LOGINShare
Chapter 68: Home again
Last Updated:
2024-10-29 19:42:56
Related chapters
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 69: Ignite the Night
A light clicks on behind me and I spin, ready to protect myself. My eyes go wide when they land on a male figure leaning on a cane and grinning so widely I nearly fall over. His features are smooth and kind, where his cheeks used to be sunk and shadowed are now plump round cheeks with dimples popping on the right side of his face. My chest cracks in half, and I drop to the ground, clinging to my chest. The relief is too much. As I rest on my hands and knees, tears springing from my eyes and breaths escaping in shuddering noises. He is on me in a second, cupping my face and making me look into his eyes. The eyes that match mine finally have light back in them and a sob rips from my lips as he tugs me into the best bear hug I have ever felt. “Dad” The words croak from me and his shoulders rise and fall like he is crying with me. “Wren…” a soft, tentative voice calls to me and my eyes search through the group of people standing toward the back wall. She steps forward and my heart onc
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 70: Havoc
~Sebastian~Wren knows not to twist out of my arms and I’m thanking my lucky stars that we mated because if we were still at odds, she would throw a fit. All around us people are running out of buildings, screaming as they pound on neighbors’ doors, trying to find shelter. Things went to shit way too quickly. And yeah, us being discovered is most likely my fault, but the second her panic hit the link, I lost all common sense and I was climbing the wall with everyone watching me in shock. “Turn right,” Wren instructs, taking me down a road leading away from the city buildings and brick homes. “Go behind that house.”She points to a small tan house covered in weeds and I move my way around the back. A tiny porch light casts a shadow for us to crouch in for cover. I let her down, and she huddles toward the shadow, reaching out for me to come closer to her. “Are you ok?” she asks as her fingers roam my face and ears. Her hands freeze when she feels the crusty dried blood from the explos
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 71: Look at me, baby
“Looks like you were wrong about her real mate, Spence. You owe me your mate for a week.” “Hah. If I had one, maybe,” Spencer shrugs. “I’ll take your plaything, then.” He grins. The two of them joke as if their pack isn’t under attack like they have all the time in the world to waste. “Definitely thought they were putting on an act with the whole mate thing the first time,” Waylon says with a shrug. Wren squeezes onto me tight, trying to wiggle out from behind me, but I’m rooted in place and she isn’t wiggling free. Spencer clucks his tongue, sauntering around us to get a better view of Wren. He grins deviously before looking up at Alden. “You think Orion would come out of hiding if I fucked his daughter in the streets?” Spencer asks Alden. Alden laughs and shakes his head. “Nah, but he might come for her if it’s me.” “Every part of you that lays a hand on her will be ripped from your body,” I say calmly. Alden levels his eyes at me, assessing the threat and my ability to fol
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 72: A monster for my love
~Wren~ There comes a point in your brain where the pain is too much and it stops registering the trauma. As I stare down at the fingers sinking deeper and deeper into my bleeding flesh, I realize I have hit that point. I can feel his fingers pressing further in, a strange pressure that doesn’t hurt but feels–wrong. I’m mesmerized by the way my blood pools around his skin, glistening in the artificial lights illuminating the open space. Sebastian batters at the mate bond, trying to make me talk to him, look at him in my last moments of life. I want to reach out to him, let him in my mind, but I can’t find the will to do it. The small conversation I was able to have brought me so much comfort, yet I could feel his distress, his breaking heart, and it is too much for me to bear. My eyes slide closed, my head bobbing up and down. The warrior on my right-hand side is dry heaving and I want to chuckle, but any movement at this point is beyond my control, as everything wants to shut down.
