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Poor Unfortunate Wolf Evening of Study
Hayden returned to his apartment to find April exactly where he’d left her. Pouring over the documents and maps. She was obsessed with narrowing down the search. He loved the way she wiggled her nose to adjust her glasses as she read. Her hands never missed a beat as she flipped from one page to another. “How’s it going?” “Well, I found something back in the eighteen ten referring to this Roger Helbourne. I don’t believe that’s his birth name.” “You mean he assumed someone else’s name? Or he made it up as he went along?” “I mean, it would have meaning to him. If he reinvented himself, or he was reborn as something new.” “Reborn? Reborn as what?” “Vampires call the process of creating a new vampire rebirth. Helbourne, sounds a lot like born in Hel. If he were Scandinavian, their mythology has a Hel. A person and a place, in fact. So it could be born of Hel too. Then there’s the Helbournes of England. Either way, we could lo
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Identity Theft
Ivory couldn’t figure out why Sapphire was headed to the Black Hole. That’s the last place Ivory wanted to do this. She’d missed her last three shifts and had no interest in dealing with that. Was Sapphire trying to get her in trouble? She wouldn’t put it past Sapphire to seek some petty revenge Ivory would. That didn’t make it better. Nor did the five guys follow her. Who did she think she was? She wasn’t any kind of Luna or a queen. She was a pathetic mouse. But here she was with one guy hovering over her every word. Ivory stay behind them but close enough to hear the guy practically clinging to her insist she was going to playthings safe, and she should have spoken up about it. He was treating her like a cherished child. Sapphire is the one who earned no respect. She couldn’t speak up for herself and she couldn’t defend herself to save her life. Sapphire was only good. Serving everyone else and they needed her back so that life would go back to being sane and norm
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Cliff Betrayed
Cliff couldn’t believe anything Ivory said anymore. She’d betrayed him. Promised to help him get back in with her father and then ditched him as soon as she could. Now she was chatting it up with a bunch of strange wolves with Sapphire and his archenemy. He needed to do something. Lenny and Xavier were playing games behind the Black Hole while he watched everything going on the street. He wasn’t sure if he should notify the two fools and their flunkies that their target wasn’t falling for their lure. Because if he did, then he’d have to admit Ivory betrayed him and their righteous cause. They could follow them and attack when the time was right. Between himself and the group hiding out back, there was enough. Or close enough to make the fight interesting. If Cliff could get Sapphire away from that big one, it would really throw their plans into chaos. There’d be a reckoning for sure. Cliff wanted to fix that reckoning, not be the one to start it. He
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Foiled Plans and Getaways
Magnus took the two women back to the Bus Stop Diner and left two of his men to watch them. He and the other three went back to the Black Hole back parking lot to find out what was going on there. He was seeing red by the time he got there. Cliff, the fool from the day he got there, was there with several others. Magnus didn’t have to do much at first. Cliff was doing a great job of telling the wolves there what a poor plan it was and that their alpha would learn of it. They’d failed to research what was going on right under their noses. This group let not one, but two healthy females, get away from the pack. Magnus couldn’t believe what he was hearing. No, this was Cliff. From his experience with him, Magnus couldn’t be surprised. These were adult shifters, people in their own right. Not just breeders. The very thought turned Magnus’ stomach. Instead of taking them on though, Magnus directed his men to leave the area. “It’s a waste of time to step
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Getting to Know Her
Hayden woke to find himself on the sofa with April curled up beside him. Instantly, his wolf’s instincts kicked in and he to entertain himself with her warm curves. How was he going to keep from touching her if she kept this up? He wasn’t stupid; he knew they couldn’t mate if that meant binding them to one treaty. Gods, this is a mess. Kilburn was running this place into the ground for a pipe dream and his witch mate was encouraging him to do it for whatever her reasons were. Everything revolved around the legend of white wolves being a pipeline directly to the Moon Goddess. What that’s supposed to do in this day and age he didn’t know. It wasn’t like they needed to beg her favour to be blessed with survival. So, what could the witch want so desperately from the moon goddess? Was it power and influence? It would be only on a local level. No city dwelling wolf would care. Could their isolation here be the problem?This type of wolf pack was a dying breed. High finance
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Family Comes In Many Flavours
Magnus pulled Sapphire aside and frowned down at her. He hated what he was about to say because he knew she’d not like it. “Listen to me and don’t argue with me. Ivory can’t be trusted. You’re leaving the started there being a chance at war. Her leaving that pack will start the war. You can’t do anything going forward until that connection is still there. Do you understand? She could say these things to get close to you to prevent you from leaving.” “I get it. But someone would have to be telling her what to say or do. Yes, she can be manipulative. I have lots of experience with that. But her lies can be picked apart easily if anyone with a level head thinks about it. What do you have in mind for her then? Locking her up somewhere? Putting a guard on her at all times? I can’t see her accepting any of that.” “Then would she like a one-way ticket to the closest city? Let her deal with the pack there?” “Oh, you wouldn’t dare force her one another pack.
