Adira’s POV My wolf didn’t like being here at the Blood Moon packhouse and I knew it had to do with Alpha Xavier. We already have chosen Alpha Liam as our mate and Alpha Xavier’s advances on us were starting to rub us both the wrong way. Pulling Alpha Liam into the dining room, I noticed that Alpha Zane and Lyra had already taken seats and began to eat the spread that was prepared for us. The smell of the fresh cooked roast beef filled the air and made my mouth water, since it had been at least a day since I had eaten. Alpha Liam let go of my hand and pulled a seat out for me to sit and he took the seat next to me as I began to fill my plate full of the delicious array of foods. Alpha Xavier finally entered the room, surely after the shock wore off, that I wasn’t interested in going with him to change into something else more appropriate. Honestly, I would love to have a pair of sweatpants at this moment but there was no way in hell I was going with him to get it. Besides, I was
Adira’s POV My eyes fluttered open and my head began instantly to hurt as I reached for it to try and stop the pain. It felt like I had been smashed hard in the head by something and I wanted the pain to stop. “You’re finally awake.” I heard a male voice say and I quickly turned to see who it was coming from. A tall, dark and extremely handsome man stood now by my bedside, and I couldn’t help but gaze at his appearance. Taking my eyes from him, I began to look around the room, realizing I had no clue where I was or who the man was standing before me. “Where am I and who are you?” I now ask as I try to sit up in the bed but the pain in my head becomes worse. “Easy.” He says as he moves to help me sit up and fluffs a pillow behind me. “You’re at the Blood Moon packhouse and I am Alpha Xavier, your mate.” “Wait. What?” I asked, staring at him, trying to remember what happened to get me here, but the headache I was having was getting worse by the second, as I tried to remember
Adira’s POV After a hot bath and a change of my clothes, I waited for Alpha Xavier to return to my room to take me on a tour of his territory. An hour or so had passed and I was sure that he said he would return soon. Time began to pass and I began to wonder if he had forgotten about me. Moving to the door, I decided to go looking for him and find out what was holding him up from our tour of the pack lands. Opening my door to my room I peeked out into a long, massive hallway and was in awe at the number of doors that lined it. Stepping out into the hallway I heard voices coming from my right and decided to head in that direction. As I walked down the hallway, I peered out the windows that lined the hallway and stopped when I saw the training area outside and moved closer to the window as I found myself intrigued with the warriors sparring with each other. One in particular caught my eye and I found myself watching his every move inside the ring with his opponent. He was fast and
Adira’s POV My wolf howled with excitement as we entered the ring and I could feel her pushing forward wanting to take over as the adrenaline began to rush through my body. Alpha Xavier stood at the side of the ring as his Beta moved into a fighting stance inside the ring with me. As if my mind knew what to do, I too took my own fighting stance as I eyed Beta Michael, remembering every move that he had made against his last opponent. I had noticed while I was watching him earlier that he had little weaknesses, there was a slight studder before he would change direction with his movement and I made a mental note of that. “Begin!” Alpha Xaiver called out and Beta Micheal hesitated for a moment before he charged at me. My wolf instantly pulled forward and I felt a new power within me as she side stepped his charge and landed a low blow to his gut with little to no effort. Beta Micheal turned to me with a surprised look on his face that turned quickly into a smile before he moved ba
Liam’s POV A few days have passed since I woke up in a cell at Crimson’s pack along with my sister. We were being charged with witchery and falsely claiming that the Moon Goddess blessing of mates was back and we were put in here by no other than Alpha Zane, my sister’s true mate. I had no clue where they had taken Adira, but what I did know is I could still feel her presence in the mate bond, which leads me to believe she was okay. Lyra on the other hand was far from being okay, as she lay in the corner of the cell sobbing from the rejection of Alpha Zane. I tried multiple times to assure her that he was not himself and something was done to us at Blood Moon, but it didn’t do anything to soothe her pain. Alpha Zane only came to us once and that was to tell Lyra that he rejected her and her false claim to her as his mate. As soon as the words came from his lips it was as if her will to live left her and I knew that the bond between the two of them was real, just as mine was with A
Zane’s POV Looking at Alpha Liam in front of me with his hands on the wolfbane laced bars, I knew he had to be crazy. No Alpha had ever been able to endure such pain to be able to even think about touching them, let alone bending them that much. His eyes were now on mine and I could see the pain in his eyes as he began to say to me, “It’s Lyra. She is burning up. She needs to see the pack doctor. Please I beg you.” The desperation in his voice made my eyes immediately move to Lyra who was curled up in a ball in the far corner of the cell and I could hear her almost silent cries of pain. Something about seeing her like this pulled at my heart and I had to wonder if this was another trick of theirs but I couldn’t stand by and see a she wolf in so much pain. “Step back.” I said to Alpha Liam as I ushered for the guard to open the cell. Alpha Liam did as I asked and I could see the burns on his hands and dark lines moving up his arms from the wolfbane. He too would be needing trea