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 73: New Alpha
~Sebastian~ The alpha’s brand around my neck feels cold against my heated flesh as it settles and fades into my skin, disappearing as if it had never existed. So many voices resound in my head, howling in acknowledgment of me as the new alpha of the pack. When I look around, I can see my newest pack members standing on the outskirts staring at me, waiting for direction on what to do next. “Seb” Nickolai calls my attention and I glance back at him to find Wren, pale and bloody, as she clings to her midsection. I move swiftly to her, scooping her up and pulling her close to me. “Bring a healer to the packhouse,” I demand to any pack members who will listen. I break into a run toward the opulent house that is more suited to be called a mansion, Elara, Avi, and Nickolai hot on my heels. In theory, I could wait for someone to open the door for me, but in my panic to get Wren comfortable, I raise my leg and kick the door open, entering through the massive kitchen. I set her on the empty
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 74: Introductions and greif
I clear my throat and look back at the pack that watches me with varying emotions. The most prominent is a mixture of both fear and hope. This pack has been suffering for such a long time they don’t know how to trust. “As I stated in the mind link. Alden is dead. We only know a handful of the things he used and did to keep you compliant and stuck here in this pack. I can’t tell you how disgusted I am with how he ran things. I was raised in Alpha Jameson’s pack, a pack that believes in the truth of the mate bond and all the good it can bring to those who find it. If you are missing a mate, or have been living in fear of your mate being ripped from you at any moment, please know that you no longer have to worry.” “We can have our mates back?” An older woman asks, her hands clutched close to her chest. Her voice shakes and her question is timid, but I can see the relief, the desire for my words to be true. “Yes.” I nod. “Anyone who has been held to keep their mates in line are now fre
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 75: Take away my pain
~Wren~ Sebastian’s chest vibrates against my cheek as he hums the song my father used to sing to me when I was a little girl crying for my mommy at night. It’s been so long since I’ve heard it sung in a male voice, only ever singing it or humming it to myself. Seb’s gravelly voice rasps out the lullaby’s last lines, and I sit still, trying to understand how he can possibly know it. “How do you know that song?” I ask him, wincing as I sit up too fast.Alden did a number on my internal organs with his creepy as shit finger puncturing. My external wounds will be the last thing to heal as my body focuses fully on healing my more severe injuries, like my holey stomach and intestines. Okay, they didn’t give me specifics of which organs Alden hit. But based on the pain and the location, I’m making a semi-educated guess.“You don’t remember singing it to me?” He asks. I wish I could see his face in the darkness of the room, but whether it is still nighttime or the light-blocking shades are
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 76: Good enough
I run my fingers over Sebastian’s bruises and cuts along his chest, down his bulging biceps, watching in wonder as his muscles visibly relax at my touch. I loved doing this when I would sneak into sleep next to him. His deep breaths come out through his nose with a small whistling noise. The big bad warrior snores. The giggle escapes, and then it shifts into a full-blown cackle as I try to control the shaking of my body. Not just because I don’t want to wake him, but it hurts like hell. “Mmm, am I drooling?” he asks, his tawny eyes still hidden behind his closed lids. “Definitely. Practically drowned me.” I tell him. My hand finds a notch in his chest and it lingers, smoothing over it again and again. With my other hand, I reach up to stroke his hair. I pause and stare at the part of me that should be touching him. My fingers should be feeling the sensation of his silky dark hair running through them. Instead, there is nothing. My eyes flutter closed, remembering the sensation. I sw
Latest chapter
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to read Wren and Sebastian's story! The plan is to further in the future write Nickolai's story, but only time will tell if people actually want to read his. Please leave your review of the overall book and rate it accordingly to your thoughts! I stepped way out of my comfort zone with this book and I'm dying to hear if you guys enjoyed it or not! Reviews also help me get put up for promotion, so if you think it's worthy of other reading please drop me a review to help me get my books out there! If you have read my Guardian series (all standalone books!) please Know that The Alpha's Redeemer is NOW live on the app and ready to read! You guys are the best and I so appreciate you reading my little stories! Miri Googag
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 89: Epilogue final
“Leo,” I breathe. “Where are–”“Addy and Grandma are safe. I can’t leave you, I’m sorry. Don’t be mad, but I can’t let anyone hurt you, Mom.” I’m sobbing as I want to reach out and try to grab and shelter my poor sweet boy who has grown into such a sweet little man. At freshly twelve he has been training for the past two years so he can be strong enough to protect himself. We should have known he was doing it to protect us. One day, he will make the best alpha of this pack.A lanky man steps into the doorway and Leo shifts his weight to his back foot, preparing for battle. My heart is in my throat as I watch the man lunge with a growl toward my son. I fell off the bed, trying to protect him. Leo is so graceful in his movements as he glides out of the way and drags a dagger along the man’s back. As long as the man doesn’t shift into a wolf, Leo might be able to hold his own. His cut isn’t deep, but it’s a strike that makes the man bleed. He growls in annoyance and then chuckles as he
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 88: Epilogue one
*** THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER***~Wren~“You really should sit down,” Jade says, following me as I pace the carpet, my dress flowing around behind me. Seb has been gone for three days, and those three days have been atrocious. He is further than the mate bond can extend, so my mind has been hollow and lonely. It also doesn’t help that my hormones are raging and my mate is fighting in a battle on the other side of Nickolai’s pack.“No” I shake my head. “No,” I repeat, more sternly, tears welling in my eyes. I groan in frustration at the stupid tears that seem to come unbidden all the damn time lately. “Luna, you will walk yourself into labor before Alpha can get his ass back here,” Jade says, rubbing my back and giving me a sympathetic look.I want to slap the sympathy off her face. The person who should rub my back is my mate. He should be here next to me as I try to make this baby come. But no. He has to be a hands-on alpha and lead his troops himself. I used to think it was sex
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 87: New warriors and a Beta
The musty, cool air of the dungeons clings to me as we come up to the prisoners we captured weeks ago. Half the men are anxiously waiting at the bars while the rest lean on the walls or stare out the bar window. Most of the men are on the younger side, a few even looking closer to Nickolai’s young age of eighteen. When they notice me coming in with Tank, they all straighten up and glance at each other nervously. These ten men are not the only prisoners we collected that night. In fact, they are only a small portion of the number of warriors we were able to round up. I don’t think killing the others would be wise, but letting them go is not an option, so instead, we house them here providing the essentials to survive without having an entertaining life. “Alpha,” they greet me in unison, as though they have been rehearsing for days. I shoot a look at Tank, who is trying not to laugh. “I hear you all wished to speak with me. Spit it out so I can move along to other important matters.”
