Bridget’s POV“Thank you, Bridget,” Mrs. Taylor says as I bring her the muffins today.It’s my favorite part of the day. I used to do this with Abby and Kesly when I was a little girl. We hand out baked goods every day to widows. Over the years between rogue attacks and the one war we have lost warriors. They left behind mates and children.Kesly likes to check on the widows every day. When a werewolf loses their mate, they can lose themselves. By checking in on them daily, Kesly knows who needs extras support and who is coping. “I miss my smiling Luna Marcella, how are they fairing?” I hear Mrs. Curby ask Kesly.“Well, when I spoke to my son last night, her heat is over, and they are traveling the packs in China now. They will start working their way west, ending in Glasgow where they will fly to New York and then home,” Kesly tells her.“Oh Bridget, it is so nice to see you back out here. We have missed your sweet face as well,” Mrs. Curby tells me, seeing me. “I hear plan
Bridget’s POVPresent Day“We are here,” Mark says.Trent bounds out of the car, and I see him wrap Dana in a hug.Ki follows him and also gives her a hug. As Ki moves away, I see it. I sit in the back of the SUV and see Dana nod to Mark, Ty, and Victor with a small exhale, waiting for me to exit the car.Trent looks at the back glass, can he see through the tinted window?I have tears in my eyes looking at Dana’s scars. Attacking a ranked member is serious and my dad punished her before Alpha heard about it. Gabe and Kesly were at an Alpha Meeting.Evander banished her before his parents returned. Her arms, chest, and face have scars from what Dad made her endure. My lies made this once beautiful creature a monster.“Grandma, I’ve never tapped into my witch side. I know we all said we would hide it, but today, today I need you,” I whisper. “Heal her, make her whole again. Show outwardly the change inside of me. Let everyone see I am truly repented.”As I spoke a wind picked up outside
Marcella’s POV“You good, Darlin?” Evander asks me as we board our plane home.It’s been a fantastic summer, we have visited packs all over the world and meet some amazing Alphas and Lunas. “Just thinking about things. Wesley is staying at Westmoreland, I hate that. But I get it. He is going to be Alpha there. Mark and Ty are there too. Bridget is at Northwestern, right?” I ask, looking up at him.“Yes, she will even be staying the summer. The only time she would come home is for Victor’s takeover from his Dad. I don’t think she will come for our transfer next November.” He tells me.“So, we have 15 months, 15 months of no responsibilities just learning the ropes,” I tell him as we cuddle in. “Correct. We are about to start our Happily Ever After,” He smiles and kisses my head.“Our happily ever after. Wow, it started with a rejection and now it's a happily ever after.”Evander lifts my chin, so I look him in the eye.“It started with the most stubborn she-wolf on the planet refusing
Stevee’s POV“Hi, I’m Bridget,” She is blonde and tall.“Hi, I’m Stevee,” I reach out and shake her hand.“First year?” She asks as my brother pulls my trunk into the room.“Yeah, you?” I ask, pointing to the empty side of the room.“Yeah,” She smiles and sits on her bed. She already has her half of the room pink and cute. This is going to be interesting.“You seem older?” Steven, my twin with zero tack says.“Oh, I had a medical condition that delayed my coming to school. I'm all good now. Fit as a fiddle,” Bridget shakes her shoulders and gives us wide smile.“Steven?” Her voice makes me want to shoot myself. Steven’s girlfriend Teresa.“In here babe,” he yells.“Wow, Stevee in a half pink room. This going to be fun. Whose color scheme is this?” Teresa tosses her red hair and leans in the doorway.“Me, got a problem?” Bridget stands up and I swear she looks like Regina George.“Oh no, I love it. Your roommate may have a problem,” Teresa looks at me and smirks. “She has darker tastes
