There are nothing but orange groves for a few minutes, Jayk takes a few turns before we come to a clearing. A massive house sits right in the middle. A barred gate goes all the way around the house. It reminds me of the fortress that is the alpha's pack house. The orange groves surround the gate giving it heavy cover. I see Miles pull out his phone. Seconds later, the gate is opened. We are surrounded as soon as Jayk stops the Jeep. The passenger door is pulled open and Leelie is carried out.
"What the hell?" I ask when my brother climbs out.
He glances at me but says nothing as I follow after him. I jump out of the front seat as he goes around to make sure Danica is okay. She puts her hand on his arm looking at him worriedly. Demon and Panther jump out like they know the place. Ghost doesn't, so she stay
"What's wrong with that?" he rolls his eyes dramatically. "Do you even know what's going on? Did you know that Eastend and Westend's crime waves are higher than here in the south? Did you know that the North is going through food shortages? Half the schools have been shut down and turned into prisons that house Northerners, Eastenders, and Westenders. "They're at an all-time low in population because those who were smart enough left and the stupid ones who stayed are killing one another. Killing Arthur is going to make you responsible for all of that shit," "Why do you know so much about the other regions?" he asks looking over at me. "I have an excuse. I was genetically engineered to be what I am but what's their excuse? Why are they killing one another when the
I rush through the trees trying to stay as quiet as possible. I can hear their footsteps not too far behind. I can't control my breathing enough to stay as quiet as I should. I hear a snap on the other side of the orange tree and take off running. I lost my sense of direction a few hours ago. I don't know how to get back to the house. I feel them close by and it sucks knowing I can't shake them. The fear is taking over and if I let it, I'm going to be in serious trouble."If this were real I would have killed you," Leelie growls. I scream when she jumps out from behind me. "You need to control your breathing. You're freaking out and it's draining all of your senses. Breathe in through your nose and release it through your mouth slowly,""I can't," I say taking in short uneven breaths. Jaykob and Micca run towards
JaykobThe anger flares in me. I have been on the verge of murder all day. If she wasn't my kid I would have killed her already. My stupid sister knows exactly what buttons to push. Leelie stands in front of me blocking me from going over to strangle her."In her defense...""Don't," I growl making her smile. She's always smiling. "I was worried,""Good. It builds character," she says shoving me back. "We have work to do and while I'm all for the extra hands. She's not ready. Lydia sent in the report. The alpha is staking out the house. We need to get in there tonight,""What do you suggest we do, Princess? The only one
I watch them all leave from the rooftop of the house. I decide staying here is the best thing for me. The air is nice and cold and I'm not stuck in a new place where unknown scents linger. I can feel them along the orange trees. The shadows keeping us in. Little hums of dark energy floating around my newly forming senses.My body aches. Not in a painful way. A deep tingling anxiety is starting to settle in my muscles and it's starting to become difficult to ignore. These breathing exercises are bull shit and in no way help anymore.I've felt this before. Back when Dad had died. I couldn't sleep and the lack of sleep made me feel like this. Sick. My muscles spasm with the fresh wind brushes past me. My flesh pimples with nerves when she carefully crawls up behind me. I sigh wishing she'd go away.
