Someone yanked her from behind and turned her around forcefully. Emilia turned and saw her adopted sister. Selina had eyes full of hate and Emilia could tell that she was incensed. Selina eaned close and whispered in her ear. “Fucking deathbringer. You’ve always been an eyesore in this pack. And now? Everyone will know you as a dirty liar as well.”With more force than was necessary, Selina pushed Emilia backward. She gasped from the sudden force, tumbling as she fell down the steps of the bar. She rolled in the dirt and stayed there. Every bone in her body hurt. She wheezed for air, clutching the dirt for support.Selina stepped outside and down the steps, going down on one knee beside Emilia . “You claimed to be an alpha’s mate? Do you have any idea how stupid that was? Do you have any idea how embarrassing that is to us?”Emilia shakily got on all fours, her chest hurting from where Selina had pushed her. She felt nothing from her sister’s harsh words in that moment.Instead, s
Alpha King was thirty-three years old and he had not yet found his mate. He attended every coming-of-age ceremony, although he had given up on the idea of ever finding a mate. As alpha of the pack, it was his duty to be there for the ceremony, a task that for years on end had left him feeling unsatisfied and lonely every time a new wolf found their mate.As usual, King sat and watched as the wolves were presented and happy mates paired themselves. He was feeling dejected when all of a sudden he felt a connection with someone in the crowd, deep in his chest.He jolted as his eyes quickly darted around the crowd trying to pinpoint where it was that the connection had come from. Just as quickly as he had jolted, he relaxed himself, careful to not draw the attention of people in the crowd.‘Mine,’ his wolf, Rader, growled inside of him.‘Where?’ King questioned as his eyes continued to dart around the crowd. He felt his heart beat faster in his chest as his hope began to renew once again.
King was walking toward his mate’s house on the outskirts of town, close to the forest. His wolf was going wild inside of him at the opportunity to finally be close to her and so was he, but he was also incredibly anxious as well.He found her just outside where she was taking in firewood to the little hut where she stayed. The hut was considered to be her own space. As he watched her from behind the bushes where he hid, he could see that she did not look happy. Just like at the ceremony, she looked like she would rather be far away.King could feel the restlessness of his wolf as he struggled to reach out to her. His wolf mourned on the inside.‘PROTECT HER. COMFORT HER,’ Rader was screaming, making King grimace.‘Shut up! I thought we agreed that we were going to take things slow?’ he queried his wolf. king shut his eyes and tried to contain his wolf despite Rader’s obvious angst.Just as he was trying to get his wolf to relax, Rowan stepped on a twig. He grimaced and his eyes close
King was walking toward his mate’s house on the outskirts of town, close to the forest. His wolf was going wild inside of him at the opportunity to finally be close to her and so was he, but he was also incredibly anxious as well.He found her just outside where she was taking in firewood to the little hut where she stayed. The hut was considered to be her own space. As he watched her from behind the bushes where he hid, he could see that she did not look happy. Just like at the ceremony, she looked like she would rather be far away.King could feel the restlessness of his wolf as he struggled to reach out to her. His wolf mourned on the inside.‘PROTECT HER. COMFORT HER,’ Rader was screaming, making King grimace.‘Shut up! I thought we agreed that we were going to take things slow?’ he queried his wolf. king shut his eyes and tried to contain his wolf despite Rader’s obvious angst.Just as he was trying to get his wolf to relax, Rowan stepped on a twig. He grimaced and his eyes close
Now, he watched as she ran away from him after looking at him with so much hurt he had felt weak at the knees. And yet he’d still been unable to defend her.‘GO AFTER HER. GO AFTER HER,’ Rader screamed at him with so much panic in his voice. King could hear the pain from the hurt they were causing their mate, yet he was glued to the chair he sat on, unable to do anything.He knew he could not very well go after her after he’d only just rejected her in front of his people and had stayed silent as they’d laughed at her and called her a liar. His hands had bunched into fists as her adoptive sister had dragged her away from the bar and pushed her down, but still he had done nothing, even as his wolf raged and threatened to hurt them all.King could feel pain in his chest. He knew that he had betrayed Emilia and he wanted to go after her, but now was not the best time. He would go after her when there was no one watching, when they could talk without his pack members finding out that he wa
Everett did not work all the time, as king liked to drive himself most times, but he was always at the ready the moment he was called upon.His friends were already sitting at their usual table when King arrived at the bar. Articus stood up to greet him.Articus stood at six foot four and he was exceedingly muscular. He had bright blue eyes which shone an even brighter blue when he allowed his wolf to come out. His hair was white all over. From his head to his feet, there was not a hair on his body that was not white, even his eyelashes. He was an albino wolf and just like him, his wolf was also white.It had been that way in his family for centuries, which was why they were the White Moon pack.“Oh, finally you’re here.” Articus offered king a small smile.Atkns, who was sitting beside Articus, looked up next. Atkins Grey was the alpha of the Moon Shadow pack. Atkins raised his beer in greetings, his large, bearlike hands completely swallowing up the bottle. He was the exact opposite
But instead of calming down, her visions had somehow managed to get worse even though she was here now. In the short time that she’d been in bed, she had managed to see the vision five times already.Whenever she was about to fall asleep, the vision would return, jolting her awake until she lay gasping and grumbling. She tried to go back to sleep, but soon so much time had passed that it became clear to her that she would not be able to find any rest, not until she actually did what she’d been dragged here to do.With not even a wink of sleep.She looked out the window and realized that it was already sundown. Emilia knew that if she didn’t do something about this then this would be her reality all through the night, so with deep weariness she got up from the bed, looking back at it longingly.She would get drunk and pass out. She let out a humorless laugh at her predicament. It was so crazy that her only options were either to become an alcoholic or to help the pack, neither of which
For a moment, it was quiet between them as he stared at her.“I can’t believe that you’re here,” he said, not responding to what she had just said.“I can’t believe that I’m here either,” she said as she offered a very fake smile.“When you left I thought that you were never going to come back.”Emilia hated that his eyes were still boring into her as she shifted uncomfortably in her seat. Still, she would not let him see how uncomfortable he made her.“Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but it’s not as if I came back because I wanted to,” she said, ignoring the frown that deepened his already frowning lips.“What do you mean?” he asked her. “I’m not trying to fight with you. I’m simply saying that it’s good to have you back.”Emilia ignored him as the waitress brought her a pitcher of beer, bringing King his too. She took a small sip, ready to begin her journey into drunkenness but also cautious of the company in front of her.“You drink beer now? Since when?” he asked her.Emilia gl