Wiping the tears from my eyes as I fly makes everything else feel so real. Who does he think he is? To tell me I’m not strong enough!? Landing on the ground, I walk listening to the crunch of the leaves under my feet. I come here when the world doesn’t seem to understand me. Which is pretty often. It’s the most beautiful part of our territory. My dad said he built it when I was a little girl for me to be able to release my wings and learn how to fly one day. But once I got my wings he was too busy to teach me anything, so now I just come here by myself. Sitting on the big rock by a tree I look out to the field covered in daisies and wildflowers, there’s also a little lake to the right that has a waterfall. My father said he chose this place because when he showed me it for the first time he never saw my face light up so bright. It’s such a beautiful sight to see, being here makes it easy to forget the rest of the world. I’m not like other she- wolves and they all know it that’s why they pick on me and make me feel less than myself. Having wings is nothing but a blessing and a curse. My eyes blow bright white when I’m mad and sometimes I can’t control it, I black out and hurt the people I love. My mother told me when I was just a baby that my eyes glowed bright all the time. I never left the pack walls. Everyone in it knew about my eyes and promised to keep an eye on me when I was out and about by myself. My grandma Ameila always tells me “ with great power comes great destruction” when I was a baby I was born with powers no one had ever seen before, I didn’t need my wings like mom did or turn a certain age. I still have the gifts of a wolf as well but the power inside me only makes it hard for me to make it through the day without being told how to be or what I’m supposed to do. When I was 9 my brother made me so angry. I unleashed all my powers on him. Putting him into a coma, I felt horrible. I stayed by his side while they tried to wake him up. They said the amount of strength I have could end the whole world if I’m not careful. Grandma said he would be fine that he was just sleeping, with him having angel blood it didn’t affect him as much as it would have on a human or a full wolf but the power was too much for his body to control so a coma was it’s only way out. Ever since then my father made sure I left it to my grandmas every summer and practiced controlling it.
And I have a hold on it enough not to hurt anyone but myself. My wings still come out as you see me going off on Alpha Erik but the pain that I could bring down on anyone i use it against myself instead and that is why I come here to release it into the lack. I can only control it for so long so I use this place so I never have to hurt anyone again. The lack just absorbs my power, with it being charmed by the angel goddess at my mothers request none of it can escape or be transferred to anyone. I’m such a freak!!!
Being who I am is so cool till someone gets too close.
Walking over to the lack, I let every emotion, every negative thought wash over me till everything turns white.
Erik POV
Okay I’ll admit her glowing eyes did scare me a bit but that’s about it !! Maybe she is stronger than I thought but where did she run off too.
“ don’t worry about her Alpha Erik, she just needs to blow off some steam.” Alpha Luca says to me
“ where?” I asked
“ That I can’t tell you.”
“ Is she going to be okay?”
“ yeah she will be. Would you like to stay till she gets back? She's usually gone all day.” He requested
All day? Does he not worry about her when she runs off like that!? When he’s wife was kidnapped and almost killed over who she is!
“ That would be lovely, thank you!” I respond with a nod we head inside
“ So how long did her eyes do that?”
“ since the day she was born”
“ wow really?”
“ Why can’t I get ahold of our daughter? What did you do?” Luna Alice barges in the kitchen yelling
“ She's fine, Alice, she just wants to go to her special place.” He explained
“ Who pissed her off this time? Can you give her a break? Sometimes, you know she can’t control her anger!” She barks
“ It was me. I think I made her mad when I told her she could be stronger, with some extra training.” I admitted
She stared right into my soul the moment those words left my lips, Okay maybe I am scared of someone.
“ She's always been a hot head.” She sighed sitting down next to Alpha Luca
“ We can't tell you much about Briella, it's her place to tell you, but all I can say is you need to be patient with her.” She said with a soft voice
The kitchen door swings open and two teenagers walk in.
