Everyone involved will be in for a rude awakening when all was said and done.
THEO I had felt like I was drowning underneath the weight of my mate’s pain and injuries. It had killed me that it took so fucking long to track her down. I had never felt such fear in my entire life than what had flooded through me from the moment that I realized something was wrong with her until the moment that she was treated. However, even then, I still held a lot of fear within me that anything could go wrong while she healed. What I had not expected was that Dante and Ziyah would show up with Kade and Elle because Ziyah wanted to try to heal both Brynn and Kalen. It was like a sign from the Goddess right then and there. I had never felt the level of power that radiated from her while she healed my mate. It took a continuous twenty minutes, but the cuts, bruises, rebreaks, and everything had been healed. She was even able to siphon the wolfsbane out of Moira. The last thing she had said was that there had been a bit of pressure on the womb from all of the trauma, but she was a
BRYNN A BBQ was thrown for dinner the day that we were released from the hospital. It was great to be around everyone. I would be honest and admit that a small part of me feared that I would never see them again once we were kidnapped. Thankfully, that was not the case at all. Kade and Elle showed up with the twins. Goddess, those two were going to be absolute heartbreakers as they grew up. It was adorable that they only had eyes for one special girl. Their journey would have its own obstacles, but the best things in life were worth the work to obtain them. I was also happy to see that Dante and Ziyah decided to come as well. They brought the two Light Fae with them, and I could tell immediately that they would thrive at Shadow Falls because they had someone who could help them heal and rise above the past. It was interesting to see that their older brother had actually worked with Caiathus, and that Ziyah’s grandmother had helped train some of the warriors from the other clan. I lo
THEO Brynn had asked if we could all speak privately so as to not be overheard by whiny bitches. That caused the bitch to snarl. They led us into an empty conference room, so I took a seat and pulled her down onto my lap. I could tell how that interrogation brought her a little bit of peace. It also provided an outlet for everything that she, Moira, Kalen, and Jackson had gone through. “Khalid wasn’t on the same level as Dhalia or anything, but I think it would be within our benefit if we brought Lauren and her father into the dreamy interrogation chamber as well. It wasn’t too long ago that you guys mentioned Lauren was still terrified of me after all this time. I can pit daughter against mother because I never would’ve been forced to see her until the bitch threw her own daughter under the bus. Then we can pit Luna and Alpha against each other, because while he and Lauren were wasting away here, she and her son were getting their jollies off,” Brynn proposed. I shivered in disgus
JACKSON My parents raised us to understand the honor of belonging to the Alpha family. Not the title or status. No. The honor of being chosen to help lead the pack. It was not just the Alpha and Luna who were responsible for it. Every member of our family was taught the importance of ensuring that each member of Dark Moon was cared for. It was a damn good thing that I was born second because I never would have wanted to be Alpha. To be the figurehead of an entire pack where the majority of responsibility was aimed at would have seriously fucked with my head. Thankfully, Theo was Alpha and was a damn good one at that. Our Beta did not have an heir when Theo was poised to take over, so our father told him to choose someone whom he believed would be the best partner to help him run the pack. I was completely fucking surprised when he approached me with the idea. It only took my wolf, Zeus, telling me that being Beta would allow us to really help protect the pack and keep it safe. Plus,
BRYNN There were faint whispers and shuffling in the bedroom from my two loves, so I just pretended to still be asleep. I did not want to ruin whatever was being planned. “…yes, Princess. Anything else?” Theo whispered quietly. “Honey, Papa.” I did not even have to be looking to know that she would have those adorable innocent eyes looking up at him. Those eyes could get him to do whatever she wanted. Nobody would ever believe it if he said that he was not a wrapped around her little finger. Theo was an amazing father, but I was not even surprised about that though. Being an Alpha was very similar to being the pack’s father. An Alpha still had to nurture, care for, protect, and lead the pack just like any father would for his children. Theo was an amazing Alpha, but he was even more amazing as a father. “Momma! Morning!” Mira called out after climbing on the bed. My eyes fluttered open as I tried to make it look like I had been sleeping. Either my acting skills were superb, or s
BRYNN We were infiltrating Alpha Jacob’s pack tonight. When I said we, I meant we. Theo believed that I would be sitting this one out because I was pregnant, but that was not going to be happening. Hell no. I would be taking extra precautions, but I would be accompanying them. Why was I so adamant about going? One, I would not sit back, allowing my mate to go into a potential warzone with me. Two, Theo and Jackson would end up severely wounded if I was not there. Three, I was really fucking stubborn and would not take no for an answer. I slipped on the bulletproof clothing from Nightshade that was altered to accommodate me being pregnant, which meant an extended size as well as extra protection around the abdomen area and the mirror side of my back. Then I also had on a Fae amulet that provided an additional shield across my body. Like I said, I would take extra precautions but would not be sitting this out. I took a deep breath to steady my nerves against what was bound to happen
THEO As much as I did not want my mate to be on this mission, I did see how much her presence had already helped. From being able to pull on the shadows for our cover to doing what she did with the chick in the kitchen. Brynn and Moira had both been training hard with Tris and Paise to master her Vessel abilities. They still had not been able to identify them all since there were hundreds of possible abilities that previous Vessels had of their own. Not everyone had the same abilities. Thus, it was a long process of figuring out which ones they were able to utilize. ‘Our mates are powerful and sexy,’ Zen commented. ‘Not to mention that they both are really adventurous.’ He snickered as he remembered the last time that Moira surprised him by calling him out to her trail and attacked him. Okay, attack was definitely a loose term. You could not attack the eager and very willing. Her howls of pleasure were loud enough to catch the attention of a couple of patrol wolves. When they came
BRYNN While the bastard Alpha was apprehended, we would need to deal with the remaining pack. An Alpha set the standard for a pack. This Alpha was a fucking bastard who did extremely despicable things, so it was safe to say that there would be more in this pack who shared the same ideals. First, we needed to speak with Scott. The safest option was for her to mindlink him, getting him up here. I helped her rinse off the powder first so that it was possible. Surprisingly, I was able to keep my anger reigned in when I took stock of even more injuries. Luna Charlotte was extremely embarrassed that someone else was seeing the state that she was in even if that embarrassment was misplaced because there was nothing to be embarrassed about. It did not take a rocket scientist to pinpoint what caused her to feel that way. “I want you to look into my eyes so that you know I’m speaking the truth with these words.” I paused until her eyes met mine. “What he did to you is unforgivable and shows