Billy roars loudly behind me as the ground rumbles in his distaste. Emal trumpets, Sarah and Andrew growl, Gregor and Hans flip around behind me. They are going crazy, slamming the ground violently and hooting. I can see fear settle in the eyes of a few men. The man with the scar looks impressed, and a little intimidated.
“Liam, you get the bear. Your face is already ugly, and your mate seems to like you how you are. My mate would kill me if I mess up my handsome mug.”
“Wait!” Maggie says, looking ghostly. “Let me talk to him, again,” she begs.
Brutus rolls his eyes, and she walks over. once more. Her scent wraps around me, trying to calm my mind and make me reasonable.
“Please, we don’t want to hurt you. The man who hired us just wants to talk to you. I promise he won’t hurt you or the pack.” She whispers.
Her hands move to my face as she strokes my cheeks, searching me for an ounce of hesitation.
“You’ve done more damage than a
*Maggie* Axel walks in front of me with his head down. I can see the silver already acting quickly as it rubs away at his exposed skin. I have tried to reach out through our mind link a few times as we head for the vehicles that are waiting for us, but he refuses to acknowledge my efforts. It hurts more than I thought it would, betraying the first person you love. “So he is your mate?” The man called Liam asks me. I just look at him sideways and scoff as we all trudge forward. Nothing about this feels right. I long to be back in that bed with him, learning more about each other on a level that goes deeper than a lie. He had trusted me enough to tell me his one secret. At the moment, I was so swept off my feet by his trust in me; I had forgotten that I was going to use his trust to destroy him. My win feels much more like a tragic loss. “I don’t know how you do it.” Liam continues on. “I lost my first mate, and it nearly br
For hours we drive in awkward silence. Brutus turned the radio on at one point, but Liam growled when a boy band song came on, which amused Brutus. For shits and giggles, Brutus turned it up and Liam then stuck his fist through the radio, ending the feud that had barely started. Axel has stayed in the same position, pushing himself further into the car door window to escape my presence.I don’t blame him, but it doesn’t mean I like it either. Since completing our bond, my need for his physical touch has steadily increased. It’s as if my wolf can’t stand to not have access to him, and since he has closed his mind off to us, the tingles of our contact are the only solitude we have. My stomach growls as I cover it with my hand, frowning.“When are we stopping to rest?” I ask Brutus, who is still pouting about the radio, literally being taken out.“We will drive until Liam, or the boys in t
Liam, Axel, and I trudge up the stairs to our room and push the door open. The musty smell of the room is pungent and I crinkle my nose, surveying the rest of the room. Torn yellow quilts adorn the lopsided beds, and discolored wallpaper peels from the wall. “Well, this is a fancy joint.” Liam snarks. He helps Axel down onto the bed and removes his chains. I stare at Liam like he has gone crazy. When he notices me, he rolls his eyes. “This is a broken man. He isn’t going anywhere because he knows it would be the end for his pack and the only other person he cares about is in the room twisting the knife deeper into his back.” He explains. I nod as I try to keep my tears at bay. Trying to say anything would cause me to sob with guilt and hatred for myself. I am grateful that Liam seems to do his best to treat Axel well. Liam stands and tosses the chains to a corner. He then pulls his leather gloves off one by one. “You are
*Axel*Maggie’s screaming rips through my silent defenses, and I’m compelled to fling myself to her side. I have to blink furiously to clear my eyes of the nightmare I am clearly witnessing, only to find that it’s all very real. Liam watches in horror as Maggie thrashes around, gurgling out sobs of pain. I try to touch her, but her movements make grabbing a hold of her near impossible.Her body creaks like a tree branch under extreme duress, while other parts pop, resulting in awkward angles and more terrible moaning. Her claws lash out at her own skin, slicing and ripping herself apart, trying to get to the source of her pain. The ratty quilt is spattered with her blood as I leap onto it and straddle her waist.Her strength is unlike anything I have ever felt in a she-wolf before as she tries to buck me, sobbing for the pain to go away. I can see her jaw twitching and my heart breaks knowing what is coming next. A
