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[Apple]Holding the photo to my chest, I wish more than ever that my mother was here to explain all of this to me. "Why didn't you tell me the truth?" I press the photos even harder into my flesh, the old photo paper crinkling. A warm hand touches my shoulder startling me. Blinking up, I see my handsome mate standing over my shoulder, his skin sheet white from exhaustion. “You should be in bed,” his lip curls up on one side in a self-satisfied smirk, “With me.” He wiggles his eyebrows suggestively and I cannot help but laugh. “Stop it,” I playfully swat at him. “I know what you’re doing.“And what…” Sly leans in, setting his hand on the table next to me, “Is it that I’m doing exactly?”He licks his lip and subconsciously I bite mine in response. Damn is sexy. It’s not fair that he’s so damn beautiful. “You’re trying to distract me,” Standing I place my arms around his neck. “So that I don’t worry.” “Oh?” He kisses me swiftly, a feather-light touch of lips. “And is it working?”As
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[Apple]“Can we hurry?” I call Rudy up as I fiddle with my phone. I’ve been trying to reach Sly since I left the packhouse but haven’t received a response. “Deep breaths, Luna,” Rudy does his best to calm me as he drives through the street. “Relax.”“What if he’s in trouble?” Feeling faint, the sound of blood rushing through my ears is overwhelming as I struggle to regain control of my feelings. I haven’t been quite myself since we mated and sealed our bond with his mark. All of my senses are heightened and my emotions magnified. It's as if joining with Sly opened a new side of me. A powerful, anxious, and bold side that also feels strongly protective of my big, bad Alpha. “You would know if he were,” Rudy continues to try to calm me. “You’re his Luna. That bond is special. If anything were to happen to him, you’d know.” This must be another wolf thing. Crossing my arms I tell him as much, ploping back into the cushions. “The problem is,” I remind him, “I’m not a wolf.”“I’m not su
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[Apple]The room is silent. The members of the Board of Directors sit in their semi-circle, their faces passive, waiting for my response. Sly reaches forward and squeezes my hand. His presence anchors me, reminding me that he is here with me. We are here to face this challenge together. Why do I think I deserve to be Luna?"I don't," I answer honestly. "You'd be better off without me." Clancy's smile warms as he rubs his hands together like I’ve just given him an unexpected present. "From her own mouth, she admits it,” his icy tone chills me to my soul as he glares in my direction, his hand outstretched as he points at me. “She isn't good enough.”A few turn and whisper as Clancy continues to rant. “As far as I see it,” the Beta-emeritus concludes, “This meeting is over, she doesn't want to be Luna.”He pauses to let the words sink in before adding “ Luckily, I already have the perfect candidate you may remember my niece. Alexis eagerly awaits the opportunity to reclaim her positi
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[Sylvester]“Apple!” She screams as another flare of blinding light pulses from her body. Pressing the hold button on the elevator, I cover Apple with my suit jacket, but it isn’t long enough to cover her completely, nor snuff her flames. Pulling out my phone I call Rudy. “Clear out the lobby and bring a large, dark cloth.” “A cloth, Alpha?”“Large enough to cover a grown she-wolf. Apple…” “Understood,” my Beta replies. “Done.” When I make it to the lobby it is completely deserted. Rudy is waiting with what looks like a blackout curtain. “I’ve already called Ms. Hazel. I figured she could be helpful.” Rudy helps me carry Apple unseen through the back door. I’ve never been more grateful than I am now for the tinted windows on my Bently. “Cameras,” I grunt and Rudy nods, heading off to take care of any security leaks that might reveal Apple’s true nature. It is going to be harder to keep this part of her hidden with her powers flaring unpredictably. Thank the Goddess this didn’t h
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[Apple]Watching my mate walk away felt like a jagged stab of rejection in my heart. Just like when he learned I was a witch, he is retreating into himself, into his fear. And it hurts. It hurts because I love him. And because I love him, I don’t want to leave him. And right now, the only way I can stay is if I pretend to be a wolf convincingly enough to keep this charade going. Because even Alphas are beholden to their pack--And if the laws of his pack forbid hybrids…Placing an absent hand on my belly, I only hope it isn’t too late. We’ve made love so many times, I might already carry his child. “No,” I shake my head. “If that were true I wouldn’t be in heat, right?”There is a commotion in the next room. Standing on shaky legs, I peek into the living room to see my alpha cowing before a very old, very angry-looking witch. “You promised!” She snarls, lightning flashing on her fingertips. “You said you’d take care of her and here you are sneaking off like a …” It’s the woman who
