STELLA Conner trails his mouth along my shoulder, kissing, sucking and nipping as he takes another small step back. However, suddenly he stops. I look over at Wulfric and Nora, thinking that the fight is over, but they are still fighting. It is then that I hear the whisper of another male's voice. I don’t hear what he says. However, Conner carefully removes his lips from my shoulder and then removes his claws from my neck. I let out a slight sob as the pressure from his claws digging into my neck is released. Conner then slowly releases the arm that is wrapped around my waist, allowing me to take a small step forward. The male behind us then forces Conner onto his knees. I turn slowly, a little scared to see who it is. I then press my lips together as I try to stop myself from bursting into tears when I see Benjamin standing in front of me. Benjamin smiles and holds out his arm and without hesitation, I step into him. Without touching my skin, he uses his claws to remove the rope
SELENE Once Stella allows me full control, I take off running with Wulfric behind me. I laugh as I run and jump around the woods. Wulfric chases and catches up with me, nipping at me a few times while growling, it takes me a few times for me to realise what he is doing and what he wants me to do. Remembering what he said about it not being totally safe, I then run by his side not going too far from him but still playing with him, it isn’t long before I start to feel tired and Wulfric turns us around and leads us back to the packhouse. Once we got to the backyard of the packhouse Wulfric stayed close as I pictured myself in my human form and with Wulfric’s help the pain wasn’t that bad, I then remembered what Conner did to my body and stepped back allowing Stella full control again. STELLA Wulfric picks me up and takes me back inside, holding me tight to him. He puts me down as we enter the guest room and hear Aurora whimpering. I move over to the bed and pick her up; I feed an
STELLA Axel was right just by being myself. I fit right in. Benjamin found his mate, Mary, and has 2 wonderful sons. Hannah met her mate, Lily, and they adopted a son and daughter whose parents were killed in a rogue attack. Sophia also found her mate, Hayden. They have 2 sons and 2 daughters; I sigh as I hold Austin, our latest addition to our little family, and oversee the preparations for Aurora’s 18th birthday party. It is surprising how quickly these years have gone past and other than the odd rogue venturing back into the territory, everything has been quiet; I jump a little as Axel wraps his arms around me from behind; he leans in, runs kisses up along my neck to my ear and whispers “I love you! What are you doing out here?” “Just watching, making sure everything is being done...” “Stella, you need to stop worrying. Aurora is going to love it and nothing is going to happen...” He then kisses my neck more, making me shiver. AURORA I look up at the balcony towards m
AURORA I give her a hug and we turn around to a sound at the door; we move slightly to see my father standing at the door leaning on the frame wearing his king's uniform. He doesn't wear it often, but when he does, he looks good and that is saying something. After all, I am his daughter. He straightens and then bows as he says, "My Hearts, you both look absolutely magnificent... Shall we start this party?" I nod, as does Mother, and we make our way over to join him at the door. With my mother on one arm and me on the other, we make our way down the main stairs and into the entry, we then make our way out the back and onto the makeshift stage, he drops our arms and moves to the front and says "WELCOME EVERYONE, WE ARE HERE TONIGHT TO CELEBRATE THE 18TH BIRTHDAY OF PRINCESS AURORA!!" He turns slightly and holds out his hand towards me. I step forward and take it. He then moves me to the front of the stage, where I bow slightly to everyone. I then face my father as he continues,
AURORA Once I am finished, I dry off, pull on the nightdress, and climb into bed. I lay there and think about what I just asked my father to do. I don't want to go with that beast, that leech, as Dad called him, but I will, to protect my family, my friends, my pack, and my kingdom. I turn to Ariel "Ariel? Do you object to what I asked of Father?" "I believe we need to do this. I feel that Father won't want to, but he will send us back with that leech. We will go through a lot and we will need to be strong, as it will all be for a reason. We need to be in his land, his kingdom... Do you feel it?" "Yes, it is like the bad feelings we get... Something is going to happen, however; we can't be here for, we need to be there." "I will protect you as much as possible while we are with him. As you know, we are special and the longer we can keep that a secret, the better it will be... We won't be able to shift in his presence or he will know we are different." "But isn't that harmful
AURORA I drift in and out of consciousness. I can feel that we are moving, but every time I seem to fight more to the surface, I feel another slight sting and darkness pulls me under again. It takes me a little while even with Ariel's help to fight to the surface again, only this time we aren't moving and that annoying little sting doesn't come. So I fight the heaviness in my eyes and the haze that is still in my head to the surface completely. My head spins as I slowly move up into the sitting position and I look around. I am sitting on a soft bed. As I look around, I take note of the magnificent room. I move slowly off of the bed as my head is still spinning a little. I move around the room slowly, a little in awe of the magnificence of it. I jump a little and freeze as I hear a familiar male's voice coming from the door behind me. "It's good to see you up and walking around. His Alpha Highness will be pleased..." I turn and look at him as he continues "Your mother was the s
AURORA I woke early the next morning. Thanks to my mother and her original slave routine for my father, we learned everything. My mother taught me and all my brothers how to cook and clean, and that was on top of our royal duties under Father. I stretch and climb out of the bed; I head back into the closet, pull off and fold the shirt I wore to bed, and then slip back on the dress I was wearing yesterday. I come out, make the bed, leave the cord in pieces on the floor by the post and then go and stand by the window. I look outside and I must admit it looks absolutely beautiful, with wood surrounding all sides, it seems. I would love to let Ariel out to run through those woods. She would have so much fun and it would be all new. We could get lost in there for days. I hear the door unlock and open but I don't move, making whoever comes in think that I don't know that they are there. I then hear a low, rough male laugh. "Well, that didn't seem to hold you, did it?" "Seems not!"
