"You allow Blake to mark you and it will, for a couple of weeks at least, keep the Alpha at bay."
I was sure that damn Moon Goddess hated me. I needed Blake, there was no point in even denying that anymore because I would be lying to myself, but now she was just being cruel.
I knew Blake marking me was going to happen, but I wanted to decide when it was going to happen, not have the act forced on me because of something I never wanted in the first place. If my father had just passed the Alpha down to my best friend, Luca, like I had told him to do then this wouldn't be an issue now.
But he had to be stubborn. He wanted it to stay in the family and, when Link refused to take over the position, that meant it fell to me regardless of what I wanted. I didn't complain at the time and I n
"Link? Who the hell is Link?" Blake asked and I could hear the confusion in his tone which was understandable given that he had no idea who the hell Link was. I had never really told him about my brother, I had only told Jackson who he was and what his name was. "He's my brother," I replied, moving my eyes from where Link stood to where Blake was. "I thought your family were all dead?" Blake asked. "I assumed he died when he went back to the pack. He left me in the forest and when he didn't return after two weeks of leaving me there, that's when I moved on and accepted that he must have died during the fight. I thought that, if he was still alive, he would have come back for me..." I muttered with tears in my eyes. I couldn't believe that he was still alive. He was skinnier than the last time I had seen him and his red hair was too long for his face, his fringe covering the most part of his eyes. Though I couldn't miss the increased muscles he now had. I remember when he was lean
JACKSON "What the fuck do you mean Blake and Ellie are both in a critical condition?" I shouted at Jayson. We had been patrolling the borders when Jayson received the mind link from his mother, telling him that he needed to get to hospital and he needed to get there now. Of course, he thought it was something to do with Ellie, so he mind linked me and I got here as soon as I could. "I mean they are both at death's door. I mean they are both suffering from some serious internal bleeding. I mean they have been injured to the point where not even the wolf can heal them," Jayson snapped, his head turning quickly so that he was actually looking at me.
The pounding in my head is what forced me to open my eyes. It felt like I had been hit with a tonne of bri cks to knock me out but, when I tried to raise my hands to ease the throbbing, I found that my wrists were bound to the side of my bed. And, naturally, they would be silver bounds, so I can't even use my wolf to escape this place. Wherever this place even was. "Ah. It's good to see you awake," I looked to where the voice came from and there stood an older looking female. Her hair had clearly been dyed because you don't find people with naturally purple hair and her eyes were a piercing green, it was like she was looking into your soul when she looked at you. When she walked, she held her tall frame with a certain elegance, that it was almost like she was floating across
I was trapped in this never ending nightmare. For the past two days, the faceless figure had come back to haunt me, but it didn't murder me. It simply stood above me and watched me. I would never sleep and he would never leave. It's like he was trying to think of a new way to kill me but he was all out of ideas, so instead he was simply watching and waiting for his chance to strike. I already felt like I was dead though so I guess it didn't really matter what the hell he did to me. If it would help me find peace and get me out of this hell, I sure as hell wasn't going to complain. I just wanted this to end now. I was so tired of the same thing. I even missed Blake and would give anything to be able to see him one last time, to hear his voice, to tell him that I loved him and he was
"No. Nicole left you outside their front door with a note. She simply told them you were a special little girl who needed a loving him in which to feel safe and protected." "I am sorry for what happened to my parents and I hate that I don't remember them. But I can't forget what David and Jayne did for me and I'm not going to forget about Link either. To me he's always going to be my protective older brother who has always been there for me," I said without so much as a second thought. Once I had survived this hell and seen Blake, I wanted to see Link and I wanted to give him the biggest hug I had ever given a person. I wanted to hear my brother tell me that he loved me and that he wasn't going to leave me again. "Is the wound secure?" Nicole asked someone. &n
I didn't let on that with all them hugging me at the same time I was in an immense amount of pain from the wound to my neck and bruises which covered my body, I was just happy to see their faces again. But I couldn't stop the hiss which escaped my lips when Jackson squeezed me a little too tightly. "Right. That's enough. The poor girl has only just woken up," Nicole said sternly and they all pulled away from me with guilty looks on their faces. "Sorry," Jackson muttered, though I couldn't miss the smile which was now covering his face as he looked at me. I definitely preferred his smile over listening to him cry because he thought I was going to die. "It was too quiet without you. I almost missed your sarcasm," Jays
