“You don’t have to look so dismayed and hurt, Harrison was hurt when he saw the broken look on your face, that was why he snapped at Harlow. It bothers him to see you both that way, it made him feel weak and hurt his pride. This might sound strange to you but he’s always been the type to take his responsibility seriously if not intimately. He loves to look after his younger siblings and whenever he feels he isn’t doing it right, he gets mad at himself and his pride, bruised”.
Listening to what she tells me, it all explains his personality to a max. Thinking back to the past, this information enlightens his actions then and makes me understand him more.
“Harlow just sometimes forgets this and tends to overreact and that’s why Hayes has a better understanding of him. So don’t feel bad and blame yourself, they love to play rough anyway”.
From the sound of her voice, I can tell she’s smiling and I wish I ca
I peel my gaze off her and turn back to see my mate is out too but she wasn’t the one who called my name. It was… ‘Mother’. “It’s the anger with you extraordinary wolves I can’t deal with. Never do that again, she’s the Luna of this pack and still somewhat a mother figure for you- scratch that”.Not sure if she intends to scold me or not but I find it very funny, there’s no hard emotion to it and my wolf moves close to her.Bringing my nose to nuzzle gently into her side with ears flattened on my head, she exhales and shakes her head while my mate is giggling behind the palm that covers her mouth. “I see you’ve warmed up to mom in the short time we left you huh. Look at you being so well behaved all of a sudden”.‘You say it like I’m not usually so pristine! Don’t tease me that way’ I retort to her who rolls her eyes away. Sometimes it feels as if she represents both herself and Ria. 'How long will you stay in that form?’ A new voice cuts into my mind, making me search around until
His presence begins to fade from his departure as my mate gets closer, still bickering until she’s in front of me and panting. “Were you really…talking…about me?”I hum, “I was told to treasure you and keep you safe. Having a powerful mate such as I am, your happiness is surely assured”. Deciding to tease her, it works the magic and keeps her shut, most likely blushing like crazy to my amusement.‘Sheryl’ My wolf echoes in my mind and I know she hears it as she sucks in a breath. “Um…was that your wolf just now?”I hum again, “He wants you to shift, now”. She gasps at my straightforwardness and I whistle away innocently. Might as well pour the turmoil in my chest on someone else.“You don’t have to be shy, to make it even, I’ll shift too. We haven’t given our wolves enough time to bond properly. So, you’ll fulfil my wish yeah?” I put on a pouty tone, knowing it will easily get to her and she hums.“I’ll be back” The meekness in her voice though, so alluring. It’s still amazing to have
“I’m so sorry dearest cousin” And Ria comes playing all sweet and sorry as she fusses over my mate that only drills her face into my chest the more, making a jumbled mess of my emotions as I zip my lips, completely at her mercy.And I’m freed when she lets go, allowing me to draw in a breath she was restricting me from doing. “Ugh, stop acting that way with me. You just wanna rub how much of a lovey-dovey couple you are with Ignacio isn’t it?” My mate deadpans.“Oh, is that so? I didn’t know you perceived it that way” Ria pretends to be innocent and not know about her own intended intentions as my mate clicks her tongue. “It’s so obvious from how much you both reek of each other. Stop infecting the air we breathe”. “W-what? Just admit how jealous you are already. You haven’t gone that far with Silver yet right?” And Ria bites back, erupting a growl from my mate and I sigh, shaking my head as I drag a hand down my face. I did miss Ria but definitely not for this reason.I stealthi
Walking into the hallway with my mate by my side, the moment my presence is detected, murmurings are ignited along our walk and I tusk in annoyance. They’re all gossiping about what happened two days ago with Asher and those unknown wolves. Everyone knows about the attack and they just can’t keep shut about exaggerating the gruesome way I ended Asher’s life, hinging it on the jealousy over the fact that I snatched Heather from him? For God’s sake, she’s my mate!Clouded by the annoyance fueling through my blood, I shoot an arm out, precisely grabbing whoever it is by the neck in a chokehold and yanking them forward to growl into their face. “If you’ve got something to say to me, then come up to my face and fucking say it!”My voice blares throughout the hallway, commanding an instant pin-drop silence as I toss whoever it is aside, my frame heaving unnaturally as I curse beneath my heavy breath, grabbing my mate and storming off. “Silver, calm-I cut her off by suddenly pressing