Stevee’s POV“See, what you need is two beautiful young women sweetening your cheeks before the cards are dealt,” Judge laughs as Bridget and I help him rake in another pot. “Especially, the blonde, so beautiful.”Bridget giggles at the compliment.“It’s nice to be appreciated by such a handsome man,” Bridget coos.“Surprised your dads let you around all these dangerous men,” Ace Fritz, my ex’s cousin, gives me a smirk.“Oh, bless your heart,” I say with a giggle. “You think my dads get a say in what I do.”Judge lets out a laugh. “This one was sitting on my knee, picking cards to trade before she knew her numbers.”“I remember her, the card shark,” Thomas Keep is a button man and another regular. I walk over and hug his neck.If shit ever goes down that involves me, you watch how fast Chicago’s underground joins together to defend me. I’ve always said, I’m not the princess you mess with.“Jealous she only charms me?” Judge laughs as I scurry back to his side.“She looks good in that
Stevee's POV“It’s going to be your mother,” Dad Nate tells me. “Blame Dad Matt.”“Consider it my final act of co-parenting,” Dad Matt says, rolling his eyes.“Hello, mother,” I say.“Hello, my dear, you are in town, stop by here with your friends. I want to meet them,” She sounds sober, she is doing well this time. I check my watch, its’s 10pm; so, her being sober is a good thing. Maybe she is for real now?“Okay mom, we were heading out, we will stop by,” I say.“Oh wonderful,” She hangs up.“Did she sound okay?” Dad Nate asks, eyebrows raised and jaw tight.“Yeah, for her, she sounded great,” I tell them.“Be careful, baby,” Dad Nate kisses my head and goes back inside.Bridget and I head to my car and Mark and Ty follow us.“So you were hot for teacher?” I ask her as we drive away.“I was hot for that teacher, give me a girl who wouldn’t be,” Bridget plays with her phone. “Now you are hot for Judge?” I ask.“He looks like he could be fun for while. I mean, he’s just for now. What
Wesley’s POV“Come on, you don’t want to go back now?” Mark asks me as we stand in my dad’s office.“I’m home, I thought Bazin had become home, but Marcella spent a lot time and effort into making Westmoreland a good place for me,” I tell everyone.“Son, of course I think you should be here. You are the future Alpha, and you should be building relationships with your pack. Just not sexual ones,” Dad tells me.“I’ll stick to humans,” I tell him. “I’m not Atlas, I have no plans to treat my pack as a harem.”“It will save you from awkward lunches,” Ty jokes, bumping Mark’s shoulder with his tongue in his cheek.“What are you going to tell Victor?” Mark asks.“That I’m training to take over here and I don’t want to be under Marcella’s thumb all the time,” I sit in the chair closest to door.“You make your sister cry and Snookums is going to kick your ass,” Mark shakes his head, talking to me.“Snookums can try all day,” I mumble under my breath.Victor hasn’t called me, gamed, or acknowle
Victor’s POV“Beta,” the flight attendant smiles at me as she hands me a drink.“Not yet, very soon,” I smile back.“No mate?” She pokes out her lip and I notice she is more unbutton than normal.“Not yet,” I answer, looking directly at her chest. She wants it in my face, I’ll look. “Such a cute Beta, interested in a little inflight entertainment?” She leans closer and straddles my lap. She has her breast pressed against my face.I stick my tongue out and lick between them. “You want to go for ride?” I ask, running my hands up her thighs. Her stocking stop at her upper thigh and she isn’t wearing underwear. She is ready for a ride. “I don’t kiss lips, not for a quick ride.”“I just want to feel the Beta inside me,” She unzips my pants.“Let me get a condom on,” I push her back slightly.“It’s okay,” she starts stroking me. Why do all these she-wolves want it bareback? Oh, because thanks to my Dad, and his choices they think I will make the same ones.“I don’t do bareback,” I tell h
The moon goddess’s POV“Please I have to know I have to know are they well?” Ki has come to me again. I wish she had never been sent here. “Fine one last look and then you need to realize they have to live their own lives,” I tell her. “They are my family,” Ki grumbles. I open the view for her.Bella is in labor Stone beside her. In the waiting room Slate, Tellie, Jewel, Dawn, Spencer, Evander, Marcella, Becky, Granite, Justin, Lesley, Raymond, Azlee, Raymond, Ryan, Joshua, and Sherry. “Lighting Alpha is going to be a dad,” Joshua laughs. “Why do you call him Lighting Alpha?” Lesley asks. “When we were kids we were fishing in the creek,” Slate starts.“Lighting starts falling everywhere,” Joshua says. “Stone uses his little bitty Alpha tone and demands the Lighting stop,” Slate laughs. “And it did, he stopped the Lightening,” Joshua tells us. “So Joshua all of six started calling him the Lighting Alpha,” Slate tells the story. Everyone laughs as cries fill the hall. “It’s
