Archer walks through the pack house on the way to his office for the meeting with Emmett, the invisible rumble of such immense power as his feet continue to pound on the ground under him. Any person in his vicinity instinctively back away due to the black cloud of power, anger and such a pure outpouring of hatred which oozed from him like a deep wound, such a feeling that sent shivers down the spines of his enemies and strangers alike. But one thing which most noticed was different in that moment, was the smile on his lips. Normally, whenever the pack members would look to their Alpha, he wore a deep snarl on his face and truly, seemed to resemble someone you can only describe as a ticking time bomb, one wrong move, he could blow up in your face without warning. So, when people saw the happier emotion on his face, they all began to wonder if their new Luna was able to change the Alpha and his view on the world, all hopeful that the dynamic the pack has been under for longer than the
After I had arrived at the training grounds, as like I expected, the trainer Greg began to ask me once again if I wanted to help train some of the fighters. That topic was still a sore subject for me as I truly, didn’t want to feel as though I was betraying my fathers pack and its members by helping the individuals who have invaded twice already. Seeing that I was still a little apprehensive, Greg begins to show me around the training facility and explaining how things work and what he would want from me. I do have to say one thing, the training grounds here compared to those at my fathers are the most advanced I have ever seen. They have an endless amount of equipment and open space to prepare any person for battle, in some ways, I wanted to agree to help just to try out the equipment. “I have to believe that with your training and knowledge, you would help our fighters strive to even bigger heights than they already are. It is clear that you have such an intimate experience of h
I continued marching down the path closer to the pack house, the same lecture that my father would repeat any chance that he would get whilst I was growing up went around in my head continuously. I should have known the topic of my wolf would come up at some point, how do I approach the situation with Archer without him thinking I’m hiding something, which I definitely am! Before I could reach the steps to begin my climb into the pack house, my hand is taken from behind me, and I’m pulled right back. I didn’t need to turn around to know who it was, I heard him following me the entire way back and the sparks were a dead giveaway. “Where do you think you’re going, we were having a conversation.” Archer informs me as I’m turned around to look at him, but I simply shake my head pulling my hand back out of his grasp. “I said what I needed to, I don’t want to go on a run and that’s final.” I tell him coldly before beginning my climb up the steps and arriving in the lobby of the pack h
I remain where I stood staring at Archer for any reaction, but the longer that he continued in his silence, the deeper the fear that he was going to scream that he hated my wolf was all I could think about. Seeming to snap out of his shocked trance, he begins to slowly make his way closer to me, my entire body not moving an inch in case it sets him off. But when his hand reached over and began to run through my fur, the sparks which I always feel whenever we make contact were increased to such an intensity, I could have dropped to the floor. My wolf seeming to draw even closer to his touch, a smile soon filling Archer’s lips as he watched over me. “Sweetheart you are beautiful, I have never seen a wolf such as yours in all of my life.” He tells me still looking amazed which was the best compliment I could receive, being from him, it meant that much more. “You are truly the most beautiful creature I have ever had the privilege to lay my eyes on.” He smiled looking me in the eyes as
The food which was prepared for us was so incredibly delicious, there were items on the plate I had never even heard about before. In my father's pack, even though I was a part of the Alpha’s family and in most, you have cooks that prepare each of your meals, my father didn’t want Hadwin and I to grow up entitled so as soon as we were old enough, we made all our meals. I don’t know about Hadwin, but I knew I didn’t have the culinary skills to pull dishes such as this off! I thought the room would be filled with an awkward tension, Archer and I have only recently had the capability to sit in a room and not be at each others' throats, metaphorically and literally. Since arriving here, I have always eaten my food alone in the bedroom I now call home, so being invited into a rather posh dining room with an elegant looking table was certainly, different. But I had to admit it, getting to sit down and eat with Archer and discuss whatever came to mind in that moment was great. I knew we ha
Spinning around in Archer’s chair as I waited for him to return, I was left with a smile on my lips, I thought the first time I would do such a thing with a man, even though we hadn’t gone the whole way, I would feel embarrassed, but I wasn’t. I couldn’t help the feeling of pride which spread through me that I was able to make Archer feel that way. A knock on the door snaps me from my spinning glee, Emmett pushing his head through the door in a cautious manner in case Archer and I were doing the dirty in some way. With a laugh, I wave him in allowing him to see that nothing was happening in this moment. “The Alpha is just getting changed, an explosion occurred so he needed a change of clothes.” I explain with a little chuckle as he walked deeper into the room, a little shake of his head but a smile on his lips as Emmett takes a seat just in front of the desk, throwing a pile of paperwork onto the table in front of him. “You still haven’t said his name yet?” He asks sitting back
