" I am over here." I ordered gaining her attention. " Yes. I can see that. You are looking well. Better than the last time I saw you." She says. " Yeah. I'm not writhing in pain this time. But that's not why we're here. It's to discuss that obviously rediculous plan to take Axel in place of removing that shield from the house." I say. " It wasn't reculous. It's what I wanted. And you made damn sure to stall those plans. My elders have told me that your mate customs don't apply to us so that's why I decided to come here. I'm taking him with me." She says. " No. You're not. And our mate customs apply to everyone. If you try to take a wolf from it's mate then all hell will rain down on you and whatever coven you belong to. And if you know anything about me, you know that I will find out whatever that coven is." I say. " We know exactly who you are. But we had a deal and no one breaks a deal with a witch." She says. And then I heard some noise outside. And the witch and I were st
When we got back to the packhouse Zara had put Connor down for a nap and the twins were sleeping as well. They were actually pretty good sleepers for newborns. At least, during the day they were. I headed up to the bedroom and I flopped down on the mattress and I got comfortable trying to get some rest before the kids woke up again but then Asher came in and laid on the bed next to me. " Stop staring at me." I say through closed eye lids. " How did you know that I was staring?" He asked. " Because I am psychic." I say sarcastically. And then I felt his lips run along my forehead and he started trailing kisses down the side of my face. He got all the way to my neck and he kissed my mark which enticed a little moan out of me. " Stop that. I want to get some rest." I say. " Me too. But I've been waiting for this alone time for weeks." He says leaning closer to me and trailing kisses along my jawline until he reached my mouth. He rolled me on my back and he was half lying on
When we got back to the pack we got out of the car and I looked around at the territory and Asher asked me if I was alright. " I don't know. It doesn't feel right." I say. And he walked right up behind me. The wind was starting to pick up and we saw some dark clouds coming across the sky like a storm was coming. " That came over really quickly." Cole says. " A little too quick. Get Axel and Fiona here now. Beau and Freya too." I say. So Cole mind linked them all to come to the packhouse immediately. " What do you think it is?" Asher asked. " I think the witch has gone back on her word." I say. " Are you serious?" He asked. " Unfortunately." I say. " When is this crap ever going to stop?" He asked. " I don't know. But I'm sure we're going to find out. Let's get inside." I say. " I'll mind link everyone to bunker down in their houses until the storm passes. But that's all I'm telling them. There's a bad storm coming." Asher says. " Good. Don't tell them anything
ONE LAST BATTLE I felt the ground beneath my paws and it felt incredible. This is the first time I have shifted since before I got pregnant. It was more painful than I was used to but I did it with ease. I didn't want the warriors to have any doubts in me. If they thought that I had trouble shifting then they might have thought that I wasn't up for the battle. I needed to be a leader. No matter how much anything hurt. And it really did hurt. 'Are you alright?' Asher asked. 'Yeah. A little breathless. But the pain will stop in a moment.' I replied. Asher waited a few moments before I looked up at the sky and I recognised the surroundings, the feeling of the earth, the feeling of the moon approaching the sky and I let out a howl indicating that the time was now. Asher and I started running straight off into the woods and all warriors followed us. Spreading out in formation like they were taught. We had back up warriors but they were a little far away if we needed them immediate
'Look for the smoke. It appears first. It takes them a while to materialize. I just realized that when I saw her going for Beau. Make sure you look for the smoke and attack before they are actually there.' I instructed everyone. It was the first good lead we actually had on killing these bitch's. I mean, witch's. 'Ivy. What's going on out there?' Freya asked from the shelter. 'Sit tight. We'll let you know when it's over. These things are crafty.' I tell her and I cut the link. I needed to concentrate. I couldn't be worried about them in the shelter. They were fine where they were. Asher was trying to protect all of the warriors but they were trained for this. For battle. I needed to make sure that he wasn't overdoing it. 'Asher. Come here.' I say. And he came to the middle of the warriors to where I was. 'What is it? Are you okay?' He asked. 'You need to sit for a minute. Their all on look out and they know what their looking for. You need to stop trying to protect everyo
We got the witch's bodies off of our territory and buried them in an open field that wasn't too far away. And Asher and I cleaned up a little bit before we opened the shelter and let everyone out. There were some very tearful eyes as those women knew that their mates were killed. And I did my best to comfort them. But there was nothing that could help the loss of a mate. And Zara and Freya came out with the kids. Asher and I took the kids so they could go find Beau and Cole and Fiona was the last one to come out. She was looking really sullen and upset. I knew that there was more going on with her then she was letting on. People had blamed her in the shelter for their mates deaths. Saying that she bought the witch's here. I knew that it wasn't the case. I knew that everything they said was out of grief. They needed someone to blame and she was the easiest target. I comfort Fiona in the house until Axel arrives but I don't tell him what happened. Fiona didn't even tell me what happ
I was too dumbfounded by that whole meeting that I didn't say a word the whole way back to the packhouse. I was confused and grateful and a little emotional about it. But when we got home all I could feel was relief. I got out of the car and I stood there staring at the packhouse like a huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. I felt completely free. There was no one coming after us, at least no one that we knew about, and I felt like this was really the beginning of a new chapter for us. That we could actually start our lives finally. As a family. Together. And that no one was standing in the way of that happening. Asher was about to walk up the stairs when he saw me and he walked back over to me and he cupped my face in his hands. " Are you alright?" He asked. " I actually feel, great. I feel free." I say. And he smiled at me before he leaned down and kissed me. " We are free. Now, how about we go in and see about trying for another baby?" He asked smirking at me
IVY'S DREAM I remember falling asleep really quickly being completely exhausted after chasing after three kids all day but when I opened my eyes, I was in this place that I couldn't explain. It was completely white. There was nothing there and I was wearing a white flowing dress down to my ankles that I had never seen before in my life. I was lying on the ground but I got up as fast as I could with my growing baby bump in front of me. I felt like I was dreaming, but it also felt like I was wide awake. " Hello." I sang out. But I just heard my own voice echoing. So I started walking, I had no destination in sight because everything looked the same. I was walking aimlessly trying to figure out what this place was. " Am I dead?" I asked myself. Wondering if maybe there was an accident or something that I couldn't remember. " No my child. You're not dead." A voice says from behind me. So I spun around quickly to see a women standing there in a similar white flowing dress. There wa
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'