Collin’s POV
I knew we were limited on time so sleep was going to have to wait. Dante and I arrived at the place the girl had described to a T. All down to the window trim.
“Remind me to make that girl one of our investigators.” I said to Dante as we walked up to the house.
“No kidding. She gave a better description than some of the more seasoned investigators we have.” Dante responded.
We walked up to the door and let ourselves in. It was oddly quiet in the house that was supposed to be the headquarters of the group. Just when we thought no one was there, Dante stopped me and put his finger to his lips and then his ear. I took the que and started listening and heard what sounded like people whispering.
We started following the voices quietly and when we came up to a door where they were coming from, I grabbed the handle and Dante took a defensive position, ready for anyone who might be stupid enough to try an attack. I twiste
Gunner's POV “We will be landing in Iceland in approximately 10 minutes. Please put your trays up and lock them in place, and make sure your seat is in the upright position. The pilot will now turn on the fasten seatbelt sign.” There was a ding noise and the seatbelt symbol lit up. I did as the flight attendant asked and looked around to make sure everyone else was following directions. That’s when it hit me, I was only hours away from seeing my mate again. To lose her after just finding her, and then after all this time not even seeing her or touching her, in this realm at least, I couldn’t wait any longer. “So much for not needing a mate huh?” Maddox grumbled in my head. “It was never in the plans. We were supposed to avenge my mother’s death. That was my only plan.” I thought. “Funny how life works out sometimes huh.” I chuckled to myself. “There’s still something that’s been eating at me though.” Maddox said. “What
Cheyenne’s POVI was falling into a very dark place; my mind going 100 miles per hour, anxiety at an all-time high and no family here to bring me out of a panic attack. I was sitting on the floor of my room with my back to my bed rocking back and forth and my hands were shaking uncontrollably.“Sweetie, you need to calm down. Your human counterpart family might not be here, but you still got me.” Koa softly said, back to her motherly voice. I swear she either had bipolar or multiple personality disorder sometimes.“I don’t know if I should be more worried or if that was meant to be calming.” I said with a shaky voice.“Look I know I’ve ‘off the rails’ as you kids call it nowadays, a couple times, but with my history with these people and now the new freedoms females have in this century, I get carried away. So much pent-up emotions for so many years can drive you crazy.” Sh
Seeley’s POV“REVA!!!!!” I shouted down my wing after returning from my morning run on the beach.Reva was my sister in-law. She was my brother’s mate but he went feral during the last war and was beating her and the pups and I couldn’t stand back and watch anymore so I hid her away in this mountain with her pups, Harold, Howard, Leona, and Herbert.She’s been alone ever since then. Lycan’s chance of a second chance mate is unheard of really. People have claimed it but you can tell after a while, when that “new toy” effect wears off that they weren’t true mates. Yeah I’m sure they loved each other, but there was no bond there.“REVA!!!” I hollered again. “My Chambers! NOW!”I never heard a response with being to wrapped up in my own thoughts. Vampires?! What are those bastards doing back here?! I haven’t had to deal with them in over a c
Cheyenne’s POV“Have you talked to Alex?” Jax asked the King.“No, I haven’t had a chance. You guys are the first. I just heard of it this morning. Harold told me he hasn’t talked to them in a couple of weeks. I sent him out with Sadie, Jessica, Gerreth, and Alfred to gather info on the vampires.” The King told us.“I can ask around here sir, but Alex would be your best bet with her abilities to go places unseen. She’s a sneaky little shit. She could be in this room right now and we probably don’t even know it.” Jax and the King chuckled.“You’re right. Alida, you haven’t heard any talk from maid or such about lycan’s vanishing have you?” The King now looking at me.“Not of that rank, no.” I said honestly. I wasn’t lying, I don’t know every single soul that got on those ships, and I thought it was mainly the lower
Cheyenne POVI stood there in the shadows of the caves waiting for Jax to meet up with me. I was lost in my thoughts staring out into the horizon over the ocean, wondering where they were, when I heard a rock skid across the ground and it snapped me back to reality.“We are just 2 wolves out for a run if anybody asks.” I said quietly looking him dead in the eye.“Ok but what are we really doing?” He asked.“Clearing the beach. They are still going to send trackers out but only a mile off the beach before they let the others off the ships.” I said already slipping my shoes off.Jax nodded and followed my lead. I headed behind a tree to shift while Jax remained in the cave and shifted. We just nodded to each other and then took off running down the beach. We covered about 3 or 4 miles of shoreline and into the woods before Jax got my attention and pointed towards the sun. No words were spoken as we
