Meg POVWhen I went to meet Quinn at the building site I knew that he was going to be there by himself today that is why I decided to shift and let Willow run taking what I have been calling our special shirt with me. I could tell that he was feeling lonely before I even got there. Willow picked up from Ash that it was that he was missing April. Like Levi and I the two of them have always been close siblings. That is why after that mind-blowing sex on the office desk, which was what I had been coming here for in the first place, I suggested that we go and meet up with April and Kyle. They had been gone for about five weeks and were to be at the last of their pack stops before the final stop at the old site of the Four Corner pack lands. They had taken and driven out to the furthest pack that they were going to be visiting so were making their way back. They were going to be backtracking a little because they had wanted to leave the pack that had taken in the former Beta family last.
Kyle POVWhen I got Quinn’s call saying they were at the nearby dinner, I felt so relieved. I have been on edge the whole time we have been here and it only got worse after that interview with Brooke and the findings from the tests done on the tarts that April took to the clinic. From what the results said there had been wolfsbane baked into the crust which can harm us in large amounts but in smaller quantities, slows our healing down. That is one of the reasons it is added to alcohol so that we can at least get a nice buzz going when we want to. It is also used when surgery is needed so the surgeon will have the time they need without the patient healing or waking up too soon. So the wolfsbane alone wouldn’t have done much to any of us. It was what was found in the cherry filling that was scary. There had been a combination of two poisons the amounts of both would have been enough to kill three large adult human males. There had been both arsenic and cyanide. From what the doctor tol
Quinn POVAs we pulled up in front of the packhouse I could see that worry on Kyle’s face. I may not have known him for long but I recognize that look. He is worried about his mate. We were quickly greeted by Alpha Graham and Luna Sara and ushered into his office. This can’t be good if we jump past most formalities. As we entered the office Meg and I were asked to sit. Alpha Graham sat at his desk and pulled Luna Sara onto his lap. Kyle did the same with April at one end of the couch and I followed suit with Meg in my lap.“Kyle since you did the interview I’ll let you take from here on filling in Quinn and Meg.” Alpha Graham says.Kyle tells us about this plan that the Council had arranged with Beta Bruce. About how Kyle and Brooke were to take over as Alpha and Luna of Four Corners but things had gotten messed up when Kyle ended up in the hospital instead of with the Council. It would seem that the original plan was for Kyle’s Uncle to believe that Kyle had been killed with his paren
April POVMeg and I have joined Luna Sara at one of the training sessions that she runs for some of the younger girls. It is not as much as fight training as a self-defence course. The group ranges in age eight to twelve.“So what made you start this group?” I ask her.“When I first met Graham there wasn’t much of any kind of training done with the girls. Graham never thought that it was right and had tried for years to get his Dad to start training the females the same way the males are but he would never go for it. Graham’s Dad was old-fashioned in his thinking. He didn’t see the point in using his men to train women who didn’t need to fight in the first place. So as soon as Graham took over as Alpha we set up this program. We knew there would be some pushback from some of the older members. You know how some of the older generation is about change. That is why we introduced it as a self-defence course. It was weird that no one seemed to have a problem with the girls learning to def
Brooke POVThey caught the idiot. He was told to wait until there weren’t many people around, so what did he do? He takes the shot in the middle of the girls’ defence training. It is so hard to find good help these days. I hope Alpha Graham skins him alive to get information out of him. Not that he’ll get much the idiot doesn’t know who hired him. He was just given instructions which he apparently couldn’t follow. He won’t be missed. So now I have to improvise. From what I was told about the drug the little slut should be out of it for at least another three maybe four hours. It’s enough time to get her delivered to Jake. I don’t know why my Kyle is still playing this game. Pretending to care about her like he loves her or something. I thought by now he would have been on board with getting rid of her. And I still haven’t figured out what went wrong with that tart. Kyle had been sitting in the little bitch’s room the whole time and if it had just been him I would have gone in and got h
Possible Trauma TriggersQuinn POVI stand staring at the car in the ditch. I can feel the rage and sadness pouring off of Kyle from where he has slumped to the ground. I feel a warm tingle spread across my back just before I hear the gasp from Meg as she sees what we are looking at. I know I need to go down there and see if my sister is OK but I can’t get my feet to move. I can hear Alpha Graham shouting out orders to his men. Two of them are making their way down to the car. I held my breath as the men checked the passenger compartment and started forcing the trunk open. When one of them turns and shakes his no indicating that they found nothing I don’t know if I should be happy or even more frantic. There are so many possibilities for the car being empty. Did Brooke ditch it to cover her tracks? Had she already dropped off April and then had the accident but got out? Were both women in the car and then got out? But the question for all those is where are they now?“Search the area.
