Alpha William POV
The minute my parents were out the door my Beta and his mate stormed back into my office. So much for a moment to myself to think about all the information I was just given.
“What the hell was that about?” Jennifer demanded. I was not in the mood for this, but I knew for my Rose bud I need to keep my emotions in check.
“That was me taking a fucking moment to see if my father was the lying bastard I thought.” I grumbled as I fell back into my chair, running my hand through my hair.
My Beta laughed, “And?” Both of their eyes were boring holes into me, and I knew I needed a drink before I could keep going. I walked over to the bar pouring us all a shot and motioning them to join me.
“That bad Will?” I nod and we all down a shot before I fill them in about my brother being an Alpha because of my father’s mistrust in me. His denial of having assisted Everett, and my mother’s cluelessness in thinking that Westley was
Alpha William POVThe Coven King and I stare one another down as we both contemplate our next steps in our pursuit of Gemma. The Coven King looks like he is ready to scorch the earth if I don’t hand him his “property” over, and to be frank I am sick of myself and everyone thinking of her as something we can own. In our pack we are raised to believe that our fated mates are ours not only to take ownership of, but to love and take care of for the rest of our lives. A long the way my ego took over, and I forgot that she wasn’t just mine to possess but to take care of by loving her the way she deserves.I’ve definitely been the shitty mate who only took ownership of the gift the Goddess gave me, I took advantage of our sacred bond one she had no clue even existed doing so without even giving one thought to how that would feel, and I all but forgot that while I may claim her as Mine I was supposed to allow her to tru
Gemma POVI can’t stop shaking as my mind begins to slowly intermingle the feelings I have for William and Westley carefully together making me feel that the person in front of me was Westley, but also my Alpha and fated mate. His eyes are peering into the depths of my soul that only he can reach, while they hold a lustful need within them that I can’t understand while my mind is circling frantically. He licks his lips slowly as I feel the anticipation within me building only stirring my arousal as I slowly forget why I’ve been holding back with him. He is everything I have ever wanted and needed.My once tense body begins to slowly relax as his fingers start to caress the bare skin on the back of my arms making a shiver run down my spine. I find my own fingers slowly making there way towards his bare chest running them along his hardened pectoral muscles before moving along the ridges of his six pack.
Westley POV As I hold Gemma in my arms trying to come down from the most mind-blowing sex of my entire life her scream startles me as I turn around to notice six seriously pissed off people standing in the doorway. As her scream rings in my ears, I quickly react to the two males that are charging towards our bed. I pull out of the Goddess beneath me as I quickly move to push her completely behind me as I growl at the intruders. I don’t recognize any of these people, and as I am studying each one to assess Gemma’s safety the only woman in their group speaks. “Alpha Keen I know your in pain and upset, but by the way they are looking at us something is very wrong here.” Stops his movement and nods at the female before the other charging enraged male abruptly halts and speaks. “I know magic and the two of them reek of dark blood magic, and by the way he is protecting her she is about to be in heat.” The British man says after
Gemma POV We’re standing in a luxurious living room, and even though I’m pressing my body as close to Westley as humanly possible I can’t help feeling a sense of unease threatening to overwhelm me. The hostility that is swirling through the air is toxically thick it’s practically suffocating me, and everyone is tense waiting for someone to snap. Westley’s arm is still possessively wrapped around my waist while I cling to his side, and I can feel the protective aura he holds towards me. I’m definitely not the only one that has noticed the way he is acting towards me, and everyone besides my sister looks like they might rip my West’s throat out. I can’t help but look up at the man that is my savior, my protector, and now my lover. Just thinking about how he put his intimate possessive claim on me this morning without making me feel like I was property to be owned, was the sexiest thing I could have ever imagined. Just thinking about
Gemma’s POVWestley carried me to my suite silently while following my sister, and as we entered what was supposed to be my safe space I felt anything but. He held me in his arms as he walked around the suite making sure it was safe before finally set my feet on the floor.With everything happening today I couldn’t help but feel utterly alone, but at the same time completely smothered. I knew that Westley just wanted to make sure that I was safe, and my sister was only trying to protect me which seemed like something she must do often. I just couldn’t think with people watching me like I was a broken toy that they had no idea how to fix, and the pity they held in their eyes was worst of all.I needed to be alone so I quickly told them I wanted to go get cleaned up thinking that this would allow me to separate from them. But when I tried to enter the bathroom they both were following me inside, and when