And she’s overwhelmed, my wolf pouncing on her and pinning her to the forest ground. All struggles and thrashing around recklessly brings her no help and she desperately resorts to snapping her teeth aggressively at my face to which I dodge, bringing my snout reeled from her. How fun it is to watch her struggle in vain like this. ‘I think she’s acting out of anger, annoyed at how much our disposition bullies hers. She slipped into her rabid mode earlier than we did it seems’ My wolf notes and I do realize what he’s saying to me as her orbs are set alight with her wild rage to bring me down.To satiate her wish and ease her anger, we lower our head down, permitting her teeth to incise into my flesh and create a wound. I feel her realization as she subsequently quietens her hysteria. 'S-Silver?’‘I figured you would allow your anger rule you so this was the only way to bring you back. Say, how come you pack so much power and muscles? You’re an exceptional warrior yourself’ I nuzzle
Chuckling, I fold my arms and say, “You’re quite fit for the job, at least he acknowledges that”. My little tease releases another groan from the wolf as I laugh at him who huffs through the link.‘About the nomads…’ He begins to say, his voice turning serious and I quit my merriment to pay rapt attention to what he has to tell me. ‘Uncle Henry spoke to his mother about it- just to enlighten you on something, she’s one of them as you already know. A daughter to the Beta of her time whose mate was an omega. So after she left her park for ours to be with her mate, her younger brother succeeded after their dad…’Now I know they share strong ties with Black Forest Pack and it would be outrageous to accuse them of betrayal to the pack. Still, it doesn’t overrule the suspicions on ground. ‘So we’re stuck at a dead end, unable to decipher why Asher’s family would be in cohorts with them to come after you, turning against us, one of their closest allies. Its all so sketchy and shrouded…a
Caught, she laughs out loud and I frown, hating myself for my inefficiency to control my rioting emotions. “Woah! You look as red a tomato. Aww…he’s so cute” And she holds my face up so she can look into it after she gushes at me. I bet she’s with a mischievous grin right now and I pout.“Don’t try to bully me Heather. I have feelings too” I say, my voice marred from how much I’m pouting and her forehead comes touching mine. I can hear my amplified heartbeat pounding in my ears.About to say something else to zip that teasing mouth of hers when she seals my words back with the tender caress of her lips over mine. I stomach my words back immediately to permit the soft kiss she engages me in, bringing my arms to wrap around her torso as I bring her body yielding into my will to have her on my thighs. ***I read her moves with such accurate clarity as if her body is mine and seeing the incoming fist diving towards her torso, I manipulate her body
‘Dad is still far behind. When you linked Heather she was out at a mall and didn’t know we had been searching for mom even before you alerted her’ He tells me throughout the link and I growl angrily towards myself. I should’ve just linked him like she told me earlier.No time to dwell on that. I have to find a way to get us out of here. Lowering my gaze to the ground, a sudden panic wells in me, threatening to destabilize my focus. The ground won’t hold much longer…I accidentally channeled the negative energy inside me into my surroundings and forgot this is only a ridge. It might break off and we will…fall. Shit! I can’t let her take that fall. The nomads, now realizing they’re getting surrounded, begin to get agitated for a fight but I let out a thunderous howl and all wolves present look my way. ‘You dare try to hurt any of my own and I won’t hesitate to devour you right here and right now!’ I threaten furiously and they meet my snarling intent, showing me their dentition and
