“ The order called us,” Cain’s words had an immediate impact on the wolves who were sitting around the dining table. Diskant dropped the bagel he was eating, while Calvin choked on his orange juice causing Cole to hit on his back, Adrian’s coffee mug slipped out of his grasp and fell on the floor with a loud smash, Kerry on the other hand added a whole jar of sugar in hers. And Sawyer’s reaction was the biggest as she stood up, looked at her brother with shock in her eyes and then opened her mouth to say something but then thought better and sat back down without saying anything. “ They better not have called us, after doing all that to our pack.” Diskant snapped with a bang of his fists on the table, he looked around the silent dining table and continued, “ They were the ones who called us highly strung and said that wolves like us deserve to live under the scrutiny of the order.”“ They might not have done that if you didn’t threaten to tie them up and let your wolf play fetch wit
It wasn't long for Evelyn, Amber and the severe enforcers to take a seat on the opposite stand to theirs, Reyna could feel the anger rolling in her stomach at the very sight of Evelyn as she took a seat as the head of the pack and glanced towards her direction. For a second Reyna thought that she was actually enjoying acting as the acting alpha but then she sensed her nervousness and knew that the woman wasn’t as calm as she was making herself look.Good. She was glad that Evelyn was unnerved because her wolf was pressing against her skin wanting to take a bite out of her at the moment. Highly pissed and alert in the presence of her enemy. Evelyn took a glance at Cain, Sawyer and Diskant who were flanking them and then with a smooth smile that fooled no one turned to Reyna. “It's good to see you, Rey, I was hoping that you will attend the meeting.”Reyna hiked a brow and shot a smile back at Evelyn. “ Is that why you only asked my mate to attend the meeting and not me?”“ Your mate
“ You really think we will believe that?” Reyna narrowed her eyes. “ Your pack has been using my powers as if they owned it, torturing me until you couldn’t anymore, what are you talking about? Do you think I am going to believe that you will just let me go without any trouble?” Her wolf snarled at the memory of the time they spent at Glenn’s pack.Evelyn’s brows furrowed like she wasn’t liking where the discussion was going. “ I did admit that we weren't the best pack for you, I will not deny the truth but I hope you will believe us when I say that we did not send any hired shifter to you, harming you will not bring us any good.”“ I didn’t see you caring about this before.”“ I do not care about you,” agreed Evelyn. “ I wish I could say that I do but my heart isn’t big enough to have enough space for you. I am a petty woman, someone who only cares for her family and that’s something that you know, which is why we are here. I would like to know where my nephew is?”“ Which one are y
“ Evidence?” Cain’s eyes narrowed as he asked. “ What evidence do you have?”“ A few days ago, I received a very fascinating call. They didn’t give me their name, of course, they wouldn’t, no smarter man would do something like that, I only know that they were calling me for very specific reasons. I spoke with the person shortly, after I brought Glenn up, they mentioned some things to me.”“ What kind of things?” asked Reyna as she eyed the cellphone that Evelyn was holding.“ Oh, the call was very fascinating indeed—— they said that I shouldn’t trust a word that the ‘little slut Reyna’ is telling me, that you are the reason that Glenn has been gone for so long, and we try to make you speak ‘nicely’ our pack will found out where Glenn is and that you know where he is but you are not willing to tell me. I can only assume that they might have gotten my number somehow, it's not a difficult thing to find out.” Evelyn looked at Reyna very closely. “ If you do not believe me then I can play
Selina on the other hand blew out a relieving breath as she nodded her head. “ With this, I conclude the meeting. Miss Evelyn Mcbride, you will be the first to leave with your pack mates and then Mr Cain Covington you will leave after Miss Evelyn has left, this is to avoid any conflicts from arising. Thank you very much everyone for your cooperation.”Evelyn left with her pack mates without another word and only then did Cain ease his stiff posture. His muscles were aching because of how stiff he has been throughout the entire meeting, every nerve in his body was taut like an arrow notched in a bow. He so wanted to take a bite of the chunk of the flesh of these people who may or may not want Reyna dead but his wolf was inclined to believe that they were a threat to their mate and that was exactly what Cain believed them to be as well. He felt a much smaller and warmer hand clasp him as Reyna peered at him with a tilt of her head. “ You alright?”He nodded before rubbing the pad of h
Cain hadn’t expected to wake up to an empty bed, nor did he expect to find himself completely alone. He had gotten used to waking up with his arm curled around Reyna’s waist right next to him——- he liked to see her face the first thing in the morning, it has become a sort of ritual for him, like she was his lucky charm and what he liked, even more, was driving her to pit full of need with his strokes and touches. So, it wasn’t a surprise that he found himself glowering as he walked out of the room, following the trail of her scent.He looked in the kitchen but she wasn’t there anymore, with a scowl etched on his face, he resumed his hunt as he followed her delectable scent that was all over the lodge since Reyna was a pacer. She liked to pace doing everything, whether it was brushing her teeth or drinking coffee, only when he was next to her would she sit down and eat her meal like a decent person. His wolf perked up when he noticed that Reyna’s scent changed slightly and curled up
