the love I have for her, and I showed her in every way last night. It is now early morning, and she is laying in my arms as she sleeps. I am studying her face. She looks so angelic in my arms. Her dark hair spread out like a fan across my chest all silky and long. My Mate. Goddess, I love her. I want to always keep her safe. I promise myself to never let any harm come to her. As I hold her, I am thanking the goddess that my mate finally decided to come to me of her own accord. She was amazing last night. I couldn’t get enough of her that I had to take her three more times through the night. We both fell asleep sated in each other’s arms. I feel as if I am floating with joy. I am hoping I can talk her into permanently moving into my room as my Luna and mate. If she agrees I would like to plan her Luna ceremony. T
MeganI have decided to come down for dinner. Walking into the dining room I smell him and look up. He is sitting there watching me with hope in his eyes. Goddess is he sexy. I don’t get it. He has been occupying my thoughts these days and thinking less of Jason. Is it the mate bond? What is the Goddess wanting? I mean I even see Nathan in my dreams and what we are doing in my dreams will make one's panties wet. How is it I am wanting to be around Nathan more? I am confused. In my heart I don’t think I can give him up and I know I told him I need time but to be honest with myself. I want him. I want to feel his arms around me and touch me and those lips? Boy, don’t get me started on those sexy, kissable lips of his.I sat down on the Luna chair as it is a habit to do. He never seems to mind, and I can tell he likes that I do. I smile at him as he smiles and nods a welcome to me.“I want to say thank you for the walk today. I enjoyed it a lot.” I begin to try and start a conversation.
Nathan As we sat on the bench, watching the young pups playing, I saw a tear slide down her cheek and wrapped my arm around her in a hug. I feel her pain through our bond and know she is thinking of her son that she lost. I want so much to be able to make her happy again. I know it is too soon for her as she still grieves her loss. But how I desperately want to love her and make her feel loved. All I can do right now is to be here for her and let her know I care.“I have had enough sightseeing today. May we go back please?” She asked me in a thick voice filled with emotion.“Yes, of course, we can leave. Would you like to stop someplace for lunch first?”“No, thank you, I just want to get back.”I nod, “Alright, we will go back then.”I stand and give her my hand to help her up then we turn and begin the walk back to the packhouse.Once we get back, she quickly thanks me for the walk and runs up to her room. I sigh and went into my office and begin to do some work. My mind goes to th