ALLISON KEELER "Need help with the surfaces?"I whirled around by the island I was wearily cleaning in the kitchen to see Phoebe's smiling face. Before I could respond, she came over, with the height of a supermodel she towered beside me, and started working on the surface. I was so small in height that it made everyone else appear so tall. "I'm Phoebe." She introduced herself with flushed cheeks."I know," I met her puzzled gaze and shrugged, "Mr. Smith, remember?"Realization shone in her eyes and her smiles broadened. She remembered what happened the previous morning. "Avoid him as much as you can. He's trouble. Real ass trouble."We giggled. "I'm Allison." "I know. Everyone seems to be talking about you." She cocked a brow and winked at me. "They are?" But what exactly were they saying about me? I couldn't ask verbally but my arched brow gave away my curiosity. "You're new here, that's why." She moved from the island to stand before me, "You're white. Are you sick?"She p
ALLISON KEELERThere was nothing but a scowl on Faye's bewildered face.My eyes were wide in bewilderment as they drifted from my sodden uniform to Alpha Grimsby's sodden shirt. I dared not meet his gaze. He was planted before me, glowering at me in a manner that would have dropped me lifeless if looks could kill. My breath hitched in my throat, my tongue got cleaved to the roof of my mouth, and my lips quivered as I scanned my frozen brain on what to say. On how to apologize. "Don't you fuckin' have what to say?" Faye snapped and her lips quirked in annoyance. "I am so..."Whatever else I had to say died inside of me as a heavy blow sent me across to the wall. I dropped to the floor with pain seizing my body. If hitting me that hard hurt his knuckles, Alpha Grimsby didn't show. His annoyance took the best of his emotions. My eyes dropped on Phoebe who remained stricken with fear by the doorway. She was on her knees with her head solemnly bowed forward. Alpha Grimsby turned back
ALPHA COLTON"What the hell is this?" My eyes left the petition on my office desk to Jace's passive gaze. "It's a crime to sell out a member of the Pack. The council wants you to terminate that deal or they take drastic actions." Jace muttered with the fury in his eyes suggesting the degree of anger he was repressing just so he could speak discreetly. I glanced at the document on my desk only to discover the council had yet to sign it. They dared not sign it. Not without hearing from me."Why the hell are you so fuckin' bitter?" It was all I thought of, "Do you think you can fuckin' run this shit any better than I do?"Jace bit his tongue, but his knotted muscles screamed just what I needed to hear. He was not concerned about Allison, I knew that for a fact. He wasn't about saving Allison from Grimsby but all Jace was all about was toppling me down. "I am going to make sure the council takes the right action this time." He boomed, snatching the document from my desk. "Good luck
ALLISON KEELER "You're the miracle we've prayed all our lives for." Phoebe's broad smile illuminated her face and lit up the hall. She stood beside me with her face flushed and her hair neatly swept into a nice bun. "A miracle?" I asked my eyes on the rest of the girls coming into the hall. I waved back at a few girls who were nice enough to wave my way. After a while, Mr. Smith's staff reverberated to the hall making the babbles ebb. Liv sauntered in beside Mr. Smith with smugness plastered on her face. She found a spot in the array of girls and fixed herself. "Allison Keeler!" Was the first thing Mr. Smith said as he stood before us. I raised my hand but remained right where I stood amongst the girls. "Alpha Grimsby seeks to speak with you." He spoke deeply with a hint of scorn in his tone, "Maybe this will teach you to stop running your mouth!" I didn't wait for his next words, I headed towards the door. "Hold you right there," he barked behind me, "What gave y
ALLISON KEELER"Stay calm, put your hands up!" Matt boomed the second I stepped out of the car. My confused gaze regarded him only to see that he had his hands above his head and his eyes wandering the dense forest before us. I warily raised my hands unsure of what this was about."The Luna sends us," he announced to no one exactly. "We're not here for any trouble."I remained beside him by the car with my hands above my head following his gaze to trail the figure that just stepped out of the thicket. A strange brown wolf on all fours. His eyes were dark and piercing. He growled as he scanned us momentarily before he disappeared back into the forest. For some reason, this experience was frightening to Matt because beads of perspiration dampened his forehead and his fingers seemed to be quivering. "Who is he?" I whispered only when the wolf had gone back to the forest. "Go in." Matt blurted. "What?"He let his hands drop as he cocked his chin to the forest. "He'll lead you to
ALLISON KEELER "Where is it?" Faye's head snapped at us the second Matt led me through the door. We were on the outskirts of town in an enormous building that smelt of some foul herbs intermingled with the sweet scent of rosemary oil from the colored candles burning with a bright glow. "Here!" Matt skipped to Faye, stretching out the Ziploc bag her way. It wasn't until I noticed Karla behind Faye did I realize what this was about. My gaze shifted from Karla back to Faye. They swapped grimaces and broke forth into condescending laughs. "Let the lowly runt bring it to the sacred altar," Faye instructed, moving away with Karla whispering something to her. "It's filth, I can't touch it," I spoke quietly, unsure if they heard me. "Don't," Matt mouthed my way. "Did she say something?" Karla asked, turning back at me. "She was only talking to me, Luna" Matt smiled nicely at Karla before he shot me a shut-the-hell-up glare "I'll wait in the car." My legs started towards th
ALLISON KEELER"No," I sprang to my feet, "I'm not pregnant."I wasn't. There was no way I could be pregnant. Thoughts raced through my mind as maternal instincts brought my hands to my belly. My gaze remained on Glomé. What exactly was she? A pregnancy detector? "You're wrong. I am not pregnant." I reiterated hoping Glomé would harp on it and give me reasons she suggested I was pregnant. But the witch lady was all consumed in Faye's rage to spare any attention my way. Faye was the Luna here. "You have to be kidding me!" Faye threw the foul-smelling Ziploc bag on the floor, "You're telling me that I need to replicate the grace of an Omega? Have you suddenly gone mad?"Faye's beautiful face became flushed from rage and her burning eyes speared mine. "Who is the father of your baby?" Her voice was void of the fury it bore some seconds ago. Her face became instantly inscrutable as her eye wandered my belly. My eyes dropped to my belly, flat from having little to eat in the past d
ALLISON KEELER"Have you been crying?" Phoebe asked when I joined the table for lunch. The day went suddenly gloomy for me, not even the smiles on the faces of the girls who looked overjoyed and pleased to be fed lunch for the first time could lighten my heart. "Mr. Smith lied about always feeding us from his pocket," Evelyn, the girl beside me murmured, "Truth is, he's been pocketing our feeding allowances."All the babbles didn't help with my headache. I wanted to go away to where I would have some serenity, to where I could think, really think on what was of importance at the moment. But I couldn't leave. I felt so lightheaded that I feared I would pass out if I didn't force something down my throat. My hands flew back to my tummy. If I was pregnant. Colton was the father of my baby. Fear rose and died in the hollow of my soul. He was never going to want us. I caught myself, it wasn't going to serve me. These hurtful thoughts were never going to serve me. Phoebe helped me pou