“I’m done packing up!- Zach come help me out will you?” Ugh, why do I have so much to drag down? I frown and put my hands akimbo, staring at my luggage when my bedroom door comes open and a nineteen year-old Zachery steps in, chuckling into his fist when he sees my things.“Don’t let that laughter sip out. Help me get this down” I order and pick up my phone from my table as I join him to take them all down. Before I knew it, six years already sped by. A lot has happened, the family especially became much larger than it was back then. Harrison’s boys are as disastrous as he was and love to raise trouble all the time. Even the last of them who's only a year old, already knows how to manipulate the adults around him.Harlow has a son and a daughter, full of mischief but are quite cool. The girl loves to get into fights…must have inherited a little of me there.“Auntie you’re leaving already? When will you come visit us again?” Little Abby asks me, tugging against the leg of my jeans
A large hand comes over my back and begins to rub gently. “You know, when you keep breaking down like this, you make it hard for us to watch you. We decided we wouldn’t cry anymore and hold it up in our hearts instead…to honor her and remember her for as long as we live…” Harrison begins to say in a soft voice.“…so can’t you do us just this little favor and not cry like this?” I gently begin to detach my face from my palms and see Harlow with a painful look on his face and my breath catches. I lower my hands, bringing them down to my thighs in fists. Sniffing, “I’m sorry. I won’t cry anymore…I promise”. I’m sorry I’m still a child and still so weak. There’s still so much I have to prepare for and so much to learn. I couldn’t be useful this time…but I won’t give up.“About what I said that night, I didn’t mean to say those hurtful words and hurt your feelings like that. I was insensitive and selfishly caught up in my own spurt, I’m sorry” I keep my gaze on my fists, glad I came o
‘Isn’t there a way to still rouse her up so she can at least communicate with her mate?’ Alpha Marcus asks and is replied by the alpha, “We will count on a minute. That’s the only opening we get to rouse her up and get the task done. The pressure on her soul is immense, we cannot afford to keep waking her from that necessary slumber”.He’s speaking in things I don’t understand again. I fall back, watching them charge towards Talon who sends Hector and Hex flying and colliding into Silver as they fall into a roll. He then sees them from the rear and he turns, ready to attack when the white wolf and Uncle Gabriel both combine a barrage of attacks into his side and kick him away from where mom lies.Talon remains resilient, refusing to be pushed over, baring his dentition ferociously and making a leap, descending with his head first. The white wolf leaps too, their heads colliding in a massive headbutt.'What the hell...' I blink, reluctant to believe they're both still agile after tha
“The undisputed king of the Black Night Wolf Clan…” The white wolf alpha growls with cold reverence as he glares towards Talon who isn’t making a move yet, as if he’s taking in the new comers and trying to decipher according to his own sentiments what side they’re on. Friend or foe?‘W-what’s going on?’ Mustering the energy to link my mate and he snaps right in my direction, catching my gaze and getting alarmed to see the state I’m in. I try on a weak smile and look to my side to see a very tall woman, dressed in the same clothes as that white wolf and coming towards me.She crouches next to me, a beautiful smile on her face as she takes off her cloak and drape it over my nakedness. I blush and lower my head and she speaks, “It seems you’re his Luna, my cousin that is”.“Y-your cousin?” I look at her with wide eyes, noticing Silver’s running over as well. She glances at him and back at me, nodding, “His mother, Teresa, was my father’s younger sister. She was such a kind and lovin
I fall sick at heart, agony rattling around my being as they zip past, ganging up on Olyver. The piercing cry of shriek and terror plunges into the air as I shut my eyes…the pain and grief eating away at me faster that a lethal poison.‘Odelia….’ I feel so helpless, seeing Hogan approach us…crouching next to his mate who’s struggling to hold on for him.I feel so guilty…If I hadn’t been so obstinately bent on coming here…if I had obediently stayed back like Weslee did…this tragedy wouldn’t have happened. I feel so ashamed to even look at Hogan, guilt suffocating me as I begin to back away…I’m so sorry..I’m so sorry.Something stops me from digressing any further and I turn to see Hex. At this point, I just wish I was the one who got hit and not her…how do I face them all after the disaster I’ve caused?’Heather…hey, look at me…it’s not your fault. Please don’t blame yourself…Heather’Everyone will say it’s not your fault, trying to make the guilt go away but…this will never change
