Spencer’s POV“Spencer, don’t stop, ohhh,” Dawn is under me and, damn, she feels good. Tomorrow is our commitment ceremony and Mom is insisting that we don’t see each other until Dawn walks down the aisle.“Dawn, fuck, you feel good,” I groan as I use the headboard to pull myself into her.“I’m there, I’m there,” Dawn screams as we finish together. As part of the compromise with her father, she has an implanted birth control until she finishes college. She chose the nursing program at Pacific Union about 45 minutes off packlands. I will be at Sonoma State an hour off packlands in the opposite direction. I’m not thrilled, but even my parents agree it's a good idea. Bella will be at pupcare all day while we are in classes. Stevee and Mom will probably take her out often and spoil her senseless. Not to mention my Dad’s adopted brother Eric, who is a head warrior and thinks the sun rises and sets with Bella. He and his mate are childless by choice, so spoiling a niece sounds good to hi
Dawn’s POV“Hey, text from Chris came in,” Tootsie shows me as I’m getting my hair done.“Oh, what did he do? His wedding was supposed to start an hour ago,” I say, opening my phone. I smile when I see him with the guys from last night in Hawaiian Shirts and shorts on a beach somewhere.“Chris and the guys are at Santa Maria, the guys' wives agreed that if Chris wouldn’t marry the bitch, they could have a guys-only weekend,” Megan tells us. “I just got a text from Lu’s wife.”“How did you get her number?” I ask.“Lu hooked she and I up, so we can talk babies,” Megan smiles.“Awe, friendships were made at my Hen Party!” I smile huge.“And we saved a human man from the cliches of a she-devil,” Tootsie announces, pouring champagne. “Grape juice for Megan.”She hands us glasses and says, “To my sister-in-law, the best wolfless Omega turned Luna in the history of the world. I have never met a she-wolf, or human, with as much passion, commitment, compassion, and love in my life. And I doubt
Spencer’s POVPaul- The fat man is alone.Me- How do you know?Paul- Smell him, he barely has his own scent.Me- Have you ever seen an actual round person?Paul- Not until today.Me- He is actually round, if not for his head, he would be a ball.Paul- He is lonely, he is not a threat.Me- Steven sees him as a threat, therefore, he is a threat.Paul- Granted. Don’t piss off the father of our mate.Me- Yeah.“Are you okay?” Stevee asks Dawn.“I’m fine, I just wasn’t expecting him,” Dawn is lying. She is hurt.Paul- I think she wanted her birth mother to show up.Me- We sent Teresa an invitation to the party. She didn’t respond.Paul- If our pup feels this way about that Evelyn bitch, I'll track her down and rip out her throat.Me- I promise not to fight.Paul- Good Human.“Baby, Let’s enjoy our night,” I kiss her head.We dance, eat, laugh, and enjoy our friends.“You two ready?” Mom asks near the end of the evening.I’m taking Dawn on a two-night getaway to celebrate both her 18th and
Dawn’s POV“Mommy I want to see my sister,” Bella jumps up and down as the tech puts the prob on my now very round belly. “Okay hold on Princess,” Spencer picks her up. “And we have another wolf,” Dr. Whitmire shakes her head. “I want to do a c-section at 22 weeks. I don’t want to risk her shifting back and killing the Luna.”Spencer nods. We both look nervous. I’m not a wolf I won’t heal like Marcella did if Donntella, Tellie, shifts during labor. “Tellie has her wolf, she is special like me and Daddy,” Bella is so excited. I am trying not to cry. I don’t want to die and leave my girls. I never got a wolf, I don’t have super healing, I’ll die. “Mom is going to grab Bella when we get back so we can talk,” Spencer tells me.Bella runs to Marcella and starts chatting about seeing Tellie. Spencer and I go to our room to talk.“What precautions can we put in place to ensure you don’t go crazy if I die?” I ask him as soon as we are alone. “Wow jump right to worse case okay,” Spence
