FAYEI stepped out of the elevator and turned right, heading down to Kate’s apartment at the end of the hall. I was excited to see her again, after not seeing her for such a long time. She knew I was back in the States, but she didn't know I was on my way to her apartment right now.I knocked solidly three times and waited for Kate to open the door. She did so without hesitation and stood there; the shock written all over her face.Her right hand whipped up over her mouth and she stared at me with wide eyes, as I stood there grinning from ear to ear. My surprise had been effectively carried out. "Gonna invite me in?" I asked with a smile.The next minute she squealed and threw the door widely opened, and then flung herself on me, screaming the entire time. I vaguely wondered what her neighbors in the other apartments would think, even as I hugged her back and squeezed, trying to imprint her body shape on mine. She broke the hug and then brought her hands to grip my palms. "Your ha
FAYE This was new. What I felt was something I'd never felt before. I didn't know what it was exactly, but I knew I felt like I could walk on clouds. Like my feet weren't touching the ground, even as I walked up the stairs to Yvonne's room in the main house. Someone hurried me along, standing by Yvonne's door as they waited for me to enter, so that they could start pulling at my hair and pinching at me with needless and all what not. I was getting ready for the crowning ceremony. Which would be later in the evening. Pack members were already starting to arrive. It had been stated that it would be a strictly pack members only attendance. No one was allowed to bring an extra that wasn't a pack member. And they couldn't bring even bring a non- were in the first place. Non supernaturals couldn't come. Normally, other members of the werewolf community could come to witness the crowning ceremony of an Alpha or Luna but we'd decided against it. I was yet to annul my marriage to Nat
NATHAN"I'm just saying. She's been missing for a year now. And the Black Saint can't be without…well a wife, a hostess for the gatherings you hold, or a spouse to stand in for you when you need it." He finished and flashed me a wide sickening grin as though he had come up with the most fantastic idea of the century.I rolled my head, wondering why my neck was so fucking stiff. "Listen, Eastwood, I have a lot of work I need to get done, so could you just get to the point?""Oh…my daughter, Erin. You've met her before."Yes, I had. And what an unpleasant meeting those days had been. "She's a beautiful girl, if I say so myself. I'm very proud of her—""And so what if she's beautiful? What, you want me to sponsor a modeling career for her or something?""Ahh, no Black Saint. I want you to marry her." He fidgeted on the word marry and I almost laughed. "What the are you saying, Eastwood?""Faye has been missing for over a year now. It's obvious she doesn't want to come back to you. And
NATHAN"You've found Faye?""Yes, Mr Carver. Our sources say she's in Paris."I breathed in as that piece of information settled in my head. How in the hell had Faye been able to not just leave the States, but go to France?"Wait, she's in France? How? How did you get this information?" I asked Marshall. His P. I firm was a reputable one I'd hired to keep looking for Faye, as all other options had failed me. No one around me understood why I kept looking. And I didn't either. I didn't get why I had to keep looking for her. Why I had to find her? "I'll be there in person to discuss this with you, Sir."he said, and we set up a time to meet. I hung up the phone and walked away from the desk, going to the door and pulling it open.I would not be meeting the private investigator here, but in my home.I wanted to hear all this man had to say, but in a more private space. The pack house just didn't offer me the same comfort it used to. It was important to me that I close the chapter of m
NATHANSomething was different. The sounds I was hearing was one. I pushed open the door and walked in. The sounds were getting louder. I walked further into the room and froze. That was when I knew what I was hearing. Sex noises, and the sight before me confirmed it.A shirtless Lannon was making out with Zelda. To think neither of them heard my car pull up. Lannon especially. He was a werewolf, and yet he didn't notice that they were no longer alone. I was about to make my presence known when Lannon suddenly froze. His back went rigid with tension and then he relaxed. Thought he wouldn't figure it out."What's wrong?" Zelda asked him breathlessly."Nathan." He whispered to her.I cleared my throat, and Zelda snapped her head at me. Her eyes were wide with visible shock.Lannon stood up and looked at me while Zelda fixed her hair and muttered curses at him the entire time.I arched a brow and smirked at him.The question I wanted to ask was plain on my face."So, how's the treatme
FAYEThe high doors opened from both sides and I stepped into the hall. Every single person in the hall rose to their feet in a deep sign of respect and reverence. A shiver of excitement rode up my spine as I walked into the sea of Eclipse pack wolves present at my crowning ceremony.I was going to be Luna in just a few minutes.Axel slid up to me and grasped my palm in his. "Ready?" He asked."Yes." I said, looking up at him. His eyes glittered with soft adoration and he smiled.We took the first step and those seated on the first row we walked by bowed low at the waist. We walked down the long aisle in between the two rows of seats, and the trail of my dress billowed out behind us.I could easily picture myself getting married to Axel on a day like this. I'm a gown like the creamy shimmery vampire's wife dress that I wore. He would hold my hand like this, and we would walk down the aisle. Or maybe Yvonne would give me away. I caught myself and squeezed my eyes shut.You're not
