True Queen? This guy has to be insane. My mouth opens to speak, but I can’t think about anything sensible to reply. Tristan’s hands cup my face, and I feel the urge to slap them away, but supress it, not wanting to cause more trouble for the others outside. As if Jax could feel my discomfort, he tries to get through to me."Amelia, please just let me know how you are." "I'm okay, Jax. Don't worry. I just need more time." I quickly send him over mind link before shutting down again, knowing he’s going to protest about it.Tristan noticed my short absence but doesn’t say anything about it. Instead, he goes back to studying my face. “It’s remarkable. We have many paintings of our Queen Ann, this one here is the biggest one. You look like you just jumped out of one of the portraits. But I don’t understand as the connection to your pack, the rest of her late bloodline, died out about eighteen years ago. Every single one was eradicated. My father searched everywhere for anyone who could
My eyes linger on Tristan, and I can see he is fully in his element speaking fully engaged about our apparent hereditary. Again, I have to think about how enthusiastic Tonya would be listening to all of this.“The entire first family was extremely gifted with their power and abilities. Shifting came as second nature right from the start. The power they radiated was above anything following them. They were a family of six, the parents and four children. Each of them had their own nature and characteristics. Some wanted more, wanted to rule, and wanted to make use of their power. Others were generally very calm and caring.”He smiles over his entire face as he leans back and keeps up talking. “Our true Luna, the mother of all, our Queen, she was the most talented of all. Her abilities were beyond anything we know today. She truly cared for every being. Sadly, unlike the others, she didn’t have the ability to heal herself, but instead, she was able to heal others, which would take a toll
“Tiffany, don’t you dare touch me, I told you this before,” Jax warns with a deep, menacing voice, causing cold shivers to even run down my spine. “And now explain, what the fuck he’s talking about?” Even I don’t want to be on the receiving end of this anger building right now.She scowls at him. “You used me,” she looks upset and starts to pout. “He……he used me and my father. Told us to put pressure on the others so he would become stronger than Drake. He wanted all of the other packs to be at his mercy. I’m engaged to him and his mate. He wanted me to do this. How could I disobey my own mate and Alpha? It’s impossible as you all know,” she declares towards everyone around us, giving off an upset and innocent look. “I did no such thing,” Jax growls angrily at her. “And we’re not engaged anymore, nor are you my mate.”Tiffany gasps at his words. “How can you even say that? All the invitations to our wedding are out. Everyone around here knows we’re engaged.” A tear escapes her eyes,
Before Jax is able to reply or do anything stupid, I quickly speak up. “Tristan, I’m not going to stay here. And I'm sure not just going to exchange my mate,” I tell him clearly, making sure Jax isn’t going to cause a war right here and now. Jax seems very happy with my response and calms down, but this isn’t what he thinks it is.Of course there’s a lot for me to learn right here, and I’m sure there’s way more history and things about my family, I could find out if I decided to stay here. But what I really need right now is to sort things out for myself and get my mind wrapped around everything I learned today. What I need most of all is distance.Distance to Jax, distance to Tristan, distance to the entire situation. Turning to Jax, I clarify; “I’m coming back to your grounds if you let me under the circumstances. Because I want you to know, even if I come back, I’m not coming back to you right now. If I come along, I want you to respect the distance I need and for you to stay away
My eyes are glued to the envelope in my hand. Today has been a day with many surprises and revealments. I’m not sure I’m able to take any more for today, I already feel like my head is spinning, and I’m totally nauseous. Jax’s presence right next to me is adding up to this state. My entire body is longing to be close to him, feel him, and be together with him. But in my mind I’m in a total state of mess. I don’t want the mate bond to rule above my deep hurt I’m still feeling. There’s so much more I need to know from him, too. But at the moment I’m not ready to talk to him about any of it.“Aren’t you going to finally look into that letter,” Tonya questions impatiently.“You already know what’s in it anyway. So why don’t you just spit it out already. I think you’re more interested in this than I am anyway. Who truly wants to know if they have a genetic disorder?” I roll my eyes, but I know I agreed to this test. After what I heard today, this shouldn’t really make a huge difference an
“Amelia, can we please talk?” Jax’s question echoes again and again in my head, torturing me. Everything inside of me wants to lose any rational thought and simply give into him. My heart thuds hard in my chest, and my throat feels like it’s a desert as I rasp out the words I need to say. “No Jax. I’m not ready to talk to you.”In front of me, I see the strongest Alpha I have come across, but with those words falling from my lips it looks as if he’s just a shadow of the strong Alpha, broken, and totally defeated. My broken heart shatters a little more at this sight.“I need time. I need time to comprehend everything that has happened. So much has happened in such a short time, whether between us or the things that happened today. Before I can listen to what you have to say, I need time to sort myself out first.” Taking all the strength I can bring up, I look him in the eye, reading myself for the one thing that has been on my mind the entire time. The one thing I do need to know, bef
