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Rite of Power   1: Selene
I groaned inwardly as my head throbbed. It was so unfair that werewolves metabolized alcohol so fast that we had to drink way more than a human to get drunk, but we that also meant the dehydration caused a mean hangover. If I didnât feel like I was playing the worst game of catch up with the rest of my kind, I wouldâve canceled this morningâs training session. I just knew I was about to spend the next 3 hours getting my ass handed to me. I snuggled into the chest of the man lying in the bed beside me and breathed in the delicious smoky sandalwood and dark earthy spice of his scent. It made it all that much harder to force myself to get out of bed. If I left it up to him, I wouldnât be training at all. Sighing, I renewed my resolve to slip out of his embrace and face the world head on. His arms tightened around me, âJust tell him that youâre skipping today.â It took more effort than I would ever admit to wiggle out of his grasp. When
Last Updated : 2022-11-12Rite of Power   2: Balance
âYou look like youâre ready to start war negotiations with an enemy pack instead of meeting with a long lost relative,â Dmitri teased, taking in the ink black power suit with silver pin striping, Iâd put on. Iâd wanted to look strong and confident, not hostile. âYou think I should go softer?â I frowned, âOr lighter?â I was still struggling to find just the right way to dress for my new rank. Alphas usually wore black; their Lunas wore white, two halves of a whole, balancing each other out. I was an Alphaâs mate, but I was also an Alpha in my own right, at least thatâs what we told the world. The truth was I was so much more than that. I wasnât just your average lycan. I wasnât even like the other rare female alphas. Half of me wasnât even mortal. It was a secret that only the two of us knew. âYou know Iâm biased,â he stepped behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist and kissing my shoulder, âI think youâre most beau
Last Updated : 2022-11-12Rite of Power   3: Ulf
I screwed my face up into the sweetest smile I could muster as the unfamiliar black SUV pulled up to the front steps of the main house. A mountain of a man stepped out of the car, standing six and half feet tall, at least. His slightly shaggy, dirty blonde hair was combed back away from his face. A close trimmed beard, made his Viking-like features more prominent. A predatory smile curled up his lips as his stormy blue eyes landed on me. âUncle Ulf,â I chirped cheerfully, stepping forward to greet him. Dmitri moved with me as if we really were joined at the hip. âI do hope the car ride wasnât too long or unpleasant. You really should let us put you up in the guest house if you plan to stay long.â The packâs hotel of a guest house had been booked full. But most of the guests from last nightâs party were eager to get back to their own packs with The Vá˝ lsung making an appearance so close to their homes. âThink nothing of it my dear;â he smiled at me, igno
Last Updated : 2022-11-12Rite of Power   4: Blowing off Steam
Iâd shrugged out of the suit jacket on my way down the stairs, throwing it at Dmitri as he followed me, still chuckling. For the first time ever, I found my way down to the sparring room before Nathan. He wasnât long behind us though, with Sophie on his heels carrying in some of my work out clothes and a pair of running shoes. âIâm not changing clothes,â I barked, making her flinch. I had so much rage ripping through me I didnât even feel a hint of guilt for my Betaâs reaction. âSometime today Nathan,â I growled at him impatiently. Dmitri wrapped an arm around his sister, pulling her towards the far corner and out of the way while still laughing. Tossing his own suit jacket at the siblings, Nathan stalked towards me, a snarky grin on his face. He came at me, swinging for my face. I ducked; grabbing his wrist as it flew past me and his arm too, spinning him around towards the wall. He caught himself as I let go; only stumbling slightly
Last Updated : 2022-11-15Rite of Power   5: Hall of Alphas & Betas
It felt weird, helping to move Nathanâs things into Dmitriâs old apartment suite, across the hall from Sophiaâs. Weâd remodeled and moved into the suite of rooms that were once occupied by the twinsâ parents, and now this suite was sitting empty and unused. It made sense to have all four of us close together, but it still felt weird. Sophie was urging Nathan to remodel the rooms, but heâd just grumbled about how it was fine the way it was. He did not object to my insistence that he at least refurnish the rooms, and let us get rid of all of Dmitriâs old furniture. Almost every first for us had happened in those rooms, with that furniture. Even though weâd agreed to start fresh when we moved, as not all of his first memories were of me, I couldnât completely let go of it all. Most of the enforcers were helping us all to move furniture in and out of rooms, including my 6 newly trained female warriors. Sophie, with her OCD level organization skills, was wo