After waiting fifteen minutes for Maggie to not reappear, Brutus threw out some choice words and now we ride in a toxic silence. Brutus stares at his phone while Linus, who has taken Maggie’s place in our vehicle, snores loudly. I look up at Liam, who is driving, and his eyes connect with mine in the rear-view mirror. His eyes look angry and torn like he is fighting an internal struggle. I’m convinced he helped in her escape. He turns his eyes back to the road, sighing heavily.“What the fuck is wrong with you?” Brutus snaps at him.“We are close,” Liam says, annoyed.“And how would you know? You have never been here.”“I can feel my mate.”“Weird, is that a second chance, mate thing? Because I can’t feel my mate.” Brutus says, looking around.“I don’t know,” Liam says, sounding short.“Linus, wake up,&rdq
*Maggie*The tears stopped falling hours ago. That’s what happens when you have nothing left. I am empty of anything other than rage and determination. I am determined to get to Axel, to find him and get him out. Fuck living in peace and quiet. I want crazy, loud, obnoxious circus people. I want blazing passion that I can barely contain; I want Axel. No, I need Axel.Every step further is a shot of agony to my already tortured heart. I want to be angry at his demanding me to find the Freakshow, yet it seems wrong to be mad when I’m the one that put him in this predicament. The longer I wander, the more the reality of everything settles in. For years now I have been living in a non-stop rush, the high of a new assignment, the excitement of finding my mate, finding the person I have been searching for, and then falling in love with him, only to betray him.I have run it all through my head thousand times over. They wo
“What?” Beatrice says, her eyes bugging out of her head.Jacob chuckles as he moves closer to the fire and takes a seat on a log. He tosses a bag of marshmallows to Jasper, who hands the bag to the quiet couple sitting close to him. I watch them both closely as the older man strokes the hair of the woman who sits in front of him with her legs crossed. She opens the bag and spins, feeding him a marshmallow.“Really Declan? Could you and Rosie please be less gross?” Beatrice whines.“When you find your mate you will understand,” Rosie says softly, covering her face in embarrassment.“You have seen the Alpha since you were last bit?” Rosie asks excitedly.“Yes,” I whisper, not really wanting to discuss the matter. I still have the command I need to follow that he forced on me. Getting too detailed will only prolong my travels. It sits in the pit of my stomach like
*Axel*It’s been four long days. I have spent every moment since arriving here in a poorly lit, musty room that is lined with silver and wolfsbane. It seems a little counterintuitive if you ask me, trying to drag forth the wolf in a man by using the two things that can harm it, but I’m not a science man, so maybe there is something to it I don’t realize yet. Liam’s mate sits in a corner on the opposite end of me, afraid to speak or even look my way.Twice a day, the men arrive and give her bread and some pills to take. Judging by the sweaty nature when they come with the medication, they aren’t always coming within the suggested time frame. I’ve tried and failed a few times to coax her into talking to me, but she scowls and turns her back on me. They take us to the restroom three times a day where someone carries her or depending on the mood of the guard, they partially drag her as she attempts to move he
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Epilogue *Axel* ** Six Months later** I can hear Maggie laughing from my office, loud and boisterous. Exactly how she has been since we got our pack. She has been deep in the planning stages with Cora as they work on our newest Freakshow. Even though we have pack lands and I am helping Wade with his newest mission concerning omegas, we need a source of income. And we made damn good money with the original Freakshow. Billy and Bea have taken to traveling around looking for exiled, lonely, or abandoned shifters who need a home. We have quickly become the pack of misfits, but that is exactly what makes our pack so much more special than everyone else’s. We don’t want to travel anymore. It’s not something that makes sense when we all want to be near each ot
*Maggie* Ginger blushes as Emal drops a kiss on her cheek before running off after little Al, who is playing soccer in the field across the road. She and Emal may have mated weeks ago, but she still blushes when he shows affection around other people. Which I find amusing, considering she has never been a shy person before. That was always Emal. It’s almost like they have taken on each other’s strengths and weaknesses. The elephant bond differs from the wolf bond. It’s a chosen bond, which almost makes it seem bigger. No pun intended. I am pretty sure that Emal loved Ginger from the moment he saw her, but being Emal, he lumbers around trying to decide the best options. Not that he was looking for someone better, no. I think he was looking for someone better FOR Ginger. I guess it takes almost losing someone to realize that you would rather give them everything you have than watch them struggle on their own. So that’s what he did.
