Mag-log inMarabella POV“I waited and I waited. I was close to being alpha; I was the strongest in my pack. Surely, my family was going to find me. Surely it was only one more day of torture I had to endure.”He shook his head, the pain in his voice and his eyes piercing my heart, making it bleed for him. I kissed his chest, my eyes stinging with tears.“They never came, did they?” I whispered, and he shook his head, his jaw clenched.“I was a captive with the vampires for three years before I escaped. I tore through a lot of them to do it, and almost died trying to get back to the werewolf territory.“I was lucky the border was passable because I was a wolf going into my own territory. When I got back, I expected relief, or a welcome, or even a bit of sympathy for what I had endured for my pack, silent, never giving up our secrets.“I had withstood a lot in that time so the vamps couldn’t get the information they wanted.”“What did your family say?”He scoffed drily. “My family. My parents loo
Marabella POV I woke up sick again, shivering a little under the intensity of the feeling. The night was still dark, a slight breeze blowing in through the window.I untangled myself from limbs and went to the bathroom. I splashed my face with water, then took a sip of the potion that had been left for me on the bedside table.It instantly calmed the thrashings of my nausea and I breathed a sigh of relief.I held my protruding stomach, the roundness noticeably growing every day. I knew human pregnancies didn’t normally grow so quickly, that I was really going to test the limits of my body in the growing months.It would probably take more and more toxin to get me through, but I would do it.Not just for me, but for my alphas.I looked down at them sleeping, frowning at the single alpha that had occupied my bed with me. It took me a second to remember Brax was still healing in the infirmary, but Jayden wasn’t there either.But I felt him. Something tugged inside me, a sadness, a fear
Marabella POVThis man was threatening me, my alphas, and my baby, but it was all based on a bias that my father had instilled. I just had to fuck with that.He looked up at me, a frown creasing his brow.“I am going to let you go. I’ll let you run back to my father, and when you get there, and he curses you out for being a traitor if he doesn’t gut you first, of course, he’ll put you in the dungeons, and I bet you won’t survive the treatment they give you down there.“So,” I said, and stood up, “either answer a few questions and stay in this nice, safe cell where you’re fed and clothed or go back to my father, where the comforts you can get used to are piss on your food and rats as friends.”I smiled sweetly, and his bread dropped from his hand. He looked at me like I was insane before his glare switched on.But I was ready for it.He lunged for me as I grabbed the blade out of Jordan’s waistband. It was at the prisoner’s cock before he could reach me.And even if he had, Jordan’s ha
Marabella POV Jayden’s lip pulled back from his teeth, but Jordan seemed to actually consider it. Brax was listening, but he looked like the pain in his shoulder might be pulling him back to sleep.I grabbed his hand in mine and held it as we tried to figure out what to do next.“I don’t want you anywhere near humans. Last time we did that, they kidnapped you. Not to mention the arrows that came too close to you and our child for comfort,” Jayden argued, but Jordan sighed.“We could be right there with her, Jayden. We have to try everything, and what if she’s right?”“What if she’s not?”“Um, hate to be a buzzkill, but in about a minute, maybe less, that choice is going to get taken from you, so you should probably just stow your caveman antics for today, brother.”Beenie grinned, and he growled at her. She grinned wider, and I found myself enjoying the way she riled him up, almost like how I did.He looked down at me and I smirked; he knew exactly what I was thinking.“You are nothi
Marabella POVJordan stepped forward then, sitting on the end of Brax’s bed, holding my hand in his as he kissed the top of it, then rubbed his thumb over the tingling skin he left behind.“That’s what we’re trying to tell you, beautiful. None of us has ever felt this way before.“Yes, we have been in love, well, the sane ones out of us have,” he eyed Jayden, who just smirked, “but it is still nothing compared to you. Our breaths are not our own, our thoughts are not our own, our souls are not our own: they belong to you, beautiful.“You’ve claimed us in every way, and without you, we are nothing. None of us has had that before. So whatever our pasts were, don’t let them get into that head of yours and tell you things that just aren’t true.“You may be a human, a winter born, but the truth of it is, you are our alpha. I think at this point, you are the only one questioning that,” Jordan said reassuringly.I leaned down to kiss him, needing to feel the words on his lips that were burni
Marabella POV“Now she has nothing, and I feel her resentment. I don’t know how to fix that because I’m not giving any of you up, but I don’t think it was fair for me to find out like that,” I said, stepping forward and holding the end bar of Brax’s bed.“I was going to tell you, Spitfire. I just hadn’t decided when,” Brax admitted sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck.I nodded. “Well, before I was pregnant might have been a good start. Before you claimed me. Any point before now would have been preferable. Now I feel I’ve been lied to, and I hate feeling like that.“What I need to know is, are there any other females that have been a serious fixture in your lives?“I know none of you have mated, but have there been any others like Danika, who were going to bear your children? Or become your luna in case you didn’t mate?” I asked firmly, steeling myself for the answers.“Danika was the only official one. Our parents had pushed the union for a while in case I didn’t mate, so it was







