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“Anger issues?” the former Alpha of Moonlight Pack, Alpha Prill, asked as he sat at the head chair, staring at everyone while scrutinizing.Jerry–Aurora had recognized his voice–stood at the fourth chair from the right on the left row, staring at Alpha Prill with a serious expression.“Yes, Alpha Prill. My stepdaughter has anger issues. She had always had them, and obviously, she still does. Her mother and I really tried to take them away from her when she was still in the pack. I was sure that you, Alpha Prill, remember that vividly more than anyone else,” Jerry continued, and Aurora swore under her breath.The man clearly knew what he was doing. The former Alpha, of all people, knew about her very well—and not in a good way. He had something against her being a hybrid. The man just couldn’t accept anything different from himself, and he hadn’t hesitated to give Aurora a hard time.Aurora hadn’t been nice back then either, so she had done as much as possible to piss the man off. She n
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“Since none of you had anything else to add, we will conclude that we have come to a definite decision. No one is allowed to bring up pulling the Night Pack out of the territory. If anyone has a problem with anything, unless it is utterly important and necessary, I expect you to keep the idea to yourself.For matters that are important, I want them discussed with me first and privately. Let it be known that I don’t tolerate people wasting my time,” Maverick announced when no one spoke after Aurora’s speech.Aurora was surprised when Maverick defended her in front of his father, his assistants, and a group of old, controlling men. It was clear as day that he no longer cared about their opinions, judging by the way he spoke to them.It made her wonder if the relationship between Maverick and his father had deteriorated beyond repair.“Then there’s nothing more for me here. I’ll take my leave now,” Jerry said spitefully. The man’s anger was visible as he gave a curt bow, glared at Aurora,
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Maverick turned to Aurora and squinted his eyes at her, which made her relent and follow him.It was a sunny afternoon, and the townspeople of Earnest Valley, the members of the Moonlight Pack, went about their daily activities.Few of them waved at Maverick with smiles, but everyone stared down at Aurora with disdain. She glared back at them.Maverick intentionally took the less crowded road that led to the woods. He kept walking until he reached the abandoned park. Neither of them said a word.Aurora just kept following him, her eggs held firmly in her hands. She only stopped right behind him when he halted at a spot that would be out of people's view, even if someone wandered into the park.“Would you please tell me what we’re doing here? You prick of a royal highness?” Her voice was teasing and sarcastic.“Oh, shut up, idiot,” he said, turning swiftly to take her mouth in his, holding her face gently, devouring her as if there were no tomorrow. The rest of her words died in her thr
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Aurora trailed off as Sally approached, taking a seat beside her. Sally handed Maverick a glass of wine and gave Aurora a glass of juice.“Cheers to you being the Alpha-in-waiting. I hope you claim your position soon,” Sally said as she raised her bottle of water. Aurora and Maverick exchanged confused glances but clinked their glasses with hers. They both finished their drinks in one go, and Sally watched with amusement.“Wow, you two are so in sync,” she remarked with a smile.Maverick and Aurora exchanged another glance. Maverick quickly looked away, but Aurora continued to watch him.Sally’s phone rang, interrupting the moment. She glanced at the screen before addressing them. “I need to discuss something with the Luna of the Dalions Pack. I’ll be back, and neither of you is allowed to leave,” she said firmly before hurrying out, giving them no chance to respond.Silence settled over the room after Sally left. Maverick abruptly stood and began walking toward his room. Aurora, unabl
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“Stop being a bunch of sissies, guys. What the heck are you mumbling about?” Aurora heard Layla's voice as she approached the Night Pack leader's quarters.“I’m worried about him! He waited for years, only to be mates with that woman? It just doesn’t seem right,” Kael snapped in response. Zach and Easton stood nearby, listening in silence.Aurora stepped into view, and they all turned toward her as soon as her scent reached their noses.“Aurora!” Kael called her name and rushed forward, pulling her into a bear hug. Aurora patted his back lightly, a small smile on her face.Layla moved closer and grabbed Kael by the shirt, yanking him away with an irritated expression.“Do you have issues with personal boundaries? You break people’s boundaries without a second thought!” she snapped at him, earning nothing but a shrug.“You’re a person I don’t want to hug, let alone break boundaries with,” Kael replied, before turning back to Aurora. His features softened. “Are you alright? That nonsense
