“I can’t find her Alpha Hunter.”I nod because I didn't expect her to right away. Scarlett has managed to hide herself somewhere….. somewhere I cannot get to.Not by following our bond, not by trying to reach out to my daughter through our bond.Are those bonds weak?No one answers me when I think those thoughts so I shut them down and focus on the task ahead instead.Roman has been messing with my stuff. I clench my jaw when I think of it yet I keep the look on my face neutral.I have no beta. I am surrounded by fools, and there is not one capable person around me except for me. I feel like setting the world on fire and watching it burn to hell, but that would be foolish of me.Scarlett may think I only know how to inflict pain but she brought that upon herself. She had one job.“We’re here, Alpha Hunter.”I direct a side glare to the dolt I have for a driver and he looks away immediately, his jaw clenched and his eyes fixed on the road.The gates to my pack are opened and I look at
Roman’s councilwoman doesn’t look surprised to see us. The dungeons are as dark as I remember, and the fact that I was here only once doesn’t help too I guess. She sits up when she sees us and a smile lines her face when Danis comes in. She chuckles and I see her clench her fist. “You put me in a prison cell for practicing sorcery, but you bring an Alpha of the Shadowbane pack into your pack. A natural-born sorcerer. Don’t you think that’s hypocritical of you Alpha Roman?” I see Roman’s jaw clench and he steps forward but I grab his arm at the last minute. I don’t know what he’s going to do to her but I can tell that he and Myrtle are seeing different things right now. She sees how he’s being unfair and keeping her locked in a cage, but he sees the betrayal she dealt him and the pack. Roman told me of Myrtle's relationship with his parents. His father still finds it hard to believe she did such a thing and he’s had to send him on tasks just to distract the man. I haven’t been to
“Roman.”Roman keeps on pacing and ignores me so I try again.“Roman, look at me.”His head snaps in my direction like a released string and soon I'm staring into his eyes.Roman has a fierce air to him when he’s angry. There’s a wildness in his eyes that alarms me, but he’s still Roman.He’s still Alpha Roman of the Ironclaw pack, a man I'm not supposed to feel anything for but who I feel more than I can put into words for.I resent myself for it. Roman only offered me help yet I've brought problem after problem to him.He holds my gaze and I inspect Alpha Roman’s eyes. He’s yet to make any comment on my actions in the barrier. I just told him I revealed my real identity to another Alpha who has now left his pack, and he’s said nothing about it.“Tell me I'm careless Roman.”My words sound almost like a plea and Roman’s expression softens as his brows furrow in confusion. He’s faking that expression just to make me feel better. I know he’s doing so.“Tell me, Roman. Tell me I'm an id
Roman carries me, weak and pliant in his arms to the bed. He looks at me all the time, his eyes searching and inquiring. My response is the same each time. More. I want more. Roman groans low and guttural when I lean in to kiss his neck. The touch is just the slightest brush of skin at first. The heat from his body is comfortable. It melts away all the worry I feel and with that gone I feel a surprising surge of courage. I kiss Roman. I barely notice when he places me on the bed, and as he kisses me back all feels right in the world. It isn’t just the kiss that makes me feel desire for him. Desire for Roman has always resided in me. It’s made me stare at him countless times, lost in the broadness of his shoulders and the powerful lines of his face. This close I can feel every part of him I've fantasized about for weeks now. I feel like I've wanted Roman forever and it’s scary, this need I feel for him. My breathing is shallow and Roman makes my head spin with every contact of
Aria's pov. “Aria!” Pound! pound! pound! I moan as the male below me thrusts. His hands hold my hips in place and he does this amazing thing that has my head lolling to the side. I groan softly as he hits the spot and I impale myself on him. He grunts and leans in to kiss me but the pounding sound comes again. “Aria! Aria it’s Diane!” Horace frowns and groans in frustration while a curse word escapes my lips. “Fuck.” Is it too much for a girl to want to have a good time? Must I be disturbed? “Aria!” Her fist against the door rings out again. Pound! pound! Pound! Horace curses and pushes me lightly off him. “I don’t think I can have a good time in these conditions Aria. Maybe deal with your issues first.” I scoff because no way did he just say that. “So you’re just going to leave?” Horace turns to me as he slips into his pants and he gives me a look. The same look he’s been giving me since last week when he asked that we become something more than fuckbuddies. “A boyfrie
Scarlett's povI wake up in Roman’s arms.Actually, I woke up to the scent of him and me; Jasmine mixed with earthy forest. Roman smells like sex in the forest and it doesn’t take me much to feel warm from it.It doesn’t take me much effort to get drunk on Roman’s scent either.My body gives me a pleasure-filled thrum when I inhale him more and memories of last night come flooding back.My cheeks heat up until they almost burn.Shit.My mind plays back ecstasy-filled image after ecstasy-filled image and I bury my face into his chest.I let Roman do that to me. I let him touch me with his fingers.I’ve never had fingers down there before, okay maybe a few times on a self-exploration kind of quest, but Roman’s fingers…His fingers are thicker and more experienced than anything I've felt, and the way he made me melt, the way he kissed me, the way he made me feel loved.“Are those sounds supposed to count as purrs or moans?”Roman’s voice sets my nerve endings on fire and I don't know whe