“ We have been summoned to her special place, can we have your permission to go help her?” The girl asked
“ Yes you have our permission but do try to bring her back sooner than midnight this time?”
“ Who's the boy?” I growled
“ these are Briella’s best friends.” Alpha Luca explains
They walk past the table and towards the back door
“ The boy stays, the girl can go.” I groaned
“ Excuse me? I’m her best friend and I'm going to help her.” He huffs a growl releases from my lips and I stand up from my spot not taking eyes off him
“ you will not come close to my mate when I’m not around, you will sit here next to me till she returns.” I command
“ Alpha Erik the boy means no harm! But do as he says” glad Alpha Luca knows how to make the right decision
“ what??? This is ridiculous!” The boy argues under his breath sitting down next to me
Looking over to the girl she looks terrified but instead of questioning me she walks out without a word.
Briella POV After my outburst on Erik my father finally let up on all the training and back off to school. I hate myself for going off on him like I did but sometimes I can’t help it, and he knows exactly what buttons to push. When I got back to the house last night as usual mom and dad were waiting for me in the kitchen along with him this time. I didn’t look at him or give him a single amount of my attention. He brought out the one part of me I’ve been working so hard to hide from everyone. So, I’ve declared to ignore him at all times and hope he’ll just go away. I turn 18 soon and if it really turns out he is my mate I don’t know what I’m going to do yet. Getting out of bed I walk into the bathroom for a shower, this time I set my alarm for two hours early so I can snooze for an hour before actually getting up.Turning the shower on, I brush my teeth and pee while I wait for the water to warm up.
My one nightmare is for me to lose control in front of the whole school. They already don’t like me so the last thing I need is to give them another reason to call me a freak. My angel side is a secret to everyone who isn’t in this pack except for my best friends of course. My parents have made it very clear how dangerous for the world to know is, life threatening. But what’s more dangerous than a school full of people picking on you all day just for being an alpha female then going to a school full of people who would not only hate me but be too scared to even have me there. My freak out in front of Erik wasn’t even as bad as it could get. Controlling it has gotten easier, it’s when I black out that makes it hard. I don’t understand who I am, no one does. How would they? When I’m not even supposed to exist? Sometimes I think I’m alone, not because I am but because there’s no one else in this world that can tell me what I’m supposed to do. Have
Taking a deep breath while I let what I agreed with last night sink in. I can’t help but think it’s a trap to get me to leave here to be with him. I’m not ready for that. I don't turn 18 for another week but here I am agreeing to shit that only sticks me being closer to him. He’s like a lighting bug who won’t leave you alone while you try to watch the stars. Rolling out of bed I get ready for the day. Throwing on some blue jean shorts and a black cut off t-shirt, pulling my hair into a ponytail I slip on my shoes and walk out the door. Heading over to the packhouse I see a line of black SUVs outside. Confused, I run inside and bumped into a man in a black suit. “ dad?” I yell “ Briella finally you are here, please let her by” my dad commands The men in the black suits step aside and my dad and E
“ Grandma? Are you home?” I yelled “ Grandma?” “ I’m in here dear.” I walked into the living room and she was sitting on the couch drinking her tea and doodling in her crossword book “ Are you here alone?” I asked “ Yes Raymond went to the store and to talk to your father who is looking for you by the way.” she tells me, raising an eyebrow at me. “ I know I just can’t be there right now.” I sighed sitting down next to her “ Is there a reason you can’t talk to your mom about whatever is bothering you?” “ No, she’ll just agree with dad. It’s like they have the
The sun shines through the cracks of the curtains, pulling the blanket over my head. I grew up at the thought of getting up. I had so much confidence last night that now I have to but now I have to put my actions where my mouth is. Rubbing my eyes I scoot out of bed. I wrapped my hair up into a bun and threw on a t - shirt and sweatpants. Rubbing the crust off my eyes I head down stairs for some coffee. When I get to the kitchen my dad and mom are sitting at the table with my brother, I swear they get up before the sun does, they aren’t normal. Walking over to the counter I grab a coffee mug and pour coffee into it. Adding cream and vanilla, I grab a banana nut muffin off the stove and sit down next to mom. She looks at me with worry in her eyes, they all do. “ So are you all just going to look at me like I’m going to turn into dust in the next few minutes or are you going to tell me what's going on?” I g
