“Alpha Elias.” Dad said, standing up. “Hello Alpha John. Aren’t you going to introduce us?” Alpha Elias asked, still staring at me. “Ava, this is Alpha Elias of the Winter Storm pack. They are located about three hours away from here. Alpha Elias, this is my daughter Ava.” Dad introduced us. So Alpha Elias walked over to me and he extended his hand straight out so he could shake it. I slowly reached out and took his hand, and he clasped it really tight and placed his other hand over the top. “It is so nice to finally meet you.” Alpha Elias said, staring into my eyes. “I wish I could say the same.” I said. “Ava.” Dad warned. “Do you think you could let go of my hand before you cut off the circulation?” I asked. “Ava.” Dad warned again. Alpha Elias narrowed his eyes on me, not looking at dad once, and then started laughing. “Well, you are everything that your father said that you are.” He said. “Great. That doesn’t explain why you still have my hand in a vice grip.”
That night dad had made sure that everything was perfect in the house for Alpha Elias to come to dinner. He even told them to bring out the really expensive china and silverware. I hadn’t even seen this stuff before, and they didn’t look like they had been used very often. He even had one of the omega’s lay a dress out on my bed that he wanted me to wear that night, but I took one look at it and put it back in my closet. I wasn’t wearing that thing if my life depended on it. I had a shower before dinner and then I got dressed into black bra, a black long sleeved sheer top that showed off my midriff and tied up around my stomach, a black leather skirt and black knee high boots. Very different to the baby blue and white dress that he wanted me to wear. I wasn’t going to allow anyone to start telling me how to dress and how to act in front of other people. I don’t care if dad did hold this Alpha in high esteem. I am one person that this Alpha is going to have to get used to if he
As I was walking towards my room I heard Sandra talking in her room that she shares with dad, but I knew that she couldn’t be talking to dad because he was still downstairs. The door was open just a crack and I stood next to the door and saw Sandra pacing back and forth while she was on the phone. She sounded like she was crying. “What the hell was Elias doing here mom? He just showed up unannounced and invited himself into my home…I don’t care…you know what he did the last time I saw him…I can’t have him here ruining what I have now…I don’t care if John is a marriage of convenience for me and Elias can’t ruin that…he tried to force me to mate him…I don’t ever want to see that bastard again…you could have at least told me that he was here…I know that he got me mixed up with Isabella last time but do you remember how close he came to getting me instead of her?...I don’t care mom, keep him the fuck away from me.” Sandra hung up the phone and threw it on the bed. I snuck back to my
NOAH POV Jax got back to the hotel after his first day at playing guidance officer at Ava’s school and he actually looked pretty damn tired. “How did it go?” I asked, as he grabbed a beer from the fridge. “You know, being a guidance officer means they send all of the troubled kids to me so I can talk to them. That wasn’t part of the deal.” Jax complained. “Yeah. I know. But it was the closest way we could get to Ava.” I said. “I know that. But it still sucked. I had to listen to kids’ problems all day and most of it was bullshit. One girl came in with a problem that her mother wouldn’t let her wear mini skirts to school.” Jax said. “Let me guess. Was that Stella?” I asked. “How did you know that?” Jax asked as he sat on the couch. “Because I’ve been doing my own research on the kids at that school. Stella seems to be the only pain in the ass that Ava has had. Her and her friends.” I said. “Yeah, well. She didn’t mention Ava but if that’s the girl that she beat up, I d
I stood there staring at Elias on the other side of the door, glaring at him. Trying to control the growl that was about to rise up in my chest. “Oh please. Don’t start this again. Your mother told me to come here and try to make peace with you.” Elias said. “Since when do you listen to anything mom has to say? You tossed her aside the second she gave you an heir.” I said. “Yeah. But you’re not exactly the heir that I would have wanted. You always took her side and now you’re saying that you don’t want to take over the pack.” Elias said. “What the hell are you doing here?” I asked. And he pushed past me and came into the hotel room. He saw Mason and Jax standing off to the side and he looked around at where we had been living. “Well that doesn’t surprise me. I don’t recall giving you two permission to leave the pack.” Elias said. “I gave them permission. As the future Alpha.” I said, still standing behind him and still holding the door open. “What are you doing here Noah
AVA POV The next day I went to meet Noah for lunch at a restaurant and he was already there waiting for me when I arrived. “Hi Ava. You look really nice today.” Noah said, standing up from the table when I arrived. “Thank you.” I said. He even pulled the chair out for me as I sat down. “I hope I’m not interfering too much with your busy schedule.” He said. “No. It’s fine. I’m just heading to dad’s office after this.” I said. “Oh yeah. How is all the Alpha training going?” “Well, at the moment he only has been familiarizing myself with the pack. Going through their files and all that crap. It’s pretty boring. Well, it was until late last night.” I said. “Why? What happened late last night?” I asked, curiously. “We were informed that a couple of people had gone missing. It’s a complete mystery. A young couple. They went out on a date but never came home.” I explained. “That is strange. What do you think it could mean?” He asked. “Who the hell knows? Maybe something