I try to brace myself for the inevitable impact that’s about to happen. The two guys are so blind in their rage that they don’t even catch on to me jumping in between. It’s only when both bodies crash into mine that they realise and try to back off worriedly as soon as possible.One of my ribs cracks audible from the force of the impact, causing me to wince involuntarily. Both of them shift back immediately and crouch down beside me, with shock and guilt on their faces. This isn’t their fault, I decided to go in between and knew exactly what risk I was taking. If I hadn’t done it, who knows how this fight would have ended? Even if it was only a decision within a brief second, I know if I had time to think about it, as stupid as it may sound, I would have done it anyway. “Oh my god, Amelia,” Jax calls out, horrified. “This is all your fault,” he looks up at Ben in pure rage again, accusing him repeatedly.“My fault?” Ben starts to argue back.“Stop it!” I scream from the top of my lu
Freddie’s voice is nearly inaudible, but the urgency within it is clearly to be heard. Jenny’s eyes look panicked over to her mate, and I can see the inner battle she’s having right now. Everything happens within split seconds, but it seems to be running on slow motion in front of me.“Leave,” he mouthes towards her, and they share a brief moment of depth, the look of not knowing if they’ll ever see each other again.“Come with us,” she pleads, but he shakes his head and urges us to run.Tonya shifts in an instant, just as Jenny. Ben still has me on his arms, I cling harder on to him as we take off as fast as possible.I’m not quite sure what’s going on right now. But I did see the door standing slightly ajar and could take in an unknown fragrance, which undoubtedly didn’t belong there. I have no idea if Freddie saw or sensed more. Whatever he did catch on was enough for him to go into full defence mode.“Let Jax know we need the safe house,” Ben calls out towards Tonya. The fact that
Hi everyone, I haven't forgotten this book.Covid just has been a real b*tch. While I thought I was getting better finally after 2 weeks of Covid, it suddenly spiralled down a lot again. Seems like my other ilnesses have made me very vulnerable. Even if this is my 4th time with Covid, it hit me nearly as bad as the 1st time.Currently, the high dose of cortisone and some oxygen are starting to help. The fever also has come down again. So I will try updating very soon.We're so close to the end of this story, and I feel really bad about not being able to update for so long decently. I hope you understand. Lots of love Jackie♡♡♡♡
My eyes still linger on Jax’s distraught face. Fear of what might have happened to Sybil and Emily or any of the others is nagging at me. But with the knock interrupting us, I know I’m not getting my answer from him right now. I huff slightly in annoyance.“Come in,” Jax calls out. I’m surprised that whoever is there even waited to be called in. Usually there’s only a short knock, and the people enter.Balloons, a huge amount of floating balloons attached to a string, get pushed through the opening door, covering everything behind it. I move left and right, trying to get a glimps of who this might be before the balloons finally move aside and give the view free to my best friends entering the room. Upfront is Ben with the balloons, then comes Tonya with a huge bunch of flowers, followed by Jenny with a tray of cupcakes, and Freddie holds a small teddy bear with "get well" on it. The last one to enter is Alex, holding a huge box of fancy looking chocolates in his hand, giving me the bri
Amelia’s POV:I wake up in an unfamiliar, dark room, but the smell of wounds and disinfectant biting within my nose tells me exactly where I am. I’m obviously at a hospital. Memories come flashing in on me. “Jax!” I sit up abruptly, with my heart thudding violently in my chest. I start throwing the blanket from my body. Panicked, I try to get out of bed until a voice and a hand pressed against my shoulder stop me, and the hand presses me right back into place.“I’m here. I'm here, my love,” I hear his sleepy, deep, and husky voice. “You need to stay in bed.”Without saying another word, I throw my arms around his neck and sob hard against his chest. “I thought……. I thought….I lost you. I thought you were dying,” I cry in relief and pain at the same time. The mere thought of losing him has me totally shook up and causes a pain in my chest, literally taking my breath away. My fingers dig stronger into his back, and I pull him harder into me, making sure he’s really here and not just an
