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Once Upon a Full Moon Chapter 52
Kaiya Bowden wakes me with a soft kiss. I smile before I open my eyes, remembering with a bang that I fell asleep while naked and that I'm on full display with my legs wide open. I blush and grab for the sheat, trying to cover myself. My mate chuckles and grabs my hand. “You do realise I’ve been looking at you the whole night, right?” he asks. With my face on fire, I fold the sheet around myself regardless. “That doesn't mean you can look now.” "Yes dear," he jokes and turns his back on me. "Go wash and get dressed. We leave in fifteen minutes.” I don’t really feel like it. All I want to do is stay here, in this room, alone with my mate. When everyone left, when it was just the two of us, I felt so safe and protected. It felt as if I finally found my home. “You don’t have to come if you don’t want to.” He looks over his shoulder and smiles at me. “Orion would probably prefer it that way too.” “Am I not an Alpha and his equal?” “No, you are not his equal.” I open my mouth to prot
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Bowden Kaiya sits at the table, looking out over the city while I talk to Trevor on the phone. My mate is not in a good place. Confronting Orion did not exactly go as planned, and she's beyond devastated. Her emotions are racing like a runaway train, and every so often, she wipes a tear away. “Have the Alphas left?” I ask my assistant. “Yes, King, for the most part.” I am exhausted and not looking forward to the drive back to the castle with our prisoners. I don't want to talk to the Lycans about what happened here and why. I don't want to tell them about our dead but not dead mates in the catacombs. It's too much. All of it. I need a fucking break. “Who is left?” I ask. “Claxton and Nero won’t leave until they’ve spoken to the queen.” “Why not?” “They want to hear from her own mouth that she’s giving up her claim to Moon Dance.” I sigh and sink to the couch. After what happened last night, I'm confident Kaiya would just as soon burn that entire place to the ground and wipe he
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Bowden Kaiya curls up on my lap like a cat as Elowen softly starts to purr, calling out to me. Knox surges to the surface, so eager to comfort his mate. Our wolves don’t understand Kaiya’s very big and complicated human emotions - all they know is that she’s upset…and both of them expect me to fix it. After hundreds upon hundreds of years on this planet, I thought I’d seen and experienced every Goddess-awful thing this world had to offer, but I was wrong. Likewise, after seven mates, three of which I loved fiercely, I thought I knew everything about being a good mate. I was wrong. None had ever broken my heart in the way Kaiya breaks my heart. None had ever been as complicated as she is. Of course, none of them were the daughters of Deimos fucking Cole. And, I realise with a shock, I’d never loved any of them more than I love her. I will burn this world to the ground to keep her safe and happy. I will skin Orion alive and feed his remains to the dogs if that’s what she asked of me
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Kaiya I don’t even know why I am angry at Bowden. Nothing that happened was his fault. Maybe if he didn't lock himself away and ignored the werewolves unless they went out of their way to contact him, everything could have been avoided, but I can't lay the blame at his feet. Not for this. Or any of it really. The kingdom is vast, he's the last king left, and the Alphas are some of the sneakiest assholes around. My father would still have gotten away with it…and for much longer too, if Bowden didn’t find me along the way and mated with me. Perhaps I’m wrong about everything I thought I believed. I never believed in the Goddess or The Fates. If they existed, why wouldn’t they protect me? Why did they take my family from me? But now, it all seems so unbelievable. It's as if everything happened exactly as it should have, so it would lead us right to this place and time. “Kaiya?” Bowden asks softly. “Can you talk to me? I'm worried about you.” I look up at my mate. He’s been extraor
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KaiyaI have never been so happy to be home.The driver opens the door for me and I get out to stare up at the castle with new appreciation.To think, not so long ago, this placee filled me with dread, but now I already think of it has home and can’t wait to go upstairs and sink away in my soft, familiar bed.“Take the witches to the dungeon,” Bowden orders the warriors that approach us as he gets out of the car. He looks like he’s ready to collapse under the weight of carrying their auras. “Put them in the magic rooms.”“Yes, Sire,” one of the warriors says.Neil and Trevor come running down the steps, both of them looking slightly terrified. “Neil, take Demi and her mother to one of the Omega rooms. Make sure they are comfortable. Put the harem she-wolves in the servant’s quarters. Tell Deacon to take a look at them. They’re not healing well.”“Yes, Sire,” Neil says without any hesitation.The butler summons his Omegas and they immediately start to unload the women from the bus we e