After explaining the once purposeless memory I did not even know I held, the room fell silent as we all attempted to understand the scene I explained and make any kind of sense of it. “What did the King mean, how did he help create me?” I ask breaking the long silence which clung to the room, Emmett shaking his head as though that would aid him on understanding. “That is something I also do not understand, it’s clear that your mother never had any kind of affair with the King, the most pressing kind of evidence is how alike you and your father look but also, your mother was quick to correct him stating your parents created you but the King had done something while your mother was pregnant that changed you.” Emmett explained after analysing what my mother had said, whilst I could only sit on Archer’s lap feeling so lost. “Could that be why my wolf is so drastically, different to any others and also, why my father demanded that I keep myself a secret to stay safe. As the King said
Once I had finished my initial cry, Archer instructed Emmett to begin his search into my wolf and what my mother may have meant when she told the King he had forced something into me when my mother was still pregnant. Whilst Archer and I remained in the office, he had some important paperwork to fill out whilst I lay down on one of his comfy sofas staring up at the ceiling, a few sniffles from my moment of tears escaping my lips every now and then. Normally, when I’m feeling some intense emotions which would lead me to tears, I would lock myself away in my bedroom, so no one would be able to see me, not even Hadwin. Even though he would look at me afterwards and see immediately, that I had been crying but knew better than to question. Since my mother passed, my father became an emotionless creature, so whenever Hadwin and I would show some valuable emotions, he would demand that we toughen up and would put a stop to the emotions. But as I sat in this office, being on my own was th
~Four months later~ I always love driving through beautiful countrysides, the way the landscapes whizz past you showcasing a glimpse of the beauty they hold, it can be so magical. My hands placed in my lap, the beautiful diamond ring my mate had gifted to me two months ago sat proudly on my finger. I had never given marriage much thought growing up, when living with my father, it was more about survival, making sure we were always two steps ahead of another outburst. So, marriage and mates weren’t frequent visitors of my thoughts, I couldn’t sit in dreamland. But that was all before I met Archer. It took some time for me to warm up to him, but the moment I told him how much I loved him, the schoolgirls bubbly feelings of marriage and what it would look like was all I could think about, well aside from the war of course. So, when he got down on one knee surrounded by all our friends and family, my heart could have burst from joy. As you can probably guess, I said yes. But sitti
The sounds of the battle still roared behind me as I rush towards the edges hoping to get a glimpse of Aidan, I knew he had to be around here somewhere to control his creatures, but I couldn’t see him. Catching my breath, I begin to look around the landscape, as the sun slowly began to rise above a hill, I see him, stood at the very top watching the battle happen below. With a smirk, I decide to take the denser part of the woods in hopes of blending in and catching him in surprise. As I climbed the steep hill, using the fallen trees and debris to help me climb up, I begin to ask myself why he did this, he was my father's best friend and allowed him to die without a second thought. He could have called the flesh eaters off that day and none of us would have known, but he didn’t, he allowed my father to die because of his selfish desire. The higher I climbed, the angrier my anger began to boil and the image of finally, making this man pay for all he had done forced me to climb even
The sounds of nature around us were all we could hear, each of us knelling down and waiting in our last moments of peace before the blood hungry battle begun. If I’d allowed myself to go into my head, I would begin to panic from the fear of losing so many, but as like I had learnt, when walking into battle, nothing else had space in your mind apart from the battle in front of you. I crouched down behind a broken tree staring at the clearing before us, Archer beside me with his bright sword in his hand and our men scattering the land waiting for my signal. Each agonising moment which ticked by, the more I repeated to myself that I was born to do this, it was set in the stars from my first breath that in this battle, I would reign victorious. It was time to fully round up the book I was written into, the final chapters were before us. “If you’re here mum and dad, I could use some help.” I whispered looking up at the changing sky above us, this is what mother had meant in her card, s
