IVY POV Waking up to Beau being in my room was definitely a shock, but Asher dragging him out of the room was even more of a shock. I didn't know what their problem was but I had never seen them together before. Maybe they had always been like that. So I stayed in my room while they went to go and talk and I sat in bed looking out the window with my knees up to my chest trying not to think about what my mother went through before she died. But it was really hard not to when I received that photo and her finger in the mail. Jackson was definitely losing it. I knew that he was weird but he was just unhinged now. I finally got up and I walked to the bathroom to have a shower and I got dressed into a baggy shirt and jeans. I walked out of my room and downstairs where I saw Beau sitting in the living room with his family. "Honey. Are you okay? Are you hungry or anything?" Elsie asked. "No thanks. I was just gonna get a coffee." I say walking to the kitchen. I got my coffee and I we
ASHER POV "Why the hell would he take out the werewolf council?" I asked. "So that he can do whatever he wants with no one stopping him." I say. "Werewolves aren't going to be happy about that." I say. "Beau told me that he's been recruiting. He's gathering an army. He's taken out Alpha's of little packs and then taking over their packs." Dad explained. That's everything that Beau was telling him. "How big has he gotten his pack so far?" I asked him. "I'm not sure. No one is. He has then scattered everywhere. But they are too scared to go against him." Dad says. "We need to do our own recruiting." Ivy says. "What?" I asked. "Pretty soon his pack will be bigger than this one. And there is no way in hell that we can allow that to happen. If he becomes bigger than us then we are as good as dead. At least most of us will. The rest will be treated as slaves." I say. And I saw Cole put his arm around Olivia worried about what was going to happen to her. "How do we do that?"
"Have you spoken to the Alpha about this?" He asked. "I don't need to speak to the Alpha. You've seen everything that's going on. Him and his alliances have already agreed to stand up to Jackson. The fight will be here in no time. And I don't want to be left without being able to defend myself." I insist. "Alright. We'll talk about this tomorrow. With the Alpha. If you can convince him then we'll do it." He says. "No worries. He'll agree if it means that I can take care of myself and he doesn't need to be so worried about me." I say. And I walk up the other flight of stairs and I go back to my bedroom where Asher was still asleep. I changed into my pajamas and then I climbed into bed and I pulled the covers over both of us and I rolled on my side away from Asher to try and get to sleep. But he ended up rolling over as well and I felt his arm drape over my waist. My breathing hitched for a moment but I realized that he was still asleep and it was definitely the bond that was pu
"Alpha. I am Elijah. I'm not an Alpha but I have found all these people in my travels. We come from all different packs who have survived Jackson. We come here seeking asylum because we know that Jackson won't be coming after you any time soon. Everyone knows that. Which makes this the safest pack in the world right now." The man says. And Alpha Asher looked at me. "How many people do you have here?" I asked. "There's 54 of us from 8 different packs. We need help. We wouldn't be here if we didn't." Elijah says. And I look at Asher with pity on my face. He knew that we couldn't turn them away. And I didn't want to. They came to us for a reason. "Alright. Well, we weren't expecting this so we are going to have to find you all places to stay." Alpha Asher says. "What about the meeting hall? It's not being used. We can get cots set up. At least it's something for now." I suggest. "That's a good idea. Like a little boarding house for asylum seekers." He says. "Yeah." I say. So A
The following morning when I woke up Asher was still asleep and I looked at the clock and it said 8am. I knew that there was a lot of stuff to do and I tried to get up carefully but Asher pulled me back to him. " No. It's a stay in bed all day today." He says. " Yeah right. We both know that's never going to happen." I giggle. " I know. But I don't want to get up." He says. " We have. to. There's way too much stuff to do today. Come on." I say. " Fine." He says reluctantly getting up. And we both started getting dressed. Asher was finished before me and he said that he was going straight to the meeting hall. " I'll meet you there. I have to stop by the hospital first and then I will be there." I say. " Alright. Don't go anywhere without your guards." He says. " I know. They've been following me for days. It's a little hard for me to forget them." I say and he smiled at me before he left. But once he was gone the smile wiped from my face and I went further to the back o
Asher called a pack meeting and we all met at the training grounds since the meeting hall was all taken up. Everyone, even the refugees, came to the meeting and Asher stood up in front of everyone with Cole and his parents by his side. And to start with I was standing off to the side but he got me to stand up with them to face everyone. That was really nerve wracking. " How many people are in this pack?" I asked. " 3500. Not including the refugees." Cole answered me. And my eyes went pretty wide after that in surprise. " I didn't know that it was so big." I commented almost choking on my own words. " Alright. I know that you have a lot of questions about Jackson. It's no secret that we have been at war with him for months. He wanted two members of our pack that were new arrivals. He already killed one of them and he is after the other one. I'm sure you all know by now that I am talking about Ivy. But she is a member of this pack and that's not going to change. Her and her mot
I got to the meeting hall and two men were in there having an arguement about something that I knew nothing about. They were for two different packs and I ran in and got between them. " What the hell is going on in here?" I asked. " That asshole thinks that his pack was stronger than my pack. So I told him to prove it and he won't." One man yelled. " Are you f**king kidding me right now? What the hell is wrong with you two? Neither of you have a pack anymore. Look around you. This is it. This is what you have. You two are on each others side now. There are no more sides." I yelled. And they looked around at everyone else. No one were seperated into packs that they came from, they were all just getting along with everyone else not trying to make enemies and just trying to survive. " There is too much fighting going on outside this territory. Why would you want to start fighting here?" I asked. And that seemed to calm them down enough. But they went on other sides of the room.