Maya doesn’t let me touch her. She holds her chin up in the air and walks past me like she doesn't see me. I apologize for the third time this morning. “I’m sorry Maya. I’m being honest. I didn’t mean to leave you alone.” “I wasn’t alone.” She’s really angry “Uncle Danis and Beta Fen were with me.” I frown. “In the room?” I feel a wave of hypocrisy at the way I voice those words. I almost sound angry and alarmed and it shouldn't be so. I should have been here with my daughter, in this space with her, and in the bed with her. “Beta Fen made him and Uncle Danis sleep outside the door. They left it open so I could see they were there until I fell asleep…..” My heart twists in gratitude “Where were you mummy?” Maya’s tone softens so noticeably at this point that I can tell she’s hurt “You left me alone again.” My body reacts so instantaneously that Maya is caught by surprise when I hug her. It takes a good second, but she hugs me back and when she does the feeling of shame and
Roman's povScarlett is scared.I look at the time on my watch and see it’s a few minutes to 7:30 am.How she got up before me is a mystery and how I got up before my alarm is another.I usually get up after the alarm goes off, but I guess I never had Scarlett in my bed before that. This close to me I can smell the floral jasmine of her skin. The scent of it brings memories rushing back and my mind threatens to bliss out. I can feel my dick warm up just thinking of her and last night…….. and that isn’t the best part.The part that makes me want her, even more, is that I told her about the mate bond.I don’t care that she had a bad experience with her former mate, and I don't care that she could have latched onto me because of that.She didn’t reject me. She’s learned of the fact that we are bonded and she isn’t running away from me. She isn’t seeing it as a trap.I glance at her and see her release a nervous breath. The action brings a smile to my lips so I brush my knuckles against
Hi wonderful readers.First of all, I’d like to say thank you for reading so much and so far. Thank you for the time invested into this book.Without you, nothing would have been possible, so thank you for that.We have come to the end, and while it is a bit abrupt, I’d like to clarify some things.The book is already at 290 thousand plus words, I was really worried about its readability because anything longer would probably scare readers off. I don’t know how everything usually operates because I am a mildly new author on the platform and this is my first completed book, but it felt like Luna Scarlett was getting long, and if I was to go further into settling some other points in the story….. It’d have been way longer.Now to pick up some of the points I left unfilled in the story (Without giving any spoilers of course.) (Okay, maybe one spoiler, or two :)The fact that Hunter’s mother killed Oliver: I’d say this would have led into a whole other story, and it will, it’s basically
Roman carries me in his arms.Diane is helped along by the mage.We’re laid on beds and the pain from the contractions almost makes me pass out.“Your body’s burning, Scarlett.”I feel water enveloping me and I hear Diane’s low low grunt as she’s laid into the pool too.The contractions make everything feel hard and painful. My mind slips in and out of a haze and the water is red, so red, but through it all Roman stays with me.His red eyes are as clear and pure as two scarlet moons.The indoor swimming pool is converted into a labor room the moment the doctors arrive. I open my eyes weakly to see a whole team of them, strange faces in blue overalls, and the smell of the hospital lingering in the air.The contractions hit again, and this time Roman helps me onto a table as I grunt and cry my way through them.This is stronger than anything I've ever felt.I hear one of them tell Roman firmly, “If you want to be here, wear one of these.”Roman is back at my side in less than a minute,
Scarlett’s pov.Each blast of energy I let out makes me grit my teeth in pain.The doctor and Myrtle watch me with calm eyes and though it rips my heart to see them standing there like that, I don't stop.The shield over me shimmers with each blast of energy I release and I can see the impatience filling them because they can’t touch me while this is still going on.There’s an impatience to the way Myrtle grits her teeth but I can't bring myself to be happy at that…. because I'm killing him.Hot heavy tears flow down my cheeks and I burst into a sob because I can hear the sound of his pain each time I release my power.His shield is directly linked to his power, to him.I’m like a bomb in a can. He is the can.He can’t contain me.He can’t keep me in.I will go off as many times as I need to. I am a woman. My energy is endless, but while I do it… he suffers.It’s either I stop and get my stomach ripped open, my baby… my child will be killed.I would never forgive myself because it wou
