**Ariana's POV**Lily yelled up the stairs Come on Birthday Girl! Jack is meeting us at the Den.Your birthday is in exactly three hours and 37 minutes. The blue moon will be at its zenith exactly like the night you were born! "Let's get to celebrating."I took a quick spin in front of my mirror my dress fit perfectly as violet as my eyes. I have black heels on my hair done in a messy chignon. Aunt Lily did a beautiful job on it. ''Coming "now, my crazy Aunt!'' I laughed!We got to the club and Jack "was waiting for us, at the door. He swung me around, kissed my forehead and wished me happy birthday. In such a short time, he has found a permanent place in my heart! He's such a good man! We ordered dinner and were enjoying our after dinner drinks, as the band warmed up. Jack reached across the table and handed me a small square box and said ''Happy birthday!" I want to thank you for letting me love you as my own'' I got a little teary eyed and opened the box. it was a beautiful tenn
**Jason's POV**It felt like I just laid down, it's been a crazy day.Sophie has been banished to her parents house. No longer allowed at the pack house. She is not to address me by anything but my title and she pitched a fit! A full blown tantrum breaking and throwing shit. Max had to restrain her and I ordered her parents to get her crazy ass into therapy.Alpha! Speak! We have an intruder On the west border, bythe river.Luan subdued it but it is refusingto shift. Hold in place. On my way I wake Max and Jeremy alerting them to the intruder and we haul ass to the river. Within minutes we are approaching smell honey and cinnamon. I also smell blood. Blood? Aves has gone ape shit and leapt into warp speed and he's not listening to me in his anger. We rush into the clearing and I see her! A magnificent white wolf blood pouring from her side, staining the fur red and her right leg twisted at a difficult angle.Max has shifted wearing shorts and holding a pair for me. I immediately sh
**Ariana's POV** My eyes got big I wasn't expecting him to justaccept me right out of the blue. "My father accepted my mom. He mated her, but never marked her. He spent three days with her and on the fourth day, she woke up and he was gone. Just gone. No note, no goodbye nothing! She found out two weeks later, I was the result of her heart being crushed.Not a great feeling to have lived with my whole life. He never knew I existed. She never looked for him. I don't even know his name. If I am honest with myself, I feel cheated and I would love to know his name.I would be able to tell him how I really feel about him. How I hate what he did! I despise that my mom's broken heart never healed. For nearly 18 years, she was broken! She loved me but I never knew what it was like to live in a happy home. She tried but she never knew happiness after he left.Aunt Lily was the only happiness I grew up with. Then, when she lost what was left of her mind before my 16th birthday and the two yea
**Jason's POV**Dear Goddess! Keeping my hands off that beautiful woman is going to test the very last bit of my patience. I walk into the kitchen and Lily looks behind me, with her eyebrow raised in question. "She's getting dressed she should be down in a minute and her eyebrow goes higher. I laugh and shake my head "No we will mate when she is ready!" And Lily nods.Ariana skips into the kitchen, grabbing the mug Lily holds out to her she thanks her and kisses her cheek. "Where's Uncle Jack?"Lily smiles. He's gone to get the diner open and everyone settled, then he's coming back here to help me pack you up. Are you going to have an art studio at the pack house or should I just leave yours set up here? Both of them looking at me. "We can look at which room will suit you best and if none of them strike your fancy, I will build you one!" Ariana gasped and squealed leaping into my arms! Yep! Can definitely get used to this. "Ariana, we need to go to the pack house so I can announc
**Ariana's POV**I'm shocked. I am beyond shocked! I jumpoff Jason's lap and slap the shit out of Sophie. "You selfish, manipulative, ungrateful little bitch. How fucking dare you!? How could you!?" Ariella whispers in my head take his pain, we can do that he will be granteda secondchance. Trust me!I turn towards Luan and knelt in front of this poor man, with tears streaming down his face, I squeezed his hand "Luan, if I tell you I can take your pain.""I can guarantee you will have a second chance mate would you rather reject Sophie, so you will no longer hurt?" He looked at me for several long moments !stared directly into his eyes, so he would know I am telling the truth then he whispered "You can do that?" I nodded.He looked at Sophie and she sneered "Go ahead! It's not like I care!" And I slapped her again. He stood and said the words to reject her, and as he crumbled to the floor, I brought Ariella to the front "This pain you feel is fleeting The Goddess knows and forgives
**Jason's POV**I opened my eyes. I'm lying on top of my mate still inside of her. What the fuck was that? I looked down at Ariana and she had justbegun to stir. She opened her eyes and said "What happened?" I shrugged "I'm not sure, but I think we need to read that book!" And she giggled.I linked Max. Max? Is everything alright Jason? Holy shit dude! You have been out forover 36 hours! What the fuck happened m? I checked on you but you were both just out of it.Yeah we don't know either. We're starving what time is it? 6:40 am. Tuesday! What??? Get us some breakfast and a shit ton of coffee! You and Jeremy meet us in the office.We have to figure this