“Chloe! Run back!” Rodger screamed. He was close. Too close for my liking. His magic wasn’t working on the wolf, which he seemed to realize. Why he was still chasing us and putting himself in danger was beyond me. I didn’t want to abandon my mates as they fought, but Rodger would be in danger if I didn’t turn back.“Our mates would want us to go,” Cortina said fiercely, then started to run towards Rodger. “There are others to help too.”She was right. The field was littered with our warriors, all the other invading wolves already close to defeated. Billy and Beta Desmond’s wolves were already heading over from the other side of the chaos to help.Cortina was just a few yards away from Rodger when a sickening crack followed by a howling scream echoed behind us. I felt it. The stabbing pain in my gut that meant one of my mates was horribly hurt. Looking behind us, I saw a tree falling backward, Rome’s dark body crumbled in front of it. The tree was broken with his body being thrown into
Ivar took off into the deep forest. There were trees crackling to the ground, shaking the earth. Fear was taking over me imagining what might be happening to my little mate, but then I saw her. She was floating in the purple mist, her bare body wrapped in the energy like her wolf had been. Her hands were extended in front of her, the cords of purple currents shooting out, aimed at the trees nearest the giant red wolf. He was watching carefully, evading her attacks, trying to find a way in to get close, but not seeing any opening around her power.“Her feet!” Ivar said in a panic.Her feet were turning a sickly white. The purple glow was fading, starting at her toes. I raced towards her, fearing what would happen if that purple glow took the life from her entire body. She sent one more blast of power right above the wolf’s head, and it let out a ferocious snarl before finally retreating back to the highway.“He’s retreating for the vans!” I told the others as I threw the rest of my ene
Boyd POV“Let me out of here!” I screamed at the top of my lungs. “HEY! Let me go!”The guard that was standing on the other side of the door with the small barred window turned to look back at me with annoyance, but just went back to ignoring my fit for freedom after that. He never mutters a word, no matter how much a yell.It’s been the same for days. I’ve sat on the hard cold floor of this windowless room, with only a bucket in the corner and two meals of cold soupy mush brought to me twice a day. No one has said a fucking word to me since I woke up like this, and I’m going bat shit crazy.“My friends will come looking for me!” I slammed my fist on the door. “You have no idea who you are fucking with!” I slammed my hands against the flat surface is frustration. The guard didn't even flinch.“There’s no point,” Sirius, my wolf, huffed. “They don’t care.”“Then why did they take us?!”“Maybe they wanted a pet.” He looked around the room with me in distaste. "Not even a dog would b
Mick POV“How much longer is it going to be until she wakes up?” I asked, pacing near the door. Dez said that the invading Alpha had gone away, and Rome was buzzing with the urge to go after him ourselves. Miles and Ivar weren’t much better, but neither of us were leaving the pack until our mate opened her eyes.“She’s fully restored,” Driana said. “Her body is just spent. She will wake up when she is ready.”Driana’s eyes looked cloudy, and she had deep circles under her eyes. Rodger and his other sister didn’t look much better. Rodger went after Chloe, trying to save her from being taken, and the sisters drained their magic by trying to restore our mate. I know they are working their hardest for her sake, but I can’t help but be frustrated. I just want my mate to open her eyes and tell me she’s okay herself.“Is it safe to move her to the pack house now?” Miles asked.Paulina began to smack her lips and click her gums together, waving her hands fervently at her brother and her sist
Boyd POV“This way,” Laura said in a tone that was too upbeat for me to trust. She was holding the arm of her bloody Alpha mate, skipping along like she didn’t have a care in the world. He took long, steady strides, not put off by her attitude or the way she was hanging on his with her jerky movements at all.I was as tense as I could fucking be. My hands were tied in front of me with infused hemp rope, the fibers burning into my skin. Sirius was barely with me, constrained by the wolfsbane. If that wasn’t enough, I have two guards on either side of me and one behind. These three were elite guards. Ones I had trained and worked with long ago. The tension was evident in their faces, and I could feel their concern as they were tying my hands. It made all this feel even more sinister, despite Laura’s upbeat mood.“Oh, Jasper. You’re getting blood on my shirt,” Laura complained, looking down at her loose-fitted backless halter top. She was the one who was clutched onto his bloody arm, bu