Reyna chucked at his reaction. “ Are you really that scared of my uncles?”Picking up the fallen tomato, Cain shrugged before pulling out a chopping knife from the rack and started chopping the tomato. His actions were no different than a butcher mincing meat. “ I am not scared of them, they just drive me crazy with their crazy talks and nothing more.”“You have seen my uncles a few times already, I don’t think that they will treat you badly. Much less bully you.”“ I have seen your uncles a few times, yes but we only chatted up that one time and you know how it turned out for us. They don’t seem to have a very high opinion of me or my Dire wolf.”“ Well, they were like that to my dad as well and he is a submissive wolf. They have been used to babying my mum and me, believe me, they don’t have any good opinion of any shifter male who so much as looked at my mum or me the wrong way. Given that we have been f*cking like wild bunnies, you do not look at me with platonic gaze, so yeah yo
“ Strong enough to be an Alpha,” said Reyna with an appreciative pat on his shoulder. “ You guys should hold back a little, he is only playing nice because I asked him to and because he knows he is stuck with you as his extended family.” “ Like I asked for an alpha brat to be my extended family,” muttered Daniel under his breath though he made no attempts to lower his voice which was why Reyna glared at him. “ Dan!”“ What? He knows my opinion of him, it's not like if I were to act all sweet and chummy with him, he is going to like it!” he retorted while looking at Cain furtively, who nodded and agreed just as swiftly. “ Please don’t.”“You see that?”Daniel said as he pointed at Cain. “You guys are just … I don’t even have words for you three.” She looked at Cain, “ You can discuss whatever you want with the two of them, I bet you would be surprised with the things they might have already found out by now, regarding our troubles.” Then without paying any attention to either of them,
Her father escorted her out of the lodge, down the patio and through the trees on the path that led to the artificial lake sitting in the middle of the forest. That was the spot where the two of them first realised that they were mates, both of them thought that the mating ceremony would be a lot more meaningful if they were to hold it there. As they walked past the last of the trees and entered the clearing near the artificial lake, she noticed that the rest of the pack was sitting on both sides of the aisle and at the end stood Cain together with Diskant who has very gracefully —— that was to say fought with the other enforcers to get the spot as Cain’s best man. Behind the podium was Aron who was going to play the role of the priest and let them exchange their mating ceremony vows. Her father stopped at the start of the aisle and then turned to look at her before clearing his throat. “ I will say that I am not a fan of that emotionally unstable wolf—-”“ Dad” Reyna rolled her ey
As both wolves jumped at each other Nolan and Daniel who were waiting for their chance rushed in before they slashed open the shifter-resistant ropes freeing Valentina and Mike but they left Daxton tied without even looking at him causing her mother to angrily hiss. “ Daniel, don’t make me hurt you.” Only then did Daniel free her father who sat up straight and despite looking rather worn out glared at Daniel. “I got you, honey,” once Nolan was done slicing the ropes that were bounding her with a pocket knife and pulled her away from the fight as he noticed that the coppery scent of the blood seemed to have seeped through the very pore of the wooden warehouse. But Reyna wasn’t the slightest bit nauseated by the thick scent of blood, no …all the blood, growls and hatred that was oozing out of Cain at the moment was inciting her wolf who snarled and clawed in the air urging the wolf to take the wolf’s head off in just one big chomp. Even as she and her parents moved away from the brawl
Cain stood there in front of her with eyes coldly glinting as he looked at Robin, his mouth was curled in a cruel snarl but he didn’t move probably because Robin had his man point a gun at her parents. Robin chuckled with a harsh bite to his laughter. “ You are really good, Covington. You found us much faster than I have expected you would. It’s a shame though I was hoping for a final climax before sending you away.” Cain’s nostrils flared as he stared at Robin without blinking his eyes. “ You won’t kill them,” said Cain, his voice was carefully controlled but Reyna could sense the anger brimming off him and why wouldn’t he? The man just watched another male try to claim his mate overriding his claiming mark. “ If you do, then Reyna would never go with you, you know that right?” “ I wouldn’t like to kill anyone here,” said Robin. “ But will I kill everyone in this room including myself? I will. If that's what stops you from taking her away from me? I will do that definitely. Esp