AURORA "So you are his new plaything, I am Grace and when you are not seeing to King Alpha Oliver's needs, you are to be here with me doing what I need you to do..." When I don't answer she sighs, looks up at me properly and gasps a little, I then move my hand to the collar at my neck as she pulls herself back together and continues, "Sorry, I didn't realize he had claimed you as his personal slave. I was originally told you would be joining his other servants. Now that I know you are his personal slave, that will require a different type of training and different sleeping arrangements. You are to be at his call at all times, so if you are not in the room with King Alpha Oliver, then you are in your own quarters. Have you been with a male before?" A little confused I ask "In what way ma'am?" "Have you had sex before?" I shake my head, "No ma'am" I had planned to give that part of me to my mate and only my mate, but now if the king beast desires to do so, he can take it whenev
AURORA True to his word, King Micheal visited on the quiet a couple of times over the remainder of my pregnancy to indulge in the taste of my blood. The night the twins were born, Micheal surprised me. I had been suffering slight discomfort every few hours over the day, however; I didn’t want to alarm anyone until it was necessary. My parents had retired for the night, and I was resting in the library. I had just finished reading a book and was walking slowly around the shelves, looking for another, when a massive wave of pain enveloped me. When the pain passed, I wasn’t surprised when Logan opened our mate link and asked if I was okay. Knowing that he was in a very important meeting with a couple of the kingdom’s allies, I assured him that I was fine, thinking that I had enough time to allow him to finish his meeting before getting him to meet me at the Royal Infirmary. However, the next wave proved me wrong as it was just as intense as the last and I had to concentrate on keeping
AURORA I pull out from his body, straighten and turn so I am now facing him. I am glad no one walked in as it wouldn't have looked good, me in the arms of another male. I look directly into Michael's red eyes and whisper, "You are setting me free? With only those 2 conditions? How do you know that I will keep to them?" "Yes, I am setting you free. I only need these two conditions, and I know you won't go back on them once you agree. One, because I am connected to you and I will know where you are no matter where you go, and two, it is not in you to renege once a deal is made. You have too much of your father's honour in you..." I lower my eyes from his for a moment, but sigh and return my eyes to his, as I whisper, "Okay, I agree with your terms!" His eyes shine bright red and I get lost in them as he closes the gap, leaning down and kissing me. I hesitantly kiss him back as I taste the coppery tang of blood. I then feel a slight sting on my lip. He kisses me for a moment lo
AURORA Unfortunately, the connection I now have with him will always be there even after he releases me as he created a blood bond between us but after what happened on the battlefield and with what Aaliyah had told me, I had worked out that it was more for my protection once he had purchased me from Toby as he didn't trust Toby to keep his word. I don't believe that he will use the blood bond once he releases me to Logan. I am startled out of my head when there is a knock on the door. I turn to see my father standing there. "DADDY!" I smile and run across the room, wrapping my arms around him as he says, "Now that is my little Princess..." I pull back a little as I say, "But I'm not so little anymore..." He laughs and pulls me back into a tight hug, but it only lasts for a second as he receives a kick in the stomach, not once, but twice. You see, once we returned, we found out that I'm not having one pup; I'm actually having two, one male and one female, so my bump wasn't a sma
AURORA Once I have pulled it over his head, he growls as he wraps his arms back around me and pulls me tight into him. He then returns to his kiss. As he slowly deepens and makes it more dominant, he slowly makes me step backward until the backs of my legs hit the side of the bed. This doesn't seem to interfere with what he has in mind as he makes me lay back and then with one arm wrapped around and across my back, he uses the other to support our weight as he crawls on the bed taking me further onto it at the same time. When we are in the middle of the bed, he stops moving and pulls his arm out from underneath me, allowing him to support his weight and then slowly trails his kisses down my neck, over my shoulder and his mark and then down further. He trails his kisses over one breast and then the other before moving down over my abdomen where he stops, making me let out a slight giggle as he whispers, "Hey there, little one... I love you already and I haven't even met you yet..."