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KaiyaThe guard smiles at me and momentarily drops his stern demeanour. He dusts imaginary dirty off my shoulders, then grabs them between his massive paws and straightens my back. “Take charge. Tell them that Clara…Shannon is ready to go. Ask them if they need anything. End the meeting as quickly as possible and send them on their way. Offer an escort to the werewolf hotel in town.”“They won’t stay here?” I ask.“Castle’s full. You and the king brought back too many strays,” the guard says with a little chuckle.I take a deep breath in and slowly let it out when I open my office door with Oswald right behind me. Two minutes later, the emissaries arrive. Two Omegas and the pack’s new Gamma who looks like he’s not a day over nineteen.They’re a surly looking bunch, a little on the dirty and smelly side, but clean for wolves that live mostly outdoors and only seek shelter when the elements force them into it.The she-wolf resembles Clara, but her face is hard and she looks much older t
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BowdenI slowly come wake from a dead sleep, the sun streaming in through my window stinging my eyes and forcing me to let go of my dreams.Blinking rapidly, I groan and roll over to the other side of the bed to check my phone. The alarm that I’ve never needed went off, but I killed it and went straight back to sleep. It’s already well past eight, and we have the meeting with the two Alphas at nine. “Shit,” I mutter and start to get out of bed.“Kaiya?” I mind link with my mate.“Yeah.”“Are you awake?”“Dressed and everything.”I laugh softly. “We have a meeting in forty-five minutes. Meet me at your door in thirty.”I rush to my bathroom, showering in record time. Today, I don’t bother with my usual suit. I hurriedly dress in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, and haphazardly pull a comb through my wet hair before I dash from my apartment to fetch Kaiya.After the meeting with Claxton and Nero, I plan to do absolutely diddly until I have to talk to the Lycans tonight.Kaiya is outside w
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Bowden Kaiya still looks doubtful. Her trust has been shaken one time too many these last two weeks, and I’m convinced she thinks I have some kind of ulterior motive for bringing her here. I do, but it's not what she thinks it is. Instead on thinking about it too much, I busy myself with the food, pretending I can’t feel her mistrust and doubt. At long last, she decides to take a seat on the blanket. The tight dress isn’t exactly designed for sitting on the ground, and she awkwardly half sits, half lies on her side. “Take off your dress,” I say. “Why?” she asks. “You’ll be more comfortable.” I look up, right into her stormy, grey eyes. “You are wearing underwear, right?” “Of course,” she says, scandalised by my insinuation. “Sexy underwear?” I ask. “No.” I laugh and take the bottles of juice and wine from the basket. “I’m teasing. I’ve seen your underwear. I know nuns with sexier undergarments than yours.” “Now you have a problem with my-” Before she can even finish speakin
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Kaiya I wake to the sound of the song I sang to the mates the day they exited the catacombs. Deborah stands next to me, a confused frown on her face. “They’re all dead,” she says. “They’re supposed to be,” I say without thinking. I have no idea where that little nugget of knowledge came from, but I know it to be true. I groan softly and sit up, looking around me. There's no light coming in from outside, but I can feel the full moon. A white sheet of snow cuts the outside world off from view. The only light comes from the flickering torches against the walls. Bowden isn’t here like he was the last time, and I feel completely and utterly abandoned, cold, and lonely. “Why aren’t they waking?” Deborah asks, her face pulled into a frown of confusion. “You could never wake them,” Lauren says from the darkness. I swivel my head in all directions, looking for her. “Not by yourselves. They were dead and you forced them from their afterlife, pulling their souls into the void.” “We didn’t
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Bowden “Bowden?” Griffin asks from the entrance of the catacombs. “This is not healthy. You have to get out of here. Time is running out.” Every day, just before sunset, I come to the catacombs and stare at Kaiya’s face, willing her to open her eyes. I shake my head, unable to move. Three days after Kaiya died the first time, the bond started to come back to life. It helped to keep some of the darkness at bay, and I did all right until the day after the full moon, when it happened all over again. The pain of it woke me from my sleep, tearing through my like a blunt knife. I was still trying to take a breath when Griffin stormed into my apartment, a look of pure agony on his face. "Is it breaking?" he asked. "Are they proper dead?" "I don't know." I gasped through the pain. The first time it happened was still too raw, too fresh, and it all blended together into a stewing pot of abject suffering We rushed to the catacombs to see all the mates back in their sarcophagi and Kaiya
