LUCIANO’S POVI had been waiting for Carter to show up for days. It was clear he was hiding out somewhere. He wasn’t coming home. I needed to go find him. Andrew had called to tell me what he had found. Carter left the pack about two days before I did, which was contrary to what Ciara had said. As for where he was, nobody knew. I packed my bag, and checked out. I sat in my car for ten whole minutes contemplating next moves. I had decided I would go back to the farm and check all its nearby towns. It would take me a long time but I had nothing else. My phone buzzed and I looked to see Andrew calling. “Andrew.”“So, I just got word that Carter is back at the mystic moon.” “What? When? I taught he was hiding out.” I said in disbelief.“I thought so too but he is thetr right now.” I threw the phone on the car sit and sped off in the direction of Carter’s house. I didn’t know what his game was but I would beat it out of him if I had to.Carter was having a drink in his living room w
ARIANNA’S POVI had tried staying conscious but I couldn’t. I drifted in and out of sleep. My eyes fluttered and I tried to get my bearings. Where was I?Last thing I remembered I was hiding from Luciano after he ran me off the road. My surroundings looked familiar. That door. I was back in the warehouse office. I got caught … I got caught. I fell unconscious with that thought. My memories kept coming back to me like dreams. It had not taken long to find me. He had dragged me along the road like a stubborn goat. “You’ll regret this!” His words came back to me. What had he done to me? Why couldn’t I keep my eyes open for more than a minute.“Hey, it’s your turn to get her.” I muttered sleepily. The baby had been fussy all night and I was exhausted. Luciano planted a kiss on my head before getting out of bed. I smiled and went back to sleep. She was his little girl, he would get her to stop crying. Just at the end of my vision I could see Carter, standing at our door holding our bab
CARTER’S POVI had been cooped up in this house for days. Whoever thought being an Alpha meant freedom was sorely mistaken. We had called all the wolves home for their own safety but rather than be grateful, they spent their days bickering.I should have left them out in the world where the hunters could find them. The wolves at the rocky mountains had gotten their pound in flesh. They had lost one of their own to hunters and had taken the lives of five hunters. Their Alpha set out to make a statement and he did. The hunters there had retreated immediately. They were not going to win an all war, not with the pack at full capacity. And now my wolves wanted to go out and get their pound of flesh. I already killed about eight hunters but they did not know that. And the group that took Arianna was not the group that killed my wolf. The locations were too far apart.They wanted their pound of flesh but I already got it. Now they were bickering because they missed the action. This was rid
CARTER’S POVI slammed my door shut and walked into the house. Why was he following me? Did someone suspect that I had Arianna? No one had seen me take her from the farm. Maybe they were just following anybody. It made no sense. Fucking hunters.“What has you in a bad mood?” Ciara asked me.“I should really start locking my door. Pour me a drink.” I sank into one of the chairs as she handed me a glass.“Where did you go?” She asked again“I planned to go meet Arianna. A hunter was following me.” I took a sip of my drink.“A hunter. Just one? That doesn’t sound right.” “I know. I don’t think the plan was to attack. He just wanted to know where I was heading.” I explained to her. “That means someone knows you have her. You need to put an end to this. Now!”“I know.” I was too exhausted for Ciara’s antics right now.“Then why are you here?” She was being erratic now. She had been losing her composure recently. “I could not take the chance that someone else was following me. I’ll go b
ARIANNA’S POVHis words made my skin tingle. I was not going to let him do this to me. I would fight him till I couldn’t fight anymore. “Turn!” I could feel him put every bit of power behind those words but I refused to break.His smug look from earlier was starting to turn into frustration. This was not going to be as easy as he had convinced himself it would be. He charged at me and threw me on the cold floor. I fell on my hand, trying to avoid hitting any other parts of my body. He dragged me out of the office into the open warehouse. “You bitch! You will do as you are told.” He screamed in my face and I spat in his. He turned away to wipe saliva off his face. If I thought he was angry before, I was sorely mistaken. He slapped me across the face and I fell back down to the floor. I looked around for anything, something to hit him with, someone to call for help, I would have taken anything at that point but there was nothing. “Turn!” He said again. The force of the command shoo
CARTER’S POV“If she won’t turn, what else can you do?” “If I knew the answer to that Ciara, I would be out there doing it.” She was getting on my last nerve.“Maybe just let her go. You can grab her again in … what? Six months, maybe less.” she said.“And what if hunters find her first? Raiding compounds filled with hunters by myself is not really a hobby of mine.” I took a swig of my drink. “Well, we have to think of something. If she is not responding to your Alpha speak she has to respond to something else.”“At least one of you has a spine.” I said, taking a jab at her.“What’s that supposed to mean?’ she was getting rilled up now. “You know exactly what it means. If I had told you where I kept her you would have blabbed to Luciano. And I always thought Arianna was the weak one, looks like I was mistaken.”“I am not weak! Is that why you still won’t tell me where you have her?” She had the audacity to sound hurt, like she did not come very close to ruining everything.“Of cour
CIARA’S POV“Who would have known you could be this quiet? It’s a nice change of pace, don’t you think so? I can finally hear myself think.” I had not said a word since he dragged me back in here. He had been going on and on trying to get me to say something. I was done with him. I would get him back for this. He thought he could not be touched. I would show him. He would come to appreciate me. “Can I go now?” I asked him when I was done listening to him run his mouth. “I’m not stopping you.” I walked out of the house and ran to my place. He would pay for this, I would find a way to make him pay. He wanted to put me in my place, I would put him in his. I ripped off my clothes and ran into the bathroom. I turned the knob all the way to the end and let the hot water wash the stink of him from my body. I lay in my bed, looking up at the ceiling, letting my mind wander. You are not my mate! you have no claim to me! He was right, I was not his mate. A part of me had gladly skipped tha
LUCIANO’S POVNo way! I could not believe a word out of Ciara’s mouth. I also had not gotten a text back from my private investigator. The last text he sent was that Carter was on the move and he would be following. I sent multiple texts since then and no response. Did Carter really kill him? I dialed his number but got his voicemail, again. She said he was a hunter. Why would Carter think he was a hunter anyway? If he was dead then I had just one person following Carter. The whole situation was driving me insane. I picked up my phone and called Dave. “Hey, is our home still standing?” He asked me after he picked up.“Very funny Dave. How is it going?”“It’s okay. They were a little cold at first but I think they have warmed up to me. They want to have the ceremony here though. Alex and I are trying to convince them to do it at the compound.” “Yea, they are all like that. I think they were friends with my parents. I’m not so sure.” I said.“They were. They mentioned it our first