It’s been a few days since I spoke with Alexander down in the cell, he and Archer spent hours talking in his office about everything, I excused myself to speak with the King and the guys to give them privacy. The King had explained all we learnt from Alexander regarding Alpha Aidan, so imagine how tense the air felt in that office when I entered. Emmett was of course angry, we had been led down the river by Aidan, someone posing as a friend who wanted to offer his assistance, was really the man who was posing us the danger! Whilst I could see Hadwin felt the same as I did, we had grown up with this man thinking he was one of the purest around. He took us in when our father was too much to bear, we even addressed him as Uncle Aidan on so many occasions. But now to know he was the opposite of all we thought he could be and if we boiled it down, was one of the main factors which led to our mother's death, it was a hard pill to swallow. After having a chat surrounding Aidan, we began
The silence of the area took hold of each person that stood to witness it, not one of us knowing what was about to happen next with the notorious angry Alpha which stood right beside me with his arm around my waist. This was something I know Archer had always wanted to happen, to have his father finally, take the blame for what had happened and make everyone see that he’d been telling the truth from the start. But due to everything, it was something he thought would never happen. But now to have his father fully clear his name, I don’t know if he understood what to do next. After a long pause of tense silence, Archer takes a step forward standing in his Alpha stance looking over as our pack members who looked back at little worried and some even sympathetic, now they knew what I’d been trying to tell them since I arrived here was true, they felt bad. “Pack members, I also want to thank you at how swift you all listened to your Luna’s order and gathered here without a second tho
After explaining to the two men with me what my plan was, both seemed more than doubtful that it was going to work but when I looked into Alexander’s eyes as the guards returned and I’d given them my new instruction, I could see the hope but also such gratitude as he looked back at me. “Why are you helping me, it would be much easier for you to walk out of here and pretend we never spoke?” He asked as the guards stood him up and wrapped the suitable chains around his arms and legs. “As I said, this is not only going to help you but will also help Archer and with all he’s done for me, it’s only right I repay the favour.” I say with a smile placing my hands behind my back before a chuckle escape my lips. “And my father used to always say, taking the easy way out may seem simple but it only brings you more trouble down the line.” I joked thinking back to all the times my father had me take the difficult path on jobs he’d send me, at the time I thought he was doing it to pick on me bu
Alexander looked down at the table with a look of sorrow as the King, knowing I wasn’t planning on going anywhere until I heard what Alexander had to say, took his seat beside me and got comfortable to hear what else we needed to know. “I know many will refuse to believe me when I say, I truly did not have any other choice but to kill my family. That is such an outlandish claim, but it is the truth.” Alexander said looking up at me with tears in his eyes, where the vulnerability of this former heartless Alpha broke my heart in a such profound way. “As like you did when we spoke about the flesh eaters and how you helped my mother, start from the beginning.” I say hoping to guide him through telling us the truth, I know this is something he’d been forced to keep to himself for so many years, so actually saying the words is probably so incredibly hard for him. “It all started with your mother's death, as like most of all the awful things that have transpired. I know you may find me
As his words marinated in my mind, the more hurt and confused I became, how could Aidan do such a thing? When Hadwin and I were growing up after our mother died, he was our only source of happiness and peace, he was the brightest beacon of light when our lives were anything but happy. He truly was like a father figure to us, which why even thinking that he could have told those creatures to do that to my own father, it hurt deeply. “H-how do you know that for sure?” I ask after a moment silence to better my thoughts, I know he had already explained why he thought it was Aidan, but he had to be certain. “It can’t be anybody but Aidan, each time one of those flesh eaters attacked, it suspiciously benefited Aidan in some way. The first attack for instance, Aidan’s pack and another called The Full Moon Pack were having a dispute of some sort, Aidan was claiming the Alpha at the time had stolen some of his land, but the Alpha was insistent that no such incident had occurred.” Alexander
When that sentence left Alexander’s lips, I sat silently for a moment not really having an understanding of what he meant. I had always been under the impression that these flesh eaters were like any other wild animal, just a whole lot eviler. Once I turned my head to look at the King who still sat beside me, I spotted the confusion on his face too. “You are under the impression that there is a person who controls the flesh eaters?” The King asked seeming to have the same questions as me, where Alexander only nods his head. “I have been dealing with these creatures for many years and have had the most trained investigators looking into this and never once did we suspect these creatures were being controlled.” The King said explaining what he believed to be true, where Alexander shakes his head with a sigh. “That is the assumption that Beatrice and I made when we first looked into this, I mean who in their right mind would want to control such evil creatures and do such heinous act