Seraphina POVSeraphina povI had one hand on my baby bump and the other on one of the last things I wanted to touch, Allister’s forearm. Allister pressed a kiss to my temple making my stomach turn. “Don’t worry love, I won’t let you fall.”I wanted to vomit at his pet name for me. We were currently descending the stairs into what seemed to be a bunker. It smelt of dampness and decay. Or like an old basement. I tried my best to hold my breath so I wouldn’t gag, but found myself losing the battle. After going through several doors that were guarded, we entered a main area that was heavily lit with LED lights. I blinked rapidly from the stark contrast in light. “Welcome home, my love. Soon it will turn into a castle, but for now this will do.” Allister beamed, as if this were a completely reasonable place to bring a kidnapped, pregnant, bed-ridden, woman. He walked down the main hall, where we walked past a kitchenette. Eventually we made it to a large room that was I soon realized wa
Seraphina POV Callans voice came on the phone. Tears spilled down my cheeks as Allister held a gun to my pertruding belly. “Sera, Sera, are you there? Sera! Answer damnit!” He yelled on the other line of the phone. “I’m here.” I pretty much whispered. “Tell him,” Allister gritted through his teeth into my ear.“I–I’m not coming home, Callan.”The other end of the line went silent for a moment. “What are you talking about Seraphina, you are my fated mate, my Luna.”“I’m with Allister now, your King.” I said with a little more vigor. “Good girl,” Allister said into my ear before pressing a kiss to my temple. “You’ve got to b— this is some kind of fucked joke right baby?” “Afraid not,” I said flatly. Tears continued to fall down my cheeks as my heart broke into a million pieces. “Sera, I’m coming to see you, where are you?” Callan’s voice was furious now. “No.” I commanded. “Don’t. If you want the King to take mercy on our pack and our neighboring packs, you will listen to me.” I
Callan POVI instantly had shifted after getting off the phone with Allister and my mate. She couldn’t have the meant the words that she was saying. I knew that. I knew she was just trying to keep herself and the baby safe from the lunatic that had captured her. I let Archer take control as he ran threw the woods at a speed that was faster than I’d ever seen him run. ‘Mine. Mine. Mine.’ He kept chanting in our head. The full moon was coming and there was no way in hell I would miss this opportunity to get our girl back. Once Archer exhauster our wolf form, we ran back to the new pack house. As I walked inside I noticed some staff moving around in the kitchen and dining area. Most hadn’t spoken since the attack. Some had requested to be placed at a different dwelling in fear of their lives. I was starting to lose the faith of my people. Not only had the pack been attacked again, but now their Luna had been taken away. I didn’t blame them for feeling some type of apprehension toward
Seraphina POVEvery day was the same routine. In the morning Allister had breakfast with me in our room before he had the some of the house staff come and help me get freshened up for the day. Allister continued to keep me drugged so I was still awake but loopy enough that I still needed someone with me to do every day things. During the day I would either spend the day in the cottage that Allister’s father owned or I would stay in bed, like a good patient. I had been lucky to not have seen Allister’s father up until this point and had hoped it would have stayed that way. But today seemed to be the day that that would change. I was sitting the the recliner in the living room of the cottage watching some re-reuns of Friends when the front door when the front door busted open and a furious looking Reaper. The man that killed my mother. I looked at Margaret with a pleading look, hoping she could read my eyes to please get Allister. He was the only person who could keep his father in
Seraphina POV“What is the point of all this?” I asked while motioning to the area around us. “Why am I part of this? When it was you that cheated on me with your mate!” I could see the gears turning in Allister’s head as he calculated his answers. Black goo began to seep out of his nose again before he could speak up. He let out a curse, before getting up and grabbing a tissue off of the night stand. In the last twenty-four hours, his weird nose bleeds, had been happening more often than not. He tossed the black soiled tissue into the trash bin next to the bed, with the others before giving me an expression I couldn’t read. He sat on the edge of the bed and looked off at the far wall. “redire a mortuis.”“What?”“It means ‘to come back from the dead.’ In latin.” He turned to me with a level of fierceness that I didn’t know how to handle. I wasn’t sure if I should be worried that he would lash out at me or if this would be a conversation that would actually be helpful in terms of g
Seraphina POVI woke up the next morning with a lump in my throat, a pit in my stomach and a feeling of foreboding. Today was the today that I was going to die. There was no way that I would accept the mate bond from Allister. But I wasn’t the only one affected in this situation. I had my baby to think about. I held onto my stomach and began to cry. I had no idea what to do. I already had lost one child. Could I really allow myself to be so selfish and let my unborn child go through this as well? I had to make a decision, only I wasn’t sure I was going to be happy with the decision that I needed to make. Shortly after the tears stopped falling, a group of women came into the room and ushered me to get up and was taken to Reaper’s cabin. Flashbacks of the last encounter I had with him ran through my head when I walked through the front door. I still wondered what he was going to say the other day. Allister had made it clear that his dad stay away from me. But I wasn’t sure why. Wha
