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Anna“Why?” Finn said hoarsely.“You’re not ready now. I can see that. Maybe one day you will be.” Maeve turned back to Jax. “Do I need an escort back to your house? I believe there is a breakfast we’re both expected to attend?”“Go ahead. I need a word with Anna.”As Maeve walked away, it was all I could do not to scream. Maeve was Finn’s mother. There was no other way to interpret that conversation.What the actual fuck?Not only had Maeve chosen not to raise Finn as her own, but she’d used him as some sort of pawn between her and his father. Had Finn’s father even betrayed their pack or had Maeve just wanted a reason to punish him?I had so many questions, but from the way Finn was weaving back on his feet, I knew this was not the time to ask them. “I think we can all agree that what we just heard does not leave this circle,” I said quietly.Finn cleared his voice. “Thank you.”I looked at Jax. “Having said that, I think it’s possible we can do some investigating and see what we ca
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AnnaHow dare he? Had he asked me instead of ordered me, I might have considered it. Had he asked me yesterday, I would have certainly said yes since I would have had time to prep. My wolf was doing better. Even now, when I reached out to her, she came to me happily and willingly. She was so happy whenever we were with Jax.But the idea of facing all those wolves of power? And Emerson? Her fear spread through me until I wanted to vomit.“You’re stronger than I thought.”Head jerking up, I turned around, but it was just Lunessa walking toward me. The look on her face wasn’t happy. “My wolf? She’s getting stronger.”“I’m not talking about your wolf. There was a lot of magic on Amaya. I removed it before your healer could get to her.”“I didn’t see any.”“Then I did my job well. She was coated in a transportation spell. A very powerful one.”Lunessa smiled faintly. “Even I couldn’t pull that kind of magic off.”“You seem to transport wherever you want.”“Transporting myself is much diffe
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When it was done, I turned back toward the house. Whatever Emerson had planned, I wasn’t going to sit out here and hide.I’d retraced my steps before I realized that I wasn’t alone. Freezing, I watched as Emerson slowly walked toward me. “Anna. What a lovely surprise.”Lovely surprise my ass. “Emerson. I was just coming to join you, but I expected you to be in meetings all day.”“Jax is in a foul mood. We decided it was in everyone’s best interests to take a little break.I wanted to stretch my legs.”And find me when I was completely alone. How convenient. “I’m on my way to see Jax. I bet I can bring him out of his bad mood.”His eyes narrowed just a little, but then he smiled. “No doubt. Mates are like that. I was surprised you haven’t been in the meetings. Your opinions are invaluable.”“You didn’t think that when my father was alive.”“Anna, I can only imagine how the experiences with your father have clouded your memories. I’ve done some things that I am not proud of, but I never
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JaxAnna was nowhere to be found. Even though I knew for a fact that it wasn’t Anna screaming, that was all that I could think about. She was not here by my side.My fault. I was so worried about her that I’d crossed a line and pushed her away. Again.When would I learn my fucking lesson?The scream sounded again, and I was on my feet and racing from my house. Maeve, London, and Emerson were all gone since we’d taken a break. My wolves were appearing from buildings and trees, following the sounds of the screams. They led me along a familiar path.The path that would lead me straight to Irene’s cottage.The witches.“Cam!” Maeve’s voice rose above the trees followed closely by her roar. Filled with fear, I ran faster. Irene. I’d brought her back and promised that I would protect her. Now, all I’d done was surround her with people who could hurt her.I broke through the trees toward the house. Maeve was crouching near her witch who was struggling to a standing position. Blood poured dow
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Emerson’s guards.“Jax!” Anna ran to me. “Jax, we heard a scream. Irene? Are you all right?”It was fucking déjà vu. Right behind Anna, Emerson strolled with a strange smile on his face.Fury rose up inside of me, but now was not the time.“Cam was attacked by a werewolf,” I said, my eyes on Emerson.“Cam?” The other alpha’s eyes widened in surprise. “The witch? Is she all right? Where are the others? Janelle!”“They weren’t there, although, I would have thought they would have been back by now.Cam’s scream was full of magic.” Irene frowned and glanced at the woods.“Where were your guards?” Emerson demanded. “Where are any of your guards?!”Irene paled just a little and glanced at Anna. “They were called away. Two stayed behind.One followed Ava and Janelle into the woods. The other was at the house. Oh, God, I didn’t even think of that.”“Which one?” I growled. And who the hell had called them away?“Tag.”Tag. He was a solid guard. Trustworthy. Immediately, I tried the radio. It w
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AnnaHeart in my throat, I moved between Jax’s wolf and Emerson. If it had been any other time in my life, I wouldn’t have blinked an eye as I watched Jax shed Emerson to pieces, but in a situation I never saw coming, Emerson was all that stood between me and Maeve’s wrath.I could feel Emerson’s power behind me. No wolf. Only human. I glared behind me, and he was smiling happily.At me.My stomach turned, and I focused on Jax. “Emerson crossed my path in the woods. We had a conversation, and then we heard Cam’s screams.”Maeve snarled, but I ignored her and kept my eyes on Jax. If he killed Emerson, any progress they made would be shredded. Ignoring the violence cresting off him, I placed my hand under his chin. The touch soothed him, and he sat.“So another alpha has come to your aid,” Maeve growled. “Should I expect London to be at your beck and call next?”“No one is at my beck and call, Maeve. Emerson only speaks the truth. There has to be another explanation for why Cam thinks i