Last Updated : 2022-11-17Rite of Power   6: Submission
Weâd barely stepped past the threshold of our door before his hands moved to liberate my body from their confines. His teeth nipping at his mark on my neck coaxed soft moans from my throat as his hands moved. âMine,â his deep voice growled both a question and a claim as he palmed my newly bared breasts. I gave him a quick nod. Stepping out of the pants heâd opened and pushed just past my hips and shrugging out of his embrace, I knelt on the floor before him, sitting back on my heels with my hands palm up on my thighs. I submitted control completely to him, just as heâd asked for. I looked up at him. His devilish smile sent warm wave of desire through me. I was already wet and his smile told me he knew it. We watched each other as he moved around me and sat on the plush bench at the foot of our bed. He crooked a finger at me and leaned back slightly. I obeyed the silent command, slinking forward on my hands and knees. My arms folded be
Last Updated : 2022-11-19Rite of Power   7: Divine Dreams
âWhere the fuck have you been?â I growled angrily at my other half, not caring that Dmitri could hear the exchange, but also feeling a sense of relief. âDormiam liberos meos et somnia mecum,â her melodic voice enchanted us, relaxing our minds and bodies until our eyes closed and we were whisked away from the physical world. I opened my eyes to find the four of us, the Goddess, Dmitri, his wolf and myself, standing the in the middle of our meadow at the center of the woods, where our pack met to shift at each full moon. Even though we were on the waxing side of the new moon, the bright white orb hung in the inky sea of stars above us in her full glory. Dmitriâs wolf gave a deep bow to my twin, her hair silver and straight instead of red curls like mine, but still the same face and body. Naturally, none of us were wearing any clothes. She gave him a nod, and he moved to slide up against my side, positioning me between Dmitri and his wolf
Last Updated : 2022-11-22Rite of Power   8: Together
I didnât get much sleep, crawling out of bed before the sun even peeked over the horizon. Dmitri on the other hand had had no problem falling back asleep, but was still a pain in the ass to get out of bed. He tried to convince me to stay in bed just a little longer, but I needed to do something, anything except sit still while my thoughts swallowed me. The key was getting out of the bed and putting clothes on to deter his dirty mind. Nathan was nowhere to be seen as we arrived in the sparring room, but I usually wasnât up quite this early. âAre you sure that you want to still train this morning?â Nathanâs voice hit our minds, making us stop dead in our tracks. We had started to run my usual warm up drills while waiting on him to join us. âWow, new luxury bed and spacious rooms and heâs suddenly late for everything,â I teased, making Dmitri grin. âWeâre already warmed up, whatâs taking you so long?â I could tell he was annoyed by my ban
Last Updated : 2022-11-24
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If you've made it all the way to end of this chapter in Selene's journey, then I hope that you've enjoyed the ride thus far. The next and final chapter of her life "Rite of War" should start posting around December of 2023. If you feel like being encouraging, and you have a minute or two to spare, please add a book review/comment. I don't know if it helps boost the story, but I do know that they boost my mood
Rite of Power   120: The Alpha of Alphas
I didn’t know how long I stood there, just staring at the lump in my hand as the thumping slowed to a stop. But I could still feel its pulse in my fingertips. Not fingers exactly, something more akin to monster hands. I found myself wondering if they’d be as pristinely white as the short velvety fur coving my arm if they weren’t coated in blood. “Selene…” Someone said my name, but they sounded too far away for me to recognize the voice. The dead lump rolled off my fingertips, falling to the ground with a wet thud. I didn’t feel anything now that it wasn’t pulping in my hand. I was numb and hollowed out, just like the lifeless husk at my feet.&nb
Rite of Power   119: A Final Breath