Reyna stared at Bree with a disgusted expression. “ You are … have you ever seen anything past your own selfishness? Did you even care about what happened because of your stupid desires? Sawyer almost lost control of her wolf! And if that isn’t the worst thing, two enforcers died——”“ They were not supposed to die!” snapped Bree with her eyes looking a bit feverish. “ I never asked the loners to kill the pack mates, but they were in their way and they … and Gerald found out that it was me because when the two females couldn’t get past them without hurting either of them, they called me and he..he heard my voice and threatened to tell Cain. I couldn’t…I couldn’t, I couldn’t let him go, it’s his fault for being too nosy.”“Nosy? It was you who asked those loners to kill them! And for what they heard your voice? Then you should have taken the consequences of your actions like the good person you act!” Bree looked at her with eyes that were glowing and panted hard. “ I am a good person,
“ I saw that Robin guy go in there,” said Diskant as he jumped down from the tree. “ He was still wearing the mask of Mike but he didn’t look like him at all, that faint swagger and those haunting eyes, he looks like some corpse or something, I swear I felt a chill crawl up when I saw his face. Like how can somebody be this expressionless, and here I thought that Reyna was exaggerating when she said that the guy was as much of an emotional fool as a dead body. Turns it she was right,” at Cain’s glare, he cleared his throat and continued, “Anyway that’s not what is important, it’s that the guy went in that old warehouse and I cannot see anything past that, can’t catch a glimpse of what’s going inside.” “ He is keeping Reyna there, that’s all I need to know,” Cain flexed his jaw as he stared at the warehouse with a calm that his body and wolf both didn’t have. His body was burning with a kind of energy that was enough to drive him crazy. He was no longer as anxious as before but he was
The wolf under Cain dragged a figure into the light —— Damn it. It was Bree who was being dragged on the broken wooden floor, gagged, bounded and with her face swollen like she has been beaten badly but at least she wasn’t bleeding and with her shifter healing she was slowly getting better. Her eyes shot to Reyna and at once Reyna was able to feel the fear, trepidation and dread that was coursing through Bree. Her eyes were darting around madly and her mouth seemed to be working nonstop but Reyna wasn’t able to understand a single word. Reyna sucked in a breath through her nose, with her mouth taped she had no other choice. She peered at her parents who were lying unconscious and a surge of anger and grief rose in her heart, if she could she would have killed Robin here and now for touching her parents but she couldn’t no matter how much she tried to struggle against the ropes she couldn’t, all she could do was to glare at Robin who smiled back at her with a feverish glint in his e
Cain had to admit that it was one of the hardest things that he had to do, but he did as Diskant told him to because f*ck him —— Diskant was right. He has to keep a clear mind if he wanted to deal with Robin. But God help him because he didn’t believe he would be able to do it. He drew in a breath as he turned to his enforcers, “ Robin is probably taking Reyna where he is keeping her parents, if my hunch about him is right, he would want her to see the condition of her parents so that her spirit might be crushed. We need to follow that car and wait for the right time to barge in when their guard isn’t up.” Nolan snorted as he got up from the ground. “ He is a f*cking idiot, if he thinks he can crush my Reyna’s spirit, she takes after her mother and nothing can crush her.” “Damn right,” muttered Daniel as he rolled his sleeves and got ready to punch some shifters’ butts. Then he turned to Cain and patted him on the shoulder. “ Don’t worry, he might have her but he wouldn’t be able
If the smoke hasn’t caused the wooziness to sweep away all the senses in her head, blurring her vision and fogging her thoughts, she might have been able to fight the effects of the chloroform ..maybe she could have used her powers to take care of the intruder but then her world started to spin, tilt and with a loud bang darkness fell all over. As she fell, she was aware of the other females whimpering and fighting their way to stay conscious but the dose of the chloroform was too strong for any of them to stay awake. Reyna wanted to fight and protect the other females that were her responsibility as the Alpha female… wanted to yell at the bastard to leave the rest of the females alone but she couldn’t even open her eyes much less speak. Her raging wolf, snarled and swept her claws in the air wanting to shift but she couldn’t free herself, she wasn’t able to fight the darkness that was falling and swallowing her completely.Hidden in the dense forest, behind the tall and canopied tre
Reyna felt shitty because no matter how much she tried to focus on whatever story that Kerry was trying to tell her, she couldn’t get a word in her head of it, she knew that the older woman was trying to get her mind off Cain but with her occasional zoning out there was nothing she could do… she just couldn’t concentrate. She had thought that with so many people around her she would be fine but to her surprise, she was distracted. In fact, it was better to say that she wasn’t even surprised, with her mate infiltrating a secret hideout of a pack that was involved in criminal activities… it was hard to think of anything else. She couldn’t stop obsessing over what Cain was doing whether he was fine or not.. what if Robin was there and sensed his presence then what was he going to do?Reyna found herself chugging down mugs of coffee, crossing and uncrossing her legs and she was feeling so damn edgy with all the emotions that were pouring in and out of her, it was as if she was hyperventi