Mick POV “She’s safe. Lenny has her,” I told my brother. He grunted, still in a furious funk from whatever happened between them before the chills crept over me, nausea settling in my stomach telling me that we had intruders in the pack. Being in the warrior center, I bolted for the border right away, Rome tearing through me the second we were outside. Estel even snapped into action to help. Her little red wolf was small but fast. She couldn’t mind link any of us, so she had to fall back to follow as I gave commands to the others. I’m sure she would have been the first to the border if not for that. It wasn’t until I was almost to the border that my brother mind linked me that he couldn’t find Chloe. That’s when the panic hit. I had to turn around, leaving Billy and Darren in charge. Dez was leaving the pack house when I got there, ordering warriors ready to help at the border to search for Chloe. There was no scent of her anywhere. We tried to follow one, but all the trails were
Chloe POVEverything was silent. Everything was still. The lights had been off for so long, and the room was completely black. We’ve been stuck in this room with roller shutters blocking the windows and doors since yesterday. I was curled up in the center of the bed, hugging a pillow to my chest, pretending to be asleep to avoid more awkward conversation with Lenny.The first few hours in here were tense. He was unable to tell me what exactly was going on, but I think he felt the need to fill the silence with any other random topic of conversation. He would slip into his native tongue often, which he only does when he is nervous. That made my mood worse with the tension of the situation, so I said I was going to bed and have been faking it ever since.I'm an expert at faking being asleep. I had a year of practice when I was mated to Cameron. I've mastered the art of keeping up the facade.According to the clock on the nightstand, it’s now four in the morning, and my mates have yet to
Miles POV“No. It’s okay,” Chloe said in a quiet tone, not lifting her eyes from a catalog on her desk. “I’m not really hungry.”I looked away, rubbing a hand down my face and scratched my stubbled chin. “You need to eat lunch, Chloe. You skipped it yesterday too.”It’s been like this for the past two days. Chloe hasn’t left her office for anything during the day. From morning until late evening, breakfast to dinner, she stays quietly in here, and won't even leave for lunch. Everyone has been getting worried. When she needs to go to the restroom, she asks Emily to go with her, and makes sure Jamie knows where they’re heading. It’s a complete attitude change from before…. And I hate it.“Then talk to her about it!” Ivar snapped, feeling as frustrated as me. “You both never talk to her!”“I tried to talk to her. I thought we were fine!”The morning after we felt the border breach, and Mick suspected that her ex-mate had tried to sneak into the pack, I woke up to find Chloe sitting next
Chloe POVThe air sucked out of my lungs. It was like time had stood still in my moment of breaking down, and I realized in slow motion how I had just snapped. I cracked open and released all my pent-up emotions in one whining burst.Crap. I didn’t want to break down like that. I didn’t want to crack. I didn’t want to be the reason for that cold look on Miles’s face. Mick has been distracted, stressed and working non-stop, and Miles has been stiff and cold. That coldness has been freezing me over for days.Where his hands were holding me was so warm. It just wasn’t enough to thaw the ice around my heart right now. Especially since he had that faint smell of the mysterious she-wolf on him still.“Chloe, I… I didn’t….” Miles’s voice sounded stiff and forced, and it just hit me what position I had just put him in. He doesn’t need a whiny mate right now. “It’s not that I don’t want to have pups with you. I just…. We just agreed not to right-”“Stop,” I begged, pushing away. I didn’t want
It’s not that I think they’re frail. Chloe is just the most precious thing to me. When Estel finds her mate, I’m sure he will think the same. Having a mate and someone you want to protect, above all else, changes one's perspective on everything.“I can’t wait to meet this new Luna,” Estel said. “She sounds like a badass.”“She has her moments,” Beau shrugged. “She’s like a kept doll at the moment. Everyone is desperately hiding her away.”“You sound like you disagree. Do you have a problem with us protecting our mate?”Beau and Kai exchanged a look, then Beau just sighed. “You sure protecting her the way you are isn’t just going to remind her of her first mate? He locked her away in the pack house too.”I growled deep in my chest. “She’s not locked away.”“No,” Beau scoffed, “She just can’t go anywhere without you two flipping out or without Lenny and Jamie babysitting her inconspicuously. She’s not stupid. She’s going to catch on.”“Wait, you’re having her guarded without her permiss
Estel POV“There. Now I just need to neutralize the scents lingering on your body from this pack, and you should be good to go.” The soft-spoken warlock moved his smoking hand in front of me, from my head to my feet. We were standing far away from the others, near the car he had driven. The car had been de-scented too, and now the only smells coming through are from me. I only smell like my pack now, which is the point.“This dress looks expensive,” I looked down at my borrowed attire. “Are you sure this is what a realtor would wear?”“No, but Winnie insisted that it would be perfect. I wasn’t telling him no.”The little werecat definitely had a pair of claws on him. I wouldn’t argue either.To keep myself hidden from the public, and this mission top secret, I’ve only been with the Alphas and these new stripper men for the past few days, staying at a house lived in by two witch sisters and away from the pack house. I’ve gotten to know these men decently over the past few days and hav
Chloe POV“Chloe? Are you alright, lapachka?”The room had grown silent as my tears ceased to fall. I was still curled up under the pool table, hiding from the rest of the world as Lenny babysat somewhere on the other side.“I hate when you call me that,” I murmured. “What does that even mean?”My voice sounded monotone and dead, even to me. I was starting to feel that numbing layer over everything inside of me, a self-preservation thing no doubt, so I didn’t break from everything I had been trying to bottle up inside.“It’s just a term of endearment. Like when you call someone sweetie.”“So it means sweetie?”“Well, no. Not directly. It’s just the feeling of the term. It actually translates to, uh, little paw?”“Like a dog’s foot?” That didn’t sound endearing at all.“Like when you see cute little tracks on the ground, and think to yourself, awe, I bet a creature with cute little paws made those tracks.”“Sounds like you have a foot fetish,” I murmured against my knees.“Maybe,” he l
“Chloe?” It was Mick’s voice that spoke as I felt their presence entering the rec room. I was sitting on one of the old couches, and Lenny had gone to stand near the door.I didn’t look up, though I felt both sets of eyes on me. I don’t know if it was from nerves, guilty, or lingering resentment, but I just couldn’t meet their eyes.If I looked up and saw that cold stare again, I don’t think I could get through this without breaking down, and I really don’t want to show any more weakness than I already have.“Baby….” This time it was Miles, and I could feel the pain in his voice. It caused me to reluctantly look their way, and my insides immediately crumbled.Miles no longer had that cold demeanor. He looked so incredibly sad that it tore me up. Mick was so concerned, I could taste it.I was dreading this. Hearing why they didn’t want to have kids with me was going to be painful, but I could see they were in pain right now too.With a weak smile, I fidgeted on the couch, wondering wha
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