ZaneHarlow is waiting for me at the edge of his pack. Standing either side of him is a man who I assume is his Beta and his latest female interest. No other guards, not that I could see.I stop the car a few feet shy of him and while the woman takes a step back, both men keep their composure.“Zane.” Harlow offers his tattooed hand, “It’s been too long.”I take his hand and give it a good shake, he was one of the few Alpha’s in the country that I trusted. “Thanks for having me.”He introduces me to his Beta, Cato and then nods to the woman, “You don’t need to concern yourself with her name.”She looks pissed, but it just goes to show that she is nothing more than a bedroom companion for the night. Maybe she was hoping for more.“Any news?” I query. I knew he was sending some of his pack to investigate Wintergreen.“No, but they should be back soon.” He gestures for me to walk alongside him. “Though, we don’t really know what you are looking for.”“All I need to know is if they are op
ZaneHe holds his hands up. “I wouldn’t, even if I wanted to.” Harlow mutters“Good, then we have a clear understanding.” I keep my eyes trained on him, looking for any sign of a lie. He had already made it clear that he had once been interested in my little wolf. But whether he will be a man of his word is another matter entirely.A brisk knock raps on the door and his Beta, Cato, moves to the door and lets in two large wolves.They look at me as though I’m the devil in disguise.“Well?” Harlow demands“The location you gave us has been abandoned.” The older one mutters. “And for some time.”“We found bodies that have been decaying for several years.” The younger one mutters. “Any signs of life?” I query. Decaying bodies could just be a decoy. It wouldn’t have been the first time something like that had been done.“Nothing.” The older one mutters. “We checked every house. We scouted the area just in case they got wind we were coming. It looks like it has been abandoned for several y
Willow“You know you don’t need to spend all your time in your room.” Ash tells me from the door“I need to think things through.”“It wasn’t what you were expecting to hear, right?” He continues“You think my father was set up!” I keep my eyes on my artwork. “What more is there to discuss? Oh right, Zane thinks that too and neither one of you said anything to me until now when Zane is off gallivanting.”Ash laughs. “I would hardly call it gallivanting. He is just looking for answers, for you.”I know he couldn’t see my face, but I roll my eyes anyway“Did he go alone?” I ask, pressing my pencil a little too hard into the paper. I will regret it later.“No. He’s taken some of the pack with him. He isn’t stupid Willow. He is a man who knows exactly what he is doing and I can’t help noticing that you sound a little concerned for him.”“Technically, he is my mate.”I hear him move into the room. He takes the seat at Zane’s desk. “We might be wrong, Willow. But it wouldn’t be the first ti
ZaneHarlow’s men hadn’t been wrong when they said nothing was here. It was like a ghost town. Every house had seen better days. Many had broken windows, tiles missing from their roofs and doors hanging off their hinges.Harlow leads me through the tall grass towards the packhouse. “I’m not sure what you are expecting to find, Zane.” He lets out a deep sigh and eyes up the large, very square packhouse.Fallen leaves and dirt covered the steps that lead up to the house, the wooden roof of the porch had rotted through. Weeds had control of the path between us. If there was someone here, they didn't want anyone to know.“It doesn’t matter what I am expecting to find. Now lead the way.”He rolls his eyes at me, trudging through the overgrowth like it was a jungle. His hand hovers over the door handle. “I haven’t been here since…”“I know. You have already said. So time to get a grip and pull on your big girl knickers.” I was quickly losing patience. How the hell he had made it as an Alpha
WillowAsh and I ran through various scenarios, but nothing felt like it came close to being the answer. I mean, he was good with the ideas, but none sounded like they would work.He said he had met my father once, a long time ago and that was just it. He didn’t know my father like I did, but the more I thought about it, I wondered how well I actually knew him. Why hadn’t he asked for help if he knew death was coming?“We won’t know anything until Zane gets back.” Ash tells me as he takes the plates away.“What if it’s another trap?”“Do you really think Zane is that stupid?”“No, I’m just….” I frown as I realise how attached I’ve become to him.Ash sits back down. “Zane has been in worse situations than this, besides, he has just linked me, he is on his way back.”“Is Harlow alive?” I mutter. Hopefully Harlow had kept his mouth shut and only told Zane necessary information.“Yes." He studies me, "It will be late when he gets back. It might not even be until the early hours of the mor