Kyle POVI don’t know how to describe the emotions that went through me when I heard and saw April as she made her way onto the road. I was running towards her before she even started to fall. I held her to me the same way I had when I had run to the clinic, Goddess that was only six hours ago. The whole trip back to Alpha Graham’s pack I held her tight rubbing my hand in small circles on her back. We’ve been back at the clinic for about an hour now. April is in a room on the second floor with only one door in or out. It helps the nerves to know that Brooke has been placed in a cell but I’m still not leaving April until she wakes up.Quinn and Meg left to call Alpha Shane, I could start calling him Uncle Shane since he had been repeatedly telling me to do so the whole time I was there. Quinn was going to fill them in back at Twin Moon about what had happened. I was thinking about the things that Dee had told us about Jake replaying that last interview in my mind. This Jake fellow must
Quinn POV“What is it? Do you guys know what this means?” One of the Council members who hadn’t been part of Avery’s retrial asked.“That is the same isn’t it?” Asked the one who had interviewed Meg that day.Aunt Mona nods. “Yeah, that is the same as Heather’s mate marks.” She says as she places her phone on the table after pulling up pictures of Heather and the twin’s marks.Aunt Mona went on to explain all the things that they had uncovered and everything that had happened over the years related to the curse on our bloodline.“So you’re telling us that somehow this guy who started all this crap has been influencing this group of people somehow.” The first Council member asks.“I really couldn’t tell you. All I know is that image is the same as Heather’s mate mark and this guy was a manipulative bastard. From what we found he would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. He litter tried to fight death.”“We need to get up there and figure out what the fuck is going on. If what Brooke
Epilogue 4 Molly and LeviLevi POVI grab the chair we placed up here for Molly as she makes her way across the stage with the other women. I know she will try to stand for most of the ceremony, but that doesn’t mean she can’t sit until it starts. I just have to convince her of that. “Hey, Firecracker how about you sit until everyone else is ready?” She waddles towards me and it is so damn cute I can’t help but smile.“Are you laughing at me?” She asks with a pissed-off stern look that just makes her look even better.“NO, I would never laugh at you while you are uncomfortable. I was just smiling at my beautiful glowing mate because I’m so happy that she is mine.” I say hoping that little truth calms her. I don’t dare tell her that I find her waddle cute. Molly must be more uncomfortable than I thought because she doesn’t reject the idea of sitting. Once she is seated I crouch in front of her and start rubbing her ankles. “Have I told you, you look beautiful today well every day?” I sa
Epilogue 3 April and KyleApril POVI look towards the stage when I hear Mom laugh. By the look on Dad’s face, I’m going to guess that she is teasing him about something. They both gaze towards Kyle and me, and I think I know what she is teasing him about. Dad only gets that look on his face when someone mentions the fact that I had to have sex to get pregnant. Even after all these years he still will not accept that is how his Grandchildren came to be. He accepts and respects Kyle as the Father but not how he became the Father. I think at first it was just a shock for him to believe that his little girl had grown up. Now I think it is more of just a game to give Mom something to tease him about. “Why is your Father giving me a death stare? I thought we were past that in our relationship.”“I think Mom was teasing him again about how our children came to be,” I say leaning over and putting my head on his shoulder.“I really hated it when she does that for two reasons. One, I get looks
Epilogue 2 Meg and QuinnQuinn POVI heard Uncle Shane holler at the kids, saying it was time. Yeah, it was time. I looked down at my beautiful Angel that I had my arm wrapped around. I can’t believe that she is mine. If someone had told me when I was younger that she was going to be my mate I would have called them crazy. Oh wait, I did do that and Mom doesn’t waste any chance that she gets to rub it in that she was right. But I’ll take all of Mom’s teasing if it means that I get to spend the rest of my life with Meg. I know I don’t deserve her. I am just so happy that even after all the things that happened she was willing to give me a chance. Things could have turned out so different if we hadn’t had the love and support of our families. I glance over at Levi as he helps his very pregnant mate sit down. If he hadn’t been there to beat some sense into me when Meg was kidnapped I don’t want to think about what shape I would have been in if and when we found her. I turn my attention b