FAYE Its grip on me tightened some more, tightening, tightening, drawing me in further as the glow filled my head and the magic hummed even louder in my ear. I snapped the box closed immediately and shut my eyes to shake off the feeling. The magic was too powerful. Too alluring and strong. I felt like something had taken over me for those few minutes and I'd been behind a haze. I didn't know what I'd do with something like that if I had it, but I could still feel its powerful thrum. A glance around the room showed me everyone had felt it too. Somehow, Axel and Gardner were standing even closer to me. Their eyes glued to the box until I let the hand holding it up fall to my side. "So for how much longer is it going to be the responsibility of the Eclipse pack?"I asked Gardner. It took a minute to gather his thoughts. I wondered if those who had their wolves felt the power of the moonstone more strongly than latents did. "Well," he shared a look with Brenda and Deindre, "
FAYE "I believe by now he should have received the divorce papers." I was in the home office, with Yvonne sifting through files and documents that helped m learn about the family real estate company. It was a billion dollar company, and it was just recently branching out into the tech industry. Perfect for what I had in mind. "I didn't send him anything." I stopped flipping through the pages. "What are you saying, Yvonne? It's been days since I signed the papers." "The divorce papers are still on my desk in the office. I didn't send them to Nathan." I was stunned to a standstill as Yvonne kept walking in front of me. " But why?" "Because I wanted you to be crowned Luna first. I didn't want him finding out you were here until after you became Luna." "So I'm still Faye Carver?" I asked in surprise. I'd been hoping that by now Yvonne had received the divorce papers back and we could go to court and finally dissolve the marriage. But I was just learning that the divorce pape
Faye"Yvonne, this place is too much." I glanced around the fully decorated condo, my excitement simmering with the idea of this space being mine to do with as I please.The place is amazing. More than I could have hoped for, and I’ve only made it to the living room. There is a huge fireplace and a big soft gray sectional sofa that looks fluffy and comfortable. Big pillows line most of it and it looks so cozy. There is light everywhere, shining in from the floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over Vegas."That place is perfect." she told me on the phone."The security is top notch.You can order food whenever you want and they have a gym and a spa downstairs. Everything you need with only a call.""It’s safe," she pushed. "You could come stay with me if you’d prefer. I’d love to have you at home, but I thought you might want your own place."I'd started my post graduate studies, this time nearer to home and I'd gotten a whole condo to stay in for the duration of my studies. Staying wit
TWO MONTHS LATERFAYEI sat in front of Yvonne as she explained the dynamics of our business relationship with some other company.I wasn't listening to her. I was mostly just nodding, so she could continue to speak. "Faye? Faye? Are you listening?"I sighed and nodded, not knowing how to tell her what bothers me. "Faye tell me. You know you haven't spoken a lot about what happened in that forest with the Black Saint. I can't believe you went in there without letting me know." She still spoke of it frequently with anger l, but she was beginning to forgive me. It wasn't everyday a person's niece went to the forest of lost souls and made it out alone. I sighed again and she scolded me angrily."That's the fifteenth sigh today, fifteenth, and it's not even mid morning yet. Why do you sound like you lost a loved one, my dear?""Maybe cause I did lose a loved one?"I told her, my face falling as I remembered said loved one again. "Is this about Nathan?"I looked at her and nodded. I c
NATHANThe witch died how she had planned for me to die. A fitting end for someone who'd come with the sole aim of destroying me. Faye massaged her wrists where those damn fools must have tied her up before. I moved to her and held both her wrists in my hands, caressing them softly, so that the ache could go away.She wasn't responding to me. She just stood there, stiffly by my side. I looked into her face and I couldn't read anything.I missed the days when I would look at her face and see what she was thinking, what she was feeling. "Won't you go after him?" Faye asked, pointing in the direction Axel had run in. I shook my head. "Lannon will take care of him."Her mouth dropped open. "Lannon is here too?""Yes, Queeny. He entered the forest the night before we did.""I can't believe you have been lying to me this whole time. About everything!" She screamed in a hurt tone, stepping away from me. I rushed to her, brushing her still wet hair from her face and cupping her face in
