#Chapter69"Is there a problem if I do believe in soulmates?" Emily snorted. "Well, sure. You do have a funny way of showing it. Sleeping around with every girl in town and having one night stands all the time."Harper clenched my hand in his and I sucked in a sharp breath at the pain that shot up
#Chapter70'How it would feel like when he would accept me as my mate and how it would feel when he would finally mark me?'******Say something. Anything."So that was, uh...." Harper began."Awful." I put my head in my hands and groaned.Harper chuckled and I shot him a glare. "Well, not really
I looked out of the window, trying and failing to make out the scenery zooming pas us. It was clear where we were headed, the woods, because that was the only place he could transform and run. Harper probably got the message that I wasn't going to deny his statement. "I'm sorry for the way I acted
#Chapter71'"Can mates fight against submission?" I asked them.'******"Emily wasn't always like that, was she?" Samantha asked."No, she wasn't." I sighed. The three of us were having a sleepover at my house. It was only the day before yesterday that I had gone through that awful dinner and I do
"Can mates fight against submission?" I asked them, already knowing the answer.Sam smiled at me and Nat nodded her hand, while running a hand through her hair. "Yes, they can.""Mates have different ways of submitting to each other, both in wolf and human form.""Like what?" I asked them and opened
#Chapter72'"I will be with you every step of the way. Always."'******My eyes took in my brown hair that had been carefully twisted and pinned up into a classic but sophisticated chignon at the side of my head. A few wisps and tendrils framed my face and lightly swayed whenever I walked or moved
#Chapter73As soon as we were outside the door, Harper held me in his arms and planted his lips on mine. I returned his kiss with equal fervor, our lips desperately moving against each other. I clung onto his jacket clad biceps while his arms circled my waist. My body was flush against his, my soft
#Chapter74'"Do you, Zara Sophia Hemming, accept my apology and accept me, Harper Daniel Cain, as your mate?"'******I placed both of my hands in Harper's. His large hands engulfed my own small ones and I felt so small compared to him. I felt shy all of a sudden. This, whatever we were doing, wou
#Chapter254BONUS IIEverything turned chaotic the moment Zara left to be away from Harper, me, and all the rest of us who could possibly remind her of our betrayal. Did it count as a betrayal though when we hardly understood it ourselves? My heart hurt and my wolf whimpered at the possibility of n
#Chapter253BONUS IIWhen all the tests came back negative, I felt I was going mad or my brain was cooking up some insane story and I couldn't make head or tails about my life. I felt I was being crazy because there was no possible way that this was happening to me. If I was indeed pregnant with Ha
#Chapter252BONUS II'Natalie's POV'******I knew something was wrong when I didn't get my period for two months. I never had a smooth cycle so I wasn't really troubled when they didn't happen the first time but their absence in the second consecutive month got me worried. My body had undergone c
#Chapter251BONUS ISomething about her made my protective instincts stand on end. My wolf didn't understand what was happening but I found myself giving an evil eye to anyone who looked at her the wrong way. I could feel that she was attracted to me and it brought a sort of satisfaction to my ego
#Chapter250BONUS IMy father didn't want to see me go, I was his heir. I was supposed to succeed him and impart all the knowledge he had given me to my own son but he could see how darkly I grieved, how she feared I would choose to take my own life than choosing to live on without my mate. So, wit
#Chapter249BONUS I'Ethan's POV'******When you grow up as a werewolf, all you ever hear is the word 'mate', because people around you can't stop talking about them. Some elders talk about mates with a dazed but happy look in their eyes and you can easily tell how much they love their mates. Whe
#Chapter248EPILOGUE 6"God, I sure hope not," Zara whispered in my ear, and I caress her knee and she squeals and tries to get off me but I stop her by holding her tightly against me. She makes a show of it but settles again beside me. "When are Nat and Addison coming back?" Natalie and Addison h
#Chapter247EPILOGUE 5'HARPER'S POV (TEN YEARS LATER)'******It was three years ago when Mason was first teased by a fellow classmate about the unusual arrangement of his parents. I had always known that as he was growing up, he became especially attuned to the fact that the way his family lived
"Everything ok?" Harper's voice breaks my reverie my eyes snap up to look at him. In a daze, I show my healed palm to him and his eyes shine with pride as he recognizes what this means. As a human, seeing my palm heal so quickly is a stunning surprise in itself and I watch as Harper pulls my hand to