Friday came a lot sooner than I had expected.It felt like a lot, knowing that the long-awaited game night was finally tomorrow.I had spent a lot of my time planning with Ava, Ari, and Sam. I had decided to set the three of them up as my planning committee, discarding the rest of the people that had volunteered in the first place."All right, Luna, let's go through all of the planning for tomorrow just to be certain that nothing goes wrong," Sam suggested, holding out a list that I had given to her.It wasn't even that hot in the office, but I was sweating from how stressed I was.I nodded in agreement."First of all, we are going to introduce all the packs that are present. After that, we'll section the activities into youth, grown adults, and like you said, some people will be there to guide the children so they can have fun while involving themselves in children’s games," Sam read out."Okay, and Ava, are you certain that everyone got the invitation? Did anybody turn anything down
The next day, most of our guests started to show up in the morning. I didn't think about how I would have to greet each and every single one of them individually. I had a smile plastered on my face the entire day, to the point where my cheeks started to hurt, but I had to keep it up. Thankfully, Alpha was there to assist me. Most of the packs kept singing praises of how privileged they were to be invited to the sacred Dark Bloodpack for such an event, and I truly felt on top of the world with all of their compliments, but still.I was in a casual sweatshirt and denim shorts, sitting in the events room to check how things were going with the girls when Alpha pulled my hand and led me behind one of the walls of the packhouse. There was barely any space, so I was basically pressed against his chest while he had his hands pinned above my head."You're stressing yourself too much for my liking. Don't you have people that can do these things for you?" he asked. "You’re Luna, for a reason. Y
I immediately pushed Cole away from me and turned to face Alpha. "It's not what it looks like at all, I promise."I was yet to process it myself, but I just wanted to defend whatever thought he could be happening.I expected him to go on and start throwing punches at Cole, but instead, he turned around and walked away from us. It was the first time I would see him react that easily to someone kissing me. And it was even annoying to think that this was not the first time it was happening.I immediately tried to follow him, attempting to grab his wrist, but he avoided my touch."Alpha, I..." He put his hand up to stop me from talking and just continued to walk away.I stood there, in shock, and then frowned deeply. I turned around to look at Cole , and he was scratching the back of his neck nervously. "I am so sorry. I don't know what came over me. It's probably the alcohol-"Not giving him a chance to finish explaining himself, I slapped him hard across the face. "Have you lost your d
I opened my eyes after feeling so much tension on both my wrists. I realized that my hands were tied to two strong poles with what seemed like very strong ropes.It took a moment, but I was able to focus my blurry vision, and I saw that there were about five men standing in front of me, all whispering and murmuring over each other."Who are you people, and what do you want?" I said after realizing that they had me tied on my knees. I had no recollection of what happened but I knew that after smelling the wolfsbane on them, one of them had put a bag over my head. My voice caused them all to stare in my direction."You've finally regained consciousness." One of them said sharply. "What do you want?" I raised my voice, struggling to pull free from the bondage they had kept me."Who's in charge here? Who's your boss? Let me talk to them." I couldn't wrap my head around why anybody would want to abduct me. I had nothing special.Of all things, I should have known that this event would tu
Kaden"Alpha, we got your call," Sonya was the first to arrive, with Clarion trotting after her just a few minutes later.I placed one hand on my hip and the other one on my forehead. "She's gone again, and I can smell wolfsbane. I found a little bit of it around, so someone definitely abducted her."Sonya sighed in defeat."What is the instruction for what should we do?" she asked me."I obviously have to set out for her, so I'm hoping that you two will come.""There is no need, Alpha."I turned to look at Sonya, expecting her to panic. But she seemed perfectly fine."Alpha, you go with Clarion, and I'll stay back to watch the pack in case anybody tries to pull up something. Just make sure you find her and she's fine.""You're not worried?"She added a sigh. "If I get worried every single time, I don't think I'll ever recover. And you always seem to do a good job bringing her back. I know you'll find her safe. If someone abducted her, they probably want something. They will not harm
