"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
"The Moon Priestess. A pleasure to meet you. Let me introduce myself, as I am the one who brought you here. I am Leon BlackBlood." The king has a pleasant smile and is dressed impeccably in a very expensive-looking suit. His office is enormous, with leather couches surrounding a long coffee table in the middle and a massive dark wood desk by the window. The walls are full of shelves holding all sorts of books and antiques."You didn't bring me here, I came on my own, as I could have ordered your people to go with far less effort than I needed to order two Alphas.""Well, neither of them is really an Alpha, right?""Axel will be Alpha in a month and Damon already is, right?"He leans back on his chair and looks me up and down, that pleasant smile still lingering on his lips."You are so familiar with my son. I suppose it's normal since the Moon Goddess blessed both of you. What does your mate think about your close friendship?" He asks, as he signs me to take a seat and pushes a cup of
Breathe in and breathe out. Mind the pace of the heartbeats. Mind all the little muscles in your face. Your breathing. Your position on the chair.I wonder if he took any precautions before inviting me in his office without chains? I wonder if I could gather enough strength to give him an order or what did he instruct the people that are probably watching this meeting through hidden cameras to do in case he gets compromised.The Moon Goddess warned me not to try the order on him before. That he lost the connection with her entirely and there's no telling how he would react. But if I have no other choice?"What gave you the impression I consider you a fool?""The fact that you really thought you can tell me whatever you want and I will jump to believe you without checking it, Miss Rose." He accentuates my name like it's a threat, but despite the lump that formed in my throat I try to play along."I don't consider you a fool. But you should extend the same courtesy. I wanted to check if
"It's been three weeks and every time I see you here, you have the same expression on your face. I wonder if you can get wrinkles from frowning in a dream." I say as the familiar world resided by the Moon Goddess takes shape around me."I don't know about wrinkles, but you'll certainly give me heart problems." Damon offers me a cheeky smile, but even so, I can see the deep circles around his eyes. On his otherwise perfect appearance, they seem so out of place."I won't get caught... He can't possibly know I can commune while in wolf shape. And Caroline even started training with Nala so they seem like they communicate through the pack link. I am being as careful as I can be." I try to erasure him as well as I can, while brushing my hand against where his arm should be. Instead, only warm air greets my touch."It's not you I worry about... But I can't forget who Caroline was and from what Axel has been telling me about your Beta's reaction, that man is up to no good.""I'm still surpri