The floor felt so cold against my body that I didn't realise that I was shivering. I could hear the two rogues whispering in the room. I barely realised that they were cleaning the mess that they had made so that no one would know that someone had searched this room. My brains seemed so fuzzy that
#Chapter201'HIS VEXATION'******I knew that I was the one who told Zara that I was going to wait for her. I remembered how close I was to kissing her when I had said that she could take some time away from me, even be with that rogue Ethan, if that's what she wanted. If that's what she needed. I
And now here I was standing with my son in my arms, with my mate by my side. As I looked down at Mason, I felt a sense of protectiveness wash over me. At times, I still had difficulty in believing that he was mine. Two of the most important people in my life were in the same room and I felt elated
#Chapter202'HIS ENVY'******Call it a gut feeling but I knew the exact moment Zara reached the pack house. The awareness began as a slow tingling sensation which spread slowly to my fingertips, which itched to touch her. I was sitting in my office when I sensed her in front of the pack house, wh
#Chapter203I crossed my arms over my chest as I saw how all the wolves had broken up into groups of two and were practising combat. My eyes moved over the groups to find where Zara was. My eyes narrowed as I saw her circling around Ethan, which was absolutely wrong. Ethan and Zara didn't belong to
#Chapter204'HIS PANIC'******I didn't look back, I just couldn't. My wolf was going mad and I knew that if I had not forced my wolf to run away, he would have definitely tore apart that filthy rogue, consequences be damned. I closed my eyes shut, desperately trying to erase the picture of Ethan l
#Chapter205I climbed up the staircase and walked into my office. I massaged my neck to get rid of a knot in order to get ready for the immense amount of paperwork I was going to tackle now. I slouched in my chair and took out my phone from the desk drawer. I had put it here before going downstairs
#Chapter206'"But you didn't know that, did you?"'******"My name is Aaron and who are you?" His eyes took me in from head to toe and I resisted the urge to flinch so as not to show him any weakness. "Shouldn't I be asking that question? After all, I'm the one sitting here, strapped to a seat." I
#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