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Confrontation Plans
“What do you mean you’re locking me in here for the night? What will I do? How come Sapphire gets to run around free?” Ivory was pouting and sulking when she was given the news that after dinner, she would be locked in the room they’d given her. “I’m not some unruly teen, who’s misbehaved.” “We have things to do and currently there’s no one here qualified to mind you. They will be here in the morning when you wake up. Until then. Goodnight, Ivory.” Magnus shut the door and locked it. He turned to a guard. “She’s not to know you’re here. Only let her out if the packhouse is on fire. If she throws a fit, leave her be. She’s not your concern. You’re here only to keep her from leaving the room.” “Yes, Sir.” The wolf stood at the door and pocketed the key. He was one of Magnus’ loyal enforcers, and Magnus knew he could trust him. While this was happening, April was examining. Sapphire for any magical spells cast on her. She claimed it would take quite a
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Surprises Uncovered
Sapphire tried to sit still for April as she examined her. She didn’t remember much of what her aunt did around her. Sapphire remembered being sick several times after her aunt forced her to drink some gross potion or elixir. It’s part of the reason Ivory hated her. When Sapphire got there, her aunt experimented on them both and wasn’t very nice about it. Or the lack of results she got. Neither girl ever knew why they were treated. They made Sapphire believe it gave her something that she didn’t deserve. They made Ivory feel like a failure for not developing whatever it was. So Ivory was always trying to please her mother and getting whatever she wanted, hoping she’d be bribed into doing what her mother wanted her to do. Or develop whatever it was. April quickly found out that yes, she had a spell on her. Now Sapphire struggled to keep her patience because it was hours since then and April was still trying to figure out what the spell was supposed to do. Thi
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Poor Unfortunate Wolf Epilogue
Sapphire and Ivory met the rest of their family over time. It took a long time to become comfortable with every one of them. So many differences from how she grew up to her life as she knew it now. She needed to find a new normal as mate, sister, and Luna. But it happened. Ivory and Ran took over the Vagas Moon Pack, and they renamed it, the New Moon Rising. Ran was still not sure he wanted to be their Alpha, but his family and his in-laws made it clear he could and would be the Alpha of this pack. The girls’ father took some time to warm up to Magnus and Ran. He claimed he needed to know his daughters first, to know what was best for them. Until then, he would reserve his opinion on if he approved of their mates. Ivory and Sapphire found their mother was a force all her own to be reckoned with. Margaret insisted there be ceremonies to recognise their mating. She was the mover and shaker when it came to teaching her daughters how to be e
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Introduction to Family
“We’re still trying to unravel the truth here. So when we figure it out, we’ll happily tell you the entire gory and horrific parts. Just understand Ivory and I are learning to get along, but we only found out we were sisters. That we still need to work through.” “Betty made us adversaries. Sapphire was all but a slave. She had me believing I was their daughter and better than everyone. Sapphire was trying to replace me. I know better now and I’m trying to make amends. This is new for us. We just learned they planned to force Sapphire to commune with the Moon Goddess, and I was a sacrifice. We believed I was her daughter then.” Both parents were horrified. “We’d have tried harder if we knew she would try that. Gods, we’re sorry.” Howard came closer to their sister’s back. “It’s complicated.” “Let’s move on to happier things. If we’re talking, we can enter. So, let’s get the introductions done. You know me. I work as a teacher and r
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Found Family and Explanations
Sapphire was too confused and overwhelmed. She let Ivory lead her to the bathroom, where they straightened themselves. Both looked at the results in the mirror. With the same ponytail and makeup. Thank. They looked similar. “I’m not wearing the same outfit, so don’t suggest it. Gods, Ivory, I don’t look like me.” “Yes, you do. If that monster hadn’t this, we’d be sisters, and this Sapphire is what you would be. No wonder I was jealous of you.” Sapphire’s head shot to Ivory’s face for clarification she’d heard correctly. “Jealous? I thought you hated me. I would never have said you were jealous.” “Do you think our mom can reverse the suppression spell on you? Or me? If there is one on me.” Sapphire pretended she didn’t hear it. They had enough to deal. “Why not? We’re part of a magical litter of wolf shifter pups. Does that sound like a fairy tale comedy movie opening line said by a narrator?” Sapphire wondered what would have happened if she’d gone to t
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Where’s the Decoder Ring
“Let’s see if we can figure this out.” April leaned over the page. “Okay, this is an edited version of what we see here. Well, that’s interesting, though it shouldn’t be a surprise.” April pored over the papers, looking closely at the words and symbols. Ivory tried her best, but she wasn’t sure what was important and what wasn’t. So, she tried to get everything she could. “What is it? I don’t get half the marks on the page. I just copied them the best I could.” She felt like a fool. What good was she? “The mark here leading to Betty. That’s new, or old. Different, at the very least. However, you want to describe it. It’s the mark used to denote an adoption. Betty isn’t blood related to your mother. She’s an aunt by adoption, not by blood. Her blood would have been useless, and she wasn’t the girls, so she’d have seen nothing. Now here are the names we’re interested in. Jane and Howard Percival. That next part here says there are three pups all born over two days. L
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Secrets Revealed
April couldn’t believe what she was about to do. Normally, anything to do with blood magic was off limits. Well, usually that’s because the magic would cause get harm to the person or persons involved. In this case, she’d risk the disapproval and any punishment. Which would be laughable when she showed the council of elders what they would have to do to break the curse. From what little she could understand of the magic used in the treaties, and resulting events. No one before her cared about the limits that were placed long ago on how magic could be used. When someone called North America a Wild and Lawless Land. It wasn’t just the humans that were wild and lawless. Those that practiced magic were too. Doing things in the middle of nowhere that they couldn’t anywhere else. Even now, they uncovered places like this occasionally. Places that the locals would call, better left alone and untouched. In this case, if April was correct. The page with their b
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Who are you?