When I got to school the next day Wesley was still concerned about me. I wasn’t being as talkative as usual as we walked to my locker first. But he wasn’t trying to bring it up. “Oh look. It’s the happy couple.” Someone said, walking past us. And I didn’t even put my head up to look at who said it. “Alright. Now I know that something is really wrong with you.” Wesley said. “Why would dad invite that bastard to dinner? Why would they be friends now?” I asked. “Because that was a long time ago and they have obviously put it behind them.” He said. And I turned to look at him, so my face wasn’t buried in my locker anymore. “How could you put something like that behind you? He lost his daughter that night.” I said. “I know. But a lot can happen between then and now.” He said. “None of it makes sense.” I said. I closed my locker and we started walking towards Wesley’s locker when we saw Skylar, Sarah and Stella walking towards us. “I thought you would have been expelled by
As soon as I got to the office my dad was sitting at his desk and this time he didn’t have anyone else in there with him. I was surprised by that. “Where are the warriors who are looking for mom?” I asked as I sat down. “They checked in this morning. They don’t have any new leads. I think I might have to call them back in.” Dad said. “You’re giving up.” I said. “They can’t just keep looking aimlessly. I mean, this is a really big country to search. We need to find more concrete evidence.” Dad said. “Maybe I should go out there and look. I would probably have better luck.” I said. “Absolutely not. Not when we know that there are hunters out there. They will do anything to get their hands on an Alpha’s daughter.” He said. So I turned the computer on and I grabbed some files but instead of doing what I was meant to, I got on the dark web again. I put that photo of my mother tied to the chair on there with the caption ‘if anyone notices this location please let me know’.
I got out of that car, taking the phone with me, and I got back in the car with Noah and Mason sped off down the highway again. "Are you fucking crazy? You scared the hell out of me." Noah yelled. "Well, I'm glad that I did it." I said, showing him the phone. "What about it?" "Leo just called to ask if I was dead. He set these bastards after me." I said. "Did you say anything?" Noah asked. "Only that I was going to fuck him up. I think he took me seriously." I said. "Probably. Since you just killed two men that were meant to kill you." Noah said. "Exactly." I smirked. "Don't fucking do that to me again." Noah said, pulling me closer to him. I knew that he needed me to be sitting near him just so he could calm down. It was the calming effect of the mate bond that he needed right now. I guess I must have really scared him. "I know that you are used to only thinking about yourself. But you can't do that anymore." Noah whispered as he inhaled my scent, right next to
Once we got Noah back to the cabin we had to pack up all of our things as fast as we could. If there were stealth warriors hanging around then there was a good chance that they had already made the call to tell their boss where we were. I'd never seen those men before, so I didn't know if they worked for dad or not. But we just knew that we needed to get out of there. We packed up the car in record time and got out of there as fast as possible. Noah and I were in the backseat while the other two were in the front seat. Noah had picked up the pieces of the necklace and he was examining it in the car. Trying to figure out what it was made of. It had to be something made of dark magic to take my memories the way that it did. "Any ideas?" I asked. "None. I don't have a clue about what this material is." He said. "Alright. Well, keep the pieces. Just in case." I said, holding out a ziplock bag for him to put them in. "Just in case what?" He asked. "Just in case I need to ha
As I was sitting on the ground staring at the ring, I was pulled out of it when Mason yelled at me and attacked the warriors that were approaching me. I tried to get to my feet, but I knew that I was really badly hurt right now. At least a few several broken ribs and a broken ankle. I saw Noah slowly getting to his feet and he had blood all over his face. He wasn't looking too good himself, but that didn't stop him from attacking the warriors that were coming near me. He was going to protect me with everything that he had. As the last warriors realized that he was the only one left standing. The only one left alive, he took one last effort to lunge at me but was grabbed my Noah who had extended his claws and ripped the warriors throat out. Dropping his dead body on the ground. Noah ran over to me and kneeled down in front of me. "Ava." He said, looking me over. Seeing that I was badly hurt. But I was staring at him like he wasn't even there. I looked back down at my hand a