Lenny POV“Did she just call him Mr. Smith?” Kai hissed at me.We were both perched in a tree about fifty yards from the run-down pool of the abandoned resort deep in the woods. We were just far enough that our scents wouldn’t be detected, but to be safe, Rodger had us use scent maskers too. Kai was using his powers to amplify the conversation being had by the Alpha we followed all the way here. Neither of us expected him and what was left of his men to drive only forty miles from Setting Sun Pack. We really didn't expect to see the Alpha go in the abandoned resort and come out not even half an hour later with our missing friend.“I heard it too.” Mr. Smith. That woman definitely called the white hat-wearing man Mr. Smith.Kai sank down on the branch, squinting his eyes as he tried to get a better view. “It’s him. It’s really him.”“How do you know?”Kai looked embarrassed, averting his gaze so I couldn’t see his eyes. “Don’t tell Rodger, but I did the last gig Chloe had with Mr. Smi
Miles POV“You’re sure it was him?” Mick asked Lenny.We were all gathered, all the Broom Stixxx men, Rodger and my men as well. Lenny and the fox shifter, Kai, had just gotten back to the pack and had Rodger call this meeting, saying it was urgent.Lenny took his phone from his pocket and started to pass it around the table. When it got to Billy and Darren, Darren’s eyes widened in surprise.“That’s Mr. Smith. That’s that mother fucker for sure.”“Really?” Billy took his time studying the image on the phone. “I thought he would be older.”“Nope, that’s definitely him.” Darren exchanged a look with Kai. “Did he see you?”Kai looked nervously at Rodger, then back at Darren before shaking his head.I leaned forward and snatched the phone from my Gamma’s hand, eager to see what we were up against. Mick leaned over to stare at the phone with me. The picture was a bit blurry from zooming in, but the middle eastern man was identifiable enough among all the others around him. His clothes we
My mouth dropped. Cruel doesn’t even begin to describe what Jamie just said that Luna did. “Did…. Did the Alpha not care?”“He didn’t know,” Alexi said. “She kept it a secret. She was the Beta’s daughter and wanted to be Luna her entire life.”“She wanted her cake and to eat it too,” Beau scoffed. “The bitch was a master at manipulation. What she couldn’t manipulate to go her way, she threw out commands to get whatever she wanted.” He tossed the phone back to Lenny with a stony expression. “I hated her.”“We all did,” Alexi gripped his shoulder.“All of us except Boyd,” Beau said in a defeated tone.“It sounded like he hated her,” Lenny said. “He got his ass kicked for saying as much.”“Yeah, but she is his fated mate,” Beau’s hard expression focused on Lenny. “We ran away for a reason. That woman commanded us to bend to her disgusting will, but she never had to command Boyd. I’m scared of what will happen if we leave him there for much longer.”“He won’t betray us,” Jamie said. “He n
This is now complete! Thanks for sticking around through it all. Lenny and Jamie will be getting their own book in the near future. If you felt unsatisfied with the way Jamie left, I did it for a reason! I’m excited to start his story soon. I have many other books, and the two others I have available on here are LOSING MY SIREN LUNA and BUILD YOU UP. If you enjoyed this, check those out. Thanks for reading!
Six years later….“Mama!” Emanuele came running up the hill with a small purple flame in his hands. “Look what Pop-pop taught me!”“Very pretty,” I grinned, tucking Sage’s hands under my arm so she wouldn’t reach out to touch her brother’s flame.“Me! Me!” Emilio came running with a sphere of water in his violet-glowing hands. “Pop-pop said mine was better!”“Did not!”Emanuele threw his little ball of fire at his brother, and Emilio deflected it with his water. The water burst from the impact, soaking Emilio’s shirt. He let out the cutest little growl before pouncing on Emanuele.“No fight!” my two-year-old daughter yelled, then turned her face up to me. “Mama, no fight!”“I know, baby,” I smiled, smoothing back one of her thick curls. “You two heard her. Stop fighting.”“He started it!” both boys yelled at the same time.“What’s going on here? Two seconds ago, you were both all smiles.”My dad came up the hill from the pond with a big basket of different herbs and magical instrument
“Look at them,” Gail gushed, running her finger down Emilio’s cheek. “They’re perfect.”Labor was fast, or at least that was what I was told. It felt like fucking forever to me.When my baby boys were placed on my chest, all the bad just faded away. All I felt was pride and unending love for the two little lives me and my mates created.“Emanuele is hungry,” Miles brought our other son over to me.Gail lifted Emilio from my chest before Miles placed Emanuele in my arms.“I have a question,” Jamie raised his hand. “How do you feed them with your tits pierced?”Dad backhanded him across the chest at the same time that Mick and Miles snarled at him.“I know, I know,” Jamie raised his hands. “Get out. I know.” He headed for the door.Dario was glaring after him too. Jamie was really pushing it today with all the Alpha men.“Poor Jamie,” I smirked, putting a blanket over my shoulder, so I could feed my hungry baby. “He needs my other babysitter to help keep him in line.”“I miss your other
Four Months Later….“Try this, nipote,” Nonna gingerly set a plate filled with pasta in front of me.I eyed it skeptically, second-guessing my craving for peanut butter and jelly spaghetti. Mushing a glob of jelly between the prongs of my fork, I gagged instantly.Running to the bathroom with my hand over my mouth, I heard Jamie mutter under his breath, “Not again.”“Poor bambino. The little ones don’t want this either, it seems.”This fucking sucks. Two days of only eating peanut butter and jelly with everything, and now these little parasites are taking that from me too.After emptying the contents of my stomach, I glared down at my belly while wiping my mouth on the back of my hand.“You two have outstayed your welcome.”I sat on the cold tile floor, shooting daggers at my monstrous-sized gut with thoughts of eviction in my mind when deep chuckling from the doorway sent my anger flaring again.“What are you doing, Cara Mia?”“None of your business,” I snapped.Mick laughed, then gr