Gemma POVWhen I exit the bathroom I notice the lounge wear she had picked out laying on my bed, and I laugh looking at the sweatpants and night shirt she picked out. She thinks with all those men out there I am going to leave my room in lounge wear that could almost be mistaken as pajamas, no way was that happening. When I look through my packed walk-in closet I notice several black clothing bags labeled for different occasions, and when I find one labeled First Date DO NOT OPEN I can’t help but giggle as I unzip the forbidden garment bag.Something about it telling me to not open it made me want to wear whatever was inside even more to defy whoever was trying to control me. The garment bag contained a capped sleeved satin black mini dress, red suede bow strap high heels, and a red leather jacket. We weren’t going out anywhere so I didn’t need the jacket, but the dresses fabric felt like butter and my buzzed brain was tell
Gemma POV I can’t help but start to panic, and when I feel my anxiety rising the only thing I can think of is distract yourself from him. In my mind I’m repeating a mantra He Is A Monster Not Your Mate He Is A Monster Not Your Mate as I down another glass of champagne knowing I’m getting close to being more then buzzed, and when I attempt to refill my glass I feel his hands on the bottle. I’m still repeating my mantra and refusing to look up at him because I know my eyes will only help betray me. I let him have the bottle trying not to show how anxious he is making me, and as I grab the glass that Alpha William ask for I slowly head over to where everyone else is. Can I trust any of these people if the one person that I thought cared for me isn’t the person my mind keeps telling me he is. I know I don’t really have a choice because I’m stuck here with all of them, but as I look around the room at each person I’m slowly trying to
Alpha William POV We still had no idea who all participated in the kidnapping, but from the moment Gemma’s father Marvin found out about her mother Mary’s betrayal he’d been asking about her nonstop. After he had learned about her self-harm his check ins became more frequent, and even though I wanted to keep the kidnapping from the rest of the pack it was hard not to tell him. While we were planning her rescue Marvin had mind-linked me several times to check in on how she was handling everything. He had obviously known about her mother’s heritage, but not about the sacrifice she made to leave the Royal Coven. I had lied to him while we were still unsure if we would be able to rescue her, and I also didn’t know how he would react to me working with the Coven King to do so. Now that we are all back I knew that he could be trusted, and I had let him in on some of what was happening with her. He was obviously enraged t
As evening approaches my birthday party guest begin to arrive as were getting the three little ones ready. William helps West wrangle Wyatt and Walker into a bath, getting their mini versions dressed in matching navy-blue button up shirts and dress pants. The twins are literally little mini versions of their father and uncle which I’m not going to lie pissed me off at first. I may have carried the two tiny lives, but besides their blue eyes having a gray tint it seemed as though the Keen genes overruled all of mine. The men put the two boys in the living room with tablets while they got ready.Skylar and I get ready together as always sighting the need for girl time. As I shimmy my baby bump into my rose gold mermaid dress I can’t help but stare at my beautiful daughter as she twirls around my dressing room in her matching rose gold princess dress. I’m lost in thought when my sister and her two girls come into the dressing room. Unlike my child
7 years later“Mommy, Mommy” My Daughters angelic sing song voice floats through the air. “Wyatt and Walker won’t let me climb up the tree house ladder.” My daughter Skyler cries softly to me about her big brothers as she runs through the back doors of the pack house. Her Auburn hair and gray-blue tear-filled eyes come into view, but before I can even answer her a loud booming voice is heard as heavy footsteps make their way down the marble staircase.“Where is uncle’s little princess? … Why is my little blue Sky so gray, who does uncle need to punish?” William says mockingly stern as she cries slightly louder as he makes his way to her. I shake my head watching him scoop up my youngest as she snuggles into his large broad chest trying to sooth herself. He makes his way towards the living room where I’m reading, and even though he has made it clear that he never wishes to have chil
Gemma POV I don’t know how long we collapse into each other’s embrace forgetting about the world around us until a loud knock sounds. We both jump looking at the other as I let out a giggle realizing that the three people in the sitting area probably heard more than they should have. I can’t help but feel nervous at what they think until West pulls me back into him giving me a soft tender kiss that comforts me so entirely that I almost forget that someone just knocked on the door. Getting lost in his kiss is far to easy, but when another knock is heard we realize that we can no longer ignore it. “We better get back out there even though I’d rather stay in bed pleasuring you all day.” West says to me before kissing the tip of my nose, then both of my cheeks, before placing a final hard kiss to my forehead. Which makes me coyly smile at him before moving slowly off of his lap to get dressed again. I can’t help but admire his muscular body