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Jax“Are we just supposed to pretend that didn’t happen?” I said under my breath.“Jax? You are here.” London stepped into the clearing. “I just heard about the attack.”“Just heard? Where have you been?”“In my room, on the damn computer. I still have a pack to run,” he countered swiftly.London was the last alpha I would suspect of treachery, but now it seemed that I was going to suspect everyone. As if she could sense my tension, Anna put a hand on my back. “I heard your mate was the killer.”“She was with Emerson at the time of the attack. Whoever used a witch to glamour themselves apparently didn’t take that into account.” Frustration welled up inside me. How long would it be before everyone stopped suspected Anna of killing?It was like we were back at square one. Only this time, I believed her.Emerson. Just hearing that they’d been alone together again, seeing her put herself between the two of us to save him, cut me in ways I didn’t think possible. She hated him. Hated him. I
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AnnaIt was Jax who announced over dinner that he was closing talks early.London balked. “Neither we nor our witches have made any progress.”“My clan has become too dangerous. There has been a direct attack on a guest. Until I know who attacked her, I would like to err on the side of caution.”Maeve’s gaze slid to me. “Removing temptation?” She purred.I gritted my teeth. The whole dinner had been tense. Jax had been right all along. He considered the other alphas enemies, and now he had good reason.Emerson had turned his third in command to betray Jax. Maeve was ready to pin everything on me, and she was willing to kill now and ask questions later.And London was walking around with guards bathed in magic. Glamour magic? Some other kind of magic? It took time for me to study it and try and pinpoint what the magic did, and I couldn’t just stand in the open and stare at the guard.Not to mention the problems we were having outside the alphas. Irene hiding her magic.Lunessa capable
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Knowing she was pregnant would only make that target on her back even bigger.Tess frowned at her. “Are you okay?”Mica struggled to reign in the anxiety that was no doubt leaking into her expression. “Disappointed. A baby would be a welcome beacon of light in these dark times.”She hoped the strange lilt to her voice could be mistaken for sadness. She didn’t have the mental energy to explain everything to Tess, nor did she want to. Not only were these raging emotions making her feel hollowed out inside, but Tess shouldn’t be the first one to find out. Hayden should.Once Hayden knew and they had a plan for moving forward, she could tell Tess the truth. Hopefully, she’d understand.Right now, though, there was so much tension in the splintered pack that if it was known she was pregnant, it might push the pack to no longer wait for the challenge… which was meant to be tomorrow afternoon.“I’m going to rest,” Mica told Tess, managing a small smile. “And you should as well. We’ve been th
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MicaMica didn’t know how she did it, but Tess managed to smuggle in a pregnancy test. Now, Mica sat in the bathroom, staring at the positive result. Her stomach was queasy, and now that she thought about it, she’d been feeling that quite a lot lately. Her body hurt, she always felt tired, and she had chalked it all up to stress.Pregnant.Even though she and Hayden had been having a lot of sex, and she had made the deliberate choice not to use condoms, she still could hardly believe it. Her period had always been all over the place. It wasn’t unusual for her to skip three or four months. She’d always been told it would make getting pregnant more difficult.Counting back, it had been, what, five months? Time passed so quickly that she hadn’t bothered to think about her last period. Before Hayden and the special ops team had returned to the Bluebell Valley pack, at least. So what did that mean? How far along was she?She peeled up her shirt and studied her stomach, looking at it from a
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Hayden“I’m just saying that maybe this ritual is worth the risk,” Maverick said. His arms were folded over his chest, and there was a doubtful look on his face. “What will it hurt to try?”Hayden shook his head. “We can’t risk a demon getting free. We don’t know what will happen. For all we know, this ritual is something the demons put into the world to—”He cut off as Finn shuddered. His eyes widened, and his head snapped around, toward the house. “Something’s happening.”Mica.With a curse, Hayden wheeled around and raced for the house. The team fell in step behind him. The pack looked up from their tasks, startled, but Hayden didn’t give any orders. He threw open the front door and took the stairs two at a time. He kicked open the door leading to the room where Echo was kept.Mica, Tess, and Elin were all inside. Tess rang an old brass bell manically, the clanging echoing through the room. Elin held a lighter in hand, racing back and forth to light candles as Echo spun around in h
