Alpha Dario POVTears were pooling in my weary eyes as I trudged up the path to the pack house. There was a lump forming in my throat that I was fairly sure was my stomach. There seemed to be a hallowed pit in my gut.I couldn’t believe what I had just seen. The son I was worried about the most, never wanting to feel the heartbreak from my past, had miraculously gotten his wolf. It was so incomprehensible that I didn’t realize the first shift was what was wrong with him when he came out to the pond. Every other possibility ran through my head, from human sickness to a heated fight with his brother before it dawned on me what all his symptoms were pointing towards.High temperature, body aches, splitting headache, irritability. Those were all common flu symptoms, and being without a wolf, Mick was no stranger to illnesses. He was as susceptible as a human. With all the stress he was dealing with and his reasons for finally coming home, I truly thought he was just sick.I’m so happy I
Miles and I had to help Mick with shifting back, having him feel me through the bond as I did it while Miles explained the theory of it. Rome was frustrating him while trying to explain how to do it, and Mick ended up calling him a parasite and telling him to shut up.I was amused. Cameron never let me in at all, so I have no clue how his communication was with Rome, but Mick and Rome are hilarious. The insults were golden, but you could still feel Rome’s sense of protectiveness towards his new human. Mick wasn’t used to the foreign feeling of having to share a mind with a wolf, but I could feel his acceptance and anxious excitement.“The moon feels good,” Mick leaned his head back, absorbing the last of the moon’s rays before the sun completely overtook the sky. “I never noticed before.”“It’s your wolf,” Miles smiled at his brother. “Our goddess is the goddess of the moon for a reason.”Mick was quiet, looking at the moonlight as Rome reflected in his eyes. “I have a wolf.”“You hav
I pressed my lips together, my eyes meeting Miles’s. I knew Alpha Dario’s reasons for treating Mick the way he has because Miles told me, but Mick is still unaware.“Oh, and the guards told me that the witch sisters of your Rodger arrived last night.” Miles was quick to change the subject.“Driana and Paulina?” I grinned excitedly. “They helped me escape. I’d love to go see them.”“They asked to see you too. I thought we could stop by after dinner.”“Or we can just skip the dinner and see them instead,” Mick offered.“Sure,” Miles shrugged absentmindedly, distracted as I rubbed sudsy soap all over my breasts. “You be the one to tell Nonna we can’t make it.”Mick grumbled something under his breath, obviously not willing to face off with his Nonna.I giggled, biting my lip as I watched Miles turn all his attention on me. He hesitantly lifted a hand, palm out, and after an encouraging nod from me, he grabbed a handful of my breasts, squeezing it gently.Mick sat back on the counter, cro
Miles POV“Damn, she’s pretty,” I said in my head, staring down at my mate sleeping peacefully in the center of my bed, our bed, while Mick slept beside her. She put on one of my shirts before crawling into bed, and now I never want her to wear anything else.“You don’t need to go to work,” Ivar grumbled.“I wish I didn’t, but the pack won’t take a day off just so I can stare at my sleeping mate.”“You just want to show off your mate's mark too.”I grinned, reaching up and feeling the fresh scar on my neck. I’m ready to tell everyone, and ready to start planning Chloe’s Luna ceremony. Nonna and mom are going to go crazy once they see my neck. And Chloe’s friends had already got her that dress.The only thing that could make me happier than I am right now is if Chloe hadn’t gotten the wrong idea about pups and us. In time, hopefully she will understand.“Why does he get to stay here with her?” Ivar asked sourly. “He’s Alpha too. Make him work.”“He shifted for the first time. He's a g
Mick POVI woke up starving like I had never been hungry before. My stomach growling literally woke me from a dead sleep.“What the hell,” I muttered, rubbing my eyes and sitting up in bed right after my stomach rolled thunderously again.“You’re a wolf now. Wolves need more calories since you’re eating for two,” Rome said, still rolled in a ball in my head, exhausted from his exertion last night. It was so weird how I could now not just hear him in my head, but see him when I focused on my mind. It was more vivid than visual thoughts, like a living dream, but more concrete.“You make it sound like I’m pregnant.”Rome grumbled. “Don’t talk about pregnancy right now. Not after last night.”I looked over at Chloe, still sleeping soundly. I carefully tucked the blanket up to her shoulders before sliding out of bed. If my stomach growled any louder, it would wake her, and she looked too peaceful to wake up.Me and my stupid mouth. I didn’t realize she would even have trauma over getting p
Chloe POV“Baby, just wear what you want,” Mick told me as I frustratedly went through my sparse suitcase for the millionth time.“Sparse clothes, my dew claw. You just have a sparse collection of mother approved stuff,” Cortina huffed.“Shut up. You’re not helping.”I’ve seriously gone through all my clothes so many times and have nothing nice to wear for this dinner we’re supposed to be at in ten freaking minutes. I have comfort clothes, jeans and t-shirts, and the few dresses I own I know wouldn’t have Luna Gail impressed in the least.“I thought your, uh, eccentric werecat friend bought you clothes yesterday?” Miles asked, watching from where he was sitting at the end of the bed.“I have no idea where he put those, and he’s not in his room. I don’t have time to look for him right now.”Miles exchanged a look with Mick, and then both started to move to the closet.“Okay,” I muttered to myself, then went back to stressing over what to wear.“You were trying to piss off that Luna the
He just said in a roundabout way that he loved me, which had me blushing while looking down at the ground. This was why I wanted Luna Gail to like me. Because she was the one who raised both of these men. Even if she is stuffy or insufferable like Luna Klarissa was, I’m going to have a hard time hating her just because of my feelings towards the men she raised.When we got to the door to their home, Miles stepped forward to knock, and Mick and I waited behind, grasping each other's hands like we were clinging on for support. After two seconds, the door swung wide open and Luna Gail was on the other side.“Come in! Come in!” She said with a huge smile stretching across her face. “Oh, my sons,” she kissed Miles’s cheek, then carefully approached Mick for a hug. He allowed it, even resting a hand on her back in a half attempt to return her hug, but he never let go of my hand. “Chloe,” she offered me the warmest smile, then opened her arms wide like she was asking for permission. When I n
Miles was watching our awkward exchange, and decided to take mercy on me. “So, dad. You know those cameras that were installed around the perimeter. I noticed today there were a lot of blind spots, and huge gaps in coverage around the border. Why didn’t you have them installed to cover the entire perimeter when they were put in?”“Oh, well, back then they were meant to just cover the easiest accesses to the pack. A lot of the land was covered in overgrowth too thick to get through. We thinned out a lot of the forest and dead trees to prevent wildfires, but never installed cameras to cover those areas.”“Ah,” Miles nodded, taking a swig of his beer. The two of them started going on and on about the border precautions of the pack, and I easily fell back into the headspace I used to go to when they would talk like this, and I would sit back and feel left out.It was never because I wasn’t interested in the past. I just didn’t feel worthy to join in on the discussion. Duties like border p
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