She is a fighter, so she took all of it. She held her head high every day, acting as if I completely didn’t matter, and she was unaffected by anything I did. That’s the only reason I bothered to give the fake and clingy bitch visiting with her father, Alpha Wright, any attention at all. I was hoping to affect Chloe in some small way. Just one frown, one hurt expression, one tear in her eye, and I would have stopped and gladly turned my attention to her, but she wouldn’t do any of those things. She remained bored and exasperated the entire evening, rolling her eyes and yawning through dinner, sitting next to me in that dress that I could tell that bastard Kevin wanted to just peel off her. My own father and Alpha Wright were eye-fucking her every time my mother or Luna Bernice weren’t looking.Odette, the other she-wolf warriors, or any other woman for that matter, could never compare to Chloe. In her natural beauty or her raw and fierce demeanor.I wanted her, but I needed her to want
Four Months Later… “Still not awake yet?” my dad asked, sitting behind his desk in his office at the packhouse. I had just gotten home from the hospital to shower and change when he called for me to come to his office to talk. I knew what he wanted. He had been pressuring me more and more over the last few weeks, and I’ve been avoiding him like the plague, spending more and more time with Chloe, hoping what little bond we had would help her to wake up. “No,” I said through clenched teeth. “Then it’s settled,” father said coldly, no question in his tone. “You will pull the cord on her and take another, or you will never be the Alpha of this pack.” “She needs more time,” I argued, knowing it was in vain. My father didn’t care. A Luna had one purpose for an Alpha. To provide an heir. Of course, he also had the traditional expectations of a Luna, all to elevate the Alpha and provide him with unyielding support, but the ability to carry pups was first on his list. With Chloe in the st
“That was great, Alpha. We should go back to-”“Shut up,” I said in a deep warning voice. “You know where to go.”They all know the drill, and this one is no different. My father set aside a part of the packhouse for these whores to be looked after until one of them gets pregnant. Still, most of them need a reminder of the protocol. My father made promises about the first one that could conceive my child, which makes them clingier than needed.After the annoyance leaves, I'm left alone with Chloe again. I didn’t realize how tightly I was holding on to her. Her hand looks so small and white in mine. As I loosen my grip, the color returns to it, and I almost feel her tension lessen.I stared at her for some time, willing her dark brown eyes to open and scowl at me like they did in the past. Her face looks less peaceful than before. I keep thinking she is going to wake up, but maybe it’s the act of what I just did that is causing her tension. Maybe she is feeling it….No. She can’t. The
Hours Earlier….Chloe POVCortina was crying softly to herself after Cameron left, her pain radiating through both of us. That fucking bastard. Saying it was my fault that he was dipping his dick inside other women. Daily. All while holding my hand and ignoring the pain he was causing my wolf.There was no longer any reason for me to stay. I was enduring for her, but only for her. I never wanted an Alpha mate, especially one as self-centered as the one I got. The ranked wolves all had a reputation. I knew he objectified women, but to use them and me the way he did, all to get an heir, should be a crime. I would never let myself be used like that, so he could abuse his power over a whole harem of women.Fuck him. Not literally, because I sure as hell will never be doing that again. I just wish I could reject him to his face before running away.Actually….Maybe I should give the bastard a taste of what he’s been doing to Cortina before I reject him. I should make him hurt as much as he
By the time I had made it to the front door, I was confident that we had gotten away safely.“Miss!” I heard someone call out behind me. My entire body tensed up. I thought about running, but if I did, that could be worse and draw more attention than just facing the one behind me. “Miss, wait one second!”I turned slowly, seeing a young doctor taking long, purposeful strides in my direction, a determined look on his face. He had a phone in his hands, his hand over the receiver. Did he already call Cameron? The packhouse? Was I too late?“Miss!” I braced myself as the doctor closed the distance between us…..And then he walked right past me. I turned with him to see him jogging now towards a young girl about to head out the door.“Miss, I have your mother on the line. She would like for you to stay and have the scan done after all, just to be safe. She’s on her way to…..”My heart was hammering in my chest, the tension leaving me as I realized it wasn’t me he was calling for after all.
I stared at the vial of liquid in my hands, the eerie glow of the fluid inside making my stomach roll. I was standing behind the witches’ store, hidden by the shadows, contemplating my next move now that I got what I needed to stay hidden in the human world.“This, little wolf, will provide you with the protection that you seek,” the witch had told me. She and her more silent partner were more than happy to give me as much as I needed of the potion, and told me to come back if I ran out. One good thing came from being Cameron’s mate. Having Luna's blood excited the witches, and two syringes full of it got me a year’s supply of the scent blocking potion, and even some cash which the talkative witch said would help me to start a new life. I don’t know what kind of life I will be starting with $120, but I was thankful nonetheless. They even gave me a bohemian dress that smelled strongly of hemp and patchouli and a woven hemp satchel to carry all the potions I received.I lifted the cork
She tried to muster an internal smile, but she couldn’t hide her sadness enough to be as happy as I was. Feeling her grief for Rome again, my mood became somber as well. We were free, but it cost my wolf a great deal of pain.“I can reject Cameron now if you want. I can forget about revenge, Cortina. I don’t want to hurt Rome.”“Rome doesn’t want to let his human off that easily. If you reject him, another poor she-wolf will be subjected to what you endured. As long as you are still tied together by the bond, and not within his reach, those other she-wolves will be safe.”“That’s true, but he could just reject me first,” I whispered, moving through the busy streets, heading towards the east.“He won’t,” Cortina was pensive. “He won’t let you go.”“How do you know that? He could. He hated me. How else could he do that shit to me? To you?”“If he was going to reject you he would have done it after you got hurt,” she reasoned. “I….I was there. I heard and felt him. He didn’t act as thoug
“You’re a Luna on the run, huh?” Rodger chuckled, shaking his head in disbelief. “Wow. The future Luna of Red Moon Pack, no less. No wonder Driana chose to hide you with me the way she did.”“What do you mean by that?”I told Cindy and Rodger my story of how I came to be here. I didn’t see any reason not to. Not with Rodger being the brother of the witches that sent me here. They seemed more than aware of my situation and would likely fill him in if I didn’t. Plus, I felt a sense of peace with Rodger. He had a very calming presence and trusting demeanor. I have felt at ease here completely since I walked in, despite it being a strip club. They were completely empathetic when I went over every detail of my relationship with Cameron and what I woke up to. Rodger even got pissed, gripping his armchair angrily when I told him how I woke up.“What I mean is that my sisters and I have a bitter history with the Red Moon Pack.”“What kind of bitter history?” I was an orphaned warrior before b
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