ZaneSome days, she is hard to figure out. She had liked what I was doing for that brief second I was in her head.My little wolf presses her lips together and drops her gaze, like she had said something wrong, but I love the fact she is honest with me, to a degree. There was still a hell of a lot that I knew she wasn’t telling me.Letting go of her face, I start taking off my shirt. Her fingers clutches the clasps of the dungarees, but her eyes drift over me.“Did you…” She clears her throat, turning away. “Did you find anything?”“The place is abandoned. But I found this.” I pull the bloodied note from my pocket and hand it to her. She frowns at the stains and carefully unfolds it as though it might suddenly burst into flames.She scans the three words and the frown deepens. “It’s my Dad’s handwriting.”“I thought as much. I found it in your father’s office. Pinned to the door.”“What does it mean?” She asks“I’m hoping you can tell me.”She turns in the chair and places the bloodie
Willow“And we can talk more in the morning. Are you coming to bed?” He asks me as he removes the rest of his clothes.I nod, I am tired, but my mind doesn’t stop.I couldn’t sleep. He had his arms locked around me and yet I just couldn’t settle, not even with his comforting warmth and scent. I keep thinking of that note that was on my desk. How it was covered in blood when Zane had found it in the office.My father was in his bed. But then I had been too busy trying to get my mother to calm down while keeping my brother out of the room to notice anything else. Had he been attacked somewhere else? Had they slit his throat but not deep enough to kill him, just enough for him to lose loads of blood before he started to heal so that they could move him and finish the job and set my mother up as part of it?I couldn’t even remember if there were other scents in that room. Between my mother’s hysterical screams and my urgency to make her stop. What if I had missed something?It was weeks la
ZaneI’m awake as soon as I feel my little wolf’s pain. She’s not in bed with me. Her dungarees that she hooked on her chair are also gone.Pulling on shorts, I race through the house, calling out to her.“Alpha Zane.” A naked Greyson barrels in through the front door. “Beta Stevens has taken Willow to the hospital.”“What the fuck happened?”His emerald eyes drop to the ground. “She came out a little while ago. She requested to see one of the prisoners. Beta Stevens granted her access. She also requested to speak to the prisoner alone." His chest puffs out, "She crossed the line.”He was talking about the chalk marking on the prison floor.“How bad is it?” I demand as I leave the house. Greyson keeps up with me. “Just her hands, we think.”There was a reason for the line. A guard had crossed it in a bid to get Cara to talk. He had left with a handprint etched into his face. No one else had been present, but the doctor said it was a burn.The line had been put in place to make sure C
Zane“You already…” She scowls, sitting up, “You already planned to kill him?”“The very second, he decided to speak to me as though I was one of his subjects. I don’t care for people that don’t respect other people’s positions.”Willow’s caramel eyes widen, and a tinge of pink coats her cheeks. She didn’t care much about my Alpha title either, and so far, my little wolf was the only one I would allow to get away with such disregard.“Shall we go home?” I ask as her head leans against my shoulder once more.“Yes.” Her body relaxes into mine. I knew Willow thought that she was responsible for his death, but I wanted her to understand that he was always going to die. That even if she told me to let go of him, I wouldn’t have.Twenty minutes into the journey, Willow’s head rests on my lap. Her eyes are closed, her lips are parted, and her heartbeat is quiet as she sleeps. I let out a groan. Harlow’s news was not something I wanted to hear, nor did I expect what he told me.‘Do you want t
WillowAsh hurries me through the house with his hand pressed to my lower back and a concerned look on his face. I could recognise his expressions better than Zane’s. He taps my lower back, “Keep walking, don’t stop.”If anyone but him or Zane tried to do that, I would have smacked them, but I’m guessing Zane had explicitly requested that Ash keep a hand on me at all times.As we walk through the house, I see Greyson wave a couple of men forward. One steps in front of us, taking the lead, while the other joins at the rear, following us as we move. It made me feel like I had some kind of power and that I must be protected at all costs, but do I really need that much protection?If only Layla could see me now. I know she would find the whole situation hilarious. Before the end, even on the darkest days, she managed to keep so many of us focusing on the good things.I’m guided out of a different door than the one we walked through to enter the house. It leads to a familiar hallway, one