Today was the day James and his pack were going to attack, which meant that I had to get out of this place before they had the chance to do anything. The only problem with that was Nicole. She had confined me to my bed for the week and had even stationed people outside the door to prevent me from leaving because she knew what I could be like, but she didn't understand the importance of me getting out of here. If James made it all the way into the territory, he was going to kill everyone he came across. Women, children and men alike, he didn't care who he killed, as long as he got to shed some blood. I wasn't going to let that happen, I also wanted to make him pay for everything he had done for me and the way in which he had made me suffer. He also had to be shown that he couldn't si
I walked into the room, pushing the doors open with such force that they dented the walls behind each of them. "What did I tell you, Angelica?" I growled as soon as I walked into the room. I could see that Blake was unconscious and I was certain she had injected him with something while Jackson was attempting to fight against her but not getting very far because I had seen the silver knife she was holding to his back. "It's time to see which you care about more. Your mate or your friend," she chuckled, her eyes holding that evil glint I had seen the first time I met her. "I am pretty sure I told you that I would kill you if you touched either Blake or Jackson. Apparently you seemed to think I was joking," I mocked her because I wasn't going to play her game. I wasn't
MAXWELL I didn't even realize the room had fallen silent, until I looked across at the stage to see my mother was now standing up there with Uncle Luca one side of her and Jackson the other. Michael was at the back with Shantel standing in front on him, his arms wrapped around her waist, with Aurora on his left and his twin sisters, Kailyn and Trinity who were fourteen and looked exactly like their mother to the point that it would have been difficult to tell who the twins were and who Aurora was if she had aged at the same rate as a werewolf, standing on his left — it's a shame that Daniel wasn't here. I did actually miss him and hope that he would make an appearance, but I guess he was either happy with his mate or he was still searching for her. Uncle Link was off to the side of the stage with his arm wrapped around Aunt Jamie, who actually was in her thirties but still had the face of a teenager, while Uncle Link must have been in his late fifties by now but looked just as good
MAXWELL "Ah, Maxwell, my man, you ready for what's about to happen?" Michael grinned as he threw his arm around my shoulder. I am pretty sure he was more excited about tonight then I was, then again, he was about to become Beta in place of my mum's best friend, so I guess he had good reason to be in the mood that he was. "Don't call me my man, I've told you about that before," I chuckled. Despite there being an eight year age gap between Michael and myself, I actually got on better with him than I did with Daniel, because of the amount of time he had spent looking after me when I was younger; I became quite attached to him when I was six and he started looking after us every Saturday night so my parents could have some time alone. Nicole was close to Abby, but that wasn't surprising given that they were practically the same age, but it got to the point where the two of them were inseparable. You would never find one without the o
"This is Blake, my mate, and these are Maxwell and Nicole. I guess I should formally welcome you to Darkness." I pointed between Blake and the twins in turn, still watching her face in an effort to gage her reaction, but there was nothing and I didn't know whether that was a good thing or a bad thing; I would like to think that it's a good thing and that she knows she's got nothing to worry about. I wasn't going to be a problem for her, not when I had Blake, and I didn't think that she was going to be a problem for me either, not when she had Luca and was going to have fun with three kids by the looks of things. "Hi. I'm Daniel and I like Lego. I am daddy's favourite and he loves me more than he loves Michael, that's Michael by the way, and I'm going to be four next month. Daddy told me that I'm going to be a big boy and-" "Daniel. Calm down." Luca chuckled as he picked his son up and held him on his hip. Daniel wrapped his arms around his father's neck, kissing him on the cheek, wh
