ScottI have my head buried in my hands as I sit in the hallway of the pack hospital, waiting for some good news.The doctors and nurses scurry around us while the rooms and even the hallways are filled with injured warriors.Even though we won, I couldn’t feel any joy about it, not even for a second.The destruction the attacking rogues and pack members of the White Opal Pack had left behind was much higher than we could have ever could have had predicted.It sadly looks like we underestimated them and they came to make us pay for that, taking advantage of our perception that we were more powerful than anyone.And we are surely the strongest, but they had the better plan.That’s for sure.I inhale a deep breath, straightening my spine to sit upright and stare down the hallway.My chest squeezes as I see the desperation on the faces of the hospital staff, who usually is known to remain calm and collected. They treat their patients with everything they can, but even I can see that most
Scott My brain is buzzing by the time we have finally gotten the most life-threateningly injured into the car for safe transport to the pack that should be able to help us out of this desperate situation. Liam and I drive two SUVs while Albert, Taylor, and Bryan take the limousines so that we are able to transport them all. There are two pack doctors who are accompanying us as well in case something bad happens. But I could feel that even Doctor Simmeons was convinced about them being able to actually do something about any inconvenience occurring during the long drive. I refocus on Doctor Simmeons who leads us through the most important points of the transport. As the lives of the men we are transporting are all hanging by a threat, there are a lot of things we have to take care of to make sure that they don’t die on our way there. My heart begins to race as I think of all the possibilities that could happen in the worst case and I take a deep breath while my wolf paces back and
Scott My heart beats painfully in my chest as I rip open the doors to my cars, enabling the warriors to lift the comatose bodies of my injured warriors out of the cars gently. I love how much care they put into their movements, being careful not to induce any further pain even if we barged into their territory uninvited, breaking the first rule of our race. Seeing the Alpha stepping out of the mansion again, I lift my head to see him opening the door with another man fully, while a group of people dressed in white coats storm out with stretchers. I push out a deep breath, happy about my pack members and friends getting the help they deserve. Praying to the Moon Goddess as I see the doctors approach, I ask for her mercy to save their lives. There will be a huge miracle needed, and I fear that I’m asking for too much. “Alpha Noah,” one of the doctors says as she meets him on the stairs, following the first two warriors of my pack who are being carried through the house as I suppo
April I scroll through my feed while my mother hums, turning the page of the enormous Newspaper. “Daniel has invited us to their house to celebrate our fifth anniversary with the pack with a nice home-cooked dinner. What do you think?” my mother asks, making me look up at her. “Oh, I would absolutely love that. They are so nice thinking about that.” She smiles, without taking her eyes off the article that she is reading. “Perfect, I’ll tell them that we would love to celebrate the anniversary with them and accept their invitation.” “Can’t wait,” I say loudly, taking a spoon of my scrambled eggs, making her giggle. After having finished breakfast, I get up with a groan as it is too early for me to actually function. I have spent the night before in the lab, thinking I would be able to take it easy today but just as I was about to go to sleep, I remembered that I had an important meeting with Doctor Koppler and Doctor Jones. With a heavy heart, I set my alarm for a time that woul
April “Scott,” I breathe out in a whisper as I look at him in shock. I would like to pinch myself to see if I’m trapped in one of my nightmares, but I don’t seem to be able to move as I am frozen to the spot. As if in slow motion, I can see his expression morph. His initial shock slowly changes into desperation before it only shows pure hatred. Taking a step backward automatically, I gulp. “What happened?” He remains silent as he must be arguing with his wolf about tearing me apart on the spot and as my brain finally starts functioning again, I recognize the warrior that the medical staff are about to lift from the stretcher onto the hospital bed. I gasp at the condition Kane is in and walk to the bed as they connect the tubes to set up the intravenous infusion. My heart beats painfully into my throat as I try to ignore Scott’s burning gaze and concentrate on giving my staff the instruction to stabilize the patient. The patient. The man who I once used to call uncle, because
April “Tell me that they are lying.” Noah’s pleading words pierce through the fog in my mind, making me gulp as I look at him with glassy eyes. “I didn’t kill anyone,” I say, sadly not seeming that convincing as I gulp. “I didn’t kill their Luna. I was framed.” My old pack members scoff, as I keep my eyes on Noah, looking at him pleadingly. “You have to believe me that I’m innocent. Their Luna disappeared, but I had nothing to do with it, whatsoever.” “You are just the same deceiving, lying bitch that you always were,” Liam pushes out a dry laugh, making me turn to face them properly for the first time. My wolf roars in my head and lets her anger but also sadness stream through me as she suffers because of these accusations but also has to cope with the rage rolling off her newfound mate. And my childhood crush. “I know that you won’t believe me! You never did! Even if I was your friend, you just trusted everyone’s word around me instead of mine. I was tortured and cast out b