Seeley’s POVI was sitting in my study trying to figure out what was going on in my kingdom but Alida’s rant earlier kept taking over my thoughts. Yes, I was an absent father to her, but I had a Kingdom to run and her mother wouldn’t leave the states. Yes, she was abducted under my orders, but her mother broke our deal knowing there would be consequences. I guess I could’ve sent her a birthday card or something. Would that have really made a difference though?I was lost in my thoughts when I heard a knock at the door pulling me back to reality. “Come in.” I said.Harold’s head popped in before coming completely in and shutting the door behind him. “Good evening sir. I have come with an update from the village.”I motioned for him to sit and he walked over and sat across from me and then cleared his throat.“Sir, I have some, not so good news? Maybe good news? I’m no
Seeley’s POV I looked at my watch and noticed that it was almost eight o’clock. The sun was already setting in the ocean. I had had an uneasy feeling ever since the conversation with Collin and finding out about some alleged fight. Yes I was planning on attacking the werewolves in America if I did not get my daughter back, but I had her so nothing was going to happen. Is that what he was talking about? “Koda. Office now.” I said threw the mind link as calmly as I could. It wasn’t five minutes later, there was a knock on my door and I ordered them in. “You called for me sir?” Koda asked. “Yes Koda. I got a job for you.” I motioned him in to have a seat. Koda shut the door behind him and then walked up to the chairs by my desk and sat down. He had a very serious look on his face. I could tell Alida’s threat earlier had to be a hit to his pride if not his big ass ego. Once Koda was seated, I let out a sigh and went on with the job I wanted him to do. I needed information and he was
Seeley’s POVWas she telling the truth? What if she’s not behind the attack itself and just knows about it and was getting people she knew wouldn’t survive to safety? How did she even know? I slammed my fist down on my desk out of frustration. Every time I talked to her, I only ended up with more questions than answers. Either she was really that good at hiding things or I was losing my touch in my old age. I highly doubt that it was the latter.I called Jax into my office and told him to prepare the troops. Although we were not sure of when or who would attack, I wanted to be prepared. Even if this was an empty threat, rather be safe than sorry. Jax never said a word while in my office, just nodded and took off. Then I heard threw the mind link for all section leaders to meet in the conference room.I called Reeva to come help me prepare for battle and I could tell she was nervous but we didn’t have any other choice. I t
Jax’s POV Alida and Gunner had been traveling around the world. To say they were gone a lot would be an understatement. Tora and I have been trying to keep up with the alphas here and requests they had for Alida for when she returned. Thank the Goddess Tora was more organized than I was. I didn’t know how to do any of this shit. We have been building the house back up little by little in our spare time. Chelsea was about to pop at any moment. Things just seemed to be going great. Apart from the everyday stress, there wasn’t much I could complain about. Life was going great with my mate by my side. Meanwhile, we were still checking into Tyler’s mate, Stephanie to see if bringing him in as a beta would be the smart choice considering who her father was. So far there were no red flags. I would say that it would be safe to bring her into the pack, but that decision was up to Alpha Nik. Emma did her time in the pack jail and faced her trial in her own pack as well. They only added 6 mor
Cheyenne’s POV It’s been about week after all the chaos. Between dealing with momma, my sisters, and then my heat, I thought I was going to lose my shit. Gunner was right there with me every step of the way though. He made sure I always had everything I needed and wanted. We started working on making a master map of all the territories in the US to find a piece of land that would be large enough to build the royal court and prison on. We had already considered the humans and places they vacationed and whatnot. It looked like the best place to build was going to be between some mountain tops in the Rockies. I laughed to myself knowing how much Ella hated the cold. Nik helped me write up the proposal after talking to Charlie to see about putting a cloaking spell on the place so if anybody did wonder into the area, they wouldn’t see it. Charlie agreed to help us along with Alex and a few other very powerful witches they knew. After sending out the proposal to the Alphas in the US, I ha
Cheyenne’s POV I didn’t get shit for sleep last night. Gunner was on patrols and my mind with wondering with all the different impossible outcomes for my sister’s trails today. In one outcome, I ended up on death row and they were both standing there laughing at me. Ridiculous, I know. Gunner would randomly check in on me, feeling the stress and anxiety through the mate bond. I rolled my tiny ass out of bed with a moan and made my way to the bathroom. A good relaxing shower was much needed right now. My whole body was tensed from all the stress. I didn’t even bother grabbing clothes to take with me. Nobody ever came into our room anyways. Well, not without knocking first anyways. I took Gunner’s shirt off and just tossed it on the floor along with my panties and shorts. I turned on the shower to let it warm up while I brushed my hair out. Once I finished, I stepped in the shower and just stood under the shower head. I let hell’s fire water just rain down on my face and roll down my
