After searching the area around the border and not finding any signs of Jonathan or Eleanor, the others went back to Eleanor’s pack.They brought Mia back with them, determined to get the truth out of her before she had to pay for what she had done.They detained her in an interrogation room and Ethan and Miller teamed up against her first.“Has she said anything?” Henry asked when Ethan left the room later. He had been busy organising defence for Darkfall and hadn’t managed to watch the interrogation.Ethan shook his head. “Not yet. She maintains that she does not know where Jonathan took Eleanor.”Henry opened the door and walked into the room. Mia was sitting on one side of the table in the room. The room was like a concrete box with no openings once the door was closed. Mia looked up when Henry walked in, but only for a moment.“You are still not talking, huh?” Henry asked, standing on the other side of the table. “How much longer do you think you’ll be alive if you don’t talk? Or
Mia gave him an innocent look, her lips trembling. “What do you mean?” she asked, her eyes searching his. “I never betrayed you.”“Is that so?” Thomas asked, his voice dripping of bitterness. “Are you saying that you did not give my money to Jonathan?”Her face scrunched up in confusion. “What? No, of course not! He tried to force me to tell him, but I refused. It was your sister who gave him your bank account information.”“Nessa? How did she know my account information?”Mia shrugged. “I don’t know! I would never do something like that to you, Thomas. Not after everything you have done for me. I was willing to endure any kind of torture to protect you.”Thomas stared at her, the stormy look on his face not abating.She bit her lip and reached for his hand. He shifted out of her reach. Her brow dipped low. “Do you really believe the things they are saying about me?” she asked in a hurt voice. “Can’t you see what they are trying to do? They already took half of what you have, and now
“How did you get that video?” Henry asked Thomas as soon as he walked out of the interrogation room.“That part of the forest was once my territory,” Thomas explained. “I had installed cameras to monitor intruders and they are still in place and I get the feeds on my side.”“Do you have the entire footage? Maybe we can find something about Eleanor,” Henry suggested. “Sophia said that she saw Jonathan taking her away.”“I do,” Thomas replied. “I’ll go fetch it.”After Thomas got the drive with the entire footage, they went to watch it in the lounge room.It was hours long and they skipped to the part where Mia and Sophia were fighting. A few minutes after the scene where Thomas had pasued the video while showing it to Mia, Eleanor came into view.She looked prepared to join the fight but before she could, Jonathan sneaked up from behind and covered her face with a cloth.Sophia turned to look towards the commotion but did nothing to help Eleanor. Instead, she kept fighting Mia while Jo
After the talk in Jonathan’s throne room, Eleanor instructed his guards to show her to one of the rooms in the packhouse.She was untied but remained confined for the rest of the day. The next day however, Jonathan gave new instructions.She had the freedom to move around the compound, but under surveillance.It was his way of showing good faith so that she could see he did not want her as a captive but as a partner. To Eleanor, it was the perfect opportunity to get a lay of the place.She would quietly accept his hospitality while plotting how to take him down and communicate with the others. However, her attempts to reach out to either Henry or Sophia through mindlink were futile.Walking around the packhouse, she noticed that it was full of the white oak smell she had detected before among the rogues who had attacked Darkfall and also from Jonathan when he infiltrated Blackstorm.Did it have other purposes besides hiding their true identities? Was it the reason she could not commun
Before Eleanor could talk to the girl, Jonathan walked out of the house and onto the courtyard.Everybody, the girls and the guards included, stopped what they were doing and stood on alert, heads bowed and trembling in fear.Eleanor was the only one who watched him as he made his way over until he was standing right in front of her. He smiled at her before raising his voice to address everyone in the courtyard.“Everybody, I want you to meet Eleanor,” he said. The bowed heads rose in sync and every pair of eyes in the courtyard focused on her. While everyone watched, Jonathan reached forward and took her hand. “Eleanor is my Luna from today and should be treated and respected as such.”Gasps rose from the girls, and Eleanor could feel eyes digging into her like lasers. Just a few moments ago, she had declared that she was not here to vie for Jonathan’s attention and even said she was not his mate.Now, here he was, declaring that she was his Luna. What was he playing at? What happene
Eleanor did not believe for a second that Jonathan wanted to help Alpha Elroy take over Darkfall.From what she had gleaned so far, Jonathan wanted complete control of the packs he was targeting. He wanted to get rid of the Alphas and become a hybrid king ruling over werewolves.Why would he give Darkfall, one of the most prestigious werewolf packs, to another Alpha? He was more likely to use Elroy to get control over Darkfall.Alpha Elroy was one of those who had tried time and again to take some of Darkfall’s territories with no success. He must think having an ally like Jonathan was what he needed to finally achieve victory.How Eleanor saw it, Jonathan wanted the two packs to fight against each other. When they wore each other out, he would simply waltz in and take over both of them. It was the oldest trick in the book when it came to overcoming two enemies at once.Blackstorm had been his first target, and he had successfully created enough chaos through Mia to bring the pack to
