I knew exactly why the fear began to creep upon me and it had everything to do with my brother Westley, and our past. I had forgot that my mother had a deep love for our future Luna when I let my rage take over earlier, and we all remember the first two years after my mother had to let Gemma go. My mother and Gemma had a bond the moment she met the little glowing baby. We don’t know why, but after her mother gave birth to her and saw that she was going to be the next Luna she didn’t want anything to do with the poor baby. My dad’s Beta Marvin was so proud to have given our pack their future Luna, but the wind was ripped from his sails when his mate refused to even name her. After the first month of her being home he had a talk with my parents about not being able to care for her any longer. Everyone could see the fierce love Marvin had for his daughter, but without the help of his mate and her refusal to admit that anything was wrong he had no other choice but to s
Gemma POV What the hell is with this guy? I know I’ve never been in a relationship, but I don’t think it’s normal to do what he is doing to me. I really need to build my walls back up to shield me from the inevitable, and stop being vulnerable around these people that I don’t even know. My parents had strict rules about being around boys for a reason, and I think I am going to be upholding to those strict rules whether my parents are still enforcing them or not. I get off the counter grab my dress, and look around for my underwear which seem to have gone missing so I give up. I feel vulnerable and mortified by what I just allowed to happen with this man. I clean myself up, and exit the bathroom as quietly and quickly as possible hoping I don’t get caught by the devil named Alpha Keen again. I find my way back to the front door, and exit without looking at the two men gaurding the door. Breathing in the deepest bigg
Westley POVWhen I saw the most beautiful angel walking down the drive way I would have never guessed that she was my little sunshine. The moment she told me who she was I knew that my brother couldn’t have her, and I would be the one to make sure of that. Looking into her eyes I could tell she was too innocent for that monster, and from what she told me he had already taken advantage of the most beautiful soul I’d ever met.My little sunshine has been occupying my thoughts as far back as I can remember, and sense I was little whenever I saw her picture I always got a longing feeling. It was like my soul had bonded to hers when we were only toddlers. Before she left I was the happiest toddler, inseparable from Gemma everywhere she went I was with her and everywhere I went too followed. Then she was ripped out of our happy home, and it felt like sadness took over every cell in my body. My parents had brought me to the pack doctors
Alpha Keen POV I make my way back to my room just to make sure that she isn’t sitting in my bathroom anymore, and I don’t know if I’m hoping she is or wishing she isn’t. I open the door and I’m assaulted by her sweet scent lingering, and the minute I breathe it in I feel a calm wash over me and I’m instantly turned on as if her scent is Viagra. My mind displaying images of her, and I start to think back to how close I got to truly tasting my mate. No. no. no. this is all a lie it’s just that mate bond I have nothing with her I need to keep my head on straight. I decide that I need to call Madison to get Gemma off my mind, and let Maddy know what’s going on to an extent. I pull my phone out to see ten missed calls from Madison, oh shit well I’m going to be bitched out. I text her because she should be at school still. ‘hey what’s up?’ Alpha Keen ‘why is everyone saying that our new Luna was supposed
Alpha Keen POV He finally answers his door after I’m pounding on it for a good five minutes, and I see her snuggled in the middle of his bed. He tries to block me from entering, and I push past him shooting him pointed glare at him. I don’t understand what the hell he thinks he’s going to accomplish here, because no matter how much he may want her she is my fated mate. We both sit on the couch that’s directly across from his bed just starring at her waiting for her to wake up, and before we know it an hour has passed. That’s when I hear her calling me from the front door, and I look at Westley trying to figure out what he’s going to do. He glared at me allowing a deep growl to level him vibrating his chest, and he starts to get up moving slowly towards my mate on his bed. When he looks at her a devilish smirk quickly appears, and his growl is replaced by something that sounds like humming. The signal that he’s starting to awaken h
Gemma POV The last thing I remember I was sitting in Westley’s car, and he had just told me that we are werewolves. I couldn’t wrap my mind around everything that the familiar stranger had shared with me. I’m perplexed about why I’ve never been able to make a friend to save my life, but here in this new town I feel close to people I know nothing about. Why is everything dark, and what is happening to me? My body feels heavy, and no matter how hard I try to open my eyes I can’t. It’s like my body is sleeping, but my mind is a racing mess. All the sudden I feel a sense of uneasiness, and a loud voice growl out “MINE. GIVE HER TO ME NOW!” I wonder why the man is so furious, and who he’s talking about. Whoever she is she must be someone really special to him for him to be acting so possessively. As soon as I hear the voice the uneasiness leaves me, and a sense of calm washes over me. All the sudden the humming sound comes into my head
Alpha Keen POV The minute I leave the room I regret it, and I try to calm myself but without her rose bud and vanilla scent I know there’s no use. Why do I keep fooling myself into thinking that I’m actually going to be able to give her up? I know that’s not possible so I need to just accept it, and move on. She is mine and even though I don’t want to admit it I am hers. So why am I allowing my brother who has the power to actually steal my mate stay in his room with her while I’m out here hating myself? Because I’m completely terrified that if I actually give in to this mate bond fully I will no longer be in control of my life, and losing control is my worst fear. Plus everyone I’ve been trying to convince about the mating bond not being worth it are going to literally laugh in my face if I become one of those mate whipped wolves. I’m the fucking Alpha I can’t have people thinking I’m weak, and I can tell by how I crave to be near her t
Gemma POV As we left West's room hand in hand an overwhelming uncertainty crept over me that not even the sparks from Keen could chase away. He had shared all the reasons how he knows we are mates, and was determined to show me that West wasn't. Every conformation that Alpha Keen gave me about us being mates seemed to give him an ego boost, and with every testament that West wasn’t my mate came a wave hurt spilling into the room. West wasn’t letting his emotions show which made it tug at my heart strings even more. I don't understand how or why, but I could just sense his emotions which was freightening at first. I know that West and I aren't mates but there is something between us that is unexplainable. It feels like the moment you come home after being homesick, and that feeling of peace mixed with contentness that slowly washes over your entire being. If Keen was my mate which felt electrifying and exhilarating, than West was so
Gemma POV The pack doctors as well as the old Alpha and Luna told Alpha Keen that I should rest for a day before starting school just to make sure everything was on the up and up. I was annoyed at myself for being sad that Alpha Keen hadn’t come to tell me this himself, and I cursed at my heart for having feelings for someone who clearly didn’t deserve them. Instead of Keen both of his parents had shown up at my suite at 9:00am, and I could see now what West was talking about when he told me about his mother. I didn’t know their mom at all but I held a love for her within me that felt deeply rooted from the moment she smiled at me when I opened the door. The second after I had told them to come in she pulled me into her embrace it felt like what a mothers comfort should be, and it made me sad that my own mother obviously didn’t feel that way for me. She didn’t explain to me my past, but gushed over memories that she had of me with her so
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