I storm out the house at clary’s words how dare he speak to me like that. It only confirms something is going on with Esme I don’t know about. HER PARENTS she visited her parents today they will know something. I jump into my car and the engine roars to life it’s 9pm but I don’t care if I have to get them out of bed I am going to find out what they know by force need be. I pull up out the front of Esme’s parents house the front porch light is on illuminating their award worthy garden and yard I have so many wonderful memories playing in this same front yard as a child Aunty Elaine Esme’s mom always had home made lemonade waiting for us on the table and chairs on the porch this place was like a second home to me. I walk towards the house and knock on the door uncle Remus answers “hello alpha sampson is everything alright what brings you here this time of night come on in son” I take my shoes off at the front door and enter the house “ I am a little concerned about Esme I hope you don’t
Esme I woke up this morning feeling ecstatic I was so joyful my heart was over flowing with happiness knowing I was going back to my new home with my mate. Tiff helped me pack the car up last night after sampson left so I’m all ready to go. I couldn’t bring myself to not say goodbye to sampson I know his unpredictable at the moment but it may be the closure he needs to let me go and once he has both Perseus and I can join the pack. It just before lunch so I make my way to the pack house I pick up three coffees along the way and plan to have lunch with sampson to explain everything. I walk into sampsons reception I greet his receptionist and hand her a coffee “miss Esme if you have come here to see alpha sampson I’m afraid his not in today he didn’t show up to the office this morning and txt me not to long ago saying he would be out of the office for two days to take messages on all incoming calls” hmm that’s strange. “Well here in that case take his coffee too. I will try ring his mo
Clary I was out on patrol when I received a frantic mind link from Esme “sampson killed tiff” and then it ended nothing more nothing less I try to mind link Esme but she blocked me out I mind link Trev and ask him if he can get through to Esme in mind link. I try tiff but I can’t feel her link anymore SHES DEAD SHES GONE I fall to my knees screaming. Trev comes running towards me he bear hugs me “it’s okay buddy I’m here, I’m here” I let a howl escape me “she’s gone Trev tiff is dead” he doesn’t let me go he hugs me tighter “I know buddy what do you need me to do I’m here to help you” I just hang my head and cry then all of a sudden I think of Esme is she still alive what the fuck has happened I feel for her link it is still there I exhale. “I need your help Trev sampson killed tiff Esme mind linked me to tell me before she was knocked out too. We need to find her we also need to bring tiffs body home” Trev hangs his head taking all this in. “Car or wolf form?” I think for a moment
Clary Myself and fifteen of our top trackers and warriors have taken left in wolf form to find Esme tiff’s body. We had a debrief before hand so they know what to expect although we are prepared to face the unexpected we spread out in a line to cover more area of the woods as we run we get about a hour outside of the pack when we see Trevor and his team pulled over on the side of the road i mink my team to tell them to comb the area two trackers have already linked me they have picked up tiffs scent and are following it. I ask Trevor what made him stop there was no obvious signs of the girls or the car yet the trackers picked up tiffs scent. “Clary I stopped here because look there are tyre tracks on the road by the looks of things the car came to a stop over here there is also no visible tyre tracks so I’m assuming the car rolled” he walks over to where he thinks the car had come to a stop “see all the shattered glass here we also found a few drops of blood the trackers confirmed it
Esme I woke up feeling warmth behind me then his scent hits me. I jump up out of the bed and stare at sampson who had been laying behind me. “What the fuck do you think you are doing you creep. Get out of here! You do not get to put me in the cells and lay with me in your prison you have lost it” I am beyond angry how dare he no one other than Perseus has my permission to lay with me. “Good morning to you too MATE you are forgetting you wear my mark now I can and will lay beside you. I know you are angry now Esme but you will grow to love me like you should we will be great together before long” I cringe at his words they cut like a knife as the memory of him forcefully marking me plays over in my head on loop. My stomach sinks how dare he take me away from my mate and take that decision away from me. “ I HATE YOU I will never forgive you for this sampson no way in hell will I ever love you. How delusional are you?” His demeanour remains cocky and confident. “ what would you like fo
My stomach grumbles I’m hungry but refuse to eat anything sampson sends down for me he had the audacity to drug and reject his fated mate and no doubt would do the same to me. My mind is whirling at the little bit of information the guard from high tide gave me. Why is sampson working with them? Why am I here? Does he know this is Lisa and Perseus’s pack? I’m lost is thought when I hear the familiar jingle of the keys someone is coming. His scent hits my nostrils hard I know it’s sampson. He is carrying a tray with two bowls. He sits down on the chair with the tray. “You need to eat Esme you have not eaten in days you are losing weight you need some nutrients so I thought we could eat together tonight” he slides in a bowl of soup I look at it and take the bowl. He looks hopeful he smiles at me “once you come around to the idea of us being together we will eat a nice dinner together at the dinning table we can talk about our day with each other” this mother fucker I throw the bowl of h
