Kit’s POV “Do you think he will like me?” Damian asks as we drive down the lane to my father’s estate, a place I was almost positive I would never set foot in again. “I am sure he will love you and be happy to finally meet you.” Alpha Jace tells him, as I remain silent looking out the window, nervous to see my father after all these years. In the seven years that I have been gone, I have refrained from having any communication with anyone back home, in fear that someone might find me, or worst yet find out that I had a son to their now Alpha. Not once in those years had anyone back home looked for me, that was until now, and I had to believe that it had something to do with the announcement of my engagement to Alpha Jace. I had told myself all those years that my father was probably happy to have gotten rid of the burden of me and the shame that I had brought to the family’s name. But here I was, coming back to the place
Kit’s POV “I’d like a moment alone with my father first.” I told Alpha Jace, as we stood outside my father’s bedroom door, because I feared what my father’s response would be seeing me for the first time after all these years, and I didn’t want to subject Alpha Jace to his cruelty to me. I didn’t want him to hear the foul remarks I was used to receiving from him, because I didn’t want Alpha Jace to think less of me. “I will give you a moment with him.” Alpha Jace said as he moved to take a seat on one of the chairs that sat in the grand hallway. Turning, I placed my hand on the doorknob, and I froze as I took a deep breath, praying to the Moon Goddess that this would go better than I foresee it going in my head, before I turn it, opening the door to my father’s bedroom. The room was eerily silent, as I stepped into the room and took a look around, until my eyes landed on my father laying on his bed, covered with a blanket up to his chin.
Kit’s POV “Katrina will do no such thing.” Alpha Jace said as he moved to my side, wrapping a protective arm around me, as he let his Alpha’s presence known to my father. My father’s eyes moved from mine to Alpha Jace, as he says, “I am sorry Alpha, but I do not know your reasonings to interfere with my daughter’s and my dealings, nor do I know who you are.” Alpha Jace lets out a low growl towards my father, obviously not liking the fact of what my father said, nor liking the fact that my father feels it’s none of his business. “Let me introduce myself. My name is Alpha Jace of the Mystic Shadow pack, and I am your daughter’s mate. Your dealings with her very much do concern me, and I will not allow you to disrespect her by asking her to prostitute her body out to Alpha Domonic for the sake of your family’s name, especially when she is mated to me.” My father’s eyes moved from Alpha Jace’s to my own, before his eyes moved
Kit’s POV Turning back once again to my father, I wonder what the other reasoning was that my father wanted to see me, as I couldn’t imagine that it could be anything good from our previous conversation. “What is it then father?” I asked him, wanting more than ever to just head back to my new home with Alpha Jace. “It seems your sister wants nothing to do with my affairs, nor does her husband. She has her hands full with her children and she is expecting another one. The responsibility now falls onto your shoulders, to make sure that my estate is taken care of once I pass.” My father tells me, giving me a hard blow, because I too want nothing to do with the estate either or this pack. “I’m sorry father, but my hands right now are full too. I also have a child, a pack, and a mate to attend too.” I told him, telling a partial lie because I wasn’t quite yet the Luna of the pack, but on the next blood moon I would be. My fath
Kit’s POV Alpha Jace sat with me in the hallway, as he held my hand, trying to comfort me, while I prayed to the Moon Goddess that my words hadn’t killed my father, making me have to live with another regret in my life. Even though I had hatred in my heart towards my father and the way he treated me, I didn’t want to be the means to the end of his life. The door to my father’s room at that moment opened, and Alpha Jace and I stood immediately as the pack doctor appeared with a look on his face that told me whatever news he had to tell us wasn’t going to be good. “Ms. Katrina, I hate to be the one to give you this news, but your father has only days to live, if that. His health has declined quite a bit since my last visit, as the disease has taken over most of his lungs.” “There’s nothing we can do for him?” I asked the pack doctor, as I held on tightly to Alpha Jace’s hand for support, after hearing what the pack doctor had just confesse
Kit’s POV “If you don’t feel safe here, I can send some of my men to protect you and Damian.” Alpha Jace says to me, as we stand outside by his vehicle, while he is getting ready to leave me here alone with my father. There was no threat that I felt that his men were needed here, that they could help me with. What I needed was moral support from my father, and that was just something that he could only give me. “No, I will be fine. There’s no need to send your men here.” I told him, secretly wishing that he could stay with me, because I felt safer from my father with him around, knowing that he would stand up for me against him. But with him leaving now, I didn’t have to worry about my father slipping up, telling him about the pills I took all those years ago to suppress my wolf. Alpha Jace leaned in and kissed me on the forehead, before telling me, “I will call you daily to make sure you are okay, but don’t hesitate to call me if you ne
