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Chapter 077
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2024-09-18 11:07:46
VictoryAnne ViceThank you all for hanging in there. I hope you are enjoying the new chapters! I wanted to show you all a bit more of their world as we reach the end of the first half of the book. Adventure and danger await them at the convention. In the next chapter, find out what happens to Alexis after she is dismissed by Sly. Do you think she's up to anything good?
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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 picked 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. My ex-husband almost ejected me from the pack. My connection to Uncle Clancy is the only thing keeping me from being cast out like a common rogue.I can’t be a rogue again. 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 accept his rejection--he’s more powerful. It was e
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[Apple]Moon River was not all like I was expecting. Although, maybe I wasn’t really 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.Crescent City is a city, yes, 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.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 up among the 5 packs. “While each one is its own independent pack, they all work together to create unity within the city, each one taking responsibility for various vital resources for mutual surviva
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[Apple]"Of course," I nod, as I squeeze his hand and his body slowly relaxes.We check in and make our way up to one of the luxury Alpha Suites on the top floor. As the representative of one of the largest packs in the country, we have a very nice overview of the entire valley. Unfortunately, a handful of major alphas are on this floor and a few minutes later we hear Alexis' piercing giggle just a few doors down. Her voice is soon joined by a deeper laughter, which I guess must be Rodrigo.Sly's eyes flash red, his hands opening and closing as his nails lengthen and retract. But is it because of what he said earlier or what he hears now? Could it be that seeing this elder wolf with Alexis is setting off a nerve?"Sly?" I call out. When he doesn't respond, I call his name louder, "Sylvester!"He jumps, coming back to the here and now, and I release a deep sigh as his eyes slowly return to blue. "What happened," I step forward. He could tear me in two when he is in this kind of a mood,
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[Sylvester]My mate is crying. I can feel her pain like a thousand needles stabbing my heart."She's worried about carrying our pup," Rufus sighs. “She’s worried about what that would mean. She doesn’t understand.”Entering the shower with her, I scoop my love into my arms. “Shh.” I hold her to me, my pain lifting as she nuzzles into me instead of fighting to get away even when I’m the one who hurt her.“I am so sorry, Apple. I should have felt something was wrong, I should have pulled out sooner, I should have…”Turning towards me, Apple’s eyes spark with a flash of anger, followed by a well of sadness, her tears mixing with the shower water as they trace the lines of her face. “No Sly, I’m the one who…oh what was I thinking!”Doing my best to mask my own fear, I project feelings of love strength, and support through her bond. I can’t have her feeling bad about this moment, one that if she were born a wolf, we wouldn’t be as worried about.“We don’t know that there will even be a pup,
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[Apple]My handsome mate, the mightiest alpha in the west, is kneeling before me with his heart in his hands.“...You are already my Luna. Would you honor me by becoming my wife?”I can taste my pulse on the back of my tongue. So much has happened so fast. But when he looks up at me with those eyes the color of the sea, I know I’m lost.Bending down, I answer him with kisses, sparks igniting between us as my energy flows into him from where our lips touch. “Yes Sylvester Sterling,” I smile against his mouth. “I’ll marry you.”Whooping in joy, Sly rises to his feet and swings me around.Laughing, for a moment everything else falls away. The stresses waiting for us beyond this room are nothing compared to the strength of his love flowing between us along the bond, my own witch energy moving through us as well, so powerfully that Sly’s skin seems to glow.Sly is glowing. How?“Sylvester,” I pull away, “Stop. Put me down. You’re…”The door to the shop slams with so much force that I can he
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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 chuckles, warming me from
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[Apple]Killed for loving a witch.Feeling dizzy, I sit back against the headboard, grasping the sheets in my hand for support as I wait for the world to stop spinning. I want to hold Sly, I want to comfort him, but I can’t when my own heart and mind are spinning.What have I done? Has loving me condemned my mate?“I had been living with Lysander Moon for two years. His mate, I always just assumed she was a wolf. I was a child, I didn’t think about those things yet or asked questions about things like that. I had mostly grown up as a rogue and hadn’t spent much time around witches or even many wolves other than my mother. Looking back, I realize there were small signs, but they were very careful.”Sly’s breathing is shallow and rapid as he relives the past. Reaching forward, I place my hand on his clammy cheek. He calms instantly, falling into my touch. Turning his face until his nose rests on my wrist, he inhales deeply. A shiver of gratitude trickles through our bond as he pulls me i
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[Apple]The next morning, I wake to find Sylvester gone. My heart jumps until my mind clears from the fog of the night before and I notice a tray next to the bed with a covered plate and a single red rose in a tall crystal vase.The note next to the tray says, “I’ll be back this afternoon. Enjoy yourself. I’ll meet you for lunch.” Beneath the note is a platinum card with his name engraved in bold letters.Below his name is my own, although not quite my own. The card reads:“Alpha Sylvester S. Sterling. Luna Apple B. LeRoux Sterling.”“Cheeky wolf,” I smirk. “When did he have this made? Awfully presumptuous. We aren’t even married.”“Yet,” the voice in the back of my head adds.My heart flips with nervous joy.He wants to keep me. He must have planned that dress to be part of his proposal. He made it look so casual and spontaneous. That sly wolf probably had that dress planned too based on how it fit.Only one person other than myself knows my body so well.I miss him.Hanging from the
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