*Axel* “How has everything been so far?” Wade asks as we enter my makeshift office. The room is basic, with bookshelves lining the walls behind the desk, a large window facing the pines to my right, and beige carpet that match the tan walls. It’s not anything special, but it’s enough for me. I’ve never in my life had a real office before. I had a small desk overrun with papers at all times in my large circus tent, but it hardly could be used for more than writing down expenses or searching places to go. I've never had formal meetings before meeting Wade, I never had a reason to. My Freakshow pack was intimate and we are a family. If we wanted something we spoke our mind and asked there was never a need until now. “Great,” I answer honestly. “We had a whole haul of construction equipment, workers and materials sho
*Maggie*It’s crazy to think that only three weeks ago we fought the largest fight in our entire lives. Axel had never gone up against such foes, nor had any of us. Alpha Wade had even made mention that this was easily the craziest scenario he had ever come across, and the man was plotted against and almost killed in his own home by a committee member. So we don’t take his words on the matter lightly.Just as Alpha Wade had promised, they provided us with our own pack lands. Thankfully, it already had some houses and lots of land to spare for the building of more and potentially a small city area if we wanted. Axel and I have learned so many lessons since finding each other. Ironically, the most important one for me was trusting. Axel likes to put up a front and pretend he is jaded, and he has every reason to be, but I know better. He is the quickest of us to trust. Though that could be because his ultima powers help him with discernm
*Axel* It has been way too long since I have had a good night’s sleep, and waking up next to Maggie is the icing on the cake. I could feel her tossing and turning for the first part of the night, but once she settled in, I was able to fall into a deep sleep. What Billy said about the man setting fire to the tents has to have bothered her. I don’t see how it couldn’t. That night had been a rollercoaster of emotions for the two of us. Her falling, combined with her injury, had been enough to set me over the edge until her tears came. The tears that completely unraveled me. I would have done anything to stop those tears and the ache I saw behind them. I loved her before that moment, but I fell for her right then. It was the most real she had ever been with me, and in turn, I told her my secret. The same night, we sealed our mate bond. I reach out and stroke her soft cheek with the back of my knuckle, memorizing every line of her stun
*Maggie*Axel sits motionless in front of me and Billy trying to wrap his head around our crazy stories. I started with the moment I left Axel’s side. Billy and Axel sat in awe while I told them how hard it was to leave him, explaining finding Jacob, Declan, Rosie, Abigail, Bea, and Jasper in the woods. And how willing they were to help and follow me. Axel was especially not happy about me trying to take on Abraham’s pack or that I had been in his old home.I explained how Madelyn had helped us and how I pissed Jacob off by storming the dungeon the moment I realized the Freakshow was down there. But in the stoic face, I could see the pride and I took it as a good sign. He had no questions for me as he just sat and listened. Billy tossed in a few things here and there as we regaled him on our heroic journey to save him. I explained how I went willingly with Liam, and that I was beaten up because we had no choice, so I sparred with Liam
Maggie stiffens, and I hold her tight to my chest, refusing to move from my place. I hold no fear for my brother. I have no desire to fight with him and no desire to kill him, though if he gives me a reason, I will do what I need to. A heavy sigh escapes my lips and I glance down at Maggie, who slowly moves from my grip and stands at my side. However, I decide to remain seated.“Abe. What brings you here? Coming to kill me again?” I raise a brow and bring my elbow to my knees, leaning forward slightly.Abe chuckles and steps out into the lamplight that illuminates the broken driveway.“Brother, if I wanted to kill you…”“I would already be dead?” I raise a brow and dawn a ghost of a grin. Still the same as Abe. Way too confident for his own good. “What more do you have to prove? You have the title you have always wanted. I stayed away. You came to me, you and your men shot my ma
Cora comes rounding the corner with Hans right beside her, Jacob trailing close behind. Her eyes are red and puffy, her hair a tousled mess, and her nose pink and raw from blowing her nose. Hans is looking no better. His once lively smile and tan skin are nowhere to be seen. He moves like a zombie with no light in his eyes, offering Cora a hand when she shudders, trying to shed the weight of another onslaught of tears. The excitement of showing them overwhelms me as I smile wide and stick my hands in my pockets, trying to keep my eyes glued to the ground. They step in front of me, stopping and looking at me with their blank stare. My stomach lurches. They both look so broken and vacant. “Cora just fell asleep, Axel.” Hans frowns “I know, and I’m sorry to have woken you up when you really need some sleep. I’m not sure this is the right way to do this. Hell, I’m not sure anyone would actually know what the right way is, but…”