Five years laterEpilogue 1 Heather, Reed and LucasReed POVI nod to Levi as he steps up beside me. I looked to my left where Lucas was standing with Quinn beside him. Today we were being sworn in as the new leaders of the pack. Yeah, we are a little older than most when they take over but with all the shit that we went through our parents wanted to give up some extra time. That doesn’t mean that we spent the time goofy off. We worked alongside our parents these last five years learning the ropes which had been the plan all along. It just got delayed by other shit. We worked with Keegan from Silver River to get the resort up and running. Both packs are now making a pretty penny off of it. So we are now building one up near the Four Corners pack with Kyle and April.The four of us are standing waiting for our mates to join us. I watch as a mass of children go running across the schoolyard. We had to set up the stage for the ceremony here since it was the largest area that had easy acce
Levi POVAs Molly and I neared the packhouse after our two days of hiding out. She stopped. “What is it?” I asked tuning her to face me.“What if they don’t approve of this?” She said pointing to the two of us.“Why wouldn’t they approve?” I was getting worried that she was regretting letting me mark her. I cupped her cheeks and tilted her head. “You used to be so confident. I am so sorry that I ever made you feel like you weren’t good enough for me. Your abilities and personality were never any part of that reason.” I looked her in the eyes I wanted her to see that what I was about to tell her was the truth that I was finally willing to admit to myself. “It was me not thinking that I was good enough for you. I felt overwhelmed that I was possibly going to be responsible for your protection and happiness of you. And all I could see every time I looked at you was that scared little girl that I found in a log. That is why I made you train th
Levi POVWhat the hell? I made her think that for some reason it mattered. That she needed to be a virgin. How could I have been such an ass? Why did the Goddess believe that I was worthy of having this treasure as mine? I must have taken too long chastising myself and Molly took my silence the wrong way because she tried to get off my lap again. I didn’t loosen my hold in fact I tightened it. Molly had lowered her head again so I cupped her cheek and tilted her face back to mine. “Molly, can I tell you a secret?” She didn’t say anything. She just nodded. I wiped the tears from her cheek with my thumb. “I’m not either.”I took a few seconds for what I had said to sink in but the smile that slowly spread across her face was worth that little bit of waiting. “I have heard that rumour about you. Some people have even called you a man-whore.”“Yeah, I know. There used to be this smart-mouth little brat that would go around calling me all kinds of na
Levi POVAs I broke through the trees, the scent of cinnamon mixed with fresh, crisp apples, and the last person I thought to find was sitting on a log. I didn’t know if this was another dream or some curl joke, but every fibre in my body was charged. “Mate, Mate, Mate. I told you she was ours.” Jasper started going on about in my head.I step forward cautiously because if she is real I don’t want to do anything that will make her leave me. I have spent the last two years regretting our last conversation. As I got closer I saw her bottom lip start to quiver. Tears began to roll down her cheeks. Every bone in my body was telling me to pull her into my arms but what if I’m the reason for the tears? The last thing she is going to want is for me to hold her. I stopped too scared that if I got any closer she would bolt. “Molly, can I come over there?” She kept her eyes locked on mine and nodded yes. I started to sit on the ground giving her the high ground so that she didn’t think I was tr
Molly POVThe dream started with Ben and I in his room at the packhouse in Four Corners. We were sitting on his bed making out. This dream was feeling more like a flashback from the other night. Ben rolled us so that he was braced above me. “You are beautiful Molly. You have no idea of what I think about doing with and to you.” I could feel his hands under my shirt groping at my breasts and struggling to undo my bra. It was nothing new. Over the last two years, we have done this many times but I have never let him go all the way. We have still brought pleasure to each other but in a medical sense, I’m still a virgin. It just never felt like the time was right. This time felt different. Still not right but different. The next thing I knew my shirt was off my pants were gone and Ben was naked above me. He was kissing down my neck and then there was a bit of a burning feeling as my centre was stretched. “Ben stop please it hurts.” He pulled away from my neck but he didn’t pull out of me.
Levi POV“Come on we need to be there soon,” Cole said as he dragged me across the park to one of the paths.“Cole why are we going this way the training centre is the other way. I thought you said you didn’t want to be late.”“I won’t be late and now neither will you.” He said proudly as he stopped at the point that the path led into the woods. “You can go the rest of the way yourself. You know where to go.” He turned and started heading back towards the packhouse then stopped and turned back. “It is OK if you miss our birthday. This is important. I will tell my Dads you will be back in a couple of days. Now go make my mate.” And off he went.Most of the time as an adult most people wouldn’t listen to a five-year-old when they told them to go into the woods with no better explanation than to just go. But this kid is Heather’s and if there is one thing about Heather and her kids they usually have a good reason for telling you to do weird things you don’t fully understand. Cole was so s