“Are you sure you’re feeling better? I can stay.”I shake my head and push Roman softly towards the door, the smile on my face so wide it almost hurts but there all the same.“No. No way. You missed work the first day, and the day after that. I’d rather not be here to see you miss the next, because you aren’t going to.I can accompany you to work if I want to now, that’s how strong I feel. I’m better now, and you Mr Alpha, you’re going to work.”Roman sticks a foot against the door and renders all my light pushing useless, not budging an inch even as I apply more pressure.“But what if the baby decides to grow again the way he did last time?”“We still have weeks ahead of us for that, Roman.”My husband pouts, his face scrunching in the most handsome way yet somehow managing to make it cute.“I wouldn’t be here to protect you, or help.”The way Roman stares deep into my eyes seems to set the strings of my heart ablaze again, but he’s not fooling me with that look. I repeat my words,
A light knock at the door startles me but not so much that I jump this time, and when I turn to look at it Mira is standing there.My eyes go lightly open because she’s all dressed up, her hair perfectly made, like she’s totally going on a date.Reginald’s shadow just behind her tells me he’s on board with the picnic plans, and more than that apparently if those shoes are any indication. I think he’s also dressed.“Are you sure you’ll be fine on your own, Luna?”I roll my eyes and give Mira a chiding smile, “Of course I'll be fine. You can drop the file on the counter there.Mira drops the purple file at the counter by the door and it goes shut when she exits. I head over to it immediately and scan my eyes through the contents.What I find is a bit strange.I read the sentence twice just to be sure I understand, and even then I don't fully understand it.I pick up my phone and place a call to Priam. The line rings and he picks up after the second ring but his voice is slightly pissed
Hunter stares me down through the phone as I ask and he nods, his eyebrows scrunched in a show of mild confusion. He answers testily.“Yes, I knew Oliver, but that was nothing.It was two guys meeting up to attend football matches and catch a drink.”I keep my feelings under the surface,“How did you come to know him? Did you two attend the same school? Oliver would have told me something if he was attending the same class with someone like you.”Hunter’s anger fans to his face immediately and his voice is mean as he asks. “Someone like me?”I nod because I said what I said. “I called some of your old classmates from high school, and they all said the same thing about you.Hunter was wildly popular, but he was large and insufferable.”“How did you get the phone numbers of my past classmates?”Hunter sounds pissed so I scoff and give him a lightly mocking glare through the screen, “ Your school yearbook. The yearbook Roman has because he was in the same fucking class as you.”My mind
“What’s the matter?”Roman comes in to find me lying on the couch with my eyes to the ceiling and every thought in my head simply blank.I already told myself I would tell him when he comes back home, yet truly saying it makes all the difference because I find out I can't.I say the first thing that occurs to me,“Sixteen-year-old Hunter might have had a thing for my male cousin, Oliver.”At Roman’s pin-drop silence, I sigh and continue.“They were friends, and Hunter’s mum saw a letter he had penned to some mysterious person he was supposed in love with.A few months later, Oliver was killed.”Roman comes to sit beside me and his weight dips the couch down. His scent invades my senses again and it’s as refreshing as it is calming, yet my heart is still in silent turmoil, and so is the look on Roman’s face.He looks confused as he speaks.“I knew Hunter when he was Sixteen... He never said anything about a male he fancied.”I huff in amusement, “Yeah, no kidding. Like he’d actually sa
“Should we really be attending to this before we go to the Nightshade pack?”I nod because we should.It isn’t anyone’s fault that dates are now coinciding. Today is the former Luna’s memorial.Roman’s mother died today, which means a lot of other wolves did too.Today is the day of the attack on the Ironclaw pack, and we aren’t the only ones in mourning in the pack. Today is the day the attack that shook a formidable pack happened, and I will be here for my pack first. That is my duty as a Luna.“Y’know you never told me about your time as a rogue hunter Alpha Roman? Shouldn’t there be some adventures I'd like to hear?”Roman chuckles and looks away and I can imagine how it must have been for him.A week to his appointment as Alpha. A week to the day his father would hand over to him, a great calamity strikes his pack.His mother is killed, pack members are slaughtered, and his mate is abducted. Or rather she ran away with a strange child in her arms while being chased by some men i
The world has faded out of view and now all I can see is her. She stares at me, and I stare back because I have no idea what to make of this.The person in front of me is ray of light thin. She’s almost see-through.“I am see-through.”My mouth is snap shut and I'm lost for words. I turn around and I can't see anyone.I can’t see Roman. I can’t see Alpha Kai. I can’t see Maya or Axios.Only the forest remains, and with the forest is her.I stare at the woman for a while and she stares back at me, amusement clear on her face.She asks me, “This isn’t your first time speaking to someone like me is it?”I shake my head slowly because it is. I’m still aware of every part of my body. I can feel myself and everything around me, so I don't know how this is happening. My voice is wary when I ask,“Are you a ghost? or am I having a hallucination?”The lady shakes her head, the action is undeniably perky as she responds, “I’m not a ghost per se, and no this isn’t a hallucination.I’ve been p
“How do these things even keep on happening to you?”Roman’s look is incredulous and I stare ahead, unsure of what the answer to that is. I ask instead,“Did your mum ever manifest strange abilities like me?”Roman is staring at me attentively as he places the warm cup of tea in my hands and takes a seat beside me.We’re literally in a clearing in the forest right now.Roman has called out people from the pack to bring a picnic table here, and now they’ve laid out a small ass feast.Maya and Axios sit with Alpha Kai listening to him as he regales them with tales of how he did so many awesome things when he was younger.Like killing a nine-foot-tall spider. Or slayed a boar in the outlands.I feel something strange happening to me and my mind.It’s almost like the experience I had just now has made me realize how limited my thinking has been. I feel the world is bigger now.It’s more than just the Ironclaw pack. It’s more than just me and Roman, and Maya and Axios, it’s much more than
“ALPHA! PERMISSION TO APPROACH AlPHA!”The presence of Roman’s head warrior sets nervousness rolling in my veins.My heart is cold and thumping in my chest as I think of what Maya just told me but Roman’s already standing and walking over to the man.I slip into that side of his consciousness he’s reserved just for me, and I listen to what the warrior says,“Locals on the far side of the borders have reported sightings of strange wolves.They’ve killed thirty men in the past two days. Half of them trained warriors and the other half locals.They’re the same… as before.”I see an image flash past Roman’s eyes and in it, a wolf appears to me.This wolf leaps out from Roman’s imagination into mine, and it makes itself solid to me. It isn’t the normal one. It looks feral, like something in it has rotted and coagulated into something nasty.“They’re the wolves that attacked the pack all those years ago.”A chill surges through my bones when Roman says that and his warrior nods.Roman pas