*Cali POV*I leave the Ruber pack palace emotionally exhausted. I walk into Marcus’ study with my head spinning. A part of me refuses to believe it, but I doubt that Phoebe would lie about something like this. “Leroy tells you everything. Is it true that I am his mate?” I ask the moment my eyes meet Marcus’. He sighs before getting up and embracing me. His actions are a confirmation of what Phoebe told me, but it can’t be. I frantically shake my head. “No. It just can’t be.”“I told you before that you two have a connection I cannot understand. It was like that way before Phoebe and before your wolf. I know that it’s hard for both of you, but it now makes complete sense,” Marcus says and I can’t refute his statement. I hate Leroy, yet something changes when our eyes meet. It is out my control, always has been. “He has a mate and will have others. He does not feel anything towards whoever will be his mate after Phoebe. Why the hell am I feeling this?” Marcus shakes his head. “I d
*Cali POV*“Good morning, My Queen,” Betty greets while opening the curtains, letting the sun in. I rub my eyes and sit up on the bed. It’s been three months since I found out who I am. My pack and I currently all live in the Fallow pack house. “Morning Betty. What time is it?” I ask with a yawn. “It’s five o’clock and our guests are here,” she tells me. I quickly get off the bed and head to the bathroom to take a shower. My guests can be irritating, but the alternative is worse. The alternative being their mates. I walk out of the bathroom to find my bed made and a golden gown laid out on the bed. I am loosing track of how many gold gowns I have. I go to the shops intentionally looking for anything not the colour, but I somehow always return with the same colour. My Lycan loves everything gold. I mean everything. I slip on the gown and Betty helps me with my hair. She leaves a few curls in front and clips the rest of my hair up. “Beautiful!” she exclaims, her eyes sparkling. S
*Cali POV*I sit up in bed and look at the shirtless man beside me. Something is wrong because my heart starts pounding like it used to when we were bedmates. “What?”“What did you do to my lycan?” I ask, looking suspiciously at him. My pack would have missed him coming to my chambers because we have the same scent, but there is no way my lycan missed him. Gold hates Leroy and Sky, yet we are in bed together. How the hell did this happen?He laughs and plays with my hair lock. “You may hate me, but it’s not real. What is real is our connection. It’s getting stronger each day,” he says while I frantically shake my head. “No, it’s not!” I snap with a hushed tone, careful not to wake up Phoebe. “I don’t think you can wish this away, Cali,”“Gold,” I correct him and he grins at me. “You will always be Cali to me. We have a history, a foundation. All these idiots can try, but ultimately, you are mine. I told your lycan to kill me and she curled up in my arms instead.”I shake my head
*Cali POV*Three months later, I pace up and down my chambers, contemplating if I should answer my phone or not. Phoebe has been calling me several times every single day. I know what she wants. I turn her down everyday. I would do anything for her, except this. I should ignore her, but my stupid heart won’t let me. I let out a sigh and answer. “Phoebe!” I exclaim excitedly. “You are ignoring my calls,” she accuses with that tone that pulls on all my heart strings. Not even Leroy can do that and he is apparently my mate. “I wasn’t, I promise. I left my phone behind when I went for a walk,” I lie through my teeth. Phoebe is by far the only person I can never be mean to. She has this strange impact on me. We have this bond that even the Epsilon cannot explain. “You are a bad liar, Gold.”I can’t help but laugh. “Fine, I know why you are calling and I hate turning you down. I promise you that I will come when my godson is born,” I come out clean. I have accepted that her and Leroy
*Leroy POV*Cali’s pack is surprised to see me in their pack house. The ones Linda, Marcus and I rescued, bow before me and are thrilled to see me, but I can feel the hatred from the rest. I don’t blame them, considering everything we did to them. There is also the matter of their burial ground I can’t return to them. It is a quiet ride back to Ruber city. We are both sitting at the back of the SUV. The shield separating us from the driver is down. We have privacy, but Cali keeps her eyes focused outside the window.“Don’t overthink it. You love me and I love you too.”“I love Phoebe, not you!”She does not even look at me as she snaps. I can’t help but laugh. How I have missed this cute ball of stubbornness. Sky is in heaven at the prospect of having her and Phoebe under the same roof again. “You’ve always been really hot and stubborn. Funny how I love even that.”She finally looks at me, those gold alluring eyes making my heart flutter. “Stop talking,” she instructs with the sam
*Cali POV*It has been a week since I moved to Leroy’s castle. Phoebe is thrilled, but Leroy and I are both really worried. Both Sky and Gold are behaving strange. It’s like they are in cahoots and planning their so called pup behind our backs. It’s just after seven in the morning. I am standing on the balcony sipping coffee when Leroy joins me. He stands a foot away and electric impulses spread throughout my body. This used to happen when he touched me, now it’s just being in proximity. “You feel it,” he says and I nod my head. I avoid him, but all my dreams are about our union now. It makes me feel so guilty when I see Phoebe. She, of course, thinks it’s all normal, but this is the most frustrating mate bond ever. “We need to keep a distance from each other,” I tell him. “I can’t and I don’t want to.”“Leroy!”“I am tired, Cali. I am being punished for the sins I did not commit. Sins I have no idea how to intercede for. Your ovulation is in a week’s time and every Alpha and Lyc