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Kaiya I didn’t expect to go back to sleep when I entered the catacombs. I didn't give it much thought before now, but what the hell are we supposed to do down here, day in day out, unable to sleep, unable to live, unable to die? No wonder everyone is so fucking angry. I've not even been in the catacombs that long, and I'm already pissed off at the world and the dark witches that cursed me to live this waking nightmare. Lauren leads us into a vast, open temple. It's bigger than the one in Junction City, but unlike the one under that pack house, this temple glows brightly. It is warm and inviting, and I feel no trepidation when I step inside. There are twenty witches in the temple, including the old woman that did the purity test on me, standing around the altar, chanting some ancient spell in an ancient tongue. A spell at least as old as the catacombs. On our way here, I tried to talk to Elowen. I could still sense her, she didn’t die, but just like I couldn’t talk to Bowden anymor
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Kaiya I open my eyes, but it’s as if I’m trying to see through a deep mist. I can’t make anything out around me. My arms and legs are trapped against my body. Someone tied me up. I let out a high-pitched scream and try to struggle out of my bindings, grunting and crying as panic wells up in my chest. “Sh-sh-sh,” Bowden’s voice flushes over me. “Stop fighting. I’ve got you.” At the sound of his voice, I relax and allow him to lift me up off the hard surface I’m lying on. He unwraps whatever it is that kept me trapped like a swaddled baby, and the more he works to undo me, the more of the world comes into view. What happened? I remember falling asleep in Bowden’s arms, and then nothing. Not even dreams. Did I make it? Were we wrong? My heart sinks when I sit up and take in my surroundings. We’re in the catacombs. The thing that bound me now lies at my feet, and looks like some kind of funeral shroud. The full moon is casting it’s glow in through the opening. Two weeks went by, but t
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Bowden When we return to the castle, we find two more dead werewolves. Mindy, the one who always did Kaiya’s hair, and a male that worked in the kitchens. “Fuck!” I growl. “Fuck, fuck, fuck.” “Bowden,” Griffin says gently. “I’ll take care of this. Go upstairs and get started on your whiskey.” “No. I’m taking care of these fuckers once and for all.” “What are you going to do?” I give Jaeger a cold stare. “We have a dungeon full of witches.” “No,” my Gamma says. “No, you can’t tie them to you. You already battle with your own darkness. Tying that many to you…it will swallow you whole.” When I mated with Kaiya, my darkness faded in the brightness of her light, but it’s back now with a vengeance. I want to kill something, preferably hunters. “Leave me alone,” I say and stomp through the castle to my apartment. I get the ritual box from the safe, locking the office behind me again, and go to the dungeons. Griffin waits for me at the bottom of the stairs. “Are you going to try to sto
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Bowden The Lycans formed an honour guard on either side of the path that leads to the catacombs. They’re dressed in their mourning clothes, the same as everyone else, hands clasped in front of them, heads bowed. A few of them are openly crying, including Neil. He never did take a real liking to Kaiya, but he loved her. When you live as long as we have, you start to learn that the two aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. It's the only time I feel comfortable showing them all my emotions, open and raw, bleeding for all to see. They've all been here more than once, and they all know the enormity of it. The exquisite and unending pain. Jaeger and Griffin walks ahead of me to show me the place they had prepared for her. It’s a little deeper into the catacombs, but not so far that the warm sun streaming in from outside won’t catch her. Oswald came to light all the torches that had gone out while the mates were roaming around outside, and they flicker in the breeze, casting their soft,
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Bowden “That’s it.” I slam the last of the hunters’ diaries shut. Out of sheer desperation, we turned to them but found nothing important. “There’s nothing. No answers.” We have spent the last two and a half days frantically reading, searching for answers to the mate problem, while also trying to figure out how to break the death curse. I went into the dungeons and questioned the witches I brought back from Junction City to hear if any of them could break the death curse, or at least knew who cast it, but they were as clueless as Samantha was. I stare at Kaiya, who is sitting next to Oswald on the couch, reading a book about nymphs. We know a lot more about them now, but very little about wild children. No one bothered to write about them because they’re so rare. A knot pushes up in my throat as I realise that we’re not going to be able to save her. Up until a few minutes ago, I kept expecting a miracle, kept thinking we’d find something somewhere, but I was arrogant...and so, so
