******* I will upload Chapter 1 under Legacy of the wolf but it will be a seperate book, Legacy of the wolf: War of the Wolves********
The haunted sounds of a wolf's broken-hearted song lit up the darkness inside Dante’s mind, just like it had done every night since he left his mate asleep in their bed almost a year ago. Dante turned his head on a swivel in the obscurity, even though he knew he was still asleep. “Why do you do this to me every night, Theo! Do you enjoy torturing me?” Dante spat the words into the darkness and was only answered by the forlorn echo of a pathetic whimper as Theron’s vast body sulked into view. The normally large majestic beast now looked ragged and old, his head hung low between his shoulders and the wolf walked with such an exaggerated bow in his back that his knuckles drug the ground like lifeless attachments, “you torture us all, ignorant boy.” Dante scowled at his wolf and closed his eyes, “leave me alone asshole, I saved her...you stayed, is she safe...is she happy?” Dante’s eyes snapped up to meet the beast’s golden gaze he couldn't help but ask after her, but instead of an answer Theron just tipped his massive snout upward, “matters of the human heart are for a human...you wish to know her heart? Then go back and have it.” Dante swung his fist, but Theron never moved. Dante’s hand connected with his muzzle, and the wolf’s head jerked to the side, but he made no sound. Dante could feel his nightmares coming back, and he screamed into the dark, “NO! Theo, stop this. I don't want to watch this again... I can't.” The wolf stood to his full height and roared into the blackness above them before he faded away like mist. Dante sank to his knees as color began to swirl and dance all around him.
Soon the melodic sound of Mj’s laughter pierced Dante’s ears, and he began to cry instantly, “what are you doing down there, come on!” The rich red glow of Mj’s hair lit up the dark as her full body appeared in front of Dante and, just like every night, she reached her hand out to him, and he took it. As they walked, Dante tried to stop her, or wrap his arms around her, but they passed straight through her like the ghost she was to him now. Dante stared at her smile as long as he could. The sight both broke his spirit and kept him alive with the hope he might see her like that again one day.
As soon as Dante’s heart began to warm to the sight of his smiling mate, another sound ripped the illusion away. It was that of a wolf, but not Theron. Dante tried to stand in front line of Mj to protect her as Talia came sauntering into view. “NO,” Dante growled and Talia smirked at him before she waved her hand and Mj suddenly appeared in front of Dante. “You can’t have him bitch, he’s mine,” Mj yelled and Talia smirked but did not speak. Dante tried again to grab Mj but like always his hands floated right through her, “kitten, run... please baby, leave now.” Dante’s cry was desperate and pleading, but the two women acted as if they could not even hear him.
“The assassin is Original and his seed should not be tainted with Omega human trash, don't worry little Omega... we can use you as my vessel.” Talia spoke with a dead calm to her voice, and Dante shouted at the top of his lungs again, “NO!” but his words did nothing to stop the unfolding madness. Talia shifted immediately, and her enormous wolf grabbed Mj by the hair and lifted her from the ground, “I will have what is mine, and you will die.” The enormous multicolored wolf snapped its jaws and as Mj tried to fight back Dante watched in horror as the beast roared and seized the flailing Mj by her arm; lifting her high into the air as she screamed and thrashed, the wolf clutched onto one of her ankles and let a sickening laugh burst from her chest before she tore Mj in half and let the bloody body parts slump to the ground before she turned to Dante and shifted back to her human form. “I will do whatever it takes to keep our species alive, and they will reward me for it... master promised.” Dante’s stomach churned at the lunacy behind Talia’s remarks and as he struggled to lunge at her, she disappeared, and he fell into a sea of haunted, dreamless nothing once more.//
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!The sound of an alarm clock rings off the walls of a small run down studio apartment. Tucked at the back of the 3rd floor of a building that should have been condemned and torn down by now, except for the fact that the greasy landlord still made money off of those who couldn't afford anything else in this gutter swamp of a town.
The door chime rang and a silky voice spat out “good morning Louisiana peaches” Mj blushed and shot upright. she looked at Lou, half horrified and another voice rang out, just as deep as the first one but not as smooth to the ears. “I think that’s Georgia peaches bro but I get what you mean”. Mj could not believe her ears,” were they really talking about her ass right now?” She spun around on one heel to face
Mj took a deep breath and explained the morning to Beth so fast she thought she might faint. She explained that she was late and had to go pick up the cutlets that she missed this morning and how she dropped the keys and a greek god made lewd comments about her ass so she confronted him about it. “Good night” Beth began to say as she fanned herself with her hand “that's a hell of a morning and all dear, but what does that have to do with your head? And no, I don't think Lou would fire you for that” she said with a warm smile.
Mj could feel her ears turn hot and her cheeks flush and now she was furious. “What the hell gave this man the right?” She thought and decided to try an old trick she learned in her early years as a bartender. Some drunk asshole would make an advance more than once or confront her in the parking lot after shift when she was alone and she couldn't always overpower them physically, a few times they had grabbed her and she couldnt get free and had actually started to panic. But for whatever reason Mj always just became very calm and focused like she knew exactly what to do to get herself free of the situation. She had figured out that most of the time all these dirty fu
The others didn’t move an inch, they had no expression other than the wide eyed stare they each had locked on the man still holding onto Mj by the seat of her pants. “Please!” Mj began to plead quietly. She had stopped struggling in an act of defeat and at this point had all but fallen to her knees. Lou still wasn’t moving and Mj still wasn’t sure who all of these men were.
Dante walked up to Mj and gently loomed over her. “We have not been properly introduced” he paused as if waiting for her to run or slap him. Mj was so overrun at the moment the only thing she could do was wipe her eyes and stare at the man in front of her “You can call me Dante” he began “and these four clowns are harmless they just got a little over excited” he had started to come much closer to her now and once again Mj could feel little sparks of electricity pop all over her body, like internal fireworks.
Dante stood with his back against the front door, positioned so he could watch his little obsession work. He was paying absolutely no attention to what the others were talking about.He knew that Azreal, their alpha, had sent him and the other hunters here to check out some suspicious behaviour involving butchered cattle at the slaughterhouse.
Outside Mj was doing her best to level her anger and nausea while she cleaned bird nests and egg leftovers out of the sign letters above the butcher shop, she so very much just wanted this day to end but unfortunately she still had her shift at the bar. “Luckily Lou was sending her home after this so she could take a much needed shower and she would even have a few extra hours to herself before she dove once again into the pit of other people and their bullshit” she thought.