Allister POVI looked out the top of the temple with a glass of whiskey in hand. The sun was setting and the lanterns below gave the ceremony area a romantic atmosphere. It was perfect for my queen-to-be. All the pieces to my plan were slowly but surely moving into place. In just a couple more hours it would be time for me to take everything I wanted. I knew Seraphina was too selfless to allow her unborn child to die. She would allow my mark to take. Her bond to Callan would break and she would be mine once and for all. My sweet Seraphina thought that she had been sneaky when she had been eavesdropping. Instead, I knew she had been listening to my conversation with Angelica. In fact, I had been banking on it. I needed her to hear and think her beloved mate had cheated on her to bring her closer to me. I knew the story that Angelica had told me was a complete fabrication. Did something happen? Probably, but I knew Alpha Callan and I knew how it felt to have a fated mate bond. It wa
Callan POVI showed up to the ceremony in my mandatory white linen shirt and pants, early, however when I got to the temple hundreds of wolves were already waiting for the festivities to begin. Most gave me sypathetic looks, but some gave me dirty looks. As if I was an intruder. Those particular looks made me want to grab them by the collar and ask them what they would do if their mate was put in this situation. I could hear my heart in my ears as I tore through the crowd to the front towards the temple. As soon as I was about to get into the temple, I was apprehended by two guards and thrown into a small, closed off, garden area. “Your king will come and see you shortly,” the barrel-chested man said before leaving me to my thoughts. ‘You good?’ Drake said through the mindlinkI scrubbed a hand down my face. I was anything but good. He knew this. But I knew what he meant. He was asking if I successfully made it into the ceremony with no issues.‘Yeah, they have me in some garden ar
Suddenly my heart began to race not just from the crowd cheering, but from the pull I felt towards her. I didn’t realize I had taken a step toward her until I was only a few feet away. She was in a simple yellow sungress with her blond hair in a loose fitting knot. She was the epitome of perfection. The beauty before me had the greenest eyes I had ever seen and seemed to captivate me in a way that was indescribable. She visibly gulped as stood in front of her before she slightly bowed. “Congratulations, Alpha. It’s an honor to meet you.” she stammered. ‘Mate,’ my wolf Narif yelled in my head. I gave her a warm smile. I loved how her pale cheeks reddened as she spoke. “Thank you, it’s nice to meet you. I didn’t catch your name,” I said, my voice low as I tried to hide the breathlessness I felt at being so close to her.“Sophie,” she replied softly, her eyes sparkling with an unspoken understanding. “But everyone calls me Soph.”“Soph,” I repeated, savoring the sound as it rolled o
LIAM POV I slammed into the red head, who was on all fours before me. I had forgotten her name already. I had met her earlier in the day at my best friend Trevor’s house while we were all lounging around the pool. She was cute and had no problem with coming home with me in the middle of the day, before the alpha ceremony. Today my chosen father would pass the pack to me, making me the new Alpha. I had too many feelings about it, leading to what I did best. Pushing my feelings aside and got lost into something else or someone else. I heard a light knock before I heard my mother’s curse.Damnit mom! “Mom, get out!” I yelled while continuing to pump into the red head. She attempted to stop but I let out a threatening growl, letting her know that I was no where finished with her. I heard my mom bump her head on the door frame, making me roll my eyes. She reminded me of Jess from New Girl, with how clumsy she was. ‘Mom just walked in on me having a girl over.’ I sent a mind link to my
Seraphina POV Callan and I had decided to make the house near the waterfall our getaway home when we needed it. We arrived at our home for the next couple of days. It was a modernized one floor flat that looked over a gorgeous waterfall. “Tell me again why we can’t use this place as the pack house?” I asked the umteenth time to Callan as I looked at the waterfall through the floor to ceiling length windows. Everytime I came to this place it made me feel like I was in another world with its modern and exotic architecture. I looked at the floor to ceiling length windows and watched as the water cascaded down the smooth rocks. Everytime we came here I always asked Callan the same question. He put our bags down and walked over to me and wrapped his arms around my waist. “Because we need to be closer to everyone, you know this.” He nipped at my mark, making me giggle. My mind went back to the first time I had come to this place. When a scream had left my lips as I made contact with
