#Caroline's perspective#After the training is over, I look over at Axel. He didn't have to say anything or act any differently. As always, I knew he had something on his mind. I always know. Before, it was his father being an asshole, but ever since his mother's death, it became deeper, more painful. Like a void in his chest.Sometimes, when the forest is quiet and we are on patrol, our eyes lock and for a brief second I can feel it too."Before you start ranting, I want to say something. You have the worst possible taste in women! What on earth were you thinking allowing Tania to pull you into the janitor closet?"Despite the sadness surrounding him, he laughs."I was bored and I wanted sex, my darling. And since my girlfriend won't do it with me, I will take it from someplace else."Girlfriend... My heart skips a beat when he says it now. And I hate it. When we agreed on this charade, I told myself a kiss or two for show won't mean anything. Sitting on his lap during the history cl
"You play dirty!" Caroline complains after I throw her off my back, right into a tree. She took her human form before I could even turn around, so I look away in an instant. "For the love of the Moon Goddess, you need to stop that! There's nothing here that you didn't see before! Now take your human form!"I have a few choice words at the idea, but unfortunately she is right and I just have to get used to seeing naked people all the time. It's either this or... her other idea. Apparently, if you don't grow out of this shyness by the time you are eighteen, you are ordered to walk around the pack grounds watching bad porn at full volume for an entire week. Hard to be embarrassed around people that have seen you like that..."You know, I've never seen people actually do it.""Oh, Goddess! No one does. Can you imagine the horror?" Caroline shakes her head and inspects the tree that she just hit. A few branches are broken and there's a deep scratch on her back that's healing quite fast. "Y
"I need you!" Axel whispers in between sharp breaths. "I want you!"My back hits the bed, bare as the shirt I was wearing was lost in the hallway, torn to pieces by the fire that was burning between us. Axel jumps on top of me, struggling to escape the prison of his clothes without taking his eyes off of me."Fuck it!" He shouts before ripping his shirt off with the claws that are now shinning in the dimly lit room. The pants get shreded too, falling in small pieces all around the floor. His eyes darken as he allows the animal inside to take control and his heartbeat gets calmer. He freezes for a second, a hunter holding his breath, waiting for me to make one move before he could devour."Axel!" I whisper, not wanting to stop even for a second.Because if I stopped, then the regret, the doubts, the cold harsh logic would was over me and the fire that is burning my chest would turn to ashes. And maybe that would be for the better. Maybe if I do that, I won't feel like shit tomorrow mor
"No!" The Alpha doesn't wait for me to finish my sentence. I am quite certain he was preparing to reject whatever my request was going to be from the moment I entered his office. And as I point that out, he laughs."You have a certain look on your face when you're about to ask something outrageous, Rose. It's like you get excited at the prospect of outraging me.""And yet, every request I made proved to be advantageous to the pack. Don't think I haven't heard that the Alphas are fighting for audiences with you. I don't even ask to come with you. Yet. I just want to make a semi-official visit to two packs. Two. It's not that bad.""You're asking me to send someone who wasn't even entirely part of the pack a year ago on a diplomatic visit to our closest allies. Without an explanation."Ah, yes... The explanations. Everyone wants one ever since I got Nala and started to screw with the rogues more than three generations of packs before ever could. And the more time passes, the more relent
"On our way now" I shoot Damon a message as we get into the car. Me, Axel and Caroline... the greatest trio of all time. I would actually laugh at the irony, if I wouldn't feel so god damn uncomfortable right now.Last evening, the Beta proposed Caroline joined us for the trip as she misses her older brother and our visit to the MoonWalk would be a perfect opportunity for them to see each other... and for her to spy on us so the Beta knows every detail of it. I wasn't surprised that he proposed it, as I already knew he was not happy the Alpha allowed us to go, but I didn't expect him to throw Caroline under the bus."You should have." Nala chimes in and the sudden voice in my head almost gives me a heart attack."Knock, Nala! Please!""On what, girl?"I sigh. Goddess knows I'll never get used to sharing my mind with someone else."He must have noticed how Caroline looks at Axel. How she's in pain when he holds my hand or smiles at me. Sending her was... unnecessarily cruel. He could h
"I see..." Alpha Carson didn't say much during the entire explanation except to ask a few questions, but now, that we reached the end of Damon's speech, he seems lost for words entirely."I thought the Moon Goddess didn't want us to tell the entire truth to anyone." I whisper to Damon as we wait for the Alpha to collect himself."The Moon Goddess can go suck a dick!" He lets out a small growl, enough to know he's pissed, but not enough to attract the Alpha's attention. Nala growls too, in response to the venom in his voice."What happened?""I managed to comnune with her before coming here. And at this point, she just pisses me off. She could have stopped this a long time ago. She had the power to. She can also just appear to all the Alphas in their dreams and tell them to just fight. No need for all this drama, for all the people I lost fighting a war that she could have prevented. And when I asked, she said the eternal bullshit of I gave all my children free will, I can not interven
"I was not smart as a child! I swear that I was blessed with a brain at the age of ten. Before that, my survival was pure luck!" Damon sighs as I'm on the ground laughing."I still don't believe it! No one would think that if they don't look down, gravity won't work! And why didn't you test it from something lower, why directly a fucking cliff?""I thought it needed to be high for it to work!" He shouts, putting all his soul in trying to convince me."Damon!""My father forbade me from looking at cartoons after that! It was horrible because I was stuck in the hospital for a month. He would bring me books. Books!""Poor you! Was it then that you were blessed with a brain?""Not even. Some friends would sneak me comic books.""You never talk about your friends from the pack..." I say and instantly regret it as he cheerful tone changed completely."We grew apart when I started to ask too many questions. They were comfortable with the way things were and didn't want to be dragged into a m
"Why the fuck didn't you run away with Axel and Damon?" I shout at Caroline. Or, at least, I try to shout in her direction as the dungeon is so dark I can't see where she is."You didn't order me to run." Her voice is so calm that it just pisses me off. It's like it's another Thursday afternoon for her."Oh, my bad then. I guess I didn't expect that I need to. Even more I thought that an order for me to go would have made you want to stay. Just because!""You are a member of my pack that was about to be taken away by the enemy. I know you don't like me, Rose, but not even you would be stupid enough to think I'd just run away and leave you behind."I am so damn close to tell her that she killed me before, not just abandoned me. She also led her pack to certain destruction to protect the enemy. But I have to remind myself that that Caroline is dead and the one sitting next to me in a dungeon knows nothing about our past life."If I wouldn't have gotten Nala, would you stand by me?" I as