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Mica squeezed her eyes shut tightly. Her stomach churned. It was exactly what she thought—they weren’t even going to try to save Echo, too certain in their own knowledge.“It has to happen soon, Hayden,” Ryder said, his voice low, urgent, and… sorrowful. “I can’t keep holding my tongue. You are my Alpha, and I’ve tried to respect your decisions, but the situation is becoming untenable. This is my mother and my sister we’re talking about. I will tell Mica, if that’s what you would prefer.”“No,” Hayden answered.Why? Why did he not want Ryder to tell her? Tears filled Mica’s eyes and she crept away, not wanting to hear any more. Was Hayden afraid she’d let Echo go? Did he think it was up to him as her mate to tell her that he was going to kill her mother?He doesn’t consider it killing Mom, though. He considers it a mercy, freeing her from the demon.It didn’t make Mica feel any better. She carefully opened the kitchen door, slipped through, and softly closed it. Her heart pounded in h
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MicaMica stared at the page. She’d been reading for so long that the words were starting to blur, but if she was right in her interpretations here… She blinked, rubbed her eyes, and focused again. As she reread the section, her heart started to beat faster.“And the demon was taken from its host and trapped in the stone,” she whispered. “Where it was trapped for all eternity.”She scanned the rest of the page. Hope swelled through her, even though she fought against it. It had been so long since this started, she wasn’t sure she could take it if this didn’t work. But there was the ritual all laid out. The way to force an aura-demon from the person it was possessing, and trapping it into an inanimate object. Once in the object, the demon would be trapped until said object was destroyed.Her mind whirled as to what they could use to trap the demon inside of Echo. There was a size limit to work with. A rock would be the best; then she’d put it in a plastic, air-tight box and bury it as
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Monroe laughed. “Spoken like a true female. Completely wrong.”Spencer and the rest of his people burst into laughter as well. They all stalked away, taking their torches with them. A flash of lightning flickered soundlessly in the distance. Hayden turned to his pack. They watched with uncertain gazes.“Two days,” he said loudly. “And then you will know you put your faith in the right Alpha. We will have Bluebell Valley, and things will get better.”He smiled at them reassuringly. As they dispersed, Finn and Blayke sidled over to him. Finn spoke in a low voice.“Spencer is the only one not showing signs of possession,” he said under his voice. “Everyone else is either claimed or at least influenced. It’s spreading.”Hayden nodded once. Finn would prefer they take more decisive, more immediate action. Hayden couldn’t blame him, knowing his history. He had a particular reason to hate demons, seeing how they robbed him of any chance he might have had to have a normal family, a normal lif
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Hayden“Stay here. I’ll be back shortly,” Hayden ordered as he stalked back to the bedroom. As he threw on his clothes, he frowned. Mica was dressing as well. “I said—”“I’m your mate. I’ll stand with you,” she said shortly.Hayden shook his head. “You’ll stay within the property bounds.”Mica huffed at him but didn’t respond. The two of them were ready quickly. Mica swept her hair into a bun as they headed downstairs. Torches lit the night, dozens of Monroe’s pack carrying them as the flames flickered and glowed. Hayden’s wolf snarled at the sight of Monroe, standing with his toes against the PCP piping at the gate.“Ah, decided to join us, did you?” Monroe drawled. “I was starting to think that your little challenge was all talk and no action.”His people laughed. Hayden ignored the low-hanging fruit and stopped just inside the protective barrier. “Are you finally going to accept my challenge, or will you continue to be a coward?”Monroe smirked. “What do you think I’m here for? It’
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“Brother coming through,” Ryder called from outside, then he stepped into the entrance. He grabbed a pair of shorts and yanked them on, carefully not watching Mica and Hayden. Mica kissed Hayden’s cheek. “I’ll be up in a bit.” He nodded, and Mica slipped back outside. It was utterly dark now, and she had to use a flashlight to navigate the camp. Everyone else could simply see in the dark but with her weak human eyes… But nobody brought it up, not like they wouldhave in other circumstances. She headed upstairs once she was satisfied everyone was set for the night. Hayden waited for her in bed, scrolling through the most recent demon research on the laptop. He closed it and set the laptop on the nightstand as he grinned at her. His hair was damp from the shower, the smell of soap mingling with his manly scent. Mica grabbed a nightgown from her dresser and changed. “I don’t like that nightgown,” Hayden told her. “It’s old and worn.” “And comfortable,” Mica snarked. “Yes. Whi
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MicaThe beast-demon stalked along the boundary's edge, snorting as it tested the protections. With Hayden and the rest of the special ops in the forest, Mica had ordered that they let the demon wander and not engage. Hayden had taken all the best fighters with him, meaning her order was gladly obeyed. Nobody wanted to tangle with the beast.Unfortunately, such a sight was getting more common. Even the children who used to scream and hide now ignored it, snuffling around the edges of the property. Its twisted horns glowed in the rapidly oncoming darkness. Clouds shrouded the sky, making it even darker.“Hayden will be back soon,” Mica told Tess as she nervously looked at the beast.“I know.” She shook her head. “Let’s go back into the house. I don’t trust the sources that say the beast-demons are dumb. I don’t want it to report back to Monroe about what we talk about.”Mica nodded. That was the smarter idea. The two headed into the house and went up to Mica and Hayden’s room. With all