Rodger POV“Deal with it, but that mother fucker’s life here ends.”Alpha Miles was firm on one thing. Cindy had to go. After what happened with my daughter, I needed to take responsibility for this one thing more than all my other mistakes I had made throughout her life.Cindy betrayed us all because of me. Because of some warped sense of possessiveness he had over me. I was the cause, the reason for his betrayal. I needed to be the one that dealt with this.No matter how much it would hurt me.Cindy was tied to the floor with a coarse fiber rope. Usually a rope wouldn’t be enough to hold one of them down, but Cindy had been given wolfsbane to cut him off from his wolf. He didn’t even fight the dose. He sat with his head down, looking completely defeated once I woke up in that clearing.He was never much of a fighter, even with his wolf, and never aggressive. Never had I seen any side of him showing any hint of malice. I still can not believe that the broken young man that showed up
Chloe POVThe pressure. The endless amounts of pressure pushing in from all around me, like something was about to explode. Like I was about to explode. That was the first thing that I noticed as I was drifting in the abyss.Then it hit me. The scents of spicy musk, bourbon and vanilla.“You’re going to crush her, you giant mutt,” an aged, nagging voice reached my ears.Driana.“They’ve gotten a lot clingier since they found out,” Jamie laughed.Even with my eyes closed as I came into consciousness, I could feel the energy in the room. There were many people here, but the suffocating feeling pressing in on me was undeniable. The fur tickling my face and the heavy, deep breaths I would recognize anywhere.“Are they ever going to shift back?” Driana said in exasperation. “She’s buried alive in fur. And those overgrown pups won’t let anyone get close.”“Their father was the same way when I was with child,” Luna Gail said in a far more upbeat tone. “Remember honey? Your wolf would come ou
Mick POV“He’s getting away!” I bellowed inside Rome.“Not this time,” Rome tossed a Fire Moon warrior off our back, then bolted for the retreating monster our mate’s ex had become.Rome was hurting, seeing the nightmare his former counterpart had become. I could feel the turmoil tearing him up, the compassion he felt for the bastard. I understood it. His love for our mate overshadowed everything, but there was a time that Rome loved his first human.His first human wasn’t even human anymore. The Cameron he once held such high hopes for was replaced by the creature we were hunting now.Miles started to follow, but Rodger, still clinging to my back, yelled at him to stop.“Tell your brother to keep searching for my daughter!” Rodger yelled into Rome’s ear.“Keep looking for Chloe. I can handle her ex.”Miles’s bloodthirsty wolf snarled, but turned to do as we said. “You better fucking put him down. This ends today.”“This ends today.” Rome chased the monster of his former human, not w
Chloe POVCortina and the vision around us swirled into a dizzying blur, and then disappeared as the tacky bedroom reappeared. Cortina groaned as her consciousness joined with mine again.Time was still stopped, Mr. Smith, or Asmodeus, whatever the fuck his name was, was kneeling in front of me, just like he was before Cortina broke free.I blinked, shaking my head slightly to clear the fog from the magic-induced dream-like state. As my powers settled inside of me, the world turned on its axis again and time resumed.“Breed with me, my goddess, and fulfill my destiny.”“What?” I leaned back, confused and disgusted by Mr. Smith’s request. Then I remembered the bullshit he was spewing before Cortina showed me the truth.“You saw it yourself,” Mr. Smith continued on, unaware of all I knew. “You saw how we were meant to be.”He leaned closer, brushing his fingers over my nape, dark eyes tightening at my mate marks. Cortina snarled loudly in my head at his close proximity. My skin felt col
Cindy POVI needed to get out of here. I’ve tried to stay out of sight since leaving that room, so I could think about what to do next, but time was getting more urgent.The scent masker was beginning to fade. This was the last place I wanted to be when the rogue stench started to pour out of me. Most of this pack already looked at me like I was a bug, but I was a useful bug before.Now, I was worthless. That snake bastard made it abundantly clear.My wolf was snarling, already feeling lost and alone. We were rogue before at Broom StiXXX, but not like this. There, we had a community. A family.Now I have nothing.I wanted to blame Chloe. Goddess knows I do, but I know I have no one to blame but myself right now. Why did I think I could trust these people? I can’t trust anyone.Not anymore.With a twisting gut, I covertly moved through the halls, trying to avoid the crowded room of the bunker as I moved towards the entrance. I was almost there when a deep, raspy voice startled at me fr