ELSIE POV I was woken in the middle of the night to the entire building shaking and Henry jumped up right beside me and grabbed a hold of me to make sure that I was alright. It felt like an earthquake or something. But that made no sense here. We rushed out of our room and saw debri everywhere in the halls and the stairs were broken and we needed to be careful getting downstairs to the first floor. Henry tried to pull me outside when I noticed the basement door open. I stopped him and I ran to the basement and down the stairs where I saw everything in shambles. This is where the explosion originated from. I was sure of it. I was the guard lying dead on the floor and I ran to Beau's cell. Henry pulled out his set of keys and opened the door and Beau was unconscious on the ground. The two other prisoners weren't in their cell's. At least not all of them. I could make out little parts of them lying around but there was dust everywhere. We couldn't see a whole lot in the dark down
I ran to Noah to make sure that he was still alive, and I let out a huge sigh of relief when I saw that he was still breathing. He was bleeding and he was injured, but he was alive. " I knew that was the only way to get you alone." Nick says from the door behind me. I turned around slowly and stood up. I was looking for a way out, but I couldn't get out. Not with Noah. I couldn't carry him. He was too big and heavy for me to carry. I was trapped. I wasn't leaving him here alone. " What did you do with Asher?" I asked. " You don't need to worry about him anymore. No one does." Nick smirked at me. " No." I screamed. " Well, you bought them here. You knew what I was. All this blood is on your hands." He says. " Why the hell would I ever want to have anything to do with you? Asher and Ivy are the only ones in this world that have never treated me like shit or tried to use me for my powers. I know that you were going to." I yelled as tears were falling down my face. " Are yo
It only took about half an hour to run to the house while in wolf form because we cut through the woods and we were really fast. It was fun running in wolf form though. I loved it. But when the house came into sight I got a sinking feeling in my stomach. The house was huge. Almost like a mansion but luckily it had a huge yard, because there were other houses next to it. We didn't want civilians getting hurt. And no one said anything about evacuating civilians. So Asher wasn't going to tell the neighbours what was going on. I guess he didn't want to tip Nick off as to what was happening. I looked up at the house and all the windows were blacked out and the sun was just starting to appear but it was still dark. So I shifted back and I quickly got dressed. Noah shifted back for a moment and he grabbed my hand and pulled me to him to kiss me. " I love you." He says. " I love you too. I'll see you soon." I say. And I started walking to the house. As soon as I got to the front doo
My life was compeltely different from what I knew it as. My days were spent with Ivy training with my powers and training how to fight. She was an awesome teacher and I'm glad that I got her instead of the warriors. She was tough on me but she wasn't insanely tough like the other instructors were on the trainees. Noah and I weren't seeing too much of each other. He was going to school and then working after school but we still managed to have dinner together at night and we tried to watch a movie or something to have a bit of time together. Ivy told me that was important. To make sure that we spent as much time together as possible. I guess she knows that from experience. I've heard all the stories of her being kidnapped and going missing and even Asher. They were horrific stories to me and I couldn't do that to Noah. I wanted to make sure that I spent as much time together with him as possible. I knew that they were already making plan to attack Nick's hideout but they were wa
As soon as we got the news that we knew where Nick was staying then Ivy was right on top of me about getting control of my powers. We needed me to learn how to control my powers so I don't hurt the people around me and I only hurt the people I intend on hurting. So she took me to the training grounds that she reserved just for us and we sat on the ground and crossed our legs. " Now, with powers like this meditation is the key to being able to control what you are going to do." Ivy says. " I've never really been one to meditate." I say. " It's concentration. You need to concentrate on what you are doing. Meditation is the key to doing that. You need to learn." Ivy says. " Alright. I'll try." I say. I've always had trouble meditating because there's always too much crap going on inside my head. I know that I need to give it a chance, but I can never calm my mind down long enough for it to actually work. I closed my eyes while sitting on the ground and I took a couple of deep
