Wednesday… The doorbell rings and I call, “Come on in!” Dev and I are in the kitchen, putting the finishing touches on dinner. We all have dinner together at least once per week, typically on Mondays. However, since we all had just gotten home on Sunday evening, we elected to move it to Wednesday. In walk all of my males, Alexander, Jacob, and Rowen. “Mama, Pop, how you guys doing?” Jacob says immediately coming into the room and giving me a kiss on the cheek. Though I think he’s using that as an excuse to steal a carrot from the salad I’m making. “Hello, handsome. How’s life?” I ask, smacking his hand to get him out of the salad bowl. He gives me a cheeky grin as he pops the carrot in his mouth and walks over to Dev to give him a man hug. “Life is just like me,” he says as he hugs Dev. “Cool, calm, and looking good.” All of us groan and I watch Rowen smack his shoulder and Alexander roll his eyes before he gives me a huge hug. He wraps me up in a giant bear hug li
It’s Thursday night. Poker night with the boys. I love this tradition. It’s something that Hakeem, Gael, and I started when we got everything settled down with restructuring an entire continent’s government and building an entirely new city. We play more for bragging rights, but once my boys and some of the other’s around the academy started joining in regularly, we played for humiliation. The night’s big winner got to pass out some type of punishment to the losers. I’ve had to give training wearing a neon green dress, dye my hair hot pink which incidentally does transfer to your wolf, call every alpha in the continent over FaceTime with a full face of makeup, and given all the lunas in the area a lap dance. But I’ve also made Hakeem and Gael do anything that they wanted to Meredith without ever pleasuring themselves for an entire week, which was well worth any other punishment I may have ever gotten. Tonight, we have me, Hakeem, Gael, Nathan (Naomi’s son with Julian), an
After Dev explained his idea for Tomas, we all made it our mission to make sure that he lost. To who, it didn’t matter, because we were all going to follow through with Dev’s punishment. It made anything that we would have to do if we lost worth it for the next year’s worth of punishments. To try and distract him, we started asking about his mission. We needed the information anyway. “So, how did everything go?” Nathan asks, raising the bet in the pot. I toss in my bet and Tomas folds in disgust. “Man, it was a fucking shit show. The Riding Hoods had rustled up some asanbosom, the closest thing to real-life vampires there are out there. Like a fucking bare-ass monkey with huge ass claws and teeth. They turned them loose on an entire village. Killed everyone: Men, women. All of the damn kids. Even the fucking pets. Drained fucking dry.” Gaels folds as well and Nathan calls it, me taking the pot. “And what the fuck did they hope to do my releasing those things onto h
“Amelia Shyla Singh! What the hell have you brought us to?” I ask. It’s Girls’ Night with me, Meredith, and Amelia. Amelia is Declan and Carmen’s daughter, Tomas’s sister, and Gael’s niece. Unlike our males, who do the same thing every Guys’ Night, we have a different person pick what we’re going to do each time. Spa days, cooking classes, wine tasting, the strip club that I will NEVER tell Devin about and thank the Goddess that Rowen had elected to visit Xander so that he didn’t spy on us. We’ve done it all. Fati, JoJo, Chris, and a lot of the other she-wolves come when they can, but tonight it happens to be just the three of us. But tonight is a first. We are in an extremely long gallery, almost like an indoor shooting range. But all the shooting ranges that I’ve ever been in are sleek, modern, and minimalist. This place is all rugged wood, wood chips on the floor, and males in flannel shirts and jeans. Twangy country music is playing loud on the sound system. Waitr
“Beautiful, how much longer are you gonna be gone? We miss you,” I whine into the FaceTime call with Kayla. “I know, Brandon. I need my Master and my Alpha. Unfortunately, my old boss is out because he had a family emergency. His daughter had to have an emergency appendectomy and she became septic because of it. She’s only 12, so…” Kayla shrugs. “He needs to be at my exit interview because he’s my direct supervisor. I won’t be coming back until at least Tuesday.” Both Zak and I groan, missing our mate almost unbearably. “You could come down?” Kayla suggests. “Just for the weekend?” “I have to go to Arcadia tomorrow morning to see Esteban’s cousin’s alpha. He has to come to Arcadia for his brother’s graduation. He said he’d come a day early and meet with Hakeem and me. That way, we could talk with the cousin in real time through his mindlink. Hopefully, after that I’ll be able to get Esteban and send him home to Chris,” I say. “Soooo, you could come after?” Kayla
I have never been this nervous about a date before. It’s almost insane that I feel that way right now. But I’ve wanted Rowen and Jared for so long that it only makes sense I guess. And I’ve never been with them romantically on a 1:1 basis. It was always all three of us. Since we returned on Monday, I’ve seen Rowen everyday, but we haven’t really had time alone. Monday and Tuesday nights, I had night patrol. Wednesday, he had family dinner with his parents and I was catching up on school work because of night patrols. I had a test this morning and I definitely didn’t study over break, unless you count anatomy. Male anatomy if you want to be specific. I have two specimens that I could map out with my eyes closed. We’ve had lunch together or talked after training but we haven’t really had any quality time. But Rowen and I have decided that we would have a date night tonight, our first free night since we’ve returned. We’ve got a couple of dates set up over the next few da
I’ve been to the girls’ apartment often. Summer and her crew were some of the best friends that we had. My family and I have lived here with Fati and JoJo all of our lives, since their mom, Meredith, is the main oracle of the Goddess and my parents are demi-gods. And I’ve said before that Jacob, Alexander, and I basically grew up with Summer, Chris, and Jared. The only one that we haven’t grown up with in our little group is Jai. He’s the son of Liam, Sandra, and Bhakti. About every six months, we meet up with all of the original trios from the war. My parents had made amazing friends during that time and they all made every effort to make this meeting happen. In fact, in the 20 years that they've been meeting up, there have only been a handful of times that anyone has missed and that’s usually because they were too far along in a pregnancy or just had a pup. We know Jai from there. We all get along with most of the trio kids. We even call ourselves the legacies, since
The ride from the Artemis Area back home to Arcadia is a long and winding one. We’ve made this trip many times over the years, sometimes with Dev’s family, sometimes with others, but at least four times a year. We’ve never forgotten our friendship with Charlie, Zak, and Brandon. Meredith never forgot her home. We had our favorite haunts that we liked to go to, but we’ve also made all kinds of side trips: Dollywood, Nashville, New Orleans, Disney, D.C., all kinds of places. The girls, particularly, like being around the humans. Seeing how they live. They find them fascinating, with their lack of senses and sense of community. I think they actually scare them. Like watching lions at the zoo. This time, we stopped in St. Louis, MO. The Gateway Arch. The Grand Hall Light Show. Forest Park. The Wheel. The aquarium and the zoo. Grand Center Arts District. So many things to do. And the food! I loved the food. It’s always my favorite part of our trips. Bionic apples.