Magnus watched his mate carefully as she and Ivory went through the journals and other documents they recovered. April was still completing what they needed to do for the witches to be released by the nature spirit. Or if anything needed to be done since this Roger Helbourne was gone. As far as anyone could tell, Roger made the deals. Without him, they weren’t sure if the deals survived. That’s why he’d been kept like he was. As long as he was here and functioning, the treaties were active. But they wanted to be sure they were gone for good before inviting the other packs back. Ran was in talks with those of the Vagas Moon Pack who ran and survived. They’d have the grisly job of cleaning up the land and making amends to it. The Vagas Moon would then fall under the McConnell Pack umbrella after that, and the isolation would have to end as well. Magnus’ pack was settled here now and the previous pack happy where they were now, with no interest in returning here. Each
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Ivory’s Inner Turmoil
Ivory couldn’t find out what happened to Cliff or Xavier. Those two and their buddies were missing in action. They’d been at the fight, but they weren’t among the dead there or on the Vagas Moon Pack territory. Ran assumed they went rogue after the battle and were in the wind. Ivory wasn’t so sure. Cliff was a jerk, but he wasn’t a very bright one. It took days to find any trace of them. Sadly, that trace was a campsite out in the middle of nowhere. Sadly, whoever they joined up with at the end was more than evil and stronger than them. They’d survived only to end up being hunted by a human with more money than brains. If they read correctly, the evidence. She was scared now. What if they were wrong and Cliff came back for revenge? Ivory couldn’t tell Ran what she’d done. Snubbing Cliff after her father turned rescinded his favour. Cliff came to her for help, and she deliberately messed up his plans to get back into her father’s favour. It hadn’t
Poor Unfortunate Wolf Conspiracy for Peace
Ran watched the two women leave out of the corner of his eye. “Gods, I thought they’d never leave.” The two men stopped training and mopped themselves of the sweat they’d built up as they spoke. “Here’s hoping they can be sensible and learn to get along with each other.” Magnus said as they tapped water bottles. “Have you told Ivory she’s taking over as your Luna?” “No, not yet. I’m not sure how she will take the news, and I’m still coming to terms with it.” “I get it. Sapphire took some easing into it, too. I couldn’t just hand her the keys after I bit her. Sarah Ann says there are things Sapphire just doesn’t have a clue about, so it will take a while before she’s got things mastered.” “Oh, I suspect she does not understand about what the position truly entails. My problem is not having her bulk in fear. Her training is still months away from completion.” “So, you really are training her to obey you without question?” “I
Poor Unfortunate Wolf An Honest Talk
Sapphire and Ivory sat in her office drinking coffee for a little bit before Ivory gathered up enough courage to speak to Sapphire. “If my mother was the reason we hate each other, does that mean in another life we might have been friends?” Ivory wasn’t sure if she was ready to apologize to Sapphire for the years of emotional and physical torture, she put her through.” “I don’t know. If you weren’t so self absorbed and demanding, maybe. It’s hard to tell, really. Your mother tried with all her might to make you into a shifter version of herself. Now I don’t mean this as a slight against you, but she was pretty successful. She pulled so many tricks with us, I’m not sure either of us knows who we truly are.” “You really think that?” “We’ll see, won’t we, now that we know she’s gone and can no longer influence us directly? I know that her influence made someone lock my abilities away so I couldn’t use them. Whoever did that seemed to know a wa