Jonathan licked his lips, a thrill of pleasure coursing through him as he watched Eleanor’s face fill with caution. A shadow of fear covered her eyes, even though she did not let it show on her face.It made him admire her even more. As far as she knew, the liquid he was holding had the power to bewitch her and leave her at his mercy.Did she think she could somehow overcome it? Was that why her fear was not winning over, or was it because she was as fearless as the rumours said?She was undoubtedly braver than most warriors he had come across. Even in the face of something that could bring her to her knees before him, she did not break. He wondered what would be enough to break her.Would she show this same resilience if he executed her mate right in front of her eyes? Or would she beg him to spare his life and submit herself to his will?He had wanted so much to force her to submit to him, but unfortunately, he had run into an unexpected obstacle.“Relax,” he told her, putting the t
After leaving the laboratory, Jonathan finally left Eleanor on her own. Unlike before, she did not have any guards trailing her. But she knew if she so much as tried to take a step outside the packhouse, there would be a pack of them watching her every move.She knew this was her chance to make her move. He had given her three days, but she had no idea how long it would take to get all the information she needed.She also had to find a way to either communicate to the others or a way to escape if she could not ask for backup.For now, her best hope was that one of the girls Jonathan kept here could somehow help her get what she needed. She had no idea how to help them break the control Jonathan had over them, but if she could find a way, maybe some of them would be willing to work with her.She wandered into the west wing of the house, where all the girls had disappeared earlier. Before she could get to the rooms, she came across a living area and spied the young blonde girl she had w
Eleanor woke up in the morning after the coronation ceremony to the sensation of Henry’s fingers stroking down her arm. Electricity skittered across her skin from the simple contact, waking her completely.“Are you awake?” Henry asked, as if he could tell without even looking at her face, which was buried in his shoulder.“Yes,” she mumbled.He hooked his fingers under her chin and lifted her face. He smiled at her softly before kissing her on the lips. It was a soft kiss at first, but before long, it intensified into their tongues tangling together and her hand rising to sink into his hair.His hand on the other hand went lower, slipping between her legs and seeking her warm centre. She moved her legs apart, granting him easy entry. His fingers teased her nub, rubbing her until she was panting against his mouth and humping into his hand.“Please,” she pleaded, wanting to feel him inside.He pulled his hand away and before she knew it she was lying on her back and he was positioning h
was the culmination of Henry’s efforts in the past few months, which had seen him rise to the position of the Alpha King of the South.While Blackstorm started rebuilding and putting things back in order, Henry had gotten busy strengthening Darkfall’s territory.The alliance with Jonathan had left most of the rogue packs around Darkfall weak. They had sacrificed most of their warriors and funds in plotting against Darkfall and Blackstorm and helping Jonathan wage his war.They had been promised territories and titles, but with the hybrid’s defeat, all they had gotten were losses. This made it easier for Henry to conquer and absorb them without extending a lot of effort. He also took over Alpha Elroy’s pack, making it part of Darkfall.In the months that followed, he had not faced any serious threat, and Darkfall thrived and became the most powerful pack in the southern region. Soon, all the packs in the region selected him as the Alpha King of the South, asserting his dominance and Da
The next day, members from the two packs–Eleanor’s and Thomas’s–gathered in the square, awaiting Mia’s trial. Word about her involvement with the hybrid attackers had spread, and everybody was looking forward to her sentence.Her execution would close a chapter everybody wanted to forget and move on from. After that, it would be time to rebuild the pack, as one, to what it was before all the chaos.Mia was tied to a post, with wood arranged beneath her feet. She struggled against the rope around her hands and feet as she cried out, claiming innocence. “She is only doing this because of jealousy!” she screamed so that the people gathered could hear her. “She killed Alpha Thomas because he chose me instead of her, and now she wants to kill me and his only heir.”“Witch!” someone in the crowd yelled and pelted a stone at her. “Shut your filthy lying mouth!”“There were many witnesses present when you killed Alpha Thomas,” one of the warriors who were with Thomas that day said, “and even
