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
The loud thumping sounds of the door being smashed through jolt me from my sleep, my heart pounding in my chest as my wolf prepared herself to defend us against whatever attacker was about to pounce, I look around the room in a panic. As I went to sit up to get a better look at what we were facing, arms tighten around me keeping me in my sleeping position down on the bed. Due to my eyes being open before my brain had time to fully wake up, I was a little lost on where I was and who it was I was sleeping beside. Turning to face the mystery person a little worried, I spot Archer, sleeping peacefully beside me as though we weren’t about to go to war with whoever was on the other side of the door! “Mr Alpha!” I whispered pushing at his shoulder slightly, I didn’t want to speak too loudly in case the monster on the other side of the door heard me and knew the battle was to begin. But no matter how many times I pushed at his shoulder; Archer didn’t seem to be waking up from his slumbe
Once I was ready in my workout gear, I wave goodbye to Emmett and Archer, who still was half dressed with Emmett hounding at him to get ready before I left the room. I did worry that I would get lost in this new private lobby that Archer had shown me last night, but it was even more simple than the previous layout that I was used to and ended up walking out of the pack house doors in record time. The sky was slowly inching closer to the light as I walked through the path and towards the training grounds, but I had to admit it, I loved being alone with nature. It felt as though I was truly the only person around which allowed me my first moments of peace in so long. Yesterday, had been a lot for me to handle emotionally and mentally, I still couldn’t quite believe that Archer allowed me to have a moment with Hadwin. I knew it was exactly what I needed and fully allowed me to pull some of the bricks from the walls I have around me, perhaps it wouldn’t be a bad thing if I allow Arche
As like he had said, Archer took me back to the pack house, ran me a warm bath, helped me get changed and was now off to find some medical supplies to dress the mini wound on my head. This meant I was sat on the edge of our bed alone, allowing my troubling thoughts to only spiral that much more. I still couldn’t quite understand why Darren would be there and how he would even know that bunker existed, it’s something I know not only my mother but apparently, Archer’s father took every precaution to ensure it was never discovered. I wish I could have stayed down there a little longer and saw for myself what Darren had been working on, but I knew how Darren even having access to that place was abnormal in itself and I needed to try and speak to him. The sheer panic which was on his face when he saw me also wasn’t sitting right, he and I had been somewhat friends for many years, I had met him the many summers I would stay at Alpha Aidan’s pack. He was truly one of my best friends back
It was as though we were both frozen in place as we stare back at each other, the water around us flowing by our feet and the shouts of Archer’s orders to return in my mind seemed to fade away as he and I continued with our eye contact. I was much too overcome with shock at who I was seeing and for him, he was shocked that someone else had learned the location of this secret bunker and joined him down here. “FERN!” Archer’s loud shout now not in my mind rumbles from the entrance of the bunker and traveled down the halls, the water seeming to rush as the power of his voice rippled through the tide. This seems to snap Darren from his trance where he steps forward in a panic and throws me out of the way, my body and head smacking into the walls of the tunnel and landing with a scream and a splash on the bottom. Instantly, I’m covered in the most freezing waters I have felt which sent a shock wave through my body, my scream only alerting those at the surface that much more. Now I wa
None of us moved or even spoke a single word as we looked down at the little hole in front of us, the more I would look, the more lost I became due to how pitch black the hole was. With a closer look, I spot there were a set of metal stairs dug into the wall of the bunker allowing one person at a time to walk down there. “By the looks of it, it seems as though it’s a rather tight fit.” Emmett said who was still standing over the deep hole looking down, but his comment does snap me out of my thoughts and allowed me to walk forward to see for myself. “It’s clear none of you will be able to fit down there but I think I will.” I say looking into the deep hole where I couldn’t even see the bottom, who knows what could be down there, it’s been deserted for maybe twenty years, what if other things have claimed it as theirs? “I am not allowing you to travel down there alone, we do not know what could be waiting for you at the bottom.” Archer tells me taking my hand as though I was going