Kit’s POV Days have gone by, and even though I am in my childhood home, I feel like a prisoner and a servant to my father, and I wondered if this was why he wanted me home to care for him. Did he want to see me beneath his feet acting as a servant to him in his dying days, making me feel like I was never going to amount to anything since I had gone against his wishes for me. I had already paid dearly for those mistakes that I had made, but he didn’t know that, and he also didn’t know that every day I lived with the reminder of those mistakes, as not a day goes by, that I don’t have regrets for what I have done. “Can you not do anything right?” My father asks me as he pulls his arm from me, that I am now being forced to bathe. “Your sister is so much better at this, than you are.” He then says, scolding me because for some reason it isn’t up to his standards, and reminding me that she is now his golden child, even though I had showed up h
Kit’s POV A few more days had passed, and my sister finally returned to see our father, and I decided to take the day and spend it outside with Damian, since we haven’t had much time together since we got here, but thankfully Damian had been very understanding of his grandfather's condition and has kept himself occupied. Today though, he looked happier than ever since my sister brought her son along, and I watched as the two of them played together as cousins should, outside on the playset and in the sandbox. The fresh air felt inviting, as the cool breeze tickled my skin, replenishing my lost energy from taking care of my father nonstop for days now, and my father hadn’t let up on his hurtful words and expressing his feelings towards me.After what Ms. Caroline told me, I found myself biting my tongue with my father, because I was the reason once again that caused my family’s name to be ruined. But this time it was Dom and not his father that had cause
Kit’s POVSeven years later… “Damian, grab your brother, and your sister and get in here. We have to leave now, if we are going to make it.” I yelled out the backdoor, as I was now in a panic that we were going to miss the ceremony. Dom was making sure that all our luggage made it to the SUV, as I rounded up our children to head to Mystic Shadow. Ms. Caroline at that moment moved from the kitchen with a basket in her arms, and I knew from the smell coming from it, she had baked a fresh batch of her famous cookies for the road trip there. It didn’t take much convincing on my behalf to get Ms. Caroline to come and live with us at our new estate. She was treated more as family then she was as hired help, and she had a cottage on our estate to call home, when she needed her own space. “You heard your mother, lets get a move on it.” She yelled out the backdoor, reinforcing what I had already said, and I gave her a smile knowing
Kit’s POVFor a moment, I wanted to believe that I was seeing what my mind wanted me to see, but I knew it couldn’t be him, because we had buried his body, the day after the war was won against Red Moon. But there standing at the bottom of the grand stairs stood a man, with the same eyes that Dom had, staring back at me. It was as if I was witnessing a frozen moment in time from the night of the ball, and everything around me now wasn’t real. My sister’s hand that I was once holding for support, slowly evaporated from my own grasp, like it was never there in the first place. My head at that moment began to spin, as if time was rewinding, and everything that had happened had all been a dream. If this was true, I knew if I looked to my right, Alpha Jace would be surrounded by a group of starving women trying to get his attention. Closing my eyes, I turned my head to the right, half scared to open them, because in my heart, I wanted this to so badly to be
Kit’s POV Red Moon thankfully fell that day, but so much was lost in taking them down, and my heart ached at the pain it has brought to all of us. But by taking down Red Moon, an alliance among those packs that fought together, had been formed, and Alpha Jace was deemed as head of a council that was created, so that not one pack was solely in control of the region. Dom had made the ultimate sacrifice that day, and my world and Damian’s, will be forever changed because of it. I no longer had to worry about Damian’s safety, as Alpha Orion was dead, and Luna Rebeca was also gone, at the hands of Lizzy, who I will forever be in her debt for. My father’s estate was now my home, and for the first time it actually felt like a home to me, especially since I had Ms. Caroline in my life again. It all felt so surreal being here, since it was the place that I had feared coming back to, for so long, but now I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.Even t
