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
Adira’s POV “Liam!” My wolf continues to scream in my head to me as Beta Micheal tries to pull me from where I stand frozen to the ground. Another howl now fills the air around us and it is of another Alpha but not the one that I heard before, but sounds all too familiar too. “Shit! Luna, we need to get you out of here.” Beta Micheal now says to me, as his eyes move to the front door like he is waiting for someone to enter. His hand now wraps around my arm, and he begins to try and pull me towards the back of the house, but my wolf leaves out a growl in protest as I pull my arm free from his grasp. Something didn’t feel right at this moment and my wolf was trying to tell me something and I felt the need to listen to her. Closing my eyes, I gave myself over to her, knowing that whatever was going on here right now, she knew the truth to it. As I let myself go, memories of my past came flooding back to me, good mixed with the bad, but they were all my memories that were somehow ta
Liam’s POV For a brief moment I thought that Alpha Xavier had erased me from Adira’s memory and that she was going to attack me. There was no way that I was going to fight her, I couldn’t live knowing that I had laid a hand on her. So instead I braced for the impact and for whatever followed, all while I told her that I loved her, through a link I was sure was severed. But to my surprise the impact never came, and the words “I love you” came to me through our link. Opening my eyes Adira had Alpha Xavier by the neck, thrusting her head back and forth and I joined her in the kill. As Alpha Xavier went still, Adira continued and I had to stop her before she got lost to her wolf again. Adira’s wolf slowly let go after I told her to and she took a step back, shifting into her human form before she closed her eyes, I’m sure after seeing the carnage. Quickly, I shifted back myself, to my human form and wrapped my arms around her, pulling her into me. Instantly her body heated within my
Adira’s POV The feeling of actually being wanted and cared for was not something I was used to. All my life I had been put aside as my sister was the chosen one by my parents, but right now in the arms of my mate, I knew I was wanted. His love for me radiated through our bond and my heart felt whole for the first time in my life. My body felt sated and my heat temporarily subsided as Alpha Liam now laid us on the bed together and pulled me into his arms. His lips moved to my forehead and he placed a gentle kiss on it, before he said, “I honestly thought out in the clearing you were going to attack me. I thought that Alpha Xavier had you under his spell too, like Alpha Zane.” Instantly, I tilted my head up to look into his eyes, wondering what happened to him the last couple of days while I was here at Blood Moon. “I was under his influence, but my wolf kept fighting to release us and she kept repeating your name to me.” Shifting my weight to my one side, so that I could see him
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