“It’s alright if you want to stop the vote,” Thomas said to Eleanor. “We can all see how this is going to end. There is no need for you to lose face like this.”Eleanor gave him an indulgent smile. “Thank you for your concern, but it’s not necessary. Let’s keep on until the end, and we’ll know who is the loser soon enough.”Thomas arched an eyebrow. “Have you always been so stubborn? These people have respected you for many years. Do you think you can walk out of here with your reputation intact with the number of votes you have?”“Why are you so worried about my reputation?” Eleanor asked him. “I’m no longer your Luna.”“I’m not worried,” he claimed. “I’m just being nice. Seriously, do you want to be remembered as the Luna who demanded to have a pack of her own only to fail from the get go? The fact that people don’t want to choose you should make it obvious that you are wrong about this. But you are so obsessed with going against me that you would rather keep up with this outrageous
Eleanor rose from her desk and walked around it towards Sophia. She took her friend’s hand and gave it a comforting squeeze.“Maybe he lost his way. He might have trouble finding the new packhouse,” she suggested.Sophia shook her head, her worried expression not letting up. “I was communicating with him on the phone, but it suddenly went off. He knows where the new house is. He knows the pack inside out, he would never get lost.”“Have you talked to anyone else who could be in communication with him?” Eleanor asked. Sophia was right, it was impossible for Liam to get lost in the pack’s territory.Sophia nodded. “I have. Nobody else has heard from him for hours.”“When did you last talk to him?” Eleanor asked.“Right after we came here after the voting ended,” Sophia replied. “He assured me that he knew the way here. Since then, his phone has been off. I didn’t think much of it at first, but it’s been hours. He should be here already. What if something has happened to him?”“We’ll fin
“Are you sure you want to do that?” Eleanor asked, eyeing each one of them. “Does Jonathan know about this?”At the mention of Jonathan’s name, the four hybrids exchanged glances, and Eleanor knew she had made the right guess. They were all connected to Jonathan. Now, the question was, were they doing this under his orders, or Mia’s?“The last time we talked,” she continued, “he did not mention wanting me dead. Did he change his mind? Is this how he does business? I thought we had a deal.”She was bluffing, but they did not know that. Thanks to his little visit to her room after escaping from the dungeons that night, she was certain he did not want her dead. Not yet, anyway.She could see the confusion setting on all four faces, and that’s how she knew this was all Mia’s doing and Jonathan had no idea.“How do you know that name?” one of the hybrids asked.“How do you think? Now tell me, is he the one who ordered you to kill me? I did not take him for a coward who would have his minio
“Let the boy go and I’ll come with you,” Eleanor said.“I’m the one giving the directions here, not you,” Mia snarled. “You either come with us willingly or you can keep wasting my time and the boy will die anyway. Your choice.”Just as she finished speaking, the sound of movement emanated from the forest surrounding them. The hybrids positioned themselves ready for attack. A few moments later, Sophia, Miller, and the other warriors broke into the clearing.Sophia’s eyes zeroed in on Mia, and then on Jerry. “Liam!” she screamed, shooting forward.She shifted into her wolf and rushed forward, not even taking a second to assess the situation. Miller shifted right after her and followed.“Get them!” Mia screamed at the hybrids. She moved backwards, dragging Liam with her. “Don’t let any of them get away!”The hybrids surged forward, meeting Sophia and Miller midway, stopping their approach towards Mia. The other warriors also shifted and faced off against the hybrids. Two of the hybrids
Sophia could hardly focus on the hybrids she was fighting. Half of her attention was on her brother, who lay lifeless on the ground.Every time she thought she was getting some headway and could break away to go to him, a new wave of hybrids overwhelmed her.And just when she thought it couldn’t get worse, a pack of wolves joined the fight, helping the hybrids.The numbers of their enemies were overwhelming. Without Eleanor’s wolf, their chances of winning the battle were slim. If Ethan did not get there soon to help them, they were doomed!“Focus!” Miller’s voice sounded in her mind. “We’ll get to him. Stay strong!”Sophia’s wolf growled and swiped her paw across the face on the hybrid in front of her. Miller was right. She had to stay strong and focus.No matter how many hybrids or rival wolves got in her way, she had to fight them with everything she had. It was the only way she could get through to save Liam.“I’ll go help Eleanor!” Miller’s voice came into her mind again.He dart
As soon as Harper responded to her, Eleanor felt power rush through her body. Her wolf was really awake, and not like when she had awakened only for a moment when she recognised Henry as their mate.Eleanor toed off her boots as she let her wolf take over, initiating the shift. She did not bother taking off her clothes, and they tore up soon enough as her body shifted.She always felt stronger and more powerful whenever she shifted, but what she felt right then was unlike anything she had experienced before. It was as if she was ten times stronger, and the power coursing through her body was on another level.“Harper?” she muttered, her mind voice laced in uncertainty.It didn’t feel like her wolf.And she wasn’t the only one taking notice.All around her, the fighting hybrids and wolves took notice of her shift. Harper was big, way too big for a she-wolf. And when she howled, a blast of air blast forth, showcasing her powerful aura.It was as if the fighting ceased for a moment as ev
They took Liam back to the packhouse, where Henry tried to heal him. But it turned out that his injuries were so severe that even a powerful werewolf like Henry could not heal him.He was feverish and remained unconscious throughout treatment. Sophia did not leave his side and stayed by his bedside all night, using damp towels to try and bring his fever down.She was still awake when Eleanor came into the room in the morning. Her eyes were bloodshot and had dark circles beneath them from lack of sleep.She did not notice Eleanor walking into the room until the latter put a hand on her shoulder and squeezed gently. “How is he?”Sophia shook her head slightly. “The same.”“You should eat something and get some sleep,” Eleanor told her. “I’ll watch him.”Sophia reached forward and smoothed her brother’s hair back. He was no longer crying or whimpering in pain, but his face was flushed from the fever.“Okay,” she said, getting up from her seat. “Thank you.”Eleanor gave her a lengthy hug,
When they arrived at Blackstorm, Thomas met them outside the villa.“What do you want?” he asked Eleanor, his voice irritable as he looked from her to the people accompanying her. “Who allowed you to bring them into my pack?”Eleanor ignored his question and stepped up to him. “Where is Mia?”Thomas’s brow rose. “What do you want with my mate? Do you miss her already?”Eleanor’s eyes narrowed as she got impatient. “I’m not here to play games with you, Thomas. Where is she?”Thomas stuck his hands into his trouser pockets and shrugged. “I don’t know, why don’t you tell me?”Eleanor pinned him with a glare.“What do you want with her?” Thomas asked.“She murdered Sophia’s brother,” Eleanor told him. “And I’m here to make her pay for what she did.”Thomas’s brow creased. “What?” he asked sharply. His eyes moved from Eleanor to Sophia, whose gaze was wandering in the area behind him, as if searching for something. Someone. He turned back to Eleanor. “What are you talking about?”“Your mat
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