“Okay, but what do I do about it? And stop laughing at me. This is so weird.” I flop back on my bed, my long hair fanning out around me. “I have no experience with boys like this, give me training and beating the crap out of them any day.” “Well, you can go down, sit back on Kota’s lap, or whoev
I stood up to get a better viewpoint. “The clearings are obviously serving some sort of purpose, meaning pack members are here, but there is so much space that a trained person would probably be able to get past undetected. I would run patrol patterns in an arc and have two groups of two or four ru
“Don’t look like that. You didn’t say anything wrong, but as you said having a fresh set of eyes always brings new light. Sometimes we get so familiar with things we don’t actually see them. Like you mentioning only one exit in the safe room. It seems common sense to have multiple exit points the
“Wait up there Shorty.” Mateo pulls me into a hug from the back and kisses the crown of my head like he did the other night. Sam and Oliver hug and kiss me on either temple too. Sierra just walks by me laughing. “They can’t even let you go long enough to sleep. I need to get out of this dress and
“Maybe a bit of both. We need to unpack this new development with the twins, then I for sure cannot sleep without Sam, but he’s patient, he’ll wait all night if I want him to.” She shrugs and we both laugh. We both crawl in my bed and under my comforter and she teaches me the finer points of unders
The small space between them seemed to be calling to me. I padded toward the center of the foot of the bed and slowly crawled over the comforter that was piled there. I could feel their body heat from here and their combined scents of citrus and cinnamon is heavenly and my pulse instantly slows, lik
“Are you really going to go through the trials today?” Prince Xander asks. “They are really brutal.” “Yep. I’m too young to join, but the more experience the better for when I am able to fully participate.” “I don’t know if I’m going to be able to watch that.” He looks like he might be sick. He ba
“Okay, my little love doves, we have to go and join the rest of the crowd and cheer on our favorite girl.” Sam comes bounding up to Oliver and I. I jump down from Oliver’s back and wrap my arms around Sam’s waist and he kisses the top of my head, Mateo steps up and I do the same thing. I turn to O
Thank you all so much for reading my story and sticking with me for the long haul. This book was over a year and a half in the making and all the support and comments have truly been inspiring. I appreciate you all more than you know. I am a new writer and learning as I go and you have all shown
Epilogue 85 years later.“There’s no way you’re going to make that happen.” Silas is challenging Mack to a timed speed race. “What’s going on here?” Cam slades up behind me, wrapping me in his arms.“The boys just heard about the challenges we used to do and that I beat all of you guys at one ti
Epilogue 7“You couldn’t just ask one of our warriors for a meeting? You had to interrupt our family dat and demand we see you here.” Oliver comes up next to me.“Seriously? There’s no way any of you would have seen me, and you never would have let her talk to me. If she was my mate, I wouldn’t l
Epilogue 6I was kept in the hospital for a full week after I woke up. Sierra’s parents took all kinds of samples for testing and actually packed a bunch up from me and the girls to take back to their lab to see if they can find a pattern or a way to help our family in the future. Elena and Gentry
Epilogue 5“Yep. On it.” Dakota blurts, momentarily disturbing the tiny girl in his arms. He recovers quickly whispering to her, holding her close to his face and smiling like an idiot, but she loves it smiling at the sound of his voice, or maybe his familiar scent. I'm not sure what they can sens
“I think you’ll find giving us three pups will wear you out a bit.” Oliver says sitting next to me gently tilting his pile of blankets.The tiniest most precious face I have ever seen peeks out. She’s barely the size of his forearm, but looks completely at home snuggled into him. I look at Oliver’s
Epilogue 4“No! Stop that thought right there. Once we start that, I get nothing done the rest of the day.” I put my finger up in his face then move past him to wash my hands, which is another amazing feat since I have to stand sideways. He just laughs behind me. They used to try to hide when th
Epilogue 3“What do we do? What can we do to make this better for you?” Cam climbs behind me, resting against the wall of pillows behind us and pulling me back between his legs. Oliver’s head drops to the bed unceremoniously.“Not okay man.” He half grumbles, half laughs, then crawls towards me t
“We’ll talk more about this tomorrow.” She turns to run at Sam, I’m sure crying again. This hormone sh*t is no joke.Before I can even think about her fast retreat, I am scooped up and carried away. Oliver’s honey scent doesn’t surprise me as I bury my face in his neck to calm my nerves. We obvi