The sky was completely free of even the barest wisp of a cloud. It was as if the gods were watching, and had declared that nothing obstruct their view of the fight theyâd been promised. There werenât even any birds singing in the forest around our little meadow in the middle of the woods. Someone was going to die here today. Sophie had done well. A ten foot circle was clearly marked in the center of the grass with a larger circle marked around it another ten feet out. Beyond that, two white tents stood up on opposite sides of each other. I was supposed to do all of this, but the goddess wouldnât settle for anything less than a full twenty-four hours. I had to kill someone today. I knew that I was physically capable of doing it. I was just a little iffy on if I had the conviction to kill her in such a gruesome way. It wouldâve been much easier to just order her to stop breathing. But blood had to be spilt. Iâd be rem
Rite of Power   118: Death March
I felt a little guilty for leaving Blake to deal with Selene’s possession all night. Now I owed him, Kelly and Sophie big. I just couldn’t risk that she’d find a way to seduce me if we were alone together. She curled up beside Blake on the sofa, under a throw blanket with her head on his lap. At least he’d managed to get her to sleep before she was set to fight to death in a couple hours. Blake looked exhausted himself, like he hadn’t slept a wink and brought his finger to his lips in a shushing motion when he saw me. ‘How much trouble did she give you?’ His shrug
Rite of Power   117: A Long Day
It wasn’t too hard to babysit a goddess once I started approaching the situation like I was taking care of my own little sister when she much younger. Aside from having a filthy vocabulary and an overwhelming sense of entitlement, it was just like taking care of a ten year old girl. She played in the water like she was a nymph, basked in the sun until it got too warm, preferred sweets and junk food over veggies, playing dress up with the plethora of clothes in the closet, and sitting on the floor in front of me while I brushed and braided her long, unruly curly locks for her. “She chose well with you,” she sighed contentedly as she watched me clean up our dinner dishes.
Rite of Power   116: Tick-Tick-Tick
“I don’t understand, what is going on?” Alex stared at me as I watched Dmitri storm down the hall. I wrapped an arm around her and pulled her out of the hall, “I don’t know yet either, but I’ll let you know what I can when I find out. Ok love?” She frowned at me, “Meaning you have to leave early this morning.” “You know I don’t want too,” I brushed the hair out of her face, “and in just one more day, almost all of this craziness will be done and over. Then I can ask Dimi and Selene to let us have a few days out at the cabin.&rdq
Rite of Power   115: Babystitting
Nathan ran back to spend his day with Candice, some kind of last day with her mate bullshit. Dmitri had shifted back into his wolf to carry the goddess in Selene’s body out to their hideaway cabin, since she was deadlocked in human form. I was tasked with grabbing a motorbike for Dmitri to ride back on, since I’d be staying out there with Selene. ‘There’s been a change of plans,’ I linked to Kelly as soon as I was close enough. ‘Did you guys find Selene?’ ‘Yes, but she’s not herself today, so we’re spending the day out at the cabin,’ I expl
Rite of Power   114: Dark Deals
It wasn’t hard to see that everyone had picked up on Selene’s complete lack of interest in everything around her. But just like everyone else, I said nothing. After the report Nathan gave me of the test run he’d put together for her, she seemed broken in a way that none of us knew how to heal. I couldn’t help but feel that things were only going to get worse. If ‘killing’ a statue had this effect on her, what was going to happen when she actually took a life? I cursed myself for letting her set the terms to all or nothing. Someone had to die, and I was starting to worry that she’d let it be her instead of having to take a life herself. Traditions and laws be d
Rite of Power   113: Erie Calm
There was definitely something off about Selene tonight, but no one seemed to want to voice anything about it. I was willing to bet that the only person that would’ve spoken up, was Blake, but she’d ordered him to stay with his mate for the rest of the day and even arranged to have their diner brought up to them so that Kelly wouldn’t have to tax herself any further by dealing with more people. She kept staring off into space throughout the meal. Clearly her mind was somewhere else. But she still managed to fake a smile, and nod at the appropriate times as the conversations prompted. She didn’t even lean into Dmitri’s touch, which struck me as more odd than her lack of banter.&