The scarlet glow in his eyes grows in strength and all the dots come together in my head.Elara was never abducted. She orchestrated the attack.The strangeness of the wolves that attacked us was because she had infused them with the gene mutation she stole from me, and Ironclaw warriors weren’t able to do anything but die at their hands, because they had never met anything like that.They couldn’t take over the pack totally, because, like everything that’s stolen, it’s never stable. The look in Elara’s eyes makes me chuckle as another truth hits me and I let her get himself to full strength. I let the shift take him over, and in a moment of nostalgia, the scent of jasmine comes carried on a gentle breeze as little lines appear in the wind.They blaze to life with bright but silent lights, each one swaying as if blown by a light breeze. I see the lines extending through the wall behind me, the room where all those in the packhouse are being held currently. I see them in my mind, from
Roman’s pov.The bond between me and Scarlett stretches taut due to the distance and it’s the first time I've felt something like this between us.Feeling her and barely feeling her at the same time.The cars pull up to the gates of the mansion and I can tell my packhouse has been taken over by foreign forces. No one makes themselves visible when the gates come open, everyone is hidden but the moment we drive in, the gates slam shut faster than they ever have.The feeling of arrows already poised at us sends a light tingle down the side of my neck and I send a message to my father through the mate bond, ~Take the children to the safe house. Drive there like it’s what you always meant to do….Stay safe Father, and keep the children safe.~My father sends a feeling that echoes low on the mindlink, one that tells me he will obey my words to the letter because he is a wolf under my command, and I am his Alpha.But as a father and someone who’s watched me grow into who I am today, he’s
“Scarlett.”A brief silence punctuated by mumbled words and then the word comes again.“Scarlett.”The tone is more insistent this time and my eyes flutter open as a headache burrows it’s way through my head. I groan as i open my eyes fully because my head hurts a lot.Surprise steadily flow s through me when i realise i have been bound. I can barely move my hands or my feet.I try to struggle against the ropes but i can’t, and the voice comes again.“Psst, Scarlett.”I raise my head just the slightest bit, unable to see through the large mound of flesh that’s my belly.I feel my baby moving andd kiclkin, the discomfort stinging me like pins.“No, no need to raise your head.It’s me… the mage.”My fuzzy head clears up enough to remember where i am and what happened to me before i blanked out. I feel my body go rigid as shock courses through mel, a healthy dose of shock and fear.No.I struggle against the ropes.NO. NO. NO.Hunter wouldn’t dare.Hunter would never!“Hunter!”My heart
Walking through the halls of the Nightshade pack has me feeling… not nostalgic.I can remember wallking through here when i came here with Danis once. We delivered wolfsbane to Hunter.Then simply being in the compound had shaken me. It had made images of me back here float around in my mind, and then i knew Hunter would have done something horrible to me and Maya if he had gotten his hands on us.I don’t know what must have caused the sudden self proclaimed change in him, but i wouldn’t risk myself and anyone i know depending on that.I’m only here because Hunter knows who i am now. He knows i cannot be hit or hurt by him, without him suffering consequences.“About the conversation we had the other day.”I turn to look at Hunter and i see the way he maintains eye contact with me for a second before looking away to stare at something else. His voice comes out more sulky than i imagined he wants it to be.“I only knew Oliver.I didn’t have any relationship that was out of the normal w
Scarlett’s pov.It’s a bloodbath.I feel the tang of blood on my tongue, the smell of death in the air, I smell the power leaking off Roman, and as it leaks off him, it goes into me.“Roman…”My voice is hoarse and croaky. I can barely hear it. It’s a rasp that leaves my throat feeling sandy and hollowed out yet Roman hears it.His head snaps to me the moment I whisper his name and I realise now why everywhere seems so silent. There’s not a sound emanating from the forest, not from the archers in the trees, not from the warriors Roman brought along, not even from the birds - probably already scared away by the violence, or the attendants - scared into silence by Roman, currently dotted in large splatters of blood. Roman’s presence jolts when he comes to me.I feel his aura wrap around me faster than anything i have ever felt before, and when he cradles me in his arms, i feel the shift take over him and his claws retract, the red glow from his eyes fade, the heat radiating from him d
Roman’s pov.The world pauses as I feel Scarlett’s anxiety spike through the mate bond.It’s a thick and heavy feeling in my gut.My head snaps to her, searching for any traces of what might be happening and for a minute all I can feel is Maya telling her there’s something wrong with the boy.There’s something wrong with Axios.Before anyone can pull another breath, I feel my wife fill herself with power so pure it leaks into me and sets my nerve endings on fire.“Everybody down, Now!”The blast of wind Scarlett releases makes a boom when it rips out. Screams come from the attendants now on the floor, the shrill whistles of arrows are almost masked by the boom of air but not quite. I see the arrows fly back with the force of a snapped twig and they find targets.Scarlett fills herself with that power again, needing not even a second to fill herself up, already primed for an attack while I'm still trying to make sense of it all.The orders come from my lips not a moment later, “EVERYO