Once we arrived everyone greeted me with open arms, some even gave me a hug. The goons were cracking me up. I couldn't stop laughing Hunter and Andrew wouldn’t stop arguing over the last slice of pizza for lunch and honestly made me glad I wasn’t the only one that cared about food. Erik showed me around and showed me where he is setting up the training room my dad told him he needed. I just rolled my eyes as if I’ll even need it. I think he wanted to start me off easy because it took me 2 seconds to knock out the guy I trained with today. Well maybe not exactly 2 seconds but you get what I mean. I had to beg him to let me start training before the room was finished and promised that If I got too angry I would excuse myself and go to my special place before anything bad happened. He did ask if I’d show him my special place and got an attitude when I told him no. After dinner I headed up to the guest room that I made perfectly cl
Briella POV Erik is so annoying I didn’t need a chaperone to follow me to my car but he insisted he needed to make sure I didn’t try to skip, so not only did he follow me to my car, he also followed me in his car to school. “ Brie as much as we love Mr. big bad and handsome coming into your life. What’s with the stalker vibes?” She asks pointing back to his car “ yeah I know he thinks I’m going to ditch or some shit” I sighed rolling my eyes “ Did you say something about ditching?” Ethan asked “ no I’m not that stupid. He just assumed” At the next green light I turn left instead of going straight, and might as well tak
Watching him spar with her makes my stomach turn. Looking over to Oliver his eyes widen and shut really hard. “ Alright, Briella.. I know you are mad just don’t burn me or hurt me to bad” he whimpers With one punch I sent him flying into Andrew “ Briella!” Erik yells “ oh now you want to pay attention to me” I growl “Yeah boss you’ve fucked up” Andrew groans pushing Oliver off him “ Excuse me?” He growls “ yeah ‘boss’ while you’ve had your nose stick up my ‘friends’ ass I beat yet another one of your guards. I’ll say that 3/6 this week already. 3 more
“ Of course father. Let’s talk.” Aurther hissed“ Please you guys can have a private conversation in my office.” Erik announced making his voice louder than theirs. Andrew and Hunter showed them to Erik’s office I waited until the kitchen door closed behind them before turning my eyes back on Erik.“ what? Why are you giving me that look?“ he sighed knowing already what I was going to say.“Really do you need me to explain? You just gave him up as if you didn’t care what was going to happen next.” I yelled throwing my hands up in the air“ Whatever he would of did to Aurther would of been a lot better than him taking his anger out of our pack” he admitted
I woke up this morning enjoying the two bundles of joy inside my stomach. I woke up this morning happy. We picked out our house and I love it, it’s huge and has plenty of room for everyone. Then reality sets in. James is on his way here. I don’t know what he is going to do or if everyone here will make it out alive after it’s all over. What if he is coming for war? And the talk he wants to have with me and Erik is just a distraction. But what if he doesn’t want to fight and we push him towards it by throwing Amanda in his face? How do I know what I’m doing is the right thing? Pushing myself out of bed I freeze. I freeze with my feet pressed against the ground.“ He’s here” rings through my head. I repeat this to myself over and over again as if I can’t seem to let it sink in the way it should.&l
“ sir? What do you want us to?” He asked me over and over again but I wasn’t quite sure how I wanted to go about this. If Aurther is alive and kicking would Liam be? No, that's impossible. I buried him myself. Rubbing the back of my neck with my hand I paced back and forth in my office. I can’t help but wonder what all Aurther heard. Has he been able to read mh thoughts all these years? I remember what happened that night Liam died. And that night Aurther ran away for good. He was so angry with me without letting me explain. His foolishness ended with his brother's death. Not that I’m surprised he’s never cared about this pack or anyone else other than himself. Stopping in one spot by the book case when the office door opens up and my head warrior walks in again probably to ask what we are doing. “ trucks are ready sir” was all he said. I’ll admit I was kind of surprised they took matters into their