**Talie's POV**I felt the familiar presence of the red wolf, and immediately, she took over my body. I managed to break free from the bondage that they had kept me in and got to my feet.The warriors that she had been with her immediately backed away, all of them staring at me in confusion.But after a second, they seemed to come to their senses, and one after the other, they kept trying to hit me with whatever instrument they had in their hands. But the strength of the red wolf was much stronger, and she was able to dodge every single hit. Her eyes focused on no one but Luna Mint."What on earth is happening?" Luna Mint asked one of her men."I'm not sure, Luna," he called back."What are you doing just watching? Tie her back down!"The first man attempted to take my hand and tie it. I immediately took his wrist, tightened my grip, and squeezed his hands behind his back. He let out a deafening scream, and I caught a glance of Luna Mint's face, and she looked like she had just seen a
"Are you just going to let her get away? After everything that we have planned? You guys should go after her!” Luna mint raised her voice as I walked away from them. Some of her men that were still bold enough, came forward, and held my wrist together. I tried not to struggle because I knew that I could probably kill them.“I'm not going to warn you one more time. If you attempt to put that knife to me and take my child, you will not hear the last of it.”That did not stop them from attacking, and it was just making the red roof angrier. She was already dominating every power inside of me, and without hesitation, she fought back.When I managed to catch a glimpse of Luna's face, it was almost like there was a smile on her face. It felt to me like she was enjoying this.It seemed to be more of an entertainment source for her to find me like this.I decided to stop fighting, and turned around to leave.I left The Cave, leaving them to stay on their own. I opened the mind link to commu
There was panic in alpha's tone as he lifted me to my feet and placed me on his back. I didn't recognize which other warrior was. I stayed there, closing my eyes while he began to race through the woods."My baby," I kept mumbling under my breath.I heard alpha mumbled some words to the other warrior that was there, but I just couldn't care less. I kept repeating the words, "My baby," keeping my eyes closed and slowly slipping away into unconsciousness.When I reopened my eyes, I was in his arms, bridal style. I kept my arms wrapped around his shoulder while my head rested on his chest. He cleared the way, he backed that some warriors that were standing in front of him as we got to the border, not caring about the few people that were still hanging out on the streets. He led me into the packhouse, heading to his bedroom."My baby? Is the baby okay?""The pack doctor will be here in a second.""But I feel drained. No need to wait for any pack doctor. You tell me. Can you still smell y
Andrea began to walk out of the pack house, and I trailed along behind her, trying my best not to be seen.I watched as She scurried past bushes, and the moment she was getting further away from the pack house, she began to pick up her pace.As if she sensed that someone was following her, so it was hard to keep up with her because it was still a little bit dark. it was barely seven in the morning, and the sun had still not risen. I tried to dodge all the branches, tall grass,as I made my way after her.She stopped in front of a small shack and stepped in. I watched from afar, hidden from any view. Why else would she be in a small shop with my alpha? I swallowed a lump that grew in my throat. It better not be what I was thinking It was.I opened the door slowly. It was dark. "Hello," I called into the darkness. All of a sudden, all the lights flickered on, and I heard a huge confetti sound.I put my hands over my ears, flinching from the fear that came with it. I looked around and saw
I headed back to the pack house all by myself and decided to think nothing of it.I hoped that if Andrea would come back to me and explain the situation, maybe I wouldn't have to be so worried. I stayed in the living room, pacing back and forth and waiting for her to show up. When she began to not, I decided to engage myself in something else, I went back to the office and decided to look through the papers that I wasn't done with. After an hour had passed, I left the office and saw Andrea walking into the pack house."Hey," I said. "I thought You were going to be at Ava's place.""Yeah," i replied. "Turned out that she wasn't home, so I came to the pack almost immediately, and you weren't here. I thought we could have hung out and watched some movies together. Where did you go?""I just had to quickly deal with something." I closed my eyes, started mumbling under my breath, and internally hoped that she should confess and say that she was. But she didn't. I nodded at l her. “Oka
Three months laterAndrea walked into the office where I was busy looking through the paperwork for Alpha so that he wouldn't have to do it so much. I looked up at her and broke into a smile. "If it is not my favorite friend," I said. She smiled back at me, a smile creeping up her lips. She folded her arms across her chest. "What about your dad?”"He's been at your mom's place, like at this point is tiring me out," she chuckled. "Like if you guys want to be together, just say that's something. Why are you wasting our time? Like bro, my younger brothers have been asking me and I have no idea what to tell them.”“Really.” “Yeah.""So I'm going over there to call him back home. I hope he remembers that he has children," I closed the book in front of me. "Well then I'm coming with you because I really want to see my mum too. I have a few things I want to discuss with her.""Okay then, no problem," she said.As we walked to my mom's place, hand in hand, she interlocked her hands with m