ELLIE "How do you think they're going to turn out?" I rocked Maxwell in my arms, Blake had a sleeping Nicole in his own and the boys were having a competition to see who could colour without going outside of the lines; it had been a rather peaceful afternoon and I think that had something to do with the fact Luca wasn't around. As much as I loved him, he was bringing the whole mood down with his constant snapping and unnecessary arguments with either myself or one of the boys, and I knew that's because he was such a stubborn pig who didn't want to get what was rightfully his; he wanted to do the right thing and let her go. But, what was the right thing for her, wasn't the right thing for him and it was beginning to show. I didn't mean to interfere, and I sure as hell didn't expect him to shout at me, but someone needed to point the idiot in the right direction otherwise he never would have done anything about his mate. He would h
LUCA I didn't even need to think about where I was going because my feet seemed to take me there on their own, they knew where we were going and they wanted to get their quicker than I was anticipating; it was almost like they were more excited than I was to get what belonged to us. My wolf hadn't stopped dancing around my head and he continued to let out both howls and yips of happiness in the back of my head. It always made things so much easier knowing that you had the support of your wolf, not that I ever doubted his reappearance once we got to finally meet our mate properly, but he had been unnervingly quiet since I decided that I wasn't going to go after the girl who was made for me.I wasn't even going to lie, I was still shocked that I had been given a second chance, I was even more shocked that it had happened as quickly as this; it had barely been a week since I rejected Charlotte and I was already being given another ch
LUCA "So, let me get this straight, you want to break my mate up with her boyfriend by pretending that you've been sleeping with him?" I asked Ellie. I know that she was only trying to help me but I didn't want her to ruin someone else's relationship just for the sake of my own happiness. She was my best friend and I know that she just wanted the best for me but I refused to let her do something she would live to regret in the end, especially when she came to live in the pack with me and Ellie had to face her every single day knowing what she had done. "You got it," Ellie grinned proudly. "Yeah. That's not going to happen," I told her without breaking eye contact and I noticed Blake nodding in agreement with me from the corner of my eye. I knew that he wasn't happy with the plan from the expression which he had been wearing and the look of murder which was in his eye as she spoke about anothe
I was luckier than same people. I may have lost both sets of my parents but I had a mate who loved me unconditionally and would do absolutely anything for me even if he was a jealous pig at times and overreacted whenever someone got a little too close to me. I had a brother who had always been my rock and had helped me through more things as a child than anyone had done. And I had three others who were practically like brothers anyway, I loved them like they were and I didn't want to lose any of them again because of something as stupid as me not wanting to ask for help. I had my children. I finally understood what it was to love something so much that you would kill anyone who dared to hurt them and I really understood what a mother's love was, I understand how a child could become the centre of someone's universe and how everyone could seem insignificant in comparison to your own child. I would die before I let anyone touch the twins again and I would fight
ELLIE I watched out the corner of my eye as Luca left the room. I don't know why Jamie opened her mouth and thought it was acceptable to comment on his skills as a father but she was in the wrong and she didn't have the right to make a comment. Luca did his best for those boys. He tried to put them before himself and, when Charlotte didn't want anything to do with either of them, he was there to make sure they had the love and the care they deserved. He wasn't the perfect father, I don't think there was a thing such as the perfect father, but he wasn't terrible and he didn't deserve the comments which Jamie made. She didn't know what he had been through. She didn't know the fights he had to endure just to make sure those boys never felt like they weren't wanted. She didn't even understand the pain he was in after finding out that they weren't really his children because his mate got he
LUCA I turned to see Michael staring at me with something in his eyes. He wasn't an idiot so he knew there was more to the story than he was being told, I knew I would have to tell him the truth at some point but it could wait a little longer before I did that. I would have to do it with a clear head and when I could explain it to Michael properly. "Are you sure you're alright dad?" Michael asked. "I'll be fine. And I'm sorry if you think I'm dumping you on people all the time. I don't mean to, I just, I don't know how to deal with all of this," I sighed as I ran my hands through my hair. "You're trying your best and I know that. You've always done the best for both me and Daniel, even when mum gave up with the both of us, you were still there and you have always been there. I love you dad and, when I am older, I want to be the same sort of man you are because you're nothing but selfless," Michael shocked me by wrapping h