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 Shutting the door to the bathroom and locking it, I moved to the shower and turned on the water as cold as I could get it, as I stepped under it to try to calm my flesh that now felt like it was on fire. I knew there was only one thing that could be causing this and that was I was in heat, but I wasn’t ready yet to give myself to Alpha Xavier. I had to cool my body temperature down before the scent of my heat woke him. I had seen what a she wolf in heat could do to the male wolves of a pack, and I couldn’t imagine what it would do to an Alpha and what lengths he would go to get to his mate. Pressing my forehead to the cool tile of the shower, I found my hands roaming south as the heat within me began to build and I needed to find some sort of release from the burning desire between my legs. Closing my eyes, images of the Alpha from my dreams began to play in my head, of the two of us sexually together. My fingers began to move against the slickness of my interfolds a
Liam’s POV It took all night to come up with a plan and I got very little sleep as we made camp on the outside boarder of Blood Moon territory. My warriors were ready to fight to bring back their Luna and I was ready to take down Alpha Xavier for taking her from me. Alpha Zane was on his own mission and that was to find the witch that had poisoned my sister, his true mate. That morning when we made our way into Blood Moon territory, something came over me and I felt the need to get to Adira. It was as if the mate bond between the two of us was telling me that she was in need of me. Pushing my warriors to move faster we made it to the lands that surround the packhouse in minimal time and with the sounds of the warning howl echoing through the air, I knew that we had been spotted and that the battle between Blood Moon and Nightshade was a go. Leaving out my own howl to my men, I began to charge towards the Blood Moon packhouse as I let my wolf take control, knowing he was out for