The room where they had arranged everything for the dance in my honor is now a court, with a main table, two podiums, one next to the main table and one in front of it. There are also chairs arranged for the audience that is entering now.
Kyle named his brother Ketin as his new delta, but it is temporary, because he oversees managing the pack's businesses, such as the Scarlet Moon clubs across the country, although I suspect which it's just a facade for his true work: espionage.
So, at the head table, Kyle can be seen presiding over the court, with Kieran on his right hand, who is replacing Maikan because he cannot judge his own brother, Maddox. On the left hand is Ketin, conducting his first task as a delta.
They have brought poor Richard from his cell and placed him on the podium next to the judges' table. Despite his worried face, he looks good and healthy. He looks in my direction and I smile at him to give him courage, but he nods to give me courage, too
Maikan moves over to the table presided over by the half-naked in his forties' man who rules the pack, and I can't help but fix my gaze on the muscles in his chest. "That man could be your father," I tell myself, but then I remember the man who was just kicked out of the room and my heart begins to ache. "I'll tell someone to bring dad a sweater," says Kieran, who sits next to me now, "all the she-wolves here are drooling," he adds, and I look away, "we don't want the case to be delayed, because mom comes to put them in their place, don't you think?" I clear my throat and lower my head as Kieran talks to Derrick and he brings the alpha clothes. It takes a few minutes before Astrid is brought to the podium. Her blonde hair looks a bit disheveled, and she has dark circles that make her look like a raccoon. "Silence, please," says Kyle who is now wearing a sweater, "we will initiate the trial of Astrid, the pack's former delta, who has committed high tre
"Come on, get up," Kieran takes my hands to stand me up and I feel as if till my hair hurts. We've been training in the pack house gym for an hour, and I still haven't struck a single hit. He dodges me and moves so fast, that I only see a blur before I feel the blow, "you have to pay attention to your opponent, anticipate his/her movements." "Anticipate?" I scoff, "if I can barely see you when you hit me." "You cannot see me?" He's amazed and he runs his hand over his head," but you're a wolf and you have alpha blood, so you should see my every move." "I've been a wolf for five days," I complain, "before that, I didn't have to hit anyone or worry about someone attacking me." "So, your life was very boring," he laughs, "I think we're going to start with something more basic, come on," he takes me by the hand and leads me to some mats in a gym secluded area, "here we can meditate." "What?" I say with a mischievous smile, "now you are going to be
The next day I return to Richard's place, but he is completely different. Where it saw walls covered in wood from floor to ceiling before, now there are a lot of flowers and plants in pots. The windows are open, letting in smells and sounds coming from the backyard. "As we cannot go to garden or forest, I have asked for some plants and flowers for this first session, then we will see what we can do when you already move on," says Richard, "now sit down, we will begin with the meditations." I do what he asks me. He has arranged some mats on the floor for making the exercises. "The reason why your senses are blocked is that we lived in a human city, far from any forest," he tells me, and I listen to him carefully, "when you were a baby we lived in a small town, where I could transform from time to time. But you were starting to walk, and your movements weren't natural for a normal human, so I took you away from the forest. We moved to a full of noise and pollut
"She's already waking up," the 's Kieran voice says, who is holding me in his arms, right where Einar's men left me, "are you okay?" "I think so," I say, "have they already left?" "There's no one here," he answers me, "we returned because I heard you in my mind and assumed that something was wrong." "You have no idea," I point and tell him everything that happened, "after they left, I was scared to see my claws, my God!" My voice comes out in a thread, "I didn't know it could change in parts or that it could change before I was of legal age." Everyone present looks at me in amazement, some pass their hands over their heads, someone screams in astonishment and others put their hands to their mouths. "Try to calm down," he whispers in my ear, but his muscles tense, "you're safe now." "We are not fine!" Kyle explodes and he takes his cell phone, "he's going to listen to me," he goes to the garden's other side so he can talk. Maikan and Ke
It's the third day of concentrated training that Kyle indicated. "Get up, again," Kieran tells me when he knocks me down again. I think he's done it like a thousand times today or that's what my muscles feel like. At least I can already see and hear his blows, but he doesn't hit just once, when I feel the first, the second hits right on target, "what? Did you already give up or what?" He challenges me and I get up and I look at him annoyed, "Your eyes don't hit, you have to use your fists, or your feet and I don't want any pouting me. It won't work when they come for you." "You're a fucking Nazi," I complain and my blood boils. This Kieran is nothing like the one he curls around my body when he wants to sleep. "Tell it to your father's henchman when he'll put you in a bag and take you because you defend yourself like a little girl," he snaps at me to anger me even more," now, come and hit me," his fists are ready to hit me with his blows, but I hear the air w