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“You smelled nicer after you had taken a bath. Woah, how many years had it been since we had done this?” Sally asked beside her, fully relaxing in the chair and staring at the sun through her sunglasses.“I know, right?” Aurora replied with a small smile, staring at the view of Earnest Valley. It was one of the things she had missed in the Moonlight Pack. “It looks more beautiful now.”They stared at the buildings that made up Earnest Valley from the rooftop of the pack house.“Maverick really outdid himself when he decided to draw a new plan of how the city should look. During the time it was brought into reality, some other lycan leaders were threatened and intimidated by it. It was clear that once it was done, Earnest Valley would be the go-to city for werewolves, and that would make it stronger than it had been in terms of everything, so they all challenged him.Clark hadn't developed the city much because he had been cautious of this, but Maverick just shrugged his father off and
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“Seriously, Hilton, I swear on the moon goddess, Maverick and I have no intimate relationship. We were only involved in a marriage of convenience. He had been protecting me all this while from my father. It was because I was Luna that he dared not touch me,” Anabella explained softly, while Hilton just continued to stare at her.She had explained the reason they had to be together, and Hilton was starting to feel a little bad for jumping to conclusions.“I know that no one among the members of the Night Pack liked me because of the kind of relationship I have with Aurora, and I have no words to say in favor of myself. But I swear it, Hilton, I would never cheat on my own mate, not even before I met him, not with Maverick—”“Is that supposed to make me feel better? A compliment or an insult?” Maverick scoffed. He was standing at the door, staring at both Aurora and Hilton with bored eyes.Hilton had told him to get out earlier when he entered after Aurora had left, but there was no way
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“What the hell is that idiot saying?” Layla asked, staring at the receding figures of the men, wondering where Anabella had dragged Hilton to, gods knew where.“Phoebe is back,” Aurora said, and Easton nodded, making Layla’s eyes widen to saucers.“What the fuck?!” Layla yelled, and Aurora just sighed. “Who informed you?”“Zach,” Aurora, Easton, and Kael all said at the same time.“What the fuck? He told you guys but not me? What the hell? What if I wasn’t with you guys and had no way to contact anyone to tell me?” she yelled.“Then that would have been your problem,” Easton muttered with a shrug.“The hell is that you blocked the mind link between the both of you, so there is no way for him to contact you even if he wanted to, bitch,” Kael stated with an eye roll.“How on earth does your relationship even work? If I am your mate, I would have rejected your sorry ass,” Easton groused, and Layla scoffed.“I feel so sorry for your mates, they have to tolerate all your shit for the rest o
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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
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“You weren’t nice,” Aurora commented, and the woman smirked.“I thought I told you, you were the one who wasn’t taking me seriously,” she replied nonchalantly, taking pride in Aurora’s busted lips.“Then, pardon me for being rude too,” Aurora replied as the woman moved towards her. This time, both of them were merciless. They hit each other fast and hard, barely giving the other a chance to recover before delivering the next blow, but Aurora seemed to be on the winning side, while the other woman was getting tired.Aurora delivered a blow to her jaw, adding another bruise to her already bruised face. She grabbed the woman, who was still sputtering, and flipped her over her shoulder, throwing her on the floor hard. The sound of bones breaking made some of the werewolves on the field cringe. They watched as Aurora cleaned the blood on her lips and face with the back of her hands before groaning when she remembered that she must have dirtied it more because her knuckles were all bruised