I got up out of bed and I looked out the window at the moon that was shining brightly right into my bedroom and I was more confused than ever. If my mother wasn't actually my mother, then what happened to her. Noah mentioned knowing my mother at one point. Now I need to know exactly everything that he knew about her. I got changed into a grey sweater, tights, socks and sand shoes. I left the house and I started jogging around the lake, trying to clear my head. I was running through the woods, dodging the branches, jumping over the ones that were on the ground, it was almost like an obsticle course. Usually something like this was really enjoyable to me, but today it wasn't. I don't know why. There was something going on with me that I couldn't explain. Something that felt strange and foreign. I hated this feeling and I just kept running until I didn't feel like this anymore. But the problem was, the feeling was going away. And by the time I was passing the house for the fourth ti
Knowing the lengths that my father was going to in order to get me back, made me realize that he was more desperate to get me back than I thought. And Noah was determined that it was because he had an agreement with Elias, or he was in Elias’ debt or something like that. Either way, he only wanted me so he could trade me to an Alpha that was going to use me for whatever the hell he wanted. And Noah was damn sure he wasn’t going to let that happen. I was just upset that we had dragged Jax and Mason into this, but they said that they wouldn’t have it any other way. They were going to be beside Noah’s side, no matter what. Even if they were now labelled as kidnappers. That still didn’t make me feel any better. But I had to try and get my head straight. I had to find out what Wesley and his family wanted with me and I needed to find out who my real mother was. It seemed like Isabella Matthews never even existed. Everything about her was just erased to make it look like she was never th
We had no idea where the hell we were going. We just needed to get the hell out of the city. We didn’t know how many allies my father had so Noah was behind the wheel of the car and he took all the side streets until we finally hit the highway and we kept on going. I was sitting in the front with Noah while the other two were chatting in the backseat. “So, if Elias is your father then does that mean you are next in line to his pack?” I asked. “Not anymore. He disowned me when I said that I wasn’t going to go ahead with his plan to kidnap you.” Noah said. “But you didn’t know that I was your mate back then. Why would you not want to do it?” I asked. “Because I saw what he did to your mother. I wasn’t going to let him do it to another girl.” He said. “So, the sadistic Alpha raised a son with morals. That’s unusual.” I said. “Yeah. We need to find somewhere to hold up where they won’t think to look.” Noah said. “I don’t know my dad that well. So, I don’t know where he will think
I snuck back up to my room once I was finished in the office and I made sure that there was no trace of me in the office. And I definitely printed out those correspondences from dad to Elias. I went back up to my room and I paced around for a little while before I sat at my desk and I turned on my own computer. I started researching Elias. But the only thing I could find was all the praise that he was getting in the human world for all the good deeds that he had done for people. All the charities that he was involved with and the schools that he donated money to in poverty stricken neighborhoods. He looked like a real saint on paper, but that was about it. There was nothing in the press to make him look bad. He was never caught up in a scandal. So I typed in my father’s name and he wasn’t in as many articles but they were just as clean as Elias. These men were really careful to keep their true selves hidden. They definitely didn’t want anyone to see what they were really lik
Noah and I sat at the table talking for ages, but I knew the reality of the situation. I knew that I needed to get home. Before my dad realized that I was gone. My phone started ringing and I saw that it was Wesley, but I ignored it. I then sent him a message and told him that dad had me doing some pack work and I couldn’t talk to him now. I didn’t know how I was going to handle the whole Wesley situation, but I knew that I needed to keep it close to the vest. I couldn’t let anyone, except Noah, know what I know. There was too much at stake. Noah drove me home but he stopped down the road so the camera’s and guards didn’t pick up his car or anything like that. “Will you be alright sneaking back in?” He asked. “Yeah. I’ll be fine. I’ve done it heaps of times.” I said. “Alright. Listen, it would be best if Wesley doesn’t suspect anything right now.” He said. “I know. Same with dad and Sandra. I won’t tell them anything.” I said. “Alright. I know that this is hard. And I
As soon as I had heard enough from Wesley and his parents, I left their house and I started walking around the city aimlessly. I didn’t know where I was going or what I was doing. Not until I realized that I was standing outside the hotel that Noah was staying in. I stood there staring at the building. Still not moving. Like I was in shock. “Ava.” Someone said, walking up beside me. I turned my head and Jax was there. “Hello counselor.” I said. “Noah already messaged me and told me that you know the truth. Are you alright?” He asked. “I don’t know.” I said. “Come inside.” He said. But I shook my head. “I’m not leaving you out here alone. Come on.” He said. So he took me inside the hotel and up to their penthouse suite. He opened the door and I saw another man sitting on the couch drinking a beer. But as soon as he saw me walk in, he jumped up really suddenly and started acting really weird. “Ava. This is our weirdo friend Mason. And now you see why I was asked to be yo