Every morning Ivy was working me like a dog at training and Noah and I had also started going to school in the pack. We were meeting new kids from the area and it was good to have kids that we at least had something in common with. Noah made friends easier than I did, but at least he never left me alone or anything like that. His friends became my friends and I didn't really mind that. I always seemed to get along better with guys then with girls. And I could tell that a lot of girls were starting to hate me for it. But I didn't really care. It wasn't my fault that I wasn't a girly girl. I was actually surprised that she-wolves were like that. They cared too much about clothes and make up and all the same stuff that regular girls cared about. But that stuff never interested me. And I think it put them off a little bit. But I knew that as long as I had Noah then I would be alright. He had been my lifeline for so long and I guess that wasn't going to change now that we're in this pa
The whole walk back to the packhouse was quiet. No one talked but I was fully aware of how close Ivy and Asher were behind me. They were angry with me. I knew that they were angry with me. I should have told them the truth from the start but I didn't think I had any choice. I had to keep it to myself. Noah was in danger. When we got to the packhouse I noticed that the living room light was on and when I walked inside Noah ran over to me and hugged me. " What the fuck do you think you were doing?" Noah snapped at me while still hugging me. I could actually feel how angry he was. And he was letting me know. That was a lot better than Ivy and Asher. They weren't yelling or screaming or punishing me. They were just quiet. It was really nerve wracking. I knew that they would never trust me again. They didn't have a reason to. I kept a huge secret from them and they needed to know the truth about vampires coming back to their territory. But I thought I would be leaving with them and
That night I didn't get very much sleep at all. I was tossing and turning all night until I finally got up and I went downstairs to the kitchen to get a drink. That's where I bumped into Ivy. She was down there giving the baby a bottle. " I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt." I say. " What are you talking about? It's the middle of the night. I welcome the intrusion at this time of night." She says. And I chuckle. " I just came to get a drink. I can't sleep." I say getting a bottle of water out of the fridge and I sat at the kitchen island next to her. " I can imagine. Tonight was pretty massive for you, wasn't it?" She asked. " Yeah. It was." I say. " I know that things haven't been easy for you. I get that. I know exactly how that is. I grew up knowing my father but I didn't actually know that he was my father. He was the Alpha of my old pack and he raped my mother when she was 14. She got pregnant with me and she was shunned by the whole pack. He ordered the pack to ha
It was clear that we weren't starting school today because school was cancelled. Too many people were concerned about the safety of their children. Apparently this pack has met day walking vampires and didn't want to risk it in case any might be on the land. So we just sat around the packhouse and I was lost in thought for most of the morning while we were sitting in the living room and I saw the kids running around everywhere. All of the kids. Quinn and Patrick included. They really did look like they had ADHD but they were just werewolf kids when Ivy came into the room and their kids ran over and jumped on Ivy. " Regan. The meeting is happening tonight. He insisted that you be there. But there will be a lot of protection so they won't be able to try anything while you're here." Ivy explained. " Where will the meeting take place?" Noah asked. " At the boarder." Ivy replied. " Outside? Really?" I asked nervously. " Trust me. You'll be alright. We will have warriors surro
When we landed at the airport we had to get into more cars that were waiting for us but it was just a short drive to the Blue Moon Pack. I heard that's what they called themselves. " Oh my god. I knew that you owned a large pack, But I never imagined it would be anything like this." Noah says looking out the window. We saw people around everywhere. The town was bigger than his pack town. And as we kept driving we saw three different training grounds with hundreds of warriors training in each other them. Noah was amazed but I was a little terrified. I didn't know what to think. " It's good to be home." Ivy says from the front seat of the car. " Tell me about it. I hope my brothers haven't set fire to anything while we were away." Asher says. " I don't think your brothers are the ones that we need to worry about anymore. I hope the kids didn't set fire to anything while we were away." Ivy says. " Oh yeah. I forgot about them." Asher says. And Ivy hit him in the chest. " I'