DELLA"Well, what do you think?" Faye asked as she stepped away from in front of the mirror.She was finally done with the dress and it was a beautiful mess of crimson red and white tulle and tiny pearls that made me look fantastic. Every time I moved, the dress showed a bit of my skin.Faye bit her nails and I was about to tell her how amazing the dress was when the door burst open and Lilith came in."He's here and it's time for the ceremony to begin," she told us."This is really happening," I told Faye."It is!" she squealed."Remember you will accept his vows after he anoints you with the blood of the sacrifice of the animal he has brought back," Lilith said as she handed me a basket covered with a red cloth.Swallowing hard, I take the basket from her. "I'm scared of doing the wrong thing or saying the wrong thing. What if he turns me away?"Lilith shakes her head and smiles. "You're thinking too much. Just do whatever feels right
DELLAI was standing on the deck and smiling as I studied the delicate, thin gold band around my finger.Hunt and I had exchanged rings right after we came back from the woods. Of course, I had no ring to give him, so Lilith gifted me her husband's ring, which she assured me was just collecting dust in her cabin.I still couldn't believe it. Hunt and I married. I felt closer to him now more than ever. He was so loving to me that I almost couldn't believe my fate. How was I so lucky? Everybody had turned me away in the past, but here I was married to my mate."You must be feeling on top of the world."I turned around to see Sierra walking towards me, with her arms folded across her chest."I do," I said.She smirked. "You know it won't last right?""That's your wishful thinking, but I'm sorry to disappoint you, Sierra, Hunt and are going to be together for a very long time, if not forever.""Right," Sierra said. "Or maybe you'll just end up be
HUNTI traced the smooth curves of her naked back as I lie next to Della on the bearskin. She was so beautiful. And I so unworthy of her. I loved how strong she was even though she was so fragile inside.Everything was done so fast, that I had no time to think, but when it came to her, I already knew I would risk my life for her. There was nothing anyone could do now to separate Della from me. I'd have to have a talk with Sierra and her bullying tactics against Della. I wouldn't stand for it. She needed to respect her and not only because Della was the Luna of the pack, but also because she was my wife and I wouldn't allow anyone to make her feel like she was undeserving of being by my side.Kissing the nape of her neck, I slowly woke up and covered her with the grey comforter, before going over to the fireplace and adding more logs of wood to the hearth.It was still early and I was planning on going up with Kyler, one of my best hunters up into the mountains t
HUNT"I hate hunting like this," Kyler said as we loaded the hunting rifles into the back of the jeep before we headed back into town for a drink at the local pub called Dixies.It was getting dark fast, the sky was a hazy blue with the thunder rumbling in the sky. A storm was coming. We'd just have one or two drinks before heading back up into the mountains."Me too," I agreed. "But for now, we'll just have to endure it."Rubbing my hands together we stepped inside the toasty pub filled with people. Alcohol was flowing to no end. It instantly transported me back to the past when I used to party a lot and sneak into town to go to the cinema and pub after. It was one of my fondest memories with Hailey. But I needed to forget those memories. I promised Della that I loved her and only her and that I would be better for her. I knew what I was doing when I married her.I'd been through a lot in my past. Della was my chance to turn a new chapter in my book and sta
DELLA"I'm so sorry for causing trouble," Aurelia was saying as we prepared a lunch of fresh bread and cold cuts of meat from the Deer that Lilith had salted and kept cold in her makeshift snow freezer because she said the snow kept it fresher and tastier.Lilith, Faye and Aurelia and I were having lunch on the deck. I hadn't seen or spoken to Hunt this morning. And it wasn't him keeping the distance. I preferred to keep him at arm's length. What troubled me the most, however, was, how was I going to talk to him again or at least find it in me when he had told me I wasn't like them? He told me the same thing my old pack had told me, when a few days ago, he was promising me the world, saying that the way I was didn't bother him.But it did bother him and the fact that he lied made me feel like this whole situation was a complete joke to him, to me and to everything we vowed to the night we married. I gave him all of me. I gave him my virtue. And all it took was one s
DELLAIt was the early parts of the morning when I felt the weight on Hunt's side of the shift as he climbed into the bed beside me.My brain told me to get out of there, to leave the room and just run away for good, but my heart made me turn around and face Hunt. I reached out and wrapped my arms around his neck as he pulled me in closer."I'm sorry," I whispered. "I didn't want to push you away but you hurt my feelings.""I'm sorry," he whispered back. "I was just scared about losing you and wanted to point out all the dangers. I didn't want to hurt you. I didn't mean to hurt you."He leaned in and kissed my lips lightly before kissing the tip of my nose. I buried my face into his chest and inhaled deeply."I'm scared," I whispered. "Would there be no other way to save the baby?""I'll be right by your side, so don't be scared," I told her. "And I don't know about safer ways to this.""I'll talk to Lilith about it in the morning," I told him.