Alpha Westley POVWhen my father started charging towards my mother and William it was as if time slowed, and all I could think about was shielding Gemma from whatever horror was about to take place. As my father told his story she started to pull away from my chest to hear what he was saying even though she was still shaking like a leaf, but as he moved she wrapped her entire body around me so when I stood to turn us around after my mother shifted she just kept clinging to my chest wrapping her legs around my waist I began to hum to jump start my powers so I could better comfort her. As she began to take deep breaths of my scent in I noticed that she stopped shaking as much, and that when I let out the breath I didn’t even know I was holding sense my mother shifted. I knew that after everything we had went through this was only going to make her shrink back into her shell again especially if she saw my father’s bloodied dead body.“Will
Alpha William POVWhy does he keep calling us her boys?“See boys before you were born I had an identical twin brother named Thomson. He was born a couple minutes before me, but there’s never been twin Alpha’s in our pack so they weren’t sure which of us would become Alpha. Then when your mother was born a year they didn’t know which one of us was the future Luna’s mate.” As he keeps talking our mother begins to quietly sob as she drops to the floor obviously distraught by what he’s about to share. I look to West confused trying to see if he has any ideas of what the hell our father is saying, he doesn’t seem to but like me he doesn’t seem as fazed by what my father is sharing. I’m frozen in fear wondering what’s were about to learn oblivious to everything else that’s happening in my office until West mind-links me.‘Go to Mom Will, Gemma is still shaking I can&rsqu
Alpha William POVAs I slowly walked out of her suite it hurt like hell I didn’t understand why, because in my mind I had already came to the conclusion that I needed to let her go. It was time for me to focus on weeding out the traitors within our pack, and I knew that tomorrow was going to be a day of reckoning especially with West and I finally standing united. My father may have gotten his way in having Gemma and West together, but after tonight I know that West isn’t going to be loyal to anyone but his Luna.Everett had ratted out all three council members including my father who had apparently been the mastermind that had implemented his sick plans. His only demand for giving us all the information he had was to promise that we would send him to the same pack where his sister is so he can at least be by family while he serves his punishment. I had talked to Andy’s sister the Luna of the pack where Maddy was before we
Alpha William POVEver sense we rescued Gemma and Westley my life had become a whirlwind of conflicting emotions. One minute I’m ready to forgive Gemma for a betrayal that she wasn’t even in control of, and the next I want to hurt her just as badly as she had unknowingly hurt me.I was walking a fine line between love and hate with Gemma these last few days, but wasn’t that the true nature of passion? Love and hate were so closely similar that one could turn into the other so easily with a few wrong or right choices. If there was enough passion to fuel one or the other they were both possible. I could tell that my hot and cold behavior towards her started to change how she saw me, but it both terrified and relieved me that I might be close to losing her.After West was knocked out and in the care of the Coven King I tried to convince myself that Gemma was still my Rose bud from before the kidnapping, bu
Gemma POV I frantically stood up standing between the two Alpha males that wanted nothing more than to kill each other all because of me. “ENOUGH!” I could feel my molten lava powers surfacing as my emotions took over. I tried to take in a deep breath and center myself like Jennifer had taught me. “William it was my fault things got out of hand, and I forgot how this would affect you it was an honest mistake.” All he did was glare at me, “oh you forgot that I was your mate how convenient for you I wish I could do the same.” He spat at him, and I let out a small whimper from his hurt full words. When Westley stood up growling at his brother I knew that this situation was going south quickly, and the fire within me was now at the surface tempting me with its intoxicating pleasure to help solve my problem. I shook my head trying to clear my mind to stay centered, and when Westley’s hand comes to interlace with mine he
Gemma POVEver sense we got back from the cabin everything around me has felt surreal, the more they force how they thought I should feel on me, and what they thought I should do the more it all just felt wrong. Kade and William seemed to be playing a game of tug of war with me that I wasn’t even given the choice in participating in. I had started to enjoy spending time with Kade, but he felt like a wise older friend nothing more. Obviously I felt something for William, but I could tell that he was still hurt and angry about everything that had happened at the cabin no matter how much he said that he was trying to forgive me for him. Like I decided to go they’re of my own free will and betray him which only made me annoyed by his ever looming presence. He sat there in the background like a creepy stalker, that tried to talk to me as little as possible unless I had a question about my memory.William seemed to be adamant about me