Seraphina POV Maeve rounded the corner and whacked Callan on the back of the head. “Hush, let the girl bring what she wants,” she scolded. It was so nice seeing her back to her almost normal self again. My brows knitted together when I noticed the visible sweat on her brow. “You okay Maeve?” She waved a hand in front of her face. “Yeah, jeeze, who turned up the heat in here,” I looked at the thermostat that hung on the wall and read sistythree degrees. I would hardly call that hot. I sniffed the air and noticed that her scent seemed stronger today as well. Callan’s nostrils flared before I saw drake running down the staircase and swooping his bride up. She cackled as he booked it up the stairs. “Sorry guys! Baby making time!” Drake called from the top of the stairs. I looked at Callan with a smile. “Guess we know what they will be doing while we are gone.” Callan chuckled before wrapping an arm around my shoulders. “Let’s get out of here before we have to put ear plugs in.”Mae
I watched the boys with a deadpan expression as they tried to figure out how to take off a dirty diaper and put a new one on. “Don’t worry mum, we got it.” Liam had told me. “Just sit back and relax.”How they expected me to do so when they looked like they were attempting some sort of science experiment on my daughter was beyond me. I went to push up from the rocking chair where I was seated when Callan spoke. “We got this babe, don’t stress.” I took in a breath. ‘They can do this, they can do this.’ I said to myself. ‘You sure about that?’ Alya my wolf chided back. It wasn’t until I heard the sound of a splat and a gasp from Liam did I finally decide I was done watching this shit show. Literally. There was shit filled diaper on top of Callan’s foot. Liam looked at Callan in horror and then disgust. A smile spread on our girl’s face at my boy incompetence to change a diaper. I stood up and marched over to a stunned looking Callan and Liam. Liam moved out of the way. “You k
You keep looking at my dick like that, we won’t be able to take a relaxing bath together,” he teased. I stuck out my tongue at him like a child, earning me a laugh from Callan. He climbed in behind me, the water sloshing over the edge at the movement. He wrapped his arms around me and pressed a kiss on my shoulder. I sank into his embrace, loving the rare intimate moment we were now sharing. It felt like so much had happened in such a short amount of time, that we had missed out on opportunities such as this. We sat in silence, simply enjoying the moment with one another. However I couldn’t help but think about Liam’s situation and about his family. For the first time since I had lost the baby, my heart and head were on the same page. I snuggled up to Callan and rested my head on his shoulder. Tingles ignited where we touched, further soothing my racing thoughts. “What’s on your mind, Princess?” Callan asked as he pressed a kiss on the top of my head. “What will happen to Liam?”
Seraphina POV 6 Years Later….“Ugh harder!” I heard a female voice cry out. Whoever she was, she was getting the pounding of her life by the sounds coming from down the hall. A blush crept over my cheeks and chest as I thought about what must be happening in the room. As I continued to walk down the hallway to find Liam for the Alpha Ceremony. I quickened my pace in an attempt to give the couple more privacy. However, as I got closer to Liam’s room, I noticed the woman’s voice get louder.As I approached my door, a thumping sound accompanied by the soft moans of a female was emanating from his bedroom! Dejavu slammed into me as I remembered the day that I caught Allister in my room with Lyla. My hand shook as I grabbed the vintage gold knob. I knocked on the door while opening the door and instantly regretted it. Slowly I opened the door and gasped at the sight before me. It took a few moments for me to register what was going on. Before me was Liam pounding into a beautiful red h
Seraphina POV5 Months later….I walked next to Maeve in the department store as we looked over the racks of baby clothes. After finally receiving permission from Doctor Desmond that some walking could help induce labor. Our babygirl was finally cooked. It was time for us to meet her. Only now that it was time, she was taking her sweet time and enjoying the comfort and protection that my body provided. I couldn’t blame her after everything that we had gone through together. Our girl was a trooper through it all. I felt a tinge of pain in my lower back and some pressure in my lower abdomen. The pain stopping me in my tracks for a moment. Maeve looked at me with concern. “You alright babe?”I held on top of the rack and continued to take deep breaths. “Ugh, yeah. Just Braxton Hicks,” I grumbled. After a moment we continued to look through the racks of clothes. Maeve and Drake were having a baby boy, and I couldn’t help but be envious of how much Maeve was glowing. I looked like a g
Mia POVI circled the chair that bound the man who haunted all of my dreams and almost every waking moment. The only time I didn’t think about what this man had put me through, was when I was with my son, my grandson, and daught-in-law. They seemed to drown out the voices and images in my head that wanted me to relive the horrible days during my captivity. “Please Mia, I love you.” Kevin pleaded with me. Tears, snot, and blood all congeled together on his handsome face. His blood red eyes were now constantly out as his wolf tried to heal the wounds that I kept inflicting. We were on day three of me torturing him and using toys on him that he had used on me. I refused to be the victim any longer. My daughter attempted to punish him, but didn’t have the stomach for it. I just prayed that she too would find some peace knowing that this pieace of shit would no longer be around to hurt us. She had come back down today for some reason. Maybe for closure? I couldn’t be certain. “You don’t