“Midge! What are you doing? Time is of the essence here!” “Lil, your timing is terrible, you know that?” “Why? You banging your Gamma?” “You know I’m not, asshole.” “Then move your ass, you can ogle your boy later.” I take a deep breath and press my forehead to Oliver’s chest. “Can we table
“You didn’t say how you were going to keep the Cunningham’s in the dark about this.” I say. “This is where you and I come in.” Lil claps her hands. “He already is banned from the construction site, but has regular contact with the contractors. I have talked to the current contractors and they are
“Alright, the plans for moving all the non-warriors are set and ready to go.” Wyatt informs me from the desk in the office at the school. Just to piss off Kevin, he and Nathaniel have taken to joining us here and working, taking up more than just our office space. Every time he sees either of the
A regular retelling, complete with arm movements, sound effects and puffed out cheeks they would run around the bonfire describing each of the guys faces. That is one thing we do every weekend, no matter the weather or our schedules, we sit at the bonfire and exchange stories from the week and share
“How do you figure?” Mateo asks “He’s settled for power as the head of the school board in order to try and manipulate things for him and his daughter. It’s why he keeps pushing her on the twins, why he stalled the building of his home, hoping a forced proximity will help her chances. When we were
Lil, Jena, Wyatt, Nathaniel and I all jump up. Everyone else looks alarmed. “What’s going on?” Cam and Kota ask together. “Border attack. Nathaniel stay here so you can be my go between, their alarm hasn’t been raised yet. Wyatt, you and Lil go now, Jena and I will meet up.” “On it boss.” The
“Get out of my way, you little gremlin!” Kaley shouts. “Your future Luna should be first.” Then she pushes this poor little girl who can’t be more than six out of the way. “Move your big ass and let me into the packhouse, NOW!” She yells at a warrior who was clearly stationed to protect the Luna
This was the reason we evacuated the way we did. We knew that if we were under attack these kids would be able to get to shelter quickly, on their own, if their parents were out protecting the pack. They are children of warriors, trained like warriors by warriors. So at least our plan worked. I
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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