I do not think twice I hurriedly scoff the sandwiches down i save a salad sandwich for later I stash it under my mattress along with one of the water bottles. I instantly regret eating so fast. I want to puke it back up but I focus on tipping the water out of the bottles sampson gave me and tearing the food up it make it easier to flush I leave half on the plate so I don’t block the toilet and it looks believable if I do not eat a full meal. As I finish flushing the toilet with the last bits of sampsons dinner I hear the keys and start doing push ups my plan is to now ignore him and have him think I am playing along with his little game and eating his food. He looks at the tray “good girl starting to come around to the idea of us being together” I don’t lose focus I keep working out. “ we work out some time when you agree to be my Luna” I do not know if he is completely delusional or trying to get a reaction out of me which ever way I remain focused. I stand up and start doing burpees
The elders look shocked and start whispering between themselves when finally head elder Marcus speaks. “ these are not small allegations you are making towards the alpha of shadow crest we can not make a decision based on your testimony alone I do hope you have some evidence of the wrong doings of alpha sampson if you can bring forth evidence we will take your submission into account we wish to speak to alpha sampson to hear his side of the story we shall try to find him personally ourselves I will give you 48 hours to bring forward evidence of misdeeds if we can not find alpha sampson and you have enough evidence to uphold your allegations we will strip alpha sampson of his title and swear you in as alpha of the shadow crest pack. Do you have any questions or objections” 48 hours they want to put this off for two days I don’t know if we have that much time on our hands. “I would like to request respectfully for you to consider 24 hours opposed to the 48 hours high elder Marcus I do n
I rush over and embrace James in a hug while I pull Simon into our hug. “ do not ever say that you are not monsters” all three of us are crying I let them go and wipe my eyes I sit down on the lounge and pat on the lounge next to me motioning them to sit. “I want you both to know that uncle Harriet is doing well and is healing fast I spoke to uncle Trevor he said as soon as Harriet shifted into his wolf you both said “tainted” do you know why you might have said that? First and foremost I want you to understand that you are not in trouble and we all love you very much including your uncles we want to understand why you attacked him so we can prevent it from happening in the future” Simon is still crying he wipes his nose with his arm and says it wasn’t me who said “tainted” it was my beast and he took control and I he would not give me control back he wanted to kill him aunty Esme” he starts crying uncontrollably. Hmm I know what I am about to ask is risky but I know they boys lycan
Esme~ “Simon James WHAT ARE YOU DOING” The boys turn their attention onto me and start stalking towards me not going to lie I’m shitting myself right now but something in the back of my mind tells me they will not attack me. They stop a few steps before me their eyes are scary as hell then the unexpected happens they both bare their necks to me in submission. “Shift back now” I say firmly although I am anything but confident right now. Simultaneously and instantly as the words roll off my tongue Simon and James shift and fall to a heap on the ground. I run over to them and they are barely conscious I quickly check their pulse and heart rate and it seems normal clary runs over and scoops James up and I scoop Simon up following his lead. We get them back home and lay them onto their beds to rest. Clary and Xavier both stay with them while I go to check on poor Harriet he was not in a good state when Perseus all but dragged him out of the woods. I knock on his door and Trevor tells me
Perseus~ I closely watched the fight between clary and sampson as did Esme being a gamma and top warrior that she is we left our mindlink open during the fight and communicated through out both of us felt their elemental abilities came forth from emotion. Esme said it would be hard to control during battle we all needed to train as soon as possible. She is right who knows how long the dark knight has been training for and let’s face it we are all barely rookies at this point. Simon and James are walking up front after a brief conversation with Xavier I run a head to them. If our abilities stem from emotions and the only thing that put out clary’s fire was his mate what would happen if the boys ever lost control? “How are you boys feeling after watching clary and sampson one on one match?” Simon shrugs his shoulders James is the only one game enough to speak up “ it was pretty epic but both of us are scared. What are we Perseus we shifted early and we aren’t ordinary werewolves we a