April “I, Scott Walker, Alpha of the Blue Amber Pack, reject you, April Foster, Daughter of Jax Foster, former Beta of the Blue Amber Pack, as my mate and future Luna.” His words pierce my heart like daggers, enhancing the pain of the rejection washing over me. I feel myself shaking as my wolf trembles at the stabbing pain, trying her best to cope with the painful rejection. After so many years, he hurts me deeply again. Holding my head high, I look him straight into his eyes, my body still yearning for him to inch even closer and press his lips on mine. The damn attraction of the mate bond. But it will soon disappear. “I, April Foster, cast out of the Blue Amber Pack and doctor of the Black Amethyst Pack, accept your rejection,” I say firmly, changing my attributes to underline my distance to the pack. I won’t take any disrespect anymore, so much has changed since I came here and was able to start a new life with people who loved me. So, if he wants to reject me then he glad
Scott I can’t believe this. After everything that happened and after all the pain we had to go through, I reach the one person who could save us, and find April. I still can’t believe that she is the miracle doctor! My blood is boiling as I think of how long I had been looking for her, afraid that she would have been hurt or even worse. In the meantime, she was here. Living the best life as her doctor teacher’s favorite pet. What an idiot I had been! My wolf has retreated to the back of my mind and keeps growling as he tries to get over the pain. He seems to be angry at me for having rejected her right away. And as I think of it, I must admit that even if he was incredibly angry at her for hurting our mate, and still frustrated at my behavior as I kept looking for April, he fell quiet as soon as he recognized April as his mate. He might be angry at me for the rejection, but I couldn’t care less. April is responsible for Hailey’s death, and I don’t think that I could ever for
Scott“The omegas were whispering something quite interesting in the hallways.” I can hear the grin in his voice even if I keep my eyes glued to the documents spread before me, avoiding looking at him. “I don’t know what you are talking about,” I murmur in an annoyed tone, but he only chuckles before practically jumping into the seat standing in front of my desk. “Did the traitor say something regarding our warriors?” he asks, and I finally lift my gaze to see that he is looking at me with big eyes. His dark irises nearly sparkling in expectation. “She wasn’t able to tell me anything. She is still searching for the cause,” I say with a sigh, hoping he would just go away. But it is to no avail. He has always been the obtrusive kind. “So, she couldn’t tell you why our warriors’ health conditions are deteriorating and why their wolves stopped healing them properly?” His grin grows, and I really can’t see where he wants to get at. “Hm-mhm,” I answer with a hum as I lean my head o
April “Oh, stop it,” I groan as Daisy pushes herself off the seat, gasping. “No! Listen to me!” She screams before lowering her voice dramatically. “I drank that tea too.” “Everybody drank from that tea,” I shake my head, as she lets herself fall back into the chair. “Do you want to go on and be dramatic about it or do you want to talk about what happened in the library?” Daisy pouts, crossing her hands as she bounces in her seat. “Why? What happened in the library?” I chuckle, taking another sip of the tea, and I must admit that it is indeed delicious. “Alpha Scott waited until Beta Daniel had left the room to fetch us something to drink and came in to talk to me,” I hold the cup in front of my face, watching her smugly as she turns her head at me, looking intrigued. Even if she is still pursing her lips, wanting to play it cool. “And what did he say?” she asks. I clear my throat, shifting in my seat. “He wanted to talk about his warriors and the process of the treatme
April ‘I don’t think that we should drink that,’ Beta Daniel warns me via our mindlink, and as if the warrior was able to get it, he flashes us a big smile. “Ana was so kind to bring us all a cup of this delicious tea,” he gushes, and I sigh. Beta Daniel rolls his eyes, accepting one of the cups she is holding under his nose with an uncomfortable smile and takes a small sip with an exaggerated slurp. I giggle lowly, hiding my lips behind the border of the cup as he hums theatrically, “It is indeed one of the best teas I have ever had.”Turning towards me, he broadens his smile, his expression turning nearly grotesque. “Right, April?” Coughing as the sip I took went into the wrong pipe, I nod repeatedly, holding my hand on my chest. “Yes. Yes, definitely one of the most delicious. Thank you so much, Ana.” Ana beams up at us, smiling so brightly that I fear her face is going to disintegrate on itself. “Oh, I am so glad. I am going to tell Scott that you liked it right away.” With