Spencer’s POV“Mr. Bazin. I understand going to the birthing center. Modern women are not as keen on medicine as they once were. But whoever performed the surgery on your wife has absolutely no business working on humans,” the Doctor’s words are like ice water. “The incision was sloppy and it’s already bleeding excessively. I am going to open her back up and see if I can repair the damage. What procedures did she have?” “Cesarean and hysterectomy,” Ki answers for me as I can’t speak. Paul-Whitmere is dead.Me- Yes. “The pack will demand a trial,” Dad tells me before I can give the order. “Assault on the Luna doesn’t get one,” I snap. Everyone is showing submission to me, even Steven who is not a pack member or a wolf. “Spencer,” Mom rubs my back. “Let the doctors work.” A loud beep from Dawn’s room makes me jump. Dad and Mom hold me back as TJ, Victor, and Matthew hold back Steven. “Let them work,” Stevee says. The sound stops but no one comes out. “Is she alive?” Steven asks
Spencer’s POV“Babe,” Dawn’s voice is stronger in the morning light. “Hey Baby,” I say laying Tellie down after a diaper change. “I feel stronger,” She tells me. “It’s different than feeling better. I just don’t want to let go anymore.”I exhale and kiss her. “Good,” I tell her. I look down at Bella and in the night Bella is laying with her bare cheek to Dawn’s bare chest. “Is Shelby helping you heal?”Dawn looks up at me. “Is that possible?” “I don’t know, but we need a pack doctor. Whitmere is meeting her end once I know what happening to you. If you can’t heal, I made a promise to her.” I leave out the whole truth. Whitmere’s children are in the their twenties but she has young grandchildren. I don’t want to hurt them. But I won’t let her assault on my mate go unpunished. “Don’t punish innocents. Promise me,” Dawn holds my eyes. She can basically read my mind. “I can’t promise that Dawn, I can’t promise that innocents won’t be hurt,” I tell her. “Mommy,” Bella stirs. “Did Sh
Dawn’s POV“Bitch,” I slap Evelyn across the face.“How dare you touch my Luna,” a big man starts to come at me and Marcella stops him.“I am a Luna,” I snap at him. “She is a worthless piece of shit who abandoned a baby.”“I left her with her father and his mate,” Evelyn is holding her face. “Blame him, he didn’t want me with a kid. He was going to reject me.”“Why come back now?” Evander asks.“She finally gave me a son,” The Alpha says, clearly annoyed. “She can have her daughter now.”“My daughter,” I snap again. “And no, she can’t.”“We will bring war to this pack if you don’t let me see her,” Evelyn threatens again.“You are from what pack?” Spencer asks.“Pack Easton,” the Alpha answers.“David Easton,” I say. Everyone looks at me. “Call Chad.”Alpha David’s eyes get large.“You forget Chad Nightingale is my Alpha’s cousin,” I say. “Oh, my maiden name is Royce.”David sits down.Spencer, Evander, and Marcella are looking at me with jaws slack and eyes wide.“Pack Easton is abou
Spencer POVI almost see the song “Headstrong” playing in Dawn’s head she even walks to the beat of it. “Spencer,” Chad greets me holding Bella. Dawn runs to Bella and holds her. I want Bella in my arms right now, but I’m not taking her from Dawn. “Mommy I missed you,” Bella coos holding Dawn tightly. “That mean woman said she was my Mommy but I said no, Shelby told me you are my real Mommy.”“Yes sweetheart, I am your real Mommy,” Dawn kisses her face and turns to me. “Daddy,” Bella launches into my arms and I can’t hold her tight enough. “I knew you would come for me. I knew it.”Bella seems perfectly okay. Not tramaized at all. Bella is passed to Tootsie next, who honestly surprised me by letting me get a hug before her. TJ is next. “Uncle TJ Nana’s wolf and Granddad’s wolf fought to keep me safe,” Bella tells us. “Granddad’s wolf?” Dawn and TJ ask her. “Yeah,” Bella smiles. “They lost didn’t they? The goddess has them now doesn’t she? Is my sister okay?”I see TJ swallow 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