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“Trust me, I wanted to kill those rude bitches all those years! If I’d had my witch powers back then, I would’ve brewed some evil potions. I’m sure they would’ve been potent! Maybe I would live up to the rumors about me then!” Aurora yelled, throwing her hands up as she downed another glass of beer.She stood in the middle of the VIP room they had rented at a bar in the heart of Earnest Valley.The dance floor outside was too crowded, and none of them felt like mingling with the members of the Moonlight Pack. Despite the truce, things were still uneasy between the groups and Aurora's reputation was a crucial reason too.“No, I wouldn’t. Those rumors clearly said ‘people,’ and those bitches are everything except that!” she added, draining another glass.“You’re drunk, Aurora,” Layla said with exasperation, though she made no move to take the drinks away. It would have been a pointless effort anyway.“What nonsense, Layla! What nonsense!” Aurora exclaimed, swaying to the loud music playi
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“I hoped you’d get whacked by Sally; that woman used to like me! I hoped I could see her again because she was such a nice lady. I hated that you went ahead and sided with the entire pack! I hated that you turned to Phoebe! I resented you for smiling at my mother and sister like they could do no wrong! I resented you for making me the subject of ridicule! Despite everything you did… despite… the wrongs you did to me… despite it all…” Aurora said, starting to hyperventilate. Easton immediately hugged her tightly to himself, her tears wetting his shoulder, but he wasn’t bothered by it. He was just glad that she hadn’t broken down completely before Layla called him.He would have barred Aurora from drinking if he could, but she was a grown woman. This was the same thing that happened every time Aurora decided to get drunk—she’d become extra open with the feelings she’d kept bottled up in her heart, saying a lot of things. She’d start talking as if Maverick was in front of her, cursing and
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Back at the pack house, Alec returned with Sadie, who immediately got to work checking on Maverick. She moved with practiced efficiency, her calm demeanor a stark contrast to the tension in the room.“His body is reacting to the severed bond,” Sadie explained after a moment, her voice professional. “It’s like an open wound that refuses to heal.”“What can you do for him?” Anabella asked, her tone hopeful.Sadie sighed. “Not much, unfortunately. He needs to rest, stay hydrated, and avoid situations that will trigger the bond’s reaction.”Alec rolled his eyes. “Tell that to him when he wakes up. He seems to enjoy walking straight into disaster.”Sadie glanced at Maverick, who was still writhing in discomfort. “If he doesn’t stop pushing himself like this, the consequences could be severe.”“He’s stubborn,” Anabella said quietly. “But maybe he’ll listen this time.”Alec snorted. “I wouldn’t count on it.”As Sadie continued her work, Alec leaned against the wall, crossing his arms. He glan
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“So what were you trying to say?” Alec raised an eyebrow, and Easton glared at him.“Exactly what you heard, are you deaf now too?” Easton asked, and Alec glared back.“I would appreciate it if you kept your mouth shut when I wasn’t talking to you, Alpha Easton,” Alec said, his tone condescending as he used the word ‘Alpha’.“I couldn’t when you were the one doing the talking, Beta Alec,” Easton replied with equal disdain, and Floyd and Sadie rolled their eyes at the two.“Did you really mean that, Ms. Aurora?” Jared asked, and Aurora nodded her head.“Yeah, I meant it,” she answered.“But it’s so dangerous! Very risky too. I heard about how draining it is from one of those witches from other packs I visited,” Owen exclaimed, staring at Aurora with a surprised expression.“Try telling her that too, Layla. You can’t just allow her to go ahead with it,” Sadie said to Layla, who shrugged.“You think I haven’t tried telling her how detrimental it is to her health, trying to cover the whole
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“We were able to track down Crystalbell. She is at Dove City,” Maverick said, and Aurora raised her head to glance at him with tired eyes. It was obvious that her actions from the previous encounter had drained the energy from her body.“What are we waiting for? We should just nab her and make her vomit the answer to our questions. It wouldn't be hard since we have you, right?” Jared asked, turning to look at Aurora.“I know some really nice ways of torturing people,” Owen said with a small smirk.“That’s disturbing. Don’t make it sound like it’s some kind of good hobby,” Floyd said tiredly, yawning as he relaxed into his mesh chair with his eyes closed. “And stop drumming your hand on the damn table, Sadie. You’re making me unfocused.”“Shut the hell up or get the fuck out,” Sadie replied.“She should’ve been really affected after the shit she pulled on our pack,” Kael said with a frown. “Aurora suffered a lot because of her stunts.”“At least to get hold of her, I get anxious every t
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“Goodness, that man made her snap; she had been on shell for the past few days,” Easton said nonchalantly, and Layla exhaled heavily.“Can't you guys do something about this? Like telling her to stop?” Sadie asked with wide eyes, her gaze flicking between Aurora and the rest of her pack. She had never seen Aurora so angry. Most of the time, she just snapped at the person and left their jaws hanging open with a very rude insult.“Unfortunately no. When she get mad, she get mad all through, and when she gets crazy, it goes out of the fucking handle. It is only up to the goddess of the witches if Jerry will live today, and from what I had heard, that woman isn't nice at all,” Layla had a mocking expression, clearly enjoying the situation.“To be honest, that man got on everyone’s nerves. I hoped that someone would put him in his freaking place. It is only fitting that it is Aurora who does it,” Floyd said with a small smirk.“But he still might end up dead,” Jared added calmly but didn’t