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Aurora stared at the numerous werewolves scattered across the part of the field that had been designated as the training ground. Many of them were warming up, while others chatted amongst themselves. The Night Pack members stood apart from the members of the Moonlight Pack, none of them willing to familiarize themselves with the others just yet.The Night Pack wouldn’t make the first move, especially since the members of the other pack didn’t show the standard amount of respect for their leader. While they didn’t openly disrespect Aurora, they also didn’t hold her in high regard. Many of them believed that without her spells, she wouldn’t stand a chance against them. Her reliance on magic was something the men, whose pride lay in their strength, found hard to respect.“Good morning,” Maverick’s voice rang out across the field, commanding immediate attention. Even Aurora turned to glance at him.His tone was nothing like the one he used when speaking to her. This voice was authoritativ
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Aurora walked into the playroom after searching the entire mansion for her assistant and almost groaned when she saw Layla and Zach making out intensely on the couch. They were so lost in each other that neither of them noticed her presence. Tilting her head to the side, she observed them for a moment, shook her head, and then loudly cleared her throat.They finally broke apart. Zach tried to move away from his mate to face Aurora properly, but Layla pinned him down with her body, glaring at Aurora.“Can’t you just go on your way without interrupting us?” Layla snapped.“Can’t you just find somewhere else to do your dirty deeds? Thank god there are no kids here. They’d be blinded by your antics,” Aurora said, sitting on the couch opposite them. Layla’s scowl deepened.“What do you want?” Layla asked begrudgingly. Aurora scoffed at her grumpiness before reaching for the box she had brought. She placed it on the table, opened it, and watched as Layla leaned forward to examine its conten
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Aurora halted when she saw Phoebe sitting in front of her, hands draped on her waist. The woman wore a spaghetti strap top and a tight skirt that accentuated her figure.“I have absolutely no idea what the hell you are on about,” Aurora said casually. She was at a restaurant, trying to tail Jerry’s movements. Anabella had informed them during the meeting that a mail had arrived for Jerry two days ago. She had checked it and found only a cryptic note:It will get delivered at Jay Restaurant and Pub at three o’clock, eastside.Aurora had arrived just in time to witness a man—likely a spy from one of the many packs—drop a small container into the trash bin. She retrieved it and discovered shiny, vibrant red rubies inside. Pocketing them, she quickly used her power to create a replica before returning to her table to eat.“Maverick and you are back together, aren’t you? You went on a date,” Phoebe said, interrupting Aurora’s thoughts.Aurora snickered. “So that’s what you’re talking about
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Ferix sighed as he placed the glass cup on the counter once again. He pushed the bottle toward the bartender, who refilled it with one of the strong cocktails Ferix had absentmindedly picked when he arrived at the bar.His head was clearly not in the right place, and the lively bar continued on without him as if he weren’t even there. His mind wandered far away, no matter how much he tried to steer his thoughts elsewhere. He always ended up back to the same thing: Aurora. Specifically, the image of Maverick and Aurora sharing a quiet moment on the balcony and the kiss they’d shared in the car later that night.He’d been waiting for Aurora at the pack house, ready to leave when she didn’t show. But just as he was about to head home, the sight of them in the car caught him off guard. They were so lost in each other that neither of them noticed him standing there.He had asked himself countless times why he still liked Aurora despite knowing she had a mate. Back when they weren’t on good
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“Why does it always have to be that man ruining our date at the park?” Aurora grumbled, her tone sharp as she crossed her arms. Maverick kept his focus on the road, his hands steady on the steering wheel.“At least now we know why he’s there now and possibly why he was there back then,” Maverick replied, his voice calm but thoughtful.“He came to meet with a member of the Blood Moon Pack eight years ago too?” Aurora asked, raising an eyebrow.“I can’t be certain it was the Blood Moon Pack back then, but I’m sure this park has been his meeting spot for a while. It’s lively, there’s often a crowd. A man his age walking into a trampoline park might seem odd, but not strange enough to attract real attention,” Maverick explained. Aurora nodded in agreement, her mind piecing things together.“That makes a lot of sense,” she admitted, placing a thoughtful hand under her chin.“You don’t seem that concerned about him being alive,” Maverick observed, glancing at her briefly.“I’m not,” she rep