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 86: New things coming
~Sebastian~“How is she?” Nickolai asks through the receiver. I pinch the bridge of my nose, remembering Wren’s beautiful speech and the tears that wet her cheeks. There is no way to erase the hurt in her eyes and the ache that she feels so keenly at her father’s death, but she had been perfect, stunning, so perfectly Wren. “As good as can be expected.” I sigh.“Good. I’m sorry I missed it.” I can hear the disappointment in his voice, but we all understand that he has duties to tend to. “When is your ceremony?” I ask him.“Two days.”We sit in silence for a minute, each of us waiting for the other to speak first. I know Nickolai hates I can’t be there for his Alpha ceremony. And it’s not that we don’t want to be there, it’s just that the timing simply doesn’t work for me and Wren. Or anyone in the werewolf community, since there is a war that is resulting in higher death tolls daily. Especially in our allies’ packs lately. “Look, I know you wanted us to be there…”“I get it, Seb.
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 85: Best friends
“Things have been tense for the past few weeks. Your lives have been turned upside down, you have a new Alpha and Luna and we are in a war to defend what we know is right. But today isn’t about any of that. Today, we are all the same. We are a pack mourning our losses and the people we loved.” He looks down at me and I know he wants me to take over. “For as long as I can remember, life in this pack was full of tension and fear. It always felt like we were living half a life. The men and women on this memorial fought and died for what they believed in. They fought for their loved ones and for you and me. I’m not sure how many of you remember my dad, who he was, and what happened to him after they took my mother from his side, from me.” My eyes look over at my mother, who is watching me closely. “He died saving me,” I say, taking a deep breath. “Like so many others, he was sick most of my life. Constantly trying to be the only parent and provider while being denied the ability to work
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 84: It's time
~Wren~The marble slabs glitter as the sun beams down as if a beacon on the dead. Highlighting their loss and what it means to us, our pack. I hate that we have two empty slabs. Two enormous gray and shiny hunks of empty rock are ready for the next names to be etched. It’s a sobering reminder that the dead are gone and the living will always follow. How we go and when we go isn’t up to us. Life is fragile and fleeting. All the living can do once the ones we love have left, is keep them alive in our minds and heart. Originally, the entire area was going to be a meadow of wildflowers, something we give back to the earth, and in return, she would bring us beauty to console our aching hearts. But growing such things takes time–time we didn’t really have. So Sebastian and Tank suggested we plant some annual flowers and then next year we will prepare the ground for the wildflowers. Tank even said we should add some benches and stone walkways so people can come and reminisce with the people
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 83: Night Light
~Sebastian~I stand from my desk, checking the clock and groaning when I realize it's two in the morning. It’s been a week since Nickolai left and today is Wren’s fathers memorial. She has done a great job of avoiding the thought by occupying her time with planning and Leo. Today could go one of many ways and I’m going to need as much sleep as I can muster if I have to hold her while she cries. It’s my least favorite feeling in the world, knowing I can’t do anything to ease her pain. But at least this is a pain I can try to comfort. The very thought of her curling into my body as I settle in the bed spurs me to move faster as I hustle out of my office. I make my way up the stairs leading to our room and push the door open, Inhaling deeply. I used to foolishly think the best smell in the world was Wren’s. Now I know it’s our combined scent. The perfect balance of the two of us that is both calming and inviting. I close the door gently behind me, grimacing as the door latches. I move
Rebel Rising The Lost Alpha's Mate Chapter 82: Moving on
I give Nickolai a tight hug, clinging to him tightly as he squeezes me back. When I pull away, his hands run down my arms, stopping at my wrist where he looks for a moment and shakes his head. “Does it weird you out?” I ask him, my lips twitching into a soft smile as he flounders with how to respond without hurting my feelings. I know it creeps him out. When he first saw it, it was all he could look at.“It shouldn’t.” He admits, “But It is definitely a little weird.”“Try having it be your hand,” I say with a chuckle.“They couldn’t… like… put it back on or something?” His question isn’t malicious or ill-willed, more of a curiosity. The werewolf's body is strange and amazing with its healing properties, but even healers struggle to keep up with what the body is capable of.“I know in the human world they would have sewn it back on if the cut was clean.” I shrug. “But it was chewed off and after the fight, as I’m sure you remember, my hand wasn’t the only appendage littering the grou
