ANNA KYLIN CHESTER I CAME AWAKE very slowly. I realized that I was on my bed and there was a cold napkin on my forehead. I sat up gently and looked around. The room was dim but I could hear someone moving in the sitting room. I tried to talk but my throat was parched and dry. The door opened and a small silhouette came in. I saw it was Reine. She noticed that I was awake and she rushed to my side. "Luna, you are awake." She put her hand on my cheek to feel my temperature, and then she took the napkin from my forehead. She brought a small glass cup with a straw to my mouth. I sucked on it and found my voice. "How long was I out for?""I don't know, Luna," She said. "I was not checking the time. But almost 4 hours."I sat up with some effort and assistance from Reine. She wrung her hands together, "I came in to prepare your dinner before you came back from work," she said. "I found you on the carpet. I feared you were not breathing.""So you carried me to bed?" I frowned.She nodded.
MITCH CHESTER"FOR FUCK'S SAKE!" He growled, looking at the splinters on the snow. That was the second phone in 3 days that he had destroyed because of his temper. He marched angrily through the streets of his kingdom. His beast was fuming underneath as he remembered what Anna said. She wanted the children back. Like he would let that happen. She would have to come back and steal the kids from him before he let them go. He gripped the tree closest to him, and his claws dug into the hard bark.Wasn't he being toxic? He asked himself. After all, she was not wrong. He did not share any DNA with them. He frowned and his breath rumbled in his chest. He did not really have any rights over them."Fuck that!" He growled. "Draco," he mindlinked."Yeah?" Came the immediate reply."Who did you station at the school? ""Alphonso and Brad," Draco replied.Mitch nodded and said, "Good." Those were good and alert soldiers. "Have them contact me if they sense anything out of place,""Will do, and I
ANNA KYLIN CHESTER I NEVER THOUGHT I would feel this way again. I lay on the bed in a fetal position. Of all the women he could sleep with... it was Ophelia - the woman who had made it her and her father's mission to humiliate me and my children.I tried to will myself to sleep, but the sleep would not come. I remained like that in the same curled-up ball. I vaguely noticed that Reine came in, and tried to coax me to sit up and do something active like going out on a stroll, but she left me alone after a while, frustrated.What was the point?As soon as my strength was back up, I would arrange for my children to be brought to me, and then I would leave. Here, my own sister plotted my downfall and death, and she was getting angrier with each second I remained here.And in the mountains- the place that signified security for me - I scoffed. I have been humiliated. Ophelia won. How would I hold my head up with pride to her, knowing that she was sleeping with my mate?I frowned. "Fuck t
ANNA KYLIN CHESTER" - DID YOU HEAR what I said?" Rick's voice cut through my thoughts.I looked up at him. "What did you say?""Pay attention, Anna," He muttered angrily."You heard the alpha!" Beth snarled.I rolled my eyes. "Can you just... repeat what you said,""Perhaps we should sit down," Jones said. Rick nodded curtly and put a hand on my upper arm. He led me into the hospital. The scent of death hung heavy in the air. Nurses stood around their station with dumb, blank looks on their faces. The head nurse, who had advised me to go home this morning shared a long gaze with me. I nodded at her in assurance as we walked past. Just three days ago, I had never had a dead patient. Today, there were over 2 dozen of them. What an irony, I chuckled inwardly.Rick applied a little pressure on my arm. "Somewhere private, perhaps." He said. "Your office?""I was hassled here," I muttered, pulling my arm from his grip. "I didn't have the time to grab my key card.""Well, uh.." He cleare
RICK FORSON RICK LEANED BACK. He put his hand in his pocket to hide his bulging cock. He could not understand how seeing Anna like this - with her sharp wits and detective mind - was making him so hard. He sighed in sexual frustration. He wanted her. He wanted to - "Let me see that," Jones voice snapped him out of his reverie. Jones walked past him and took hold of the laptop. His breath was coming in deep rumbles as he went through the article on the screen."Rick," Beth said in her annoying grating voice. "Can't you see that she is a quack doctor? Why are we wasting time with her?! We should have her hanged -"Rick groaned inwardly and recoiled slightly as Beth placed a hand on his shoulder. Her touch disgusted him, but he had to put up with it. "How is it looking, Jones?" He called. The beta sighed and dropped the laptop. He shook his head slowly. "This is definitely what was used. I perceived wolfsbane in the blood of some of the dead, but I don't know of cyanide...""They don'
ANNA KYLIN CHESTER "LET. ME. GO!" I attached my arm away from the Beta's grip, but it was tight. He was going to leave a bruise, although he wasn't rough. He led firmly a good distance away from the hospital before he released me."You were going to start talking out of turn," He said."You." I planted a finger on his chest and frowned. "You didn't tell him, did you?"He rubbed his face and looked away. "I haven't found an appropriate time.""That's..." Bullshit! I scoffed and turned away. "So am I just supposed to sit back and let them ruin my reputation?" I asked."No one is going to ruin your reputation," He said calmly. "But I need you to control yourself."I scoffed again. If anyone here needs self-control, it's definitely not me. "Is there anything else you want to tell me?" Jones asked.I looked at him. I hadn't told anyone about the meeting I saw between Beth and Marcus a few nights ago. "Hoe did you know about the Luna and the doctor?" He asked like he could read my though
ANNA"I HOPE YOU are excited about your birthday," My chosen mate, Alpha Rick said. He came up to me from behind and hugged me, nuzzling my neck fondly. I rubbed his arm and smiled. He was more excited for the birthday than I was and I am only going along with it because he seemed so happy about it. The moon goddess knows my real heart's desire. I wanted a child. Over the 3 years that I and Alpha Rick had chosen each other as mates, we had been trying for a child, but to no avail. It wasn't until last year that it was confirmed that my husband was impotent. He had a low sperm count. I still loved him, but I wanted to have my own children. I am Anna Kylin, daughter of the old Alpha of the Red Moon pack. After waiting for my fated mate, who did not come, my father pressured me to choose someone else. And so, I chose Alpha Rick of the Blood pack. He was handsome, gentle, and loving. And he was also yet to find his fated mate. So we had gotten married out of convenience because he also
ANNA I WAS STUNNED for a second, and then I laughed maniacally. "This was a joke, right?" My gaze flashed from Beth and to my husband. "Right?" It was Beth that answered in her annoyingly grating voice. "I am afraid not, sis." She twirled her long black hair with a finger and continued. "I knew something was different when I crossed the borders into our pack," she sighed. "And I assure you, it was a big surprise when I caught the scent of freshly mowed lawns," She took in a deep breath and moaned in ecstasy. Sometimes, the scent of your mate was often one you enjoyed very much. It could range from the smell of vanilla cupcakes, to dried-out earth or to even toothpaste. "You know how much I enjoy the smell of cut grass," she said. "So I followed the scent, and bumped into your husband... and the scent was coming from him." She winked at him and he looked away, blushing profusely. "What?" All these still sounded like a joke to my ears. "Rick, is this a joke? Like some kind of si