DELLA"You are going to give us what we want or we'll take it away from you!"I was running through the woods in my nightmare. Something terrible was running behind me. I could sense the way it wanted to harm me. The dark whispers followed as I ran. Suddenly there seemed to be too many trees and I couldn't breathe as I pushed through the thick firs. There was no way out. I could feel its breath right behind me. An earsplitting scream broke out from somewhere in the dark and my throat constricted with panic."Della!" Hunt shouted and I jerked awake at the sound of his voice. He was beside me, gripping my arms and I couldn't help the hot tears that rushed down my cheeks."They...they were going to kill me," I pushed him back as I sat up, my hands trembled uncontrollably."I saw your dream. I don't know what it means, but I won't let any harm come to you," he said in a husky voice. But even though he tried to hide it, I could sense the fear in him too."The
HUNT"I can't pick up a scent," Scott said the second he got back to my cabin.I can't understand how it happened, but I'd only been gone a few minutes to get Lilith and when I got back, the bathroom door was busted in and a pool of blood was where Della should have been. I shouldn't have left her. I keep telling myself that. I could have been here if anything happened. But there was no use mulling over my mistakes. I had to find Della and that was all that was important to me right now.The blood tracks bad stopped about a mile away from the camps and that was just before a heavy snowstorm hit us. I had a bad feeling that this was just a coincidence and that it was somehow connected to her dreams.I'd paced around the room again, running my hands through my hair several times as I tried to figure out what the hell I was going to do.I didn't even know if she was okay. She was heavily bleeding when I last saw her. Panic filled me as I imagined her cold and lifeles
HuntI watched as Della sat close with Faye and a few other female shifters. The night air was cool and we'd all gathered around the bonfire for a grand meal before the full moon.She looked so young and carefree and when she caught me watching her, her cheeks grew a rosy red and she glowed even more. Nothing could ever change the way I felt about her. She was my everything now. I loved everything about her. She was caring, brilliant and was always getting along with the other shifters, even if some of them didn't completely accept her. They didn't know about her half-witch origins, and even if they did, I'd rather murder them first before they could lay a finger on her. She's made mistakes. I've made mistakes. I wasn't going to have a repeat the past. I was in more control of my pack than I was back then."You love her a lot, don't you?"I turned to see Lilith coming to sit next to me on the tree log.Folding my hands together, I nodded and glanced into the dancing flames. "I'm glad
Dear Readers, I wanted to notify you that my pen name has been changed to Briar Rose.I also wanted to apologise to each and every one of you for the lack of updates on my end. I should have apologised to you earlier but I didn't and should have at least left an explanation, but now I am back and I am so sorry for the delay. I will be writing more often and can expect to finish this book soon and hopefully move on to better projects.I would be so honoured to interact with all of you on there! 🖤✨Love,Briar Rose
DELLAI was in the cabin that Hunt and I were sharing when the door burst open and Hunt came in. Nostrils flared, eyes dark and his brows knitted together. He looked furious, especially as he slammed the door shut and turned around to face me. And then another look took over his expression completely. One that I recognized well. Lust. Need. Want.My body immediately picked up on his sexual desire, because the next thing I knew, Hunt grabbed me by my ass and had me on the bed, his fingers didn't spare any of my clothes as he ripped my dress off my body. For a second, his glazed eyes roamed over my nakedness and my pulse grew.He growled as I reached for his jeans and unzipped them, allowing his hard cock to spring free. I needed him inside of me right now. I didn't even care about getting undressed all the way. I wanted him to destroy me. My pussy was already soaking, just to have him pounding inside of me. The primal need to become one."Hunt," I whispered and it's all I needed to say.