It's almost sunrise when the roar of their engines coming toward the house catches my attention. I take the medical supplies I prepared a couple of hours ago and head out to help out. They are all in need of getting stitched up.I know Danica knows they're here, but she doesn't bother to come out and it angers me. Once we were in the clear. I listen to them talk about those who need to be replaced. I put the headphones back on and turn the volume up to just listen to the angry roar of the music.The stale smell of fear and adrenaline lingers in the air even after everyone goes home. I can't stop rubbing my arms or moving around. The music helps keep me distracted but it doesn't completely frown out the hum.Once in a while, I can feel them staring at me. It gets a
Rocket is in a very revealing white one-piece that barely covers her intimates. Gold pumps, massive white and gold wings, her hair is curled to perfection. She's inside a glass birdcage dancing. She has this distant look in her eyes as she sways offbeat to the music playing. She seems to be in her own little bubble. This isn't good. We're going to have to break this in her. There is no way Jay is going to let her stay with us while she's like this."Really?" I turn my displeasure to Leelie. How could she let this happen?"She likes to party but she doesn't like to be touched like those," Leelie ignores my snide."How do we get to her?" Miles asks. He's just as upset as I am to find her this way."They ar
JaykobThe black i8 pulls in behind the truck as I walk out to see if my sister is hurt. I go for my gun aiming it at the car as the suicide door lifts. When she smiles at me I lower it. Dagmar shuts it coming around and tossing the keys at me as she walks inside like she hadn't just pulled in with a hundred-and-fifty thousand dollar car. "What the fuck is this?" I ask."The owner doesn't need it anymore. She let me have it," she calls back. Miles smacks my back."This is hers. She earned it," he says. Leelie takes Rocket out of the back of the truck."Remember when we said she might not be as bad as you?" Leelie asks, throwi
Leelie"Are you fucking insane?" Miles shouts, running towards us.Jaykob goes completely limp in my arms. I slowly put him down laying him on the carpet. I get up to see this little girl with her friend's throat firmly gripped in her fist. From day one, from the moment Jaykob introduced me to his little sister, I knew they had an insanely close bond. This is the reason why Warheads were hunted during the cleansing. They feared us forming ranks and here it is. Alpha and Beta.When she finally got what she wanted, it was like life smacked into her and the only thing that is ever going to matter to her is Jaykob. Even if Miles and Micca claim her and she claims them, Jayk will always be her main priority.
Jayk "How much of that did you hear?" Lydia sighs as she pushes herself off the floormat. "All of it," I answer honestly. "She's right you know. We have literally anything you can think of here at the moment," "Best pre-workouts," she holds up her water bottle. "You were just going to leave?" I ask. "Yes," she gives me the same honesty. "I would rather go feral than stay here and watch your fuckery," "I don't want that for you," her honesty always hurts, but I don't know how to talk to her anymore. Not without hurting her feelings. "Now that you're the alpha, what you want is the only thing that matters, huh?" she sits on the bench behind her. No matter what I say to her, even if I sugarcoat it for her, it doesn't change a thing. "What you feel for me is nothing compared to what a mate bond feels like," I sit across from her. "You can love someone with you
Lydia is sitting in the middle of the gym alone with a fifty-pound weight on her chest while she does sit-ups. The lights are off and I can hear Watch The World Burn from her headset as she breathes out heavily every time she lifts her body. I've never been this upset about anything and I'm not going to pretend I know what she's going through. One thing I do know is that I don't want her to go away. She practically raised me. I don't know what to offer her or what to say that would be enough for her to stop thinking about running away. Lydia loved my brother before he became anything. I don't think she understands that Jayk isn't with those girls because he loves them. Something inside of him broke when Danica rejected him. I doubt my brother is ever going to love anyone ever again and he doesn't know how to explain that to her. "You have a very loud presence," she pants but doesn't stop. I make my way over to her and take the heads
My brother is sitting at the breakfast table with Every, Lucille, and Sloane. All of them are fussing over him and talking to one another like they're best friends. There is no sign of Leelie or Lydia. It's just the eight of us. Ashton and Micca bring out the breakfast and set it in the center of the table. "What the fuck?" Miles whispers when he takes a seat to my right. Micca sits to my left. "I don't know," I shrug and reach for a biscuit. Micca hands me the fried potatoes and Miles pours the buttermilk gravy. "Good morning, guys," Lucille finally greets us. Jayk and others look up at me. "I'm sure it is," Ashton sits next to Micca. We laugh when Jayk rolls his eyes. "Will Lie and Lydia be joining us this morning, sir?" "Nah, they're at the Beta house," Jayk takes a bite out of his pancakes. He sets his fork down and stares at me. It makes me a little uncomfortable, but I don't say anything. We've been fighting over