Jax’s POVI feel warmth and power flooding my aching body, relieving the pain and soothing all my senses. Taking deep breaths, my lungs finally expand and fill with air again decently. I was sure I was suffocating only moments ago, I was sure this was it, that I was dying. But then I could feel her, I could feel her love, her power, her body pressed to mine, pulling me out of the dark place I was captivated in. She’s the sole reason the pain is gone, and I’m able to breathe again.Amelia! Without having opened my eyes, I can feel something is terribly wrong. I stir and try my hardest to pry my eyes open. “Amelia!” I choke out and shake her limp body, which is still wrapped around me. “Amelia, wake up!” Nothing happens. It’s then that I notice all the others around us, at least a part of us.Memories of what happened crash in on me, and I remember being buried alive and a sheer amount of bricks coming down after an explosion. By the distraught look on the other faces, I know the situati
“Jax! Jax! Jax!” I call out repeatedly, verbally but also through our mind link, feeling like I'm going out of my mind.No reaction. I can’t even feel him trying to connect with me in return. All I can feel is pain and cold. With Ben and Alex hot on my tracks, I pace through the chaotic state within the arena as fast as possible. I don’t even take much notice of what Emily and Sybil are doing right now.“Amelia!” I feel a little relief seeing Tristan limping towards me. But my heart drops the moment I realise there’s no Jax at his side. They were together. Jax should be with Tristan.“Where is he? Where is Jax?” I question panicked as soon as I reach Tristan.“He…… I…….. He saved my life,” Tristan chokes out, but his words just make me even more nervous. “Then, where is he?” Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely relieved that Tristan is alive and Jax saved him. But my guts twist into knots, seeing that Jax isn’t here next to him.“He…. He pushed me aside just on time before the bricks c
“The Gold moon Alpha is gone,” one of the warriors calls out, realising the same as I did moments ago.Jax pushes me further behind him. His eyes are scanning the entire place. The longer he’s scanning it, the more I feel him tense. We all know it’s a very bad sign. Drake steps towards Alana and shakes her, seemingly trying to get her back to normal, but I doubt he’s able to shake the possession out of her. Watching him act with her, I wonder if he loves her. If he ever truly loved her? There definitely has been more between them, but it doesn’t look like he cares in the same way for her as she did for him. I can see that now. They were both hungry for power and traded their mate bond for it. From what I know now, Tiffany did the exact same thing. She rejected her weak mate because he wasn’t good enough for her. Instead, she wanted the powerful Alpha with his pack. Drake and Alana both wanted my power. They somehow knew about it.My grip tightens on Jax. For nothing in the world woul
I’m startled by the loud roaring voice echoing through the arena. Jax, next to me, still seems to be searching for the source of the voice, while I am staring at the man causing it. He may be in his early fifties. I know I’ve seen that face from far off on some of Drake’s events. Even if I wouldn’t know him, the facial features are a dead giveaway of who he is.“This gathering is against any agreement we made,” he bellows across the arena angrily at Jax. “You declared an open war to me by dropping my daughter. This is your last chance to rectify the situation. Send that worthless mutt away. Banish her from all pack grounds, make her the rogue she truly is, and I will reconsider a war with you,” the Alpha of the Gold moon pack demands.The crowd, that had been cheering moments ago, now turns silent, looking back and forth between Jax and the Gold moon Alpha, waiting for what is to come next. Jax’s grip tightens on me.“I am sorry if I hurt your and your daughters pride. It was never my
Hi everyone, I had intended on finishing this story this year. Unfortunately, a lot has happened the last couple of weeks.My health has been quite bad. The surgery on my dog has taken a toll and a lot of time, as we've been spending every second at the vet for 3,5 weeks now. Last week, her stitches burst open again. Which needed further treatment. And when things go wrong, they totally go wrong. My electrical wheelchair device totally broke down, too. All of it is taking a toll on my health and is taking a lot of time. My head hasn't really been in the right place to write.As Christmas is also coming, I ofc also have those preparations, which are even more difficult with my broke down wheelchair. So I hope you'll understand that I need to take a little time off. The next update will come on January 1st. To those of you who celebrate Christmas, I wish you a happy and healthy Christmas time.But ofc to all of you others too, have an amazing time. Thanks for your patience. And if y
Jax’s POVI called in an urgent gathering. Most of my people have already met Amelia. The most important ones were at the safe house. But the situation has changed since. At that time, things were still a mess, but now we’re engaged, and she’s officially the future Luna to this pack.Amelia walks up and down the hall nervously, tugging at her clothes. She’s wearing a dark blue pencil dress, Tonya has picked for her. Making her look like a businesswoman. “Do you think they will hate me? I mean, they all knew about Tiffany. I don’t have all that money she can provide or the power of the pack……” she trails off while fidgeting with her fingers.A soft chuckle escapes my lips. “Are you serious right now?”She looks surprised up at my tiny outburst, unable to understand why I think this is funny. I take her hands in mine and gently caress the ring she just had been fidgeting around on. “Amelia, you have more power than any of us. You are the true werewolf queen, the true Luna to all of us.