Dom’s POV I had loaded all the Alphas’ heirs in the van, like Alpha Jace had told me to, but as I began to drive down the lane with them, I found myself bringing the van to a complete stop, when I heard one of the Alpha boys say, “Domonic what is going on?” Looking into my rearview mirror, I realized quickly that he was talking to another little Alpha boy in the backseat, instead of me, and my eyes set on the little Alpha boy that was called Domonic. There was nothing about the Alpha boy that remotely looked like me, and it made me wonder if my intuition of Rebeca, not actually having my child was true. As I stared at him, I quickly realized who he resembled, and I knew now who Rebeca’s fated mate was. Damian at that moment whispers back to the other Alpha boy, “Don’t worry, you know our father will come for us.” As his eyes move to mine, looking at him in the rearview mirror.I didn’t have to think much on who he meant by their father,
Jace’s POV Not even bothering to wait for a response from Alpha Domonic, I race towards the house, knowing that my mate could very well be inside, especially since Luna Rebeca disappeared inside moments ago. As soon as I stepped inside the house, I could smell Elizabeth’s sweet scent filling my senses, and I knew that she had to be recently here in the foyer. Following her scent, I moved towards my right, down a hallway that look to be leading to Alpha Orion’s office. Voices now filled the air, as I could hear Luna Rebeca arguing with someone, and by the sounds of it, that someone was her mate, as she was scolding him for going to leave her. Pausing in the hallway, I heard her say to him, “Everything I have ever done has been for you. You promised me that we could finally be together soon, with our son.” A growl rippled from the room and down the hallway, letting me know that the male in the room was no other than Alpha O
Jace’s POV Alpha Domonic lets out a growl as he holds Luna Rebeca’s body by her throat, and I knew that I had to stop him from killing her at this moment, because it was now clear that we had our own bargaining chip to get Elizabeth back. Luna Rebeca obviously had a fated mate here at Red Moon, and I knew that her mate would do whatever it took to keep her safe. Even though I wanted Luna Rebeca dead for Kit and Damian’s safety, right now wasn’t the time to take her life, as we needed her to ensure my own mate’s safety. Shifting back into my human form, I move to Alpha Domonic, and say to him, “Don’t kill her yet. We need her to get Elizabeth back.” Alpha Domonic’s eyes move from Luna Rebeca to me, and I could see the anger in them for everything she had done to him, but right now he needed to focus on the task at hand and that was getting my mate back and saving the Alphas’ heirs. Releasing his grip, Luna Rebeca fell to the ground, gaspi
Dom’s POV Seeing Rebeca’s wolf now standing before me, fueled a fire inside of me, as I began to see red at the sight of her, and I had no doubt she was a major player in what was happening here. She had accompanied these wolves here for a reason, and something told me that reason was to see my end come to me, but by the look in her eyes, it was clear that she wasn’t expecting to see Alpha Jace with me. Alpha Jace at that moment began to move to his right, and I knew that he was trying to block her from being able to escape to warn Alpha Orion of our arrival, as I remained having eye contact with her, to try and distract her from what he was doing. But Rebeca wasn’t stupid, as she took a step to her left, and I quickly mimicked her, not allowing her to get past me. But her foolishness to think that she could get past me, cost her ground, as Alpha Jace closed in on her. Rebeca was now trapped between the two of us, and she had no means of
Jace’s POV It was clear that Dom was struggling with leaving Katrina like this, but he had his pack’s future to deal with. Plus, my Luna was still there, I am sure in danger at the hands of Alpha Orion, and I was going to make him pay for whatever he had done to her. It infuriated me that it had been her plan to go into Red Moon territory, deceiving me, but like Katrina had said, she was a female Alpha and a true Luna, and she thought she was doing this for the sake of all our packs. With that, I had to swallow my anger, and not take it to heart, because I knew if the shoe was on the other foot, I would have done the same thing. As we had been waiting to hear the outcome of Katrina’s surgery, the other packs had been getting into position, completely surrounding Red Moon pack’s borders. The plan that I had put in place after Alpha Domonic had left was a sure thing, at least it looked that way on paper. With having twelve packs backing us
Dom’s POV We moved our conversation into the house, as Ms. Caroline brought us a cup of coffee, and Damian a cup of hot coco, while we waited for Kit’s surgery to be completed. We only had a few hours before the attack on Red Moon was to take place, but we knew that Damian held valuable information to help us save the Alphas’ heirs since he had been held with them. Turns out that the heirs were being held at Alpha Orion’s estate, and there were twelve boys in total there, each of them with the same names given to them of their fathers. There was no doubt in my mind that this was how Kit had put it all together what was happening there, because she had helped me the night before, making all the calls to the Alphas of the region and saw the complete list of all their names. Now that Alpha Jace and I had this information, Alpha Jace changed the subject and asked Damian, “Did you see another lady with mommy there?” Letting me know that he mu