Cheyenne’s POVAlpha Brock had just finished updating me when a couple of alphas from the northern packs that I hadn’t met before walked in. Alpha Nik did the introductions and I smiled as I shook their hands. It didn’t take long after that, more and more started showing up. Alpha Nik and Alpha Brock never left my side the entire time, to which I was thankful for. I wasn’t really the people person and I really hated meeting new people. Ty always said I had social anxiety which would kill his social butterfly every time he took me out. Once everyone was here, I went out to meet with all the guards.“I know y’all don’t know me, but I am in fact the Queen Alpha.” I started and simultaneously all their heads bowed. “No need for the formalities out here. I just wanted to introduce myself and to thank you for coming. I don’t care what your Alpha has said, my order over rules him and when we break fo
Cheyenne’s POV“Holy sweet mother of baby Odin! Where the hell are my boots!?” I was scrambling around trying to get ready for the Alpha meeting in a couple hours. We ended up picking a location that would be easy for everyone to get to, but it was at least an hour’s drive out for us. I had already woke up late and rushed in the shower.I was in such a rush I forgot to take my panties off before getting in. Gunner got a good laugh out of it so I took them off and then whipped them at his head. I hurried with my shower and didn’t even bother with blow drying my hair. I just through it up in a wet messy bun. I didn’t care what I looked like, I was not trying to impress anyone by no means, and I already made sure that everyone knew that this meeting was casual dress.“Babe…” Gunner started.“Not now, I gotta find my boots! What the fuck?! It’s not like they just got up and wa
Cheyenne POVWaking up the next morning, I wiped the sleep from my eyes and stretched my whole body out. I looked over to see that Gunner was still asleep when an idea popped in my head. I grabbed a pen and paper and wrote him a note like he did to me. Only instead of a yellow rose I placed a heresy’s kiss candy on top of it.I quietly made my way out of the bedroom and closed the door softly behind me. Once I knew I was in the clear, I made my way down to the kitchen for some breakfast. It was still early and barely anyone was up. Mostly just the warriors going out for their own personal training or patrols switching shifts.I was in the middle of eating my butterscotch chip pancakes when my phone rang. I took it out of my pocket and looked at the caller ID. It was an unknown number. Normally I would just hit ignore but something was telling me to answer it. So I slid my thumb over the green circle on the screen.“Hello?&rdqu
Cheyenne’s POVI was awoke by kids laughter outside. My eyes fluttered opened adjusting to the sunlight coming through the opening between the curtains. I reached across the bed for Gunner but the bed was empty. Instead there was single yellow rose with a note on his pillow.Babe,You looked so peaceful sleeping, I didn’t want to wake you. I will be outside helping set up the fields for the little ones. Come on out when you wake up. I miss your face already.XOXO,GunnerI felt a smile crawl across my face. I immediately threw off the blankets and ran to the closet to get changed. I grabbed a pair of shorts and a tank top along with my tennis shoes. I hurried to change and threw my hair up in a messy bun without even bothering to brush it. I was trying to slid my shoes on as I was walking out the bedroom door. Once both my shoes were on, I bolted towards the front door.
Cheyenne’s POVI was sitting in Alpha Nik’s office with Alpha Brock sitting next to me. I knew it was killing Gunner not to be here but that was Nik’s call not mine. We had talked about my mother’s punishment first and I told them about the command I put on her. Would it work or not, I didn’t know how long it would work for but it was worth a try. Alpha Brock agreed to let her come back on the condition that my dad wanted her back. If he rejected her, then we would deal with that if or when that time comes.“What about Ella and Emma?” Alpha Nik asked.“They are both being charged with trespassing onto your territory correct?” Alpha Brock asked.“That is correct.” Nik confirmed.“And you say that their sole purpose here was to kill Gunner knowing that it might in fact kill you?” Brock asked looking at me.“Also correct.” I stated.
Cheyenne’s POVI stood there in utter shock for a moment until one of the guys behind me leaned down towards my ear and whispered.“Do you know them?” Jax asked.I let out a warning growl and took a defensive position causing both of them to do the same.“I got this sweetie.” Koa laughed. I felt this wave of energy come out of me and felt my eyes change colors. “On your knees NOW!” Koa growled.The two intruders tried to fight but ended up on their knees with their necks bared in submission. It wasn’t until I heard a whimper behind me that I realized that my command had affected even the alpha. I quickly released and apologized to the guys whom all reassured me that it was perfectly fine.“So you gunna tell us who these two are?” Alpha Nik asked now standing beside me and pointing between the two.“Alpha Nik, Beta Derek, Jax, these intruders would be tw