Velkan's wounds are slowly recovering, as my blood takes its effect. The deadliest cuts have already been closed and he is left with only his torn shirt with the claws marks that attacked him. Now he is safe, on one of the sofas in the alpha's office, in his mate's arms, who does not stop crying with joy to know that he is going to recover. But that doesn't make me recover from the bombshell he just threw at me. For as long as I can remember, the idea of a mother was that an idea, not something real, something that I could even touch. Now I know that she is somewhere forgotten for so long. My mother is alive. I have two brothers. They are in a dungeon. My whole family is in a dungeon. My heart aches and weighs too much for something that I thought was lost. I have real siblings, not the ones my life at Richard's house gave me. Twins. Velkan recovers his color, and he looks much better, and we are all w
"I think I know what Einar is looking for," Richard tells me when I'm already sitting on one of the sofas in the room that he uses as an office, while he looks for one of the books, he was reviewing a moment ago and he hands it to me, "here it is." He opens the book and points to a paragraph, and I read. "Heal the blood, the blood of the strongest. In harmony it lies, in harmony submits. The strength of the blood rules the world." At first, I don't understand anything at all. Then I see it, the blood that heals is mine, "it speaks of my blood and the strongest blood." "That's right, the blood of an alpha," explains Richard, "but not just any alpha," he adds, "the strongest blood, it must speak of an alpha with a lineage of generations and Einar is," he tells me and I look like plates, "both Einar's father and mother have alpha blood, that makes him strong," he continues with his explanation, to my amazement, "but the next part is the one that worries me and t
When we left the party in the youth wing, we walk straight into the room and open the door in a hurry. We close it and he and I stay alone, which makes me swallow hard. "I don't think they'll invite us back to the youth area," I tell Kieran as he adjusts his torso to my back when he squeezes me around the waist with both hands. His head reclines in the gap between my neck and shoulder, sucking hard and making my legs feel suddenly weak. "You've got me so turned on," he whispers in my ear, spreading kisses down my neck that make my nipples harden. His hand sneaks between my pants looking for my center, causing me to sigh heavily. Then I smell his essence again, the one that was driving me crazy a while ago in the youth common room. I taste it on my tongue and swallow it, which makes me want to go crazy, so I turn and grab Kieran by the sweater and start to pull it off. He does the same with mine and we both throw ourselves on the bed. His hands are everywhere,
My brain begins to come out of surprise and process what is happening. The familiar face makes me laugh with relief."God, Velkan!" My heart returns to normal mode, "I thought all of you were the scholars who came to get more blood samples.""We leave those sleeping in their laboratory," he replies, "although I'm not sure for how long, we drug them and close that pavilion from the inside, but the guards have other ways to enter, so go up quickly," he rushes us and I give way to my mother to climb, then the twins go, and I follow them to the end. Velkan looks at me with a frown and I look back at him, because I remember I am angry with him.He's on Kieran's side and he's the one who locked me in the room, to begin with!And he says he is my brother!When we're upstairs, I see that Frans is accompanying Velkan on what I assume is the rescue mission for my family, which Ketin must have armed. Frans nods his head to greet me."Do you really thin
"Are you okay?" the beautiful woman in her late thirties across from me asks. Her hands touch me shakily. Her smile is a bit shy and her touch is warmer than I could ever think.My mother.How long I thought that phrase was not allowed. It still feels weird.As an orphan, I suppressed even thinking about her, at least in the last five years, when I understood that I had to continue with my life without the presence of a mother. But, in those dreams that one cannot control, when you are totally relaxed sleeping soundly, I imagined myself with one of her, although in reality I only laughed with her and played that she did not catch me.It was when I woke up and thought they were nightmares because reality hit me and that dream only mocked me with desire and in the most blatant way possible. A mother was an illusion in an orphan's life. But now I found her, she's here and she's taking care of me."Yes," I reply, "I'm fine, thank you."“Bu
"So, you, me, him, Velkan, we're all wolves," he concludes, and I nod my head."And how did they catch you?" I ask him after I'm silent so he can assimilate everything I just told him."Well, I was with my mother and my sister, they're both beautiful, you know?" he tells me with a smile, but with some sadness, in her eyes "the girl is my half-sister, mom joined a banished wolf after my father left her and took me. When she found me she brought me to a community of outcasts, but life with them is very difficult and we heard that the Silver Pack accepted outcasts. But it was all a hoax and here I am."Where is your family now?" I ask him when I see that there is only him, me, and two other boys in the cell."My mother, her partner, and my sister were taken to the cells upstairs a while ago, along with ten others. Every other day they do the same thing. We have a week here, more or less" his voice cracks, "those who leave don't come back. I'm so scared, Bian