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[Apple]“Oh, what’s this?” One of the she-wolves in her group picks my vial out from underneath a nearby seat and hands it to Alexis.Holding the vial up to the light, Alexis tilts her head from side to side, watching the way the light shines through the tiny little pills. “Give that back,” I hold out my hand expectantly. “That’s mine.”“Oh is it,” Alexis plays dumb as she holds it just outside of my reach. “Looks like it’s in my hands. A nice bit of witch magic you have here. But what would Sly’s Luna need with witch magic.” What can I say that will make sense to her without giving myself up?One of the girls in her group, a female with a perpetual resting bitch face, whispers something in Alexis’ ear and I watch in horror as her eyes glow with mirth. “Oh really…? Wouldn’t that be rich?”Turning to me she holds the vial like an accusation as she interrogates me loudly. “Luna Apple, is this BIRTH CONTROL?”I freeze. The other females titter and I suddenly remember them as the trio o
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[Alexis]My hands are still shaking as I open my phone and watch Sly leave with his rental slut. Uncle Clancy must have felt something was wrong, or someone must have told him because he picks up his phone after two rings. “Report.” “I’m not on the plane,” I announce, despondent. “Sly saw me talking to Apple and ordered me to stay so I…”“I warned you to keep your distance,” Uncle Clancy snaps. “You were supposed to spy on them, not draw attention to yourself. But you had to push things.”I can almost see him pacing back and forth in his office, the phone on speaker. I’m about to say something snarky in reply but remember my place. I was almost ejected from the pack by my ex-husband only a few minutes ago. I was only seconds away from becoming a rogue. My connection to Uncle Clancy is the only thing keeping me from being cast out of the pack. After I betrayed Sly, I spent 5 years relearning how to be a wolf after his rejection shattered my mind. It didn’t matter that I didn’t accep
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[Apple]Moon River was not all like I was expecting. Although, maybe I wasn’t expecting the right things. I’ve only ever lived in two places my entire life--Pleasant Valley and now Crescent City. And while I saw versions of the fabled Werewolf capital in movies as a kid, it isn’t the same as experiencing it in real life. Yes, Crescent City is a city, but Moon River is a metropolis. Almost everyone here is a werewolf and the city is so big that it has not just one but five major packs: Bloodbane, Steel Fang, Crystal Claw, Goddess Valley, and of course, Moon River Pack. Sly does his best to explain this big city to my small country self while we stand in the train station with our luggage. “Each pack is like a shining point of a star,” Sly describes as he shows me how the city is divided among the 5 packs. “While each one is its own independent pack, they all work together to create unity within the city, each taking responsibility for various vital resources for mutual survival. God
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[Alexis]"Where are you going, Apple? Where have you been?"Hunched in the back of the crowd, I cover my face with a hat as I watch her scamper into a dark alley. My connection, Willow, will arrive any moment now with evidence that will destroy this weak bitch once and for all. She's got a secret. I can tell. A woman knows when another one is trying to hide something shameful. Whatever Apple's up to, she doesn't want anyone else to know.Which means, of course, that I must know everything she's been up to. Every small detail. Looking over my shoulder, I keep my face blank as she follows Sly into a luxury rental. I don't think she saw me. Not that it matters. There's nothing she can do. I know at least one of her secrets, one that can tear everything down if the public finds out. "I'm sorry, Sly. But everyone needs to know the truth about her. Especially you." Dipping into the shadows of the alleyway, I find what must have been her destination. An apothecary shop. Turning the han
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[Apple]The faint echo of her words shakes the branches of my mind as my feet, rooted in place, level me frozen, unmoving and staring at the witch before me unblinkingly as my heart and lungs fight to settle.With just a handful of words, everything I knew to be true about me changed.“Two months,” I repeat, placing a hand over my belly. Concentrating on my core energy, I send a tendril of my warmth and light into my abdomen, hoping to find nothing. A faint spark flickers beneath my palm. She's been with me this entire time, from the first time Sly and I mated, back when my life was in danger and he claimed me as his because a life tied to him was better than deathAnd he didn't want me to die.A second flicker flutters beneath my hand. Her wolf. She's a wolf and a witch. A hybrid. Too dangerous to live. The apothecary shakes her head sadly as my feelings telegraph across my face. “You poor child, you had no idea. May I assume the father is…willing to help you care for your child?”
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[Apple] After the fiasco with Alexis, Sly decided to spend the rest of the evening curled up in each other’s arms. It wasn’t sexual, but it was intimate, and a much-needed balm to the stresses of the last few days. It was enough just to feel one another and wrap ourselves in one another’s scent. I had never been so driven by my senses before meeting Sly, if anything I avoided feeling too much. I never let Zion get this close to me. Even when I thought I was giving him my love, I realize now that there was always a wall between us placed there by me. Was I aloof with Zion because I wasn’t ready, or was it because he wasn’t my mate? Either way, thank the Goddess that I waited. I couldn’t imagine having him touch any part of me now. It all belongs to Sly. Every part. Lying between his legs, skin to skin, I cuddle up to Sylvester’s chest. His arms, wrapped with a thick woolen blanket, envelop me, pulling me into him. He smells like heaven and I tell him so and he chuckle