FAYE"Briggs was my sister and you killed her!" she yelled, her voice rising on each word until my ears felt scraped by her shrill tone.Nathan looked bored with the whole thing. He didn't look as bothered by the fact that we were in danger, surrounded by our enemies who had upper hand."So that's why you want to destroy my pack so bad. Well I can't say I'm sorry, Vera. Your sister messed with the wrong pack, just like you're doing now, and she got what she deserved, just like you will." He said, with finality behind his words. She growled and screamed unfamiliar words at him, her magic sending him flying into the concrete wall. I winced as he landed with his arm and felt myself go weak for a second.I was still finding it an ordeal watching Nathan get hurt. It was a lot. "I guess we're done here."Axel said and shifted back from Vera."You can take care of them sweetie, do whatever you please."Vera smirked and strolled around to me.I saw Nathan's body tighten and get ready for a
FAYEMy heart broke at his words and I felt like a sham at his words. I'd believe I could be Luna because both Yvonne and Axel has stood by me and encouraged me. And now he said this?"Imagine my surprise when after years of devotion to the pack, Yvonne went in search of a daughter I had never heard about. A daughter that had never been around. I was passed over for you?" He said like he still couldn't believe it. "It's a fucking joke, my sweet." I felt sick at the stupid endearment.Tears formed in my eyes and I pressed them closed tightly.I knew Nathan's focus was on me, he would go ballistic of I cried. I wanted to hear all of it.No, I needed to hear everything."I didn't want Yvonne to go looking for you, prayed to the moon goddess that she didn't find you, but guess what? She did. Because this dumbass Buffon,"he said, pointing at Nathan, "threw you out. He couldn't even love you properly then and you still went back to him when you returned home. After all I'd done for you.
FAYEI was sitting in a chair with my arms tied down to the arms of the chair when I came to.The black bag over my face was still there, but it wasn't tight around my face anymore.I tried to look through it but all I could see was little light, peeking at me through the bag.All of a sudden the bag was yanked off my head and I found myself looking at Axel. I felt elated that I'd found him, but I also felt angry about what he'd done. And why did he send people to kidnap me?"Axel," I started.He raised a hand, cutting me off. "it's not just you I need to talk to. I want to talk to your lover too. I wonder what could be holding him back. Does he not love you as much as you think he does, perhaps?"I snorted and his gaze flashed with annoyance."Or maybe he's content to abandon you here. Not even bother coming to get you."I glared at him and said nothing.Axel laughed. "Well, either way, we've got more than enough time together. But first, I think your friend is going to want to mee
NATHANThere was a tinkle of laughter in the air when I woke up.The sound was pleasant to my ears and made me ache to find the owner of the laugh.My eyes slid open and rested on Faye. Something was making her happy this morning.I could relate too, cause I felt really happy too. Despite everything that had happened yesterday, it was great to see that we were okay.In fact, we were more than okay. We had finally talked about the part of me that I'd always locked away, never wanted to talk about with anyone, or show anybody.She giggled again, looking up at something I couldn't see and I had to ask her. "Heyy, Queeny." I said, wondering how she'd react this time to the nickname she was always irritated by. "Heyyy." She replied, not really paying me much attention. There was an excitement to her movements though, and a wide smile on her face. I could watch her smile all day, or just listen to her laugh and feel good when the day ended. "What are you doing?" I asked her.Not to
FAYEI held his bandaged hands in my hands. He'd scared the hell out of me when he had run out on me like that. I couldn't believe what I had heard. He'd said Dad, and then he'd started calling out mother.I didn't know what he'd been seeing but it sure felt very intense from where I had witnessed it.There was no one else in the forest except for me and Faye, everything else was false. I told myself repeatedly, trying to quell the worry I had now. What if I was the problem that needed to be stopped?What if I saw things just as clearly as Nathan had?I shook my head and refused to fall for it. "We need to keep moving." Nathan said to me and I agreed.We had to leave that area. We had both taken a drink of the potion now, and nothing more could happen to us for a few more hours.It was getting dark now. I didn't know if this was an effect of the forest magic or something else but we had to rest. We stopped and collected wood for a fire together.We stacked the wood and then s
NATHANI'd scared her badly.For her to have cracked and spilled those tears in front of me.She was so icy now, I doubted she ever cried infront of anyone.I had felt something change between us. She wasn't saying anything now, just walking stiffly beside me. I looked ahead, raising tree branches that hung low so that both of us could make our way through.We trudged on, the low bushes and weeds brushing against our thighs and lower legs.The roots that were off the ground were not easy to spot, and almost brought her down twice, with me reaching out to steady her and getting rebuffed each time.I could take that.For now. I would take it until she didn't want to throw me off anymore. Couldn't reject me.I walked around a tree and her eyes followed me sharperly, showing me she was watching me, even though she pretended not to be. I chuckled to myself, coming out onto the path we were walking.Something felt eerily quiet about the forest.It wasn't just that I already knew it was