"Damn Kieran!" I yell as pound the door repeatedly in frustration. "I know you must be upset now, but everything has been for your good, Bianca," Velkan tells me from the door's another side. "Upset?" I scoff, "I'll show you what the meaning of that word is when I choke you with my bare hands." "Just don't try anything weird, like trying to climb the chimney or something," Velkan warns me, "I know you heal pretty quickly, but a three-story fall can kill you instantly." "Why don't you just walk away without saying anything, as Kieran did," I blurt out, "or better yet, ignore me and don't give me your face." "Yes, yes, I'm going," he says more calmly, "I just hope you understand that it's for your good." "For my good? don't mess me, Velkan!" I yell at him again, "you decided to lock me up like a dog, you didn't even give me a chance to explain my reasons." Velkan doesn't answer me again, instead, I hear his footsteps down the cor
When we left the party in the youth wing, we walk straight into the room and open the door in a hurry. We close it and he and I stay alone, which makes me swallow hard. "I don't think they'll invite us back to the youth area," I tell Kieran as he adjusts his torso to my back when he squeezes me around the waist with both hands. His head reclines in the gap between my neck and shoulder, sucking hard and making my legs feel suddenly weak. "You've got me so turned on," he whispers in my ear, spreading kisses down my neck that make my nipples harden. His hand sneaks between my pants looking for my center, causing me to sigh heavily. Then I smell his essence again, the one that was driving me crazy a while ago in the youth common room. I taste it on my tongue and swallow it, which makes me want to go crazy, so I turn and grab Kieran by the sweater and start to pull it off. He does the same with mine and we both throw ourselves on the bed. His hands are everywhere,
"I think I know what Einar is looking for," Richard tells me when I'm already sitting on one of the sofas in the room that he uses as an office, while he looks for one of the books, he was reviewing a moment ago and he hands it to me, "here it is." He opens the book and points to a paragraph, and I read. "Heal the blood, the blood of the strongest. In harmony it lies, in harmony submits. The strength of the blood rules the world." At first, I don't understand anything at all. Then I see it, the blood that heals is mine, "it speaks of my blood and the strongest blood." "That's right, the blood of an alpha," explains Richard, "but not just any alpha," he adds, "the strongest blood, it must speak of an alpha with a lineage of generations and Einar is," he tells me and I look like plates, "both Einar's father and mother have alpha blood, that makes him strong," he continues with his explanation, to my amazement, "but the next part is the one that worries me and t
Velkan's wounds are slowly recovering, as my blood takes its effect. The deadliest cuts have already been closed and he is left with only his torn shirt with the claws marks that attacked him. Now he is safe, on one of the sofas in the alpha's office, in his mate's arms, who does not stop crying with joy to know that he is going to recover. But that doesn't make me recover from the bombshell he just threw at me. For as long as I can remember, the idea of a mother was that an idea, not something real, something that I could even touch. Now I know that she is somewhere forgotten for so long. My mother is alive. I have two brothers. They are in a dungeon. My whole family is in a dungeon. My heart aches and weighs too much for something that I thought was lost. I have real siblings, not the ones my life at Richard's house gave me. Twins. Velkan recovers his color, and he looks much better, and we are all w
It's the third day of concentrated training that Kyle indicated. "Get up, again," Kieran tells me when he knocks me down again. I think he's done it like a thousand times today or that's what my muscles feel like. At least I can already see and hear his blows, but he doesn't hit just once, when I feel the first, the second hits right on target, "what? Did you already give up or what?" He challenges me and I get up and I look at him annoyed, "Your eyes don't hit, you have to use your fists, or your feet and I don't want any pouting me. It won't work when they come for you." "You're a fucking Nazi," I complain and my blood boils. This Kieran is nothing like the one he curls around my body when he wants to sleep. "Tell it to your father's henchman when he'll put you in a bag and take you because you defend yourself like a little girl," he snaps at me to anger me even more," now, come and hit me," his fists are ready to hit me with his blows, but I hear the air w
"She's already waking up," the 's Kieran voice says, who is holding me in his arms, right where Einar's men left me, "are you okay?" "I think so," I say, "have they already left?" "There's no one here," he answers me, "we returned because I heard you in my mind and assumed that something was wrong." "You have no idea," I point and tell him everything that happened, "after they left, I was scared to see my claws, my God!" My voice comes out in a thread, "I didn't know it could change in parts or that it could change before I was of legal age." Everyone present looks at me in amazement, some pass their hands over their heads, someone screams in astonishment and others put their hands to their mouths. "Try to calm down," he whispers in my ear, but his muscles tense, "you're safe now." "We are not fine!" Kyle explodes and he takes his cell phone, "he's going to listen to me," he goes to the garden's other side so he can talk. Maikan and Ke