MicaThe day my water broke, I felt relief flood my body. I was a full week over my due date and the doctor didn’t want to help the labour along. He believed there was a reason the babies wanted to bake a little longer. Our son, Kai, was born a couple of minutes before our daughter, Eve. They were similar in a lot of ways, but they weren’t identical twins.I instantly fell in love with both, and for the first time felt as though we could actually do this. We could raise both. The saying was that it took a village and after Luca told me how the entire pack gathered while I was giving birth, I felt as if I belonged for the first time.In the back of my mind, I thought about my plans to get Crystal mated. After the sheer disaster at the alpha conference a couple of months ago, it was clear that Crystal only wanted one man. I was in love with my babies, but Crystal’s face came to mind whenever I wasn’t standing guard in front of those damn memories.Crystal tried her best to show everyone
MicaI couldn’t relax. I couldn’t enjoy this special evening because of Crystal. I stuck a fake smile on my face and spoke to our guests, hoping that none of them would notice the tension, but I kept looking around for Crystal. I didn’t want her to be there.I didn’t want her to share in our joy, which I wasn’t feeling, because I was so damn angry at her. What was a slight resentment, had turned into full-blown hatred. She wasn’t going to change her ways, and I was done giving her rope.“Babe, you can relax. I had her locked in the cellar.” Luca slipped his arm around my waist and joined me halfway through the night. I smiled and mouthed a thank you. You would think that his words would help me to relax, but all I could think about was that Crystal would find a way to escape.Which she did almost at the very end of the evening. I watched as she made her way through the crowd, trying her best to grab the attention. She even spoke to the alpha of the pack we invited as though he was her
Mica“I came to warn you. You’ve already lost everything. Don’t push me any further, Crystal. Luca is my mate. He chose me. He didn’t want you.” I sighed, looking bored.“You can’t tell me what to do!” Crystal growled just as Luca walked into the room.“THAT is where you are wrong!” He growled instantly, stepping in front of me and glaring at Crystal. “I’m not going to say this to you again, Crystal. She is your Luna. Out of everyone in our pack, she is the one person who can command anybody.”“What about you? Can she command you?!” Crystal’s eyes flared with anger and I rolled my eyes. Of course, she would find the one thing in Luca’s words that she could use against him.“Crystal, tell me something? Have you ever heard the expression that the man is the head of the household, but the woman is the neck?” Luca sounded amused all of a sudden as laughter burst out from deep inside me. I had to leave the room that instant. I couldn’t take it anymore.As far as I was concerned, the matter
MicaAs the saying goes. “Time flies when you are having fun.” I just never imagined it would fly so fast. It felt as though I just blinked, and almost twenty years had passed. It all felt like a little bit of a blur sometimes, and although I could remember the special moments like when our kids first met their werewolves and when they turned eighteen and took their places in the pack, I couldn’t help but still feel like the young eighteen-year-old that had to find my feet.Crystal never found her mate and after her parents passed away, she was forced to move to the omega house. On the one hand, I felt really bad for her, but on the other, I felt like she got what she deserved. The saddest day in our lives came when Luna Ava died.It was raining when we got the news, and it broke my heart to see my family so shattered. Ava was the glue that kept the packs together. Her story was just so amazing that she was literally a living legend. The day of her funeral, it felt as though the cloud
EveI was furious at myself for becoming the type of girl I never wanted to be, but in that moment, it just happened, and I felt as though I had no damn control over it. I never saw myself as the weak female who would just melt into a man’s arms.In fact, I made jokes about those kinds of females all my life. In my mind I was strong. At least until that moment when I turned into a damn puddle! I was fighting the war inside me and trying my hardest not to show it while he just took over.I couldn’t decide if it was a good thing that he walked over to my brother and instantly announced his intentions to accept me then and there. I wanted to say that it wasn’t a forgone conclusion, but my mouth wouldn’t speak.I wanted to say that I needed time to think about it, but for some real strange reason my mind wouldn’t form the words. I finally felt some sense of relief when my brother looked at me and I noted the concern in his eyes.“Alpha Luke, I understand how you must be feeling, but I nee
MicaIt was tough to let go, but I had to so that my daughter could be happy. Her mate’s reputation was good. Nobody had a bad word to say, and I had to trust that the moon goddess made the right choice. I had to believe that Eve was making the right choice.Being a mother was never easy, but this was the toughest of all the challenges I faced as a mother. All that remained now was to pray that Kai would find a mate soon. He was carrying the full weight of the pack on his shoulders.Eve helped out a lot, but with her gone, it all fell on Kai. I tried to help but he was very headstrong. Just like his father and just like his grandmother. I smiled as I watched my son working through yet another night before going to bed.LacyI didn’t want the fairy tale. I had so much I wanted to do first. I didn’t want to turn eighteen and find the love of my life. I worked really hard at school, so I could go out into the world, even though I knew I would never be allowed out of the pack territory.M
LacyThe mate bond was a little frustrating, and I wondered if this was how humans felt when they fell in love with someone. Did they also feel a little trapped in a situation that wasn’t entirely what they wanted? The only difference was that accepting a mate bond made us physically stronger. I wondered if humans also felt stronger if they were with the ones they loved and finally pushed all the strange thoughts to the back of my mind.I wasn’t human. No matter how hard I tried to leave this world, it was clear I wasn’t going to, and I would never be human. I sighed deeply as I looked around my bedroom and thought about the fact that my dreams had been completely crushed.“Oh, now, I’m just being dramatic!” I threw my hands in the air reprimanding myself. “I could just accept a new dream.” But I was really looking forward to moving into my first home all on my own. I was already planning what I wanted to buy to decorate everything. Goodness! I had so many plans and if I accepted Kai
LacyI changed my outfit four times before my mom finally told me we had to go. I would probably have changed another six times if I had the time. I couldn’t understand why I felt so nervous and clamped my hands together all the way to the alpha’s house.I relaxed the moment I saw Kai. It felt so weird. He made me nervous but calmed me down at the same time and I felt my cheeks turn bright red. He was handsome. That much was clear. I found him attractive. I couldn’t deny that. The only problem for me was what I dreamed my future would look like and what it was really going to be like.“How are you holding up?” Kai asked me as soon as we could find a moment alone and I sighed deeply.“It’s all a bit much.” That damn silly giggle escaped between my lips, turning my cheeks bright red again. “I mean that we didn’t have time to just date.” I couldn’t tell him that I dreamed of meeting someone and dating for a while before even thinking about getting engaged and married.“We can take it as