Chapter 1 “I’d never want you as my Luna, you’re fat, ugly and a bit too dark for me.” His words cut me deep. My wolf Freya howled in my head. I’d just discovered he was my mate. I was always a nice person. I thought everyone liked me. I was adopted at two by the Greeley’s, the Beta family. When my parents disappeared, they treated me as their daughter. My brother Lance was the future beta, and my stupid mate was none other than Gael Ryker, the future alpha and he was what every alpha is, tall, muscular and extremely good looking. Gael had long golden-brown hair with eyes so gray, they shone like two diamonds, when the light hit him just right. He had dimples and a perfect set of white teeth. He had a full sleeve tatted on his right arm and tatts on his neck and across his back. The problem was he was an asshole, at least to me. Oh me? I’m Phoenix Greeley, at least I think I am. I just turned 18 and have been a member of the Silver Moon pack forever. I never knew my parents or my
Chapter 2 As Gael released his seed on Amy’s stomach, he heard a commotion outside the packhouse. He got up and walked to the window and saw Phoenix get into a taxi with her family and her friend and they all looked like the world was coming to an end. He felt the hollowest feeling in his chest and couldn’t understand why it hurt so much. Watching the taxi drive away hurt him to his core. He had to bend over to keep from falling to the floor. “Gael, come back, I’m cold.” Amy whined and he almost threw up. “I’ve got work to do; I’m going to the shower.” “Want some company?” she said as she snaked her way over to him. he wasn’t feeling sexual right then. No, I’ve got a lot of work to do. Go and get yourself together in your room.” She looked at him as if he’d slapped her. “Sorry babe, how about you and the girls go and get mani-pedi’s?” he said as he handed her his credit card. She sque
Chapter 3Gael sat in his office running his hand through his hair. “How is this still happening? Rogues are continuing to breach my defenses and they’ve taken another she-wolf.” The frustration was building and the tension in the pack rising.“Gael we’ve tried different tactics on how to strengthen our border defenses and yet they still get in. What’s going to happen if they decide to attack?” Lance asked just as frustrated as Gael.During those six years, Gael was named Alpha and took Amy as his chosen mate. He didn’t want to but a few years after Phoenix left he started to have pains. They were excruciating. His wolf Ronan wouldn’t absorb the pain either, because he was still furious about losing his mate. Nobody knew about them, except Amy and the pack doctor, as he had to have powerful pain killers to function. He was heartbroken to think that Phoenix was sexually active and evidently the sex she was having was strong. He still refused to mark Amy and fill her with his seed. Hi
Chapter 4Lance and I practically raced to get to my parents’ house. As we ran up, my parents were running coming out, I smiled.“Oh, my baby!” my mama shouted running to me and crashing me against her. I sniffed her hair and familiar scent and immediately began fighting the tears that wanted to fall. She had her hands in my hair and was sobbing on my shoulder. A mother’s wail is a sound that goes right to your soul and my mama wailed.“Mama, I missed you,” and of course I cried like a baby. I felt strong arms surround us and I turned into those arms and cried so hard I shook. “Daddy, I missed you.” Lance came over to grab mom cause she wasn’t ready to let go. So here we were a sobbing mess on the front lawn. After that came all the questions, and I was ready for them all.“My Goddess what have you been doing? Are you eating? Are they treating you right? You’ve lost so much weight! You’re gorgeous baby.” My mama bombarded me with all that in one breath.“Yeah that’s what I said.” Lanc
Chapter 5My eyes opened on their own at 4:45 a.m. as they did every morning for the past six years. I rolled out of bed, went to the bathroom, did my business, brushed my teeth and hair and was out on the porch getting ready to stretch for a morning run. Like clockwork, Ron and Tina were coming for morning calisthenics. We stretched and did a full perimeter run. I ran in my human form. My wolf, Freya, was around but she never presented herself to me. She spoke to me in my head, but she never came forth to shift. I still had all the strength, speed, heightened vision and hearing that a wolf had, but my wolf didn’t ever seem to want to come forth. She’d say, “Not time yet.” Tina ran in wolf form and Ron ran with me in human form. We ran for about 30 minutes when I stopped. I took a deep breath in and then I recognized the smell, rogues. I mindlinked Ron and Tina, who instinctively fell back into a defensive position. I told them to climb the nearest tree so we could surveil the area. W
Chapter 6I remember the whole first year at the academy I couldn’t find my feet. Everything I did was wrong; I was getting beat up in every challenge. They would pick me first in events because they knew I was weak. I tried very hard to master the techniques they were teaching, but I just couldn’t get it. I was bullied. This got the attention of Commander Kyle. He sent for me asking if I really wanted to be there and did I really think it through about becoming one of the elite warriors there. That pissed me off because I always knew what I needed. Everything came to a head when the main bullies, a pair or twins, Saskia and Saxon called themselves taking me deep into the Phantom woods to die and what happened there changed my life forever.“Flashback”“You just need to toughen up, we’re really doing you a favor.” Saskia said as she held one of my arms in a vice.“You’re a soft little bitch and there’s no room for you in the Werewolf academy, especially when you haven’t even shifted