CaliI am pacing around Phoebe and Leroy’s chambers. Phoebe lays defeated on the bed and Leroy walks around with an inconsolable Cale on his chest. I am angry and frustrated that I can’t help. How can a baby starve to death in our presence? I am the queen for heaven’s sake!That’s when the Epsilon shows up. It’s really weird how he does this but we have gotten used to it. “A beautiful or a tragic story. Forgiveness or hatred shall be the decider.”He utters his usual riddles but I have no patience for that today. “What’s that supposed to mean?” I yell at him. I have never felt this helpless in my reigning life. “It means you feed him,” Phoebe says with certainty. I look at her in disbelief before noticing that they are all looking at my chest. I look down and find my gown wet. “What the…?”“You are producing milk instead of me,” Phoebe points out, cutting me off. “That’s just…” I halt, not knowing know how to describe this. How on earth am I producing milk when I have not given
*Cali POV*I take deep breaths, suppressing my moan. My heart is now beating like a drum and my core is on fire, making me feel things I should not feel. Making me yearn for a mate who is not mine. “Marcus, please leave us,” I plead and he looks at me with confusion written all over his face. Leroy on the other hand, has his eyes locked on me. He must know all about the dreams I have been having lately, because he is making me relive the most intense of them all. I can feel his lips on my breast, his hands cupping my buttocks. “Cali?” Marcus questions when I start panting. I know what will follow. He is going to caress my thighs and his finger is going to make contact with my sensitive button. He is going to be thrilled to find me all ready, but I can’t let him win this. I do the one thing I know will infuriate him and stop all this. Alloy and Neptune. Gold revolts but I override her and imagine them. Wrong move on my part. Leroy is mad but he does not storm out like I thought he w
*Cali*“So, Meredith…”She literally jumps, startled. This girl is a nervous wreck. “ How do you know my son?”“I…I…I…”I look at Cale. She can’t even complete a sentence. “Wait, are you the whore who hurt my brother?” Aerol ask. She frantically shakes her head and burst out into tears. “I did not mean for him to get hurt. I am so sorry.”Cale pulls her in his arms and gently pats her back. “I am really confused right now, Cale. Care to explain?” I ask my protective son right when over seven wolves show up, clearly in pursuit. Meredith trembles against Cale as they shift into their human forms and bow. “Queen if Queen. Your Highnesses.”I frown when Meredith starts crying and pleading for me to save her. “Explain yourself,” I command the leader of the wolves because u can’t get anything out of this girl. “She is a rogue we were commanded to drive out of the pack, Your Highness.”I raise my eyebrow. Rogues are not this jumpy and nervous. This girl does not even have her wolf yet
*Cali POV*Cale gets up the moment we walk in. He knows that we are coming to him. Talk, dark, and handsome like his father. Out of all our children, he is the one capable of disarming me with just a smile. “Not so fast, young man,” I pull him back.He flashes me his cute smile, Phoebe’s eyes sparkling at me. Oh, how I miss that woman. “How about you tell us what is going on?”Leroy leans back on the couch and cross his legs while Cale swallows his saliva. He is keeping something from us. I just know it. “I decided to correspond the rest of my studies. It is allowed.”He is so quick to tell us that is allowed. That on its own is giving him away. “I know that it is allowed, why?”He shrugs and I can sense lies coming. “Nothing. I miss you.”“Hah!” Leroy exclaims. I have been urging him to ask Cale the reasons he is here. He is convinced that Cale misses me too much. I know Cale enough to know that there is more than that. “I miss you too. We talk on the phone twice a day and I s
*Cali POV*It is barely two weeks since I grounded Orlaith when some scoundrels try to abduct the girls again. I can’t wait for them to have their lycans and get over this period. Orlaith is being dramatic as usual. Alloy is fusing over her as usual. Apparently, a snail crawled on her leg and my baby is fusing over that more than the attempted abduction. Aerol was the one hurt, she is being seen by Linda, yet she did not say a word when they got here. We are sitting in the lounge when Aerol walks in. I can already tell that she is upset. I am grateful that she is okay. She sustained a bite on her arm. The idiot died on the spot. At least I know that she has a lot of my genes.“Are you okay, Sweetheart?” I ask her when she heads upstairs without saying a word. She stops and comes to me. “Can I have my own guards and can Orlaith and I use separate cars to go to school?”I raise my hand, shutting Alloy down when he gets up. I stand and embrace her before looking down. “What is going
