Maddox’s POV I was outside, talking to Alpha Hudson about Beta Celeb. I have a few questions and all I really know is what the Beta’s daughter told Parker. But this information is not fact and an Alpha needs evidence and facts, not gossip or opinions! What is a fact, though, is what the border patrol did to Millie. That I saw with my own eyes and I didn’t like what I saw. Alpha Hudson tells me that Beta Celeb has never given him any reason not to trust him. He has been loyal to him for the entire duration that he has been his Beta. He has taken care of the pack when he has not been at his best and he has the best interest of the pack at heart. When the pack’s population was declining, he managed to bring together about 100 warriors and their families. I look at Alpha Hudson, processing what he has just said. Every time I have encountered Beta Celeb, he has actually tried to fulfill his Beta role. Covering up for him when he was not at his best. Not involving the Wolf C
Lottie’s POV What a day, I think to myself. Not only did my sister fly off to who knows where? But I met a girl in blue, got myself kidnapped, watched my mom nearly be beaten to death, killed two men and discovered I had a real father. Now I find out my sister has an elemental gift and to top it all off, it’s still her birthday. “Crap,” I say out loud. suddenly realizing it is still my sister's birthday, her 18th birthday, and we have not done anything to help her celebrate it. I grabbed her and started jumping around like a lunatic singing happy birthday to her. She just laughs at me. “You have no idea what happened to me, Lottie,” she tells me with a smile on her face. “You have no idea what happened to me either.” I respond with a sad face. But right now, I am just happy I have my family home, where we are all safe. “Let’s go and have a catch-up sis.” I told my older sister. “Then we need to celebrate the birth of this beauty” she says, laughing and pointing at herself.
Lottie’s POV I walked into the house, hoping to take our annual photo. But no one was there. The house was almost quiet. Almost. While I was walking through the house, I heard people laughing. I walked into the garden outside. I saw Caren hovering several meters in the air, jerking left and right. Mom looks concerned, probably in case she falls. Maddox laughing and staring at her. Parker shouted at her, “go higher.” Mom walks up behind him and slaps him across the head, while mom tells her “Not to bother and to come down.” I just stood and watched my sister practicing with her elemental gift. I mean, she has been able to make a light breeze for years, but this is on a whole new level. She sees me and comes down. “Better than the first time?” she asks. “Definitely,” I respond. “Deana is helping me with my control,” she says, smiling. “Do you want to meet her? She wants to meet you.” Caren’s face lights up with excitement when she asks. “Of course, I do. She is my sister’s bet
Millie’s POV “Come on Hudson, let’s talk inside,” I told the Alpha. I believe we need to talk. I also think Caren wants to show off her gifts without her overprotective mother watching. There's nothing I can do about it. Her safety will always be my concern. I also think that if Maddox were Lottie’s mate, then I am sure she would not want her parents to see what they get up to. I don’t even want to think of my baby girl mating with anyone and I can’t imagine how Alpha Hudson is feeling. I get us both a drink of water and look at him and am sure he has questions for me. “What happened?” he asks me. I showed him the picture of Aidan and Veronica, which appears to have pride of place on the fireplace now. I told him how they were from the same pack and about the day I met Veronica. He is angry, in fact he is furious. I can hear his teeth grinding and see his grip on the glass tighten. “Why didn’t you bring her body home? Bring my daughter home?” I looked him stra
Xavier’s POV ‘Mate.’ I told Maddox. The most beautiful wolf I have ever seen in my life stands in front of me. She had red fur and green eyes. My mate is red, the rarest color of any wolf. Combined with her green eyes, her appearance truly is unique. Eyes that are staring at me right now, eyes that look like they are starting straight into my soul. Which she already owns. I walked up to her and rubbed my face against her neck. She does the same to me. “She wants us,” I tell my human. I was so happy that I shouted to Maddox, “She will not reject us.” I wish I could mind link her, but I can’t until she is officially mine, I can’t. She needs to be mated and marked to be mine and if Maddox is really lucky, she will mark him. “she doesn’t know our ways” Maddox reminds me. “I am more than happy to educate her.” I respond adamantly. “Behave Xavier” he says just before I block him out. Right now, she is my mate. I am not having him ruin my time with her. I nudged my mate, enc
Lottie’s POV I don’t know how to handle Ember. On the way back to the house, she was teasing and taunting Xavier. She wants him and has already made her intentions known to me about what she plans for tonight. She is also making it very clear to him too. I honestly don’t know how I feel about all of it. Until recently, I had never kissed anyone other than my mom and sister. I certainly hadn’t seen a naked man, nor had a man seen me naked. But like Ember tells me, Maddox is my mate. We are going to be intimate. After our few kisses and intimate moments, I need to get over my anxieties. I am his and he is mine, after all. He has given me a lot of firsts recently. We are a few miles from home. She suddenly blocks me out. I am blocked out of my conscious mind. It’s weird and quiet wherever I am. At least last night when we shifted, I could see what she saw and we could communicate. Right now, there is nothing but darkness. I don’t like it. I also don’t like to think about wh
Maddox’s POV Once Xavier unblocked me, I was fuming with him. I should have marked her before he mated with Ember. They can’t communicate. What if their mating wasn’t consensual? Has he just messed up my chances of a relationship with Lottie? We had been saving ourselves for our mate all of this time, and he just let his animal instincts take over. I am fuming. If I had known he would have done something as stupid as that, I might have got rid of my urges myself with any of the multiple she-wolves that had thrown themselves at me over the years. But no, I waited for my mate, our mate. How it should be done. I will understand if she never forgives him. I am so ashamed of him right now and I let him know it. His response was simple. He had kept himself for his mate for all these years, but when she was there enticing him, brushing up against him, biting him. He was barely hanging in there, but when Ember pounced on him, it was the final blow. That was when he lost control and
Millie’s POV After Lottie shifted, I watched her go off with Maddox. Alpha Hudson suggested we leave some clothes outside for all the kids, as when they shift back to being human, they would be naked. Caren and Parker returned laughing and giggling after their run. They appeared to be making friends quite fast. I invited Alpha Hudson to stay. He could sleep in Lottie’s bedroom. I felt he may get some comfort from being in her surroundings. I knew Lottie wouldn’t mind, it would be strange, but she wouldn’t mind. He thanked me and said he would take me up on my offer, but first he wanted to spend a bit more time at Veronica’s graveside. He took a photo album out with him. I invited Parker to sleep on the couch while he waited for his brother to return. He was more than happy with that offer, as he wanted to know if there was a new addition to his family. Caren and I headed to our bedrooms for the night, not knowing when Lottie would be home. I was lying in bed awake when