It was then that it occurred to Eleanor that she had not heard from Miller since she came back. She had been communicating with Sophia all along. If something bad had happened to him, Sophia would have told her, right?“Hey, have you seen Miller?” she decided to ask Henry. He had been at the pack before the attacks so she thought he might have an idea about her Gamma’s whereabouts. “I haven’t heard from him or seen him anywhere.”Henry sighed, his chest shifting beneath her. “Did you ever find it funny how he agreed to become your Gamma?”Eleanor frowned and shook her head. “What? Why? No, I…he had promised to support me no matter what, and he wanted the best for the pack. He knew Sophia would be my Beta all along and was okay with the position he got.”“So you think he was just being selfless, giving up his position as the Beta of Blackstorm to be your Gamma?” Henry asked her.Well, there was that, but there was also the fact that Miller had confessed to having feelings for her.Even
Henry deepened the kiss, his lips moving against hers with strong strokes. Their bodies, pressed against each other with nothing in between, lit on fire as a burning passion passed between and through them.Eleanor pushed him back into a tree, trapping him there while her hands roamed his muscular body. “Will anyone miss you if I lock you up in a room with me for the next one year?” she asked when they pulled back to catch their breaths.“They’ll just have to do without me,” he replied as she pressed her lips to his face. She trailed kisses from his temple and down to his lips, where she only teased him before moving on down to his jaw. He tipped his head back into the tree as she continued on to his throat.He groaned in pleasure when she wrapped her lips around his Adam’s apple and sucked. While she tormented him with her lips, he ran his hands down her back until they reached her ass.He squeezed her cheeks and pressed her forward, letting her feel his hot erection against her bell
Elroy cracked his neck as he smiled arrogantly. “Once you lose, your territory will become mine.”Good luck, Eleanor thought, wishing he would shut up already. Her wolf growled and hit her paw on the ground, letting him know that he was wasting time blabbering. He seemed to get the message because he shifted back to his wolf form and faced her.Henry got out of the way and the two rushed at each other, growling. They met mid-air and crashed into one another before falling to the ground. Elroy’s wolf lunged for her throat but Harper was quick on her feet and got away.She went straight for his hind leg and snapped it between her fangs. Elroy’s wolf howled and violently pulled himself away, the scent of his blood filling the air.Eleanor wished she could taunt him then, ask him whether he was sure he wanted to go ahead with this. Taunting him like that would make him see red and attack out of spite without caution. It would be a quick way to end this battle.She settled for regarding hi
Nessa fell to her knees beside her brother, tears streaming from her eyes. “Thomas! Thomas!” she called, holding onto his arm and shaking him. “Don’t do this. Don’t leave me!”A sombre mood engulfed the warriors who had accompanied Thomas and they watched helplessly as his sister cried over his body. It was such a sudden death, and none of them could have imagined that it would be the end for him.They had left Blackstorm determined to aid their former fellow pack members and fix the strained relationship between the two packs. Nobody could have foreseen such a tragedy.Eleanor wrapped an arm around Nessa’s shoulders and pulled her into a hug. The girl turned to her and accepted her embrace, crying into her shoulder.Eleanor wished she had been able to notice Mia earlier and stop her from hurting anyone. Nessa’s pain awakened the despair from losing Liam.She wished that the thought of bringing Mia to justice could do anything to erase the pain she had caused. It would not bring back
Thomas’s warriors rushed towards him where he lay on the ground unable to move. Eleanor looked up from his body and to Mia, who had shot the arrow.Mia’s eyes were filled with rage as she faced Eleanor. There were about a dozen werewolf warriors baying for her blood, but she did not even seem to be bothered.After being sprung from the interrogation room, it had taken her a while to find her way to the east gate without discovery. Before she could make it there, the building she had taken cover in had blown up. She was lucky to get out alive!She was running on fumes from the anger she felt towards Jonathan. How dare he set off the bombs without first ensuring she was out of harm’s way? She was the one who had introduced the idea to him.She had delivered Henry to him on a silver platter, but he had botched that up to. How could everything go so wrong after everything she had done?She could not believe that he had allowed Eleanor to escape. Was this the she-wolf he regarded far above
By the time Henry got to Eleanor’s pack, there were buildings up in flames.“What happened?” he asked Sophia when she came to meet him.“There was an explosion,” she told him, and then continued to give him a rundown of the situation. “Fortunately, we were able to evacuate most of the pack members successfully.” Worry took over her features. “However, there are a few Omegas trapped in the kitchen and basement. We are working on getting them out. Some of my warriors are holding off the attackers away from the compound.”“Where is Miller?” Henry asked.“He is keeping an eye on Mia,” she replied.“Coordinate the rescue for the Omegas trapped in the basement and I’ll go check,” he said. “That woman led me and my warriors into a trap, I don’t trust her.”He was already suspecting that she had a hand in the explosions. Jonathan had not had a chance to send a signal before he killed him–at least not one Henry was aware of. So if the explosions had gone off, it had to be one of Jonathan’s spi