Chapter 7I walked up the porch to my parents’ house when I heard the most vicious howl in my life. I knew immediately who it was. I ran to the packhouse as fast as I could. It was Lance and he sounded like a combination of rage and sorrow. I rushed into the packhouse and there were three warriors trying their best to hold him back.“LaLa! What is going on? What’s wrong?”“I’m going to kill him; I’m going to kill her!” I ran up to him and held him around his waist, I felt him calm a little. “Who bubba, who?”“Let me go Phee, you didn’t tell me, WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME!” He was hysterical. I heard my mom and dad come in with our dad rushing over to hold LaLa back.“Tell you what LaLa?” I screamed at him and then it dawned on me. Oh shit, he found out Gael was my mate.“Son, son please calm down!” Now mama was holding him. My heart was breaking. He was hurting and it was for me. I went to stand outside on the porch of the packhouse when I saw Gael running up. All I could think of was to
Chapter 8When we reached the bottom floor, this dungeon didn’t smell like most. There was always the smell of blood, vomit and emptied bowels where the prisoners were tortured for information; but this dungeon was like club freaking Med. I looked at Tina and Ron and we just shook our heads, it actually smelled like air fresheners and cleaning products. I rubbed my temples and mindlinked the team, “This is some bullshit. I could vacation here.” I said shaking my head.The guards down there were playing cards, not at attention and not even facing the cell she was in to monitor any movements. There was actually a fucking window in the cell, and it was cracked to let in fresh air. I was through. I took mental notes as I was going to tear him a new ass later. What kind of Tom foolery was this?“Justin, Toby, at ease. Open Amy’s cell we need to see her.” At ease?! Are you fucking kidding me!? They were at ease alright. They got up and opened the cell and we walked in, and Amy was sitting on
Chapter 35As they approached the packhouse, the omega’s bowed as they held the door open for these massive beasts. Two omega’s held the doors open to the Alpha’s suite and quickly exited when both wolves were inside.An Alpha wolf is very protective of his Luna and pups and if you linger to long they may see it as a threat.So once the door was closed Freya went to the floor and began to shift back. Ronan stayed, watchful to make sure Phoenix was alright.Phoenix woke on the floor with Ronan licking her face. “Mmmm, hi Ronan, did you have a good time last night?” she smirked as she sat up.He answered by lying next to her with his paws surrounding her body. She leaned into his massive chest and stroked his ears. He purred.“Thank you for always taking care of us, loving us. I’ll always be devoted and love you with all my heart and soul.” He leaned over her and rubbed her face.“You and Freya are my reason for being. I’ll always choose you both.”“Ronan, give me my Luna back please.”
Chapter 34They walked hand in hand with a picnic basket that had extra clothes and food in in. They didn’t know how long Ronan and Freya would be at it, so they wanted to be prepared.In the deepest part of the forest, they stopped and kissed each other. Both of them still mesmerized with the fact that they were blessed with each other. Phoenix started to undress with Gael staring at her with love and adoration in his eyes. He followed her lead and in no time they were both naked under the moonlight.“I’ve never shifted before Gael; I don’t know what is going to happen. I know it can be painful, and I’m okay with that, but I’ve heard it’s better when your mate is there.”“Yes my love, having your mate near helps tremendously; so I’ve heard. You ready?”“Yes.”Freya spoke to Phoenix. “Alright girlie, I’m ready and trust me okay? It’s isn’t going to be as bad as you think. I need you to relax and let go. If you fight me, it will be painful, do you understand?”“I do, and I trust you wi
Chapter 33This time Gael came and held me tightly. I don’t know if it was for him or for me. I held him back, but I couldn’t seem to cry about it.What started my tears was the little boy, Franklin. He went through years of therapy and treatment and finally when his wolf presented himself, he was able to heal in ways that made my heart happy.I’d kept up with him for years, I’d even met with him after he insisted on speaking to the one who saved him that night.I wasn’t sure I’d be able to, but I did. He thanked me and told me he wanted to attend the Werewolf Academy like I did and become a top-notch warrior like me so he could help those out there in need.I made sure he was accepted.I never thanked the Moon Goddess more for the crap I went through, because it brought me to Franklin.“I’d like to meet Franklin one day too babe.”…..What the fuck?“How did you know what I thought?”“I don’t really know; all I know is that you started speaking about it and I assumed you were mindlinki