Xavier~ Not going to lie if I hadn’t seen the cave paintings of the creatures the boys shifted into I would be scared shitless in all my time roaming this earth I have never seen anything like them in person but the sacred tribe of the howling pack have them painted in their caves. The story goes that when full blooded original wolves mate three generations then what they call a Lycan is born it had only happened a handful of times it is said they possess great strength and speed above and beyond any original and are supposedly the leaders of all werekind. One has not been born for centuries and when they are born they are hunted by an unknown group who believe if you kill them you possess their great powers. Which leaves a giant target on both the boys backs exactly what we need when we should be training for the war to end all wars. I’ve met aura for the first time this morning I knew the coven she is from the moment I meet her great great great grandmother was the original 5s gua
Esme~ Both Perseus and I shower together and snuggle on the bed together after a few rounds of mind blowing sex. I turn to face him while I’m enjoying laying here with my mate my mind can not help but wander to the two boys I know if anything major has happened clary would not hesitate to come find us. “It doesn’t make sense?” Perseus looks at me confused before he asks “what doesn’t make sense” “The boys first shift so young do you think it’s normal for bloodline original abilities to manifest their first shift so early? Will it effect their wolf? What if their early shift prevents them from shifting again? Perseus places a light feathery kiss on my forehead and lifts my chin up to meet his gaze. “You will not be able to sleep tonight worrying about Simon and James how about we check in on them?” I exhale a breath of relief. How did I become to lucky to have been mated to a kind and caring man we haven’t known each other too long but he just gets me he understands me on another
Perseus~ We run through the Forrest as fast as we can the moonlight shines down on a clearing where I can see two limp human bodies on the ground with wolf fur sprouting from their human form. Clary is to the side of them pacing and pulling at his hair repeatedly saying he let Tiffany down over and over I can tell my sister Lisa is sympathetic towards clary yet jealous he is so upset over another female. He won’t let anyone near the boys until Esme arrives and she leans down next to them and listens for a heart beat and checks both the boys pulses. She looks up to clary and tells clary they both still have a heart beat and pulse esme quickly sends everyone else home except for myself, clary, aura and Xavier. I know my sister doesn’t want to leave clary but she knows it is best if she leaves Esme can calm or comfort clary and Lisa is comfortable with her doing so she gives his hand a squeeze and kisses him on the cheek and turns to leave clary however pulls wraps his arm around her an
Esme~ I have too many thoughts swirling around my mind to pick even one to ask Xavier. Thankfully Perseus pulls me out of my thoughts we he asks Xavier if he would like to stay at the log cabin for a few nights to help train all of us at once. Xavier thinks hard about this while rubbing his chin until he finally speaks up. “I prefer the old ways of living but it would be nice to have some company it’s been decades since I have had interaction with others. What the heck just a few days” I start to worry at Perseus’s words “help train the others” what the actual fuck I do not know if that is a good idea training clary. I just seen Xavier basically flick his wrist like Spider-Man and light up a fire I could only imagine how training clary to do that is going to turn out let alone him mastering it he would burn the world down with out so much as a thought. We can hear howls in the distance and know it’s the others calling for us so we all decide to run back in wolf form we each let off
When the older wolf growls both Perseus and I shift into our wolves they both run towards the danger heading for the older wolf head on they tackle him to the ground and start licking his face the brown wolf is wagging his tail at our wolves gesture. WHAT THE FUCK is happening right now! I try to take back control but my wolf is reluctant until I shift back to my human form and Perseus does the same he pushes me behind him to hide my naked body from the man who has also shifted into his human form. His wolf looks old and rugged yet you can feel the power he emits in human form he is tanned brown hair and eyed man who looks to be in his late 20s early 30s his body has a few scars across it but he seems fit and healthy nonetheless. He looks at both of us and takes us into a hug “welcome home Devon and celeste it’s been a long time friends” he stand there awkwardly not hugging this strange man back. He seems to get the hint and let’s us go Perseus speaks up and tells the man we are not w
Esme~ What does this mean? I look at the book in front of me if I was to be perfectly honest with myself I felt a sense of familiarity looking at both the wolves on the page. How does this myth have anything to do with me or Perseus. Everyone it still gazing at the open book in disbelief. I mindlink Perseus and as him if he too felt a sense of familiarity looking at the two wolves but he closes off the mindlink maybe he isn’t use to the whole mindlink thing yet he has been a rogue for a long time. After a few more moments he walks off out the room and I hear the front door shut behind him. I don’t know if I should go after him or give him time to digest all this. I excuse myself from the table and ask clary and the others to see if there’s anything else useful in the book as I leave. I walk out the front to find Perseus leaning against a tree his expressions are hard to read as I approach him he looks at me and I see the heartbreak evident on his face. He puts his down and whispers s