Adira’s POV “There you are sleeping beauty.” I heard a man’s voice say as I slowly opened my eyes to see Alpha Xavier sitting on the bed next to me. “What happened?” I asked as I moved to sit up and my head once again began to hurt. “Here, let me help you.” He said as he reached for a pillow to put behind me. “You bumped your head while you were sparring. The pack doctor said it is nothing major thankfully.” I reached for my head at that moment to feel for a bandage or a bump but there was nothing. “I don’t remember anything.” I tell him as I begin to feel a bit confused on how I had hit my head. “I’m sure it will come back to you later. Right now, we just need to make sure that you heal.” Alpha Xavier said to me as he ran his hand up and down my arm like he was trying to soothe me. “Did I make a fool of myself?” I now asked him, hoping that I didn’t, in front of the whole pack. “No Dear, you were amazing and I think you should continue to train. I have never seen a she
Liam’s POV It was about damn time that Alpha Zane woke from whatever spell they had put on him at Blood Moon. Now my sister’s life was now on the lines and we had to find the witch at Blood Moon that had poisoned her. When I mentioned Adira to him something came alive within him at that moment and I knew that their friendship had to mean a lot to him. “She’s not here at Crimson. Alpha Xavier must have kept her there with him.” Alpha Zane says and I let out a growl thinking about Adira being there at Blood Moon with him. I should have known he kept her there especially with the way he looked at her after he seen what her wolf was capable of. He didn’t want her per say, he wanted her wolf to rule alongside him. Alpha Xavier was ruthless and this showed how ruthless he truly was. Adira was a mated wolf in the eyes of the Moon Goddess and if he tried to break that bond between us, Goddess knew what would happen. “What is the last thing you remember at Blood Moon?” Alpha Zane asks
Adira’s POV “Why does this hurt so damn bad?” I asked the nurse and the pack doctor as I began to push to another contraction. “Pup birth is a beautiful thing.” The doctor said back to me and I let out a growl letting him know there wasn’t anything beautiful about this. I would take being poisoned again with wolfbane over this. “Where is Liam?” I cried out after I gave them one hard push like the pack doctor had asked for. Lyra quickly moved to the bed and took my hand in hers. “They are on their way. Does it really hurt that bad?” Lyra asks with big eyes knowing that she wasn’t far behind me giving birth to hers and Alpha Zane’s pup. Another contraction came and I squeezed her hand in pain as she let out her own scream from the pressure I was putting on her hand. “I take that as a yes.” She said as she winced. “Let’s just say, I would rather go to war, have my stomach ripped open and be shot up with wolfbane.” I tell her through gritted teeth. “I don’t think you are help
Adira’s POV “You’re my aunt?” Finally came from my lips as my heart began to beat fast from this revelation. “It seems that I am.” Stella said and turned to look at my mother and added, “That frog thing doesn’t sound like a bad idea.” Ali gave out a burst of laughter and I had to hold back my ow as I knew what she was referring to and I had to wonder what kind of relationship my mother and Stella had as siblings. “Wait, mother why didn’t I know you had a sister?” Aira now asked her mother as she eyed Stella. “She is only my half-sister.” My mother says to Aira and then adds, “And as you can see with your eyes, I was always the prettier one.” I don’t know why but at that moment I let out a growl to my mother warning her. It may have been her mean words spoken to Stella or it may have been because I knew those words spoken to myself for so many years. Either way I was done with hearing these hurtful words from the both of them. Aira smirked at me, and said, “Now I see wher
Adira’s POV After Ali’s mother and coven left Crimson, I knew I had to find my own closure with the rest of my family before we headed back to Nightshade. My mother and sister Aira were being kept at a separate facility that was for less misdemeanor, since my father was the mind behind all that had happened. Ali insisted that she join me and I knew it was because she wanted to see Aira again. Ali hadn’t had the pleasure of being tortured by Aira and she had no clue how ruthless Aira had become over the years as our father groomed her to become the next Luna of the Crimson pack. I, on the other hand, had a front row seat to all of this and was treated by all of them as the mistake that happened since Aira was the beauty queen out of the two of us. Alpha Liam and Alpha Zane had work what needed to be done at the packhouse before our return back to Nightshade. I reassured Alpha Liam that I would be fine going with Ali by my side. Of course, he said he would feel better if I took some