Glancing over at Odelia who’s talking to the pack’s beta’s mate, I wonder how I’m gonna shake her off so I can leave. Silver is so dead when I get him, how dare he leave me alone without even a word?‘Like you have an excuse yourself for what you did last night’ My wolf scoffs at me and my lips sew shut. Remorse funnels through my veins, making me feel sad for my insensitive action yesterday. I recall the look of utter shock and deep hurt in Harlow’s eyes and my heart convulses. How could I be so mean and thoughtless? I just let those hostile words flow from my mouth without thinking and now I’ve left them deeply hurt. Worst, I didn’t apologize for it. I have to leave this place. I get up from the barstool and Odelia looks my way instantly as if she’s been waiting for me to make a move. “Where are you going?”I don’t reply yet as I keep my gaze elsewhere, calculating how fast I can zip out of here, shift and sprint off before she’ll be able to chase after me. Sucking in a de
“He’s my mom’s older brother and the alpha of the pack she belonged to before she got together with dad” I give him my reply and quickly add, “He treasures mom like a gem and always flies over whenever she gets into any trouble”.“Oh…” He expels and I shrug, wondering what they must be talking about again. In our time of peril, it’s good to know we’ve got many allies willing to come to our help. In our time of need, we weren’t abandoned.And it turns out uncle Adams had been in company of alpha Charles, alpha Nyx, alpha Delano and alpha Caden. Together, they had taken their warriors with them to lend help to our pack in fending off the enemies' invasion.“In total, we got six traitors in cohorts with Kieran. Leon reached out to Ezra the moment they attacked so Nyx gave me a call and we got the others involved. We were already here in Canada when the call came through and those crazy nomads wouldn’t let us leave easily but Odelia and some warriors from your pack showed up and helped
Dad nods in support and says, “And Kieran’s gain in all this would be his heroic move to wipe out the perpetrators of the vicious act to gain favor from the masses. He wants the position of alpha representative of Canada. But….”“Why go as far as involve the nomads?” Hardin voices and they all look his way. True, Kieran could just get some unnamed rogues to do the work and get it over with. So why choose to get a whole pack involved as well? It makes no sense.“He’s not being reckless, he knows what he’s doing. Kieran wants to wage a war against me and to do that, he had to take out one of our strongest allies, the nomadic wolves. Tch, I should’ve seen this coming” He tusks at the end and steels his expression.“Yumi was most likely taken to cripple your resolve to fight against them, to keep you restrained while he crushes the whole pack” Uncle Gabriel adds, chagrined and dad only smirks effusively.“And then he’ll aim for even higher power…To stand at the apex of power, to rule
“It seems while I’ve been busy watching over the pack, you got busy maturing huh? You’re no longer that cute little cry baby” He suddenly says with a tease and I flush, embarrassed and ready to protest.But the warm smile he shows me, has me retreating and revealing a haughty smile, pride sprouting from the truth in his words. “I can become even better than this and surprise you in the future” I boast, receiving a bonk on the head.“Nah, I don’t think you need any more dose of maturity after this. We need you to remain our precious little girl forever, that’s much better and safe”.The hell? I fume, glaring at Harrison who wiggles his brows at me. “Safe- what the hell are you talking about?! You can’t keep me this way like this forever- I’m not some pampered pet!”But my protest only has my brothers laughing at me as I look down, boiling in anger and a red face from shame. Ugh, I’ll forever remain a little kid in their eyes…but then, I don’t feel bad at all.