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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
“Bull snot. Give me your credit card. I’ll do a shopping spree for you too.” “I’m good.” “You’re not,” he said firmly, pushing against me until I gave in and sat in a chair not far from Boyd’s bed. The smell was making my mouth water, but at the same time, making me want to cry. I resisted looking at his face, because I knew if I did, it would bring the waterworks. “Stay. I’ll be back soon,” Winnie whispered loudly. I nodded, trying not to breathe. Winnie gave me a curious look, then said, “If you need to take a number two, the bathroom is right there.” My face flamed. Did I look constipated? “Go take your shower,” I growled in a low voice. “Yeah, yeah,” he waved me off. “Light a candle when you’re done.” Little punk. He’s feisty and abrasive, just like a cat. Ada was lifting her head, trying to see Boyd through my eyes, but I was still fighting the urge to steal a glance at his sleeping face. The fight was getting harder and harder the more his scent wafted towards me. His
Ada’s ears tucked back, her whimpering cries making rage build inside of me. “Winnie forced me,” I snapped. “I didn’t want to be here any more than you want me to be.” “Winnie?” He looked around the room, then took a deep breath, like he was relieved to see where he was at. “Where did Winnie go?” “To shower,” I said coldly, getting up to put some space between us. I was already pulling out my phone, texting Mick about my situation. If Boyd was awake, I wouldn’t be able to stay here much longer. It hurt too much. “Why couldn’t he shower in here?” “Why do you have a three-in-one body wash?” I snapped. “That’s why. Apparently your clothes suck too.” His face turned red for a second, making him look even angrier. “You were touching me,” Boyd sat up, looking at me with accusing eyes. I gritted my teeth regretting touching him at all now. “You were having a nightmare. My bad for trying to help.” “Hm,” he grunted, almost like he didn’t believe me. Fuck this. I did nothing to earn h
Chloe POVWalking with Estel back towards the training grounds and warrior center, I could feel her caution and distrust.I couldn't blame her. Our first meeting was shit, and though she shouldn't have done what she did to piss me off, I could have handled it better too.I don’t really feel anything but pity for her now. Now that I know why she did it in the first place. She could start whispering in my ear, Mick’s ear, or Miles’s ear, and I would be able to overlook it all after all the revelations put on the table between me and my mates.~“A snake?” Miles had said. He rubbed both of his hands down his face, staring at me in disbelief. I overloaded him with too much information. I knew I lost him somewhere between describing all the different visions I had seen from the flask. A flask that I’m not entirely convinced wasn’t filled with LSD laced moldy cool-aide or something. Hearing myself tell my mates everything, I was beginning to think I was crazy too.Then when I told them ab
“She wants to reject him?” Miles asked, like it was something he couldn’t even fathom. Rejecting your fated mate is not something to take lightly. “Shouldn’t they talk first?”“That’s what I told her, but she said that every time she gets close to him, he acts like he’s gearing up for a fight.”I leaned my head back on Mick’s chest, thinking for a few minutes as he and Miles talked about what a rejection could mean for Boyd in his current condition. I was just vaguely listening while my mind ran through any and all reason for Boyd to be acting like that towards a fated mate. I mean, I even had a hard time overcoming the mate bond with Camreon. He was a complete asswipe, and I knew that from the start, but even I couldn’t resist the pull of the bond when he touched me, or even got close to me in those first few months. “He doesn’t feel the bond,” I concluded out loud, interrupting whatever my mates were talking about. “He can’t. That’s the only thing that makes sense. He’s not an Alp
“Ah, I needed that,” I sighed, lying on my back on the ground after tossing Estel like a sack of potatoes over my shoulder. She was still winded, panting to catch her breath. She got the best of me a few times too. Lenny, like the overprotective babysitter he is, even went to step in once when Estel surprised me by kicking my feet out from under me and slamming her elbow into my stomach. It hurt like a bitch, but I waved him off. After about the fifth time of waving him off, he stopped trying to intervene. “You needed to kick my ass? Jeez, thanks,” Estel struggled to sit up. I laughed, shaking my head. “No. I needed someone that wasn’t going to be polite to me. Even big brother over there treats me like glass most of the time.” I pointed my thumb at Lenny, watching from a good distance away beside the warrior building. There were others loitering around now too, including Mick and Miles, but they were far away enough not to hear us talking. “I don’t know why,” Estel groaned, rubbi
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