“ YOU DID WHAT??” He yelled at me over and over again. I don’t think he meant it in a way to hurt my feelings more or in a way to show how angry he was about me telling Aurther to alert his father without discussing it with him first. I just sat here listening to everything he had to say. All his worries and concerns. He even expressed to me how he was worried that if I did get hurt in battle I'd even notice because of my reaction from the glass cutting my stomach. And if I’m being completely honest I haven’t thought about that at all. It was odd that I didn’t notice, maybe it was because of the twins' powers. I haven’t even considered them in the situation of getting hurt either. I know that has to make me sound like a bad mom. But with the way they are protecting themselves I’m sure they will be fine. Right? But I also believe even being this far along that I can still protect myself. I haven’t h
Later that yesterday afternoon, Erik and I decided we needed to move out of the pack house. With two kids coming we knew they would be trouble and the pack house is made for business. After deciding this I couldn’t stop thinking about it, honestly I haven’t been shopping for the babies at all either. I mean I’ve gotten a few things here and there when we go to the store for other things but I haven’t been really shopping for them for all the big things. He agreed that we would go and look at houses after all of this is over, so I might ask to go shopping some as well. Sitting in the bathroom on the toilet I work up the courage to get up on my own. Only being a few months pregnant they are already twice the size a normal baby would be by now. One loves to press against my bladder at all ends of the night. Pulling my pants up I wobble over to the sink to wash my hands and face. My face is all broken out and my feet are so swollen
“ So what's the plan?” Amanda asked, holding an ice pack to her face. Just a few minutes Alora saw her flirting it up with one of the pack members and didn’t hesitate to let her know how she felt about it. It’s been years since they’ve been together but obviously Alora isn’t over it even though she was married to Liam. I wonder if she actually loved Liam then?“ Aurther still has a connection to his father, but he says he has a wall up so his father has no idea. Just hearing from Aurther like that could make him furious. Which will spark the flame and lead him right here. That’s where you come in.” I answered by passing over a cup of coffee to her. With getting punched in the face by her ex I felt like they needed it. Her hair is bright red and skin is fair. Her eyes are bright light brown color almost like honey. I let her borrow some clothes from girl
We got back to the hotel room. I'm surprised no one flinched seeing the big dude carrying a girl who seemed to be struggling and in need of help. Erik held on to her as Hunter grabbed the desk chair from one of the rooms and rope that I didn’t know we brought with us. With Hunter and Andrew standing by the chair he placed her in the chair. In the blink of an eye she was tied to it like a prisoner.“ We aren't going to hurt you” I said, trying to soothe the situation.“ Oh really?? Then why did your men kidnap me and tie me up like a wild animal?” She hissed yanking on her arms.“ Because we need to talk and you are obviously a flight risk.” Andrew explained placing a bottle of water to her lips as if she’s been sitting there for hours now.
The plane finally landed and I decided to keep what I read to myself till we got to the hotel. We still aren’t sure where Amanda is but I’m sure they have a lead on where she could be. We took a cab to the hotel which felt longer than the plane ride. Once we got there I still wasn’t allowed to help carry anything so I talked to the guy at the front desks to check us in. He was nice enough to give us a room here on the first floor since the elevator seemed to be down. Which is my luck since that happened at the last hotel we were at. Opening our hotel room I was amazed at how big it was. And the view was just as beautiful.“ Hey, I got to tell you something.” I mumbled into his head he looked me up and down making sure I was okay before responding.“ yeah?” He kept eye contact with me making it more and more
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