Chapter 32We stood there stunned at this beautiful woman with white hair and a kind smile. Gael immediately tensed up knowing she was a witch.“Trust me, I mean you no harm.” She raised her hands in the air.“Yeah right, isn’t that exactly what a witch would say? How did you enter my territory, witch?”“No need to be rude Alpha Gael. If I wanted to attack you, I could’ve done it years ago, but I knew we would end up right here. Now I have vital information; do you want to know it or not?” She cut him a look with her hand on her hip and I knew she was legit.“Sorry about him, Miss……?” I asked her holding Gael’s hand tighter hoping to relay to him to hush and listen.“Tolina, Phoenix and I know everything about you, and if you’ll give me a minute of your time I can explain it to you.”“Okay. Let’s head to the packhouse.” Gael screamed in my head. “NO! I won’t allow her in the packhouse because there are innocents in there. I won’t have it!”Tolina then said, “Fine Alpha Gael we can sit
Chapter 31She found some righteous indignation in her as she tried to sit up and vehemently deny that Gael was with me every night. So much so, her signature nastiness came through and the snarl on her face reminded me that the real Amy was always just below the surface.“How does it feel Phoenix to know I had your man first? That I let him do whatever he wanted to me, whenever he wanted, and he screamed my name in ecstasy EVERY time we fucked and believe me it was all the time.You are just a second choice, and you will never get what I had, you’ll always be my sloppy seconds.” She laid back down against her pillow satisfied with herself. I shook my head.“It never occurred to me just how pathetic you are until just now Amy.You have the audacity to feel victorious in taking someone else’s mate while having your own, but let’s see just how this really turned out.Yes you fucked my mate for years, BUT you had to drug him all the time; and yet, he never marked you or came inside of yo
Chapter 30We were sitting in Gael’s office looking over the maps that covered that territory and then locking down when we were heading over there.Lance and Ron were strategizing where we would position our warriors and how this mission would unfold. I had an idea I was toying with in my head, but I needed to do it alone.“Hey guys I’ll be back in a few.”“Ok I’ll come with.” Gael stood to follow me out.“No babe, give me a minute and I’ll be right back, please.”I could tell it hurt his feelings a bit that I didn’t want him to follow me. I knew he felt the need to be close to me, but jeez there were things that I needed to do on my own and I knew he’d want to be right underneath me and I needed a clear head to continue.I made my way out the door still feeling a little bad for leaving Gael, but there was work that needed to be done. I was on my way to see Amy, hopefully for the last time.Making my way to the clinic, I couldn’t help having this feeling of dread as I knew war was com
Chapter 29I thought about all the times we’ve spent together and for the first time, I was upset I hadn’t locked the door to my office, because right now I needed to take care of myself, and there was no way I could get up from here and walk around normally.Just as I was about to try to handle myself Phoenix came through and she was stressed. I felt severe anxiety and fear and that’s all I needed.I jumped up and ran through the door and was out running top speed to her parent’s home. There was no way I would be stopped by anyone.As I made my way there, I decided to go directly to her room.I could see the window was cracked and Ronan scaled the wall like a ninja and the next thing I knew I was walking into her room, but she was standing in the doorway, in a towel, looking down the stairs.She turned around, and when she saw me I rushed her and held her in my arms.I told her that she has to tell me something, as the dull ache in my chest would not let go.She stared into my eyes an
Chapter 28I woke to mama’s homemade corned beef hash with eggs and grits mixed with cheese. I was about to get up when there was a heavy arm draped over my waist. I turned over in bed and saw Gael’s sleeping face. He is so fine, his handsome face seemed to be at peace. I touched his lips and watched them turn up into a smirk.“Good morning my Alpha, there’s a delicious breakfast waiting for us.”“Hmmm I smell it, it almost smells as good as you do.” I chuckled. At that moment mama mindlinked me and said, ‘You guys get up, hit the shower, please and come on down for breakfast………I know you need the nourishment.”Holy shit! Did mama know Gael was here all night? Why did I feel like that little school girl who had snuck her boyfriend in?All I could answer was, ‘Yes, ma’am.’I turned to look at Gael, who had a feeling about what just happened. He grabbed me and kissed me, and we got up to head to the shower.I had a hard time dodging Gael in the shower, but I didn’t need my mama and espe
Chapter 27Gael pulled two glasses and filled both full of scotch. Both of these huge Alphas are sitting down sipping and feeling the burn. I decided to step outside and get some air. My mind was reeling with everything that has happened over the course of 48 hours.I’m fully mated and marked to Gael; Sonya is back and is mated and is probably marking Ron. Sophia is mated and is probably marking my brother Lance; and on top of all that, Kyle just revealed that he’s always loved and wanted me to be his.I still have to deal with this stupid Alpha Walters and whatever that voice was, who evidently knows who and what I am.My head was spinning with strategies and conspiracy theories, and I needed a break. I made my way to the lake to just try to catch a break and a breath.When I arrived at the lake I was just about ready to sit Indian style, when I heard it; grunts and moans and instantly I knew who it was. I hastily stood back up and ran back to my parents home. I burst into the front