out!I kiss Ari and pull her into the shower. Telling her that we missed an entire day and a half her eyes looked like they were gonna pop out of her face. We dressed in sweats and tee shirts and headed to the office book in hand.Walking into the office, Jeremy and Max both jumped. Max said "Holy Fuck! Dude, You. Are. Huge! You l
**Ariana's POV**I went to the fifteen warriors and healed their wounds. None of them had silver which tells me the Alpha was their target.Jason found me, justas I finished the last warrior.. and we walked back to the Alpha's room. He was sitting up, but looked tired. Which I expected. I went over to him, checking his vitals and smiled "Close call, yeah? You need a new doctor! One that respects you and your Luna!" He asked "How about you?" And Jason laughed "No fucking way in hell do you keep my Luna!" Klaus grinned and said No shit!?Congratulations, bro! I don't know what happened. Those rogues breached our borders and killed my patrol within seconds and were inside the pack house before I could blink. I heard we lost 25."Jason shook his head "You lost 10 Ariana saved 15. They will be duty ready tomorrow. Klaus you were the target! It was an assassination attempt. Like my father! You were stabbed with silver knives "Klaus looked confused "I don't understand. I have heard nothi
**Jason's POV**This fool! This ignorant misogynistic fool.Mark allow me to drag your ass into the 21st century! Neither Klaus nor myself exclude our Lunas from any aspect of our lives! Women are, by nature, strategic planners. They have the uncanny ability to see things we, as men, overlook! And to keep underestimating my mate is to get you closer to getting your ass kicked by her. And I will definitely allow it! She's much more intelligent than you and can absolutely beat the hell out of you in case that black eye hasn't shown you! She is quite obviously Alpha born and I have no doubt could submit your ass in seconds.Now your choices are you sit there and try to be helpful or fucking leave! I am fed up with your bullshit! If you Ever speak out of turn to my mate again, I will snap your fucking neck! Are we clear!? He nods and I tell Jeremy to continue."The rogues breached from the east.. but, on leaving they ran south. We found traces of a camp about 50 miles out on the east s
**Jason POV**Jeremy runs into the office like the hounds of hell are chasing him "All hell is breaking loose!" Ariana water broke and Celia won't let anyone near her saying she's going to glitch us to Southeast Asia. No! Do not ask me why that's even a thing something about popping into VietNam in the pouring rain? Anyway, get your fucking asses out there and control your women. Max and I haul ass to the sitting room and Ariana is panting and she's trying to smile at him through the pain. She kept on repeating "It's fine, I'm okay, " I scoops her up and rushes to the infirmary. Lily is waiting for them and Eva pops in behind me making me jump three feet "Fuck me! Give a dude a warning. "Wear a fucking bell, or something!" Which had all three women roaring with laughter. Max is yelling from the corridor that Celia is having contractions, so everyone scrambled to get her hooked to monitors and trying to calm Max down. Until Celia's water broke, then he started gagging and ran for
**Jason POV**It's been two weeks since our wedding. Two weeks of absolute bliss. Since our wedding night, something shifted within us. When our wolves mated and marked, it was as if, I can feel her.Inside my soul, I can sense where she is I get flashes of what she is seeing doing in unguarded moments, I even know what she is going to say before she says it. She's the same and we have been learning to control it. We had to, it has been such a sensory overload, that we were struggling to accomplish even the smallest tasks.Like right now, I can feel her approaching and I can feel she's excited which always scares the shit out of me, by the way, but her thoughts are shielded. And that helps so much. My door bursts open and she rushes over to me. Straddling my lap, she tucks around me and buries her face in my neck. I chuckle "What's got my little bunny so excited?"And she whispers "I'm trying to stay anchored" and I know she means she's trying not to glitch. We have figured out she
**Ariana's POV**I'm nervous. My mom is nervous. Jason has been MIA most of the day and my nerves are reaching frantic phase. Lily passes me a cup of tea then one to Momma. She orders us to drink and nearly immediately, we calm somewhat. Okay! We can do this! The tea helped!My momma is dressed in a royal blue gown long sleeves straight a-line with a slit to justabove her knee. Embroidered gold lacing edges the neckline and sleeve cuffs, a slim gold chain is draped around her hips with the tail hanging down her thigh ending with a wolf's head weight done in sapphires. She looks beautiful. Jason chose my gown. And I couldn't be happier. It's ivory satin, strapless bodice encrusted with tiny rhinestones scattered throughout, a drop down waistline that flares from my hips into a full skirt, layered in chiffon, again with rhinestones interspersed in the folds. It shimmered with every movement. It has a tiara with a chiffon like veil that drapes down my back and attaches at my wrists s
**Jason POV**The days are running together, we have started getting the pack back to normal, there's little to know sign of the many camps we had set up to protect the packs from attack. We still have the occasional fight with unruly rogues but nothing too big.Martin is holding Eva's coronation and the official crowning of the