Adira’s POV The war had been won today but there was still closure that I needed and so did Ali. Both of us were the product of this messed up world that the elders had created. Ali on the other hand had a mother that truly did love her and from what I had just witnessed loved my father dearly too. It was a shame that he picked the way of the elders over the Moon Goddess and the mate that she had blessed him with. As the two of us walked down the grand staircase together, Ali’s mother stood beside what I now learned was the High Priestess and her mother. Ali was not just any witch she was born into royal blood. She one day could have been the High Priestess of her coven, but her mother’s choice to be with my father took that right from her. She was only half witch and that meant she could never hold the title of High Priestess. Ali’s mother’s eyes moved from her to me and when she saw the two of us together, she realized that she had made a grave mistake earlier when she had tri
Adira’s POV My eyes opened to a splitting headache as my eyes tried to focus on the figures standing over me. All three began to speak at the same time and I quickly reached for my head as it felt like it had been squeezed tightly. Finally, I heard Stella say, “Quiet.” And the room went silent and my head instantly felt a bit of relief. This time when I opened my eyes, they focused on the faces of three individuals that stood over me, watching me with worry in their eyes. “I’m okay.” I said as I tried to pull myself up to a sitting position with some help from Lyra. “I’m so sorry. My mother didn’t know what she was doing. She must have gone mad after seeing father laying there on the ground. Please forgive her.” Ali said to me and as I remember back to the last memory I had before darkness took me, I remembered the face of the woman staring at me. I hadn’t recognized her at the time but now that Ali said, her mother, her face now rang a bell to me from my dreams. There was no do
Liam’s POV Adira’s warning that the witches were here and to take the final blow, was the last thing I heard from her as she disappeared from my view with Stella and Lyra. Hearing this I knew it was time to stop toying with my prey and I let my claws elongate and pulled my hand back to take the final blow. As my hand came down across Adira’s father’s neck, I felt his skin tear beneath them as they became coated in the crimson color of his blood. An ear-piercing scream now filled the air around me before I went flying in the air. At first, I thought that it was Ali and that she had gone against the pack, but as I flew in the air, I saw her fighting along aside Blaze and knew it wasn’t her as I landed hard by the stage. Alpha Zane quickly moved to me as I began to slowly get up from the hard impact. “The witches are here.” I tell him as I get to my feet. “Good. Now we have them right where we want them.” Alpha Zane says as he lets out a howl calling in the reinforcements, we had
Adira’s POV My eyes remained glued on Alpha Liam as my father took his fighting stance, but Liam just stood there like my father was not a worthy opponent. This of course upset my father as he let out a growl warning Alpha Liam to take him seriously. The death that Alpha Zane was giving my father I thought was too good for what he had done. Yes, he was born a warrior, but he shouldn’t be allowed to go out with a warrior’s death, and I can see that Alpha Liam agrees with me as he mocks my father by not taking a fighting stance, showing him no respect. “If I am to die, then give me a warrior’s death if you think you can.” My father now says to Alpha Liam. Alpha Liam let out a growl before he says, “A warrior’s death is too good for you.” “Seems that we are on the same page. I will make sure to give you an honorable warrior’s death.” My father then said as he leaped towards Alpha Liam. I wanted to cry out to him to watch
Liam’s POV Holding onto Adira’s hand I watched as her father was led to the stage and I could feel what she was feeling as her walls were down and her feelings were flowing freely to me. I began to worry that this was too much stress on her and our unborn pup and I should have insisted that she stayed in our room. Stella moved closer to us and I watched as she reached for Adira’s other hand. As soon as she touched Adira, I instantly felt Adira calm. I knew that Stella was the one doing this, as I stared at her, she gave me a nod. Stella had promised me that she would take care of Adira and she was doing just that. Blaze and Ali stepped to the side as Mr. Wilson was brought onto the stage and I watched Ali closely to make sure Adira was right about her. I could see that it was affecting her just as it was affecting Adira, but I could see that she now also saw the truth about her father. When Blaze and her both took their position in front of the steps, Blaze took her hand into his
Adira’s POV I knew that something felt off today and after Ali and I had returned to our rooms, I found myself an emotional wreck, which I knew was not like me. I knew how my father was and the words he had chosen to say to us were of no surprise, but here I was crying my eyes out. Thankfully, Stella came when I called her to my room and within seconds she verified what I had assumed. It wasn’t like I didn’t know this was a possibility after my heat and all the sex that Alpha Liam and I had over the last couple of days, but a part of me wishes that it would have held off one more heat so that I could be the one to make my father pay, myself, but it wasn’t meant to be. Now I had to hope that my mate would be the one to make him pay for all the wrong that he had done and stop this madness of the elders for the sake of our unborn pup and the future of our kind. When Liam entered our room, I remained staring out the window at the place my father would take his last breath and the pl