Bella’s POV“YES, STONE,” I smile and squeal as he puts the ring on my finger. We kiss and I hear cheers and squeals.I look around as the lights dim to see everyone is here. My parents, his parents, my grandparents, my great-granddad’s, my sister, my friends, my cousins, my Aunt and Uncles. Everyone is here.Stone takes my hand and we greet our guests before we all go inside. “OH!” I gasp. The inside of the villa is covered in flowers, candles, lights, a DJ, food, everything for a hell of a party. “Its your engagement party,” Lesley tells me handing me a glass. A photographer goes around and takes photos. I am looking around at everyone and the room. It’s perfect. We dance, sing, laugh, eat, drink repeat for hours.. “Did I do well?” Stone asks as we drive back home. “You kept your promise?” I reach over and run my hand through his hair. We make it home and spend the rest of our night making love until we collapse.“Its 4:30,” Ryan sings from out door. “Go away or I will get ou
The moon goddess’s POV“Hello, Tristian Crimson. I have been watching you,” I tell him. I hold up my hand and he falls to the ground. “I never chose you as an Alpha. I chose Bella. I made her stronger, faster, better than all the rest. You have destroyed all the gifts I gave you.”Tristian is frozen in my command.“Shift,” I tell Rex. Stone stands in front of me. “Stone you took my charge a little too literal, but you got there in the end. I gave you Bella as a gift. Don’t be unworthy.”Stone kneels, “You have my word.”I look at Shelby and nod.“Tristian Crimson, I sentence you to death,” I say, stepping back for Rex and Shelby to kill him.Tristian closes his eyes to accept his fate.Once he is dead, Shelby and Rex bow before me.“Erik will die at the hand of Slate; Tellie is pregnant with the next Conroy Alpha. Soon Bella will be too. I bless you both,” I touch their heads. “I bless your union. Don’t think for a moment I ever forgot you. I needed you to be who are you now. I was pre
Bella’s POV“You okay,” Stone asks me as soon as we are alone.The sun is up now, and we all ate breakfast as a pack, before we all head to bed.“I’m exhausted,” I tell him as I drag myself to the shower.“I am too, but I was thinking about what the goddess said about you carrying the next generation of Conroy Alpha,” Stone chases me to bathroom.I giggle as we shower together. We make love in the shower, before crashing into bed.Justin- Alpha.Me- In mindlink, you can call me Bella.Justin- I was speaking to Alpha Stone.Stone- Sleeping.Justin- Your parents are here with Bella’s.Stone- Sleeping naked.Justin- My favorite way to sleep too. Do you want me to put them in an Alpha suite.Me- Yes. We will be up in a few minutes.Stone- Why the hell are you awake, man?Justin- Father of two, under three, I’ll sleep next decade.I laugh and feel Stone pulling me closer.“Do we have to get up?” Stone moans into my neck.“Yes, your parents are here,” I snuggle into him.“I don’t care. I wan
Bella's POV“Tristian still has the loyalty of some of the pack,” Joshua tells Stone.“He may attack there first to gain more followers. But Bella and Justin took over a hundred alone, his warriors aren’t that well trained,” Stone says.“If they come from Durk, they are now. Marcella trained them herself,” Grandpa tells us.“Great, so we are fighting a force equal to our own,” Joshua looks worried for the first time.“We should shift and join the line,” I suggest.“Not yet, let our wolves rest until we need them,” Grandma offers.“I’m scared,” Lesley says out loud. “I’m sorry, that was an inside thought.”“No, Baby,” Justin holds her and their daughter close. “It’s going to be okay.”“We don’t know that,” Lesley says. “Tristian is crazy.”The baby fusses a little and Lesley takes her to the back of the room to feed her.“Go to her, idiot,” I tell Justin, who does.Stone looks around the room. “Can everyone excuse me and Bella for a moment? Jack, watch these cameras and let me know if y
