“What about a spatula?” Jamie’s teeth glistened from his crooked smile. The two of them started going at it, Mick growling and yelling as Jamie antagonized him. “Good job getting the attention off you,” Lenny chuckled in my ear. Miles’s chest rumbled with his own amusement against me. “Hey, Chloe,” Riley smirked at me, leaning forward with his head resting over his folded hands. “Did Lenny, an unmated wolf, just whisper in your ear?” “That’s not the same,” I lifted my chin, sending a glance at the shewolf down the table. “He’s my babysitter.” “So you spend a lot of time alone together?” Riley looked absolutely devious. “Are you accusing me of something, cat?” Lenny asked in a hard voice. “I was accused, even though it was bs,” Estel muttered, earning a possessive growl from me. I don’t know her from shit and have smelled her on my mates the past few days while things were tense between us. It’s so fucking different. “Is that my dress?” I sneered, my eyes sweeping down her body.
Miles POV“Fucking ridiculous,” Ivar snarled in my head.“I agree.” I watched as Chloe and Lenny left the room, trying to hold back my irritation until she was out of earshot.“She needs more guards than just Lenny,” Mick whispered to me.Dave chose that moment to snore really loudly, and Riley had to elbow him in the gut.“We’ll go,” Riley sighed. “Come on, papa bear. Time to wake up.”“Where are we going?” Dave looked around the room with an irritable expression. There was still tension from Chloe’s outburst that I’m sure he could feel.“To babysit.”Dave grumbled, “I fucking hate kids,” but got up to follow Riley anyway.“I wanna go too!” Winnie whined, and got up to follow, but Cindy reached over and pulled him back to his chair.“You just want to see Boyd. Beau will let us know when it’s time to see him, honey.”Winnie sat with a huff, crossing his arms over his chest and slamming his feet onto the table. “Miss priss and her cranky butt gets to walk out when she wants but I can’
Estel POV “What a shit show,” I sighed as Emily, Cindy and I walked together outside. “I think it’s safe to say that their Luna hates me.” Emily giggled. “She’s just overprotective, like any mated shewolf would be with her mates. Whispering in Mick’s ear was your mistake.” I grimaced. “I wasn’t whispering in his ear. We were just talking.” “With your heads close together while she watched,” Emily smirked. “She doesn’t know you. Of course she got defensive.” “So the Alphas can’t even talk to other shewolves without their Luna’s wrath?” Cindy scoffed. “You did nothing wrong, sweetie. She just needs to get her panties out of a bunch.” “You don’t understand because you’re not mated yet,” Emily looked at him carefully, like she was trying to decipher something in her head. “You can’t really control your possessive side. Your wolf kind of takes control in those moments.” “And you just need to piss all over your loved one, and piss everyone else off in the process. I got that,” Cindy s
“This is what Alexi was talking about?!” I asked in horror, staring at the polaroid pictures Beta Desmond brought back from the hotel.After our much needed run, where our wolves could physically connect after so long, Miles, Mick and I returned to the pack house to shower and eat before going back to the meeting room at the warrior center. As soon as we walked in the pack house, the Beta asked us to meet him in my mates’ office to see what it was they found.I turned my head, my eyes taking in all the details of each photo of a photo. They were all of me in the midst of fucking someone. I cringed, knowing who had first seen those pictures.Rodger.Well, if he didn’t want to admit I was his daughter before, he sure as hell wouldn’t now. There’s evidence here of me fucking half of the men from our Broom StiXXX family.I could feel the displeasure in both of my mates. Mick wasn’t even featured in any of these. Well, he might be in some. There were several close-ups of my face, maskless.
Shame was still weighing heavy on me as we made our way up to the bedroom. I felt exposed and raw. It’s easy not to care what others think of you when you’re in a place you hate, like when I was in my first pack, or when you are living among others that have lived similarly. Being the Luna of this pack, a pack I have come to care for deeply, makes me scared of what the normal, wholesome pack members would think of me if they were to ever find pictures and videos of me from my past. How would they react? I never, ever cared about what Cameron, his parents, or his pathetic, ranked wolves thought of me. I went through the motions of being a Luna to survive, but never cared. Here, in Setting Sun Pack, I care. I care so much that it's eating me up inside. I was silent the entire walk to our room. I wanted to take a shower and get this dirty feeling off of me. “Do you still think we’re mad at you?” Mick asked, a lot more gently than his tone before. “Because if you do, that’s total bull
Boyd POVIt felt weird being back. Everything had changed so much during the time I had been away, I had expected the room I had been staying in to look different too.It didn't. It was the same as when I left it. My sheets and bedding were clean, smelling fresh, and it was clear that the omegas had been keeping up with the basic cleaning, but all my stuff was untouched. I don't know what I was expecting. Maybe for them to pack everything or throw it away in the time I had been kidnapped, but everything was here waiting for me. Just like my friends had been.Darren, Beau and Winnie took me to my room, then Darren left to be with his mates. He mumbled something about coming back later, but had a distracted look in his eyes that probably had something to do with his mates.Beau and Winnie waited for me out in the room as I showered. It took me a few minutes to muster up the nerve to get under the shower stream. I'd been waterboarded so much, it gave me anxiety to think about going direc
“Do you not like the pancakes? I can get you something else. Nonna makes really good soup. Do you want me to bring you some?”I didn’t realize I had been pushing my pancakes around on the plate, making them soggy and torn to pieces in the syrup. My plate now looked like a mess.I smiled gratefully, but shook my head as I began scooping up a fork-full of the soggy pancake disaster and shoveling it into my mouth. It still tasted good.“This is good. Sorry. I think I’m just tired.”“You should be,” Jamie said. “You just went through fucking hell. The doctors told Darren you needed to stay in bed for the rest of the day if you didn’t want to stay at the clinic for observation.”I grimaced. Staying in a sterile room with people watching me around the clock sounded horrible after what I had just escaped from.“Darren will be checking on you before we head back to the meeting to make sure you’re doing as you're told,” Beau said.“Why does it sound like Darren has some kind of authority in th
Estel POV Figs and cinnamon. I used to love the smell of figs and cinnamon. That was the smell of my childhood kitchen at the beginning of fall every year. Grandma would be preserving figs, stocking them after harvesting from the trees her mate planted when they migrated here soon after their marriage. My grandma said before coming to America, they would talk about what their dreams were for their new home. They wanted wide open spaces, where grandma could grow a big garden with every type of fruit and vegetable you could imagine. Grandpa made sure to give her her dream, planting all kinds of trees and crops, then ensuring she had a sizable garden near the house he built for her too. Unlike my father, who was a warrior in a neighboring pack, my grandpa was happy with the life of a farmer. He contributed to Setting Sun with his crops, delivering fresh produce, eggs, milk and freshly churned butter daily. My mom came of age, and started to help by doing the deliveries, and that was
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