HUNTThe cabin hadn't changed much in all these years. It once belonged to my father and that was before Michael had been chosen to take over as King Alpha. It was more of a royal-up-your-ass kind of title more than anything. I hadn't seen this place in more than five years. Not that I wanted to see it now either. It just brought back horrible memories of my father and the days he treated me like I was an outsider instead of his own son. It's one of the reasons I wouldn't want to have a son. I couldn't imagine subjecting him to a life he didn't want and I couldn't imagine myself turning into my father. I already adopted so many of his ruthless ways, I don't think having a son would be good for me. I'd just mess him up the way my father ruined me and my life."You came!"I turned around to see Michael standing in the doorway of the office that once belonged to my father."Yeah," I muttered. "I guess we did. What exactly were we summoned for, Micahel?"He stepped inside, hands behind his
HUNT"What does Michael want?" Ky asked, standing behind me as I read over the letter summoning my entire pack to join the royal pain in the ass for a week. Specifically, because Michael Whitlock, my cousin, thinks some pack Alpha's are out of line. And to be even clearer on the matter, he thinks I'm using my Alpha status to belittle others.This is why I haven't spoken with that dumb—I scrunch the letter in my fist and fling it across the room, not really caring where it landed.Every pack living in and around Devil's Peak was entitled to an Alpha, but we also had a social circle of elite fucking werewolves that pretended to be our very own version of the British Royal family. Introducing my cousin, Michael, who was no older than I was when my father and his brother decided to make him overall crown Alpha of the surrounding packs.It was the fact that my authority had been questioned that pissed me off so fucking much. "To be a thorn in my side for th
DELLAI sat curled up on the couch in front of the blazing flames in the hearth, sneaking glances at Hunt as he spoke with Ky in the kitchen. After spending all afternoon with Faye and discussing her magical gifts, I returned to Hunt's cabin to find he had returned. But he'd been talking to Ky for more than an hour as I nervously chewed a fingernail and then I plaited my hair, and undid it, before eventually just leaving it as a messy bun on the top of my head.I was more than determined to make the most out of my first evening with Hunt. The only time I remembered spending with him these last few days was when I was in Lilith's cabin riddled with fever, the knots in my stomach twisted with an unnatural pain. But in all of that darkness, I remembered Hunt. His beautifully sculpted face, the way his thick eyebrows drew together with fear and the tears in his glowing green eyes. His lips moved then too even though I could barely hear the words. But I made out his words. D
DELLAI sat on a large boulder, staring out at the hot spring Hunt I first swam in when I first joined the pack. It was before everything became so complicated. I wanted to fill the hollow space in me, but I didn't know how to. I tried not to feel upset about the child, but how could I not? It was something that Hunt and I had made together. I felt like if I had the child it would bring us even closer.Well, we were closer now because of our bond. Hunt shared his blood with me and lots of it. He gave me a part of himself to save me and I would forever be in debt to him.I couldn't stop thinking about him. He left early with Kyler and Aurelia probably to track Damien down.I haven't seen him since I came out of that drowsy haze during the early parts of this morning. All I wanted to do was head back to his back and lie in his bed with him and have his arms wrapped around my body, offering the warmth and connection I desperately sought. I thought the connection be
DELLA"Della, are you with me?"I cracked my eyes open slightly to see a blurry version of Lilith hovering above me."The baby?" I asked because the only thing I could remember right now was that I was drenched in blood."Don't worry about that," she forces her lips into an assuring smile.As Lilith moved away, Hunt came above me, his chiselled, flushed face was twisted with worry and desperation. A sheen of sweat dotted his forehead."One more hour to go until the transfusion is over," Lilith said in the distance."What?" I tried to lift myself, but Hunt pushed me gently back down on the soft couch I was laying on. "What transfusion?"Hunt lifted his t-shirt and I saw two thin plastic tubes stuck into his chest with dark red blood travelling through them."We're being bonded," he said, steadying his gaze on me.I moved my hand to my chest and felt the same cord connected to my chest."What does that mean?" I managed to ask him, but before he cou
DELLAI woke up by instinct the second I had heard the loud crash. My head was heavy and pounding with an oncoming headache.Climbing out of the bed, I padded across the room barefoot and opened the door slightly. I could hear two people arguing downstairs in hushed voices. I closed my eyes and tried to focus on what they were saying."She should be in deep sleep now. I gave her the tonic that you gave me." That was Sam speaking."We need to get her tied up and then start the sacrifice. She bought into our lies," Damien said.My heart started pounding in my chest. They were talking about me. What the hell was going on?Whatever it was I didn't want to stick around and find out. Hunt was right all along. But how the hell was I supposed to do anything when I was being given the cold shoulder? He didn't want to have anything to do with me when I left.Breathing in deeply, I slipped out of my room and closed the door behind me once again. I moved in the shadows,