Jayk "What do you want?" he asks me. "Leelie almost died last week," I inform him. He sits back. "You're not like us, Jet. You don't know what it's like to have a ticking time bomb inside of you. One that goes off when you least expect it. It's not easy being on our own," I clear the itch in my throat. "Having a mate after years of being alone is taxing," "Is that why you killed Dani?" he sneers. "Yes," I nod. "Danica's death is my fault. I'm new to this alpha shit. I didn't know the power of a command until just recently. I wanted her to be something she could never be. The closer we got, the more she hated me for putting a responsibility she wasn't prepared for on her shoulders.It wasn't all hate. We had our moments and it's those small instances that make me miss her the most. Did you know that Arthur compelled her to father his heir?" "No," he shakes his head. "He convinced her that it
Jayk Seeing Dagmar upset the way she is, isn't easy. I underestimated the power I have over her and now I get why the alphas lost control of the very things they created. It was why I had put the rules in place. They gave me a sense of control. I had promised myself and my sister that I wouldn't let this get to me, but it's already started to bleed into everything we've been working for. I don't know how to fix this and now that Dagmar is home, everyone seems to be more at ease. "Jayk?" Micca walks in our makshift office space and sits in Miles's chair across from me. "What's up?" I say giving him my attention. He scratches the back of his head nervously. Micca has never been a man of many words. When it comes to anything regarding our business, he lets his work do the talking for him. It's why I love having him around. He's always been eager to prove that he deserves Dagmar. "I didn't think thi
"What did you do to him?" Jayk asks as the two of us watch Micca reading a book down by the lake behind Sloane's house. It took him a while to calm down, but once he did the emptiness slowly started to drift away and he slept for a good six hours. "Where is Sloane?" I shoot right back. He grins and turns around to walk back inside. I follow. "Miles said you had news?" "Lucille will be moving into the cotton farms as planned. Since you and Miles are going to be going to school in that region anyway, I was thinking of leaving you in charge of the entire vicinity," "And Micca," I add. He sighs. "You're letting Micca stay with me. He's my mate," "He's an essential part of my pack," "We all are, but Micca belongs to me," I remind him. "I knew you were going to be difficult about this," "Jayk-" "I can't just let him stay in one place, Mars," "Then no," I shake my h
Miles and I have been together a few times now and I thought I knew what I was getting myself into, but Micca is an Omega. He is engineered by centuries of werewolf breeding genetics specifically for this. I once read that those who have Omega mates, their mates somehow know exactly what they need and for a while now, I've been asking myself what it is he thinks I need. I can tell it terrifies him and from what I've seen in his mind, I probably should be too. His arm wraps around me as he stands taking all my weight to lift me off the floor without breaking our kiss. I suddenly feel like we're falling and my back is hitting the softness of the bed. I gasp for air when he pulls away scraping his teeth over my cheek and down my neck. He growls canines extended, eyes pitch black, and his body is turning. He's fighting his urge to shift, just barely, but the pain seems to be keeping him grounded. His tongue is attentive to my wounds. He's slowly lapping at th
The smell of his blood is triggering my red vision. His eyes are pitch black and completely focused on me. Miles excuses himself after telling him that if he got to have me on our own he at least owed him that. Micca has pushed me to this. I don't want this to be our life. I can't only have half of him. He belongs to me and I need all of him even if he refuses to offer anything up. I'm going to have to take it from this fucking Omega asshole. I retract my claws and shove him. He stumbles back and falls into the chair Miles at him in. "Mars, I can't-" he presses his hand to the side of his head trying to keep himself in check. I pull his hand away from his face and straddle him. "Please, please," he begs and it's a really good look on him. He's fighting the shift. I don't want him to shift, but if we have to. We will. "I can't," "Micca," I lean into him pressing my lips to his. He tries not to kiss me back. I growl and bite down on his bottom
Miles They're basically the same person. Both prideful and resentful. It's not like I don't understand where she's coming from. Micca is so detached from everything that he's formed these iron-clad walls all the way around him and she's right. She's been trying to go easy on him and he's done his best to push her away. This feels like the last straw. The last time she snapped, she ended up marking him against his will. I still remember the bliss he felt from the severe pain he was in for days. Even after all these years, I still don't know how to get through to him. Talking rarely helps. All he understands is violence. I thought he was getting better. I can't be having this fight with Dagmar every time he has a fucking fit. It's not fair to either of us. Dagmar went up to the room we're staying in after angrily informing me she was on the third floor the second door to the right. Leelie, Ashton, and Micca show up after a couple of