With the map tightly in my hand, I lead all the guys over to where I predicted this bunker to be hidden. Archer walked beside me with his hand tightly clutching onto mine, Emmett stood beside him with a shovel in case we would need to dig it out and my family stood beside me. We all saw the confused or surprised stares from the many pack members we would pass, it was common knowledge especially, after I came here that these two packs and Alpha’s hated each other. So now to see us all walking in a line and Emmett even holding a shovel, I knew most were coming up with some outlandish theories as to what they believed was happening. The closer that we came to the bunker, the more my brain began to try and work out what could he down there. My mother gave me hardly any information, only that this folder would give me all the answers that I needed, but as I held the contents of the folder in my arms, I was more than confused at what I found. The sound of the rushing water from the ri
“What is?” Emmett asked who still stood beside the shelve looking through his own box, while I got to my feet and hurriedly, made my way over to him. “I remember seeing that symbol when I was sorting through everything, I had seen it on the front of some old folder deep in a mountain of paperwork. I thought it looked cool but still had a ton more paperwork to sort, so I didn’t pay much attention to it.” I explain before coming to a stop right beside Emmett to stare at the box in question, as like the time I had climbed to reach the final box when I sorted through it all, the box was right at the very top. I once again began to mentally ask myself how I was going to get the box down, now I’ve had experience with this shelve, the idea of climbing each section as though it was a set of stairs seemed like the best option. Archer seeming to know exactly what I was thinking, gets up from his chair behind his desk and swiftly, makes his way over to me. “With what happened the last time
When that sentence left my lips, each man held a mixture of shock and confusion in their expressions, before they subsequently, looked at each other asking if they all thought the same thing, I was going crazy! Ripping the blanket from my legs, I begin to play the dream out and all my mother said to me around my mind, so I didn’t forget a thing, whilst Archer remained in his crouched position looking over at me with worry in his eyes. “What do you mean?” He asks taking my hand in his as he spoke, whilst I knew I was sounding crazy for believing it all, I knew in my heart of hearts that I had spoken to my mother, she was saying things I don’t believe my mind in that sleep state would be able to dream up. “I was speaking to mother; I know how that sounds, and you all will either say I was dreaming, or the stress of this situation is playing with my head but I’m not. I woke up laying here and none of you were with me, but mother was, I was panicked but she soon calmed me down and tol
The sound of such intense ringing in my ears jolts me from my sleep, jumping up a little from the mini sofa which Archer keeps in his office, I come to find that I was the only person in the room. Not my family, Emmett or even Archer remained in the room with me, this not only worrying me but also angering me slightly, how dare they leave me in the room whilst they’re off gallivanting somewhere! Before I had time to boil in my anger and turn around to go and find said disrespectful men and tell them a thing or two about manners, I feel a second presence in the room with me. Such a feeling made goosebumps begin to form along my back and down my arms as though I had walked into a freezing cold freezer and my body was reacting in a way to preserve heat. But this time as I did a second scan of the room in hopes of finding the source of this off feeling, I soon find something that not only confirmed why I was feeling the way that I did but shook me deep to my core. My mother, the one
The hours seemed to tick by ever so slowly, due to the past relationship the two packs held, it was vital that we go over each and every section of the treaty to ensure each understand the terms to prevent any confusion or anger in the years to come. I had used my powers today more than I had ever before, back at the training grounds with Archer and now when I needed to teach that disrespectful asshole a lesson. I had yet to fully grasp my powers and understand how to control them, this meant each time I used them, I was taking more and more of my energy and throwing into the sea! Now I was left sitting back in my chair forcing my eyes not to drop close as Emmett’s voice continued to read the terms out loud whilst we all followed along. “The reasoning for such a treaty was due to many factors, Alpha Cameron’s Daughter Luna Fern, now mated to Alpha Archer. But also, the growing threat from the King, this section of the treaty will not be public knowledge for obvious reasons.” Emmet
After Archer and I had concluded the special kind of discussion, he wished us to have, he was called away to go and deal with some rouge that had been found at the edge of the border. We were both a little confused for a moment, normally, the border guards deal with rouges and only give a report to the Alpha and Luna at the end of the month detailing how many had appeared in case it becomes a problem. The guards expressed how this rouge had been saying some peculiar things, so they deemed it appropriate for the Alpha to go and speak with the rouge and find out what was happening. So, whilst Archer left to deal with some odd rouge, I went along with Emmett to his office to prepare for the peace treaty meeting we’ll be having with my family, which had already been postponed for an hour. All I could seem to do was sit on Archer’s chair, staring up at the ceiling with my mind doing many laps. I had been so overcome with an ungodly amount of rage when that man was speaking, I didn’t ta