Zane“Why would you do this?” Willow challenges Saskia.“Annabella,” she sneers. “Drives me up the fucking wall. I’m happy to see her squirm. You know she has caused a lot of issues for others, right, not just you?”There is a tiny smirk at the corners of Willow’s lips as Saskia sits in the empty chair. She folds her long legs over each other and smiles at my mate.“I admit, I was surprised to see you, but what you don’t know is that it was the best surprise.” She glances at me. “I shouldn’t have said what I said about her being a half-breed. I think I was just thrown by the situation, and it’s clear from your Beta that you are happy.”“I am.” I grin at her, wondering how Stevens managed to pull this off so quickly and get Saskia to set Harlow up. Whatever he did, it seemed like Saskia was more than happy to help.“What did you do?” Willow asks.“Left my underwear in Harlow’s bed and made sure an Omega saw me leaving his room. For it to have kicked off this quickly, I assume she went
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Willow“Of course not.” Harlow frowns. “I can’t expect you to forget something that changed your life.”I step back from him. “So what do you want from me?”“I miss you.”“You don’t even know me anymore. This,” I gesture at my dress, “Isn’t me! The fancy shoes, everything you see, it’s all put on for this night. Because I, was looking for something.”“What are you looking for?” He asks curiously“It doesn’t matter.” I turn away from him and practically crash into Zane.“Are you okay?” Zane scowls“I want to leave.”“Will?” Harlow mutters from behind me“It was a mistake coming here.” I tell Zane. “All their fucking judgy eyes on me the entire time. Whispers spreading like wildfire.” I spin around to stare at Harlow. “Is that why you wanted me to come? To remind me of what I lost? To show everyone that I’m still here. The half wolf, half human abomination?”“It wasn’t like that, Will. I just wanted you to see that I am changing things.”I gesture to the garden. “This isn’t changing thi
WillowFor a moment, I felt like I was back on that stage. All eyes on me, whispers running through the crowd. At least none of them were thinking about stroking their cocks.I pause to take a deep breath, reminding myself that Zane had told me we could leave at any point if it became too much. But now I am here, I want to prove a point. That I wasn't running scared anymore.“Are you good?” Zane whispers in my earI nod and take a step forward.“Then let's get a drink to steady those nerves.” He glances down to his hand where my nails are firmly embedded in his skin.“Sorry,” I whisper, uncurling my fingers. Little bloody crescents are quick to heal. He smiles at me and presses his lips to my cheek. In the corner, I spot Harlow staring at me. He is deep in conversation with another man that I don’t recognise but his eyes are fixated on me.At the bar, Zane orders me a glass of wine and though I wasn’t a drinker, I glug that thing like my life depended on it.Zane raises a brow at me,
Zane“Do you think he is trying to win her over?” Steven’s asks as he hands me a black tie“It would be a fucking mistake. He knows it would start a war and he and his pack wouldn’t survive that.”“Whatever feelings Willow once had for him have long gone.” He tells me, “She is mated to you, not him.”“She’s spoken to you about him, hasn’t she?”“Briefly. You already know there was something between them in the past, long before you came into her life. All I am confirming is that she has no interest in going back to him.”I hear footsteps shuffle across the carpet upstairs. Bailey is first to appear. A massive grin on her face. She hurries down the stairs towards us and turns to admire her own work as Willow steps forward.The ruby red dress is a stark contrast to her creamy skin, but nevertheless, it is beautiful. The bodice is perfectly fitted to her curves, cradling her breasts beautifully. It nips in tight at the waist then turns into free flowing fabric that covers her legs.Willo
WillowI was grateful to get back to our bedroom. I sit at my desk with a leg pulled up and using the other one to rotate me back and forth. I’m still annoyed with myself that my body betrayed me, but I won’t lie, Zane certainly knew what he was doing. My pussy still throbbed from the repeated…. Catching sight of my reflection in the window, a smile is plastered to my face. Okay, it was more than enjoyable.I doodle absentmindedly, but my eyes keep moving to the note that is sitting on the corner of my desk. I had put it there when I first sat down, trying to decide if Zane was right. Was I prepared for the answers? Was I prepared for more bad news? How much worse could it get?Zanes' oak and maple scent gradually grows stronger until he flings the door open. It bounces off the wall with force as he enters the room. “You have been invited to a ball!”He drops the open envelope in front of me.“A ball? The last time I went to a ball was when I was a kid and it was being hosted by Harl