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“I did too,” Layla said in a sad tone. Zach had a thoughtful expression on his face, and Kael nodded in agreement.“At home, Aurora wasn’t stuck with Maverick most of the time and had more chances to talk to me,” Kael thought.“Me too,” Kael added, and Aurora smiled sadly.“I talked to the treasurer at the Hilt Edge coven, and he said that we had enough to start the pack from scratch again. It would be enough for the meantime until we could handle everything else gradually,” Aurora said, and Kael’s eyes brightened.“But we aren’t going back until we catch those people who set the pack on fire. I’m not going to spare them,” Easton said angrily. Layla and Zach patted his back, while Aurora ruffled his hair.“We’re not sparing them either, Easton. We’ll all nail them down,” Kael said, and everyone nodded, a small smile on their lips at the thought of punishing those who wronged them and going back home.They heard noises from ahead, and it seemed like someone was walking toward them. They
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They continued to stare at each other without moving, but a squawk from the bird behind them startled them both. They instinctively jumped back in opposite directions, only to bounce against the barrier Aurora had created. Once again, they found themselves colliding into each other’s arms, using the other for support.Quickly, they straightened up, neither of them looking at the other. Aurora shakily removed the barrier, and they both moved away from the bird, which remained rooted to the spot, staring at them. When it attempted to fly closer, they took another step back.The bird seemed to study them, unmoving for a moment, as though in disbelief. Then, with a sound that resembled a scoff, it dropped something on the ground. Aurora and Maverick both glanced down to see a piece of paper lying on the forest floor. The bird’s eyes shifted between them before it made the scoffing sound again and flew away without turning back or checking if they would pick up the paper.Aurora and Maveric
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The taste of alcohol was potent on their lips but Aurora loved it even more, it made the kiss even more intoxicating. Maverick's hand slipped around her waist and she wound up her finger in his hair, clutching it in her hand in a dead grip as they explored each other's mouth.Maverick pulled Aurora closer to himself and Aurora pushed herself harder, it seemed as though she couldn't get closer enough to him. There was nothing she wanted more than that and she would continue invading his space till she was satisfied, but at the moment she couldn't feel any satisfaction.She wanted to be closer to him.Lips sucking, tongues rolling and body meshing against each other, Aurora wanted to remain in that position forever. But unfortunately, she needed to breathe, she had forgotten how to do it with his lips on her. So she disconnected their lips.But she still didn't get to breathe perfectly because Maverick attached his lips to her neck, sucking down on the collar bone in a slow tantalizing
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“So from what you said, you loved our other dates more,” he said and she snorted once again.“You mean the abnormal dates?” She asked and he glared at her which made her chuckle. “But yes, I do.”“I figured as much. You only complain unendingly about things that you love. So except for the world’s example of picture perfect date.” He said and she raised a brow at him in surprise.“Don’t tell me…”“Yeah. I have another date planned. A date that would fit that setting.”“Wow… you are really something Maverick.” Aurora said with a small laugh and he raised his hand with which she intertwined hers with.“So are we going outside this place?”“No, we aren’t.” He said and started leading her to the eastside of the yard. She had removed her heels and had forced him to get rid of his shoes too, so they could feel the sand seeping through the gap of their feet and it was a very soothing feeling.As they got closer, Aurora’s eyes widened in surprise, it kept getting wider as they advanced closer
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In a very dark eerie room that had little to no ray of sunshine, Alpha Saxton sat on the chair in front of his desk, working on something on his laptop when there was a knock on the door.He gave a hum and the door opened, Rees entered the room and sighed when he was standing in front of him.“Are you supposed to be chilling now?”“I definitely know that I am not supposed to be brooding.”“Maverick already knows the Alphas that joined hands against them,” Rees informed and Saxton nodded.“I know that it was only about time before he found out about them and fished them out, that's not necessarily a bad thing.”“You said so now but I don't think that those Alpha thinks that,”“Not my problem.”“Do you want to see them all?”“Why should I? They are not my problem at the moment. They should pay the price for being stupid,”“Understood.”“Did Maverick see to the matter himself?” He asked as he continued typing on his laptop.“No, Aurora was the one they met,”“No wonder they thought they