AURORA I turn my attention back to Mary and Melanie as I say, "Come on you two, I have told you that is not necessary as you both are my friends..." They laugh, "Sorry Aurora, it's habit... Especially when Alpha Logan is nearby!" "So, what were you two talking about?" "Just that we both are not feeling the best..." I was afraid of this, if I am carrying Logan's pup from just once with him and the females that were taken from this pack are all carrying pups as well, with the amount of time Toby spent with both of them there was no other reason behind why they would feel unwell. I sit down, "Have you heard or been told what happened to some of the females from this pack?" "Yes, we have spoken to a few of the females from this pack and they told us about the rogues as we told them what Toby did to us... What's going on Aurora? You look worried?" "I was just told that nearly every female that was taken by the rogues that night has just found out that they are all carrying a pup...
AURORA Once all the injured are healed enough to travel, we start the long trip back home. The first stop we make is at Alpha Pablo's pack. Ariel and I feel really bad, as it was the females from this pack that were taken by Toby and the rest of his rogues because of my heat. Logan goes to find one of the females he helped as I wandered around the pack. I watch as the females are still all on edge and seem even more so now that even more males have entered their pack's little village. I place my hand on my lower abdomen. I still haven't had the chance to tell Logan about our little bundle. I keep looking for the right time, but something else always seems to come up and I don't get to tell him. I see Alpha Pablo making his rounds of the females now that he is back in the pack and I decide that I never actually got to apologise for the trouble, loss and trauma I caused him and his pack. I approach him slowly and say hesitantly, "Alpha Pablo?" He turns and faces me. He smiles and sa
AURORA When I pull back from our kiss, I smile as I step back, but Logan won't allow me to move too far as he tightens his arm around me and pulls me back into his side. I look around and see my father approaching. I look up at Logan, who smiles, nods his head and finally lets me go. As soon as his arm drops from my waist, I run to my father and nearly make him fall over as I wrap my arms around him. He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight as he whispers, "I'm sorry! I had no choice..." I pull back a little to look up at him as I say. "Dad, what are you talking about?" "The deal with Alpha Oliver... The way I sent you with him... I am sorry!" "Dad, I told you I was willing to be part of the alliance, I even told you to do it... And if you had told me what was happening, you wouldn't have had to drug me as I would have gone with him willingly... Family and the kingdom always come first..." "I know you did and I am sorry that I didn't tell you... That I didn't warn you of
LOGAN I make my way around the battlefield, checking everybody who is lying on the ground. Once I am sure that there are no more injured out within the dead, I move among the injured and decipher who is rogue and who is pack. Once the rogues are treated, I ask the first one, "Are you a rogue by choice, or were you forced?" "I was taken from my pack as a teenager. I am not proud of what I have done, but had to do it to survive..." "You would have to go through some training and I would need proof from you to know you won't turn on me or other members of my pack... So you want to rejoin a pack? Are you willing to do that to rejoin a pack?" "I have wanted to rejoin a pack since they took me, but no pack would give me the chance..." "Very well, you now have that chance..." "Thank you, Alpha!" I go through the others and most of them are the same taken from their packs during raids done by the Rogue king, so they are not true rogues, as a true rogue is one that has given in to the w
AURORA I watch as Aaliyah finishes setting up whatever it is that she needs to. Once she has set up, I then listen as she starts her chant, By the power of the moon, Let the power dim within this Collar and Chain,Drain the protecting Magic,So the hold they have may be broken. North, South, East, West, Aid me now in this Quest, A curse made with Blood, Must be Cleansed, By the Sun and the Moon. Earth, Air, Fire and Water,I call for your Aid, Unbind this Chain and Collar, To No Longer keep its Prisoner, Bound that was Stolen. With the Power of the Moon, I reverse this Enchantment, I release you, I set you Free! North, South, East, West, With Earth, Air, Fire and Water, Brought together By, The power of the Sun and the Moon, I reverse this Enchantment, Return it to Whence it came, As I will it, So mote it be! I wince as the collar starts to get heated and starts to burn, but it doesn't last long, as it then starts to cool. Aaliyah then makes her way over to