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
Seraphina POVI paced the cabin hall while mindlessly biting on my thumbnail. The plan that Reaper gave me running through on my mind in a loop. “We do have time to discuss specifics. We only have time to quickly strategize.”I looked at Kevin confused. “Strategize?”“On how to get out of this mess with my son.” I looked at him as if he had five heads. I tried to discreetly look around the room for anything that I could use as a weapon against Reaper. There was no way he was coming here to help me kill his son. “And why should I trust you to help me?” Reaper crossed his hands over his chest and licked his lips. “What other choice do you have? I don’t see any one else jumping in line to help.” I hated that he wasn’t wrong. What other choice did I have? I placed my hands on my baby bump, in efforts to protect my little girl from the unpredictable predator in front of me. “You will mark, Allister first,” Reaper started. I let out a sharp growl of protest before he put up a finger
Seraphina POV A gentleman in a black robe with scary pale skin and bright blue veins that covered his face began to speak in a language I had never heard of before. After several minutes, he stopped and looked at me expectantly. I looked at Allister and the man confused. “It’s time for you to mark me, Seraphina.” Allister whispered. Giving me a small smile of encouragement. I nodded and stepped closer to Allister before grabbing onto his suit jacket and pulling him down to kiss me. He deepened the kiss and cradled my face as his tongue danced with mine. Ever so slowly I grabbed the knife from the slit of my dress and slamming it into his sternum. My mind went back to when Reaper handed me the knife and had said, “Inside this blade is the rarest form of wolfsbane. It is the only strand that is said to have the ability to kill a Lycan with one scratch. Once you stab him with it, the yellow gel will seep out and poison him. So, you will need to make sure you keep it inside him for a
Callan POVSera didn’t let go of me. Not when Drake and the pack doctor helped me up, and sure as hell not when the ambulance showed up. As soon as I was on the gurney and the ambulance doors closed, I grabbed Sera by the front of her dress and pulled her onto my lap. I wrapped my arms around her waist and allowed my self to finally breathe. My body instantly felt at ease knowing she was in my arms but I couldn’t help but miss the tingles that usually came with the mate bond. Tears streamed down her face and onto her dress. Turning the blood stains from a deep red color to a pinkish pigment. I cupped her face and put her forehead to mine. “You’re safe now, baby,” I tried to soothe. Sera continued to sob as the recent events sank in. I placed a hand on her bump. “You both are safe now.” I pressed a kiss to her lips and licked her tears from my lip. Sera clung to my blood stained shirt. “Shhh, it’s over baby. You did so well!” I ran my hand down her head before placing my finger
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