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Maverick and Aurora stood to the side after descending from the podium and watched everything with hawk eyes.Aurora, who was continuously greeted since her speech, had her hand crossed over her chest, calculating, in her head, the right time to go into the woods and set the plans in motion. “Aurora,” Layla said, approaching them with a glass of champagne in hand and a smile on her face. “You look so beautiful tonight.”Her eyes raked over her sleek, fitted, black mini gown. The velvet material that hung to her body was backless and shimmering, the hemline fell just above her knees, a pair of strappy stilettos on her feet and her face that had moderate makeup that accentuated her features before she gave a nod of approval.“Thanks Layla, but I think that you look more gorgeous,” Aurora replied, waving her away which caused her glittering bangle wraps to jingle.Layla was wearing a knee-length silver sequin gown that caught the light and clung to her body, pronouncing all her curves a
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The mate awakening ceremony was an outdoor party in Moonlight Pack and it was usually held in the vast field in front of the pack’s hall because of the large number of werewolves that usually attends that occasion.It was the opportunity for mate less wolves from all across the globe to connect and find their soulmate. Those who get their mates among their pack members are extremely lucky and those who know them as soon as they turn eighteen were extremely rare.The decorations were fantastic and chic, the gold lights also gave the whole place an ethereal glow. The moon --bright and beautiful--was up in the sky and a cool breeze brushed across their werewolves’ skins.It was a night of a lot of things. Love, hatred, disgust, pride, money, authority were usually flaunted at this occasion.Some werewolves were happy, with bright shiny eyes at the prospect of finding their mate tonight while some had nervous smiles on their lips and kept checking their appearance every other minute. Some
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“I don’t know that I have unknowingly got you a place near my pack where you could relax and come back to anytime,” Ferix heard Aurora’s voice behind her and he turned to raise a brow at her with a small smile, Aurora walked closer to him and sit down beside him and they both stared at the body of water that was in front of them.“It is peaceful and got this therapeutic feeling to it,”“I have to agree with that,” Aurora shrugged.“It has been a while,” Ferix said and Aurora nodded.Since the night that Ferix had confessed his feelings to her, both of them hardly ever saw each other since both Maverick and Aurora had been caught up with inviting their allies for the mate awakening ceremony, they both also had to make sure that the decorations and the event go smoothly, part of the reason was also the fact that he had been actively avoiding her too.He did not know if any of them noticed but while Aurora was helping with the preparation because she was the leader of rogue pack, orderin
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Ferix had run into the man he had come to this side of the city for, and the man had delayed him with talks that Ferix had paid absolutely no attention to. He just wanted to get away.Telling Aurora how he felt hadn’t been a good idea, and he was aware of that, but he couldn’t help it.At that moment, with her eyes lightened up and the laugh he knew he had caused, he had just blurted it out. Nothing good was going to come from it, because even though they were not particularly lovers, it didn’t excuse the fact that they were still mates.“The look on your face tells me that you’ve done something stupid,” he heard and raised his head to see Carly standing off to the side, almost blending with the shadows.“I haven’t done anything stupid!” he snapped at her, and she scoffed.“You’ve definitely done something stupid, so tell me what it was that you did.”“I didn’t do anything. So what the fuck are you doing here?” Ferix asked, walking to where he had parked his car, and Carly tailed afte
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“Then I would contact you later,” Maverick said into the phone before he disconnected the call.“Maverick?!” Someone called his name with a loud shrill, and he was forced to turn in the direction of the person who was screaming so loudly in the hospital.“OMG! It’s really you!” she exclaimed as she moved toward him. Maverick was surprised to see the receptionist from the hotel at Eastwood Pack in his pack, but he hid his surprise quite well.“Hi, Carly,” Maverick said, and her eyes brightened when she discovered that the man recognized her.“It’s so nice to see you again!” she exclaimed, and Maverick was almost forced to tell her to calm down, but he held it down.“What are you doing here?” he asked.“I’m here to visit my cousin and have been here for quite some time, but I didn’t have any hope of seeing you since you’re the Alpha and all, but here you are! In the fucking plain sight!” she continued in her shrill voice, already wrapping her arms around Maverick’s and pushing herself c
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“I can take care of it here,” Aurora said, but Maverick didn’t pay any attention to her as he continued walking towards the car, her hand in his as he dragged her along.“Seriously, it’s nothing huge, just a bit of cotton, bandages, and a couple of pain relief pills would help,” Aurora insisted, but he just opened the car and sat her down.“You have to recognize the fact that I’m a werewolf too, I have healing abilities too!” she exclaimed.“Healing abilities that are very slow, you forget that part,” Maverick finally replied as he sat behind the wheel. “Just look at yourself in the mirror. Only heaven knows how many bones you’ve broken, your face is all bruised up, and I’m sure your arm is aching from the amount of shooting you’ve done today.”“It’s not as bad as it looks,”“I believe the decision is up to me,” he said. “Now, you’ll sit still like a good girl and let me drive you to the hospital so that Sadie can check you up. I don’t want to hear what you think.”Aurora glared at hi