April I stretch as we walk out of the library under the curious gazes of the omegas who are acting as if they are dusting the shelves and the insanely boastful statues. Chuckling to myself, I hug my book closer, walking faster through the long hallways of the dimly lit packhouse. As I have forgotten the time during my research, it’s already dark outside, and it has always been this dark also in the pack house as the Luna loved this mood. So the former Alpha kept it like this even long after her death. And I guess Alpha Scott just waddled along. “Has the pack house always been this depressing?” Beta Daniel asks, making me laugh. I nod as we turn into the hallway that leads to our quarters. “It’s because the late Luna, Alpha Scott’s mother, loved thunderstorms, so this lighting arrangement was made to make her happy.” “Ugh,” he scrunches up his face, his gaze still directed to the hallway in front of us. “I didn’t know that those bastards could be that cute.” I laugh, “Yeah, but
April“You shouldn’t have said that.” “Huh?” he looks up at me after putting the coffee down on the floor next to me. “You shouldn’t have said that,” I repeat in a whisper, putting my hands in front of my lips as I regulate my breathing pattern, my panic attack wafting through my body as the adrenaline diminishes. “That ‘future Luna’,” I push out a deep sigh, and he repositions on his knees to take my shaking hands in his. “That was too much. Why did you have to provoke him like that?” “Sorry, it was stronger than me. I saw him holding you like that and thought…the fucking audacity! What is wrong with this guy?” He squeezes my hand soothingly, helping me take a few slow breaths. As I feel a bit better, my fog clearing from my mind, I shift my hands in his, squeezing his back to show that I am doing fine. “What do you want to do now? Shall we return home? I could call Noah. I am sure that he wouldn’t approve of you being treated like this over here. Especially when all you want t
Scott I don’t know what is wrong with me. As I am facing the stupid Beta who is looking at me enraged, my vision refocuses, making me fall out of my tantrum. How fucking embarrassing. What happened? How could I let my wolf take over like this? ‘You are an idiot,’ he growls, retreating in my mind offended. ‘If we don’t react we will lose her for good.’ I shake my head, pushing myself off her, and straighten my spine as I keep my cool. “What did you just say?” “What are you doing to her? Who gave you permission to touch her?” he asks shocked, looking around distressed only to see the table scattered all around the place. “What the fuck happened?” “It’s okay, Dan,” April tries to calm him down as he gets more and more enraged. But he couldn’t do anything. Protector my ass. He is so weak that I would break him in half like a twig. “We were just talking. But how did you fucking call her?” I hear April sigh behind me as my anger flares up in me again. “No need to
April “April,” he feigns shock, grinning like the idiot he is. “You could have told me.” “Stop it, Scott,” I groan, annoyed as I lower my head back to my book. “I was obviously not talking to you. You should really know that.” He laughs, leaning back in his chair while sitting with his knees apart. Fitting for an entitled asshole like him. “Whatever, April,” he snickers, leaning his head onto his fist. “So, are you done hiding? Can we talk like adults, or do you need another round of ‘Avoiding the Alpha’?” I understand that he knows me better than everyone else, but after all that has happened between us and all his outrageous behavior, he should know that he does not have the right to act this way. He should act just like I do and take his distances. He should act professionally as the Alpha he is supposed to be, let me treat his warrior in peace, and not try to provoke me with stupid games. Or ask me to trust him when only a few years back, he tortured me. “I don’t remember
April Since my breakdown in front of the ruins of my childhood home, Alpha Scott and I haven’t talked much. To be honest, we didn't talk at all. Even though I think that he tried to talk to me during the few times when I was not surrounded by people from my pack, I did my best to avoid him whenever I could. I had a hard time coping with the fact that I had to stay in the pack house because the home I grew up in was destroyed, but to my surprise, Alpha Scott kept his word, and nobody has tried to attack me. Not even bad words or insults were thrown my way. Only the angry and disparaging gazes were impossible to make disappear. But that’s okay for me. I am used to them for now, and I don’t care for their opinion anyway. Beta Daniel sighs, letting himself fall forward with his chair. “Are you finding what you are looking for?” “I am afraid that not,” I answer, crestfallen at his hopeful question, feeling defeated. “I can’t seem to find a reasonable cause for a wolf not healing i
April ‘Gotta love a jealous Alpha,’ my wolf giggles, making me groan internally. ‘He should just fuck off,’ I groan back, pulling my blanket closer as I snuggle back in. “I am having a headache, and he wanted to go fetch Amber for me to bring me a painkiller.” Sighing, I close my eyes again, wanting to blend out how he distorts his face in disgust. But it’s more difficult than I thought. “Why? Something the matter?” I ask him, pushing out an exhausted breath. “You could have asked one of the Omegas to bring you something,” he grumbles, stepping closer. Does he really want to reprimand me? “Sure,” I scoff, squinting my eyes at him. “Next time, I will ask one of the Omegas, who can’t wait to bring me a painkiller drenched in arsenic.” “Don’t be silly,” he retorts angrily, letting himself fall into the armchair Daisy was just sitting in a few seconds ago. “As if you were that important that they would risk a war between packs and be executed by an insignificant Alpha like Noah.”