princess as the heir to the throne. Ariana has been cranky about it for days. Demanding her parents have another baby so she's off the hook. Which, of course, isn't how it works at all and she knows it. She knows that the crown was always supposed to go to a female the White Wolf, she's being contrary.Right now, we are waiting for the birth of Lily and Jack's little one. Ariana and Eva are with her. Martin and I have arranged for mine and Ariana's wedding to take place the night of the coronation. I'm hoping to surprise her with it but if I'm honest, I worry she will either take my head off or glitch herself to B.F.E! Either way, it should be a fun time f
**Ariana's POV**I'm not happy, I was not prepared to be outted and I know Jason is royally pissed. Hah! Punny! We are all waiting now for Alex decision and personally, I think he will refuse to abdicate thinking Daddy won't kill him.Jason hasn't taken his hands from my waist since the announcement that I am the white wolf. I can feel his anger radiating through the bond, I can't really blame him.We were blindsided and I can only hope my father knows what he is doing. A lot of wolves could be harmed by this revelation. However, I do realize, eventually, our people would have to know.A heads up would have gone a long way to assuage Jason's anger, though. I turn to my momma "Do you want to hang around here and wait for Alex's decision?" Daddy will have to be sworn back in, but she will have to have a coronation and mating ceremony. She grimaced and said. "I will wait to hear his decision then I want to return to Crimson Moon!" I nodded. Alex is demanding a trial and Daddy laughed
**Jason POV**Crazy! That's all I can think about the current king. He's crazy. He still believes he holds the power. Not realizing almost all his warriors have either surrendered or died. And now, Martin decides we are all going to sit and chat. This should be fun!I walked over to Max "You do know your sister is probably going to die this time right!?" The only reason she's stayed alive this long has been out of respect for your family. So..contact your parents, bro."They have the right to say goodbye " He nods. "She stopped being my sister a long time ago. I don't know how she went so wrong."Jeremy got everything set up he needed to go live and Martin sat at the head of the table. He sat his son on one side and his son on the other. Several reporters sat in a cluster of seats off to the right side facing them.To the left sat the rest of the Royal family. With the exception of Ariana, Eva and myself. We sat behind Martin. Ariana had given Abraham and Alex truth potions and fro
**Jason's POV**Martin and Ariana entered the palace and Ariana followed her father they went directly to the throne room finding it empty. She followed him to the atrium and nothing. Ariana looked at Martin "Where is the fucking safe room in this mausoleum?"Martin started laughing "You know one day you will be living here right?" She rolled her eyes and scoffed "Pssshhh! I see a major renovation and remodel in my future that's what the fuck I see." "This place needs more light more life. It feels like a tomb, Daddy!" He nods agreeing."I just never cared enough, daughter! It was never my home!" She wrapped her arm into the crook of his elbow and pulling him down, she kissed his cheek "I love you, Daddy! Now, let's go find Alex! I have a brother to choke!" And they both laughed.Alex wasn't in the King's chambers nor was he in the salon. They didn't find him in his office or the safe room behind the wall in there. They made their way to the Queen's office and Martin's whole family
**Jason POV**Walking into the ball, everything is magical. The ceiling is dark with draped fabrics and twinkle lights making it look like a night sky. The dance floor is surrounded by decorated Christmas trees making it seem like an actual clearing in a copse of pines. She has sweet little benches hidden in the trees for lovers to find a stolen moment.Ariana is showing everyone her ring her parents are beaming at her. It's heartbreaking to remember how much they have been through to get to this point.But, nothing has beaten Ariana nothing holds her back, or gets her down for very long. I admire her. I don't just love her, I am proud of her. I respect her. And I admire her! As if she heard my thoughts, she appears in front of me "Will you dance with me, Alpha Crimson?" I swooped her into my arms and spun us around kissing down her neck and across her shoulder. "It would be my utmost pleasure, Mrs. Crimson!"Jeremy danced by us with a beautiful brunette, nearly as tall as he is an
**Jason POV**Every Alpha on Crimson Moon's territory had twenty pack members answering phones or returning emails. The response was overwhelming and gratifying! An entire species coming together to reunite in one belief. Every pack calling for the abdication of Alex.In the conference room, the alphas watched the catastrophic meltdown of the King. He ordered trackers out to bring in every rogue they could find by force, if necessary. He ordered combat training every day for six straight hours. He ordered Virginia to find him witches.What he failed to realize was lot of rogues had seen the broadcast and gone to ground not wanting to die for what they knew was a lost cause already. The witches had all been warned by the High Priestess helping the King of Wolves was a death sentence.Martin and Jason were systematically cutting off any additional aid for Alex. Jeremy had hacked into the palace's computers. He had already frozen all bank accounts.Seized all assets in the name of King M