*Leroy POV*My queen groans followed by baby cries. I raise her hand and plant a kiss on it. “We have two girls. They are gorgeous!” Linda beams while checking them. “Of course, they are,” I say and everyone laughs. I don’t have to see their faces to know that. My queen’s beauty is out of this world and I am not too bad myself. “Here they come!” Linda announces and place both of them on my lap. I squeeze my teary queen’s hand, my heart leaping. I was wrong, they are more than gorgeous.”“Welcome, Orlaith and Aerol,” I declare and plant kisses in their soft chubby cheeks. I place them on Cali’s bosom and watch them feed with my heart full. I was never meant to be here, but we fought against the goddess and changed the fate. I get to hold my pups and raise them. “I see you did not go with the traditional rhyming twin names,”“The meanings are,” its Alloy who responds. We all turn to look at him. He is all fine and awake. He sits on the bed next to Cali and play with their feet as
*Cali POV*My eyes are shutting down when I see him. “No!” the witch cries in disbelief as my fuming Epsilon and Rufus snatch their charms from her neck. I drop on the floor and hungrily take in the air I was starved off a minute earlier. I sit up in time to notice the witch’s hair turning red. She is trying to flee when my extended, mighty and pissed-off family arrives. Now we are even. “Go be with her,” Alloy tells my fuming mate, whose eyes are blazing at our attackers. The idiots are now trembling. I wonder what their end game was. Kill Leroy and the witch would kill me, then what? Alloy’s family were still going to avenge us, or did they not think that far?They start hauling in distress but I don’t think anyone is going to come to their rescue. They now have the Sable king, a hybrid, two Lycans, and an inferno wolf against them. We have won. Sky looks at me, but I know what he wants. “Finish them off,” I link and he goes wild. I should not cheer him on as he alienate the f
*Cali POV*“She is lying and trying to get between us!” Rose snaps, her eyes blazing at me. I don’t know when Leroy snatched Rose from Alloy, but in a split moment she is on the floor lifeless.“No one talks to my mate like that!” it’s Sky who roars. My hero. I strangely don’t feel any pain for Rose. I hope Leroy doesn’t regret this afterwards. “We are outnumbered,” Marcus reports as if Leroy did not just kill Rose. “Cali and the pups are priority,” Leroy says before running his hand over by tummy. Marcus and Alloy nod while I shake my head. Can’t they see that I am not the one in danger?“No. They are here for you,” I tell Leroy who shrugs. “It does not matter. You and our pups take priority,” he insists. “It matters to me, Leroy. Let me go speak to them. They will not touch me,” I present an alternative as the hauling gets closer. That means the gate guards and the ones outside are already outnumbered. “No!” they all respond in unison. “Stop being cavemen. They won’t touch me
*Cali POV*I insisted that we come to see the Ruber pack because I know my brother. He is trying to water everything down, but he would not be insisting that I convince Leroy to come if there truly was nothing to worry about. The elders are thrilled to see us, but I can sense something they are not saying. “Rogues are becoming a problem, Sire,” one elder says but Leroy is more focused on me than what is not being said. “We have always had rogues, we have competent warriors to deal with them,” he tells them dismissively. They bow their heads respectfully. I guess they can sense his irritation that we had to come. Many are also very scared of the do-called Sable king. I can’t contradict him here, but I need to have a word with Marcus and get to the bottom of what is really happening here. “Okay, speak,” I command him the moment the elders are gone. He lets out a sigh and avoids Leroy, who is giving him unimpressed looks. “We know how to handle rogues who trespass into our territory
*Leroy POV*I can safely say that I am the happiest man alive. My queen is now six months pregnant. The past few months have been complete bliss. I watch her sleep with my heart full. “Our mate is gorgeous,” Sky links and I chuckle right when she opens her alluring golden eyes and gaze at me. Lord, this woman is my life.“Morning, Beautiful,” I greet her and plant a kiss on her lips. “I look like a balloon ready to pop,” she refutes my words and sits up. “You are the most beautiful pregnant woman I have ever seen,” I declare and she rolls her eyes at me and pokes my chest. She really is gorgeous, but she does not believe me. “You are biased.”“Alloy thinks so too,” I tell her and she rolls her eyes again. “That smitten puppy does not count.”I can’t help but laugh. Alloy is amongst the most powerful hybrids around, but he becomes worse than a smitten puppy around my wife. I suspect that it’s the connection with the girls but my wife refuses to hear it. “Are you sure you are good
*Leroy POV*“Leroy!” “Come on mate. Leroy!” I can hear Marcus and Alloy’s distressed voices before Betty and others join them. I am not quite in a coma because I can hear everyone, but I feel so weak and limp. My eyes feel so heavy, I eventually keep them closed. “His Majesty!” Betty cries out with a shaky voice. I can even hear her galloping heart. She is truly fond of me. “Your Highness!”“What happened?”My Epsilon, then Rufus. They both sound anxious. “I don’t know. We were talking and he just collapsed,” Marcus explains while Alloy volunteers to go and find Cali. I turn to the wolf I have not spoken to since he became the Sable king.“Sky.”Silence. “Sable king?” I call and my idiotic wolf actually laughs.“I am still Sky. Bigger, stronger and better, but it’s still me,” he brags. He is still Sky alright. The cockiness, sound of his voice and our connection is the same. “What’s going on?” I get to the point. “Oh, that.”“What!” I snap. His nonchalant response immediately