Bella’s POVOnce Stone hangs up the phone, I know I have one chance before Ahab hops the boat, sailing away.“Raymond, tell Jack to call Safehaven for our pack. Tristian is going to come straight for me or Lesley, maybe both. He clearly has a new backer,” I order, and I hold on to Stone’s arms. “Stone, we need to get Tellie and Slate to call Safehaven here too. Tristian has a plan and it's to separate us. Let’s not give him the chance.”Stone is shaking with anger, but nods.We pull Tellie and Slate off the dance floor along with the other Alphas in attendance. Including Erik.“I got a call from the FBI, Tristian escaped with the help of 50 or so wolves,” Stone explains.“Slate, we called Safehaven at Bazin, I suggest everyone does the same,” Bella says.“Bella, you are not safe,” Erik says.“I know, I’m flying back to Bazin to meet him head on with Stone,” I hold Stone’s hand and feel him pulling away slightly. “He and I will do what we should have done five years ago. We will work as
Stone’s POV“Wow, Alpha it’s 4:15am,” Ryan’s voice rings through.“Give me 10 minutes and I'll meet you in the office,” Bella says sleepily.“Okay, coffee in the office,” Ryan closes the door again.“He just walks in whenever?” I ask.“I’m normally dressed and up at 4, we meet at 4:15,” she tells me as she gets up.I’m guessing she used some sort of super speed, because before I could get out of bed she was already showered and dressed.“Can I meet you in the office?” I ask.“If you want, we have training right after, so get dressed for that,” She kisses my cheek and leaves.I shower and dress in five minutes.“I will arrange to have all of Erik’s things moved out today,” I hear Ryan say as I come in. “Also, Babes’ Luna Ceremony; You, Stone, Raymond and Azlee are going. Justin is asking forgiveness; Lesley could pop any second.”“Sounds good,” Bella smiles at me as I pour my coffee.“What about Stone’s things? Any large shipments coming in?” Ryan asks.“Nope, I have everything I have,
Stone’s POVWhen the plane hits the tarmac, Bella holds me back while everyone else deplanes.“What is it baby?” I ask as she straddle me.“Why didn’t you tell me any of that?” She asks, settling on my lap.“You had me blocked on everything,” I tell her honestly.“You could have told Slate, or the guys,” she tells me, holding my shirt.I bite my lip not wanting to tell her. But as we look into each other’s eyes, she understands.“You were afraid it was one of them?” I see tears about to fall, so I lean up and kiss her pulling her close.“Baby, I cleared them for the most part. But keeping you safe is the only thing I care about. So, I played it close to the vest. It was actually one of TJ’s guys. I didn’t even get the chance to deal with him, TJ did it,” I tell her, and she pulls me close to kiss me.“Thank you for keeping me safe,” she tells me.“It's the reason I breathe,” I tell her, going back in for another kiss.“Oh, hell to the no,” Raymond says as he enters the plane.“Ray, he
Stone’s POVWhen I thought she had forgiven me, I could have walked on air. I slept better last night than I ever have. But she watched as everyone who loves her, let me know just how much of an asshole I am. Yeah, I get it. But nothing in the world prepared me for her.“Thank you all for loving me,” Bella starts. “I may have been lonely looking for my mate all these years, but I never for a moment felt unloved. What Stone did, he did to me. I understand seeing me hurting was painful for you all too, but the real pain is mine. So now that you all have had your chance, I am asking you all to give Stone and I time, privacy and space to figure out the next steps. It will be a decision we make alone. And let’s not forget he has Justin, Raymond and Jack to face when we get home.”Everyone laughs and Wesley releases me.“Oh, can I call Justin?” Joshua looks all too happy to make this call.“Wouldn’t it be better to catch them off guard. Think of their faces,” Bella smirks.“Oh, yeah, catch