I woke up the next morning to snuggly kisses from Alpha. I said in his sleepy voice. “Shouldn't you still be resting after everything that has happened?" He smiled at me. "Why? When I have everything I need here? Get ready. We're going out today." That got me to open my eyes. "Where are we going?"I raised my eyebrow at him. "You just have to find out, my love.”“then you shouldn't have told me. You know how curious I can get." "It's no big deal," he chuckled. "I'm just pulling your leg. I actually just want us to go out and have fun together. Do you know the entire time I was in the middle of the war? The only thing I was thinking about was you. And if you were doing fine, I swear you've taken full control of my mind and body at this point." I couldn't help but laugh at him. "I got my feet all right, I’ll get dressed!"Alpha and I wore matching clothes. I wore a white crop top and jean shorts. He wore a white tank top and jean shorts. He put his hair in a bun, just how I liked
Immediately, he fell forward in my hand. I began to scream, panicking in fear. I tried to balance him on the floor.He was too heavy for me to lift by myself. "Mum," I cried, hoping for whoever was around to come in.My mum immediately ran inside, and surprisingly, Carl tagged along with her. "What's wrong?" "I don't know, he suddenly lost balance.” I cried.My mom immediately tried to check for his pulse. "What's wrong with him? Why is he not breathing?" I asked.She pointed at the floor. "Don't worry, I will fix things. Just get the pack physician," she said. I jerked to my feet, going to do as instructed, immediately wiping my tears with the back of my hand In panic, I was so lost and confused."What happened?!”“I don't understand," I told Andrea as she raced by my side, trying to catch up with me. "Where are you going?""I don't know," I raised my voice after, “I’m clearly as confused as you as you can see, I just want Alpha to be fine." I continued to cry. She didn't say an
We got to Ava's place, and she was happy to see me at the door. She looked confused when she saw Andrea and stared at me, waiting for some sort of explanation."Oh yeah, this is Andrea. She's a new pack member.”“She doesn't smell like she's a part of our pack." She raised an eyebrow."Yeah, that is why I said she's a new pack member.""Ohh, it's nice to see you. What brings you guys here?" Then she realized that the whole thing with Alpha had happened, and then she raised her eyebrows at me. "Oh my goodness, that must be so insensitive of me to ask. I know that Alpha has gone off to war. I can't even imagine how you are dealing with things right now." She tugged my hand and pulled me into the room. "Come on, settle in."Andrea looked around Ava's place. "This is a nice place you've got. And yeah, she did want to come here to get his mind off things because she's been so worried, like Alpha is going to lose the battle or something." Andrea rolled her eyes.I didn't understand why she
I assisted Alpha to pack his things that he would need for the war, and when it was time for him to leave, I found myself sitting on the bed, burying my face in my hands and crying.He hurried to my side and crouched in front of me, he wiped my tears off with the pad of his thumb. In my seated position, I threw my arms around him and wailed against his shoulder."Why are you crying so much?""I don't want anything to happen to you."He pulled away from my embrace. "I just assured you that I'd be fine. Just trust me, okay?"I nodded at his words. Even though I found myself not believing him, it didn't seem like a reality until I saw him and the rest of the warriors with his bag slung over his shoulder as he prepared to leave the pack for war.I held my chest tightly. There is no way anyone could defeat my Alpha. He was the best. I knew it, but I didn't know why I was so scared. Things were finally going fine . The last thing I wanted was for it to be jinxed.I wanted to find my mum alm
At first, I was confused. Then I turned to look at Alpha; he shook his head. 'I'm sorry, I can't do that.'She immediately stepped forward, going on her knees and holding his feet. 'Please, you have to take us in. Look, that's my youngest brother, and he's really sick.' She pointed at the child in her father's hands. 'If we don't find shelter now, I don't think he can make it. Please, I beg you, we will do anything you ask us to do. I can sense that you're the alpha of the pack, please.'Seeing alphas reluctance she added, 'My dad himself was a trained warrior before everything came crashing down. It would be very helpful to the pack's growth. Don't deny us access, and I'm begging you with everything.'she began to shed tears. She was looking like she was about my age, and I felt the pain. When I saw her dad's face, it reminded me of my mum and how desperate she was the first time we left.I turned to Alpha, tugging his shirt. ‘please, just take them in. I feel like there is enough
The next morning, when we woke up, I rolled into Alpha's arms."Hey, did you sleep very well?" I asked him. He nodded. "Yeah, I did. Especially when you are here by my side.” “So, what do you want to have for breakfast? I don't know. I want to have you. It's you." "Stop. Be for real?" I chuckled. I hid my laughter behind my hand."I don't know. I'm not really hungry. I just want us to eat.""Are you ready to leave for the pack house?""Yeah, but we can't go unless we see Shayla first. I need to say my proper goodbye before I disappear. I don't know when I'm going to see her again, so let's not just rush to leave, right?""Okay?" He nodded and kissed my forehead."Goodness, I can't imagine the amount of work that I have to go back home to, but it's fine. We'll just settle in just as quickly as we left." I pursed my lips and nodded at him."Alright, I'll go and find something for us to eat. I should go see Shayla.""I really want to know how she’s settling in. You can hang out with J